Inaugural AQHA Cowboy Mounted Shooting
World Championships
Contributed by Tara Christiansen, The American QHJournal
How fast is fast?Well, Chad Little,
Saint Michael, MN, was plenty fast enough at 10.031 seconds, which won him the very firstAQHAopen cowboy mounted shootingworld championship at the 2012 Pfizer Versatility Ranch Horse and AQHA Cowboy Mounted Shooting World Championship ShowinHouston.He rodeHicko- rys IrishGold, an 8-year-old baymare byHickory Ginnin Peppy and out of JBSGoldenNugget. Coming into
Cowboy Mounted Shooting
Hickorys Irish Gold
Chad Little &
Photos Courtesy TheAmerican QH Journal
mounted shooting world title. The South Whitley, INcowboy rodeBarNoneRebel Ruler, a 10-year-old blue roan mare by LucksWyo Star and out ofCoy Snickers. Nine one-thousandths of a second
the very first AQHA Amateur CowboyMounted Shootingworld fi- nals,
Heithe
Williams &WJ Poco Harley
Heithe
Williams had his eye set on a good, clean runwithWJ Poco Harley, and he knewthe key to a perfect pattern.
“Getting in there, rolling into the corners, lead
changes and you know, getting your gun change down, and getting back up the pen as quick as you can,” he recalled. “Everything worked out; there was a lot of
great competition,” Heithe reported. “I’m glad to be here.” The Berryville,AR gunslinger rose to the oc-
casion in the amateur cowboy mounted shooting finals. Heithe andWJ Poco Harley, an 8-year-old buckskin gelding byPocoPadishah and out ofEllie Marie Poco, bested a field of 14 other horse and rider pairs to clinch the firstAQHAamateur cow- boy mounted shooting world champion trophy with a time of 13.080 seconds. Rick Deckena didn’t let anything hold him back in his race to the Select amateur cowboy
Rick Deckena & Bar None Rebel Ruler
separated thewinning pair fromtheSelect amateur reserveworld champions,Donny Macdougall and PocoDotDunit. Aboard Little Costa Latte, Zane
Chunn, of Fort Smith, AR shot down a time of 12.608 to take home the coveted AQHAgold trophy aboard his 5-year-old dun mare, Little Costa Latte (El Costa Prom x Blackeyed Beatrice). Zane also rode off with the youth reserve world championship aboardBHSnoopDawg. “Awesome!” Yep, that about sums up howit feels to
win the firstAQHAworld championship in cowboy mounted shooting, and it’s a claim that only youth competitor Zane Chunn canmake. As the youngest entry, at 14 years old,
at the inauguralCowboyMounted Shoot- ingWorld,Zanewas riding amental game into the youth finals. “I justwas gonna ridemy ride and do
what I was gonna do,” he explained to Journal Editor Christine Hamilton during his JournalWinningRun interview. “Any- thing can happen because it’s a very diffi- cult pattern. Iwas just happy that Imade it through clean.”w
Zane Chunn & Little Costa Latte
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