Catching ducks on "zherlitsy". Ways to catch wild ducks Drake is lame what to do how to catch

23.10.202227.05.2017

Wild ducks can be found in many water bodies. This is the traditional prey of hunters. But mallards are not always killed - you can catch a wild duck alive and make it a bait. Sometimes birds are taken home and kept on farms. There are several methods of catching that keep birds alive, and sometimes health.

How to catch a wild duck for breeding

These birds were caught alive back in Ancient Rus'. Since then, little has changed. The principles of duck hunting without a gun remained the same. Today, they simply use more advanced materials and devices.

With hooks

Hunters love inhumane methods. Hook fishing is popular. Do the following:

Looking for the right body of water. Choose a convenient place and some snag.
Prepare a trap. Fishing hooks No. 5, No. 6 are suitable. They are attached to a strong and inconspicuous (transparent, colorless) fishing line.
The bait is put on the hook. The best option is a frog or a fish. Crumb of bread, lard and so on are also suitable. Although in this case it is necessary that the bait remains on the surface.
Sometimes they make several traps with fishing line of different lengths. This increases the chances.
Tie a fishing line to a snag.
The slashed ducks actively resist. A small snag often floats away. They imperceptibly fasten it to the shore with a rope or set an anchor.
Hiding on the shore.

Hook fishing always injures ducks. Birds get injured both when trying to escape and when a person takes out the hook. At least the duck's tongue is injured. There are more serious injuries, sometimes - death.

There is less harm when the hunter constantly monitors the process, quickly and accurately removes the hook.

Trap

To maintain the health of ducks, other methods are used. These include numerous traps. For example, they offer the bird to dry the feathers, to feast on the bait:

Build a raft from two logs. They are fastened and tied.
Between them, a basket with a hinged lid is installed, which itself closes again after opening. The trap is masked - sprinkled with earth, twigs.
They lower the raft into a pond or other body of water.
The duck wants to dry its wings, to refresh itself with bait. She lands on the lid, falls into the basket and is trapped.

The trap should be checked frequently. Captive and forgotten ducks can die of starvation or become the prey of a predator.

Sometimes a trap in the form of a small cone is used. It resembles a labyrinth. Works like this:

The wild duck eats the bait and gets inside.
The hunter is nearby, so the bird does not have time to find a way out of the labyrinth.

silky

Since ancient times, another simple method of catching ducks has been used. These are well-known snares or snares. You will need a rope and a stick (wood).

You can successfully catch ducks in the former riverbeds. Do the following:

The end of the rope is attached to a stick or peg.
Make a self-tightening loop in the middle. They're thrown to the ground.
The second end of the rope is attached to the spacer.
A bait connected to a spacer is placed in the loop.
Hiding and waiting.

wild duck pulling food;
the spacer flies off;
the rope straightens out, and the trap tightens the leg.

loops

The next method of catching ducks will require almost no materials. For loops, only a rope is needed. However, you can not do without hunting knowledge and skills. The person will need:

the ability to navigate the terrain well;
knowledge of the habits of wild ducks;
patience, readiness to lie in ambush for a long time.

Use the direction of the wind. This is necessary for the correct installation of the loops and your own disguise.

Hinges are installed like this:

Take a strong rope. Make a loop that can be quickly tightened.
Set the trap in a place where wild ducks often visit.
The bait is placed in the middle.
They hide. The wind is taken into account so that the wild bird does not smell the human smell.

When the duck steps into the trap, the hunter tightens the loop on the foot. They do it "strongly, but carefully." Sharpness matters. If you overdo it, you can break the paw of a wild duck.

This device has a modification. The end of the rope is thrown over the branch. This helps to catch flying wild birds.

Several other ways to get a duck alive

There are also less common fishing methods:

Caught females attract drakes from the wild. Sometimes a mixture of wild and domestic ducks is used. Often, drakes fly right into the farmer's yard. It is not difficult to take a male alive in this situation. The flight feathers on the wings are immediately shortened to the prisoner.
They collect eggs and hatch ducklings on the farm. Nests are sought in swamps, in warm reservoirs, floodplains. There they examine hills, bumps, small trees. April and May are best.
Catching little ducklings. They do this, for example, with a piece of net in a pond. Sometimes they steal from the nest when the parents are away.
Wild ducks often walk in the same places with almost the whole family. On the way, a box, a cage, a basket are installed. Raise the edge and put a peg with a rope. They put bait under the trap and wait. When the prey is under the box, the rope is pulled. So often they catch several wild ducks: a female with offspring.
Use fishing nets, rope and 4 pegs. Pull, fasten. They throw bait. When wild ducks gather under the net, they pull a rope tied to a central peg. He falls, and the net covers the prey.
Traps. This method of fishing is dangerous for prey by injuries. To reduce them, use traps made of wood without sharp teeth. Such devices are sold in hunting stores. Traps must be fastened with pegs.
Hypnotic. Mixed with food and thrown where wild ducks often appear. Observe the dosage. The action begins within 2-3 minutes after swallowing the food. Sleep lasts for several hours.

DIY wild duck trap

To catch these birds alive, no complex devices are required. Most duck traps are made by hand: fishing line with a hook, loops, and more.

Many interesting and effective devices have been invented. There are favorites in different parts of the world. For example, in Asia they use such a trap for wild ducks:

Look for a flexible not thin rod. They bend in an arc and stick into the ground. You can set up an ambush in shallow water, at the place where wild ducks come ashore. The diameter of the resulting arc is 30–50 cm.
A thin and flexible young tree is found nearby. The original is bamboo. We have suitable, for example, its analogue for fishing rods - hazel. You can not look for a tree, but firmly stick your stick.
Bend the stem. Tie a rope to the end.
Find a small stick about 15–20 cm long.
Tie it with the same rope. The distance between this stick and the flexible stem is about 20 cm. The second end of the rope remains free.
A small tied reed is wound around an arc. The top end rests on it.
To prevent the flexible tree from pushing this stick out ahead of time, you need a mount. Its role is played by another reed. In length, it is slightly larger than the diameter of the arc. Installed on it parallel to the ground from the side opposite the tree. At the same time, the lower part of the stick is placed on the resulting spacer. The upper one rests on the arc.
When done neatly, the pieces hold together. The tree trunk is tilted. He is assigned the role of a compressed spring.
On a stick parallel to the ground, put a few more across. This is the "scaffold" for the duck. Here she will take a walk in the wild for the last time.
Take the other end of the rope and make a self-tightening loop. Size - large: approximately with a stuck arc.
Put a loop on top of the "scaffold" of the sticks.
They throw bait, for example, rice, millet, corn.

A wild duck comes for food and steps on the "scaffold".
The equilibrium of the system is disturbed. The flexible trunk springs, is released and pulls the rope.
The loop is tightened on the paw.

Catching a duck alive is not that difficult. For hunting, they stock up on patience and simple or cunning traps. Before setting the trap, you can feed the bird. On the paths and at the entrance to the water, grain is poured. If you plan to use the caught duck for further breeding, it is better to use the most humane methods of catching.

An article from the "Universal Trap" series.
Imagine the following situation: you, as an experienced hunter and connoisseur of the intricacies of all kinds of hunting, were offered to catch two wild ducks alive for ringing. The deadline is given for two days, the ducks must be of a strictly defined breed and without any physical damage. And he offered you this job, a professor at the local University, hinting that these ducks in the lake right in front of the university are apparently invisible.
Take it or what?
The second version of the situation: you, a graduate student of the same University, need to ring a hundred (two hundred, three hundred ...) perfectly healthy ducks in order to write down a couple more lines of statistical data in your Ph.D. thesis without deceit. (You can come up with a plausible pretext for the mass capture of ducks yourself.) There will be enough ducks on the nearest lake. Not enough, so tomorrow they will still arrive. But how to catch them? Agree that the second option, the simultaneous capture of tens and hundreds of birds, is a very difficult case.
I immediately recall stories about ancient hunts in Siberia. When dozens of beaters on boats and walking along the shore, drove hundreds of moulting geese and ducks into nets placed at one end of the lake. Or giant nets hung between special masts made of ship pine trunks in the path of flying birds. Or nets, with the help of special rockets, covering the entire fodder fields or lakes, along with flocks of geese and ducks located there. This is how much effort and money should be spent, how many assistants, pyrotechnics specialists and firefighters, other professional observers, all kinds of approvals and permits in numerous instances will be required? And such fishing will be possible only at a great distance from settlements, otherwise free advisers, ubiquitous kids, uncontrollable onlookers and voluntary assistants will spoil the whole hunt. This means that funds are still needed to organize an expedition with transport and cooks. Ducks will be expensive, especially if you catch them alive, unharmed and immediately release them.
For the first option, the capture of a pair, another duck, the stationary trap described by me in the article “Traps for Ducks”, the water version of the “hunting stupa”, is quite suitable. Only such a trap must first be made, and this trap can also be caught on a university lake. If carefully caught ducks are pulled out, then neither the ducks nor the citizen-observers on the shores of the lake will notice anything. With the mass capture of ducks according to the second option, there will be continuous problems. Starting from the protests of the "green" and the indignation of citizens-observers, to the abnormal behavior of the ducks themselves. It is worth scaring only one properly and there will be no ducks on the lake for several years at all. And then let omniscient scientists prove that all animals and ducks in particular have no mind, only instincts and conditioned reflexes. That is, cause and effect cannot be distinguished. However, scientists know-it-alls are not a decree for ducks; ducks have their own understanding of values in life. And yet there is a way out! And not alone. Especially if you remember the main rule on any hunt and in any business: “Man catches, not a trap.” Or "Makes Man, not his tool." Mass capture of ducks (if it is very necessary) is quite possible even on the university lake in the city center.
Surely, the trap described in the article “Traps for Ducks” seems to many to be poaching and not humane. As well as other similar traps such as "trapping stupas". Birds' feathers are wrinkled, they experience stress in a trap ... Shooting birds with a gun, and at best taking one bird out of two, three killed or severely maimed, of course (in their opinion), is much more humane. There are always enough opponents and stalkers of everything new and unknown. Therefore, we will not pay attention to their opinion and will think with our own heads.
Let's think globally, because we need hundreds of birds, not two or three.
And what if the lake itself is made a big trap. Ducks walk poorly on the ground, which means that if you deprive the ducks of the opportunity to fly, then all the ducks that have arrived will immediately become prisoners of the lake.
Are there options for how to do this? Of course, and not one:
- You can glue feathers on the wings of ducks. How? Pour oil on the surface of the lake. But this option is not the most profitable, therefore, is not applicable.
-You can drink ducks with alcohol, feed them with sedative pills or drugs.
As the saying goes: "It's getting warmer." It is better not to mess with pills and drugs. How much alcohol do you need? In ducks, the metabolism in the body is faster than in humans, but it is unlikely that they (ducks) need more alcohol for serious intoxication than for humans. For hundreds of ducks, with a total live weight of about 200 kg, two liters should be enough. Even if five liters, taking into account the inevitable losses. We mix alcohol with meat-fish-cereal bait, place feeders with treats all over the lake, and after half an hour, an hour you can collect prey. The figure shows a feeder connected from three plastic bottles and a half. And it’s easier to immediately ring the ducks and release them back into the lake. As soon as they sleep, they fly away. Quite acceptable spending even for a skinny purse of a graduate student. You can collect scales with alcohol-containing tinctures in pharmacies to save money. All the same, it will be cheaper and more practical than building masts, stretching nets or organizing expeditions into the unknown with wagons of nets, surface-to-air missiles, firefighters and professional observers from the UN, NASA, NATO and the local District Executive Committee.
-Are there no other options?
- Even easier? Yes, whatever!

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Wild ducks live in all reservoirs almost throughout Russia, even in those reservoirs where there are a lot of people, ducks still live and breed, you probably saw wild ducks more than once when fishing or when you went swimming, the Hermit, as he will live in the wilderness , near water bodies, will observe a lot of this free “floating meat”, but how to catch this meat if there is no gun, of course you can try with a stone or a slingshot, but most likely you will just scare them away without getting anything and stay hungry and angry.

Here is a really working way to catch ducks on impromptu vents, the meaning is as follows. We take that something that does not drown will be heavy enough and will not cause suspicion in ducks, for example, a small log with twigs. Next, we tie a fishing line with hooks of the 5th 6th to this log. No. 1, the line should be as thin as possible, but still strong enough to withstand the duck, which will desperately resist when you remove it.

Leashes can be tied both to a log and to branches, the length of the leashes can be different, about three meters on average, the longer we go into a pond or swim in a boat and set our log on the water where the ducks gather, and put a nozzle on the hooks, the nozzle is live fish or bread or small frogs, we tie the NOZZLE so that if it is alive, it will be in the water, but at the same time it will not swim away and the duck will notice it, for this we make notches on a branch or log and clamp the fishing line about 20-30 cm from baits, so that the bait itself does not pull itself out of the clamp, and the duck, while eating, can effortlessly.

If the fish is dead, then it is not necessary to do this, just plant it and throw it into the water, it will not drown, the duck will find it and eat it, but remember that the live nozzle itself attracts the duck, as it moves and creates movement on the water. If you use bread, then it must be hung above the water, on those branches that stick out of the water, but so that the duck can easily take it off and swallow it with the water. To increase the efficiency of such fishing, you can make more than ten such devices, in different places and tie more baits, and then catching can go in whole flocks, and I think you’ll figure out what to do with meat - boil the stews, maybe pickle them, or maybe in the village for something trade or sell.

THE MAIN THING IS NOT TO BE DISCOURAGED AND THEN YOU WILL LIVE BETTER THAN CITY RESIDENTS AND DO NOT PAY FOR ANYTHING!

HINGES AND SAMOLONS FOR SUPPLEMENTING THE HERMIT IDEAL OPTION

Loops and traps for catching small animals and large forest dwellers are an affordable and easy way to get food and animal fur, and other types of animal products. Many people think that this method of catching is just pampering, and hunting with a gun is much better, but in practice with a gun it is more of a sport, since current hunting involves tracking down the beast, chasing it and, as a result, an accurate hit, which requires training and at least minimal shooting skills.

Also, such a hunt requires the presence of a gun and all permits for carrying weapons and for shooting certain types of animals in a certain period, and even if it hunts in deserted spaces, the sounds of a shot are carried for kilometers around and you will still be interested in the local supervision services "FISH HOT NADZOR" and the district police officer .

And hunting for traps is a secretive silent way of catching an animal, and at the same time much easier and more effective than hunting with a gun. Various traps began to be used in ancient times, but they are still relevant today, since these methods are specifically for mass catching animals and they are widely used by hunting farms, hunters, and this is a favorite way of catching an animal for poachers. By the way, in general, catching an animal with traps is prohibited everywhere with rare exceptions, these are catching quotas for the indigenous population and hunting farms.

Due to the fact that such methods cause irreparable damage to nature, and quickly reduce the number of animals in this area. That is why for a hermit or a resident of a remote area, samolov is an ideal option, since samolov is made from improvised means and is quite simple to master.

When installing, so as not to give yourself away and your craft, do not put loops where people can pass, they can detect traps and smash it all over the district, and then, a meeting with the control authorities is provided for you, or they themselves can fall into your traps and be crippled and then you will not envy.

The traps represent a wide variety of designs for different animals, I will not describe the details of the manufacture and installation of these traps, since this information can be easily found in books or the Internet, but I will write a rough idea of the traps.

Self-catchers are traps - metal and wooden products for capturing and holding the animal, as well as loops, this product is made of metal wire or other thin, soft, but simple materials, the principle of operation is that the animal falls into the loop, it is tightened and does not allow the animal to free itself, these are pits with sharp stakes or a net inside - the beast falls into the pit and runs into the stakes or gets tangled in the net, and there are many variations and a method of manufacture and installation.

For most modern people, hunting from a means of subsistence has long turned into an element of a classic set of signs by which the so-called. "a real man". For them, hunting is not only a way to spend time and diversify the dinner table, but also an opportunity to experience excitement and demonstrate a number of qualities: endurance, endurance, patience, courage and ingenuity. The latter qualities are especially valuable when hunting without the use of a gun - for example, duck.

The need to hunt a duck without a gun can be very different: this is a situation in which you find yourself in the wilderness where you need to somehow soak yourself, and the need to mate a wild drake with a domestic duck to renew blood, and, finally, a hermit lifestyle … An experienced person, perhaps, will cope with these tasks effortlessly, but a person who is accustomed to a completely different environment or is just starting to lead a certain life will certainly have a hard time. However, patience, determination and perseverance, as you know, can work wonders.

The most common are three methods of such hunting:

on the hook.
using a trap.
in snares or whips.

Catching a duck on a hook

This method is risky in that the duck can be damaged when the hook is removed, so it must be used carefully. The technology imitates fishing:

to begin with, one should notice a reservoir rich in wild ducks, and on it - a place, preferably such that there is a small but branched snag. In the absence of driftwood, any stump will do. Choosing a place most often visited by wild ducks is not difficult due to the amount of droppings and feathers that they leave after their overnight stay.
purchase a thin and strong fishing line that would be invisible in the water, but could withstand the battle with a duck.
attach no more than five or six hooks to the fishing line, put the bait on them and fix it on the snag so that it is visible and does not drown. A snag should also be tied so that the caught duck cannot escape with it. If you are using not a snag, but the aforementioned stump, you need to stock up on a brick, a large stone or any heavy object to press the fishing line against the stump. Bread crumb, pieces of lard, fish giblets are suitable as bait; ideal option - live bait in the form of small fish or frogs, capable of fluttering to attract the attention of a future victim. You can make not one, but several of these lines to increase your chances of a successful hunt.
then hide in a secluded place and wait for the duck to swallow the bait, and then free it from the hook as soon as possible so that it does not have time to get hurt. When rescuing a duck, it should be taken into account that it is a strong bird and can easily escape from hands, so you need to hold it tightly. It may even be more correct to catch a duck on a hook not alone, but together with a partner.

If there is no hook at hand, you can use a regular button to which the bait is attached. Experienced hunters say that the effect is the same.

Using traps and loops

Using a trap is a safer and more humane way to get an intact bird, but also more difficult. Traps are different. The following method is very popular:

several logs are fastened together.
a basket with a lid is placed on top, which would easily open inward.
earth is poured on the lid, you can pour some food.

The essence of fishing is as follows: a duck, hoping to dry its feathers, will sit on the lid of the basket; under the weight of the bird, the lid opens and the bird falls in without any damage.

You can also catch a duck with a cage with a folding wall. For this you should:

set the cage on the ground, after supporting the wall with a spacer, and pour grain inside.
tie a string to the spacer and hide somewhere in a secluded place.
after waiting for the duck to enter the cage to enjoy the treat, pull the string. The spacer will slide out from under the wall, it will close, and the duck will be trapped.

Another type of trap - using a decoy duck - is designed for drakes. Some use a decoy that mimics how a duck or duckling quacks, but many hunters prefer to work with a real decoy duck, assuring that the result is much more effective than using a decoy.

from a light nylon net, a tent is made in the form of a square with a minimum length of 8 meters on each side.
stretching strings are pulled along its diagonals and between them, and a heavy ring is tied in the center.
a hut for a hunter is set up on the shore, and in shallow water near the shore a stake from 2.5 to 4 meters high is driven into the bottom, on which a tent is put on. Stretch marks are attached with pegs, and a thin cord is pulled from the ring to the hut. It is recommended to catch drakes in the dark, so everything should be prepared in advance.
put a duck under the tent.
when a drake, sensing a female, swims under the tent, the hunter, hiding in the hut, pulls the cord, and the tent falls, covering both birds. Experienced hunters say that under certain conditions, up to five drakes can be caught in one hunt, but after each catch, you need to change the location of the tent. If it is necessary to catch ducklings or a duck during the molting period, racing nets are used.

Another option is to use the so-called. trapping cones. The simplest type of this trap is an ordinary paper bag with walls smeared inside with bird glue and bait laid out in it. The bottom line is simple: when trying to feast on a decomposed treat, the duck sticks to the walls and, seeing nothing, cannot escape. True, this method has many shortcomings, which are partially corrected by replacing the glue with a trapping belt. It is done like this: a fringe is cut out on a strip of relatively soft plastic, then the strip is folded into a ring, the teeth of the fringe are bent inward and sewn into a bag of dense fabric with a folded or folded muffled part. The main thing at the same time is to choose the right diameter of the ring so that the duck, having stuck its head inside, could not stick it out. When a duck, in pursuit of a treat, puts such a bag on its head, it falls into a real stupor, because, on the one hand, it does not see anything, and on the other hand, it can move. In this state, it is very easy to catch her. The average size of the bag, as hunting practice shows, is as follows:

length of the hunting belt = duck head circumference + 30-50 mm.
belt width - 50-60 mm.
trap bag width = trap belt length + seam allowance.

Such a “reusable” cone is placed in a special feeder made in advance with a number of holes that match the size of the bag. One hole must be made slightly larger than the rest, and left free. The bait is usually traditional pieces of fish, bread, thick porridge, boiled potatoes, lard. Install such a feeder both on the shore and in the water near the shore.

Finally, you can catch a duck using a noose. True, this method, unlike the previous ones, does not give a 100% guarantee of success, therefore it is more often used by hunters with a solid experience. For its implementation it is necessary:

choose a body of water frequented by ducks.
attach a strong self-tightening loop to a pole mounted on spacers and pour a little corn into its center (ducks peck most readily on it) or lard.
determine the direction of the wind and lie low so that the duck cannot smell you.
then you have to wait. When a duck arrives, sees your bait and starts eating, you need to sharply pull the end of the rope so that the loop wraps around its neck. This must be done quickly and carefully so that the duck does not have time to fly away.

Unconventional ways to catch ducks

In addition to the methods described above, there are others. Some hunters manage to make the pond itself, on which the ducks fly, into one big trap. It is done this way: the meat-fish-cereal bait is mixed with alcohol at the rate of two liters per one hundred ducks, then the feeders with refreshments are placed throughout the lake. Despite the fact that the metabolism of a duck is much faster than that of a person, intoxication occurs quickly enough, and after about an hour you can collect prey. This method is based on well-known tales about how in some villages geese ate mash waste thrown away by the housewives, got drunk and fell asleep so that they mistook them for dead. A tale is a tale, but, as they say, there is no smoke without fire, and for sure the inhabitants of the countryside can recall similar stories that actually happened ...

But we digress. As you can see, there are many ways to catch a wild duck almost with your bare hands. True, it should be noted that poachers sometimes use some methods, especially when mass catching ducks, so you should be careful and not get too carried away so that seemingly innocent fun does not turn into something criminal. If your hunting is mostly irregular and situational, we can only wish you good luck in catching a wild duck and finally show a video where experienced hunters will tell and demonstrate how you can catch a wild duck without a gun.

Wild drakes peck at decoy ducks if they look like wild ones. So your goal is very logical. And, of course, a gun will not help you in achieving this goal. In general, you have three ways to carry out your plan.

First

It is more dangerous - it is hook fishing. But before we talk about how to catch a wild duck on a hook, let's warn. With this method of fishing, there is a risk of damaging the bird during the removal of the hook, so be careful.

We choose a reservoir chosen by wild ducks;
- we find among the snags already on the shore a small and branchy one (it should be convenient to tie several lures to it);
- buy a thin but strong fishing line. It must be invisible in the water, but withstand the battle with the caught duck;
- we attach hooks to the fishing line (no more than 5 or 6 sizes), put the bait on them and fix it on the snag. Ideally, these should be small live fish or frogs. They will attract the attention of your prey with their fluttering. If you don’t have such a luxury, then a crumb of bread, a piece of bacon, will do. Inanimate bait must be hung between the branches of driftwood above the water so that it is visible and does not drown. It is better to make several of these lines with bait of different lengths in order to increase your chances of a good hunt.

Don't forget to properly moor your snag as well. A caught duck in an attempt to escape can drag it all over the lake and it will be difficult for you to keep up with it. Therefore, either tie it with a long rope to something on the shore, or make an impromptu anchor. And again, this method does not guarantee that the duck will not injure itself in an attempt to get off the hook. Therefore, it is better to observe the fishing process from the shore and remove the duck as soon as possible after swallowing the hook.

A more difficult way is trapping. It is he who is ideal if you need to get an intact bird. Traps can be different. For example, it is easy to attract a bird by offering it a convenient way to dry its feathers.

Your actions:

Take some logs and fasten them together;
- put a basket on top (also attached to the logs), on the lid of which pour earth. The basket should have a lid that, under the weight of a duck sitting down to dry its feathers, would open and the game would fall inside, and the lid would fall into place.

And, of course, you can lure a wild bird with food. Build something like a house with a cone-shaped entrance or a labyrinth-like entrance so that the duck that gets there does not have time to get out before you arrive. Put a lot of tasty things inside and hide nearby.

Third

The last way is catching in snares or loops. If you know how to hide well, know exactly which side the wind is blowing from and are able to lie low for a long time, then this is the best way to hunt. Absolutely not costly in terms of means and forces. Make a pull loop and place a corncob in the center. Wait for the duck to start eating and pull on the end of the rope so that the loop wraps around the duck.