The Bull Mountains of Montana are a lot quieter now and the air is starting to clear as the gun smoke lifts from the street of Bull Town. Even the pine trees survived their annual Labor Day weekend trimming. Friday afternoon the early arrivals got a chance to warm up with a team ShowDown shoot out with Bob Crismon’s Star ShowDown system. The teams were drawn out of a hat and each team of three had three targets. Even though you only have to hit each target once it sounded like the Fourth of July when the lights came on and the dust was flying behind the targets. Results are further down this post.
Saturday morning Quick Cal came to Bull Town. He had planned to shoot in the contest but on the way up he was informed of a death in the family and couldn’t stay. Our condolences go to Cal, Dinah and the rest of his family from the CFDA family.
We got the Bull Town CFDA Show Down rolling using the Montana 5-Shot format. Just about everyone had seen the postings on the format so there were no surprises. By the end of the afternoon the ladies were down to the point of switch to 3 out of 5 and the men were getting there. All day long people kept stopping by to look and wish over the engraved and tuned Great Western II’s that would be awarded to the winners.
Sunday morning it took one round for the men to reach the switch point and the finals began. All of a sudden the times started dropping. By lunch time the ladies were down to Donna Sundby and Annette Coffman while the men were Bob Krueger and Gary Cooper. Once they finished their shoot outs we broke for lunch. Yes, I’ll tell you who won but you’ll have to scroll down to the results. After lunch we had a sudden death ShowDown for bragging rights and buckles.
Shannon Croft won the drawing for the ShowDown System donated by Bob Crismon and Ryan Buffington had the lucky number for the one of a kind "Bull Mountain Gunfighter" bronze sculpture by Montana artist C. R. Morrison.
Ok, here are the results:
Men’s Top Ten
- Bob Krueger
- Gary Cooper
- Mark Compton
- Ken Gentry
- Randy Herman
- Dean Storms
- Ron Martinez
- Ryan Buffington
- Chris Hurd
- Dean White
Women’s Top Ten
- Annette Coffman
- Donna Sundbye
- Sharon Fridley
- Dorelle Carpenter
- Jo Ann Hust
- Shirley Coffman
- Shelly Arnold
- Pat Krueger
- Shannon Croft
- Patricia Thoma
Team Games
- Vigilantes
Gary Cooper
Shane Croft
Roger Nagel
- Regulators
George Narasaki
Dean Storms
Dorelle Carpenter
- Texas Rangers
Bob Krueger
Sue Davidson
Chaundra Robertson
Single Games
Men’s
- Jason Robertson
- Bob Krueger
- Ryan Buffington
- Don Valle
- Gary Cooper
Women’s
- Annette Coffman
- Mary Fried
- Patricia Thoma
- Chaundra Robertson
5. Shannon Croft
Spirit of the Game Award and Buckle--- Richard Fair: Sadly Richard Passed away shortly after being informed of the award. He insisted that his wife and family shoot in the contest despite his illness and even came to watch for part of Saturday. Our condolences to the family, Richard will be missed.
Best Dressed Award and Buckle
Men’s—Carl Luedke
Women’s—Chaundra Robertson