Hunting in Russia

Here are my helpers

[img]file:///C:/Users/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9/Desktop/%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B8.mp4[/img]

Nice looking dogs. What animals do you hunt with them?

Nice looking habitat in that riparian habitat you have close to where you live.
Sure would like to hear from some of the hunts with those dogs.

I hunt marten with the dogs. and a badger.
tell me how to insert a video. there are many interesting videos

Hi KOSOI, to insert a video from YouTube, firstly hit share on the video and COPY TO CLIPBOARD. Then when you want to put video on here, hit the movie icon above and you will get options. Hit on youtube video. This will be displayed

[video:youtube][/video]

You then tap between the brackets, and paste the video in there like this

[video:youtube]https://youtu.be/FqxjDSLuLIk[/video ]

And that should be it

Nice looking dogs . Thank you for sharing the pictures .
Allan

without YouTube is it impossible? sorry

I don't think so, but I may be wrong. If you have google photo's, you can create a link to your video on there, and paste the link to here. People can then hit on link, and watch your video.

https://youtu.be/i8cOkJrrgYs

Thanks for posting the hunt with the dogs.

autumn 2020

https://youtu.be/jyfxjUDo1ms

https://youtu.be/fcy-DpyPVrk

Great video's and pictures. I think you have the same marten and badger that we have here in Ireland. We are not allowed hunt either of them here.

That badger was close to the dog..wow

try not to have the beaver laying with the castor pointing down or the juice flow out when squished.
Looks like a successful float trip.

What price does the castor go for when sold over there?

the last price for rollers is 22000 rubles for 1 kg

thank you for advice

That castor price comes out to be about $130/lb!!!!

My dog REALLY enjoyed your dog videos! He is still barking. My sleeping wife however is not a big fan of our dog right now.
I thoroughly enjoy seeing/reading about hunting and trapping in other countries. Thank you for posting.
In spite of our respective political leaders, we have very much in common, and knowing that makes me smile, and gives me hope for mankind.

Beavers are everywhere!

That badger is fast.

[i][/i]Hello everyone ! I checked the traps for the ice beaver today. set 5 traps.

Nice catches KOSOI. Do you sell the fur, and what kind if prices do you get for your beaver?

[i][/i]beaver fur price Russia | nobody needs. to the landfill.

Thanks for the thread KOSOI. Awesome!

Love that badger video!

I imagine that taking the castor makes it profitable to trap beaver? Russian buyers must be paying pretty good...?

Hello. can anyone answer the question? why traps are cheaper in Russia than in America https://k-prom.ru/katalog/kapkanyi/

Does not make any sense to me........

According to the price in the catalog you posed the link to in the above post:

Bridger 330 Magnum in Russia is 1016 Rubles which converts to US $13.49

Bridger 330 Magnum in Minnesota Trapline Products (MTP) website in US is $21.75 (MTP manufactures the Bridger line of traps)

My only thought is that perhaps dollars are worth much more than what the official exchange rate is. This was the way things were with the Cuban peso when I was in Havana many years ago.

Bridger traps are manufactured in Taiwan, and there is a higher importation tax on steel that comes from there.
So if they are shipped to a USSR distribution place therefor cheaper in the long run without a 30% duty paid on the steel.

So those 3 beaver in the picture what would the castor weigh from them ?
0.9 to 1 kilo?

I asked Tim about this and this was his reply...

"Sergey is a dealer of ours in Russia. He made a large purchase a couple years ago when prices and freight were much cheaper than today. Looking at his website most of his inventory is gone showing 0 in stock. The Bridger traps went right from Taiwan to him and actually got there cheaper than having them shipped here. We shipped the MB traps and the various accessories dye, wax, lure, from here in a container."

On January 3, I sold a batch of 2kg castor for 60,000 rubles

from these three beavers, I took 580 grams of castor oil.
the size of castor oil depends on the habitat. I caught these three in one pond. according to my observations in ponds (in stagnant water), there is less castor. but in the river, where there is a current there is much larger. I don’t know how to explain it yet.

Kosoi, I have observed the same thing for many years. Colony beaver that live with friendly other beavers have no need to mark their territory very much. But river beaver territory are often invaded by other beavers. These beaver spend more time marking their territory and tend to have larger castors. In lakes with colony beaver I average 7-8 beavers for one pound of dry castor. River beaver I average 4-5 beaver for one lb of castor.

This is a nice set of river castors taken a year or two ago.

If my understanding of the exchange rate with the ruble is correct you are getting about $175 USD for one lb of castor? Is that just dry castor as seen in the above picture or prepared castor?

Anyway, 60,000 rubles must make your very happy?! Yes?

Time to start selling the castoreum in Russia.
That is double what I get.

castor oil as in the picture.

Yes. great price for me

As Boco stated; that is nearly double what we are getting for our collections of semi-dry castoreum here. Great job!

Thanks for the explanation Kosoi on the castor.
Was wondering when I saw them laying down in the pond bank, we would never do that as it puts pressure on the sacs and juice comes out = liquid gold being pe-d away

Do you mind on explaining how yours is prepared to be sold.

After looking at google earth I can see why there is a few beaver with all the ox-bows along the river courses in your district.

I cook just like you. I hang it on a wire, turn it over for the first 3-4 days. then I dry for another 10-12 days. after that I put it in the freezer.

Kosoi, are castor prices going up now in Russia? Does the castor you sell go into the perfume trade or something else?

today was the last day of elk hunting.

Love your rifle ! Every Russian SKS I've handled had the most beautiful wood ! Wish I bout a few when they where cheap. Also did not know there where elk in Russia are they the similar to the ones we have here in America?

I got a bunch of sks-they are one tough gun.
The prices have gone thru the roof here in Canada now.

we now have SCS costs 300-400 $

What the SKS don't sell for 39$ plus the box of 200 rounds anymore.
Any sign of the winters meat supply with your elk-Alces alces or North American moose ?

did not understand your question a little?

He is asking if you saw tracks or sign of your "elk". (Also, I think he is saying that maybe what you call "elk" we may call moose here)?

What we call moose in north america.

A couple of my sks rifles.

we have exactly the same moose

yesterday we caught one elk.

We had a moose roast for supper.

/did you harvest an elk; later on you said you did

"when the wall fell," they were shipping lots of SKS rifles over here so for 400$ you got a shipping container with 10 rifles and 10 boxes of shells plus a small handling fee from a broker

the price of castor has now stopped at around 30,000r = for 1kg. I think that the price will hardly rise. I use 65-70% for a medicinal tincture, which is now very well bought. and I sell the remaining 30% to the same manufacturers of medicinal tinctures

Please tell us about the medicinal use of castor.

Floor ! There are a lot of indications for use. I had large surges in blood pressure. after I took two courses of tincture. I completely forgot about it. I can send links. They can be interested in reading them. I wonder why you haven’t heard about it.

Interesting. Did some research and found this. "Castoreum has also been used to treat headaches, which makes sense given that it contains salicylic acid, the main ingredient in aspirin."

Does that mean, it would also be good for blood clots?

It is used here for many things also- one is for treating wounds that wont heal (diabetic)

here at this link you can read about the healing properties of castor https://doctor-bober.ru/info/bobrovaya-struya-primenenie/

Ya ne govoryu po-russkie!

Google to the rescue

took it from the smoker yesterday. smoked beaver legs.. very tasty.

Today I cooked kobaski for the grill from beaver meat.

Those smoked beaver legs look very good. What are the spices on it?

What do you add to the beaver meat to make your kobaski? Do you smoke that also?

Paul ! I donate fresh beaver legs to the smoke shop. where they are salted and smoked. for everything I pay 65 r for 1kg. I don’t know about spices.
cumin, coriander, pepper, garlic, basil and salt are added to the sausage. just fry on the grill.

if someone wants to make grilled sausages from beaver meat. I can give you a step by step recipe.

Please post the step by step recipe.

I am enjoying your posts. Thank you for sharing with us.

Start that on another thread the "making of castor sausage kielbasa
augh my bad only Polish know it as such
and Ukrainians as Kovbusa and those Albertians just say pass the bun with a kubie on it and a vodka chaser to follow
Hold the coffee till morning please

Beaver meat should be soaked in water for 12 hours. Then separate from the bone. for 3 kg of beaver meat, you need to add 500 grams of lard (fat). Twist all this in a meat grinder on a large grate. Then add spices: 1.5 teaspoons of cumin, 1.5 teaspoons of coriander, 1.5 teaspoons of basil, 2 teaspoons of crushed black pepper, 100 grams of chopped garlic, 60 grams of salt. Then mix everything well. Leave in the refrigerator for 10-12 hours for minced meat to ripen. After stuffing into the shell (I use natural lamb intestine, 38 mm in diameter).

sorry for my English
If something is not clear, please ask.

Your English is fine! What kind of fat to you use?

pork fat

subcutaneous

Very interesting thread!

Thanks for the recipe Kosoi.

Yes, thank you for the recipe. I will try that.

[i][/i]Today was a great hunt, we got a wild boar weighing 105 kg

The snow is now more than 1 m

235 lbs is a good size hog. Congratulations!

One forgets how much hair is on those hogs, till we see a picture like that one.

So the dressed out meat from that would yield 40 kg ?

about 50

At our farm my grandparent had a hair comb made with the stiff bristles from hogs, always remember the morning bush before out to do chores.

How old do you expect that animal to be ?

i think 3 years

Nice Boar Kosoi.We do not have them here in North eastern Ontario.
They must use trails when the snow gets to be a Meter deep?
Have you tried snaring them?

Yes. wild boars now move only along paths, so it’s easier for them. No, I didn't try to tame.

Congratulations on your boar ! We have them here too ! According to some of the biologists our have alot of Russian genes . We generally shoot them at night or hunt them with dogs in my area as they are a big pest and very destructive to the cattle grazing areas. How to you hunt them over there ? Whata your favorite rifle and bullet for them ?

We hunt wild boar with our huskies. my favorite rifle is the SKS. expansive bullet

Here is one of my dogs. March 2021. regional show of hunting dogs. West Siberian husky nickname ( Nyurka). took first place at the show.

Nice looking dog Kosoi.

Robert ! For technical reasons, I again cannot write you a private message. start the conversation first.

It will be interesting to see the meat come back from the butchers from that hog.
In winter time her they move to the black spruce forest and eat the sphagnum moss well down below the ground till they have a 2 meter deep hole. What habitat do they move in the winter in your area Kosoi

You have hogs in Manitoba?

The hogs that were around me for several years escaped from a farm raising them to ship to Germany for the restaurant trade. During the spring flood of 97 about 200 swam over the fences.and the zoo chase was on then. That group lasted at least 10 years in the wild. There are pockets still around. Some of the bear hunting baiting up north the clients just shoot hogs and pass-up the bears so they can keep at it.
Some family groups have lived inside round bails and never ventured out when -30c. To say the least the farmers are not pleased to find 30 bales all chewed up

I don't understand the question a little bit ?
The game that we harvest we cut up ourselves.
In winter, wild boars migrate to the swamps, where they feed on the roots of reeds.

Spring and fall they are in the marshes digging up the cattail tubers. At one spot they dug overnight a 10X 30 meter area and ate every tuber there. Fall storms cover the marsh and ice is sometimes 15cm thick over the cattails so food was limited access. One biologist tracked them 65 km after a morning snow fall one spring morning from wintering to summer spots, but they returned to the winter black spruce forest. He never did catch up to them or did he ever push them. With all the fences he had to go around he did travel 175 km so the 65 was when mapped out.
The province put some trackers on raised hogs and released them to mix with the wild. Took two days for them to meet and get going. The group did move great distances sometimes 50 km was nothing.

My misunderstand about the butchering.

We bring the animal to the hunting base, and there we carve the carcass ourselves.

There are herds of wild boars with 60-80 heads.

Very interesting thank you for sharing this with us . That's a nice size hog !

That number of animals must do a lot of damage when they get into agricultural fields.
So are there 3-4 litters a year with 8 piglets ?
So of the southern guys do it for a living chasing hogs. GPS trackers on one and find where they are going for a little night time thermal shooting.
ps the one tracker that was used was put on the doorway at the DNR office, the seconds one was shot @ close range mmmmm poor sportsmanship at it's finest

Today we went marten hunting with the dogs. this is what it looks like.
https://youtu.be/gAv_OXoSYg8
https://youtu.be/AEfZCP2yMS4
https://youtu.be/teD8aaDTTnQ
The dogs found two martens today.

nice viewing of the clips
sure shows the dexterity of them travelling in the trees
and read what your dog is smelling
many a raccoon hunter can say the same as when they take 10 out of a building , but the dog keeps on going back !

I hunted wild boar again today. the weight was 118 kg.

That looks like one tired and happy dog. Congratulations Kosoi.

Congratulations on a great looking boar !

That's a fine looking dog too !

Super neat thread and thanks for sharing.

Just to bring this back to show what Kosoi has contributed to this forum

As you can see Jurrasic he has dogs and ruffed grouse or his Hazel grouse drum in the spring so it's a sound/ dog tracking exercises.
Hope you show some of your recent hunts birds taken Kosoi

I like the working dogs!

Kosoi, Do your dogs hunt by scent or sight? I see they tree but move around a bit.