A yearling is a young boar that was born less than a year ago. Hunting for such animals is especially popular in Russia, as it is much easier and more effective. Juveniles are easier to catch since they do not have much experience in defense. Also, their wool and meat are the most valued on the market.

Young piglets are small in size. Most often, their color has lighter shades, and only after a year they begin to darken. They also have long legs, which is one of their characteristic features young boars. Males on appearance Slimmer than females, they also have a full mane. In a flock of wild boars, except for the leader, everyone else is most often female. Young male boars most often walk alone. To get started similar look hunting, you must have not only the necessary equipment, but also special attention pay attention to special skills that are necessary during hunting.

Main stages of the hunt

You need to understand that hunting a young wild boar is quite difficult and sometimes dangerous. If the youngling is with its female, who is frightened by the shooting, then this may pose a risk to the hunter’s life. Therefore, in this matter it is necessary to be as precise and careful as possible. In order to start this type of hunting, you need to know certain steps that must be followed, only then can you hope for a successful process.

• First of all, it is necessary to go around all the lands where wild boars graze, especially looking at the places where the animals go to feed.
• After traces of animals are found, a corral is carried out.
• In this case, hunters (from six people) must position themselves on one side of the forest, in a place where there is a herd.
• At the same time, the beaters begin to actively make noise and at the same time they should be directed towards the shooters. At this moment, the boars will begin to move away from danger and will move towards the shooters.
• At this moment, the most important thing is not to lose skill and accurately hit the target, since otherwise, the game may run away or attack a person.
• If everything goes well, the hunter is left with his trophy.

Location: Tver region, Zapovednye estuaries.

To the question: Who went wild boar hunting? What do you need to have in your arsenal and what does wild boar taste like? 🙂 given by the author Ђroll Ivanovich the best answer is at least a double-barreled shotgun with bullets or with an insert under 7.62, several people in license plates, a couple of dogs.
It’s better to beat a female; the male’s meat smells like a boar. Roast on coals in the forest - you'll swallow your fingers.

Reply from IVAN KLEVAKIN[guru]
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Boar hunting
Wild boar (wild pig, boar) is a non-ruminant animal. The boar's body length reaches 2 m. Height at withers – 1m. An adult boar weighs about 300 kg. When hunting wild boar, you must remember that this is a serious and dangerous beast. A wounded and persecuted animal is especially dangerous.
Hunting for wild boar from ambush.
This method is used by hunters wherever wild boars can be found. They are most often guarded in feeding areas, sometimes on the paths leading to them, as well as near puddles or stagnant reservoirs where wild boars take mud baths.
Feeding sites are found in advance. After this, it is necessary to find places where the animals go out to feed. Then the most convenient place to sit is determined.
You need to occupy the hunting site an hour to an hour and a half before sunset. After that, all you have to do is wait and listen to the sounds coming from you.
The fact that wild boars are approaching can be judged by the cracking of branches and the noise they create when moving. Before entering the field, the animals calm down and listen and sniff for a long time, loudly sucking in the air. The hunter must be careful at this time. Suspecting nothing, the wild boars enter the field. The hunter can only choose a target and hit it accurately.
Hunting from the approach.
During feeding, wild boars are not so vigilant and make a lot of noise. Focusing on the sounds of noise, crunching, slurping, the hunter approaches the fattening herd. You only need to approach against the wind. The hunter's clothes and shoes should be comfortable, light and soft, making a minimum of noise when moving. You can go hunting at dusk.
Roundup hunt, or drive.
The most accessible hunt for hunters in our country, and therefore the most popular hunt. Its essence is that a chain of beaters must drive the animals to the waiting shooters.
If the shooting numbers are located in strong places with poor visibility, the hunt director warns the beaters to make less noise. Then the wild boars will move slower, and the shooters will have a better opportunity to make an accurate shot.
Before the hunt, all participants must be instructed. Strict adherence to rules, instructions and safety measures is mandatory for everyone.
Hunting for wild boar from under dogs from the approach.
This is perhaps one of the most interesting and exciting ways.
Several hunters (2-4 people) go out with dogs to the places where wild boars are supposed to roost. Having reached the place, they release the dogs, and they themselves slowly move through the land and wait for the dogs to raise the animal. When the animal is found and raised by the dogs, the hunters act based on the circumstances. The hunter's task is to get as close to the animal as possible and fire a shot.
And now the cleaver is defeated. Now you can light a fire, boil tea, have a snack and rest before the difficult but pleasant work of cutting up the carcass and pulling the prey out of the thicket to the road, which may not be so close.

This hunt has been around for hundreds of years. And there have been conversations on this topic for just as many years. When the word “boar” is used, one imagines a large boar with huge tusks, this is exactly how it is depicted in old engravings in hunting scenes (for example, in Rubens’s painting “The Hunt for the Wild Boar”), where he is besieged by a whole pack of assorted dogs, surrounded by both foot and horse hunters approach him with spears, spears, rogules, swords, and daggers.

The boar grins angrily, you can imagine how it snaps its teeth, how it lunges and with short blows of its head scatters the dogs tearing at it. The scene is filled with drama; it is clear that the boar intends to send, if not a couple of hunters, then at least several dogs, to their forefathers.

Nowadays, rarely does anyone dare to kill such a boar with a cold weapon. Both people and dogs are sensible enough to fight like this big beast, besides it appeared firearms, which allows you to catch a large cleaver from a safe distance with much less risk. And with a knife, wild boar is still hunted now, but of much smaller sizes, mainly young of the year and gilts (from last year), although they are not large, they also belong to the species Sus scrofa, i.e. Common boar.

They extract using, in general, the same old technology hunting, as in ancient times. The dogs find wild boars, choose the one they like best, if necessary, fight him off from the herd and hold him until the hunter arrives. The hunter approaches and mortally wounds the animal with a special technique. It would seem nothing complicated, but in this exciting and gambling process there are several components, each of which is important.

These components are: dogs, a hunter with his understanding of the process and experience, a knife and, in fact, the boar itself, without which nothing can be done.

Dogs

“And I heard that you catch dogs in Kizlyar, in the fish row,” I remarked.
“This also happens,” Antip answered, grinning. “But it’s out of necessity: after all, master, a lot of dogs disappear, really... Sometimes such an animal will be attacked and spoil five or six dogs.”

N.N. Tolstoy. "Hunting in the Caucasus"

In our countries, the most common boar dogs are huskies. At the huskies good search, viscosity and anger towards the beast. Not every dog ​​has a set of these qualities, which is why they try to assemble a pack of dogs with different talents that complement each other. All the boar breeders I know say that it is one, usually a male, and rarely two huskies that keep a boar. The others help. They can grab, they can spin around, but it is the one that chooses the victim and enters the fight. If given a choice, the dogs choose the most accessible prey - fingerlings. No fingerling, then a little larger. The main husky grabs by the lych, by the cheeks, by the ear, by the scruff of the neck, works from the side of the animal’s head, and the helping ones spin around and grab him by the gacha, by the tail, and grab him in the crotch. More often, at least two dogs are used, but one dog can hold a fingerling. It is not uncommon for large hounds to hold and even strangle younglings weighing twenty to thirty kilograms on their own. One tall male Russian pinto hound began strangling piglets at the age of one year, and continued to do so from great success all season until he was injured by a wild boar. Gonchak recovered, but stopped racing. I lost interest not only in wild boars, but also in goats, hares and foxes. He became a homebody, never set foot in the forest, and guarded the yard. It happens the other way around, dogs get seriously injured and after that they are even more willing to work on wild boars. But overly brave dogs do not live long; sooner or later, close work on an adult boar turns into fatal wounds. Jagdterriers successfully retain young of the year. A friend of mine had three jags successfully cope with a piglet up to forty kilograms.

As soon as the first boar is caught from the dogs, it becomes important for them to keep the animal until the hunter arrives. As soon as they grabbed the piglet, as soon as the hunter got it and killed it, from that moment on such a hunt becomes the most desirable for them. Raising such a dog is not easy. Training begins from puppyhood, natural culling, regular baiting in the off-season, feeding, vaccinations, treatment for injuries - the dog becomes valuable to the hunter, not just a tool for hunting, but also, of course, a friend. Many hunters, for the safety of their dogs, for greater convenience in hunting, purchase modern systems tracking them. These are GPS transmitters on collars and the main device with a screen in the hands of the hunter. The screen shows all the dog’s movements around the area; you can determine whether it is sitting or standing, and at what speed it is moving. The hunter can easily determine by the nature of the dog’s movement what it is doing – whether it is working on the animal, chasing it, or searching for it. Using the device, you can adapt to the movement of the animal or determine with great accuracy the place where it is held, without even hearing the dogs’ voice. With a pair of huskies that have a wide search, viscosity and are equipped with a tracking system, a hunter can hunt with a small mobile team or even alone, adapting to the work of the dogs and the movement of the wild boar on the device screen.

But despite all the modern devices, the life of a wild boar dog is filled with dangers and injuries. A good hunter not only completes and carries with him a serious dog first aid kit, but also has primary surgical skills, since dogs cut by wild boars have to be sewn up regularly.

In addition to huskies, hounds, terriers, as well as other breeds and all kinds of mixed breeds, in some countries of Europe and America, fighting dogs of fighting breeds are used to hunt wild pigs with a knife: bull terriers, Staffordshire terriers, pit bull terriers, etc. They are distinguished by a strong, long-lasting grip, and bull terriers are truly “dead”, “crocodile-like”. With lightning speed and purpose, they grab the boar's snarl, lower jaw or cheek, tuck their legs and try to press the animal's head to the ground with their weight, thereby quite powerfully and reliably fixing it. More often, these dogs are used only for this purpose and are released on a boar that has already been found by other dogs.

Hunter with a knife

“Meanwhile, Balash calmly sat on the shore and took off his shoes, and having taken off his shoes and rolled up his trousers, he just as calmly walked to the boar, which was still being held by the dogs, killed it and, threading a rope under its fangs, pulled it to the shore.”

Most boar keepers who keep huskies and successfully cut the beast from under them live in rural areas. This includes rangers who conduct driven hunts. They are quite pragmatic people and are not prone to excessive risks and bravado. The fingerling and gilt do not see anything complicated or contradictory in picking with a knife. Dogs hang on a small boar, if it is not yet tired, it will spin, will not allow you to shoot accurately, a shot can spoil part of the meat, and most importantly, big risk hook the dogs with a charge. Therefore, the easiest way is to take a knife and cut it. How do they do this? In two steps. First you need to fix the beast, and then inflict damage incompatible with life. One of the common techniques is to lift it by one hind leg and stab it with a knife under the shoulder blade in the direction of the heart. It must be remembered that a boar's heart is located in the lower third of the sternum, in the middle, between the front legs. Or knocking a pig onto its side (it’s easy to say, knocking it to its side! - one avid boar handler advised me to do this: approach the boar only from behind, grab it firmly by the tail with your left hand, and right hand- by the left front leg and roll it to the side, holding it with your knee from the back), press it down from the back with your knee and, holding it by the ear, open the jugular vein and carotid artery, making an incision along the neck from the spine to the throat. Pressing down with a knee or even sitting astride, they hold the front leg and stab into the heart through the sternum or under the shoulder blade. Here are practically two main ways to quickly kill a wild boar - in the heart with surrounding vessels or in the neck.

There is one more trick. If the boar is large enough and nimble: by piercing the lungs through the ribs (preferably several times), you can achieve the animal’s quick death due to air entering the chest and the lungs sticking together. The boar will arrive in a few minutes.

Practical recruiting skills are developed and maintained throughout the season. During the season, each wild boar slaughters several young wild boars and pigs from the dogs. This hunt continues throughout the period of driven hunts. If at the beginning of the pens the dogs sway and are afraid to work in the corn, where most of the wild boars are kept, then by the end they catch without any problems, and some even kill the piglets on their own. Avid hunters slaughter more than ten wild boars from dogs during the season. Many are so passionate about this hunt that they gladly go into the pen with their dogs without a gun, but with a knife. The majority of boar breeders surveyed indicated that they slaughter only young animals under two years of age.

Knife on a boar

A boar sword, a palm tree, a spear, a spear, a boar knife - all this can be successfully used today for hunting wild boar. And they apply it! In the Czech Republic and Germany, where hunting with bull terriers is practiced, a spear, a boar knife, and dagger-type knives are used to kill large enough boars. Two bull terriers, usually a female and a male (to exclude the possibility of an unforeseen fight between them), hold large boars weighing up to one hundred kilograms. The hunter’s task is to approach the animal from behind and, almost sitting astride it, grab the free ear with one hand, and with the other strike under the shoulder blade, aiming from above at the heart. After being stabbed with a knife, the boar shows strong activity, and at this time it is necessary to hold it by the ear and press the animal to the ground with your body. The bull terriers continue to hold his head all this time.

In America, Australia, and New Zealand, for similar hunting with dogs, they use a fairly large boar knife with a developed guard and a long, wide blade. More often, a boar that is being held by dogs is approached from behind from the side and a piercing blow is delivered under the shoulder blade, even under the armpit, aiming for the heart. And then, without removing the knife completely, they make several more short cutting strokes. If the boar is not very large, then one of the assistants lifts it by the back leg or both legs, thereby depriving it of support for throwing.

When I began to ask our wild boar hunters about what kind of knives they use for harvesting, two elderly hunters said that they always successfully used a sharpened awl made from an iron rod with a blunt end bent into the shape of a handle. This was one of the traditional tools for slaughtering domestic pigs. The rest were thinking about a guard, a comfortable handle to make the blade larger. The sizes ranged from 12 to 17 centimeters, but all fantasies and variations ended something like this: in general, ordinary hunting knife, but any other one that you have with you will do.

If you don’t have a knife, it’s difficult to kill even a small pig. I have heard of silencing using improvised means, strangulation, neck breaking, and even an attempt to impale on a sharp branch... These horrors can be avoided by having a sharpened “regular hunting knife” with you.

Boar and its size

The larger the boar, the more dangerous it is and the fewer people want to poke a knife into it. Experienced huskies also share this point of view. Therefore, when dogs find a healthy or wounded cleaver in the forest and bark at it at a reasonable distance, few people have the idea of ​​​​trying to take the animal with a knife.

One of the hunters told how he received his only injury: “Once a friend wounded a large pig, and I was without a gun, only with a knife, and in the clearing I noticed that a raspberry tree was moving. I thought it was a youngster and wanted to catch it, but there was a wounded pig there. In general, while the dogs arrived, she chewed my leg. Only after a year did my leg stop going numb. But I killed the pig – there was simply no other choice.”

And there are hunters who, for more than thirty years of such wild boar hunting, have not received a single injury, each season taking several wild boars from under their dogs. Why? Yes, because they never even thought about going after a large boar with a knife. They hunted specifically young of the year, rarely gilts, and only killed a wounded large boar by shooting.

There's another one important reason, why young of the year are preferred to large cleavers. Fingerlings are much tastier. Their meat is juicy and tender, moderately fatty, compared to the strong-smelling meat of the cleaver, which is in rutting season during driven hunts.

And yet there are those who are determined and strong people who take an adult and healthy boar from under their dogs with a knife. For this, of course, we need huskies who can stop and hold such a beast. And no less important is knowledge and experience - how to quickly kill a big beast. These are rare, enthusiastic specialists in a fairly widespread and numerous tribe of wild boar hunters.

In hunting stories there are references to the fact that a large wounded wild boar, in the absence of cartridges, was killed with a stone and blows to the head with sticks, and then cut with a knife. I would not recommend this method of collection due to its unreliability and great danger to humans.

“At the opening of driven hunting in our area, wild boars live in corn. If there is water in the corn, a persistent puddle or ditch, then they do not come out of there at all for weeks. After lunch we decide to redistribute, and most of the hunters go into the corn as beaters. The numbers are located at the end of the field. We line up in a chain after 10-12 meters and walk along the rows of corn with a voice, trying to hold the chain. It's gloomy and warm in the corn. You push the hard leaves apart with your hand, but they still touch your face, and this then makes your face itch and itch, almost like nettles. The rows, closing at the top, form shady corridors along which wild boars have trampled their paths. Dogs run next to people. They don’t want to get ahead - they feel that the wild boars have a big advantage in these corn corridors. The shooters wait for the beast to appear at the edge of the field. The beaters are approaching, shouting cheerfully. You can hear the rustling and moving apart of hard leaves. And so, when there are no more than a hundred meters left to the shooters and it seems that there is no one in the corn, there comes a slight lull. The beaters languidly shout to each other... Suddenly, to the heart-rending barking of dogs, in a small piece of the field there is the sound of stomping and squealing, the hooting of a pig, the herd does not come out of the corn into the forest, where the numbers are quietly standing, but turns towards the line of the beaters and, with acceleration, breaks through between the people in the opposite direction. You can’t see the pigs, but you can hear them very well; only a few for a moment see the dark sides darting through the neighboring rows. It is impossible to shoot accurately. If it weren’t for the black-faced husky dog, who had previously seemed like a lazy bumpkin, we would have been left without prey that day. Taking advantage of the turmoil, he grabbed the youngster, and the rest of the dogs, plucking up courage, fought the pig off from the herd. Hunters who arrive in time to hear the squealing and barking quickly kill the young of the year. The huntsman looks contentedly at the dog’s gangster face: “It’s not for nothing that I bought him for fifty bucks before the drive!” The next day the dogs dispersed and by lunchtime they got us two more piglets in the same way.”

Russian hunting magazine, January-February 2013

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The most convenient and easily accessible (can be used directly in the field) diagnostic signs for determining the age of a wild boar are the development of its milk teeth and their replacement with permanent (definitive) teeth, the formation of posterior (molar) teeth and the degree of their wear. This methodological approach has withstood long-term testing on numerous species of domestic animals and has long served as the simplest and generally correct criterion for determining age. It also turned out to be quite acceptable for determining the age of wild ungulates.

To establish the scale age-related changes In the boar dental system, in order to use it in practice, we have collected and studied over 650 skulls belonging to individuals of different sexes and ages. Among the collected material there were 25 standard skulls of known age.

When processing the material, all wild boar skulls were divided into sex and age groups. Age was determined by the state of the age characteristics of the skull and teeth, taking into account the date of shooting of a particular individual and the average date of mass birth of piglets. Although pig farrowing can be quite extended, litters that are too early or too late tend to die. Therefore, we can assume that any wild boar population consists of well-separated age groups, the interval between which is one year. Knowing the time of mass birth of piglets and the date of shooting of individual individuals, on a sufficiently large scale and obtained in different times Years of material can determine the sequence of development of primary teeth and their replacement with definitive ones, the formation of molars and the degree of their wear. This makes it possible to establish a fairly accurate scale of age-related changes in the boar’s dental system, which is subsequently used to determine the age of individual individuals.

In addition to changes in the dental system, we also took into account common features development of the skull, the degree of ossification of some bones, the presence of sutures or boundaries between them, etc.

The age indicator for a wild boar up to three years is based on objective diagnostic signs, expressed in the natural development of individual elements of the dental system, and for animals from four years of age and older, the indicators obtained by visual determination the degree of wear of the crowns of predominantly posterior teeth and the pattern of dentin exposure.

It should be emphasized that dividing animals into age groups ranging from 1 year to 6 years with an interval of 1 year does not cause any particular difficulties with sufficient skill. In older groups (over 6 years), establishing age with an interval of 1 year is complicated, and therefore we took wider intervals for groups: 6-7, 8-9, 10-12 years, etc.

Based on the order of appearance, replacement and degree of wear of teeth, as well as some age-related signs in the structure of the skull, we divided the entire period of postnatal ontogenesis of the wild boar into the following ten age groups: I - newborns (1-3 days), II - broods (from 20 days up to 3-4 months), III - underyearlings (9-12 months), IV - two-year-olds (19-22 months), V - three-year-olds (32-36 months), VI - four-year-olds (about 4 years), VII - adults (about 5 years), VIII - 6-7 years, IX - 8-9 years, X - 10-12 years and older.

Fingerlings

They have a child's head shape, a short snout, small ears, covered with short stubble. Light spots are clearly visible on the head. The color of the body is striped, yellowish-brown, which lasts up to 5-6 months, completely disappears in August. The tail is short and thin, reaching mid-thigh. In winter attire, the body seems more powerful due to the regrown underfur. The legs are relatively short and covered dark hair. In good lighting and short distance at this time the tassel on the tail is already noticeable. In the illustration on the right, the letter A denotes a yearling at the age of 4 months, the letter B - 8 months.

Gilt

Next age class "pig." It is considered from one to 2 years. More precise definition no, since even boars a year older often look like a classic gilt. Due to the growing winter stubble, the head appears short and blunt, and childish forms completely disappear. The shape of the body becomes more powerful, especially in the front part. Light stripes are not visible. On the lips, a swelling is clearly visible, through which the points of the lower fangs are visible. The ears are short and covered with powerful bristles. The tail is long, almost to the hock joint, with a tassel at the end. By December, the length of the lower canines is on average 116 mm. The width at the base is 19.0 mm, at the beginning of the section - 12.0 mm. Brandt number - 1.6 The girth of the upper canines is 54 mm. Average weight 38.0 kg. In the illustration on the left is a male, on the right is a female. The issue of weight is quite controversial. since it depends entirely either on the abundance of natural food or on appropriate feeding. So, for example, in the Moscow regional society fingerlings reach a weight of 41 kg. Thanks to abundant feeding, the weight of gilts is naturally much higher. At the same time, in societies where not everything is so prosperous, weight indicators are much lower. This example is given to emphasize the exceptional importance of winter feeding.