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Volume 4, Issue No. 3 March 25, 2006
65 SHOOTERS, INCLUDING 8 COWGIRLS, BRAVED THE COLD AT MARCH 25TH SHOOT
What could you say about the March 25th shoot? How about, “cold”? That just about describes it. But the turn out was good. 65 daring cowfolk showed up to battle the Clang Gang. And 8 of them good guys were cowgirls. Clint Eastwood was well represented. Hombre Sin Nombre showed up decked out as Eastwood’s “man with no name” character, complete with hat, serape, mini-cigar, gun-rig and beard stubble. (Hombre Sin Nombre in Spanish means man with no name.) But it didn’t end there. Dustin Clays was sportin’ a Josey Wales hat. Old Clint would have smiled at them and have said, “You boys made my day.” Or maybe he’d have wondered off to watch the cowgirls shoot and have ignored both of them.
The Eastwood Cowboys.
L – R: Dustin Clays & Hombre sin Nombre
The cowgirls shot real good. (Professor Owlhoot Hardin would have said they shot well.) Killin’ Time was the top cowgirl shooter, shooting Lady Duelist. She also shot a match with no misses. Other shooters who shot no miss matches were: Double Eagle, Marshal Too Tall, Festus D. Deputy, Pleasant, Cool Waters, Owlhoot Hardin, Tennessee Ted and Hombre Sin Nombre,
Double Eagle was the Top Gun, followed closely by Marshal Too Tall.
In the Buffalo shoot/pre match side shoot, Pleasant and Marshal Too Tall had to shoot 2 shoot-offs before Too Tall, King of the Side Match, won the Long Range Lever Action Rifle Shoot. He also won the .22 cal. and the Single Shot Long Range Rifle Shoot. Mad Mike won the Long Range Pistol competition, then he had to ride real fast and hard to get to work.
OUT ON THE RANGE
Barn Scoop shoots yellow boy, black powder style.
Emerald Isle loads & Ocoee Red times.
Adios, Whiskey River Nelson
Unfortunately, this is the last regular Ocoee Rangers match for Whiskey River Nelson. Like a lot of cowboys of the silver screen and in real life, he’s headed to Texas. Our loss is their gain.
If you lost a hatband at the shoot, see Mesquite Millie at the next shoot.
SHOOT RESULTS: Top Gun – Double Eagle
Buffalo Shoot: .22 cal – Marshal Too Tall
Long Range Lever Action – Marshal Too Tall
Long Range Pistol – Mad Mike
Long Range Single Shot – Marshal Too Tall
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Traditional 1. Dustin Clays 2. Fiddleback 3. Cool Waters |
Cowgirl Traditional 1. Deadeye Daisy 2. Dagnabit Deb 3. Emerald Isle |
Black Powder 1. Barn Scoop 2. T-Bone Angus 3. Catoosa Kid |
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Senior 1. Linc 2. Tin Pot 3. Wildcat Wilkey |
49er 1. Double Eagle 2. Marshal Too Tall 3. Festus D. Deputy |
Traditional 1. Dustin Clays 2. Fiddleback 3. Cool Waters |
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Duelist 1. Tucson Tuco 2. Fast Harley 3. Owlhoot Hardin |
Gunfighter 1. Pleasant 2. Widowmaker |
Outlaw 1. Loose Cinch |
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Lady Duelist 1. Killin’ Time |
Modern 1. Limp Along Charlie |
Classic 1. Lightning McCoy |
NEXT SHOOT – APRIL 22
The Buffalo Shoot begins 8:00 am. Registration 8:30 am – Posse Leader walk-through 9:15 am – Safety meeting 9:45 am – Shooting follows ! All times are Eastern Time.
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The Ocoee Ranger page 2 March 25, 2006
The Reel West, The Real West and the West of Our Imagination
THE REEL WEST – R. G. Armstrong
R. G. Armstrong
Robert Golden Armstrong is an actor who helped make Western movies good. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he graduated from college at the University of North Carolina, and then headed to New York where he appeared in many stage productions. But, in time, Bob headed west to appear in movies. And, in addition to many other roles, he appeared in a lot of Western movies and Western TV shows. Sometimes he was a good guy, but usually, he was a bad guy, sometimes a very sanctimonious sounding bad guy.
During his career, Bob appeared in HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL, THE RIFLEMAN, ZANE GREY THEATER, and many other small screen outings. But he also appeared in big screen movies. Shucks, he was in one that the critics recognize as a Western movie classic, RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY. That movie stared Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea. Bob played the father of the gal who ran away from home to get away from him and to pursue a no good miner. He also appeared with Kris Kristofferson in PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID. Bob was the deputy who harassed & threatened Billy with a shotgun and told him that the shells were loaded with dimes. The Kid shoots him with the shotgun and says, “Keep the change, Bob.” That was his name in the movie, Bob.
Bob ’s acting career spanned 60 years. In his various roles, he was very good. He could play guys that you liked, and he could very convincingly play villains and others that you didn’t like. In short, Bob could play a major character, or back up the hero as a good guy, or make the hero look good when playing a villain. He was versatile. But this sounds like he’s gone, and he isn’t. He’s just retired. Do you think Bob ever considered getting into Cowboy Action Shooting? That’s what Linc and Owlhoot Hardin do, and they’re retired.
THE WEST OF OUR IMAGINATION – KEYSTONE and DAGNABIT DEB
Keystone and Dagnabit Deb Keystone has been cowboy shooting for 3 ½ years. Introduced to the sport by a work associate, Tennessee Hawk, he started shooting as a double Duelist, with a pair of Ruger .357 magnum pistols. But he knew from the start that he was going to shoot Gunfighter. And real Gunfighters shoot .45’s. So about a year ago, Keystone bought a pair of 7½ inch barrel Ruger .45’s. What does a cowboy do with a set of pistols that he’s out-grown? Sell them, of course. So, Keystone entertained the idea of selling them to Fiddleback. But sometimes plans change. His better half, who had been thinking about getting into the game, decided she’d better move before the .357’s found a new home. And she did. So for the last year, there has been both a cowboy and a cowgirl shooter in the family.
How’d they get their aliases? Well, Keystone is from Pennsylvania. He could have been the Peppermint Patty Kid (Peppermint Patty candy was made in his home town), but he chose “Keystone”, from the Keystone state. Deb sorta earned her name. When she and Keystone went out to practice and she did something Keystone thought she should do differently, he’d say, “Dag nabit, Deb”: her name is Debbie. So, Dagnabit Deb was born. Her goal is to out shoot Keystone.
What does Keystone like best about cowboy shooting? “The people and having a good time. What have you ever done that’s more fun than cowboy shooting with the 2 groups we shoot with (Knoxville and Cleveland)?”
THE REAL WEST – ANNIE RODGERS
Annie Rodgers & Harvey Logan
Annie Rodgers was born as Della Moore in Texas and grew up to become a career woman: a lady of pleasure. For you sheltered cowboys, that means that Annie was a prostitute. She worked in saloons and cathouses, including Fanny Porter’s house of pleasure in San Antonio. Annie was a slim, dark haired, attractive gal, and when Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch came calling at Miss Fanny’s, Annie consorted with them. They were young, wild, not bad looking and had plenty of money, while they were there. Eventually, she took a shine to Harvey Logan, aka Kid Curry, became his woman and traveled a bit with him, sometimes posing as his wife.
Annie wasn’t a robber, but she did perform a useful service for the boys. No, not that. She fenced the stuff that the boys robbed.
In 1901, Harvey and a few friends robbed a Great Northern train near Wagner, Montana. After the robbery, they scattered. They had taken a lot of large denomination bills, the kind that attracted attention when they’d try to cash one, and a lot of bank notes, which hadn’t been signed and were technically not legal tender. Harvey solved that problem: he signed some of the banknotes himself. Then, he had Annie try to convert large bills to small stuff and pass some of the bank notes.
Bingo! Annie was caught trying to trade large bills for small ones, was arrested and was taken to jail…..in Nashville, TN. Annie didn’t talk, and she kept her appearance top shape. The attractive young woman got a lot of newspaper coverage, and a businessman in Nashville became her benefactor and paid her legal bills. At that time, her feller, Harvey Logan, was a guest in the Knox County jail in Knoxville. He didn’t talk either.
Annie went to trial and was found not guilty by a sympathetic jury, who observed the trials and tribulations of the attractive young woman. She left town and departed Tennessee. A short time later, Harvey escaped from the Knox County jail. A year later, Harvey was dead, following a piddley-dip robbery. Annie disappeared.
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