The Black Iron Glory
Hare Hunting's
Chapter 56
Hare Hunting's
The days passed one after another as the weather gradually warmed. The school uniform Claude wore turned into a brown short-sleeved linen shirt and black trousers. The high leather boots he usually wore were also exchanged for flat-soled shoes. Uniforms for female students in high school are not much different from those of men; the top of the uniform is the same brown linen shirt and the girls wear long black skirts instead of pants.
As a result, many male students would flood the corridors during a 20-minute class break and stare into the female classroom, hoping some of them would come out to show off their figure.
Claude felt a somewhat disturbed mood when his mother was taught by her father about leather shoes in the morning. For some reason, Morssen behaved much more violently than usual. As Claude was only 16 years old and still growing, his mother bought him a new pair of shoes recently to accommodate the growth of his feet. But the weather suddenly warmed a week later and the school told them to change shoes with flat soles. Claude was already too small for her, so her mother immediately bought her a new pair.
Morssen had exploded with rage that morning for some reason and believed that his wife was not budgeting their expenses properly. He complains that his mother neglected to notice a big problem: she bought Claude a pair of high-soled boots about ten days before they would switch to sol-soled shoes, that caused them to have to buy another pair after that. But that's not the main problem. Claude is still growing, and if the season changes again, the high-soled boots he bought the previous winter might be too small for his feet by then.
Morssen believed that buying the shoes just to use for ten days was a huge waste of money. He said that if Claude could bear it for a while and wear his old shoes for another ten days, it would be the right time for the season to change and he would only need to buy one new pair.
Claude on the other hand stood by his mother's side, telling his father that the shoes only cost four riyases and did not need to be stingy, only to be reprimanded once again by Morssen, who was not the owner of the shoes, who complains that Claude didn't bring one of his catches from the hunt he did despite it being more than a month since he got the new weapon. "You can at least catch prey to sell and help out financially. Even if you can't catch a goat, at least bring back one or two rabbits" he lamented.
Without speaking, Claude went to school with a stomach full of anger.
Borkal knows something about this. He reveals to Claude that their father will push their plan to establish a maritime trade route from Whitestag to the Tyrrsim colony in Nubissia and gather the initial capital. According to what his father revealed, many people do not have confidence that the venture will be successful and fundraising goes rather slowly. No wonder Morssen was angry about it, considering he was the main person behind the plan.
Sigh, who asked me to move into the body of Morssen's son? I guess being given a lecture by him was a bit inevitable.
However, Claude felt completely dissatisfied when Morssen chided him for his hunting skills. Even though he did not find any goats in the area, there were bound to be many rabbits. Even though they were somewhat cunning, he did not believe that he would not be able to hunt down a single one of them.
Right now, Claude was training with his target a hundred meters into the forest. He had no choice, as there was no way he could reach a distance of 50 meters to hunt rabbits. At the very least, the rabbit would not have escaped so quickly if he had shot from a distance of 100 meters. The only downside to that strategy is that rabbits are barely visible from that range, only about the size of a pea. Claude had to sharpen his gaze well to hunt.
After training for three days, he could hit the bull's eye seven or eight out of ten times and believed himself ready to hunt. He asked Borkal Welikro to hunt with him that afternoon.
He couldn't ask the others to come along because Eriksson was still busy with his fishing boat while Borkal was busy doing business, trying to market Claude's target. It sounded like the business was going well and the four thales investment had already doubled. The carpenters who received orders from the Borkal family company already made a third batch of products, consisting of 80 targets and 300 target papers in total.
Currently, Welikro uses an aubass sign 2 Borkal without a view.
After the first period during the afternoon session, Claude and Welikro did not attend the riding period. They leave the school and go to Claude's house first to pick up the two weapons under the bed and other things they need before calling the train to the hills south of the city. The two then climbed the hill.
Welikro said that the best place to hunt rabbits is in the forest and hills. Although there are many gardens and gardens there, animals such as hares and turkeys are not uncommon. Those are places carnivores don't dare come to because many landowners there are citizens armed with their own weapons. They also hunt as a hobby, cleaning smaller animals from their natural predators and allowing them to breed and breed.
The reason their hunt there last time did not pay off was because Borkal insisted on tracking down larger prey. They were circling in the forest nonstop and all the little animals that heard it ran away or hid. No wonder they didn't even get a catch.
Claude asked, "Didn't you guys say that the guard dog here is a smaller master hunter?"
Welikro explained, "The reason these landowners have dogs is to keep their property as well as their crops from small creatures. Usually, they will not let their dogs out of their land. All we have to do is go deeper into the forest and find a good place to wait for the rabbit to appear. Patience is the key to hunting. "
After a short walk, Welikro and Claude climbed a small hill where the greenery was saved. The trees and bushes were far apart and there were several plots of tall grass.
After a short walk, Welikro and Claude climbed a small hill where the greenery was saved. The trees and bushes were far apart and there were several plots of tall grass.
"Alright, this place will work," said Welikro complacently, "Let's get our weapons ready and the rest here. We'll light our slow match first while we wait for the rabbit or turkey to show up. Let's use the old one When we have a target, we will be able to shoot immediately. And if the match burns out before we get, we switch to a new one. Also, don't talk from now on. They have sensitive ears and if the wind takes our voice there, they will run away and hide. "
"Are we just going to let our weapons stay here like this while we wait?"
Welikro nodded. "really. To hunt down these little people, we must be patient."
Welikro stopped talking. He arranged his weapon and the rest before he silently observed the bushes located under the hill. Welikro told him that turkeys like to move around the bushes. Claude obviously prefers turkey soup over rabbit soup.
As time passed, Claude felt his legs numb. There was not the slightest movement around him. Nothing could be heard other than the sound of the wind blowing through the forest.
Just as he was about to stretch for a while, Welikro pointed his finger in one direction. Claude turned to the left where Claude pointed and saw a patch of grass where his two ears were sticking out, moving left and right. The gray rabbit was chewing the grass nonstop.
Welikro stretched out two fingers, pointed towards Claude and himself, before pointing to the rabbit, and then returned to their two weapons. It was his gesture for the two of them to shoot at the same time. That way, they can still get a catch if only one of them is missed.
The rabbit was about 80 meters from their location. What made Claude happy was that the rabbit remained static in its location. Even though he was stabbing his head nonstop, it did not move his body in the slightest.
When Claude was sure he had the chance, he pulled the trigger. Despite their distance of nearly a hundred meters, the rabbit seemed to be making a sound, as seen from how its ears moved when listening to the movements around it.
But it turns out it's too late. Two bangs in a row could be heard. Welikro and Claude had finished their shot at almost the same time.
But it turns out it's too late. Two bangs in a row could be heard. Welikro and Claude had finished their shot at almost the same time.
Rabbits in the distance seemed to jump high before falling into the bush, invisible.
Claude said disappointedly, "I didn't hit him. It escaped."
Welikro on the other side sat down. "I hit him, it's still there. Let's reload our weapons first before going there to retrieve the rabbits. It should be around."
The two of them refilled their weapons, cutting the lit matches before they used their sticks to carefully walk down the hill.
"It's a pity that we didn't bring a hunting dog" Welikro said suddenly.
"A hunting dog?" Welikro had heard that Welikro kept three hunting dogs in the house. They are said to be of mixed breed between wolves and general guard dogs. They are slightly larger than normal guard dogs and are intelligent and ferocious. They helped his father a lot during his hunt.
"Why do we need a hunting dog?" ask Claude.
"If we've got one here, we don't have to go into the bushes to pick up the rabbit ourselves. That dog can do that for us. Then again, if we bring one here, we won't need our weapons. Senior, Junior, and Little my house will explore the area from rabbits and turkeys, "Welikro said.
"You're bragging, right?"
"i'm serious. Don't joke around" Welikro said, "The three hunting dogs we've trained are facing huge beasts in the forest. They can even keep the boar busy to give my father a chance to kill him with one punch "Capturing turkeys and rabbits is a children's game for them. We can't even find any more rabbits in the woods near our house because our dogs get it all."
"You lookout under the hill can catch rabbits and turkeys too, right?"
"Watchdogs can hunt, but they are only restricted from doing so within the boundaries of the gardens they keep. It would be lucky if they managed to get a catch or two. However, without proper training, it would be an almost futile endeavor. Their skin would scare away all the nearby beasts before they got the chance. "
"You lookout under the hill can catch rabbits and turkeys too, right?"
"Watchdogs can hunt, but they are only restricted from doing so within the boundaries of the gardens they keep. It would be lucky if they managed to get a catch or two. However, without proper training, it would be an almost futile endeavor. Their skin would scare away all the nearby beasts before they got the chance. "
"Usually, what do you use to catch those animals? With traps or snares?"
"Hmm, let me think ...," Welikro said after thinking, "To catch rabbits and turkeys, other than using hunting dogs, all we can do is shoot them from afar. However, many hunters prefer to use hunting bows or arbalests for these creatures because their accuracy is higher than a gun and it makes much less noise. The enemy nearby would not run away after hearing the gunfire.
"As for traps, we only use trap traps to deal with large animals. I've never heard of traps being used on smaller ones before. I don't know what you mean by traps, but I've heard someone spread grains soaked with liquor in the bushes. The turkey will faint after eating it and all you need to do is take it. Some people say that the turkey will freeze when they see a torch or lantern and you can catch it with your hands like that. It took it out but it didn't work. It ran before I even got close. "
The rabbit they shot was crushed in the bushes. There was a gunshot wound on his back and stopped breathing.
Welikro said he was aiming for the head, so the shot that hit it should have belonged to Claude. But Claude could not confirm that he was the one who shot, but he still accepted it with pleasure. Now, he finally has something he can show his family while satisfying Morssen's desire for rabbits.
Welikro said, "We have to find somewhere else. The shot will drive out the other animals. We won't get any other prey here unless we wait until night."
However, Claude ignored him. He was busy picking up wine to make a snare with from the bushes.
"What are you doing?" ask Welikro.
"Make a trap." This was a skill he had acquired in his childhood when he lived in a village near a hill. The wild children there are skilled turkey catchers, rabbits, and fish. Fortunately, Claude still remembered how to make it. "It's a snare, a trap designed specifically to catch rabbits or turkeys."
"Can this tool really do it?" Welikro crouched down and helped make him hesitate.
"Yup. Just put this on the bushes and grass. We'll be back tomorrow to check if there are any" Claude said.