A place where pheasants generally like to live.
Pheasants like to live in forest margins, bushes or overgrown places, and also enter sparse forests, but rarely enter dense forests. In winter, they move to the fields in the plain, foraging for all kinds of grains and seeds, moving during the day, walking on the ground for food and rarely climbing trees. I like to spend the night in the tree to avoid the enemy's attack. Food is mainly plant seeds, berries, grains and insects. Eating small gravel helps to grind food in the stomach. Breeding in spring, nesting underground, the nest is very simple, only choose caves, bedding hay, miscellaneous leaves and other things to lay eggs, each of which lays 6-8 eggs, and the chicks can move and feed independently after hatching.
Search and hunting methods
Looking for pheasants depends first on whether the environmental conditions are suitable for pheasant life, and there will be no pheasants in an environment that is not suitable for pheasant life. Then patrol observation, looking for pheasant footprints, feces, sand bath, etc. Pheasants like to take a sand bath in the warm sunshine and relatively open gravel area when molting their feathers, leaving not only footprints but also feathers. Feathers are clean and not stained like newly fallen feathers. When searching nearby, you may encounter pheasants. In winter in Zita Law, it is difficult to find food in the wild. Pheasants often go to the harvested fields and near the village yard for food, so hunting is very convenient. The weather is very important when looking for pheasants. The weather is clear and calm, pheasants are active, and it is easy to find and hunt. In stormy weather, it is mostly latent. When it begins to rain, pheasants wander in the fields and are most easily found.
(1) patrol shotgun hunting method
The hunter searched for guns in the pheasant activity area and fired when he found them. When using this method alone, the effect is not good. When patrolling hunting, hunters often use horns, feather sounds, media birds and so on. Lure them and properly combine hunting with hunting with shotguns. Pheasants can be lured by pheasants, and whistling in estrus is the best. If you can really blow, you won't be in heat, and you can lure pheasants. Most of the pheasant flutes that are often used now are made by hunters themselves. The method is simple. Use 1 almond, grind 1 round hole on both sides, and the diameter of round hole is about 0.3 cm. Digging out almonds and inhaling them in the population can make a sound similar to that of pheasants. The production and use of pheasant flute need to be familiar with pheasant's sound and imitate it repeatedly to make the sound similar, so it will be of use value. If the sound is different, you can't use it, because the sound is different, not only can't attract pheasants, but it will arouse suspicion and run away when you hear the sound. Whistling in spring and using female voices can attract male and female pheasants. Seduce males with male voices in autumn. When using the horn, it is best to use it less. Because frequent blowing and occasional abnormal sound will lead to failure. It is best to whistle with a weak voice, but in windy weather, you can use a strong voice. A weak voice can attract nearby pheasants, and a strong voice can scare nearby pheasants. The intensity of whistle needs to be determined by field experiments. Because the indoor conditions are very different from those in the wild, the indoor sound is good. When hunting in the wild, it may become very bad because of the hunter's breathing condition, temperature and wind speed. Pheasants have keen hearing. Although they whistle, they can be heard from a distance, with little error. Before the hunter honks his horn, he must hide and disguise himself, and there must be an open area in front to facilitate observation and shooting. Pheasants often rush out of the ground when they hear the sound. Only when weeds are overgrown and it is difficult to walk through, do they fly by accident. Hunters should be prepared in advance so as not to lose the opportunity to shoot. Feather embroidery is to move a pheasant feather to make a feather sound to lure the pheasant to come. Feather attraction is similar to whistle attraction, and hunters can get satisfactory results if they are good at using it. Mosquito attraction should be accompanied by whistle attraction, otherwise the effect is not good. When the female bird is used as a pheasant specimen, it must be realistic to have a good effect.
(2) Hunting hounds use guide dogs to hunt pheasants, which can not only increase hunting interest, but also obtain satisfactory results. Pheasants usually live in seclusion in bushes and grass, so it is difficult to find them and start them. Guide dogs can walk through bushes and grass and find pheasants with a keen sense of smell. Before they start, they will use a special standing posture to indicate the position of the pheasant. When the hunters are ready, they will scream and rush to the pheasant. Because pheasants only pay attention to hounds, they are rarely disturbed by hunters. After the pheasant is started, the hunter can shoot with preparation. The hound helps the hunter find the pheasant that escaped after being injured, which can prevent the pheasant from escaping. A good hound can bring its prey back to the hunter, making it easier for the hunter to find its prey.
(3) Luzi trapping method
Catch pheasant chicks, domesticate and raise them. When they grow up, take them to places frequented by pheasants, tie them in proper places and set traps around them. When they leave the group, they often make noise to lure other pheasants. Male pheasants have the characteristics of fighting. When you hear their chirping, you will inevitably come to fight with them quickly. If it is not trapped, the hunter can drive the pheasant away and let it not fight with the pheasant. It can also be trapped when it escapes. In addition, hunting pheasants with clips or jackets is also very effective.
Step 4 shoot and track
(1) injectivity
Most pheasants are shot in flight, and hunters need to master good shooting techniques to gain something. Knowing the flight characteristics of pheasants can help us hit the prey accurately. It is not particularly difficult to shoot a pheasant in flight, but it should be noted that the disturbed pheasant will fly vertically upwards from the grass or bushes at first, and then fly horizontally. When it changes from vertical to horizontal, it rotates slowly in the air, just like stopping. This is the best time to start shooting.
Hunters sometimes meet pheasants flying overhead and sometimes fly to hunters. When they find the hunter, they will change direction and fly away. At this time, it is not easy to shoot the pheasant overhead, and it will be good to wait until the pheasant turns around and flies to the side. The hunter summed up the experience of shooting the pheasant as "slapping the mouth horizontally, kicking along the leg and beating the wings obliquely", which is to concretize and visualize the propulsion of shooting.
Shooting pheasants in flight often leads to misjudgment of distance due to visual errors. The flying height and distance perceived by hunters are much farther than the actual height and distance, especially when the weather is clear, the pheasant is far from the line of sight of the shotgun, but the actual distance is only more than half of the perceived distance. When putting down the shotgun, the observation distance is not too far, but the shooting opportunity has been lost.
The size of the shotgun used to shoot pheasants is related to the killing effect. Generally, the No.3 shotgun is used, which has enough lethality. In spring and summer, the pheasant feather layer is thin, and the shrapnel can be reduced appropriately. Feathers are abundant in autumn and winter, with large shrapnel. The best shooting distance is 40-50 meters.
(2) Tracking
Pheasants have strong viability. When shooting, you should kill it as soon as possible. Occasionally, those who are seriously injured and not dead can lose their flight ability, but they can also run and escape quickly after landing. It's best to track the injured pheasant with hounds. If there are no hounds, hunters need to master tracking technology to avoid losing them.
Observing the shaking of vegetation on the plain with dense grass can help us to judge the direction of pheasant running in the grass. Although the pheasant has been shot down and the landing place has been clearly seen in the bushes or overgrown with weeds, it is easy to lose its prey if it does not consider the search method and moves back and forth in a hurry. According to the landing site, a closed-loop search is adopted, the police dog is started first, and then the closed loop is gradually narrowed to determine the escape direction of the pheasant. Closed-loop search is far better than trampling on vegetation at will, making the scene messy and searching back and forth. Pheasants can only shoot directly if they escape or fly again.
It is common for pheasants to recover their ability to escape or fly in a short time after being injured and falling. After shooting, the hunter needs to change the bullet and be ready to shoot again at any time to avoid looking for empty guns. It's too late to regret the pheasant's flight.
5. Hunting period and hunting quantity
The hunting period of pheasants should be from September to 65438+February, and it should be extended or shortened according to the growth and decline of resources in various places, and the hunting of pheasants in various places is also in this period. The number of hunting should be specified on the basis of investigation. In recent years, due to the increase in the number of shotguns, amateur hunters have increased a lot, and the number of resources has a downward trend. The number of hunting should be set below 25% of population reproduction.