Driver (hunting)
Drivers are assistants in the hunt who drive the game out of cover and in the direction of the waiting hunters during movement hunts . They are usually supported by dogs.
Equipment and behavior
Drivers are usually unarmed. There are exceptions for field strips and kettle drifts . Walk-through or driver shooters with a hunting license may carry unloaded firearms with them for self-protection, the catch shot and for the shot at game set by the dog. These may only be loaded when the individual case is available. This exception rule is often used by dog handlers.
The drivers are often equipped with wooden sticks. By shouting and knocking on bushes and tree trunks, they try to get the game moving. When hunting through thorny thickets and in adverse weather, your clothing must be tear-resistant and waterproof. Wearing high visibility clothing , mostly signal vests , is mandatory in Germany for safety reasons. It is incumbent on the experienced top drivers to hold the driver defense together and to lead it. When driving a boiler , every driver must know at least three hunting signals : start of driving, driver into the boiler and rooster at rest.
As Scouts are jokingly-deprecatingly refers to those drivers that is always a way around the thicket around instead choose through them and do not fulfill their task so.
During the bowl drives that take place after some hunts, the hunters often collect driver money in order to invite the drivers to eat and drink.
literature
- Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : Knaurs Großes Jagdlexikon , Augsburg 2000, keyword: "Driver", ISBN 3-8289-1579-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ "When riflemen are actively hunting ...", Heiko Granzin , accessed on January 8, 2019
- ↑ Current information on safety and health protection (hunting) , accessed on January 8, 2019