THE GAME IN BULGARIA
As a country with a rich flora and fauna Bulgaria is
blessed with a huge variety of big and small game.
Scorpio Ltd. is delighted to offer you unforgetable times
as well as successfull and exciting hunting of:
Red Deer (Cervus Elaphus L.)
1. Seasons
* Shooting season: 01.09. - 31.01.
* Best season: 15.09. - 15.10.
01.12. - 31.01.
* Mating season: 15.09. - 15.10.
2. Trophy qualities
* Mountain grounds 7 - 9 kg
* Plain grounds 9 - 13 kg
* Capital trophies over 230 CIC points
Bulgaria is holding the current world record for Red Deer
trophy with 273.60 CIC points; 16.200 kg
Wild Boar (Sus Scrofa L.)
1. Seasons:
* Individual hunting: all year round
* Battue hunting: 01.10. - 31.12.
* Best season: 01.11. - 31.03.
2. Trophy qualities
* Mountain grounds: 18 - 24 cm
* Plain grounds: 16 - 22 cm
* Capital trophies: over 25 cm
Bulgaria is holding the current world record for Wild Boar
trophy with 158.20 CIC points; 27.10 cm length of the
tusks.
Roe Deer (Capreolus Capreolus L.)
1. Seasons
* Shooting season:
- male 01.08. - 31.10.
- female and fawn 01.10. - 31.10.
* Best season: 01.08. - 15.08.
* Mating season: 15.07. - 15.08.
2. Trophy qualities
* Mountain grounds: 200 - 350 gr
* Plain grounds: 350 - 450 gr
* Capital trophies: over 500 gr
Mouflon (Ovis Musimon Pall.)
1. Seasons
* Shooting season:
- male 01.09. - 30.04.
- female and offsprings 01.10. - 31.01.
* Mating period: 01.10. - 01.11.
2. Trophy qualities 70 - 80 cm
* Capital trophies: over 85 cm
Fallow Deer (Dama Dama L.)
1. Seasons
* Shooting season: 01.09. - 31.01.
* Best season: 10.10. - 10.11.
01.12. - 31.01.
* Mating season: 10.10. - 10.11.
2. Trophy qualities
* Mountain grounds: 2,5 - 3 kg
* Plain grounds: 3 - 4,5 kg
Wild Goat (Rupicapra Rupicapra L.)
1. Seasons
* Shooting season:
- male 01.09. - 30.04.
- female 01.10. - 31.01.
* Best season: 15.11. - 15.12.
01.03. - 30.04.
* Mating season: 15.11. - 15.12.
2. Trophy qualities 80 - 100 CIC points
* Capital trophies: over 110 CIC points
Brown Bear (Ursus Arctos L.)
1. Seasons
* Shooting season: 01.03. - 15.04.
01.09. - 31.12.
* Best season: 01.03. - 15.04.
01.11. - 30.11.
2. Trophy qualities 250 - 350 CIC points
* Capital trophies: over 450 CIC points
The first world record in Brown Bear trophy presented in Berlin World
Hunting Fair 1937 belongs to Bulgaria.
Capercaillie (Tetrao Urogallus L.)
1. Season
* Shooting season: 25.04. - 15.05.
Bison (Bison Bonasus L.)
1. Seasons
* Shooting season:
- male all year round
- female 01.09. - 31.12.
Yak (Bos Mutus P.)
1. Seasons
* Shooting season:
- male all year round
- female 01.09. - 30.10.
Predators
The world of the predator animals in Bulgaria is represented by the wolf,
fox, jackal, wild cat, stone-martens, pine martens.
Hunting is permitt all year round with the most appropriate months for wolf,
jackal and wild cat being December, January and
February when their fur gets more beautiful and thicker.
According to the seasons and the areas of hunting we are able to provide
you with individually tailored programes for hunting
of different varieties of big game.
The shooting of big game could be successfully parred with shooting of
small game which in Bulgaria is represented by the
following types:
Type Shooting season Best season
Pheasant 01.10. - 31.01. 01.10.- 31.01.
Wild duck 01.10. - 28.02. 01.12 - 28.02.
Wild goose 01.10. - 28.02. 01.12.- 28.02.
Partridge 01.10. - 30.11. 01.10.- 31.10.
Quail 15.08. - 31.10. 20.08.-10.09.
N.B. The seasons as mentioned above
are valid for 1998/99 hunting season.