Joyce just returned from the UK. When he was in the UK, he saw a very special gun that uses hexagonal cross-section bullets. Although this gun is a bit expensive, almost $100 a piece, Joyce, who likes shooting and is not short of money, still paid for one and plans to bring it back to the United States to show off to his friends.

The boat he was on was shore in New York. He originally planned to stay in New York for only one night before taking the train back to the south. But a newspaper report about shooting competition caught his attention.

"It's good to just get a championship." Although Joyce, who was born in the South Manor, doesn't care about the championship prize of just $2,000, in the largest city in the north, it's not a very interesting thing to defeat their best gunners and return to the south? Moreover, Joyce believes that with his own skills, coupled with this unparalleled Whitworth rifle, in the rifle precision shooting competition where rules are so suitable for its performance, he simply has no chance of not winning the championship.

However, in the preliminary round, he felt unprecedented pressure. There was a guy in the same group who used a strange rear-mounted rifle. The results were no worse than him at all. Every time he shot, when he scored a ten ring, he would not be happy for a while, and the Yankee would also play a ten ring. In this way, until the end of the preliminary round, he could not overwhelm the opponent.

Then he discovered that there were also players in other groups who used that strange rear-mounted rifle, and they all entered the finals with an overwhelming advantage. Now Joyce fully understood that these guys must have come from the same team, and the purpose of their participation was to advertise the rifles in their hands. And from the previous situation, the guns in these guys were no worse than those in his hands.

At this time, Joyce's interest in this strange rifle had even surpassed his interest in the championship. He decided that as soon as the game ended, he would buy one such rifle to play with.

After the ten bullets in the finals were shot, a problem arose. Four people had similar results, and all 10 rings were gone. What should I do? Of course there is a way, and it is very simple. Let's go for another round and move the target 50 meters away. Let's go for another round.

This distance is still within the range of Joyce's precise shooting. Although Joyce's desire for the championship is not as strong now, it is better to win, so Joyce cheered up and continued the game.

The 150-meter shooting did not make them decide the winner, so they were moved to 200 meters away. This time, it was really difficult to score another ten rings. Joyce scored four 7 rings in a row, while the other three guys basically guaranteed that each shot was within the eight rings. According to the rules, only the top three had a bonus. Now, there was only the last round left, and his scores and the top three had been gradually pulled apart. Even, well, as long as the first place was not taken off for the last shot, the score would be better by him no matter what. Joyce shook his head. It seemed that the prize money had been lost with him, but after the game, the desire to buy a gun that was the same as in their hands was getting stronger and stronger.

Mason loaded the last bullet, and he was already ahead of Bob, who was second in the second place, and in the last shot, Bob must surpass him and have more than two rings before he could turn around. However, even if he scored 8 rings, could Bob still shoot 11 rings? At most, it would be just another round.

At this time, Bob opened fire, and then reported the target player to report the results immediately: "9 rings." The 9 rings are a good result, but at this time, it almost means that he will miss the championship, unless Mason's last shot hits a seven ring. However, Mason has not shot such a bad shot in the whole game.

"Bang!" Saatchi, who was temporarily ranked third, also fired a shot, with a score of 10 rings, but this 10 rings could no longer change the overall situation. Mason picked up the gun and began to aim at the target...

"Bang!" "Bang!" Mason and Joyce shot almost at the same time.

"0 rings! Off-target!" The target reporter around Mason reported a result that made everyone stunned.

"How is this possible?" Almost everyone was stunned.

"I can't be sure what ring it is. There are two bullet holes on this gentleman's target, one is 7 rings and the other is 10 rings!" The target reporter next to Joyce shouted.

"Oh my God! Mason, this idiot, he hit the wrong target again!" Everyone in the shooting team reacted.

"It must be that. Can't this guy get rid of his old habit of being complacent when he is advantageous? It's damn, he shot $2,000 away! This pig!" Leader Robson threw the towel to the ground fiercely. If he could win the top three, he could get a bonus. Now, this pig not only shot his $2,000 away from his championship prize, but also shot Robson's $200 away. How can this not make people angry?

However, Scourge, who was watching the show with a telescope in the stands, felt particularly happy after seeing this scene. This was not only because of Scourge's bad taste, but also because such a story of turning around must be popular in the eyes of various newspapers. Therefore, they will definitely produce a good page to report the story. In their reports, they will definitely exaggerate Mason's overwhelming advantage before the last shot, so that the MacDonald 1857 rifle will definitely have a very high exposure rate. Similarly, the lucky one who entered the top three and received a bonus will also become the focus. The story of his lucky win for third place in the siege of a group of MacDonald 1857 will also highlight the overwhelming advantage of the MacDonald 1857 rifle in performance.

"I played the 7 ring, and the 10 ring was played by the gentleman, and he should be the champion." Joyce said to the referee who came to understand the situation, "The 10 ring should be counted as the gentleman's results."

Joyce always likes to use the Cavaliers to be proud of himself. In addition, in his opinion, it is not interesting to be a third place, so he simply put on a high posture and expressed his unwillingness to take advantage of it. However, the referee was ordered to strictly follow the rules, and Joyce still became the third place.

The third place bonus was only $200. Joyce didn't take this bonus seriously. He once again asked whether he could directly send him a MacDonald 1857 rifle. The request was quickly answered. The organizer said that he could use his bonus to buy this rifle for him. And the organizer also asked him how many times he planned to buy?

"How many are you going to buy?" This question is a little beyond Joyce's expectations. The Whitworth rifle in his hand cost him nearly one hundred dollars. This rifle is better than the Whitworth rifle (Joyce doesn't think there is any Yankee who is really better than his own), and the shooting rate is much higher. Well, the game just now was not a high-speed shooting competition, but he could still see how the opponent standing next to him loaded the bullets in the blink of an eye. Such a gun should cost more than one hundred dollars. How do you ask how many of them are going to buy?

"How much does one cost?" Joyce asked.

"It's $50 now, and the output may be a little cheaper if it's higher in the future, but, in any case, it will definitely be more expensive than Springfield 1855." A person in charge answered him.

"Well, of course. Actually, I think $50 is cheap enough. If you decorate it on a high point and make it a little more beautiful, $300 will not be unacceptable. Well, you just need four, and you can just take it back and give it to someone." Anyway, Joyce is not short of money.

So, a scene that made Scrooge even more happy appeared. When Joyce, the third place, took the prize, carried four MacDonald 1857 rifles and stepped onto the podium. This picture was like a free advertisement for Scrooge's rifle.

The subsequent rapid-fire competition of rifle was even more powerful. Although some self-paid players used some early breech guns, such as the Sharps 1852 rifle, these rifles were still unable to compare with McDonald 1857 in terms of long-distance shooting accuracy due to a series of reasons such as gunpowder gas leakage. When Scrooge set the rules of the competition, he determined the distance of the target to 100 meters. At this distance, it was not easy for those early-launch guns to be equipped with guns to targets. In addition, the reliability of these guns was not very good, and they kept dudding and constantly malfunctioning, and their final results were naturally no match. Therefore, when the finals were finished, the MacDonald shooting team even rounded up the top five.

The effect of this publicity campaign was soon revealed. The 57-year recession caused more Europeans to travel to America to try their luck. When the prosperous east could not provide them with enough work and bread, they kept flocking to the west. The vast and vast west was sparsely populated and full of fertile land. As long as you get there, you can sell 160 acres of land to the government at one go for two dollars acres and become a real landlord. Such a good thing is definitely a dream in Europe.

But, well, as Scourge said before, the world's high-profit industries will have one of these two characteristics: either the risk is high or the threshold is high. Since anyone can go to the west, and it can get land so easily, it must have relative risks. Compared with the east, the west is sparsely populated and does not have perfect social security, it is a chaotic place where order has not yet been established. There are dangers everywhere, with North American brown bears and North Americans wandering everywhere.

The gray wolf, and the Indians who were resentful for being forced to be expelled by white men to barren reservations, and even those white people who tried to make money without work - you should know that in the west, there may not be policemen in a few square miles, and generally speaking, there is only one policeman in a town. Even if you encounter a policeman, as long as you draw a gun faster than a policeman and have better shooting skills than a policeman, it is no big deal. Even you can be a policeman and a gangster, which is nothing.
Chapter completed!