Volume 6, Issue No. 4                                                                  April, 2008

APRIL SHOOTERS REVEAL SHOOTING SECRETS

Have you ever wondered about the tricks that cowboys and cowgirls use to shoot successfully? They all have their secrets.  For example, Last Kiss carries a green rabbit’s foot from her gunbelt. It evidently helps, because she placed 9^th in April and was once again the Top Cowgirl Shooter. But others have their techniques too. Some are sneaky, like Oracle.

Oracle: He’s sneaking up on the target, masquerading as an umbrella covered picnic table

Others are a bit more discrete: like Marshal Too Tall. He sticks his right thumb up in the air to test the wind current before he shoots. It works.

Too Tall & his magic thumb

Horseshoe John does it a little differently also.  He apparently closes his eyes and sings to the targets.

Horseshoe John shoots gunfighter with what appear to be closed eyes and apparently singing, probably: “2 little horses came to town, 1 was white and 1 was brown.”

With Mrs. Dee Lighting, it’s all in the name: Lightning.

Mrs. Dee Lightning, timed by Lightning McCoy, her other half. Look closely and you’ll see she’s shooting a Colt Lightning rifle. Lightning can strike the same place more than once.

But not everyone needs a personal touch. Some, like Deacon Red, just stand up on their hind legs and shoot. But the import thing is that they all have fun: lots of it.

Deacon Red shoots his targets the plain way.

The TOP GUN at the April Shoot was S.A. Pondwater. He’s Tabasco JOT’s little cowboy, at least to Tabasco. Both Pondwater and Tabasco placed in the Top 10 shooters, and between the 2 of them they missed only 1 shot. Another father and son 2-some also placed in the Top 10: Unpleasant placed 2nd and Pleasant 3rd, and both shot clean.

The Top 10 Shooters were: (1) S.A. Pondwater (2) Unpleasant (3) Pleasant (4) Festus D. Deputy (5) Marshal Too Tall (6) Tabasco JOT (7) Ocoee Red (8) Widowmaker (9) Last Kiss and (10) Fast Harley.

6 cowboys shot no-misses matches: Unpleasant, Pleasant, Tabasco JOT, Limp Along Charlie, Tellico and Josey Buckhorn. In the Buffalo Shoot, Marshal Too Tall won the Long Range Lever Action Rifle & Single Shot Rifle events. Sundance McNeyman won the Long Range Pistol, and Outrider won the .22 Cal. competitions. 

Here are the shooting results by categories:

49er 1. Festus D. Deputy 2. Marshal Too Tall 3. Ocoee Red

Senior 1. Purly 2. Tucson Tuco 3. Tin Pot

Classic Cowboy 1. Long Gulch 1.    2. Lightning McCoy 3. Josey Buckhorn

Lady Jr. 1. Calico Nicole

Lady Duelist 1.  Yazoo City Gal

Outlaw 1. TN Tombstone

Traditional 1.  Unpleasant 2.  Tabasco JOT 3.  Clancy O’Conall

Silver Senior 1. Outrider 2. Wildcat Wilkey 3. Sheriff Donald

Modern 1. S.A. Pondwater 2. Marshal WD 3. Limp Along Charlie

Gunfighter 1. Pleasant 2. Widowmaker 3. Fast Harley

Black Powder Duelist 1. Double Eagle 2. Owlhoot Hardin

Duelist 1. Tarheel 2. Ranger Roger 3. Judge’m All Duncan

B-Western 1. T-Bone Angus 2. Tio Don

Lady Traditional 1.  Miss Pleasant 2.  Short Fuze

Lady Sr. Traditional  1. Mrs Dee Lightning

Lady Gunfighter 1. Last Kiss

Lady S. Sr. Traditional  1. Deadeye Daisy

Frontier 1.  Oracle

Silver Sr. Gunfighter     1. Horseshoe John

Money Raised Year To Date For Prizes In Drawing At Annual December Christmas Shoot Event: $254.26