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63 Cowboys & Cowgirls Shot June Ocoee Rangers Match |
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Well, cowboys & cowgirls, we had a terrific turnout for our June shoot. 63 cowfolks shot in the match, and several people came to watch, or keep score or otherwise be a part of the activity. Two shooters shot clean matches: Whiskey River Nelson & Marshal Too Tall. And not to be outdone by the cowboys, Flossie shot a very good match. She missed only 1 target, and on the stage where tennis balls were shot for extra points, she hit 4 of the 5 balls. That ain’t bad shootin’. Diamondback Dennis was the Top Gun and winner of the Traditional category, followed closely by Cruel Hand Luke, who placed 2nd overall. Carolina Gem was the top cowgirl shooter, finishing 12th. Marshal Too Tall won both categories in the Buffalo Shoot: Open Sight and Peep Sight. |
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| We award certificates to the top three shooters in each category, and if we don’t have three shooters in a category, we award one less certificate than the total number of shooters in the category. In June, we had one shooter in the Classic Category – Shadrack Jones, and one shooter in the Cap & Ball Pistol Category – Jon Armitage. Ol’ Shadrack was talking with Deadman during the match and had this worthy comment: “It don’t matter if I win anything. When I go out there and shoot my conversion Colts and shoot my Spencer or Henry rifle, people who see me will go home and remember seein’ me. They won’t remember seein’ you shoot your Colt clones or your ’73 Winchester.” | |||
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Diamondback Dennis |
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Cruel Hand Luke |
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Lucky Larry |
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Cool Waters |
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Dustin Clays |
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Tabasco Jot |
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Whiskey River Nelson |
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Badlands Beck |
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Curly Bill |
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Pleasant |
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Cowgirl shooters L-R: Sadie Lou & Carolina Gem |
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SHOOT RESULTS |
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Traditional Duelist Diamondback Dennis Horseshoe John Cruel Hand Luke Dutch Al Lucky Larry Sheriff Jack Cooley Modern Black Powder Limp Along Charlie The Catoosa Kid Sundance McNeyman Deadbeat Tarheel Cowgirl Senior Carolina Gem Tobasco Jot Sadie Lou Kenesaw Kid Tennessee Hawk Gunfighter Buffalo Shoot Pleasant (Peep Sight) Marshal Too Tall Loose Cinch (Open Sight) Marshal Too Tall Challenged Cowboy Cowgirl C. Rider Carolina Gem Sadie Lou |
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| OCOEE RANGERS MONTHLY SHOOT IS NOW THE 4th SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH | |||
| Don’t forget that the Ocoee Rangers now shoot on the 4th Saturday each month. The Buffalo Shoot starts at 8:30 am. The Posse Leaders walk through is at 9:00 am. The Safety Meeting is at 10:00 am then we shoot. This change has been made in coordination with the Tennessee Mountain Marauders…they now shoot on the 3rd Saturday of each month. | |||
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Newletter Editors: Deadman & Mesquite Millie Website Editor: Tennessee Justice |
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SPECIAL BULLETIN |
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SMOKY MOUNTAIN SHOOTIST SOCIETY July Benefit Shoot For Curley Bill |
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Curley Bill On July 12th, the 2nd Sat. in July, the Smoky Mountain Shootists Society (Knoxville) are holding a special benefit shoot for Curly Bill (aka Bill Kelly) and his wife, Melinda. This cowboy and his family need our help. They recently received bad news in a one – two punch: critical medical information about Melinda and that Curly Bill had lost his job on that same day. If you can, come up to Knoxville and shoot with us on July 12th. You’ll help Curley Bill and his family by |
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doing so, and you’ll have another chance to play cowboy and shoot. The shoot fee will be $25. Sign up will start at 8:00 a.m. The benefit shoot will start at 9:00 a.m., just after the safety meeting. I would like to thank everybody for the collection that was taken up for Curly Bill and Melinda at the Ocoee Rangers’ June Shoot. We, the Smoky Mountain Shootists, really appreciate what the cowboys did. We had a great day shooting and visiting with our friends. |
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Thanks again. Flossie |
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A FEW WORDS FROM DEADMAN |
| Curly Bill has shot with us Cleveland shooting area cowboys and cowgirls for several years, and while his home club is the Smoky Mountain Shootists Society in Knoxville, he’s an Ocoee Ranger through and through, and a durn good one! If you can do so, please venture up to Knoxville and shoot with the Knoxville cowboys and cowgirls and help Curly Bill and Melinda. Check the Smoky Mountain Shootist Society website to find how to get there. |
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SHOOT! MAGAZINE TO LIST OCOEE RANGERS SHOOTS |
| Beginning in the September/October edition, the good folks at Shoot! Magazine will be listing Ocoee Ranger monthly shoot information in each edition of their magazine, with no charge for the service. If you’ve never read Shoot! Magazine, pick up a copy at the magazine rack at the mall and give it a look. Shoot! Magazine specializes in western shooting: SASS, silhouette, muzzle loading, etc. and it’s an excellent magazine. Ol’ Deadman has been a Shoot! Magazine subscriber for several years and recommends the magazine to anyone interested in Cowboy Action Shooting. Ocoee Red won a subscription at one of our Christmas shoots and has become a fan of the magazine. |
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SHOOT THROUGH PASSES – OCOEE RANGERS SHOOTS |
| Have you ever had a cowboy shootin’ Saturday come up, and you really wanted to shoot, but you had something you had to do in the afternoon – and you didn’t go shoot or you left early? Well pardner, don’t let that stop you from shootin’ and completing the match. 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. When you get there, give it to the posse leader, and he’ll let you shoot and go to another stage. Etc. Etc. 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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Remember: |
| 1. To get a “Shoot Through Pass”, tell Mesquite Millie or Deadman that you need one when you register to shoot. |
| 2. Other folks have used them before you. Don’t worry about being strange or unique by using one. |
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3. In a year, you only get to play cowboy or cowgirl and shoot 12 times, unless you visit another group. So take advantage of your opportunity to shoot as an Ocoee Ranger. |
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On June 12, Gregory Peck joined the posse of silver screen cowboy ghost riders in the sky. During his movie career, he wasn’t necessarily considered a “cowboy star”, but he made several Westerns, one considered a classic. If you like cowboy movies, you’ve surly seen at least some of his Western movies. If you ain’t a Western movie fan, you’d better not admit it. Them’s fightin’ words. Some of ol’ Greg’s Westerns include: |
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The Bravados, The Big Country, McKenna’s Gold, Shoot Gregory Peck |
| Out, Billy Two Hats and of course The Gunfighter. Western movie historians consider The Gunfighter one of the classic Western movies of all times. In it, Gregory Peck played Jimmy Ringo, an aging gunslick who wanted to pick up the pieces of a past life, but his past caught up with him. |
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Happy Trails, pardner. We enjoyed your movies, especially the Westerns. |
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The reel West, the real West and the West of our imagination |
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Henry Fonda was an actor from the golden days of Hollywood, and he lived to be and old geezer. In his many roles, he played cowboy parts and other stuff. But his cowboy parts are the ones cowboy shooters find most interesting. In his career, Henry played gunfighters, marshals, bounty hunters, outlaws, cavalry officers, and cowboys. A |
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Henry Fonda as Frank James lot of hoop-la is made about one cowboy movie that he was |
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in, The Ox Box Incident. But it’s a depressing tale, and one this word slinger usually avoids. Among his many characters, Henry played the outlaw Frank James. In fact, |
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he played Frank James in two different movies. The first was Jesse James with Tyrone Power, who played Jesse. In that one, ol’ Tyrone was blasted into eternity, and Frank quit his outlaw ways and reformed. But drawing power and sequels were present even back when that movie was made. So, Henry saddled up, picked up a Remington pistol, and rode back into the west of the silver screen in “The Return of Frank James” to again become Frank James. Both movies were pretty good. If you haven’t seen’em and get a chance to do so, give’em a look. |
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| THE WEST OF OUR IMAGINATION | ||||||
| Frank James As Ben Shot | ||||||
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Ben Shot, aka Frank James, has been cowboy shootin’ for a couple of years. A quiet feller, he lets his guns do his talkin’. Of course that doesn’t mean that when he’s around that there’s a lot of silence. Granted ol’ Ben Shot doesn’t talk much, but his pardner makes up for it. He usually shoots with Horseshoe John. Before he joined SASS, Frank James shot as, you guessed it, Frank James. But some other hombre had already selected that alias. So, Frank James became Benjamin Schiatske. Well, sorta…Mesquite Millie and Deadman Frank James as Ben Shot |
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couldn’t spell or pronounce the last name when registering him to shoot and assigning him to a posse, so Ben simplified it to “Ben Shot”. |
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Frank James As Frank James |
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The most famous, or infamous, outlaws in western history were Frank and Jesse James. Farm boys from Missouri, they entered the War of Northern Aggression and emerged as boys who were never again satisfied to stay settled on the farm. Some say their Yankee sympathizing neighbors drove them to a life of crime. But it’s likely that the quest for excitement, easy money in quantity, and the companionship of the like-minded younger brothers contributed a large measure of what set them on their trail of Frank James As Frank James gun smoke. Frank was the older of the two James brothers, |
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| fast, lived fast and hard, took what they wanted, and after the war, they soon continued their wild lives. Becoming bank robbers and train robbers, they spent time between jobs posing as cattle buyers, horse raisers, and gentlemen of means. And when the money ran low, out came the six-shooters and away they rode. | ||||||
| Frank was unique among famous western outlaws. He lived to be a very old man, and he never served time in prison. He surrendered to the law after Jesse was killed. Frank was tried several times, but he never was convicted for any of the crimes attributed to him and Jesse. As an old man, he sold tours of the old James home-place to tourists. He also sold pebbles “ from Jesse’s grave”. His mother had sold such pebbles before him. If all those pebbles had been in that grave, there wouldn’t have been any room left for ol’ Jesse. For a while, Frank toured with Cole Younger in a Wild West show. That was after Cole got out of prison for attempting to rob a Northfield, Minnesota bank with his brothers, Jesse, Frank, and some other fellers. Frank died in 1915 at age 72. | ||||||
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Till next month…vaya con dios. |
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Newletter Editors: Deadman & Mesquite Millie Website Editor: Tennessee Justice |
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