Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 410: Hunting Wild Boars in the Mountains

The livestock of Gao Mingcheng's family include two dogs, a sheep and a dozen chickens.

I bought this sheep in the spring of last year. I originally planned to feed it until the end of the year and then slaughter it. However, the family got a lot of wild boars at that time, so I only killed one sheep and kept the other one. Remained until now.

However, the good days of this sheep have come to an end, because Gao Mingcheng came back this time and planned to slaughter it.

In two days' time, Xiao Xuxu will be full moon. Gao Mingcheng doesn't plan to make a big deal, but he also wants to invite his close relatives and friends in the county to have a meal to celebrate.

Chickens can lay eggs, but what can sheep do?Moreover, the meat of young lambs is tender, and the meat of old goats is not tasty.

So Gao Mingcheng planned to slaughter the sheep, and then braised mutton, mutton bone stewed radish and other dishes could be arranged.

In addition to sheep, Gao Mingcheng is also planning to go into the mountains to check on the wild boar herds.

Last year, the wild boar suffered a disaster and the number dropped sharply, but this year they are resting and recuperating. There are no natural enemies in the mountains. He has never gone into the mountains to hunt. As for other people in the village, no one has ever gone into the mountains to hunt wild boars.

Gao Fuqiang and the others in the village did have bird guns, but the quality of the bird guns was not as good as his. They could hardly hit turtle doves, let alone go into the mountains to hunt wild boars.

Gao Mingcheng led the two dogs all the way into the mountain.

He was not at home, and the two dogs had neglected hunting. After hanging out with some local dogs in the village, their aura was much weaker.

I think back then, Gao Mingcheng led them to track wild boar herds, and even fought with black bears. At that time, black tigers and elves had the momentum of newborn calves not afraid of tigers. As long as they followed Gao Mingcheng, they would not be able to fight against black bears. Dare to open your mouth and bite.

The dog relies on the strength of the people, and the interpretation is vivid and vivid.

If Gao Mingcheng is not in the village, it is equivalent to putting the swords and guns in the warehouse and letting the horses go to Nanshan.Therefore, the combat effectiveness of black tigers and elves has plummeted.

Now leading the two dogs into the mountains, Gao Mingcheng observed that the two dogs were not as excited as before, but rather a little wary.

In spring, summer and autumn, there is abundant food in the mountains. It is not easy to find wild boars in the mountains. After all, wild boars do not have a fixed activity area. They will look for food everywhere. When they are energetic, they will run rampant and attack in the mountains. Take a mud bath in the mud pool.

Therefore, if you want to hunt wild boars, it is best to have a hunting dog. Hunting dogs are good at tracking prey and can help hunters find prey as quickly as possible without wandering around in the mountains for a whole day.

But in winter, due to lack of food, wild boars have few options.

As long as you are familiar with the conditions in the mountains, you can know roughly where the wild boars are.

Wild boars are omnivores. In winter, they mainly eat acorns and kudzu rhizomes. Sometimes when they are lucky enough to encounter mice, pheasants and hares, they will also feast on them to supplement their nutritional needs.

Gao Mingcheng led the two dogs directly to the sunny hillside covered with oak trees. Because the sunny slopes are warm and there are a large number of acorns under the oak forest leaf litter, wild boars like to move in this environment.

And in order to reduce their own energy consumption, they are not as active as in the other three seasons in winter. They basically eat and sleep, and sleep and eat.

Arriving at the sunny hillside, before Gao Mingcheng found any trace of the wild boar, the two dogs had already smelled the wild boar's scent and were able to accurately track the wild boar.

The black tiger seemed to have found some of the charm of hunting with its master. It barked at Gao Mingcheng and led Gao Mingcheng forward.

The elf followed closely behind, with a nervous and excited expression on his face.

With two dogs leading the way, Gao Mingcheng soon discovered a herd of wild boars.

This oak forest is relatively large and has good terrain, so it is occupied by a large family. This large family has a total of 36 pigs, including thirty piglets that are less than one year old.

In other words, these thirty piglets were all bred from these six adult pigs.

Wild boars in the normal wild state breed once a year, usually from New Year's Day to Spring Festival, and give birth from April to June, usually 6-12 piglets per litter.

If it is raised in captivity, it can produce two litters per year, with 5-12 litters per litter.

Really can give birth!
Gao Mingcheng complained and decided to reduce the number of people in this family.

His eyes scanned the wild boar group, and finally focused on a small pig that fit his eyes well. The pig was not big, but it was enough to eat.

Finally, with the cooperation of the two dogs and Gao Mingcheng, the piglet was successfully captured.

A javelin was stably inserted into the piggy's head, killing the piggy in one blow.The wild boars were frightened and had already left the place where this was happening.

The black tiger and the elf pounced on the dead wild boar and gnawed on it, their expressions gradually became fierce and ferocious, as if they had completely regained their original hunting style.

Gao Mingcheng let them bite him, and when his emotions gradually calmed down, he walked over and pulled out the javelin.

This javelin was made by a blacksmith specifically for hunting wild boars. However, it had not been used for a long time and the tip of the spear was blunt. He sharpened it before going up the mountain.

He looked at the wild boar herd in the distance and felt quite good.

Wild boars are animals that reproduce very quickly. By next year, the number of wild boars in the mountains will double again.

When the time comes, he will lead his two dogs into the mountains to hunt from time to time. Before wild boars are listed as protected animals, he will effectively control the reproduction of wild boars and prevent them from becoming a disaster.

Gao Mingcheng recalled for a while and then remembered that wild boars were included in the "Wildlife Protection Law" on August 2000, [-], and private hunting was prohibited.

This year is 88, and we can hunt for another 12 years!

Thinking of this, Gao Mingcheng suddenly felt heroic in his heart. Although he only had two dogs, he still had the aura of "leading the yellow on the left, holding the blue on the right, wearing a brocade hat and mink fur, and riding thousands of horses on a flat hill".

Gao Mingcheng picked up the wild boar on the ground and said loudly: "Children, go home!"

The two dogs immediately let out a coordinated bark, which sounded in the quiet mountain forest.

After they left, the forest returned to silence.

The wild boar that Gao Mingcheng hunted was not very big. It was probably just an adult, weighing about 120 kilograms.

Wild boars generally reach adulthood when they are about eight months old and can reproduce.

Therefore, the brothers and sisters of this wild boar will come into heat and breed during the Spring Festival, and then give birth to piglets around May.

In this way, life goes on endlessly, from generation to generation.

Gao Mingcheng carried the wild boar and ran down the mountain quickly.

After the wild boar dies, it is necessary to disembowel it as soon as possible and take out the internal organs, otherwise it will stink.

If you were an ordinary person and couldn't walk fast, you would have to find a place in the mountains to disembowel the wild boar and take out the internal organs.

However, Gao Mingcheng's physical fitness was beyond that of ordinary people. When running in the mountains, he was very fast. In less than ten minutes, he had already returned to his yard with the wild boar.

The boar wasn't heavy, so it didn't affect his speed at all.

Returning home, he began to deal with the wild boars.

This wild boar is still a small pig, and the skin is not very thick. If the hair is removed, the skin is also delicious. However, it is not easy to remove the hair from the wild boar. Gao Mingcheng is too lazy to bother, so he still uses the old method - —Peel the skin.

He took out the butcher's knife, first slit the skin on the abdomen, and then started cutting along the skin and flesh.

This butcher's knife was newly purchased. It has a sharp blade and can cut off a piece of flesh with just one cut.

The butcher's knife is a sharp knife with two edges. When killing a pig, the white knife goes in and the red knife comes out. It is very domineering and is also the most important tool of the butcher.

If someone in the village wants to kill a pig, they usually ask a butcher to do it, and the butcher will carry a butcher's knife and a bone cleaver with him.

With these two things, a pig will be easy to solve.

The reason why he bought the pig-killing knife was because Gao Mingcheng found that he often used a dagger to handle his prey. Once he did this too many times, the dagger was no longer sharp enough. The dagger was a gift from Gao Guobing, and he still cherished it, so he Decided not to use it anymore.

The dagger was put away, and the newly bought butcher knife took on the important task of processing prey. It was very useful whether it was slaughtering sheep or bleeding wild boars.

The butcher's knife, everyone who has used it says it's good!
(End of this chapter)