Today, I watched some mounted shooting. At this rodeo, anyway, mounted shooting means that an individual rides his or her horse across the arena, following a sort of zig-zagged pattern, and then back in a straight line, all while shooting, in a specific order, ten balloons that are placed around the arena. The average speed for doing this was 12-14 seconds. I’m not sure I could even have sprinted from one end of the arena to the other in that time, or even made all ten shots successfully while standing still in that time, and these people were riding all around it and back, knocking out balloons with their pistols along the way. Somehow, things like this make perfect sense to me, and I love watching them. It made me, even more than ever, want to ride horses every week in my life.
Though, I’m more of a Robinhood type, and so I would want to do mounted bow-and-arrow shooting, myself.
Post-a-day 2018
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