"I'm going to knock some sense into you damned fools," shouted Kevin Drew, aka Wallace Foster, as he stabbed a square bale of hay.
He then picked up his Winchester Model '92 .45 Colt calibre gun and fired several rounds into a pair of steel targets.
Pop. Pop. Pop.
He moved several steps to the right and picked up a double-barreled shotgun and fired 10 rounds into four more metal targets.
He then moved to his left where two of his revolvers were, a Remington 1858 with a .45 Colt and an 1873 Colt .45 calibre. He fired five rounds each with both of them.
It was all part of the Cowboy Action Shooting contest Saturday at the Prince George Rod and Gun Club range on Hartman Road.
Drew, in only his second year competing in the Cowboy Action Shooting format, wound up clocking 58.13 seconds with only three misses.
"I just like to get dressed up and being a cowboy," said Drew, a competitor from Prince George.
Besides Drew, the contest featured 14 shooters from Kitimat, Grande Prairie, Houston, Williams Lake, Prince George and Quesnel who participated in two different scenarios.
Participants are provided a story line describing the scenario and perform a variety of tasks before shooting at cardboard or reactive steel targets with guns used in the Old West.
They had nicknames such as Chicken Mango, P.J. Hardtack, Turkey Creek Pete, No Nails Woody, Gabriel Law and Mad Dog Sty.
Cowboy Action Shooting is a shooting sport that uses firearms from the Wild West period, from about 1860 to 1899, explained Douglas Kean, aka Eddy Blackwater.
Kean is the secretary and director of Cowboy Action Shooting at the Prince George Rod and Gun Club.
Handguns used include single action revolvers, lever action rifles, double barrel shotguns or pre 1898 pump shotguns.
Each club that does this style of shooting forms a posse. The PGRGC's posse, is known as the Chilako Vigilance Committee that was formed two years ago and Saturday's match was the second annual event.
Dressing cowboy is also a requirement. Each cowpoke is required to adopt a shooting alias appropriate to a character or profession of the late 19th century or a Hollywood western star and develop a costume accordingly.
