Well Saturday saw an early start which was nice before the heat took hold.

We started with a breeze but that soon stopped and the desert sun ramped up.

The last four stages of the match

Stage 1 – Greenwood Trading Co

Line is: How much?

Stage 2 – Justice B Dunn Shooting Gallery

Line is: Don’t let ‘em loose!

Stage 3 – Rock jail

Line is: Let’s get movin’!

Stage 4 – The Fixer Land & Cattle Co

Line is: Hit ‘em all twice

And that’s it! What will be will be.

Thanks Posse 29 for an awesome match and great working folks.

The banquet was on that evening along with costume contest. Around 50+ entries for that from juniors, military, saloon, B-Western/Silver Screen, Men’s, Ladies and couples categories.

I won Silver Screen with my B-Western USA inspired dress and story of rodeo from Pecos to Wyoming.

The Top 16 cowboys and cowgirls were announced for the shootout Sunday morning.

Another early start to the day and we head to the range for the shootout. I had a bye on the first round, won on the next run with Echo Meadows and then had a close one with Ringers Ruby also from Aus which she won and headed into the final round against Dueling Des.

Congratulations to Ringers Ruby on winning the shootout and The Cumberland Kid for the cowboys win!!

We were all done by 9.15, moved through efficiently, for sure.

10 am everyone was in the main tent for awards. 50 categories, 645 shooters from 11 countries, 60 international competitors and 129 clean shooters – meaning no misses or penalties!

With a lot of categories going to 10th place again they moved through efficiently including photo’s!

For the Australian contingent, they placed as follows:

Duelist – Mean Mongrel Matt – 7th place and a clean match

Classic Cowboy – Marlboro Man – 3rd place and a clean match

Lady Senior Duelist – Pearl Starr – 3rd place

Wrangler – Waco Kid – 9th place

Lady Wrangler – Ringers Ruby – 3rd place, Lucky Strike Lass – 4th place and a clean match

Senior – Ringer from Downunder – 8th place and a clean match

Lady Senior – Wild Ruby Rose – 7th place

Buckaroo – Tornado Tommy – 6th place

Cowboy – Savage Sam – 3rd place and a clean match, Broken Spur – 7th place

Lady Gunfighter – Sister Sarah Carnegie – 2nd place

Cattle Baron – Jackaroo – 10th place and a clean match

49er – Trapper from Oz – 9th place

Lady 49er – Kathouse Kelli – 1st place and a clean match, Clancy – 2nd place

Other clean match’s – Doc Carnegie and Frank Buck James.

Not a bad show up!! 21 Australians making up one third of the International contingent.

That’s it for this year it was a hell of a match, so good catching up with a lot of cowboys and cowgirls we have not seen for a long time indeed! We sure do miss it!

Kat x