Modes of Hunting :
Hunting in front of oneself
It is the hunting of plain by excellence, getting great emotions and great joys.
Hunting with pointer relates to primarily the game birds (partridge, woodcocks, pheasants, etc). The pointer (Direct, Épagneuls, Pointers, Setters, Griffons, etc.....) takes the emanation of game, the approach, marks it and stops it until the arrival of the hunter. A large pointer is particularly appreciable in plain. Hunting with dogs "leveurs of game" is practised with very sharp and very burning dogs like Springer or the Cocker spaniel. They find the game (the rabbit, the pheasant, the woodcock) but do not stop it and make it leave without pursuing it. They can work in all the types of environments but excellent in the brushwoods, thickets, ronciers, etc.

The billebaude
It is the hunting with simple and peaceful happinesses. The hunter traverses the territory to the research of game, with a precise objective or in the "Billebaude", with or without dog.
Hunting in front of oneself without dog
One thus hunts the larks, the thrushes, the pigeons, the blackbirds, by traversing parts of agricultural fields or vines, while skirting the hedges, etc.
The beat
The beaters, armed or not, push the game towards a line of positionned gunners. Practised in certain French areas for partridges, pheasants, hares, etc.
Hunting with the running dogs
One launches dogs to the pursuit of the game and the hunter is posionned near a passage which he located. This hunting holds at the same time the hunting and of beat. The hunted game is the rabbit and the hare.
Hunting by the ferret
One dislodges the rabbit from his burrows. The ferret is a small “mustélidé”, comparable to the fitchet,that is raised and trained by the hunter. It is introduced into the rabbit burrows.
The big game
The beat
Trackers and dogs fold back the game noisily toward a line of positionned gunners.This is the most widespread mode of hunting for big game in France. The driven out species are mainly the wild boar, the roe-deer, the stag, and, sometimes in forest belt, the chamois, the isard and the moufflon. These dogs can be running dogs (Bruno of the Jura, Grand Griffon Vendean, etc.) or the dogs of "small foot" (Fox, Dachshund, etc). The laters gradually supplanted the first, in particular in the East and the North of France. These puppies made less noise to terrify the animals, but the hunter loses the pleasure of the "music", the one that procures a few big well stuffed dogs.
The quiet push
It is an alternative of the beat which develops in a concern for better management.During a quiet push, the trackers advance without excessive noise, and without dogs. The animals are disturbed but are not pursued. They are presented in front of the rifles positonned without being in escape, which makes it possible to identify them well for better choosing of the "collected" animals.
Stalking an animal
One hides oneself in sectors attended by the animals.This type of hunting allows the precise identification of the animal. It is practised primarily at daybreak or in the twilight, often on the top of a mounting (watchtower). The hunted games are: the stag, the roe-deer, the wild boar, the fox.
Hunting with the approach or pirsche
With foot, one seeks and approaches the game.Le hunter explores a territory, alone, in silence and with good wind, to arrive to a range of shooting of an animal. The use of binoculars allows a good identification of the animal before the shooting. The hunted animals are the roe-deer, the stag, the wild boar or, in mountain, the chamois, the isard, the moufflon.
Hunting with the running dogs
One launches dogs to the pursuit of a game and one positions oneself to shoot near streams that are frequently used by the game.This hunting holds at the same time the hunting and the beat. It relates to the fox, the roe-deer, the stag and wild boar.

Periods of Hunting

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