Blazing Fire-Barrels & Shootin’ Irons … In The Snow!
Keystone Shooting His Trusty ’73 Winchester In The Snow
When the going gets tough, the tough get going, and the rest of us stay home. And that’s what happened at the Ocoee Rangers February Shoot. 46 intrepid shooters ventured out into the snow to ring the steel targets with speeding bullets …. and also the more slowly moving projectiles from some really light loads. When the smoke cleared, Unpleasant emerged as the TOP GUN, but just barely. He and Barkeep Casey tied on rank scores, and it took the total time tie-breaker to identify the winner. Unpleasant shot 1.7 seconds faster. Wow! That was close. Yazoo City Gal, shooting Outlaw, was the Top Lady Shooter. …. And Marshal Too Tall was wearing a rakish, new, flat crowned hat, sorta like Russell Crow wore in the remake of 3:10 to Yuma. But that’s appropriate: the little feller is shooting Outlaw this year, and not doing badly. He shot his 2nd consecutive No Misses Match.
Appalucy McDowall Shooting Her Pistol As Pleasant Times & Kid Ziggy & Unpleasant Look On.
The Top 10 Shooters were (1) Unpleasant (2) Barkeep Casey (3) Hurricane Charly (4) Ocoee Red (5) Clancy O’Conall (6) Happy Pappy (7) Tabasco J.O.T. (8) Purly (9) Pleasant and (10) Polecat Carl. In the Buffalo Shoot, Unpleasant won the Long Range Rifle – Rifle Cal. competition, and Jackson Longstreet won all the rest: Long Range Rifle – Pistol Cal. .. .22 Cal., and Long Range Pistol.
Cowboy Shooting is noted for sportsmanship, and that was demonstrated in the Buffalo Shoot. Jackson Longstreet did repair work on the rifle that Unpleasant used to beat him with in the Long Range Rifle – Rifle Cal. event.
10 shooters shot the match with no misses.
Shoot Results
Top Gun: Unpleasant
Top Lady Shooter: Yazoo City Gal
Cowboy: (1) Unpleasant (2) Hurricane Charly
Lady Wrangler: (1) Miss Kitty Kat
Wrangler: (1) Barkeep Casey (2) Polecat Carl (3) Limp Along Charlie
Lady 49er: (1) LuLu McGoo
49er: (1) Happy Pappy (2) Black Jack Lee (3) Dirtwater Fox
Senior: (1) Ocoee Red (2) Cherokee Slim
Silver Senior: (1) Purly
Elder Statesman: (1) Tin Pot (2) Wildcat Wilkey
Cattle Baron: (1) Tabasco J.O.T.
Lady Gunfighter: (1) Mrs. Pleasant
Gunfighter: (1) Clancy O’Conall (2) Pleasant (3) TN Mongo
Senior Gunfighter: (1) Keystone (2) Yankee Dutchman
Silver Sr. Gunfighter: (1) Tenn Critr (2) Sudden Sam (3) Tenn Smoke
Outlaw: (1) Tombstone (2) Yazoo City Gal (3) Marshal Too Tall
Lady Duelist: (1) Appalucy McDowall
Frontier Cart. Duelist: (1) Long Gulch (2) El Paso Slim
Senior Double Duelist: (1) Double Eagle
Silver Sr. Double Duelist: (1) Pop Dawson (2) Steely I. Justice
Elder Statesman Double Duelist: (1) Shenandoah Will
B-Western: (1) T-Bone Angus (2) Sundance McNeyman
Classic Cowboy: (1) Smokin’ Dave (2) Hoss Carpenter