Search
As Nachsuche (also welding work or track work ) is in the hunting not auffindbarem searching and detection and optionally also killing (killing) of previously directly injured or dead Wild referred to. Particularly in the case of foreseeable difficult searches, special search teams consisting of search or dog handlers and a hunting dog are used. Goal game retrieval is to preserve both injured wild before long suffering and expeditiously to route to bring, or already have died in, but to salvage difficult aufzufindendes Wild quickly to the game to keep from spoiling.
Search for dead and alive
Without any further legal basis, a distinction is made between search for dead and alive. When searching for dead, the shooter assumes a fatal shot by observing the gunshot and stalking signals , even if the game being shot at is still fleeing. These mostly simple and short searches for death differ from the often time-consuming and demanding search for life, in which the shooter suspects from the outset that the game was not immediately fatally hit. When searching for live, the team (dog handler with dog) may have to pursue the game for days. Every useful hunting dog is able to successfully cope with simple searches (maximum 400 m). Each district tenant is obliged to provide a usable dog for his hunting district , e.g. B. in § 28 of the Hessian Hunting Act . If it can be seen that a more difficult search (more than 400 m with possible baiting) is present, grazing justice demands that a search specialist be used to ensure success.
Game that was involved in traffic accidents and who fled out of sight after the collision must also be searched for. Failure to search for the game, or failure to report the game accident promptly to the responsible forest ranger, the responsible hunting tenant or the responsible police station, constitutes a violation of animal welfare law , as the injured game can still wither for days and weeks after the accident if the search is not carried out has to suffer unnecessarily long. Game injured or killed in traffic may not be placed on the market.
execution
The search can be carried out by any competent hunter with a usable dog. The Anschuss (place where the deer was hit) or the accident site and the alleged escape route of the game may be also expired in any case, because by the Represented barely visible to the human eye game characters ( Jägersprache for tracks, hair, fur, Blood, bone and tissue findings) the search can be made impossible or extremely difficult. Even after alleged missed shots, the shot of the game must be thoroughly examined in order to decide whether a search needs to be carried out.
The specialists for searching are the sweat dogs , but the German Shorthaired Pointer and other hunting dogs are trained for this (sweat test). During the search, the dog is able to distinguish the individual track of the injured game from crossing, fresher tracks and tracks of other game and also resists the temptation to change to a fresh track, although this could be more attractive for the dog as a so-called seductive track.
Before starting the search, the stalking signs at the connection or at the scene of the accident must be examined and secured. If a fatal injury is assumed based on the stalking signs (for example with involvement of the heart or lungs), a search will be made immediately so that the game does not spoil. If an injury that is not immediately fatal is assumed, the search will be started after a waiting period of a few hours. In the waiting time the wild animals can reduce their adrenaline . This prevents it from becoming volatile while under the influence of adrenaline and having to be followed over long distances. A search is always carried out on the welding leash. This is several meters long and is now often made of flexible, luminous material. A special form of searching can take place in rough terrain, e.g. B. in the mountains. To do this, the dog must be leashed ( strapped ) and be able to show the hunter found game. He can indicate this audibly by barking or as a reminder. The bringsel hangs on the collar and is caught by the dog when it has found it and brought to the hunter. A Nachsuche is in the worst case to a baiting lead when the sick game of the dog is volatile. A trained dog should, however, chase the game loudly and stop it until the searcher can fire a shot or catch it with an edged weapon .
When searching for game that has been shot sick or seriously ill and is moving to a foreign hunting district, the search can only be continued if a written agreement on the pursuit of game has been concluded with the person authorized to hunt in this hunting district , as otherwise the allegation of poaching could be made. Today it is customary for recognized searchers to be able to carry out cross-district searches immediately on a legal basis.
tradition
It is customary and always desirable that the hunter who caused the search and has it carried out is present during the search. The killing of the wounded ("sick") game is reserved to the dog handler who, when using a firearm ( catching shot ) or a knife ( interception ), must also ensure that his dog is not harmed.
It is a hunting custom that the dog handler gives the hunter the hunter's break , of which the hunter in turn sticks part of the successful dog under the collar ("neck") in order to honor him.
literature
- Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : Knaur's large hunting dictionary . Augsburg 2000, p. 556, ISBN 3-8289-1579-5 .
- Stefan Mayer, Hubert Kapp: Shot and hit: The professional tips from the Southern Black Forest welding dog station . 1st edition. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-440-15402-1 .
Web links
- JF002 Hoofed Game Hunt podcast about the scavenging work
Individual evidence
- ↑ Search. In: Duden. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Stefan Mayer, Hubert Kapp: Shot and shot: The professional tips from the Southern Black Forest welding dog station . 1st edition. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-440-15402-1 , Nachsuche and Hatz.
- ↑ § 28 HJagdG - Hunting dog keeping (1) For search, driven and driven hunts, for every type of hunt for water game as well as for every search, usable hunting dogs are to be used. (2) The hunting authority may oblige those who are authorized to hunt to keep a hunting dog that can be used for hunting purposes, unless they can prove that they are regularly available to other dog owners who can use them. (3) Outside pacified areas, the training of hunting dogs by hunting license holders with regard to use, usability and breeding tests as well as taking the test is considered to be hunting practice; they require the permission of the person authorized to hunt.
- ^ Ante-mortem and meat inspection
- ↑ Organized breeding and testing. In: deutsch-kurzhaar.de. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
