Boar hunting: limiting conflicts between teams is possible: the secret lies in the good knowledge of the territory which must be distributed fairly and taking into account many elements that are often underestimated.
Talking about boar hunting, one of the main problems is that of the conflict between the teams. The hunting areas are often poorly distributed, and not taking into account important elements. This disparity between territories assigned to one and the other team, as it is easy to imagine, is the reason for rather intense clashes that are to the detriment of the wild and the territory. Creating well thought-out subdivisions is not only possible but also essential for a good management of ungulates in the territories. On the other hand, the excessive presence of wild boars in the area is able to cause many problems for those who live and cultivate a few steps from the woods.
Few people know, but in optimal conditions the wild boar hardly leaves his habitat. The reasons that push him to do so are quite simple: although they prefer to eat acorns and chestnuts and all the products offered by the forest, these are not always available.
During the dry seasons, for example, the need drives the wild boar out of the woods, in search of food. The danger for the agricultural territories found in the area is easily understood. The smaller the wood is poor in food, the more frequent the raids of wild boars will be: this is an important element to take into consideration when proceeding with the allocation of hunting grounds.
How to divide hunting grounds between teams. Doing so is rather difficult and demanding, and the good distribution of the territories is essential for a good management of the presence of wild in the territory. The elements to be taken into consideration when dividing the territory are different:
• distance of the hunting areas from those areas commonly known as "reservoirs", ie the areas where the wild boars know they can take refuge as the hunter is not allowed to enter with the rifle in hand;
• size of the game bag that has historically been achieved in a specific area;
• numerical composition of each team;
• rotation times between the different hunting areas (referring to the rest times that each team will have to offer to the area in order for the wild boars to populate it again).
Taking all these elements into consideration, it is possible to create a small map of the entire surface made available to the hunt and then divide the territory between teams. The principle to be respected is simple: each team must have potentially the same hunting possibilities as the others. In this way the conflicts between groups can be canceled or at least limited.
Foraging. This is a technique that is not always allowed to try to attract wild boars out of those areas called reservoirs. In fact, wild boars, rather clever and suspicious, soon learn that when they come out of protected areas, they risk a lot, so hunters, to convince them to come out in the open, rely on the appetite of the wild: they place corn grains in the hunting areas that inevitably attract the wild boars. As mentioned, this is a technique commonly prohibited by local administrations for at least two reasons: it is generally believed that foraging is capable of inducing an increase in the productivity of wild boar populations and that sows subject to foraging are subject to double births. In general, these are simple rural legends: the fact that young wild boar are sighted both during autumn and winter rather than from a double birth is a situation caused by the displacement of the heat period of the young females.
If foraging were allowed (especially during hunting periods), the hunting of the game would be such as to make selection sampling completely useless during the closing periods of the hunt. Furthermore, the planned foraging would allow to limit conflicts between teams, which also find opportunities for discussion on this topic.
The parade. Even the many banned parrying techniques would perhaps be re-evaluated as an opportunity for clash between the different teams. Although it is necessary to continue banning the use of polluting chemicals, colored stripes and fire, the presence of the teams on the hunting ground a few hours before the opening proves less damaging. The presence of hunters in fact prevents the game from taking refuge in reservoirs, guaranteeing a good collection during the opening period of the hunt. This concession would render the selection levy practically useless.