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"You reckon that's from shooting a lot?"
Cowboy Action in Niles, Ohio
Thursday January 25, 2018
It was a good day and a good match! I smiled so much my face was sore!
The day started off a little weird but when the doors opened at the club, everything fell into place.
New cardboard was perfectly hung on the down range wall with plenty of solid surface to hang a bunch of surly copy paper! We shot 5 fun-filled stages and everything ran as smooth as my gold Thom Duma with a new battery! The H is silent. HaHa!
Twelve shooters showed to sling some hot lead and try their luck at winning the Thursday Work Shirker Open Class CAS match at the Western Reserve Fish and Game Club in beautiful Niles, Ohio.
We shot the color-coded Tall “T” stage first, right out of the chute, and the goodly merriment was started! “Come on now, it’s gonna be a nice day!” Oops! Sorry, Hayseed! Next time we’ll number’em!
Next came the Krazy Thom sweep with a capital “K” and a silent “H” followed by the Four Bad Hombres sweep. Two silent H’s! Jeez!
And then it was “time to shoot really fast” with the Big Thyme Dump Targets and the Possum H. Skinner stage. Two more silent H’s! Double Jeez!
We included a disastrous “high score wins” shotgun target on the last stage which was won by Hayseed. He defied the laws of physics and ballistics to win that one!
The prize was a good-lookin’ pair of green mittens with a hide-away thumb flask! Congratulations!
Cheatin’ Charlie won First Place. He received a “good-lookin’” First Place leather ribbon handcrafted by Mo himself! He also got an armload of other various gifts and goodies plus bragging rights, of course! Congratulations, Charlie!
I don’t know who came in Second or Third; I heard it but I wasn’t ready with pen or paper, but I know our good friend Duelin’ Diehl shot the match clean and smooth! Another silent H???
Congratulations, Double D!
Slow Mo came in Seventh place again! Lucky number 7! That’s me!
Sixgun Seamus (“the ‘H’ don’t be silent here!” Go figure!) should have gotten an award for the farthest launching of a Rooger ejector housing and spring! I don’t know how I missed that one but I did!
I want to thank everyone for coming and participating, helping out with all the posse duties, sign up, set up, take down, running the timer, fixing the guns, loaning equipment, and all the other good stuff it takes have a shootin’ match. I sincerely thank you.
It was good to see Rattlesnake Ruby again. I haven’t seen him in a while and thanks to Missouri Jake for helping with sign-up and working the unloading table.
Lawless Lorin came to visit us from Pennsylvania. I didn’t recognize him at first ‘cause he didn’t have any grandkids around him! Sorry, Lawless!
He’s amazing; he can do 5 things at once and he never runs out of energy! Kinda like Hagen! Must be from hangin’ around all those grandkids!
T.J. Law Dog came back to see us sportin’ some new stuff and some super-fine hardware. This man is gettin’ serious! Thank you, Seamus for helping out with the spare leather.
Pretty soon he’ll be walkin’ away with ribbons and prizes!
Please keep all our friends, who couldn’t attend, in your thoughts. This is flu season and cold season and lottsa folks are under the weather for one reason or another and some folks are going through some challenging times. Please remember them. Thank you.
Our next match is Saturday February 10th, 2018.
Look for the Krooked Krazy Thom sweep and the Ohio sweep, the messy Lake Park Raider sweep, another Big Time Dump sweep, and Seamus’ Big “P” sweep! I’m gonna try to shootem’ all clean! Yessir!
Visitors are always welcome! Eye protection and hearing protection is mandatory!
We’re in the middle of our winter season and have 6 more indoor matches. Come out and see us and shoot where it’s warm and dry, the coffee’s always fresh, and all the donuts are good looking!
All my best,
Slow Mo Dern
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!