Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 38: Learn to pinch the trap

Feng Chengmin took off all the covers and clips from the car.

He handed Wang An a sack, carried a sack himself, and walked towards the road into the mountain.

After walking not far, Feng Chengmin carefully looked at the animal prints on the snow under his feet. They were jumping cats. He followed the footprints for about a hundred meters and finally stopped in front of two clusters of bushes next to each other.

Put the sack on the snow and take out a thin wire sleeve from the sack. The principle is the same as that used today to strangle dogs.

The iron wire has been burned black, and the iron wire ring is stretched out, with a diameter of about 20 centimeters.

Twist one end onto a thicker shrub branch, place the wire ring at right angles to the ground, and hold it up in the air above the jumping cat's footprints. The bottom of the wire ring is about twelve or three centimeters above the ground.

The footprints of the jumping cat were not damaged throughout the process. Feng Chengmin explained why he did this while putting the trap on!

It turns out that the iron wire will reflect light if it is not burnt black. Especially when it is reflected by the snow light, it is very obvious and will be seen by jumping cats.

For the jumping cat to look for food, there is only one way to go back and forth, so placing the cover between the bushes can increase the success rate!
If there is an abnormality on the road, or if one's own footprints are damaged, if Jumping Maozi discovers it, he will usually change the road directly and never take this road again!

Wang An has also laid traps, but he doesn't understand these things and has never trapped a dancing cat before.

The desire to learn how to master it is not so strong!

After the condom was put on, Feng Chengmin broke off another pine branch, swept his own footprints and Wang An's footprints a few times, and tried to destroy them as much as possible!
Cut an obscure mark on a tree not far away. This wire is a good thing. It can't catch a jumping cat, so it has to be taken back!
A piece of thin wire is used to make a sleeve, that’s all, but the finishing work is also done in such detail! Wang An was impressed!

Leave around the jumping cat footprints and continue looking for other jumping cat footprints.

The same operation was performed by Wang An, with Feng Chengmin giving guidance.

When we get to the slopes, the method of removing the condom changes again.

First, check whether the jumping cat's footprints go up or down the slope. Try to look for the one-way footprints.

If it is a footprint route that has been traveled several times, the success rate of the condom is low!
If the footprints are going downhill, then the jumping cat will be running uphill when it comes back. The iron wire ring should be tilted downhill, at an angle of about 70 degrees to the horizontal plane!

If the footprints are going uphill, then the jump back is downhill, so the condom is still perpendicular to the horizontal plane, but it should be higher than the ground, about 16 to 17 centimeters!
In some places, there is no room to tie the wire, so you have to cut a piece of wood to make a tola cover!

Even if the jumping cat is trapped and drags a wooden stick away, sooner or later it will get stuck somewhere! Finally got caught!
There are also how to operate at the entrance of Maozi Cave. Some routes require two or three sets. What should you pay attention to in the grass, how to operate, etc.!

In short, a piece of iron wire must be burned black and requires various operations! Only then can you increase the probability of catching a jumping cat!

If you don’t learn, you won’t know. If you learn, you will be shocked! In any case, it is just a piece of wire!

But no one can teach you while operating in the field. Even if you are told verbally, you may be deceived!
I still don’t understand why I can’t catch the jumping cat even though I’ve bought a lot of traps! !
The more Wang An learns, the happier he becomes, and the more he operates, the more perfect he becomes!
After putting on more than 60 condoms, I started to learn how to use clips. Most of the clips were made by myself!
There are also some sold in the market, but they are all about the same1
Two thick wires are bent into two semicircles, and the joint between the semicircles is bent into a small circle, with a straight thick wire in the middle.

Wrap a spring with two or three turns of hard steel wire, leave a long length on both sides and tie it to the middle of the thick semicircular wire, and then use a wooden stick to support it.

The stick is stuck on a small wooden hook about one centimeter long. On the small hook, corn residue or grass seed sorghum is tied as bait!
This clip is mainly used to clip pheasants, flying dragons, silly half-catties and other birds!
This thing is relatively simple to learn. The main thing is to find a place and a shrub with grass seeds underneath. The bigger the better.

Just place the clip and it's done, you don't even have to cover it up, but you have to tie the clip to the bush with a thin hemp rope to prevent the clip from being dragged away!
There is also a kind of clip, also called a guillotine, which is the same as a mouse clip, but slightly larger than the largest mouse clip!
But it is much smaller than the Wolf Clamp, and it is an intermediate model!

Mainly catching badgers, raccoon dogs, yellow skins, big skins (sables) or foxes!
When clamping large fur, in order to prevent damage to the fur, wooden clamps are generally used, but no matter what clamp is used, the success rate is not mentioned. I can pick up one or two a year, and they are all like smoke rising from ancestral graves!

But even if you can only catch one in a year, it will be enough for the whole family to eat and drink for a year!

A intact big hide is more valuable than the iron gall in a bear's gallbladder, and it can provide instant food and clothing!
Of course, at this time of year, badgers and raccoon dogs are both hibernating, so there’s no use clamping!

The wolf trap, also called a big guillotine, weighs about 20 kilograms and is quite expensive. It is generally used for defense in the Northeast, and is rarely used. If it is used, it is for hunting wild boars in the fields!
What Feng Chengmin taught Wang An today was to fight yellow skins and foxes. Feng Chengmin was also a bit taboo about fighting fox yellows.

So I bought three clamps, mainly to teach Wang An how to operate them, so that they can be used to clamp badgers in the fall!

He also told Wang An that he would lay a big trap for the king tomorrow.

After putting on the condoms and clips, Feng Chengmin led Wang An back the same way, caught up with the sledge, and walked deep into the mountains!
After walking for more than an hour, Feng Chengmin stopped the eldest horse again and got off the sledge to observe the hoof marks of several silly roe deer walking on the road.

There were many hoof marks like this on the road, but Feng Chengmin never stopped.

Only after these few words did Feng Chengmin stop. Looking at Wang An's curious eyes, Feng Chengmin smiled and said, "Look at these hoof prints. Are they different from the ones you saw before?"

Wang An squatted down and observed. After watching for a long time, he felt that there was no difference. He looked up at Feng Chengmin in confusion.

Feng Chengmin said: "This seal shows that the roe deer has not been there for a long time and has not been blown into shape by the wind. There are still fine particles crushed by the wind and have not been blown away by the wind."

Wang An lowered his head and observed again. There was indeed a slight trace of snow foam, and he couldn't help but nodded.

Feng Chengmin said again: "After the hoof print is finalized, the snow foam blown in is at the bottom, but if it has just been stepped on, the snow foam inside is scattered in the hoof print."

Wang An suddenly realized it and compared it with other hoof prints not far away. They were indeed completely different!

In fact, these are the basic abilities of mountain hunters, called code tracking, also called pinch tracking!
However, Wang An knows and has heard about it, but he doesn't know how to do it. Besides, no ordinary villager knows how to do this.

Seeing that Wang An seemed to understand a little bit, Feng Chengmin asked Wang An to get on the sledge and continued to walk along the mark for a while.

After walking for a while, he looked at the hoof prints again, and Wang An also came down to make careful comparisons.

Just like this, Feng Chengmin stopped and tied the horse to a tree after forty or fifty minutes, took down the fodder and fed it to the horse!

At this time, Wang An also discovered that the hoof prints were very new, and it was estimated that they were not far from the roe deer!
After Feng Chengmin finished his work, he asked Wang Andao: "Can you spot a few roe deer?"

Wang An counted them and said: "4, they should be two big and two small!"

Feng Chengmin nodded with a smile: "Well, that's right. Let's go. We have to go around. It's windy now. You know what's going on, right?"

"Well, I know that. When I hit those mountain animals, I always walked against the wind, otherwise the mountain animals would have run away long ago!" Wang An replied
Feng Chengmin nodded and said nothing, leading Wang An and walking against the wind!

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