Hunting strategy

Hunting strategy or hunting methods are time-proven methods for locating, targeting, and liquidating a target. These strategies have implications far beyond the mere pursuit of a single individual, for they are in use in such varying contexts as government agencies pursuing child abusers and a military unit dealing with a much smaller one, especially during low intensity conflict.

• Baiting is the use of decoys, lures, scent or food to attract targets.
• Blind or Stand hunting is waiting for targets from a concealed or elevated position.
• Calling is the use of noises to attract or drive targets.
• Camouflage is the use of visual concealment (or scent) to blend with the environment, used first by the British in the 18th century in India, from which use the word khaki first entered the modern vernacular.
• Dogs may be used to help flush, herd, drive, track, point at, pursue, or retrieve targets.
• Driving is the herding of animals in a particular direction, as over a cliff or to other hunters.
• Flushing is the practice of scaring targets from concealed areas.
• Glassing is the use of optics (such as binoculars) to more easily locate targets.
• Spotlighting is the use of artificial light to find or blind targets before acquisition. Modern lighting also includes IR and other devices.
• Scouting includes a variety of tasks and techniques for finding animals to hunt.
• Stalking is the practice of walking quietly, often in pursuit of an identified target.
• Still Hunting is the practice of walking quietly in search of targets, a basic principle of hunting.
• Tracking is the practice of reading physical evidence in pursuing targets.
• Trapping is the use of devices (snares, pits, deadfalls) to capture or kill a target.

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