Autumn duck hunting is the most common option for those who are holding a rifle in their hands not so long ago. This bird lives mainly in fresh water, especially standing and overgrown with reeds or grass. Her chicks hatch only in the spring. That is why the autumn duck hunting is officially allowed. The year 2013 was quite hot, so legal shooting began from the end of August and lasted until the very end of November. At this time, young individuals have already become stronger.
A duck is a very careful and fast flying bird that dives well. In the daytime, she hides, and at night she comes up to more open places, flying for feeding on grain fields.
Autumn duck hunting begins at dawn. After molting, the drakes put on a wedding dress, and the young growths become winged. At this time, ducks make daily flights from the places of the day to feeding and vice versa.
They spend their days on inaccessible reservoirs, in thickets of reeds and reeds. On the evening dawn they can fly to distant water bodies or fields, where there is more food. In the early morning they return back, always following the same route. Therefore, already experienced hunters easily predict their appearance and manage to take the appropriate positions. It is better to wait for birds at a reservoir where they visit during the day, as well as at feeding places and on flights.
The opening of the autumn duck hunt must begin with reconnaissance. Determining the flight routes of birds and convenient places for hiding will make the shooting as prey as possible. If possible, it is very useful to arrange skradok with an open top for firing in all directions.
Moreover, in the reed or reed thickets, such a shelter is not necessary.
In general, the autumn hunting for ducks from skradok is somewhat difficult, because you need to get into them in advance, and there is no guarantee that ducks can appear. Sometimes a person stays in his shelter for a whole day.
Therefore, most often, autumn duck hunting is carried out with a dog. This method is practiced, as a rule, with such breeds of pointers as kurtshaar or drathaar, as well as with a spaniel or husky.
Since ducks, as a rule, do not allow the dog to stand, the bloodhound's job is to put them on the wing. In this case, the hunter slowly moves along the shore of an overgrown reservoir. His four-legged helper is combing reed or reed beds in the adjacent shallow water. After a booty shot, she brings the trophy to the owner.
Autumn duck hunting with a dog has the advantage of a four-legged friend able to engage in battle with wounded animals. And then it is quite possible to do without shooting: there will be production anyway.
Another type of fishing is from the approach. Can pass without a dog, but together or three. One of the assistants scares the ducks out of the lining, and the shooter slowly walks along the shore next to the reed beds. A shot takes place on the rise and is almost always successful.
Such an autumn duck hunt is not only interesting, but also prey, and less tiring, since it most often occurs in a shallow reach or in places with low vegetation. And this makes it easier for the hunter to move and shoot, as well as search for prey.