January 2008 Newsletter:

This may have been the best participation for a January shoot we have ever had. The weather cooperated and conditions were perfect; and as a result we had 77 cowboys and cowgirls sling lead down range.

Two new visitors shot with us this month: Jackson Longstreet and Randy Saint Eagle.

We had no fewer than four first time shooters:

Blacksmith Scott

Cottonmouth Kid

Crocket Creek Kid

Sassy Jen (buckaroo)

We hope you all had a good time and hope to see you again soon.

The Smoky Mountain Shootist Society is one of the largest clubs the country. Many of you renewed your memberships, and thanks for that. Renewals are due January first with a grace period though the end of March. Those of you who have not yet done so, please do so soon so that we can continue to be such a strong club. The fee is $40 and can be sent to SMSS, P.O. Box 32894, Knoxville, Tennessee 37930.

SA Pondwater was the top shooter again in January, beating out some really stiff competition. Congratulations!!!! Copperhead Joe placed second. The other top ten in order were Slater (who had his first clean match), Tabasco Jot, Festus D. Deputy, Marshall Too Tall, Ocoee Red, Fiddleback, Buck Dodgers and Double Eagle Dave.

Last Kiss again was the top lady shooter this month. The rest of the ladies (in order) were Kitty Kitty Bang Bang, Feather Dancer, Deadeye Diamond, Cookie Lynn, Short Cake, Moab Mab, Triple J and Sassy Jen.

Awards for January 2007:

Classic Cowboy

Lightning McCoy

Winchester Wood

El Carrera

Traditional

Slater

Fiddleback

Buck Dodgers

Smoky Mountain Outlaw

Badlands Beck

Rawhide Rex

Tennessee Tombstone

Duelist

Ranger Z

Yukon Hootch

Gunshow

Double Duelist

Cottonmouth Kid

Jim Mayo

Blacksmith Scott

Gunfighter

Widowmaker

Keystone

Fast Harley

Frontier Cartridge

Hombre Sin Nombre

Arizona Joe

Tennessee Hoss

Frontier Cartridge Duelist

Owlhoot Hardin

 

 

Modern

SA Pondwater

Cherokee Deacon

Cumberland Mountain John

49er

Festus D. Deputy

Marshall Too Tall

Ocoee Red

Senior

Purly

Kenesaw Kid

Tucson Tuco

Senior Duelist

Horseshoe John

 

 

Silver Senior

Tabasco Jot

Wildcat Wilkey

Shenandoah Will

Elder Statesman

Tenn Critr

Groundhog Man

 

B-Western

Copperhead Joe

Randy Saint Eagle

T-Bone Angus

Ladies Traditional

Deadeye Diamond

Cookie Lynn

Moab Mab

Ladies Gunfighter

Last Kiss

 

 

Ladies 49er

Kitty Kitty Bang Bang

 

 

Ladies Senior

Feather Dancer

 

 

Ladies Junior

Short Cake

 

 

Buckaroos

Sassy Jen

 

 


Clean Stages:

Five shootists had a perfect match in December. They were: Hombre Sin Nombre, Ramblin Rascal, Slater, Tennessee Hawk and Tennesssee Slim. Ten shooters had four clean stages and ten had three stages with no misses.

Five Stages

Hombre Sin Nombre, Ramblin Rascal, Slater, Tennessee Hawk and Tennesssee Slim.

Four Stages.

Blake the Snake, Cherokee Deacon, Festus D. Deputy, Hallelujah Hawkeye, Lightning McCoy, Marshall Too Tall, Ocoee Red, SA Pondwater, Shenandoah Will and Tabasco Jot.

Three Stages
Copperhead Joe, El Carrera, Horseshoe John, Ranger Z, Tenn Critr, Tennessee Hoss, Tennessee Mongo, Tucson Tuco, Yankee Dutchman and Yukon Hootch. .

Two Stages

Arizona Joe, Badlands Beck, Bittercreek Jack, Blue Ridge Mike, Buck Dodgers, Dutchy Rodell, Fiddleback, Kitty Kitty Bang Bang, Long Gulch, Moab Mab, Owlhoot Hardin, Randy Saint Eagle, Silver Dust, Smoke Wagon, Wildcat Wilkey and Winchester Wood.

One Stage
Calibre 45, Copperhead Coot, Cottonmouth Kid, Crocket Creek Did, Double Eagle Dave, Dusty Camino, Dusty Dollar, Fast Harley, Feather Dancer, Grouche Olphardt, Groundhog Man, Gunshow, Jim Mayo, Kenesaw Kid, Keystone, Last Kiss, Preacher B. Quick, Preacher Red, Purly, Triple J, Widowmaker Hill and Yakima Canutt..

If you have any questions about SMSS, about the match or you are not receiving scores by email on Sunday or Monday after the shoot and you think you should, please contact Hombre Sin Nombre (email: potgieter@utk.edu or phone: 865-740-3801).

Your pard,

Hombre Sin Nombre

Slow Shooters Have Fun Longer

Frontier Cartridge; The Original Traditional

Posse Writeups:

Posse One

What a great day to be shooting. Our posse worked together all day long which made it even better. We sure did have a good representation of the categories with one exception, no women folk. TN Hawk shot a clean match, well not exactly clean as he was shooting smoky stuff. Hawk & Owlhoot Hardin provided a glimpse of how many real cowboys were challenged to see their targets thru the smoke.Cherokee Deacon & Shenandoah Will were just one miss from shooting clean matches. Double Eagle Dave was the lone 49er and finished 10th overall. Winchester Wood and Bittercreek Jack earned style points in Classic Cowboy. The Silver Senior category was supported by Wildcat Wilkey, Shenandoah Will and the infamous Grouche Olphardt. Ranger Z, Yukon Hootch and the notorious Preacher Red shot Duelist. There ought to be a special category for a fellow shooting a Spencer rifle which only loads seven rounds in the mag tube. Jim Mayo shoots Double Duelist wh ich is almost a Gunfighter. Speaking of Gunfighters, Ziggy the Kid is improving with each match. Dusty Camino was our lone "B" Western Star and also lent us the use of his pickup to haul off the targets. Thanks to all for a great day of Cowboy Action Shooting the East Tennessee way, friendly.

Vaya con Dios,

Keystone

PS Support Your Local "GUNFIGHTER"

Posse Two

Posse #2 was fun from the get-go. Who said that Tuco and Purly aren't fun?

The big Rooster name SLATER reared his head and strutted thru 5 CLEAN stages. And he did em in quick order too.

Choking in his dust was FIDDLEBACK and WIDOWMAKER. They tried to pluck his feathers but he was just too much that day. TENN CRITR was his usual good shootin self. YANKEE DUTCHMAN and KENESAW KID filled in some tight time slots between PURLY and TUCSON TUCO. Those two pards are fun to watch compete against one another. And just because Tuco was standing beside Purly's rifle doesn't mean that he was the one who covered it up with a blanket on one of the stages. Any witnesses? HOMBRE SIN NOMBRE creates more smoke than Mt. Saint Helens when he fires those Smokepoles. He's a lot of fun to watch. CALIBRE 45 shot well but was alittle off his usual deadeye accuracy self. Cold weather will do that to ya. RAMBLING RASCAL kept a worried look that MOAB MAB was gona give him a whoopin. I think she mumbled something like, 'next month'. DUTCHY RODELL started off each stage and managed to get a couple CLEANS along the way. One of the most consciensiously Loadin Table Officers anywhere, GROUNDHOG MAN, did a great job insuring everyones pistols were loaded and indexed correctly and that no-one loaded more than necessesary on any stage. And the big news of the day is that our posse had 2 new/first time shooters. They both shot well, worked hard and hopefully had a great time. CROCKETT CREEK KID and COTTONMOUTH KID both did very well. Not tooooooo many misses, no 'P's, and no DQ's. These are two young whippersnappers that us older folks are gona have to watch out for. They'll do very well in the near future.

If I counted correctly, Posse 2 had SIX category winners:

Traditional, Gunfighter, Elder Statesman, Senior, Frontier Cartridge, and Double Duelist (and three of the match’s clean shooters – two of ‘em, RAMBLIN RASCAL and SLATER shot clean for the first time).

Congratulations Pards.

..........Widowmaker (first time RO of a great Posse)