New Mexico Territory Mounted Shooters
Cowboy Mounted Shooting in the Land of Enchantment
and the Great Southwest
The Chisum, the 2011 NM State Championship shoot is in the books! Thanks to everyone who came from all over the West to Roswell to participate and to make it a great end to the 2011 season.
The next event will be the Carlsbad shoot in November including The Awards banquet and Presentation of the 2011 year end awards.
You can check your points for 2011 HERE
Congratulations and a big tip of the ole Stetson to our 2011 State Championship shoot Winners who include... Kathy Hollmann - Overall Match and Ladies Overall
Donny Mac Dougall - Men' Overall, Match Reserve
Kenda Lenseigne - Ladies Reserve
Also Pictured is Paul Whitwa Chisum Match Director.
Complete Chisum/ NM State results are here.
Here's Paul with the Chisum wranglers.
(Thanks to Jim Hollmann for the pictures)
More Chisum/NM State photos are on the PHOTOS Page! Thanks to Mike and Lucy Nelson and Bobby Goode.
NM Mounted shooters reach out!
New Mexico Territory Mounted shooters Billy, Pam and Amy Horner of Artesia headed over to Midland to demonstrate Cowboy Mounted Shooting to the folks in the Permian basin and along with Doug Roger and Curt and Shiela Moore it sounds like they have a great time showing our sport to over 300 spectators! The Midland paper picked it up and posted the attached story (Amy got top billing!)
National CMS Associations....
CMSA EVENTS SASS EVENTS MSA EVENTS
Our neighbors and Friends...
ACMSA EVENTS Colorado Mounted THUNDER Colorado Regulators
There's plenty to talk about in the Cowboy Mounted Shooting world these days and New Mexico is again shaping up to be one of the centers of the sport. On June 13-14, NMTCMS members were invited to work with the 2011 New Mexico 4-H Horse School, where lucky 4-H members spend the week at the New Mexico Expo grounds in Albuquerque, with their horses. Participants watch demonstrations, participate in presentations, ride their horses in clinics and lessons, and are generally immersed in horse oriented learning for 14 hours a day, all week. NMTCMS treated the 109 4-H students and their leaders to a mounted shooting demonstration Monday night. Dr. Donny McDougall started off the evening with a quick introduction to mounted shooting and the shooters and riders present. Breeds and colors were well-represented with Quarter Horses, Arabian, and Appaloosa in brown, bay, palomino, and paint. Then shooters Donny McDougall, John McFadden, Lucy Nelson, Ta-Willow Romero, and Renee Robichaud presented a three stage mini-match, coordinated by announcer Mike Nelson and range officer Hallie McFadden. And the crowd went wild! Both students and adults enjoyed the demonstration, cheering on each horse and rider combination, getting louder and more enthusiastic with each run. Overall, NMTCMS participation in the 2011 New Mexico 4-H Horse School was a success. The NMTCMS members who participated agree – we feel great satisfaction from sharing our sport with the students, and knowing that our contact may have sparked an interest that will create a future New Mexico mounted shooter. 
News from around NM
4-H HORSE CAMP MEETS MOUNTED SHOOTING
NMTCMS Members had the opportunity to take our sport to a new audience in Albuquerque in June. Vice President and Pres/Elect Mike Hanagan asked us in Las Vegas if the club would be interested in giving a presentation to the 2011 4H Horse Camp at the Expo New Mexico State Fairgrounds. Renee Robichaud was there and filed the following report...(photos by Mike and Lucy Nelson.)
On Tuesday morning, the students returned in groups of 36, where Mike Nelson led NMTCMS members Bob Hoffsetz, Ta-Willow Romero, and Renee Robichaud, along with a few SASS representatives, in three classroom presentations. With a powerpoint presentation for an outline, and tack, guns, and ammo for props, NMTCMS members engaged the audience. The students especially enjoyed getting to see and feel the horse ear plugs, and see mounted shooting blanks close up. Students peppered the group with questions about horses, tack, gunfire training, and competition rules.
