Hare chronicle. Whose traces lead from forest roads. Tracking a hare How to recognize the tracks of a hare

08.03.2020

Among the abundance of ways to hunt a hare, hunting along a malik (the entire night path of a hare, displayed in the snow) is one of the most popular. And although the effectiveness of such a hunt is quite high, it requires experience and certain knowledge in order not to get lost in the abundance of traces that the hare is so skillfully able to confuse.

It is important to note that trail hunting is an excellent substitute for hunting with a dog. The only difference is that the hunter himself needs to unravel the hare tracks. Novice hunters, having tried this method of hunting for the first time, cannot recognize the malik the first time and figure out where the animal could have gone. The key to hunting success is the experience you gain over time. But so that you know how to read the tracks of a hare in the snow and avoid simple mistakes, we have prepared this article.

Traces of hare and hare

As a rule, hunting for fresh malik is carried out on a hare, and there are several reasons for this. Firstly, the white color of the hare makes it almost invisible to the hunter, and secondly, this type of hares confuses tracks very well, and it is sometimes difficult to determine its location. Even if you find a place for the day of the animal, the likelihood that it will go unnoticed is very high.

In this regard, if you live in an area where both types of hare live, it is very important to be able to distinguish them by malik. The key difference is that the hare's paws are slightly rounder and wider than those of the hare. Wider paws contribute to the fact that the animal moves faster on loose snow. The paw prints of the hare are more oval and long, as they are on average larger than their relatives.

Traces of hare and hare in comparison

Time and place of hunting

It should be noted right away that it is very difficult even for an experienced hunter to determine when the animal was in place, if before that there had been no powder or strong wind for a long time. You can trail all day and still not see the beast. Therefore, in order for the hunt to be successful, it is worth going out on it immediately after a good snowfall or strong wind, which the old malik could cover.

When hunting in fresh snow, be prepared for a lot of walking. Therefore, if the snow level is high, you need to prepare hunting skis in advance. Since skiing is not only faster, but also easier.

You need to go hunting as soon as possible after a snowfall. If it snowed at night, then morning is the most suitable time. The fact is that if you go out after lunch, you may simply not have time to find a trail and track down the “oblique” one, since the winter day is very short, and you need to walk long distances. Also, after a snowfall, as a rule, warm weather persists, contributing to the fact that the hare does not lie as sensitively as usual, and lets the hunter closer to him.

Trailing process

The search for "oblique" must begin with the places of its fattening. They feed near fruit trees, winter, and the remains of cereals in the fields. The fact that there was an animal at the place of the fattening will be evidenced by the many traces left in the snow.

When you have found such a place, you should go around it in a circle and find the exit point of the hare. This place will definitely be, since the animal never arranges a day in the feeding grounds. You need to follow the trail a little to the side, and do not trample the malik, since the hare, in order to confuse the tracks, can make a circle and return to its original place. In most cases, animals confuse trails in the following ways:

Makes loops on the snow of different sizes.
Can return to the trail several times and change its direction.
It may not return for a day in the footsteps of other hares.

In the process of trailing the "oblique" you may have situations when the hare's tracks intersect. There is a possibility of passage of two different individuals, but most likely, such a loop was performed by the same animal in order to confuse the tracks. If you find such loops, do not rush to switch to a new path, as the hare may make discounts (jump off to the side).

Loop crossing example

It is important to understand that the farther you are from the “oblique” fattening site, the more careful and cautious you should be. As mentioned above, you need to go a little to the side, as you may not notice the discount of the beast to the side. In the process of tracking, every hunter should know that during the day, the hare lies down with its muzzle in the direction from which the wind blows.

It is important to remember that the hare lies a little away from its path. If you follow the path and look only straight ahead, most likely you will not meet the “oblique” one.

Malik and his types

The success of hunting by tracking in the snow directly depends on how correctly you can read the tracks of the beast. Let's look at what the tracks are and what they can tell the hunter.

What do the tracks of a hare look like in the snow

Estimated or discount

These traces are distinguished by a large distance from each other and are located at a large angle to the original trace. As a rule, a hare leaves estimating traces before going to bed for a day, and their number ranges from 1 to 5. A key feature of the estimating traces can be considered that the prints of the front paws are together.

fatty

Fat traces can be called a pointer to the place of hare fattening. As a rule, there are many of them at the feeding place and they cover a certain territory. Fat tracks differ from the usual ones in that their paw prints are close to each other and often merge. It is from the place of detection of fatty traces that tracking on the animal begins in winter.

Racing

These traces indicate that the hare was scared away from the place of lying. Beginning hunters can easily confuse racing tracks with discount tracks, as they look almost like running tracks. The key differences are that their number is usually greater than 5, and the prints of the hare's front paws are much closer to the prints of the previous jump than the next. In other words, during the racing run, the animal throws its hind legs forward more strongly.

Where is the bed arranged

We already wrote above that when walking along the malik, you need to be extremely careful and look around, but what places should you pay special attention to? First of all, the animal seeks shelter near low shrubs, fallen trees of young spruces, etc. If there is no vegetation nearby where you can hide, the hare can simply lie down in the field. This will be evidenced by a small hill of snow.

If you find the beast, but did not have time to shoot, or he just disappeared, you do not need to continue the pursuit, as the "scythe" can run several kilometers before lying down again. In this case, it is better to look for traces of another hare. When you fired a shot, but are not sure that you hit, you need to follow the trail for 10-20 minutes. If drops of blood are found on the trail, it is recommended to continue the pursuit. If no traces of blood were found in the snow, you can safely start looking for another animal. And at the end of the article, we invite you to watch a video of hunting for a hare in the footsteps.

Hare footprints, which mark the entire path of a hare in the snow during the night, starting from his lair, where he spent the day, to fattening, that is, the place where he fed, and back to bed, is called malik. Hare tracks, very diverse in nature, must be able to recognize, which is of great importance, since for most rifle hunters, tracking down hares, mainly hares, is the main, and sometimes the only available way of winter hunting.

First of all, it should be noted that tracking the whites is very difficult, and therefore they “trail” almost exclusively the hare. The white coat of the hare, which differs very little from the snow surface, the intricacy of the hare's tracks, and the usually strong place for the lair, are the reasons that allow the hare to almost always go unnoticed. In addition, the convergence of a hare malik is always tiring, because the hare extremely confuses its moves, fills paths, runs into fats and into the paths of other hare, circles around, throwing a noose, and generally confuses hare tracks so much that even the most experienced hunter spends a lot of time on search for whites. Therefore, in areas where both hare and hare are found, it is very important to be able to distinguish their hare tracks, which is given very soon.

A - trace of a hare; B - trace of a hare on the crust; B - trace of a hare; G - trace of a hare on the crust.

In a hare living in a forest, where the snow is looser than in a field, the paws are comparatively wider and rounder, or rather, have widely spread fingers, so that it leaves hare footprints in the snow, approaching a circle in outline; in the hare, the paw is narrower and less widened, and its footprint is oval, elliptical.

When the snow is not very loose, with the so-called printing powder, the prints of individual fingers will come out, but the hare marks of the hind legs of the hare will still be much wider than that of the hare. More elongated and parallel to each other and slightly ahead of one another, the hare footprints belong to the hind legs, and those approaching the outline of a circle and following one after the other, in one line - to the front.

A sitting hare leaves hare footprints of a completely different kind: the prints of the front paws are almost together, and the hind legs somewhat lose their mutual parallelism, and since the hare, while sitting, bends its hind legs to the first articulation, the entire groove is imprinted on the trail, except for the paws. With the exception of this case, i.e., sitting, hare footprints of the hind legs always remain parallel, and if traces are seen on loose snow in which larger prints of the hind legs go apart - clubfoot, then these are not traces of a hare, but of a dog, cat or foxes when they hop. The same can be said about the track, in which one hind foot is far ahead of the other.

From left to right: end tracks, discount end tracks, fat tracks, chasing tracks, jumping chasing tracks.

The normal run of a hare is large jumps, and he takes out his hind legs almost or completely at the same time, and puts his front legs sequentially one after another. Only with very large jumps does the hare put the front legs almost together.

Ordinary hare tracks are called terminal, since with such medium jumps he goes to fats and returns from them.

The fatty hare tracks differ from the end prints in that the paw prints are very close to each other and the individual tracks almost merge. These hare tracks are called fatty because the hares make them where they feed, slowly moving from place to place, often sitting down.

Discount or estimating hare tracks are left by the largest jumps made at an angle to the original direction of the track. The hare tries to hide them, cut off his trail, before he decides to lie down. The number of discount jumps is usually one, two, three, rarely four, after which there are again ordinary, trailing hare tracks. For the most part, before the discount, the hare doubles its trail. Discount hare tracks differ from the end tracks by the distance between the tracks and by the fact that the prints of the front paws are together. Chasing or wild hare tracks are made by a hare when it is scared away from the lair - and it goes in big jumps. These hare tracks are very similar either to the discount ones or to the end tracks, but in the opposite direction, because the prints of the front legs are closer to the prints of the hind legs of the previous, and not the same jump.

Schematic plan of the hare's path to laying (indicated by a red cross):

the loop;
the loop;
estimate;
the loop;
estimate.

From the den, in which the hare sat until dusk, the malik begins with fatty traces, soon turning into trailing hare traces, sometimes leading directly to feeding, that is, to winter, to a garden, a threshing floor or to a well-worn road. On fats, the hare always feeds in small, very continuous movements, often stopping and sitting down. Having eaten well, he sometimes runs and plays, and here he comes across hounds of hare tracks. Having run, he either again takes up food, or already at dawn he sets off with fat trailing hare tracks to a new lair.

Before choosing a reliable shelter for the day, the hare begins to make loops, that is, round off its course, again crossing its former hare tracks. These loops sometimes occupy large areas, so that at point A it is quite rarely possible to say with certainty, without turning the loops, whether the tracks crossing the hare belong to a convergent malik or another hare passed here. More than two loops are rarely seen. Soon after them, twos and threes begin to occur, that is, doubling or building a track, and the hare tracks are superimposed on one another, so that a skill is needed to distinguish a double track from an ordinary one. After a deuce, the hare usually makes a discount to the side, but after a triple, which is relatively rare, for the most part there are no marks and the hare goes further a considerable distance. Most often, double and triple hare tracks of a hare are seen along roads or along the crests of ravines, where there is almost always little snow, and at the beginning of winter - in hollows, meadows and on freshly frozen streams and rivers.

The length of twos, both in the same malik and in different ones, is very variable and varies from 5 to 150 steps. These hare tracks undoubtedly indicate the proximity of the lair, and if a hare walks a considerable distance after a deuce with a discount, changing discount jumps for trailing hare tracks, then this is already an exceptional case. Threes usually do not reach a significant length and the direction after them does not change and very rarely a discount follows them. The discount is almost always made at right angles to the direction of travel; after several discount jumps, several trailer jumps follow and again the second deuce with discounts. Often hares are limited to two deuces, but there are hare tracks with eight or even more deuces.

Malik is the name given to the entire path of the hare that was marked in the snow during the night, starting from his lair, where he spent the day, to fattening, that is, the place where he fed, and back to lying. Recognition of hare tracks, which are very diverse in nature, is of great importance, since for most rifle hunters tracking down hares, mainly hares, is the main, and sometimes the only available method of winter hunting.

First of all, it should be noted that the tracking of the whites is very difficult, and therefore they "trail" almost exclusively the hare. The white coat of the hare, which differs very little from the snow surface, the intricacies of the passages and the usually strong place for the lair, are the reasons that allow the hare to almost always go unnoticed.

In addition, the convergence of a little white hare is always tiring, because the white hare extremely confuses its moves, fills paths, runs into fats and into the paths of other white hare, circles around, sword loops, and generally confuses the tracks so much that even the most experienced hunter spends a lot of time searching for hare.


Pale hare footprint	Traces of a hare

Therefore, in areas where both hare and hare are found, it is very important to be able to distinguish them by the trail, which is given very soon. In the hare, which lives in the forest, where the snow is looser than in the field, the paws are comparatively wider and rounder, or rather, have widely spread fingers, so that it leaves imprints in the snow that approach a circle in outline; in the hare, the paw is narrower and less widened, and its footprint is oval, elliptical. When the snow is not very loose, with the so-called printing powder, fingerprints of individual fingers will come out, but the traces of the hare's hind legs will still be much wider than those of the hare.

More elongated and parallel to each other and slightly ahead of each other belong to the hind legs, and those approaching a circle in outline and following one after the other, in one line - to the front.

A sitting hare leaves an imprint of a completely different kind: the prints of the front legs are almost together, and the hind legs lose their mutual parallelism somewhat, and since the hare, while sitting, bends its hind legs to the first articulation, the entire groove is imprinted on the trail, except for the paws. (In the figure, the imprints of the hind legs with grooves are shaded.) Except for this case, i.e., the seat, the traces of the hind legs always remain parallel, and if traces are noticed on loose snow in which the larger imprints of the hind legs go apart - clubfoot, then these are not the tracks of a hare, but of a dog, cat or fox when they walk in jumps. The same can be said about the track, in which one hind foot is strongly ahead of the other.

hare footprints

Ordinary hare tracks are called terminal, since with such medium jumps he goes to fats and returns from them.

rabbit footprints

Fat traces differ from the terminal ones in that the paw prints are very close to each other and the individual traces almost merge. They are called fat because hares make them where they feed, slowly moving from place to place, often sitting down.

discount hare footprints

Discount or estimating traces are left by the largest jumps made at an angle to the original direction of the track. The hare tries to hide them, cut off his trail, before he decides to lie down. The number of discount jumps is usually one, two, three, rarely four, after which there are again ordinary, end tracks. For the most part, before the discount, the hare doubles its trail. Discount jumps differ from terminal jumps in the distance between the tracks and in the fact that the prints of the front legs are together.

chasing hare tracks

Race or wake tracks become a hare when he is scared away from the lair - and he goes with big jumps. They have a great resemblance either to discount ones or to terminal ones, but of the opposite direction, because the prints of the front paws are closer to the prints of the hind legs of the previous, and not the same jump.

From the den, in which the hare sat until dusk, the malik begins with fatty traces, which soon turn into trailers, sometimes leading directly to feeding, that is, to winter, to the garden, kitchen gardens or to a well-worn road. On fats, the hare always feeds in small, very continuous movements, often stopping and sitting down. Having eaten well, he sometimes runs and plays, and here he comes across racing tracks. Having run, he either again takes up food, or already at dawn he sets off with fat end traces to a new lair.

This complex confusion at the feeding site is called fattening, as hunters say, or - a fat trace. It consists of small, short jumps, never straight.

Before choosing a safe haven for the day, the hare begins to make loops, i.e., round off its course, again crossing its former traces. These loops sometimes occupy large areas, so that at point A (see the figure) it is quite rare to say with certainty, without turning the loops, whether the crossing traces belong to the convergent malik or another hare passed here. More than two loops are rarely seen.

Soon after the loops start dating deuces and triplets, i.e., doubling or building a trace, and the traces are superimposed on one another, so that skill is needed to distinguish a double trace from an ordinary one. After a deuce, the hare usually makes a discount to the side, but after a triple, which is relatively rare, for the most part there are no marks and the hare goes further a considerable distance.

Most often, a double and triple track of a hare is seen along roads or along the crests of ravines, where there is almost always little snow, and at the beginning of winter - in hollows, meadows and only that frozen streams and rivers. The length of twos, both in the same malik and in different ones, is very variable and varies from 5 to 150 steps. They undoubtedly indicate the proximity of the lair, and if a hare walks a considerable distance after a deuce with a discount, changing discount jumps to end jumps, then this is already an exceptional case.

Threes usually do not reach a significant length and the direction after them does not change and very rarely a discount follows them. The discount is almost always made at right angles to the direction of travel; after several discount jumps, several trailer jumps follow and again the second deuce with discounts. Often, Russians are limited to two deuces, but there are maliks with eight or even more deuces. This largely depends on the quality of the powder and the weather: if the powder is fine and the weather is cold, the hare walks a lot; if vice versa - walks a little. In addition, the later it stops snowing, the shorter the hare maliks, so if the snow was heavy and stopped at dawn (which happens quite often), then where you see the malik, there is also a hare, because all his previous tracks were covered with snow; it goes without saying that maliki then come across rarely.

The hare digs a lair in the snow, somewhere under a bush, at the end of the path, and crouching, cross-legged, laying his ears on his back, turns his nose to where you can always expect the enemy, that is, to the trail.

Trailing hares is one of the most fascinating and interesting, and besides, also public winter hunts. It can be successful only when it is produced by powder, that is, after fresh snow has fallen. A hunter without any assistants and dogs has the opportunity to fully test his powers of observation, develop dexterity, caution and patience, and also show knowledge of the habits of the beast.

The hare is on the bed all day and only goes out to eat at night, that is, to feed, so his entire path from the place of lying to the fat places is imprinted on the snow. This track is called by hunters - malik. The success of hunting by powder largely depends on the hunter's ability to recognize very diverse traces of a hare in the snow.

In those places where hare and hare meet, it is very important to be able to distinguish their traces. The hare's paws are wider and rounder, the fingers are spread quite widely, and therefore the footprint of the hare's paws in the snow will be almost round. In the hare, on the contrary, the paw is relatively narrower, the fingers are set close to each other, and therefore gives a more elongated oval footprint.

With the onset of darkness, the hare goes to the place of fattening with its usual gait - short, even jumps, leaving the so-called trailing tracks in the snow. At the place of fattening, the hare moves slowly, leaving fat traces in the snow, differing in that the prints of the hare's paws are very close to each other, and individual traces almost merge.

Having eaten, the hare goes to bed. Before laying low for the day, he resorts to various tricks in order to throw off the trail of his many pursuers. First of all, it begins to wind, that is, round off its path, making a full circle of a more or less correct outline and crossing its old track again. These loops are sometimes quite long. Not limited to one loop, the hare usually doubles or even builds (makes a “two” or “three”, as the hunters say) its track, that is, it passes the same track twice or thrice.

At the same time, the beast so carefully puts its paws on the trail that you need to have a very trained eye to notice it. The length of the "twos" is very unstable and ranges from five to one and a half steps. The length of the "troika" is usually much shorter. The "two" usually ends with a discount (basting) - a huge jump to the side almost at right angles to the original track line. The number of discount jumps usually ranges from one to four, after which the hare goes back to its usual gait.

In most cases, the Rusak makes no more than two or three “twos” in a row, although sometimes their number reaches seven or eight. After the “troika”, the hare almost never folds to the side, but continues to walk, and often for quite a long time, in the same direction. In general, it can be said that as far as the loops and “twos” serve as a sure sign that the hare is close to lying, so the “troika” does not give almost any confidence in this.

Having found a hare malik, it is necessary first of all to determine the direction in which the hare went in order to follow the trail, and not the heel of the beast.

You need to follow the trail of the eared one to the side so as not to trample on his prints. If the malik leads the hunter to the place where the hare is fattening, it is necessary, in order to avoid losing valuable time on a short winter day, not to try to figure out the strongly tangled and intertwined fat traces, but to go around them, up to the exit trace from the fat places. In most cases, this trail will lead the hunter either to new fat places - and then the same technique should be repeated, or to the loops and "twos" of the hare, definitely indicating that its bed is somewhere nearby.

Sometimes it is possible to consider a brown hare right on the bed and even get it lying down. With whites, this is extremely rare. Noticing where the hare lies, if the bed is not far away, it is necessary, without wasting time, to go to him and, when he jumps up, shoot. If the bed is far away, you should not go straight towards the hare, but somewhat to the side and, only approaching the hare for a sure shot, turn straight towards it. When approaching a hare, one should not look at it closely all the time, as this contributes to the premature jumping of the beast. In relatively open places, the hare in most cases lies with its head against the wind, and therefore it is also necessary to approach it against the wind.

The place of the hare's bed is noticeable from afar, either along the hill of snow, which the animal sketched, digging a hole for itself, or along the dark hole of the hole. But it must be borne in mind that some hares are extremely picky in choosing their bed and, before choosing some place for it and settling down to rest, they rummage in many places.

If the snow is shallow, the hares most often lie down on the uplifts, as well as among the bushes scattered across the field. In deep snow, hare beds are most often found near snow drifts along ruts, reservoirs, hollows, ravines, bushes among fields, near stacks of firewood, fences, hedges, humens, sheds, etc. In deep snow, white hare almost always lies in strong places forests and only occasionally near stacks of forest mowing, and in early winter - through the bushes near the winter.

Often a hare, especially a hare, takes off on the tracks of other hares. Only an experienced tracker-hunter can figure out this and many other tricks of a hare on the shoulder.

From the middle of summer, every hunter begins to look into the safe with a gun more and more often, remember what else to buy, review old magazines, search the Internet for various hunting secrets. Everything seems to be known about hares. But we decided to return to this topic once again - how to hunt hares correctly.

Some bunny secrets

What a hare looks like - everyone knows. In total, there are about 30 species of hares in nature. Although scientific disputes have been ongoing on this issue for a long time, both rabbits and pikas are classified as hares, and thus 45 wild species are obtained.

difference between hare and rabbit

Representatives of the hare family live everywhere except Antarctica, and there are no native animals in Australia, but domestic rabbits introduced a little over 100 years ago have run wild and become a real scourge on this continent. There, hunting for them is open all year round and without restrictions.

Types of hares in the world

In our country, there are 4 species - the well-known hare - the largest of the family runs throughout European and Asian territory. Belyak - in the middle lane, in the forest-tundra, tundra. This species lives more in wooded areas. In summer it is red-brown, and in winter it is pure white, but the tips of the ears are black. The steppe tolai hare is not widespread: it lives in the south of the Asian part, in Kazakhstan, Mongolia. He is 2 times smaller than a hare, but runs much faster. And in the forests of the Far East lives a rare Manchurian hare.

Of the other interesting members of the family, one can recall the arboreal Japanese or climbing hare. This small, almost black animal nests in hollows and feeds on trees. The wavy Tibetan hare is similar in size and appearance to a hare, only his hair is wavy. Lives high in the mountains in China, India, Nepal. The striped hare lives in Sumatra and is so well camouflaged that it was not photographed for the first time until 2000. There are a lot of hares and wild rabbits in North America: American hare, white-tailed and black-tailed hares. For example, the world's smallest Aidah rabbit, or pygmy rabbit, is no larger than a squirrel in size. Cotton-tailed rabbit (Floridian) is a nocturnal animal that devastates farm plantings. In Africa, there is a wild rabbit with a curly tail and another species without a tail at all.

Photo gallery of interesting family members

There are many different types of hares in the world, but our hunters are most interested in hare and hare.

Rusak is an animal of medium size, weight can reach 8-9 kg, length - up to 70 cm. The color of the fur is as close as possible to the surrounding vegetation - yellowish-red. Hares most often settle in cultivated fields, pastures, on the outskirts of cities, in summer cottages. In the forest, you can meet a hare much less often. He goes out to fattening at night, sleeps not far during the day. You can determine the presence of litter in the form of nuts. Rusaks are rather sedentary animals and repeatedly return to the place where they were born. Only extreme circumstances force them to change their place.

Hares are very prolific animals. For a year, the female gives 3-4 litters of 4-5 rabbits. Less than half grows, as there are many natural enemies, and even crows try to catch a hare.

How to unravel the tracks of a hare

Hunting for a hare can be carried out in different ways: with dogs - hounds or greyhounds, trailing along the trail, trampling. In our country, and throughout the world, catching a hare with traps and loops is prohibited as an inhumane way.

On the left is the footprint of a sitting hare, on the right is a running hare

Hare tracks are very peculiar, they are clearly visible on wet soil, and especially on snow, and it is impossible to confuse them with others. But to unravel in which direction the animal is moving is sometimes difficult. To learn how to read a trace, you need to know some features.

When a hare (and a hare) runs, then the hind legs are carried far forward, and the tracks are strange - in front of the prints of the hind legs - they are oblong and asymmetrical. Behind them are round footprints of the front paws. The speed of the hare can develop decent - up to 8-9 m / s. or 50-55 km/h.

In a calm state, the hare moves slowly, and its prints are located correctly - front in front, rear in back, the distance between them is minimal, and the direction of movement is very confusing. It makes no sense to waste time on them, but you need to find a way out. When the animal leaves the place of feeding, the trail becomes straight and it goes in wide jumps. After a while, the hare begins to confuse the tracks. After 8-10 meters in a straight line, he abruptly jumps to the side, there he runs for some time parallel to the first straight line, and then returns to the old route again. But most often he makes the so-called loop, which is clearly visible in the picture. On the way to the place of lying, as a rule, the hare makes 3 loops.

The road to bed

Dogs that follow the trail often lose the trail at the place of the double

Therefore, dogs that follow the trail often lose the trail at the place of the double. But those who work with their upper senses at the place where the trail breaks off, are guided by the wind.

A hare's bed can be anywhere, sometimes very strange, according to the hunter. It can be a furrow, a snowdrift, under a bush, in the middle of a path, against the wall of a building (in dachas and outskirts). One hunter said that he saw a sleeping hare at the railing of an old bridge. The animal always turns its nose to its track in order to react in time to the danger that may come from that side.

Tracking hunting is effective only in the snow, and in autumn hunters often go with a dog or driven hunting.

Collective hunting along the black trope is quite popular and successful. But this is a large separate topic with many nuances, and we will talk about this separately.

Collective hunting along the black trope is quite popular and successful.

The most frequently asked question on hunting forums is how to shoot a hare. Everything is quite simple: you need to aim at the side runner with a lead. At a distance of 10 meters - this is one body, at twenty meters you need to aim at 1.7 bodies, and at thirty - three bodies forward. If the animal is running at the hunter, you need to aim at the front legs. If you aim at the head or even at the chest, the shot will go above the head, except for the tail. If the animal leaves, then it is necessary to aim at the ears.

If the animal leaves, then you need to aim at the ears

If a wounded animal is taken, it must be finished off. The fastest way is to step on the neck with your foot and press hard. Fracture of the cervical vertebrae - instant death. Never finish off an animal with a butt. Spontaneous firing may occur, or the stock itself may be split.

The extracted hare can bleed for quite a long time. To do this, you should always take a dense plastic bag with you, but you don’t need to wrap the trophy very tightly - the game will “suffocate” and lose its presentation.

Rabbit Shooting Rule

When cutting, the greatest attention should be paid to the liver - if bile spills, then the meat will be bitter and almost spoiled. The gallbladder is located on the inside of the liver in a small dark green leathery sac. Before cooking, it is advisable to soak the hare meat well for 6-12 hours.

How to read hare tracks: video for beginners

Some start their hunting journey by hunting a hare and eventually move on to a more serious animal. Others remain faithful to her all their lives. But for both those and for those, hare hunting is one of the most exciting and makes it possible to fully satisfy the needs of a real male earner.