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Arnebergbua sits in hunting zone A of the Øystre Slidre state common – 550 square kilometres of hunting ground with a road all the way to the tun. This is where you stay in the middle of the terrain, with a fire in the stove and beds for six when the day on the mountain is done.
01 · The hunting and the terrain
The hunting and the terrain
The state common runs from birch woodland at 900 metres to bare mountain at 2,000 – most of it easy walking, the kind of ground that lets you cover distance without wearing yourself out: open plateaus, stretches of bog, long gentle ridges. Willow grouse is the main quarry and is found throughout the common, along with mountain hare. Black grouse keep to the birch slopes in the south, ptarmigan to the high fells further north.
From Arnebergbua you walk straight out into zone A, and the road runs all the way to the tun until the snow closes it. After a day on the mountain: the wood stove, the long table, beds for six. Dogs are welcome, of course.
02 · How to get a hunting permit
How to get a hunting permit
Small-game hunting here is managed by Øystre Slidre fjellstyre, the local mountain board, which sets the conditions for each season. The right to hunt in the state common follows residence, not citizenship, and the law distinguishes three groups. Local residents – permanently resident and registered in Øystre Slidre municipality – buy their permits directly when sales open after the annual population survey. Hunters who have been, and still are, permanently resident elsewhere in Norway for the past year apply at Inatur, and permits are allocated by draw after the survey. Unsold permits can be released for sale through the autumn. Living outside Norway does not give access to hunting in the state common – the fishing is another matter: rod fishing in the common is open to visitors from abroad as well. Current conditions, prices, periods and quotas are with the fjellstyre and at Inatur – read them before you apply.
Three schemes are the relevant ones here, and they are easy to mix up. Here they are, each with its own page at Inatur:
Small-game hunting with pointing dog
Hunting over pointing dogs for grouse and black grouse. Early in the season the common is divided into zones A, B and C – the map above shows the layout – and the permit covers one zone. From October there is no zone division, and a permit covers the whole common.
Small-game hunting with pointing dog at Inatur ↗
Small-game hunting without a dog
As a rule, the permit covers the whole common all season, and includes mountain hare – the fjellstyre can make exceptions for individual zones in parts of the season.
Small-game hunting without a dog at Inatur ↗
Winter training for pointing dogs
From November through March the common is open for winter training of pointing dogs – outside Langsua national park. No application, no draw: the permit is bought directly at Inatur.
Winter training for pointing dogs at Inatur ↗
Current deadlines, prices and conditions are with Inatur and the mountain board – they are the source, and the rules can change from year to year. What Arnebergbua offers is the base: stay in the middle of the terrain while you hunt – or move fast when a spare permit appears.