The Buccaneer Range Regulators formed their monthly posse on Saturday 3/17. Part of the posse from February was still dealing with saddle sores and gunshot wounds from the February fracus so attendance was down some but the 5 Regulators in the posse got to have a good time and still get home before the Lunch was too cold.  Speaking of eating we had muffins furnished by Two Times Mcgonigals wife and they were very well received.  She had prepared for more Regulators than showed up  so we had a half a dozen or so left. After the last stage Dick Holliday noticed the left over muffins (after already eating 5 or 6) and proposed to Two Times that we have a muffin shooting match-the idea was not well received and the muffins went back home.

 

The highlight of the day was the Cowpie throwing match.  In that match the shooter had to try to throw 4 cowpies down the mineshaft to flush out the claimjumpers.  These were the same claimjumpers as we dealt with in February but they were back and since we used up all the dynamite last month,  all we had to flush them out with were cowpies.  A new cowboy showed up at our posse this month by the name of "Duplin Kid" He won the Cowpie contest with two pies down the shaft.  I think he may have been a ringer sent in to win the match.  The way he threw the pies he obviously used to live on a farm with a lot of cows.

 

This was the closest match we've had to date as only 2.3 seconds was the difference between 1st and 2nd place.  Chances are that if Livingston Creek Marshall had not had a pistol problem or two he may had overcome Dick Holliday's lead.  "If-If-If"  The next time you talk to Dick Holliday ask him what that famous cowboy lawyer "Bucking Bob O'Quinn" had to say about the word "If".  The rest of the posse in order of finish was Two Times Mcgonigal,Duplin Kid,and Doc Clock. The time spread between the last three cowboys was less than 16 seconds.

 

 We're glad to have Doc Clock (Harold Lange) back shooting again since his bypass surgery.  We were all worried about Doc since he is the first bypass that Atlantic Animal Hospital  had done on a human but Doc said they did such a great job on his horses hemorroids that he would give them a try.

 

thanks to all the cowboys in attendance and also to the dozen or so spectators that came and went.  We will try to keep the matches fun and as always if you want to attend and do not think you have all the stuff - just show up and we'll help out with what you may be short.  in the words of that famous cowboy writer Louis LaManure "Take a kid shooting"