Hunting is an occupation that exists as long as the human mind. From primitive tools, people switched to perfect weapons. And although now there is no urgent need for such a method of obtaining food, hunting always calls for the bosom of the nature of romantics. A real hunter feels unity with nature, he himself must feel the animal. Walk through the grass, leaning in the dew, smell the early morning or smoky evening - what could be more beautiful? But hunting is not only romance. It is also a technique. The hunter needs to know a lot of little things in order to bring the game home. Moreover, these little things are not universal: you can not use the same method for hunting for deer and drake. We will talk about birds, or rather, about those devices that are necessary for hunting them. Such a necessary thing is decoy on ducks. With his own hands made or purchased, electronic or wind - it is often difficult for a hunter to make the right choice. We will consider the assortment of decoys.
Features of duck hunting
You need to choose a method based on the time of year. In the offseason, use a stuffed bird. Such a device can be bought at any specialized store, and they come in different price categories: from protozoa, which will cost you less than two hundred rubles, to radio-controlled ducks with movement elements ten times more expensive. At this time, male mating is prohibited, so the hunter needs to be extremely careful and attentive. They go to ducks and with a dog - the best assistant to the hunter. The original way is the use of decoy.
Hunter best friend
Using decoy suggests that you already know how to play it, so practice at home, otherwise the hunt will fail. Hold the decoy with only one hand, imagine that this is the bottle from which you drink. Keep your tool in a dry place, avoid prolonged contact with water. On the hunt, "grunt" a little bit in decoy, wait for the first duck to appear, then the entire pack - and shoot.
Useful acquisition
Wind decoys for a duck are inexpensive, and their range is very wide. So you can go to the hunting store and pick up the tool to your liking. American decoys are very popular. By the way, their quality is also very good. Ducks are the same everywhere - so feel free to take and know that domestic ducks will understand your signal.
The design is also striking in variety, although it does not matter for the quality of the semolina. Although this way you can distinguish your decoys if it is configured differently. Yes, and in the grass to look for an instrument, say, red, is better - but this is disadvantageous for masking. Contact your sales consultant for advice.
DIY duck decoy: a couple of practical ways
To make a simple device, you can search on numerous forums for drawing a decoy on a duck. In principle, an experienced hunter can do without him. Pick up the material - it should be a dry birch. We will need a small bar no larger than your palm, it will be more convenient. Initially, the workpiece has the shape of a cylinder. And we drill this cylinder along to make it look like a tube with not very thick edges. Then we cut it very carefully in the same direction. We now have two identical grooves. You can process them individually, but it is easier to connect the halves again with electrical tape, then give the tube a conical shape. The wide part is also sometimes processed, so that the device becomes like a duck's beak. Parts of the workpiece are lubricated with an alcohol-based stain and nitro-varnish. This is to ensure that the decoy is protected from moisture. And then we have to make the musical part of semolina, so to speak, all its secret. For him we take a piece of tin, for example, from a can of drinks. We make the tongue a little shorter than the tubule, insert it between the parts of the “beak”. The next step is that we need to find polyvinyl chloride cambric, well, or a ring of this material. You put it on the narrow part of the hunting tool. If you have a musical ear, then independently check the sound of decoy. Move the tongue and PVC ring to achieve the perfect result.
But this is not the only way to make duck decoys. If you want exotic, you can try other natural materials - for example, bone. This decoy looks like a tube with grooves at the ends (one looks up, the other looks down) and holes in them. But making it perfect is very difficult.
And making duck decoy in the third way is not so difficult. We will need two sleeves (hunters have no shortage of such materials) made of brass. We connect them side by side. Simple manipulation - and it's just two tubes. Then we take light wood or cork so that they fit perfectly into the tubes. After fitting, take out the wooden filling. We need to cut a strip of wood, about a sixth of the entire tube. Cut the material along! Then insert the wood or cork back into the sleeves. The decoy for ducks, which you can easily do with your own hands, is ready!
Electronic decoy: pros and cons
This miracle of technology can also be purchased at the store. Although electronic decoy on ducks with their own hands can also be done, it is unlikely to give such an effect. If we talk about its device, then this is just a player with a speaker, although the design of this semolina is more complicated. You can choose which set of sounds will be recorded. Settings can also be changed, but not on all decoys. Experienced hunters say that such an instrument is not as effective as a wind instrument, although there are those that do very well. And the electronic decoy is not cheap. In addition, the use of this tool is prohibited, although it is commercially available. But this is a personal matter for every hunter.
Arsenal of hunting decoys
So, we figured out the types of decoys - or rather, almost figured it out. After all, there are many types of these. And let every hunter find that decoy that will attract the largest prey!