September 2013 Bay 3 Scenario # 1 10 Pistol, 10 Rifle, 4 Shotgun Pistols loaded with 5 rounds each and holstered. Rifle loaded with 10 rounds is staged in doorway. Shotgun is staged on horse. Frank Eaton arrived at Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory to see if he could improve his shooting skills. The post commander, Colonel Copinger, set up a competition with the best shots on the post. Frank was good with his Colts, but needed more practice with his Winchester and shotgun. Start at window A with both hands on your pistols. When ready say I M READY COLONEL. At the buzzer, with your pistols, do a 5 round continuous Nevada Sweep on the vertical targets. You can start at the top or the bottom target. Do a 5 round continuous Nevada Sweep on the horizontal targets starting at either end. Holster and move to door and with your rifle repeat the sequences on the rifle targets. Make Rifle safe. Move to horse and knock down the 4 Shotgun targets in any order. Scenario # 2 10 Pistol, 10 Rifle, 4 Shotgun Pistols loaded with 5 rounds each and holstered, Rifle loaded with 10 rounds is staged in doorway. Shotgun is staged on horse. Frank outshot the soldiers with his Colts but did not do as well with his rifle and shotgun. Colonel Copinger set up another competition for the following day. Start at the door with rifle at Cowboy Port Arms. When ready say; LET S TRY THIS AGAIN. At the buzzer sweep the Rifle targets, starting on the top target, single tap the 4 outside targets in a clockwise direction and then single tap the middle target. Repeat the sequence. Make Rifle safe and move to window A. Engage the Pistol targets in the same sequence as the rifle. Holster, move to the horse and knock down the 4 Shotgun targets starting on the top target and shooting the targets in order in a clockwise direction.
Scenario # 3 10 Pistol, 10 Rifle, 4 Shotgun Pistols loaded with 5 rounds each and holstered. Rifle loaded with 10 rounds is staged in window A. Shotgun staged on the horse. Frank is ready to continue his journey. Colonel Copinger is so impressed with Frank s shooting skills; he presents him with a marksmanship badge. He asks Frank to give one more shooting exhibition and says to him I am giving you this badge for your fine marksmanship and I am going to give you a new name. From now on you are Pistol Pete! What do you think of that? Start in the door way with your hands on your hat. When ready say; I M PISTOL PETE. At the buzzer, with your pistols, single tap the pistol targets with the following sequence: left, right, top, bottom, left, right, top, bottom, left, right. Move to window A and repeat the sequence with the rifle. Make rifle safe. Move to the horse and knock down the 4 shotgun targets in the following order: left, right, top and bottom.
Bay 2 Scenario # 4 10 Rifle, 10 Pistol, 2 Shotgun Pistol loaded with 5 rounds each and holstered. Rifle loaded with 10 rounds is staged on the left Horse. Shotgun staged on the right Horse. Pistol Pete left Fort Gibson to start the journey to find the 6 men that killed his father. He received information from friends and acquaintances that some of the men were stealing horses in the Indian Territory. The friends told him that one of the men, Shannon Campsey, was living in a cabin about 5 miles away. Pete rode to the cabin and as he approached, Campsey went into the house and returned with a Winchester and sat down on the porch. Start between the Horses with hands at your sides. When ready say; HELLO SHAN, DON T YOU RECOGNIZE ME? At the buzzer, shoot the pistol targets in a 2-1-2 left to right sweep and repeat. Holster and move to the left horse. With the rifle, repeat the pistol sequence. Make rifle safe and move to the right horse. Knock down any (2) Shotgun targets.
Scenario # 5 10 Pistol, 10 Rifle, 3 Shotgun Pistols loaded with 5 rounds each and holstered. Rifle loaded with 10 rounds staged on the left Horse. Shotgun staged on right Horse. Pistol Pete was told by some members of the Lighthorse that some men had stolen cattle hidden in a nearby ravine. Pete rode into the ravine and recognized Doc Ferber branding cattle. Doc Ferber mounted his horse and rode out to meet Pete to see who he was and what he wanted. Doc said what are you doing here and what do you want? Pete said I just want you Doc Ferber. Doc said Who the hell are you anyhow? And how do you know who I am? Pete said I am Frank Eaton and I ought to know you Doc Ferber, for you are one of the men who killed my father. Lighthorse Indian mounted police in the Indian Territory. Each Nation had its own Lighthorse. Start at the left Horse with hands on the horse. When ready say; FILL YOUR HAND YOU SON OF A BITCH! At the buzzer shoot the rifle targets in the following sequence: 3 on the left target, 2 on the middle target, 3 on the right target and 2 on the middle target. Make rifle safe. With the pistols, repeat the same sequence on the pistol targets. Move to the right horse and knockdown the 3 shotgun targets from left to right. Scenario # 6 10 Pistol, 10 Rifle. 3 Shotgun Pistols loaded with 5 rounds each and holstered. Rifle loaded with 10 Rounds staged on left Horse. Shotgun staged on left Horse. Pete rode to Southwest, Missouri in search of Doc s brother, John Ferber. Pete found out that Ferber had been killed the night before by some card players he tried to cheat. Pete headed back into the hills to look for the remaining killers. He found a ranch with cattle marked with various brands. He was told they belonged to Jim and Jonce Campsey, 2 of his father s killers. Pete rode up to the house and got off his horse. He asked a man washing up at the wash bench Are you Jim Campsey? The man replied No, I am Jonce. A man came out of the house with a rifle in his hands and said I am Jim. Pete said The game is up. Frank Eaton is going to kill you both. Start between the 2 horses with hands on your pistols. When ready, say FILL YOUR HANDS. At the buzzer, engage the targets in any order. Each target must be engaged at least once. Holster, move to the left Horse and engage the Rifle targets in any order. Each target must be engaged at least once. Make rifle safe. Pick up the shotgun and move to the right horse. Knock down the 3 Shotgun targets.
Pistol Pete Frank Eaton was born in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut. At the age of eight, he moved with his family to Twin Mound, Kansas. When Eaton was eight years old, his father, a Vigilante, was shot in cold blood by six former Confederates, who served during the Civil War with Quantrill s Raiders. The six men rode with the southerners who called themselves "Regulators." In 1868, Mose Beaman, his father's friend, said to Frank, "My boy, may an old man's curse rest upon you, if you do not try to avenge your father." That same year, Mose taught him to handle a gun, but it would take nineteen years for Frank to avenge his father. At the age of fifteen he decided to visit Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, a cavalry fort, to learn more about how to handle a gun. Although too young to join the army, he outshot everyone at the fort and competed with the cavalry's best marksmen, beating them every time. After many competitions, the fort's commanding officer, Colonel Copinger, gave Frank a marksmanship badge and a new nickname. From that day forward, Frank would be known as "Pistol Pete." He began tracking down his father's killers, claiming that by 1887 he had killed five of them, and that the sixth only escaped his gun by being shot by someone in a dispute over a game of cards.
During his teen years, Eaton was reputed to be faster on the draw than Buffalo Bill. From his first days as a lawman, he was said to "pack the fastest guns in the Indian Territory." By the end of his career, Eaton would allegedly have eleven notches on his gun. He began serving in Indian Territory as a deputy U.S. Marshal at the age of seventeen, under Judge Isaac C. Parker, who was known as the "hanging judge." Eaton's territory extended from southern Kansas to northern Texas. Eaton was said to have been given a cross by a girlfriend, which he wore around his neck and which saved his life when it deflected a bullet during a gunfight. He would write later that, "I d rather have the prayers of a good woman in a fight than half a dozen hot guns: she s talking to Headquarters." Eaton would serve either as a marshal, a sheriff or a deputy sheriff until late in life. At twenty-nine, he joined the land rush to Oklahoma Territory. He settled southwest of Perkins, Oklahoma where he served as sheriff and later became a blacksmith. He was married twice, had nine children, 31 grandchildren, and lived to see three great-great-grandchildren. He died on April 8, 1958 at the age of 97. Frank Eaton lived the life of a true cowboy. He usually carried a loaded.45 Colt and often said "I'd rather have a pocket full of rocks than an empty gun." He was also known to throw a coin in the air, draw and shoot it before it hit the ground. The common saying in the mid-western United States, "hotter than Pete's pistol," traces back to Eaton's shooting skills, along with his legendary pursuit of his father's killers. Frank Eaton wrote two books that exemplify the life of a veteran of the Old West. His first was an autobiography titled Veteran of the Old West: Pistol Pete, which tells a tale of his life as a Deputy United States Marshal and cowboy. His second book, which was published thirty years after his death, is entitled Campfire Stories: Remembrances of a Cowboy Legend. Campfire Stories is a collection of yarns and recollections that Frank Eaton would tell to the many visitors that came to sit on his front porch in Perkins, Oklahoma. In 1958 "Pistol Pete" was adopted as the school's mascot of Oklahoma State University. The familiar caricature of "Pistol Pete" was officially sanctioned in 1984 by the university as a licensed symbol.