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This past weekend we went to the Four Town Fair<\/a> in Somers, CT for some of the usual fair stuff – rides, food, animals and of course beer.\u00a0 But the Four Town Fair has something else to offer – a Cowboy Mounted Shooting<\/a> demonstration put on by the Connecticut Renegades<\/a>, a CMS team from north-central Connecticut.\u00a0 Take horseback riding, throw in a bit of 1880’s period costumes, a couple loaded Colt .45s (with blanks of course) and some balloons and you’ve got yourself a Cowboy Mounted Shooting event!\u00a0 Read on for more…<\/p>\n I photographed this group a few years back when they first put on a demonstration at the Four Town Fair, and it was as much a blast this time as it was then.\u00a0 Pretty neat watching folks riding on horseback – some at a pretty good clip, winding through an obstacle course, firing at balloons mounted on traffic cones, trying to pop all of them with the burning powder from the Colt revolvers.<\/p>\n Below are 22 shots, which is a small sampling of what I shot that afternoon (I took well over 900 frames – what a way to break in my new camera, a Canon 50D).\u00a0 I’ll probably post some more later on, but for now, here’s some to give you a flavor of what Cowboy Mounted Shooting is all about.<\/p>\n[cpg_album:609]\n Thanks for looking! This past weekend we went to the Four Town Fair in Somers, CT for some of the usual fair stuff – rides, food, animals and of course beer.\u00a0 But the Four Town Fair has something else to offer – a Cowboy Mounted Shooting demonstration put on by the Connecticut Renegades, a CMS team from north-central […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,4],"tags":[337,14,338,339,137,340,235,341,342],"class_list":{"0":"post-1173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-equine-photography","7":"category-event-photography","8":"tag-colt","9":"tag-connecticut","10":"tag-connecticut-renegades","11":"tag-cowboy-mounted-shooting","12":"tag-equine","13":"tag-four-town-fair","14":"tag-horse","15":"tag-revolver","16":"tag-riding","17":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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