Hunt or hunting days in France
People often ask which days are hunting days in France, and the simple answer is that no National law prohibits hunting on any day of the week during the open hunting season. However, various Associations keep petitioning for Sundays to be hunt-free. Part of the confusion where it exists is that there isn’t simply one type of hunting or la chasse and that la chasse is often erroneously thought of as being uniquely chasse en battue that involves a minimum number of participants with some driving or flushing through an area using dogs pushing any animals, (boar, deer, fox), out into the open to where one or more hunters wait with guns. Usually this type of organised hunt takes place on two or three specific days of the week that are agreed at the commune level (ours is Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays) and the people that participate in this like to call themselves La Chasse. However, rough shooting for smaller creatures, birds, rabbits, hares etc. can take place on any d...
