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October 26, 2017
Cowbooy Action at the Brookfield Conservation Club!
It was a brisk, chilly, bootiful morning and I had to break out the hunting hand-warmers! ‘Course, it always feels cold when a cowboy shooter finds himself right smack in the middle of the lair of heavy paranormal activity! Yikes!
The Shenango River Rats rode into the spooky little cowboy town of Yankee Flats this Thursday! The little town was plagued by a menagerie of spooks, bats, bone-heads, grinning pumpkins, and drooling zombies! No spirits were found ‘cause that don’t go with shootin’! Nope!
We descended on that spooky little town just like The Magnificent Seven! The Seven Samurai and Stockburn and his Deputies had nothing on us! We were The Ghostbusters! YeeHaa! Get’em, boys!
We peppered the vampire bats with #8 bat-shot and rang Hell’s bells with hot lead! We blasted a spooky-moving skeleton elk, a killer clown, and a couple ugly diamonds! Gus and Lori-darlin’ had to be rescued from Green Duck and his candy-snatchin’ gang of zombies, monsters, ghosts, and punkin’ heads!
We shot a punkin head bonus target and blond Frankenstein, (“Hey! Blondie!”). Cleaned out the haunted ghost hotel, shot more punkins and a creepy saucer rack full of scary bone-heads! The Outlaw style of creepy saucer shootin’ was called for! When the Outlaw style calls-ya gotta do it! Ol’ Mo did pretty good!
Finish’em off with a Lawman style shotgun blast! KaBooom!
There was a giant, hairy, spider crawling down from the church steeple; he was a wacky wall-walker! Unarmed MoNique was cool, hanging out at the picnic tables wearing a sombrero; she’s a bone-head in bloomers and our old buddy Elmo was dressed as a buzzing yellow jacket hovering over at the saloon, pleading with us not to shoot him.
He made out OK! The “Drifter” wasn’t there! HaHa!
Creepy trick ‘r treat kid, DeMona, was hanging out the window at Miss Katie’s with a pumpkin full of squeaky rats and Boney Maroni was still hanging around the scaffold! A spooky day was had by all!
Now it’s time for coffee, prizes, awards, and Pa Hagen’s famous, home-made soup! Yum! It was delicious! Just the thing after a chilly day of ghost-busting! Mr. Taggart would be proud!
Here are our results:
Swiftwater Jack came in first place. Congratulations, Swiftwater!
Krazy Thom, the wherewolf with the silent letter “H”, came in second!
Duelin’ Diehl, our stage coach driver, came in third. Relax and leave the drivin’ to Ol’ Double D!
Fourth place went to master ghost blaster, Slow Mo Dern! “I ain’t scared of no ghosts!”
Shenango Joe won the fifth place spot and Mister Smoke and Fire, Hagen, came in sixth. Congratulations to everyone!
Clean shooters were Swiftwater Jack and Duelin’ Diehl!
Shenango Joe missed a clean match by one. AwwSh**t! Better luck next time!
Thanks to everyone who came out to shoot and help. Thanks for helping with set-up and take-down, equipment, and expertise.
Thanks to the Brunswick Kid, Hagen, and Curly for helping with all the leaf-blowing and target stenciling, painting, and help during the match.
Thanks to my grand-daughter, Shotgun Shelby Rae, for taking photographs of all us spook-busting cowboy shooters! Thank you, Shelby!
This was the last match of the season down at this cowboy range. Thank you all for coming out to shoot with us, the Shenango River Rats! Thank you for your support all year and hopefully we can continue to do this next year.
Starting in November we will shoot indoors at the Western Reserve Fish and Game Association on Third Street in Niles, Ohio. We’ll be the Lake Park Raiders through the winter months until May.
Please keep all our friends from the past and the present, in your thoughts. Say some good words for them and their families. It couldn’t hurt. Thank you.
Remember, visitors are always welcome to come and watch.
Bring your safety glasses and ear plugs or ear muffs.
When things get mighty creepy, you know who to call! The Shenango River Rats! That’s who! See you next time!
All my best,
Slow Mo Dern
Visit us at: http://shenangoriverrats.wixsite.com/sass
“Cowboy Action Shooting is a wonderful sport and these activities promote honesty, moral correctness, a love of history, and it’s a heck of a lot of fun!”
- David Chicoine
Think about it, where else could you go and dress up like a cowboy or western movie actor, talk like you were from Wyoming, even though you grew up in Akron, enjoy your favorite sport (shooting) and play the ham all at the same time without the slightest chance of being ridiculed?
Go out there and try it, you’ll be glad you did!