WILD BOAR HUNTING
Wild boar. It is considered
that the wild boar stands apart other ungulate animals
of the Russian fauna both by its habit of life and aggressive
character. This animal is included as the third or the
second number in the symbolical "the great three"
trophy animals of Russia, i.e. a bear, an elk, a wild
boar. Now scientists recognize 26-28 subspecies. In the
huge territory of Russia there are five of them. They
differ from each other in some details of a skull structure,
the average size, the prevailing type of colour and other
minor characteristics. The Central European wild boar
lives in the western and central parts of the European
Russia. He is not large, of homogeneous, dark or dark
grey colour. The average weight of adult males is 54-77
kg., the maximum weight is between 150-230 kg. The main
weapon of the adult male is fangs. They are long and sharp
in the lower jaw and short and thick in upper jaw. Male's
fangs start growing from the first year of its life, and
by the time it is three years old they are already well
developed. The stomach teeth have trihedral section and
are scimitar-shape, old boars might have the protruded
part of the jaw from 10 to12 cm long. Many people have
heard about enormously big boars, fights with which not
always end in hunter's favour. Mixed and deciduous forests,
preferably with oak in the main storey are the main habitats
of the wild boar in the European part of Russia. In addition
wild boars like to stay in lowland, in riverside thickets
and reeds where the ground is particularly soft. Animals
can go far enough on feeding from the place of day's rest.
Solitary male boars go far enough, leaving for 4-8 km.
They have hunted for the wild boar from the earliest times
and a lot of ways of hunting have been mastered for a
long historical period. At present the best known and
popular ways of hunting for this animal are the following:
bringing to bay, waylaying on feeding, from the approach,
or "hiding", with dogs. An adult wild boar is
a wonderful, enviable trophy both as memory of the fact
of getting it and because of its fangs which are the main
characteristics of the size and strength of the gained
animal.
Travel duration is:
7 days (Moscow/Moscow) 5 days of hunting.
Regions of hunting are:
Tver, Vladimir, Yaroslavl, Novgorod Region;
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;
