Hello Gunfighters!!!!

Spring is finally here so we can finally do some shooting at our outdoor ranges!! It seems to have been a “long” winter.

Our ODFD (Old Dominion Fast Draw) March Monthly Match on “Boothill” on the 18^th was a great match! There was some seriously competitive “Gunfightin’ goin on”!!! Congratulations to our 3 winners… Bob Ed Pain in the Men’s Division, Billie Sioux in the Women’s Division, and Heffay in the Youth Division!!

We have practice scheduled on Boothill this evening from 6-9pm. Fee for practice is $10 with an additional $10 if you use Club Ammo!

ODFD’s April Monthly Match is scheduled for this Sunday the 21^st!!! The weather forecast looks great for a day of shooting outside in “Boothill Corral”! I expect the competition to once again be “fast and furious”!! Everyone will be shooting 6 rounds and no one will “X” out. However, we will be keeping track of your “X’s” and times to determine the Top 7 shooters from each division to battle it out in a Championship Format to determine the Top 3 winners for awards. The first 2 rounds will be shot at 15’, the next 2 rounds at 18’, and the balance of the match will be shot at 21’. Registration begins at 8:30am and ends when the Safety Meeting begins at 9:30. The match begins at 10am!!! The fee for the match is $20 with an additional fee of $5 if you use club ammo.

We have so many “up and coming” fast shooting competitors; it is always interesting to see who makes it to the “Magnificent 7”!! Our fastest Gunfighters have to work extra hard to win against so many “fast guns”! We have some very exciting matches to compete in and to watch the results!

The next few months are going to be VERY BUSY for the Virginia Clubs!! April the 28^th is New River Fast Draw’s (NRFD) Monthly Match, and then May 4^th is the Powhatan Peacemakers (PPFD) Match at Cozy Acres!! I am sure both of those clubs will be sending out info on those matches in the very near future.

Then… on SATURDAY, May 11^th, ODFD will be celebrating “5 YEARS” as a Sanctioned CFDA Cowboy Fast Draw Club! We will be celebrating that day with a surely great match and then a “Potluck Dinner” immediately following the match with some recognition awards and comments. This will be a very special day for ODFD and we hope to see a bunch of friends and competitors there to celebrate with us!!! Details of the match will be going out soon!!!

And then on Saturday, May 18^th, several Virginia Gunfighters are making the trip to Saint Augustine Florida to help the Ancient City Conquistadors run their “very first” Cowboy Fast Draw Match!! This is a very exciting event!! Cowboy Fast Draw in Florida!!! A beautiful and fun “Vacation State”, and fantastic folks!! The match will be held at the Ancient City Gun Range in Saint Augustine. This is a beautiful range ran by a great staff. Their website is http://www.attac-fl.com/. Check it out for the Range’s info and directions. This will be a very successful CFDA Club with surely big plans for the future and future events. More info on the match will be going out soon!!! For more info, you can contact me or “Von Zipper” at vonzipper_jax@yahoo.com.

New River Fast Draw (NRFD) will be having their May Monthly Match on Sunday, May 26^th. The Powhatan Peacemakers will be having their June Monthly Match in Victoria VA on Sunday, June 2^nd.

On Saturday June 8^th, ODFD and NRFD will be working together with New River Sports in Draper VA in the JOY RANCH Charity Event. This was a great event held last year for a great cause and promises to be “bigger and better” at this year’s event! Details on this match will be coming soon!!

ODFD will be having their June Monthly Match on Boothill on SATURDAY June 15^th. More details on this match later!!! Both PPFD and NRFD will be making announcements on their scheduled matches for this time period in the future.

“SHOWDOWN IN DIXIE”, The CFDA Virginia State Championship will be held on July 12^th, 13^th and 14^th!! Details on this match are on our website!! http://www.virginiafastdraw.com/. We are surely looking forward to spending time with old friends and brand new friends at what promises to be a very exciting match to determine Virginia’s 2013 State Champions!! A reminder, this year’s match will be a little different than last years match. Friday, the 12^th will be a “Stand Alone” Category Match Day to determine placements and Champions in CFDA Categories. For any questions, please contact us!! We hope to see you there!!!

As you can see, the three (3) Virginia CFDA Clubs are very active and busy working hard together to provide “plenty” of shooting opportunities for Gunfighters looking to “slap leather and pull iron” against opponents in a very friendly atmosphere of welcoming southern hospitality. To our regular Virginia Gunfighters… keep up the great efforts in supporting our clubs! And to our visitors to Virginia… come and see us! We’ll do our best to make ya feel welcome!!

See ya soon!!

Ringo

aka Jeff Duncan

CFDA Regulator and U.S. Marshal

Old Dominion Fast Draw

Roanoke, VA.

Cell 540-819-1697

http://www.virginiafastdraw.com/

Gunfighters!!!

We have a lot going on here in Virginia as well as in the East and Southeast! So I wanted to give you some info on several events as well as other notes of interest for our area. However, I would first like to express our heartfelt condolences to one of our friends and fellow Gunfighters… “Frankie Fartsmore” (aka Frank Realmuto). Frankie’s son, Andy passed away on Saturday. Our hearts are broken for Frankie and our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family.

We had 23 Gunfighters to show up on a cold Sunday morning to battle it out in our February Monthly Match on Boothill. As usual, there were some awesome gunfights to go along with the normal “trash talking” and “back slapping” fun that we have every month at our home range. Congratulations go out to Shenandoah for his 1^st Place win in the Men’s Division and to one of our Youth Shooters, Hot Lead Hooligan for her win in the Women’s Division. Great shooting!! For details on the balance of the match placements, visit our website.

February is almost gone!! Spring is just about here! That means warmer weather is soon to be on its way and shooting in “Boothill Corral”, our outdoor range is getting possible! Let’s keep our fingers crossed for March’s monthly match!

One of the goals for ODFD (Old Dominion Fast Draw) for 2013 is growing our membership including a focus on increasing our “Youth” participation. We have several plans in the works. Just think, if every ODFD member would make an effort to get one new member to participate and join our Cowboy Fast Draw Family, we would “double” our membership!! That means, more Gunfighters to shoot against, and more folks to add to our list of great friends! It’s a “Win Win” for our club and for Cowboy Fast Draw.

So… here are a couple of incentives that we want to remind you of as well as to add!!

Continue reading →

Hello Gunfighters!!!!

We have a bunch of stuff going on!!!

First, I want to say congrats to the winners of ODFD’s January Monthly Match! Shenandoah won the Men’s Division; Slowpoke won the Women’s Division. Great Shooting and always great competitors!!!

We had 29 Gunfighters to show up for “one heck of a match”!!! As always the competition was tough! But plenty of fun and a great way to kick off the New Year on Boothill!

As for this month, we have a practice night scheduled for this Wednesday, February 13^th. Practice starts at 6pm and goes to 9pm. The fee for practice is $10 with an additional $10 if you use club ammo. Our Monthly Match is scheduled for this Sunday, February 17^th. The fee for the match is $20 with an additional $5 if you use club ammo. Registration begins at 8:30am, the Safety Meeting begins at 9:30, and the Shooting starts at 10am. We will more than likely be shooting inside Boothill Alley, so the match will be shot at 15feet. We will shoot 6 rounds, no one will get X’d out! However, we will keep track of your X’s and times to determine the top 7 (Magnificent 7) shooters in the Divisions so they can battle it out in a Championship Format to determine awards for the top 3 placements in each Division.

Also…. As most of you know, Shotglass Shari and myself have been working with some great folks in Saint Augustine Florida in their efforts to get a Club started there. They have their first ever Florida Cowboy Fast Draw Match scheduled for Saturday May 18^th. Details will be following soon. I am sure several Virginians will make the trip to participate and I will keep you all informed as soon as details are worked out. So, to facilitate our efforts at helping them get started, we are going to postpone our scheduled Anniversary Match to another date. I will let you know soon if the May Match will be held or moved.

Continue reading →

Hello Gunfighters!!!

“AND WELCOME TO 2013”!!!!

There is soooo much happening in the East and South for Cowboy Fast Draw!! I want to share some of the news with ya!

But first, let’s talk about 2012!! This was a great year for Cowboy Fast Draw in Virginia. We now have 3 fully sanctioned and very active clubs. Their schedules for this coming year are filling up with regular monthly matches and special shooting events. All 3 clubs run smoothly and are growing while conducting some great and fun matches!!

At our 2012 Virginia State Championship, we crowned new Virginia State Champions…. Congrats to B.A., a Virginia Gunfighter for winning the title of the CFDA’s 2012 VA Men’s Division State Champion! And to a fantastic lady from Idaho, COOL HAND SUZ for winning the title of the CFDA’s 2012 VA Women’s Division State Champion. For a full list of our Champions and match placements, visit our website!!!

We had several “off site” matches as well! Including great matches such as the Joy Ranch Charity Shoot in Draper, The National Day Of The Cowboy Shoot in Buckingham, and the Vinton Fall Festival Shoot in Vinton. The Powhatan Peacemakers held a match at the Cozy Acres Campgrounds and New River Fast Draw held a Townsfolk Alley in Pembroke.

We then had our ODFD Club Championship…. “The Sweet Shoot” in November!! Congrats to our new ODFD 2012 Champions!!! B.A. for the men, Billie Sioux for the women, and Hot Lead Hooligan for the youth!

But we were not through yet!!! We normally don’t conduct matches in December because of the holidays… However! The Roanoke Rifle and Revolver Club, Slowpoke and I put together a Charity Match for “SHOOT FOR THE STARS”!! It was very successful and gave a boost to the already “huge” amount of funds gathered throughout most of the year for that charity. We also had a reporter… Katie Love… from channel 10 news to attend in preparation of another story on Cowboy Fast Draw and the success of one of our shooting families, the Brazauskas’s. We ended the day with a “Bracket Match that also gave 3 winners some ‘take home money”!!

Whew!!! Talk about busy!!

Continue reading →