Wild Boar Hunting in Belarus

The wild boar (Sus scrofa) is the wild ancestor of the domestic pig. It is native across much of Central Europe, the Mediterranean Region (including North Africa's Atlas Mountains) and much of Asia as far south as Indonesia, and has been widely introduced elsewhere.

Currently wild boars are hunted both for their meat and to mitigate the damage they cause to crops and forests. A charging boar is considered exceptionally dangerous quarry, due to its thick hide and dense bones, making anything less than a kill shot a potentially deadly mistake. Hunters have reported being butted up into trees by boars that have already been taken.

The weight of a body of a wild boar more than females, also is on the average equal 100 kg, but old individuals can reach and 300–350 kg.

Hunting opens in the middle of summer (hide) and flows in collective driven hunt, hide, stalking hunting in the autumn and in the winter.