Chapter 168: Raccoons are enemies

After removing the weight-bearing backpack, Hong Taoguang carried a gun, and walked much more easily, and after a morning of exercise, although he was a little tired, he was also a little more comfortable with the snow trek, at least he was able to keep up with Harrison's pace.

Hong Tao's team of five people was equipped with four guns, two of which were rifles held by Harrison and Hong Tao, and the other two shotguns were equipped by Old Gale and Pavey. As the only woman in the team, Erin not only did not have her own gun, but was also assigned to carry the small backpack containing food and water, which made Erin very dissatisfied, shouting for equality between men and women and defeating masculinity, but only won Hong Tao's sympathy and promised to lend her her shotgun.

About half a kilometer away from the camp, Harrison finally untied the rope around the hunting dog's neck, and then made a gesture to the front, and the four earth dogs immediately rushed into the woods like a joy, and soon disappeared from view.

"Tao, no matter what prey you find, don't shoot rashly, although there are no traces of other hunters here, but it is also very troublesome to kill protected animals by mistake, we take safety as the first and hunting second, understand?" Harrison instructed Hong Tao again, and then asked everyone to disperse, in a horizontal line, about 20 times apart from each other, and began to move forward.

Hong Tao was with Erin in the middle of the queue, with Harrison on the left and Gale Sr. and Pavey on the right. He did what Harrison taught, keeping his body as close as possible to the trunk of the tree, searching only through the gaps in the trunk at an angle of about 20 degrees in front of him. Then from time to time, I have to look left and right at the position of my teammates, and if I am too forward and too backward, I must correct it in time, if there is anything I find. Just raise a hand and stop. Wait for your teammates to find out.

This kind of search has been carried out for more than half an hour, and Hong Tao has not found any living creatures. In order not to make his eyes too monotonous, Hong Tao increased the frequency of his left and right observations, and looked at the positions of Harrison and Gail left and right almost every minute.

"Stop!" Hong Tao turned his head to the right side again, and suddenly found that Gail was holding his left hand high to look at Hong Tao, according to the training just now, this is a signal to find prey, so Hong Tao quickly pulled Erin to hide behind a big tree, and then raised his right hand. Nervous, even the gun was raised.

Harrison was happy to see Hong Tao's appearance, what kind of signal is this, it's about to surrender, but it's ugly, at least the signal is sent, Harrison pointed to his eyes with his index finger and middle finger, and then pointed at Hong Tao, which means to ask Hong Tao. Where is the prey?

Hong Tao pointed in Gail's direction, indicating that he was also the receiver of the signal, and the specific situation was on Gail's side, and then turned his head to look at Gail. But old Gale was also hiding behind the trunk of the tree at this time, looking in the direction further to the right, and he was also the receiver of the signal. The problem is where Pavey is.

A "pop" shot rang out from that side, as it was in the woods. There are more sound-absorbing materials, and this gunshot is very short. After a few minutes, a chubby figure slowly appeared in the field of vision.

"Hey, it's a raccoon, it's sleeping at the mouth of the tree, but it didn't escape my Pavey's eyes, oh, throw it in your sleigh." The big fat man threw a stuffed puppy-sized object he was carrying into the sleigh pulled by Hong Tao.

"Uncle Pavey, does it still have accomplices?" Erin walked over and kicked the raccoon's corpse with her shoe, as if she wasn't satisfied with the receipt.

"I didn't see it, I guess there should still be, but it's only at the door of the tree hole, the others can't be seen, count it unlucky, meet the sharpshooter Pavey!"

"I said you two are too cold-blooded, this little gadget looks so cute, you still want to kill them all?" Hong Tao found that Pavey and Erin didn't have a plot to care for small animals at all, the little guy lying in the sleigh was covered in dark hair, and the sharp-beaked monkey gills also had two black panda eyes, which was not pretty, but it was very funny and fun, very similar to the tanuki Poki in the cartoon "Flower Fairy" when he was a child.

"These guys are thieves! It's a scoundrel! They rely on the protection of the law, they run rampant in our yard, even the roof is damaged by them, I have to pay a lot of money every year to repair the things they destroy, so don't pity them, you must kill them when you see it! Of course, only in the hunting grounds, don't provoke them in other places, it will be troublesome for the police to see them, and the neighbors will also accuse you of animal cruelty. "Pavey seems to be tossed around by this little thing.

"This little thing is so powerful?" Hong Tao crouched down and lifted the raccoon on the sleigh with his hand, a little unbelieving that this puppy-like animal could force Pavey so badly.

"Doesn't China have them? These guys are terrible, they always come out at night, and the family is out together. They eat and bite everything, and Sam's dog has been bitten by them, even small children. And they also carry infectious diseases, which is very annoying! "Erin also joined the crusade against the raccoon, it seems that this little guy's popularity is really terrible, not only annoying the Canadians, but even the US imperialism dares to harm it, this bold is really boundless.

"Is this raccoon also a protected animal?" Hong Tao understood a little, it is estimated that this animal likes to go to places where humans live, so it has a relatively big contradiction with humans.

In addition, the animal protection laws here are relatively strict, and the harassed humans cannot use their most powerful weapons against these wild animals, so they can only watch these gadgets make unscrupulous troubles in their living environment, and they become extremely resentful.

"Hmm......" Hearing Hong Tao's question, not only Pavey and Erin nodded heavily, but old Gail and Harrison also agreed, it seems that the reputation of raccoons is too stinky, and they are about to catch up with Chinese rats to cross the street.

"Actually, your government doesn't want to take care of it, and if you really want to do it, you just need to change the animal protection law slightly, and add one more thing: wild animals that enter residents' homes can be shot! That's not enough raccoons for traps, bullets and poison. However, Hong Tao only dared to ponder this idea silently in his heart, and he could never say it, otherwise his reputation would soon catch up with a big executioner like Hitler.

Harrison had the GPS device on his belt, which he picked up from time to time to determine the location of his precious hounds and adjust the direction of the group.

After walking for a while, Harrison suddenly raised his right hand, and when everyone had fixed their positions and searched around for possible prey, he suddenly shouted in the direction of Pavey, who was far to the right, and then asked Hong Tao to lock the gun to the safe.

"The hound has spotted the big guy, we have to hurry up, pay attention to your gun when you run, don't shoot casually, be careful of my hound." Harrison took the lead in running through the snow, not forgetting to turn around and tell Hong Tao.

"Understood, understood, I've pulled off all the bullets, don't worry!" Hong Tao still had a sled hanging from his waist, and the snow more than a foot deep made it difficult for him to run, so he could only speed up his pace a little.

Hong Tao will not be bored at all by Harrison and Pavey's tireless advice, because after experiencing this kind of hunting scene, you can understand how troublesome it is to take a person who can't hunt to the wild.

And when this person still has a gun with bullets in his hand, it is simply carrying a bomb that will explode at any time, and generally not a particularly good friend, no one wants to take a novice to go deep into the mountains and forests to hunt, because you not only have to take care of his physical strength, but also have to be on guard against the gun in his hand at all times.

Of course, in the migratory bird season, it is not so dangerous to go to some lakes to hunt wild ducks and geese or something, and there are many hunting instructors and hunting companies like Ignatius in Canada, they are all commercial hunting, and this is the money they earn, whether you hunt or not, as long as you can afford to pay the fee, they will take the trouble to accompany you to complete the project specified in the contract, so that you can get the joy of hunting. (To be continued......)