Dashan Makes a Living 1984

"I can't do anything about you, just keep blowing and see what flowers you can come up with."

Wang Tianxin almost believed that Liu Yuan was bragging, hitting a bear with a slingshot, it's a good thing he had the cheek to brag.

"Young man, I have been walking in this mountain for thirty years. Do you think I have no ability to survive?"

"Then if we don't save you, today will be your death day."

"How do you know I'm going to die? They're just a few honey dogs, and I don't care about them."

"You continue." Wang Tianxin ignored him and continued to study the old-fashioned gun.

"Uncle, you said that my slingshot is not good. What kind of good slingshot is it? Can you give me some guidance? It seems that you are the kind of experienced old hunter. We have eyes but don't know Taishan. Previously Haven't seen it yet."

Wang Tianxiao was different from his younger brother. He believed that some of Liu Yuan's words were exaggerated, and some of them were genuine. Since he mentioned the slingshot, it was good to take the opportunity to talk about the slingshot.

After all, there are many things in the mountains that don't use real guns.

And although bullets can be obtained at present, if they are used for hunting all the time, the consumption of bullets will be very high, and there is no way to explain it to Changzhan and Dai Zhixin.

Liu Yuan glanced at Wang Tianxiao, and said lightly: "For the sake of your politeness, my old man will tell you what a slingshot is and how to make a good slingshot."

"Please tell me."

"Let me ask you, young man, first of all, tell me, why is a slingshot called a slingshot? If it's just a thing for hitting steel balls, it can be called by many names, why is it called a slingshot?"

"Perhaps, because the slingshot looks like a bow when drawn, and the principle of the slingshot is basically the same as that of the bow. It's just that the slingshot uses steel balls or stones, while the bow shoots arrows."

Wang Tianxiao guessed and answered.

"That's right, the point of a slingshot is not what you shoot, but what you use to shoot it." Liu Yuan began to talk.

"As you said just now, a slingshot can hit steel balls, stones, and even anything that is not easy to break, but how far and how powerful it can hit depends on the bow that the slingshot is shot from. .”

"Uncle, please explain in detail."

Perhaps because he mentioned what he is good at, Liu Yuan looked very proud. He grinned and continued: "Since it is a bow, the most important thing is the bow string and the bow arm. Among them, the bow string determines the range of the bow, and the bow arm is the To ensure that the bowstring can be used to the maximum extent..."

When Liu Yuan talked about bows, he seemed to be very logical.

Wang Tianxiao couldn't understand many things at all.

For a while, he didn't know whether the bow and the slingshot were similar, but he felt that what Liu Yuan said was really good and interesting, basically opening a new door for him.

Wang Tianxin also tilted his head and listened carefully, restraining his previous contemptuous attitude.

"... I won't talk too much about the bow. Let's talk about the slingshot. The slingshot is actually composed of three parts. The frame of the slingshot is the bow arm corresponding to the bow. The rubber cable of the slingshot is the bowstring. Isn't the place where the steel balls are placed is the arrow rest of the bow..."

Wang Tianxiao thought about it, it really is.

"Now that we know the principle, how can we make a slingshot that has a long range, great power, and a stable aim? We must start from these three aspects."

"The first is the frame. The slingshot and the bow have similarities, but the specific power is completely different. The power of the bow does not lie in the bowstring... Oh, of course it does not mean that the bowstring is not important. A really good bow, the bowstring is important , but the bow arm plays a decisive role. This is because the strength of the bow depends not on the elasticity of the bow string, but on the hardness of the bow arm..."

"It turns out that's the case. I always thought that the bow needs the bowstring to provide elasticity." Liu Yuan's words surprised Wang Tianxiao, but he didn't expect there to be such a reason.

In his previous life, he had actually seen hunters who used bows to hunt. They always held a very old and worn-out bow, but they could easily kill deer.

The advantage of bow hunting is that it consumes less, has no sound, and is easier to hide.

But there are also fatal disadvantages, it is easy to deviate from the target, especially under the influence of the wind.

I haven't seen bow hunting in recent years.

Hunting is not allowed, and the bow naturally loses its function.

Liu Yuan smiled lightly, and when it came to what he was good at, he was like a small vegetable seedling that was suddenly fertilized, and it just happened to have rained, so he was extraordinarily energetic.

"Young man, don't think that if you know how to use a gun, you can get around in this mountain. You must know that our ancestors did not have guns, but it has been many thousands of years to compete with these wild animals in the mountain."

Wang Tianxiao curled his lips, this uncle is really hiding his secrets, and even mentioned things after the origin of human beings.

Sure enough, all the masters are among the people.

If he hadn't just seen him being almost killed by a honey dog, Liu Yuan would have been much taller in his eyes.

"Uncle is right, you can continue talking about the slingshot."

"When it comes to slingshots, you must first know that the power of slingshots is completely different from that of bows. Bows use the bow arm, but slingshots use the pull wire. Therefore, if you want to make the slingshot good, you must satisfy the slingshot frame hard and tough at the same time. Well, not easy to deform, not easy to crack, not easy to break..."

The old man paused, took a few puffs of the old smoke pot, and found that the smoke pot had been extinguished at some point. He bent his feet and smashed the smoke pot against his heels a few times, smashing out the ashes in the smoke pot, and inserted the smoke pot into the air again. Back to the waist.

"There are a lot of wood that can be used for slingshots in this mountain, such as rubber wood, locust wood, etc. If it is not enough, you can also choose apricot wood or apple wood, which are all good wood.

But if you’re looking for poplar or paulownia and catalpa, it’s definitely not good. These woods are like an old man in his fifties or sixties. Even if he is helped to the kang, he will not last long. "

When Liu Yuan said this, he felt that what he said was very interesting, and couldn't help but smile. Wang Tianxiao understood the meaning of his rotten joke, and smiled symbolically. Wang Tianxin was young and ignorant, and he didn't know what he meant. He looked impatient .

I'm probably thinking, if you say slingshot, just slingshot, and I'm nervous when I hear it, what kind of stinky man is it.

boring.

"How to make wood into a slingshot frame, I will show you how to do it when I have time. As I said just now, the slingshot needs to be powerful, and it needs a good cable. The cable must have good toughness and elasticity. But not too flexible,"

Liu Yuan thought for a while, and his face showed a bit of obscenity, "It's not like a woman, it's too hard and you feel uncomfortable when you touch it, and you feel upset if it's too soft, but if it's too soft, you feel uncomfortable..."

"What's that?" Wang Tianxin couldn't hold back his curiosity, and blurted out.