October Write Up

Mill Creek Wranglers
October 2008 – not quite to Halloween
 
Nope, we didn’t quite make it to Halloween this month:  Durango Dude set us up with 4 of his incredible stages for fun, and definitely not for profit!!  These were all scenes from “More Westerns You’ve Never Heard of and Probably Shouldn’t Have!!”

He started us off with a scenario starring Clint Eastwood as the aging, gun-totin’ laundry man in “ Hang Em Dry”.  It involves and ‘solves’ the age old cleaning problem of what to do when you get lipstick on a pig… errr.. rig….

For stage 2, we were treated to an all female cast for “Young Nuns, errrr… Guns….  Errr …. NunGuns…. Errr…. GunNuns…. Errr…. Pshawww”.  Starring Sally Fields as “The Flying Gun”, Jessica Simpson as “Sister Mary Daisy Duke” and Sharon Stone as ‘The Nun with No Name”  These gun totin’ Sisters of the Order of The Holy Smoke sought revenge on the priest who claimed to have dated all three nuns:  nun last month, nun this month, and nun next month:  Ya started off by emphatically stating: Nun’s better than Nothin’!

For Stage 3 we got to enjoy Newmans’ and Redfords’ only remake: “Butch Cassidy and the Lipstick Pig”  The underlying theme is that running from the law and running for public office is essentially the same crime!!  In this movie, Butch and Lipstick are elected, detected and rejected from office with their pockets full of greenbacks.  They disappear in disgrace, only to surface a year later as lobbyists for the Bolivian Government.  Have we all heard this plot before???

For stage 4 we got Mel Brooks last western:  Blazing Paddles.   This was the story about a Canoe RACE on the Rio Grand with jet propelled bean eating cowboys using Winchesters’ as canoe paddles:  Of course, this remake really stunk up the joint!!

And the award for the most SILLLLEEEE mistakes (aka: Procedural penalties) during a match goes to the Matches Author:  THE DURANGO DUDE!!!  

And WELCOME to our newest shooter:  StageCoach.

And only a SINGLE CLEAN MATCH THIS MONTH:  Congrats to Barbary Red!

Speaking of the Dude:  have you seen his YouTube special – It’s Durango Dude’s Wall Street Bail-Out Blues:  Great song;  give it a look.  

Also:  we had a number of our club members and regulars finish well in the SASS Northeast Regional the “Mason Dixon Stampede”   Congrats to:
Red-Eye Kid - 1st B-Western
Durango Dude – 2nd B-Western
2-Step  - 3rd Frontiersman
Chilliwack Buck – 8th Duelist
Hank Dogberry – 16th Classic Cowboy
Jingles Jerr – 6th Elder Statesman
Mill Creek Mona  - 22nd Ladies 49r
Ramona Del Rio – 5th Ladies B Western
Bonnie B Goode – 2nd Ladies SilverSenior
JD Cane – 34th Senior
Nanticoke – 10th Senior Duelist
 
 
It was great to see our friends from across the big watery bay, and to enjoy time chatting and our usual grinnin’ and chucklin’.
 
Enny-Hooos:  we all had a good time, although, as the scores show:  not a particularly fast one… Still the stages ran real fast, and with 2 smallish posses, we got done by noon, and even had time for a fast stage courtesy of our own JD Cane:  Such as it is, follows:  

You have 6 targets;  you have a rifle with nine rounds, two pistols with 5 rounds each, and a shotgun and as many rounds as you can get onto you body (no bodily orifices, tho!!)  Each target needs to be shot 3 times, successfully, (meaning:  HIT) before proceeding to the next target:  What would YOUR tactics be???
We had a number of interesting solutions:  ask us about them at the club meeting!!

As always, after we completed our Bang and Clangin’, we retired to Red Hot & Blue to ‘Clink & Drink’.   And a good time was had by all.

Next month:   2 matches!!!!

We will celebrate Wicklows’ Winterry Wacky,  Wild, Wicked, Wooly Wipeouts  with his 9th season since the gang started the CAS here at AAF&G with a match on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND.   Prepare for 6 stages, as this is a sanctioned weekend.  (but they’ll still be quick enuff tag it us ta Red Hot & Blue a’fore we starve!!   This will also be a WASA match, but regular CAS guns and setups are welcome, too.  The rules for WASA, you say???  OK:  instead of stopping with guns that were in production on or before 1899 (or replica’s), the time frame (as for real cowboyin’) is extended to 1920.  THEREFORE, we will include Colt 1911s (basic, not the really fancy ones!  AND NO OPTICS!!!) and double action pistols that were of the type in use before 1920.  NOTE that for this month, that includes basic S&W model 10’s 15s, colts, etc:  If’n ya have a question, send an e-mule ta either:  JDCane or yours truly: 2-Step  
 
The second match will be our regular Saturday Shoot on November 15th.
 
That’s’ all for this month;  Keep yer powder dry, and keeeep on grinnin’!!!

2-Step & Del Rio