The legend of Laubach
The time of year came around quickly. It was drawing closer to Christmas, and with it, the reunion of so many hunting friends from across the world on our favourite and most talked-about hunt of the year: the Zeiss media hunt.
This event is two days of hunting in the grounds of the Laubach Castle in the classic German driven hunting style. We hunt the mixed forestry for all the game species – there is everything from raccoon, fox, wild boar, mouflon and roe deer to the mighty red deer, which is at the top of the forest hierarchy.
In early December we headed out to be met by the jovial Zeiss team, then headed straight to the shooting range to collect our rifles and fine-tune their zero. Then we moved on to the driven boar target, where there is plenty of camaraderie and banter over our skills when the shot placement comes up on the digital screen. Finishing the day was a full platter of BBQ including the traditional German sausages. Once we had finished our fabulous spread, we had a presentation from a couple of sponsors, then the quarry list and descriptions of the
