Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 422

Chapter 422

In my previous life, I collected mountain goods and had contact with many hunters. It was precisely because of this that I learned a lot of information about wild animals from them.

As the star species in the Great Wilderness, the sable has always attracted much attention.

There are different ways of finding and catching sables.

It is also because of listening a lot that Lu Lu found out the similarities of these information based on reality, which became an extremely reliable experience.

Sables like cold and secluded places, so they tend to live in higher places. Usually, they don't live in places where the temperature in winter is less than ten or twenty degrees below zero.

Sables like to live in mountain forests with mixed conifers and broad-leaved conifers, such as red pine, fish scale pine, sylvestris pine, and fir, because there are many squirrels and pine cones to eat.

It must also be close to streams and valleys, catch frogs and fish, they can also change their tastes.

Be sure to ask where is the specific nest of the sable?It’s hard to say, there are many choices for its caves, such as tree holes, soil holes, rock crevices on cliffs, and caves under the stones of jumping stone ponds in the forest. Move around, occasionally spending days in makeshift burrows.

It is said that the cunning rabbit has three caves, but the caves of the sables are more complicated, and the caves they stay in definitely have more than one exit.

Sometimes the hunter finds the sable's cave and wants to sit and wait at the entrance of the cave, but it is often in vain, because the sable will slip away from the entrance of the cave that no one expects.

However, for Lu Lu, this is not a difficult task.

He knows the choice of living environment for sables, so he can search more targetedly.

Moreover, he found it, let alone Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng now, he can easily catch him alone with six dogs.

The current temperature is at least seventeen or eight degrees below zero, and the exhaled breath freezes the eyelashes together.

Although there is a half-frozen sun in the sky, it is a really good weather for hunting minks.

The second sable found today was found by Yuan Bao by smelling it.

When Yuan Bao yelled fiercely at Lu Lv, he stopped immediately and walked towards the direction pointed by Yuan Bao for a while, and found that it was a rocky pond in the pine ridge, and he was able to identify the sable at once It's in that messy stone pond, for nothing else, that place is so good to hide.

In order not to disturb the sable, who fled early, after a little sizing, Lu Lu made a gesture of pressing down on Yuan Bao, and the six dogs immediately lay down on the snow, wagging their tails and staring closely at the rocky pond.

No matter what kind of beast it is, except for chasing food and fleeing for their lives, they generally like to walk in spacious places.

Such a place is easy to hide and escape, and has a wide field of vision, making it easy to find enemies.

Lu Lu took off the hunting bag, and gently propped up the mink net made with Chen Xiuqing yesterday with a thin stick between the wide stone gaps.

This net is remade from a fishing net and made into a pocket with a large mouth. The thread used is very thin and the mesh is small. A thin rope passes through the mouth of the circle. It is tied to the side and pressed on a stick in the snow. Prey will crash into it. It is easy to get entangled in this small net, or when you are struggling forward, you will tighten the mouth of the net instead.

After setting up these nets, Lu Lu asked Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng to stand aside, while he himself took the ingots and went around to a higher place.

"Hey..."

Lu Lu took out his slingshot and got ready, then spoke out, giving instructions to Yuan Bao and the five puppies.

Yuan Bao rushed out first, followed by five puppies. They quickly walked through the rocky pond, followed the scent, and found the entrance of the sable's cave. Pulling.

After a while, a sable came out of a hole hidden under another bush not far away, moved its short legs, and ran down, and immediately slammed into the early morning. The mink net that had been set up was suddenly entangled in the net.

The sables squeaked in the net.

Zhang Shaofeng's reaction was no slower than Chen Xiuqing's. He rushed out at the first time, and fell into the snow all at once. He held down the sable with both hands wearing roe-skin gloves, and then squeezed the sable to death with all his strength. .

This is the easiest and least skin-friendly method that Lu Lu taught him to kill the sable.

The roe-skin gloves on the hands can effectively prevent the sable from biting the fingers.

When the sable rushed out, the dogs also jumped on it, but Zhang Shaofeng was one step behind.

In this case, the sable cannot be bitten by a dog. If it is bitten casually, the price will be greatly reduced immediately, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Lu Lu came down, took the hunting knife, skinned the sable, cut the meat into six pieces, and fed each dog a piece.

Got the second sable.

Yuan Bao and the others can already act as mink hunting dogs very well.

Yuan Bao, Bai Long and Hei Zui all have excellent senses of smell, and the dogs can always detect the smell of sables keenly.

Now, Zhang Shaofeng understands why Lu Lu makes money so fast.

It's only been a while, and I have already got two mink furs.

"I used to hear from the elders that in the Qing Dynasty, people from the Manchu, Oroqen, Ewenki, Hezhen, Xibe and other ethnic minorities in the Great Wilderness had to go to the mountains every year to catch minks. , all males living in Changbai Mountain, Zhangguangcai Mountain, and Daxing’an Mountains are measured with a measuring rod, and those who are five feet tall have to be included in the Ding Register. strict.

If they had your ability, they wouldn't have to kill many people in vain.

At that time, mink fur was exclusively used by the royal family, and it was illegal for ordinary people to use mink fur. "

Zhang Shaofeng smacked his lips and said, "Many hunters say that hunting mink is difficult, why did it become so easy when you came here?"

Lu Lu smiled and didn't say much. This is indeed a matter that requires a lot of experience. It is difficult for an inexperienced person to track down a sable, and even if it is encountered, it cannot be easily caught.

Lu Lu came here after making sufficient preparations.

He knew where the sables liked to live and knew several practical ways of hunting them.

To find the sable's cave, you can use a net to set it at the entrance of the cave, burn peppers from another cave or use weed smoke to force the sable out. It is better to drive the sable out, and the dog can easily complete it .

The cave chosen by the sable is not complicated, but there are more exits. If you encounter a badger or a badger cave, it will be like a maze, and it will not be easy to drive out with a dog. It is not easy to smoke, and most of the time you can only dig them out with your strength.

Sable is very afraid of dogs. As long as the dogs bark and paw at the entrance of the cave, they will be frightened and jump out of another cave immediately.

Of course, in the current situation, the nest array can also be arranged on the path where the sables often walk or around the nest, that is, many flexible wire steel sleeves are arranged in a piece.

Wild beasts like to take the road they have already traveled, because they think that the road they have traveled is the safest, and they will only run for their lives in a panic when they are chased.

Only, it takes time to wait.

Obviously they all know that they are in the lair, there is a simpler and more direct way, of course it is simpler and more direct.

In addition to netting and trapping, trapping is also a very efficient way to catch mink.

If there is a shortage of food in winter, sables are also short of food. Put fresh meat in a cage with flaps to lure sables looking for food into it, or use splints to set bait.

There is another way, that is, on the road where the sable is walking, hollow out the snow layer below, put the plywood directly inside, block the top with paper to prevent the snow from falling, and fire the plywood in advance. When the sable passes by and falls in, it will be clamped by the plywood live.

This way, there is a certain chance of escaping, after all, the sable's reaction is quite sensitive.

In addition, Lu Lu also heard from Zhao Tuanqing that in the early years, there were special mink catchers who would select hills where sables were active, choose a slightly wide and flat place in the forest, and clear away the shrubs and weeds to form a clean environment. In the trumpet-shaped snow field, traps such as moseys are set in this place.

Zhao Tuanqing said it to him at the time, but Lu Lu couldn't understand it at all, so Zhao Tuanqing simply found some wooden sticks and laid them out for Lu Lu carefully.

Dude, it's a bit complicated to make.

On the trumpet-shaped clean snow ground, a giant log as thick as a washbasin and seven or eight meters long hangs on the dragon gate at a height of one and a half meters from the ground.

The dragon gate is nailed to an open space about one meter wide with two tree branches, and a thick wooden stick is placed between the two tree branches. Both ends are spacious flares.

If you look carefully, one end of the giant log is hung by a slightly thinner wooden stick on the dragon gate with a rope buckle. The other end of the son is fastened to a horizontal stick as thick as chopsticks, and the horizontal stick is fastened to two fence logs nailed to the ground on one side of the wooden fence.

Two horizontal sticks are placed on the horizontal stick, and thick bark is placed on the two horizontal sticks.

This layered and exquisite design is to reduce such a heavy giant tree to the point where it only needs two small pieces of bark to be lifted by using the principle of leverage.

The bell mouths on both sides of the fence are specially arranged according to the habits of sables.

A trumpet is going uphill, and it is when the sables on the mountain are preparing to go down the mountain to hunt for food.

A trumpet is at the bottom, which is prepared for the sables who are going to hunt down the mountain for food.

Both sides of the horn mouth are blocked by long fences woven with branches. If wild animals cannot get through, they can only walk along the horn mouth, getting narrower and narrower, and finally drill into the wooden fence passage under the pestle, step on the bark, boom, When the giant tree falls, it can crush the sable to death.

This is a trap that does not need a wire or a wire sleeve to effectively capture sables.

However, in Lu Lu's view, this work would take too much time.

Of course, this is a trap that can be used repeatedly for a long time.

With such a powerful force, of course it can catch not only sables, but also foxes, badgers, raccoons, pheasants, hares, weasels and so on.

Set up a few more places on the mountain, just check and collect every day.

Naturally, Lu Lu couldn't afford to spend so much energy doing this.

The Great Wilderness is so big, there are many places to hunt, but we can't just guard such a small piece of land.

Of course, Lu Lu still used the meat of birds and squirrels he found casually, and set up some splints in several open places in the forest.

I also encountered some walking paths of sables. After tracking, I found that the sables disappeared from the trees. I found the nest but was not on the path of the cave. I set up a nest array with soft steel wires and waited for tomorrow to check.

In this way, the three of them searched for an afternoon, and together with Yuanbao's scent detection assistance, they hit two more sables, set up six splints and sleeve arrays, and ran a large area.

With heavy snow covering the mountains and plains, the sables must be short of food. Lu Lu believes that those traps with bait will definitely be able to get the goods. As for those whose nests have been found, the possibility of setting up traps is even greater.

Tomorrow, in addition to these traps, if we expand the search area on the surrounding mountains, the harvest will be even greater.

(End of this chapter)