CAS CITY - COWBOY & WESTERN ACTION SHOOTING WORLDWIDE

Marshal Halloway

Location:

* Howard * Kansas *
* United States of America *

Age:

Homepage:

http://www.cascity.com

Real life Occupation:

Marketing Consultant / Sales Manager/ Promotor

Clubs:

Club of 1873 #1 (Norway)
Barbary Coast Vigilance Committee #25

Organizations:

SASS #3411 Regulator
SWS #1
NCOWS
NRA

Recent News About Me:

My Chosen Alias (The story behind and how I picked it):

This character is a product of my own fantasy, but it is also inspired from different true characters from the Old West. Marshal Halloway is born somewhere in the Southwestern US around 1865. His parents showed up in Tombstone in 1878, where young Bat soon found his "manhood" watching the bad elements there. His mother died short after the arrival and because his father was being occupied with mining work, drinking and gambling, the streets of Tombstone became Bat's home. His "upbringing" in this environment turned him into a confused person who didn't really understand the difference between right and wrong. The fight at the OK Corral and the "competition" between the officers of law, made young Bat into a person searching to find this difference and make some choices. In '82 he bought himself a horse and left town for good.

For three years he made a living doing different kind of "work" in Arizona and New Mexico, then for some reason he had to take a "vacation" south of the border. There he found a frame of values which changed his personality. For the next ten years he made a living cowboying and assisting the law in different towns being a deputy sheriff and later a U.S. Marshal.

How I picked my alias name: Back in my teens, I wrote some short stories about my chosen character. At that time I named him just Bat Moran. Before I submitted my SASS membership application in '93 (1993 that is ), I was determined to use that name. But it turned out that way. I wanted him to be a marshal and I wanted a second last name. I took down my dusty old telephone directory from Cape Coral; Lee County, Florida and my index finger stopped when I found the name I liked. It was Halloway. If I remember correctly, there was no space in my application form for such a long name as Marshal Bat Moran Halloway, so I had to shorten it. Marshal Halloway became my registered SASS alias.

Research: I've done my earlier research reading The Old West series from Time Life Books. In later years I have read countless books on the Old West and magazines. Movies like "Tombstone" with Kurt Russell and "Tom Horn" with Steve McQueen have also been very inspirational for me in building my character.

My current guns & gear:

USFA Rodeo, 4 3/4" in 45 Colt.
Winchester 94 Trails End in .45 Colt
Spartan (Remington) by side shotgun, 12 gauge.

Other information I would like to share:

In the world of Cowboy & Western Action Shooting, I am known as Marshal Halloway, SASS Regulator, badge # 3411, but my real name is Kjell Heilevang.

No, I have nothing to do with law enforcement, but you might call this engagement as a "mild enforcement of camaraderie". Cas City is about Cowboy Action Shooting, some call it Western Action Shooting and there is also Cowboy Mounted Shooting. This Internet town of mine is about this great sport and a good starting point if you haven't joined yet and a resting place for oldtimers looking for the latest or just want to hang around and rest their bones.

I started in this sport in the early '90s, but since I started quite alone on the northwestern coast of Norway, I just had to do something about "the solitude as a cowboy action shooter". The most efficient way at the time, was to get access to the Internet Territory, first to get in touch with fellow SASS members in the US, later to use the achieved knowledge for promotional purposes. By pure coincident, I became the first person to establish an Internet forum for CAS called the cas-list in 1995. This lead to the Cas City web site in 1996. Since then, a lot of good web sites have arrived and of course, SASS also decided to enter this territory together with organizations like NCOWS, WASA and CMSA. You'll find links to these pages in the Get Started Section in Cas City.

A lot of rivers have been crossed since I joined SASS, other organizations and clubs. SASS and fellow cas-l members sponsored a trip to End of Trail in 1997. This was the primary motivation to travel back to Norway and become the founding father of The Scandinavian Western Shooters (SWS), an organization that saw daylight later that year. Cowboy Action Shooting became a shooting sport approved by the Norwegian authorities in 2000. Since then, I have been working within the SWS together with my co-founders, SWS officers and members. I have been travelling all over Norway as an instructor, certifying range officers and getting clubs started.
SWS can be found at http://www.swsnet.org .

Through Cas City, my promotional work has been helpful in getting new shooters to our sport internationally and it has been rewarding in so many ways. Thank you for support, kind words and friendship through all these years.

Yes, I do have a "real life" outside of Cas City and this is a short resume.

I am born in Molde, Norway and moved to Howard, Kansas, in 2004.
http://www.cascity.com/howard

I am an educated and authorized insurer from the Norwegian Insurance Academy and with a background in sales and marketing since 1980. I started my working career in the dairy business, moved to insurance from 1985 and as a district supervisor until 1996. Since 1996 I have been working in the field of communication technology and done consultant work for shooting organizations and police districts. My professional background and education has given me a broad experience and knowledge in the fields of marketing, human recources, personell and project management. Since 2000, I have also been engaged as a consultant and lobbyist regarding firearm laws.

I am married to a Kansas cowgirl answering to the SASS alias Marshal'ette Halloway. Besides promoting CAS through CasCity.com, my wife and I are working full time promoting and selling products and services through Halloway's Mercantile ( http://www.cascity.com/store ). Marshal'ette is also a massage therapist through her own company The Perfect Touch.
http://www.cascity.com/perfecttouch .

I am also in charge of the Internet promotion of the TV shows Shooting Gallery and Cowboys on the Outdoor Channel.

Picture text:
Bottom: Marshal H. and Samuel B. Carpenter ( http://www.cascity.com/posseprofiles/bandit/ ) taken during the 2003 Norwegian CAS Championship.

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