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Volume 1, Issue No. 9 (Web Edition) November 2003 |
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The November match was beautiful weather wise, with lots of bangs and clangs. Deadman will have all the details real soon, so check back often. The November scores and rankings are posted so check them out. Don’t forget that December 6th is our Christmas Shoot/Family Social and 2003 Awards Celebration. If you need information real quick check the contacts page and get in touch with somebody. Hope to see your there! |
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| HAPPY HOLIDAYS! |
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Newletter Editors: Deadman & Mesquite Millie Website Editor: Tennessee Justice |
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Volume 1, Issue No. 8 (Web Edition) October 2003 |
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TOP TEN SHOOTERS |
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| Top Gun – Marshal Andy – Top Gun |
| Curly Bill |
| Cool Waters |
| Dustin Clays |
| Pleasant |
| Cruel Hand Luke |
| Ocoee Red |
| Tobasco JOT |
| Rusty Spur Slim |
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Horseshoe John |
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OCOEE RANGER BADGES |
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If you want an Ocoee Ranger badge and haven’t ordered yours yet, or haven’t told someone to get you one for Christmas, remember, the base cost of the badge now is $52. In January 2004, the badge will cost $58.50. Contact / have the gift giver 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. |
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December 6th/Christmas Shoot – Family Event & 2003 Awards Presentation |
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We’ve been workin’ on the Christmas Shoot & Family event. So far, sponsors have donated bullets, brass, a badge, a subscription to Shoot Magazine, dusters, knives and other nifty prizes to be awarded by drawing. But you have to be present to win. We’ll shoot 4 stages and then saddle up and journey over to the BelAire Grill for lunch. After we eat, we’ll present Annual |
| Awards , draw for prizes (they’re still comin’ in), and do other stuff. So, mark your calendar and plan to attend. Bring your better half or significant other and the little cowboys and cowgirls too. Remember, it’s a family event. |
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2003 OCOEE RANGER AWARDS |
| In order to be eligible to be considered to receive an annual shooting award, you have to have shot in at least three Ocoee Ranger matches in 2003. If you have shot in only two, November will be your last chance to qualify. Awards are presented at the December whing-ding after the match, and the results of the December shoot (4 stages) will not count in 2003 annual results. |
| Here are the 2003 Annual Awards that will be presented: 2003 Top Gun, 2nd – 10th place shooters of the year, Top Cowgirl Shooter, Accurate Shooters, Spirit of the Game, Top Hands, and some others. |
| When you turn in your Christmas wish list and when you buy stuff for yourself, don’t forget the generous folks who sponsor our Christmas Shoot and Family Event this year: |
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NEW COOKS ON THE RANGE |
| In October, new cooks signed on to provide grub to hungry cowboys and cowgirls at Ocoee Rangers shoots. One of them may look familiar…he’s Old Iron Pants’ father. The other is his mother. When the Gabors learned that Dan, our previous cook, |
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had changed jobs and could no longer be free on Saturdays, they signed up for the job, packed their chuck wagon, and got ready for the round-up. With Mom and Pop cookin’ for the cowfolk and Old Iron Pants shootin’, it shows once again that Cowboy Shootin’ is a family activity. Oh yeah, Dan said, “Good bye, and thanks to everyone for their business.” |
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The Gabors – (L-R) Old Iron Pants & the new cooks. Sis, Mom & Pop We’ll Post A Menu Here With Prices As Soon As We Get One From The New Cooks. |
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BOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM IN CARTERSVILLE, GA WELL WORTH THE VISIT |
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At Deadfoot’s recommendation, Mesquite Millie and I visited the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, GA early this month. He said that it had terrific paintings & bronze sculptures and Western movie posters, and it does. Millie and I spent 3 hours there. We arrived just as a short orientation movie began. It’s very good. We skipped the guided tour and just roamed around on our own. They have cowboy, Indian and civil war paintings and lots of sculptures: large and small. One statue is of John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn, mounted on ol’ Beau and holding his big loop Winchester. They also have a gift shop with books and other stuff. Photography is not allowed inside |
| the gallery. But they have two real nifty life-size statues of a cowboy on a bucking horse outside the building. You can take pictures of them. If you live in the Cleveland, Chattanooga, Dalton, Ringgold area, it’s well worth the trip. You Knoxville cowfolk may not be as tempted to visit, unless you have other things to do in the area. (Cartersville is about 40 miles north of Atlanta.) |
| It’s easy to find. Just exit I-75 South at Exit 290. Go west, that’s turn right if you’re driving south, to Hwy 41, and go south a couple of 3 miles. Then turn right on East Church Street. The museum is about 2 blocks on the right. It’s a big white building. It’s open every day except Monday. The ticket price is $6 for adults, less for kids. Deadfoot’s right…it’s an excellent Western art museum. |
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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 |
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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, |
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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. |
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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. |
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| THE WEST OF OUR IMAGINATION | ||||||
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.” |
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John Chisum |
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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 |
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| 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? | ||||||
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Buenos dias, amigos. |
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Newletter Editors: Deadman & Mesquite Millie Website Editor: Tennessee Justice |
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