Hunt for black grouse in spring: how not to miss?

The springtime gesture of black grouse, according to those who watched it, the spectacle is truly amazing, amazing imagination with bright colors and sounds. This bird is one of the most colorful feathered inhabitants of the forest thicket.

Description

She has a blue-black plumage, a large body, ending with a lily-shaped tail, white podhvoste and cowberry-colored eyebrows. Usually black grouse is found in a mixed forest, where birches predominate. Their main food is berries, and with the onset of cold weather - the grains left after harvesting on grain fields. In winter, the black grouse is forced to feed exclusively on the kidneys of birches.

This relatively large bird has a small head and a short beak. Males look much larger than females. Their length reaches 58 cm with weight from one to one and a half kilograms. Female black grouses are mottled, rusty-brown, with transverse dark yellow, black-brown and gray stripes. Outwardly, they look like wood grouses, but they are distinguished by white "mirrors" on their wings and a small caudal notch.

Females usually emit cackling fast sounds, often stretched at the end. The males are muttering loudly. Their loud singing is most often heard only during tkovaniya, which in the middle of our country begins about half or by the end of March, and in the north - in mid-April, continuing until the summer.

Terms of shooting

Hunting for grouse - in the spring, in winter or at any other time - is the most beautiful and exciting. The extraction of this game has always been considered quite fun. Success often depends on how well the shooter is familiar with the habitat, as well as the habits and habits of black grouse.

Our ancestors have long been popular spring hunt for black grouses on currents. It can be said without exaggeration that Russia is the birthplace of this fascinating fishery. Especially popular hunting for black grouse in the spring was still in the middle of the nineteenth century. In the then-valid rules, the timing of the shooting was determined as follows: this game could be obtained all year round, except for the period from mid-May to mid-July. Hunting for grouse in the spring began in March, often even in the snow, and continued until the end of the tamping.

Types of hunting

In the last century this game could be extracted in various ways. It could be hunting for black grouse in the spring from a hut on the current, with a skand from the approach, and also in floodplains of rivers - on a boat or from an entrance. Now the rules are somewhat tougher. This is explained by the marked decrease in the number of this wonderful bird, which was the result of her disorderly extermination. Today spring hunting for black grouse is allowed only on the currents from the shelter. In the summer, in August, extraction with a dog is allowed, and in the autumn - with stuffed animals. Some use for more successful shooting and decoy, attracting them prey. Winter grouse hunting takes place on the holes. No less popular and this way, as with the approach, however, hunting enthusiasts primarily attract the desire to obtain a magnificent trophy in the spring, when nature awakens from sleep. But the main thing at the same time - to find a place of takings.

How to find the spring in spring

Black grouse is a rather constant bird. From year to year he chooses the same place for takings. Therefore, if not to be too lazy, then it will be quite easy to find it. After all, the sounds issued by kosachi, sometimes heard a kilometer or more. A good spring weather is the main condition for active grouse eating. This bird, as, indeed, all the chicken, do not like rainy windy days. On clear silent mornings, her current is very active. Moreover, night frosts stimulate it even more.

Go out in the spring in search of the current is necessary at dawn. You need to go without making sudden movements and avoiding open places whenever possible. The birds of prey are very careful: they can fly up, feeling a man who is at a distance of two hundred meters and even further. It is undesirable to frighten them, since later the birds will be very careful on it.

Features of spring hunt for current

For several centuries, the black grouse, inhabiting most of the Russian regions, is one of the most popular mining facilities. In general, hunting for black grouse - in winter, late autumn and, of course, in the spring - is almost unrelated to the use of special equipment, which provides a successful shooting. The success and prey of this lesson depends primarily on knowledge of the habitats of game, its habits and habits and, of course, the skillful application of the accumulated experience.

To the grouse hunting, the hunter must prepare before the season begins. Approximately in the middle of March, having previously studied the places of permanent tanks, it is necessary to mount skeletons for the construction of a future hut. This needs to be done so that the current birds can gradually get used to the appearance of "new objects" on the terrain.

To protect yourself from dampness, it is better to sketch inside the straw or lapnik. Experienced hunters construct several huts at once to use them in turn. And on the same current shooting black grouse should be conducted no more than two, at most, one day.

How not to miss

In the hut the hunter comes in the pre-dawn darkness to stay in it until the morning shoot of black grouse begins. Go to shelter, when the males have already begun to "mumble", in any case impossible. Do not and appear at the hut, when the takings have already begun or just about to be activated. In order not to disperse the kosach, shooting should be started only when the game enters the "rage".

Many believe that the best thing is hunting black grouse with a small bag, invaluable features of which is a weak sound when shot and a small kickback. It is necessary to aim without haste and very carefully. To pick up the killed game, while hunting for black grouse does not end, it is impossible.

With a scarecrow

It is held, as a rule, at the end of September, when old kosachi begin to gather in flocks, and the young and the tethers join them slowly.

Before the formation of a thick snow cover in the morning and evening dawn, this bird sits near the places of lodging and feeding zones, on selected trees, mostly on birches. Hunting for black grouse with stuffed animals is based precisely on the use of this production habits.

Having noticed the trees on which the game loves to sit, the hunter places a hut at a distance of twenty meters from them. The scarecrow is planted on a thin straight and as far as possible a long pole. The success of hunting depends on how correctly this is done.

The scarecrow should look like a calmly seated bird, without tilting to the side, while necessarily breast-feeding towards the wind. In the calm it is necessary to turn in the morning to the east, and in the evening - to the west. As a rule, three or four scarecrows at different heights are simultaneously exhibited, but one of them should be as close to the top of the tree as possible.

Black grouse production in winter

After the appearance of the first powder, an excellent season begins for the shooting of this bird from the entrance or approach. I must say that hunting for black grouse in winter is difficult with the loss of abundant snow. Its success depends on a good knowledge of the terrain and the anticipated movements of a flock of beetles. It can last the whole day, from the moment of the departure of black grouse to the feeding area. For an entrance to them the usual cart is most convenient for a powder, and on a snow - a wood. The horse should be chosen not scared. It must be ruled by the driver, since it will be difficult for the hunter to simultaneously shoot and rule.

Noticing from a distance the game sitting on the trees, the woods or the cart must be directed as if they were going around the flock side. A large number of pigs rarely allow the hunter to shoot, so first it should be dispersed, and only then, when approaching small groups of black grouses or singly, start shooting. If the black grouse is sitting, ruffling and gently pecking the kidneys, then the entrance can be continued. When they stretch their necks, pricked up and stepping from foot to foot, or looking around, shooting should be done immediately.

On the holes

In windy, frosty weather, they usually sleep in the snow. They dive into it from the tree, break a long stroke and hide. At the same time, an oblong hole remains on the surface of the snow. This is the basis for the hunting of black grouse on the holes.

A flock of crabs for a night in the snow chooses protected from the wind small forest glades. Therefore, the holes are very close to each other. Birds, going under the snow about an hour before sunset, spend under him all night.

Hunting for black grouse on the holes can take place both at sunset and in the daytime, in case the prey remains in shelter. Pits should be approached as quietly as possible. In this case, even after a shot from a small-caliber rifle, not all black grouses immediately rise. And this means that the hunter has the opportunity to recharge.

Using a manga

Experienced hunters are well aware that the song of a pectoral on the current begins with a kind of "chuffing". By making these sounds, the bird starts jumping rather high. After such an original introduction, "muttering" begins.

Hunting for black grouse with mank is based on the ability of a man to simulate the sounds emitted by kosachi on the tonic, as well as conscription screams of the motherfuckers or the noise of a flock landing on the trees. The trick is used first of all when it is impossible to come close to the right shot to a seated game or a current game.