Cowboy Mounted Shooting

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After the RoundTable Productions of the medieval games, the Island Long Riders came in and did Cowboy Mounted Shooting. 
It was funny seeing two representations of different time periods back to back. It probably wasn’t as funny as I thought it was. I blame the dust. :) 
The Cowboy Sport Association has the document of rules on its website.
The competitor has two single action pistols that he or she uses to shoot balloons. The competitor also wears western attire. 
This is how the balloons were attached. 
An interesting thing that the announcer said was that while the gun has 6 slots for bullets, only 5 are loaded.  
There are no rules for breed. The equine can be any breed, donkey, or mule. The competitor has two single action pistols and shoots five balloons with one pistol and then shoots five more with the other. 

 They follow a course. The Cowboy Sports Association has a bunch of the courses listed on their website. The demonstration did multiple courses during their time.

  From the website, it said that light targets(balloons) are supposed to be the first to be engaged. The rider who has the fasted time and has shot the most balloons wins. One of the courses was run with the competitor running down to a barrel while shooting the five balloons on the left side. Then horse and rider turned at the barrel and ran down the other side, shooting the five other balloons.

 Cowboy Mounted Shooting was very cool event to watch!

Running The Ring

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After the introduction, one of the ‘games’ the knights did was running the ring.

The riders rode down the line with a lance.

A ‘squire’ held the ring in his hand.

The goal of the run was to end up with a ring on the lance. 

Interesting stuff when looking up info:
The Medieval Tournament by R. Coltman Clephan said the lance was 10 ft 7 inches. That’d be fun to scale down. Also according to the book, Running The Ring was a later form of the quintain.
The RoundTable Productions website said the quintain was a training tool for a jousting knight.

I Unicorn

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Another part of the opening part of the jousting that I liked was the grey unicorn. 

 While I really liked the queen’s dress( I love gold and purple combinations) and her ability to do an awesome job as being a queen, the horse she rode caught my attention too. 

The bridle was very interesting.
But who wouldn’t want to ride a unicorn? Even if it wasn’t a real one. :)