In my previous life, I collected wild animals and came into contact with a lot of hunters. Because of this, I learned a lot of bits and pieces of information about wild animals from them.
As the star species in the wilderness, sable has always attracted much attention.
There are different methods for finding and catching sables.
Precisely because he listened a lot, Lu Lu was able to find the similarities between these pieces of information based on reality, which became an extremely reliable experience.
Sables like cold, secluded places, so they tend to live in higher places. They usually do not live in places where the winter temperature does not reach minus ten or twenty degrees.
Sables like to live in mountain forests with mixed needles and broad needles such as red pine, fish scale pine, sylvestris pine, fir, etc., because there are many squirrels and there are pine cones to eat.
You must also stay close to streams and river valleys to catch frogs and fish, which will also give them a change of taste.
You must ask where the sable's specific nest is? It's hard to say. There are many choices for its caves, such as tree holes, earth holes, stone crevices on cliffs, and caves under stones in the forest where they jump into stone ponds. Sometimes they live there.
When I get bored, I will walk around like a tourist, occasionally staying in a temporary cave for a few days.
It is said that a cunning rabbit has three burrows, but the sable's burrow is more complicated, and the cave it stays in definitely has more than one exit.
Sometimes hunters find a sable cave and try to wait at the entrance of the cave, but this is often in vain, because the sable will escape through the entrance of the cave that no one expects.
However, this is not difficult for Lu Lu.
He knows the choice of sable's living environment, so he can naturally search for it in a more targeted manner.
Moreover, once he found it, not to mention that Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng were now helping him, he could easily capture him alone with six dogs.
The current temperature is at least minus 17 or 18 degrees Celsius, and my exhaled breath freezes my eyelashes together.
Although there is a half-frozen sun in the sky, it is actually a good day for hunting mink.
The second sable found today was found by Yuan Bao by smelling it.
When Yuan Bao made a whimpering cry at Lu Lu, he immediately stopped and walked in the direction pointed by Yuan Bao. He found that it was a rocky pond in the pine ridge, and he could immediately identify the sable.
It's just in the rock pond. If nothing else, it's a perfect place to hide.
In order not to alarm the sable and flee early, Lu Lu made a downward gesture towards Yuan Bao after a brief look. 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 when chasing food or escaping for its life, it generally likes to go to wide places.
Such a place is easy to hide and escape, and has a wide field of vision, making it easy to spot enemies.
Lu Lu took off the hunting bag and gently stretched the mink net he and Chen Xiuqing made yesterday between the wide gaps between the stones with a thin stick.
This net is modified from a fishing net and is made into a pocket with a large mouth. The thread used is very thin and the mesh is small. A thin rope is passed through the mouth of the circle. It is tied to a stick in the snow and the prey crashes into it.
It is easy to get entangled in this small net, or when trying to push forward, the mouth of the net will be tightened.
After setting up these nets, Lu Lu asked Chen Xiuqing and Zhang Shaofeng to stand aside while he took the ingot and walked around to a higher place.
"吜吜......"
Lu Lu took out his slingshot and got ready, then spoke out and gave instructions to Yuan Bao and the five puppies.
Yuan Bao rushed out first, followed closely by five puppies. They quickly walked through the rock pond, and soon followed the scent and found the entrance of the sable's cave. They barked towards the entrance and used their paws vigorously.
Pulling.
After a while, a sable emerged from the hole hidden under another bush not far away. It moved its short legs and flew downwards, and immediately ran headlong into the morning.
In the mink net that had been set up, he was suddenly entangled in the net.
The sable squeaked in the net.
Zhang Shaofeng's reaction was no slower than Chen Xiuqing's. He rushed out immediately and fell on the snow. He pressed down the sable with his hands wearing roe deer leather gloves, and then used both hands to squeeze the sable alive.
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This is the simplest and least harmful way to kill a sable that Lu Lu taught him.
Roe deer leather gloves worn on the hands can effectively prevent sables from biting your fingers.
When the sable rushed out, several dogs also pounced on it, but in the end they were one step behind Zhang Shaofeng.
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, then cut the meat into six sections, and fed each dog one piece.
Got the second sable.
Yuanbao and the others can already serve as ferret hunting dogs very well.
Yuanbao, Bailong and Heizui all have excellent sense of smell, and several dogs can always keenly detect the scent of sable.
Now, Zhang Shaofeng finally understands why Lu Lu made money so quickly.
In just a short while, I already got two mink skins.
"I heard from older people that during the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus, Oroqen, Ewenki, Hezhe, Xibo and other ethnic minorities in the wilderness had to go into the mountains to catch minks every year. At that time, the Yamen of the Jilin Animal Hunting and Ula Manager stipulated that
, all men living in the Changbai Mountains, Zhangguangcai Mountains, and the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains, using a measuring stick, those who are five feet tall must be added to the Ding Register, and each person must bear the obligation to pay a mink skin to the court every year, which is quite large.
strict.
If they had your ability, they wouldn't have to kill many people in vain.
At that time, mink was a royal product, and it was illegal for ordinary people to use mink."
Zhang Shaofeng smacked his lips and said: "Many hunters say that hunting mink is difficult. How come it has become so easy when I come to you?"
Lu Lu smiled and said nothing more. This is indeed something that requires a lot of experience. For an inexperienced person, it would be difficult to track the sable, and even if it were encountered, it would not be easy to catch it.
Lu Lu came here after being fully prepared.
He knew where sables liked to live, and he knew several practical methods for hunting sables.
To find the sable's cave, you can set up a net at the entrance of the cave, burn chili peppers from another hole or use weed smoke to force the sable out. It is better to have a dog to chase the sable out. The dog can easily chase the sable out.
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The cave chosen by the sable is not complicated, it just has more exits. If it encounters a cave like a dog badger, pig badger, etc., it will be like a maze. It will not be easy to chase it out with a dog.
Smoking them is not easy either, and most of the time they can only be dug out with one hand.
Sables are very afraid of dogs. As long as the dog barks and poops at the entrance of the hole, it will immediately be frightened and jump out of another hole.
Of course, in the current situation, a condom array can also be arranged on the path where the sable often walks or around the nest, that is, many flexible steel condoms are arranged in a piece.
Wild animals like to take the road they have already traveled because they think that road is the safest. They will panic and run for their lives only if they are being followed urgently.
But, it takes time to wait.
Obviously everyone knows that there is a simpler and more direct way in the lair, of course it is simpler and more direct.
In addition to netting and trapping, trapping is also a very efficient method for catching mink.
In winter, when there is a shortage of food, sables are also in need of food. You can put fresh meat in a cage with flaps to entice sables looking for food to get in, or you can 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 and put the plywood directly inside. Block it with paper to prevent the snow from falling and trigger the plywood in advance. When the sable passes by, it will be caught by the plywood when it falls in.
live.
This method has 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 with sable activities and choose a slightly wider and flat place in the forest to clear away shrubs and weeds to form a clean landscape.
In the trumpet-shaped snow field, set up traps like Usui in this place.
Zhao Tuanqing told him once, but Lu Lu couldn't understand it at all. Zhao Tuanqing simply found some wooden sticks and placed them carefully for Lu Lu.
It's a bit complicated to make.
On this trumpet-shaped clean snow ground, one and a half meters above the ground, a huge tree as thick as a washbasin and seven or eight meters long was hung on the gantry.
The gantry is made of two tree branches nailed to the open space about one meter wide. Between the two tree branches, there is a wooden stick as thick as an arm. Under the giant tree, two or three meters of tree sticks are used to form a fence alley. The fence alley
There are spacious bell mouths at both ends.
Looking carefully, one end of the giant tree is hung by a thin wooden stick on the gantry with a rope buckle. The other end of the wooden stick is tied with a hemp rope as thick as chopsticks. The other end of the hemp rope is tied with a tree stick as thick as chopsticks. The tree stick
The other end of the child was pinned to a horizontal stick as thick as a chopstick, and the horizontal stick was pinned to two fence logs nailed to the ground on one side of the wooden fence.
Two more horizontal sticks were placed on the horizontal stick, and the two horizontal sticks were covered with thick bark.
This layer-by-layer ingenious design uses the principle of leverage to reduce such a heavy giant tree to the point where it only needs two small barks to hold it down.
The bells on both sides of the fence were specially designed according to the habits of sables.
There is a trumpet on the uphill slope, which is where the sables on the mountain go when they come down to hunt for food.
There is a trumpet at the bottom, which is prepared for the sables who are going to hunt for food at the foot of the mountain.
Both sides of the trumpet mouth are blocked by long fences woven with branches. Wild animals can't get through, so they can only walk along the trumpet mouth, getting narrower and narrower. Finally, they get into the wooden fence passage under the truss, step on the bark, and boom,
If a huge tree falls, it can crush the sable to death.
This is a trap that does not require a wire, but a wire sheath, and can still 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 over time.
With such power, it is of course possible to capture not only sables, but also foxes, badgers, raccoons, pheasants, hares, weasels, etc.
Just set up a few more places on the mountain and check and collect them every day.
Naturally, Lu Lu couldn't afford to spend so much energy on it.
The wilderness is so big and there are so many places to hunt, but we can't just stick to such a small piece of land.
Of course, Lu Lu used the meat of birds and squirrels that he found casually to set up some splints in several open places in the forest.
I also encountered some sable walking paths. After tracking, I found that the sable had disappeared on the tree. When I found the nest, it was not on the path of the cave. I set up a trap array with soft and thin wires and waited to check tomorrow.
In this way, the three of them searched for an entire afternoon, and with Yuanbao and the others' scent detection assistance, they found two more sables, splints, and sleeve arrays were set up in six places, covering a large area.
With heavy snow covering the mountains and fields, the sables must be short of food. Lu Lu believes that the traps with bait will definitely be able to be delivered. As for those that have even found their nests and set traps, the possibility is even greater.
Tomorrow, in addition to these traps, we will expand the search area in the surrounding mountains and the harvest will be even greater.