Volume 2, Issue No. 8                                                                                                                                      August  2004

  THE QUICK, THE ACCURATE AND THE CHEERFUL! 

 

the Quick Diamondback Dennis

August  - the month for shooters. And we had 64 of ‘em.  We had the quick, the accurate, and the cheerful.  What separates these kinds of shooters? Well, some shoot very fast and win.  Some shoot, not so fast, but the targets take a pounding from them, and some really enjoy playing the cowboy & cowgirl shooting game. Jaybird Daniel returned from …. Well, he must have fenced himself into some place, but he returned and placed 14th after not shooting for about a year. Tinker Chapley’s brother, Passing Through, was passing through and came out and played the game with ol’ Tinker. Summer Dove and Tucson Tuco were both sporting new sombreros and both looked nifty.  Unfortunately, Shadrack Jones is back in the hospital and couldn’t come and play with us.  We wish him a speedy recovery.

the Accurate Hombre Sin Nombre

 

Competition is part of the cowboy shooting game, and some of us are more competitive than others.  For example, in the last year or so, both Ocoee Red and Marshal Too Tall have really improved their shooting.  Ocoee Red was overheard talking about a call he received from Too Tall a week or so ago.  Both had shot with the Knoxville cowboys on their home range, and Too Tall beat Ocoee Red.  When he got home, he called Red and said that maybe he (Red) was getting old & should give up cowboy shooting and take up shuffleboard.  That’s vicious. 

On the positive side, Cool Waters  (Saddle Bag Bullets) was very generous and donated 4 boxes of his bullets as door prizes, and 3 lucky cowboys and 1 lucky cowgirl went home with some first class shootin’ fodder for their guns.  Thanks, Cool Waters.   August’s Wranglers were Sheriff Jack Cooley, Tennessee Tombstone, Last Kiss, Red Neckerson, Purly, Moonshine Robert and the Rev. Adam Jones.  The Rev shot his 2nd consecutive match without a miss. He was joined in the perfect match crowd by Cruel Hand Luke, Hombre Sin Nombre, T-Bone Angus, R.I.P. Overland, and Owlhoot Hardin.    Tabasco JOT conducted his pre-shoot side event, which Diamondback Dennis won.  Marshal Too Tall conducted the Buffalo shoot.  Tri placed 1st in the .22 cal. class and Pleasant placed

the Cheerful Dead Beat

1st in the long range class.

 

How’d the match shooting go?  Well, Diamondback Dennis narrowly edged out Cruel Hand Luke as Top Gun.  Festus placed in the Top 10 shooters for the 1st time, placing 8th. Of course he cheated to achieve this accomplishment.  He has changed his alias, and he shot under a new name, Festus D. Deputy. (He used to be Festus Dirt Dobber.) And Bittercreek Jack and Tennessee Jake shot in a new class for the 1st time in August: they joined the seniors.

 

Out on the Range  -  The Neon Kid & The Senora

 

L – R: the Rev. Adam Jones, Summer Dove, Horseshoe John, Rawhide Rex, Whiskey River Nelson & Mesquite Millie.

 

IMAGINE …. You’re a cowboy target.  1 Friday each month, Linc comes to your bedroom, scrapes away the spider webs, chases away the wasps, and wakes you up.  Then he grabs you by the hat, takes you outside, sticks a bolt through your head, and hangs you up in the sun.  Later, Horseshoe John comes along, jiggles you a little, moves you a few inches, and then they all go away.  It gets boring, so you do what you do best; sleep. 

 

Next morning, a lot of noise wakes you up. You hear someone yell something about Tabasco JOT doing something to his side and striking a match?  Then, it gets quite again, and you doze off for another little nap.  Suddenly, something whams you in the chest.  You wake up and see a wildly dressed human woman in a big hat pointing something at you. Standing beside her, with a wild shirt and a big grin and a bigger hat is a little feller, not much bigger that you, saying, “Shoot the 1 on the left 1st.” Then wham something hits you again. Some old feller in a white shirt with a cross around his neck says, “This is fun.”  But you’re thinking, “Come down here and see how much fun it is”.  Well, maybe that ain’t what a target thinks. Maybe he has fun too.