Talking about hunting with my grandfather, the profession of hunter may be different from the impression of many people, especially affected by film and television works
Many people think that the picture is like this: the hunter carries a shotgun, or pulls a full bow, adjusts the breath, focuses on aiming, firing, and the roe deer and wild boar fall to the ground in response, and the hunter laughs and carries the prey home on his shoulder
The real hunting experience may not be like this at all, thousands of years of Chinese civilization is an agricultural civilization, why not hunt? Because hunting can't feed so many people, you may not be able to hit large animals for many days
Perhaps only in Canada, in a sparsely populated place like Australia, the transcendent hunting scene in the movie will appear
It is no exaggeration to say that if you enter the primeval forest, if you are not a professional hunter or a professional, you may not be able to encounter a roe deer, deer and other large herbivores in ten and a half days, as for bears, tigers and other beasts, you go around the forest, and the probability of encountering them is lower than 5 million
Rabbit dung is all over the ground, and the cries of pheasants are also repeated, but you can't see the shadow, why? Because most wild animals, whether visual, smelly or hearing, throw humans a few streets away
People's wild animals are hiding from you, walking around you, and don't want to see you! Everyone knows the silly roe deer, in fact, into the forest, human beings are really stupid roe deer, which day specifically talk about the ins and outs of the silly roe deer, the Internet is not all right
So my grandfather and their generation hunted, relying on a wealth of experience, setting traps, setting sets, and the hunters at that time were more disciplined, and everyone had a general range, just like tigers and lions have territories
And everyone's methods are different, time has passed, when patrolling the mountains, encounter traps, sets, everyone has a number in mind, this is "Zhao Banshan" (Grandpa's nickname), that is Liu Mazi under, you Liu Mazi under the condom, set on the rabbit, I Zhao Banshan will never move
Because they can't afford to lose the man, let alone lose their craftsmanship, so it used to be said that the villagers went out to collect cow dung, didn't bring dung baskets, and drew a circle with branches, this thing has a master, no one will move, these are all real things
Just because everyone obeys the rules, how many sets are under which slope? When to catch what cargo? Look at the region more to see the season, never chaotic
In this way, wild animals can recuperate and continue to flow, and they will not flood and plague crops and livestock
Another reason for not using shotguns and bows and arrows is that animal fur was more valuable than meat, and a complete piece of fur, both then and now, is very valuable. "Dream of the Red Chamber" has a large number of descriptions, about hunters in the mountains in winter to send animal skins to Rongning and Ning province
Later, people broke the rules, who picked it up and counted who? Not only that, in the 90s, there was also a popular homemade shotgun, commonly known as a foreign cannon in our hometown, from the long barrel to the iron sand, no rifling, and inaccurate, is spray
It was very bad, and the safety risk was very large, to tell the truth, there was a brother playing with foreign cannons, not carrying, dragging away, the result was that the grass branch touched the bolt, and a tube of iron sand hit his leg
Later, this kind of homemade foreign cannon was explicitly banned and confiscated.
There is also a drug, the usual one called "flat hair cream", as the name suggests, is only harmful to flat haired animals, that is, birds
For other kinds of animals, it is fine, a bit like the herbicide used by farmers to hoe grass, also divided into dicotyledons and monocotyledons, you sprinkle the medicine to remove barnyard grass to the cornfield, then it is over, the stick seedlings are also killed together, sprinkle in the soybean field
There is also a sticky net, layer after layer of nets, birds can not come down, this used to be rampant in Hebei, there are news reporters tracking and investigation, and then the state increased wildlife protection, only slowly converged and stopped
Inserted a piece of indiscriminate killing, bad rules and illegal gossip, now back to the main topic, and then talk about Grandpa's hunting
There are two kinds of lower covers, which are divided into ground sets and jump sets, such as the lower rabbit sleeve, which is a circle as large as a fist, a fist high from the ground, and under the place where the rabbit usually passes
This rabbit also has a fatal shortcoming, because it is timid, it most of the time it walks the original road, depicts the rabbit footprints under a set, chases the half slope of the mountain and then comes back, a big fat rabbit hangs on the sleeve and strangles
Rabbits and roe deer pheasants, as long as these animals are trapped, they only know how to blindly rush forward and strangle and pull down
To put it bluntly, it is still a low IQ. Carnivores are much smarter, they can't use condoms, they will bite with their teeth, they will also use their claws to undo the condoms, and they will also roll down the condoms backwards
There is a way to catch monkeys in Africa, which is to cut a hole in the dirt slope or hard rock wall, narrow on the outside and wide on the inside, and the opening is just enough for the monkey to stick its claws into it
Peanuts and other nuts were placed in the hole, and the monkey was led to steal, and the monkey's claws reached in, grabbed the peanuts, and the person appeared in time
The monkey is anxious and afraid, the claws are pulled out, but they don't know to let go of their hands first, and they are still clutching nuts and clenching their fists, just stuck in the hole and can't get out, the harder they work, the more stuck they die, and finally they can only be caught, in fact, the principle of the rabbit set is the same
As for the jump sleeve, it is to press down the elastic branches, make a machine bracket, bounce up after triggering, and hang some rats, birds, etc. in the air, this jump set is more difficult, the average person will not, and Grandpa is just a master of playing jump sets, not only can set rabbits, set pheasants, even robes can be put on
When we were young, we ran the mountain, running and running, and suddenly there was a trip under our feet, and people flew out flat, and when they flew to the ground in mid-air, they were suddenly pulled back, don't ask, they must have stepped on the rabbit set
Once, when I went up the mountain with my grandfather, I saw a pout as thick as a corn cob, and I wondered what it was, and I wanted to take it up, and grandpa said, Silly child, that's bear dung.
Then he said that this was an old bear, older, equivalent to sixty or seventy years old, but his body was still very good, that is, his teeth were a little worse, and he was running all the way down the mountain to the mountain
I hurriedly asked Grandpa, did you look at it? Know so clearly? Where did it come from? Where to go? How old do you know? Eyes widened, waiting for Grandpa to reveal the answer.
Grandpa skimmed his lips, isn't it all written on the bear dung you just wanted to take. You look at the length and thickness of its fecal prick, you know how its gastrointestinal function is, the young bear dung is thin and short, and when it is old, it is long
Speaking grandpa haha laugh, the words are not rough, you can look closely, you can deduce how the teeth are, see what residue is inside, you know from which place to run, there are water and fish under the mountain, nuts on the mountainside and so on
Speaking of being familiar with bears, this mountain, and this forest, you can know it at a glance, and your knowledge can be profound!
Listen to Grandpa a bear dung to see so many doorways, see so much information, in addition to admiration or admiration! Grandpa wasn't a wildlife expert, he was a real living map of the mountains
Grandpa has been gone for many years, Grandpa's craft has also been lost, in fact, not lost, it has been useless, but Grandpa's story is still wonderful, still can be shared with everyone, in fact, Grandpa is most praised is still familiar with wild animals, next time continue to talk about Grandpa and bears
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