50 American Shooting Journal // August 2019BLACK POWDER
our top shooting White Buffalo and his prize was a wooden
plaque that identifies his win, plus he was awarded a very
detailed white buffalo.
The highlight of my own shooting was my last shot
taken during the match. Our group’s last target was the
life-size buffalo at 805 yards. I wasn’t having the best of luck
in getting hits on that target and the winds were keeping
us on our toes. After six shots at the black steel buffalo
with the big white spot on its chest, I had just two hits. My
seventh shot was taken with care but the wind blew just a
little harder and Allen, who was spotting my shots for me,
said the bullet hit the dirt just to the right of the critter’s
nose. I had just one shot left to go.
When my name was called by the scorekeeper, I held
as steady as I could and put the buffalo’s white spot on the
right edge of my aperture front sight, which gave me some
Kentucky windage to the left, and squeezed the set trigger.
The bullet had a flight time of about three seconds covering
the distance of those 805 yards, but then the strobe lights
flashed, indicating a hit. And Allen announced that my last
shot had hit right in the buffalo’s white spot, at 2 o’clock.
That was my best shot of the match. Editor’s note: For a complete listing of this year’s scores at
Quigley, go to quigleymatch.com.Carolyn and Kurt Altenburg with the White Buffalo trophy.