Volume 3, Issue No. 6                                                       June,  2005

 

Last Kiss – 1^st Cowgirl ocoee ranger posse leader at  june shoot!

 

Howdy pardners.  Ready for some Ocoee Rangers shootin’ stuff.  Well, here goes.  The June shoot was great, but they’re all great … just some are better than others.  And this 1 was a hum-dinger.  66 cowboy & cowgirl shooters rode out to the range for the round-up.  Then they unleashed their imaginations and their six-shooters … that hold only 5 rounds …and took after them bad guys.  You know, bad guys yell differently than good guys.  When a good guy is hit by something, he or she yells something like, “Oh”  or “ouch” or if the Rev. Adam Jones ain’t around something like “@#$%” (that’s difficult to pronounce).  But bad guys yell, “clang”, when they get hit.  Anyway, the Top Gun of the day was Tennessee Snuffy, a visiting cowboy from Spring, TX, closely followed by Dustin Clays and Pleasant. Roma Jane was the top cowgirl shooter.  9 cowboys shot no-miss matches: TN Snuffy, Dustin Clays, Pleasant, (these cowboys ranked 1, 2 & 3 in the top 10 shooters), Blayde Hollister, Festus D. Deputy, Owlhoot Hardin, Deadman, Wildcat Wilkey and Hombre Sin Nombre.

 

Flossie – 1st cowgirl shooter

The June shoot was notable because it was the 1st time a cowgirl served as posse leader at an Ocoee Rangers shoot.  That distinction went to Last Kiss, and she did great.  Since she began shooting as an Ocoee Ranger, she’s improved in her shooting, taken the Range Officer I and II classes, and been recognized as an Ocoee Ranger Wrangler for helping her posses conduct matches.  Last Kiss joins another cowgirl who has a “1st to” distinction: Flossie.  Flossie was the 1st cowgirl to shoot in an Ocoee Ranger match and was a regular shooter, until her other half, Jack Rabbit Bob,

Last Kiss – 1st Cowgirl Posse Leader

hauled her off to Florida.  Now, she collects hurricanes as a hobby.

 

June Wranglers are:  R.I.P. Overland, John Daniel, Awful Close, TN Snuffy, Wildcat Wilkey, Roma Jane & Adam Jones. These folks showed extra effort in helping their posses conduct the match. Speaking of extra effort, thanks to the Set-up Gang for making the range ready for us to go out and challenge them bad guys.

 

1 other comment worth mentioning: Fast Harley earned the distinction for showing the most hair-raising drumsticks seen on the range in a long time.  Wearing an Apache flap in front and back, he had legs showing from ankle to Jupiter.  It was a sight.  Reno, the wonder horse (the spotted nag that held the guns on stage 1) almost ran away when he saw them legs. Some cowboy grabbed the reins, or Reno would stilling be runnin’.

 

SHOOT RESULTS ………..   Buffalo Shoot:  .22 cal …  Marshal Too Tall 

 Long Range …  Yukon Hootch

 

Traditional 1. Dustin Clays 2. Whiskey River Nelson 3. Slater

Cowgirl 1. Roma Jane 2. Deadeye Daisy 3. Last Kiss

Modern 1. Tennessee Snuffy 2. S.A. Pondwater 3. Awful Close

 

Senior 1. Tabasco JOT 2. Linc 3. Wildcat Wilkey

Gunfighter 1. Pleasant 2. Keystone 3. R.I.P. Overland

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

 

Black Powder 1. T-Bone Angus 2. Catoosa Kid

Duelist 1. Horseshoe John 2. Owlhoot Hardin 3. Ranger Roger

Outlaw 1. Loose Cinch 2. Badlands Beck

 

 

Out on the Range – Last Kiss’s 1st Posse

 

L-R: Kneeling – Ocoee Red, Hombre Sin Nombre.  Sitting – Keystone, Anvil, Slater, Grey Rider. – Standing:

R.I.P. Overland, Widowmaker, Tennessee Ted, Last Kiss, Fast Harley, Rawhide Rex, Badlands Beck.

 

NEXT OCOEE RANGER SHOOT – 23 July

 

The Buffalo Shoot begins 8:00 am. Registration 8:30 am  -  Tabasco JOT’s Side Match 8:30 am -  Posse Leader walk-through 9:15 am  - Safety meeting 9:45 am  -  Shooting follows !  All times are Eastern Time.