QUIGLEY SHOOTING ASSOCIATION NEWS


July Shoot The weather leading up to the weekend of Saturday July 9th was pretty good – for Diggle - it couldn’t last! The drizzle was bearable - between the horrendous showers – and, as usual the wind was on hand to make some lives a misery……..


The firers assembled at 400 yards for stage 1, which consisted of two sighters and fifteen shots to score at the Quigley bucket. Most managed scores in the 30’s and 40’s but going in to lunch, Gary Allsopp, Dave Malpas and Steve Maris were tying for the lead with 55 points each. After lunch, stage 2 was the usual buffalo silhouette at 600 yards and top scorer on this stage was Steve Maris with 53 points followed by young Jake Healey with 48 points. A creditable result in extreme conditions.


The final scores were as follows: 1. 2. 3.


Steve Maris Dave Malpas Gary Allsopp


108 99 98


1000 yard Billy Dixon Shoot 16th July 2011.


Four days later,reinforcements arrived in the shape of the US Army, the Indians then decided to move on and when it was deemed safe to do so the distance was measured from Billy’s position to the bluff where the Indian was seen to fall - a total of 1538 yards.


Quigley winner and runner-up Steve Maris and Dave Malpas


In 1874, 28 men and one woman are all that inhabit the few buildings in the Texas panhandle, known as Adobe Walls. Among them are several buffalo hunters including Bat Masterson and Billy Dixon. Chief Quanah Parker, son of a Comanche war chief and a captured white woman, Cynthia Ann Parker, were waging war on the white man in response to the theft of his tribe’s land and had been persuaded by the medicine man to attack the little outpost. On the morning of June 27th the men were awakened around 2am by what may have been the cracking of


The Quigley Shooting Association runs an annual 1000 yard competition based on Billy’s famous shot using modern replica firearms of the period, fitted with open iron sights and fuelled only with black powder. The competition consists of two stages. Stage 1 being two sighters and ten shots to count at a standard 600 yard Target Rifle Bisley target to get the range and sight setting. Stage 2 is ten shots to count on a scaled-down figure of an Indian mounted on horseback. Traditional crossed-stick rests are permitted as the only aid, no optic sights allowed. The winner is determined by the number of hits on the Indian, followed by hits on the horse, one point being awarded for hits on the backer but which miss the silhouette.


With almost the entire country suffering from extensive rain showers some difficulty was expected. An ‘executive decision’ was made before the start to make use of the covered benchrest firing point.


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a collapsing ridge-pole and so fortunately were well awake as the attack was launched. After some fierce fighting, during which the defenders suffered four dead, the Indians withdrew to a safe distance and, for the next four days, continued to sporadically attack the outpost.


On the second day of the siege, a group of Indians appeared on a distant bluff presumably to plan their next attack. Feeling more than a little miffed by now, Billy borrowed a ‘big 50’ (probably a Sharps .50/90) and let loose a shot. Seconds later, a figure was seen to fall from his horse causing obvious consternation to the Indians as they promptly withdrew to a safer distance, after stopping only to pick up their fallen comrade.


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