the northfield gazette

November 2008

Match results

Top Gun:                                   Lead D'Spencer

49er:                                            Lefty Longridge

Buckaroo:                                   Indispensable

B-Western:                                 Solomon Star

Classic Cowboy:                       Sgt.Maj. O'Donnell

Duelist:                                      Aimless Lee

Elder Statesmen:                       Dr. George

Frontier Cartridge:                   Black Raven Bob

Frontier Cartridge Duelist:     Billy Bob

Frontiersman:                           Howdy Doody

Gunfighter:                               Cross Creek

Ladies 49er:                               Lusty Lil

Ladies Duelist:                          Saucy Cindy

Ladies Gunfighter:                   Calamity Candy

Ladies Modern:                        Irish Eyes

Ladies Senior:                          Wild Bird

Ladies Traditional:                  Rebecca West

Modern:                                    Long Swede

Senior:                                      Tex Fiddler

Senior Duelist:                        High Country

Silver Senior:                           Brushwacker

Traditional:                             Lead D'Spencer

PLAINSMAN

1st- Professor Cubby Bear,  2nd- Doc Hollywood,

3rd- Sgt. Maj. O'Donnell 

LONG RANGE SINGLE SHOT RIFLE CALIBER

1st- Boothill Tom,  2nd- Brushwacker, 3rd- Pick Pocket 

LONG RANGE LEVER RIFLE, RIFLE CALIBER

1st- Muleskinner Pat,  2nd- Brushwacker,  3rd- Eagle Eye Stand

LONG RANGE LEVER RIFLE, PISTOL CALIBER

1st- Sgt. Maj. O'Donnell,  2nd- Muleskinner Pat,

3rd- Eagle Eye Stand

LONG RANGE PISTOL

1st- Muleskinner Pat,  2nd- Eagle Eye Stand,  3rd- Conejo Kid

CLEAN SHOOTERS

Dr. George,  Longshot, Nurse Bobbi

THE JOHN WAYNE AWARD

Posse 2- J.J. Johnson,  Posse 3- Indispensable,

Posse 4- Rebecca West,  Posse 5- Loose Latigo

MATCH WINNERS

Lead D'Spencer won Top Overall Male Shooter

  Irish Eyes won Top Overall Lady Shooter 

A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR MATCH SPONSOR

Infra-Structure Aggregates, Inc.

Owned & Operated by Tupelo Flash and Honky Tonk Hannie

NEXT MATCH:  Dec21^st

Mandatory Shooter’s Meeting at 9:00 AM

Shooting starts at 9:15 AM.

^{And there will be a full schedule of Cowboy Action shooting in 2009}

Desperado Declares

The 16th annual Great Northfield Raid is in the history books. With the wind, fire and road closures it was a wild three days.

The Northfield Raiders were communicating with the Fire Dept. and other agencies most of Friday night in the interest of safety. The Fire Dept. knew we were there. 

 There were quite a few shooters who just couldn't get there on Saturday because of the closed freeways but several were able to get to the range on Sunday (do ya think they really wanted to shoot at our match?) We figured a way to get them through all twelve stages on Sunday.

After all of that, we received many complements on another great match. We had a lot of action on our silent auction. Many happy bidders went home with some neat stuff.

Thanks to Wylee-One and Johnny Mack Brown for the donations to the auction and to Loose Latigo for the donation of one of his beautiful hand crafted long gun covers.

As usual the competition was fierce and there were a lot of close  scores. Speaking of scores, we did have a couple of screw ups. After receiving a phone call and a few e-mails The Prez and I went up to the Northfield Bank Tuesday night and reviewed the raw score sheets from the stages and the computer entries. We found the mistakes and made the corrections. The revised scores are on our web site. Please accept our apologies.

 Hope ya can be with us next time.