Chapter 243: The Sable's Trace
Early the next morning, Yue Feng opened his eyes and got up on time.
I had a day off yesterday, and today is the day for the whole falconry team to go hunting. We have enough hawks at home, so we don’t have to worry about Yue Feng taking the big green harrier up the mountain.
While eating, Xiao Tao learned that Yue Feng was going to the mountains to catch sables with green harriers, so Xiao Tao thought that he would follow him to take care of him, but Yue Feng shook his head.
“It’s not that I don’t want to take you there, it’s just that sables are too clever. When there are more people, there will be more noise. You may hear the sound in advance and hide early!
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I will go to the big mountain valley to the east of Forestry Farm No. 21. It will take me at most one morning to go back and forth. If I carry a gun on my back, it will definitely be no problem! "
After hearing this, Xiao Tao was worried: "Then... let's hold the black wolf again. Going into the mountains in this season, it is not enough for one person to take care of him! "
"Okay, then take the black wolf! Forest Farm No. 21 is not that far away, so don’t worry!
You three brothers, don’t be lazy today. There is not much game reserve in the cafeteria. We think that before we go hunting in the mountains next time, we must have enough reserves before we can go, otherwise we will delay others. It’s operating normally over there! "
"Don't worry, Iron-backed Red and Big Chicken Eagle are both with them. No matter it's a chicken or a rabbit, as long as it doesn't come from far away, they won't run away when they encounter it! ”
"Hurry up and eat, let's go together when we are full!!"
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The four brothers drank the egg drop soup made by Meng Yulan and gnawed on the meat buns to fill their stomachs. After that, they took the eagle from the scaffold, put on their hunting bags and put on their leggings, and left the village together.
In contrast, the place Yue Feng wanted to go was farther than the hunting ground of others. The brothers left the village and went up the mountain. After climbing several mountain ridges behind the village, they parted ways at an intersection. .
Yue Feng walked another section of the mountain road in the direction he remembered, and soon reached Chaiji Road. After walking along Chaiji Road for more than an hour, there was no easier mountain road.
However, this did not trouble him. He took off the hat of the big black eagle with the big crop in his hand and scattered it into the sky. Then he mounted the big green kite and continued on his way through the mountains and forests along the ridges and over the mountains.
On the No. 21 Forest Farm, because the area is relatively deep, the number is slightly larger. There are four mountain ridges from the nearest Chaiji Road.
It is also because it is far away from Chaiji Road, so tenants who pull condominiums do not like to come here to work. The same wood that meets the standard may be hauled four times a day in other forest areas, but here, I could only make three trips, and the work was tiring and I didn't make any money, so the number of forest areas here was almost in a relatively primitive state where the areas were only designated, but they were never contracted out and no logging was carried out.
It is precisely because of the natural barrier of Forest Area No. 21 that not many hunters go to the mountain valley in the east. The road here is not easy to walk. In the mountain valley in summer and autumn, shrubs and vines are intertwined. There are not many other large prey, but Yue Feng knows that there have always been sable activities in this place. In his previous life, he followed the old hunter who would arrange a lot of sable plywood here almost every year. After the winter, how can he still have a guaranteed number of sables? Two sables were harvested.
Don’t think that catching one or two sables in one winter is too small, right?
It's really less, but compared to other places, it's pretty good here.
Except for the breeding season, sables usually do not have a fixed nest life. The vast majority of young sables without territories live a homeless life.
Moreover, this thing can climb trees, drill holes in trees, and expand and dig caves to hide. It is still small and not like a rabbit in the wild. There are fixed paths back and forth that can be ambushed. Clamp down,
Sable is extremely alert and suspicious, and will run away at the slightest sign of trouble. This is the main reason why Yue Feng does not take Xiao Tao with him.
After arriving at the eastern boundary area of Forest Area No. 21, Yue Feng roughly determined the downward direction, and then led the black wolf to continue moving towards the river valley.
Along the way, the black wolf was extremely excited, sniffing here and there. However, Yue Feng tied him with a rope, so the area of activity was extremely limited. After Yue Feng emphasized several times to follow, the dog slowly calmed down. He followed Yue Feng step by step and walked steadily in the snow.
After climbing another gentle slope in the right direction, the terrain in front of us suddenly became clear.
A mountain stream with a north-south span of at least more than 150 meters appeared in front of Yue Feng.
Standing on the height of the gentle slope and looking down, except for an ice-free spring in the northwest corner that still gurgled water, the entire huge area was covered in ice and snow.
Before going down the valley, Yue Feng raised his head and scanned around. He quickly selected a small ash tree that was as thick as a child's arm. He pulled out the knife from his lower back and cut it off from the root in three strokes. , and then cut off the tree head, leaving a stick about two meters long.
This stick can be of great use. Today I am chopping the stick not to penetrate the knife, but to explore the bottom.
The ice-free spring has flowing water all year round. Under the ice and snow cover in the valley, there will be scattered undercurrents. If people want to go down to the valley for activities, they must hold a stick in their hand to test, otherwise they will If you step below, your feet may get wet and your search will be affected, or if you lose your center of gravity and fall into the water, you may even risk your life.
In comparison, the heavy snow and cold are much more friendly to small and medium-sized animals such as dogs, which are relatively small in weight. Small animals such as sables can easily You can move freely on the snow shell without worrying about it collapsing.
After cutting the stick, Yue Feng chose a relatively flat area and moved towards the bottom of the mountain stream. Every time he took a step, he used the stick to poke into the ground to try. Although the moving speed was a bit slow, it was always very fast. smooth.
As we descended to the bottom of the valley, more and more footprints on the snow attracted Yue Feng's attention.
This is a kind of footprint similar to the size of a bobcat's footprint. The footprint is slightly larger, but the footprint is very shallow. Because it was a little longer, when the wind blows at night, the snow foam covers the outline of the footprint so clearly that it is not so clear.
Yue Feng was very moved after just one glance. As soon as he reached the bottom of the valley, he found the ferret's footprints. It was a good sign.
Ferrets are not big, but in order to facilitate walking and chasing in the snow, their feet are much larger than those of weasels, which are also members of the mustel family.
It is a good thing to have footprints, which means that there may be sable activities recently. While ensuring your own safety, you can try to follow the traces of sables.
Yue Feng leaned on his stick and moved forward slowly, lowering his head and looking around every few steps, looking for suspicious traces.
If this sable is a newly adult vagabond, it may not have a nest or the like to live permanently for a long time. However, if it is an adult sable and has occupied the surrounding territory, there are also records of living in fixed caves or other nests.
In this case, sometimes there is only one chance to hunt. Once you make a mistake, you will never find it again!
Using the Big Green Harrier to catch sables can be regarded as Yue Feng challenging the limits of his falcon hunting. It is a huge challenge to the ability of the falcon and the ability to find the target prey with the hawk's handle.
Yue Feng followed quietly for several hundred meters, and soon the footprints on the ground disappeared.
Yue Feng looked around and found a fallen tree next to him that had been blown down by the wind, but was not completely dead. It was leaning on a branch of a similar tree.
You don't need to think about it to know that the sable jumped up to the trunk of the fallen tree. This is also a common way for them to hide the traces of their movements. The more experienced the sable, the more they like to use it.
Yue Feng searched around along the slanting wind-fallen tree, and soon found new footprints under another tree more than ten meters away.
Yue Feng closed his eyes and imagined a strong sable in his mind. He jumped to the wind-downed tree, climbed up the trunk, then jumped along the side branches to another tree, and finally After a short circle, we came down from another normal pine tree and continued on our way.
Is there a sable nest nearby? Yue Feng made an uncertain inference based on his own imagination. Generally, only female ferrets during the breeding season will show extreme vigilance towards hiding their nests. Under normal conditions during the regular season, it is not worth doing so.
Thinking of this, Yue Feng flattened the big green harrier that had been squatting on his arm and continued to follow the footprints and search.
After chasing for at least a few hundred meters, Yue Feng found that there were many similar terrains, but the sable didn't seem to care much. It kept walking and stopping under the trees, and occasionally jumped across the low trees. The bushes left a slightly deeper footprint.
Something is wrong!
The further down I chase Yue Feng, the more something feels wrong!
I still don’t believe it. If there really is a nest, the rabbit will run all over the hill and return to its nest sooner or later. Brother, let’s be honest with you today. I have to see where you have been and whether you can come back. return!
So, Yue Feng followed the footprints and chased him for several hundred meters.
This sable seems to be out searching for food, walking around and occasionally going under the bushes and coming out from the other side.
After chasing for at least a kilometer, Yue Feng realized that he had guessed correctly.
After wandering around in a circle, the sable walked back to the slanted wind-downed tree from the boundary between trees and bushes on the other side of the river valley.
Moving traces form a closed loop of search-prey-home.
Now Yue Feng knows it.
So, Yue Feng stood on the side of the fallen tree for the second time and observed it carefully.
The bottom is normal, covered with a little snow foam, and the bottom of the trunk is normal, but about two and a half meters above the ground, a part of the trunk that originally had snow foam is gone.
Hmph! I might as well discover it after all!
Yue Feng quietly walked to the side of the fallen tree, then expanded his outer ear with his hand, placed it directly against the trunk and listened carefully.
At first there was only the low-frequency hum of the wind blowing through the branches and trunks, but Yue Feng held his breath and listened for a while, and soon made new discoveries.
Inside the tree trunk, there was a rustling sound, as if a mouse was moving around.
Now it’s confirmed that this fallen tree must be the sable’s hiding place.
Thinking of this, Yue Feng took out a small hand ax from his waist and started chopping at the bottom and side of the fallen tree without hesitation.
After a while, a tree hole about the size of a fist was cut open, and the inside of the trunk was filled with rotten but not rotten tree core.
Yue Feng tried to take out a little bit. It was soft and had almost no strength at all, but it was basically dry. If this thing was used to make a nest, it seemed to be quite warm.
Thinking of this, Yue Feng lowered his head and rummaged through his bag, and quickly took out a marleli seed.
This time, Mareko did not directly light it and stuff it into the hole like he had killed Xiong Cangzi before. Instead, he left a fuse, sealed the soil on Mareko's back butt, and gently knocked it away with the back of a knife. , and then pour out the sealing soil until you see the black gunpowder inside.
The next second, Yue Feng held the match in both hands and lit Mareko's fuse.
Whoosh!
歘~~~~
Because the back seat was knocked open, the lit fuse directly ignited the gunpowder in the marle, and a pungent smell instantly rose, accompanied by a large amount of white smoke.
Any normal animal will be afraid of the smell of burning gunpowder. Even those as strong as brown bears and even Siberian tigers are very afraid of these smells.
Sable is no exception.
In the rotten tree trunk, although the core of the tree has not been completely hollowed out by decay, there must be small gaps connecting it from the bottom to the top. After the mareizi is lit, these gaps act like a chimney. function, pumping the irritating gas upwards.
Less than five seconds after almost lighting the Mareko, I heard a squeaking sound coming from the tree hole. Soon, a dark brown head peeked out of the tree trunk hidden on the side of the fallen tree. Out of the head.
After discovering a man and a dog standing under the tree, the sable immediately retracted its head.
But this is enough. Can a fallen tree still protect you?
Yue Feng decisively took out the second Mare Seed.
This time Yue Feng repeated the previous process.
歘~~~
After another burst of white smoke, the stronger and pungent smell of burning gunpowder was sucked up again by the tree hole.
The sable hiding in the tree hole was really unbearable. After getting out of the tree hole, it seemed to be running on the flat ground, swiss swish, swish, and quickly climbed up on the trunk of the wind-downed tree. , then jumped on a horizontal branch and jumped to another pine tree next to it.
Yue Feng knows that now is not a good opportunity to fly an eagle. If the big green harrier chases, the branches are dense, and it will be shaken off by the sable in at most one round. If the eagle lands on the tree, the sable will escape from the tree. After running away elsewhere, Yue Feng would need at least several more hours of preparation if he wanted to organize a new round of attack.
I saw Yue Feng, holding a pathfinding stick in one hand, standing there and knocking on the tree trunk.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang!
There were a few rapid knocking sounds in the dull air, like a heart-stirring war drum, giving the little sable a great sense of oppression.
The little sable that was running away was affected by the knocking sound. After a few circles on the second pine tree, it jumped to the third tree, then ran down in circles, and soon He used a side branch more than two meters above the ground as a springboard and jumped directly to the ground.
Seeing this scene, Yue Feng knew that the time was ripe, and he held the big green kite on his waist and sent the horse across the waist to unite.
Let’s go!
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