TAHOE FATS

THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND

 



Every month, he togs up in his western duds and transforms himself into the pistol-packin',

 

Shotgun totin',

 

Carbine carryin',

 

gunslinger known and feared throughout the West (Carson City Gun Range & the Palm Springs Gun Club, anyway) as Tahoe Fats; to join up with a couple of dozen or so other old, fat white guys and a few gals, too, for some Cowboy Action Shooting. 

 

In five different scenarios each month he slings hot lead at all sorts of cattle rustlers, varmits, dry-gulchers, outlaws, galoots, bandits, sidewinders, robbers, claim jumpers, horse thieves and other manner of no-goodnics armed with two six guns, a carbine and a double-barrel 12 guage coach gun. 

 

 He may even shoot the occasional buffalo, prairie chicken, duck, or ground squirrel for camp grub. (All are metal plates or clay pigeons).

In all Fats throws fifty rounds of hot lead with his pistols,

  

fifty shots with his trusty lever action carbine, (talk about your smoking gun !!!)

 

and 25 times with his shortened double barrel shotgun.

 (Rattler handles the timing duties while Fats trades his carbine for his double barrel).

 

 

Loadin' up.

 

Lettin' the culprits have both barrels of buckshot!

 

Whrol Yewon takes over the timing duties on this shotgun stage.



 

 

while being timed and his very few misses counted. 

Muleskinner is busy totalin' up the hits and misses.

 

Hoodlums must be shot in a certain order accordin' to instructions like Nevada Sweep, Double Tap, Virginia Count, Popper, Texas Star, and Lawerence Welk.

 

Sometimes there is no privacy even in the privy!!!!!!!!!

 

On this stage he had to "clean out the chicken coop"

 

by Nevada sweeping three roosters from the left, then from the right, with his six-shooters,

 

triple tapping three more roosters and a duck with his carbine,

 

then blasting the points off this Texas star with his 12 gauge. 

It actually moves once you blow a point off.

 

Two more to go.

 

Reload to blast the last one.

 

Got it!!!!

 

Every so often Fats morphs into "Tahoe Gordo", the 45 auto totin, pump action shotgun blasting Mexican peon for a "Wild Bunch" shoot, based on the movie of the same name.