What is the best starting line you've heard?

[Tom Bullweed 449]

'Your line' works when I forget the line or there is not line provided.

Occasionally I use 'with more misses than an all-girl's school, I'm ready'

[Phantom, SASS #54973 4,686]

I'm guessing you don't know the origin of that one, else you would have known what I was referring to.

Yes I do...movin' on...

[Hoot Hamilton 17]

"Anyway, whackin a surley bartender ain't much of a crime"

 

Gus from Lonesome Dove

 

hOOt

[Dirty Redd 14]

 

 

 

"I work for Mel Brooks "

[Rye Miles #13621 6,515]

I always like to take the given line and change it up a little. You know, make it more personal. Totally confused a couple of TO's who just didn't understand my sense of humor.

At the Michigan State shoot the year before last, they're were no lines at all. It was up to the shooter to say "ready or whatever they wanted. Our posse marshall, whose name escapes me at the moment was running the timer for me. I looked back at him and said," Why (?) you looked like someone just walked over your grave"!! He lost it! He had to wait a minute or so before he could proceed!

[Hikes Point Hank 1]

When I'm TO ing and someone asks me the line I almost always tell em "Hey Yall, watch this"

Funny how some cowboys get so upset over that one.

[Noz 1,911]

We had one stage where the shooter was trying to escape the bad guys by dressing as a woman.

He had to wear a sun bonnet while shooting the stage.

The starting line was asking the TO: "Do I look pretty?"

All of the vamping, posing and facial expressions almost shut the shoot down. Twas a ball.

[40Chev 40]

Best ones I've heard were made up by the shooters

 

"Do these holsters make my butt look big?"

 

On one stage the line was "Do the noises in my head bother you?"

When the TO's wife came up to shoot the line she used was "Do the noises in your head bother you?"

[Griff 1,531]

"...'ell no I ain't ready; but let's do this anyway!"

[Korupt Karl 2]

I will always tell a shooter "Korupt Karl is my hero" if someone asks me for the starting line.....

[Michigan Slim 5,924]

Or 'It's Karl! Hide the wimmins!"

[Cheyenne Culpepper 32827 965]

Or 'It's Karl! Hide the wimmins!"

and your livestock!!!!!!

 

love ya man!!!!

[Czexican Dave 13]

"Do you know who I am?!"

 

Yes, I do. "Il mio nome è Nessuno".

[Stump Water 115]

Ad hoc: "Honest sheriff, I was just trying to help the sheep over the fence."

 

(Tied Dingo Dave in a knot, which was priceless.)

[Phantom, SASS #54973 4,686]

 

Yes, I do. "Il mio nome è Nessuno".

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[DocWard 5,405]

I would love to hear some from the show Firefly.

[Boon Doggle 22]

Several years ago, and I do mean several, when I was writing stages and wasn't feeling real creative, I would just have the starting instructions as "Say a line from your favorite Eastwood western".

 

One of our regulars came to the starting position, and when instructed to say his line, just spit.

Second best line I ever heard. The best was delivered by his wife, at another match, but that is a "You had to be there to appreciate it" sorta thing.

[Ya Big Tree 142]

Last year we had a Blazing Saddles themed shoot.

One of the stages started while sitting on a log in front of a fence holding a plate of beans.

The starting line was "How 'bout some more beans, Mr. Taggart?"

 

Well under a towel on the log was a fart pillow that went off when you sat down.

 

I was laughing so hard the whole time the posse was shooting, I'm still laughing now.

 

Thanks for a great shoot Wolff's Rowdy Rangers.

[Tyrel Cody 5,215]

Uttered just before shooting Outlaw on a stage:

 

"Dang you, Blackwater!"

 

 

I can't remember his name but one cowboy yell' "This towns gonna burn" when he forgets the line.

[TazmanianDevil 0]

In the spirit of "Blazing Saddles", years ago I did a side-match stage with a pocket pistol where the targets were empty 1 gallon cans of beans.

 

The starting line wasn't so much of a "line" as it was a "noise". When ready, you were instructed to give your best rendition of a "blowing a raspberry" or a Bronx cheer. In other words making a fart noise. There was even a 5 second bonus (deduction) possible for the shooter who gave the best rendition decided by the RO running the stage.

 

The um... "gentleman" who received the 5 second deduction was the only one who, shall we say, opted for realism. The RO said that it wasn't what the stage designer had in mind, but (to their credit) did say that the stage instructions never specified that the shooter must make the sound with their mouth.

[Moog 45]

I use "hello Bob" on any jail or jail break stage.

 

I have also used "never underestimate the power of the dark side"

[Bramble Mountain Buzzard 123]

I'm generally the first shooter on my posse (by choice). We had a shoot last year and because of my alias, I went to my standby line from Outlaw Josey Wales "Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms." Well, the rest of the posse decided to give me a hard time. Every one of them butchered the line into some form of "Buzzard eats worms" For the WHOLE final 3 stages!!!

[SouthwestShooter 91]

Jesus Saves;

Moses invests.............................

[LostVaquero 487]

"Well say hello to my little friend!"

 

"I'm gonna skin that smoke wagon and you see what happens!"

 

"Snakes! Why'd it have to be snakes!"

 

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Actually might be fun to have an ending line after the run in order to stop the timer. Say something like: "That's all folks!"

[J-BAR #18287 6,008]

I would love to hear some from the show Firefly.

I take it you've met?

 

The book is very specific about killing, but fuzzy about kneecaps.

 

There is a special place in hell...

 

Reavers!

[Ventura Slim, SASS #35690 30]

"You silly savage!"

[Ace_of_Hearts 1,112]

I always like to sing a song that relates to whatever the start line is. (After all - I shoot B Western and I am a singing cowboy)

 

But on occasion I like to use my line if the TO is ugly (and they usually are)

 

"What a face....... What a figure...... Two more legs and you would look like Trigger"!

[Yusta B. 1,443]

I always like to take the given line and change it up a little. You know, make it more personal. Totally confused a couple of TO's who just didn't understand my sense of humor.

You mean like :

 

"You gonna whistle those pistols or pull your Dixie "

[Wyatt 249]

HANDS UP.............or I'll shoot

[Boon Doggle 22]

You mean like :

 

"You gonna whistle those pistols or pull your Dixie "

 

I'm making a note of that one.

[Patagonia Pete 791]

"Shoot low ... they're riding Shetlands" ...

[Mosey N Sloe 0]

A man worth shooting is a man worth killin. Firecreek

 

There is no way to politely shoot a man, shoot to kill. Prof/Minister of Social Problems.

[Riverboat Red, SASS #71733 128]

I would love to hear some from the show Firefly.

I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you.

 

We're not gonna die. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.

 

Fully loaded, safety off. This here is a recipe for unpleasantness,

 

You know, not altogether wise, sneaking up on a fella when he's handling his weapon.

[Waimea 811]

One cold morning with both hands on the hangman's noose............It's to cold to be well hung!

 

That was your finest hour.

 

At one of our annual Evil Bob matches here in GA, the author of such nonsense and twisted minded mirth, ole Badlands "Evil" Bob, has the starting line "One Three One, One Three One" and naturally the course of fire to start out is 2-1-2 with both your pistols and rifle!

 

Kajun

 

Yep, that's just EVIL.

 

 

Waimea

 

[Sedalia Dave 12,739]

Heard this on the Cheyenne Show. Would make a great line.

 

"We are peace loving men, and we're willing to kill every last one of you to prove it."