After a total of more than 20 people arrived, they took off their saddles and drove the horses to the surrounding grass to graze. Some sat directly on the saddles, and some even sat on them without even laying a stall.
There were small groups of people drinking beer and chatting on the ground. Ju An waited for a long time and drank two or three bottles of beer.
The watering in the woods showed no sign of starting twice. A group of cowboys gathered together and talked about their pastures or cattle and sheep. Several ranchers followed Ju An and most of them talked about naughty things.
, since the Triple Crown competition, Naughty Bags has traveled to various parts of the United States to participate from time to time.
One or two games, constantly refreshing his winning streak, and at the same time spitting out small bills to Ju An. Of course, the prize money cannot be compared with the Triple Crown game, each game is only hundreds of thousands or two hundred thousand. Basically, he is
An just followed these old cows and chatted about the situation of naughty boys that they knew.
When we got down, we discovered that half of the ranchers came with their sons, and some even had fathers and sons playing together, turning the game into a parent-child event. Calling it a parent-child event is a bit exaggerated. Old cowboys in their 50s and 60s led the way.
It’s a lot of fun to play with my sons, who are all in their thirties at least.
After almost an hour, a bunch of cowboys had probably finished drinking. Old Taylor stood up and clapped his hands on his head a few times: "Guys! Guys! It's almost time, everyone is ready to start the game.
, this competition starts with archery, then ax throwing, and finally revolver shooting. Each person shoots three arrows and throws
Each person has an ax once, and each person has five rounds of bullets in the pistol competition. It’s an old tradition. Anyway, An is the newbie. I won’t say more. If I didn’t understand this time, he will know next year.” After finishing speaking, he looked at Ju An with a smile.
The rest of the cowboys also laughed, and Ju An also raised the beer bottle in his hand to signal to Old Taylor.
As soon as Taylor finished speaking, two cowboys lifted the archery target aside. It was more like a chopping board than an archery target. It was similar to the common old chopping boards in our country. It was neatly cut directly from a big tree.
It is a round piece of five or six centimeters thick, and there is no need to draw the circle of the target. It is directly represented by the annual rings of the tree, and a group of several annual rings is traced with white paint.
As soon as the target was placed, the cowboys gathered around ten meters in front of the target. Old Taylor was the first to pick up the bow and arrow. After shooting three arrows, all three arrows hit the bullseye. An old cowboy next to him smiled after seeing it.
He joked to Taylor: "It's much better than last year. I haven't had any special practice in married life at night for a year." After saying this, the old cowboys who were watching nearby laughed.
Old Taylor waited for the scorer to write down the results, handed the bow and arrow to the old cowboy in his ranch and said: "Old Charlie, shut your mouth. Last year, old Zach was not here, so you won the championship. This year our team is a human race."
The horse is strong, we have reserved the championship.” After saying that, he patted Zach next to him.
The archery skills of these old cowboys are really impressive. Basically, everyone is inseparable. The three people from Ju'an Ranch are the last ones to shoot arrows. The first person to appear is Ju An, waiting for Ju An to shoot the first one.
The arrow almost missed the target. When Ju An finished shooting all three arrows, the cowboys next to him laughed. Someone in the crowd laughed and said: "An! Your archery skills are far better than
It’s not as fast as a naughty bag.”
Ju An laughed and said, "Taylor just informed me a week ago that I don't have much time to practice. I'll show you how good I am next year." Before he finished speaking, the cowboys next to him started laughing and booing.
Thomas and Lawrence were both quite right. As soon as the archery results came out, the scores of the cowboys on several ranches were not too far apart. In the end, the difference between the second to last and the first was only one or two links. This
This is not a formal game, these old cowboys
The count was all after the decimal point. When the results came out, Ju An discovered that these old cowboys divided ten annual rings into one ring, and the entire tree trunk only had five rings. Ju An's three arrows were all shot in the outermost ring.
, the final result was naturally at the bottom of Ju'an's group...,
When it came time for the ax throwing competition, a playing card was placed in the middle of the target. The one who hit the playing card scored, and the one who didn't hit the target got no points. Watching the two or three ranch players in front finish throwing, Ju An expected others to make mistakes.
Nothing happened, so it was his group's turn. Ju An was the first to appear. This time, there was no joke. The small ax was nailed to the playing cards. Due to Ju An's strength, the ax directly smashed the playing cards.
Almost half of it was scratched.
When Thornton next to him saw it, he said to Ju An: "Is it your luck or your accuracy? You are really strong."
Seeing Thomas walking towards the target to pull out the axe, Lawrence smiled and said: "Ann's strength is not small, and he can throw axes well, but his archery skills are hard to praise."
After hearing this, Taylor smiled and said: "If others are good at sports and react well, they can learn almost any sport. Is this considered an archery blindness?"
Ju An shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands: "I can't help but feel that the bow is fluttering when I pull it, and it's not strong enough."
Thornton thought for a moment and said, "That may be a problem with the bow. Don't use a compound bow. It should be better to practice with a harder bow."
Ju An nodded, and then followed everyone to watch Thomas throw the axe. Neither old Thomas nor Lawrence made any big mistakes. The ax landed steadily on the playing cards. The axe-throwing competition was about to end.
Ju An thought that he was going to keep his position as the last one.
Well, who knew the last team to appear? At the beginning, the rancher Old Charlie threw the ax astray. It was not considered as a miss, but the tip of the ax was tightly attached to the outside of the playing card. When the playing card was taken off, the surroundings
None of them were scratched, so in the end it was considered a miss amidst the unanimous laughter of everyone.
Old Taylor proudly teased old Charlie: "Charlie, you can't take back this year's trophy. I think you should honestly take out the fifty dollars in your pocket."
"My hands are slipping, please let me throw another one to ensure it hits the target." After wiping his hands, he wanted to pick up the ax again, but the people around him immediately shouted: "no! no! This is a competition." Listen to everyone
After shouting, old Charlie laughed dryly twice and handed the ax to the next team member in his ranch.
There was nothing to talk about in the final marksmanship competition. The distance of more than ten meters was not a problem at all for these cowboys who grew up with guns. Ju An also hit the bullseye with all five shots. Thomas
Not even Lawrence.
If there was any slip-up, the three of them firmly held the second-to-last seat in their arms, while the first-to-last seat was held by last year's champion Old Charlie's team. As soon as the final results came out,
Old Taylor Ranch got its wish and won the championship.
Now that the champions have been produced, the other ranchers took out fifty dollars from their pockets and handed them to Thornton. Thornton will be responsible for organizing next year's event. This fifty dollars can also be regarded as the funds for next year's organizing activities.
, then everyone held a small award ceremony, and the last rancher awarded the championship trophy to the champion. The rest of the cowboys surrounded the city and continued to drink beer.
After Ju An heard this, he smiled and said to Thomas next to him: "It's okay. I'm lucky today. No one is at the bottom. If it weren't for my first participation, I would have awarded the trophy to everyone."
Thomas smiled and said: "It is true that we are very lucky. Old Charlie's luck is too bad this time. He is very good at throwing axes. No luck this time. In fact, the prize is not bad. I still have a speech to give the prize."
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After hearing this, Ju An became interested. While drinking beer, he looked at Taylor Thornton and Old Charlie next to the pickup truck...,
While waiting for Thornton to take out the trophy from the pickup truck, Ju An saw a very ordinary trophy, a golden trophy with a dark base, and something written on the base. The whole trophy was not that big, and the trophy was probably
That is, it is only 20 centimeters high, plus the base is also poor.
Not more than twenty-five or thirty centimeters, the three people walked to the middle of the circle surrounded by cowboys. Thornton directly handed the trophy into the hands of old Charlie. As soon as old Charlie took the trophy, he gathered the trophy over his head and turned
He walked around the surface and handed it to Old Taylor next to him, and put it on the
Old Taylor said in his hand: "Old Taylor has not won a trophy for several years. I guess he has been working hard behind the scenes in the past few years, and with God's help this time, he finally won the championship. We congratulate you, remember
Next year, prepare fifty dollars and an award speech, when you arrive
Give me the award when the time comes, lest you don’t know what to say when the award comes. Oh, I forgot. Old Taylor may not know what to say in his acceptance speech, but his award speech is better than everyone here.” The cowboys below heard the old
Charlie laughed out loud after what he said.
Old Taylor took the trophy and immediately replied: "I will put the trophy in the most conspicuous place on my table, so that you can see it as soon as you arrive at my place, old Charlie, to remind you all the time that I am the champion this year, so that you can
It’s painful to think about the next year. When next year, our team will still be a championship team, and we will definitely beat old Charlie till you cry like a girl.” Before he could finish his words, there were sounds from all around.
There was a burst of applause and cheers.
After listening to the speeches, a group of cowboys gathered around and talked for more than half an hour about the severe drought sweeping across the western United States. Then they were ready to leave. Everyone moved their finished beer bottles and some leftover garbage onto the pickup truck.
The rear body of the car, and then looked around to see if there is anything missing. This is the end.
An whistled, and Doucao ran over with small steps. Ju An put the sweat pad on the ground first, then got on the saddle. When everything was ready, he turned over and got on the horse, following Thomas and Lawrence.
The two people said hello to the other cowboys and trotted towards their ranch.