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"Hey, howdy! Nice to see yuh! This yore first time at Niles?"
"You look like you guys could use some coffee! We got some that was ground this morning!"
"Nice duds! You get them from Bubba? You look like you might be a couple guns short of a full arsenal..."
"Which one of you pards is Lemuel?"
Don't these hombres look sorta familiar? Reminds me of a certain sweep we've done from time to time!
Saturday January 12, 2019
Indoor Cowboy Action with the Lake Park Raiders!
Yeehaww!
This was quite a day!
Lottsa fun, lottsa shootin’, and lottsa good people got together in Niles, Ohio at the Western Reserve Fish and Game Club and we had us an A-1, first class shootin’ match complete with “wonders, blunders, and various goodly states of merriment!”
We started with 24 in the posse and ran out of donuts in short order!
Here are the match placements.
Sixgun Seamus was our First Place winner! Congratulations, Seamus!
He won a big jug of Rain X! Prizes are getting’ better, must be!
2. Slow Mo Dern was second place! Ain’t that a wonderment!
3. Rye Miles, all the way from Euclid, Ohio! He would have been second place but insisted on aiming his shotgun! Hahaha!
4. Lenny James, the other James brother! He’s gettin’ purty fast!
5. Clean-shootin’ T.J. Lawdog! Pretty soon he’ll be takin’ windshield washer fluid home! Hahahah!
6. Pennsylvania’s own Willy Goodnews, the gentleman Gunfighter!
7. Lucky No.7, New York’s own Low Plains Drifter!
8. Duelin’ Diehl, Ol’ Double D! Another fine gentleman!
9. Krazy Thom, “the H is silent!” That’s crazy!
10. Flat Iron Mike! Lookin’ better n’ better!
11. Plow Boy! All the way from Weirton, West Virginia! Welcome, Plow boy!
12. The dapper Turkey Flats Jack, all the way from Turkey Flats! Welcome back, Jack!
13. Lucky 13! Our good buddy, Hagen! Don’t forget to buy some tickets!
14. Shenango Joe! The E is silent! Joe is the Master Indoor Shot Shell Manufacturer! You’ve heard of Joe’s Garage?
15. Prairie Dawg! All the way from Cleveland Heights, Ohio. We’re still lookin’ for that front sight, it’s here somewhere!
16. Muzzle Flash. Almost shot a clean match! AwwSh**t! Missed it by that much…
17. Clean-shootin’ Brunswick Kid with his blazin’ Bisleys!
18. Our old friend from up north, Loquacious Loner!
19. Cayenne Kay, one of the nicest folks we know!
20. Good friend, Deadwood Dave, an asset to any posse!
21. Heartless Hanna with the snappy duds! She has a heart of gold!
22. Akron legend Wyatt N. Erdy aka Erdy Rose, the Singin’ Sidekick!
23. Rattlesnake Ruby, finishing strong in the twenty-third place.
Clean shooters were the Brunswick Kid and T.J. Lawdog!
AwwSh**t recognition for this match goes to Muzzle Flash, Plow Boy, and Duelin’ Diehl. AwwSh**t!
Congratulations to all our winners and participants!
Four states were represented today, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, and Ohio. Mo’s state of confusion doesn’t count!
Thank you for coming out to sling some lead with us! I hope everyone made it home safely. There was lottsa snow coming down to the south of us.
A big welcome to first time Niles shooter, Plow Boy. I know Plow Boy from Brown Township. Welcome, Plow Boy! And his Dad!
Plow Boy came all the way from West Virginia and brought his dad! I offered to let Dad shoot some but he wasn’t havin’ any. He was happy to sit and watch. I didn’t know it was Plow Boy’s dad ‘til the next day!
The match went smooth as a Swiss timepiece; everybody pitched in to help with sign-up, tables, blankets, scoring, brass picking, timer operation, and patching the targets!
We really saved some time with our target-patching! Thanks everyone!
Big thanks to Hagen and the Brunswick Kid for their super-quick scenario changing, they are fast becoming pros!
Thanks be to everyone for all your help, expertise, advice, and good humor! It’s always appreciated!
Special thanks to Hanna and Flash for presenting me with my own set of jingle bells! Thanks, folks!
Krazy Thom took his home with him and won’t bring’em back!
“Does the name Quasimodo ring a bell?”
Our next match is the Thursday Work-Shirker Open Class CAS Match!
Thursday January 31, 2019!
5 fun-filled stages of western wackiness with instructions on how to engage each one!
We’ll see the return of the King of Diamonds and of course the Krazy Thom sweep.
We’ll do the No End In Sight sweep and the Fargo Krazy Thom scenario! It go far! Haha!
To top it all off, look for the MO-dified Hermit Joe scenario – that’s Joe with a silent E! It will be fun!
Hot tip: You can shave seconds off your finish time if you don’t aim yore shotgun!
Visitors and spectators are always welcome at our matches. Please bring hearing protectors and safety glasses. It’s mandatory.
See you soon,
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!