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Volume 2, Issue No. 1                                           (Web Edition)                                          April  2004

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70 SHOOTERS BLAST TARGETS AT APRIL SHOOT

    Turnout at the April shoot was very good.  70 shooters strapped on their six-guns and participated.  Several were new shooters, or relatively new shooters.  Take heart cowfolks.  The next shoot won’t be either as long or as confusing.  We’ll shoot only 5 stages, leaving out the flying target shotgun stage, and there won’t be the confusion with having to remember so many target combinations.  Ol’ T-Bone will have a good shoot, like he usually does, but he’ll make it a bit easier to remember what to shoot next.  Also, next time we’ll have a Senior Statesman Category for Shooters age 70 and above.

 

What happened at the shoot?  Well, Diamondback Dennis was the Top Gun of the Day.  His better half, Carolina Gem, was the top cowgirl shooter. She also placed 11th overall.    Dustin Clays and Cruel Hand Luke both shot perfect matches with no misses.  Awful Close had a challenging day.  His “challenges” started at the Buffalo Shoot, before the match.  He put a wrong caliber cartridge in his rifle, and locked it up.  The gun was disassembled, and when he was reassembling it, he put a wrong screw in the wrong place, and tried to force it when it wouldn’t fit.  That created a real problem.  Then in the match, he had timer problems when shooting a stage.  Given a re-shoot for that stage, he managed to get a stage disqualification.  After the shoot, while sitting in the clubhouse

Awful Close
Top Dancer

Diamondback Dennis
Top Gun

telling about his tribulations, he was attacked by a honeybee.  When it hit the floor, he did a tap dance, squashing the bee, which would have been the envy of any stage performer.  But on the good side, he placed 3rd in the Modern category.

Out on the Range

 

Honest Charlie & Sunflower Shooting Winchesters While Ocoee Red Times & Says, “Wow!”

Before the shoot started, Lightning McCoy had a little magical ceremony to prepare him to compete.  He pulled out a new pair of real live Colt Single Action revolvers.  And they looked real nifty.  Unable to get the grips off, he enlisted the aid of a cowboy with the magic touch, Rawhide Rex.  With a twist of a screwdriver and a thump with his finger at just the right place, off popped the grip panel.  When this word-scratcher walked away, the process was being observed by Silver Dust, who had been absent so long that we feared he’d died, or worse, moved to New Jersey. 

In general, all the shooters did very well.  12 shooters shot 5 clean stages.  2 shooters shot 6 clean stages. 6 shooters missed only 1 shot.  Tinker Chapley placed 1st, for the 1st time, in the Duelist category.  Dandy Diamond was 1st in the Junior category. All in all, it was a very good day, with an excellent group of cowgirl and cowboy shooters and guests.

The Top 10 Shooters were:  (1) Diamondback Dennis (2) Dustin Clays (3) Cruel Hand Luke (4) Marshal Too Tall

(5) Tabasco JOT (6) Pleasant (7) Ocoee Red (8) Cool Waters (9) Double Eagle (10) Unpleasant

Next Shoot - May 22 … Register beginning 8:30 am Eastern Time …  Safety Meeting 10:00 am …. Shooting  follows

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

o        RANGE SET-UP GANG:  HORSESHOE JOHN, LINC & DOUBLE EAGLE FOR SETTING UP THE RANGE ON FRIDAY.   HORSESHOE JOHN NEEDS HELP TO SET UP IN MAY… 2 OF HIS CREW WILL BE AWAY ON VACATION.   IF YOU CAN HELP SETTING UP THE RANGE, PLEASE DO SO. 

THEY START AT NOON.

o        POSSE LEADERS:  DOUBLE EAGLE, DUSTIN CLAYS, HORSESHOE JOHN, OCOEE RED, PLEASANT

Newletter Editors:  Deadman & Mesquite Millie                  Website Editor:  Tennessee Justice

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