Editor: Pasture Patti Cajon Cowboy Monthly—July 2009 Don’t Forget Legends Shoot-Sept 24th We all are most capable and patient John Crazy. saddened at The kids classes are open to children and the recent grandchildren of club members. No guns In loss of Old or ammo are required, the club furnishes Scout SASS them, only requirement is that the kids be 323 and age 6 or above. Memoriam Cajon Cow- We’ve had some inquiries about boys 4. As the format for Legends of The West this some of you year. For those of you who attended last know, Old years shoot, it will be run in the same Scout is one fashion. In other words there is a speed of the cofounders of Cajon Cowboys. pistol, rifle and shotgun event integrated His initial contributions were invaluable into the event. This year we are adding a in the start up. He will be missed by all Top Gun stage for overall Man and who knew him. We’re certain that he Woman plus a team shoot where your has a lot of gunsmithing work to do posse is the team. After the shoot we will cause lots of his old buddies are on that be having a Pot Luck Lunch. The club is Posse in The Sky. furnishing the “liquid refreshments” as Red Haymaker has taken over well as a steak for all. You may come the new shooters clinic that is held out to the Gem Ranch on Friday if you every 2nd Saturday—Not So Dead Eye are camping and stay the night. Friday Maverick will be teaching the ladies. night Bojack will be calling Cowboy We are mighty proud to have instruc- Bingo as in other years. tors of their caliber teaching the new You may stay over on Saturday folks. For sure they will go away night as well and enjoy the fellowship of chucked full of useful info about Cow- other folks. Camping at the Range is boy Shooting. dry. Where else can you get an 8 stage A reminder, it has always been match and a steak dinner for $25.00 so Old Scout our policy that if you come out on a come on out. Remember the first 100 Friday morning and help set the steel shooters are automatically entered into a for the next days match that you shoot drawing for a home defense shotgun. that match for free. So if you’re hang- Luke Warmwater tells me that ing around the barn on a Friday and the Bass Pro Shop in Rancho Cuca- want to get out for a few hours, come monga adjacent to the freeway has now on out. The boys (and Girls) get there opened an indoor shooting range, cost is around 9AM. $7.00 per hour. Lead ammo only and the Several notes about the range, cal. Are 38 thru 45 pistols only. Might Only shooters who are shooting the be a place to keep in mind if you need to match may wear guns and live ammo. check out some ammo during the week. At our shoots. Don’t forget that the Lil’ Buckaroos shooting class runs the sec- See you at Legends, Old Scout & Joy Belle ond Saturday of each month under the Bojack Joe Bowman dies at 84; sharpshooter was known as 'Master of Triggernometry' Joe Bowman could blast an aspirin to pow- this great man. He was a friend to all of us that der at 30 paces and split a playing card knew him. We stayed up many a nite while JOE edgewise at 20. He trained his shooting entertained us. Bowman, who called himself the eye by picking flies off garbage cans with a Straight Shooter and the Master of Triggernometry, BB gun from the back porch of his house. performed at gun shows, rodeos and conventions across the country. He taught gun handling to Bowman shared his marksmanship skills with Robert Duvall ("Lonesome Dove"), James Arness Hollywood stars and law enforcement officers. ("Gunsmoke") and Jock Mahoney ("Yancy Derrin- He was also a gifted magician and trick roper, ger"), among many other Hollywood stars. performing at rodeos and gun shows. He was a regular fixture every year at EOT. In addition, he taught FBI agents and police offi- cers the finer points of handling a gun, including what he called "instinct shooting" -- relying on the Joe Bowman, a nationally known Texas sharp- eye and aligning the body correctly rather than tak- shooter who could blast an aspirin to powder at ing the extra few seconds to aim down the gun 30 paces and split a playing card edgewise at sight. Always movie-cowboy resplendent in a ten- 20, has died. He was 84. gallon hat, embroidered shirt and western-style pants stuffed into ornate, hand-sewn boots -- attire He had been in Albuquerque, where he had he made himself -- Bowman performed thousands staged fast-draw and sharpshooting exhibitions of shows, including performances for King Hussein for the Single Action Society's annual End of of Jordan and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. Trail. He probably had attended most all Bowman also created portraits by shooting holes in EOT’s. He was driving back to his home in thin sheets of metal. These creations sold at auc- Houston when he stopped for the night in the tion for a good buck many a year. small West Texas town of Junction. He had a heart attack and died June 29. I've seen fast, I've seen faster, I've seen fastest, and then I've seen Joe Bowman," said actor James Everyone that attended EOT in Norco and Drury, who starred in the television series "The Founders Ranch knew him. 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"It was all in such Household Tips a blur you couldn't even catch it on film," he said in an interview. He performed this stunt many times at EOT. Deodorize your car: Of course, you can buy a disposable air fresheners that hang Joseph Lee Bowman was born April 12, 1925, in from your car’s rear-view mirror. But why Johnson City, Tenn., where he started shooting at age bother, when you can make a permanent 6, and spent many of his formative years in Ashe- version for next to nothing? Just punch or ville, N.C., and Houston. He and his older brother drill a dozen or so holes in the lid of a Mark loved westerns, and with their cap guns and throat-lozenger tin or plastic soap container cowboy boots the youngsters became Johnny Mack (the kind meant for traveling). Tuck a small Brown, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and the other cow- bar of sweet smelling soap into the box, and boy idols they watched in gape-mouthed wonder dur- slide it under the front seat of your car. ing Saturday-morning matinees at the local theater. Your vehicle will smell clean and fresh and in a pinch, you can pull out the soap and use He never forgot that experience. "So much of what I it to wash your hands! do is for the adults, reminding them of their child- hood," he told the Houston Chronicle in 1992. "What Fog proof your car’s windows: There’s I remember is the morality of the westerns and of the nothing more annoying or more dangerous cowboys. That's all what westerns were: morality than driving without crystal clear vision. So plays, where there was good and evil." if fog is a fact of life where you live, don’t take chances. Rib a bar of soap over your He honed his shooting eye by sitting on the back auto’s glass, and polish it with a clean, soft porch of his house and picking flies off garbage cans cloth. Note: This trick works just as well with a BB gun. During World War II, he served in on diving masks and ski goggles—just be the Army with a communications squadron in France sure to rub the soap only on the outside of and was injured when a land mine exploded while he the lens. was stringing wire. He received a Silver Star, three Bronze stars and a Purple Heart for his service. Remove light scratches from auto glass: Even the best kept cars pick up minor After the war, he attended the University of Houston scrapes on their windows and mirrors every for two years but decided he would rather be a deni- now and then.