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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 stays open all the way to the tun through the hunting season. 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 the local mountain board, Øystre Slidre fjellstyre, and all permits are applied for and bought at Inatur. By Norwegian law, hunting in a state common is open to anyone who has been – and still is – permanently resident in Norway for the past year; local and visiting hunters stand equal in the draw. If you live outside Norway, the hunting is closed to you – but the fishing is not: rod fishing in the common is open to everyone.
The system is simpler than it looks: permits are allocated by application and draw before the season, and unsold permits can be released for sale through the autumn.
There are three separate schemes, 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, the same permit covers the whole common.
Small-game hunting with pointing dog at Inatur ↗
Small-game hunting without a dog
The permit covers the whole common all season, and includes mountain hare.
Small-game hunting without a dog at Inatur ↗
Winter training for pointing dogs
When the hunting season ends, the common opens for winter training of pointing dogs – from November through March. No application, no draw: the permit is bought directly at Inatur, by the day or for the whole winter.
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.