Chapter 117: Small-caliber rifle hunting

A fox is a fox, on this Gobi alkali beach, it is considered a local native, and like it are badgers, water rats, wild rabbits, and now you can still see wolves sporadically.

By the time Li Long was old, in order to protect the environment, foxes and wild rabbits became more numerous, and there were pheasants, water rats once disappeared because of the value of their fur and scent, but later the county leather factory went bankrupt, no one collected the fur, and they slowly became more numerous.

Li Long reacted extremely quickly. When he saw the fox, the fine wire loop in his hand had already been thrown on the ground, his body shook slightly, the small-caliber rifle slid from his shoulder into his hand, his left hand supported the gun body, his right hand had already grabbed the grip, his index finger hooked and opened the safety, completing the preparation work before aiming.

But that fox was unusually clever. After Li Qiang's shout, it had already dashed out. By the time Li Long aimed, it had already run behind a cluster of red willows.

Li Long quickly ran forward with the gun, Li Qiang behind him hurriedly picked up the wire snare and followed, bumping into red willows from time to time, but he couldn't care less.

Li Long crossed the cluster of red willow trees and saw a flash of brown figure, he made a decisive decision and fired!

"Pa!"

The sound of the small-caliber rifle was very crisp compared to the 56-semi, the brown figure didn't stop for half a moment, it should have missed.

Li Long felt annoyed in his heart, but he could see that because the snow was quite thick in this red willow thicket, the fox didn't seem to run fast, he quickly chased after it again, bypassed two red willows, and took the chance to fire two more shots.

The second shot hit the fox, but that fox was very tenacious, still crawling forward, but the small-caliber bullet hit its abdomen, a lot of blood flowed, and soon it couldn't crawl anymore.

Li Long walked quickly to the fox, this fox turned its head and bared its teeth to threaten Li Long, but it was a thing about the size of a small local dog, and it was injured, how could Li Long be afraid of it?

Just as Li Long was pointing the small-caliber rifle at the fox's head, preparing to finish it off, Li Qiang ran over.

"Little Uncle, what is this?"

"A fox." Li Long said, "The cunning fox in 'The Fox Borrows the Tiger's Might'."

At night, Li Jianguo would tell Li Juan and Li Qiang stories from time to time, Li Qiang should know this idiom.

At this time, the fox saw Li Qiang and suddenly began to "ying ying ying" cry, that sound sounded pitiful.

"Little Uncle, what is it crying?" Li Qiang asked, looking up.

Li Long said with a smile:

"It's begging you for mercy." This fox was really cunning, it knew Li Long wouldn't let it go, so when Li Long came over, it just threatened and bared its teeth, but when Li Qiang came over, it pretended to be pitiful.

Really spiritual!

"Then is its meat delicious?" Li Qiang ignored the fox's cry for help and asked.

"The meat shouldn't be delicious, but the fur should be able to sell for some money."

"Then kill it." Li Qiang said without hesitation.

Li Long laughed loudly, this fox's "winking" was in vain. Children in this day and age basically don't think about whether it's good to raise or cute when they see a living thing, the first thought is whether it's delicious or not, if it's not delicious, then whether it's worth money is the next question to be tested.

Li Long didn't bring a knife this time, he held the gun against the fox's neck and fired another shot, the fox twitched and stopped moving.

Li Long grabbed the fox's tail and lifted it up, it felt less than ten kilograms, a bit of weight.

He didn't bring a knife, so he could only go back to skin it.

"Uncle, give me this snare, are you still going to catch rabbits?"

"Yes." Li Long thought to himself that the rabbits must have been scared away, so he took Li Qiang out of the Red Willow Beach first, bypassed to the north side, and then entered. There were no traces of anyone coming here, but there were many footprints and claw marks of various animals.

Li Long followed several lines that rabbits often walked, found two clusters of red willows close together, and set snares. Twenty minutes later, after Li Long finished setting the rabbit snares, he turned back to the place where he originally set the snares, at this time he found that at the location where the fox was, there was more than half a rabbit frozen hard. The rabbit was snared, died a long time ago, and was targeted by the fox.

Li Long untied this half of the rabbit and, relying on his memory, went to find other snares.

To Li Long's surprise, beside a cluster of red willow trees, the snow covered a frozen rabbit, which hadn't been discovered by other animals or people, which was considered an extra harvest for today.

Collecting these snares and rabbits, Li Long took the panting Li Qiang and walked back.

"Little Uncle, are we going back to eat rabbit meat?"

"Sure." Li Long said, "Let your mom cook it tonight." Li Long said, "We'll eat rabbit."

With something delicious to eat, Li Qiang felt he wasn't that tired anymore.

Xie Dafa was strolling on the road, seeing Li Long carrying the fox, he said in surprise:

"Xiao Long is really something, even a fox can be caught, this fox fur taken to the county, how could it sell for more than ten yuan?"

"Don't know, hit it in the eye, estimated it's not worth much." Li Long said, "And it even gnawed on my rabbit snare."

"That rabbit is worth a few cents, fox fur is precious." Xie Dafa showed an envious expression.

!.

Li Long took Li Qiang back, Xie Dafa pondered whether he should also get some fine wire to set a snare. If he couldn't get a fox, getting a rabbit would also be good.

Returning to the Li family, Li Long put the gun in the east room, Li Qiang had already impatiently carried the fox and ran into the room to show off.

Although fox meat wasn't delicious, it looked good.

Li Long put down the gun, took out the small knife Li Jianguo prepared for him, pulled it out, tested the blade with his thumb, and then went to the west room.

"Xiao Long, did you hit this fox?" Li Jianguo still couldn't believe it, it wasn't that there were no hunters in the team, but the production team itself was mainly agricultural, really saying guns, maybe some families had them hidden, but hunting skills, really few had them.

"Mm, it was a coincidence today, Qiangqiang has sharp eyes, saw the fox, and it was in the Red Willow Beach, the snow was scattered, it couldn't run fast, so I caught it."

Li Long said while starting to skin the fox.

"This fur is not bad." Li Jianguo came over and touched it, saying, "Winter fur is the best, it's second-rate when it changes fur in the spring."

"It's a pity that there's a hole in the stomach, maybe it's not worth much."

"That's hard to say." Li Jianguo shook his head, "So beautiful, it should still be worth some money."

"Wait a couple of days to go to the acquisition station to see." Li Long slowly skinned the fox fur, he used his foot to step on one of the fox's legs to fix it, otherwise, it wouldn't be easy to skin.

Li Qiang also came over to help, pulling the other leg, while Li Juan squatted on the side, watching curiously.

"Are we making rabbit meat later?" Liang Yuemei came in from outside, seeing the rabbit thawing by the stove, asked, and then she also saw the fox.

Everyone had seen this thing from afar, it was the first time seeing it dead in front of their eyes, very curious.

Li Long thought to himself, the first time using a small-caliber rifle to hunt today, luck was not bad. Going to take the snares tomorrow, will there be a harvest?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 118 =====