1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 31

Joyce had just returned from the UK. When he was in the UK, he saw a very special gun that used a bullet with a hexagonal cross-section. Although this gun is a bit expensive, it costs almost 0, but Joyce, who likes shooting and is not short of money, still paid for one, intending to bring it back to United States to show off to his friends.

The boat he took arrived in New York. Originally, he only planned to stay in New York for one night and then took the train back to the south. But a newspaper report about the shooting competition caught his attention.

“It’s okay to get a champion and have fun.” Although Joyce, who was born in the southern manor, doesn’t care about the mere ,000 in the championship prize, but in the largest city in the north, he defeated their best gunner and won a championship. Isn’t this a very interesting thing to go back to the south? Moreover, Joyce believes that with his own technology, coupled with this unparalleled Whitworth rifle, in the rifle precision shooting competition where the rules are so suitable for its performance, it is almost impossible for him not to win the championship.

However, in the preliminaries, he felt unprecedented pressure. There was a guy in the same group who used a strange rear-mounted rifle. His results were not worse than him. Every time he shot, he hit a ten ring. , Before he was happy for a while, that Yankee would make a ten ring in the same way. In this way, until the end of the preliminaries, he failed to overwhelm that opponent.

Then he discovered that there was also a player in the other groups who used that strange rear-mounted rifle, and they all entered the final with an overwhelming advantage. Now Joyce fully understands that these guys must be from the same team, and their purpose of participating in the competition is to advertise the rifle in their hands. And judging from the previous situation, the guns in these guys’ hands are no worse than his.

At this time, Joyce’s interest in this strange rifle has even exceeded his interest in the championship. He decided that once the game was over, he would buy a rifle like this to play with.

After the ten rounds of the finals were shot, a problem arose. There were 4 people who had the same results, and all 10 shots were 10 rings. How to do? Of course there is a way, and it’s very simple. Let’s do another round and move the target 50 meters away. One more round.

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

The 150-meter shooting did not let them decide the winner, so the handle was moved 200 meters away. This time, it was really difficult to get another ten-ring score. Joyce hit four in a row. 7th ring, but the other three guys can basically guarantee that every shot is within the 8th ring. According to the rules, only the top three will get the bonus. Now, only the last round is left, and he and the former The results of the three places have gradually been pulled apart, and even, um, as long as the first place is not taken off with the last shot, he will get better in any case. Joyce shook his head. It seems that the prize money is no longer with him, but the desire to buy a gun that is the same as theirs after the game is getting stronger and stronger.

Mason loaded the last bullet. He was already two rounds ahead of Bob, who was in second place. In the last shot, Bob had to exceed him by more than two rounds to have a chance of a comeback. However, even if he hits an 8 Ring, can Bob still hit 11 rings? At best, it is just another round.

At this time, Bob opened fire, and then the target player immediately reported the result: “9th ring.” 9th ring is a good result, but at this time, it almost means that he will miss the championship, unless Mason’s final A seven ring came out with one shot. However, in the entire game, Mason has never shot such a bad shot.

“Bang!” Saatchi, who was temporarily ranked third, also fired a shot. The score was 10 rings, but this 10 rings can’t change the overall situation. Mason picked up the gun and started aiming at the target…

“Bang!” “Bang!” Mason and Joyce fired almost at the same time.

“0 ring! Missing!” The reporter next to Mason reported a result that made everyone dumbfounded.

“How is this possible?” Almost everyone was stunned.

“I’m not sure which ring is. There are two bullet holes in this gentleman’s target, one is 7 ring and the other is 10 ring!” The target reporter beside Joyce yelled.

“Oh my God! Mason, idiot, he hit the wrong target again!” Everyone on the shooting team reacted.

“This must be the case. Can this guy’s old problem of being overwhelmed when he has the advantage can’t be corrected? Damn, he shot and flew ,000! This pig!” The leader Robson viciously dropped the towel to the ground. . If he can take the top three, he can also get a bonus. Now, this pig has not only shot the own 2,000 US dollars championship prize, but also shot Robson’s 200 US dollars bonus. Now, how can this make people not angry?

However, Scrooge, who was watching the play with his binoculars in the stands, felt particularly happy after seeing this scene. This is not only because of Scrooge’s wicked taste, but also because of such twists and turns of stories in the eyes of various newspapers. Therefore, they will definitely come up with a good page to report this story. In their reports, Mason’s overwhelming advantage before the last shot will definitely be rendered vigorously. In this way, the Macdonald 1857 rifle will definitely have a very high exposure rate. Similarly, the lucky guy who got into the top three and got the bonus will also become the focus. The story of his lucky third place in a group of McDonald’s 1857 will also highlight the performance of the McDonald’s 1857 rifle. Overwhelming advantage.

“I played the 7th ring. The 10th ring was played by the gentleman. He should be the champion.” Joyce said to the referee who came to learn about the situation. “The 10th ring should be counted as that gentleman’s score. among.”

Joyce always likes to use the knightly manner to self-defeating, and in his opinion, a third place is not very interesting, so he simply put on a high posture, expressing his unwillingness to take advantage. However, the referee was ordered to follow the rules strictly, and Joyce became third.

The prize for the third place is only $200. Joyce didn’t have this bonus. To put in one’s eyes, he once again asked whether he could send him a MacDonald 1857 rifle directly. This request was quickly answered. The organizer said that he could use his bonus to buy this rifle for him. Moreover, the organizer also asked him, how many will he buy?

“How many are you going to buy?” This question was a little bit beyond Joyce’s expectations. The Whitworth rifle in his hand cost him close to a hundred dollars. The accuracy of this rifle is better than that of the Whitworth rifle (Joyce doesn’t think any Yankee’s marksmanship is really better than himself), and the rate of fire is much higher. Well, the game just now was indeed not a high-speed shooting game, but he could still see how the opponent standing next to him had loaded the bullet in the blink of an eye. How can such a gun cost more than one hundred dollars? Why do you plan to buy how many?”How much is one?” Joyce asked.

“It’s $50 now, and it may be cheaper if the output is higher in the future, but in any case, it will definitely be more expensive than Springfield 1855.” A person in charge replied.

“Well, of course. In fact, I think 50 dollars is cheap enough. If you decorate the gun higher and make it more beautiful, it won’t be unacceptable for 300 dollars each. Well, we need four, just take it back and give it away. People.” Joyce is not short of money anyway.

As a result, a scene that made Scrooge even more happy appeared. Joyce, who was the third place, was on the podium with four MacDonald 1857 rifles on his back when receiving the award. This picture is simply a free advertisement for Scrooge’s rifle.

The subsequent rapid-fire rifle competition was even more of MacDonald’s 1857 world. Although some self-funded players used some early breech guns, such as the Sharps 1852 rifle, these rifles were due to the leakage of gunpowder gas. For serial reasons, the accuracy of long-range shooting is still incomparable with McDonald’s 1857. When Scrooge set the rules of the game, he determined the distance of the target at 100 meters. At this distance, it is not easy for those early post-loading guns to achieve the target on the gun, plus the reliability of this type of gun. None of them are very good. They keep duds and fail, and the final results are naturally not opponents. So, when the finals are over, the McDonald shooting team even rounded out the top five.

The effect of this publicity campaign soon became apparent. The 57-year recession made more Europeans go to America to try their luck, and when the prosperous east could not provide them with enough jobs and bread, They kept flocking to the west. The vast and boundless west is sparsely populated, and there are fertile land everywhere. Once there, you can sell 160 acres of land to the government for two dollars an acre and become a real landlord. Such a good thing is definitely a dream in Europe.

But, um, as Scrooge said before, the world’s highly profitable businesses 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 get land so easily in the west, then it must have relative risks. Compared with the east, the west is sparsely populated and has no comprehensive social security. It is a chaotic place where order has not yet been established. There are dangers everywhere here, with North American brown bears and timber wolves dangling everywhere, as well as Indians resentful for being forcibly deported to barren reservations by whites, and even white people who try to get rich for nothing-you know, in the west, Maybe there are no policemen for a few square miles or anything. Generally speaking, there is only one policeman in a town. Even if you encounter a policeman, as long as you draw your gun faster than the policeman and your marksmanship is better than the policeman, that’s not a big deal. Even if you can be a policeman while being a gangster, it’s nothing.

So, if you ask, what are the most important necessities to go to the west? There is no doubt that it is a reliable and good gun. The Port of New York is the starting point for many immigrants to land in North America. When they arrived here, they saw news about the shooting competition in the newspaper, and they were naturally willing to buy a good gun like McDonald’s 1857. Scrooge’s McDonald’s Infantry Arms Company was doing well for a while.