Chapter 1631: Elephant Spear
There are only a few top luxury shotgun brands in the world, and Zhang Nan chose Peter Hofer only because he felt that their traditional smoothbore shotguns were more beautifully designed and relatively lightweight.
Among the top shotgun brands, Peter Hofer is not the most expensive, but it is the most suitable for Zhang Nan.
As for the rifled shotgun, he is still using the ordinary Remington 700, wooden tray type, and he thinks it is highly accurate and handy.
As for the lethality of the Remington 700, don't worry about it, the 762mm NATO bomb is not small, not to mention that American ammunition manufacturers have a variety of ammunition suitable for their use.
From high-precision bullets, long-range bullets, to special hunting bullets suitable for shooting super-large prey such as rhinoceros, the goods are not particularly expensive.
The bodyguards also chose their own guns, and the "United Forces" personnel were not allowed to carry automatic rifles in India, and they had to use Varmar's firearms for hunting.
Except for Lin Ming and Qiu Bo's very retro choice "Ying 77", most of the others chose the more familiar SKS.
The Mark brothers also came to join in the fun, the younger brother chose the No. 8 double-barreled shotgun, and the elder brother was even more exaggerated, and at the recommendation of the old Walma, he planned to go to the shooting range to try the huge single-barreled No. 4 shot: one shot can easily bring down the elephant, which is very worthy of the terrifying image of the "undertaker".
The men picked up guns, and Yasuko Sawaguchi has been obediently following her side, giving people a quiet taste.
"The whole world can hunt tigers here, it's rare, you can choose one, and when the time comes, you can try your skills.
There's no other place to play like this. ”
Regarding Zhang Nan's words, the beauty shook her head with a smile, pointed to the spears in everyone's hands and said, "It's too heavy, and I don't like hunting very much." ”
The latter sentence is a humble word, Zhang Nan knows that she has taken two hunting grounds and hunted deer with her own hands.
Old Varma was chatting with Xiang Weirong, and when he heard the words here, he turned around and said, "We have a shotgun that Miss Jingzi can definitely use, it is very lightweight, it can be hit accurately, and the tiger can also be put down with one shot." ”
As he spoke, he motioned for the servant to go to the shotgun he had spoken.
Zhang Nan didn't understand the local language, probably because the English of the gun manager was relatively bad, and the owner might have misunderstood English if he spoke to him.
When I took it, it was a double-barreled shotgun, but instead of a shotgun, it was an imported civilian ammunition of 556 mm NATO specifications, which is rare in India.
Beautiful wooden buttstock, unrecognizable from any wood, the grain is quite beautiful, and the polishing is very fine.
The metal parts of the gun also look quite refined, except for the barrel, many of the other parts are obviously handmade. In addition to a simple English anamorphic lettering branding, the gun also has the family crest of the Varmar family.
Needless to say, this is a customized high-end product, which Zhang Nan doesn't recognize which one produced it.
There are many famous shotgun manufacturers in the world, not to mention some individual firearms studios also produce high-quality products, and the gods can't recognize them all.
Zhang Nan took the new gun and looked at it, relying on his hand, he felt that this gun weighed about 1 kilogram, which was very light, but the lethality was definitely not small, a single shot should be the same as 16, and the bullet shot at close range was even more powerful than 16!
The barrel is no shorter than 16, and the bullets sent up are still special hunting bullets, and the front part of the warhead is easily deformed, and once it hits the prey, the wound caused by the warhead will be very terrifying.
"The gun is good, Mr. Valma, where is this gun custom-made?"
This gun looks like a boutique, and the design concept and shape are very similar to a "hummingbird" hunting rifle launched by a luxury hunting gun factory in Austria a few years ago.
But apparently it is not the product of the gun factory in memory, the manufacturer's insignia on the gun is different, the Austrians are quite fancy, and the gun on the head is very simple and concise.
This will Zhang Nan plans to customize a few in the future, and when his children are older, he can use this lightweight, powerful shotgun to hunt, I don't know how much more powerful than a rifle with 22lr bullets, and the recoil will not be too exaggerated.
Originally, he could only hunt rabbits, but with this gun, he could at least deal with the big guys at the reindeer level.
The old Valma said: "It's not a big foreign factory, our private firearms workshop in Kerala has a history of more than 100 years, almost all of it is handmade, and the barrel is imported from Germany.
Their previous double-barreled smoothbore shotguns were very famous, and many high-profile customers in South India made their shotguns there, and the quality was guaranteed.
This is a new product launched at the beginning of last year, and it has only sold less than 30 pieces, and the price is on the high side, but it is relatively reasonable."
Somewhat unexpectedly, I thought it was the masterpiece of some small gun factory in Europe or the Middle East for the wealthy, but I wanted to know the quality of firearms made in India
Even Ah San's own soldiers are complaining!
Old Varma saw that after listening to his words, Zhang Nan began to look at the shotgun in his hand again, guessed what he was thinking, and said: "The quality of this gun can be assured, and the reputation is very good."
The quality of firearms in our Indian military is sometimes miserable, but many small private factories and workshops look at the conditions in poor conditions, and even very bad, but the quality of the finished products is very good."
The most important part of the barrel imported from Germany is solved, and as long as the other parts of the materials meet the regulations, it is difficult for rich people to spend a lot of money to customize and have a simple structure of double-barreled shotguns.
If the quality of the products is not up to par, it should have closed down a long time ago, let alone opened a century-old point.
Since old Mr. Valma said so, Zhang Nan handed the gun to Yasuko Sawaguchi, "Go and try it, if you are not used to it." ”
However, the order is gone, and the news of "four failures in two minutes" of Indian military guns always flashes in my mind.
There will never be a problem with the quality of the guns that people customize for the local native kings, but what about a foreigner?
Zhang Nan didn't dare to risk the children!
Zhang Nan has an opinion on Ah San, and this will never change.
It was still a shooting range in front of a stone wall in the garden of the huge palace manor, and soon, the three parties who were trading in gems on the terrace vacated in the corner of the third floor could not negotiate and trade quietly.
When Zhang Nan and Lao Varma were there, they traded a small number of large gems, and the three parties did not bargain, which was a face.
On the one hand, a real discount is given, and the other two parties do not bargain, just an atmosphere.
But this will be a large volume of ordinary colored gemstone transactions, the total amount is large, even if everyone is friends, this bargaining is still needed.
The gunshots on the shooting range were "crackling", the sound was still loud and small, one or two were still earth-shattering, and the transactions on the terrace needed to be quietly identified to identify the quality of the goods, and Davenlar and others had to move the trading location indoors.
I knew it was a target test, but it wasn't a way to be surprised.
The recoil of the 22 caliber shotgun is really not large, and with the reasonable design and light weight, the small Yasuko Sawaguchi is quite easy to use.
The firearms of Zhang Nan and others are just a matter of trying one or two shots to ensure that they are heard and accurate. The most eye-catching thing is that Mark used the huge, 1-kilogram No. 4 "Elephant Gun" to shoot at the target from 100 meters away!
Not a shot, it's a boom: a huge copper-shelled all-lead bullet with 25 grams of black powder as a propellant, and a single-headed projectile weighing 180 grams!
The recoil is amazing!
This gun is usually difficult for people to hold, if it is not strong enough and there is a problem with the shooting foundation, it is not the prey that will be destroyed first, but the shooter himself.
Mark is a giant, half a size smaller than his brother, but a sturdier man, a veteran of shooting, and has used a size 8 shotgun before.
The front and rear cross-steps stabilized the chassis, the end wall was against the shoulder, and the aim was fired: not "bang", but "boom" similar to the sound of artillery!
Even though Mark is super muscular and weighs 15 kilograms, he is choked by the perverted recoil of this monster-like "elephant gun".
This gun has no muzzle brake, and the perceived recoil is several times greater than that of those anti-materiel rifles!
The target made of grass flew away like a cannonball, and even the stone wall behind it screeched beyond the sound of impact.
The lead warhead is relatively soft, but the corners of the large boulder that were hit by the huge kinetic energy were still knocked away, and this whistling sound was the sound of the flying stone fragments.
Everyone had been prepared before, and one was farther away than the other, so they guarded against this.
Seeing Mark coming over with a gun, Zhang Nan asked, "How does this gun feel?"
Mark had a terrifying smile on his face and said, "Boss, I think this gun can casually beat the rhinoceros and kill the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
However, it is still a little too bulky, but it will be very effective against flocks of wild pigeons and mallards with hunting bird bombs, and the recoil will be much smaller, and a dozen will definitely be a large piece. ”
Mark tried the gun, and he didn't plan to carry this monster to hunt tigers: using it to deal with tigers is called bullying other people's mountain kings, and it is almost the same to deal with wild elephants.
Seeing that the elder brother put the gun and the elephant gun was fine, the younger brother Jacob also wanted to try.
They are all super big, the muscles are thick and strong enough, try it, as long as you stick to the shooting rules, at most this shoulder will be swollen and sore.
It was the sound of Jacob's test gun, like a loud blast, that finally drove the people on the terrace back indoors.
The next day, the weather finally cleared completely, and after two days of sunshine, the tiger hunt was finally carried out.
This time, there were more elephants, 25 of them, and nearly 800 people from various towns and villages were dispatched to the west of the high stop mountain.
After three days of hunting, the results were not particularly large, and if you count the numbers, there are only four tigers, one Indian leopard, 17 wild boars and 7 water antelopes.
This is not because the number of tigers in the protected area of the West Ghats next door has decreased, but because at the end of last year, a man-eating tiger appeared in the territory of the Tuwang family, and three people were killed one after another, which angered the old Walma.
The eldest lord was very angry, and the consequences were very serious, thousands of people went into the mountains to encircle and suppress the man-eating tigers, and as a result, the other tigers suffered together, and the number has not fully recovered by this time.
Instead of leaving India immediately after the hunt, Zhang Nan accepted a telephone invitation from the elder Walma and several of his old friends to go to the northwestern state of Gujarat, where the "war" was still breaking out.
Regarding this "war" of the Indians, Zhang Nan still likes to watch dramas, just don't bump into himself: for the sake of a temple, at least 2,000 people have died there this year.
But there are many Indians, who cares about that.