Hi, I’m Lorelei Longshot.  My husband, Lazarus, and I have been involved in many different sporting activities since we first met in 1973 through the Trail Riders of Houston motorcycle dirt bike club.  In fact, our first date was to the Caney Creek motorcycle enduro.  We have also been involved in sailing, 4 wheel off-roading, and finally cowboy action shooting and reenacting.  For ten years I was also involved with the Girl Scout Misty Meadows horse camp as a volunteer riding director. I also enjoy going deer hunting on women’s only hunts sponsored by the Texas State Rifle Association of which I am a lifetime member.

          Lazarus and I were observing at a cowboy action shooting match when Dutch Dave placed a Henry rifle in his hands and ordered him to shoot.  Lazarus was hooked.  Within just a month he had 2 six guns, a rifle, and a shotgun.  I shared Lazarus’s guns the next month.  The next month Lazarus had a new set of six guns, and I had his old six guns, and my own rifle and shotgun.  That was in the early spring of 2002.

          For Christmas 2001, Lazarus had given me a Browning Citori Featherlight shotgun.  I had never shot a shotgun before, but fell in love with it immediately so we shot skeet one weekend each month and cowboy action shooting one weekend each month.  I then received a Coyote Cap 1897 pump shotgun for Christmas 2003. Since then I have received at least one gun each year for my Christmas present.  For Christmas 2006 I received 2 Colt .22s and a .410 shotgun because one of the cowboy clubs we shoot with has opened a .22/.410 class for all shooters, not just buckaroos.  Since then another club has also started a .22/.410 class for all shooters.

          Lazarus and I now regularly shoot cowboy action with four different clubs: the Oakwood Outlaws, the Thunder River Renegades, the Texas Regulators, and the Brazos Rangers.  We have also shot with the Orange County Regulators out of Beaumont, and at Tin Star Ranch in Fredericksburg.  We have shot at the Founder’s Ranch Invitational, 2005, End of Trail 2006 and 2007, and plan to shoot End of Trail 2008.  We also belong to an reenactment group out of Palestine that performs at different events in the area including riding the Texas State Railroad train that goes between Palestine and Rusk, Texas.

          Lazarus and I are lifetime members of NRA (National Rifle Association), TSRA, (Texas State Rifle Association), and SASS (Single Action Shooting Society).  In addition, we are both SASS RO I and ROII certified.  I am also a lifetime member of Girl Scouts of America.

          I became involved with Victorian clothing after I finally met NoGunz Kay in person at the Thunder River Renegades.  We had missed meeting in person at the Texas Regulators monthly match because I was busy with school work.  Kay took me shopping to get fabric for a Victorian costume.  I had some lovely paisley print fabric that I had purchased to make bandannas which Kay said would make a beautiful bodice and overskirt.   After being measured in Kay’s corset, I ordered a corset of my own, and Kay began work on an 1884 Victorian outfit using the paisley print fabric. 

My corset did not arrive in time for Jail Break 2007, so Texas Butterbean loaned me her corset, bustle, outfit, and boots to wear.  She even came up and fixed my hair before the banquet.  Everyone raved about Butterbean’s outfit which surprisingly enough fit me perfectly after Bean let out a couple of seams.  Even her boots fit perfectly which is amazing because I have unusually small feet and so does Butterbean.

In the meantime, Kay had completed my outfit using the paisley material in time for me to wear it in the costume contest at End of Trail 2007.  While I did not win the competition, nevertheless I had fun, and people raved about the outfit Kay had made.  Some people even failed to recognize me dressed in the beautiful outfit.  Again, I had borrowed Butterbean’s corset and bustle to wear with the outfit.

Since that original shopping trip for fabric, Kay and I have scoured the thrift shops and fabric stores gathering items and fabrics for other Victorian outfits.  Texas Butterbean is now making custom-made corsets (including one for me), and ladies’ undergarments.   Kay has begun making award-winning custom-made Victorian outfits, and Kay, Butterbean, and I did a presentation on Victorian clothing for the ladies of the Palestine reenactment group.

Since we all love participating in cowboy action shooting, we originally called ourselves the Trigger Sisters.  Recently we found out that Kay and I share the same birth date in November, and that Butterbean’s birth date is only two days later in November.  Therefore we now call ourselves the November Trigger Sisters. 

I was the costume contest director for Jail Break 2008 (the SASS Texas State Championship at Oakwood), and was assisted by my November Trigger Sisters, NoGunz Kay and Texas Butterbean. Butterbean and I were also the costume contest judges for Ride with Pancho Villa 2009, at the Plum Creek Carriage and Shooting Society in Lockhart, Texas.

The November Trigger Sisters look forward to shooting while wearing our Victorian Bathing Suits.  We continue to scour the fabric shops and thrift stores in search of the perfect fabric or item to add to our outfits.