Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Chapter 104: Shocking change, the tenacious black blind man!
Yu Qiutang and his two companions were lying on a small peak on top of Houtouling, while the bear was running on another small peak. There was a valley several dozen meters deep between the two peaks, but the straight-line distance between the two peaks was less than a hundred meters.

It is just within the effective range of five or six and a half.

For an average hunter, the accuracy of 50% to 60% is within 80 meters. It is very difficult to hit the target at a distance farther than that.

On the one hand, hunters’ eyesight cannot see that far. If the distance is too far, the size of the target will be distorted. In this era, there are no scopes, so it is difficult to lock on the vital points.

Another reason is the limitation of guns.

The guns of this period were also heavier, with the same 5.6 and a half caliber. For example, the one Yu Qiutang was holding weighed more than ten kilograms when fully loaded with bullets.

The 50-65.5-jin pistol commonly used in later generations weighs about 7 jin. Even if it is fully loaded with bullets, it will weigh less than 8 jin.

The heavier the gun, the stronger the recoil.

The 7.62mm bullet has a large caliber and requires a lot of propulsion energy, which makes the gun more difficult to control.

Many people can only hold their guns down for the first shot. Once they miss, even if the magazine is empty, they may just be masters of tracing the bullets and cause no substantial damage.

"Look, what's that thing in front?"

Yu Qiutang had been following the bear. Wang Haofeng, who had sharp eyes, suddenly spotted a black thing running more than a hundred meters ahead of the bear.

"Is it a little bear?"

Yu Qiujiang identified it and guessed.

"Maybe it's a dog," Wang Haofeng shook his head and said regretfully, "It's a pity that I can't see its body. It's too far away."

Yu Qiutang also thought it was something at first, but when he looked at it carefully, his brows furrowed.

"It's a person!"

"What, people?!"

Both of them were stunned and looked at the other side with wide eyes. Because of the angle, the shadow also revealed the upper half of its body. "It really is a person."

They all gasped.

"What should we do, Tangtang, think of a solution quickly!" Wang Haofeng saw the bear getting closer and closer, his heart was in his throat, and he kept poking Yu Qiutang.

He is such a kind-hearted person that he can't bear to see others suffer.

Yu Qiutang, however, frowned.

He quickly estimated the distance between the two points. It was impossible to shoot the bear directly while it was moving at high speed.

Not to mention whether it can be hit or not. Even if the bear can be hit in the body, as long as it is not a vital part, the bear may become more violent, and the person in front will have no chance of survival.

But if you don't care...

It's really hard to feel at ease.

After all, this was a living person, and he was seen by himself. If he was beaten to death and licked by the bear in front of him, he would probably feel uncomfortable for the rest of his life.

"Hurry up, Tangtang, we're almost catching up!"

Wang Haofeng was so anxious that he pinched Yu Qiutang's arm so hard that it hurt.

Yu Qiujiang didn't say anything beside him.

Seeing Wang Haofeng like this, he pulled him aside and said, "Don't bother Tangtang. You have to find a way to save people. The location is so far away, what can you expect Tangtang to do to save them?"

"But……"

"Saving people depends on the situation. You can only save people if you have the ability. If you don't have the ability..."

"Shhh."

Yu Qiutang signaled the two men to stop arguing, as there was a half-grown bear on the tree.

Don't alarm this one.

Seeing the two figures on the opposite ridge getting closer and closer, and they were only twenty or thirty meters away from overlapping, he stared at the bear for a long time, slowly closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he raised his gun and shot.

His target was not the bear, but the area about ten meters in front of the bear.

If you can use the landing point of the gun and the sound of the gun to make the bear retreat, it will be the best way to resolve the danger.

If not...

Then we can only wait and shoot the bear directly, and leave it to fate.

"Oh!"

The bullet rushed out of the barrel and rushed directly in front of the bear, and a huge echo echoed in the valley.

The bear over there suddenly stopped and stood up on the spot, revealing the white line on its chest.

It turned out to be an adult black bear.

It is generally not easy for black bears to stand up, and they don't like to stand up. Only brown bears like to stand up.

Those who are willing to stand up are adult black bears.

The bear stood up, with his hands hanging at his waist, in a defensive observation posture, and looked around quickly.

Suddenly, he turned around and saw Yu Qiutang and the other two here.

He was stunned for a moment at first and did not move, but in the next instant, as if stimulated by something, he rushed down vertically from the ridge and pounced on the three people at full speed.

"It's over, it's angry!"

Wang Haofeng hurriedly loaded the crossbow with arrows and placed the axe in a convenient position.

Yu Qiujiang kept almost the same movements as him.

"Don't panic, put away the crossbow. If you don't hit the vital points, it's basically useless. It won't give you a second chance to reload the crossbow..."

"What should I do?!"

"Just use the axe. Brother Jiang, you can use the knife. But don't resist head-on. The bear will bite off the handle directly. Try to dodge them..."

"Ow~"

While we were still on guard against the big bear, the bear behind us also rushed down from the tree and went straight towards the big bear.

As it passed near the three people, the ground shook with a "puff puff" sound.

Okay~
It turns out that the mother bear I have been waiting for is you.

Yu Qiutang signaled Wang Haofeng and Yu Qiujiang to be quiet. He held his breath and stared at the bear, watching its body gradually grow bigger and its speed slow down a lot.

"Oh!"

Then a shot was fired.

It should have hit.

The bear slowed down its running speed, its body swayed a few times, and then it started to accelerate again.

The little bear here finally rushed to the ridge and started running towards the mother bear.

Yu Qiutang took the opportunity to fire another shot, and this time he hit the bear as well. The bear's body suddenly seemed to be hit by a sledgehammer. It fell to its side and rolled several times before it struggled to get up.

At this time, the bear was less than fifty meters away from the three people.

The little bear has also run to the two mother bears.

It circled the mother bear several times, rubbing its head against her body repeatedly and making a whining sound.

Yu Qiutang was not in a hurry to continue shooting.

He now has three bullets and cannot waste them any more. He needs to prepare at least two for the journey back. If he uses all of them here, it will be a bit troublesome if he encounters danger on the way down the mountain.

He is waiting for a better opportunity.

The timing of a fatal blow.

Wang Haofeng and Yu Qiujiang's heartbeats quickened at this moment. They hadn't noticed it from far away, but now, only a few dozen meters away, they saw that the bear's body was even stronger and more terrifying than they had imagined.

You can even see the bear's claws, which are more than a foot long.

If the claws combined with the bear's strength were to pierce through, even the steel plate would be pierced through, let alone a person.

The mother bear seemed to have regained some strength after being licked by the cub. She slowly stood up, looked at Yu Qiujiang and the other two, then looked at the ridge opposite, as if she was in a dilemma.

a long time.

It suddenly stood up on the spot and roared towards Yu Qiutang and the other two.

"Hang~Huo~~~"

The roar of the bear came so suddenly that the three of them were unable to react. They felt as if they were standing in front of a big drum and being hit hard by the drumstick. The three of them felt numb on their scalps, and for a short time, they could only hear the roar in their ears and could not hear any other sound.

Even the ground seemed to be shaking from the bear's roar, resonating with the echo that echoed throughout the valley.

Yu Qiutang had heard a bear roar before, but none of them was as shocking as this one. His five senses were stronger than those of ordinary people, so the feedback he received was even more severe. At this moment, he felt dizzy and almost couldn't hold the gun steadily.

Wang Haofeng was stunned by the yelling.

Yu Qiujiang also looked pale, and he tightly gripped the handle of the knife. Due to the great force, all his finger joints turned white.

That's it.

Yu Qiutang sighed.

If you want to hunt bears, you are thinking too simply.

At this time, the bears are extremely fierce and have the strongest fighting power. Because of the pregnancy reaction, they are more brutal and prone to violence than usual.

It's difficult to deal with.

The key is that he doesn't have a dog yet.

Originally, there were only two reliable ways to hunt bears: setting traps and "trapping the bear."

The so-called bear trap is definitely not an ordinary trap, like the one used to trap herbivores such as musk deer or sika deer. As long as one leg is trapped, they will have no chance of escape.

This simple lasso has no effect on bears.

It will unravel itself.

People who don't know the truth may think that the bear is stupid because of his strong body.

Not at all.

Its IQ is no less than that of its muscles.

In addition, due to its brute force of several hundred kilograms, the noose is basically ineffective.

Of course, as hunting methods and materials continued to improve, some foreign bear hunters liked to use steel wire to make snares, which is another matter.

Animals in nature basically only develop their physical bodies and have no technological trees. Faced with humans' ever-evolving technology, they obviously lack the ability to cope with it, so they are at a disadvantage in the constant competition until they are finally completely extinct.

Early bear traps were deep pits.

Once they have figured out the bear's life trajectory, they will regularly put food on the bear for it to eat. Once it becomes accustomed to eating, its vigilance will gradually decrease and it will be led into the trap.

The trap is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, more like a bucket for food; once you fall in, nothing can climb out.

Then deal with the bear in the jar.

The advantage of this is that the bear's body is intact and the bear skin is not damaged, so it can be sold at a good price.

But the disadvantage is that it is easy to make the bear bile explode.

That would be a waste of time and effort. A bear has many treasures, but its gallbladder is still its most valuable.

For experienced hunters, the top priority when hunting bears is to secure bear bile.

In addition to traps, the most common one is the "bear trap".

As the name suggests, it is to use hunting dogs to pull and trap the bear in the center. When the bear sees that there are hunting dogs all around, it will be a little distracted. At the beginning, it may be very irritable, biting and hitting the hunting dogs everywhere, but it will get tired after a long time, and the hunter can successfully shoot it in the process.

Yu Qiutang is currently facing big problems.

Because it was not a hunt but an encounter in the wild, he had no way to dig a trap, and he didn't have any hunting dogs to trap.

Although he had two companions, both of whom were strong men, he might be frightened by the bear because he had no experience in pulling the bear.

When fighting a bear around a tree, if you fall just by a scratch, you will basically die.

It seems that his previous idea of ​​hunting bears was indeed a bit overconfident.

It’s better to just pick the Coriolus versicolor and go down the mountain smoothly.

There is already so much income, why create more trouble? Just get the money first.

Thinking of this, he prepared to ask the two men to retreat temporarily, leaving the bear behind, and wait until winter was still here to deal with it.

however.

The accident happened suddenly again.

Just as he was struggling, Wang Haofeng lost his balance due to the great pressure and rolled down from the other side of the ridge.

Yu Qiutang was holding the gun with both hands and couldn't pull his hands free. He watched Wang Haofeng rolling faster and faster, and the axe was also thrown out.

"Fengzi!"

He shouted anxiously and jumped up quickly.

The opposite hillside is not as steep as the south side, and there are many depressions in the middle. If it was just a simple rolling slope, it would not be a big deal.

There is almost no fatal danger.

But the problem now is that the black bear that was just angered is just a few dozen meters away.

really.

Just as Yu Qiutang stood up, the black bear over there also noticed Wang Haofeng rolling down here, and immediately got angry.

The bear cannot tell whether a person is running or rolling passively. It only knows that this human is approaching it at a very fast speed. Thinking of the two bullets it just received, it can no longer bear the pain in its body.

He roared at Wang Haofeng again.

He stepped on the mountain soil and ran towards this side. His body weighed several hundred pounds and moved at high speed. The soil, gravel and weeds along the way were quickly blown away, forming a fan-shaped parabola behind him.

Yu Qiutang had no time to care about anything else. He could only half-crouch, focus all his attention on the bear, and fire two shots at the bear's head.

"Oh!"

In a desperate situation, facing a black bear running at a speed of 50 to 60 kilometers per hour, he only hit one of his two shots, and that bullet did not hit the head, but hit the bear's front leg.

The black bear suddenly fell forward while running, and its huge body rolled several times on the ground.

Let out a roar of pain and anger.

"Get up quickly and run to the side!"

"Brother Jiang, be careful!"

Just when Yu Qiutang opened fire, Yu Qiujiang had already jumped off the ridge with a knife in his hand.

At this time, there is almost no need for verbal reminders, the current situation is clear at a glance.

The bear was so close that it sounded slow, but it actually only took a few seconds for it to reach you.

He didn't have time to think any more.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

As Wang Haofeng was rolling down, he quickly realized that he was in trouble. He desperately grabbed around with his hands, scratched himself countless times, and broke countless thorns. Finally, he grabbed a dwarf pine tree and stopped rolling.

Just when I was about to take a breath, I heard a wheezing sound next to my ear, the sound of breathing with bellows.

I turned my head subconsciously and was immediately scared out of my wits.

The black bear had a huge body, but just a few meters behind him, the black bear that had just stopped rolling was a little dazed. The blood that flowed out had stained the mud and covered its eyes, which it was trying hard to wipe.

The little bear, at this moment, followed its mother closely and roared at Wang Haofeng desperately.

But it is small and has a temper, but it does not have the power to kill the enemy.

It's like a kitten blocked by a dog. It breathes out only to boost its courage and subconsciously warn the other party, but it won't take direct action.

"Fengzi, run to the side!"

Yu Qiutang still had one bullet in his gun and he was still looking for an opportunity.

In fact, the black bear was already badly wounded, and if it left like this now, it would probably die somewhere.

But the cub was still by its side, and as a mother, it was reluctant to give up and used its last bit of strength to protect its child.

But when it wiped the stains off its eyes and saw the current situation clearly, its temperament became even more violent. It stood up again and wanted to repeat the same mistake with a sonic attack.

"Oh!"

This was the opportunity Yu Qiutang had been waiting for.

(End of this chapter)