First Saturday of every Month River Bend Gun Club Cowboy Action Shooting Rough Riders Ride, Beware Rough Riders Ride, Take Care. They re the Finest Bunch of Fighters in the Land; c/o River Bend Gun Club P.O. Box 1028 Roswell, Georgia 30877 River Bend - Cowboy Town When the Rough Riders Ride. Cowboy Action Shooting October 2006
Horse Opera News On September 3, 2006, at our annual 2-day Labor Day match, the promise of a cowboy town became a reality for the. As with any endeavor of this magnitude, we had many challenges getting here...and we have much more to do. Over the next few months we will be working Cowboy Action Shooting out the kinks, improving our process, and constructing new permanent stages and storage bins for props. Then in Spring 2007, we will have a Grand Opening of the new cowboy town range. After reviewing suggestions and comments made by many of our shooters, the tone seems to be: bigger targets (no surprise there), less confusing stages, and shorter stages. To that end, we now have a stage writing committee. They will write ==> Rough Riders Watch the Trail 2 11 Fees to shoot the match are $15.00 for RBRR members and $20.00 for nonmembers. Members, bring a junior and both of you shoot for free! River Bend Gun Club First Saturday of every Month Six Stages Ammo Requirements: 60 Pistol, 60 Rifle, 25+ Shotgun Registration at 8:00 AM Safety Briefing at 9:00 AM Match Shooting after Safety Meeting All SASS Rules Apply Match Scores are on the WEB at http://www.rbgc.org/cowboy/cowboy.htm and in the center of the newsletter
Sponsors of the Month Buffalo Western Wear Hogleg Smith - Southern Machine Works Rod Kibler Saddlery...River Bend - Cowboy Town stages three months in advance so they can be looked over and improved before a match. We are planning to have a work day in December to start construction of the next stage prop: The Jail. We are also going to build target storage on half of the bays so that steel is available at each bay. Personally, I am looking forward to being a part of a dynamic, growing town! Georgia Slick Need Defibrillator R. B. R. R. Ne er-do-well Contacts President/Range Safety: Georgia Slick Teritorial Governor: Hardbark Harry Computer/Match Scores: $3 Rose Treasurer: Cindy Thomas (Silver City Belle) Newsletter: Hotshoe Hannah Photo s/miscellaneous: Sheriff Donald/ Deadeye Daisy...Ride 10 3, the club, has decided we need a defibrillator. The two determining factors were 1) the average age of our shooters, and 2) the distance from the gun club to the nearest hospital. As I m sure most of you know, a defibrillator is an electric-shock machine that administers a controlled electric shock to the chest or heart to correct a fluttering heartbeat that cannot drive the circulation. The cost of a defibrillator is approximately $1,700. At our October match, we began a collection pot to purchase a portable, easy-to-use, defibrillator for the Rough Riders. Thanks to all who contributed to the cause; we are 14.7% on our way to purchasing the device! Please see Georgia Slick or Braveheart Bill for any questions and/or contributions. Rough Riders Never Fail
CONGRATULATIONS 2006 End of Trail Winners from Rod Kibler Saddlery World Champions Two Sons...Senior Ladies Wicked Wanda...Classic Cowgirl Ottway Smith...Reserve Senior Duelist Further congratulations and thanks to these shooters; they finished in the top ten of their respective categories: Lacey V. Wildfire Prairie Scooter San Quinton Ima Peach Young Parker Max Montana Wendover Kid Montana Brown Clay Buster Nellie Blue 2 World Champions, 13 top ten finishers, 11 different categories... They all choose and use gun leather from ROD KIBLER SADDLERY 473 Mud Creek Rd Alto, GA 30510 (770) 778-3753 www.rodkiblersaddlery.com Taking Law and Order 4 9 Worth Remembering Never let yesterday use up too much of today. ~ Will Rogers, American humorist, 1879-1935. Using up today by rehashing yesterday is like traveling to the Grand Canyon and spending the entire visit in the gift shop looking at postcards. We have to be willing to leave the past behind us and step to the rim of today to take full advantage of the view. When those old Rough Riders
They re on your side...tombstone --money. Some of these fortune hunters were more famous than others. As countless written pages and mile upon mile of celluloid film will attest, men such as Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Ike Clanton are in no danger of being forgotten. Surely, the bloody vendetta between the Earps and the Clantons has shot Tombstone into legend. But Tombstone didn t become what it was solely through the misadventures of a small group of six-gun luminaries. The town s infamous lawlessness was created one bottle of whiskey at a tme, with every frustrated miner that finished a long day of grueling and fruitless labor; with every hard-earned dollar lost in one of the saloons; with every insult, real or imagined, directed at another armed young man far too jealous of his honor. Simply put, Tombstone suffered from too many men with too many guns drinking too much booze, and its reputation as one of the wildest burgs in an already too Wild West was built on the bedlam these young men made. ~Ghost Stories, Dan Asfar To be Continued... Tombstone s Bird Cage Theatre 8 5 Tombstone Few places west of the 100th meridian better express the American drive to make a buck like the town of Tombstone. On a sunburned stretch of Arizona dirt in the San Pedro Hills less than 20 miles from the Mexican border, Tombstone was founded in 1877 by a man named Ed Schiefflin--a fool-hardy fortune hunter who stumbled upon a silver vein in a barren middle of nowhere. He named his claim The Tombstone to spite his detractors, who joked that the ony thing he would find in the Arizona desert was his own grave. The silver strike made Schiefflin a millionaire, and thousands of prospectors hoping to emulate his success rushed into the region. So it was that the town of Tombstone practically sprung up overnight, turning the recently naked region into a behive of activity-- or maybe hornet s nest would be a better description. The drama of Tombstone s heyday made an indelible mark on the cultural landscape of the American West. Indeed, of all the western boomtowns that took shape in the 19th century, it was Tombstone that would come to be celebrated as the embodiment of the freewheeling opportunism and violent confrontation that so often defined the Old West. There were cowboys making their living off livestock in the surrounding countryside; there were miners burrowing deep into their dark pits for silver; and there were the denizens of the town of Tombstone itself, who provided all the usual frontier amenities to the rough laborers flooding into the region. Saloons, vaudeville houses, brothels, and jailhouses. Cowboys, miners, gamblers, prostitutes, barkeepers, outlaws, and lawmen. By 1898, over 10,000 people lived in this frontier town: thousands of individuals who came from all corners of the globe in search of the same thing ===>...Everywhere They Go
November Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Birthdays 1 2 Ringo McCrae 3 4 River Bend Rough Riders, Dawsonville 5 6 7 8 Utah Shoots Potshot Parker Yazoo City Gal Doc Holiday s Immortals, Griffin Piedmot Regulators* 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Rusty Spur Slim Shifty Eye Cullasaja Sam Sassy Motchie Hog Wrangler Mule Camp Cowboys, Covington Jumpin Jess 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Southern Breeze Teeny Cherokee Cowboys, Gainesville 26 Western 3-Gun, Griffin 27 28 29 30 Justice Will B Dunn Shorty Spice San Quinton *Piedmont, SC 2006