New map introducing Estonia

[ancient willow]

Estonia is a great country for hunting. Here you can find moose, roe deer, foxes, wild boars, red deer, beavers, hares, ducks, geese, lynx, wolves, seals, jackals, brown bears and lots of more animals. Estonia has more a flat landscape with beatuiful forests and large fields. It also has swampy land and reedy seashore. I've always wanted a map of my country to hunt on.

[crystal gale]

Maybe. Would you make this a snow map?

[ancient willow]

It would be cool to have snow on this map but it is also very beautiful during other seasons.

[crystal gale]

What weapons would you want in the map? Or would you want equipment instead?

[rich hazel]

It could be like Yukon with how the snow works

[crystal gale]

Yeah. That'd be nice.

[ancient willow]

Well as for the weapons, it's really up to Expansive Worlds but one cool thing to have there would be these feeding places, or how do you call it, and also trail cameras. It's classical to hunt here with that equipment.

[crystal gale]

Well you could have suggestions for weapons.

[rich hazel]

Again, trail cameras just don’t really work well in game

[ancient willow]

Then maybey like food pellets to lure nearby animals in

[rich hazel]

I’m also against that. We’ve already got need zones so there’s not any point

[ancient willow]

Well it's classical to use .308 bolt action rifels and 12 gauge shotguns here. This combo works on all animals here.

[ancient willow]

Ye but the pellets would work like callers but instead of them coming right at you, you could lure them to someplace open

[marsh whale]

Do you have a general list of animals that would appear on this reserve, because I get the feeling it is a more big game focused reserve. I also saw seals mentioned, this would make it the second reserve with seals, alongside my Arctic Reserve (Ringed Seals). Also is that seal in the picture the kind you get in Estonia?

[rich hazel]

I have a feeling that’d fall to the same fate as scents, not used

[ancient willow]

We have mostly grey seals and one more specie but I don't know how do you call this in english. I'll look it up

[marsh whale]

Harbour Seals?

[ancient willow]

These are the seals you can find in Estonia

[crystal gale]

The first seal @ancient willow looks like a harp seal.

[marsh whale]

I was looking it up and the other seal species in Estonia seems to be the Ringed Seal, which I have on my Canadian Arctic Reserve

[ancient willow]

It' ringed seal

[crystal gale]

Oh okay. They both look very similar

[ancient willow]

Yeah

[rich hazel]

Seals are an interesting species. I assume they’d have the same behavior as gators with the sinking thing but they would be a heck of a lot slower, right?

[crystal gale]

Well. I think shooting them on land would be the best.

[rich hazel]

But aren’t they always close to water so they’d run to it for safety?

[marsh whale]

I could see this reserve being an interesting reserve with familiar species like Red Deer and Boar alongside seal, beaver and more

[ancient willow]

Well if they're in the water they disappear quite fast. Basically the only way to get them in the water is a headshot

[ancient willow]

Mostly they tend to stay in the water. The may clib onto rocks in the water and on ice in the winter

[crystal gale]

I think with seals especially if they are in the water they need to make them float. Other wise itd be impossible to hunt them in the water.

[rich hazel]

I just looked up some animals there and I think if we get the map it needs wolverine, gray wolf, otter, mink, beaver, lynx, brown bear, swan, cranes, variety of ducks, variety of geese, boar and red deer

[marsh whale]

Crane? The only legalized crane hunting I know about is Sandhill Crane in the US & Canada

[crystal gale]

I don't want wolf's on another map. We already have three maps with wolves.

[ancient willow]

Yeah there are lots of small game aswell but we aren't used to hunt them so much. Mostly beaver, fox, hare, raccoon dog and even badger

[ancient willow]

Well there are only about 200 registred wolves in Estonia somehow. But we still hunt them

[marsh whale]

Thats a good selection of game: a Second reserve for European Hare and Raccoon Dog, a first for European Badger and we get our revenge on the Beaver, I’d say that is a good selection of small game already

[crystal gale]

Beaver automatically gets a G1.

[marsh whale]

My tents, stands and blinds demand vengeance

[crystal gale]

I have never had that happen to me.

For the maps in NA I think Layton, Mississippi, and NEM are the maps that could use beavers.

[marsh whale]

Yukon and Revontouli are 2 other maps that could also use beavers

[crystal gale]

Beavers for every map. Imagine seeing a beaver in Vurhonga.

[marsh whale]

With Estonia having forest and swamps I realized it would be very fitting for the G1 Red Deer since it has random plants stuck to it’s antlers

[crystal gale]

Red deer live in Estonia?

[ancient willow]

We also have cappercaillie, black grouse, red grouse, hazel grouse, brant goose, barnacle goose, Canada goose, grey goose, white-fronted goose and lots more

[crystal gale]

Be nice to have a map that's more focused on upland birds than waterfowl.

[ancient willow]

Yes and there are lots of them in Saaremaa(the biggest island in Estonia)

[crystal gale]

Okay. Never knew that. Are similar to red deer on new Zealand?

[ancient willow]

Unfortunately here they tend to have smaller racks because we hunt a lot of them

[crystal gale]

That's actually better. Would love some variety in red deer.

[ancient willow]

Couple of antlers I have found

But we also have antlers like these

[crystal gale]

That's really cool. Be nice to have different kinds of antlers for red deer.

[marsh whale]

Here is a quick species list I whipped up based on info I could find, feel free to change it as you see fit @ancient willow

Big Game

• Moose
• Red Deer
• European Brown Bear
• Wild Boar
• Roe Deer
• Grey Seal - Class 3
• Eurasian Lynx
  Small Game
• European Badger - Class 2
• Beaver - Class 2
• Golden Jackal - Class 2
• Red Fox
• Raccoon Dog
• European Hare
  Upland Birds
• Capercaillie
• Black Grouse
• Hazel Grouse
• Willow Ptarmigan
• Woodcock
• Common Wood Pigeon
• Hooded Crow
  Waterfowl
• Greylag Goose
• Barnacle Goose
• Great Cormorant

[crystal gale]

You can shoot cormorants in Estonia?

[marsh whale]

A handful of European countries allow it

I think one Canadian Province also allows the hunting of Cormorant as a varmint species

[ancient willow]

Of course. They make a mess here eating fish and defecating everywhere.

[crystal gale]

Be fun to shoot them with an air rifle.

[marsh whale]

I think we could potentially get a new Combination gun chambered in 308 & 12 Gauge either as an Over/Under or a Drilling like the one we have in one of the DLCs