On the Trails of Game
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Section titled “Translated text”Individual groups or units act as hunters tracking game (bear, wolf, etc.). The game flees, leaving a distinct trail in the form of, for example:
- a) a boot studded with a specific number of nails,¹)
- b) galoshes or slippers with new rubber soles,
- c) a boot with an iron shape attached, resembling the track of a bear, wolf, or triangle,
- d) a widened ski pole disc if the exercise is conducted on skis,
- e) a staff with a particularly wrapped or reinforced tip,
- f) a board with nails hammered in as a rake.
There may be a herd of game with identical or different tracks. Each group of hunters tracks one “animal” until capturing it along the way, if they set off immediately after the trail, or until finding the “game” in its lair if they begin tracking after some time.
Tracking pursuit games can always be concluded with target throws,
¹) Once, in the Vilnius region, while leading an independently operating patrol from an instructor’s course on an outing, I came across the tracks of another patrol, which had boots studded with nails. Thanks to the rain that had fallen in the morning, I was able to apply natural tracking over the course of half a day’s march, following the opponent’s route, interpreting their actions from the tracks, and approaching them at certain easier points for visual observation. It was one of the finest tracking games for me and my patrol. Such opportunities should be created.
(using grenade-throwing preparation), employing pine cones, stones, or snowballs for this purpose. Upon catching up with the tracked “game,” each member of the patrol has the right to three throws. The target may be a cardboard figure of the given animal in reduced size or a spot marked on the ground or a tree. The accurate throws of the patrol are divided by the number of members in the patrol, yielding an average result.
Alongside throws, we should also use shooting: a) with a slingshot, b) with a sports catapult, c) with a crossbow, d) with a military air rifle, e) with a small-caliber firearm.
This may involve shooting at targets. However, it is better to shoot at figures set up in natural conditions, in more challenging lighting situations.
It should be remembered that shooting is a great pleasure for youth and is also a significant need from the perspective of our goals.
For youth in the heroic and transitional age, crafting military equipment and using it in terrain-based combat for supremacy is such an emotional and beneficial experience that neglecting this fact would be a culpable oversight on the part of the educator. The sooner we move on to shooting with air rifles and firearms, the better. Let us not hesitate to use shooting frequently, not only in tracking but also in other terrain-based scouting activities.
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Section titled “Metadata”- Type: game
- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Jan Jasiński, Gry i ćwiczenia terenowe (Harce terenowe) (1938)
- Printed pages: 112–114
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
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- Read the source text: gct-046