Hunting equipment

300px|thumb|Traditional target arrow (top) and replica medieval arrow (bottom) thumb|Modern arrow with plastic fletchings and nock

thumb|Common military rifles from the mid-to-late 20th century of various types and configurations, displayed at the National Firearms Museum in [[Virginia, United States. Top to bottom: FAMAS, vz. 52 rifle, CAR-15, M40, SVD rifle, RK 62, and Type 56.]]

thumb|An Egypt|Egyptian boomerang; [[National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece.]] thumb|Australian Aboriginal boomerangs A boomerang () is a thrown tool typically constructed with airfoil sections and designed to spin about an axis perpendicular to the direction of its flight, designed to return to the thrower. The origin of the word is from an Aboriginal Australian language of the Sydney region. Its original meaning, which is preserved in official competitions, refers only to returning objects, not to throwing sticks, which were also used for hunting by various peoples both in Australia

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short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon

thumb|A collection of pocketknives thumb|A Swiss Army knife made by [[Victorinox]]

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gun that uses compressed air to launch projectiles

ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device and long-shafted projectiles

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thumb|300px|Normans|Norman cavalry attacks the Anglo-Saxon [[shield wall at the Battle of Hastings as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. The "lances" depicted here are held with a one-handed over-the-head grip, and so their use is not the same as the "lances" of the later medieval period, when they were fitted with a "grapper" designed to engage a lance rest attached to the wielder's plate armour and used couched in the charge.]]

sighting device for firearms, with either fixed or variable magnification.

Bolas or bolases (: bola; from Spanish and Portuguese bola, "ball", also known as a boleadora or boleadeira) is a type of throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, used to capture animals by entangling their legs. Bolas were most famously used by the gauchos, but have been found in excavations of Pre-Columbian settlements, especially in Patagonia, where indigenous peoples (particularly the Tehuelche) used them to catch 200-pound guanacos and rheas. The Mapuche and the Inca army used them in battle. Mapuche warriors used bolas in their confrontations with the Chilean

thumb|A piece of cheese used as bait on a [[mousetrap]] Bait is any appetizing substance (e.g. food) used to attract prey when hunting or fishing, most commonly in the form of trapping (e.g. mousetrap and bird trap), ambushing (e.g. from a hunting blind) and angling.

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shotgun with a smaller barrel and stock

'''''' (, translation: "wolf's hook") or '''' () is a heraldic charge from mainly Germany and eastern France, which was inspired by medieval European wolf traps that consisted of a Z-shaped metal hook (called the Wolfsangel, or the crampon in French) that was hung by a chain from a crescent-shaped metal bar (called the ', or the in French). The stylized symbol of the Z-shape (also called the ', meaning the "double-hook") can include a central horizontal bar to give a Ƶ-symbol, which can be reversed and/or rotated; it is sometimes mistaken as being an ancient rune due to its similarity to the "

thumb|Two children with parrot cage (painting by Georg Friedrich Kersting, c. 1835) thumb|British birdcage, c. 1750, mahogany and brass, overall: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)

small, unpowered missile weapon

weapon designed or used primarily for hunting game animals

type of knife

type of spear that is primarily used for boar hunting

Slavic weapon

poison applied to arrow heads or darts for hunting and warfare

thumb|Carved wooden duck decoy (model)|duck decoys

large-calibre handgun with two or four barrels

dagger

airgun manufacturer

man-made object resembling a real duck

cover device for hunters or gamekeepers

swords designed specifically for hunting

firearm of large caliber for hunting large game

type of air gun, typically with a 4.5 mm smoothbore barrel, for use with spherical bullets

multi-barrel pistol

Nosler, Inc. is an American manufacturing company based in Bend, Oregon, known for producing ammunition and handloading components and specializing in high-performance hollow-point and soft-point hunting bullets. The current companies also include subsidiaries Nosler Custom and Nosler Reloading. Nosler's contributions to shooting sports include both polymer-tipped bullet designs and new manufacturing techniques used in their production.

thumb|A replica amappo on display at the Osaka Museum of Natural History thumb|John Batchelor (missionary)|John Batchelor (1854-1944), "The Ainu of Japan", 1892, classic horizontal amappo thumb|Ibid., vertical amappo for otter thumb|Ibid., amappo rat trap An was a traditional bear and deer hunters' trap of the Ainu people of the northern Japanese archipelago and Sakhalin. Traps similar to amappo were also used by ethnic Japanese matagi hunters.

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