January 2019 Texas Ten Horns Cowboy Action Shooting

Monthly Recap Texas Ten Horns Hairtrigger Hayes, President THE GREAT SPAGHETTI “Ten Cup Belt Buckle Series” WESTERN December 29th. It was a 5th The excitement is already ramping Saturday and it was “the coldest day up for the fourth season of the “Ten in history!!!” Cup” Buckle series. Remember OK, so maybe I exaggerated attendance is the key, as total that last part…but only a little. It matches will break a tie in points. was the day the Texas Ten Horns got Come join the fun and throw your to be the proud sponsors of the hat in the ring for the beautiful Northern Regional Match for the buckles. Texas State Rifle Association. We New Date: Men’s category: Points had 28 shooters come out to brave the cold and – more importantly – May 31 – June 2, 2019 Nonstop 20 support the 2nd amendment at the Texas Mean Gene 20 Check Here for the application state level. Top Shooters for the day Colorado Jackson 19 were Pinewood Kid and Sopapilla Lefty Wheeler 18 Su, both of whom will receive a free SLIM'S PICKINS Marshal Jack Bridges 17 entry into the TSRA State Hi-Yo Silver, Away!!!! Championship match. Ladies Category: Points

If you’ve never been to one of our regional fundraisers you should “Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear…A fiery Hillside Hannah 10 really plan to go. It’s a great Smokin’ Limey 10 opportunity to support a very horse with the speed of light, a cloud Lil McGill 9 important cause but it’s also lots of of dust and a hearty Hi-Yo Silver, One Chance Fancy 9 fun. Stages were designed to be fast, Away!!! The Lone Ranger rides Chica Boom Boom 8 food was served when it was over, again.” Anyone who watched and to wrap it all up there was a Saturday morning TV during the The clean match buckle is a balloon shoot for fun and prizes. 50s, particularly westerns, knows drawing at the annual Christmas TSRA Directors Texas Ghost and our that famous intro to one of the most Party and you have to present to win. very own Colorado Jackson are iconic TV westerns of all time. Each time you shoot clean your name always on hand to run the event. Many may not know, however, is added to the hat. Thanks guys for the job you are doing that the character of the lone ranger was probably patterned after a real for all of us Texans when it comes to Top Ten Shooters the 2nd amendment! life lawman. Biographer Art T. Just one short week later and Burton in his 2006 book, Black Gun, Saturday January 5, 2019 the weather had gone from Silver Star: the Life and Legend of 1. Texas Mean Gene abominable to beautiful. 54 shooters Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves, 2. Nonstop came to the match on Saturday and 3. Colorado Jackson CoJack brought out the “burger 4. Hairtrigger Hayes beast”! This contraption turns out 5. Lefty Wheeler some of the best burgers you’ve ever 6. Slowaz Molasses eaten. We were able to knock out all 7. Tomanator the leftovers from the previous 8. Iron Tomahawk Kid weekend’s match. Our top shooter’s 9. Pinewood Kid that day were Calamity DiBar on the 10. Tex Fiddler ladies side and Texas Mean Gene

“The Shooting Machine” was the asserts that Reeves was the overall winner. Congratulations you inspiration for the character of the Top Ten Shooters two. Lone Ranger. His argument Sunday January 6, 2019 The next day turned out to be Continued on Page. 2 1. Nonstop not nearly as inviting as the day 2. Colorado Jackson prior. Cloudy and breezy and just a Texas Ten Horns Club Leadership 3. Lefty Wheeler little chilly, but still a ton of fun. 4. Marshal Jack Bridges Hairtrigger Hayes President Right here I’d like to toss in an 5. Monk Parker Huckleberry Pace Vice President important safety reminder. Never 6. Rio Concho Kid Ruidoso SASS Territorial and I mean NEVER leave the 7. Tennessee Star Governor loading area with loaded firearms. Mr. Finger Range Officer 8. Tombstone Tim This is another of those lessons I Huckleberry Pace GSW Chairman 9. Dirt Hill Bill have now ‘learned from experience’. Sopapilla Su Secretary 10. Billy Boots Continued on Page. 2 1

January 2019 Texas Ten Horns Cowboy Action Shooting

Monthly Recap Cont. Hi-Yo Silver, Away!!!! Cont. Where are you from? Born in Denver includes that he always rode a white CO, live in Plano TX. Seems I got involved helping another stallion, arrested more than 3000 What were your first cowboy guns shooter at the loading table with a thieves, murderers, and criminals, and are you still shooting them? broken gun. I quickly ran out to my and killed 14 outlaws all without Shared pair of Ruger Vaquero cart to grab something and it was not sustaining a single gunshot wound. Bisleys, 1873 rifle and a Stoegar SxS. until I returned to the loading table His exploits in accomplishing these Still shooting the Bisleys, a different I realized I had my loaded pistols in arrests were legendary. Also, many 1973 24” (nicknamed “the javelin”) my holsters. We all know the call of the fugitives he arrested were sent and a SKB SxS. and as a proud wearer of an RO1 and to the Detroit House of Corrections, What is your favorite sweep? Nevada RO2 badge I had no other choice but the same city where the Lone Ranger Where did you shoot your personal to call a stage DQ on myself. So would be introduced to the world via best stage? Texas Ten Horns, 19 and remember the rules and remember radio program on station WXYZ on change on a 10,10,4 to abide by the rules. We sometimes January 30, 1933. Coincidence? How many styles/categories have tend to get a little lax at our Bass Reeves was born in you shot in? One, but I tried monthlies and when complacency Crawford County, Arkansas in 1838 gunfighter one match. sets in problems start to happen. to the household of William Reeves What’s the best piece of advice you’ve Winners for the day were top Lady – who relocated to Paris, TX in 1846. been given? Shoot slow and do Sopapilla Su and top man – Nonstop. Reeves fought for the Confederacy everything else quick And ol’ Hairtrigger (SDQ) Hayes during the Civil War where he honed What matches are on your bucket 22nd!!! his marksmanship skills with a list? Winter Range and EOT Hope to see you all at the monthly on Do you have a favorite article of February 2nd and 3rd. We’ll be clothing and what is it? Chinks, belt billing this match as the Winter doesn’t fit right without them Range Warmup Match. That means What’s your favorite Western the targets and scenarios will be a movie/actor? Tombstone little more challenging but still Summer or Winter? Summer plenty of fun. Additionally, we’ll be What is your default stage line? Let’s shooting a brand new scenario that Go! I’ve never seen before anywhere In your opinion, what gun is your down at Boot Hill. Don’t worry. It’s Bass Reeves at his swearing in. best? Not shotgun pistol. He then made his way to not hard…just different! How many states/countries have you Indian Territory known as shot in? two, Oklahoma and Texas Oklahoma today which was ruled by Where and when to Do you prefer big and close or the Cherokee, Seminole, Creek, smaller and far? A combination Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes. shoot: thereof. Tribal courts ruled the Indian affairs What do you “coulda woulda so anyone who was not part of that shoulda” after matches? Shotgun system could run rampant and make ups and shell fumbles usually did. Reeves lived with and What is your favorite match that you learned the Indian ways of living and have shot? SW Regional tracking and even learned to speak What is your pre-beep ritual? Walk many of the languages. Enter each gun to be staged and visualize federal judge Isaac C. Parker, aka the shot string. “the hanging judge” (a future story 1st Weekend – Feb 2 & 3, 2019 for Slim’s Pickins) who was Texas Ten Horns, appointed to the Federal Western Leonard TX, District Court in Fort Smith, Texas Troublemakers, Brownsboro, TX Arkansas, May 10, 1875. He charged U.S. Marshall James Fagan with 2nd Weekend Red River Valley reining in the lawless territory Cowpokes – Albany, OK covering 75,000 square miles and Lone Star Frontier Shooting ordered him to hire 200 deputy Club – Ormsby Ranch, marshals. Fagan had heard of the Cleburne, TX reputation of Reeves and his OK Territorial Marshalls, Arcadia Ok tracking skills and ability to speak the Indian languages and deputized Monk Parker and the javelin 3rd Weekend Badlands Bar 3 – him quickly. Continued on Page 3. Special thanks to Monk for helping a English, TX sister out. Old Fort Parker, Groesbeck, TX New Feature

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Hi-Yo Silver, Away!!!! Cont. Oklahoma gained statehood and Range Officer 1 Standing 6 feet 2 inches, a became a patrolman with the February 23, 2019 spiffy dresser with boots shined to a Muskogee Police Department and At the Ten Horns Range gleaming luster, Reeves cut a died in 1910 of Bright’s disease. The Contact Colorado Jackson for dashing figure…most of the time. obituary described him as more information. He was a cunning lawman and used “absolutely fearless and knowing no [email protected] disguises when necessary. Once he master but duty”. An Oklahoma City tracked two outlaws in the Red River newspaper article in 1907 – Want a head start: Check out the Valley area near Texas and set up ““Eighty miles west of Fort Shooter’s Handbook camp 28 miles from their home. He Smith was known as “the disguised himself as a tramp with deadline,” and whenever a deputy Parting Shot: dirty clothes to hide his gun, marshal from Fort Smith or handcuffs, badge and wore a floppy Paris, Texas, crossed the New Year’s resolutions. How hat complete with 3 bullet holes. He Missouri, Kansas & Texas track many of you have them? How many made his way to the house and he took his own life in his hands have already been broken? How convinced the outlaw’s mother to and he knew it. On nearly every many gave up on them years ago? take him in for the night. When her trail would be found posted by Personally, I never have had sons returned, she suggested they outlaws a small card warning any trouble keeping my resolutions join forces, which they agreed to and certain deputies that if they ever as year after year I resolve not to turned in for the night. As they crossed the deadline they would take up smoking and not to add slept, Reeves handcuffed them to be killed. Reeves has a dozen of anything to my bourbon other than each other and the next morning these cards which were posted for ice. So far I’m batting 1,000! returned them to the authorities and his special benefit. And in those But this year I do have a collected his reward of $5,000. Mom days such a notice was no idle resolution of sorts. Not anything followed for 3 miles cursing Reeves boast, and many an outlaw has specific but more of a body/soul/mind the whole time. bitten the dust trying to ambush kind of a resolution. You see, I had a Much like the fictional Lone Ranger, a deputy on these trails.” dream just a couple of days before Reeves was fiercely dedicated to his Oklahoma City Weekly Times- the beginning of this new year. It position. He was considered Journal: “Reeves was never known to was about a bible verse which talked impossible to bribe or pay off, a show the slightest excitement, under about a man of great faith. Great gentleman, courteous and a deadly any circumstances. He does not faith takes discipline, lots of know what fear is.” discipline. shot with his pistol. His integrity would be challenged, however, in I was already planning to make an effort to be more disciplined in 1902 when he returned with a band of bootleggers, rustlers and 2019 by paying stricter attention to murderers he had captured to find a my diet and exercise as well as my writ for the arrest of his own son, shooting and practice. Seems the Bennie Reeves for killing his wife in good Lord decided to slap me upside a jealous rage. None of the other the noggin and say, “don’t forget me deputies would take the case but boy!” (In my mind God sounds kinda Bass Reeves took the writ, found his Bass Reeves had a storied and like Sam Elliott) son and turned him in where he exciting life as a fearless, So therein begins my desire to stood trial and was sentenced to courageous, moral, principled man be more disciplined in 2019. I’d like prison in Leavenworth Penitentiary dedicated to his career as a lawman. to tell you all that it is going Kansas. Among the notorious He went to the frontier badlands and splendidly, but it is not. Seems like outlaws Reeves pursued were Bob was monumental in taming the “wild there are hurdles at every turn. But Dozier whom he shot in a gunfight west” and could not have been a more so far I have managed to stay focused when he refused to surrender, the fitting model for The Lone Ranger. enough to be much more disciplined Tom Story gang (which ended in a He is quoted as saying, “Maybe the than I have been in year’s past albeit law ain’t perfect, but it’s the only one far from the level I strive to achieve. we got, and without it we got I figure it’s kind of like running a nuthin”. I mentioned at the marathon. Nobody goes out there beginning of this article that Bass and runs 26 miles on the first day of Reeves was born to the Reeves’ practice. But they run a couple. So household. I did not mention that goes the struggle towards better Bass Reeves was the son of slaves discipline for Hairtrigger. As far as owned by William Reeves. The distance ran so far, let’s just same I possible blue print for the fictional finally graduated from crawling to Lone Ranger character was real life walking! legendary lawman, African- Ned Christie American, Bass Reeves. Here’s to pulling corks and pulling gunfight as well with Reeves killing triggers, the leader), Seminole outlaw Respectfully submitted, Hairtrigger Greenleaf and Cherokee outlaw Ned Mississippi Slim Christie. For club and contact information: Bass Reeves lost his position as Like us on Facebook: a Deputy US Marshal when Texas 10 Horns Facebook http://texas10horns.org/