{"id":2389,"date":"2011-04-11T20:22:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2011-04-11T20:22:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T00:22:19","slug":"connecticut-renegades-spring-breakout-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/connecticut-renegades-spring-breakout-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Renegades Spring Breakout 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"CT Renegades\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/wpw-20110410\/thumb_030-20110403-420204365-_MG_0038.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>In the immortal words of John Cleese &#8211; And now for something completely different. \u00a0OK, not really completely different &#8211; I have shot this sport before. \u00a0But it&#8217;s something that I don&#8217;t get out all that often to shoot &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowboymountedshooting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cowboy Mounted Shooting<\/a>. \u00a0A couple weeks ago Jill, the girls &amp; I headed up to Enfield, CT to watch and shoot the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctrenegades.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connecticut Renegades<\/a>&#8216; Spring Breakout 2011 match. \u00a0It was a sunny &#8211; but windy &#8211; day, but there were plenty of shooters that I could, well, shoot.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Going to keep things short here, and get to the (tons of) pictures. \u00a0Basically cowboy mounted shooting is where a rider, using a pair of Colt .45s shooting specially loaded blanks ride through a set course. \u00a0Along that course is a number of balloons that they must ride past in a\u00a0certain\u00a0pattern. \u00a0And while riding, they must shoot each balloon along the way. \u00a0I guess it&#8217;s pretty much a blend of target practice and barrel racing. \u00a0Folks also typically dress up in western period wear, making things quite interesting. \u00a0OK, enough of that &#8211; you can get more info at the two links above. \u00a0Let&#8217;s get on with the pictures!<\/p>\n[cpg_albumfullsize:844]\n<p>Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the immortal words of John Cleese &#8211; And now for something completely different. \u00a0OK, not really completely different &#8211; I have shot this sport before. \u00a0But it&#8217;s something that I don&#8217;t get out all that often to shoot &#8211; Cowboy Mounted Shooting. \u00a0A couple weeks ago Jill, the girls &amp; I headed up to [&hellip;]<\/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":[14,338,339,495,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-2389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-equine-photography","7":"category-event-photography","8":"tag-connecticut","9":"tag-connecticut-renegades","10":"tag-cowboy-mounted-shooting","11":"tag-enfield","12":"tag-equine","13":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","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=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}