The hunting with a hound is divided into the hunt on black path and the hunt on white path. The most beautiful is the black path hunt when in the forest have dropped their faded summer dress it becomes lighter. The dog voices in such a forest are heard from afar and it easier for a hunter to offer himself to traced beast.

The white path hunt gives a hunter the opportunity to understand better the traces and in case of losing a trace to help a dog to find it. In a snowed up forest audibility is worse and it`s much harder to move. In frosty weather it is possible to frighten a beast a bit by crunch of snow.

The success of a hound hunt depends mostly upon weather. The best thing is a warm, a bit damp autumn day. A hare in such weather lays keen and is rased up easily. The smell of its trace in the damp soil is kept for a long time and a dog can make out the traces easily.

In dry weather though a hare lyes keen it`s more difficult to work for a dog. The fact is that in moving a beast throws away a dry leaf with the rest of the trace smell and a trace turns out to be very light and it is aired away very quickly - that`s why a dog of fails often.

Even during a light rain the trace is washed quickly away and a dog often loses the beast trace. And the trace-smell is kept badly in a deep loose fresh snow when a bottom of the trace is covered at once. It is very hard to hunt in strong wind when there is only dense noise in the forest. The dog barking is hardly heard in such a weather. And a beast trace is quickly aired away.

It is not advisable to hunt with a hound when damp land in frozen. The sharp frozen colds appear on the land surface an a dog hurts its paws and can`t work for a long time.

A hunter who comes out to hunting with a hound, even if under the guidance of a hunter, must know where and in what weather it is necessary to look for a beast. The hare hunting is opened at in the middle (usually the second or the third Sunday) of October. This time as a rule coincides with intensive leaffall. The noise of falling leaf is everywhere and a hare leaves deciduous forests.

A white hare during fall usually keeps to dry forest mushes which are grown with sedge or in a coniferous forest with thick fir undergrowth looking like small isles. A white hare lyes down also on on the forest clearings grown with fir youth. These glades are covered with thick grass where a hare finds its shelter. A grey hare in fall lyes down somewhere in a boundary, near a small bush of dry grass or just in a furrow in an arable field.

Later, when the fall is over, a white hare moves to the deciduous groves and lyes down under a heap of brushwood or brunchy paw of a young fir. A grey hare at this time moves to the forest clearings or to the overgrown ravines.

During the first night of the white path a hare usually doesn`t go to the fatting. It stands up from the lying place, roams about and returns to the place. It lyes very hardly. It`s difficult to find it even for a dog. But have found a trace though covered with snow it is not difficult at all to find where a small beast lyes. The distance of its walks at this time is not more than 150 - 200 m. And every trace on first fall of snow is fresh.

At the hound hunt with a hunter and one dog 3 or 4 hunters hunt, and with a union of dogs - 4 - 5 hunters. Thats why every hunter must follow all the rules of the collective hunting.

A hunter takes the hunters out of the living areal of a hare, shows the direction of moving, orientates on the locality, put a dog in search, but he himself goes in the middle. It is necessary to move hastelessly giving a dog possibility to examine the locality. By giving some sounds the hunter helps a dog to raise a beast and shows the direction of moving to the hunters. The hunters mustn`t make such sounds as they only make a dog extremely excited and it rushes about the hunters doesn`t examine the places thoroughly.

Seeing a dog which cursor in its moving some hunters try to cheer it up with the words "Find! Find!" or even worse "Here! Here! " - at an empty place. By this a hunter doesn`t help a dog but hinders it and puts it out of stride.

A distance between a hunter and hunters must be about 20 - 30 m for a hunter to hear well the sounds made by the hunter and hot to deviate from the common direction of moving. Having raised a hare or having stood on a fresh trace a dog barks. A hunter must to distinguish when a dog is following a trace of a raised hare and when it is making out the hare`s fatting traces - collecting. The collecting with voice is considered to be a defect of a dog. During collecting a dog doesn`t often gives its voice spinning on a small place.

When a hounds has stood on a fresh trace of the moved hare and more then that if it has saw if it begins to bark very passionately. Having heard a dogs voice a hunter must stop in any case, to listen, to appoint the direction of tracing and then to choose the place to wait for a beast.

A traced hare usually goes along the edge of low places overgrown with small but frequent bush to have possibility to hide there in case of danger. If the tracing takes place in a large forest a hare chooses the places with thick undergrowth especialy with small fir frees. At the joining of such low places or isles of undergrowth it is necessary to stop for a hunter`s "number".

Some hunters wait for a hare somewhere at the cleaning with good survey. Such a number is rarely successful. As a rule a hare avoids going out to the open places. It can jump out an open glade only in a situation when a dog is (closely) nearly. To shoot such a hare is very difficult.

By no means you mustn`t go and more than that - to run to the dog`s voice. A hare can be very closely though a dog is still far. If a hunter "noises" a traced beast a hare will go far away and will be very careful.

Standing on the "number" it is necessary to look after the tracing, to define the direction of the beast and not to rush with the removing. A hare can change its direction and go exactly there where a hunter has just gone away from.

At the border of the black path and the white one when a hare has run enough it likes to go on the isles of unmelted snow.

The hunters have a term "a hare is going by rounds". It means that a hare by complicated turns, loops and jumps tries to get rid of an importunate dog, to go to the region where it was raised up.

If a dog is gone out of hearing it is allowed to move carefully to the direction where the tracing had been heard for the last time. Having heard a dog`s voice it is necessary to stop again, to define the direction of the tracing, and then to choose the suitable place and wait for a beast. There are cases when an unskilled hunter runs to the dog`s barking crashing everything in his way. This is never success and it takes a dog out of hearing again.

If a grey hare is being traced it usually takes a dog out to the field and goes along low places, ravines and copses. A grey hare goes far away but as usual returns often by its trace to the region where it had been raised. To be persuaded that a hunter has killed a traced beast it is necessary to wait for a dog and then to notify the mates shouting "Reached!" or "Ready!" The Hunters must gather to the trophy and according to the hunter`s order to go on hunting.

If a hunter wounds a hare a dog follows it at a distance of some steps. Such tracing must be let through without shooting not to shot a dog. A wounded during the tracing dog can`t work for a long time and more often than not it stops working at all.

Having noticed a flashing among the trees hare you mustn`t hurry to raise your gun. It is necessary to wait while a beast hides behind some bush. Otherwise it will notice the movement and go aside. If there is no shelter in the way it is necessary to let the beast to come as near as possible and then to throw up a gun. Shooting a hare it is necessary to watch a target attentively and not to push a trigger when a tree is in a way.

At a hound hunt it is prohibited to shoot other game because a dog leaves the tracing off and comes to a shot. Then it will start to chase blackcocks, hazel grouses, squirrels and give voice on them and this will lead to an incorrigible spoiling of a hound.

At the beginning of a season when a hare hasn`t changed its fur yet it is necessary to shoot it by small shot № 3 or as a last resort № 2. When a hare gets white and has thick underfur you need small shot № 1.

Just killed hare mustn`t be raised by its ears because the hare can be shell-shocked only and be able to kick a hunter with its very strong back paws.