Volume 6, Issue No. 3                                                   March, 2008

EASTER COWBOYS & COWGIRLS HAVE FUN IN THE SUN

The Easter Bunny was all that was missing at the Ocoee Rangers March - Easter shoot.  But if he’d been wearing a cowboy hat; we might not have been able to tell him from ….. Marshal Too Tall, unless we saw them shoot.  Too Tall would have won that contest.   (Festus would probably say, “Don’t jump to that conclusion too fast.”) Anyway, we had 77 shooters participate in the match. And the match was challenging. Perhaps it was a bit too challenging: 33 procedurals were chalked up by shooters. But it was active. And amongst all the shooting, 5 cowboys shot matches with no misses: Unpleasant, D.Q. Jones, Moonshine Roberts, Tennessee Hoss, and Tellico.

Front Row L-R: Sundance McNeyman, Tellico, Marshal Too Tall, Ocoee Red, Ben Shot ……………Back Row L-R: Tucson Tuco, El Carrera, Horseshoe John, Mesquite Millie, Lightning McCoy, Tennessee Jake, Squire Shooter, Purly

D.Q. Jones was back with us, after a long spell recuperating from a non-shooting related injury.  It was good to have him back on the range.  And Prescious Commodity was visiting with her Popa, T-Bone Angus. Back when she was an-at-home cowgirl, she was a regular shooter with us.  But she grew up and moved away.  So, now she visits ol” dad and us occasionally.

The TOP GUN of the day was Unpleasant, ol’ Pleasant’s little boy, at least in Pleasant’s mind. Unpleasant placed 1st while shooting a clean match. Rootin’ Tootin’ cowgirl Last Kiss was the TOP COWGIRL SHOOTER. And in the Buffalo Shoot, for the 1st time in ages, Marshal Too Tall was bested by all Buffalo Shooters and won only a smile and friendly competition. Pleasant won the Long Range Lever Action Rifle event. Sundance won the Long Range Pistol, .22 Cal. and Long Range Single Shot Rifle competition. The TOP 10 SHOOTERS were: (1) Unpleasant (2) Festus D. Deputy (3) Marshal Too Tall (4) Rusty Spur Slim (5) D.Q. Jones (6) Ocoee Red (7) Pleasant (8) T-Bone Angus (9) Widowmaker and (10) Clancy O’Conall. Here are the other shoot results:

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

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

Classic Cowboy 1. Lightning McCoy 1.    2. Long Gulch 3. El Carrera

Outlaw 1.  Rawhide Rex 2.  TN Tombstone 3.  Loose Cinch

Silver Senior 1. Tabasco JOT 2. Wildcat Wilkey 3. Tennessee Hawk

Traditional 1. Unpleasant 2. Yankee Dutchman 3. Moonshine Roberts

Black Powder Cart. 1. Judge’m All Duncan 2. Tennessee Hoss 3. Oracle

Duelist 1. Rusty Spur Slim 2. Clancy O’Conall 3. Ranger Roger

B-Western 1. T-Bone Angus 2. Dusty Camino 3. Tio Don

Modern 1. S.A. Pondwater 2. Sundance

Lady Duelist 1.  Killin’ Time 2. Yazoo City Gal

Gunfighter 1. Pleasant 2. Widowmaker 3. Fast Harley

Black Powder Duelist 1. Owlhoot Hardin 2. Badeye Tom

Lady Gunfighter 1. Last Kiss

Lady Traditional 1.  Tapatia Gal

Sr. Duelist 1. D.Q. Jones

Lady Jr. 1. Calico Nicole

Lady B-Western  1. Prescious      Commodity

Lady 49er

1. Roma Jane

Tapatia Gal & El Chivo, visitors from the North Alabama Regulators

Prescious Commodity & T-Bone Angus (daughter & dad)