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Bunkhouse News Volume 1, Issue 7

NOVEMBER 2011

Bridgeport

Vigilantes

Message from the Sheriff Howdy To All:

Well some of us were on a road trip doing a lot of Cowboy Shooting. Our first stop was Defend the

Roost on October 6th-9th in Ridgecrest, CA. Our own Deputy Flatland Kid SASS 77289, won 1st place

for Best Dressed Gentleman and 3rd place in the 49er category. I won 1stplace in Cattle Baron and 1st

place for Best Dressed Cowboy. It was a well run shoot with great stages. A big thank you goes out to Nasty Newt SASS 7365,

Just George SASS 58097 and all of the club for their hard work in setting up the steel and taking it down so we could all enjoy our-

selves and providing delicious grub.

The next stop on October 13th-15th was at Wild West Extravaganza in Pahrump, NV with the Lone Wolf Shooters. Another

GREAT shoot. Our Deputy Flatland Kid SASS 77289 won 1st place in Tomahawk; 1st place in Knife Throwing; 1st place in 22 Cal.

Derringer and also 2nd place in the 49er category. Miss Suzy Q, SASS 77290 won 1st place in Ladies Wrangler. I took 1st place in

Best Dressed Working Cowboy and 3rd place in the Cattle Baron category.

Our next stop was The Gunfight Behind the Jersey Lilly with The Cowboys on October 20th-23rd in Norco, CA. I won 2nd place

for Best Dressed Man. I was overwhelmed for receiving the “Shooter Appreciation Award”. What an honor! We had a wonder-

ful time with old friends and making new acquaintances. There were great stages and lots of fun.

The last stop for Bee Blest and me was in Lucerne Valley with The Double R Bar Club, Last Stand at Chimney Rock. Wow what

challenges all the shooters faced with wind, rain and more wind. We all survived and had a great shoot. I was honored to re-

ceive the “Spirit of the Game Award”, 2nd place in Classic Cowboy and a buckle for 4th place in Elder Statesman. Ben Maverick

received 4thplace in B Western. Pinebox Peddler placed 7thin his category of Duelist. Ruby Rawhide placed 4th in the 49er cate-

gory. She was also on the first place team shoot; and she also made it to the second round of Top Gun Shoot Out. Pinebox Ped-

dler and Ruby Rawhide took second place in the costume contest for Best Dressed Couple. I was very honored at Chimney Rock

to hold Roy Rogers belt buckle and badge. Thank you Five Jacks for the privilege of doing so.

After five weeks and four (4) Cowboy shoots attended, what a hoot was had by all. We finally made it back to the Old Homestead

in Bridgeport all in one piece. I would like to thank Flatland Kid, Miss Suzy Q, Ben Maverick, Nebraska Tex, and Bee Blest for all

the help to get me through all the shooting and the trip. A special thanks to all Cowboys and Cowgirls for all their constant help.

As you have received our notice, our last shoot for 2011 has been canceled due to extremely cold weather, of which was 4 de-

grees at 6am this morning. Safety first is our motto! Our Advisory/Executive Board Meeting was also canceled for Nov 12th.

On page 3 of this newsletter, you will find a list of what we will be voting on at our TG Meeting in Las Vegas. I will need your in-

put and vote by November 23rd. Please respond via our new email address: [email protected] .

We will be on our new range as of our May shoot. If you have any questions give me a call, home 760-932-1139 or cell 760-937-5463. See you down the trail, Bodie Kid SASS 17377 LIFE Territorial Governor www.northernnevadacas.com/bv

BIBLE QUOTE FROM OUR SHERIFF FOR YOU: God is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1

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Bridgeport Vigilantes’

Dates to Remember

November 23rd—Get your votes in to

Bodie Kid for December TG meeting.

Executive and Advisory Board

Meeting Rescheduled

December 17th Bridgeport Vigilantes

Christmas Party Khristopher’s Café — 5pm

939 Mica Rd

Carson City, CA

RSVP as soon as possible to

Bee Blest at 760-932-1139

or 760-937-0014

This year instead of exchanging gifts

we would like to ask you to donate

$20.00 per couple to our charities.

These as you know are Roy Rogers

Kid’s and John Wayne Cancer

Research Institute. All the money do-

nated is tax deductible.

This is optional.

Cowboy Bible Quote FOR BODIE KID FROM

MISS SUZY Q & FLATLAND KID

Did I not tell you what I wanted? Be brave and

strong. Don’t be a scared sissy; do not lose heart, for the Lord your God will always ride right

beside you. Joshua 1:9

Cowgirl Quote

The boy who chooses to love me must also love my horse. Cowboy Quote

Work hard, do your best, keep your word, never get too big for your britches, trust in God, have no fear —

Never forget a friend.

I would like to ask for pray-

ers for Bodie Kid. He was

admitted to Carson Hospital

in Carson City, NV with problems of

lots of swelling and sores on his legs,

kidney failure and congestive heart

failure.

We need a miracle, thanks. Bee Blest

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Below are the Agenda Items for the 2011 Territorial Governor Summit PLEASE RESPOND WITH YOUR THOUGHTS, CONCERNS AND/OR QUESTIONS TO BODIE KID AT [email protected] NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 23RD

1) Should the scoring program be changed so that any shooter that does not finish TWO or more stages in a match is not eligible for any main match awards? Voting YES would apply the same criteria currently in place for multiple SDQ?s & SOG?s to DNF?s (Did Not Finish) i.e. 2X = Match Disqualification. A NO vote would allow a shooter who DNF?s multiple stages to place ahead of competitors who actually completed all main match stages. 2) Should the limiting criteria for shooters in Age Based categories be changed from the current "minimum qualifying age OR GREATER" to "between the ages of."? (e.g. Wranglers from 36-48; 49ers from 49-59; Seniors from 60-64; etc.) A YES vote would no longer allow a shooter to compete in Age Based categories below his/her actual age range. Cowboy/Cowgirl category age range would end at 35 years of age. The Junior (Buckaroo/ette and Young Gun) categories would NOT be affected. A NO vote would leave the Age Based category restrictions unchanged. (E.g. Two shooters with adjustable-sighted revolvers & a 66 or 73 rifle: -- A 65 yr. old competitor currently has the option to sign up in FIVE Age Based categories: Silver Senior, Senior, 49er, Wrangler or Cowboy; -- A 26 yr. old using those firearms only has ONE option: Cowboy) 3)Should an "OPEN" category be added with NO RESTRICTIONS regarding gender, age, shooting style or propellant? This would provide a single category in which ANY shooter could register. (Gunfighter-style competitors would have to comply with the current category regulations) 4) Should the "B" Western Category options be rewritten to allow for additional ladies costuming options? A YES vote would have the ROC rewrite the BW requirements to include the suggested changes. A NO vote would leave BW as is. 5) Should the attached, proposed Category System be adopted? NOTE: Some of the Ladies categories that have historically been "under populated? at most annu-al matches are no longer on the "officially recognized" list. Those have been replaced with FCGF, SGF, Cattle Baron, and 80+ (name as yet undetermined) A Match Director will always have the OPTION to offer ANY additional categories; as well as the OPTION to change the minimum requirement for honoring a category.

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Defend the Roost

3rd Place “49er” - Flatland Kid

Best Dressed Cowboy—Flatland Kid

Best Dressed Working Cowboy—Bodie Kid

Defend the Roost

Best Dressed Working Cowboy-Bodie Kid

Best Dressed Working Cowgirl–

ShortStock

WILD WEST EXTRAVAGANZA

Flatland Kid— 2nd Place 49er; 1st Place Derringer; 1st

Place Knife Throwing; 1st Place Tomahawk

Bodie Kid— 1st Place Best Dressed Working Cowboy;

3rd Place Cattle Baron

Miss Suzy Q—1st Place Lady Wrangler

Defend the Roost

1st Place Cattle Baron—Bodie Kid

GUNFIGHT BEHIND THE JERSEY LILY

Bodie Kid— Shooter Appreciation Award; 2nd Place Best Dress Man

LAST STAND AT CHIMNEY ROCK

Bodie Kid— Spirit of the Game; 2nd Place Classic Cow-

boy; 4th Place Elder Statesman

Ben Maverick— 4th Place B Western

Pinebox Peddler— 7th Place Duelist

Ruby Rawhide— 4th Place 49er; 1st Place Team Shoot

Pinebox Peddler & Ruby Rawhide— 2nd Place Best

Dressed Couple

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Bridgeport

Vigilantes

shootin it up at

other Cowboy

Matches:

Defend the

Roost

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AS PROMISED***** We are honored to be posting a story written by

our own Jack Rojas called “The Showdown at Piney Meadows”.

Each of the next 5 issues of the Bunkhouse News, we will post a

chapter from this story. For those who didn’t see our posting last

month, below is a bit of how this wonderful campfire story came

about.

Jack emailed that he had attended the 1st CA State BP Champ 2

years ago in Ridgecrest run by Just George. Before the Match ,

there was a story on the SASS Wire written by Jailhouse Jim that

was an old west story that included many of the participants of the

match. He struck up a friendship with Jailhouse Jim when he was

inducted into the Dammit Gang, of which Just George and South-

paw 57 are members. Jim has had many requests over the years to

write his stories because it actually helps the attendance of a

Match. These stories are usually told before the Match and are re-

leased one chapter a day on www.dammitganghideout.com under

"Campfire".

Jim asked Jack to help him with ideas for some of his stories and

so he wrote his own a year ago called "Murder in Cowboy Town" for

"Dry Gulch at Arroyo Cantua" here in CA. In appreciation for having

so much fun at our shoots this summer, he wrote a short story after

the fact so he could get more background on everyone in the story.

Thank you Jack from the bottom of our Cowboy/girl hearts!

THE BRIDGEPORT VIGILANTES

Turn to page 4 to start this Cowboy story….

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SHOWDOWN AT PINEY MEADOWS By Jack Rojas

Chapter One BODIE RIDES AGAIN

The hunter’s moon began to set in the west just as the new morning sun’s rays

bathed the high desert in its predawn glow so the changing of night to day was

almost seamless. On the rolling desert, both hunters and hunted, four-legged and two-legged alike, made their way carefully back to their daytime lairs. In

the sleepy little town of Piney Meadows, the lamp lit rooms faded away into the

sunrise.

In the heart of town was the grand courthouse with the jail and Sheriff's Office

on the bottom floor. Across from the courthouse was the Sportsmen, a local wa-tering hole and restaurant. One lone cowboy sat at the bar on this otherwise

perfect autumn morning. At first glance, he looked no different than many a

cowpuncher that drifted through town on his way to parts unknown. From his starched, flat brim hat with its uncreased crown, custom elk skin chinks, down to

the large rowelled buckaroo spurs he had shipped all the way from Orygun Terri-

tory, the man looked surprisingly ordinary. What set this pard apart from the rest was his gun rig. Over those elk skin chinks rode a set of buscadero holsters

that were adorned with countless sterling silver conches. In each holster rode an

engraved nickel plated Colt .45.

Sarah was the morning waitress. She approached the cowboy with a fresh cup

of coffee and asked, "Would you like a cup of coffee this morning Bodie?"

The question snapped the cowboy out of his deep trance. “I sure would, Sarah,"

answered the cowboy.

As Sarah set the steaming mug down on the bar in front of Bodie Kid she added,

"Maudie has a fresh batch of biscuits in the Dutch oven just ready for some gravy or would you like your usual this morning?"

"Coffee will do today.", responded Bodie Kid.

Sarah looked somewhat startled at her early morning customer. She had known

him for a spell now but had never seen him pass on his breakfast ritual. Bodie instinctively reached for the tall ceramic mug and blew on it before taking his

first sip, already slipping back into thoughts.

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It had been seven years since Bodie Kid had taken off his badge as a frontier marshal. He patrolled the hills and valleys around Los Angeles for twelve years

prior before he decided to pull up roots and follow the dream to work cattle on

his own spread in the eastern Sierras. Along with his wife, Bee Blest, they set-tled down in Piney Meadows. They worked hard to build their ranch and to be-

come integral members of the mountain community. The town opened their

arms and their hearts to their newest citizens for life was good every day the sun came up.

The passing of summer to winter was uneventful until last December when word spread across the telegraph wires about the loss of Sheriff Joe Browner. Sheriff

Browner had been found dead in the streets of Bodie. The little town was just

south of Piney Meadows and was the namesake of the Bodie Kid. Bodie and Joe became close friends many years back when they rode on the same posses so

many times in hunting down highwaymen and outlaw gangs. Upon hearing the

news, Bodie saddled up and headed south to see what could be done to avenge his fallen friend.

By now, the town of Bodie was becoming nothing more than a ghost town with the silver playing out like it tended to do in many small towns across the west.

Bodie spent a full day at the scene studying every hoof track, footprint, and the

bullet holes left behind from the ambush. After spending the night in an aban-doned house, Bodie's next stop was to be Bishop. In Bishop, Bodie asked about

the status of the investigation into Sheriff Browner's death. He was disappoint-

ed to find out that the lawmen were overworked and understaffed due to a rash of stage holdups up and down the crest of the Sierras.

By the time Bodie returned back to his ranch, he knew what he must do. After a heart to heart talk with Bee, Bodie opened up the cedar chest where he stored

his Marshal's badge, his nickel plated Colts, and his fancy gun rig. It was only natural to want to wear those special six guns, especially since they were a pair

of Joe's at one time.

Footsteps sounding on the boardwalk outside brought the Bodie Kid back to his

seat at the bar. He straightened up slightly and put his right hand on a gun

butt. He glanced to his left as the glass door creaked open to allow a man to step through off of the main street, creaking closed again as he passed through.

Bodie relaxed when he recognized the man as his deputy, the Flatland Kid.

"Marshal, Southpaw just made it back into town. He observed almost forty

members of the Kingsbury Gang just east of the lake outside of Yerington," Flat-

land Kid reported to Bodie. The Flatland Kid worked with Bodie back in Los An-geles and wasted no time making his way north to Piney Meadows once the

word spread about Bodie Kid coming out of retirement.

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Bodie carried his coffee with him as he walked over and looked out one of the win-

dows that faced the Courthouse to the east. "I reckon we can expect them today," surmised Bodie.

By the time spring rolled around, Bodie had uncovered evidence that proved

Sheriff Joe had been cut down by the ruthless Kingsbury Gang, a pack of gunmen

run by that cold blooded killer, Reno Slim. Bodie discovered that Reno Slim liked to visit a certain lady friend that lived in Virginia City. Bodie sent Tumbleweed Ed

to Virginia City to keep an eye on Reno's girl and to alert Bodie the next time Reno Slim rode in.

The spring round-up was finished and Virginia City was filled with thirsty cowhands when Reno Slim slipped into the Comstock Lode country trying to blend in with the

rest of the cowboys. He couldn't fool Tumbleweed Ed though so the Bodie Kid was notified almost before Slim could get his first drink. When the Bodie Kid rode into

town, Reno Slim was arrested in short order. Bodie hauled the handcuffed Reno

Slim to Piney Meadows to stand trial for the murder of Sheriff Browner. Bodie under estimated the Kingsbury Gang though and before the trial could take place,

Nevada Judge himself was bushwhacked. Although still alive, Dixie Justice stated the Judge would be in no shape to dispense justice for quite sometime.

The arrest of Reno Slim was big news across the frontier and retaliation by the Kingsbury Gang was to be a sure thing in order to free their leader Reno Slim. The

Bodie Kid had help though since he made many friends throughout his daily travels over the years, friends who wouldn't let him stand alone against the gang.

A few years earlier, Bodie had gone to Carson City to write a contract with a rancher to supply beef to the Sportsmen once a year for their menu. In Carson

City, Bodie met up with a group of men riding for the Rocking 4. The Rocking 4 raised grain fed beef and was looking for some buyers they could ship to. Bodie

Kid and Ima Gonner of the Rocking 4 struck a deal with the Rocking 4 shipping

their beef to the Sportsmen every year since.

The Bodie Kid was lucky that the boys from the Rocking 4 were in town in June when the Kingsbury Gang attempted to free Reno Slim. In July, the Hog Mountain

Riders happened to be on the eastern side of the Sonora Pass when trouble raised its head up again on the outskirts of town. Come August, Just George and his

Vigilantes from Crumville passed through on their annual trek and once again

helped Bodie Kid out of a jam. Just George had recently been appointed as a Regulator and offered to take Reno Slim off of Bodie's hands in order to try him in

Crumville where they were a little more used to dealing with the likes of Reno Slim and his Kingsbury Gang. As Just George left town, he promised to send the Jail

Wagon to Piney Meadows for Reno Slim. George told the man it wouldn't be until

late September before the wagon would arrive but that was one month ago.

TO BE CONTINUED IN DECEMBER ISSUE OF THE BUNKHOUSE NEWS

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Bridgeport Vigilantes shootin it

up at other Cowboy Matches:

Wild West Extravaganza

Thanks Penny and Lash for your

gracious Lone Wolf Shooters

hospitality!!

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Bridgeport Vigilantes

shootin it up at other

Cowboy Matches:

Gunfight Behind the

Jersey Lily

Bridgeport Vigilantes

shootin it up at other

Cowboy Matches:

The Last Stand At

Chimney Rock

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Serial# 64077

Sterlingworth SXS shotgun, 12ga, 28" barrel, action is easy open & close. Good

cowboy gun.

William Reed - Boston, early 1800's, front stuffer, 10ga, cap ignition, double side

hammers, 21" Damascus barrel, coach gun, black powder, double triggers, ram

rod, lots of engraving.

Marlin Rifle, 1894C, .357/.38spl, 18" round barrel, very smooth action job, lever

wrap. Serial # 96015355

German Mouser K98, 8mm, 23 1/2" barrel, Serial # 7017, with bayonet, 9 3/4"

blade, 15" OAL, scabbard & Frog.

Rugar Vaqueros, .357, two each, consecutive numbers, stainless steel, 5 1/2"

barrels, rosewood grips, slick action jobs. Serial # 57-35600 & 57-35601

For more info on these and other guns contact:

Walter Kelly

[email protected]

BV GENERAL STORE

IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SELL OR WANT TO BUY

OR WANT TO ADVERTISE IN THIS SPACE -

EMAIL US THROUGH OUR WEBSITE

WWW.NORTHERNNEVADACAS.COM/BV OR TO

[email protected]

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Market

For all your BBQ

Meats &

Sandwiches

made to order call

760-932-7177

P. O. Box 524

Bridgeport, CA

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OR WANT TO ADVERTISE IN THIS SPACE -

EMAIL US THROUGH OUR WEBSITE

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