What is needed in order to successfully hunt waterfowl? Keep your gambling in check, not allowing him to interfere with deliberate and accurate shooting. Choose the right cartridges so that the charge of a fraction with a guarantee hit the bird. To have a sensible dog, capable, if anything, of finding in the swamp thickets both wounded animals and a beaten duck; otherwise - and ruined a bird’s life in vain, and spoiled his mood.
We won’t talk about a dog anymore, but let's talk about cartridges. Shooting ducks with a cartridge with a high-quality plastic wad will ensure the sharpness of the battle necessary in such a case. The shooting area is covered with pellets wide and even. If cartridges with an increased charge are used, it is desirable to increase the diameter of the shot scree with special wads or equipment methods; This is true for close range shooting, especially in the evening. Practice, however, shows that excellent results are given not only by standard 12-caliber cartridges, but also by sports. And when shooting, an even wide scree flies over to a heap battle, even arrows with a fair amount of experience prefer.
Duck shooting does not require any special gun system, and each hunter chooses it according to his taste. The main thing is not in the system. It would have been a well-balanced shotgun, and the mechanism worked clearly, and the bed was suitable for the composition of the gamer.
The moment when the duck is in the hemisphere of a sure hit by flying in 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 how the duck wings whistle, cutting through the air, so that the flying game does not become a surprise. The technique of shooting ducks requires a clear skill of throwing a gun. If it is not yet, you have to put the butt in the shoulder in advance. This should be done carefully, and best of all behind a shelter, so as not to frighten the bird away with careless movement. In the hut and with the onset of dusk, you can not worry about it.
Shooting ducks in flight is necessarily with a leash. She, like any other movement of the gun, is made only by turning the body. When you pull the trigger, you can neither inhibit the movement of the gun, nor even stop it. Only the front phalanx of the index finger presses the trigger, its movement is smooth and smooth, without jerking. It is impossible to put the phalanges of two fingers at once on the descent.
Another guarantee of an accurate shot is the lead when shooting at ducks, which depends on the situation. Of course, it is impossible to predict all of them; experience and skill will come only with time. But if the hunter's head rotates all 360 degrees, then most of the targets will be flying (oncoming ducks) passing from him to the left or right. At the same time, the distance between him and the game is continuously reduced, due to which the leash of the gun is performed with acceleration. The larger it is, the smaller the lead value, which decreases at a distance of 25-30 meters to almost a meter. The lead is calculated mentally by the silhouette of the game and an imaginary line connecting the eye and the target through the middle of the aiming bar and the front sight.
There are situations when there are doubts about the success of a falling duck; then it’s better to skip it and try to beat to theft. If the first shot ended in a slip, in the second you need, continuing the leash, try to amend; if there was a hit, you can try to shoot the duck flying next, slightly increasing the lead.
Shooting ducks requires skills that you can work out ahead of time at home or in the absence of ducks summers, arrange a mini-training right at the place of hunting. At the same time, you can warm up a bit.