A Russian Pastime: Goose Hunting with Off-Road Vehicles

One of the most interesting activities that Russians, especially those living in cold cities in the north, enjoy at the beginning of the cold winter months is goose hunting.

As the winter begins, the geese that have come to the north to feed are well fed and fattened, and as the cold starts to set in, the migration back slowly begins.

It is at this time that the Russians go goose hunting.

However, in these virgin lands of the north, especially in Siberia, nature is quite fierce.

Even though the ground freezes in winter, it is not so easy to move from one place to another as there are no roads in these lands, most of which are swampy at the beginning of winter.

I never went goose hunting, we went fishing once or twice, but goose or deer hunting is a different activity. 

They had invited me a few times, but I didn't have the opportunity, at that time we were working hard at the construction site to bring the work to a certain level before the cold weather started, I couldn't find time for goose hunting. Sometimes I wish I had made time for it.

Nevertheless, I listened to the details of goose hunting from Russian friends.

First of all, they go hunting with special off-road vehicles, which we do not have. 

Russians call these vehicles "vehicles that can go anywhere" in Turkish. Whether it is a swamp, ice or mud, it is not smart to go and hunt in places where there is not even a goblin without these powerful and specially built vehicles, some of which are tracked.

Remember, these are not the places where you can communicate with a phone, these are the places where you can be alone with nature when you go to the vast tundra, where you are alone with nature (I know it myself from the times we went fishing).

I'm talking about when winter starts, especially in the evenings when the icy wind blows and you feel the cold to your bones.

Trees do not grow in those latitudes either. You are all alone on a flat place.

In such conditions, if you don't have an all-terrain vehicle that can go everywhere, as the Russians say, even your chances of survival can be quite low.

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This does not mean that this is an activity for the very rich, but for the enthusiast. 

Although these off-road vehicles are much more expensive than a normal vehicle, they are Russian-made vehicles that you can easily buy when you save some money. 

Enthusiasts do not eat or drink, after buying such a vehicle, if you can hold it, they do not listen to what you say, they do not listen to what you say, they jump on the vehicle and go go goose hunting (in slightly colder temperatures, after the snow falls, they also go deer hunting) with a few friends. Because there is no risk of staying in the field anymore. Vehicles are equipped to take you back to the city under any circumstances.

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I wonder if there are any entrepreneurs in our country who are thinking of making interesting vehicles depending on such conditions?

By the way, wild goose hunting is an activity that I cannot accept. Hunting is something I am totally against, but you can't stop the people of the north no matter what you do. Anyway, what they can shoot in the hunt is a small amount of geese in a flock of geese, and this is not an activity that everyone can afford. So I can say that it is acceptable. 

Still, on the one hand, I feel like letting the geese live in nature. On the other hand, I feel like asking why are you hunting them? So I criticise this in my own way.

Of course, what I think doesn't matter to anyone, goose hunting is an activity that the people of the north have been doing for a long time.

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As I said, Russians always like to produce vehicles that suit their needs, even if they are not of very high quality. 

I don't know how they do it, but I think it is their general lifestyle to come up with something new by thinking for themselves rather than imitating something.

We also have the capacity to do this, and we have the capacity to do much better quality. As long as we change our way of thinking in this way.

Love and respect to everyone from Moscow