Dutch Hunting Exam Prep 2011

• The text is an exam with 500 practice questions about hunting in the Netherlands.
• It includes the name "Stichting Jachtopleidingen Nederland" (Dutch Hunting Education Foundation).
• Edition: year 2011

Hunting Basics

• When ferreting, a wide-scattering gun is most appropriate
• It is not preferable to ferret during February to October
• During ferreting, the shots taken are at very short range

Game Management

• When shooting roe deer, one should shoot 5-year old animal or younger in principle
• Older bucks and does should be allowed to run for reasons of ethics
• At least half of the allowable shooting will realize in the yearling class
• It's not appropriate to shoot more than 40% of a good hare population in the fall
• The range of a shotgun can be determined with the rule of thumb: core diameter in mm. x 100 meter
• A weapon with a large spread desirable on an impassable hunting area is a juxtaposé gun with improved cylindrical and ½ chokelopen.
• Shooting results with a shotgun are mainly determined by the choke-boring
• A hunting rifle with side-by-side barrels, is called a juxtaposé
• An untrained dog is not required to thoroughly search the area systematically
• The Teckel is the most suitable dog to search for a wounded deer
• Griffons are bred for the hunt both before and after the shot
• British pointing dogs include the Pointer, Irish Setter, and Gordon Setter
• A correct example of a food chain: grasses - grasshoppers - fieldmice - hares - roe deer
• It is known of the woodcock that it makes a croaking sound during the mating season
• In the 50's the birds of prey declined due to the use of pesticides, by poisoned animals made the eggs unfruitful
• The responsibility for a reasonable game in a jachtveld rests at all times with the gamekeeper himself
• Old rabbit tunnels can serve as a nesting site for the veld-eend (diving duck).
• A rabbit usually has its young in its own construction
• On Nov. 2nd, a quarter hour after sunset the next birds came past: a mallard, a hen pheasant, a wood pigeon, and a black crow: hunting is only allowed on one the four listed birds.
• During the evening, mallards fly to grainfields to forage
• That coots breed in autumn in flocks on the open water is correct.
• For the hare: in the first life month 25% of young hares die
• Improvement of grassland is deterioration of the food
• The hunt on hares is opened from 15 October up to and including 31 December
• The pellet-shaped vomit of a polecat (Europese bunzing) is called "sterrenschot" (star shot).

Land Management and Hunting Practices

• After harvesting corn, green manure to reduce the leaching of fertilizers during winter is applied
• Dead organic material is cleaned up by moulds, earthworms and scavengers
• Cultuurfolgerdieren (culture follower animals) are often found in the environment of humans
• It is unethical to hunt from or from a vehicle
• It is unethical to shoot on ducks on a fast flowing river
• It is unethical to hunt for pheasant on the edge of the jachtveld
• In case one shoots a pheasant and it falls in the bushes, one should allow the drivers line to pass and let the dog retrieve the pheasant

Hunting Etiquette and Wildlife Identification

• As a guest on a pheasant driven hunt (fazantendrijfjacht), after the drive acknowledge the drivers for their help
• Young partridges can distinguished by spotchecking diagonal stripe wing coverings
• At a baiting place for ducks and geese a half hour before sunrise the departing ducks at the bait spot, the geese in the invasion on the bait spot is possible to expect
• A young mallard can be recognized in summer by its dark-blue membranes and the ragged tail pens.
• The roe deer preferably standing sideways can be shot, because than the risk of getting sick it is least.
• A deer antler has as a right order after the rozenkrans (antler base) the eye branch, icicle branch, the middle branch, the crown
• The time elapsing between planting and the final cut is longest in alder
• Little sensitive to damage of environment(faunaschade) is kale (cabbage)
• A main work in the land management is improvement cutting
• The liability for damage on wildlife (wildschade) rests with the jachthouder (game lease holder)
• In a good jachtveldbeheer it is fitted to inventarise the game regular
• You are allowed to hunt till 2 species, if the game has been successively in for hunts distance mallards, pheasants rooster and a gray Goose
• Food, existing from knolls and plants, but also of snakes, frogs and other small animals, is eaten by a badger
• For 'bersen' means stalking of animals to observe them / to shoot

Weapons and Ammunition

• The indication calibre 7 x 65 R means a cartridge length of 65 mm and a core diameter of 7 mm and the sleeve is with brim.
• After use of a bullet rifle, it is recommended to move a dry cloth through the barrel
• What is right? A shotgun with longer barrels always carries on further
• The use of full metal jacket ammunition is forbidden for hunting, because it causes inadequate shock
• A shot of shotgun kills the game usually by the shock effect
• It is correct that the Weidmann puts his rifle on "safe" before he jumps over the ditch
• It is correct that the Weidmann knows the characteristics of its rifle

Wildlife Behavior and Ecology

• A hunting field has a lot of dense coverage. You are hunting mostly on pheasants and rabbits. The most suitable is a springer doggie
• Because these species can change course easily during a hunt, the use of full mantled ammunition is not allowed
• The use of full mantled ammunition is prohibited, because the energy transfer to the hunted animal is too high; energy should stay in the animal's body

Fauna and Disease

• It is correct that the competent animal has few other options as a cultuurvolgers
• It is the hare’s characteristic to have more pointed oren (ears) with black point and amber colouring
• The hare tends to houden (hold) a winter sleeping state, the das (badger) is namely a night animal
• The rabbit can better handle cold temperature
• The hare will always escape, a roe deer at times

Legislation and Hunting Regulations

• For what the responsibility for a Weidmann is concerned:
• to follow the code of conduct
• keep nature protection in mind
• A license for removing reebucks is usually provided for the period spring and summer
• A wild boar that is gutted and weighs 40 kg, is called an overloper
• A drifting dog must scan through thoroughly
• A shot game is found the fastest, when the fallen place is marked
• Hunting includes the capture, killing, or hunting with the goal of detection
• Part of “breuk” (breaking) means offered with the scutter a shot deer

Hunting Practices and Wildlife Management

• A gentle hunter harvest not only possible from the huntable hiking game.
• Who as a guest at a pheasant hunt is, is not suitable on a wood pigeon, when still pheasants expect the birds.
• In Hand unterscheidet one young pages of old, because young pages have pointed ends from the outside flail pens.
• The best restricted one pigeon plague on ripe grain passing through
• A number of animals eat both animal and herbivore.
• This do o.a. the Fox, das and tree Marten is a correct answer.
• The best restricted one Duivenschade on Ripe grain through you drive away in the area by long periods of the year to hunt
• When damage to trees is observed, one must determine whether it is for Rabbits, deer or other reasons.
• Part of the main work in the national establishment is improvement to cut
• Very sensitive to damage by Roe deer, hare and rabbits are: the turnip
• Before what has to do a jachtakte have, that the Answering machine o.a. can indicate that he tested with good consequence a recognized jachtexamen having.
• You are allowed to shoot till 2 species, if the game has been successively in for hunts distance wild ducks, the wild swan and a gray goose.
• Foodstuffs, consists of tubers and plants, but also of snakes, frogs and other small animals, is eaten by a badger.
• The wild Duck is a mostly drawvogel (migratory bird).
• At the Weidmann is it important if the correct characteristics of the gun and the ammunition that are used by him knows.
• Always take the own dog one.
• To the continental Standing Dogs belong: Pointer and Irish setter
• From wild Boar is it to be designated that the place of touch clearly be marked have must.
• Which order of the Brunstzeit is the right one: Ree, deer, deer
• With red Deer one finds with the correct order: eye branch, icicle branch, the central branch, Krone
• In Our country are the diseases often can be limited by a selective cut on the rees.
• Where there may have not to be hunted: on the border of the hunting area
• In a good hunting company fits it to control the game regularly.
• In a jachtakte is: insured with the valid legal requirements and the ability to perform the actual hunting operation and to have practiced this.
• No jachtakte (game Act) is with the hunt for one's own ground is needed, but is only allowed when by means of ferret and purses on rabbits hunt.
• Which means is not to be used to protect trees from damage?
• Leaving clippings- and twigs.
• Because it provides more nourishment for wild

Answering questions

• Below you can find the final answers for the quiz, e.g.:
• 53 C
• 54 C
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