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🐾 The Howler at 5 Dogs Creek – November 2025 Edition 🐾

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Saddle Up, Pardners – It’s She-Bang Season!

📣 Hear ye, hear ye! The November winds are blowin’ in a whole heap of excitement at 5 Dogs Creek, and the latest edition of The Howler is hotter than a branding iron on a summer day!

🌵 Featured in this issue:

  • The 18th Annual She-Bang Charity Match – Hosted by the ladies of 5 Dogs Creek, this two-day shootin’ extravaganza (Nov 1–2) is packed with stages, raffles, Dog-Nabbits, and a whole lotta heart. All proceeds go to the Ronald McDonald House in Bakersfield.
  • 🍔 Friday Night Hot Dog Feed & Saturday Potluck – Bring an appetizer Friday and your best “Fast Food” themed dish Saturday night. Plates and utensils provided – just bring your appetite!
  • 🤠 Cowboy Swap Meet – Buy, sell, trade, or barter your cowboy gear all weekend long.
  • 🏕️ Free Camping on the Range – Friday through Monday. No pre-registration, just good ol’ fashioned hospitality.

 

📰 Also in this issue:

  • Mayor Fordyce Beals shares tips on shotgun shell crimping in “The Mayor’s Anvil.”
  • Sheriff Lap Dog’s roundup of October’s Gunfighter Throwdown and a look ahead to December’s holiday match.
  • A Wild West tale of Laura Bullion, the “Thorny Rose of the Wild Bunch.”
  • SASS Shooter’s Handbook highlights and safety updates.

📍 Location: 5 Dogs Creek, Bakersfield, CA
📬 Contact Info & Council Roster: From the Mayor to the Telegraph Operator, all your town leaders are listed in this issue.

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2025 NOVEMBER HOWLER

🤠 OCTOBER EDITION — 5 DOGS CREEK HOWLER 🐾

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🌵Howdy, Folks of 5 Dogs Creek!

As the autumn winds start whistlin’ through the canyon and the tumbleweeds roll a little slower, it’s time to saddle up for the October edition of your favorite frontier dispatch: The 5 Dogs Creek Howler!

This month, the prairie’s buzzin’ with talk of the most rootin’-tootin’ showdown this side of the Pecos…

BUDDY LOVE’S GUNFIGHTER THROWDOWN

October 4th & 5th, 2025

Steel yourself for two days of grit, glory, and gunsmoke as pistoleros from across the territory descend on 5 Dogs Creek for Buddy Love’s legendary “Gunfighter Throwdown.” Whether you have shot gunfighter style before or are wanting to try it for the first time without feeling like the town fool, this match is for you. (Don’t worry, if you don’t want to shoot gunfighter style, you can always shoot your prefered sass style.)

So polish your boots, dust off your hat, and get ready to holler louder than a coyote at moonrise.

Stay wild, stay kind, and keep your powder dry.
Until next time, this is your telegraph operator, Whiskey T.F Bottles, signing off with a tip of the hat and a wink to the west.

🪶 “May your trails be crooked, winding, and lead to the most interesting people.

Howler May 2025

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This month the 5 Dogs Creek Howler has some inside tips on how to place higher at our match.

Ok, so in the newsletter LapDog & Domino Blaze don’t actually come out and SAY how to place higher at our next match, But I will. Are you ready? Listen closely….

If you want to rank higher at a monthly club match – you need to show up to THIS 5 Dogs Creek match May 3rd & May 4th.
Why?
Because a lot of the top shooters will be AWAY at the California State Championships that weekend. Away! Ha ha ha! That sort of clears out a lot of the upper area on the scores page for the rest of us to shine. Perfect. No pressure. Just aim well, stay cool and collected, have a good time and you have a decent chance of making it into the “Top Ten”. Ha ha! “Strategy”!! And an even better chance of making it into the top ten of your category.

We love our top shooters, but when they are mostly away, some interesting possibilities are presented for the rest of us.

Here’s one more tip for you. If you really try to hit each & every single target, sometimes those days are also your best scoring days too. It’s a mystery exactly how that happens, but it sometimes does. Might be something about slow is smooth & smooth is fast. Remember you can get a shiny prize for going any speed, even super slow – if you hit every target for the day. And you get your picture in the paper, which is a good reason to stay in  your cowboy duds for lunch.

In May all the start times go back to the usual times: 
Office opening at 8:00,  
Shooter Meeting 8:30, and
Match Starts at 9:00, BOTH Sat & Sun.

Camping is always available & FREE on nights before our Cowboy Action Shooting matches. No reservations required. C’mon over & spend the weekend with us at 5 Dogs Creek.

 

Howler April 2025

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We have got an amazing Howler for ya! SO many interesting things, from reloading, to the twisted history of how some hats got to be called “10 Gallon” hats. You’re going to want to read & save this one. Thanks again to Domino Blaze for putting it all together, and contributors; Fordyce Beals, Utah Blaine, Lap Dog, & Hilde!

Also take note the upcoming APRIL Saturday Match start time is 10.30am, while the Sunday match start time is 9am as usual. This is to help give some of our more distant participants extra time to arrive on Saturday before the match.

–> We will go back to the regular start times in May.

Camping is always available & FREE on nights before our Cowboy Action Shooting matches. No reservations required. C’mon over & spend the weekend with us at 5 Dogs Creek.

2025 APRIL HOWLER