Competition …. Ghosts, Spooks And A Flying Witch!

 

October is the month of Halloween and ghosts and creatures of the night. But it’s also the time of year when leaves are donning fall colors and the sky, between the clouds, is brilliant blue. Such was the Ocoee Rangers October Shoot Day. Attendance was down a bit: 55 shooters attended and participated. Lots of other regular shooters were away attending the TN – KY Black Powder State Shoot. Come to think of it, that’s probably why it was cloudy from time to time at our shoot: all that black powder smoke drifted west and sometimes obscured the sun. But smoke or clouds, Ocoee Rangers shooters shot it out with swirling targets on the Texas star, knock-downs, statics and with a flying “witch” that flew across the range. Shooters had 5 chances to hit the witch, blazing away with 1 of their six-guns.

S.A. Pondwater was the Top Gun for October, and Amorous Ali was the Top Cowgirl Shooter. The Buffalo Shoot was a bit active this month. It took 3 shoot-offs before Tin Pot emerged as the Long Ranger Pistol winner. Then it took 4 shoot-offs for Marshal Too Tall to win the Lever Action Rifle competition. Too Tall also won the .22 Caliber and Long Range Single Shot Rifle events.

 

The Top 10 Shooters were (1) S.A. Pondwater (2) Unpleasant (3) Festus D. Deputy (4) Pleasant (5) Marshal Too Tall (6) Ocoee Red (7) Widowmaker (8) D.Q. Jones (9) Slater and (10) Polecat Carl. Polecat has moved back to the area and will be with us monthly from now on.

 

13 Shooters shot matches with no misses: S.A. Pondwater, Festus D. Deputy, Pleasant, Widowmaker, D.Q. Jones, Polecat Carl, Purly, Outcast, Limp Along Charlie, Awful Close, Bad Eye Tom, Tellico and Buckshot John.

 

SHOOT RESULTS

49er ……………………….. 1. Festus D. Deputy 2. Marshal Too Tall 3. Ocoee Red

Traditional ………………..… 1. Unpleasant 2. Slater 3. Marshal W. D.

Modern ………..…………….1. S.A. Pondwater 2. Polecat Carl 3. Limp Along Charlie

Gunfighter ……………….…1. Pleasant 2. Widowmaker 3. Keystone

Senior ………………………….1. Purly 2. Tin Pot 3. Sledge

Duelist ……………………….1 Awful Close 2. Ranger Roger

Silver Senior ………………….1. Outrider 2. Rev. Adam Jones 3. Sheriff Donald

Classic Cowboy …………. 1. Lightning McCoy

Senior Duelist …………. 1. D.Q. Jones 2. Horseshoe John

Elder Statesman …………. 1. Linc

B-Western ………………..…1. T-Bone Angus 2. Tio Don

Black Powder Cartridge … 1. Oracle

Lady Silver Senior ………..1. Deadeye Daisy

Lady Traditional …………..1. Short Fuze

Lady 49er ……………………1. Amorous Ali 2. the Duchess

Lady Junior ………………… 1. Calico Nicole

 

 

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