Strange But True II May 25, 2013

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1 trange But True II May 25, 2013

2 MATCH RULE AND PROCEDURE: * All firearms to be handled ONLY in these designated areas: 1. Marked afety Area (Outside range). 2. Load/Unload tables. 3. Firing line with RO present. * If you need to work on an EMPTY gun, please do it at a designated afety Area. ( NO AMMO IN OUTIDE AFETY AREA! ) * All A safety rules will apply. It is YOUR responsibility to know them. Current rulebook is available for viewing in The Telegraph Office. * All long guns should be carried muzzles up. This is not a hunting camp. You are in a crowded civilian range. Please pay careful attention to your gun handling OFF the firing line, as well as on. It may get a little crowded in here, so please exercise a little extra caution today. * Dry firing at the load/unload tables is prohibited. * Dropped rounds and shells are dead. Leave them where they fell, even if you have completed the stage. omeone will retrieve them for you. It's a muzzle control issue. * A round over the berm is a Match DQ. * Using any part of a wall or prop as a shooting rest is a Procedural penalty. * The shooter is responsible for staging/re-staging their firearms. A precariously staged gun that falls is not a prop failure. It is considered a dropped gun and a penalty will be applied as per A rulebook. * WAIT FOR THE BEEP! Do not try to anticipate it. Repeat offenders will earn a pirit Of The Game penalty (:30 seconds). This is cheating by trying to get a head start and RO's will be on the lookout for it.

3 * Cowboy Port Arms is defined as tanding fully upright, the butt of the rifle or shotgun AT or BELOW the gun belt and muzzle at HOULDER level or higher, both hands on the gun, finger OUT of the trigger guard. It's possible that other clubs are looser in their definition of Port Arms, but we see it as cheating if it's not the same for everyone. * hotgun knockdowns must fall to score. Keep shootin'! * Loading the rifle from the body is allowed, but ONLY to make up for an ejected round. * Loading the shotgun on the move is prohibited. You must have BOTH feet stopped before throwing shells into it. * Do not chamber rifle rounds until the gun is pointed downrange. This is now a 10 sec Minor afety Violation. * Once a pistol clears leather & gets cocked, it HA to be emptied. * If the pistol string is split up, Gunfighters will shoot the stage Duellist style. * This is a No Alibi match. Once you have hollered the start line or made a move for a gun, you are committed and there is no stopping until you have completed the stage. everal of us put a lot of hours into these matches for YOUR entertainment. Please show your appreciation by helping out where possible & hustling a little to keep the match moving along, so we can ALL get off the range together at a reasonable hour. There is no such thing as "shoot & scoot " in C.A..

4 TAGE ONE Big teve Long "Big teve Long arrived in Wyoming in 1866, where he joined with half-brothers Ace and Con Moyer in establishing a saloon in Laramie City, Wyoming. The Moyer brothers founded the town, appointing themselves as Justice of the Peace and Marshal. teve Long was made deputy Marshal in Mr. Long quickly earned a reputation as an extremely violent lawman, killing eight men in gunfights within two months. The trio meted out "justice in the backroom of the saloon, ordering ranchers to sign over deeds to their lands and miners to hand over their claims. Those who refused were shot dead by Long on the pretense that the victim reached for a weapon. Numerous others were killed when they objected to crooked card games run at the saloon. By October 1868, Long had killed thirteen men and was suspected of killing another seven who died under suspicious circumstances. The violence became so prevalent that the townsfolk began to refer to the saloon as "The Bucket of Blood. Meanwhile, a local rancher named N.K. Broswell talked up the idea of forming a vigilante group to put the trio out of business. Long was in the habit of moonlighting as a thief and on October 18, 1868 he attempted to ambush and rob prospector Rollie "Hard Luck Harrison. In the ensuing gunfight, Harrison was killed and Long was shot. Though wounded, he made it home. While Long's fiancée treated the wound, he confessed to her what had happened. Incensed, she told N.K. Broswell. 10 days later Broswell gathered up several men in the town and they stormed into The Bucket of Blood. eizing Long and the Moyer brothers, the mob dragged them to a partially finished cabin, where they began to string them up to the rafters. Long asked the vigilantes to remove his boots. His last words were "my mother always said that I would die with my shoes on. He was hanged with his bare feet dangling. 10 Rifle, 10 Pistol, 6 hotgun Rifle & shotgun staged on table. TART LINE: "You'll soon have no need for them shoes anyway!" TART POITION: tanding upright at X, holding noose with both hands. PROCEDURE: ATB, drop noose, grab up rifle & Double Tap Nevada weep the 3 rifle targets (R1,1,2,2,3,3,2,2,1,1). Place open mt rifle on table. Pull 1 st hogleg now & Nevada weep the pistol targets (P1,2,3,2,1). Holster. Pull 2 nd hogleg & repeat. Holster. Now for the shotgun. Load & alternate the 2 targets for a total of 6. Muzzle-up long guns & proceed to unload table.

5 tage 1 R1 R2 R3 P1 P2 P3

6 TAGE TWO Elmer McCurdy McCurdy's criminal career was distinguished by misfortune. Elmer & friends were attempting to rob the Iron Mountain R.R., but they overestimated the amount of explosives required & destroyed the safe & all of it's contents. Another train robbery yielded $46.00 and two bottles of whiskey, while an express train carrying the payroll he was after rumbled by safely a few minutes later. Killed 3 days later, his greatest adventures lay ahead: since no one claimed the body, he was sold into service as a mummified carnival display, billed as The Oklahoma Outlaw and The Mummified Outlaw. He was eventually sold to a California fun house, apparently presumed to be a mannequin. His true nature was discovered during shooting of a ix Million Dollar Man episode in a Long Beach funhouse in His remains were eventually sent to Guthrie, Oklahoma for burial. 10 Pistol, 6 hotgun, 8 Rifle Rifle & shotgun staged in vertical racks of your choice TART LINE: "I'll make ya famous, Elmer!" TART POITION: tanding upright at X holding Elmer by the armpits with both hands. PROCEDURE: Atb, place Elmer on the haybale. Draw 1 st pistol & alternate P1 & P2 for 5 shots, starting on either one. Holster. Reach for the scattergun now. Load & engage the 6 G targets once each, any order. Place open mt G back in rack. Try the rifle now: alternate R/P1 & R2 for 8 shots. Return open mt rifle to rack. Draw 2 nd pistol now & dump 5 on P3. Holster. (P1 is also R1) Take all guns to unload table & clear. P1, G, R, P2

7 tage 2 R2 P/R 1 P2 P3 Haybale

8 TAGE THREE Dynamite Dan (This story came to us courtesy of Four Fingers Fred. This is called irony.) Dan Clifton, known as Dynamite Dan and a member of the Doolin gang, was a wanted criminal in the Oklahoma Indian Territory for robbery, safecracking, and cattle rustling. While taking part in a bank robbery in 1893 at Ingalls, Oklahoma, three of his fingers were shot off in the ensuing gunfight with local lawdogs. Following the gang's escape, and eventual disbandment, a bounty of $3,500 was placed on Clifton. He became popularly known as "The Most Killed Outlaw in America", as posses would constantly turn in a shot up corpse claiming the body as Clifton, despite the fact the bodies had all ten fingers. Others would randomly cut three fingers off a corpse, but often the wrong ones. Clifton was reportedly killed near Blackwell, Oklahoma by Deputy U Marshal Chris Madsen in Rifle, 10 Pistol, 6 hotgun TART LINE: Here s for my fingers, bad men! TART POITION: tanding upright at any X, holding a "dynamite stick" in one hand and a match in the other. Light the dynamite & throw it downrange. Relax hands at sides & wait for the beep. Do not drop match on haybale! PROCEDURE: ATB, grab rifle & engage in a Missing Finger sweep: R1,3,4,2,3,4,1,2,3,4. Put open MT rifle back on haybale. Pull pistols as necessary to alternate P1 & P2 for 10 shots, starting on either one. Holster. Load & alternate the 2 G targets for 6 shots, starting on either one. Take your shotgun and rifle (muzzles skyward) and go to unload table svp. RO note: all the dynamite business & start line are performed OFF the clock.

9 tage 3 R1 R2 R3 R4 P1 P2 Haybale

10 TAGE FOUR Oliver Perry Not all Old West outlaws practiced their outlawry in the Old West. This story is about a Wyoming cowboy who learned his daring in the Old West, but went back east to practice it. On ept 20, 1892, in the midst of a hailstorm, Perry slid down a rope outside a moving New York Central express car and broke through the window. He knocked out the messenger but while trying to open the safe, a trainman noticed what was happening & sounded the alarm. The train was stopped & searched at a siding in the next town, but no Oliver Perry was found. 50 armed men were hastily assembled to hunt the robber down. While waiting for instructions, the trainman noticed Perry coolly standing in the midst of the 50, as if he was a posse member & hollered "there he is right there! Perry ran & jumped up into the cab of a nearby engine & started it down the track. The posse followed in another engine on a parallel track. As the posse engine drew closer, Perry slowed his & put it into reverse. Back & forth a few times they went until Perry grew bored, abandoned train and commandeered a horse & buggy. The posse mounted up & followed. After 25 miles, Perry had run the horses into the ground & commandeered more. The posse did the same. Occasional shots were exchanged the whole time, but no one was hit. Finally, with no more fresh horses in sight, Perry took to a swamp, where he was eventually captured. This is believed to have been the first solo train robbery attempt. Perry died in prison. 10 Rifle, 10 Pistol, 6 hotgun Rifle & shotgun staged on table TART LINE: " Woo-hoo! Look at me go! " TART POITION: tanding upright at X, facing UPRANGE. PROCEDURE: Atb, HOOTER CHOICE: Rifle R/P1, 2, 3, R4, R5 (clockwise from right). Repeat. Pistol 1,2,3,1,2. Repeat. hotgun alternate for 6 shots, starting on either. Note: Rifle AND Pistol start from the RIGHT. Take all guns to unload table & clear.

11 tage 4 R4 R5 R/P 3 R/P 2 R/P 1

12 TAGE FIVE A Killing at Coolidge Dec 20, 1881, Ford County, Kansas A man by the name of Barney Elliott, who was in the employ of Ed Hardesty, at Coolidge on the tate Line was killed by the latter last Tues morning. Hardesty was absent from home Monday night & returned at daylight. About 4 o'clock in the morning, Elliott, who greatly resembles Hardesty in physical appearance, entered Mrs. Hardesty's room & crept into her bed, leaving the room before daylight. Upon the arrival of the husband, the outraged wife realized the terrible mistake and was thrown into hysterics. Mr. Hardesty procured 2 revolvers & sought out the man who inflicted this shame & disgrace upon him. When confronted, Elliott neither denied nor affirmed it, making no reply. Hardesty fired 11 shots into Elliott, killing him almost instantly. Owing to the feeble condition of Mrs. Hardesty, the trial has been postponed. This sad affair is much regretted. Editors Note: E.F. Hardesty was acquitted in June '82 in Ford County district court. 10 Pistol, 9 Rifle, 6 hotgun Rifle & shotgun staged in vertical racks against fence VERY Gunfighter friendly TART LINE: "Here's 10 in the belly for the missus and one in the head for me! " TART POITION: tanding at X, one pistol out of leather & pointed at P1. (Gunfighters may have both pistols out). PROCEDURE: Atb, cock gun & put 5 shots onto P1. Holster. Repeat with 2 nd pistol. Move to haybale, grab up rifle & put 5 on R1 & 4 on R2. Return open mt rifle to haybale. Now load up the streetsweeper & alternate the 2 G targets for 6 shots, starting on either. Take all guns to unload table & clear.

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16 tage scenarios written & designed by The tranger. Booklet composite by Rooster Corrigan & Four Fingers Fred.