Busy, Busy, Busy!

Howdy all! Just got back from some business in L.A. and shot the SASS Eastern National Mounted Shooting Championships last Saturday and Sunday (after flying all day and getting to bed at 3am Sat morning) - finished 3rd overall! Two of my students did exceptionally well - Jerry Jacobs won his class of SR M3 and Rifle, and Geoff Goldstein won M5 and overall! Congratulations, cowboys!
I'll be emcee'ing the MTRA (Marion Therapeutic Riding Association) "Symphony of Horses" in Ocala this weekend, then performing at the Central Florida Fair in Orlando March 4-6 as well as hosting the "Taylor's Runnin' Iron Shootout"; a 2-stage mounted shooting event with 20 of the best mounted shooters in Florida competing for guns donated by Taylor's & Co Firearms (http://www.taylorsfirearms.com)! We're also planning to compete in the CMSA Florida State Mounted Shooting Championships March 13-14 in Newberry FL. 2010 has been a great year so far for us, with entertainment and/or mounted shooting events nearly every weekend! Gotta thank my awesome sponsors for all their support:
Suncoast Bedding http://www.suncoastbedding.com
Mane N Tail http://www.manentail.com
Taylor's & Company Firearms http://www.taylorsfirearms.com
Impact Gel Saddle Pads http://www.impactgel.com
and Rod Kibler Saddlery http://www.rodkiblersaddlery.com
Check back often for updates and news from our events. Our schedule is posted at www.DennyChapman.com.
Happy Trails!

CMSA Atlantic Coast Classic

Denny finshed four days of announcing and color commentary at the Cowboy Mounted Shooting Atlantic Coast Classic in Jacksonville, FL, last weekend. In addition, he competed in and won the open class Mounted Rifle Shooting jackpot by winning the preliminaries on Thursday. "It's a great feeling knowing I've got the best equipment available for this sport and some great companies backing me while I'm on the road," Chapman said. Denny is sponsored by Taylor's & Co Firearms, Suncoast Bedding, Mane N Tail products, Impact Gel Saddle Pads and Rod Kibler Saddlery. Next weekend, Denny will be competing in the SASS Eastern National Mounted Shooting Championships!
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Denny Chapman at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas

We just returned from Las Vegas where we represented our Firearms sponsor, Taylor's & Company, at the SHOT Show - the international shooting, hunting and outdoors trade show. We also hosted some video interviews for Western Shooting Horse TV while we were there. I've attached several pics of me with some of my cowboy and shooting industry friends and acquaintences, including champion mounted shooting cowgirls Andra Olsen and Melissa Dragoo, actor Peter Sherayko, Extreme Cowboy Association administrator and CMSA Hall of Famer Frank Turben, Firarms Historian and CMSA board member Phil Spangenburger, several SASS Wild Bunch Founders and "The Gunny" - actor and television host R. Lee Ermey. My good friend, Deke Rivers - "The Pistolero" was also there with me entertaining the media with his fancy gun handling skills. We had a great time at the SHOT Show and are very thankful for our firearms sponsors, Sue Hawkins and Tammy Loy of Taylor's & Company - "Keeping the Legend Alive!"

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Denny Chapman in Suncoast Bedding Ad!

Here's an advertisement that will be published in several horse magazines in January! This photo was taken by Cathy Denton at the SASS Florida State Championships where I won the Mounted Rifle Shooting and Open Extreme Mounted Shooting titles this year. Cindy Greene is in the photo with me - she won a free bag of Suncoast as a prize giveaway at the event!
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Denny wins dual titles at Florida State SASS Mounted Shooting Championships

Story at Western Shooting Horse.com:

http://westernshootinghorse.ning.com/profiles/blogs/denny-chapman-wins-dual-titles

Denny Chapman at Dinner in the Dirt

Thanks to Teri from Horses in the South for this great picture from the Weekend for Warriors "Dinner in the Dirt" event last weekend. We performed the "Suncoast Surfin' Cowboy" specialty act, sang the National Anthem to open the show with the Navy color guard and produced a wild west mounted shooting act to end the show. We had a great time at the show, which benefitted a great cause. A big thank you to Suncoast Bedding for making it possible for us to be there!

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Denny Chapman at the Spacecoast State Fair Rodeo

Thanks to GD Cline for taking this photo of me in the announce tower after the Spacecoast State Fair Rodeo last night. We emcee'd the two-day event in Cocoa FL and are looking forward to another busy couple of weeks. Next weekend, we're performing at the Dinner in the Dirt event in Jacksonville FL, then announcing the Gulf Coast Classic CMSA event in Louisiana. We've got two parades in December, trick riding clinics, mounted shooting, liberty and trick horse training for clients this winter, and more appearances than ever in 2010! Check out the sponsor logos on my shirt - they keep my horses healthy and looking good!
Happy Trails!

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