Panhandle Cowboys Gazette June 2012 Rain out Well, as anyone who heard a weather report, or looked out a window, or was outside on Saturday, June 9, we had a real frog-strangler, so, you can pretty much understand why our June 10 th match was cancelled. News reports indicated we had 12 to 20 inches of rain (depending on the source) in a very short time. Roads, highways and businesses were under water in areas where flooding did not occur during Hurricane Ivan, and areas previously flooded by Ivan had more water than needed. It definitely was not our usual scattered afternoon summertime rain showers. We certainly hope all of our cowboys and cowgirls survived without any damage from the storm. July match Our July Match is July 8, 2012 Set up time is between 7:30am and 8:00am Match sign-up is from 8:00am to 8:45am Mandatory Safety Briefing at 9:00am Shooting begins at 9:30am Match fee is $15.00 Morning set-up waddies shoot for $10.00. Please fill in the requested information on the match entry form. This information is needed for reporting purposes to ERML, Inc.
Panhandle cowboys contacts President High Card gbaughman@juno.com Vice President Ned Whiskey pauldoman@rocketmail.com Secretary Sammy Jo s.pitkin@att.net Treasurer Pancho Via mactools48@cox.net Match Director Mad Dane dlangley@gulftel.com Territorial Governor Navajo Kid randypippin@cox.net Trophy Wrangler Grundy daliancesse@aol.com Gazette Editor Rocky Lane winchesteraa@cox.net GUN SHOWS Here is a list of gun shows within a reasonable driving distance from Pensacola. July 7 & 8/Dothan, AL/National Peanut Festival Facility July 14 & 15/Tallahassee, FL/North Florida Fairgrounds July 21 & 22/Robertsdale, AL/Baldwin County Fairgrounds August 11 & 12/Panama City, FL/Bay County Fairgrounds August 25 & 26/Pensacola, FL/Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds September 8 & 9/Tallahassee, FL/North Florida Fairgrounds September 15 & 16/Fort Walton Beach, FL/N.W. Florida Fairgrounds September 22 & 23/Dothan, AL/National Peanut Festival Facility The Panhandle Cowboys will be at the Pensacola gun shows promoting Cowboy Action Shooting. If you can help with the gun shows contact Mad Dane, our Gun Show Coordinator, at dlangley@gulftel.com; you can dress up in your CAS duds, bring guns for display (gun rigs, too), and be prepared to promote Cowboy Action Shooting for a day or two. The Pensacola gun show for June 23 and 24, at the Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds, was handled by Mad Dane, Capt Bobbie D, Wild Country, Grundy, and Sedalia on Saturday. On Sunday, the Panhandle Cowboys tables were handled by Mad Dane, Capt Bobbie D, Wild Country, and Sedalia. Mad Dane reported they saw an original Colt Pocket Open Top revolver, a Colt Bisley, a Colt M1877 DA revolver, and an original Remington M1875 revolver. Seeing those revolvers was worth a couple of days of gun show work.
SASS florida state championship The new SASS Florida State Championship is called The Siege at St. Augustine, and is now presented by the Ghost Town Gunslingers at the Ancient City Shooting Range in St Augustine, Florida. Check www.siegeatstaugustine.com for entry forms, lodging, restaurant, and match information. The Siege at St. Augustine will be held from January 9-13, 2013. Ambush at cavern cove Ambush at Cavern Cove, the Alabama State Championship match will be held October 4-7, 2012 presented by the North Alabama Regulators. Full match information is available at www.northalabamaregulators.com. The regulator s reckoning The Wartrace Regulators will conduct The Regulator s Reckoning, the Tennessee State Championship match October 11-13, 2012. Go to www.wartraceregulators.com for full match information. May cowboy Richard Martin was our cowboy for May. He was born in Spokane, Washington, but his family moved to a Mexican neighborhood in West Hollywood where he learned to imitate his new friends. He was working as a receptionist at MGM when a friend of his made a bet with Martin s agent that the agent could not get Richard a job as an actor. Richard Martin s agent won the bet when he got Martin an acting job at RKO Studios in 1942. In 1943, Richard Martin originated the role of Chito Rafferty in the movie Bombardier. He repeated the Chito Rafferty role in the Robert Mitchum western film Nevada. After World War II, Richard Martin (on the right in the photo on the right) went to Universal where he had the starring role in the last Universal serial film, The Mysterious Mr. M. He also starred in the 1947 film The Adventures of Don Coyote. After the war, Herman Schlom, an RKO producer, signed Tim Holt to star in a series of western films. Needing a co-star, Schlom and Holt remembered Richard Martin s Chito Rafferty character. Richard Martin then returned to RKO and co-starred with Tim Holt as Chito Jose Gonzales Bustamonte Rafferty in all 29 on Tim Holt s RKO post-war westerns.
The most famous line of Richard Martin/Chito Jose Gonzales Bustamonte Rafferty was, The Irish in me is for fight; the Mexican for love. As the 1950 s sounded the end of B Westerns and exclusive studio contracts Richard Martin found himself out of work as an actor, ironically, because of his Chito Jose Gonzales Bustamonte Rafferty ethnic characterization. He then became an insurance salesman, but took time out in 1960 for his last film, Four Fast Guns. Richard Martin passed away September 4, 1994. Shiloh Sheriff corrected identified our May Cowboy. June cowgirl Our cowgirl for this month was born in Appalachia, Virginia, on December 22, 1927. She appeared in some 37 movies, most of which were not westerns. Some of her credited movie roles were; Payment on Demand, The Prince Who Was a Thief, Wagons West, Cow Country, Son of Belle Starr, The White Orchid, Overland Pacific, The Yellow Tomahawk, The Counterfeit Plan, with Arrivederci Roma being her last film in 1958. In 1952, she began appearing in television programs; including Fireside Theater, Cheyenne, Gunsmoke, and the western role she is best known for, Lily, in the TV series Lawman. If you know the name of this actress, give Rocky Lane a buzz at winchesteraa@cox.net. july side match With the cancelling of the June match, the June side match Coyote in the Chicken House has been rescheduled for July. You will need at least 8 shotgun shells on your person, probably more. You see, it will be a speed shotgun match shot OUTLAW style. Our shotgun knockdown targets will be used and, like in the main match, you have to knock them down to count; if you don t carry enough ammo and some coyotes (poppers) are left standing, the usual 5 second-for-a-miss penalty applies. The most hits in the fastest time wins. YEEEEHAAAAA, WHEN SHOOTER IS READY, SAY SO!
july bpcr match The BPCR match is scheduled for July 22, 2012 (4 th Sunday) at ERML range #4. Only blackpowder, or blackpowder substitutes are allowed as propellant, and rifles/carbines, originals or replicas, must be the exposed hammer single shots in an appropriate blackpowder cartridge. The.45-70 Gov t cartridge seems to be the most popular, with.38-55 a close second. (A Winchester single shot in.30-06 just ain t allowed.) Match set up is from 7:30am to 8:00am. The safety briefing begins at 8:45am with shooting starting at 9:15am. After talking it over with several of the other BPCR shooters, it was decided to try the following in order to possibly increase the participation. There will be an "Open" Class for all other rifles besides the currently listed and approved single shots. This class will allow center fire lever actions, both rifle caliber and pistol caliber; single shot pistol calibers, etc. (pretty much anything SASS legal). All must still be shot with blackpowder or BP substitutes, and lead bullets. So, a guy can try his luck on the BPCR target course with his normal cowboy match rifle if he/she so chooses. Contact BPCR Match Director High Card for additional information at gbaughman@juno.com. Independence day The 4 th of July will be occurring before our next match. We know how important this day is to America and its people. We know how the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor when signing this document. We, also, know that by signing the Declaration of Independence, said signers committed treason against Great Britain. I am more than reasonably sure that all of us CAS shooters would have the courage to do what they did had we been there. If you have not done so lately, take the time to read our Declaration of Independence. It is an enlightening document. Happy 4 th of July
Greatest play in baseball No, I have not completely lost it, but it is somewhat related to the 4 th of July. This event occurred on April 25, 1976, at Dodger Stadium, in the 4 th inning, almost 200 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Put your mouse pointer on this web address then follow the instructions for a moving display of Patriotism. It will bring joy to your day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irv8qpqahxo Bill of rights Second amendment A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Old west lexicon Received an email from Dal Sackett about a book he recently acquired entitled Dictionary of the Old West. The book is a lexicon of words used in the American West to describe just about everything in the Old West. Dal suggested we begin a new monthly column in the Gazette using these words and definitions. Great idea, so here we go with some of the words and definitions from Dal Sackett s email. (Dal will have the book at the July match for your perusal.) Waddy Originally thought to be a temporary hand taken on at round-up, to wad out the normal outfit. Several authorities state that the term was originally applied to a cow-thief, but later was used to cover all cowhands. Greener Either an inexperienced cowboy or an Easterner strange to the west. Often the butt of earthy and sometimes cruel western humor. Long-horned Experienced. The opposite of a greener. Applied to an old cowhand. Angoras Also woolies. Chaps make from goat hide, with the hair retained and the hair worn on the outside.
Adios Looks like it for this month. Be safe and shoot straight.