Volume 5, Issue No. 10                                                                            October, 2007

  

Colorful Leaves and Characters Punctuate Ocoee Rangers October Shoot

 

The day started like any other: folks were shootin’ the Buffalo Shoot. Outrider won the .22 cal. competition and the Lever Action Rifle shoot. Sundance McNeyman showed he could handle Long Range Pistol shootin’ by winning that event. And Marshal Too Tall, after goin’ toe to toe with Outrider in a shoot-off, won the Long Range Single Shot Rifle shoot. And while they were busy, folks started driftin’ in to register. Attendance was down because of special event competition at a couple of other area shoots.  Hootin’ Old Town was hosting a 2-day Black Powder State Championship Shoot, and there was some sorta big whing-ding shoot in the Atlanta area. So, lots of cowboys and cowgirls shot elsewhere. All totaled, we had 49 shooters, plus Sundance shootin’ in the Buffalo Shoot: he was moving and had to leave.

 

L-R: Front – Mesquite Millie, Tellico, Calico Nicole. Middle – Ben Shot, Mr. Pistol, Horseshoe John, Unpleasant, Purly. Back – Tennessee Jake, Squire Shooter Josey Buckhorn, Tenn Smoke, Bad Eye Tom, Sledge.

 

 

Festus D. Deputy had a memorable day. We shot black bats / plates off the Texas Star rotating target, leaving white bats / plates in place. That is all of us except Festus left the white plates in place. While the Star was spinning with the white targets in place, Festus grabbed his rifle and began blazing away at the rifle targets – and he managed to hit 1 of the white bats on the Star. That means he missed his rifle target (rats?#!?) – and he also was the only shooter in the entire match who hit 1 of the good, white bats.

 

Roy Orbison used to sing a song called ONLY THE LONELY.  This lonely bullet mark, the only 1 on any of the white bats / plates in the Texas Star rotating target frame, was put there by good ol’ Festus D. Deputy.  Of course he was shootin’ at something else, namely 1 of the round targets you can see way in the background.

 

Bad Eye Tom had his granddaughter, Calico Nicole, with him.  She plans to shoot the November match: she’s a real live SASS member. And Tin Pot had his gang with him: son Outlaw Tracker and his grandsons.

 

LR :Outlaw Tracker, Tin Pot , grandsons

 

The TOP GUN for the day was S.A. Pondwater The Top 10 Shooters were(1) S.A. Pondwater (2) Marshal Too Tall (3) Unpleasant  (4) Festus D Deputy (5) Ocoee Red (6) Widowmaker (7) Pleasant (8) Mr. Pistol (9) T–Bone Angus (10) Tabasco JOT.  8 cowboys had no miss matches: Widowmaker, Mr. Pistol, Pleasant, Cool Waters, TN Jake, Deadman, Sledge and Josey Buckhorn.

Someone (not Deadman) suggested we try an experiment to see how shooting results among folks shooting Big Guns would look. Big Guns would be folks shooting pistols in.44 cal. with 200 gr. bullets or above and medium loads or above and .45 cal. with 230 gr. bullets or above and medium loads or above. Here’s the top 10 Big Gun Shooters: (1) Limp Along Charlie (2) Horseshoe John (3) Hey Duke (4) Deadman (5) Tellico (6) Bad Eye Tom (7) Makers Mark (8) Tenn Smoke (9) Coffee Joe (10) Tio Don.

 

Mr. Pistol Draws A Bead With His ’73 Win.

Classic 1. Lightning McCoy

 

Here are the category winners:

 

49er 1. Marshal Too Tall 2. Festus D. Deputy 3. Ocoee Red   Silver Senior 1. Mr. Pistol 2. Tabasco JOT 3. Outrider   Modern 1. S.A. Pondwater

Duelist 1. Horseshoe John 2. Ziggy the Kid 3. Awful Close   Gunfighter 1. Widowmaker 2. Pleasant 3. Keystone   Black Powder 1. Coffee Joe

Senior 1. T-Bone Angus 2. Purly 3. Tin Pot   Traditional 1. Unpleasant 2. Slater 3. Yankee Dutchman   B-Western 1. Dusty Camino

 

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