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Last Updated on 30.07.10
Most hunting seasons in Romania for all big game, small game, waterfowl and upland game runs from mid autumn to late winter. The minimal wild boar and fallow deer rifle calibre in Romania is 6.5x57, while going up to 7x57mm Mauser for red stag and 7x64mm for brown bear. Using shotguns for wild boar is permitted, but forbidden for red stag and brown bear. Currently, all foreign hunters are welcomed to Romania and can hunt all species under out of country tariffs and regulations. Problems like poaching, ethics, and habitat shrinking are subjects of heated debates, while the Romanian press is generally sensationalist and negative about hunting exploits.
Big game species include the apex predators brown bear (Ursus arctos), wolf (Canis lupus) and European lynx (Lynx lynx). Ungulates: chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), European stag (Cervus elaphus), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), fallow deer (Dama dama), wild boar (Sus scrofa) and mouflon (Ovis aries musimon). The only big game animal truly hunted with dogs is the wild boar and Transylvanian bloodhound, fox terriers and airedale terriers are used. Hounds are rare and greyhounds are non-existent in the hunting field in Romania; yet the Transylvanian bloodhound is a breed of hunting dog developed by the Hungarian ethnics of Transylvania, Romania, centuries ago but internationally registered as a Hungarian breed.
