Chapter two hundred and eighty first deflected archery
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Ju An smiled and said: "I fed that leader when he was a little bit younger. Now he has a very close relationship with Dinah and I. He will come around to say hello to us when he sees us."
Taylor nodded and said: "I know, I told you what happened last time when the tour group came back. You are so brave. Now let's just say this. I'm going back. Don't forget to choose a spot in the ranch this Saturday.
Two decent cowboys, don’t lose ugly when the time comes, I won’t show mercy.”
"Don't worry, we'll be more conservative when the time comes and we won't let you lose too ugly." Ju An said to the back of old Taylor. If you get along with these old cowboys for a long time, you will find that their characters are very clear in love and hate.
They all love to joke and have a bit of the bold spirit of northerners in China.
After giving the meat to the wolves, Ju An turned his horse's head and rode the bean grass in the direction of the cattle. He found two or three calves before catching Thomas. When he saw Thomas' figure, he immediately urged him
Doucao caught up and said, "Thomas, old Taylor just came to the ranch and invited me to participate in a competition. The ranch selects two cowboys plus the rancher, a total of three people. There are three events in the competition."
Before Ju An finished speaking, Thomas smiled and said: "Is it archery, ax throwing and marksmanship?"
Ju An smiled and said to Thomas: "Have you participated? That would be great."
Thomas shrugged his shoulders: "If the rancher must participate, it can only be this. It can't be calf roping or wild horse riding."
After hearing what Thomas said, Ju An was stunned for a moment and then he figured it out. Many ranchers are very young. For example, if someone with old arms and legs like Taylor goes to a wild horse to tether a calf, who will come if something goes wrong with the tether?
Responsibility, archery, and experience in the three events are more important than physical fitness. The amount of exercise is also very small, which is suitable for some older ranchers.
Ju An then said: "I can still survive with my marksmanship, but I really know nothing about archery, and even throwing an ax makes me blind."
After hearing this, Thomas said: "The ax is relatively simple, just tie a playing card or a rope loop on the tree. As long as you throw the ax out and nail it into the playing card or rope loop, you win, otherwise you lose."
, the distance requirement is ten steps away. You can just find a tree and step back a few steps to practice. This archery is a bit troublesome, but even if you can't win, it doesn't matter. The main thing is to get together and talk and connect."
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Ju An nodded after hearing this and said: "Well, I know this situation, but I can't perform too badly. I still need to find an opportunity to practice archery and ax throwing."
Thomas looked at Ju An and shook his head and said: "In fact, ax throwing is not too difficult. You just need to master the skills. Archery cannot be practiced in a week or two. Lawrence and I will follow you to participate.
"If you have time, prepare a compound bow and a small axe, and I will teach you at noon."
Ju An nodded and turned the horse's head, running towards the house. When they arrived at the ranch, Ju An was busy looking for things. Dinah saw Ju An busy looking for things, so she curiously asked Ju An: "
An, what are you looking for?"
Ju An put a small hand ax he found on his waist, a rope in his hand, and his revolver in his pocket: "Taylor came over in the morning and invited me to participate in the rancher's competition. I'm going to practice."
I'll shoot an arrow and throw an ax at once, and Thomas will teach me a few tricks later so that I won't lose too badly."
After hearing this, Dinah smiled and said, "Let's go, I'll teach you first."
"You know how to do this? Are you good at it? It's better not to teach her when the time comes." Ju An looked at Dinah and said.
"I participated in these games with my father several times before I went to middle school. If they hadn't allowed girls to participate, maybe my father and I would have won a lot of people." Dinah said proudly and waved her hand, gesturing for Ju An to follow.
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Walking to a tree behind the house, Dinah tied a small loop on the rope in Ju An's hand, hung it on the trunk with a nail, and used an ax to gently knock the small nail into the trunk a little deeper.
The noose as big as a fist was placed against the trunk of the tree. Dinah walked a few steps away from the tree and said to Ju An: "Give me the axe. You see me throwing it first." After saying that, she held the axe.
He raised the handle over his shoulder, tried it a few times, and then threw it away.
Well! My wife was indeed not bragging. The front corner of the ax blade was inserted into the trunk of the tree, right in the middle of the noose. Following Dinah, she walked to the front and pulled out the ax: "When using the ax, pay attention to the forearm, with the elbow as the center of the circle, and the wrist.
Don't shake it, just throw the ax out, you can try it."
Ju An took the ax from Dinah's hand and waited for Dinah to stand on the side. After several attempts, Ju An was able to nail the ax to the tree, and it was not too far away from the rope loop. Dinah looked at it.
After that, he said: "You have never thrown an ax before, have you? Although this throw is not very good, it doesn't look like you have never thrown it before."
Ju An said proudly: "Your husband and I are a genius in sports, and throwing axes is not a problem." As soon as he finished speaking, the ax in his hand flew out against the tree trunk without even touching the bark. Dinah saw
Chu Ju'an ran to pick up the ax and laughed.
Dinah watched Ju An throw it a few times and then turned around and went back to the house, leaving Ju An alone to practice by the tree. After a while, the big tree was covered with scars. Ju An saw that this was not going to work anymore.
If you continue practicing, you must plant this tree
When the leather training was gone, he took off the noose and nails from the tree trunk, found a new tree, and replaced two trees. Then Thomas went to the back of the house with his bow and five arrows: "You ax thrower?"
It’s pretty good, it’s quite impressive.”
Ju An pursed his lips and threw the ax in his hand attentively: "Dina taught me just now, and I was practicing. Since you are here, we will learn bow and arrow first."
After hearing this, Thomas demonstrated how to shoot an arrow, then handed the bow to Ju An, and then taught Ju An how to draw the bow, what steps, and how to aim. This compound bow also has two small wheels.
It is more labor-saving, as five arrow shafts of different colors are stuck on the bow body.
Seeing that there was no problem with Ju An's posture, Thomas asked Ju An to shoot an arrow. If the arrow shaft hadn't been colored, it wouldn't have been easy to find. The arrow was just a step behind the tree trunk.
He flew out and shot more than ten times in succession from drawing the bow to releasing the arrow. In Thomas's eyes, he finally got the posture correct.
After two more rounds of practice with Thomas, it was time for lunch. As soon as he finished eating, Ju An drove to the town and bought a bow with small wheels, which was equipped with ten arrows.
After practicing all night behind the house, the progress was very obvious. In one afternoon, Ju An was able to shoot a tree trunk.
Ju An himself didn't know whether the arrow was leaning upward or downward when it hit the tree trunk. This improvement made Dinah shake her head in amazement: "My dear, if you go to the competition on Saturday with your archery skills, you can directly
It made those old cowboys cry. In just five or six steps, you can actually go up and down by almost two feet."
Ju An pulled out the arrows from the tree trunk and laughed and said, "You don't understand my tactics at all. I have prepared a huge room for improvement for myself, so that I can feel every improvement.
The greater my interest. Unlike others, although it seems very fast at first, in fact, the whole process is moving forward at a constant speed. I am accelerating. The speed is zero at the beginning, but it gets faster and faster, until finally it will
Throw it at a constant speed so that there is no shadow."
After hearing what Ju An said, Dinah stared at it for a few times and then sighed and said: "Okay! Let's practice again tomorrow. I just hope that your archery performance on Saturday will not be too embarrassing." Ju An then stopped.
He picked up the bow, arrows and ax and followed Dinah back to the house. He locked everything in his hands into the gun cabinet in front of the door...,
After several days of practice, Ju An's ax throwing has become more and more accurate, and his archery skills have also made great progress. If the center of the target is the tenth ring, Ju An's arrows will always swing around the fourth, fifth and sixth rings.
It was an accident to pass the eighth ring. Dinah's evaluation was that Ju An's archery skills were basically passable. After practicing for five days, Ju An was gloriously close to the level of a novice in archery for two days.
Not only Dinah but also Thomas were surprised that Ju An was good at axes and marksmanship, but only his bow and arrows missed the mark. Thomas and Lawrence watched Ju An shoot a few arrows, and Thomas said to Ju An: "Be ready for five
Ten dollars, anyway, our chances of winning the championship are very slim."
On the day they were waiting for the competition, Ju An and Thomas Lawrence waited until about three o'clock in the afternoon before riding their horses from the pasture and heading towards the camp at the foot of the mountain. The three of them were dressed in cowboy attire, with cowboy hats, respective shirts, and dark
There is a brown leather sheath on the scarf and jeans, half-high riding boots with shiny spurs, a revolver tied around the waist, and a bow and arrow strapped to the horse's back behind the saddle, which looks a bit like a Western movie.
When they arrived at the foot of the mountain, they found that there were already more than a dozen people. They were all dressed in the same way. Most of them came on horseback. Only one person came in a pickup truck, but he was dragging several boxes of beer and a small car behind him.
There was no place to sit on the golden trophy. Everyone just brought blankets and sat on the floor. If you need it, you can go get a beer from the bed of the pickup truck.
When Old Taylor arrived at the foot of the mountain with two forty-year-old cowboys on horseback, he greeted everyone and then introduced each other to the three new-faced ranchers one by one.
An introduced them. The location of their ranch was to the west of Taylor and Thornton. Ju An had never had a chance to meet them. This time he happened to meet them. The cowboys who came to participate in the competition were at least 10 years old.
Ju An looks like he is in his early 40s, and only Ju An is a young man in his twenties. (To be continued)
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