Wolf hunting game in Belarus

Wolf hunting game in Belarus

Wolf hunting game in Belarus

The gray wolf or grey wolf (Canis lupus), often known simply as the wolf, is the largest extant wild member of the Canidae family. Its body average length is 105-160 cm, height is 80-85 cm and up to 1 m. Usually the weight is 30-50 kg. In case of need wolf gathers speed up to 60 km/h. Wolf is able to do passages up to 80 km in a night. Wolf is well known by its voracity. Being hungry it’s able to eat up to 100 kg of meat. In Belarus the wolf eats hoofed mammals: roe deer, wild boar, red deer, moose; it’s not squeamish about rodent and birds eating, also it eats berries and different fruits.

In Belarus the wolf has always been considered a harmful animal and its hunting game is permitted all year long. Several methods of wolf hunting exists: winter driven hunting game with flags, summer driven hunting game around wolf coach, hunting game with a call, stalking hunting game, hunting game from a hide, wolf hunting with traps.

Winter hunting game with flags. It’s the most effective method of hunting game. It consists on the following: a gamekeeper walk round the place where probably wolves are sleeping and by a number of entrance and exit traces determines a presence of the wolf inside. After this some hunters span a cord with flags around this area.

Red and/or yellow flags are hung up at a height of 25-35 cm from the snow surface in well visible places. It’s considered normal an area of 4-5 km of circumference.

Then inside the area, some 30-40 m from the flags line, in the places of most probable appearance of wolf hunters are placed. And beaters get down to work. It’s not recommended to do a lot of noise. To displace wolf it’s enough to cough a little bit. Animals are not afraid much because of that and will go quite. In this case it easier to hit a wolf.

A bait putting favours a success of wolf driven hunting game. It keeps wolves in areas opportune for wolf hunting game.

Moose hunting game in the rut (lure) in Belarus

Moose hunting game in the rut (lure) in Belarus

One of the typical hunting games in Belarus is the moose hunting in its rutting (lure).

Hunting this enormous animal in the season of its rut (lure) it’s necessary to understand its habits, to orient in the territory, to have precise shooting skills, iron nerves and self-control.

In Belarus the beginning of the rut (lure) can be guessed by initial signs already at the end of august. There are trees trunks (mainly pines, sometimes birches and aspen) barked.

The next moose rut (lure) signs will be “kopki”. So called pits made by a noose with its hoofs in a place when a moose female in lure has urinated. A presence of “kopki” shows that the moose rut (lure) has reached its apogee. More active moose rut periods are afterglow and daybreak. In a week, a week and a half the rut (lure) finishes. In Belarus overall the total period of the moose rut (lure) extended almost up to a month is subdivided in three parts – beginning of the rut (lure), apogee of the rut (lure) and finish of the rut (lure).

Mooses full of strength are more active in the beginning of the rut (lure). In that period they are more mobile and looking for a female respond a calling easy. 
A hunter calling may imitate moose male and/or female voices.

In Belarus when the rut (lure) is finishing a hunter may shoot a big trophy moose only by chance. Young mooses (4-6 points) especially in that period begin to look for females in a delayed lure, they answer and go to the calling very easy.

Hunting rifle calibers allowed for game hunting in Belarus

Hunting rifle calibers allowed for game hunting in Belarus

Capercaillie (Wood Grouse)

400 joules and more – 22 (5,6) Magnum, 22 Hornet.

Roe Deer. Adult males.

1500 joules and more – 5,6x39; 222 Remington; 222 Remington Magnum; 223 Remington; 22-250 Remington; 224 Weatherby Magnum; 5,6x50R Magnum; 5,6x52R; 5,6x57; 243 Winchester; 6,5x52R; 6,5x57R; 30/30 Winchester; 7,62x39;

European Bison, Moose, Red Deer, Wild Boar, Sika, Fallow Deer. Adult males.

3000 joules and more – 6х62; 240 Weatherby Magnum; 6,5x55; 6,5x57 (except 6,5x57R); 6,5x65; 6,6x68; 25-06 Remington; 7x57; 7mm Remington Magnum; 7x64; 270 Winchester; 270 Weatherby Magnum; 280 Remington; 7x65R; 7x66SE; 7x75 RSE; 7,5x55; 308 Winchester; 7,62x51; 7,62x53; 308 Norma Magnum; 30/06 Springfield (7,62x63); 300 Winchester Magnum; 30R Blaser; 300 Weatherby Magnum; 300 H&H Magnum; 300 Remington Ultra Magnum; 30-378 Weatherby; 7,65 Argentine; 303 British; all 7,62 mm and more (33 Carbine and more by English system), except 44-40 Winchester (850 joules).

All year long Wild Boars hunting.

If nothing extraordinary happens from the 13^th of November we’ll hunt according to a new low being discussed during almost 2 years:

Concerning to Wild Boars we’ll have:

1^st of May - 30^th of September. From 18.00 to 09.00. All kind of males and females up to 2 years old. Hide, stalking.

1^st of October – 30^th of December. Animals of all sexes and ages. Hide, stalking, driven hunt.

1^st of January – 30^th of April. All kind of males and females up to 2 years old. In huntingtowers.

La berrea del alce. The moose rut. Die Elche Brunft. Le brame d'elan. Il bramito d'alce.

Hace 2 días ha empezado la berrea del alce. 2 days ago the moose rut started. Vor 2 Tagen die Elche Brunft begonnen. Il ya 2 jours le brame d'elan a commencé. 2 giorni fa il bramito d'alce è cominciato.