The Italian Wood Pigeon Club has drawn up a new specification for the construction of fixed posts for hunting wood pigeons with the use of live calls.
In recent days, the Italian Wood Pigeon Club has drawn up a new document aimed at regulating, according to the most ancient tradition, the construction of fixed positions for wood pigeon hunting with the use of live calls.
Disciplinary for the construction of fixed posts for wood pigeon hunting with the use of live calls.
RECITALS
The Italian Wood Pigeon Club deals with the management and safeguarding of wood pigeon hunting carried out in a traditional way. This Disciplinary defines the regulations relating to the aspects of the construction of fixed postings and the use of live calls for the exercise of this ancient hunting practice.
Art 1
Definition of fixed post for hunting wood pigeons with the use of live calls
• The fixed hunting post for wood pigeons with the use of live calls consists of a main hut usually placed on the ground or on trees or artificial trellis and has complementary huts included in a radius of not less than fifty meters from the main one. .
• The height of the huts must not exceed the leafy limit of the trees.
• The post, respecting local traditions, must have adequate distances from other postings.
Art 2
Fixed positions are subject to authorization by the relevant bodies.
Art 3
The authorization for fixed stalking is personal and valid until the holder renounces.
Art 4
• In the immediate vicinity of the fixed posts, during the period of their use, it is not possible to practice wandering and migratory hunting.
• The prohibition referred to in paragraph 1 is effective in the presence of tables placed by the holder of the posting.
• Holders of permanent stalking authorization and hunters authorized by him to use the same, can proceed to the recovery of injured animals with the use of guns and dogs in the vicinity of the huts.
Art 5
Use of calls in stalking.
• Domestic pigeons and wood pigeons (Columba Palumbus) can be used in fixed positions for wood pigeon hunting with live calls.
• Live decoys are also used with traditional systems and equipment.
• Farmed birds can remain in the maintenance aviaries, possibly present inside the plant, even at night.
Art 6
Construction of the wood pigeon hunting plant with live calls
• An integral part of the posting is a hut on the ground used for the shelter of tools and to live the conviviality among the hunters.
• The plant intended for hunting wood pigeons with live calls is established in accordance with the provisions of Art. 1 of these Regulations.
• The owner, in the construction of the plant and the sheds, can carry out pruning suitable for the branches of the trees.
Drafted in Arezzo, September 8, 2012, on the synthesis of the deeds, publications and manuscripts existing from 1800 to the present day.
The National Board of the Italian Pigeon Club