Sag loop in de veld?

[Ds J]

Enkele vrae oor jagtegniek:
- Hoe loop 'n mens saggies in die veld?
- Wanneer raas jy te veel?
- Wat gee die jagter weg?

Ek verkies om kaalvoet te jag. Dis bitter moeilik, maar by verre die sagste. En dit is natuurlik stadig.

Stewels raas, ek verkies ou vellies of tekkies as dit vinniger moet gaan.

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How does one keep the noise down when hunting afoot? What gives you away?
I prefer hunting barefoot, but that is slow. Otherwise old vellies or tekkies. Boots are loud.

[Treeman]

Unless you stalking bushbuck, hunting by bow in the forest it actually seldom matters if you make a bit of walking sound. Hunting with a rifle usually means you shooting further than footsteps travel.

[Ds J]

It means you mostly hunt by sight, and by limiting your own visibility to animals?

[big5ifty]

There used to be hunting boots made with soft soles for bowhunters.

It feels like you're wearing slippers, not boots, and there is a lot of tactile feedback through the sole, more than with takkies.

[Ds J]

One thing which bugged us as young hunters is how the local guides would somehow make a ruckus whilst walking, yet could also slip around like shadows when we came close to animals. Same person, same outfit, same day, but two different modes.

I started hunting by hearing a while back, when I out alone. Walk ten yards, stand ten seconds, repeat. It opens a whole new dimension of the field simply because one doesn't make noise.

[oafpatroll]

A mate of mine wears rock climbing shoes when hunting. Has a very thin, pliable and super grippy sole

[Treeman]

One thing which bugged us as young hunters is how the local guides would somehow make a ruckus whilst walking, yet could also slip around like shadows when we came close to animals. Same person, same outfit, same day, but two different modes.

I started hunting by hearing a while back, when I out alone. Walk ten yards, stand ten seconds, repeat. It opens a whole new dimension of the field simply because one doesn't make noise.

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 A bloke I know told me how many animals, especially hog and kudu he has found by listening. That got me more aware, it is actually surprising how much news  kudu especially make IF THEY do not know you are there. But like DsJ said the two modes the farm workers have, that same kudu just audibly disappears the split second it suspects anything.
Kudu in rocky areas have never heard of 'silent" Kudu in the kloofs often die because of the noise they make.   

[janfred]

I also get the idea that the shine off binocular lenses might be a danger sign to animals.

[Ds J]

What about "breaking the lines" ie - concealing the visible outer lines of the humam body?

My brother and I once did a test where I walked behind him, bent-over, with my head on his lower back. We walked over open field to 60m of a herd of eland.

Another time, my brother put in a guilie suit and stood still next to a dam. The animals smelled him, but stood next to him to drink.

[Tripodmvr]

any of you tried hunting by hiding behind an umbrella?

[Ds J]

any of you tried hunting by hiding behind an umbrella?

Pictures ... ?? 

[Tripodmvr]

I am trying to find a video or pictures. None so far. I think such a picture might have been in a Magnum of long ago.

[Tripodmvr]

Comment on Alaska Outdoors Supersite in 2009.

OK, watching TV and this guide is hunting buffalo behind a dark umbrella (actually dark purple) to use as cover to move across fields. Would this work on large game up north? Neat trick as they got real close to a herd. Maybe a camouflage umbrella would work better even?

[Tripodmvr]

BC Outdoors story.

I was fortunate to have co-invented an umbrella with a silhouette of different animals on it to help me get close. I had experimented with my umbrella invention and first covered a golf umbrella in white cloth. I used to walk up to herds of mule deer in open country and get as close as 50 yards before a single doe would take the whole herd away. Then I took a Montana decoy of a side-view deer and sewed it onto the white covered umbrella and, lo and behold, I was able to get within 30 yards or closer to the same herd, weeks later. My umbrella stuck in the ground and you could shoot over it or beside it. I had sold a few with some great testimonials of successful hunts using my umbrella, including a wheelchair-bound hunter who hunted off a quad and he used the umbrella decoy of an elk to hide the quad that he was sitting on and he successfully shot an elk off the ATV, calling the elk to 50 yards. I do know that decoys work well. You can check out my website for some videos of the umbrella in use.

[Treeman]

any of you tried hunting by hiding behind an umbrella?

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Dude, I have never posted about it because no one will believe you just how crazy well it works. I must take a pick of Cody my umbrella, we use it on fence lines. I took a old beach umbrella, used old paints thinned down to make a messy colour which a mashed all over it, it was then later just left on back of bakkie with dead animals and got all stained and dirty.
This umbrella has shot a 100 head of game, from jackal, lynx to kudu and springbuck. 
If we sleeping over at a hunt spot, we leave it at a BEST shoot, but hard to hide spot, sommer there in the middle of no where in the open till day 2 or 3 of hunt. Man its almost like cheating.