The timing of the opening of the autumn hunt in 2018 is determined by the Order of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation dated November 16, 2010 N 512 On Approval of the Rules of Hunting. The exact dates and parameters of hunting are determined by the decree of the head of the Subject of the Federation for each region and may vary from year to year depending on weather and other conditions.

Every hunter is looking forward to the next meeting with friends on the hunt after a long break. To re-experience the exciting moments of waiting for a duck on a draw or wandering through the meadows and forests with your beloved dog. The opening of the autumn hunting season on the territory of the Russian Federation, in different regions of Russia, takes place at different times.

Opening of hunting autumn 2018 in the Moscow region: timing of autumn hunting in the Moscow region

Swamp-meadow game from 2 Saturdays of August to 15 November; with gun dogs from July 25 to November 15; with gun dogs without weapons from July 10 to July 24.

field game from 2 Saturdays of August to 15 November; with gun dogs from August 5 to December 31; with gun dogs without weapons from 10 July to 4 August.

upland game from Saturday 3 August to December 31; with gun dogs from August 5 to December 31.

Mink, squirrel, raccoon dog, marten, polecat (forest, steppe) from the 3rd Saturday of August to the 28th (29th) of February.

Boar from June 1 to February 28 (29); from June 1 to October 1 (from a sit-in or from an approach); driven hunting is prohibited from January 1 to February 28 (29).

Opening of hunting autumn 2018 in the Moscow region: the procedure and conditions for opening hunting

Hunters live from the beginning to the end of the season, waiting for the start of the date when it will be possible to start hunting. Each season is unique and individual in its own way. Therefore, the timing and order of the opening of hunting can vary significantly. This also applies to regions. For example, the opening of autumn hunting in the Moscow region in 2018 starts at one time, and the hunting season in autumn in the Leningrad region can start at a completely different time. The exact opening and closing time of the hunt is determined by weather conditions, the region of Russia and other parameters.

Orders on the opening of the hunting season are formed separately in a specific administrative unit of our country and communicated to the public through the media. In addition, the exact conditions and discoveries of hunting can be found out:

1. on the websites of regional administrations;

2. in local newspapers;

3. in the departments of hunting farms.

Each of the periods involves the shooting of a certain type of animal. The timing of shooting in the regions may shift slightly. In addition, permits may be introduced regionally for the shooting of animals that cause harm during the entire period. Quite often, stray dogs, wolves, foxes or crows fall into this category. However, even in this case, appropriate permission may be required to shoot them.

Traditionally, the shooting of animals takes place in 3 periods:

1. Spring shooting game. In most cases, it is short and lasts 10 calendar days.

2. Summer-autumn. A special time for shooting lovers, because its duration exceeds 3 months. This period is the longest.

3. Shooting in winter is usually allowed for 30 days.

Opening of hunting autumn 2018 in the Moscow region: a memo for hunters

It is important to remember about the restrictions and prohibitions on autumn hunting in 2018. According to the Hunting Rules in Russia, autumn hunting is prohibited:

1. use any samolov when catching birds in sports and amateur hunting;

2. use any lighting devices;

3. use electronic devices that imitate sounds made by animals;

4. to be in hunting grounds on aircraft, motor vehicles, this also applies to swimming vehicles with a running engine, including those that have not stopped moving by inertia after turning off the engine, with firearms (pneumatic) weapons loaded, uncovered or having cartridges in the magazine;

5. use of firearms with a rifled barrel, including rifled barrels of combined weapons;

6. use of hunting smooth-bore firearms, which are equipped with shot (buckshot) more than five millimeters and bullets.

Opening of hunting in autumn 2018 in the Moscow region: a list of types of permitted hunting in the hunting grounds of the Moscow region

1. Amateur and sport hunting.

2. Hunting in order to carry out research activities, educational activities.

3. Hunting in order to regulate the number of hunting resources.

4. Hunting for the purpose of acclimatization, resettlement and hybridization of hunting resources.

5. Hunting for the purpose of keeping and breeding hunting resources in semi-free conditions or artificially created habitat.

Opening of hunting autumn 2018 in the Moscow region: hunting restrictions in the Moscow region

1. Hunting for crows, rooks, jays and thrushes-field ash is allowed during the hunting periods for upland, steppe and field, swamp-meadow, waterfowl game established by the federal hunting rules.

2. Hunting for adult male elk from September 1 to September 30 is allowed only from ambush or approach, with a decoy (on a waba).

3. Hunting for a wild boar from June 1 to November 1 is allowed only from an ambush (arrest), shooting tower, from the approach. Hunting by paddock, surge, as well as with the use of dogs of hunting breeds is not allowed, with the exception of the addition of wounded wild boars.

4. When hunting for wild boars from an ambush (hunt) or from a shooting tower, the hunter must have with him a permit for hunting a wild boar issued in his name.

5. Implementation of collective hunting is allowed only during daylight hours.

6. Hunting for a duck in the Moscow region. Amateur and sport hunting for waterfowl, marsh-meadow, field, steppe feathered game in the Moscow region opens from the second Saturday of August to November 15 of the current year.

7. Hunting for a hare in the Moscow region. Hunting for a hare and a fox in the Moscow region opens from September 15 and continues until February 28 (29) of the next year.

The terms of hunting for other types of fur-bearing animals are determined by federal hunting rules.

Autumn hunting 2017

The summer-autumn hunting season 2017 will open at its own time for each region. In many regions, the opening of hunting took place in July 2017 - according to the rules of the first, hunting for swamp-meadow game is opened for owners of hunting birds and dogs of hunting breeds (you can hunt with island and continental pointing dogs, retrievers, spaniels).

Hunting for game birds with one gun dog carried out with the participation of no more than three hunters, each of which must have a hunting license, a valid permit for the storage and carrying of hunting weapons, a permit for the extraction of hunting resources and a permit issued in the prescribed manner (clause 3.2 a, b, d; clause 45 rules). In case of hunting with birds of prey, in addition to a hunting license, permit and voucher, you need permission to keep and breed them in semi-free conditions or in an artificially created habitat (clause 52 of the Federal Law "On the Fauna"). When using a dog and (and) hunting bird for hunting, they must be included in the ticket. Valid mark in the veterinary certificate of vaccination of the dog against rabies.

Dates of autumn hunting 2017

• from the second Saturday of August to November 15 - for waterfowl, swamp-meadow, field, steppe game in the territories of the Republic of Karelia, the Republic of Komi, the Bryansk Region, the Vologda Region, the Kaliningrad Region, the Kaluga Region, the Leningrad Region, the Moscow Region, the Novgorod Region, the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the Oryol Region, the Penza Region, and the Pskov Region. (clause 41.1)
• from the third Saturday of August to November 15 - for waterfowl, swamp-meadow, field, steppe game in the territories of the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Republic of Mari El, the Republic of Mordovia, the Republic of Tatarstan (Tatarstan), the Udmurt Republic, the Chuvash Republic - Chuvashia, the Perm Territory, the Arkhangelsk Region, the Belgorod Region, the Vladimir Region, the Voronezh Region, the Ivanovo Region, the Kostroma Region, the Kursk Region, Kirov region, Lipetsk region, Murmansk region, Orenburg region, Ryazan region, Smolensk region, Samara region, Tambov region, Tver region, Tula region, Ulyanovsk region, Yaroslavl region, Nenets Autonomous Okrug. (clause 41.1.1)

• from the second Saturday of August to December 31 - for waterfowl, marsh-meadow, field, steppe and mountain game in the territories of the Republic of Ingushetia, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the Republic of Kalmykia, the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Chechen Republic, the Stavropol Territory, the Khabarovsk Territory, the Amur Region, the Astrakhan Region, the Kurgan Region, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. (clause 41.1.2)
• from the third Saturday of August to December 31 - for waterfowl, swamp-meadow, field, steppe and mountain game not specified in paragraphs 41.1 - 41.1.2 of these Rules

• from the third Saturday of August to February 28 (29) - for upland game in the territories of the Republic of Karelia, Kaliningrad Region, Pskov Region, Komi Republic, Novgorod Region, Leningrad Region, Arkhangelsk Region, Vologda Region, Murmansk Region, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Kostroma Region, Tver Region, Kirov Region, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug , Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Irkutsk Region, Omsk Region, Republic of Buryatia, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Tomsk Region, Novosibirsk Region, Trans-Baikal Territory, Kamchatka Territory, Magadan Region, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Primorsky Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Jewish Autonomous Region, Amur Region. (clause 41.3)
• from the third Saturday of August to December 31 - for upland game in the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, not specified in paragraph 41.3 of these Rules.

• from the third Saturday of August to April 20 - for white and tundra partridge in the territories of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

We also remind you that:

• to upland game include capercaillie, black grouse, hazel grouse, white and tundra partridge, woodcock;
• to swamp-meadow game include great snipe, snipe, harshnep, turukhtan, herbalist, lapwing, tules, chrustan, snails, godwit, curlew, morodunka, turnstone, corncrake, shepherd, common chauffeur;
• to waterfowl include geese, goose, ducks, coot, moorhen;
• to steppe and field game include gray and bearded partridges, quail, saja, pheasants, pigeons and turtledoves;
• to mountain game include kekliks and ulars;
• to other game include loons, cormorants, skuas, gulls, terns, auks, classified as game animals in order to ensure the traditional way of life and the traditional economic activities of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation.

Information about the extraction of hunting resources and their quantity

must be reported at the place of obtaining a permit for the extraction of hunting resources within the established time limits:

• within 10 days after the capture, injury of the animal or the expiration of the permit when hunting ungulates and bears;
• within 20 days after the extraction or expiration of the permit when hunting for other types of hunting resources.

According to the seasons, three hunting seasons are traditionally distinguished: spring (the shortest - up to 10 days), summer-autumn (the longest - over 3 months) and winter (medium, in duration
up to 3 months). Each of these hunting seasons is characterized by different types and methods of hunting, for which each region has its own terms. And only certain animals that cause damage to hunting and agriculture (wolf, gray crow, stray dogs, cats, etc.) can be hunted with special permits throughout the year.

Spring hunting season

Feather hunting in the spring hunting season is allowed only for males of some birds and, moreover, only for a few days. In many regions, spring hunting is generally closed. What is the reason for this limitation? In the spring hunting season, shooting is allowed only for those males that are easily distinguishable from females in plumage and habits and do not take part in the breeding of offspring. For example, in most northern regions and in assigned hunting farms in central Russia, it is allowed to shoot drakes (from a hut with a decoy duck), current black grouse and capercaillie. In the same regions of the European part of Russia, where the number of black grouse and capercaillie is small, shooting them in the spring hunting season is not allowed every year.

Hunting for geese (with the exception of the northern regions) in the spring hunting season is prohibited because the males of this bird are almost indistinguishable from geese in plumage and habits. Hunting for hazel grouses and white partridges is also prohibited, although cockerels are noticeably different from hens, since these birds break into pairs in spring and males participate in rearing young animals on an equal basis with females.

Woodcock in the spring hunting season is allowed to shoot only on draft, since the mating flight is made almost exclusively by males. Shooting of these forest waders, flying out from under the feet, is prohibited, since males and females can equally fall under the shot. It is impossible to shoot at a woodcock, pulling without a characteristic cry (shorting), and at a flock of ducks, since here the danger of killing a female is very high. For hunting birds of other species, shooting is almost universally closed during this hunting season. The use of hunting dogs in this hunting season is equivalent to poaching.

In the spring hunting season, the strongest, most adapted to life birds, who have endured hunger and the cold of a harsh winter, have overcome thousands and thousands of kilometers of a dangerous path from wintering places to nesting places, fall under the hunter's shot. They are the most valuable producers that should give life to subsequent generations of game birds. Therefore, the desire of hunters to preserve and increase the number of such birds is quite understandable.

Particular care must be taken in the spring hunting season for females of various animals. Here it is appropriate to recall the testament of old hunters: “Save the female in the spring - in the fall she will bring you a brood!”

Summer-autumn hunting season

According to the set of types of hunting and the duration of the summer-autumn hunting season, we are the most revered among hunters. Gradually opens from time to time hunting for waterfowl, swamp game, upland, field birds, hare, bear, ungulates, partly fur-bearing animals.

The summer-autumn hunting season opens with hunting for waterfowl and swamp game. It usually begins with the dawn of the second (third) Saturday of August, in the southern regions a little later. Hunting for game birds with pointers and spaniels that have a certificate of origin may be allowed 2-3 weeks earlier in this hunting season, earlier than the general opening date of the season. In well-organized farms, before the opening of hunting, huntsmen build huts on water bodies in places where ducks and their fattenings fly daily. From here they shoot birds at morning and evening dawns. The same huts can serve as shelter for hunters in late autumn on the migration of waterfowl. Effigies are exhibited nearby, and sometimes a decoy is released along with them. Single ducks sit down to them and get shot. Flocks are less common, but also sit down or decrease to a lethal distance. Hunting summer-autumn hunting season has a sporting interest, as a rule, does not leave without trophies.

In hunting grounds where hunting is carried out by hunters on their own, during the summer-autumn hunting season, hunting is more often practiced from the approach, from the entrance (boat) to the flight, on morning and evening flights from ambush. The best assistants in such hunts are spaniels, huskies and other hunting dogs specially trained for this purpose.

During the autumn migration, geese are hunted in this hunting season in places where they rest and feed. On the fields where the geese feed, hunting is organized with profiles from ambush. In places of landing on the water and takeoff, carefully disguised huts are installed. Impeccable camouflage in goose hunting is the first condition for success.

In the summer-autumn hunting season, lovers of marsh game hunting with a gun dog come out on their hunting path (along the snipe, great snipe, harshnep, corncrake). A hummocky swamp or floodplain lowland with rusty puddles are the favorite habitats of these birds. In terms of sports merits, hunting in this hunting season is highly valued. You have to walk a lot, navigate the terrain well, shoot accurately. The good work of the dog brings great pleasure, you can try your luck in hunting for waders and without a four-legged helper - "trample" the bird. Hunting is extremely difficult, not very productive, but also very sporty.

Field game hunting is very popular in the summer-autumn hunting season. Quail hunting begins after the harvest. They are looking for them with a pointing dog along the stubble, borders, in the weeds of waste lands, along the edges of fields, meadows.

Shooting of gray and bearded partridges, as well as white partridges, begins in the summer-autumn hunting season from September, when the chicks grow to the size of adult birds. At first, the brood can withstand the dog's stance well. Takes off at once with a cry, the birds fly swiftly. Excellent reaction and correct preemption are necessary. Along the way, hunting for pigeons feeding in the field is carried out.

Hunting for upland game in the summer-autumn hunting season opens, as a rule, at the end of August, and where upland game is not numerous - in September. If there are significant stocks of capercaillie and black grouse in the lands, hunting with a gun dog is allowed for capercaillie and black grouse broods. In taiga places, in the summer-autumn hunting season, it is possible to hunt in late autumn for capercaillie and kosach with husky, on pebbles and aspens from ambush. When the black grouse gather in flocks, hunting for them with stuffed animals is practiced during this hunting season, to which they sit down.

The hazel grouse this hunting season is more accessible than the capercaillie and black grouse, the object of hunting. When the broods have not yet disintegrated, the hazel grouses are "trampled" and shoot the birds that have settled in the trees and bushes, or lure them with the help of a decoy. Later, when the birds have broken into pairs, they also hunt with decoy, but the hunt becomes less prolific.

In the autumn hunting season, a prominent place in terms of emotionality is occupied by woodcock hunting during the migration on the fallouts. Hunters are waiting for the release when woodcock in noticeable numbers lingers in the ground for feeding or because of the weather. In clear weather, woodcocks fly almost non-stop and hunting is not very successful. During the migration, woodcocks are searched for along damp forest edges, banks of rivers, streams, in pegs, bushes near swamps.

Hunting for a hare in the autumn hunting season usually opens in September and lasts until the end of February. Comparable in popularity and mass character except perhaps with a duck. The methods are also the most diverse.

Bear hunting in the autumn hunting season is most popular in September, until all the oats have been harvested from the fields. The bear goes to these fields for fattening. In the places where the bear enters the field, storehouses are arranged, from which hunters who have acquired a license shoot the beast. The requirements of such a hunt are very high: careful camouflage when occupying a storehouse, processing clothes from odors, a shot only when fully convinced that the target is a bear, an unmistakable choice of a slaughter place. For insurance, it is recommended to act accompanied by a huntsman or other experienced hunter. In some regions, hunting for a bear in the autumn hunting season is practiced hunting in the sun, after the bears leave the den, hunting in places of concentration of animals during the salmon run to spawn. Shooting of female bears with cubs of the current year of birth is prohibited before entering the den.

Terms of hunting for ungulates in the autumn hunting season in the regions. In the central part of Russia, they usually correspond to the following: for elk, red and spotted deer, roe deer from October 1 to January 15; for wild boar - from June 1 to January 15. In addition, it is allowed to hunt "roar" for male elk, red deer, spotted deer from August 20 to September 30, as well as hunting during the rut for male European roe deer - from July 15 to August 15.

Hunting for elk, European red deer, deer, red deer "on the roar" in the autumn hunting season is of an individual nature. At the same time, the hunter lures the animal, imitating the voice of another animal (rival, female) or the sounds they make - blows of horns, crunch of broken branches.

Hunting for ungulates (moose, deer, wild boar, roe deer) in the autumn hunting season is usually carried out when more or less stable snow cover appears. This allows you to quickly identify the place of daytime animals following the tracks, organize a corral and put them on the shooting line with a guarantee in the future to get a possible wounded animal. The battue hunt for ungulates is the most complex in its organization and requires high discipline and responsibility from each of its participants. The procedure for organizing round-up hunts in the autumn hunting season is determined by a special instruction of state hunting management bodies.

The list of species of fur-bearing animals allowed for hunting in the autumn hunting season, and the specific terms of hunting are established before each season by the relevant local authorities. At the beginning of the hunting season, fur-bearing animals are hunted mainly with the help of dogs. The fox is hunted with hounds, greyhounds, burrowing dogs. Raccoon dogs are taken from their burrows with the help of burrowing dogs and huskies.

Winter hunting season

The beginning of the winter hunting season coincides with the calendar onset of winter - December 1. The way of life of animals and birds is changing. The conditions and types of hunting during the winter hunting season also change. Ungulates, hares, foxes and other fur-bearing animals are being hunted intensively. Hunting methods change somewhat due to the depth of the snow cover. If in December it is still possible to catch hares and foxes with hounds, then later the forest becomes impassable for dogs. Therefore, in the winter hunting season, individual hunting methods are more often practiced (trailing, stalking, decoy hunting). At this time, wolf and fox hunts with flags are also widely held.

On frosty moonlit nights in January and February in the winter hunting season, hunting for wolves and foxes is practiced on a bait, laid out specially in a place convenient for sitting, as well as at cattle burial grounds. On moonlit nights, hare are on the lookout for hare stacks, on currents, in gardens, where they often run for fattening.

Hunting for small fur-bearing animals in the winter hunting season can be done without husky if the snow cover is too deep. It is easy, in particular, to get squirrels by following the tracks they leave in the snow, moving from tree to tree. The squirrel is also searched for by ear when it peels the bumps. Hunting time in the winter hunting season is morning and evening dawn after powder in good weather. During the day, as well as in windy weather and snowstorms, the animal sits in the nest.

In March, almost all types of amateur hunting are already closed. Only wolves are being shot.

Opening of hunting in the season 2018-2019, UOOR, Kyiv region:

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Extract from the ORDER (Russian):

UKRAINIAN SOCIETY OF HUNTERS AND FISHERS

KIEV REGIONAL HUNTING AND FISHING PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION OF THE Kyiv REGIONAL COUNCIL UOOR

ORDER

On the organization and conduct of hunting in the hunting season of 2018-2019 in the hunting grounds of the Kyiv Regional Hunting and Fishing Production Association of the Kyiv Regional Council of the UOOR in order to organize and conduct hunting in the hunting season of 2018-2019 in the hunting grounds of the Kyiv Regional Hunting and Fishing Production Association of Kyiv Regional Council of UOOR in Baryshevsky, Boguslavsky, Brovarsky, Volodarsky, Zgurivskhom, Ivankovsky, Kagarlyksky, Makarovsky, Obukhovsky, P-Khmelnitsky, Rokytnyansky, Skvirsky, Stavischansky, Tarashchansky, Tetievsky, Yagotinsky districts

I ORDER:

1. Set the following hunting periods:

1.1. For ducks (except for goldeneye, white-eyed geese, white-eyed duck, white-eyed duck, ruddy shelduck, slut, common eider, merganser, red-billed nibble, medium crech, stonefish, white-faced and red-breasted geese), coot, waders (except for oystercatcher, magpie, stilt, avocet, curlews , gulls, avdotka, tirkushka, handbill, turnstone, chernysh, carrier, fifi, big lamb (snipe), plovers of the sea, small, large-billed, ringed lizard, sandpipers, swimmers), pigeons (exceptpigeon bruise (klintukha)) - from 18:00 August 4 to November 18, 2018 inclusive, and on the territory of wetlands of the Kyiv regional MRVO of the Kyiv regional council of the UOOR of the Kanevsky and Kyiv reservoirs - until December 30, 2018 inclusive. On the territory of the hunting grounds of the KOO MRVO KOR UOOR in the Obukhov region from the dawn of August 4.

1.2. For quail - from August 1 to October 1, 2018 inclusive, only for hunters - owners of dogs of pointing breeds and spaniels individually or by a group of hunters (no more than 3 people) and with a passport for a dog of a hunting breed.

1.3. For the gray partridge - from October 1 to December 23, 2018 inclusive only on the territory of the hunting grounds of the Kyiv regional MRVO in Baryshevsky, Brovarsky, Boguslavsky, Obukhovsky and Ivankovsky districts under the guidance of the huntsman service on special shooting cards, only for hunters - owners of dogs of pointing breeds and spaniels individually or by a group of hunters (no more than 3 people) and with a passport for a hunting dog;

1.4. On woodcock from October 1 to December 23, 2018 inclusive under the guidance of the huntsman service on special shooting cards, only for hunters - owners of dogs of pointing breeds and spaniels individually or by a group of hunters (no more than 3 people) and with a passport for a hunting breed dog ;

1.5. For game birds grown on farms and released into hunting grounds "under the gun" - from August 1 to December 31, 2018 inclusive in Baryshevsky, Brovarsky, Volodarsky, Yagotinsky districts.

1.6. On the beaver - from October 1, 2018 to February 28, 2019 inclusive only on the territory of the hunting grounds of the Kyiv regional MRVO in Brovarsky Makarovsky and Ivankovsky districts.

1.7. For pine marten - from October 1, 2018 to February 28, 2019 inclusive, only on the territory of the hunting grounds of the Kyiv regional MRVO in the Makarovsky district.

1.8. Individual hunting for ungulates:

for roe deer males - from June 16 to December 31, 2018 inclusive, only on the territory of the hunting grounds of the Kyiv regional MRVO in Baryshevsky, Boguslavsky, Brovarsky, Ivankovsky, Makarovsky, Obukhovsky, Stavischansky, Tarashchansky, Yagotinsky districts;

1.9. Collective and battue hunting for ungulates:

for male and female roe deer and their young, capable of independent existence - from October 13 to December 30, 2018, inclusive, only on the territory of the hunting grounds of the Kyiv Regional Regional Regional District in Baryshevsky, Boguslavsky, Brovarsky, Ivankovsky, Makarovsky, Obukhovsky, Stavischansky, Tarashchansky, Yagotinsky areas;

For a hare - from November 3, 2018 to January 26, 2019 inclusive;

For a fox, a raccoon dog, a wolf - from November 3, 2018 to February 28, 2019 inclusive

2. Determine that:

2.1. Hunting days are:

- for game birds - Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday, and for hunters - owners of dogs of pointing breeds and spaniels individually or by a group of hunters (no more than 3 people) and in the presence of a passport for a dog of a hunting breed - an additional day of hunting - Thursday;

For quail - Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday, only for hunters - owners of dogs of pointing breeds and spaniels individually or by a group of hunters (no more than 3 people) and with a passport for a dog of a hunting breed;

For gray partridge and slut (woodcock) - all days of the week;

For feathered game grown on farms and released "under the shot" - all days of the week (subject to the availability of hunting grounds specially designated for this purpose by order of the user) according to separate shooting cards;

For ungulates, beaver and pine marten for individual hunting - all days of the week;

On ungulates during collective and battue hunting - in October - December - Saturday and Sunday;

- for a hare - only Saturday:

For a fox, a raccoon dog and a wolf - Saturday and Sunday (hunting on Sunday is exclusively under the control of the ranger service of the user of the grounds) and in February 2019 for hunters (primarily owners of hunting dogs of burrows and hounds

breeds) - all days of the week (under the control of the gamekeeper's service of the user of the grounds), using one-time shooting cards;

2.2. Hunting for feathered game and fur-bearing animals should be carried out according to the shooting cards, within the established capacity of the grounds, with the obligatory registration of the game caught, which is carried out in the control card for accounting for the game caught

and violations of hunting rules.

2.3. The rate of catching game birds and hare by one hunter per day of hunting is established by a separate order of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, but should not exceed:

ducks-5 waders-10 pigeons-10

foxes - 6 quails - 15 partridges - 3

slukvi (woodcocks) - 3

The rate of obtaining feathered game grown on farms and released "under the shot" is not limited;

The daily rate of shooting a brown hare by one hunter is one hare , shooting rates for raccoon dogs, foxes are not limited;

2.4. Hunting for beaver, pine marten is carried out individually under a license in accordance with the limits approved for the 2018-2019 hunting season.

2.5. Hunting on ponds and fish farms should be carried out on time and during the day in accordance with the schedules and production cycles of fish farms;

2.6. Hunting for game birds, fur-bearing animals and hoofed animals is carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Law of Ukraine "On hunting and hunting" and the "Regulations on the rules for hunting, handling weapons, and the procedure for issuing licenses for hunting game animals", approved by order of the Ministry of Agrarian policy and food of Ukraine dated October 17, 2011 No. 549 and registered with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on October 19, 2011 under No. 1211/19949.

3.1. Conducting hunting for game birds in forest lands without the PRESENCE of the huntsman service, as well as making fires during the fire-dangerous period of the year;

3.2. Being in the grounds when hunting for game birds and fur-bearing animals with rifled weapons and cartridges for smooth-bore weapons, equipped with bullets and shot with a diameter of more than 5 mm (No. 0000);

3.3. Hunting for fur-bearing animals using rifled hunting weapons of any caliber without the presence of a huntsman service.

3.4. Carrying out hunting for fur animals in forest lands in order to provide zones of rest and reproduction of game animals in accordance with the decision of the expanded presidium of the Kyiv Regional Council of the UOOR dated March 5, 2013. protocol number 2.

What is a man to do who has neither friends nor relatives engaged in hunting - there is only a gun and a desire to hunt? Many quietly yearn at home, confident that hunting is something terribly difficult, inaccessible for independent development. This is not so: there are several “easy” hunts that even an absolute beginner can organize for himself. One of the main options is the opening of summer-autumn hunting for ducks.

Although in our time, with the development of hunting tourism, the hunter's season can last all year round, the Opening (that's right, with a capital letter) remains a cult event, the day the New Hunting Year begins. In order to really celebrate this holiday, you need, in fact, little.

When to go?

The exact opening date depends on the region and is determined by a resolution for each subject of the Russian Federation separately. Traditionally, the season opens on the second or third Saturday of August in the morning.

Where to go?

In the case of the Opening, you need to be simpler and go to the most popular places. They are popular because they are the most convenient and affordable. "Hit" places in your region can be established by reading the Internet forum of local hunters.

You can look for a suitable place and on a different principle - next to the cottage, the house of village relatives, your favorite camp site. A map of your region's hunting grounds will help here - this is also usually easy to find on the Internet. Having chosen a place, it’s a good idea to look at it also on satellite images in order to have a more complete picture of it.

Water

Not every puddle is suitable for a duck. A large mirror of open clear water, solid banks with a convenient approach - not that, a duck has nothing to do in such places. She needs thickets to hide from predators, and food that she gets from the bottom. That is, you need to look for small, smelly, overgrown with algae, surrounded by impassable reeds, reeds and bushes reaches. On the map, such lands are often indicated as swamps.

Legal registration

After choosing a place, do not forget to get a license and (or a permit) for the right to hunt. At Otkritie, the difference between hunting grounds assigned to hunting users and public hunting grounds, access to which is provided by the local hunting department, is mainly that a ticket to a hunting ground will cost much more than a license required to hunt in an ODO.

The services of rangers, boat rentals and the like are very few places; the maximum you can count on is a sagging armored bed in a dilapidated house and a "bath rental". Now, thanks to the wonders of electronic bureaucracy, it is quite easy to find out which category the body of water you have chosen belongs to on the same Internet - on the State Services portal, on geoportals or on the department’s website; the latter also contains the contact information of hunting users.

Alternatively, you can simply visit the department (this is the same place where you received a single state hunting ticket; if you didn’t receive it, you’ll get it at the same time) and ask all the necessary questions there. If an attempt to find a hunting user resembles a spy novel, it means that the farm is only for its own people and they won’t give you a ticket there anyway.

What to prepare for?

In the reach of residents of large cities, the Discovery usually looks like this. On Friday evening (now in almost all regions hunting is opened from the dawn), a large number of people drive up to the reservoir, who light fires, cook food and drink vodka. The district hunting inspector walks from bonfire to bonfire, accepts refreshments and checks documents for hunting (sic!).

In the morning, as soon as the sky in the east brightens a little, those who have not drunk too much vodka take their guns and enter the lands. At sunrise, the duck, having finished feeding or raised on the wing by hunters entering the lands, flies to the place where it usually spends the day - and gets shot. With the first shots, duck hell begins. Frightened birds rush back and forth across the pond, not knowing where to hide, guns rattle continuously from all sides, like perforators in a new building.

A short lull after dawn - the waterfowl went to seek salvation on a neighboring lake - and again shooting: it was from a neighboring lake that ducks flew here in a vain search for peace and quiet. By noon, the cannonade subsides, the hunters go ashore to refresh themselves and replenish their ammunition; Sunday evening and morning everything is repeated on a smaller scale.

What should you do about it?

Bonfire, food and vodka - at will and to the best of your ability. The main thing - at the place of standing it is necessary to be dark.

Secondly, as a rule, the more hunters on the pond, the less duck rest, the more it flies and the more often it gets shot (of course, too much good is also bad: when there are too many hunters, they often shoot at the duck at any distance , without letting it go down - you don’t need to do this).

Thirdly, the construction of a hut, the virtuoso use of decoys, the strategic landing of effigies, the cultivation of decoys, reconnaissance of routes for morning and evening flights - all this is irrelevant at the Opening. This hunt is based on the fact that the duck is under stress and behaves inappropriately. Its main task is to find a quiet place and wait out all this disgrace.

Therefore, the main thing is to stand quietly and moderately disguise; if the Discovery is real, the duck will be everywhere.

Where to stand?

In search of shelter, the duck usually walks above the water along the reeds or bushes, less often over the meadow, and, having looked out for a small stretch in the thickets, on which it is convenient to sit, it lands on it. Well, if you manage to find such a reach, it’s even better to stand on a narrow jumper between two duck-like reservoirs, a toe protruding into a large reach is just as good, and at worst, any border of open water and supports will do.

The duck does not like the high bank and the forest, ideally there should be neither one nor the other a hundred or two meters from you. If there is no convenient place directly on the reservoir or in the swamp, a good map or printout of satellite images can help out, using which you can try to predict the bird's retreat path to neighboring reservoirs and block it.

How to stand?

Staying still is the key. Special disguise is not needed, but it is good if the local vegetation covers you up to the shoulders. With complete immobility, the head should constantly move, like a locator, left and right, looking for ducks. It is worth paying attention to the shots nearby; don't focus too much on passing far flocks - you can miss a convenient near duck. But the main skill in this hunt is the ability to use hearing. The characteristic whistle of duck wings betrays even those birds that treacherously approach the hunter from behind.

Who to shoot?

Only ducks. A duck, as an old hunter explained to a beginner, is one with a short beak, a long neck, and wings from its ass. Although anecdotal, this is quite a working definition. A long sharp beak is in loons, wings growing from the front of the body are in gulls, long legs sticking out behind are in coots, a combination of all of the above is in storks and herons.

Of all these birds, you can only shoot the coot, which is identified by the characteristic white plaque above the beak. But the summer coot bird is tasteless, it is better to skip it (and, by the way, trying to get close to a flock of coots for a shot is a hopeless business). It is also worth leaving small, long-nosed and long-legged waders to dog lovers. Don't touch the birds of prey either; if there are no ducks, but you really want to shoot, you can shoot at the gray crow. If you can’t make out what a bird’s beak and paws are, then it’s too far away and it’s all the more not worth shooting.

How to shoot?

The easiest way to shoot in flight is to “cross out” the bird with the barrels and at the very moment when the gun passes the bird, without stopping the movement of the barrels, pull the trigger. More detailed instructions can be obtained in the literature, or better - from the instructor at the stand. The money spent for a couple of seasons will be “beaten off” by saving cartridges.

It is necessary to shoot the duck on that part of its trajectory, when it approaches the hunter - the hijacking duck too often falls “to fly away”, and it cannot be reached, which is insulting and “not comme il faut”. Tune in to the fact that for every duck you have one shot; the remaining cartridges - for the addition of a wounded animal.

If a flock flies - you need to choose one duck and beat it, ignoring the others; The proverb “If you chase two hares, you won’t catch one” is also great for duck hunting. In order not to have problems with getting a beaten duck, you must try to make it fall on a clean place.

By inertia, a beaten bird carries away far enough, on average, two or three heights of its flight, choose the moment for the shot accordingly - for example, if the hunter is standing at a small reach, it is better to shoot when the duck crosses the line of reeds or five to ten meters before.

What to shoot?

Almost any gun is suitable for the Opening (perhaps a light semi-automatic 12-gauge with a plastic stock is ideal), as long as the caliber is at least 20-gauge, and the barrels are at least 610 mm long. Summer duck falls well from sporting cartridges (28 grams of shot No. 7.5), as an alternative, you can take hunting ones with a sample of 32 grams of shot No. 5; choke, if it is interchangeable, a cylinder with a pressure (0.25 mm) or pay (0.5 mm) will do.

Larger shot numbers, magnum cartridges and strong chokes are not needed. If you do everything right, the duck will fly close. It is useless to shoot at the ducks circling over the pond “in an oxygen mask” - even if you manage to knock out, which is unlikely, it will be almost impossible to find it.

If there is no other gun, you can get by with a “self-defense” one with a barrel of 500 mm or shorter, but here it is better to take a cartridge with a maximum shot weight; even a .410 caliber gun will not greatly spoil the mass if you do not shoot further than 20-25 meters.

Clothing and equipment

The main part of the equipment, on which the success of hunting depends entirely, is “anti-water” means: boots, waders, an inflatable boat. The choice of these items depends on the depth and type of reservoir on which the hunt will be. Particularly insidious are reservoirs overgrown with reeds, which often stop growing just at the depth where a person is up to the armpit - that is, it will not work to stand on the edge of the reeds in waders, unless the reservoir becomes shallow from the heat.

An inflatable can come in handy wherever there is a large enough mirror of open water with deep places - for collecting dead game, but it is extremely inconvenient to shoot from it. A bandolier is optional, since we only have two numbers of shot with us (a greater variety only complicates hunting), and getting cartridges from a bag or large pockets, where they lie in bulk, is faster and more convenient.

As for clothes, the color of the pants is completely unimportant, since they will still be hidden by waders. The top can be any gray-brown or greenish color; better, of course, summer camouflage.

The most important thing is that in the morning it will be cold on the water, and in the afternoon, in the sun, it will be hot, so both the jacket and what is under it should be camouflage coloring. The jacket should be short enough so as not to catch water on the floors, and it is better to keep all valuables in the pockets of the shirt - so as not to drown when you want to take off the jacket. You also need a hat or cap with a visor, as well as mosquito repellent.

Safety

A high concentration of people with guns is a dangerous business, the observance of the safety regulations for handling weapons must be absolute. You can not shoot at a low-flying duck, from the rise and at the sitting ones. An exception can be made for shooting the wounded animal, but triple caution must be observed - the wounded animal can completely unnoticed by the gambling shooter, inside which the joy of the prey and the fear that it will leave, move from the safe sector to the dangerous one, and the shot has a vile habit of ricocheting from water. It is necessary to accurately imagine where other hunters are standing, for which, having decided on a place, you need to indicate your presence and not be shy to answer loudly when other hunters ask: “Is there anyone here?” - they do not want to beat you, they, on the contrary, want to know where they should not shoot.

Particular attention should be paid to the sound of an approaching motor boat. At the Opening of the ducks from under the motor, only unthinking okhlamons try to beat; instead of ducks, they usually chase coots, firing at them while the birds take off, running through the water, and in doing so they can easily hit a hunter standing in the reeds. Therefore, if there is a flock of coots between you and the motorboat, you must immediately attract the attention of the “hunters” with loud obscene cries, or even warning shots.

You have to be careful with water too. At the Opening, there is always a risk of getting bogged down in a swamp or, walking along the lake in waders, take a sip of water, suddenly falling into the depths; the waders instantly fill with water and become incredibly heavy. You need to be ready to take them off at any time, and you should not tighten them with a belt - water will not get into them, but the collected air will lift them up, and, accordingly, lower your head down.

What to do with a shot duck?

First of all, you need to get it. It is better to start looking for a downed one immediately after it falls - unless, of course, just at that moment other birds fly at you or your neighbors in the pond. If the duck fell on a clean but deep place, a compact spinning rod with a large floating wobbler can help out. Of course, a dog is ideal, but even if you have one, then most likely you haven’t been hunting before either, and the Opening is not the right time for training.

If you shot a duck on Saturday morning and are going to stay until Sunday afternoon, then you need to take measures against rot. To do this, the bird should be gutted, and in the vacant place put an onion cut into quarters or fill the cavity with nettles. In general, a summer duck is not exactly a delicacy, so you should not be greedy. Two or three birds for a ceremonial dinner in honor of the first hunt will be enough. The main thing is to make an initiative, and there will already be more gastronomic, and more plentiful production.

duck hunting video

From a stealth and approach:

From approach:

Opening morning, August 2018: