@Weldabeast
Then...
you must first get the "hunting license"
and to do this you must take a specific course ...
You must be an Italian citizen and be at least 18 years old.
1) you must pass the written test and, only later,
an oral test on five study subjects (laws, agriculture, first aid, weapons, animal recognition).
If everything went well, the "hunting certificate" will be issued.
2) Then you have to go to a shooting range to get released
"certificate of ability to handle weapons" (after a mini-course on the spot, some shots and various simulations that pass through the head of the shooting director on duty).
Finally, to have the hunting license, basic, you must go to the police station in the area and make
an explicit written request.
To do this you need to attach:
a: copy of the "hunting certificate"
b: copy of the certificate of ability to handle weapons
c: the extract of your criminal record (which must be cleaned!)
d: the certificate issued by the military doctor who claims that you are not crazy, addicted to drugs or alcoholics.
e: 2 passport photos
f: and some revenue stamps.
He patiently waits for at least 15 days if not a month to pass ...
and if everything is okay you will receive a call from the police station that
it warns us that the license is ready and you can go and collect it from them.
With this you can go hunting for birds, hares, rabbits, pheasants, ducks, wild boars (teamed with dogs) and all that is allowed to hunt on the "hunting calendar".
But if you want to hunt wild boar yourself, roe deer, deer, fallow deer, mouflon, chamois ....
To do this, specific courses must be followed to issue the various authorizations necessary to hunt these species.
For each species, in addition to the specific course, there are:
1: written exam
2: oral exam
3: "shooting target" test in the shooting range ( 3 out of 5 hits must hit the vital parts of the rappresented animal )
Obviously, with the exception of wild boar, for the remaining 4 species there are well-defined periods for hunting them.
For cervids it is also necessary to participate actively in the phase
of census of the same on a sample area ...
The purpose of all this?
Evaluate the population which then, a specific organization (ISPRA), will inform the various
hunting districts how many animals can be killed.
On the basis of this, the marks are assigned and delivered to the hunters who have the right.
For wild boar the story is different from region to region ...
there are those who make it hunt all year round and those who only 4/5 months in "selection" (alone)
and then 3/4 months only in team with dogs.
In all this, personally, I spend about € 500 every year ...
between fees for firearms, registrations to various ATCs (2 for the moment), third party insurance (mandatory), etc ...
Not to mention that the firearm every 5 years decays and must be renewed by making a request again ...
then photos, various certificates, taxes etc ...
Of course taxes ... I forgot to mention them before ...
€ 173.16 government tax.
If you don't pay it every year, you can't hunt or you can touch the weapons you have and not even go to the shooting range.
If instead you pay the tax, within the limited limits of the law, you can take it and go hunting when open or in shooting range.
I hope what I wrote is understandable.