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Six Shooters And Splitting Bullets: A True Texas Adventure

Splitting Bullets And Other Cowboy-Versus-Bandit Adventures

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Sep 23, 2018
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“Cowboys worked hard… 12-hour days chasing cattle, branding ponies, what have you… 6 days a week,” explained the Texan.

“Come Sunday, the last thing they wanted to do was get up early and go to church.

“So the pastor and the womenfolk here in town, they came up with an idea to make going to church on a Sunday morning a more appealing idea for the menfolk.

“They added a shooting contest.

“Here’s how it worked,” our new friend continued, motioning for us to follow him out into the field.

Our cowboy guide, Mike “Shotgun” Franklin, led us to a spot where he’d thrown a double-headed ax at a tree trunk. One of the ax’s blades was embedded into the trunk deeply, leaving the other blade edge facing outward.

We watched as Shotgun affixed a small, thin piece of board on either side of the ax head… wondering, frankly, what in the world was going on.

“So the pastor and the women,” he said, picking up his story where he’d left off back at the camp, “they set up a target just like this one in the yard outside the church.

“Then, after services were over, all the men came out into the yard and took turns firing their rifles at the ax head. The aim was to hit the blade of the ax straight on and split the bullet… so that you’d shoot both pieces of board with one shot.

“Now something like that… a chance to split a bullet on an ax,” he added, looking up at us with a big grin…

“That was worth getting out of bed for come Sunday morning.

“Who wants to go first?” Shotgun asked.

Earlier this month we hosted our annual Retire Overseas Conference, this year in Las Vegas. After the close of the event, Lief and I flew to San Antonio with a small group of friends who’d traveled to Vegas to participate in the program.

We’ve made it a tradition… to follow each Retire Overseas Conference with a new Stateside adventure… in the company of friends from around the world.

This year it was friends from Portugal, Belize, and Panama who were able to carve out time in their schedules… and it was our friend from Belize who identified the day’s activity—a “Western Shoot.”

We arrived early at the little Western town set a half-hour outside San Antonio… pulled on holsters and hats… loaded our pistols… grabbed our rifles… and set off to rid the place of bad guys.

A gang of no-good varmints tried to hold up the stage as it rode into town and relieve it of its lockbox full of gold… but we stopped the bunch of them in their tracks with our six-shooters…

The dealer in the saloon got it into his head to try to cheat our friend at blackjack… but we couldn’t let that happen… so we fired one shot apiece into the swindlin’ dealer and all five of his double-dealing friends.

After a good day’s work chasing down the black hats in town, it was time for some fun. That’s when our guide introduced us to the split-the-bullet competition.

Lief split his bullet on the first try (I have the two symmetrically-pierced boards to prove it)… and every other cowboy among us made the shot, too, including our Portuguese attorney-friend who had never before fired a gun.

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Kathleen, Lief, and crew enjoying all that Texas has to offer, complete with their very own six shooters.

Not everyone would be up for a day of Western shooting in the Texas sun, but, somehow, after three decades moving and doing business around the world the way we have, Lief and I have been lucky enough to find and form friendships with several dozen folks for whom the idea isn’t cuckoo but irresistible once put on the table.

These are hard-working, super-smart, uber-successful people who share a worldview and who have learned not to take themselves or anything else too seriously.

People seizing opportunity at every turn… including an opportunity to spend a few hours together in San Antonio earlier this month playing cowboy.

The allure is the like-minded company. Spending time and doing business with these guys is, for us, the biggest benefit of the live-and-invest-overseas lifestyle Lief and I try to embrace.

We’re already planning our next adventure…

Kathleen Peddicord

 

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Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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