A GREEN-AND-WHITE STRIPED SHIRT, a red garter belt hugging the right sleeve just above the elbow, cream-colored, button-fly pants tucked into black custom-made boots, a battered black cowboy hat. Richard “Tequila” Young is looking good today at the regional Range War tournament at Tin Star Ranch, which sits in the shadow of Enchanted Rock in the Hill Country. And he’s shooting even better, the retort from his nineteenth-century replica guns and the sound of ammo hitting metal targets producing perhaps a dozen bang-plink bang-plink bang-plink successions in about eight seconds.Tequila is the moniker of the 43-year-old Young, an industrial engineer and father of three who lives in Flatonia and happens also to be a cowboy action-shooter. Each of the approximately 45,000 members of the Single…
The post Sharp Shooter appeared first on Texas Monthly.