Coarse Game means the following species, according to the Hunting Decree – Art 3:
Furthermore, we are also learning:
That there are separate opening hours for the various species of Coarse Game, and that a shooting plan is required for coarse game hunting.
For deer game: rifled bullet cartridges whose normal impact energy is at least 980 J at 100 m from the muzzle.
For other coarse game (deer, wild boar, mouflon, fallow deer): bullet cartridges for rifled barrels with a nominal caliber expressed or converted in millimeters not smaller than 6.5 mm, and whose normal impact energy, in addition, is at least 2,200 J at 100 m from the barrel mouth.
For all coarse game: for the drive hunting of coarse game, smooth-bore bullet cartridges of caliber 20,16 and 12 are also permitted.