We can follow the hunting team out on their fields. They show where the boundary goes between the private and the municipal part. About a tenth of the hunting team's land consists of the municipality's land in Hanebolsskogen. There are running tracks and football pitches, and therefore no animals can be shot on that part.

- Possibly you can stand just at the edge of the municipality's land, says hunting team leader Johan Arvidsson.

Are other hunting teams leasing municipal land?

Hunting team leader Johan Arvidsson believes that it is up to the municipality whether or not they should pay hunting rent.

- It is up to the municipality if they want us to pay. After all, we as a hunting club cannot interfere. This is a municipal decision, says Johan Arvidsson.

Hunting team with old ancestry

Sven Callenberg says that he has been in the hunting team since the mid-1980s. He sat on the City Council as a member during the last term of office. Now he is a replacement.

- I claim that we have the hunting right on this land of old claim, says Sven Callenberg (C).

He says that the hunting team has probably been hunting since the 1950s in the Hanebols forest.

Can you understand if it stings in people's eyes that you do not pay hunting rent?

Sven Callenberg (C) does not think the land is worth paying hunting rent for.

- No, I can't understand it. There may be municipal land where there is not a lot of people running, but it is not possible to hunt in the traditional sense here, I firmly argue, he says.

Business leaders and politicians

The municipality does not really want to see this as hunting, which you can read more about here. And that the members have had assignments for the municipality has nothing to do with it, Wennerström says.

Business leaders, entrepreneurs and even municipal politicians have been part of the hunting team, who has got this land for free?

- When we sign a hunting lease agreement, we do not take information on who is included, but it is the hunting team we sign an agreement with, says Björn Wennerström, tf. unit manager for planning and real estate at Åmål Municipality.

But doesn't it look so good in people's eyes that these people got to hunt for free?

- They have hobbies and interests like everyone else. It is clear that it may collide, but I do not see that there is any conflict.

Opposition politician Thomas Lindström, on the other hand, thinks completely differently.

- It's almost corruption if you get some benefits from the municipality. I understood that someone who had done work for the municipality had participated and hunted. And how is it related? Does the municipality get a cheaper job from him so that he can participate and hunt? After all, they must not put themselves in such situations, says Thomas Lindström (TL).