War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 651 Hunting Competition with Snipers

Early the next morning, when Wei Ran woke up from the hangover, he found himself lying on the sofa in the restaurant, and the strong and scary Caucasus was squatting on the edge of the sofa with its back facing him, The big fluffy tail is still diligently sweeping back and forth on the carpet.

Not far away, Lieva was holding a bottle of beer and drinking it slowly. From time to time, he would put down the bottle, pick up a big Lieba from the table and send it to the dog's mouth.

Looking at the messy table, in addition to the bottles and cans that were not cleared last night, there is also a basket full of bread that is piled up on top.

"Wake up and get up quickly"

Leva hiccupped, stretched out his hand and opened the refrigerator next to him, took out a bottle of beer and threw it to Wei Ran.

"How much did we drink last night?" Wei Ran asked bewilderedly after taking the beer.

“Just one bottle in total”

Lieva picked up the wine bottle again and took a sip, "Sober up, and then decide if we continue to take pictures, or start the bet on the wine table yesterday."

"A bet? What bet?"

Wei Ran pretended to be dazed and asked, although the two of them drank a lot last night, they were still far from broken, not to mention that he was the one who proposed the bet on his own initiative.

"You took the initiative to invite me to go hunting, and you want to gamble with me."

Leva said with great interest, "You lose, treat me to Chinese food. I lose, and I will give you a copy of the two group photos in the darkroom upstairs."

"As long as I don't bet on my Rollei Shuangxiang." Wei Ran stood up unsteadily, "Old guy, where are we going to hunt?"

"You really want to gamble?" Leva raised his eyebrows.

"Are you afraid of losing?" Wei Ran deliberately provoked.

"The last time I saw a confident bastard like you was when that idiot Gorbachev announced his resignation."

Lieva stood up while speaking, patted the big dog's head, and said as he greeted it as he walked out, "I'm going to get two shotguns, how about you to prepare breakfast?"

"No problem." While speaking, Wei Ran also walked out of the restaurant, walked through the camera shop and walked to the restaurant not far away.

For him, betting with Leva is more about building a friendship between the two of them.As for winning or losing, he doesn't care, and he believes that the old guy Leva probably doesn't care either.

When he returned to the camera store with all kinds of food and drink, there were already two civilian shotguns with scopes on the counter, and a disposable plastic bag containing at most thirty or forty rounds of ammunition. .

"I rented this from the store." Leva picked up a gun and handed it to Wei Ran, and added chips to the bet by the way. "How about the loser bear the rent?"

"no problem"

Wei Ran took the rifle, and skillfully pulled the bolt to look at it, then looked at the trigger strangely, and then looked at the position of the muzzle unwillingly, "Is this Mosin Nagant?"

"Mosin Nagant with a plastic stock and a scope."

Leva explained on the side, "The accuracy and power of this gun are not bad. It is just right for hunting. Of course, the most important thing is that it is cheap enough."

"I'll bear the rent, how about we get a better gun?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"What gun do you want to change?" Leva asked nonchalantly, taking out a corner of pie from Wei Ran's breakfast.

"I remember you said yesterday that you were a sniper?" Wei Ran paused, "How about replacing the gun you used at that time?"

"Forget it, SVD is not a toy for hunting." Leva waved his hand and refused, "Just use this kind of gun."

Before he finished speaking, Leva had already thrown the second piece of pie into the mouth of the Caucasus, then wiped the grease from his hands on his clothes carelessly, took another shotgun on the counter, and greeted the other Caucasus got into the van rented by Wei Ran.

Seeing this, Wei Ran stopped insisting too much, took the gun, bullets and the food he bought and followed out.

Helping the other party lock the store door, Wei Ran drove the car out of the city under the guidance of Lieva, and finally stopped at the edge of a forest.

"Here it is"

Leva opened the car door while speaking, and the Caucasus jumped out immediately, "You can hunt deer and wild boars this season. There is no limit to wild boars, but there is only a quota of four reindeer. In addition, if you meet a forest ranger, remember to kill them on the first day. Give me the gun right now."

"Don't worry, it's not my first time hunting." Wei Ran opened the car door while speaking.

The two didn't mention the rules of the competition at all. Leva even refused Wei Ran's help, and pressed a round of bullets into the chamber of the shotgun with one hand. Afterwards, the two separated slightly and remained silent. Noisily walked into the forest.

On the contrary, the Caucasus, very spiritually picked up the backpack containing food and drink, and followed them quietly, keeping a distance of about five or six meters.

Looking back at the big dog in surprise, Wei Ran pushed a bullet into the chamber and carefully searched the surroundings for movement.

It can be seen that this forest is rarely visited by humans, and there are no traces of human activities anywhere in sight.Coupled with the latitude, a lot of fallen leaves have accumulated on the ground of this forest, which further increases the difficulty of finding prey.

But no matter what, he didn't spend a day at Hongqi Forest Farm, and Ji Ma was also a qualified hunter, and he taught himself some hunting skills.

Almost in no particular order, the two stopped one after another.When Wei Ran lightly rested the barrel of the gun on a birch branch, Leva supported the barrel with the remaining half forearm of his right hand, and pulled the trigger decisively with his left hand.

"boom!"

After two gunshots that almost overlapped, a cloud of blood erupted from the shoulder blade of a half-sized wild boar that Wei Ran had just discovered. After running a few steps forward desperately, his limbs straightened and fell fell to the ground.

On the other side, Leva's shot was also rewarding. The one he shot through the ear was an adult wild boar. Although this wild boar was not too big, its pair of fangs were terrifyingly large.Fortunately, the shot was crisp enough. The wild boar died before realizing what happened.

After the two shots were fired, ear-piercing screams sounded from the muddy ground in the forest, and the remaining dozen wild boars, large and small, ran desperately into the depths of the forest.

Seeing this, Leva directly used his crippled right arm to pull the trigger and loaded the second bullet, firing his second bullet no slower than Wei Ran.

After the gunshot, a galloping wild boar lay down again in Leva's scope, and Wei Ran also successfully left behind a second juvenile wild boar.

Obviously, those wild boars who had run out of shadow would not give them a third chance to shoot.Seeing this, Leva simply put away his gun, and followed slowly with the Caucasus behind him.

"Why do you always pick the younger ones?" Leva asked with a smile.

"Small meat is tender." Wei Ran gave a foodie answer as a matter of course, "I can't take the big one with me, what are you going to do with it?"

"Remove the four legs." Lieva said while stroking the dog's head. "The meat is enough for it to eat for a week, but before that, take a photo for me."

Before he finished speaking, Leva had already sat down beside the wild boar he had hit, stretched out his hand and grabbed one of the prey's ears, and the Caucasian also put down the backpack it was holding in its mouth very spiritually, and squatted on the wild boar. On the other side, he opened his mouth and gently grabbed another pig's ear.

"Surely you guys take pictures like this a lot?"

Wei Ran took out the countess camera from his bag while speaking, and chose a suitable angle to focus on Leva, his pets and prey.

"Of course" Leva responded with a smile, and when the shutter sounded, he released the pig's ears at the same time as the Caucasus.

"Get it for me"

Wei Ran handed the camera to the other party, and first took out the Mauser bayonet in the metal book under the cover of the backpack, then took out a pair of gloves and put them on, and in the way of a surgeon, easily removed the wild boar's four legs. Come down, and by the way, don't forget to help peel off the rough pigskin outside.

"How did you become so proficient?" Leva looked at Wei Ran in surprise.

"My family is a butcher"

Wei Ran accepted the ax handed by the other party with a normal expression, hacked open the ribs in twos and twos, then replaced the bayonet with a pick, and easily tore off a piece of tender tenderloin and threw it to the Caucasus.

Unexpectedly, this big dog, whose paws were dripping with water, not only did not pick up the piece of meat, but instead stepped back a few steps, getting out of the way of the piece of meat that almost hit his face.

"It only eats what I feed it with my little granddaughter Yana"

Leva proudly bent down to pick up the piece of tenderloin, wiped the stained grass leaves on his trouser legs, and then put it into the mouth of the Caucasian big boss.

Seeing that the dog ate the piece of meat in two or three mouthfuls, Wei Ran shook his head helplessly, pulled over the two wild boars he had hunted, chose a slightly smaller one, and slashed open the flesh on the neck. Vessel, then cleaned out the internal organs, and hung it with a rope to a pine tree in the distance.

"Are you going to take it home?"

While speaking, Lieva also threw the tenderloin that Wei Ran took from the second adult wild boar to his pet.

"In case I can't compare to you, I just use it to cook some Chinese dishes for you."

While Wei Ran responded, he also tied the front and rear legs from the other three pigs and hung them on another tree.These pork legs were the rations for the Caucasus. As for the internal organs that were cleaned up, they naturally didn't want them. It wasn't that these things were not tasty, it was because there were too many parasites.

"I haven't eaten Chinese food yet"

"If you want to eat Chinese cuisine, you must first win against me." Wei Ran took off his gloves and hung them on his belt while speaking, and picked up the shotgun again.

"Do you really think you can beat me?"

Lieva snorted disdainfully, patted the dog's head, picked up the shotgun and re-selected a direction to move on.

From morning to noon, and from noon to afternoon, watching the sun was about to set, when the two walked out of the forest again, each of them had a deer head with antlers on their backs, even the Caucasus On their backs, there are several skinned pork legs or deer legs whose fur has been roughly scorched by fire.Of course, during the whole day, Wei Ran also took many photos of Leva and his Caucasus.

After going back and forth two or three times in a row to load all the hunting into the van, Wei Ran and Leva breathed a sigh of relief in no particular order.In this hunting competition, Wei Ran finally lost to Leva by missing the target with one shot and letting go of the prey.It's not that he deliberately released water, at most it's just the difference between good luck and bad luck.

Perhaps it was because of this that Leva, who was sitting in the car with his dog in his arms, also had a look of rejoicing. He didn't expect that he almost overturned the car.

But no matter what the process was, when the old, the young, and a Caucasian who was full of food returned to the camera shop, Wei Ran also carried the cleaned wild boar into the kitchen.

(End of this chapter)