Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:21 pm Post subject: words of wisdom from wildman
spotted this post and its worthy of being a sticky!
Night hunting:
Keep quiet (both you and your gear) no squeaky nylon clothes or heavy thumping boots. No loose change in your pockets, no rattling gear. Move slowly and pick your feet up a little higher at night to avoid obstacles on the ground. Don’t skyline yourself, (stay off ridges and hilltops). Keep the wind in your face and take no unnatural scents with you (cologne, aftershave, etc). Be sure to check zero on your rifle during daylight before you go on a night maneuver.
Use a lamp with a rheostat head so you can adjust from low beam to high beam. Use a filter on your lamp, (I prefer red). Don’t walk leaving the lamp on, stop, turn your lamp on low beam, make a sweep along the cover with the red filter, the beam does not have to be set high to set an eye aglow. If no eye is spotted, shut off lamp and slowly move a few yards further along and make another sweep with lamp on low beam. If an eye is spotted slowly turn lamp up just bright enough so you can see your crosshairs on the targets head and if you have a clear steady shot put one in the brain. As soon as you shoot, kill the lamp in case anyone heard your shot. Walk to the game, lamp off, and take time to gut or skin your kill as this will give things time to settle down. If you’re working a watched area gut or skin your game once you’re off that ground.
Never leave gut piles or any sign of your being there on watched ground. Always remember, if you can see a house light in the distance from where you’re standing, they too can see your lamp. I like to use the lamp from a squatting position to keep the beam as low as possible. Use every inch of cover possible to conceal yourself and your beam, like hedgerows, ditch lines, hollers, ECT. A lamp with red filter set on a very low setting is harder to detect.
If you’ve been dropped off in the area have a reliable pickup driver with pre-arranged time and place for pick up. Always have a secondary pick up point arranged in case trouble arises. Never get so caught up in the shooting that you let your guard down, stay sharp and alert. Shoot and move, that’s the name of the game. Never work an area at night without first scoping it during daylight as it pays to know the ground you’ll be working.
ive not red this before its a good hunting law to live by i like it i my self dont have to much trouble shooting as i have heaps of permission , but wen it comes to going out with my dogs wel thats another matter 99% of it is poached lol but i hav never ever not once been captured by the keeper or police or on salisbury plain by the land warden and this is becouse im carefull and observant of my suroundings and i no my route like the back of my hand and that is key wen hunting without permission and most of all hgaving knoledge of wat im doing and listning to my senses a very good read wildman and a good peice of knoledge for the newer hunter
in the day discuise yourself in plain view if you can i.e normal clothes pickin a particular tree (with a hiding place like a hole or something out of sight) or hidden area to drop your gear off, also rivers make good hiding places if you put a rock over your catty/rabbit, sometimes i used to carry a bit of fishing line with either a large hook or noose to hide things in water.
i wouldnt take my word for gospel though as im self taught (but never been caught)
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