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A Chronicle of the Plum Creek Shooting Society Agarita Ranch April 2012 Lockhart, Texas Officers Long Juan Here! President - Dragon Hill Dave here will be a short meeting of club David Donaldson Tmembers following our monthly Austin, TX 512-626-8189 match in May to consider approval of by- [email protected] laws for the Plum Creek Shooting Society. Please plan to attend. Vice President - Joe Darter One our goals for the PCSS is to increase membership Tom Morris and the number of monthly shooters. We want to be sure Seguin, TX 210-831-2268 [email protected] we make them all feel welcome. Dragon Hill Dave and I collaborated on an article, Advice for New Shooters, that Secretary & Editor Agarita Gazette - begins on page 2. We think the article will be a good Long Juan resource for anyone wanting to learn more about our sport, John Soule but particularly for those just getting started in cowboy Austin, TX 512-750-3923 action shooting. Other articles that might be of interest are, [email protected] What’s a Stage Scenario?, that appeared in the September Treasurer - True Blue Cachoo 2011 issue and Looking the Part: Cowboy Dress, that appeared Nancy Forage in the June 2011 issue. Back issues of the Gazette are Austin, TX 512-775-0699 available at www.tarryhollowgang.com. Click on the tab for the Agarita Gazette and then on the link for the issue Territorial Governor - Jake Paladin J.P. Forage you want to read. There is also an index of articles. Austin, TX 512-970-4990 We know we have a problem with the PCSS website. [email protected] We are working to fix it. See the minutes of our April meeting for more details. Our goal is to have at least a new Ranger Marshal - Delta Raider bare-bones site up and operating by Continued next page. Chuck Leshikar Lockhart, TX 512-227-1389 What’s Inside: [email protected] Advice for New Shooters – p. 8 April Shoot – p. 5 Safety Marshal - Elroy Rogers Klickitat Bob – p. 6 Stage Marshal - Phantom Dragon Hill Dave – p. 2 Flag Marshal - Artiman Reloading on the Clock - p. 16 RO’s Corner: Holsters – p. 15 What’s It Mean? XIT – p. 14 Where’s Chuck? - p. 6 Long Juan Here (continued) by CD Tom and used by more On a personal note, I shot at the end of April. Until then, than 250 clubs worldwide. We Comancheria Days with the our Yahoo Group is the place to were very fortunate to have Texican Rangers the 5th weekend look for information about Agarita Annie (who has taken in March. Not surprisingly, it activities, scores, etc. over for Grouchy Spike as was a great shoot, at a great http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/ Director of Publications for the venue, with a great group of group/PCCSS/ Texican Rangers) at our April cowboys and cowgirls, put on We want your feedback on shoot to help with our first by a great club. Thanks to our new registration and experience using the new- Match Director Buck Bradley scoring procedures. We want to system. She brought along her (a/k/a glutton for punishment – speed things up and improve husband, Nueces Slim, so he he was also Match Director of accuracy (scores, categories, could shoot. Annie tells me they RPV12) and to all of the Texican etc.). We are now using the will be back to help and shoot Ranger volunteers who made a SASS Premier Scoring & Match again in May. A BIG THANKS GREAT match possible. Management System developed TO ANNIE and a hearty welcome to Slim!! Profile: DRAGON HILL DAVE, President, Plum Creek Shooting Society By Long Juan arly this year, we elected next few months, a profile of Texas, he came across the Tejas Eofficers to run the Plum each officer will appear in the Caballeros website and their Creek Shooting Society. Our Gazette. This month, we start description of cowboy action fearless leader for many years, with our president, Dragon Hill shooting. The next week, in Delta Raider, wanted and Dave. June 2004, the Cabs were needed help. Starting this David Donaldson, a/k/a offering a new-shooter school. month and continuing for the Dragon Hill Dave, started Dave went to the school at the cowboy shooting in 2004. Both Cab’s old range in Driftwood, of his parents had died recently saw all the various western guns and he was looking for a way to laid out, saw the stage facades re-connect with some of the and did a little shooting. He things he enjoyed doing with was hooked. The following them. Because they had hunted weekend he discovered the together often and appreciated Texican Rangers were shooting guns (mostly shotguns and deer near Fredericksburg. He and his rifles), he thought he would try wife packed the camper and clay and trap shooting. He spent the night before the shoot hooked up with an acquaintance in Kerrville. The next morning, and tried it, but found it wasn’t while stopped at a convenience what he wanted. Continuing store, he happened to see a truck with his web searches for with a gun cart in the back. He shooting ranges in Central followed it (continued next page) Page 2 to the range. It turned out to be the Picosa Kid, who also was just getting started in cowboy 2011 End-of-Trail World Champion action shooting. When Dave got to the range, he 2011 Texas State Champion told them he was there to observe. Surprise, 2010 Texas State Champion surprise!! He was asked, “Do you want to 2010 TSRA State Champion shoot?” The Texican Rangers fixed him up with 2009 Western States Champion guns and leather and he shot his first match. He 2009 Oregon State Champion 2008 Oklahoma State Champion loved it and has been a dedicated cowboy action 2008 Texas Black Powder Champion shooter ever since. I asked Dave how he came up with his alias, Dave doesn’t do any other competitive Dragon Hill Dave. Here is what he told me. shooting, but loves bird and deer hunting. He has been to Argentina three times dove hunting, I tried a couple of other aliases when I got which he says is unbelievably good. He has a started, but nothing felt right. At the time we deer lease near Fredericksburg and another in were living in Wimberley at our little ranch, which we called Dragon Hill Ranch. My wife Llano County near Sunrise Beach. and I both have an interest in dragons, and our As most of you know (if you even glance at house was up on a hill, so when it came time to any monthly edition of the Cowboy Chronicle), name our place that seemed right. I realized that if I called myself Dragon Hill Dave, the initials of that alias would match my real initials, allowing me to use initialed items I already had and use my initials in communications with cowboys and non- cowboys alike. Maybe this interest in efficiency was an early manifestation of my gamer instinct. Dave tries to shoot every weekend. He shoots regularly with the Plum Creek Shooting Society, Dragon Hill Dave shoots Classic Cowboy. When the Tejas Caballeros, the he got started, he was advised to shoot .38s. In Texican Rangers and the Dave’s mind, real cowboys don’t shoot .38s; they Green Mountain Regulators. shoot big-bore .44s and .45s. The Classic Cowboy He occasionally shoots with category, with its clothing requirements, big-bore the Travis County Regulators guns, duelist shooting style and hammered and at Tin Star Ranch outside shotgun just felt right. Besides, Dave says Fredericksburg. He tries to shooting Classic Cowboy gives him lots of shoot End-of-Trail and Winter excuses why he is not the fastest shooter out Range every year. He’s been there. I confess I had not noticed that he was to Comin’ At Cha and has shot other matches in slow. Sure seemed to me like he was standing up Washington state, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, front a lot at Ride with Pancho Villa, accepting Oklahoma and Wyoming. award after award for fastest this and fastest that. Dave is a world-class Classic Cowboy shooter. Dave shoots Uberti “Evil Roy” pistols 4 ¾” His many awards include: Page 3 barrels, an 1873 rifle (or a ’66 if the ’73 is down) “Thank goodness I got into law school.” Now he and a TTN 12g hammered shotgun. teaches at UT. Go figure! Dave and his wife have Dave now lives in Austin, but when he got been married for 40 years, which he views as his most impressive and treasured achievement. Apparently not wanting to seem that old, he was careful to tell me she was 18 and he was 19 when they got married. A SASS Life member like Dave, “Barely There” (her alias) does not participate directly in cowboy action shooting, but Dave says she tolerates and supports his shooting efforts, which he appreciates. As president of the Plum Creek Shooting started in cowboy action shooting, he lived in Society, Dave’s goal is to offer shooters a quality Wimberley. He grew up in Odessa, Texas and shooting experience that is fun and challenging. played football for Permian High School. He He wants shooters to feel they have gotten a great went to school with and played football with value when they shoot with us. He wants them some of the people who became characters in the to miss it when they don’t get to come.