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The beaters' line preparing to advance
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What is a Driven Hunt?Wenn Durchgehschützen aktiv jagen…
- discusses, among other things, the intricacies of the German hunting laws on whether and how a driver can carry a gun and shoot without hunting license
Beating Guide – How to become a Beater
Temporary employment Hunters
In hunting
Hunting is the Human activity, human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to obtain the animal's body for meat and useful animal products (fur/hide (sk ...
, beaters are assistants of hunters who drive game from hiding into the open or towards the shooters by making noise and other disturbance: shouting, beating the trees and bushes with sticks, using rattles/ratchtets/clappers, shooting in the air, etc. In various countries hunting with beaters may be of special types and have special names: driven hunt/ driven hunting = :no:Drivjakt = :es:batida = battue = :de:Drückjagd, :de:Streifjagd ("strip hunting"), :de:Kesseltreiben ("kettle driving") :de:Lappjagd :sv:Klappjakt (""clap hunting"), :pl:Naganka etc.
Beaters usually are unarmed, but may be accompanied with dogs. In Germany, high-visibility clothing
High-visibility clothing, sometimes shortened to hi vis or hi viz, is any clothing worn that is highly luminescent in its natural matt property or a color that is easily discernible from any background. It is most commonly worn on the torso an ...
is compulsory for beaters, for safety reasons.
Traditions
InHoly Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. It developed in the Early Middle Ages, and lasted for a millennium ...
there was a beater duty during lordly hunts, and there was a special tax for the Jews, called :de:Federlappengeld, paid to exempt them from the duty.
The expression " wikt:beat about the bush" or "beat around the bush" comes from the method of fowl
Fowl are birds belonging to one of two biological orders, namely the gamefowl or landfowl ( Galliformes) and the waterfowl ( Anseriformes). Anatomical and molecular similarities suggest these two groups are close evolutionary relatives; toget ...
ing when beaters beat about the bush where the flock is roosting.
Beaters can wave flags on the ends of the drive line, to make the fowl stay within the shooting range.''geograph.org.uk
References
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What is a Driven Hunt?
- discusses, among other things, the intricacies of the German hunting laws on whether and how a driver can carry a gun and shoot without hunting license
Beating Guide – How to become a Beater
Temporary employment Hunters