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Volume 2, Issue No. 2 (Web Edition) March 2004 |
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CHECK BACK SOON FOR MARCH 6th SHOOT NEWSLETTER |
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Will your name be listed here? |
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SHOOT RESULTS |
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Traditional Duelist Modern Black Powder Cowgirl Senior Gunfighter Buffalo Shoot (Peep Sight) (Open Sight) Challenged Cowboy Cowgirl |
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| OCOEE RANGERS SHOOT THE 4th SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH UNLESS OTHERWISE POSTED |
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Newletter Editors: Deadman & Mesquite Millie Website Editor: Tennessee Justice |
TOP 10 SHOOTERS 
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Volume 2, Issue No. 1 (Web Edition) January 2004 |
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TOP TEN SHOOTERS |
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| Top Gun – Cruel Hand Luke – Top Gun |
| Tabasco JOT |
| Sunshine Billy |
| Pleasant |
| Blayde Hollister |
| Marshall Too Tall |
| Fiddleback |
| Horseshoe John |
| Whiskey River Nelson |
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T-Bone Angus |
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OCOEE RANGER BADGES |
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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. |
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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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Volume 1, Issue No. 8 (Web Edition) October 2003 |
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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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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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