Chapter 653: Foot-catching and wolf-tooth stepping on plate clamps
Chapter 653: Foot-catching and wolf-tooth stepping on plate clamps
Author: Zhijianling
Chapter 653: Foot-catching and wolf-tooth stepping on plate clamps
In the next five days, Meng Zhaohua and three other drivers drove to five places with Lu Lu and others.
There are a lot of flying dragons in deeper places that cannot be reached by cars, but trekking back and forth takes more time. It is better to drive directly to the appropriate place and radiate out from the car to capture them.
This once again greatly increased the number of captured flying dragons.
But after it was frozen, starting the car became a big problem. Every time it was started, it had to be scalded with hot water and grilled over fire. Several people took turns inserting the rocker and shaking it hard for a while before it could start.
The advantage of Chen Xiuqing's strong strength came to light. He held the joystick and shook it wildly, which was much easier than Lu Lu and others. However, the longer he shook it, the more times he shook it, and his hands lost strength.
When I used the joystick once, I didn't have the strength to control it. The joystick rebounded and hit me hard. I held my hand for a while and couldn't move.
Fortunately, no bones were injured, but there were some bruises, which did not affect my ability to catch flying dragons in the mountains at night.
Just in the past few days, two cars have been loaded with flying dragons in their sarongs.
Lu Lu deliberately separated the captured flying dragons into different cages to avoid fighting.
When the gauze frames brought by the two cars were full, Lu Lu initially estimated that there were at least three hundred pairs of flying dragons, many of which were born in the same year and had not yet been paired.
Male and female wyverns are about the same size, but they can be easily distinguished by their color.
The main difference is that the throat of the male bird is dark black and the body feathers are more colorful. Especially during the spring courtship period, the male bird has bright red eyelids on the upper part of its eyes, which is very beautiful.
The female bird is slightly different. The upper body is browner, the throat is brownish with black feather edges, the white longitudinal band around the throat is not obvious, and ends behind the eyes, and the forehead is not white either.
Lu Lu planned to spend two more nights to collect almost 400 pairs, load up the third car, and set off back.
After raising them in this way for a year and taking care of them, the flying dragons will start to pair up and lay eggs in spring. After hatching, there will be more than 3,000 and nearly 4,000 birds. Some of them can be sold, and many can be kept for breeding in the coming year.
, just expand it.
Due to the severe crackdown in the past three years, he does not intend to expand too quickly, and will slow down appropriately. After passing this hurdle, he can make things bigger immediately.
The place we chose this time was close to the Walagan Forest Farm to the north of Xiufeng. Who knew that as soon as we entered the forest at night and caught three groups of flying dragons, things started to go wrong.
While Zhang Shaofeng was walking on the snow in the forest, he suddenly stepped on the snow shell and sank in, reaching his thigh.
He originally thought it was just a puddle with deep snow. He instinctively wanted to pull his foot out, and with a little more force, he found that a sharp object pierced the roe deer skin hunting suit on his thigh, piercing his skin, and he was instantly painful.
screamed strangely.
Hearing Zhang Shaofeng's strange scream, several people immediately came over.
Unexpectedly, just as she was running over, Chen Xiuqing suddenly stepped on the air and fell down. She was also unable to pull out once she landed.
"Stand still!"
Seeing that something was wrong, Lu Lu quickly shouted loudly.
Lei Meng, Zhao Yongke and Liang Kangbo stopped immediately.
"Fourth brother, Qingzi, what's going on?" Lu Lu asked next.
Zhang Shaofeng was the first to be hit. When he saw that his feet could not be pulled out, he was also the first to plow the snow to check. Soon, he saw the situation below and said quickly: "It must be a trap deliberately set by someone!"
"Mine is the same...this trap is quite weird!" Chen Xiuqing also carefully peeled away the snow layer and saw the situation below.
The distance between the two is not far, but there are two traps within seven or eight meters of each other...
"Be careful, there are probably a lot of traps in this place. Don't move around until we come and take a look!"
After Lu Lu finished speaking, he turned back to Zhao Yongke and said: "Third brother, you and the second brother go to help the fourth brother. My eldest brother and I will go to see Qingzi and cut a stick to explore the way. There may be traps in these places. Don't fall into any traps again."
Please pay special attention to large iron clips, as if you step on them, your feet will be easily broken."
"good!"
Several people carefully slowed down their pace, each drew his sword, chopped a wooden stick and held it in his hand. They tested each other and approached Zhang Shaofeng and Chen Xiuqing respectively.
Arriving next to Chen Xiuqing, Lu Lu took a closer look with a flashlight and cleared away the snow around Chen Xiuqing. He found that it was a circular trap made of steel, placed on top of a three-foot pothole, and used No. 8
Iron wires were tied to four surrounding trees for fixation.
"What kind of trap is this?" Raymond looked at the trap and felt a little strange.
Although Lu Lu had never used this kind of trap, he saw someone using it and said: "This trap is called catching a foot."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Zhao Yongke say to Zhang Shaofeng: "Fourth, this is a foot trap made of steel!"
"Same here!" Lu Lu replied.
After a pause, he continued: "This is a hunting tool between a clamp and a lasso. It is usually attached to a small trap and is generally only used for large prey. Generally speaking, the shape is made like a wheel.
There are also square ones.
The frame is generally made of wood. Dozens of radiating sharp steel bars are installed on the frame. There is a void in the middle. They are fixed to a nearby tree with thick wires. They are placed on the mouth of a small trap and covered with camouflage. Once prey passes by, it will step on it.
When the prey is caught in the foot, the steel bar sinks and forms barbs. The more the prey struggles, the deeper the steel bar penetrates and it can only be captured without help."
After hearing what Lu Lu said and combined with Chen Xiuqing's current situation, Lei Meng immediately understood the intention and couldn't help but praise: "This trap is awesome."
"It's very powerful... I'm more curious about what kind of prey is caught here to use such a trap. Even the frame is directly welded into steel. The radiated steel bars are also made so sharp, which is much sharper than the usual ones.
It also needs to be thicker..."
Generally speaking, such dangerous hunting equipment is rarely used. A foot catch like this is not easy to sink if it is stepped on by ordinary small animals. I am afraid that it can only be used by heavy beasts such as blind bears, wild boars or brown bears.
But there is no need to use such thick steel bars.
Moreover, even to deal with blind bears or wild boars, the wooden frame is enough to catch the feet.
The current catch is made of steel, and even the No. 8 wires tied to the four sides are made of three wires twisted together.
To make it so strong, what a big wild animal it must be!
Lu Lu suddenly became very cautious.
"I'm afraid there might be some serious wild animals nearby, so take out your gun and be on guard..."
Lu Lu said again, and then he first took out the semi-automatic from the holster, then looked around with a flashlight, and then inserted the semi-automatic where he could reach it. Raymond also immediately pulled out the gun.
Come out and hold it carefully.
The same goes for Zhao Yongke, who is on full alert.
"Qingzi, you should be lucky that there are no barbs in the pit, otherwise, you would be miserable today...relax, don't move around, I will help you get these steel bars!"
Lu Lu said, biting the flashlight in his mouth, kneeling on the snow, bending under Chen Xiuqing's step, still holding tightly against the extremely elastic steel bars on his thighs, bending them one by one until there was enough
Only then did he carefully pull out his feet.
Following Zhang Shaofeng's lesson, Chen Xiuqing's situation was much better. However, her hunting jacket was torn. Although she instinctively pulled her legs up when she stepped down, fortunately, she stopped in time when she felt poked by a hard object.
No skin or flesh was hurt.
Zhang Shaofeng was a little more serious. He used too much force, and the barbs formed by the steel bars pierced his flesh and caused blood. However, after Zhao Yongke helped remove the steel bars, he could stand up immediately and could still walk.
It looks like he was only slightly injured.
"Fourth brother, how are your feet?" Lu Lu asked with concern.
"It's not a big problem, it's not deep... Don't worry about me, catching the flying dragon is no problem." Zhang Shaofeng took the bandage out of the hunting bag, took off his pants in the snow, and wrapped the bandage around his injured thigh.
Go up and put on your pants again.
"What should we do next?" Liang Kangbo asked.
"We can't look for it anymore in this mountain. Setting up such a big trap will deal with a lot of wild animals. Maybe there are other traps in the areas ahead. Let's go back the way we came, directly to the igloo. Let's use the flying dragon on hand.
He also sent it back, and the fourth brother quickly went back to apply medicine and rested in the snow house while the rest of us looked in another direction."
Lu Lu quickly made arrangements. With a flashlight at night, he could only see a small area of things, and he had no time to take care of so much. If there were more traps, whether they were people or ingots, once they were caught,
, will be a very serious matter.
"I'm fine, no need to rest! It's just such a small injury, what does it matter?" Zhang Shaofeng was unwilling to rest.
Lu Lu smiled: "Don't be careless about this matter. In the cold weather, the injured area will recover slowly. Moreover, it is too cold here, which can easily cause frostbite to the wound. Don't worsen a small problem into a big one. This matter,
I have the final say."
"No. 4, don't be stubborn. What No. 5 said is right, just listen to him." Raymond also spoke.
Zhang Shaofeng sighed slightly: "Okay!"
"Okay, when we return, my brothers will use their wooden sticks to help me explore the way. I have to greet Yuanbao and the others, and I can't hurt them too!"
Several dogs have long been an indispensable part of the hunting team, and everyone knows their importance. Without them, hunting in the mountains will inevitably be greatly weakened and more dangerous.
Lu Lu called Yuan Bao and the others to his side, and Zhang Shaofeng and others also used wooden sticks to explore the path and came closer. Together they explored and walked back.
After walking a few steps, there was suddenly a metallic sound on the snow, and a large metal object jumped up on the snow.
It was Liang Kangbo who poked the metal object, and the wooden stick in his hand was immediately clamped and bounced out.
Several flashlights shone at it and they all recognized it as a large iron clip.
To be precise, it was a large wolf-tooth disc clamp, which was a type of clamp.
In fact, clips are a huge family, with more types than any other hunting tool, and they are also used for a wide range of purposes, ranging from birds in the air to roe deer and black bears.
The clamps mainly used for hunting include small breaking clamps, pedal clamps, wooden clamps that do not damage the fur, and even foot-catching clamps are one of them.
Small breaking clips are the most common type. Many people have used them to catch mice, birds and the like. They are usually semicircular, with a movable arc on the top and a fixed passive arc on the bottom. There is a handle on the top.
There is a mechanism tongue tied to the handle, and there is a snap spring at the base, which can be loaded with bait. Steel springs are wrapped on both sides of the handle, and power arms are separated from both sides of the steel spring, which are buckled on the arc sides respectively.
When using it, open the moving arc of the power arm with your hands and fasten the mechanism tongue, and place it in a place where mice or birds are infested. Once you touch the mechanism, you will always gain something.
Trample clamps are generally only used for hunting. There are small wire clamps, medium iron bar clamps, medium wolf tooth clamps and large iron bar and wolf tooth clamps.
The production methods of various types of clips are basically the same. There is a mechanical pedal plate in the middle of the base, two V-shaped boosters, and the top iron ring is set on both sides of the two working arc-shaped irons.
When using it, step on the booster iron with both feet, open the working curved iron, and use a mechanism tongue on one side to lock it in the bayonet under the pedal plate.
Use different sizes and strengths of the clips to capture prey of different shapes.
The large one with jagged working curved iron is the Wolf Tooth Disk Clamp. It is undoubtedly the most powerful, and even a blind man can easily handle it.
Similarly, the stabbed wolf fang disc clamp was also tied to the big tree with No. 8 wire.
Several people looked at this clamp and couldn't help but sweat on their foreheads. If they stepped on it, the bones in their feet would be crushed with enough force.
And just now, I didn't step on it all the way... Lu Lu mentioned it before, but he didn't expect it to happen in the area he had already passed.
What kind of prey was this hunting? Why did it need to set up so many powerful and dangerous traps?