What you must know
- Know the common hunting methods and what separates them
- Know your role in a hunting team and what the hunt leader decides
- Know the main rules for using dogs and for trapping
Stands and drives
Stand hunting is the most common form for big game: hunters stand at fixed stands with known shooting sectors, and the animals come to them — by themselves, with drivers or with a dog.
Three things matter on the stand: you stay where you were put, you shoot only in your sector, and you report on the radio when something happens. The hunt leader decides who stands where, when the hunt starts and when it ends.
Dogs
Loose dogs for moose, red deer and roe deer, a leashed tracking dog, driving dogs for hare and fox, and pointers for ptarmigan are all common. A dog that bays or drives must be trained for the species and the terrain.
Ordinary leash law applies from 1 April to 20 August inclusive. Dogs actively used for hunting, hunting training and hunting trials — and tracking dogs after sick or wounded game — are exempt, but you need the landowner's permission.
Trapping
Trapping is its own form of hunting with its own rules: only approved trap types, and the trap must be marked with your name.
Live traps must be checked every morning and every evening. Other types have their own intervals — killing traps at least once a week.
Read more in the Hunter's Handbook
Practise this session
Veida does not run courses and does not hold exams. The mandatory course must be taken with an approved provider, and the exam is taken in the «Jegerprøveeksamen» app through your municipality. These pages are revision and practice alongside the course. Our questions are written by us from public regulations — they are not exam questions.