Chapter 70: Shock (Ask for Collection)
"Okay, you won" Su Zhen saw the willow grouse that fell two thousand meters away in the high-powered telescope, and said helplessly.
"Thank you, $100," Carrick said with a smile and held out his hand.
Su Zhen rolled his eyes and handed over a Franklin, I didn't expect this product to be so cunning, originally Su Zhen proposed that he and Grace be in a group, and he and Jason would have more willow grouse than anyone in a group, but after hunting bears before, after seeing Grace's hunting skills and Jason's sigh, he decisively refused, and instead proposed to compare the hunting game with Su Zhen two kilometers away, that is, shoot the prey two kilometers away, and take turns.
Originally, Su Zhen thought that although the effective range of a high-precision sniper rifle like Bartley reached 1,500 meters, and even had a hit record of 2,500 meters, but if he wanted to shoot at a distance of more than 2,000 meters, it was basically something that only goose ace snipers in the military and police could do, and it was basically impossible for ordinary people to do it, more by luck, not to mention that the target was a small prey with a body length of only twenty or thirty centimeters, such as the willow grouse, but he completely forgot that the other party was a military cadet.
This is the fifth willow grouse that the four people have encountered, among the previous four, Su Zhen's two missed one shot, Carrick's two shot one, one is 100 dollars, Su Zhen has lost two hundred, although this money is nothing to Su Zhen, but that feeling is extremely unpleasant.
At this time, it was the tenth day that the group came to Alaska, and the previous few people hunted a big enough brown bear in everyone except Jason, which was a successful end to the bear hunt, among which Grace hunted the most huge, the whole bear body reached almost three meters long, and the weight reached an astonishing 1,300 pounds (about 650 kilograms), Jason said that he had not seen such a big brown bear for a long time, although there had been a super giant bear of more than 1,500 pounds, but that was many years ago.
On this day, at Jason's suggestion, several people came to the northernmost tundra belt of Alaska to hunt willow grouse, a species of ptarmigan that only lives in the tundra zone of the Arctic, is the state bird of Alaska, and is also a famous local delicacy. However, it is difficult to find, because its coat color provides it with a good cover, it is difficult to find without careful observation, and the same is also to try your luck to see if you can meet a white bear, that is, a polar bear, before the hunt, brown bears and black bears have seen a lot, but not very lucky, has not been able to meet a white bear.
"Ha Luha, Sue, you can't win me, I'm the runner-up in the school's sniper competition" Carrick proudly shoved Franklin into his pocket.
"Cut, it's just good luck," Su Zhen said stiffly.
Carrick didn't mind, "Luck is also a kind of strength" Su Zhenzhi rolled his eyes when he heard it.
While the two were talking, Kyle skillfully brought the willow grouse shot by Carrick to several people, and after more than ten days of hunting, the two guys were barely qualified as falcons.
"Look, Al looks like he's found something." Jason pointed to Arthas, who was constantly circling in the sky in the distance, and was chirping for the sergeant.
Su Zhen and the others looked at it, and it was indeed the case, but the scene on that side was covered by a slope, and the specific situation could not be seen.
"Let's take a look." Carrick said, so he took the lead in running over with the hounds, and Su Zhen and the others hurriedly followed.
"Oh my" Carrick was the first to arrive, and saw the situation on the other side of the hill, and was stunned when he saw it.
Su Zhen and the others were stunned when they ran to see it, a huge white bear was chasing three of the same kind in front of a large and two small, and it should be the mother bear with its two children who ran in front, but at the moment the situation of the mother bear was very bad, the white hair was almost soaked in blood, but in order to protect the two children, she still stubbornly resisted the attack of the white bear behind her while running.
"Oh my God, damn it" Grace next to her saw this situation and directly picked up her gun and shot it, but her shotgun couldn't hit this distance at all.
However, this shot startled the pursuing white bear, and after hesitating for a few seconds, the girl fled back.
After the white bear fled, the mother bear collapsed to the ground as if she had lost her strength.
Several people also hurried there.
Walking up to the mother bear, the two cubs were playing around the mother, completely unaware that the road had just been almost hanging by a thread, the mother bear saw several people approaching, protected the bear behind her, let out a warning roar, and tried to stand up, but several times unsuccessful.
"This she-bear has lost so much blood that she won't live long," Jason said, looking at the bear from afar.
Grace's eyes were a little red when she heard this, "This female bear fights with a huge male bear completely to protect her child, it's really touching" Su Zhen and Carrick were also full of emotion, this is indeed too shocking.
"No, not exactly," Jason said, "the bear was trying to kill all three."
"For what? Doesn't it mean that bears won't fight to the death with their own kind? Su Zhen asked strangely.
"That's brown bears, white bears and brown bears don't pass, brown bears are omnivores, you can eat anything, basically there will be no starvation, but pure carnivorous white bears are different, their main food is seals, because human activities in the Arctic are becoming more and more frequent, especially the hunting of seals, so that polar bears have less and less food, so in recent years, there have been more and more frequent incidents of male bears killing female bears and cubs for food," Jason explained.
At this moment, the mother bear seemed to know that a few people had no intention of harming her and the bear, and gradually relaxed her guard, and turned to look at the two frolicking bears, her eyes full of reluctance.
After more than an hour, the mother bear slowly lost her life, and the two cubs seemed to be unaware of the screaming around the mother, waiting for her mother's response.
Looking at this touching scene, Grace couldn't cry for a long time, and Su Zhen's eyes were sour, you must know that even hunters have an unwritten rule, that is, they will never hunt pregnant and young female beasts.
This is Jason taking out the mountain opener and walking towards the mother bear.
"What are you going to do?" Su Zhen stopped him.
"It's dead, and the white bear's fur is very precious, isn't that what you want?" Jason asked, puzzled.
"No need, find a place to bury it, it can be regarded as respect for a mother," Su Zhen said.
Jason looked back at the crying Grace, then at Carrick, and when Carrick nodded, he shrugged his shoulders and agreed, "Okay, although it is indeed quite touching, but this kind of thing happens a lot, I'm used to it, you are the boss, you have the final say, but I have to go back to the camp to get the sapper shovel" and walked in the direction of the camp.
"Okay, don't worry about him," Carrick patted Su Zhen on the shoulder and comforted, "but what about these two little bears?" If they lose their mother, they will definitely not survive."
"I'll adopt them, anyway, there are already a lot of animals at home, not worse than these two," Su Zhen sighed.
Carrick raised his eyebrows when he heard this, "This is much worse, this is the largest carnivore in the world, it can eat dozens of kilograms of food in one meal, but it is not comparable to those animals you raise."
The corners of Su Zhen's mouth twitched a little when he heard this, eating dozens of kilograms at a time? What is this polar bear's stomach made of? You must know that Ah Da, the largest in the ranch now, eats only three or four kilograms per meal, dozens of kilograms, so what is the concept of TM?
However, Su Zhen still decided to raise it, and even if two adult white bears were counted as a small half cow a day, they were still raised, not to mention that the two bears were still young now, right? It will be a few years before there is such a large amount of food.
Grace very much agreed with Su Zhen's decision to adopt two bears, and at this time she was motherly and picked up the two bears, and the two bears were very cute and cute.
In this way, Su Zhen has two more little followers, Su Zhen is very satisfied with this, it seems that he is very lucky, whether it is a big eagle or a little white bear, it seems that he has got a pair, is this the legendary good thing in pairs?
After Jason brought the sapper shovel, several people worked together to bury the mother bear, and then they lost the interest of continuing to hunt, so they took the two cubs on the return journey.