{"id":2559,"date":"2011-07-19T11:39:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2011-07-19T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:39:03","slug":"cowboy-mounted-shooting-ct-renegades-on-the-4th-of-july-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/cowboy-mounted-shooting-ct-renegades-on-the-4th-of-july-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboy Mounted Shooting &#8211; CT Renegades on the 4th of July, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; margin: 10px;\" title=\"CT Renegades Cowboy Mounted Shooting\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nanosphoto.com\/gallery\/albums\/wpw-20110717\/thumb_054-20110704-420204365-_MG_6099.jpg?resize=150%2C100\" alt=\"CT Renegades Cowboy Mounted Shooting\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>Back on the 4th of July I headed up to the Double Nickel Ranch in Granby, CT to shoot one of my favorite non-railroad subject to photograph &#8211; a sport known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowboymountedshooting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cowboy Mounted Shooting<\/a>. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctrenegades.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connecticut Renegades<\/a> were hosting a four stage match on the 4th, and I was able to take advantage of the nice weather and spend the day with the team photographing all four stages. \u00a0And as a bonus, after the 4th stage was done, a new shooter got a chance to try her hand at a little more than her cap pistol&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->On Monday July 4th the Connecticut Renegades hosted a four stage match, with one of the stages having some different &#8220;obstacles&#8221; built into the course. \u00a0I was able to stick around for the four stages, along with the finale where a younger shooter, who traversed each stage herself with a cap pistol, got a chance to fire an actual .45 at some balloons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>First Stage<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n[cpg_album:870]\n<p>Continue to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanosphoto.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/19\/cowboy-mounted-shooting-ct-renegades-on-the-4th-of-july-part-ii\/\">Part II<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for looking!<br \/>\nTom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on the 4th of July I headed up to the Double Nickel Ranch in Granby, CT to shoot one of my favorite non-railroad subject to photograph &#8211; a sport known as Cowboy Mounted Shooting. \u00a0The Connecticut Renegades were hosting a four stage match on the 4th, and I was able to take advantage of [&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],"tags":[14,338,339,137,235],"class_list":{"0":"post-2559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-equine-photography","7":"tag-connecticut","8":"tag-connecticut-renegades","9":"tag-cowboy-mounted-shooting","10":"tag-equine","11":"tag-horse","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","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=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanosphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}