Chapter 393: Holding the Pig by Hand
When I signed the hunting contract with Naison Company, the other party had already explained the use of guns to Hong Tao, because it is illegal to privately own guns in most African countries, so Hong Tao could not carry their own guns before hunting, and they must be kept by the hunting guide, unless you can go through the procedures for holding guns from the local government.
Hong Tao and the two bosses Liu did not raise any objections to this, as a Chinese, not carrying a gun is the norm, if they really let them carry a gun all day, it is not customary. Since they didn't have their own shotguns, the firearms for the hunt were also provided by Nathan Company.
Judging from the situation of the guns, the Nethan company should still be quite responsible, and in Hoffman's carriage, a total of 11 long guns were placed. In addition to the three used by the hunting guide, the remaining 8 guns were used by Hong Tao and the three of them, and the photographer Wei Hanwei could not participate in the hunting because he did not sign the full hunting contract, let alone touch the gun.
At the suggestion of the Dutch pee, Hong Tao selected a .375 caliber Finnish shotgun and a .22 caliber Czech shotgun, the former for larger prey, and the latter for smaller prey.
Unlike the long-range shotguns used by Hong Tao and the others equipped with German scopes, the three hunting guides all used double-barreled shotguns and were not equipped with scopes, which also showed from one side that they could not shoot at will, and could only shoot at close range if the injured prey was really seriously injured or threatened the safety of the customer.
Except for Hong Tao and the three guides, the rest of the casual personnel were not equipped with guns, and most of the black staff would hold a machete about one meter long, which could be used to open the way and also be used to slaughter prey. The only exception is the forest policeman dressed in green pay, who carries an automatic rifle on his back, and his main job is to supervise that this hunting party does not violate local animal protection laws, but there is still a mission. That is, to protect the personal safety of the hunting party, and the threat he has to face is not from animals, but from people. This includes local nomads, poachers and terrorists, although in East Africa, where politics is relatively peaceful, the danger is not great.
Once the guns were in hand, the next step was to test the guns, and each of them was given ten rounds of ammunition to shoot at two makeshift targets at 50 and 100 meters away, and then the guides adjusted the error of the scopes precisely for their customers.
At this time, Hong Tao realized why Lu Dao was assigned two shotguns per person, and the .375 caliber shotgun used a fully charged bullet. Due to the large caliber, the recoil is also very large, and after two shots, Hong Tao felt that his shoulders were numb from the impact.
The .22 caliber shotgun has little recoil, and if you encounter prey that looks like a bird or a small size, you can use this shotgun to shoot, which is more comfortable.
After more than half an hour to correct all the firearms, Hong Tao and his party got into the car again and set off, continuing to march deep into the grassland. There are no roads at all, and there are meadows, bushes and acacia forests everywhere. As the buggy made its way through the bushes, the body creaked with spikes from the bushes.
The black driver who was driving the car had a GPS map at work in his head, and he remembered exactly the bend there, the crossing of a small river.
"Tao, look. There are a few wild boars on the left, this thing has no hunting restrictions, do you want to try your marksmanship? The speed of the car suddenly dropped, and then the Dutch pee, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned around and asked Hong Tao.
"Where? I want to try it! "The convoy has been wandering on the grassland for more than an hour. Hong Tao didn't even see the hair of an animal, and since he barely slept last night, he was in a state of napping at this time.
"Right under that bush. See? Holland urinated and asked Hong Tao to stand directly in the back seat, leaning out half of his body from the skylight, and then commanded himself in the carriage.
"Oh, see, there are three of them, can you hit that one?" Under the instructions of the Netherlands to urinate, Hong Tao finally found the three wild boars in a dense bush, they seemed to be resting like Hong Tao, could it be that they didn't sleep well last night!?
"Feel free, you can hit that one, just look for a feeling, don't be nervous, slow down your breathing, pull the trigger lightly, it's best to aim at their eyes or shoot between their legs, like this...... Rumble! "The Dutch pee is chattering endlessly under Hong Tao, Hong Tao is not the first time to hunt, and shooting with this rifle with a scope, as long as it is not a moving target, it is generally a hundred shots to put the prey in the middle of the scope.
This time Hong Tao did not miss, when the gunshot rang out, a cloud of dust suddenly rose from the bushes, and after a few seconds, the dust dissipated, and the wild boar that was lying in the middle was still lying in place, the difference was that a small hole appeared in its chest, and the blood was slowly flowing out of it, seeping into the sand under it.
"Hong Tao, can you have a little respect for the old and love the young! I just saw it here, and before I could take aim, you shoot, and become a heart! On the second off-road vehicle, half of the fat boss's body was also exposed to the roof, and he was aiming at it with a gun.
"Hahaha, you can save some bullets, leave this little thief to me, there are elephants waiting for you behind." Hong Tao is still very proud of his marksmanship.
After the gunshot, two black men got off the pickup truck at the back of the trunk and ran to the bushes dozens of meters away, when the machetes in their hands came into play, and with a few swings from side to side, the bushes were cut a gap, and then the dead pig was dragged back with two legs.
"Hong Tao, get off the station on the side, yes, yes, it's better to put the gun on your shoulder." In addition to the two black men, the busiest person is Wei Han, the photographer, who is not too tired, he runs no slower than the black man with the camera, follows him to the bushes, and now runs back again, letting Hong Tao put a POSS next to the dead pig, and then shoots it violently.
This African wild boar is not small, more than a meter long from head to buttocks, and the head is very large, the coat color on the top is grayish, and after continuing to the body, it turns brownish-yellow, and the legs turn black. According to Dutch pee, this African wild boar has a very fierce temperament, and generally several in a group, if it is not extremely hungry, the smaller lion group will not provoke them, for fear of being picked out by the two fangs on the side of their mouths to pick their belly.
And they belong to the habit of being nocturnal, although there are not many of them, but it is still quite difficult to encounter them during the day, and now they can be hunted just after leaving the camp, which shows that today's luck is not bad.
"Borrow your auspicious words, let's continue to go!" After listening to the explanation of the Dutch pee, Hong Tao was full of spirits, this time he didn't plan to sit back in the car, he stood directly in the back seat, exposed half of his body on the roof of the car, and patted the roof of the car, just like the German commander sitting on the armored car in the tiger's mouth, signaling the convoy to move on.
As for the wild boar, within a few minutes of filming, the two blacks were disemboweled, the internal organs and blood were cleaned and thrown aside, the skin was also peeled off, and a layer of salt grains was smeared, and then thrown in the pickup truck bucket.
This is also a characteristic of hunting in Africa, because the climate here is relatively hot, there are many insects, and if the prey is not treated, the food and feces in the stomach will quickly deteriorate, and even used by many insects as a base for spawning. So whatever the prey was, the casual local blacks would slaughter it and then smear it with salt grains for preservation, unless it was a prey that was destined to be made into a specimen, and it would be preserved intact.
"Yeron, why can't you see any animals here? I see that there are a lot of animals in the animal world, and that film is not fake, right? Hong Tao only pulled the wind on the roof of the car for a few minutes, and then was driven back into the car by the hot and dry climate outside, just blowing for a few minutes, and it was still in the morning, Hong Tao's lips were already bursting, no wonder the people walking in the desert in the movie will cover their faces with cloths. (To be continued......)