May Mayhem

The Dakota RoughRiders’ May Mayhem match began overcast and blustery. But 17 shooters braved that start and were rewarded with some pretty decent weather. Once ya start throwin’ lead downrange, you don’t notice the cold and if you don’t have to chase your hat, a little breeze feels pretty good.

We shot 4 stages but were unable to use bay #3 because Obadiah forgot the boat. Ya, it’s wet out there. That’s where that breeze comes in handy, it kept the mosquitoes away….. doesn’t work for tics!

Like I was sayin’, we had 17 shooters and sixteen of us went home a little humbled by the experience, as we were all taken to school (shooter’s school that is) by Dakota Maid. Congratulations on your Clean Match!

Another shooter who deserves mention is Dakota Rough Rider. He actually rang steel with every shot, but suffered one of the many brain fades of the day and ended up with a procedural on a difficult target sequence. Good shooting Rough Rider!

Blake Stone was the overall match winner.

The rest of us worked through a number of malfunctions, brain fades and other totally unexplainable shooting misfortunes, to have as much fun as the law allows.

Last month we heard very touching eulogies for our two recently departed shooting pards and this month, on stage one, we all got to say our final farewells as a starting line for the stage. We have a couple markers up on Boot Hill for those two scoundrels. We buried them last month but just put the markers up before the match, so we’re really not certain if the marker locations are right. See, we did a little celebrating after we “planted” the boys, and kinda forgot where we put them. So you may want to be careful if ya do any diggin’ on the hill.

Blake Stone