Volume 7, Issue No. 9                                            September 2009

  WOW! IT REALLY RAINED. WHERE WAS THE REV. ADAM JONES?

Here’s how Ocoee Red described the September Shoot. “Man, it was a real monsoon. After the 2nd stage, we moved all the tables under the sheds, and it wasn’t too bad.  But it really rained. With the water washing over the gravel, it looked like a river.  We got wet, but we had fun. The Rev. Adam Jones wasn’t there, and he sure didn’t use his influence to keep it from raining.” That about says it all for the conditions on the range. But 44 cowboys & cowgirls limbered up their shootin’ arms and battled the moisture and the clang gang (the metal targets).

S.A. Pondwater (his name sure fit on this day) was the Top Gun, and Amorous Ali was the Top Cowgirl Shooter. The Top 10 shooters were (1) S.A. Pondwater (2) Unpleasant (3) Pleasant (4) Ocoee Red (5) Tabasco JOT (6) Festus D. Deputy (7) Polecat Carl (8) Clancy O’Conall (9) T-Bone Angus (10) Purly. 5 Shooters shot matches with no misses: Ocoee Red, Tabasco JOT, Festus D. Deputy, Clancy O’Conall and T-Bone Angus. In the Buffalo Shoot competition, Outlaw Tracker won the Long Range Pistol Shoot, Outrider placed 1st in the .22 Caliber, and Marshal Too Tall finished 1st in Long Range Single Shot and Lever Action Pistol Cartridge Rifle competition.

Believe it or not, 2 shooters shot their 1st cowboy & cowgirl shoot on this very challenging day. Diamond Girl, wife of Clancy O’Conall and mom of Marshal W.D., shot her first match, and between the raindrops, she shot 2 clean stages. Johnny Behand, who accompanied Tio Don and was the other 1st time shooter, shot 3 clean stages. Ranger Ben, a Buckaroo shooting his 2nd Ocoee Ranger match, had 1 clean stage. Congratulations, folks.  Good Shooting.

Thanks to Sundance McNeyman, Festus D. Deputy and Ocoee Red for getting posses assigned and to Festus for complying the scores and getting them to Deadman for publishing.  Deadman and Mesquite Millie missed the moisture on shoot day.

 SHOOTING CATEGORY WINNERS:

… TOP GUN –  S.A. Pondwater 

… Top Cowgirl Shooter – Amorous Ali

B-Western: (1) T-Bone Angus (2) Sundance McNeyman

Elder Statesman: (1) Tabasco JOT

Frontier Cartridge Duelist: (1) Owlhoot Hardin

Duelist:  (1) Double Barrel (2) Awful Close

Gunfighter: (1) Pleasant (2) Kid Ziggy (3) Pyro

49er: (1) Ocoee Red (2) Festus D. Deputy

Lady 49er: (1) Amouros Ali

Traditional Cowboy: (1) Unpleasant (2) Marshal W.D.

Wrangler: (1) S.A. Pondwater (2) Polecat Carl (3) Bad Arm Slim

Senior: (1) Purly (2) Sudden Sam (3) Tucson Tuco

Silver Senior: (1) Outrider (2) Wildcat Wilkey

 First Time Shooters, Hope You’ll Come Back On A More Cordial Day    

 Christmas Event Collections to Date = $462

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