West Houston Smoke & Powder Crawl XI

More Fun Than A Barrel Of Dead Hippies!

Hey, y'all!

I meant to get this up earlier, but it's been a crazy few days around these parts. Rest assured, you still have time to RSVP if you can make the fiesta.

I've got a phone contact # as well, but don't want to post it online for the hyenas to abuse. I'f you'd rather call the organizer (Richard) to RSVP instead of emailing, drop me a line and I'll hook you up with the digits...

I had a great time the last time I attended. Nothing's better than a morning spent shooting, and an afternoon spent puffing on nice cigars and shopping for even more guns.

Range fees are available at the link below, and if you want into the Cigar Shoot-out, it's an additional $7 for the reactive target range, as well as a nice cigar to put in the prize kitty!

American Shooting Centers

Hope to see you there!

WEST HOUSTON SMOKE & POWDER CRAWL XI
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2007

“Where smoking is not encouraged, it is mandatory”

I'm happy although somewhat bemused to announce the Eleventh Annual S&PC! I say bemused because ten years ago I never thought I'd be doing this for so long. But I never thought Houston would shut down smoking everywhere. However, WE still allow the burning of the leaf -- where it is not mandatory, it is encouraged! We will start at ASC and proceed in a cloud of gunsmoke to stuff ourselves blind and smoke until we fall over. The schedule (feel free to join us at any point):

9:00 Start - American Shooting Center, 16500 Westheimer, 77082 281)556-8086. Rifle/pistol, Skeet or Trap, Five Stand or Sporting Clays. The Shoot-out, at a one cigar buy-in, is slated. Several of the range officers are cigar fans.

12:30 - Lunch - Paul's Seafood & Oyster Boat, 1704 Highway 6 S, 77077-2804. 281)556-5086 As always, great fresh seafood and cigar-friendly people who will be happy to have us back.

2:45 - Richmond Ave. 8800 block Richmond @ Fondren Rd. 713) 975-9057 Dan offers a 10 % discount on all purchases. Not to mention his huge humidor and the new and hard to find Illusione Nicaraguan puro from Fumaré in Reno, Nevada. RAC will also be collecting cigar donations for our troops overseas. I recommend putting your stogie out and stepping in to Collector's Firearms next door to drool at the 5000+ guns.

4:30 - Absolute Tobacco 1450 Grand Parkway, Katy, TX 77494 (281) 392-2387 This is a great new place with a … comprehensive … and still growing selection of cigars at good prices. Carol and Robert are offering a 15% on everything in the store, including some great pipes, cigar accessories and humidors, and will be extending her regular Sunday free sampling of pipe tobacco to any pipe smokers. They are the only supplier west of Georgia of the boutique Canimao cigar and one of the five largest Gurka suppliers in the world.

6:00 - Robusto's 20940 Katy Freeway, Suite I, Katy 77449, take Westgreen north and enter the parking lot behind Wild Wings. 281) 398-3565 Affiliated with Richmond Ave., this place has a huge stock of high-end smokes and an impressive list of adult beverages (I will be trying a Godiva Martini while there). While food is not available, they encourage us to carry in from the several good restaurants surrounding them. New York, NY Deli and Phô Mai Vietnamese come highly recommended but pizza, Chinese and wings are also available. Sadly, Robusto's cannot allow children. John will extend the Happy Hour for us and will have some surprise specials.

This year we will be accepting donations to help Waller County Teen Central, a support organization for troubled youth. Teen Court, an arm of WCTC, provides an alternative to fines (paid by the parents) and criminal records for misdemeanor offenders.

As always we are proud to be sponsored by:
Moore & Bode: This brand, long known to the "cognoscenti" of cigars, is back for the ninth year. Still made by the entubar method, these are incredible medium-bodied smokes and samples will be included for all crawlers.

Baranow's: Wal Baranow from the land of Oz (Australia) provides mail-order cigars, specializing in Cubans and with great prices. www.cigar1.com.au

Padilla Cigars: Ernesto Padilla is with us for the third year and is known for the highly praised Hybrid and Miami Blends. www.padillacigars.com

Camacho Cigars, back again for year two, needs no introduction. These full bodied smokes have become the definition of good, affordable cigars.

And additional surprise sponsors, gifts and guests.

RSVP: To get the correct number of cigars from our sponsors, we will need a list of those attending. As a corollary to this, if you don't let me know you are coming, you don't get free cigars. You can contact AGCIAS (AT) AOL (DOT) com or call Richard at XXX-XXX-XXXX or XXX-XXX-XXXX for additional information.