Chapter 99: The Hunting Table
This platform is broken, Zhang Chi thinks about changing it.
But the rest of the guys don't think so.
"Let's fix it, I don't think it's too bad," Ricardo said as he dismounted first.
Bell followed and got off the horse: "I look at it and it is a little slanted, let's use the horse to get up about it."
Zhang Chi suspected that there was something wrong with the brains of these two goods, and this one had fallen to the ground even with a canopy, so it was just a little oblique?
Miller also dismounted at this time, and said as he dismounted: "We have enough horses, and there is no problem in pulling this platform up again."
Garcia next to him also nodded.
Zhang Chi has learned a tendon from these cowboys, as if he has some preference for repairing a thing, and if he sees something bad, he has to try to repair it.
Everyone else got off the horse, and it was impossible for him to sit on the back of the horse in a daze, so Zhang Chi also got off the horse, illuminated it with the oil lamp in his hand, and followed everyone towards the collapsed platform.
When he arrived next to the platform, Zhang Chi lifted the lamp in his hand and found that the inside of the platform was already broken and could not be broken anymore.
"Pull it up and try it?"
Ricardo said to the crowd.
Everyone agreed, and Zhang Chi nodded, thinking: Let's give it a try with these guys.
After saying that, everyone will do it, but before pulling the platform, we must put the children off the horse.
Carrying the children off their horses, they all took out their lassoes, tied one end of the lasso into a slipknot at the head of the saddle pile, and tied the other end to the post of the platform.
Five people and five horses were bolted to the four pillars, and the remaining one, that is, Zhang Chi's Red Flame Mountain, was bolted to the middle beam.
The platform is facing away from the mountain, and if everyone wants to pull it up, it can only be pulled in the opposite direction of the dumping, that is, the horse has to climb the hill.
Fortunately, the slope is not too steep, and no one has stepped on the snow now, and there is no ice on the snow, otherwise a few horses would have broken their legs after pulling a few times.
"I'll shout one, two, three, and everyone will work together" Burris was the eldest of the group, so he was the one to give the shots.
Everyone nodded, and Zhang Chi's horse bridle on Chiyan Mountain also nodded.
When Burris shouted to three, Zhang Chi dragged the Red Flame Mountain to make it go uphill, and while going uphill, he also had to ensure that the Red Flame Mountain was parallel to the other horses, so that everyone's strength could be in one direction.
The strength of the five horses cannot be underestimated, and under the effect of horsepower, the platform shelf is slowly erected.
Seeing this situation, everyone was overjoyed, and they urged the horses to continue to pull up the pillars.
Seeing that the stage is getting higher and higher, everyone's heart is getting more and more full.
Some things get more and more wrong at the end, and the same is true today, when the platform was close to ninety degrees, and Burris's own horse slid down.
The horse desperately tried to keep his balance, but unfortunately the snow under his feet was too slippery, and the snow that had just been picked up, and the snow that the horse's hooves had compacted, had frozen at this time.
The horse's hooves were picked twice, and just as he could barely hold on, he stepped on another line of ice, and then the horse fell to the snow with a thud.
A horse lay down, and the weight of this piece was instantly distributed to other horses, and after pulling for such a while, which horse did not step on a snow mark on the small hillside? The snow of the snow mark is tight, and in the cold weather of minus ten degrees, can it last for a few minutes without forming ice lumps?
In less than a breath, all the remaining four horses lay down almost at the same time, including Zhang Chi's Red Flame Mountain.
As soon as the collective lay down, where could the platform still stand, and it fell directly to the ground, the weight of the platform was towards the ground, and the rope tied to the horse naturally brought the horse down.
Because there was almost no friction on the snow, the platform didn't pause at all, and directly pulled five horses and fell heavily on the snow.
Rumble!
Originally, there was a shelf platform, but now it fell directly into pieces, except for a few pillars, the wood was cracked and broken in other places, and there was no value in repairing, and it was much easier to rebuild one than to repair.
Ricardo was dumbfounded, Baba looked at the broken platform, thought for a while and said, "Forget it, let's change the table."
"That's all there is to it," Miller nodded.
Zhang Chi was defeated by these reckless men, a good platform can be saved, and he was made by a few of you...... Scrapped directly.
It was too late for him to say anything, so everyone put away their lassoes, and Ricardo said that he had time to rebuild one or something.
Hang the lasso back on the horse's back.
A few children are having a good time now, a group of children and a group of dogs are playing in the snow.
They picked up the children on horseback and continued along the foot of the hill to the public pasture.
After walking for about three or four miles, another platform appeared in front of everyone.
Only then did Zhang Chi know what the coyote hunting platform looked like.
It is said to be a platform, but in fact it is better to say that it is a pavilion, rectangular, with four pillars as feet, and a platform about three meters high.
There is a wooden fence around the first floor, and it seems that this is the place where the horses are tied.
There is a wooden ladder going up, quite steep, almost at an angle of 80 degrees to the ground, and it is definitely not possible to go up, you have to climb up with your hands and feet.
When they arrived at the bottom of the platform, everyone did not drive the horses into the bottom of the platform, but first untied the things and put them on the second floor of the platform.
Throwing his things to the second floor, Zhang Chi found that there were fences on three sides of the second floor to block the wind, and the other side facing the ranch was completely empty, and a careless person might fall down.
But it's definitely okay to fall now, because the snow on the ground definitely catches one.
In addition, there is nothing special about the platform, as for whether the platform is fine or not, this is not to discuss, and it is not a place to live, where to use such fine, the second floor of the table is directly paved with tree trunks, and a lot of bark is still wrapped on it, which is the original flavor at all.
"What's next?" Zhang Chi saw that everyone took out the gun and began to install the scope, and he also followed the example of everyone to install his scope on the gun.
"Then shoot a deer, divide the deer, and drag it on the ground around it to let the smell of the deer linger and attract coyotes," Garcia said.
Zhang Chi nodded.
It's easy to find a deer around here, you don't need to run, just stand here with a gun to aim, many herbivores will choose here in winter, one is because this place is open, carnivores have no way to hide, and the other is that the grass here is also abundant, although it is hay, but it is better than starvation, and the herbivores here do not need to move with the season.
"Who's coming?"
"George, he's here for the first time, and this first shot is for him," Burris said with a laugh.
Garcia and the others all smiled and said to Zhang Chi: "Come on!" ”
Zhang Chi was not polite, without any prevarication or anything, he directly pushed the bullet into the chamber of the gun and aimed at a deer through the night vision scope.
The deer is not small, and the antlers on its head are very attractive, and at a glance you can tell that it is a strong male deer, and it is likely that it is also the leader of the deer herd.
Zhang Chi didn't care at all, after aiming, he held his breath and waited for his mood to calm down, and then decisively pulled the board machine.
Bang!
A gunshot broke the calm of the night, and also broke the herd of deer that were eating, these guys raised their heads one after another, and then one deer began to run, and the other deer also ran, and soon the group of deer disappeared from the sight of Zhang Chi and others.
"Hit!"
There was no joy in everyone, and there was nothing to congratulate, because everyone felt that this was a basic operation, and if the shot could not be hit, it would be a problem, and if it was hit, it was the minimum requirement.
Zhang Chi didn't think this shot was good, it was just a normal shot, and his heart was like a flat lake.
Several men mounted their horses and quickly walked towards the fallen deer.
When he got to the deer, Burris took out the long knife he was carrying and began to divide the deer, which would definitely not be skinned, and the deer was not for people to eat, but for bait, and it was just broken down.
It was obviously not the first time that Burris had done this work, the long knife in his hand was inserted directly from the joint, and when he pressed the back of the knife with his hand, he heard Kaka twice, and a deer's hind leg was easily removed by him, and it felt quite smooth.
"Here's for you!"
The first deer leg was given to Zhang Chi.
"Tie it with a lasso, drag it around here, let the smell of the deer spread to the ground, it's best to cut a piece of minced meat from time to time and throw it down, of course, it's okay not to cut it, coyotes are not picky eaters."
When Zhang Chi heard Ricardo's words, he took the lasso off his horse's back again, one end of the noose was tied to the deer's leg, and the other end was tied to the saddle stake.
Turning over the horse, Zhang Chi dragged the deer's legs under the snow and began to walk around the current place.
Zhang Chi didn't finish the circle here, and the remaining few also dragged the rest of the deer's body and began to circle around the place where the deer was now hidden.
The bigger and bigger it gets, almost the size of a football field, Burris says enough is enough, so everyone throws down the venison they dragged on the spot and gathers towards the table.
When they arrived at the platform, they dismounted, drove the horses into the board room under the platform, and then untied the bags of hay they were carrying, and placed them in front of their horses, so that the horses could eat a little.
After doing these things, everyone appeased their dogs one after another, and then they went to the stage in turn.
When they arrived at the stage, everyone was busy with their own work, and Zhang Chi followed suit, untying the cold-proof sleeping bag he brought, and the person got into the bag, revealing only the part of his arm up.
Now everyone is in a lying shooting position on the stage, and the lower half of the body is in a sleeping bag, which is not too cold, and it is quite comfortable.