How to lure a goose correctly
Before the next hunting season, hunters begin to stock up on cartridges, profiles and camouflage equipment. But this is not enough in hunting geese. It is necessary to lure the bird to the ambush site. Today, in any hunting store you can find many electronic decoys, but their use in our country is prohibited. The use of only brass decoy is allowed, but how to lure a goose with its help is a question that should be understood in detail.
How to lure a goose
What is a decoy
There is a special college of semolina sport hunting in America. She imitates the calls of a wild goose and ducks rather distantly. But due to the fact that bird communication is very diverse, birds respond to the call of sports manna. In the Russian Federation, such a school does not exist, respectively, there are no people with a good education in this area either.
Today American decoys remain the best on the world market. Hunting device developers can literally control wild birds. As a rule, manufacturers of Russian and American decoys attach a disc with a step-by-step video to their product: "How to use a decoy for a goose."
Work specifics
Luring a goose into a brass decoy is not an easy task. His work is significantly different from duck semolina. It is a linguistic musical instrument, so using it requires some skill and experience. It functions in two tones: low and high.
The frequency in any of them will be changed by increasing or decreasing the force of the air flow passing through the decoy. You should hold it with your thumb and forefinger by the horn, similar to a duck. The three remaining fingers will cover and open the desired holes. To learn how to properly lure a wild goose, the following recommendations should be followed:
- You don't need to puff out your cheeks when you blow manna, here you need to work with your belly.
- Letting out a small stream of air produces a low octave. This timbre is most often lured by Anser geese.
- If, getting a low timbre, you suddenly start to force the air flow, a transition to a higher octave is obtained.
- Achievement of various shades of sound in both octaves is possible.
- The highest sounds are achieved by completely covering the decoy with your hand and passing a large amount of air through it.
A little about geese
The ancestor of the domesticated representatives of the goose genus is considered the gray goose, respectively, and its cackle is similar to that of geese in village courtyards. For the most part, his communication is in a low octave and only in the most rare cases goes to a high one. There is no particular orderliness in the sounds. Mann, adapted to gray, will act in the same way on a humane goose.
The sound frequencies of the bean goose obey certain laws, especially when the bird is flying. In a low timbre, systematic abrupt sounds are heard, and in a high timbre, double high sounds.Simulation at high sound frequencies is used to lure far-flung flocks to profiles and scarecrows. When the flock has flown close, you should go to the lower octave.
A large white-fronted goose on manna must be tuned to a higher tone than the previous 2 representatives. In the high timbre of the white-fronted goose, you can sometimes hear the sounds of the Lesser White-fronted Goose, but not so gentle. The flying flock makes a cacophony of different sounds in high and low keys.
In general, working with a decoy to lure any kind of geese includes the following rules:
- high tone for birds flying far away;
- when the birds have noticed and are trying to fly up, it is necessary to gradually reduce the sound intensity.
Description of the process of blowing air out of the device
Take the decoy with your thumb and forefinger by the end of the horn. Put on the lower lip and make several short, rather sharp, but not very strong exhalations. To learn how to use the device correctly, you need to inhale, slightly suck in your stomach and tighten your abdominal muscles, then briefly exhale air into the decoy.
To get the clinking characteristic of white-fronted geese, free fingers must be slightly squeezed so that the palm becomes a continuation of the decoy. The palm of the other hand must be brought to the device at such a distance that it starts to work in 2 tonalities. To imitate the sound of the voice of a feeding goose, you need to make short exhalations with the addition of any sound, for example, often exhaling and pronouncing the sound "y" each time.
The tone is easily controlled using your fingers. The characteristic clinking sound is obtained only if there is an obstacle in the path of the outgoing air. Then it is reflected and again returns to the inside of the device. It is important that the decoy does not get dirty during operation. Dirt can reduce the effectiveness of the fixture.
When using semolina in cold, damp weather, condensation will inevitably accumulate inside, falling between the membrane and the tone board, which causes the membrane to stick. To prevent this from happening, it is necessary to regularly blow out the device from the back side. If, nevertheless, sticking occurs, you need to insert inside, any piece of paper rolled up in a tube and stretch it through the decoy.
Conclusion
Unfortunately, the use of powerful electric vehicles is prohibited on the territory of our country, so any hunter must learn how to use a spirit decoy and use a cartridge case in time. Using this tool is a whole art. However, if you learn to control it, then all that is required for a successful hunt is an accurate shot. Depending on how we learn to manage a decoy, the quality and quantity of birds shot depends.
The decoy is practically a musical instrument, so using it requires some skill. Its setting is influenced not only by the position of the diaphragm, but also by the pressing force of the locking wedges. Each hunt will end in rich prey, if you learn how to properly manage the decoy.