A montería is an ancient type of driven hunt endemic to Spain. It involves the tracking, chase and killing of big-game, typically red deer, wild boar, fallow deer and mouflon. A number of "rehalas" along with their respective "rehaleros" will stir up an area of forest with the aim of forcing the game to move around and into the shooting pegs, where hunters will be able to fire.
Beaters return from a montería in Sierra Morena, 1913
A bear-hunting scene from the "Libro de la montería" of Alfonso XI
Hunted deers mounted on mules prior to being transported to the gathering at a montería in Andújar, 1958
Rehala hounds awaiting the start of a montería in Villadiego
Big-game hunting is the hunting of large game animals for trophies, taxidermy, meat, and commercially valuable animal by-products. The term is often associated with the hunting of Africa's "Big Five" games, and Indian rhinoceros and Bengal tigers on the Indian subcontinent.
The Duke of Algeciras with a trophy African leopard, one of the 'Big Five', Southern Rhodesia, 1926
Elephant hunting by the Dahomey Amazons depicted in Le Tour du Monde in 1863
Native Americans hunting bison, from an 1855 illustration
400 pound tiger taken by Reverend H. R. Caldwell using a Savage Model 99 chambered for .22 Savage Hi-Power
