OREGON FAST DRAW, LLC

We’re on our way! The first few “Founding Life Memberships” have been sold and we’re adding up the dollars to buying the CFDA charter, timers and so on.

Welcome Gregg and Nancy Townsley, numbers 1 and 2, with their Cowboy Fast Draw Association (CFDA) registered aliases “the Rev. W. W. Ronin” and “Generous Kate!”

“Kate” and “Ronin” at the 2007
CFDA nationals banquet in Idaho

Number 3 goes to Terry Reams, CFDA alias “Reddog.” A “cowboy howdy do” also to Anne and Alan Niven, Founding Life Members 4 and 5, with an additional annual membership in the bunch for their son Aiden. Number 6 goes to Don Brown, professional holster maker and co-owner of Ted Blocker Holsters in nearby Tigard, Oregon, our first 2008 corporate sponsor!

Read the rest of this entry »

I was born in Philadelphia, for God’s sake. Okay, I don’t know that God actually cares, but what I’m saying is that I’m no cowboy by any means! As much as Generous Kate and I appreciate the “rural” in rural Oregon, we’re both pretty citified. She writes and edits for a newspaper syndicate and I split my time between running a martial arts school and working as a security officer in a nearby hospital.

When I’m not writing that is.

Read the rest of this entry »

You don’t need one, but there are lots of reasons you might want one. An alias that is, a cowboy shooting alias.

First off, an alias is fun. There’s nothing like going to a local shoot and calling someone a “Gnarly Old Dude” without getting into a fist fight.

Second, an alias is meaningful.

When I chose mine, I thought first of one of my favorite Clint Eastwood films, Pale Rider. But the more I thought of it, the more I wanted my alias to picture a time and place expressive of my own unique personality and history.

Read the rest of this entry »

I remember the first time I got help on shooting Cowboy Fast Draw. It was in Bob Mernickle’s holster shop in Fernley, Nevada. I was buying my first fast draw holster and Bob was more than willing to show me what to do with it.

Read the rest of this entry »