A disservice to hunters

An unexpected surprise was presented to its readers by the Publishing House of Technical and economic literature on the issues of the flour, grain and feed industry and the elevator and warehouse industry. It has published a book by V. Ryabov. Not about flour or cereals, and not about compound feeds, but about... hunting brown bears.

But let's face it, if the millers follow the advice of V. Ryabov, they still will not become bear hunters.

The author, for example, strongly advises trying "dashing hunting with a slingshot," arguing that "if one hunter is in trouble, another can hit the beast with a slingshot in the front of the bear's body." Nowadays, when every hunter has a firearm, it is hardly necessary to recommend dangerous and primitive hunting with a slingshot, which the author himself has never hunted.

Having a poor understanding of bear hunting methods, V. Ryabov gives even more dubious advice in his book when he writes about rifle hunting. He recommends: "For shooting bears at night... have a strong electric torch, which is attached with clips under the barrels of the gun. The light turns on... It gives you the opportunity to shoot an animal that is taken aback by surprise..." Here the author advises using a kind of headlights, that is, poaching.

Further, V. Ryabov advises hunting oats "from the approach", and shooting here from a distance "with a rifle shot". What kind of rifle? Hunting with a military-style rifle is prohibited!

In addition, if a hunter approaches a bear before sunset, the animal will certainly see him and will not let him go. It is unclear from what distance it is recommended to shoot a bear. After all, aimed fire, for example, from a three-line rifle is possible at 2000 m. But on oats, a bear is usually shot from a distance of 15-20 m. Aiming at an animal at more than 30-35 m in the dark is not possible at all. There are many paradoxes in the book. V. Ryabov recommends shooting a bear in the pelvis for the first time during a roundup and at a den in order to "neutralize the beast." Why neutralize first, and only then kill?

The book was written biologically illiterate. "The bear decided to abandon her cubs." The bear is known to be unable to make decisions and does not abandon cubs.

Describing a weapon for hunting bears, the author recommends a "shot that could paralyze an animal for several seconds even if it wasn't aimed at crucial vital centers"?!

This is not the only book that came out from the pen of B. Ryabova and containing many incorrect recommendations and statements.

In 1958 The publishing house of the Ministry of Agriculture of the USSR has published a book by V. Ryabov "Extermination of wolves".

The topic is necessary, the fight against wolves is an important matter! There are still a lot of wolves and they cause significant harm to animal husbandry. It was to be expected that the reader would find in the book not only the instructions already described by many authors on the extermination of wolves, but also learn about new methods of destroying these predators.

However, the book does not meet such expectations. It turns out to be an almost exact copy of the book by the same author, published by the publishing house "Physical Culture and Sport" in 1957 under the same title — "Extermination of wolves."

After reading these two books more closely, the "creative" method of V. Ryabov becomes clear. There is little independent work in it. Both books are the fruit of nothing more than a compilation, redoing, and borrowing of what has already been said in books and pamphlets by V. Kaverznev, A. Zvorykin, A. Tulubaev, P. Manteuffel, V. Kozlov, and others.

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