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Volume 1, Issue No. 6 (Web Edition) August 2003 |
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A LOT OF COWBOYS & COWGIRLS SHOT AUGUST OCOEE RANGERS SHOOT-OUT |
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By afternoon’s end, it was hotter than…well, the Rev. Adam Jones would have said it was real hot. So, that’s good enough for me. How could you tell it was hot? Well, the Rev had his Derby hat pushed back on his head to cool his forehead, and he was minus his coat. And the shootin’ was hot, too. Cool Waters was the Top Gun of the day, although the tie-breaking measurement (total time) had to be used between he and Dustin Clays, who finished 2nd. Four cowgirls competed with the cowboys. And… Drum roll! Chickamauga Clint shot his first Perfect Match.
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He didn’t miss a single target. That’s not bad, considering he had to hit two flying charcoal briquettes with his shotgun. Chickamauga Clint Shoots Perfect Match |
| If you weren’t at the match, I bet you didn’t know that charcoal could fly? But ask anyone who was there, and they’ll tell you it’s true. |
| What else happened? Double Eagle completed his apprenticeship as an aspiring Posse Leader. He’ll solo at the September shoot. Shadrack Jones placed 1st in the Classic Cowboy category and will receive his first ever certificate as a shooting category winner. (He’s won best costume or best presence contests several times) |
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It’s sort of ironic that T-Bone wrote his scenarios with two Ocoee Rangers in mind. Ocoee Red had said that he would like some stages with movement in them, and T-Bone wanted to honor Tennessee Jake by using his alias in a stage. What happened? Both Ocoee Red and Tennessee Jake had to miss the shoot. Oh well, the thought was there. |
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THERE BE COWGIRLS ON THE RANGE |
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L – R: Dixie Land Delite & Summer Dove L – R: Two Dogs Runnin’ & Flossie |
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Daughter & Mother |
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Thanks to the following: |
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Range Set-Up Volunteers |
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Horseshoe John – Limp Along Charlie – Linc – Double Eagle |
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Posse Leaders |
| Tri – Double Eagle – Horseshoe John – Catoosa Kid – Deadfoot – Pleasant |
| Limp Along Charlie – T-Bone Angus |
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Author of Scenarios |
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T-Bone Angus – Drinking Water – Tri – Tellico |
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Buffalo Shoot Honchos |
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Marshal Too Tall – Tri |
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CAUTION |
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Please keep your eye protection on when you’re on the range…even during lunch. The Rev. Adam Jones, Col. Allison & their shootin’ pardners were eating lunch near the target shack. Someone (not a cowboy shooter) was using one of the rifle ranges and a piece of shrapnel from the rifle range came very close to them. So…always protect your eyes. Keep you glasses on anytime you’re on the range. |
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SHOOT RESULTS |
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Traditional Duelist Cool Waters Horseshoe John Dustin Clays Owlhoot Hardin Diamondback Dennis Cactus Red Modern Black Powder Jack Rabbit Bob Catoosa Kid Limp Along Charlie T-Bone Anugs Sundance McNeyman Cowgirl Senior Summer Dove Kenesaw Kid Dixie Land Delite Tobasco JOT Flossie Outrider Gunfighter Buffalo Shoot Pleasant (Open Sight) Tri Keystone (PeepSight) Marshall Too Tall |
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| OCOEE RANGERS MONTHLY SHOOT IS THE 4th SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH |
| Don’t forget that the Ocoee Rangers 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. You must be present at the Safety to shoot. Be sure to bring plenty of ammo and pack your good humor too! |
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Newletter Editors: Deadman & Mesquite Millie Website Editor: Tennessee Justice |
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Volume 1, Issue No. 6 (Web Edition) August 2003 |
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TOP TEN SHOOTERS |
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| Top Gun – Cool Waters – Top Gun |
| Dustin Clays |
| Diamondback Dennis |
| Lucky Larry |
| Marshal Andy |
| Curly Bill |
| Jack Rabbit Bob |
| Kenesaw Kid |
| Tobasco JOT |
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Pleasant |
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THE LITTLE COWBOY RIDES AGAIN |
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A firey horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty, “Giddy Up, Horsey!” The little cowboy rides again! Do parts of this lead in sound familiar? Well, if you’re old enough to remember the Lone Ranger programs, they should. If you ain’t, well you just learned something you didn’t know. Notice the trail gear this little feller’s weaing. A cowboy hat and boots…and…he’s sittin’ tall |
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and proud aboard his trusty mount, Grasshopper. Grasshopper? Who is this future Cowboy Action Shooter and Ocoee Ranger? Well, it’s none other than ol’ Tri. Ain’t he somethin’? |
| Thanks, Tri, for sharing this bit of nostalgia with us…and thanks to Hopalong Hall* for taking a faded snap shot of a little boy, his dad, and his pony in the yard and making it clear, colorful, and relocating horse and rider to the great outdoors of the Old West. |
| *Hopalong Hall doesn’t shoot and wears a cowboy hat only when Deadman crudely doctor’s a photo of him and adorns him with a proper hat. But, Hopalong has used his skills and improved many of the photos we use in The Ocoee Ranger newsletter and in many of the certificates that we award…and he keeps up with us Rangers here on our website. Thanks pard! Share a photo and a little information, and this could be you. You don’t have to be on a horse. |
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OPEN RANGE |
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A NIFTY NEW WESTERN MOVIE |
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There’s an excellent, new Western movie in the theaters now. It has everything a Western needs: terrific outdoor scenery, plenty of action, good guys, bad guys, period correct guns, a realistic looking town site, a touch of romance, and an attractive leading lady. (Old
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Iron Pants, Swampy and Kevin Costner & Robert Duval in “OPEN RANGE” |
| Chickamauga Clint will probably say that she’s a little old for their interest, but they’ll like the movie) Robert Duval does an excellent job in his role, and Kevin Costner’s good too. Now you might say, “Well, I read the book. So, I don’t need to see the movie.” That would be a mistake. I read the book also, and the movie’s a lot better than the book. There’s more action and a few other differences here and there. If you like Western movies, you’ll like OPEN RANGE. |
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GUNPOWDER CREEK REGULATORS HOLD BENEFIT SHOOT 3RD SAT IN SEPT |
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Howdy, Horsetrader, the president of the Gunpowder Creek Regulators in Lenoir, NC has invited us to a benefit shoot they are having for one of their members on September 20th. Their compadre, Parker Shotgun, is recovering from lung cancer and three brain tumors and needs help. They’re |
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Ocoee Red going to shoot an eight stage-four posse shoot. The shoot |
| fee is their regular shoot fee and there won’t be any price to shoot. They will be selling raffle tickets for $1 each for prizes that have been donated. You can find a map to their range on their website, www.gunpowdercreek.com Horsetrader, and three of his pardners, Pocko, Sixgun Shookster, and Ripshin shot with us in July. |
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Here are the directions to their range, if you’re interested in going: |
| Take Hwy 321 north from Lenoir, NC. Turn right onto Hwy. 268. Cheek’s Store is on the left side of the highway at this intersection. Go .8 of a mile and turn right at Patterson School sign, staying on Hwy 268. Go 1.2 miles and turn left on Pigtail Road (dirt road) Range is .2 of a mile on the left. |
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Horsetrader’s email address is murf@twave.net |
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Thanks, Ocoee Red |
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December/Christmas Shoot & Event |
| Some of us Rangers have been plannin’ a December / Christmas Shoot & Event to be held on Saturday, December 6. We’d gather at the range at the normal time and shoot 3 scenarios (the $10 shoot fee would apply). Then, we’d go to the BelAir Grill in Cleveland for lunch. (private room) Dutch treat. (That means you buy your own grub. It doesn’t mean that Dutch Al will spring for all of us, but he can if he wants too) We’ll exchange gifts (about $10 price limit) in a pick from the pile or from what someone else has taken, and we’ll hopefully have trail / door prizes. We’ll award Annual Certificates of Achievement, and have a good old time. Everyone who wants to come is welcome and anyone who shoots is eligible to put his or her name in the hat for the drawing for trail / door prizes. Families are welcome. Please encourage them to attend. (It ain’t necessary to be in the gift swap, if you don’t want to participate in that part of the event) |
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Dont forget – our next Ocoee Rangers’ shoot on September 27th . The cook will be there. Hamburgers, hotdogs, the trimmin’s and soft drinks and water are available at a very reasonable price. |
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SHOOT THROUGH PASSES FOR 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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| 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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The reel West, the real West and the West of our imagination |
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Duncan Renaldo was a movie actor of the 40’s and 50’s, but he became known and remembered not for his many movie roles, but for one movie character that he also portrayed on TV: The Cisco Kid. As the Cisco Kid, Duncan brought dash, adventure and a style to the screen. As a Mexican cowboy, he was not a comic figure. He was fast with a pistol, commanded respect because of his courage and presence, and he always got the bad guys. Oh sure, other actors had played the Cisco Kid before Duncan assumed the role, and a few years ago, another feller tried his hand at portraying Cisco. But none of them fit the role like Duncan. He was the Cisco Kid. Shucks, this ol’ word |
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Duncan Renaldo as the Cisco Kid slinger even saw Duncan in person decked out as the |
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Cisco Kid. That was in the old Western town of Knoxville, TN more years ago than it’s fun to remember. Cisco, that’s who he was to me back then, gave me an 8 X 10 photo of himself in costume and on his horse, Diablo. Yeah, Diablo was with him when I saw him at Cas Walker’s Super Market in what is now North Knoxville. |
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It’s funny that the Cisco Kid’s lead in identified him as “O. Henry’s famous Robin Hood of the Old West”. If you read O. Henry’s short story “The Caballero’s Way”, you’ll find that his Cisco Kid isn’t Mexican and isn’t a good guy. But who cares. Doesn’t the name “the Cisco Kid” have a ring to it? And if you saw Duncan Renaldo as the Cisco Kid, and you were a kid when you saw him, you wouldn’t doubt that he was the Cisco Kid, and the Cisco Kid was a good guy. Shucks, he still is. |
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| THE WEST OF OUR IMAGINATION | |||||||||
| Deadfoot | |||||||||
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Deadfoot has been a fixture, or maybe a character, at southeast Tennessee Cowboy Action Shoots since 1998. He shot with some of us at Guns & Stuff and then migrated to Cleveland and continued riding the cowboy shooting range. When selecting an alias, he chose Deadfoot. Asked why he selected that name, he once laughed and said, “Well, it was either that or 9 toed Steve.” He chose the better name, don’t you think? During his cowboy shootin’ days, he’s protrayed pistoleros in black, Buffalo Bill in a blond wig and wide Deadfoot |
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brimmed hat, a Doc Holiday that looked like a Mississippi River Boat gambler, and other characters. But he always had fun and he’s always been fun to shoot with. In May, 2003, Deadfoot showed up wearing a big, elaborately designed Mexican sombrero that reminded one of the Cisco Kid, if one was either old enough to remember the Cisco Kid from the 50’s…or subscribes to the Western Channel on Cable TV. In any event, whoever he shows up as, Deadfoot can be counted on to be a good shootin’ compadre and to make a lot of smoke: he shoots black powder. |
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Tiburcio Vasquez |
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Tiburcio Vasquez was a real life Mexican bandit and desperado in old California. Born in 1835, in Monterey, CA, Tiburcio learned to read, write, steal horses, commit robberies, and lead other fellers committing similar acts. He served time in prison more than once, but still continued his wild life style. He was friendly, if he wasn’t robbing or shooting you or stealing your horse, and the lady’s loved him. In fact that’s how the law finally closed in on and captured him. He was being amorous with the wife of one of his henchmen, and the irate feller turned himself in to the law and Tuburcio Vasquez made a deal to turn Tiburcio in and to testify against him. |
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| (Sounds like our current court system, doesn’t it?) The law missed catching Tiburcio, but got close enough that he soon was captured and jailed. Tiburcio was tried and convicted of two counts of murder and was hung in March 1875. While he was in jail awaiting execution, he had many visitors, many of them female. | |||||||||
| In his day, the poor folks in the area hid Tiburcio. They saw him as a sorta good / bad guy. He challenged authority and stole from people more affluent then they were. He was Mexican, like them, and he challenged the white Californians. They, like their Missouri counter parts who hid the James & Younger boys, never considered the reason why the bandit didn’t steal from them: they were too poor to have anything he wanted. | |||||||||
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Vaya con dios, amigos. |
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Newletter Editors: Deadman & Mesquite Millie Website Editor: Tennessee Justice |
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