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Consult with hunters
Minister K.Mažeika himself asked rhetorically on his Facebook account:
“Should those working in the hunting sector and those involved in hunting be afraid and hide their occupations because someone does not like it? Do the demands of speakers who have nothing to do with hunting outweigh the investigations, conclusions and recommendations from scientists, experts and industry experts?
And yesterday, after a meeting with Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, who called on the Minister for the Environment to explain, K. Mažeika tried to explain about archery: he was not the only one who came up with it. It turned out that the Minister had consulted with the Hunters Council before signing the decision. Refusing to hunt with bows is supposedly the same as refusing to do farm work with a horse.
“There is a Hunting Advisory Council for this, which includes all hunting organizations, scientists and public figures who are interested in one or another decision, and it was a decision of the Advisory Council, headed by the Deputy Minister,” said K. Mažeika .
Exotics for the rich.
The possibility of the screenwriter, actor, public figure, as well as the hunter Artūras Orlauskas to hunt with a bow did not scare him at all. Why? After all, it is terrible when 31 thousand. People in Lithuania who have permits to shoot from a hunting rifle will start shooting from 31,000. bows!
“This is a normal form of hunting,” A. Orlauskas disagreed. – The United States has been hunting for so long. Starting with a spear and ending with a bow. You won’t be surprised.
But such a hunting method in Lithuania will not become massive, because the arrow costs ten times more than a bullet. Here there are no simple arrows, but hunting arrows. One can cost between 15 and 30 euros and a bullet costs between 2 and 5 euros.
First, such a hunt will be too expensive. Second, not everyone, even after buying expensive arrows, will be able to sneak up on the beast in the forest at a maximum distance of 30 meters. The beast has an ear, a sense of smell, any sensation of the roar of the branch. Only a very experienced and physically trained hunter can get so close to the beast. Able to freeze for 3-5 minutes so the beast is not afraid.
In America, only exotic lovers shoot bows. He sits daily on towers hanging over the paths of the beasts and waits for the beast to arrive. Do many people have so much time to wait? Only the rich lovers of the exotic and the poor will not have so much time. Others will continue to fire from hunting rifles, as they can be hit 100 meters away when the beast feels almost nothing.
Only “sofas for naturalists” can be damaged by arches, such as thermal images at night. And here, when shooting from a bow, the beast has a better chance of staying alive. You will not shoot at night with a bow, and if someone can shoot a beast from a bow from a distance of 100m, he will have to be very rich.
Arrows, like bullets, were not used a second time. Also, only a complete fool thinks that bowing is very easy to hit. Even at the Kaunas Zoo you won’t easily hit the beast. In Kaunas County, perhaps only 1-2 people would hunt with bows.
I myself know of few hunters who can sneak up on the beast.
Tightening the bow doesn’t mean hitting yet
There are 12 sports clubs in Lithuania, which shoot sports arches. And there are hundreds of hunting clubs. They have 24,800 people, and there are also “free” hunters who do not belong to clubs. Additionally, poachers will provide DIY bows and arrows. Mushrooms in the forest: it will make a hole in the back of the arrow and nobody will find a hunt. Because the ammunition is registered and the homemade arrow is not. And what do sports archery professionals think of such a shot? Tomas Kučinskas, a representative of the Archery Sports Club in Vilnius, immediately said that he considered such a hunting method unacceptable:
“It just caught my eye then. It’s one thing to have a bow, squeeze the bow and shoot, but it’s quite another to hit.”
T.Kučinskas explained that the strength of sport arches is limited, although in theory it is possible to shoot beasts from sport arches. Such bows, produced not in Lithuania, but in Latvia and other foreign countries, cost approximately 200 to 1000 euros. It weighs about 2-3 kg, and with accessories: 4-5 kg. You can learn to practice archery in a few months, but you will not become a professional athlete at that time.
Who forms the council?
Jolanta Urbelionytė, an employee of the Ministry, is the chief secretary of the Council.
Council members: Linas Balčiauskas, researcher at the Natural Research Center; Tomas Barkauskas, Representative of the Lithuanian Green Alliance; Gediminas Brazaitis, researcher at Vytautas Magnus University; Egidijus Bukelskis, employee of the Lithuanian Association of Hunters and Fishermen; Audrius Čiupala, Representative of the Police Department; Vilmantas Graičiūnas, employee of the Ministry of the Environment; Algirdas Klimavičius, employee of the Ministry of the Environment; Ramūnas Mažautis, President of the Sūduva Hunters’ Union; Rolandas Micevičius, member of the Council of the Lithuanian Association of Hunters and Fishermen; Gytis Misiukevičius, representative of the Arms Dealer Association; Kęstutis Motiekaitis, employee of the Department of Environmental Protection, subordinate to the Ministry of the Environment; Lina Paškevičiūtė, Representative of the Environmental Coalition; Vidmantas Paulauskas, Representative of the State Food and Veterinary Service; Aidas Pivoriūnas, Director of the Association of Private Forests; Raimondas Ribčiauskas, President of the Lithuanian Hunters Union “Nature”; Albertas Stanislovaitis, Director of the State Service of Protected Areas of the Ministry of the Environment; Arūnas Šileika, Representative of the Ministry of Agriculture; Algimantas Šindeikis, representative of the Lithuanian Association of Forest and Land Owners; Jonas Talmantas, President of the Lithuanian Farmers Union; Gediminas Vaitiekūnas, President of the Lithuanian Hunters Association; Monika Venytė, representative of the Lithuanian Cynology Center; Aleksas Žebrauskas, employee of the State Forest Company of the Ministry of the Environment.
Comment by Andrius LAURINAVIČIUS, Chairman of the Board of the Baltic Wolf Nature Conservation Association:
The anti-hunting petition was created in 2014 and has now only been updated. The main thing is that Minister K.Mažeika’s decision does not agree with the public, and she obviously does not agree. The decision is made first, and then, let’s say, let’s argue.
The bow is just another tool that will produce very little benefit. It is not hunting, but entertainment, commerce, lobbyists for weapons also defend their interests. Minister K. Mažeika represents a very limited interest group. And what does she bring here? The public understands this.
Hitting a moving target with a bow is very difficult. In the United States, only 50 percent of archery hits the target, the beast kills immediately. And about 50 percent. inaccurate shots, wounded beast running, they need to chase. No part is found and the animal is slowly tormented to death.
Comment from the ethnologist Libertas KLIMKA:
The ancient Greeks had the hunting goddess of Artemis, the Roman Diana, who represented hunting with a bow. But this hunting method was not common in Lithuania. Desert farmers trapped small animals with large hemp nets. In the desert of the bunny, in the fields with an arrow, I shot, the bunny ran in a zigzag, and the nobles and nobles hunted with spears. Bison, taurus, bears. Unless the bird can be shot with a bow. Hunting was highly regulated. Only princes could organize dog hunts for their nobles. No one allowed ordinary peasants to be self-sufficient in the forest.
There are rumors of net hunting and bows are falling. Unless waterbirds and black grouse hunted bows during their weddings.
I think the excitement for archery was due to the popularity of that hunting abroad. My, maybe the foreign hunters will come to Lithuania. I see no other reason.
From the history archives
Some people think that hunting from bows and crossbows is completely strange for Lithuanians. This method of hunting is said to have been closer to the nomadic nations of the steppes. In the steppes, visibility is good, and in the dense forests of Lithuania you will soon reach the tree branch, not the beast. But no. Lithuanians also hunted that way. The historian Chronicle Motiejus Strijkovskis (1547-1593) states that the Grand Duke of Lithuania Kęstutis was buried with an armor, a spear, a sword and a bow. Historians who profess ancient Baltic beliefs also speak of the hunting goddess Medein. Grand Duke of Lithuania Mindaugas also donated the first hunt for her. The goddess herself kept the animals and had no bow.
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