Wild Bill Hickok at Monday Match

Good Ol' Wild Bill Hickok has his mug shots plastered all over the internet.
You can read more about his illustrious (some say infamous) life here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bill_Hickok

Stage Designer Extraordinaire Jeff Brown has his fingerprints all over this stage.  The "Wild Bill Hickok" stages shows up throughout the IDPA Family Tree.  However, Master Designer Jeff put together a rendition to use at the 2008 IDPA Nationals.

Jeff Brown posts stage scenarios at the
 NAZHCS, Oct. 25 at the PAS Range.

Here is the scenario narrative Jeff used for the 2008 Nationals:

"On Dec 22, 1867, US Deputy Marshal J.B. “Wild Bill” Hickok entered a small rural bar in 
Jefferson County, Nebraska. While drinking at the bar, 4 men taunt him about his long hair and fancy buckskins. Words lead to a shoving match, then gunplay. When the smoke clears, Wild Bill has a bullet in his right shoulder and his opponents are all on the floor, each with a bullet in the head! Only 1 survives. After hitting the first man and taking a bullet in the right shoulder, Hickok dropped the three left handed!"  (See Editor's Note at end of blog post.)

It is shown here along with another version of the popular stage.  We are going to modify the stage slightly so that we can affix our own name to the amended version.

In our version, you will be hold a glass of faux whiskey in your support (weak) hand.  You will draw and fire at T1 with retention. In our version, your first shot will be to Center of Mass, not the head.  Then you will throw down the whiskey, switch the pistol to your support hand and engage T2-T4 with one head shot.

Due diligence must be exercised in the "on the clock" switch of the loaded pistol to the Support Hand.  An accidental discharge during this switch will be an automatic DQ.  Keep ALL your fingers out of the trigger during this switch.

(Editor's Note:  We read many of the numerous online accounts of the Life & Times of Wild Bill Hickok and were unable to find a specific reference to the December 1867 event upon which this stage is based.  We believe the December 1867 account is loosely based on an 1861 shootout described in the Wiki link below the Hickok portrait collage above.  Regardless of whether the event is fact or fiction, it is in keeping with the Spirit of Wild Bill Hickok and represents a valid IDPA Stage.)

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