Guess what event can bring most of the representatives of the stronger sex into a state of activity? What event is perceived by them as a great celebration of freedom, during which they awaken not forgotten, no, but dormant instincts, the needs of a real man?
It is perceived by initiates as a double celebration: of course, because it is both the opening of the bird hunt and the opening of the hunting season in general. Each "pack" of hunters, sorry, the collective, has its own territory. One of them is the "peak" (the so–called upper reaches of the Kogilnik River and the surrounding bays). Once these places were full of water, teeming with fish and all kinds of game (including wild boars!).
They prepare for the hunting ritual more carefully than a prudent housewife prepares for the temple. Since Friday, local and visiting hunters have been "clogging up" the places. Signs with the hunters' names are visible here and there, and stuffed ducks (baits) are bobbing on the waves. And it is impossible to talk about what hunters carry in the trunks of their cars on the cherished day without excitement: after all, the main ritual action is cooking the mound! Cauldrons, mutton, spices, the anticipation of all these aromas, the smell of smoke, the crackling of twigs in the campfire –ah! (to be honest, whether there will be game or no game is not so important! Some bands don't even take guns with them, I'll tell you a secret).
There is nothing accidental in the behavior of hunters on this day. Like our distant ancestors, traditions, traditions, and customs rule everything. The ritual does not tolerate fuss, not everyone is allowed to join it: you must first put yourself in a special, happy frame of mind: enjoy what the women have prepared "by the hearth in the cave" — ruddy pies, ah, pink sausage, glossy tomatoes, pimply cucumbers, fresh cheese – I will not list further, let the expiring The reader will add saliva to this list himself.
The more time hunters spend in the bosom of nature, the thinner the threads connecting them to the laws of communion become: despite the fact that hunting opens at 18.00, single shots are heard here and there from 16.00, and at 17.00 almost everything was fired – and this did not cause protest from either the staff or the public rangers. Hunters accustomed to non-punishment adjust the start time of hunting annually.
Finally, boats appear on the bay, raising the only game species still surviving in our area.: coot. And then begins what is called the hunt. The firing from all barrels turns into a continuous cannonade. The excitement reaches its peak, everyone rushes to shoot, knowing that there may not be another, more worthy game. And indeed: by 19 o'clock, the shooting subsides: those who were not killed were scared away. And only late in the evening, rare hunters could boast not only of a thinning coot, but also of a teal, and even more so of a mallard.
Talking with a hunter with considerable experience and experience, Ivan Ivanovich Kalantarchuk, we regretfully recalled the former wealth of our swimming pools, ruined by illiterate, and often careless and frankly destructive exploitation of nature.
It's probably time for the hunting society and other organizations that pay lip service to nature conservation to think about this.
Many hunters wonder: why does the season open so early? Where are we going in a hurry? Or has the economic feasibility of collecting contributions from hunters and paying for shooting become higher than environmental expediency?
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