Zhang Feng took the list in Xiao Xiao's hand and looked at it, the price was not very expensive, at least his current daily card limit was enough to pay for a hunting group, and browsed the equipment column, people would prepare, so he continued to look down, and saw the "price" of the prey at a glance Baboon 1,000 yuan, impala (male) 3,150 yuan (female) 1,350 yuan, warthog 3,150 yuan, mountain antelope 9,000 yuan, giraffe 27,000 yuan, forest antelope 25,200 yuan, mountain reedbuck 10,800 yuan, oryx 16,200 yuan, leopard 50,000 yuan, hippopotamus 50,000 yuan......

The above pricing units are: RMB, RMB/head. Specimen production fees, transportation fees, and customs clearance fees are not included.

The content of the note made Zhang Feng very confused: it is very important to choose the right shooting point! If the shooting point is not good, the prey may still escape, and if you shoot the prey, you should pay for it regardless of whether you get the prey or not!

When Zhang Feng saw this, he was a little confused, there were all protected animals behind it, and after thinking about it, he decided to go and ask first.

"Thank you, can you give me this?" asked Zhang Feng.

"Yes, I still have several copies here, but if you go hunting, won't it affect your image?" Xiao Xiao asked.

Zhang Feng shook his head and said, "I don't care about the evaluation of those Holy Mothers and Daode Emperors, it's just a group of people who will live in their own world forever." ”

"Haha, that makes sense. ”

When I arrived at the hotel, I checked in, and the security guards at the door were all armed with guns, and some people sent promotional papers to contact private security, which looked quite formal.

When chatting with the hunter, Zhang Feng was filled with infinite fascination, excitement, and reverence. used WeChat to talk to a hunter sentence by sentence, and there were many photos of him and his prey between the lines. His bright eyes, dark and healthy complexion, short hair, and calm smile when sitting next to his prey show his identity as a hunter, his name is David, and he is a Chinese.

Just reading between the lines, Zhang Feng could feel the freedom and calmness, humor and humor of this hunter, and he was telling me everything about the hunters......

A true hunter

Reverence for nature and respect for life.

David said: There are many types of hunting, but there is always only one true hunter. A true hunter will have full respect for the lives and property of others, and he will not just hunt for the sake of his prey. He will give his prey great respect and will never shoot without reason or certainty.

As Zhang Feng's favorite saying: "Hunting is the noblest sport created by human hands." There are all-powerful hunters in the Ascending Sutra, and all cavemen live in caves filled with primitive carvings of various prey. If you're hunting for a good stomach, or for some good cause that makes you proud and nostalgic, that's a good thing. ”

"But I'm going to despise a slaughterer, some cold-blooded fool who sees something and shoots it without thinking about it," David said. A man who takes pleasure in slaughter has a very dark and terrifying heart. ”

David said: "As hunters, we want to try to articulate our ideas, but hunting is a difficult thing to explain. Someone once asked me, "Why do you love hunting so much?" and I replied, "If I really want to explain, I'm afraid you won't understand." “

David is absolutely right, but we have to try to explain it anyway.

The instinct of a hunter

Affectionate understanding, ruthless layout.

David continued: The hunter's instinct is in the bones of each of us, whether you grew up in the countryside or in the city. Our ancestors were all cavemen in ancient times and the all-powerful hunters in the "Ascension Sutra", we live by hunting, and hunt for life.

Zhang Feng agrees that yes, even now, we can survive without the meat of these prey, and in fact, all the costs of obtaining this meat add up to more expensive than we buy meat outside. However, without this meat, we still choose to hunt and experience, because it may be considered cruel not as a job but as a life, but Zhang Feng does not want to explain.

David said: When you are free, you can return to the lap of nature, shuttle through the jungle, and feel the breath of the wild, which is wonderful! However, if you want to be truly free, you have to find a way to hide from the animals around you. Imagine how exciting it must be to be in the wild dominated by these animals, unconsciously approached by a ghost, but you'll never know what it's like until you've experienced it yourself.

Zhang Feng was about to say something that agreed with his personal experience, but was interrupted by David's words.

David said: In my opinion, we hunters are the most complex and simple people, perhaps the simplest and most complex people. For us, the world of the wild is wonderful, and we don't need much to get the most abundant happiness. Let's go out into the jungle, bring a gun, a few ammo, a little time, and we will be very satisfied and enjoyed. It's just that not everyone can be so easily satisfied and so easy to please!

David said: "As a pure hunter who has been hunting for many years, I just want to say: hunting is a tradition that human beings are born with, and it should be cherished, preserved and passed on like other traditions, right?"

"That's your philosophy, isn't it?"

David replied, "Yes." ”

Later, knowing that Zhang Feng is a travel enthusiast, and has been to many places, is traveling around the world, and experiences different lives, we chatted deeply.

"When did you first become interested in hunting and guns?"

David said, "Men like guns, right? (laughs) I grew up like guns and didn't have a teacher, I came to South Africa to join the Shooting Association, and I met a lot of gun friends who like hunting, and slowly came to this point. ”

"What was the first hunt like?"

David replied: "The first time I hunted, I didn't have a hunting rifle, I only brought a 357 caliber lever rifle, and the hunting ground owner laughed wildly. I wounded a white-faced antelope and searched for four hours but couldn't find it, and I wanted to give up. But the owner of the hunting house said that it must be found, and that hunting animals should not let the animals die in pain, which is the principle that hunters must abide by. It was also the first time I had a formal sense of respect for the life of nature. ”

In David's eyes, South Africa is a beautiful country and a haven for sports – most of the world's sports can be found in South Africa. Delicacies include abalone, lobster, beef, Poole sheep, tiger prawns, giant grouper, and so on.

"Are there any friends around you who can't understand hunting?" Zhang Feng asked a question he might encounter, wanting to see how David handled this kind of thing.