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  JUNE SHOOT — A Day of Action, Families & Enjoyment 

The June shoot was … well, it was a good one. The Rev. Adam Jones, who showed up in a new hat, said that it wouldn’t rain.  And it didn’t, even though it had rained all week.  The day began with Marshal Too Tall’s Buffalo Shoot. Too Tall won that event, both categories:  .22 cal and real rifle.  Then Tabasco JOT conducted the 1st side stage practice shoot.  22 shooters participated in that event.  Pleasant placed 1st in that shoot, followed by Diamondback Dennis and Lucky Larry.

But there were other things worth mentioning.  Carolina Gem looked real nifty in a buckskin skirt and vest and new hat. With a big smile, as usual, she said, “This is my Mule Camp outfit.  This is the first girly outfit that I’ve worn.”  And then she proceeded to shoot her 2nd consecutive perfect match (no misses), won the cowgirl competition and placed 10th overall.

Fast Harley was accompanied by a cowgirl who shot her 2nd Cowboy & Cowgirl Shooting Match and had 1 of the

Gracious Gringo & His Little Rustlers

Last Kiss

catchiest alias that has appeared on our range;  Last Kiss.  Gracious Gringo was accompanied by his gang of little rustlers, 1 of whom was very proud of her cowgirl dress.  And 3 generations of the Colonel Allison clan were participants.  Colonel Allison didn’t shoot, but he manned a loading table all day. His son, Ruckus Roy, and grandson, Slim Jim, both shot.

How’d the shooting go?  Well, the competition at the top was fast and furious. When the smoke cleared (the Catoosa Kid, Coffee Joe, Dead Beat, and Deadfoot were shooting black powder), Diamondback Dennis was the Top Gun, followed closely by Curly Bill and Ocoee Red.  5 shooters shot clean matches/no misses:  Carolina Gem, Horseshoe John, Owlhoot Hardin, Dustin Clays, and Deadman.

Out on the Range  –  Some Thorns & A Rose

the Thorns, L – R:  Ruckus Roy, Colonel Allison, Slim Jim, with other range cowboys.

the Rose: Carolina Gem shoots all the targets … all day long.

Shooting results – June

TOP GUN – Diamondback Dennis

TOP 10 SHOOTERS:  (1)  Diamondback  Dennis  (2)  Curly Bill  (3)  Ocoee Red  (4)  Dustin Clays  (5)  Cruel Hand Luke (6)   Pleasant (7)  Tabasco JOT (8)  Unpleasant  (9) Whiskey River Nelson (10)  Carolina Gem.

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The Reel West, The Real West & The West Of Our Imagination

The Reel West  – RONALD REAGAN

Ronald Reagan had an unusual career.  As a young man, he started out in radio, announcing ball games and other such work. Later, he went to Hollywood and became a movie star. During his movie career, he made war movies, a football movie about some little religious school, and others.  But …  ta-ta … he also made Western movies, and he was pretty good in them.  I know, he didn’t win an Oscar for his cowboy performances, but very few folks have ever won the little gold men for playing Western roles.  His gun work looked ok, but he could ride horses.  He did a lot of that over the years, even when he wasn’t on camera. Later, he hosted a TV series about the West.

Then one day, Ronnie (that’s what he was called) was bitten by a bug, not just an ordinary bug, a bug that he couldn’t swat and forget about.  The bug bite gave him political fever, and he entered politics.  Elected Governor of California twice, he went on to become a 2-term President of the U.S.

In his Western movies, Ronnie played good guys who got the bad guys.  That’s what cowboy heroes in Western movies are supposed to do.  He tried to do that as President.  Did he succeed?  Well, that depends on your point of view. He tried.  (We don’t talk

Ronald Reagan

Politics, pro or con, in The Ocoee Ranger.)

A friend of mine with a long career in law enforcement has taken several courses over the years in which Secret Service Agents on the Reagan and other presidential protection details were in attendance.  He asked them what they thought of this President, among others that they’d protected. Talking about Ronald Reagan, they said that they liked him and that he was friendly, very courteous and a good man.  That’s what he portrayed on the screen in his movies, a courteous, courageous, good man.

Ronald Reagan died on June 5, 2004.  He was 93 years old.

The West of our imagination  ….  FESTUS DIRT DOBBER

Festus has been a Cowboy Shooter for about a year.  As with several other cowboys who shoot with the Ocoee Rangers, Shadrack Jones and Guns of Yester Year influenced him to become a cowboy shooter and an Ocoee Ranger. 

How’d he get his alias? Well, he liked the name Festus, liked it real good.  But he knew that he didn’t have a chance of getting it as an alias, unless he added something to it.  The question was, what to add.  Then he had a brainstorm.  The guys at work called him dirt dobber, because his real world name is Dobbins.  And with the crack of lightning that accompanied the brainstorm, Festus Dirt Dobber became a SASS cowboy.

What does he shoot?  What else:  .45’s.  And he’s shootin’ better and better.

Festus

Al Sieber

The Real west  …  ALBERT SIEBER

Al Sieber immigrated to the US from Germany and grew up in Pennsylvania.  But he wasn’t content to stay there.  In his lifetime, he rambled, and prospected, and soldiered, and ….. Well, to put it simply, he became the Top Scout for the Army in the Southwestern US in the Apache wars.  In fact, he was the chief of Indian scouts from 1870 to 1890.  He had a reputation.  The Indians knew that he wouldn’t lie to them.  He also had a reputation as being grouchy as heck.  The Indians said that was because he was old and crazy.  Tom Horn, who worked for him, said that it was because he had been shot, knifed and arrowed a total of 29 times and that his arthritis made him grumpy.  Wounded twice in the battle of Gettysburg, in the War of Northern Aggression, he would experience many more such tribulations in his lifetime.

It’s inconceivable that a man as adventurous as Al Sieber would die in bed, and he didn’t.  In 1907, he was supervising a crew of Apache workmen building a road and was killed in a landslide.  He was 63 years old.  It seems sorta ironic that an old warrior who had been wounded in battle so many times would be killed by having a rock fall on him. 

EDITORS:

Newsletter – Deadman & Mesquite Millie                               Website – Obadiah King

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Ocoee Rangers to recognize Wranglers

Beginning with the June certificates, the Ocoee Rangers will award special recognition certificates to working Wranglers.  Now you’re probably saying, “What the heck is a working Wrangler?”  And I’m afixin’ to explain.   When cowboys in the Old West rounded up their cattle and drove them up the long cattle trails to market, they depended upon their string of cow horses to keep them on the move and in control of the herd.  And they depended upon Wranglers to look after the horses and keep them available for use.  After all, a cowboy afoot was …… well, he was just about useless.  So, the Wranglers were very important to the success of the cattle drives and the round-ups that preceded them.

It takes working Wranglers to have a successful Cowboy & Cowgirl Action Shooting Match.  If you don’t believe it, just take a minute and think about all the things that have to be done on shooting day.  Somebody has to pick up brass and count misses.  And somebody has to man the loading table and make sure that the correct number of rounds have been loaded and that pistol hammers have been lowered on empty chambers. Somebody else has to man the unloading table to be sure that all guns are clear and unloaded when they leave that table.  And somebody has to keep an accurate and legible score.  And when the last shot is fired, the targets and props have to be disassembled, removed from the range and taken to the target house for storage.  They don’t just wander down there on their own, shake hands with ol’ Horseshoe John and jump up on the storage shelf or rack.  It takes working Wranglers to do all this stuff.  And if you ain’t helping to do this, then, pardner, you ain’t doing you part to make a successful shoot, assuming you’re physically able to help.  If you ain’t physically able, that’s ok.  But if you can help, please do so.

So beginning with the June shoot, posse leaders may nominate people to receive Wrangler recognition certificates for helping conduct the match and close down the range when the shoot is over.  From the nominations, certificates will be awarded to up to 5 Wranglers. 

THE FIRST 5 OCOEE WRANGLERS

What will it take to be nominated to be a Wrangler?  To be nominated to be a Wrangler, a cowboy or cowgirl must be an active working member of the posse group, without having to be asked or told off & on all day to help.  The nominated person will be someone who uses personal initiative and actively helps throughout the day.

Can non-shooters be nominated to be a Wrangler?  Yes.  Anyone in Western costume who helps and meets the above criteria is eligible to be nominated to be a Wrangler.

Who will decide who receives the Wrangler awards?  Deadman will take input from posse leaders and if necessary discuss the information with Horseshoe John, the Range Master, and Ocoee Red, Captain of the Ocoee Rangers.  Then Wranglers will be selected to receive the special certificates.

Do your part and help at the next shoot.  Maybe you’ll be nominated to be a Wrangler.

SASS EVENT IN GATLINGBURG IN AUGUST – PLEASE REMEMBER OUR EVENT SPONSORS OF THE CHRISTMAS 2003 EVENT

If you attend the vendor portion of the SASS event to be held in Gatlinburg in August and buy cowboy/cowgirl stuff, please remember the generous sponsors who donated gifts that were awarded at our 2003 Christmas Event:

River Junction Trade Co. (River Junction has been very generous to us)  … Starline Brass, Co. … Outlaw Enterprises, Inc. (makers of The Outlaw Trail game) … Ajax Custom Grips Co. … Eagle Grips Co. …  Desperado Cowboy Bullets Co. …    Shoot Magazine … True West Magazine …  Ruger Arms, Co.  .. and don’t forget Saddlebag Bullets Co. (Cool Waters)

If you buy from any of these fine folks, please tell them that you’re an Ocoee Ranger and thank them for being a sponsor of our annual December Shoot and Family Event in 2003. Maybe they’ll help us in 2004, if we help them.

DUSTIN CLAYS – 1ST PLACE SENIOR CATEGORY AT KENTUCKY CHAMPIONSHIP AT HOOTEN HOLLER ROUNDUP II

Dustin Clays, gentleman Cowboy Shooter, shot in the Kentucky Championship Shoot at the Hooten Holler Roundup II, a 2-day shoot, the 3rd   weekend of June.  When the results were tallied, he placed 1 in the Senior category and was awarded a nifty plaque, which he was kind enough to show some of the Ocoee Rangers at our June Shoot.  

Congratulations, cowboy.

Dustin Clays

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JUNE SHOOT RESULTS

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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

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The Reel West, The Real West & The West Of Our Imagination

The Reel West  – CHUCK CONNERS

Chuck Conners is best remembered as television’s Lucus McCain, The Rifleman.  In that role, he played a fast shootin’ rancher, widowed father of a young son, and friend of the town marshal.  That was back in the days when there were so many Westerns on TV that some shows used gimmick guns to attract viewers. Chuck’s gimmick was a slicked up 1892 Winchester with a big loop lever …. ah la John Wayne.  His gun had a screw protruding from the lever, which allowed the rifle to fire when the lever was closed, without having to pull the trigger.  Chuck could shoot the rifle pretty fast, and with the camera speeded up, he was Really Fast.  In later years he played other Western roles, some as good guys and some as villains.  He was especially good as a villain.  He could make evil ooze out just like sweat on a hot day.  But his most unusual role was that of Geronimo.  Yeah, you heard right.  Geronimo.  The movie started with a close up of Chuck’s face …. brown like an Apache …..  with black hair like an Apache …. wearing a hair style like an Apache …. and with the bluest eyes you ever saw …. like no Apache who ever lived.  But what the heck, that was Holly wood of the ‘60’s.  I don’t remember much about the movie, other than the beginning.

In an interview once, Chuck was asked how he got the role of The Rifleman.

Chuck Conners as the Rifleman, with Johnny Crawford

as his son

He said that when he went in to talk with the casters about the role, the first thing they did was throw the rifle straight to him, with no warning.  He reached out and caught it with 1 hand. All the other people who were trying for the role used 2 hands to catch the rifle.  He handled it naturally ….  like a fast shootin’ rifleman would.  Of course he had plenty of practice catching with 1 hand …. Bats.  Before his movie career, Chuck Conners was a professional baseball player.  How about that?

The West of our imagination  ….  THE KENESAW KID

The Kenesaw Kid started Cowboy Shooting in Knoxville … 2 … no 3 … well, sometime a little over 3 years ago.  That’s how the conversation went when this word scratcher asked the question.  It took 3 cowboys to try to reconstruct when he started.  You see, all 3 of them had a good bit of gray in their hair, them what had hair, and their memories had to be sort’a jiggled a bit. 

How did he get into Cowboy Shooting?  He had been shooting IPSC and the fun had gone out of it.  It was way too serious.  Then one day, some cowboy invited him to a Knoxville Cowboy Shoot.  Kenesaw said, “I fell in love with it immediately.”  But he can’t remember who invited him to the shoot.  Remember the comments about memories and gray hair?  Well, he got into Cowboy Shooting and is now a devoted SASS Cowboy.  When selecting an alias, he thought, and thought, and decided to use the name of his business: Kenesaw Creative ….. and the Kenesaw Kid was born.

the Kenesaw Kid

Now this nosey word scratcher had  to ask, “What do you shoot?”  Kenesaw smiled and said, “Well, it depends on which guns I bring.  Sometimes I shoot .38’s, and sometimes I shoot .45’s.”  Let’s close on the mention of .45’s.

Frank Canton

The Real west  … FRANK CANTON

In 1880, Frank Canton was a small rancher and sheriff in Johnson County, WY. Then In 1892, he sided with the big ranchers and became a co-leader of an invading force of gun-slingers that attempted to wipe out small ranchers and “rustlers” in Johnson County: the invaders had to be rescued by the US Army to keep the locals from killing the entire force.  Later, Frank drifted back down into Oklahoma Territory and became a Deputy US Marshal. He left there and went to Alaska as a Deputy US Marshal, and then back to Oklahoma again.  In fact he became so renown a lawman that when Oklahoma became a state, he was appointed the 1st   Adjutant General.  Sounds like he was a real straight arrow, doesn’t it?  Well, here’s the rest of the story.

Frank Canton wasn’t really Frank Canton.  He was born Joe Horner near Richmond, VA.  He and his family went to Texas, following the War of Northern Aggression, and he

and his brother became cowboys.  In 1874, he killed a soldier in a saloon fight, and after that, he became a Texas frontier criminal for several years.  When he left the southwest and headed north, Joe Horner ceased to exist, and Frank Canton took his place.

Late in his life, Frank was pardoned by the State of Texas for the transgressions of his youth.  Frank Canton died in 1927. He was 78 years old.

OCOEE RANGERS CONTACTS

Ocoee Red … (423) 476-5303  ocoeered@bellsouth.net  … Pleasant  .. (423) 476-6865  pleasant2@charter.net  ..

Deadman & Mesquite Millie  .. (770) 889-0934  jedalton@mindspring.com 

Horseshoe John .. (706) 866-5372  djlott@bellsouth.net  ..  Tri .. (423) 479-4450  adkissonjc@yahoo.com …

Sundance .. (423) 479-8465  JSNEYMAN@aol.com

THE OCOEE RANGER  Newsletter Staff:   Deadman & Mesquite Millie

NEXT SHOOT – MAY 22

Registration begins 8:30 am Eastern Time – Safety Meeting at 10:00 am – Then we Shoot.

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TOP TEN SHOOTERS

Top Gun – Cruel Hand Luke – Top Gun

Tabasco JOT

Sunshine Billy

Pleasant

Blayde Hollister

Marshall Too Tall

Fiddleback

Horseshoe John

Whiskey River Nelson

T-Bone Angus

OCOEE RANGER BADGES

If you want an Ocoee Ranger badge and haven’t ordered yours yet, the badge will cost $58.50.  Contact Tri to order the badge.  His contact info is listed on the Contact page.  The badge looks good and is very well made, and it would look great on your shirt, vest or blouse – depending on whether you’re a cowboy or cowgirl.

SHOOT THROUGH PASSES FOR OCOEE RANGERS SHOOTS

Got a commitment you can’t get out of?  Get a “Shoot Through” pass from Mesquite Millie or Deadman, when you register to shoot.  When you get to the first stage, give your posse leader your shoot through pass (your special scoring sheet), and the posse leader will let you shoot early in the stage.  Then take your “Shoot Through Pass”, and go to another stage.  That way, you can shoot a complete match.  And you can take as much or as little time as you need to have a fun shoot and still meet your commitment.

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The reel West, the real West and the West of our imagination

THE REEL WEST Randolph Scott

When this word slinger was a pup, he had 2 Western movie heroes: Randolph Scott and Audie Murphy, in that order.  Randolph Scott was the essential Western movie hero. He rode tall in the saddle, because he was tall.  He was from Virginia, so he sounded like a cowboy, or at least what a cowboy was supposed to sound like.  And he made a bunch of cowboy movies, among others.  And most of them were very good.  Stuff like Man in the Saddle, The Gunfighters,

Trail Street, Ride Lonesome, The Tall T, Western Union and many others.  John Wayne produced one of Randy’s movies, Seven Men From Now, and then wished he’d played the lead himself.

Randy’s last movie was a Western, and one that aficionados of Western movies recognize as a classic, Ride the High Country.  In it, he and Joel McCrea played aging Westerners as the Old West was passing into history.  It was also Joel’s last picture. Both were classy cowboys, and both ended their careers with this good ol’out of doors action Western. If you’re ever at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Museum in Oklahoma City, you’ll see Randolph Scott’s picture in the Western movie area.  Joel McCrea’s picture is also there.

THE WEST OF OUR IMAGINATION

Tellico

Some folks say that a picture is worth a thousand words.  If so, then this photo tells it all.  Tellico, who hangs his spurs in Tellico Plains, TN, has been a Cowboy Shooter for many years.  In fact, he has one of the old style SASS badges, and it has No. 3482 on it.  How about that?  Especially now that there are more than 50,000 SASS members.  Tellico started shootin’ with us in the early days at Guns & Stuff, before the  Tellico in vest & neck-tie move to the Cleveland range.  He said that he’d been priced

out of the cowboy shootin’ group that he had been with.  That group “evolved” to the point that anyone who wasn’t shootin’ real Colt six-shooters wasn’t welcome.  Being’s how he was shootin’ Rugers, he saddled up and moseyed along.

When Tellico started shootin’ with many of us southeastern TN / north GA cowboys and cowgirls, he used a .45 -.70 Sharps reproduction rifle in the Buffalo Shoots before the match.  He usually shot last, because sometimes his Buffalo gun would make the target unusable after he finished shootin’, sometimes before he finished shootin’.  His Sharps was the first one that many of us had seen.  He also was the first continuous user of a bird’s head pistol grip on one of his six-guns.

In the world in which he makes his livin’, Tellico is a Trout rancher, or wrangler, or rustler.  Anyway, he herds fish.  Recently a wise acre of a cowboy asked him how one branded a fish.  Without missing a beat, Tellico replied, “Use a cold brand, and put it behind his ear.”

THE REAL WEST

John Chisum

The name John Chisum is very well know by Western movie fans, folks with an interest in Western history, and Cowboy Action Shooters.  But did you know that John Chisum was a Tennessee boy?  That’s right, John was originally from Madison County, TN.  But he went west to achieve fame and fortune.  John eventually became a cattleman and in the mid 1800’s moved a herd of about 900 cattle from Texas to New Mexico.  In 1873 he founded his “South Springs Ranch” near Roswell, NM.  Although owning only about 40 acres where his house and the water / springs were,  he ran cattle on about 100 miles of open range and became a John Chisum

sure enough “cattle king”.  John was one of the many players who became involved in what became known as “the Lincoln County War”, a local economic war between factions fighting to do the kind of business each wanted to do.  It just happened that John and his friends, John Tunstall and Alex Mc Sween, weren’t ruthless or crooked enough to win the war against the other fellers:  Jimmy Dolan and Lawrence G. Murphy.   John’s role was that of providing capital, at times sanctuary to some of the warriors, and moral support.  For although he is widely known as a Western figure and was stunningly portrayed by John Wayne in the movie Chisum, the real John Chisum didn’t carry a six-gun and didn’t do any physical fighting in “the Lincoln County War.”  Folks like Billy “the Kid” Bonney, Charlie Bowdre and others did that.

In the end, John lost most of his wealth because of his involvement in the Lincoln County affair.  He died of cancer in 1884, three years after Billy “the Kid” Bonney was killed.  John left only a fraction of his once vast empire, but that estate was valued at $500,000.  For you cowboys who ain’t never seen that many zeros and can’t count that high, that’s a half a million bucks.  Not bad for a Tennessee cowboy, huh?

Buenos dias, amigos.

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

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TOP TEN SHOOTERS

Top Gun – Cruel Hand Luke – Top Gun

Tabasco JOT

Sunshine Billy

Pleasant

Blayde Hollister

Marshall Too Tall

Fiddleback

Horseshoe John

Whiskey River Nelson

T-Bone Angus

OCOEE RANGER BADGES

If you want an Ocoee Ranger badge and haven’t ordered yours yet, the badge will cost $58.50.  Contact Tri to order the badge.  His contact info is listed on the Contact page.  The badge looks good and is very well made, and it would look great on your shirt, vest or blouse – depending on whether you’re a cowboy or cowgirl.

SHOOT THROUGH PASSES FOR OCOEE RANGERS SHOOTS

Got a commitment you can’t get out of?  Get a “Shoot Through” pass from Mesquite Millie or Deadman, when you register to shoot.  When you get to the first stage, give your posse leader your shoot through pass (your special scoring sheet), and the posse leader will let you shoot early in the stage.  Then take your “Shoot Through Pass”, and go to another stage.  That way, you can shoot a complete match.  And you can take as much or as little time as you need to have a fun shoot and still meet your commitment.

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