He would ride a horse to work if they had a hitchin' post at the bank. In fact, when he retires he
is going to ride his horse across South Dakota.He still ropes some calves and team ropes now and then, but during the winter that season slows down, so this winter he started participating in Cowboy Fast Draw Competitions. He built a target and backstop in the garage and shoots his .45 Ruger as shown in the picture to the right with cousin Scott. He has only shot himself in the leg once...just a flesh wound. Gunfighters are a tough breed.
This video shows some guys doing this at some big thing in Idaho. Not the greatest video, but they are shooting at 2' diameter circles with a light that tells them when to draw.
So anyway last Sunday my dad had a shoot in Mitchell and he did really well. All of his draws were under a half a second, which is really good. He ended up getting 3rd place...which means he's the 3rd Fastest Gun In The Mitchell Region, or it means in a gun fight he would have been the 2nd to last guy to die!
We joke about his new hobby quite a bit, when we wrestle in the living room (yeah we still wrestle like we did when I was a kid) he always says, "Hey, easy that's my shooting arm!".
So to give my dad something to strive for I post the below video as something to aspire to. This guy takes out 5 targets in the time it would take me draw and shoot once! I think it's cool, my wife thinks my dad is crazy...look what she has to look forward to!
2 comments:
hey about time you got back in the grove. to bad verlie had to get on you. you don't want the wrath of verlie. you never did say if there was more than 3 shooters in mitchell. skip
Looked at the list or Registered Nicknames for the Cowboy Shooting Assn. I could not decide who Bob is - Bad Bob; Bad Eye Bob; Bobby Brass; Buckaroo Bob; Cowboy Bob; Crooked River Bob; Dakota - Bandit, Slim, Star or Stranger; or Papa Grande.
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