With the onset of autumn, hunters with wearing safety vest began to play the main hunting season. Common hunts, especially for small game, are held in the region from the beginning of November until the end of the year, practically every weekend. Many are planning to visit police to check compliance. But the hunters themselves are also careful about the rules. More and more emphasis is placed on their own safety.
Police officers in Wallachia have checked three hunts this year, another sixteen checks are scheduled. In the whole region, they visited twelve hunts, checking to plan sixty-five.
Wherever they are hunted, men have a very good overview of the law. “All hunts, usually common to small game, such as hares and pheasants, have to report to the police in advance,” explained Michal, head of the Stein District Hunting Association.
Police officers control weapons and alcohol
The hunters do not intend to hunt the public in particular. It is a fact that a specific place is specified operationally in the morning before the hunt, in addition to the hunt is issued local hunters. In a given village, people usually know that the hunt takes place.
Police in reflective jacket checks take place mostly at the start of a hunt, but the patrol can be hunted at any time during the hunt. “They check weapons licenses, hunting and weapons documents, and whether the weapons they use correspond to those documents. And of course he is also interested in whether any of the hunters has drunken alcohol, “said Dubcek.
He did not deny that in the past sometimes some of the jigsaws appeared on the horns. With the increasing number of controls, alcohol has disappeared from the hunts. “Certainly, at least the last fifteen, twenty years, no one will let the hunt drink or consciously come drunk,” he convinced the chairman of the hunters.
The reason is that the violation of the regulations threatens the immediate loss of the firearms license for five years. The firearms license can also come to hunters for offenses they commit in everyday life and which are not related to hunting.
Hunters have also put more emphasis on the safety of honeys in recent years. They are increasingly using reflexes on clothing. “In the world, in North America and Canada, it has been happening for several years,” said Michal.
Even in our lands, it is the rule that all hunters who are in the hood have reflective vests or jackets. Most hunters on habitats have reflexive hats, reflective crinkles, or scarves. “There is no law to us yet. We do it for our own safety, “said Dubcek.
There is no wonder. In the case of small game hunters, the hunters are burning with shotguns, and then there is not much risk. “The shotgun has an effective range of forty meters, the shotgun range is within a hundred and fifty meters,” Dubcek said.
The ball guns target wildlife hunters from a distance of fifty to two hundred meters. “But the deadly effect has a bullet across the flight path, which is five kilometers,” the hunter said.
According to him, cases of someone being shot are rare. Maybe every two years. “There are a hundred thousand hunters in the republic. If every year we burn fifty wounds on average, we can easily calculate the number of shots, “said Dubcek.” The number of wounds that fall in the hunts is the minimum number of injuries. “Nobody is infallible, but compared to road traffic we need to admit that the car is a much worse weapon, but I do not want to apologize, “the hunter assured.
The police statistics are also in favor of hunters. Last year, for example, police officers in the county did not notice a single injury. “We did not find any misdemeanor. Probably due to frequent and regular checks, they are free of hardship, “said regional police spokesman Lena.
