War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 48 Hunter Apprentice
On the train heading for Inta, the scenery outside the window was speeding past, only the large forest in the distance could be seen very clearly.

And in the carriage inside the window, a not-too-big table is covered with various firearm maintenance tools. Ji Ma, who shaved his prison-style bald head, is cutting a piece of white rabbit skin into long strips the size of a belt. strapped around the barrel of that sniper rifle.

On the opposite side of the table, Wei Ran covered his head with a blanket and seemed to be sound asleep, but in fact, under the blanket, a slender Mauser bayonet would appear in the palm of his left hand from time to time, and then it was like magic , suddenly turned into a CZ-P09 pistol that uses a large number of titanium alloy parts.

Wei Ran didn't stop trying until he turned the weapon in his hand into that quaint leather notebook again.This is a new way of playing that he discovered by accident. Originally, when he saw that Ji Ma was maintaining the gun, he thought of taking out his pistol to show off.Unexpectedly, what was summoned was not the cowhide notebook he thought, but the pistol that appeared directly!
This is definitely a surprise. After some experiments, Wei Ran discovered that no matter the Mauser bayonet he got in Stalingrad, or the pistol he stuffed into the vortex, as long as he needs it, it can appear directly. in their own hands.Even when he takes the pistol away and puts the old Leica from Zoya back in the vortex, the same can be done!
"Isn't it too convenient to use it to piss people off?" Wei Ran muttered to himself, then yawned and lifted the blanket.

"Aren't you going to sleep?" Ji Ma, who had been busy all this time, asked without raising his head.

"No more sleep"

Wei Ran sat up and stretched, rubbed his cheeks vigorously and asked, "When will we arrive at Inta?"

"Seven o'clock tomorrow morning"

Jima stopped what he was doing, looked at Wei Ran and explained in detail, "The train only stops at Upper Inta. After we get off the train, we have to walk 10 kilometers west to reach Inta, but we want to find the things belonging to President Nicholas. , after we reach Inta, we have to walk at least 20 kilometers.”

"On foot?! 20 kilometers?!"

Dimariso nodded of course, "It's impossible to drive there by car, you can only walk there, otherwise we don't need to bring guns here."

Speaking of this, Ji Ma seemed to have just remembered, turned around and opened the mountaineering bag, took out a long camouflage canvas bag from it and handed it to Wei Ran, "This is your weapon, it's best to use it before getting off the car." Get acquainted."

After taking the dirty canvas roll, Wei Ran opened it and found that it was a rusty and cute TOZ-106 shotgun.

"My teacher and I often use this gun to shoot wild ducks."

While Wei Ran was speaking, he had skillfully removed the magazine, then opened the folding butt, and pushed the charging handle to check the empty chamber.

Although this shotgun, which is definitely not good-looking, uses 20-gauge shotguns, it uses a "big bolt" rotation and then pulls the bolt to feed the ammunition.

But I have to admit that although this strange weapon from the Tula Industrial Arsenal is not good-looking and the workmanship is rough, it is quite popular with hunters because it is cheap enough and easy to carry. Even Alek Professor Sai bought one, and usually used it to blame wild ducks when he had nothing to do.

"Since I have used it before, I won't teach you, but fill up those magazines, and wrap it with rabbit skin." While speaking, Jima had already pulled out a complete rabbit skin from under his buttocks. Gave it to Wei Ran on the opposite side.

"Jima, how long have you been in this business?" Wei Ran took the rabbit skin and asked curiously while cutting it into strips with a wallpaper knife.

"You mean hunter?"

Seeing that Wei Ran nodded, Jima continued, "I have been hunting with my father in the forests around Kazan since I was nine years old. After graduating from high school, hunting has become my job, but the hunting ground is from Kazan. Just become Inta."

"Can you teach me how to be a hunter?"

While Wei Ran was speaking, he bent down and took out a bottle of juniper berries from his backpack and handed it to the other party.At the beginning, Nicholas suggested that he learn to be a hunter from Jima. No matter what the other party said casually or had other meanings, he didn't mind taking the initiative to learn something.

"You want to be a hunter?"

Ji Ma looked at Wei Ran like a fool, thought for a while, and after taking the wine bottle handed to him by the former, he readily agreed, "No problem! Being a hunter is very simple."

When talking about his field of expertise, Ji Ma's chatterbox was completely opened up, and even the unreliable little gangster demeanor disappeared and became extraordinarily serious.

While the two were chatting, time passed by little by little, the sky outside the window was getting darker and darker, and the weapons on the table were replaced with various food and drink.

After spending the second night on the rattling train, Wei Ran also learned some hunting knowledge that might be useful in the next few days from the hunting experiences that came out of Ji Ma's mouth.

Early the next morning, with the long siren sounding, the slow train also stopped at Upper Inta Station amidst the rustling snowflakes.

As the doors opened, a small number of passengers swarmed down with their luggage, and the snow-covered station became lively in an instant.

Wei Ran and Jima, each carrying a hiking bag, left the train station with the flow of people, and the latter found a grocery store not far from the station by familiarity.He exchanged the gin and a stack of banknotes given by Wei Ran yesterday for the car keys of the van in front of the shop.

"Get in the car!" Ji Ma beckoned Wei Ran to get into the car, "I didn't expect it to snow so early this year, and we will suffer a lot in the next few days."

"Where shall we go first?" Wei Ran asked, after searching for the seat belt to no avail, he tightly gripped the handrail on the door frame.

"Let's go find Principal Nicholas' things first."

Jima drove the car across the railway and explained along the snow-covered road in the coniferous forest, "When we come back, we can rest in Inta for a few days, and then you can take pictures slowly."

"All at your disposal"

While Wei Ran was speaking, his attention was all attracted by the scenery outside the window.Although he has been in Russia for four or five years, it is the first time he has come to such a northern latitude.

The coniferous forest covered with thick snow perfectly interprets what is called a forest and snowfield, and the snowflakes blown by the cold wind swirl and float to reflect the crystal clear brilliance.

On the snow-covered road, the vehicles of various sizes and even the sleds pulled by reindeer driven by the aborigines, as well as the aboriginals themselves waving whips from time to time, all became strange sights in Wei Ran's eyes.

But at the same time, the howling wind and the freezing temperature that came in through the crack of the car door also hinted at the hardships of life near the Arctic Circle.

The van equipped with anti-skid chains was driven by Ji Ma, and the destination of the trip passed through the city because of the tower. It only stopped for a short time to fill up the fuel, and then continued to drive along a narrow forest path into the forest.

"Victor, it's time to get your guns ready." Jima said abruptly, "The laws in this place are far less effective than bullets, so keep an eye on your surroundings."

"Robbery?" Wei Ran asked in surprise, how long did it take them to get off the train?It's only an hour at most, why is this place so messy?

"Otherwise?" Jima sneered, "Could the other party still invite you for a drink?"

"If someone is really robbing, should we shoot?" Wei Ran pretended to open the interlayer of the mountaineering bag while speaking, and under the cover of the mountaineering bag pocket, a black matte pistol appeared in his left hand.

"Of course, otherwise why take out the gun?"

Jima said as a matter of course, "As long as there are no policemen or too many people around, and the other party has threatened you, then you can shoot at any time. Remember to hit the chest first, and then the head with the second shot."

"Is this place really such a mess?" Wei Ran still couldn't believe it.

"Many gangsters in the 90s came out of this ghostly place." Jima explained perfunctorily, then turned his head and glanced at Wei Ran, "Are you left-handed?"

"No"

Wei Ran shook his head, handed the pistol to his right hand, and carefully checked the ammunition. The magazine capacity of this pistol is the same as the original P09, which has a full 19 rounds. The Makarov and the TT33 pistol that he planned to purchase for himself in Kazan.

"Your pistol is very beautiful, what model is that?" Ji Ma looked at the weapon in Wei Ran's hand greedily.

"CZ company's P09, but this is a customized version, a gift from a rich boss, I can't afford it myself." Wei Ran took off the pistol magazine again while speaking, emptied the chamber, turned the handle of the pistol and handed it to the other party. "Do you want to take a look?"

But I didn't want Ji Ma to shake his head decisively, "You always hold your own weapons by yourself, don't give them to others, this is not a good habit."

Wei Ran took back his pistol and reloaded the magazine in embarrassment, "It seems that my hunting lessons have already started?"

"Headmaster Nicola taught me this, but I think he's right."

Ji Ma said casually, "According to Mr. Principal's explanation, no one knows when the next bullet will be fired. If the gun happened to be in someone else's hands at that time, or the other party opened the insurance for you, the consequences can only be caused by yourself." bear."

Perhaps it would be good to learn something from Jima first.
Wei Ran secretly slandered, obviously, Nicholas must have taught Jima a lot of things, and these relatively basic skills happened to be what he needed.

After making up his mind, Wei Ran simply followed this topic and began to steal his teacher, and Ji Ma was also extraordinarily generous, he would not hide his questions at all, and basically answered every question.

While the two were chatting, the van rolled over the soft snow and drove into the depths of the coniferous forest, leaving only two ruts that gradually became blurred in the growing snowflakes.

"Jima, we won't catch up with the blizzard, right?" Wei Ran asked worriedly as he watched the snowflakes getting bigger and bigger outside the car window.

"No, don't worry"

Ji Ma rolled down the car window, took a look at some snow from the window, and then said with certainty, "These are just blown from the trees by the wind. The real snow is not heavy, so don't worry."

Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and asked, "How long do we have to go?"

"At most half an hour, we should get out of the car and hike."

Ji Ma rolled up the car window and casually wiped the water stains from his hands on his pants, "But we should keep quiet after getting out of the car. If you want to be a qualified hunter, keep as quiet and as long as possible Patience is just as important.”

Wei Ran made an OK gesture, and obediently clenched the handrail, enduring the increasingly bumpy road conditions.Finally, when Ji Ma stepped on the brakes, the road outside the car window came to an end.

"Don't rush to go"

Jima stopped Wei Ran, then grabbed a large handful of pine leaves from the pine tree on the roadside, added a large handful of snow, smashed them with an ax handle, and gave Wei Ran a large lump of light green with strong A sticky smell of pine resin.

"Smear on your clothes, backpack, and the rabbit skin that wraps the shotgun, otherwise the prey will smell us from two hundred kilometers away." Jima joked, even the white knitted hat on his head Never let go.

"It's a good thing I don't have a girlfriend, so don't worry about the hat being dyed green." Wei Ran muttered in Chinese that the other party couldn't understand, imitating Ji Ma, and smeared the lump of paste all over his body.

Covering up his body odor with pine needles, Wei Ran put the pistol back into the notebook while the other party was not paying attention, and then followed Jima into the dense coniferous forest with the loaded shotgun.

It can be seen that the snow did not fall for a long time. On the open space not covered by pine trees, the thickness of the snow did not even exceed 10 centimeters, and the footprints of various wild animals could be seen on it.

"If we are here to hunt, we'd better look at the wind direction before entering the forest, and try to enter the forest from the downwind, so that the prey won't smell us." Jima explained, raising a big handful The snow, the flying snow slag slowly drifted to the distance under the blow of the cold wind, it looked extraordinarily beautiful.

After teaching the most basic knowledge, Ji Ma put the shotgun wrapped in white fur under his arm, checked the compass, and led Wei Ran into the depths of the dense forest.

A hiking route with a straight-line distance of 20 kilometers is actually a distance of 30 kilometers at least.Naturally, the two of them, carrying heavy backpacks and weapons, could not finish the journey in one day.Even in order to take care of Wei Ran, Ji Ma had to slow down his progress.

"Can't we get a snowmobile?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice. After walking for more than two hours, his forehead started to sweat.

"The movement of the snowmobile is too loud." Ji Ma kicked away the snow under his feet with his shoes. our."

"We still have to go."

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he found that Ji Ma had made a silent gesture, and then quickly pulled him to hide behind a thick pine tree, and raised the gun that was originally under his armpit. Aligned in the direction of their sides!
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