EUROPEAN BROWN BEAR HUNTING
150 - 750km. of Moscow, in
Tver, Yaroslavl, Novgorod, Kirov regions, Karelia.
European brown bear. Bear hunting "at oats"
has a centuries-old tradition and has been practised till
now. In the end of summer and in the early autumn on the
fields of the European part of Russia oats ripen and bears,
and as well as wild boars, do not miss an opportunity
to regale themselves on sweet grains. For the purposes
of hunting at a roadside of such oat fields a "corn
chandler's shop" is built (as a rule, it is the closed
cabin made from boards, with one or two windows and which
is set between trees at a height of 3-6 meters for placing
one person or two people). One can well see almost the
whole oat field from the cabin. Oats in these places is
usually undersized, hardly above a knee. The hunter bypasses
such fields before hunting and searches for the evidence
of animal presence: imprints of paws, dung, the trampled
down oats with characteristic bear "twisting"
and with sucked panicles of stalks. At the places where
there is the most active leaving, the hunter sits down
on the "corn chandler's shop" in an ambush in
two hours before the sunset. A bear comes out on the field
with the twilight, listening attentively and sniffing
around the territory. Its coal black body is perfectly
seen against the background of light oats. It goes about
ten meters deep into the field and starts eating. At some
moments it goes more quickly passing the "bald patches",
at other moments it goes more slowly, sometimes it stops
and turns
at the place, eating oats. The bear often stops eating,
lifts its head, and even rises on hinder legs ("on
hind legs "), sniffing and listening. There are cases
when the bear without any preparation movements, without
lifting its head, suddenly jumps high upwards and sideways,
and in swift, long jumps overcomes the open space and
disappears in bushes. It once again proves the truth that
the animal is an animal, and hunting is hunting, and it
is impossible to predict its result it in advance. Therefore
the hunter should be very attentive, sit very quietly
and be ready at any moment to fire a shot at a place.
Travel duration is:
7 days (Moscow/Moscow) 5 days of hunting.
Regions of hunting are:
Tver, Vladimir, Yaroslavl, Novgorod Region, Kareliya;
Accommodation:
hunting camps, guest hunting houses, rural log huts..
Travel route:
travel by motor transport, either by plane or by train
from Moscow to the nearest hunting place, station or the
airport. Then you go by motor transport to the hunting
place;
Additional charges:
tickets Moscow -local airport/station - Moscow; Hotels
are paid according to the fact; Additional service is
paid according to the fact;
