Hunting
Hunting Management
The organisation of hunting activities at Valbueno involves a large number of professionals, veterinarians, gamekeepers, support staff in the field, loaders, beaters and the game reserve managers, who, with the greatest effort and dedication, make every day of hunting a unique experience for our hunters.
Valbueno is not a hunting agency, but a family business that has been organising all the hunts on its estate for over a hundred years, scrupulously following the canons of traditional hunting, so that nothing is left to improvisation.
The estate owners provide its commitment and experience in the management of the game reserve, which is essentially aimed at ensuring the purity and optimum density of the partridge population, making it possible to make the best possible use of it for hunting.
Our management is based on traditional methods and on total respect and dedication to the sustainable growth of all the species that live there, especially the red-legged partridge. The active protection of their habitat, the application of preventive health controls, the orderly control of predation by means of an efficient gamekeeping system, the supplementation of water and food in the seasons of greatest scarcity, and the practice of adaptive hunting, inspire our activity.
We are aware that with the uncontrolled release of farm-bred partridges, the traditional hunting of the red-legged partridge has lost much of its attraction, which, for the hunter, consists fundamentally in confronting specimens that are perfectly integrated and acclimatised to their environment and which, due to their strength and powerful flight, can have adequate self-defence resources.
To achieve this effect, the management of the estate ensures that the birth and breeding of the partridge takes place in peaceful conditions, avoiding hunting during the last weeks of each season, when, as a result of the rutting season, males and females pair up to begin the reproduction process.
The Game Drives
The variable orography of the reserve makes it possible to hold a wide variety of game drives. There is an abundance of woodland and farmland. The existence of broken terrain and ravines raises the level of demand of our hunters. The partridge enters in bars, high, crossed or «de pico», which means that the shooting swing is very different from one game to another.
None of this would be possible without a brave partridge that knows the environment. Our organisation scrupulously respects requirements such as the retrieving of game with trained dogs or the holding of picnics between drives.
