Chapter 44

Arriving at Feng Chengmin's house, he greeted his aunt and uncle.

At this time, his cousins were still sleeping, so Wang An didn't enter the inner room.

Feng Chengmin threw six big traps onto the sled, and the two didn't delay.

Driving the sled, they went straight into the mountains.

First, they went to the place where they set traps yesterday. This method of setting traps was really quite powerful. After one round, they harvested 7 more hares.

By the way, they reset the 5 traps that caught hares yesterday.

After the wire trap catches a hare, it must be processed again before being reused, otherwise, there will never be another hare caught in the trap.

Because after the wire trap catches a hare, the hare will struggle violently, and the more it struggles, the tighter the trap will tighten.

Finally, the wire will be deeply strangled into the hare's neck, breaking the skin, which will stick some grease and blood from the skin onto the wire.

Although it doesn't look obvious, to a living hare of the same kind, it is a huge danger.

The processing is also very simple: throw it into the stove to burn it, then throw it on soft soil and rub it with your feet, and it's done.

So after being used a few times, the wire is no longer strong and is useless!

After collecting the traps, they went to see the clamps; they only harvested one pheasant.

Those three big clamps were still placed there, and the few weeds and leaves on them were still well placed, with no movement at all!

Feng Chengmin drove the sled and headed straight for a mountain range with many bushes, where plants like hibiscus and boxwood were abundant.

It is the main food source for roe deer in winter, and roe deer will gnaw on the tender buds of the bushes here.

Feng Chengmin tied the big stallion and let Wang An carry the six big traps.

Big traps are steel wire rope traps, the principle is the same as wire traps, but the material is steel wire rope as thick as a little finger.

It was also burned black, but Feng Chengmin said it wasn't just to avoid reflecting light, but also to burn off the grease in the steel wire rope.

So it had to be burned for a while, thrown into the soil and rubbed, then burned and rubbed again, four or five times!

Big traps are used to catch wild boars, roe deer, yellow sheep, and black bears.

The success rate of catching wild boars and roe deer is slightly higher, but not much. One trap catching one or two in a month is already considered a master among masters!

The tracks of yellow sheep are elusive; sheep eat grass as they walk, meaning they eat wherever they walk.

Unlike roe deer and wild boars, which generally only move in one mountain range unless they are extremely frightened.

The sensitivity and strength of yellow sheep also exceed those of silly roe deer.

Unless a blind cat hits a dead mouse, and you know where the yellow sheep might pass, maybe you will catch one or half a one.

As for catching black bears, there's no way to say, and I haven't heard of anyone catching one.

The few who heard of catching one said the stake tied to the steel wire was broken by the black bear, and the black bear ran away with the steel wire rope.

No one cares about the specific truth or falsehood; they just know that such a thing happened!

However, even if you catch one, it's useless without a gun. The flexibility, strength, and bite force of a black bear are unimaginable!

Walking deep into the bushes, Feng Chengmin looked for a few clusters of bushes that weren't too dense, like an irregular turntable intersection!

There were many roe deer hoof prints here, dense and dense!

There were both new and old ones; it was a foraging ground that silly roe deer felt safe in!

And setting traps wasn't like setting wire traps, setting one and changing places.

Instead, traps were set at the intersections leading to the dense bushes.

Four big traps were set directly.

The time spent setting this trap was really not short. Steel wire ropes have resilience, so you have to tie three thin hemp ropes at three points, and the hemp ropes are tied to thick bushes.

The hemp rope can't be the kind that is especially strong; it has to be the kind that can withstand the resilience of the steel wire rope.

But it must break with a little force! Otherwise, the trap can't be tightened, or if it breaks late, the roe deer will run away!

The diameter of the entire trap circle is about 55 centimeters, and it is about 45 centimeters off the ground.

Above the circle, if there are no branches reaching over, you have to add a few bush strips. It's best not to let the bush strips touch the steel wire rope, fearing it will affect the tightening of the trap and make the steel wire rope look too obvious.

It made Wang An not want to learn this trick; it was too meticulous and too troublesome!

And the steel wire rope in this era wasn't easy to get; it was a very popular material!

Hearing Feng Chengmin say that this was bought by pulling strings at the forestry farm, six 2.5-meter steel wire ropes cost 25 yuan and two packs of 5-dime cigarettes, saying it was still for the sake of face!

Wang An was shocked; this was too damn expensive!

Seeming to see Wang An's lack of interest, and setting this big trap to catch roe deer was really too time-consuming.

Feng Chengmin let Wang An carry the remaining two big traps, walked into an oak forest, and set them under trees that hadn't been rooted by wild boars.

Setting traps is a matter of technique, and whether you catch anything depends on fate!!

The two drove the sled and walked into the deeper mountains.

Wang An didn't know where Feng Chengmin was going, because they passed many wild boar and roe deer footprints.

But Feng Chengmin didn't call the horse to stop, just kept walking into the deep mountains.

An hour later, Wang An found several more wild boar footprints, but Feng Chengmin acted as if he didn't see them.

He couldn't help but ask: "Uncle-in-law, where are we going? There are so many wild boar footprints, we've all passed them."

Feng Chengmin looked at Wang An deeply and said seriously: "I'm taking you to dig out a warehouse today!"

"Dig out a warehouse?" Wang An asked in surprise.

Feng Chengmin nodded without speaking.

Digging out a warehouse, Wang An knew, was digging out a black bear's warehouse, or a bear's warehouse!

In the Northeast, black bears hibernate, and a very small number don't hibernate.

But bears are different; there are those that hibernate and those that don't. I don't know the specific reason.

Hibernating bears are called 'squatting in the warehouse,' and non-hibernating bears are called 'walking the lump'!

And digging out a warehouse mostly digs out black bear warehouses, and bear warehouses account for a minority.

After the first snow of winter, black bears, which are black bears, and bears, which are brown bears.

Will drill into tree holes found in advance, or mountain caves and stone caves.

Those in tree holes are called 'sky warehouses,' and those in mountain caves and stone caves are called 'earth warehouses.'

Digging out a warehouse is finding the cave where a black bear or bear is hibernating, and the hunter prepares at the cave entrance.

Think of a way to wake them up from their deep sleep; this is called 'calling the warehouse,' also called 'shouting the warehouse.'

After they are startled and crawl out, kill them!

No matter what method is used!

Then, you can get the expensive bear gall and the not-so-valuable bear skin.

Bear skin is very large, but it is indeed not very valuable, not even as valuable as fox skin.

Wang An remembered that the supply and marketing cooperative bought it for 25 yuan, or 35, he didn't remember, anyway, it wasn't expensive.

However, Wang An was very surprised, why did his uncle-in-law take him?

His uncle-in-law had three brothers!

Forget it, learn if you can, take a share if you can, if not, forget it, hunt bears yourself in the future!

Seeming to know Wang An's confusion, Feng Chengmin didn't hide it.

He said that someone from the same village told him the location of the black bear warehouse and wanted 20% of this bear.

20%, not two shares, 20% is 20% of the money after selling it!

Suddenly on the shelves, caught off guard!!!

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