Showing posts with label cowboy fast draw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cowboy fast draw. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Average shooters, Motivation and 6x!

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Going to titled matches around the country I see about the same 150-200 shooters at these matches out of our 5,000 or so members.  It seems ...
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Sunday, September 11, 2016

Elitist Survey

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Rodeo Romeo posted a survey for input for the muster.  The topics suggested lean toward the elite shooters.  I write this post as a response...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

To each his own!

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I commend The Irishman for his work with the data on recovery shots. He has done us a service by compiling this information.  However, I wou...
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Saturday, August 13, 2016

Handicapping the Men's Top Gun Race

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With less than 60 days to go the men's top gun competition appears to be pretty well defined. Gray Ghost appears to lead but is actually...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

The Good Old Days

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I was having  "lively times" in the comments with Rodeo, Hell on Wheels, and Powder Keg concerning whether this sport was a speed ...
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Thursday, August 4, 2016

Nationals, Photos, and Rule 17

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The National Championship was a great event put on by a great club and fine folks. I have nothing but good things to say about the event.  I...
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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Being a Better Gunfighter!

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Dirty Dan mentioned on facebook that I slip cocked during the Southern Territorial Magnificent 7 and others have mentioned a 1.47 shot.  I h...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Quickness, Accuracy, and Mental Toughness

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I write this post in support of our current target size, target distance and lack of a time limit.  I think our events are well balanced and...
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Monday, May 16, 2016

What a blast!

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Having just finished my second Magnificent Seven of the year all I can say is "what a blast."  Great competitors, great outcome, m...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

The Waggle and Mental Toughness or "Bring me another shooter"

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After shooting in the Magnificent Seven of the Southern Territorial, a young shooter about age ten asked me why I shake my hips before I sho...
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Monday, April 11, 2016

Put the fear of Alleluia in 'em!

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I had a pretty good day shooting at Rio Salado Vaqueros practice shoot.  It was a 3 x last man standing affair.  The field was not overwhelm...
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Friday, March 4, 2016

Arizona Five

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On Shady Mtn we did a test run of Arizona Five and found that it is works well using the CFDA scoring program.  It has two big advantages, o...
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Monday, February 29, 2016

Winter Range, Partners, and Adversaries

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Most of the fastdraw loot at Winter Range came home to Shady Mtn. I won the SASS fastdraw sidematch on speed and the 45 revolver on luck. Sh...
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Sunday, February 14, 2016

Philosophy from the Salty River

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We have had lively discussion about format with Levi and Mitch. Levi says there can only be one winner.  The acorn does not fall far from th...
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Sunday, February 7, 2016

Ole to the Bucket

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After months of struggle I finally did better in competition going clean for six rounds at the Camp, no small feat since there were a lots o...
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Thursday, February 4, 2016

Place Obsession

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This is a rant about human nature and our obsession with the past.  Our ability to try new things or novel things is many times limited by o...
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Friday, January 29, 2016

Resurrection Revisited

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We got some really good observations from Rodeo, Powder Keg, Boss 45 and WOW.  It is helpful to get feed back.  Just because there is some g...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

Tombstone Revisited & Arizona Gunslinger Bracket with Resurrection

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The 2016 Tombstone shoot is in the books and as usual the Old Publeo Gunfighters put on a great event.  I think the value of the door prizes...
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Friday, January 1, 2016

Proverbs from Shady Mountaiin

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When confronted by a verbal barrage a gunslinger can step to the line and resolve the matter by wax or issue a retort.  Such great retorts a...
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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Isn't this Sport Great!

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Boxing day 2015 was a pretty typical day for the Arizona Gunslingers except for the cold windy weather. Thirty-three shooters braved the col...
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