HELLFIRE 2010 Is Finally In the Books!!

September, 2010
HELLFIRE 2010 Is
Finally In the Books!!
Possum Skinner takes Overall
Cowboy Title
Dew R. Dye goes 2 for 2,
defends Overall Cowgirl Title
Quitman, LA – The Jackson Hole
Regulators hosted their 2nd annual
Hellfire match at Slick McClade’s
RW Firearms Shooting Range just
south of Quitman, Louisiana. This
year’s theme was a tribute to
Lonesome Dove. As much as we
love that book/movie, I gotta say,
anyone who was lonesome this
weekend must have been hiding
behind a berm somewhere!
Loads of friendly folks from all
over Louisiana, Texas,
Mississippi, Arkansas, and other
states came out to enjoy one of
the premier matches Louisiana
has to offer. We even had a
partner who got lost and
wandered all the way down from
Fargo, North Dakota! Guess he
was looking for the warmer
weather.
Tons of work had been done
since last year to upgrade an
already great shooting range. All
that highway department work in
the area came in handy as
improvements were made to
parking areas and berms. All that
dirt from the road had to go
somewhere, now didn’t it?
–
Volume 2, Issue 9
The side matches on Friday were
the perfect warm-up. The long
distance range hosted the big-bore
and pistol caliber rifle
competitions. Meanwhile, the
cowboy range was just a poppin’
with gunfire. The Hellfire match
takes your best overall time rather
than just your first time, so folks
are free to try again and again.
That makes for lots of shooting
and lots of fun!
Another great thing about the
side matches was the quality of the
prizes. Mose and Bella Spencer
put personalized embroidery on
some really nice gun cases. That
way the winners had something
they could put to good use when
they left.
Miss Ivory presents Vaquero Jake
with a personalized gun case as a
prize for winning the Buckaroo
Class Speed Rifle Side Match
Saturday dawned clear and dry,
perfect for Cowboy Action
Shooting. More than a few folks
remembered how last year the
rain stopped just in time for the
matches, but everything was still
pretty muddy. Not so this year!
We even had a cool front move in
overnight Saturday so that Sunday
was even better. Kaelyn
Culpepper gave a stirring
rendition of our national anthem
as we saluted “Old Glory”. After
a prayer for safety and good
fellowship, we were ready to go!
Our buddy “Fighting Joe”
Spokes Wheeler got off the first
shot of the match (and was
rewarded for it at the banquet
with an embroidered Hellfire cap
– again courtesy of Mose and
Bella). The posses all ran
smoothly. I know this because
once again, I had to shoot all the
way through so I got to shoot with
everybody who was there. What a
great bunch of folks!
Black Viper timing Free State on the Speed Pistol
Side Match
There was one problem I saw
Cajun Ace, Freestate, Gumbo Bandit, and Texas Mac put on a
though. It seems my buddy Black sharpshooting exhibition over these two days. Way to go fellers!
Viper had lost so much weight
Y’all wouldn’t happen to be giving lessons, now would you?
One more interesting thing about this match – it was scored as a total
recently that when he went to put
time match. I don’t know how you feel about it but all the folks I asked
his pistol back in the holster on
about it liked it better that way than the rank point method.
Stage 2, he missed and dropped
In the end, Possum Skinner again showed what a gunfighter on his
that gun straight on the ground!
game can do by claiming Overall Cowboy. Smokey Shane came in
Stage DQ just because he was
second. Dew R. Dye claimed Overall Cowgirl honors for the second year
now so comparatively skinny that
in a row. That lady can flat-out shoot, y’all! Louisiana Lady was runner
his leather wasn’t in the same
up on the women’s side.
place he was accustomed to.
All in all, it was again a great match and I can’t wait till next year!
Don’t you just hate it when that
--- Hightower
happens! J
Saturday night was the banquet.
There were lots of happy faces
Side Match Winners:
from the good friends and food,
Mens
Big
Bore
Lever Rifle
Ladies Big Bore Smokeless
of course, but also from all the
Ringo
Concho Pearl
great awards and raffle prizes that
Mens
Big
Bore
Black
Powder
were handed out. Of special note
Bootstrap Richard
were the beautiful “Top Hand”
Mens Pistol Cal. Lever Action Ladies Pistol Cal. Lever Action
neckerchief slides and bracelets
Jubal Early
Concho Pearl
that Slick gave in appreciation to
Ladies SxS Shotgun
Mens SxS Shotgun
Choctaw Rosie, Choctaw Silver
T-Bone Dooley
Short Stuff
Wolf, Doc Cooper, Doc NoMo,
Mens 97 Pump
Ladies 97 Pump
Jubal Early, Lady Tangerine,
Shaddai Vaquero
Dew R Dye
Ruckus Ralph, San Saba, and
Mens Speed Pistol
Ladies Speed Pistol
Shaddai Vaquero
Dew R Dye
your humble correspondent here.
Mens
Speed
Rifle
Ladies
Speed Rifle
Sunday morning the cowboys
Mose
Spencer
Dew
R
Dye
and cowgirls were back at it.
Mens Derringer
Ladies Derringer
They were channeling their inner
Crosscut
Hardy
Louisiana
Lady
Gus or Woodrow, Lorena or
Ladies Pocket Pistol
Mens Pocket Pistol
Clara, while blasting their way
Crosscut Hardy
Louisiana Lady
through the remaining four
Buckaroo 97 Pump
Buckaroo Speed Pistol
stages. A big credit is due to
Vaquero Jake
Vaquero Jake
Slick. He wrote stages that were
Buckaroo Speed Rifle
fast without being just a standard
Vaquero Jake
“stand there and shoot”. There
Hellfire 2010 Category Winners:
was just enough movement to
Pictures at: http://jhregulators.homestead.com/HELLFIRE2010Results.html
make things interesting without
turning the match into a track
49’r : 1st Wyatt Surp, 2nd Free State, 3rd Duke City Deadeye
meet. The posses were able to
Ladies 49’r : 1st Short Stuff, 2nd Choctaw Rosie
move through at a steady pace
B Western: 1st ET, 2nd Ringo Fire, 3rd Macon A. Longshot
Ladies B Western: 1st Louisiana Lady, 2nd Perfecta Vaquero,
with no bottlenecks, always a
3rd Concho Pearl
sign of a well planned match.
Cowboy: 1st Hightower, 2nd Bootstrap Richard, 3rd Barbwire
Let me tell you who impressed
Bernard
me the most – the four deadeyes
Cowgirl: 1st Diamond Lilly, 2nd Sarasue
who shot clean matches!
–
Hellfire 2010 Category Winners
(contd):
Pictured above: the Hellfire 2010
Overall Cowgirl Dew R. Dye
and
Overall Cowboy Possum Skinner
CONGRATULATIONS ON A
GREAT MATCH!!
Classic Cowboy: 1st Gumbo Bandit, 2nd Ranger
Star, 3rd Slick McClade
Classic Cowgirl: 1st Bella Spencer
Wrangler: 1st Smokey Shane, 2nd Goofus
Macooter, 3rd Old River Ranger
Lady Wrangler: 1st Dew R. Dye
Duelist: 1st Shaddai Vaquero, 2nd Marshall Big
Daddy Jenks, 3rd Chattahoochee
Senior Duelist: 1st Texas Mac, 2nd Cherokee Sgt.,
3rd Free at Last
Senior: 1st Ringo, 2nd Jubal Early, 3rd Galvez
Ladies Senior: 1st Ruby Red Jo
Silver Senior: 1st Hair Trigger Elden, 2nd Harpe,
3rd Rowdy Yates
Ladies Silver Senior: 1st Texas Flower
Elder Statesman: 1st JD Redeye, 2nd Jingle Jim, 3rd
Mustang Moore
OUTLAW: 1st T-Bone Dooley
Frontiersman: 1st Blue Mesa, 2nd Oliver Loving, 3rd
Tumblin Tom
Buckaroos: 1st Vaquero Jack, 2nd Panola Jack
Buckarette: 1st Lily Bleu
Gunfighter: 1st Possum Skinner, 2nd Calhoun Kid, 3rd
Choctaw Silver Wolf
Senior Gunfighter: 1st Crosscut Hardy, 2nd San Saba
Ladies Gunfighter: 1st Irish Leadslinger
Frontier Cartridge: 1st Stonewall Willie, 2nd Leatherneck
Ladies Frontier Cartridge: 1st Bama Belle, 2nd Phoenix
Rose, 3rd Lady Tangerine
Frontier Cartridge Duelist: 1st Ruckus
Ralph, 2nd Cajun Ace, 3rd Woodie B.
Western
Junior Boys: 1st Box Canyon
Junior Girls: 1st Misty Rain
Four Straight Shooters
Clean Match Award Winners Texas Mac,
Gumbo Bandit, Cajun Ace, and Freestate
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