Chapter 048 : Jungle hunter, shoot the giant rabbit with arrows!
Chapter 048: Jungle hunter shoots giant rabbit with arrows!
Since grinding stone arrowheads was a waste of time, Lin Shuhang temporarily decided to use other materials to make arrowheads.
The simplest arrowhead is naturally the animal tooth. The animal tooth itself is very sharp and does not need to be sharpened at all. It can be directly installed on the arrow shaft for use.
But the biggest disadvantage of this kind of thing is that it is relatively rare.
Animal teeth are not stones that grow on the ground, they grow in the mouths of beasts. And a beast can only have 4 canine teeth at most, which can be said to be very precious.
During this period, Lin Shuhang was in the stage of losing his teeth, so he decided to use his own teeth to make arrowheads.
He touched his teeth and found that three of the four teeth were wobbly.
There are thousands of ways to extract teeth, but the most direct one is Lin Shuhang.
I saw Lin Shuhang grabbing a big stone from the ground, and without thinking, he slapped it on his face with a "pop" sound.
This is a real slap on the face!
The huge stone hit his face, making Lin Shuhang groan and spit out a mouthful of blood.
The blood was mixed with 4 large teeth.
"It's numb. I used too much force."
Lin Shuhang wiped his mouth and picked up the teeth on the ground.
Two of the four teeth are canines on the upper jaw.
They are very big, about 3 centimeters in length.
These are still Lin Shuhang's teeth when he was a child. When he waits to advance to an adult bloodline giant, his teeth will probably be as huge as a shovel.
Lin Shuhang found some vines, peeled off the outer skin, extracted the plant fibers inside, and tied his teeth to the top of the bamboo pole.
Soon, four bamboo arrows made from his own teeth appeared in Lin Shuhang's hands.
In fact, Lin Shuhang also wanted to save the tooth as a souvenir. After all, it was the tooth that he separated from for the first time after transforming into a giant, so it was very memorable.
But in this case, Lin Shuhang felt that survival should come first.
A qualified arrow must not only be equipped with an arrowhead and an arrow shaft, but also be equipped with balancing fletching at its tail. Otherwise, the arrow will be top-heavy and prone to drifting away from the target during flight.
Compared with the main "attack" arrowhead, the main "auxiliary" arrow fletching is easier to make.
Like arrowheads, arrow fletching is divided into many types of materials.
Traditional arrow feathers are generally made of goose feathers or turkey feathers, while more advanced arrow feathers are made of precious carved feathers.
It's not easy to get feathers here. If you want feathers, you have to go to the bird's nest to pick them up.
But bird nests are usually built on the top of hidden trees.
There were so many trees in the forest that Lin Shuhang didn't have the patience to look for feathers, so he used some palm leaves as arrow feathers.
After a lot of work, Lin Shuhang made a total of 9 bamboo arrows.
Four of the arrows have arrowheads made of their own teeth, and the other five have stone arrowheads.
Of course, the prepared weapons must be tested, otherwise it will be a joke if the chain falls off during actual combat.
Arrow testing cannot be carried out in the forest. The forest is full of trees and plants, which can easily affect the arrow path.
In order to test the various properties of the bow, Lin Shuhang decided to use the beach outside the forest as a testing ground.
The archery testing ground is several kilometers away from here. In order to make his body more relaxed, Lin Shuhang made a simple quiver out of vines and bark.
"Try the arrows!"
Lin Shuhang picked up his homemade English longbow and walked towards the beach outside the forest.
There, he will test various properties of this giant bow, including shooting accuracy, distance, power, and durability of the bow.
Lin Shuhang carried a huge long bow on his back, walked through the grass forest taller than his own body, and came to his own archery trial range.
It is more appropriate to say it is a beach than a small desert.
This desert is located in the middle of the mudland and the giant forest. Going to the left is the terrifying prehistoric mud land, and going to the right is the terrifying and dangerous giant forest.
The first thing to test is the range of the bow and arrow.
If a hunter does not know how far his bow and arrow can shoot, he will encounter many difficulties when hunting.
The range of bows and arrows includes maximum range, effective range, and precise range.
As the name suggests, the maximum range is the farthest distance the arrow can fly in the air after leaving the bowstring. It is usually thrown at a large elevation angle of 45 degrees.
However, this kind of shooting method is less harmful to the target, and the accuracy is extremely poor, making it difficult to hit the target.
In order to test the maximum range of the bow and arrow, Lin Shuhang lay half on the ground and used his hands and feet to pull the bow in a semicircle.
There was a loud "bang" sound, and the thick bowstring suddenly rebounded, shooting a huge arrow equipped with a stone arrowhead high into the sky.
The arrow made by Lin Shuhang is about two meters long, as big as a javelin, and flies into the air at a high elevation angle of 45 degrees with lightning speed.
Under the balance of the large arrow feathers, the heavy javelin-like arrows flew rapidly towards the distance.
After shooting the giant arrow, Lin Shuhang stood up and chased in the direction of the shooting.
After finding the arrow that landed, Lin Shuhang calculated that he had walked a total of 400 steps.
At this stage, Lin Shuhang is 3 meters tall, and the distance between one step is about 1.5 meters, which translates into a maximum range of about 600 meters for this bow.
Judging from the maximum range of 600 meters, the initial speed of Lin Shuhang's arrow has reached over 80 meters/second.
Compared with other types of hard bows, the arrow speed of 80 meters per second is not very fast, but it is still enough for hunting.
Next, Lin Shuhang tested the longbow's effective range and precise range.
The test results made Lin Shuhang very satisfied, and he immediately put away his bow and arrows and returned to the forest.
Yes, now he is qualified to survive in the forest!
The giant forest in the evening fell into the quietest stage of the day.
Lin Shuhang was like a wilderness hunter, walking through the gloomy trees with a homemade English longbow.
A forest rabbit as huge as a wild boar broke into Lin Shuhang's sight.
Lin Shuhang slowed down.
He quietly hid behind a patch of tall grass that was as tall as a man, and carefully placed a giant stone arrow on the bowstring.
Rabbits are very clever creatures. They don't forget to look left and right even when eating grass.
Those huge and sensitive ears will turn around and run away as soon as they hear any disturbance.
It was very difficult to catch them. In order not to alert the snake, Lin Shuhang lurked behind the grass and quietly waited for the opportunity.
The rabbit stopped there and ate grass leisurely.
Lin Shuhang hid in the huge grass, held his breath, and quietly aimed the arrow at the opponent.
"middle!"
Lin Shuhang suddenly let go of his bow and arrow, and the bamboo arrow as long as a javelin was pushed out by the huge elastic force and flew towards the rabbit with a piercing scream.
The first arrow did not hit the target.
One is because the rabbit was so sensitive that it quickly fled the attack area when it heard the sound of the bowstring.
The second reason is that because Lin Shuhang has not received bow shooting training for a long time, the accuracy of the arrows is slightly off.
The bamboo arrow was about two meters away from its target, and was nailed to a big tree, blasting a hole the size of a washbasin in the tree.