February 2007 Newsletter:

Our February shoot started off really cold but it turned out to be quite a nice day for a cowboy shoot. Fifty two shooters registered, including eight visitors. I overheard many shooters express an appreciation for the excellent scenarios we had for the shoot.

Our pard from Kentucky, Copperhead Joe, was the top shooter this month, just beating out another visitor from middle Tennessee, Buck Dodgers.

Fiddleback, last month’s winner, placed third and our pard Anvil, who last shot with us back in June was fourth. The rest of the top ten shooters were Will Reilly, Sunshine Billy, Badlands Beck, Fast Harley, Tennessee Mongo and Tombstone John.

Last Kiss, shootin’ gunfighter, again was the top lady shooter. The other top ten ladies were Deadeye Diamond and Feather Dancer.

Awards:

Classic Cowboy

Dustin Clays

Lightning McCoy

 

Traditional

Copperhead Joe

Buck Dodgers

Fiddleback

Duelist

Will Reilly

Horseshoe John

Ricochet Richard

Gunfighter

Fast Harley

Keystone

El Carrera

Outlaw

Badlands Beck

Tn Tombstone

Rawhide Rex

Frontier Cartridge

Hombre Sin Nombre

 

 

Modern

Anvil

Cherokee Deacon

 

49er

Tn Mongo

Hawkeye

Long Gulch

Senior

Sunshine Billy

Tombstone John

Tabasco Jot

Senior Classic

Bittercreek Jack

 

 

Senior Gunfighter

Reno Luck

 

 

Ladies Traditional

Deadeye Diamond

 

 

Ladies Gunfighter

Last Kiss

 

 

Lady Outlaw

Two Dogs Runin

 

 

Ladies Senior

Feather Dancer

 

 

B-Western

T-Bone Angus

Dusty Clay

Tio Don

Junior Male

Stud Muffler

Cactus Jack

 

Clean Stages:

Only one shooter shot a clean match in February; Anvil. Only two cowboys had four stages with no misses and four shooters had three clean stages. The cold weather must have put a bit of a tremble in the shooters’ aim.

Five Stages
Anvil.

Four Stages
Flat Rock Jack and Hombre Sin Nombre.

Three Stages
Calibre 45, Dustin Clays, Moonshine Roberts and Tennessee Hawk.

Two Stages

Big, Buck Dodgers, Cherokee Deacon, Copperhead Coot, Cumberland Mountain John, El Carrera, Fiddleback, Horseshoe John, Keystone, Last Kiss, Major Kettle Hill, Reno Luck, Ricochet Richard, Shenandoah Will, Tabasco Jot, T-Bone Angus, Tennessee Mongo and Tennessee Slim.

One Stage
Badlands Beck, Bittercreek Jack, Blackwater Desperado, Dusty Dollar, Fast Harley, Feather Dancer, Hawkeye, Lightning McCoy, Long Gulch, Sunshine Billy, Tennessee Tombstone, Tio Don and Will Reilly.

Posse Highlights

Posse Two:

This posse embodied the spirit of Cowboy Action Shooting; hardworking, safe and had a lot of fun. Everyone in the posse really seemed to love this sport. Horseshoe John was the Posse Leader and shared the timer duty with T-Bone Angus. Everyone pitched in to make the posse move along really well without rushing anyone.

Anvil (4th) and Tennessee Mongo (9th) placed in the top 10 and top in their respective categories (Modern and 49er). T-Bone Angus, Hombre Sin Nombre, Reno Luck and Bittercreek Jack also placed top in their categories. Bittercreek Jack sure looks good in his classic outfit shooting that hammer double. Dusty Clay and Tio Don came in second and third (after T-Bone) in the B-Western category.

Marshall Too Tall and Festus D. Deputy found out that shooting Outlaw was not as straightforward as it looks. Yukon Hootch always gets style points for his duelist shooting with Remington 75’s. It was good to see Cumberland Mountain John again after missing a few months of Cowboy Action Shooting.

Your pard

HOMBRE SIN NOMBRE

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Posse 3

We had eight of the top ten shooters in out posse and talk about fast and fun to watch. Lead by the infamous Red Neckerson, we had top ladies Gunfighter with Last Kiss, top Gunfighter with her other half Fast Harley, top Outlaw with Badlands Beck, top three over all and top three Traditional with Copperhead Joe, Buck Dodger, and Fiddleback, top Senior with Sunshine Billy, top Dualist with Will Reilly. It was good to get to shoot with the representatives from Wartrace, Will Reilly, Buck Dodger, Tombstone John,and Blackwater and Hootens own Copperhead Joe. Between Copperhead and Will Reilly I am sure a model 97 was never meant to take that kind of abuse and I am equally sure that mine will never have to worry about being shot like that unless I loan it to someone.

This would have been considered the Outlaw Posse with Tombstone and Rawhide Rex trying to keep Badlands (seventh over all) honest except there were two Outlaws shooting in the posse behind us (I swear I heard a train whistle a few times back there) but that would be a tail for someone else to tell.

All in all it was a fantastic shoot and a great posse to be with. Hope to see you all a little further down the trail.

Tombstone