Chapter 234 Draw inferences from one example
"Uncle, what is the material of your rope? Why have I never seen this thing before? It looks very thin, but it is quite tough!"
Always there Not far away, Yue Feng was watching the old hunter put on the trap. After watching for a long time, he couldn't help but ask.
Uncle Zhao did not stop working and explained: "This is deer tendon rope, made from moose tendons through complicated manufacturing techniques!
These bundles The rope was not made by me, it was passed down from a deceased old hunter!
As long as this thing is maintained regularly with oil, its strength is comparable to that of a steel wire rope. However, the single strands of deer tendon rope cannot be used in strands. They will easily break after friction and heat! So you can’t catch animals that are too big, such as wild boars and red deer!
Do you understand this method of dragging a stick under a lasso?
I just happened to be on the mountain and trying to learn tricks. If you want to learn but still don’t understand something, you can ask me and I’ll tell you guys! "
When he said this, most of Uncle Zhao's attention was focused on Yue Feng. The meaning is also very simple. If you want to learn, I can teach you!
Yue Feng himself has it too He also listened to his father talk about some of the family's hunting skills when he was free, but they were all about catching roe deer and wild boars, which are relatively easy to track and have obvious animal tracks.
"I know some of the basics of lassoing, but in situations like today's lassoing, things I know are a bit ineffective! How did you choose the position where the lasso is triggered? After all, there are no animal trails around. Terrain that we can use!" Yue Feng asked the doubts in his heart.
“A feeling!”
“Feeling? What do you mean?”
Uncle Zhao tied the last knot, then he did not get up, but bowed his waist and tied it He lowered his gaze and walked towards Yue Feng.
“Feeling is to simulate the thoughts and habits of the animal you want to capture, and put it into the surrounding environment you want to trap.
Suppose, if the prey returns to this area, where will it settle actively or passively?
You lean down and take a look, pretending that you are a half-grown leopard less than one year old passing by! "
Hearing what Uncle Zhao said, Yue Feng leaned down and adjusted his sight to a position sixty or seventy centimeters above the ground, and then brought himself into the perspective of the prey.
What a difference. Said that after such a change in perspective, Yue Feng really discovered a lot of things that he had ignored before.
For example, there was a tree less than fifty centimeters in front of him. When the leopard moved, his body would definitely not move. To hit a tree, you can only climb up or go around it.
If you climb a tree, where should you place your foot to exert its strength? If it goes around, where does it take the least effort to land the forefoot and still achieve the goal of going around?
Change the hunter’s thinking into the prey’s thinking, and many things will be solved.
This thing is like a layer of window paper. Once it is pierced, Yue Feng instantly feels that his understanding of setting up traps and nooses has directly improved to a large level.
"Have you figured it out?" Uncle Zhao looked at Yue Feng with burning eyes and asked softly.
“Yeah!”
Yue Feng nodded and walked back to the trap that Uncle Zhao had just set. After observing it with the mind of a prey, he found that the positions of the nooses were indeed in relatively reasonable positions.
"I figured it out, then when I find another hiding place, will you set up this trap?"
"Okay! I'll give it a try then!"
"Now that all the dogs have been cleared, I will restore as much of the traces left by the traps as possible, and we will continue to search the next mountain!"
When everyone heard the noise, they all retreated to a dozen or so. Twenty meters away.
After the people stepped back, they saw Uncle Zhao taking out a self-made wild boar bristle brush from his bag, leaning down and walking backwards, carefully cleaning up all the traces around him to a certain extent bit by bit. , and then straightened up after exiting the area where the trap was laid.
“Traps are easy to set up, and it’s not difficult to choose a location, but the traces left behind are not easy to clean! There are a lot of people and dogs, and there will definitely be odors and subtle traces. This is because manpower sometimes runs out, and there are no traces. What a great idea!
But don’t worry too much. After sweeping it with this boar-bristle brush and scraping the snow foam for a day or two, the previous subtle marks will be covered up. Unless the prey is very vigilant, most of them will not be noticed. This is enough for catching leopard cubs!
The layout is here, let’s keep looking! Before dark, sort out the remaining areas!”
“Okay!”
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Soon, the five members of the team led the dogs and continued to search the mountain, counting as many traces around them as possible.
At 2:30 in the afternoon, when Gouzi and the hunter were tracking the scent information, they discovered a special terrain that was suspected to be a leopard's foothold.
This is a large aspen tree that was blown down by the wind. Because it was too old, the trunk has become hollow. There are also footprints and scent traces of leopard activity around it.
Uncle Zhao took out another deer tendon rope from his bag and handed it to Yue Feng.
"This time you set up the lasso and let me see how much you can learn!"
"Okay, let me try!"
Yue Feng responded and took the rope, Then he bent down and observed the detailed terrain, surrounding vegetation, and other conditions.
In this wind-downed tree terrain, it was much easier to put down the noose than in the previous tree hole. After observing for a while, Yue Feng quickly determined the position of the noose.
"Here, here, and here! I think it is enough to place a triggering lasso at each of these three locations. What do you think?" Yue Feng pointed out the location.
After reading this, Uncle Zhao frowned slightly and glanced at Yue Feng's choices, then walked to the outermost selection area.
Uncle Zhao fully approved of the other two positions. If he was asked to play, he would also choose these two positions first. However, the third outermost trap placement position, the old man did not understand a bit.
"Tell me, what did you think of choosing this position to set up?"
Yue Feng pointed to the wind direction and said: "This is based on what you just said, using animal thinking. The results obtained from the location! Moreover, a little bit of overall perspective is added!
The wind blows from the northwest most of the time, and the tree hole where the wind fell is located in the downwind position to avoid the wind. One of the main reasons why leopards choose to live here temporarily! It is cold upwind, but there will be relatively little snow, and it is warm downwind, but there will be snow foam blowing over!
If I were a leopard, I would definitely jump over here, because this is the least labor-intensive, most convenient, and in line with its habits.
In addition, roughly connecting the movement trajectories of leopards that we have searched before, our current punctuation mark of the wind-downed tree is in a relatively peripheral area. If the leopard is active in the core area, return to the present If you live in this location, you will definitely come back in this direction!
Both of these points can be confirmed, and the results are consistent enough, so I chose this place as one of the backup lasso traps! ”
“Not bad! You are a child who knows how to learn things by analogy. You are a good candidate to be a hunter! ! ”
After listening to Yue Feng's answer, Uncle Zhao nodded excitedly. This ability of insight and logical thinking was terrifying, and his purely theoretical understanding was no worse than Uncle Zhao himself.
"Hey! I'll just do it. You're so impressed! Since you think these three locations are all right, I can start decorating them!"
"Okay! "
After receiving further recognition, Yue Feng followed Uncle Zhao's example and began to arrange the rope. He used the roots and stems of the low plants nearby to easily determine the position of the noose's trigger mechanism, and then also followed suit. Uncle Zhao looked like he was tied to a wooden stick more than one and a half meters long.
"Uncle, can you see if I can do it these two times? If there are no other problems, I am ready to erase the traces!" Yue Feng continued to ask.
Uncle Zhao did not speak, but directly handed his brush made of wild boar bristles to Yue Feng. The meaning was already very simple. Yue Feng's skill in setting traps was fully recognized by the old man.
After finishing several traps and nooses in the second place, it was about three o'clock. Everyone was busy for most of the day and didn't even eat lunch. However, Uncle Zhao didn't say anything. Yue Feng, as the captain, He didn't even open his mouth to ask. Anyway, it wasn't a high-intensity pursuit of prey. He wouldn't starve to death even if he didn't eat. He could still endure it by eating again when he returned to his homestead.
In the next more than two hours, Dahuang and Heilang led people around the last two mountain ridges. Except for traces of leopards passing by, they found no suspicious terrain or anything else. , naturally there is no need to talk about laying out new nooses.
Uncle Zhao and a few others climbed up the ridge again and said: "Okay, that's it for today! I have already begun to count the traces of the leopard's movement! Tomorrow morning Xiaofeng and I will get up early in the dark to check the condom , if the leopard doesn’t show up, we’ll go straight to Luming Valley!”
“That’s it! Let’s go home and cook. We didn’t have a good rest last night. Let’s eat early and get some rest!” br>
In this way, the group of people, led by Uncle Zhao, returned to Dixiangzi along the ridge.
After working outside for nearly a whole day and not eating in the middle, several young people were completely frozen. They returned to the house, lit the fire, boiled some hot water and took a few sips. The body warmed up quickly.
We still made stewed venison for dinner at night. Uncle Zhao’s cooking skills can only be said to be passable, but with the various condiments and condiments that Yue Feng and the others brought up the mountain, the flavor of the stewed venison is already very good. .
A few people gathered around a large pot of venison. After eating and drinking, they began to prepare to rest before it got dark.
Yue Feng was in good spirits. After chatting with Uncle Zhao for a while while listening to the radio, Yue Feng asked: "Uncle, if this leopard doesn't leave, will he still find a way to come to our farm?" ! ”
"Well, it's possible! The red dog is on the leopard's hunting list. As long as the leopard doesn't move, the leopard will definitely continue to come to our place if it wants to consolidate its territory! I'm not afraid of this. With a gun, There is also a house, and the leopard doesn’t have much to do with us!”
“Then if we find a position outside the yard and tie a bait, will the leopard be fooled, for example, or catch a roe deer? Deer, small wild boar, etc., we will tie them outside the fence, where we can see them and aim our guns!
We must also solve the problem of eating and drinking with this leopard and its cubs! Tie a trap and prepare in advance, then you will have a chance."
Yue Feng's idea is actually somewhat similar to taking pigeons and tigers up the mountain to hunt eagles. Don't raise them at home! Regardless of whether it is a hound or a red dog, you definitely cannot feed it to a leopard, but if you want to recruit a roe deer or other animals, you can definitely do it with a little effort.
After hearing this, Uncle Zhao pondered for a few seconds before shaking his head: "If its tail hadn't been broken, this trick might have really worked! But now it has suffered a loss in the hands of others. It's definitely true. I will be more cautious, this trick will definitely not work!
If we can catch the leopard cub with the noose during the day and tie the cub there, that will work!
But I think the hope of catching the leopard cub with the lasso is not too optimistic! ”
“Well, okay then! Leopards are so difficult to kill. If our target was a tiger, it would be much more difficult! "Yue Feng's thoughts wandered and he brought the topic to the even more powerful tiger.
"Tiger? In 1955, Ma Huazi, Kong Erqiang, and I responded to the call of the commune and joined the rural hunting team and hunted a tiger once!
Let me tell you this, when a tiger is running in the forest, it is almost impossible to lock the sight of the gun! We dispatched more than 30 people and more than 50 hounds that time. Almost all hunters in the township were dispatched, but the tiger still escaped!
A hundred-pound hunting dog can be slapped one by one. The dog's head is so hard, but when people found the dog, the skull was smashed!
At that time, we gathered a hunting team. In addition, there were a hundred people from Sou Shan who drove sticks to help. We were surprised that we didn’t trap him!
Although leopards are difficult to deal with, their attack power is limited. Tigers are fast, large, and extremely powerful! You can understand that it has the body shape of an old scalper at home and the terrifying agility of a leopard!
The name of the Mountain God is not for nothing. If your aunt’s grave is not here, and my current cellar is recognized by a tiger, I will immediately move and hide far away, instead of trying to recruit children. Give it a gun and jump to death! "
After listening to Uncle Zhao's words, Yue Feng was a little silent. He had seen tigers raised by humans in the zoo, but as for the purebred wild tigers in Changbai Mountain, Yue Feng had never had the opportunity to encounter them in his previous life.
That terrifying feline, which can easily weigh five to six hundred kilograms or more, even if it is holding 56 and a half in its hand, it has to have the right time, place and people to have a slight chance. If it goes wrong, it will be doomed.
The two men chatted for a while, and Yue Feng felt sleepy. He wrapped his thick leather jacket around his body and closed his eyes.
That night, the three guns in the house were placed in advance, but until it became slightly white outside and Yue Feng was woken up by Uncle Zhao, the leopard did not come all night long.
Uncle Zhao and Yue Feng each carried a gun and set off in a straight line from the cellar to the two places where the traps were placed.
A few hundred meters away from the first tree hole where the leopard cub might be hiding, a terrifying low leopard roar was heard.
There is a situation! !
There is another chapter of 4000 words in the afternoon
(End of this chapter)