"Tracking hunting dogs with GPS" "wild boar disassembling in less than 10 minutes", wild boar hunting coverage reporter with skilled hunter

Starting nationwide, a hunting season will be held beginning on November 15 every year, except for some areas, where trapping of hunting birds and beasts is permitted. Since I had the opportunity to participate in a gathering of skillful hunters who are doing wild boar hunting at the mountain in Fukui Prefecture when they come to hunt, I have been hunting for decades and when there are more than 70 heads in one hunting season I've been closely wondering how professional hunters who have sometimes detained wild boars are hunting for the whole day on the day when the hunting season is lifted.

A group of hunters in Fukui prefecture,Tear festivalThe owner of Osaka's "Takatsuki International Shooting Range" where Osaka was held, and Mr. Hiroshi Teranishi who is also a guiding director of the Olympic clay shooter as a coach. I have a dormitory at the foot of the mountain in Fukui Prefecture, and every year hunters gather from all over Japan and are doing wild boar. In addition, Mr. Teranishi accepts students and bunny hunter tour as well as the development of the next generation who is interested in hunting, and every year there are many people visiting the dormitory.

◆ Hunter Equipment
When arriving at the dormitory on the 14th November which is the day before the hunting release date, a lot of radio was charged at the window. As wild boar hunting is done by multiple people, collaboration with fellows who are away is important. Before using the radio, it seems that they decided to signal such as "blowing a bamboo flute", but in recent years hunting equipment is also in the process of high tech, the distance that the radio does not reach is in contact with the mobile phone And that.


In addition, the mystery equipment was charged in large quantities at the entrance. This is a "collar with GPS" attached to a hunting dog, you can check your current location by hunting a hunting dog in the mountain. However, when the hunting dog had gone to the underpass, the GPS could not transmit the position information well, and there was also a fuss that "There is a dog on the sea."


Mr. Teranishi also showed me what equipment I always wear when I go hunting. If I think whether to put bullets in the pouch, I'm going to put something to eat while walking.


The knives were attached to be positioned on the left side of the waist.


Although the editorial staff who visits the interview have a hunting license, they do not have permission to possess a hunting gun, so the accompanying wild boar hunting is supposed to be done in the same flow as the students come to visit. As a rule, it was told to strictly observe that "It will never come out before the hunter that comes with" and "I will stop myself as soon as the hunter stops." The hunter who is going to hunt this time is two people including Mr. Teranishi, both of whom are in their 70s, but have a tremendous physical strength so that they can not follow the tour students.

I went to see the baby who caught the trap
Although it was unfortunately rain the next morning, because there was information that the wild boar kid was hanging in the box trap, before going out for hunting I decided to go to see if the parent wild boar was coming close. The state of child boar actually hanging on trap can be seen from the following GoPro movie.

Three Buddies, Bringing Poison on the Box Trash, Are They Coming? - YouTube


So, I will go into the mountain with the aim of setting the snare's place. When hunting it is basically to wear bright clothes at a glance to understand humans, and both hunters were wearing an orange jacket in the mountains.


Hunter guns who are running firearms in Miyagi prefecture and participating in wild boars every year for over 20 years in Fukui Prefecture are like this.


Walking along the mountain path for a while, I arrived at the installation place of the snare. Before approaching the trap, the hunter went to examine the parent wild boar, but at this time there were no signs of being coming near. Uribo ran around hard in the trap as human beings approached.


◆ Wild boar hunting with a hound dog with GPS is like this
Hunting dogs are essential for wild boar hunting, and as long as there are good hound dogs the capture rate of boar will increase accordingly. A hound dog on the mountain is trained to stop breezing when it finds a wild boar and it is the theory that a man rushes and gets in a gun while a dog stops so as not to escape the wild boar.

You can actually see how walking around mountain paths with hound dogs is seen in the following movies taken with GoPro.

I tried running around the mountain looking for a wild boar with a hunting dog with GPS - YouTube


With a GPS attached collar attached to a hound dog like this, it has a transmitter and an antenna. Below are the young hound dogs who have never been hunted, but they can get used to mountains without losing sight by GPS.


The following two are experienced hounds who have been hunting for many years. We have a collar with GPS that emit different signals.


This is the receiver, and the set GPS position is displayed on the map. By switching the display, it is also possible to list all the GPS directions and the distance from the current location in meters. Although the GPS has been shown for a while, when the GPS approaches the present location actually, a hound dog appears from the direction the receiver displays, and the accuracy is high.


While confirming the location of the hound dog, I will push through a pretty steep mountain road. Hunters and hound dogs can no doubt convinced that there are students who can not keep up with the simple slopes and roads without roads which are no longer beyond the beast way.


In addition, you can see the movie that understands what kind of mountain road you walked by triple speed from the following.

GoPro Movie - Understanding How Rushing Wild Boar Picking Up Wild Boar - YouTube


When I was walking on the mountain path, I found stumps full of holes, whether they are traces of shots.


I also encountered a mysterious puddle around the top of the mountain, but when I asked, this was the place for wild boar called "naita" to get rid of mud and parasites. However, it is not used so much from the eyes of Hunter, so it seems that there is no wild boar near. Maybe because it rained on this day after all, because wild boars lurk in deep mountains this year, not much traces of animals are found too much. As the rain became quite strong, I decided to collect and hoist the hound dog.


Even when on the way back, the hunter got off the car and gazed staring at the dumpling road and checked if there was any sign of wild boar towards hunting after the next day. I did not quite know where he was looking at ....


It showed footprints of the wild boar who came to vandalize the field as follows. Furthermore, judging that it is "not a few days" from the state of solidification of soil, I was amazed that the wild boar's movement was reading just by looking at one footprint by experience gained through hunting for many years.


Demolition of wild boar
Although I was told that "There is absolutely no hunting", but I was sorry that I could not find a wild boar, as Mr. Teranishi's hunter group sent a message saying "I got a wild boar and I want you to help me dismantle", and a wild boar I decided to go to pick up.

The wild boar that the hunter of gunning detained. The big boar may be close to 200 kg, but the wild boar that was captured this time is the second year wild boar called "Furuko" and Furuko is the most suitable for edible.


So, since we already finished "bleeding" which we do after capture, we have to take them to the water field and show us the procedure to remove the internal organs.


In addition, you can see the movie that shot until the internal organs are removed by disassembling the boar. People who are not good at grotesque images are browsing attention.

Where skilled hunters dismantle wild boars and take out internal organs - YouTube


Although the movie was edited in about seven minutes, the time taken to actually disassemble is only 10 minutes or less, and the processing is completed in a blink of an eye. After that, it was just a matter of carving as meat.


When dismantling, the kettle which gathered the odor has gathered, and I realized that animals breathed out in nature are also food for another animal ....


The wild boar that pierced the internal organs is suspended from the tent in the garden of the dormitory, and the wild boars that are detained are likely to be discretaged and judged.


So, because the interview was scheduled only for one day, we can not witness the moment of actually actually taking the wild boar this time. Although it got to know the severity of "hunting does not go as planned", the hunting season is until March 15th. It is said that when January - February snow is piled up in the mountains of Fukui prefecture, it becomes easier to track the wild boar. Next time we will post a report to re-challenge the boar hunting in the snow.