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  • Figuring that a hunter who is a lease-holder (jagd paechter) gets charged by the forestry office for all damage done by low game (pigs and roe deer), he'd want to shoot as many pigs as possible.

    Hog Wild: Battling The Burgeoning Pig Population 2009

  • Figuring that a hunter who is a lease-holder (jagd paechter) gets charged by the forestry office for all damage done by low game (pigs and roe deer), he'd want to shoot as many pigs as possible.

    Hog Wild: Battling The Burgeoning Pig Population 2009

  • The hares were shot in cold weather, after the snow was on the ground, by walking in line of ten or fifteen beaters with two or three guns at intervals along the line and later, when the hares were very wild and the weather very cold, by what is called by the Germans "kessel-jagd" or kettle-hunt.

    Face to Face with Kaiserism 1909

  • Breyman's loud denunciation of the wounded prisoner as the two men exchanged confidences, in the dining hall, where antlers and wolves 'heads, grinning bears' skulls, and eagles 'wings told the tale of many a wild jagd.

    The Midnight Passenger : a novel Richard Savage 1874

  • Cross the jagd and invade the countries to the east in your search for blood.

    Siliconera 2009

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