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.

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16 Shooters Have No Misses Matches At September Shoot

Not many steel bad guys got away in September. 16 of the 71 shooters hit all their targets, earning them Perfect Match Certificates for the Shoot. That means 23% of the folks who shot had No-Misses Matches. And the match had its challenges, among which were the Texas Star, which was shot with pistols, and a real distant target, which if hit earned shooters a bonus of time removed from their scores. And Last Kiss and Fast Harley had an inter-family competition. Both shot in the Gunfighter category. He placed 16th overall and she placed 18th. Both only missed 3 shots. And their overall time was only half a second apart.

Fast Harley and Last Kiss

Unpleasant was the Top Gun for September, and Last Kiss was, once again, the Top Cowgirl Shooter. Marshal Too Tall came in 2nd in the main match and won the .22 Caliber, Lever Action Rifle and Long Range Single Shot Rifle competitions in the pre match Buffalo Shoot. Tin Pot won the Long Range Pistol competition.

The Top 10 Shooters were (1) Unpleasant (2) Marshal Too Tall (3) Festus D. Deputy (4) Mr. Pistol (5) Pleasant (6) Clancy O’conall (7) T-Bone Angus (8) Ocoee Red (9) El Carrera and (10) Lightning Mc Coy.

16 Shooters shot matches with no misses: Tenn Smoke, Tennessee Hoss, Owlhoot Hardin, Yazoo City Gal, Rev. Adam Jones, Vinegarroon, Tennessee Hawk, Ranger Roger, Jackson Longstreet, Lightning McCoy, El Carrera, T-Bone Angus, Clancy O’Conall, Mr. Pistol, Marshal Too Tall, and Unpleasant.

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