You love hunting for small games in woods and meadows, and you can’t wait for the new season to open. Find out how to best prepare for the start of the small game hunting season through the experience and informed advice of our enthusiasts.

#1 PREPARE YOUR FIREARM

After several months of inactivity, its is important to prepare your firearm correctly.

After your firearm has spent long months in storage, we advise you to:

– Grease all the points of the mechanism and the chokes

– Clean the barrels with a lightly oiled cloth

– Oil the butt and the forearm, then treat any oiled, sanded wood parts with linseed oil.

Follow our advice on how to clean your hunting firearm for a more thorough clean.

Preparing your cartridges is equally important. Check your stock and dispose of any faulty ammunition (traces of rust, damaged caps, etc.)

#2 GET BACK IN PHYSICAL SHAPE

Every type of hunting is different, but all the techniques involve physical exercise. By getting back into good shape before the season starts, you will be able to hunt for longer and feel fitter. There is nothing like clay pigeon shooting to improve your performance. Remember to protect your ears when practising by wearing a protective headset or earplugs. High-repetition shooting can irreversibly damage your hearing.

An to hunt in complete safety and check that you are physically fit, a medical check-up can be useful to test your sight, hearing and heartbeat.

#3 GET YOUR DOG BACK INTO SHAPE

Like any sports person, your dog also needs to prepare for your hunting trips. Visit the vet to check that its vaccinations, flea treatments and tick treatments are up to date to protect it against disease. Older dogs that are well-seasoned hunters can also sometimes show signs of painful articular disorders.

We always remember that the very best moments are those I share with my healthy dog. When you are perfectly familiar with your terrain and the game’s habits, and your dog is well trained and experienced, you will enjoy hunting much more.

#4 PREPARE THE APPROPRIATE EQUIPMENT

Maybe we’ll spend a little more time in this chapter, as we can provide your hunting team with the most suitable gear on the planet.

In general, Your clothing must be well suited to the region where you go hunting, but as a general rule lightweight, reinforced trousers will make for easier movements, while protecting you against thorns and dense, aggressive vegetation, so that you can hunt in comfort.

When the weather is a little hot, a breathable T-shirt or shirt made of polyester will evacuate perspiration more effectively for greater comfort. You can also wear a gilet. Compact and lined gilets are useful for  carrying ammunition, your valid hunting permit and your catches in complete safety.

When you choose to travel in a cold rainy season, wind and rain will occasionally visit your area, so a waterproof and insulated hunting suit < jacket + pants > is absolutely essential. A set waterproof hunting suit with full seam taping as the outer layer, plus quilted padding, will allow you to take the toughest hunting conditions in your stride.

Maybe you will pay attention to the weather forecast in advance and choose to hunt at a suitable time for the weather, then a softshell hunting jacket can allow you to move comfortably and flexibly. to depression. If there is a little rain by accident, the waterproof/breathable membrane in the middle of the three-layer fabric of this hunting jacket will also protect your body from the intrusion of the light rain.

Maybe you want more customized functions to be implemented on a jacket or trousers, then you can contact our company, Bowins is a hunting clothing manufacturer with design and development capabilities, we can customize the fabric parameters according to your requirements And structural design, together with you to make samples to check whether it can be well adapted to the market demand, to help you expand the influence of your own brand and become the focus of the new season market.

#5 ACCESSORIES

Even if you are not hunting for big game, a folding or fixed-blade knife always comes in useful when out and about in the wild.

Since it can be quite warm at the start of the season, remember your water bottle, and if there are no nearby water sources, use it to cool down your dog from time to time.

More and more hunters now use training or tracker collars for their dogs. When it comes to training your dog, it is a good idea to call on the services of a professional dog trainer. They will teach you how to use these collars properly. For example, they must not be used to punish your dog, but as a tool to train and educate it.

#6 CHECK AND OBEY THE REGULATIONS

You should contact your local hunting association or other organisations to check the latest regulations, the hunting plans for different species and the land where you have the right to go hunting.

The authorities, private hunts and drive organisers should also be in a position to remind you of all the safety rules applicable to wandering hunting for small game, or to drive hunting for big game.

And you must always have a valid hunting permit with you when you go out hunting. You are also advised to reread the local regulations and to check the map of the hunting territory, which is subject to change.

We recommends that you should protect these documents “in a waterproof pocket that I always keep on me. This will protect them against the rain”.