It was a beautiful Autumn day in Colorado!  Thanks to everyone who came out to enjoy the fun.

Congratulations to our Top Gun of the Day - Gateway Kid, and to our three clean shooters - Mesa Belle, Wild Bob Hiccup and Gateway Kid.

It turned out to be a darned nice day.  We had to delay the start a little bit but we stayed dry throughout the match.

We had a chance to welcome a new shooter, Weston Shooter, who shot well for a rookie.  Hopefully, we'll see him again!

Congratulations to our only clean shooter and top gun of the day - Gateway Kid.

Thanks to all who came out for the fun.

Thank you to all who joined us for our Non-Annual Annual Match. The shooting was spectacular, the cowboy comradery was great, the food was awesome and everybody had a fantastic time!  We hope to see all of you on the trail again soon.

It was a hot one but we all survived.  Thanks to all who came out and for all of your help.

We had 17 shooters, 5 of whom were clean shooters!  Congratulations to our top gun - Gateway Kid, and to our 5 clean shooters - Columbine, Paladin Pete, Wild Bob Hiccup, Gateway Kid and Ridgway Plinker.

Sixteen great shooters turned out for a fun match and, hopefully, a good warmup for next week's state match.

Congratulations to our top gun of the day - Gateway Kid - and to our two clean shooters - Gateway Kid and Ridgway Plinker.

Best of luck to all at the state match!

Thanks to all who joined us for a great match!

Congratulations to our top gun, Gateway Kid, and to our two clean shooters, Wild Bob Hiccup and Lead Bender.

Match results are attached.

Well, there was a lot of sentiment for not posting these scores...... but here they are.  The good news is that we all got to exercise our 2nd Amendment Rights with friends on a beautiful Spring day in Colorado.

Congratulations to our top gun of the day - Cimarron Sonia.  A clean shooter award ceremony was not necessary.

Thanks to all who came out to enjoy the fun.  It was particularly nice to have the Bulldogs with us.

Today, some had the luck of the Irish and some did not.  Regardless, all had a lot of fun.

Also today, we welcomed Aldo Carnage (aka Michael Wakeley) as a new member and cowboy shooter.  Hopefully the rest of us made a favorable impression.

Congratulations to our top gun of the day - Gateway Kid - and to our two skillful, not lucky, clean shooters - Double Bit and Mesa Belle.

Thanks to all who came out to enjoy a gorgeous January day at the range.  Congratulations to our birthday boy of 88 years, Klondike Ike!  Oh, and congratulations to our top gun of the day - Cimarron Sonia and to our only clean shooter - Pinto Being!

Best of luck to all of you headed to Phoenix for End of Trail.  Shoot straight!

Thanks to all who came out for a good cause and to enjoy a fun match on a beautiful Colorado day!  Your generosity will send 55 toys and $20 in cash donations to the kids at the Salt Lake Shriners Hospital, just in time for Christmas.

Thanks also to the folks who worked hard to prepare a feast for after the match.  If anyone went home hungry, then they have no one to blame but themselves.

Congratulations to our top gun of the day - Gateway Kid, and to our three clean shooters - Ruby Doe, Double Bit and Leadbender.

Best wishes for a very happy and safe holiday season.  See you next year!

A beautiful day to shoot with friends.  Thanks for coming out to join the fun!

What a beautiful southwest Colorado day it was!  We had 13 trick or treaters out to test their skills and, for many of us, the gremlins won the day.  Congratulations to our top gun of the day - Cimarron Sonia, and to our only shooter to beat back the gremlins with a clean match - Mesa Belle.

Thanks to all who came out to enjoy a beautiful day of shooting in Colorado.

Thanks to everyone who came out to enjoy a beautiful late summer day shooting with friends.  Congratulations to our three clean shooters - Paladin Pete, Mesa Belle and A. B. Trahern, and to our top gun of the day - Doc Wiskey.

Thanks to all who joined us for a Saturday edition of our monthly matches.  We had 11 shooters, two of whom - Mesa Belle and Wild Bob Hiccup - had the skill and patience to shoot clean.  Congratulations to our top gun of the day - Doc Wiskey!

Thanks for a great turnout on a hot, late Summer day.  The clouds and breeze helped for a while but it took grit to see it to the end.  We had two clean shooters - Double Bit and A. B. Trahern.  Congratulations to them both.  Also, congratulations to our top gun of the day - Cimarron Sonia.

We had a good turnout of talented cowboys/girls on a hot summer day.  Congratulations to our Top Gun - Gateway Kid and to our two clean shooters - Gateway Kid and Pinto Being.

Thanks to all who came out for the fun!

We had a great turnout for our first Saturday match in a very long time.  Congratulations to our Top Gun - Gateway Kid and to our only clean shooter of the day - Wild Bob Hiccup.

First of all, a big thank you to Mesa Belle and Doc Wiskey for designing and setting up a great match!

Congratulations to Gateway Kid, our top gun of the day and to our long list of clean shooters - Wild Bob Hiccup, Mesa Belle, Double Bit, Gateway Kid, Klondike Ike and Lefty Jo!

Thanks to all who came out to enjoy a very warm Spring day.  Congratulations to our top gun, William.

Thank you to everyone for coming out to support TMS and enjoy a beautiful Colorado day!  We had 20 great shooters but only one who managed a clean match - Klondike Ike (his second month in a row).  Congratulations to our top gun of the day - Cimarron Sonia.

Thanks to all who joined us for a beautiful day.  Thanks also to Judy who worked posse chores all day without even being a shooter!

It was a beautiful Spring day for a Cowboy Action match.  Thanks to the 13 great shooters who came out to enjoy the fun in the sun.  Congratulations to our top gun - Lilly Long - and to our only clean shooter of the day - Klondike Ike.  Many thanks to Mesa Belle and to Doc Wiskey for serving as our Match Directors.

It was a day of annoying wind and broken guns but 11 stalwart cowboys/cowgirls survived.  Thank you to all who came out and welcome to our two new shooters, Ramrod Miller and Steamboat Willie.  Congratulations to our top gun, Doc Wiskey, and to our three clean shooters - Ruby Doe, Mesa Belle and Ridgway Plinker.

It was a beautiful Colorado day for a match!  Nineteen awesome folks showed up to enjoy the match and to fill Santa's sleigh with toys and cash for the kids at Shriners Hospital.

We had two of Santa's Helpers who shot clean - Ruby Doe and Double Bit. Our top Elf of the Day was Gateway Kid.  Thanks to Colorado Black Jack for designing and setting up a group of Merry Christmas-themed stages that were enjoyed by all.

Thanks to all who came out to support the kids at Shriners Hospital.

It was a beautiful fall day in Colorado!  Eleven cowboys/cowgirls showed up to enjoy the fun.  Congratulations to our top gun Mesa Belle, and to our two clean shooters - Mesa Belle and Pinto Being.  Thanks to everyone who came out!

We had 15 excellent shooters come out to enjoy a few tricks and a lot of treats.  It was great to have Gateway with us to take embarrassing photos/videos of our worst moments.

Congratulations to:

Colorado Blackjack for being our Top Gun.

Colorado Blackjack, Wild Bob Hiccup and Pinto Being for being the clean shooters of the day.

Tailspin for being our Spirit of the Game (and 5 bonus points) recipient for shooting a stage in his bare feet, and

Colorado Blackjack for surviving candy-bag interruptus while still shooting the stage clean.

Thanks to Junction Jan for bringing out some of her A Girl and a Gun local chapter members to view, and experience our match and to Gateway Kid for mentoring them through some stages.  We hope to see them back!

Hope everyone had a good time.

We had a great turnout that included a lot of Cowboys/Cowgirls that we haven't seen on the range for a very long time.  It was great to shoot with them and we hope to see them again soon.

Congratulations to our Top Gun, Lefty Jo, and to our three clean shooters, Double Bit, Lefty Jo and Dry Gulch D.

Please ignore the category assignments for several of the shooters.  I will need to get their proper categories the next time that they are out to shoot.

Eleven hardy shooters braved a hot summer day to enjoy a little shootemup.  Congratulations to Gateway Kid for being our hot gun of the day (and ALMOST our only clean shooter of the day).

Thank you to all who came out to play!

Thanks to all who joined us for a fun day of shooting, and thanks to Mike and Bob for designing and setting the stages.  Congratulations to Harold for being our top gun of the day.

We had 17 shooters brave a hot, yet breezy day.  Congratulations to our Top Gun - Colorado Blackjack and to our three clean shooters - Ruby Doe, Double Bit and A. B. Trahern.  Condolences to Six Gun Louie for breaking two rifles in one match.

Thanks to all who came out!  Best of luck to all at the Colorado State Match.

Thanks to the sixteen highly talented shooters who joined us for a beautiful day in May.  Congratulations to our Top Gun, Cimarron Sonia, and to our two clean shooters, Ruby Doe and Mesa Belle.

We had a great turnout for a blustery early Spring day in Colorado.  Congratulations to our top gun, Colorado Black Jack and to our three clean shooters - Ruby Doe, Double Bit and Ridgway Plinker.

Thanks to all who came out and for being a fun posse to shoot with.

We had a beautiful Colorado day for a match.  Thanks to all who came out to enjoy the fun.  Congratulations to our one clean shooter, Pinto Being and our fastest cowboy of the day, Gateway Kid.

Thank you to all of the shooters, both Cowboy and Long Range, who helped to make our Toy Shoot a huge success.  The kids at Shriners Hospital are to be the beneficiaries of 44 toys and cash donations of $58.

Nineteen shooters braved this beautiful late Autumn day to enjoy the match.  Congratulations to our top shooter of the day - Colorado Blackjack, and to our four clean shooters - Paladin Pete, Colorado Blackjack, Mesa Belle and Double Bit.

For all of us at Thunder Mountain Shootists may your Christmas be Merry and may your New Year be Healthy and Prosperous. 

What a beautiful Colorado day for a Cowboy match.  We had 21 talented shooters come out for the fun, seven of whom were clean shooters - Columbine, Cimarron Sonia, Klondike Ike. Ruby Doe, Double Bit, Wild Bob Hiccup and Gateway Kid - congratulations to them all.  Congratulations also to our top gun of the day - Gateway Kid.

Don't forget our upcoming Christmas events.  Our party is on December 10th at the Old Chicago Restaurant - 120 North Avenue.  Start time is 6:00 pm.  Our Christmas Toy Shoot is on December 19th, starting at 10:00 am.  Your toy for the kids at Shriners Hospital substitutes as your match fee.  Remember to keep your toy unwrapped, so that they can be distributed most appropriately.

From all of us at Thunder Mountain Shootists best wishes for a happy and safe Thanksgiving.

A special thanks to Mike Davison and Bob Weller for a LOT of set up for this match. Thanks also to Ron Mengle for the very challenging, yet fun stages. The morning started a bit chilly but warmed up a bit for a good day.
We wish you all a very happy and safe holiday season and hope to see you again
when we restart multi-gun matches next year.

Thanks to all for coming to this match and Mike and Bob for reminding us of how to shoot strong and weak side.

What a beautiful Colorado day for a match!  We had thirteen awesome shooters join us for the fun.  Congratulations to our clean shooters - Double Bit and Gateway Kid - and to our fastest shooter of the day - Gateway Kid.  Thanks to all who came out to join us.

Thanks to all for coming to this match and Mike and Bob for reminding us of how to shoot strong and weak side.

Thank you to all who came out to enjoy our beautiful Colorado weather and a great day of shooting.  Thanks also to Gateway Kid for his challenging, yet very fun, stage designs.

Congratulations to our top shooter of the day - Gateway Kid!  Congratulations also to our clean shooters - Double Bit, Ruby Doe, Gateway Kid, Klondike Ike and Mesa Belle.

And.... welcome back to an old shooter friend, Wild Bob Hitcock!

Thanks to all for a fun day and all the help for set up and running the match.  Great day!

Thanks to Mike Davison and Bob Weller for writing these stages and doing a great set up for this match.

Thanks to all for today's phenomenal turnout.  It kind of felt like the good old days.....

We had 24 excellent shooters led by our match champion, Cimarron Sonia - congratulations to her!  Congratulations also to our three clean shooters - Rex M Rugers, A. B Trahern and Pinto Being.

Thank you all shooters for coming to, and sticking with this match. Turns out shooting NSA rifles is a bit of a challenge but worth practicing once in a while. A special thanks to the new shooters who joined us and will hopefully join us again for another day of challenges and fun in the future.

A special thanks to all who shot the match. Great to have some new shooters join us today and hopefully join us again in the future. It was great day for a match, and we got done in time to avoid the worst of the wind.

Thank you to all who came out to enjoy a beautiful day and very fun match.  It was great to see some faces that haven't been able to be around for a while.  Congratulations to Gateway Kid for being not only our only clean shooter, but also being our fastest!

Looking ahead to June, don't forget that our summer schedule will be in effect.  Start time for our June 20 match will be 9:00 am.  We hope to see you there!

Thank you to all who came out to support the NRA!  We had 16 shooters who enjoyed a fun yet challenging match and a great lunch together.  Congratulations to Gateway Kid for being the premier shooter of the day, and to Ruby Doe and Rex M Rugers for being our clean shooters.

Thanks to all for coming out for a fun match.

Thanks to the fourteen great shooters who came out to enjoy a beautiful first day of Spring.  Congratulations to our only clean shooter, Lefty Jo and congratulations to our fastest shooter, Gateway Kid.

Thanks for making it a great match!

We had 15 excellent shooters out to enjoy a crisp January day.  Congratulations to our clean shooters Colorado Black Jack, Ruby Doe and Mesa Belle, and to our fastest shooter of the day, Colorado Black Jack.

Eight great shooters came out on a beautiful January day to enjoy our first match of the year.  Congratulations to Gateway Kid for being both our fastest shooter and our only clean shooter.

Thank you to all who were able to shoot, and/or donate toys or cash.  Over thirty toys and $264 were collected for the kids!!!  It was a very fun match, thanks both to the shooters and the stages written by Colorado Black Jack.

Congratulations to Gateway Kid for being our top shooter and to Columbine for being our only clean shooter.

We wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We had thirteen great shooters out on a beautiful western Colorado day.  Thanks to all who came out to enjoy the fun.  Congratulations to Gateway Kid for being the fastest shooter!

Thank you all for a fun time, “again”.  We had four spectators for part of the match so perhaps we will have some new shooters next time.  Special thanks to Mike and Bob for agreeing to run a second squad which made the match go faster.  I think we broke some sort of record by finishing in four hours. The weather was great and we turned a bunch of money into noise.  What more could one ask for.

Thanks to all for making this match a very fun time. We had great weather and a lot
of laughs with a little bit of blood letting while navigating the props.

We had even more good friends out for the day!  Congratulations to Colorado Black Jack and Alan Bourdillon Trahern (aka Mississippi - aka Cimarron Sonya's Dad) for being our clean shooters.  Congratulations to Colorado Black Jack for leading the herd.

It was great to see some old friends able to shoot with us today.  Congratulations to Lefty Jo for being our only clean shooter!  Congratulations to Lilly Long for leading the way!

Thanks for everyone's efforts despite the heat.  It was fun.

Thanks to Ron Mengel for his challenging and fun stage designs.  All have raved about the good time that they had.

Thanks to all who came out to enjoy the match.  The clouds made it to be quite a nice day.  Congratulations to Colorado Black Jack for being the shoot of the day!

​It was great to have so many shooters come out for the day!  And a beautiful day it was (albeit hot).

Congratulations to our three clean shooters - Columbine, Colorado Black Jack and Union Jack!

​Thanks to the eleven good shooters who came out to enjoy a beautiful Colorado day of cowboy action shooting.  Congratulations to Colorado Blackjack and Rex M Rugers for shooting clean matches, and to Colorado Blackjack for being the best shooter of the day!

​It was a great turn-out of 13 shooters to mark the renewal of our monthly matches!  Congratulations to Tommyknocker Six Gun for being our only clean shooter.  Congratulations also to our first place shooter - Union Jack.

Five cowpokes joined the roundup of Lou Lewe's Loose Gnus at LuLu's on a beautiful Colorado day.  Too bad that many of you could not have enjoyed the day with us.

Colorado Black Jack was the clean shooter of the day.

​Six brave stalwart cow persons braved the cold to take out the infamous Bug Gang at the Shootout at Lulu's.  Congratulations to none other than Pinto Being for being our only clean shooter!