Panhandle Cowboys Gazette November 2013 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. Panhandle cowboys contacts President High Card gbaughman@juno.com Vice President Dead Eye Blue dave0505@valp.net Secretary Sammy Jo s.pitkin@att.net Treasurer Cassidy Jane bob15621@aol.com Match Director Mad Dane dlangley@gulftel.com Territorial Governor Alabama Shootist apippin357@aol.com Trophy Wrangler Grundy daliancesse@aol.com Webmaster Jeb Stuart bob15621@aol.com Gazette Editor Rocky Lane winchesteraa@cox.net NEXT MATCH December 8, 2013 Match Set-Up 7:30am to 8:00am Match Sign-Up 8:00am to 8:45am Mandatory Safety Briefing 9:00am Match Begins 9:30am Match Fee - $15.00 Morning Waddie Match Fee - $10.00
NOVEMBER MATCH Match day started a little on the cool side, but warmed to the mid 70 s by the time we were on our way home. We had 24 cowboys and cowgirls come out for a good day of Cowboy Action Shooting. The November match was a Buy a miss match, with the proceeds of the buy a miss going to the Marine Corps Toys for Tots Program. Mad Dane is credited with coming up with the Buy a miss idea, after doing a little rustling of ideas from the Panhandle Cattle Company. Mad Dane designed the stages too. ( Buy a miss has been used by many CAS clubs as a fund raiser for various projects.) To assist with the need to buy a miss the pistol and rifle targets were set a couple of steps further back than usual. This made the shooting a little more deliberate and a little more challenging. However, every shooter seemed to enjoy the increased target distance and shooting was just as enjoyable as ever. There were no clean sweeps; however, Jimmy Rainsong came close with only 5 penalty points for the match. Due to the redesign of Range 2 we were able to do a walking stage on our Stages 1 & 3. This was a nice change to our shooting regimen and enjoyed by all. It was good to see Dixie Chick and Rooster Cogburn back with us after Rooster s health issues. High Card and Dixie Chick handled match scoring. Thanks to all the morning waddies for handling match set-up and thanks to everyone who helped with match take-down. And thanks for the RO who handled the lawn tractor and trailer for match set-up and take-down. Thanks for all of the donated door prizes. By the way, the entire match proceeds for the December match is be donated to the Marine Corps Toys for Tots Program. AND, as in the two previous December matches the Marine Corps will have representatives at the match to accept the donation from the Panhandle Cowboys. 2
CHRISTMAS PARTY Our Christmas Party is scheduled for Sonny s Bar B Que on Navy Boulevard on December 7 th. Festivities will begin about 5:00pm. The price will be about $16.00 per person and Sammy Jo needs to know how many folks are going to attend by December 1 st ; so if you have not signed up for the Christmas Party by now time is getting short. If you have any leftover buy a miss tickets from the November match you can trade them in for an equal number of raffle tickets for the many items to be raffled off at the Christmas Party. The proceeds from the raffle will go to the Toys for Tots program. Some of the raffle items are: a couple of revolvers donated by Jimmy Rainsong; gift certificates from Starline, Dillon Precision, and Cimarron Firearms; Cracker Barrel gift certificates; the Panhandle Cowboys will donate a year of free shoots and our parent club, the Escambia River Gun Club will donate a one-year membership. High Card has donated an H&R.22 caliber revolver and SASS has donated flags, books, and gun rugs. And let us not forget the two quilts, shown to the left and right. Let s step up and see if we can exceed last years total for the Marine Coups Toys for Tots Program. SEIGE AT ST. AUGUSTINE The SASS Florida State Championship match is coming up on January 8 th 12 th in Saint Augustine. The match is held at the Ancient City Shooting Range, and is conducted by the Ghost Town Regulators. It may or may not too late to sign up for the match, but information can be found at www.ghosttowngunslingers.com. We will get the match results out on how well our Panhandle Cowboys shooters do in the February Gazette. (That s the plan anyway.) 3
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER SIDE MATCH Sorry cowboys and cowgirls, there was no side match in November, and there is no side match scheduled in December. However, don t be surprised if someone comes up with something. We are however, if memory serves correctly, somewhat limited on time as the range closes early during the winter months. OCTOBER COWBOY Our October Cowboy was born Dayle Lymoine Robertson on July 14, 1923, in Harrah, Oklahoma. He is known to us as Dale Robertson. While in the US Army, before being shipped overseas during World War II, he and some Army buddies decided to have pictures made to send to their respective parents. A large copy of the picture of him was placed in the window of the photo shop where the picture was taken and he began receiving inquiries from Hollywood talent agents to represent him. After World War II Dale Robertson began his movie career and was given advice by Will Rogers, Jr., whose father is considered to be the most famous Oklahoman ever. (Reba McIntire and Will Rogers, Jr. may in a tie for 2 nd most famous.) The advice is purported to have been: Don t ever take a dramatic lesson. They will try to put your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothes. From that point on Dale Robertson avoided acting lessons. Dale Robertson is probably best known for the television series Tales of Wells Fargo, a half hour western running on NBC from 1957 to 1961, then going to ABC as a full hour program for the 1961-1962 season. He portrayed Wells Fargo agent Jim Hardie. Dale also did the narration for the program. For the 1966-1968 TV season he appeared as Ben Calhoun, a gambler who wins an unfinished, bankrupt railroad, in the ABC series The Iron Horse. As a side note, on Tales of Wells Fargo he wore his pistol on the left side as seen in the photo at left. In The Iron Horse he wore his pistol on the right side. The TV movie Scalplock was the pilot for The Iron Horse TV series. I do not remember exactly what the non-dress coat he wore in The Iron Horse looked like but I do remember it had a rectangular cut out on the right side so he had full access to his pistol. To this, at the time, 24 year old it was a cool coat. From 1968 to 1970 he was the host of Death Valley Days. He took over the role of host from 4
Robert Taylor. The series had also been hosted by future President Ronald Reagan. Dale Robertson is best known as a western actor, although he did appear in dramatic and comedic movies. He also appeared on other TV programs; such as, Murder, She Wrote, The Ford Show starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, and The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show. He also portrayed famed FBI agent Melvin Purvis in the made for TV movies Melvin Purvis: G-Man in 1974 and The Kansas City Massacre in 1975. In 1981 Dale Robertson was a member of the original cast of ABC s Dynasty. He is reported to have said this about being dropped from the series, They got me to do 15 episodes but that was enough. They kept putting all of this sex and stuff into it and I didn t do it the way they wanted. I never had the ability to keep my big mouth shut. In 1982 he made appearances in the TV show Dallas. In 1987 he was the lead character in the NBC series J. J. Starbuck. In December 1993 and January 1994 he appeared as Zeke Terrell in the CBS series Harts of the West. Dale Robertson received the Golden Boot Award in 1985. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and is in the Hall of Great Western Performers and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. The American Cowboy Culture Association in Lubbock, Texas presented him with an award for his movie and television work. Dale Robertson was considered to be one of, if not the, fastest gun in westerns during his days as a western movie/tv western star. Dale Robertson is no longer with us. He passed away on February 27, 2013. COWBOY LEXICON Again this month we go to the book Western Words A Dictionary of the Old West by Ramon F. Adams. Tryin to chin the moon Said of a horse standing on his hind feet and pawing the air with his front ones; also said of a high bucker. Trail broke Said of cattle after they became used to the trail. Yucca country A general reference to the Southwest. Zorrillas (thor-reel lyahs) Cattle of the early longhorn breed, called this in the border country from their color, which is black with a lineback, white speckles frequently appearing on the sides and belly. The word is from the Spanish, meaning polecat. 5
Map of Mexico The American cowboy s name for the intricate cattle brands on the Mexicans, which usually are large and give no clue to any name by which they can be called. Dew wrangler One who herds horses in the morning. Diamond hitch A method of roping a pack on a pack animal. Wherever pack animals are used to carry loads, the diamond hitch is in common use. It produces upon the top of the pack, when completed, the figure of a diamond. An ordinary knot is tied, but a diamond hitch is always spoken of as throwed, because a rope of forty or fifty feet is thrown back and forth across the animal as the hitch is made. Diarrhea of the jawbone Said of one talking too much, running off at the mouth. NOVEMBER COWBOY Our November Cowboy has been appearing in movies and television since 1955. He has played the part of good guys, but his forte was the portrayal of bad guys. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas. His first film was the Walt Disney production of The Great Locomotive Chase starring Fess Parker, who was a classmate of his at the University of Texas. Not only was this our November cowboy s first film it was the first full length live action motion picture for Walt Disney. The photos show our cowboy, above left, in an episode of Gunsmoke and, above right, in an episode of Star Trek (the original series). If you know who this cowboy is give a ring to Rocky Lane at winchesteraa@cox.net. GUN SHOWS December 7 & 8 Fort Walton Beach, Florida N.W. Florida Fairgrounds December 7 & 8 Biloxi, Mississippi Mississippi Coast Coliseum December 7 & 8 Dothan, Alabama National Peanut Festival Facility January 11 & 12 Mobile, Alabama Abba Shrine Center February 1 & 2 Pensacola, Florida Pensacola Interstate Fairgrounds February 8 & 9 Panama City, Florida Bay County Fairgrounds February 22 & 23 Fort Walton Beach, Florida N.W. Florida Fairgrounds 6
The Panhandle Cowboys will have tables at the Pensacola gun shows for the purpose of promoting Cowboy Action Shooting. If you are able to assist in manning the tables for one or both days of the Pensacola gun shows contact our Gun Show Coordinator Mad Dane at dlangley@gulftel.com. Your help will be greatly appreciated and you get to dress up in CAS duds. NOVEMBER GUN SHOW Mad Dane reports a couple of 1 st Generation Colt SAA s were seen at the Pensacola gun show, as was an 1860 Army Colt, and a Model 1889 Marlin lever action rifle. The gun show kept Cap n Bobbie D, Wild Country, and Mad Dane busy during the Saturday show, and the three of them plus Sedalia were kept busy promoting Cowboy Action Shooting on Sunday. Good job cowboys. NOVEMBER BPCR MATCH Alabama Shootist reports the following on the November BPCR match held the 4 th Sunday of November; The November BPCR was another good one. The weather was cold and windy with clear skies. The wind made the offhand shots, even using shooting sticks, a little tricky for most of us. I don t think Gerald noticed the cold or wind (see scores below). We had a total of seven shooters that braved the cold and wind. The November match was a 24-shot match and the match winner had not shot BPCR in about 18 months. 1 st Place Gerald Roberts 23 hits 2 nd Place Mad Dane 21 hits 3 rd Place High Card 19 hits 4 th Place Glenn Wise 18 hits (won tie-breaker, most hits on the chain) 5 th Place Lady Banderas 18 hits 6 th Place Alabama Shootist 17 hits 7 th Place Michael Murphy/Hollifer A Dollar 7 hits The next BPCR match is scheduled for the 4 th Sunday, January 26, 2014. Lever action rifles chambered for rifle cartridges (about 2.5 length) or chambered for pistol cartridges (about 1.5 length), and single shot rifles with exposed hammer are the required firearms. Black powder or an approved black powder substitute is the required propellant. Reports are the most fun in shooting BPCR is using the original black powder loaded cartridges. 7
ADIOS Hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving. This is about it for this issue of the Gazette. Be safe and shoot straight. 8