{"id":11643,"date":"2011-09-21T14:25:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T19:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=11643"},"modified":"2011-09-21T14:25:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T19:25:29","slug":"sass-marketing-director-coyote-calhoun-aka-lamar-shelnutt-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/sass-marketing-director-coyote-calhoun-aka-lamar-shelnutt-passed-away\/11643\/","title":{"rendered":"SASS Marketing Director Coyote Calhoun, AKA Lamar Shelnutt, passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11644\" title=\"coyotecalhounDRTV\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/coyotecalhounDRTV-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/coyotecalhounDRTV-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/coyotecalhounDRTV.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>SASS Headquarters, NM \u2013 Wild Bunch member and Hall of Fame inductee, Coyote Calhoun, AKA Lamar Shelnutt, passed away suddenly September 20th while attending to business at SASS\u2019 New Mexico Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>He had assumed many of the major SASS business responsibilities for the past few years.\u00a0 Coyote Calhoun was the SASS National Programs Director and Marketing Director.\u00a0 He was a co-founder of the Shootout at Mule Camp, the first SASS Regional Championship, and, as a member of the Magnificent Seven, received the SASS Spirit Award in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Coyote began working for SASS in 1999, bringing consistency and enthusiasm to the SASS National Shooting Program.\u00a0 He was part of the development of the SASS Range Operations Safety Courses and served on the SASS Range Operations Committee.\u00a0 He was an outspoken advocate of the \u201cB\u201d Western shooting category.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, Coyote received the prestigious \u201cTop Hand\u201d award and was inducted into the Cowboy Action Shooting\u2122 Hall of Fame in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Coyote\u2019s enthusiasm, energy, and creativity have been vital to SASS and will surely be missed.\u00a0 The Wild Bunch and SASS staff offer sincere condolences to the family.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral arrangements are pending at this time, but will be announced as soon as available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SASS Headquarters, NM \u2013 Wild Bunch member and Hall of Fame inductee, Coyote Calhoun, AKA Lamar Shelnutt, passed away suddenly September 20th while attending to business at SASS\u2019 New Mexico Headquarters. He had assumed many of the major SASS business responsibilities for the past few years.\u00a0 Coyote Calhoun was the SASS National Programs Director and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":11644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,162],"tags":[2102,2103,67],"class_list":["post-11643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers","category-sass-news","tag-coyote-calhoun","tag-lamar-shelnutt","tag-sass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}