Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 4 Hunting in the Mountains
After a while, Chen Weidong discovered a mountain spring. It is not accurate to call it a mountain spring, this place is a pool of water.

All year round, spring water seeps out from the stone walls of the hill and flows into the pool below.

This small pond fully verifies the principle that water dripping wears away a stone. It must have been so many years.

Water seeping from the cracks in the rocks dripped down the cliff, slowly carving out a small pool of water.

This kind of small pond is very common in Laohei Mountain. Generally, the pond is a place where animals in the mountains drink water, and there may be some prey there.

If only there was a sow wild boar nearby, the gun in his hand would have been thirsty for it.

Chen Weidong thought to himself, then took the gun and quietly moved over.

Unfortunately, unlike what Chen Weidong thought, there were no big prey near the pond. Only a wild rabbit was found on the meadow next to the pond.

Not only that, there were three little rabbits in front of the tree, leisurely eating the branches and leaves.
Chen Weidong couldn't help but feel happy. He was wandering around in the mountains and was discovered by the animals before he even saw them.

This time, the group of rabbits finally didn't notice his presence. If he wanted to go hunting in the mountains, he had to be the sixth one...

Chen Weidong raised his gun and aimed at the fattest rabbit.

It is estimated to be about four pounds.

You should know that there is a saying in Jiuqutun that a chicken cannot live past three and a rabbit cannot live past five.

A rabbit weighing about four pounds is considered very fat.

Open the insurance, take a deep breath,

Aim carefully and get back the feeling of shooting.

You have to know that before the production teams were disbanded, everyone was a soldier, and the village often organized shooting for the villagers.
Even a woman like Liu Xueting can shoot a gun, and Chen Weidong's shooting skills are among the best in the village. What's more, Chen Weidong later did mountain product business and shot a gun with hunters in the mountains.

pull the trigger,

"boom!!"

A gunshot was heard, and the bullet hit the hare's left foot. Only then did the hare realize Chen Weidong, the sixth man.

They jumped up in fright and ran away in all directions.

"Fuck! It was almost there, there's something wrong with the gun's accuracy!"

Even Chen Weidong couldn't help but swear. You have to know that he was only a dozen meters away from the group of rabbits, not to mention that the rabbits were not running.

Even if he hadn't touched a gun for a long time, he shouldn't be so inaccurate.
Therefore, as soon as the rush started, Chen Weidong discovered the problem.
The line of this old gun was almost worn out and it was no longer accurate, but he also found that the bullet was fired slightly to the left.

The gunshot scared the rabbits away.

By the time Chen Weidong pulled the bolt to eject the bullet shell, reloaded the bullet and took aim, the rabbit beside the pond had disappeared without a trace.

Chen Weidong couldn't help but sigh. Although his old slide could hold five bullets at a time, people who had never touched this old version of the Hanyang-made gun didn't know.

That’s because the old slide has a five-round magazine, also known as “a row of rounds!”

The firing process is loading the magazine, chambering, firing, pulling the bolt, ejecting the shell, and then firing the next round.

Without a magazine, you need to reload one round at a time, reload one round, and fire one round at a time.

Like the Hanyang gun in Chen Weidong's hand, it was an old gun bought when Chen Weidong's grandfather was still alive. It didn't have a magazine and it only fired one round at a time.

Of course, some Hanyang-made rifles can fire five bullets without a magazine, but this is a homemade gun that imitates the Hanyang-made rifle.

The appearance is the same as that of a standard rifle, but the difference is that the barrel is made of inferior steel, has no rifling, has a short range, is prone to explosion, and can fire both 79mm round-head bullets and pointed-head bullets.

Therefore, there are two theories about Hanyang Zao.

"Single-shot one" and "Tu Da Wu" However, when shooting with "Tu Da Wu", you should stop after firing the second and third rounds, and you cannot fire continuously to let the barrel cool down. Otherwise, the barrel will be too hot to touch, and it may explode if you fire again.

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Chen Weidong was no longer discouraged. He began to slowly search for prey. Although there were often wild beasts in Laohei Mountain,

But it is generally found in deep areas and is rarely seen on the outskirts. Many villagers even go to nearby hills to dig wild vegetables.

Chen Weidong did not plan to go deeper. After all, he was alone and aimless. Even if he had a gun for self-defense, it would be easy for something to happen.

Besides, he had just been reborn and had a wife and children waiting for him at home, so it was not worth it for him to take risks right away.

Just as Chen Weidong was aimlessly searching for prey, he startled a pheasant with long tail feathers. It didn't fly far before landing on a branch not far ahead.

Chen Weidong laughed immediately.

"I was saying that my luck wouldn't be that bad. Finally, prey came to my door."

The pheasant didn't notice Chen Weidong, which gave him a good time to aim.

This time Chen Weidong learned his lesson. Since the bullet was slightly to the left, he moved the muzzle a little to the right.

"boom!"

At the sound of a gunshot, the pheasant immediately fell from the tree trunk and fell to the ground without even flapping its wings.

really.

Unfortunately, the power of the bullet was too great for the pheasant, and part of the meat was shattered, so he had to leave it for himself to eat.

This made Chen Weidong want to make a slingshot. He saw many greyhounds along the way, and this was much more profitable than hunting pheasants and rabbits.
First he would hunt some small game to support his family, since he didn't even have a hunting dog.

It is simply unrealistic for one person to hunt wild boars and bears in the mountains with only a gun.

Then Chen Weidong walked to the side, picked up the pheasant, drew the knife from his waist, slit the pheasant's throat and let the blood.

The pheasant was doomed to die, yet he continued hunting.

If it goes on for a long time, not only will the blood stagnate in the flesh, but it will also easily cause stomach odor.

After loading the pheasant, Chen Weidong was out of breath.

Tired, really tired.

You have to know that in order to save money, the villagers only eat two meals a day. It was probably around ten o'clock when he finished breakfast.

At this time, it was only two or three hours before he went up the mountain. Even though he often did hard labor and was in his prime, he had no food in his stomach and would get tired after a few hours in the mountain.

After wandering around in the mountains for a while and finding nothing, Chen Weidong took a rest under a big tree.

However, just as Chen Weidong's buttocks touched the ground, he saw movement in the bushes in front of him, accompanied by the sound of "click! click!"

"Again! Pheasant!"

In fact, the call of a pheasant is easy to distinguish. The call of a pheasant is similar to that of a rooster, but it is sharper and thinner, like a person being strangled by the throat.

Although Chen Weidong didn't see what was happening in the bushes, he could tell the pheasants by the sound they made.

His face lit up with joy, and his hand unconsciously clenched the shotgun, which he had already loaded with bullets.

There were weeds and bushes all in front of him, which made noises when he stepped on them, so Chen Weidong did not choose to go straight up.

(End of this chapter)