Bring on the Flowers .. We Had April Showers All Day … Off & On

We had a real good turnout at the April Shoot.  55 shooters braved the elements and ventured out to shoot between or through the raindrops.  Now Too Tall will  say, “Hey.  He got it wrong, again. There were only 54 shooters.  And he’d be sorta correct.  1 shooter (me) missed his holster and dropped a loaded pistol at the loading table, before firing a shot. So, 55 folks really did venture out to shoot. But only 54 did so.

We shot the stages from under the sheds: thank goodness for them. It was a bit crowded under there, what with shooters, counters, observers, goof offs, gun carts, shooting tables and other stuff. But it was dry. Unpleasant said that as he was moving from shoot position 1 to position 2, Yankee Dutchman was standing there in his way, looking like a linebacker ready to make a tackle. But either Unpleasant was really fast on his feet, or Yankee Dutchman had compassion for him and let him scamper away to shoot.  And he shot well: Unpleasant was the TOP GUN.

 

Loose Cinch is a dyed in the wool Outlaw class shooter. That means that when the rest of us Cowgirl and Cowboy Shooters shoot our pistols at arm’s length using the sights, he and his Outlaw shooting pals shoot their pistols from the hip, elbow bent, and shooting pistols with 1 hand.  It’s sorta like shooting gunfighter, but not using the sights and not straightening your arms when you point at the targets. And Loose Cinch and his Outlaw shooting pals also shoot their shotguns from the hip, pointing at the targets rather than aiming at them from the shoulder. Sounds more difficult than the way you shoot?  It is.  Ask Last Kiss.  She’s a good gunfighter shooting cowgirl, who hits almost all her targets and has shot No Misses Matches in other categories.  In March, someone talked her into shooting Outlaw.  She missed 25 shots. That’s not normal for her. This old word scratcher, taking pictures of her as she was shooting, as he frequently does, observed her take 11 shots with her trusty shotgun to hit 1 of the shotgun targets. Outlaw is a difficult category in which to shoot.

 This is a round-about lead in to saying that at the March 2013 Ocoee Rangers Shoot, Loose Cinch shot a No Misses Match shooting Outlaw. Not a single cowgirl or cowboy has ever done that at an Ocoee Rangers match before Loose Cinch did it. In April, he continued his Outlaw pursuit, shooting Colt Navy pistols and black powder.  Like Judge’m All Duncan, he showed what blackpowder looks like on a rainy day.

Last Kiss was the Top Lady Shooter. The Top 10 Shooters were: (1) Unpleasant (2) Marshal Too Tall (3) Hurricane Charly (4) Happy Pappy (5) Purly (6) T-Bone Angus (7) Ocoee Red (8) Outcast (9) Tabasco JOT and (10) Slater. 11 shooters shot with no misses: Unpleasant, Purly, T-Bone Angus, Yankee Dutchman, Wildcat Wilkey, Sheriff Lord, Horseshoe John, the Dirtwater Fox, Hide Cutter, Delta Desperado, and the Rev. Adam Jones. Marshal Too Tall won all events in the Buffalo Shoot: Long Range Lever Action Rifle, Single Shot Rifle, Long Range Pistol and .22 Cal.

SHOOT RESULTS:

TOP GUN:  UNPLEASANT

TOP LADY SHOOTER:  LAST KISS

Buckaroo: (1) Lil Undertaker (2) Trooper Troy (3) Jon Autry

Young Gun: (1) Tatar Salad

Elder Statesman: (1) Tabasco JOT (2) Wildcat Wilkey (3) Linc

Elder Statesman Duelist: (1) Horseshoe John (2) Rev. Adam Jones

Lady Silver SR: (1) Sassy Motchie (2) Two Step Net

Silver Senior: (1) Purly (2) Tin Pot (3) Tucson Tuco

Silver Senior Duelist: (1) Shenandoah Will

Senior: (1) Marshal Too Tall (2) Ocoee Red (3) Dirtwater Fox

Senior Duelist: (1) Carolina Floyd

Senior Double Duelist: (1) Double Eagle (2) Sudden Sam

Senior Gunfighter: (1) Yankee Dutchman (2) Tenn Smoke

Lady 49er:(1) Lulu McGoo (2) Amorous Ali (3) Shez  A Pistol

49er: (1) Happy Pappy (2) Iron Horse Dan

Lady B-Western: (1) Mrs. Pleasant

B-Western:  (1) T-Bone Angus (2) Polecat Carl

Classic Cowboy: (1) Hoss Carpenter (2) Smokin’ Dave

Gunfighter: (1) Outcast (2) Slater (3) Pleasant

Frontier Cartridge Gunfighter: (1) Judge’m All Duncan

Outlaw 2: (1) Yazoo City Gal

Outlaw: (1) Loose Cinch

Wrangler: (1)Undertaker (2) Hide Cutter (3) Bad Arm Slim       

Cowboy: (1) Unpleasant (2) Hurricane Charly

Duelist: (1) Lucky Lightburne

Frontier Cartridge Duelist: (1) Long Gulch

BUFFALO SHOOT:Lever Action Rifle, Single Shot Rifle, Long Range Pistol & .22 Cal. … Marshal Too Tall

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