JUNE MATCH RESULTS

Top Gun:                  Swifty Swede
Traditional:               Lefty Longridge
Ladies Traditional:    Lusty Lil
Modern:                    Pecos Clyde
Duelist:                     Doc Hollywood
Ladies Duelist:          Dixie Bell
49er:                         Swifty Swede
Ladies 49er:              Calamity Candy
Gunfighter:                 Red Haymaker
Ladies Gunfighter:      Belle Pepper
Classic Cowboy:        Bodie-601
Senior:                       T.L.
Ladies Senior:            Shy Ann
Senior Duelist:            Ned Buntline
Male Junior:                Vash
Elder Statesman:        J.K. McNasty
Frontier Cartridge:      Bucolic Buffalo

Clean Shooters

Honky Tonk Hannie, Bronco Lane,

Doc Hollywood and J. K. McNasty

NEXT MATCH:

JULY 18th

Desperado Declares

Our 4th annual Guzzler shoot, a benefit for The Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep was a big success. Cowboys (and a few dudes) bought all two hundred raffle tickets. The funds will help the Sheep Society keep those guzzlers in good repair. A lot of thirsty sheep out there in the desert have asked me to thank you all.

We had fun stages and great competition. Mild Bill Hiccup printed out certificates and our cook shack turned out a great breakfast and lunch as usual. Hope to see ya all next time.

THE GOVERNOR is grateful

No, not Arnold, although I suppose he’s grateful for a lot of things too. It’s Northfield’s own Territorial Governor, Solomon Star, who asked us to express his thanks to whoever-it-was found his TG badge on the range and turned it in to the bank. He’s as proud of it as he is of the portrayal of him on “Deadwood.” And we’re glad his television impersonator has a much cleaner vocabulary than the rest of the characters on that unusually foul-mouthed show.

Were real cowboys this nice?

GoldenRuel reckons not. Certainly not if “Deadwood” is anything like an accurate version of the Old West. But one has to be impressed by how friendly, cooperative and downright helpful a collection of cowboys and gals we get at Northfield. If there’s a firearms malfunction (and, oh my, they do happen) folks crowd round to lend a hand in making the darn things work right. Some of them even know what they’re doing! If you come up short of ammo, they generously lend you what you need. If you do badly, they offer condolences and all sorts of helpful hints. And if you get cocky, they’ll shoot so much better than you do, your humility is restored. There’s not a nicer bunch of folks anywhere and that’s a fact.

if you want to be good…

…you’ve got to start out when you’re young, like this little nipper. He’s already got the tricky sass cross draw down pat. Next week he’ll start in on trigger squeeze and it won’t be long before he’ll be showing up some of us old coots.

Of course this lad has quite an advantage. He’s Noah Provenzano and his Dad and grandparents give him private lessons as well as advance information on up-coming stages.

THANKS TO OUR JUNE VENDOR

D. Trader

Vendors are welcome at all our matches

and there’s no charge to set up.

AND Our thanks to:

Sparks, Pecos Clyde, Philadelphia Fred,

GoldenRuel, Solomon Star and The Boss

for donating prizes.

Say Again?

GoldenRuel didn’t even finish the first stage because of a rifle jam. His buddy, T.R. shot the whole match. But when Desperado read the results, Ruel came in one place ahead of T.R. Huh?

OUR 2004 SCHEDULE

July 18, August 22, September 19,

November 21, and December 19.

And The Great Northfield Raid on October 15-17.

Mandatory Shooter’s Meeting at 9:00 AM -- Shooting starts at 9:15 AM.