Red Dead Diaries Entry 2: Weapon Selection
So I’m riding through the desert hunting coyotes for my marksmanship badge. As all good frontiersmen I had been practicing my field skills and felt the need to switch from ropin’ to skinnin’ for a spell.
Suddenly I see a little pack of the varmints chewing on something dead. So, to get a steadier perch, I hop down off my horse and steady against a rock. They musta caught wind of me because they start prowling my way.
Rather than give them the opportunity, I draw my readied weapon, aim, and … Throw a loop of rope around the closest one.
Now there have been, over the years, a few things I’d like to see on the end of a rope, and a few people I’d like to see on the other. I must say, a coyote and me is not one of the combinations I’d ever thought of as a good idea. I can say with some confidence that the coyote felt the same way about the situation.
It is very difficult to draw a pistol when you suddenly find yourself tied to a coyote. It is, surprisingly, more difficult to aim at, and hit, that same coyote. Of course the chewing might contributed.
Fortunately, Sam Colt saw fit to make a 6 chamber cylinder. I don’t know what happened to the other two coyotes. And by that I do mean whether they got hit by randomly flung bullets, or laughed themselves to death at the tied up horseman with a pissed off coyote down his pants.