What do you need to successfully hunt waterfowl? Keep his excitement in check, not allowing him to interfere with deliberate and accurate shooting. It is right to pick up ammunition so that a shot of shot with a guarantee strikes the bird. To have a sensible dog, capable, if anything, to find in the swampy thickets both a mangy and a battered duck; Otherwise - and bird life for nothing, ruined, and spoiled his mood.
There will be no further talk about the dog, but let's talk about the cartridges. Shooting the duck with a cartridge with high-quality polyethylene dust will provide the combat sharpness needed in such a case. The shooting zone is covered with pellets widely and evenly. If bullets with increased charge are used, it is desirable to increase the diameter of the shot scree by special puffs or equipment methods; This is relevant for shooting at short distances, especially in the evening. Practice, however, shows that not only standard 12-gauge cartridges, but also "sportings", give excellent results. And when firing a smooth wide scree of heap, even arrows with a fair amount of experience prefer a heap of combat.
Shooting on ducks does not require any special system of guns, and each hunter chooses it according to his taste. The main thing is not in the system. It would have been a well-balanced rifle, but the mechanism worked well, but the bed was approaching the complexion of the game miner.
The moment when the duck is in the hemisphere of a sure shooting defeat in flight, can be very fleeting. Therefore, the hunter has to turn his head almost like an air defense locator. The main thing is to hear in time, like whistling, dissecting the air, duck wings, so that the flying game does not come as a surprise. The technique of shooting ducks requires a clear skill in throwing a gun. If it is not yet, you will have to put the butt in the shoulder in advance. Do this carefully, and best of all for shelter, so as not to frighten the bird with careless movement. In the hut and with the onset of twilight you do not have to worry about it.
Shooting on ducks in flight is mandatory with a leash. It, like any other movement of the gun, is done only by turning the hull. When you release the trigger, you can neither slow down the movement of the gun, nor even stop it. The trigger is crushed only by the front phalanx of the index finger, its movement is smooth and smooth, without a jerk. The phalanx can not be put on the trigger at once.
Another pledge of an accurate shot is anticipation when shooting ducks, which depends on the situation that has arisen. Of course, all of them can not be predicted, experience and skill will only come with time. But if the head of the hunter turns all 360 degrees, most of the targets will be incoming (counter ducks), passing from him to the left or right. At the same time, the distance between him and the game is continuously reduced, because of which the leash is carried out with acceleration. The larger it is, the smaller the amount of anticipation, which decreases at a distance of 25-30 meters to almost a meter. The anticipation is calculated mentally by the silhouette of the game and the imaginary line connecting the eye and the target through the middle of the aiming bar and the fly.
There are situations when there are doubts about the success of the defeat of the flying duck; Then it is better to miss it and try to hit it. If the first shot ended in a miss, in the second it is necessary, while continuing the lead, to try to make an amendment; If there was a hit, you can try to shoot a duck flying next, slightly increasing the lead.
Shooting on ducks requires skills that you can work out at home in the future or in the absence of summer ducks arrange a mini-training right on the site of hunting. At the same time you can exercise a little.