GAF MINI MUSTER SCORES CORRECTED, PICTURES AND STAGE STORY LINES

[Chantilly]

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SHOOTERS!  We had 50 shooters turn out for the GAF Mini Muster hosted by the Capital City Cowboys.  Good shooting everyone!!

Top 10 Shooters
1   Shoot'n Newton
2   Calamity Nan
3   Inspector Goold
4   Cagey
5   Newge
6   Major Matt Lewis
7   Kansas Kid
8   Warren Young
9   Major Lee Wild
10 Mulberry Mary

Top 3 Shooters by Category:
Mens Smokeless Shootist
1   Shoot'n Newton
2   Cagey
3   Newge

Womens Smokeless Shootist
1  Calamity Nan
2  Mulberry Mary
3  Chantilly

Mens Black Powder Shootist
1  Boiler Plate Jackson

Womens Black Powder Shootist
1  C C Vermillion

Mens Smokeless Duelist
1  Major Matt Lewis
2  Warren Young
3  Killum Kelly

Mens Black Powder Duelist
1  Chain Blue
2  Quick Fire
3  Chauncey Whitney

Mens Pistoleer          CORRECTED 
1  Trap 
2  Grizzle Bear

Mens Senior
1  Inspector Goold
2  Kansas Kid
3  Cho Do

Womens Senior
1  Crystal Jane

Mens Elder
1  Old Sarge
2  Drifter
3  Quirt Dunn

Congratulations to everyone!  The weather was a little warm but certainly better than the heat of the past few days!  Thank you to everone participating!  Good to see you all at the range!

I'll try to get some pictures posted.

Best regards,

Chantilly

[Chantilly]

Shoots Slow, Major Matt Lewis, Books and Quick Fire -

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Warren Young and Boiler Plate Jackson -

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Warren Young, Newge and Grizzle Bear -

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CC Vermillion and Trap -

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Kansas Kid -

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Megan O Ruckus and Guns Garret -

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Lilla Bit Wild -

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The Dispatcher -

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Lilla Bit Wild and Major Matt Lewis -

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Grizzle Bear -

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Grizzle Bear  -

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TOP -

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Slow Gun McDuff and Buffalo Phil -

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Books and Quick Fire -

[Grizzle Bear]

Don't think I was the only person shooting Pistoleer, was I?

Grizzle Bear

[Major Matt Lewis]

Once again.  This was one awesome event.  Thank you so much for the time and effort.

[Guns Garrett]

Megan and I enjoyed the heck out of it!  We look forward to the next one, wherever it may be.  Glad it cooled off some.  Enjoyed seeing old friends and making new ones.  See y'all at Ackley.
Guns Garrett

[Chantilly]

Don't think I was the only person shooting Pistoleer, was I?

Grizzle Bear

Well Grizzle - you are right.  I corrected the listing at the first post.  Trap also shot Pistoleer (sorry Trap, I had you in the wrong category).  SO -

Mens Pistoleer looks like this -
1.  Trap
2.  Grizzle Bear

Thanks for shooting the category!  Several of the newer shooters to our group enjoyed the opportunity to see other weapons at work!

[Chantilly]

I was asked by a couple of people to share the story lines for the stages.  All stages were based on military events that occured in or very near Kansas and connected with the Frontier Forts.

Stage 1

In September 1864, General James Blunt, commander of the military district, took charge of a body of troops at Fort Larned and marched westward, looking for Indians.  About seventy-five miles west of the fort on September 25, Blunt attacked an encampment estimated to contain more than three thousand Kiowas, Arapahos, and Cheyennes.  He routed and pursued them for several days, reportedly killing nine and wounding many more.  The Indians finally escaped, and the troops – two of whom were killed and seven wounded – returned to Fort Larned.  Thwarted by cold weather, Indian raids in Kansas decreased in 1864, but hostilities in Colorado increased.

Stage 2

In February 1867, Indian interpreter Fred Jones claimed that Kiowa chief Satanta told him that the Indians wanted all military posts removed from the Plains, Santa Fe Trail traffic to be stopped at Council Grove, and the railroad to the stopped at Junction City.  If this were not done, the Indians would combine and drive the whites from the region.  Such reports – even if untrue as this one turned out to be – convinced military leaders than an Indian uprising was imminent.  In response, Major General Winfield S Hancock, commanding the military department, organized a force of fourteen hundred troops.

Hancock led his forces to arrive at Fort Larned on April 7, 1867, where he hoped to meet with Indian leaders.  A snowstorm delayed the planned meeting.  When the Indian leaders did not come to the fort, Hancock marched his command up Pawnee Fork to where some Cheyennes and Sioux were encamped.  The approach of the large body of soldiers frightened the women and children, and the encampment was hastily abandoned.  Hancock was convinced that the Indians must have been hostile or they would not have fled.  Later, Hancock received reports that Indians had attacked stage stations along with Smokey Hills Trail.  Assuming that Indians who had fled Pawnee Fork camp carried out these attacks, Hancock ordered the village, tipis, and all other property burned.  His orders were carried out on April 19.  His destruction of the Indian village probably contributed to the increase in Indian resistance during the summer of 1867 later known as Hancock's War.

Stage 3

On June 26, 1867,   a large force of Indians came near Fort Wallace.  Captain Barnitz and about 49 men gave them battle for more than three hours.  The troopers were nearly trapped by the Indians following an attempted decoy and ambush.  Barnitz called it "a desperate little fight...doubtless the most extensive engagement that has occurred for some time, on these plains."  Indian losses were estimated at twenty.  The troops experienced 7 killed and 6 wounded.  The bodies of the slain soldiers were badly mutilated.  Warfare on the plains continued.