Return to 1983 Hunting Xing'an Mountains

Chapter 231 Frightened deer herd? Hunter's habits

Xu Ning carried 56 and a half and a cloth bag on his back, standing on the mountain ridge and looking at Huo Lazi Mountain standing in the distance. This mountain is dark red in summer and covered with white snow in winter. The top is white, and the exposed part is gray-black.

Moreover, the shape of this mountain is very special. The top of the highest mountain looks like a raised dinosaur head, and the ridge is like the back of a dinosaur, with two neat rows of rocks standing on it.

There are very few trees on the mountain. There are only some poplar trees that emerge from the cracks in the rocks. They grow in strange shapes. There are more shrubs and weeds, but there are only sporadic green embellishments, and the rest are all yellow.

"Let's go down here and walk a little further until we reach the base of Huolizi Mountain and look at the deer tracks."

Xu Ning followed Ma Liu and said with a smile: "Well, you walked a long way yesterday, and you can't get home past seven o'clock, right?"

"It's not even seven o'clock. I walk very fast. It's only eight o'clock when I get home to pack up and have dinner."

The two of them chatted and chatted all the way down to the base of Huolizi Mountain. After Xu Ning saw the deer tracks on the ground, he followed the deer tracks and glanced south. Ma Liu estimated well that there must be four or five deer in this group. , and they were all mother, son and fawn, coming from Luancha Stone.

"How did you get these deer here?"

Xu Ning knelt down and rubbed the snow on the side of the track, and said, "Why don't you come out here? But I think it was last morning. The snow in the track is harder than the snow shell. It should have been dropped at noon." It’s been exposed to the sun and hardened by the cold overnight.”

"go!"

"Haha, mainly because of luck."

"OK."

The deer disappeared for two or three miles, but reappeared in front of Xu Ning. He pointed at the deer and said, "Uncle! Take a look, these deer must be going to Wanmi Valley."

After walking seven or eight miles further, the deer trail slanted along the hillside and went directly up the mountain. Xu Ning and Ma Liu looked at each other, and this time they did not walk forward in silence, but followed the deer trail.

Xu Ning frowned and said, "Are they taking a stroll? I noticed that they were heading towards Daqingdingzi."

Ma Liu thought for a moment and nodded: "That's it! Mad, this winter, I have been grooming a deer, and it almost made me fall down. Since I'm looking at it, I have to kill it! Let's go, your head Let's go, I'll follow you."

Ma Liu waved his hands, as if he didn't want to talk any more, and said, "Let's get out of here quickly. What time is it now?"

Xu Ning looked down at his watch and said, "It's nine thirty-five, let's go, it will be noon later."

"Okay, uncle, let's switch guns? It seems to me that you are quite familiar with the 56."

Ma Liu saw Lu Xing and smiled and said, "Yeah! You're a good boy, you have a bit of fun."

"Oh shit! You made a U-turn again. How can this be done... We can't outrun their four legs with two legs." Ma Liu frowned, took out the cigarette pouch from his pocket, rubbed a handful of cigarettes and stuffed them into the pot. He took two dry puffs.

Xu Ning looked at the direction of the deer tracks and gritted his teeth and said: "Uncle, it's almost eleven o'clock. Let's run north along the ditch of Daqingdingzi. Otherwise, follow them and chase them away." Don’t even think about catching him in three days…”

"Ah, uncle, have you ever played Shui Lianzhu? This game should be rare nowadays."

Ma Liu shook his head: "What are you familiar with? The one I'm most familiar with is Shui Lianzhu. You can use it. I'd better use the old pout to save effort."

This Daqingdingzi is not the one to the west of Nanxing Village, but to the east of Huolizi Mountain.

Shui Lian Zhu is a Soviet-made M1944 Mosin-Nagant rifle. Because the sound of the gun is clear and crisp, it is like water droplets splashing when fired continuously, so the Chinese gave it a slightly poetic word - Shui Lian Zhu.

"Are these deer deer? Damn it, why are you letting this old man play with you?" Ma Liu said with a slumped expression.

Immediately, the two of them ran north along the deer's trail. They kept walking along the trail, but sometimes they changed directions and sometimes they ran straight north, leaving Xu Ning and Ma Liu in a daze.

"Well, let's go over there, then?"

Xu Ning went north along the ditch, but as soon as he entered the ditch, the deer tracks headed towards the mountain. Xu Ning and Ma Liu ignored them and just walked forward along the sunny slope.

Because after climbing over the mountain in front, you will reach the main road, which leads to Lingdong and Wanye. Cars and donkey carriages pass by from time to time.

"Fuck, why are you going to Songshan now?"

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Let's chase him away. Maybe Songshan can chase him away."

Ma Liu nodded, but suddenly he seemed to have thought of something. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Boy, think about it, what's the difference between the way we were watching from the base of Huolizi Mountain and now?"

Xu Ning searched around carefully and said, "It seems more stable? The pace is also much smaller..."

"They couldn't have been frightened by something and were just playing around, right?"

"You can't be prepared. Master, are you looking for other people nearby?"

"I didn't look at anything, not even a dancing cat." Ma Liu shook his head.

The running traces of this animal are different from the normal walking traces. The running strides are larger, while the normal walking strides are smaller, and the trace marks are also obviously different.

At noon, they wandered to Songshan Beigou, but they did not immediately cook a hot meal on the spot. Instead, they held out for a while, followed the deer tracks and walked north for six miles. They nested in a leeward area of ​​a mountain col, and then gathered firewood to warm the meal. .

Wang Hu gave them two boxes of rice and four corn pancakes. The vegetables were sauerkraut, cabbage and a small jar of pickles.

"The food is good."

Xu Ning said with a smile: "This is home-cooked food. Uncle, you can also save some cabbage next year and pickle some sauerkraut yourself."

Ma Liu licked his mouthful of rice, raised his head and said, "Are you going to buy cabbage for me? Then you will carry a basket and deliver it to me in the cellar?"

"Okay, it's all a trivial matter." Ma Liu looked at Xu Ning as if he was joking, shook his head and said with a smile, "Don't bother, you might as well buy me some seeds, and I'll plant some vegetables on my own in the mountains."

"Hey, this trick is pretty good. Okay, I'll go to the street when spring comes and buy it for you. What seeds do you want?"

"Anything is fine, I just make a living by farming."

Xu Ning nodded: "Sure, then it's settled."

The two of them nestled in the col and quickly finished their meal. Then they put some snow in the lunch box and put it in the fire to melt. They chewed the flour pancakes and waited for the water to boil.

Ma Liu opened the wine bottle and took a sip, "You don't want to drink?"

"No, I'll just drink some hot water."

By the time they finished eating, it was already past 1 o'clock. Xu Ning threw the lunch box into his pocket, poked the snow to extinguish the fire, and then continued on the trail with Ma Liu.

At around 2 o'clock, Ma Liu pointed to the mountain peak ahead and asked, "What's the name of that mountain?"

"Hufeng, to the east is the Changchong Pond."

The long worm is a snake, but this long worm pond is not the Snake Pond Valley south of Ximadozi, but a valley. Because it is surrounded by mountains, it is easy to form a pond in the rainy season. After it accumulates water, its shape is similar to Snake, so it is called Changchong Pond.

"This herd of deer wandered around us in a big circle. If I had known earlier, I would have left the car at Songshan and tracked them right here."

Xu Ning said: "Maybe we have the same ideas, so it doesn't matter. My eldest brother and the other three are just leaving this area to fight dogs. If the green wolf can smell the deer... Oh my god! It's broken!!"

Ma Liu was shocked when he heard him, turned around and asked, "What happened?"

"If I weren't here, the green wolf would definitely be disobedient. If it really smells of deer, the green wolf will lead the dog gang to chase it... This green wolf is not a black wolf. The black wolf can intercept fights and drive sticks. The green wolf is Rush hard!

If they were really chased by the green wolf, these deer would probably go somewhere..."

Ma Liu was also a little anxious. He knocked the pot of his pipe twice and said, "Then let's chase them out quickly. If we hear any noise, let's not fire our guns yet."

Xu Ning nodded, that was all he could do now. After all, there were only trees and snow in this mountain. If he saw any living things, they must be animals or people.

At around 3:, the two of them bypassed Hu Peak and arrived at Changchong Pond. They heard no gunfire or dog barking along the way, and it was very quiet.

"Oh my god! I'm really leaving it like this!"

Ma Liu saw a few light yellow figures moving in the green leafy shrubs on the left side of the Long Insect Pond. The spots on their bodies were so light that they could hardly be seen from a distance.

He immediately grabbed Xu Ning's arm, and the two looked at each other.

"There are four of them in total...the distance is about more than a hundred meters. Sir, let's put the gun on the mountain. The deer will be frightened and it will be difficult to chase them away."

Ma Liu glanced at the surrounding terrain and said, "I'll go down from the right, and you go to the left. Your gun can fire ten times. How is your marksmanship?"

"Let's make do, hit wherever Fifty Meter says."

"Fuck, how awesome is this? Don't brag about me..."

"Really! Why am I teasing you, but this game should also depend on the touch. No one knows what it will be like until it is played."

Ma Liu grinned: "I knew you had to say that, so you go down the mountain forty or fifty meters, and I'll go to the tree on the right. The snow in the worm pond is thick in some places and thin in others. Let’s see what happens to both of us.”

Xu Ning smiled and nodded: "Okay, do it as soon as possible!"

"You fire the gun first."

"OK."

Then the two of them split up and walked forty or fifty meters down the mountain. They were only about fifty meters away from the deer that was eating shrub leaves.

Xu Ning's vision was quite good. When he looked down, he could see the heads and necks of three doe, but their bodies were covered by shrubs and leaves. Behind them was a fawn, whose build was similar to that of a green wolf.

He glanced at Ma Liu on the other side and saw that he was staring at the deer with his gun raised, so he raised his gun and pointed the muzzle at the slightly larger doe standing in the middle.

Along the way, Xu Ning kept pulling the bolt, so the elasticity of the spring was not frozen by the bad weather.

Bang!Bang!
Bang!
Xu Ning first fired two shots in a row, and then heard Ma Liu, who was standing behind the tree on the right, fire another shot. After he finished holding the fire, he did not even check whether the deer was dead or not, but just dived down the mountain, holding out the gun as he ran. Son, load the gun.

But Xu Ning didn't pause and emptied all the bullets in the gun.

Bang bang bang!
When the foraging deer heard the first shot, they trembled all over and hurriedly turned around and ran away. However, the doe in the middle was hit in the head by the second shot and paralyzed on the spot.

The angle of Ma Liu's shot was not good. It only hit the top of the forelimb of a deer. If it had been a little farther away, it would have hit the heart. Unfortunately, Ma Liu was not very lucky.

Perhaps it was because he knew he was unlucky that he dived down the mountain after firing a shot.

In fact, this is the habit of many old hunters. Why? Because in the past, hunting mainly used old foreign cannons and bows and arrows. Even the No. 16 old stick used now, due to insufficient accuracy and power, could not hit the head or heart with one blow when hitting large animals.

Therefore, if a large animal is attacked and does not die immediately, it will definitely run away. At this time, the hunter needs to chase the animal. The hunter will not be relieved until the animal bleeds dry or collapses to the ground without energy.

Again, whether it’s livestock or money, it’s not yours until it’s really in your hands!

(End of this chapter)