Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 24 by EDA

Author:EDA [Unbekannt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2024-06-02T22:00:00+00:00

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From there, the days steadily passed on by. Shumiral had been my greatest point of concern, but he had really done a good job of showing off his skill during that period.

In order for the hunting dogs to demonstrate the full range of their capabilities, Shumiral had first needed to learn how to become a hunter himself. The natural physical proficiency he had from the very start was enough to seriously surprise the hunters on its own, but even still, he had lived his life as a merchant. He wasn’t capable of hiding his presence like a hunter, and had a lot to learn about the nature of giba. As totos and poisons couldn’t be used out in the forest, he would need to put in a great deal of effort in order to be able to work as a hunter.

Even at this stage, though, the hunting dogs were doing an incredible job of supporting him. When it came to his biggest stumbling block of being unable to hide his presence, the hunting dogs could notice a giba before it noticed Shumiral, canceling that issue out. When the hunting dogs picked up on a giba, Shumiral and the hunters would move downwind. Then they would let the dogs loose in order to drive the giba toward a trap. That was the basic strategy.

“They’re usually so well-behaved, but they make some really crazy sounds when they’re driving the giba. That catches the giba off guard, and they take off running without thinking,” Ludo Ruu told me.

The Sauti and some other clans used metallic noisemakers to drive giba, which the Ruu tended to forgo using. Giba hated loud sounds by nature—a fact that this strategy used against them. It wasn’t likely that a hunting dog’s fangs would be able to take down a fully grown giba, but if they weren’t starved or especially vicious, they would prioritize fleeing instead, so the hunting dogs were already proving to be quite effective.

“Their noses seem to be even better than mine too, so they can find the giba quicker! There’s no fear of a surprise attack from giba with them around!” Dan Rutim had said. It hadn’t taken long for the hunters to start seeing the hunting dogs in a favorable light, which was proof of how valuable their presence was.

I didn’t know if it would be of any use, so I refrained from saying anything, but I knew that hunting dogs were also a great help in hunting boars. I could recall a hunter at the farming camp I had attended telling me there was a saying that went “First dogs, second legs, third guns.” It meant that when hunting boars, the most important thing was having hunting dogs, followed secondly by the legs needed to pursue them, and your gun only came in third. Apparently, a lot of hunters believed that maxim. They knew how critical dogs were to the process.

And so, it had only taken Shumiral a couple days to show the hunters the dogs’ potential.

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