When ancient hunters, descendants of North American Indians, have entered on the fertile earths of Kamchatka, they didn’t have a survival problem in this novel wonderful country. On a land - bears, a sable, an ermine, a mink, on the sea - калан, walruses and whales were found in such quantity that sufficed to eat to satiety, to sew warm kuhlyanky, to warm and shine ярангу, to sheathe a skin a boat, to receive medical treatment the bear fat and to exchange for furs a heap of the necessary goods.

Kamchatka would be a real paradise for successful hunters, able to send a harpoon, a throwing stone or an arrow impregnated with poison аконита is exact in the purpose, if not a local changeable climate, when "half a year bad weather, half a year – absolutely anywhere". Rains and fogs, low dense overcast, short summer, and that in the autumn, in September-October - the main hindrance for the field man. But "weather doesn’t hold the hunter", and came back from woods and tundra itelmens (kamchadaly), and sea zveroboy – Aleuts to the centers with considerable extraction.

Development of Kamchatka has opened road not only to scientists-researchers, but also masters of an animal craft, which went here for the beaver (so named kalana), sables, an ermine, "walrusing tooth".

Brown bear
The basic extraction of trade, sports and trophy hunting on Kamchatka always was and there is a brown bear. In spite of the fact that here it is a lot of these Kamchatka old residents, the big loss is put to them by illegal hunting because of the bear bile, invaluable raw materials in traditional east medicine. Catch loops, shoot from helicopters, cross-country vehicles and snowmobiles of the largest animals and especially in the spring that leads to their degeneration.

Now on Kamchatka - 150-200kg, weight to 400kg to meet weight of an average bear the big rarity, and 600-kilogram – only in tall stories on a halt. The Kamchatka bear is strong, hardy, the fine swimmer, quickly runs (can catch up with a horse), but peaceful, careless and vulnerable, therefore hunting for it is limited and strictly licensed.

In the spring the hunting season lasts from April, 25th till May, 15th at the western coast and from May, 1st till May, 25th – on east. Animal traces search on snowmobiles with the skilled huntsman in tundra, forest-tundra on hills, поросших a birch forest, in foothills of Central range, passing on foot or on skis sometimes tens kilometers.

In the autumn the hunting season shares on two stages: the first - hunting for the rivers (on August, 20th - on September, 10th), the second – in places of a good harvest of a pine nut and a mountain ash (on September, 10th-15 October). In the autumn of an animal it is more difficult to track down in dense woods, but, rafting on the large river, it is possible to find the whole group of bears on a plait. Hunting on «privade» when the bait in the form of the hole filled with fish and driven stakes, settles down near to a reservoir is sometimes spent.

Snow ram

The snow ram, толсторог, meets in hills, sometimes on rocks of east coast, and its capture, as any mountain hunting, on a shoulder hardy and strong. The hunting camp settles down in area where the group of in advance reconnoitered animals is noticed, at height 700-1200м above sea level and consists of several windfirm tents.

The best time – August as on September, 5-6th in mountains snow already drops out that considerably complicates hunting.

In northern part of peninsula hunt on a koryak snow ram where sometimes it is possible to extract a copy with length of horns 85cm and more. Hunting license with annual shooting of 40-50 goals.

The Kamchatka elk
In 70th years of the last century of 50 elks from Chukotka by helicopters have thrown in a wood valley of the river Kamchatka where they have quickly got accustomed, have increased the livestock to 2000 and became object of trade and trophy hunting. Scope of horns of separate trophies makes 140-160см.

Hunt on сохатого from the middle of September prior to the beginning of December in a river Kamchatka valley, sometimes in northern areas of peninsula скрадыванием «on a roar», on a trace and a shelter. In the winter animal capture is at a loss because of strong frosts and almost meter snow cover.

Sable
The most valuable fur small animal on peninsula with the beautiful it is light or dark brown fur, it is fast, well swarms up trees. On Kamchatka it lives everywhere, except for Commander Islands.

Basically, on a sable hunt from the approach with husky which possesses exclusive hearing, a fine feeling, an acute eyesight and the hunting passion. Husky usually drives a sable to a tree where it or is got by a bullet of the hunter, or it is hammered into a hollow, whence it then "smoke".

In the winter husky tracks down a small animal under a snow-covered windbreak where the sable hunts on mice. The season of hunting from November, 1st till January, 1st, under the license, is annually extracted 7-9 thousand sables.

Stone wood-grouse
The inhabitant of thickets of a stone birch, much more small the ordinary. In the winter stone wood-grouses keep on hills where are fed with birch kidneys. Bury during snow in the afternoon, and to vacation spot go on foot, leaving traces on which they are found out by the hunter and conducts shooting "on hollow".

In the spring extraction of a wood-grouse goes at night or at sunrise when "on a current" he raises the song, without losing ability all to hear and see. Hunting "on a current" – emotional and fascinating employment though demands endurance and patience.
Hunting season – from April, 25th till May, 25th.

How much a horn, hoofs, a skin?
Cost of a package of the hunting services develops from meetings/wires at the airport, deliveries to helicopter base, transfers to the hunting camp, residing, a food, fee of the huntsman, the cook, 1 trophy and the veterinary certificate.

Now without the license for Kamchatka it is possible to extract a fox, the American mink, the squirrel, a glutton, an ermine, a lynx. If there is a permission (the hunting permit), some days of good weather and it is a little good luck, kind hunting to you is provided.

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