Meow! Give melons!
Amazing cat lived in the house of the writer Valentin Rybin. Cat - Gourmet, a cat - a vegetarian! In summer, do not feed him meat. From sausage turns on sausages fyrchit. Of Mice and can not speak. He simply did not notice.Photo by Anton Zhuravkova Potapov summer and autumn love… melon! AND that was sweet, with aroma.— Where do such an unusual cat affection? — I was curious.The owner looked at me sly squint.— When Potapov was a kitten, I I gave him a slice of melon. I became curious: will — not take? Read more [...]
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Beware of ticks!
Tick borne encephalitis – dangerous infectious diseases, infection which is confined to a particular season of the year. Once the disease is called spring-summer encephalitis, which in itself makes it clear that they are infected people in spring or early summer. Despite the name, you can become infected and in late summer – early autumn. Tick-borne encephalitis refers to a group of so-called natural focal diseases which in nature, there are hundreds. These are areas where circulates a pathogen called natural foci.Academician EN Pawlowski noted that natural foci of disease, Read more [...]
Their most terrible beast
Subject taiga fears inexhaustible. The real and imaginary dangers in the forest a lot, but what's the worst thing I have, in spite of its already considerable experience, I can not answer, because everyone has his own fear. And he can be very unexpected. Photo SHUTTERSTOCK.COM That was long ago, when the country built the BAM, and I'm in its working areas hunters ohotustroitelnoy expedition. AT North Baikal fate made me a present, brought to this taiga hunter Ivan Reent. They in his 59 years remained «light on leg» and not only strong, Read more [...]
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Steel, lead and windbag
fotolia.com Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends hunters! You article «Again on the steel and lead» at «HORN» Mr. I. Arbuzov read? Carefully read? Personally, I have formed the opinion that the author was obviously not himself, for mixed everything that could be confused.We begin with the speed «different numbers of lead shot with the same initial velocity – 275 m / s». Where another 100 m / s happened? All tables referred to by the author, come from V = 375 m / s.Read more: «According to these tables lead shot has a speed of 200 Read more [...]
Seydi and labyrinths on the White Sea islands
The story that I want to tell, began almost forty years agoIn August 1969, heading from Kem to the Solovetsky Islands, I and my companions decided to visit Archipelago Body, located halfway between the Karelian coast and Solovki. These islands in those years were still little known to travelers. Help us in upcoming trip offered a local resident, the owner of a small boat with a rowing boat on the "trailer". With him, we met on the beach, at the place of departure Solovki courts.Looking Glass body, or open unusual worldEarly the next morning we hit the road. Pre-purchased products seized the jar Read more [...]
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Save Utrish
Unique relict juniper-pistachio forest on the Black Sea coast is on the verge of death. It has almost no protection.The management reserve "Big Utrish" disbanded 13 years ago. In 2007, it disbanded and Anapa forestry. Very frequent poaching, felling, forest fires, attempted unlawful taking of forest lands.Part of the reserve land is leased to private firms the administration of Anapa. In November 2007, a road was built in the Lake Serpentine, relict trees uprooted. In December 2008, large-scale deforestation began in the depths of the forest, to pave the way through the center of the reserve to Read more [...]
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Annals of Russian hunting books
The presented in the publication of books should highlight the 1st edition of "Hunting calendar" LP Sabaneev remaining to this day a reference book of Russian hunters, and the classic work by VV Greener "Rifle". Interestingly, in 1880, a member of the Press Council and the Ministry of Interior in fact Russia has been the main censor VM Lazarev, a passionate hunter, a close friend of the poet NA Nekrasov and author of a remarkable monograph on the wolf (№ 86 «Chronicle»). 112. Sabaneyev LP Hunting calendar. The two parts 382 Fig. Award of the magazine "Nature and Hunting" Read more [...]
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Hazardous inhabitants of the sea
Continuing the conversation about sharks focus on precautionary measures when confronted with them in the provision of first aid, as well as a look at some other sea fish, from which may pose a risk to humans. Any attack sharks dangerous to humans. Sharks cause severe lacerations, which results in heavy bleeding, pain shock, loss of consciousness. The tough skin of a shark looks like coarse sandpaper and can severely injure the skin.The main problems that arise when administering first aid to the victim. It stops bleeding and painful struggle with shock. The solution of these Read more [...]
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On draft from Kasyan
I walk for Kasyanov, who occasionally glanced at his portly, slightly hunched figure, tired gait of a person's life. I am admiring spring landscape. It has been too many years since I was here the first time, but the craving and love for Polesie still alive in me. How many times I was carried away here in my dreams many times seen in his imagination, and the forest with birch on the selvages, and the dirt road extending to the eel, the last year covered matted grass. And it's great that finally broke out of the world around you barricade, rallies on the Maidan, chatty parliamentary Read more [...]
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With crank bait fish and pike on autumn
Suddenly, a bright and moderately warm autumn day on the waneFresh water cools flushed coast. Judging by biting bursts of water and rustling reed stalks Pike sensed the sudden heat in the height of the golden autumn and left for the evening hunt. Carefully delirium in the bog along the coast with spinning, hoping for a quick capture of the toothy predators.SHALLOW WATERTackle I throw away, the closest omutok oblavlivaya first, and then the open spaces of the reach and the surrounding overgrown stranded. Lake in the fall is usually thicker than water is clean and transparent, the light penetrates Read more [...]
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Again, not that …
Black trail that year lasted almost until the New Year. No, I say that it was warm, it is impossible. Frozen ground, here and there compacted concrete hardness wind up scraps of snow in different sizes ... The game management areas are called wind snow board, while the archaeologist, historian and writer Lev Gumilyov I read still very expressive: the formation of "aeolian origin." Here's how! Photo by Alexander Lebedev But whatever It has been calculated in such a situation, see the following hare or someone has not worth. There has to be guided by the guidelines Read more [...]
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Women fishing
Hunting and fishing - a purely male Historically, in the minds of men it turned out that he was the head of the family and breadwinner earner. The women were the guardians of the hearth, and engaged in gathering edible fruits, roots and herbs. After the millennium, much has changed: women on equal terms participate in the social, labor and political life.For most people fishing and hunting ceased to be a means of livelihood, and have become one of the most interesting hobbies. Yet most of the people who have taken a rifle and fishing pole - are men. We often see women with berry tueski, mushroom Read more [...]
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Music power
The narrow column of furnace smoke from the chimney cloud backs flat, blindingly shining in the dawn light of the rising sun over the mountain. Woodpecker on Sushina fires short bursts, the echo of which is carried away in the frosty air in the valley. Photo by Sergey Gulyaev At the edge of Eugene wiped the frost from his mustache and grunted with pleasure. Seven kilometers of the usual forest road, groomed snowmobile from the railway station remained behind. At last — at home!Muddy village situated on a gentle slope of the valley along the creek of the same name. Of the Read more [...]
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The wine maketh glad the heart of man
In the previous issue of the "horn" we shared the secrets of cooking in the home nalivokiz tinctures and natural ingredients. Today we tell about cooking wines.From a wide range of alcoholic drinks good wine deserves close attention. It is nice to taste, reasonable doses cheers the soul, warm heart. Inviting a woman in restaurant, orders a man, of course, wine. Wine — versatile product for almost any normal company.Many peoples have a centuries-old tradition of not sit at the table without a light wine. AND and the percentage of drinkers Alcoholics have They Read more [...]
From the notes of the naturalist
Summer in central Russia issued unusual: it was preceded by the absence of spring floods on the rivers. The main reason - the winter with little snow. In the Tver region on the Volga River, near the village of Gorodnya, in mid-March, the snow was gone, and in the fields and in the woods. Water swing, coastal ice cracked his fingers, cracked his fingers and lay on the slopes of the coast, and in the fairway just had disappeared, there was virtually no ice floes. In the east of the Smolensk region with river Gzhat Aleshnya tributaries, and Sežana Yauza banks not I Read more [...]
Grey Heron
On shallow eyes caught on a snag unusual shape. Hunched leggy figure remained motionless until the smoke is not dissipated by issuing silhouette of the birdIn the middle zone it could only be a gray heron. At high, slightly bent legs, a little stooped, and with a massive long beak, this rather big bird lives near large bodies of water in floodplains.The morning began with a heavy fog. The sun's rays could not pierce the thick slurry, consisting of tiny "dairy" drops. An hour later, after the sky cleared, the sun was finally melt the fog. Its rays warmed "layer cake" fumes. Finally, the fog gave Read more [...]
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Strike while the iron is hot
Thirty years ago in the Ukraine and, in particular, in the Vinnitsa region was a lot of ungulates. Especially many of them were in remote areas. But wanting to hunt goats and pigs were many, so to get a license was not so easy, especially wild boar. The lion's share of licenses taken away and the authorities "thieves," and went to the ordinary rabbit. Photo by Anton Zhuravkova Our team was interrupted and promotstrelom sometimes roe. AND suddenly our team cronyism, as the Arkady Raikin, «kiriltso through the back, through the Goods», Managed to get a Read more [...]
Bonfires wee
Words words! They fit our whole life - my and your, my and your dogs. I have a husky-Westerners, for forty years. PHOTO SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Now my darling, my daughter Umki and Kate, which is not yet two years. On the hunt, they go with me on the line. Howl any straggler dog heard a kilometer away. Actually, it's not howling and crying. If the weather is normal, we go out to hunt through the day. For some time my bus to the village Bedryazh began to walk through the city, picking up passengers. Probably the second flight to recruit more people, but at seven in the morning - as usual. Read more [...]
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In Nizhny Novgorod region seized 15 rifles OLD
At the intersection of Sovetskaya and Navashino Road city of Nizhny Novgorod region 21 June 2008 at 16.15 the crew DPS ATS Navashino district for an identity check was stopped car "Chevrolet Niva", silver, running citizen K., 1964 / p. Living: Volodarsky District, Smolino Village, the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in Nizhniy Novgorod region. In the car were also two passengers: Jean, 1965 / p., Who lives in the town of Vyksa, and S., 1956 / p., A native of the city of Orenburg, who lives in Moscow.Inside the SUV were found antique firearms gun. When viewed from a pre-determined Read more [...]
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