Saturday, September 22nd, 2007, was our inaugural shoot. Following the Safety Talk at 9 am, the Main Match was held on three stages. After the Main Match there was a lunch break which featured a huge (and delicious) pot of chili made by Patricia Proctor. After lunch the shooters took part in a woods walk to test their hunting skills. Following the woodswalk some of the shooters adjourned to upper range for a little long range plinking at a buffalo silhouette place at about 350 yards.
For more on the Inaugural Shoot click here.
We held our October Shoot on the 27th. We have posted the scores on the Results Page
| April 26, 2008 | Monthly Shoot |
| May 24, 2008 | Monthly Shoot |
| June 5-7, 2008 |
NCOWS National Shoot, "Days of the Outlaws" Evansville, IN. |
| June 28, 2008 | Monthly Shoot |
On October 6, 1866, the Reno Brothers, Frank, John, William, and Simeon, made history when they committed the world's first known peacetime train robbery. Over the next two years the Reno Brothers and their gang terrorized Indiana and the Midwest as far West as Iowa, and Missouri, where John Reno was captured by Pinkertons and imprisoned for 25 years.
To counter the Reno's reign of terror the citizens of Jackson County formed the Jackson County Vigilance Committee, which was also known as the Scarlet Mask Society because of the long red bandannas they wore. Between March of 1867, and the night of December 11-12, 1868, when they marched on the New Albany jail and hung three Reno Brothers and two of their gang members, the Scarlet Mask Society delivered on their promised of "a short shift and a hempen collar" to 13 members of the Reno Gang.
For more on the History of the Scarlet Mask Society and the Reno Brothers click here.
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Today a new Scarlet Mask Vigilance Society has
been organized by Bill Proctor (alias Ottawa Creek Bill) as a new posse of the
National Congress of Old West Shootists (NCOWS). As an NCOWS posse the Scarlet
Mask Vigilance Society will be holding Western Action Shoots at the range of the
Thunder Creek Longrifles near Martinsville, In. On our site you can find out more about Membership in the Scarlet Mask Vigilance Society. Schedule of SMVS events. Information and directions to our Range. View Photos taken of Scarlet Mask Vigilance Society events and members. And check out a list of Links that could be of interest to those interested in the Old West and Western Action Shooting. For those interested in more information on the Scarlet Mask Vigilance Society visit or Membership page, or contact Bill Proctor at: bill@surf-ici.com, or call him at 317-797-8444. |
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Click here for more information from the NCOWS web site.
Minutes of the Scarlet Mask Vigilance Society meeting held at the range on August 25, 2007.
Related Links- National Congress of Old West
Shootists, 2007-8 NCOWS
Tally Book,
CAS City Forum,
Rattlesnake Jack's Old West Clip
Art Parlor (The Train at the top of this page and the drawing of the
Riflemen on the Range page are from the extensive collection of Clip Art on
Rattlesnake Jack's site. Thank you Jack!)
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Please contact us with any questions, or comments, at:
bill@surf-ici.com
Created August 30, 2007, by Greg Limbach for
the Scarlet Mask Vigilance Society.
Updated March 30, 2008.