Chapter 97 Born to be a Shooter

The father and son stood still in the open space beside the creek. Li Wentong then took out the gun, and after a standard inspection of the gun, he stood with the gun in hand and talked to Yue Feng about the standard of using the gun.

“This rifle is nothing else but a method to use. I will show you how to use it and you can learn as much as you can.

When we were in the army, there were several shooting postures: prone, kneeling, and standing.

If you are setting an ambush, the first shot in the prone position will have the highest hit rate, while the hit rates in the kneeling and standing positions will be affected to a certain extent!

If we go to fight a siege, there will be almost no opportunity to lie down and prepare a firing position in advance in case of a surprise attack.

But if you are lucky and can get close to the target without being discovered, prone shooting should be the first priority!

As for the remaining two types, if the field of vision is not restricted, the kneeling position is slightly better than the standing position!
If you only have the opportunity to design a standing posture, it is best to find a stable tree trunk or stone or other terrain that can be used as a lever to effectively increase shooting stability. “

Li Wentong is indeed a veteran who has fought against southern monkeys. After arriving at the gun-testing site by the river, he immediately began to teach Yue Feng practical knowledge, explaining while demonstrating with his gun.

“Yeah, I remember!”

Yue Feng nodded repeatedly. In his previous life, he was basically a wild learner in gun handling. To put it nicely, it was stream of consciousness, just like shooting a slingshot, relying entirely on feeling.

I have bought a hard tool in this life, and I have a professional “teacher” to teach me, so I must continue to improve myself.

After briefly explaining the shooting posture, Li Wentong took out a bag of bullets from his backpack, opened the bullet feed port, and loaded the bullets with a clip.

“The 56 semi-automatic rifle has a maximum capacity of ten rounds. It can be loaded with a clip, or a single shot can be loaded from the top feed port. Unless you are going into the mountains to hunt big game, it is generally not recommended to load it fully and wait for a long time to fire. If it is compressed too tightly, it will easily affect the life of the spring. Seven or eight rounds are more appropriate!” Li Wentong briefly demonstrated the loading of the rifle, and then reloaded it with bullets.

“Look at the thickest poplar tree right in front of us!” Li Wentong pointed at his shooting target with his finger, then put the gun to his face, and pulled the trigger easily with the three points in a straight line.

boom!
A gunshot was heard and the smell of gunpowder immediately filled the air.

The bullet hit the target, but it was slightly to the left of the center point by about ten centimeters.

Li Wentong didn’t say anything, he changed to a lying position and fired another shot.

After the fight, Li Wentong frowned slightly.

“What’s wrong, uncle?” Yue Feng keenly noticed the changes in the other party’s expressions and asked curiously.

“There’s a small problem with this mechanical aiming!” Li Wentong said with certainty after firing only two bullets.

“Huh?” Yue Feng didn’t understand the ins and outs here and was a little confused. The new gun should be quite accurate.

“It’s okay. There was a small error during assembly. The clearance of the sight was a little off. After shooting 70 to 80 meters, the bullet hit the wrong point!”

While speaking, Li Wentong adjusted the position of the dial based on his own feelings, and then triggered it again.

This time, the bullet hit the middle of the tree trunk. Li Wentong took a deep breath and then fired three more shots in succession.

The impact points of the last four bullets were very dense. Although they did not overlap, the distribution points were concentrated in a small circle with a diameter of about five or six centimeters.

“Okay, the sights have been calibrated! Why don’t you try it?” Li Wentong stood up, took off the gun belt from his body and handed it to Yue Feng.

“Okay! Let me try!” Yue Feng took the gun, imitated Li Wentong’s lying position, and put the butt of the gun on his shoulder.

“Keep your shoulders tight, keep the three points in a straight line, aim intentionally, and fire unintentionally! When firing, pay attention to your breathing rhythm!” Li Wentong thought Yue Feng was a rookie, so he explained in more detail.

Yue Feng held the gun to his face, then naturally aligned the front sight with the rear sight notch, and without paying much attention to aiming, he fired directly.

With a bang, a new bullet hole appeared about five centimeters above the point where Li Wentong’s shot had impacted.

“Not bad, the first shot didn’t miss the target. Let’s try again!” Li Wentong nodded, very satisfied with Yue Feng’s performance.

Yue Feng found the feeling and pulled the trigger again naturally.

This time the bullet impacted almost completely with the previous one, with a gap of less than one centimeter.

Yue Feng fired two more shots afterwards, emptying the ten bullets in the magazine.

The impact points of these four bullets were very densely distributed, and two of them even almost completely overlapped.

Li Wentong greeted him and walked quickly towards the big poplar tree. After observing the bullet’s impact point from close range, he looked at Yue Feng again, and his eyes changed a little.

If we follow the standard of shooting training at a 100-meter chest target in the army, Yue Feng’s four shots just now were all within the circle of ten rings.

“Okay, kid! You’ve never touched a gun before, right?” Li Wentong asked in an uncertain tone.

Yue Feng smiled and shook his head.

“You have the potential to be a sharpshooter. You have a great sense of the gun! Reload and try your accuracy in kneeling and standing positions!”

Yue Feng did as he was told and fired three more shots in both the kneeling and standing positions.

The kneeling position is not very comfortable, and the bullet dispersion is a little larger, but the accuracy can still be seven to eight rings. Theoretically, the stability of standing shooting without support is much worse than that of lying position, but here at Yue Feng, basically all three shots get nine or ten rings.

With this kind of shooting accuracy, within a range of 100 meters, the target will basically not be missed for prey the size of roe deer or even wild boar.

“Hehehe! I feel that shooting at targets with a gun is a bit like shooting with a slingshot. I think that as long as I aim, I can hit the target by pulling the trigger!” Yue Feng said naively.

“Okay, I originally thought that if you want to practice your shooting skills, you need to have at least a few hundred bullets to start with. Judging from your performance today, these bullets can be saved!” Li Wentong said.

“That’s great! Let’s shoot a few more rounds and then go back?”

“it is good!”

Yue Feng, who was touching a gun for the first time in his life, fired the remaining bullets and then reluctantly put down the gun.

“Let’s go back. Now that we have the guns, we can prepare to go up the mountain when the snow freezes a little!”

“it is good!”

……

After testing the guns in the open space near the grove by the river, the father and son happily rushed home. When they returned to Yue Feng’s house, they hadn’t had lunch yet, so Meng Yulan had stewed a big pot of pheasant, rabbit and potatoes.

“Dad, Mom! The guns are back!” Yue Feng pushed the bicycle into the warehouse, then carried the gun bag and went into the house with Li Wentong.

“Did the journey go smoothly? Wentong, come in and get on the kang!” Yue Lei came out after hearing the noise. “It must have gone smoothly. My uncle Li is here to help. The journey to Tiecheng will be smooth!” Yue Feng took the opportunity to flatter Li Wentong.

“Let me take a look at the gun!”

Yue Feng handed the gun to his father, and saw Yue Lei taking the gun and carefully examining and playing with it.

There is a saying that a man remains a boy until he dies, and this saying was just as valid in the 80s. This 56 and a half is Yue Feng’s dream, and it is also the dream of Yue Lei and Li Wentong.

When Yue Lei was holding the new gun in his arms, Li Wentong next to him said, “I took Xiaofeng to the riverside to try out the gun. Xiaofeng is a natural gunner. He was able to hit the target easily the first time he touched the gun. After he got used to it, he scored eight, nine, and even ten rings every time!”

“Really? This kid has never touched a gun?”

Yue Feng smiled and scratched his head, saying modestly: “Hehehe, this is just the way it is. My grandfather was also very accurate in shooting birds, so your dad should be no worse!”

“I won’t argue with you about what you said! Your grandfather was really accurate with his musket back then, but the old gun exploded and became useless. Otherwise, our family wouldn’t be without a gun after so many years in the mountains!”

“Now I have it. I also got a hundred rounds of bullets when I bought the gun. If I use them sparingly, the bullets should be enough for this winter!” Yue Feng said as he patted the bullets wrapped in brown paper in his backpack.

“Okay, now that we have the guns, we just need to wait for the snow to freeze solid. Then you follow your Uncle Li and go up the mountain to try it out and see how the idea works!”

Yue Feng grinned: “Newbies come to the table, whatever they want will come true! The ideas must be solid!”

“Stop showing off and go get some hot wine. Your uncle and I will have a drink at noon!”

“it is good!”

……

Just when Yue Feng came back from the city to buy a gun and was having a drink at home, the three brothers who went up the mountain finally understood what Yue Feng meant by releasing a hawk after the snow as if it were picked up for free.

It snowed heavily for nearly a night. After the snow stopped at dawn, many prey such as pheasants were buried in the snow holes. It was not cold because of the snow. After dawn, all kinds of small animals came out of the snow holes, leaving all kinds of traces in the snow.

In the past, when releasing hawks in the fall, the hawker relied on the falconer’s constant searching on his two legs to come across prey.

After the snow fell, it was much easier to find prey.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just the hares. Xiao Tao mounted the Iron-backed Red Eagle and followed the trails that the hares had taken in the small vegetable garden. In just one hour, he found four big hares weighing four or five kilograms.

The hare’s trails are quite interesting. Normally, the footprints will move forward, but if the footprints suddenly disappear, the rabbit will be lying here less than one meter in front.

Thanks to Yue Feng’s daily training, the Iron-backed Red Eagle’s record of catching rabbits has already exceeded 100. Now, whenever he sees a rabbit, he basically catches it one by one without running away.

Xiao Tao went out before seven in the morning, and by noon, his bag of prey was almost full. By three in the afternoon, the total number of rabbits caught that day had reached an exaggerated 14.

On the other side, the brothers Xiaowen and Xiaowu, who went up the mountain, also started picking up chickens.

Just after it snowed, the feathers of the flying dragons and sand chickens were wet, and their mobility was greatly reduced. Many flying dragons stayed within three or two meters of the target and refused to fly.

Whether it is a small chicken hawk or a large blue kite, catching these prey is usually easy, not to mention being able to get within two or three meters to launch a surprise attack. Basically, one catch is a sure thing, and the efficiency is very high, and it does not consume too much of the hawk’s physical strength.

Following the traces left by the flying dragons, sand chickens and pheasants, we can catch one in a short while. It’s because there is snow on the mountain and the eagle-handler’s walkway is affected to a certain extent. Otherwise, the prey caught today would have to be carried home in a sack at least.

Around four o’clock in the evening, the three people who went out to release the hawks came back one after another.

After seeing today’s total harvest, even though Yue Feng had been mentally prepared to know that there would be a bumper harvest today, he couldn’t help but be shocked.

Xiao Tao, alone with his big eagle, finally hunted 16 rabbits and 7 pheasants.

Xiaowen, single person single chicken eagle, 13 sand half chickens, 26 flying dragons, 7 pheasants

Xiaowu, a single large blue kite, 21 sand chickens, 32 flying dragons, and two female pheasants.

It is extremely easy to find prey, extremely easy to get close to it, and extremely easy for a falcon to control its prey’s struggles. These factors combined allow each person’s total number of prey to almost double the usual amount.

“Hahaha, Brother Feng, I’ve been releasing the hawk for so long, and today I’m having a blast! It’s almost like picking up something for free. I chase the prey by following its footprints. If I see a rabbit, I can basically catch it within ten meters! The hawk has pinned the rabbit there, but its fur is still loose. It doesn’t take any effort at all!”

Xiao Tao tied the big red eagle to the bar reluctantly and said proudly.

Xiaowen was also excited: “I am similar to Xiaowu! It snowed, and it seemed that the chicks on the mountain were all frozen. The eagles chased them away, and the chicks hardly flew!”

Yue Feng smiled and said, “It’s normal. In previous years, when it snowed, people would use a scoop net to catch flying dragons! Using an eagle to catch them is a dimensionality reduction attack! But the temperature is starting to drop. When the temperature drops completely after the snow melts, the eagles will have a hard time!”

Xiaowu looked into Yuefeng’s eyes and asked, “What?”

“It’s too cold. The eagle needs to use up more of its energy reserves to resist the cold. If we insist on continuing to release it, it will easily lose weight. If it loses too much weight, it will not be able to work!
Tomorrow morning, after everyone has finished their meal, please help me. I plan to use plastic sheeting and wood to build a greenhouse under the eaves of the main house! “

“This is easy. Just buy some nails and thick plastic sheets. We have a lot of people, so we can finish it in a few hours!”

Yue Feng nodded: “Let’s count the prey first, then I’ll go deliver the goods. There’s snow on the road today, so we have to leave early!”

After a simple greeting, everyone got busy, counting the number of prey, then putting them into wicker baskets and securing them with ropes. There were so many rabbits today that it took two baskets to hold them all.

After saying hello, Yue Feng pushed the cart out of the door and headed straight to the Fengcheng Coal Mine canteen.

When Yue Feng arrived at the second canteen, Niu Fusheng was already waiting at the canteen warehouse.

Seeing Yue Feng coming to deliver the goods, Niu Fusheng walked over leisurely with a Ginseng brand cigarette in his mouth.

“The road is not easy to walk on, right? Would you like a cigarette?” Niu Fusheng took out a cigarette and was about to offer it to Yue Feng.

Yue Feng waved his hand to indicate that he didn’t know how to ride, and said with a smile: “If the snow is not compacted, it’s okay to ride on. But if it melts and then freezes solid, it will be uncomfortable. If you don’t ride well, you will probably fall!

There was just snow on the mountain today, and we caught a lot of prey. If we don’t entertain you very often recently, we’ll have to make good use of these wild game!

I’m afraid that if the weather changes drastically and I can’t get out of the mountain, I don’t want to delay things at the canteen!”

Niu Fusheng nodded: “I have also considered this. Look, do you see the pile of cages I made at the foot of the wall? These flying dragons, rabbits, pheasants and other game can actually be kept for a while after a little adaptation.

I will try my best to keep the wild game and live poultry reserves in the warehouse within a safe range, so that even if you can’t go up the mountain, you won’t be greatly affected in the short term!
By the way, I have good news for you. Fu Qinghe has agreed to the suggestion you gave me last time!”

Hearing this, Yue Feng’s heart moved slightly.

Today’s first chapter, 4,000 words, there will be two more chapters later
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