Get The Latest In How To Videos At The SASS Members Only Page ( M E S NNNooovvveeemmmbbbeeerrr 222000000111 CCCooowwwbbboooyyy CCCshhhrrrooonnniiiiicccllllleee PPPaaagggeeee 111 t e X e a r C r c o t a I u i n T r n t g i I le N ~ o s G n e p c a t The Cowboy Chronicle g io e n 8 9 The Monthly Journal of the Single Sh ooting Society ® ) Vol. 23 No. 6 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. June 2010 Chimney RoCk 2009 . By Frederick Jackson Turner, SASS #28271 desert of Southern California’s Lu - See HIGHLIGHTS on pages 72 -75 cerne Valley, scene of the SASS Western Regional. The light plays side match for it! My favorite was across the stark, austere landscape, their ultimate cowboy side match. the blue sky stretches forever, and The shooter started wrapped around there’s nothing between the shim - a stripper – um – fire pole. At the mering stars in the night sky and us buzzer, the shooter blasted a pistol insignificant humans on the ground out the side window, stuck a knife in except for the thin curtain of clear, a dummy, fired a blackpowder shot - high desert air. Day or night, accom - gun, engaged the targets, emp - panied by laughter, gunfire, or music, tied a bottle of “hootch,” and shot the it’s a breathtaking backdrop for the last pistol from the bar. Then it was SASS Western Regional! off to the next stage, where a toma - The match this year was a shoot - hawk was thrown for score, and an er’s challenge. Westphalian Phil, (Continued on page 72 ) SASS #5897—who came with a European contin - gent—said it was a very European style match. How - b SASS B ever challenging, the match clearly agreed with him—he hAll of fAme took the overall win! The range itself is simply outstanding. The host club, RR Bar, spends the entire 2010 year getting ready for this By Tex, SASS #4 match, and it truly has to be seen to be believed. It really ach year SASS selects special individu - could double as a movie set, als who have made an enduring impact as it is so expertly built and Eon SASS, Cowboy Action Shooting™, Frederick Jackson Turner kneels in front of the Pinkerbelle Posse. finished. How well finished? and in preserving our Western heritage. This This fun-loving posse whooped and hollered their way through year we recognize Holy Terror for her outstand - the match while wearing a variety of pink accessories to their costumes, There’s an actual operating, ing and enviable shooting accomplishments, which ranged from spectacular to hysterical and provided a light-hearted attractive little museum Doc Bones for establishing and codifying SASS

atmosphere for a serious issue. The pink, of course, reflected built into one of the build - Mounted Shooting, Rebel and Lady Rebel for their mission of eradicating cancer. ings. Heck, one of the stages their END of TRAIL production efforts, Elder is shot from inside Twitchy Katie for her Cowboy Action leadership in the ucerne Valley, CA – Fingers, a functional saloon! northwest and internationally, and Joe SASS C owboy Chronicle There’s just something spe - Side matches of every Bowman for preserving our Western Heritage cial about Chimney Rock. description were the order of and links back to the golden age of “Cowboy”

L They say Rem brandt didn’t the day on Thursday, com - Movies. Please join the Wild Bunch in recog - In This Issue paint figures as much as he painted plete with an obligatory and nizing these individuals this year at the Las the light that washed over them. highly entertaining black - Vegas Convention. Recipient bios follow: 36 GuNs of thE CoWboys That’s the kind of magic you feel powder night shoot. If you (See Recipients continued on page 7 0) art when you stand out there in the high could shoot it, they had a -P 2

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6 FROM THE EDITOR Changes At SASS Headquarters! . . .

8-12 NEWS Scoped Rifle Scabbard . . . Cowboy Action Approved In France! . . . Editorial Staff Tex 16 CAT’S CORNER It’s Time For Costumes At 29th Annual END of TRAIL! . . . Editor-in-Chief Cat Ballou 18 COYOTE DROPPINGS Charlotte And The NRA Convention . . . Editor Miss Tabitha 13-22 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . . . Asst. Editor Coyote Calhoun 24-34 ARTICLES Lessons Learnt . . . One Pot Chuck . . . Sidekicks & Heavies . . . Managing Editor & Marketing Director

36-46 GUNS & GEAR More About Buscadero Belts . . . Dispatches From Camp Baylor . . . Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design

48 PROFILES Swallowfork (A Spoonful Of Canadian Delight) . . . Mac Daddy Graphic Design

49 HISTORY Tales Of Early California . . . Little Know Famous People Way Out West “Sassy Swede” Kirsten Advertising Manager 50 REVIEWS PRODUCTS AWA USA INC - Jim Martin (Kit Gun) . . . (505) 843-1320 • Fax: (505) 843-1333 Contributing Writers 51-54 END OF TRAIL TERRITORIAL SPECIAL ADS Bad Penny, Blackthorne Billy, Capt. George Baylor, Catoosa Red, Celtic Knight, Col. Dan, Col. Richard Dodge, Cree Vicar Dave, Dr. Buck Montgomery, 55 REVIEWS BOOKS Nothing In His Soul But Iron . . . Frederick Jackson Turner, Goose Jennings, Jasper Agate, Jersey Kid, Joe Fasthorse, Larsen E. Pettifogger, Palaver Pete, Poke, Purdy Gear, Ranger Mathias Fischels, 56, 57 TRAIL MARKER Always To Remember . . . Ringo Fire, The Elder Katie, Tuolumne Lawman, Westphalian Phil, Whooper Crane, Wolf Bane 58-82 ON THE RANGE What’s Goin’ On In Your Town? . . . The Cowboy Chronicle is published by The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. 84-87 CLUB REPORTS The Rocky River Regulators . . . Bunkhouse Bidness . . . For advertising information and rates, administrative, and edi to rial offices contact: 89-92 SASS MERCANTILE (Nice Collectables) . . . Chronicle Administrator 215 Cowboy Way Edgewood, NM 87015 93-95 CLASSIFIED (505) 843-1320 FAX (505) 843-1333 email: [email protected] 96- SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS (MONTHLY, ANNUA L) http://www.sassnet.com The Cowboy Chronicle (ISSN 15399877) is 102 POLITICAL published monthly by the Single Action A Declaration Of Restoration! . . . Shooting Society, 215 Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. Periodicals 103 SASS NEW MEMBER APPLICATION Postage is Paid at Edgewood, NM and additional mailing offices (USPS #032). POSTMASTER: Send ad dress changes to The Cowboy Chronicle , 215 Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. SASS ® Trademarks DISCLAIMER - The Single Action Shooting ® ® Society does not guarantee, warranty or Cowboy Travelers— sass , single action shooting society , ENd of traiL ®, Eot ®, endorse any product or service advertised Have YOU ever been in this newspaper. The publisher also does tM met on the plane by The Cowboy Chro nicle , not guarantee the safety or effectiveness tM two uniformed, Cowboy action shooting , of any product or service illustrated. The tM tM distri bution of some products/services may armed security men Cas , Wild bunch , tM be illegal in some areas, and we do not when landing at Wild bunch action shooting , assume responsibility thereof. State and your destination? the World Championship of local laws must be investigated by the pur - tM Tex has! With a sigh Cowboy action shooting , chaser prior to purchase or use or prod - ucts/services. of relief, he said, bow-legged Cowboy design, and the “thank goodness rocking horse design WARNING: Neither the author nor The are all trademarks of Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi - they were both bility for accidents or diffe ring results smiling!” the single action shooting society, inc. obtained using reloading data. Variation (Rut’ N’ Buck, SASS #79448, and Tex head for baggage claim Any use or reproduction of these marks in handloading tech niques, compo - in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Tex was attending the without the express written permission nents, and fire arms will make results of SASS is strictly prohibited. vary. Have a competent gunsmith check Gold Coast Gunfight match.) your before firing. Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

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By Tex, SASS #4

assy Swede , Advertising Ma n a - Tex, SASS #4 ger, another of our new hires, is ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~ S making a huge impact on The Cowboy Chronicle . Anyone who wishes to advertise their Old West products in s everyone knows by now, the principal Old West niche mar - SASS has relocated its ketplace will, undoubtedly, come in headquarters from Sou - Sassy Swede (l) and A contact with Sassy. And, Sassy is a thern California to the wilds Misty Moonshine good moniker for her … she’s defi - of New Mexico! New Mexico’s host the nitely not shy! Tularosa Basin was one of the last Happy Jack Saloon Under her direction the SASS frontiers of the Old West. This remote during Buffalo Stampede. advertising efforts have been revi - part of the state was the scene of It’s always more fun talized. There is even a special to play Cowboy Action Texas cattlemen carving out an exis - advertising section this year for than to simply watch! tence in the Chihuahuan Desert, the END of TRAIL. Her review of past murder of Albert Fountain and Pat Cowboy Chronicle practices has result - Garrett near the turn of the century, ed in numerous changes to the and even fights between ranchers and paper—which can be seen in this the US Government over squatter’s issue. The number of SASS in house rights in the White Sands area all the ads has been drastically reduced, way up to the 1950s! Politics in the placement of ads has been modi - isty Moonshine is our Office Manager and Coyote’s chief assis - Southern New Mexico was recognized fied for those who rifle through the tant in the world of marketing. She is not only involved with as a “blood sport” in the late 19th M paper looking for specific merchants Customer Service duties, administrative tasks, and personnel issues, Century, and some say it’s like that who offer that unique, one of a kind she also supports the local and national marketing campaigns led by even today! What more appropriate product we just can’t live without, Coyote Calhoun. The office manager sets the tone for the morale and setting could SASS ever hope to have! and we’ve moved some editorial to well being of all the employees, and Misty has ensured we have a New Mexico is an exciting place to be, the back of the publication. happy, productive crew in SASS headquarters! and SASS couldn’t be happier with its decision to move here. Aside from the now completed office building with the fledging smoothly and efficiently. After a cou - Museum upstairs, the biggest chal - ple of years, SASS thinks it has suc - ngela Bellarose lenge for any “outfit” is to get the ceeded! And, every one of these new Ahas been one of our right folks in the right jobs and employees is having an impact on Customer Service rep - ensure everything continues to run the way things get done! resentatives for some - time now. If you’re purchasing SASS mer - ild Shot is, of course, our chandise, acquiring a Wlong time SASS and new membership, or Systems Adminis trator—he’s the changing an alias, one who knows where all the bod - she’s most likely the ies are buried and who keeps our lady you’ll be talking computers and communications to. Many companies system running! Imagine his have a “bring the kids surprise when we were getting to work” program once ready to move into the building a year … Angela’s fam - and discovered none of the com - ily recently expanded munication junction boxes lining with a new addition, Cowboy Way had ever been and he accompanies hooked up! Lack of wires in the mom to work every ground forced SASS to rely on day! With a phone on wireless communications connec - her shoulder, a keypad Wild Shot makes the office systems In Cowboy Action “transitions” means tions with the outside world … under one hand, and a sing … ! He’s been around since keeping both hands productive all the time an “iffy” proposition, particularly the beginning and knows where baby in the other, she’s … Angela Bellarose has been doing THAT here in a growing New Mexico. all the bodies are buried! the model of efficiency! for months! June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 7

Prairie Mary handles all the club related administrative tasks. She’s a shooter, so she has the knowledge to answer cowboys’ questions regarding guns, gear, and rules. Slipnoose is the first person you’ll meet when entering rairie Mary , our Clubs SASS headquarters. PAdministrator, was one of She has quickly learned our early hires, and has proven how to either immediately handle requests herself, to be a jewel. She’s the lady or point the requester that deals with both the Action to the person who can. and Mounted Clubs, keeps up with their affiliation status, lipnoose is our newest and book-keeps their shooting Semployee and runs the schedules. She also handles Reception Desk. She also han - the Mounted Points System, dles Customer Service respon - runs a long-range shooting sibilities, as well as any other program at Founders Ranch, duties assigned, such as help - and facilitates communication ing to stuff envelopes or getting with local cowboys and girls. advertising handouts in order.

Les Whiskers is seen in the warehouse “barking” orders to his “staff!” And of course, our SASS office mascot, Les Whiskers , makes his rounds daily to make certain everyone is work - ing at their utmost efficiency and to receive petting from each staff member.

Boggus Deal, one of the top New Mexico competitors, Every organization is only as keeps the SASS warehouse good as its people—and SASS is in order and very proud of the people we have functioning efficiently. working for us!

oggus Deal , manager of * * * * * * * * * * * * Bthe Ron Peterson Gun Shop Colonel Dan’s Column in Albuquerque and one of the olonel Dan’s political column top New Mexico Cowboy Action Chas created an astonishing competitors, spends his day off amount of interest and comment— from duties in town working in mostly pro, but some con. His arti - the SASS warehouse. There cles are always interesting and are always merchandise mail - thought provoking. His monthly col - ings to be assembled, new umn will now be found following the inventory to be organized, and shooting schedules, so for those who materials for SASS shows anxiously await his “view from the packaged for transport. saddle” each month, you have only to open the back cover! Page 8 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

SCoped Rifle SCAbbARd , inally, a SCOPED RIFLE SCAB - removable. This top comes as part of BARD that can be mounted on a the unit to protect the gun in rain. Fhorse or carried over a hunter’s Merino sheepskin-lined breastplate shoulder. It comes with both harness goes around the front, to protect the systems—for horse or person. Each horse from the sturdy securing web - system is removable. The scabbard is bing. The side straps mount to the made from heavy duty Australian girth, or the girth rings, on either side cowhide and lined with fleece to pro - of the saddle. The shoulder strap is tect the gun. All straps are web-lined, removable, as indeed are all the and all stress points are riveted. straps, depending if the scabbard is This picture shows the SCOPED being mounted on a horse, a vehicle, or RIFLE SCABBARD mounted with the a person. Colors are brown, as shown, shoulder strap visible, but not in use. or black. Price $395. It is pictured on the off-side of the Australian Saddle Co., horse, but can also be mounted on the P.O.Box 987, near-side if preferred. The scabbard Malibu, CA 90265 here is packing a .303 scoped rifle with (818) 889-6988 a 23 " barrel. The scabbard can take FAX (818) 889-7271 several inches longer in barrel email [email protected] length because the press-snap top is web aussiesaddle.com June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 9 Page 10 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 legACy SpoRtS inteRnAtionAl ’S pumA ® WeSteRneR Single ACtionS

egacy Sports Inter - national, LLC once again Lcongratulates Hotshot Johnny Tuscadero for his second tough. I finally found it in the PUMA® Westerner. trick gun handling win using It has put up with everything I’ve thrown at it, and PUMA® Westerner single action six-guns! apparently the factory action job is as good or better than In December 2009 Hotshot Johnny dueled just chose the the $200 jobs I’ve had done on past to a tie with Pistol Packin’ Paula to claim a co- wrong guns.” I’ve used. Smooth as butter and reliable, it win for the Gun Handling Championship at the That’s two competi - locks every time, even when I power 1st Annual SASS/WWPAS World Champion - tions and two wins! through a fast draw demo. You folks at ships in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hotshot Johnny has Legacy Sports have offered an authentic Now, Johnny does it again! In a showdown this to say about his SAA that is made better than the orig - of trick and fancy gun play between World PUMA® Westerners: “I perform inal. I won’t use anything else be- Champion Gunslingers Pistol Packin’ Paula and literally thousands of shows a year, all over the cause when the crowd’s cheering, I Hotshot Johnny held during Wild West Days at world doing trick exhibition shooting, fancy need reliability. Thanks.” – Old Tucson Studios on the last weekend of twirling, and lots of fast draw demonstrations. Hotshot Johnny Tuscadero March, Johnny walked away with first prize. As Live shows and rough handling are all hard on Legacy Sports International, Hotshot Johnny put it “Once again my Puma a . My guns work more than most and LLC is an importer of firearms and shooting acces - Westerners from Legacy Sports International under adverse conditions much of the time. I sories. Bringing in high quality, reliable, and afford - did not let me down as I wow’d the crowd with have used almost every other SAA clone on the able products for shooting and hunting enthusiasts gun spinning, fast draw, and trick shooting market in the past 20 years. I need a is the mission of Legacy Sports’ business. With well- against an able and talented performer who that is authentic, decorative, and above all, respected brands, including Howa and Puma rifles, June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 11

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CoWboy ACtion AppRoved in ! s of May 1st, Cowboy Action Shooting™ this has been on-going for the past few Ais an approved shooting discipline in years, but French Federation recognition France! The cowboys will be able to provides additional credibility for our appoint representatives to work with the sport. Next year it’ll much easier now to fRAnCe ! government and solidify the Cowboy Action plan and host major Cowboy Action rules, teach classes, develop agreements matches in France. By John Peacemaker, SASS #51709 with shooting ranges, and organize Cowboy Cowboy Action Shooters in France are Action championships. Of course, much of thrilled with these latest developments!

RenCh hAmpionShip f C CORRECTION! Cancelled I just received the April 2010 cover in paragraph four, I said, edition of The Cowboy Chronicle . “The teenaged gunfighter lived nfortunately the last match of but it’s too late to replan and pro - I always read my articles as into his fifties …” (in reference to Uthe French Championship, duce the quality event we want. If a published. It’s important those John Wesley Hardin). “Last Shot of the Trail” in suitable range can be located, per - who read my articles understand I know that’s wrong. He lived Montbeliard scheduled for haps we’ll be able to hold a more the articles look different than to be 42 years and 85 days, having September 2010, has been can - modest match and prepare for a they do onscreen for me in a been born 26 May 1853 and killed celled due to difficulties with the larger match in 2011. word processing program. No August 19th, 1895. Why in the shooting range. It is very disap - * * * * * matter how often I proofread, world I said he lived into his fifties, pointing since we have been plan - John Peacemaker, SASS #51709 mistakes happen. I don’t know. It just happened. ning this event since last SASS France Territorial Governor With that in mind, I offer my Seven Ladders, SASS #75152 September. A search has already Range Officer Instructor mea culpa : I was horrified to dis - Austin, TX begun to locate an alternate range, Riboux, France June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 13

AMERICA: Unfortunately during this trip our Space Cowboy in June— now ever received … bar none. it became apparent something was our star in Heaven. Some kind I can only imagine the pain of THEN AND NOW wrong—Travis was having trouble friends who had made Travis a per - losing such a wonderful young Dear Colonel Dan, walking. As soon as we got back sonalized Air Force blanket embroi - patriot. At the same time, I can Thank you so much for your home to Southern California, we dered with “Colonel Travis” also imagine the tremendous joy he article in The Cowboy Chronicle went to the Doctor and then to the arranged for us a week-end get - surely brought to your entire fami - February 2010. hospital. Soon we learned he had away in Oceanside, where we hap - ly during his all too short life. I My wife Karen and I just an inoperable brain tumor called a pened to meet some nice folks in an know the world is a little less recently had an opportunity to read brain stem glioma. We received Old West reenactment repertory because of his death but a great it and love every word! It has very excellent care at the hospital by group, and just recently our daugh - deal better because of his life—of special meaning for us. You are so wonderful caring people. We are so ter, Heidi, or “Rose,” and I joined that I have no doubt. America right about the majority of proud glad we did not have to go through them, “The Code of the West.” Our needs more sons like him and more Americans, and the bitter minority this in a socialist society and Travis would love it. I just had to families like yours—of that I also who want to destroy America. health care system! make my alias “Lt. Colonel William have no doubt. Our 11 year-old boy, Travis, and Soon the cancer and treat - Travis.” The head of the group “Ben Sir, if you would be so kind as to I have always loved cowboys and ments made travel unsafe, and he Thorn” gave me a copy of The Cowboy provide a postal address, I would be the Old West. Travis has also was restricted to a wheelchair and Chronicle , and we were immediately most honored to send you a person - always loved space—especially experienced bloating and difficulty drawn to your article, which alized copy of my book (a compila - those pioneers of Mercury, Gemini, speaking. Through the Make-a- reminds us of the greatness of our tion of all the articles I’ve written and Apollo. Wish foundation and Fox LA, country and her “ordinary people for The Cowboy Chronicle ) in honor of For a special treat, we were able Travis was able to meet his hero, doing extraordinary things.” your brave son. I wish I could have to take Travis to the Johnson Space retired flight director Gene Kranz Barry Clark met him. I envy Gene Kranz his Center in Houston in November via satellite in April—what a thrill Southern CA most fortunate opportunity and the 2008, and he loved it, especially get - in the midst of such terrible stuff. (Mr . Clark, I’ve gotten literally thou - time he was able to spend with ting to see historic Mission Control, Mr. Kranz was so gracious and sands of emails, letters and personal Travis even if it was a virtual meet - where he could imagine being there happy to meet Travis and was so notes over the years regarding my ing. The link you provided to that as Apollo 13 (His favorite mission) good with him—he is our hero, too! column—some positive, some nega - news story was very meaningful. “became our finest hour” and (http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news tive, some praising my position and Thank you. “Failure is not an option.” During /local/Make_A_Wish_Apollo_13_20 some vehemently condemning it, but Please give my very best to this trip we also saw The Alamo, 090406) I must honestly tell you sir that Karen and the family. which he also loved. We lost our dear sweet Travis— yours was the most touching I’ve Soldier on … .Colonel Dan) Page 14 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 15 Page 16 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

it’S time foR CoStumeS At the 29 th AnnuAl END of TRAIL!

Cat Ballou, SASS #55 By Cat Ballou, SASS #55 ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~ . ,

he 29th annual END of TRAIL is just Claudia Feather, SASS #2816, proprietors. We I even plan to shoot END of TRAIL this year! a few weeks away. Hope you all have are so grateful for their ongoing support of cos - A Special Celebration at END of TRAIL your costumes ready for the event! tuming at so many shooting events. This June General US Grant, SASS #2, will T Costuming is a major factor in main - Schedules and locations of all the costume celebrate his 80th birthday and Tex and I will taining END of TRAIL’s uniqueness as a shoot - contests are posted on the SASS website and will celebrate 50 years(!) of marriage in November. ing competition and as the World Championship be printed in the 2010 END of TRAIL program We invite all END of TRAIL participants to a of Cowboy Action Shooting™. given to all event participants. Birthday/Anniversary Party in the Belle Union Costuming creates both the environment Am I stepping away from costuming? Saloon right after the Opening Ceremony. and shared attitude that sets the tone for cama - NEVER! Now I have enough help so I can just Please join us for cake and champagne. Hope raderie unequaled in other shooting sports. function as the costume awards’ announcer. Why, to see you all there! Because costuming is such an important aspect of our sport and is embraced with much fervor by so many members, our costume winners have consistently shared honors with our shooters. From 29 years ago when we held just one costume contest, our costume con - tests have now grown to nine events— Wild Bunch, Soiled Doves/Parlour House Madams, Shooting Costumes, Conven- tioneers, Sutlers, Waddies, Gun Carts, Mounted, and Best Dressed. Whew! It takes much organization and volun - teerism to make these events successful, and this year some great people have stepped up to take over most of my cos - tuming responsibilities. Daytime costume contests—Shooting, Conventioneers, Sutlers, and Waddies, will be ably handled by Copper Queen, SASS #20449. Creek Harding, SASS #4546, tackles the task of wrangling all those great looking gun carts. None other than that infamous Texas “madam,” Shotglass, SASS #17153, will be “stepping up to the bar” to manage those Soiled Doves and Parlour House Madams. The dapper Capt. George Baylor, SASS #24287, will keep those Wild Bunch participants at atten - tion, and the always fabulous looking Sloan Easy, SASS #28129, will lead her cadre of judges in determining who is the Best Dressed of all! Morning Dove, SASS #7889, will rein in all those mounted cos - tume participants. Of course, all these folks will pick judges to assist them. These costuming events would not be possible without the continuing sponsor - ship of Wild West Mercantile of Mesa, Arizona, C.S. Fly, SASS #5078, and June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 17 Page 18 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 Coyote With Coyote Calhoun Droppings ChARlotte And the nRA Convention By Coyote Calhoun, SASS #201

Coyote Calhoun, SASS #201 ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~ was the largest convention of any with a pedestrian bridge. kind ever held in the Charlotte The convention floor have just returned home Convention Center. Officials esti - had over 400 different from the NRA Con ven - mate the convention drew close to vendors and displays tion in Charlotte, NC, 80,000 attendees and generated dealing with hunting, I and I am late in writing about $20 million dollars during shooting sports, and guns. this months’ “Coyote Droppings” the event for the city of Charlotte. I Many of our Cowboy for The Cowboy Chronicle . So, with think every inch of the convention Action Shooting sponsors the convention fresh on my mind, I center was used, including some of and dealers were there have decided to discuss the NRA the space of the newly opened including Ruger, Taylor’s and the NRA Convention. NASCAR Hall of Fame, which is and Company, Cimarron The convention was HUGE. It across the street and connected Firearms, Uberti, Stoger, Henry, Chiappa, Eagle Grips, Dillon Precision, EMF, Navy Arms, and many more. Many new products were also being introduced. Ruger intro - duced several new Sarah Palin revolvers and Para intro - duced its new “Wild Bunch” 1911 45 The NRA is important to SASS auto designed just for Wild Bunch and to all of our members. The Action Shooting. Para’s new pistol is NRA is one of the few organiza - generating a lot of excitement from tions that fight for our Second magazine writers, and I expect you Amendment Rights so we can con - will be seeing articles in your tinue to play our game the way we favorite magazine very soon. choose. But, the NRA is more than This year’s convention had just fighting in the political arena. many workshops, an indoor air rifle It has hundreds of programs to range, and a plethora of speakers educate not only adults in gun and including Newt Gingrich, Lt. Col. hunter safety, but also educating Oliver North, Glenn Beck, and our kids about gun safety through Sarah Palin. One of the new semi - the Eddie Eagle Program. The nars, “Refuse To Be A Victim,” NRA has programs to help build focused on personal safety. The gun ranges, help improve hunting seminar covered Personal, Home, habitats, and help promote sport- Automobile, Workplace, and shooting activities like SASS. If Technological Security. you are a SASS Member, the NRA The SASS Booth was very busy deserves your support because they the entire three days of the show. fight for us every day and we Judge Roy Bean and I were on should fight for it. hand along with a great group of Every year the NRA moves the SASS members, Convention around the country so led by J.M. Brown, to answer more members have a better opportu - questions and sign up new mem - nity to visit the convention. Next year bers. Members were glad to see the 140th Annual NRA Convention the Judge back in action after his will be in Pittsburg, PA, April 29th yearlong battle with cancer. He is through May 1st. I hope you get a getting stronger every day and is chance visit a NRA Convention. I also planning to attend END of know you will like it and SASS would TRAIL later in June. love to see you there. June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 19 Page 20 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

you’re armed with new- Folks, it is up to each and found knowledge to every legal gun owner in America help avoid the bad ones. to help educate these people and Often times I meet get inside their heads there are folks who’ve just millions of law-abiding gun-own - eduCAte moved to Las Vegas ing citizens, and better than that, from other cities. I have explain and show them stuff like taken it upon myself to this great TV show: Anti -g un ask them why they http://www.vimeo.com/10052765 don’t like firearms. I like this show because they Then, I keep it did not use the cutting room floor typeS short, and explain to fix the little mistakes we make, Madd Mike, not all gun owners things these folks won’t catch any - SASS #8595 are bad. Shucks, many of the folks way but make the show more real. By Madd Mike, SASS #8595 I chat with can’t even believe Send this and other similar what I’m tellin’ ‘em is true! I then links to folks on your email list and hen I travel to very large in the end. Now let us throw in explain SASS and Cowboy Action encourage them to forward them to cities, it becomes more evi - fear of guns, not just the biased Shooting™, and the ones I can even more folks on their lists … and Wdent to me why folks ideas. I was tolt many years ago actually get to the range to check target the anti-gun types as well. develop an anti-GUN-mentality. fear is usually based upon lack of out my story are flabbergasted We may win the battle in two That mind-set can come from sever - knowledge. Let’s take spiders for when they discover we’re not different ways—more friends with al ideas—different generation to example. If you are scared of spi - hoodlums, and it looks fun. Before which to shoot, and better educated generation norms (my daddy never ders and you do serious research ya know it, they’re saying stuff minds as it relates to our Second had no guns), or it can be due to on the subject, you will become less like, “Lookie over there, she looks Amendment rights and our ability watching the evening local news sacred when you encounter them. like a granny with guns, and she to have fun and share in family- that seems to emphasize gun crime. Why do I say that? ‘Cus if you did is both good and smiling from ear friendly competitions. It can also come from neighborhood appropriate research, you know ta ear.” Next they say, “Wow, look Enjoy the link, and by all surroundings, gangs, and the like. where spiders like to hang out, and at them kids having fun and being means spread the word this For whatever reason, they you know what kinds are danger - VERY safe,” pause, “are they using shootin’ stuff is a hoot! became anti gun; it’s all the same ous and which ones are not, so now REAL guns?” [email protected] June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 21

WELCOME will help them have a great experience. The cowboys and cowgirls of our club THE NEW SHOOTERS have never failed in this endeavor. he Arnold Rifle & Pistol Club is From our most experienced champion Tthe second largest gun club in the shooters to our average competitors, state of Missouri. We are a private they go out of their way to make a new gun club with approximately 1,250 shooter’s first cowboy match a memo - members, of which an estimated 135 rable one, from loaning guns, ammo, of the members are Cowboy Action and even holsters, to advice on how to Shooters. We average about 60 shoot - hit those steel cowboys a little more con - ers at our monthly matches. sistently. At the end of the day, the new As the match director, I am very shooter is thankful for a great time and proud of our range, which was built by leaves with a big smile on their face, and the cowboy competitors and is set up I know we have gained another Cowboy like a cowboy town. I love hearing Action Shooter to our sport. new shooters at the range talk about Sometimes I read in The Cowboy how great it is to shoot from our many Chronicle how new shooters don’t feel buildings or from the stagecoach. welcome at some clubs, and I don’t get They tell me it’s the best range in the it. New shooters are the future of our Midwest. And, I agree. But, what sport, and they need to be encouraged gives me the greatest amount of pride and welcomed. I think some shooters and joy is how my fellow shooters wel - in our sport forget how excited they come new shooters. were the first time they strapped on At the start of every match I ask their six-guns and PLAYED cowboy any new shooters to our club or any first for the first time. We have to pass on time Cowboy Action competitors to this excitement to new shooters to raise their hands, and we welcome them keep our sport alive and well. with a big round of applause! I assure Bounty Seeker, SASS #12064 them they have just joined the friend - Cowboy Match Director, liest group of cowboys they will ever Arnold Rifle & Pistol Club meet, to relax and enjoy the day, and we Barnhart, MO

Holster and Belt $425 2 Holsters and Belt $585

Holster and Belt $190 2 Holsters and Belt $265

Holster and Belt $155 2 Holsters and Belt $225 Page 22 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

SODBUSTER belt. If these newbies are sincere, HOW ABOUT DOUBLE one ever pursued the use of a double sometimes we even loan them equip - action as a match gun? CATEGORY ment and a lot of good advice and ACTION REVOLVERS? Easy Lee, SASS #9753 have been a SASS member for encouragement—our gang members ex’s editorial “SASS - A Little Byhalia, MS Iover twenty years, having shot have the Spirit! TSomething for Everyone,” really END of TRAIL 12 times, and month - So far, this has been successful, nailed it. There is room for every - A GREAT BUNCH ly and annual matches too numerous and we have added several shooters. one! If Wild Bunch doesn’t fit your to count. I would like to thank the Most have graduated to a second pis - club, don’t do it. But I, for one, will OF FOLKS Editor-in-Chief for mentioning a tol, gun cart, and better costume, stop criticizing those who do want it. s a new member of SASS, who shooter category, Sodbuster, we have and, of course, almost all become I admit to being a purist. I’m set Aresides in Bedford County, been using for years with The Over SASS members, too!! These former in my ways. However, after reading , I would like to tell you the Hill Gang, in Sylmar, California. newbies are now regular shooters Tex’s column I got to thinking, why and your readers what a great bunch Sodbuster is a category I created with us and with other clubs on dif - not broaden the field a bit more? I of folks are the SASS members I’ve (and maybe pioneered) when we ferent weekends. They have moved haven’t heard any comments about met. I’ve received emails and phone originally created The Over the Hill into the regular SASS shooter cate - double action revolvers except for calls from affiliated club members, Gang and I became its TG, along gories, as well. pocket pistol side matches. Why not officials, and from Lester Moore, with the help of our Match Director, Some of you might recall in 1989 let them into the game? Casino SASS #9736, the Territorial The Kooskia Kid, SASS #40462, and at END of TRAIL, one pistol was the Clair, SASS #9754, and I both have Governor here in Pennsylvania. our chief posse leader, Gunhawk, norm, and most pistols were staged .38 double action revolvers as our These folks offered to help me in any SASS #4737. We wanted to create a instead of being drawn from hol - carry guns. What better way to way I might need and made me feel shooting category that made it as sters. We have all come a long way maintain our proficiency than to like I’ve known them for years. I simple as possible for new folks who from there, but nothing is more per - shoot them regularly or occasional - have a feeling all other SASS mem - wanted to get into our game without manent than change. ly? Has this ever been approached? bers are probably just as friendly costing them a fortune. Many Again, thanks to the Editor-in- I’m thinking a legal double action and helpful. What a great organiza - younger people and some older folks, Chief for mentioning our category— revolver would be parallel with the tion is SASS!! too, got bit by the bug to join us, but Sodbuster. Anyone interested can single action revolver; i.e., caliber, I hope I’ll be able to meet all of didn’t have the means to buy all the visit our website at: velocity, etc. Yes, it would mean these folks face to face in the near guns ‘n stuff up front. So we created www.theoverthehillgang.com to see more categories and awards, but so future and have the opportunity to the Sodbuster category—made up of more about our matches. what? If it’s fun and beneficial, why shoot with them. only one pistol, one , one Hyatt Earp, SASS #239 not? I’m probably missing some - Wolf Cheyenne, SASS #87100 lever action, and a one-holster gun North Hollywood, CA thing in my enthusiasm. Has any - Manns Choice, PA

2 Holsters and Belt $395 Holster Only $150 Belt only $125 June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 23

ALL WRAPPED UP IN WESTERN MOVIES

enjoyed J. P. Riley’s article I“When Did I Become A Cowboy ?” in the March issue and all the other articles about when we were all wrapped up in the western movies. I fell into that same group when I was younger. Of all the different things I did, the one thing that stands out in my mind is when my parents took me to the Coney Island Shooting Gallery. I stepped up to shoot, and the owner told me to aim at the lit candle, hold my breath, and shoot at the flame. I did, and I blew out the candle! I felt I was in the same class as Bob Steele and Tim McCoy, and I was ready to take on the bad guys! I am also very happy the SASS Convention is a sure thing this year. This will be my 4 th year, and it is a highlight of my life, even when I always place last in the Indoor Wax Bullet Championship! Luke Tall, SASS #6417 Centereach, NY Page 24 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

. leSSonS leARnt , By Black Hills Barb, SASS #34171

he news of the cancellation of Others pursue new interests and was extremely disappointed to see al, State, or Regional event. Isn’t it Mule Camp left many people responsibilities. Whatever the rea - only two people had volunteered the cowboy way to lend a hand? I hear Twondering why. Speculation sons, the fact remains—volunteers their time. What’s the solution? too often a cowboy/girl would rather arose. Questions went unanswered. will come and go. Eliminate side matches? Spend not take on any deeper match respon - Even after one cowboy posted it was As my cowboy experience has hours contacting registrant after sibilities than posse assignments no one specific thing, but simply a grown over the years, I have seen an registrant personally asking for because they would prefer to concen - compilation of many small things, evolution that is somewhat trou - help? C’mon folks. Saddle up and trate on their shooting. Or, maybe it’s some still insisted an explanation bling. We seem to have shooters that ride for the brand! because they take an active role in was necessary. Another poster com - work and then we have shooters that Day after day, I open emails and planning and carrying out their mented the demands on our lives shoot. I’m not talking about posse answer phone inquiries asking ques - match at their own club. Whatever change and priorities change as assignments. I’m talking about tions that could be answered if one the reason, it doesn’t change the fact it health and family issues pop up. organizing matches and other cow - would have only looked at the club takes lots of hands to put on a big Still, folks weren’t satisfied. boy events. Our club hosts our state website or read the confirmation. match. Exhausting the dedicated few I am not writing this to answer match. Each year we have left some Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind that work wearily year after year to the unanswered, but rather to com - unfortunate cowboy or cowgirl vol - fielding these questions, as I am the host a match is one sure way to cause ment on what I’ve seen in the ten unteer stranded as a side match RO. contact person and, therefore, it is them to throw in the hat and join years I have been shooting Cowboy Simply put, there just are not my job. However, time spent doing those others that want to simply “con - Action and active on the committee enough willing hands around to help this is time I don’t have to pay atten - centrate on their shooting.” at our home club. Volunteers come out. On our match registrations this tion to other details. At large matches posse assign - and go. The reasons we have seen year we have added the line “I will These are just two small exam - ments are usually lessened for the them leave are usually for no other RO a side match for one hour” with a ples. But, there are so many things shooters. Most clubs use the posse A reason than other demands on their check box. After receiving 100 regis - everyone can do to make a match suc - and B system in which posse A time. Some continue to shoot. trations, I went back over them and cessful, whether it is a monthly, annu - (Continued on next page) June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 25 (Continued from previous page) cost ten times that. The answer is demands on our time. Heywood summed it up best when works while posse B shoots and vice- there are numerous expenditures The purpose of this article is not he said, “Many hands make light versa. With posses often numbering involved in a multiple day match. to chastise or humiliate shooters. It work.” Please lend your hands at 20-25 shooters, we often see 10-12 There are the trophies, the rental of is simply to remind everyone we all the matches you attend. The more people for 7 or 8 jobs. This system sanitary equipment, shooter pack - have a hand in making a match a that do so, the better the results offers reasonable downtime to all ets, increased utility costs, painting success. Extend that hand. Offer will be for all of us. participants throughout the match. and repairing props and other range your help for just one small task. Perhaps the best quote of all is However, many match organizers improvements, badges, postage, and Step up and put your best cowboy the inscription on John Wayne’s have worked relentlessly in the on and on. All of these expenses also boot forward. Don’t sit idly by and headstone: “Tomorrow is the most weeks and days before the match, are planned, organized, and carried let more “Mule Camps” fade away. important thing in life. Comes into shot 10 stages back to back, and then out by the same volunteers you will There’s a quote by Vince Lombardi us at midnight very clean. It’s per - been called on throughout the match find not only carrying out posse that says, “Individual commitment fect when it arrives and it puts to address shooter concerns. Is it a assignments, but hoofing it all over to a group effort—that is what itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve wonder after several years of this the range to stomp out small fires makes a team work, a company learnt something from yesterday.” type of work one might opt to elimi - throughout the match. work, a society work, a civilization There’s a lesson to be learned from nate a task, reduce their volunteer While shooters are back at their work.” It also makes a cowboy the Mule Camp cancellation. Let’s time, and grow weary from the lack hotel rooms and campers eating match work! However, I think John show we learnt it! of help extended by the throngs of dinner and cleaning guns, these cowboys there to “concentrate on same folks are tallying scores, print - their shooting?” As organizers work ing certificates, repairing props, to make your experience pleasant painting targets, and addressing and enjoyable, you can work to make numerous other chores around the it worth their while. range. At the end of the day, these Quite often these hard workers workers still must clean guns and go home to find someone has then eat. They rise early the next morn - posted unfavorable remarks on the ing to be there when shooters arrive wire or sent them emails with com - for another day of shooting and stay plaints about the match that stem later that evening to clean up the back to the problem of not having range again, empty trash, and even enough volunteers to put on the to pick up all those soda cans quality of match expected. dropped on the ground or left set on Remember that old adage, “You tables. We all do it because, simply only get out of something what you put, we love Cowboy Action put into it.” Shooting™. However, as much as Also, there have been numerous we love it, it’s a brutal responsibili - questions asked as to why a single ty to take on year after year. day five-stage match costs only $10, Remember, real life often steps in but a multiple day match will often without notice to place additional Page 26 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

the CApgun kid RideS! It’s The Spirit Of The Game, Stupid ...

By The Capgun Kid, SASS #31398

Peter Brown. That entire family had sistently attend since I have been out pitched in to buy him that special here, so it was a given I’d heed his call. birthday present, and their giving A surprising number of us answered really lit him up. You remember some - the e-mail, but the weather really took thing like that until the day you die. most of us out. Mariah, Wild Bill That was back in the days when Peterson, and Sgt. John Campbell The Capgun Kid, we still paid attention to Hoppy, lugged in an impressive amount of SASS #31398 Gene, and Roy; when they rode across hardware. I brought some gunleather, the living room and once in a while and Artic Fox even had a monitor with told us to respect our country, do our some videos of us that had the added wo cents for a Dixie Cup full of schoolwork, and be good to our par - attraction of gongs being audibly Lemonade. A Penny a comic ents. They also took the time to That entire family had pitched in struck by whip-cracking gunshots. Tbook. I remember those were remind us that guns could be danger - to buy him that special birthday When I stood back and looked at the rates when the younger brothers ous and were not to be treated lightly. present, and their giving my Pards, and when I posed with and sisters of a kid down the block sat It was the time when we all burned really lit him up! them, what I saw truly affected me. I outside their house at their lemonade thousands of cap-rounds of ammo and had known Grey Squirrel since mov - stand singing out at the top of their nobody thought to go bring a real gun Island on a Christmas Eve. ing to the ‘Burgh in ‘05. He had lungs trying to attract all us baby into a school. How did we get to the That weekend Cabela’s was host - become my roomie on the Regionals. boomers in suburban Long Island so point where Keanu Reeves and ing display tables for the NRA in their Besides knowing his Civil War uni - we could buy from them. It took them Carrie Moss don sunglasses and stores. Two of those stores also host - form history, he had furnished my all weekend, but they raised Three trench coats and walk into a building ed tables devoted to Cowboy Action club with everything from a saloon Yankee Dollars and Ninety Eight with a satchel full of submachine Shooting™. Our store in Wheeling, bar to walls and doors and windows West Virginia was one of them and even some targets. Every time I because of the initiative of one Pard. was on a work crew, he was there. We had gotten the call from Artic Fox has long been an idea man, Mariah Kid to see how many of us and his sales background combined would be willing to volunteer a little with Mariah’s sales background to set time to man those tables and talk to up a wicked-awesome display ... the civilians who wandered by. excuse me! ... I meant to say “Boss” … Mariah was the first Cowboy Action not ... “wicked-awesome.” Shooter to welcome me to Penn- Bdoc (I think her civilian name is sylvania and invite me to shoot with Beth) has been at the root of admin - his club. I had watched that coyote istrative organization and charity quietly put on one of the best club raffles since I started shooting in shoots I have been privileged to con - Steeler Nation. Sgt. John Campbell

It was the kids. Sgt. John Campbell explains all this to the kids.

Cents. That’s what they needed to guns and start shooting up the place buy the black and silver plastic pistol during that scene of “The Matrix?” with the black poly gunbelt and the What happened to the kid with the dozen or so white poly bullets that lemonade stand and the plastic toy, came with it. The cylinders were and how did he get replaced by the spring loaded, so you could shove the kid with the sunglasses and trench white bullets into the gun and rap off coat at Columbine? six rounds, good for about ten feet. I told you that part so I could tell Hardly a Nichols Stallion or a Mattel you this ... Fanner or a Hubley Cowboy or a Marx It was the day after the big Thundergun, but for that kid down Blizzard that brought to the block, it may as well have been its knees. I had gotten used to the Ralphie’s Red Ryder BB Gun. fact Cowboy Action takes a winter He walked around for three days break out here because we can’t easi - humming the theme song from the ly get to the ranges in a normal win - From left to right, Mariah Kid, Wild Bill Peterson, Appalachia Annie, Warner Brothers weekly show entitled ter, but this was the worst I’d seen Chicken Koop, Sgt. John Campbell, Gray Squirrel, Lawman starring John Russell and since I was five and snow buried Long Unidentified Poor Souls, and Bdoc. June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 27 and Wild Bill Peterson can give you a mind’s eye, to the Spirit of Our Game. quick education about the Arizona Those same sticklers for rules also Rangers or Wild West Tech. Now build prop-towns and frantically that I think of it, Wild Bill took wire pound laptops to get everybody’s brush to paint and re-finished a scores in order. If even the bickering Uberti I bought because it was cheap, is worthwhile, then undeniably so is albeit loaded down with a factory that thread that binds us to the point black paint finish. He brought out where we go to a Cabela’s and reach the best in it with a superlative pati - out into the community. I have seen it na that really tickles me. start at that lemonade stand and I told you that part so I could tell work its way into that Cabela’s on a you this ... bitter winter day. It was the kids. The young par - We don’t need to highlight an ents loaded down with fishing and effete and foppish politically correct camping gear and clothing and bags of phrase to justify ourselves like ... “The trail food that were stopping by who Gay Community” or “The Criminal wanted their kids to see what we were Community” or other such phony doing. They watched the video, and labels. The former has enough decent they listened when we told them people to justify itself if everybody in about the West and the Spirit of the the media would just shut up, and the Game. And, they asked questions. A latter is not really a community at all. lot of seeds got planted at that table! With us it’s a little different. On the one hand, there is the Since day one of banging away at chilling thought—living historians gongs I have never heard anyone pon - such as we have to teach them about tificate on ... “our community” … but I our past because our politically cor - have seen countless people step up rect schools don’t. On the other hand, with contributions to make it vital. In there was the glint in their eyes that the same way those siblings on the told me there is a natural desire to lemonade stand bound themselves want to know and learn in spite of the together and our gamers, historians, education system. work crews, and posse leaders put out, On the one hand there is the we may have backed into something minor bickering, politics, and ques - that will become timeless. tions about rules and categories that It’s the Spirit Of The Game, we here about or read about in The Stupid, and how lucky we are that Cowboy Chronicle . On the other hand, somebody thought to meld that there is that steady cadre of people phrase from day one. constantly drawn, for their own Don’t shoot yore eye out, kid. Page 28 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

one pot Chuck Cooking Up Some Tasty Grub Like Cookie Did Out On The Trail By Whooper Crane, SASS #52745, and The Missus

among the few women who chose to live in the wilderness. A whole industry sprang up, offering young women the oppor - tunity to go west as mail order brides … to marry one of these lonely guys and set up a whole new life in the far country. Whooper and The Missus It sounded good to Magda. She was on the next train and, before his month we’re going way she knew it, was living in Jerome, back in The Missus’ heritage Arizona Territory, married to a T for a really outstanding One rough-and-tumble miner name Pot meal. Jake Carlson. Here’s the Story. Unfortunately, the marriage In 1871, immigrants were lasted only five months, terminat - storming the shores of America ed by Jake’s untimely death in a looking for their place in the sun. cave-in. One of these was a young Here she was, a widow with no Hungarian girl, Magda Molnar, desire to marry another one of who arrived in New York aboard these guys with short life spans. an immigrant ship with just $6 in What’s a girl to do? her purse. Magda was a great cook, learn - She was met by several of her ing all the tricks of the cook’s relatives who took her in for a few trade at her mother’s knee back in weeks before encouraging her to the old country. What better to do seek her fortune in The West. than pool her (somewhat limited) At that time, single women resources and open a restaurant to were sought by lonely guys in The feed the hungry hordes? West who had slim pickings The only drawback was the

Aunt Magda’s Directions Hungo-Zoni Goulash Ignite about 15 charcoal briquettes. When coals are ready, put on your Ingredients 12 " Camp Dutch Oven. 1/3 Cup Olive Oil Put Olive Oil in Dutch Oven. 1 lb. Ground Bison (or Beef) Add Bison (or Beef) and Sausage. Start with tasty ingredients, and you get tasty chuck! 1 lb. Ground Sausage Break up the meat as it’s cooking. (sage-flavored) Season with the Paprika, Cumin, 1 Tbs. Paprika and Cilantro Leaves. lack of foodstuffs in the Arizona Jerome and pay her way to San 1 Tbs. Cumin Stir in, cover, and cook for Territory that she knew so well Francisco, where she remarried 1/2 Cup Cilantro Leaves, 10 minutes. from Hungary. well and became one of the elite of finely chopped Add Bell Pepper, Onion, Garlic, and That didn’t stop her! She care - Nob Hill society! Large Onion, coarsely chopped Cactus. fully modified all her recipes to But, before she left this world, 1 Red Bell Pepper, coarsely Stir in, cover, and cook for 10 more take advantage of what she could Magda was kind enough to write chopped minutes. find locally. Instead of dried down all of her best recipes and 3 Garlic cloves, finely Add Diced Tomatoes and Corn. mushrooms, Magda used cactus. pass them on to her kinfolk. chopped Stir in, cover, and cook for 10 more Instead of mutton, she used bison That’s how The Missus came into 1 Cup Bottled cactus strips minutes. and elk meat. Instead of noodles, them … and how we’re able to 1 Can Diced Tomatoes w/fire- Add can of Beef Broth. she used tortillas. She called pass this one on to you. roasted peppers Stir in, cover, and cook for 5 more them her “Hungo-Zoni” recipes, You see, Magda was The 1 Can Mexicorn (drained) minutes. and they were immediate hits Missus’ Great-Great-Aunt Magda. 1 Can Campbell’s Beef Broth Add ripped-up corn Tortillas. with the miners, who flocked to Here’s Magda’s renowned (don’t add water) Stir in, cover, and cook for 10 more her restaurant to get her delicious Hungo-Zoni Goulash recipe that 12 Ripped up fresh corn minutes. home cooking. kept those hungry miners in Tortillas (1” pieces) Serve with Cornbread or Tortillas to Magda was so successful in Jerome coming back for more! your hungry cowboys! fact, that after three years she had Hope you enjoy it! saved up enough money to leave Photos by Deadeye Al June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 29 Page 30 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

SidekiCkS & heAvieS Honoring the Saddle Buddies and the Bad Guys who helped make Saturday Matinees so goldurned FUN!

By Whooper Crane, SASS #52745 for show biz. He got involved at the local level as a comedian and ventriloquist with his this way: Movies are all make dummy, “Hooch.” He later took believe anyway, so why not invent a this talent with him when he movie Sidekick from the fledgling joined the Army following high years of Tinseltown? That was school graduation. The Army Jacques Armstrong (can we all say: recognized his comedic talent The All-American Boy?). and assigned him to their Whooper Crane, So, today, we’re going to explore Special Services Branch, SASS #52745 the life of the guy who brought that where he entertained the Mug shot by Deadeye Al fearless Law Enforcement Officer, troops here in the states and in Deputy Sheriff of Mayberry the South Pacific. County, Barney Fife, into our living After the War, Don attend - This time you get the real rooms each week during the early ed West Virginia University, Barney Fife! ‘60s (and ever onward in syndica - graduating in 1948 with a orry about the cruel April tion)—Don Knotts. degree in Theater Arts. Fool’s hoax back in the Don was born Jesse Donald Knotts Like most struggling April Issue. I thought you’d in Morgantown, WV in 1924 to a hum - entertainers, Don put in lots S enjoy a break from the dead ble family. His Dad was a farmer and of sporadic work in local (NY) serious stuff The Cowboy Chronicle his Mom ran a boarding house. Don Knotts as Barney Fife clubs and parties before hit - usually features. But, I look at it As a youngster, Don had a flair (Continued on next page) June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 31

bRendAnnA ’S fiRSt CleAn mAtCh ! & This Ain’t My Shotgun ot long after we started the Texas to see just how much better Brendanna has got - Troublemakers, the decision was ten and looked up her earliest score sheet. In By Owen-Bolo-Judice, SASS #24581 made to make August an Annual 1 June 2001, she shot her first match with a total Match Director, Texas Troublemakers N Revolver Match. With the heat in score of 756 seconds for four guns on six stages. East Texas in August, it would make the match In June of 2009, her total time was 327 seconds bad, as Lefty is a bit of a perfectionist, much to go a little faster and make it a little easier on for four guns on six stages. That’s a pretty big the chagrin of Rose. Their version of the clean the club officers and the shooters. Well, this improvement from her first shoot! And, I don’t match awards have to be “just right” (again, year was no exception; it was very hot and very have to tell you she was really excited to get much to the chagrin of Rose). dry. But the heat did not seem to bother one that clean match award. After I finish the last stage of our shoots, I shooter—Brendanna, SASS #40276, shot her Lefty Tex Larue, SASS Life #25594, and his start picking up the range. I do chores such as first clean match! At our home range, I always wife, Coyote Rose, SASS Life #25595, have collecting the carpets from the loading and shoot first on our posse and Brendanna always taken over making the clean match awards unloading tables, gathering up and emptying shoots right after me, so we can get back to help from Bent Barrel Betty, SASS #33237. Betty the buckets, and pulling down the umbrellas on run the posse. Brendanna and her husband, did a fine job making our first batches of clean each completed stage. As I was working my way Texas Mongoose, SASS #40275, joined the match awards, and we thank her for making around back to the last stage, I realized I had Texas Troublemakers and started shooting them (I have four on the wall of my shop). left my long guns on the unloading table (like I Cowboy Action Shooting™ not long after we However, she is self-employed and just could mentioned before, it was a very hot day). So I started the club, so this first clean match has not devote the time to this project, so Lefty and picked up the long guns and put them up. The been a long time coming. I did a little research Rose took over the job. Now this is good and (Continued on page 64 )

(Continued from previous page) Actor in a television series! new showbiz challenge, doing ting steady employment as a regu - Don left the show after five voiceovers for animated pictures lar on the early TV Soap Opera seasons to try his hand at movie … which have become one of the Search For Tomorrow . acting. His movies were family- hot directions in filmdom. A cou - But Don knew he was better style flicks with lots of sight gags ple of Don’s favorites were Chicken suited as a comic rather than dra - … and plenty of opportunity for Little and Air Buddies . matic-actor, so he kept “network - Don to mug and act totally con - Through the years, Don tried ing” until he landed a role in the fused … to the great enjoyment of his hand at just about every facet 1955 Broadway comedy No Time his audiences. of show biz, but I know we’ll For Sergeants. And who do you He made several Western always remember him as that suppose was the star of that show? comedies including The Shakiest bumbling, self-assured Sidekick A young actor named Andy Griffith! Gun in the West , as well as The Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife. He’s Don and Andy became great Apple Dumpling Gang and The the guy you’d gladly ride the river friends during the run of the show, Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again with (as long as he kept his bullet which they also starred in together with fellow slapstick comedian in his pocket). when it was made into a feature Tim Conway. Don rode onto sunset ridge in film in 1958. As you’ll recall, no one ever 2006, but you can visit his star on By this time, Don’s comedic looked sillier in cowboy gear than the Hollywood Walk of Fame or talent was recognized by several Don Knotts … not even my shoot - stop by his gravesite at Westwood show biz biggies, and he appeared ing buddy, Big Wolf. Memorial Park the next time in a number of prime time TV In 1977, Don joined the cast of you’re in Lalaland. shows … like Steve Allen’s variety the TV show, Three’s Company, as Next month we’ll visit with a show where he played the nervous the blowhard landlord Ralph guy named “Dutch” who knows and jerky Man On The Street. Furley. He kept the laughs rolling how to work a ’97 … and loves to In 1960, Andy Griffith called right until the end of the show’s play the really Bad Guys in Don and asked him if he’d like to run in 1984. Hollywood Westerns. play Andy’s Sidekick (a cocky, self- He paired up with his old Sources: wikipedia.org: pitts - inflated, know-it-all Deputy) in buddy, Andy Griffith, once again burgh.about.com; imdb.com Andy’s new TV show. And the rest, in1986 for the made for TV movie, as they say, is history! Return to Mayberry, … as the ever- As it turned out, Andy became boastful, ever- confused Barney adVErtisiNG the straight man and Don, as Fife, of course. Barney, became the laugh getter. He also appeared regularly on iNforMatioN The show was one of the highest- Andy’s later show, the mystery rated shows on TV for years. thriller Matlock , from 1988 asK for Don played Barney Fife so well through 1992. that he earned five … that’s right five In later years, Don’s eyesight Kirsten • (505) 843-1320 … Emmy Awards for Best Supporting started to give way, so he took on a Page 32 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

end of tRAil WILD WEST JUBILEE! , Who Said The West Couldn’t Get Any Wilder!

By Dr Buck Montgomery, SASS #18071

Wild!”, then you’ll be kick’n yourself members Shootin’ Stages on the Anywhere! The Cast reads like a for a month of Sundays … and back Range! Get ready for a Cast of World Wild West Arts Who’s Who … again! ... Guaranteed! The West is Champion Wild West Arts perform - WWPAS World Champion Gun gonna be Alive and Extra Wild at ers, World Class Variety Acts, Award Spinner, Johnny “Hotshot” Dr. Buck Montgomery, Founders Ranch June 25, 26, & 27, Winning Balladeers {Big Horn, that Tuscadero, WWPAS All Around SASS #18071 so load up the Studebaker Conestoga means Singers} and, and … an accor - World Champion Dan “Rhinestone with your Family and Friends or dion playing, yodeling Cowpoke!? Roper” Mink, World Champion ttention all SASS members Saddle Up your trusty steed, give it The Newest & Biggest Show Mounted Shooter & Trick Horse and even you folks that might a gentle spur’n, and get your hide to addition will be performed in the Trainer Gary “Bad Dog” Bennett, Ahave snuck a peak at someone the Ranch before ya miss it! {I’ve “New” Founders, “Wild Bunch” Arena Award Winning American Indian else’s Cowboy Chronicle … Consider seen how some of ya ride, so ya located on the north end of town, just Tribal Dancer Moontee Sinquah, yourself warned! If you miss this might want to leave … now!} a few “Spur Jingles” away from the Hollywood TV & Movie Stuntmen, Dr year’s SASS END of TRAIL, Wild Here’s more than just a sam - Belle Union Saloon! Twice daily the Buck Montgomery and Amos “Pyro West Jubilee, and all the incredible pling of what awaits everyone at this Legacy of America’s West will come to Kid” Carver. But wait, there’s more “New Round-Up” of Shows and year’s Big World Championship life during Dr Buck’s Wild West Show … there just might be a Special Entertainers that would best be Event, in addition to all the great starring literally the Best in the West Guest appearance by Ed “Jersey Kid” described as “Buffalo Bill Gone exhibitions from “Sure-Shot” SASS collection of performers this side of … (Continued on next page) June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 33

In addition to the hands-on WWPAS seminars, Belle Union stage entertainment, and other outdoor stage entertainment, twice-daily shows will be offered in the NEW show arena on the north side of town. Don’t miss these exciting Old West acts!

(Continued from previous page) show!}. {Note to Mad Mountain Mike the Event, you can still test your Wild West Arts … Trick Roping, Fancy Beesley, Jerry “Expressman” … I’m still trying to come up with skills with a Single Action Six Gun. Six Gun Spinning & Handling, Bestpitch, and? Plus a cast of Old some Adjectives to describe you too, Just mosey on over to our Wild West Bullwhips, Knife Throwing, and how West Characters, Fast Running, Pard’ner … I’m sure I’ll come up with Cowboy Fast Draw, but bring a friend to “Look like you’re getting the tar beat Rearing Horses, and lots of … Action! something by say … END of TRAIL?} so you can see who really is the … out of ya,” Stunts & Stage Fighting. Dang’, I almost forgot, just like every Plus, make sure you have your “Fastest Gun in Founders Town!” So what in tar nation are ya wait - great Movie Western, we have our Stampede String cinched up snug, Besides all this “New Daylight ing for! You could have been half way very own Sidekick … R.H. “Gabby” because we have even more Entertainment” Wild West excite - there already if you had left when Doudell! {I’m not sure what Ol’ Entertainment to blow the Sombrero ment, the Evenings are looking to you started reading my column. One Gabby will be doing in the show, but off your head! How about Live have their own “Wild Time in the Old thing’s for certain, this year’s SASS heck, he probably doesn’t either!} Music, featuring the One and Only, Town”, and not just one night, but END of TRAIL Wild West Jubilee is The Action and Non-Stop Sourdough Slim, Syd Masters, three or four! There will be an abun - gonna be a “Must See” event, and if Entertainment doesn’t end in the Frederic Jackson Turner and his dance of Live Music, Dancing ‘till the you don’t go and see it, what are you Arena, Pard’ner {OK, I’m gonna band, “Big Red Sky,” Award Winning Cows come home {or when Tex gonna tell your Grandkids when they remind you again … “You Gotta Be Flute Player, Moontee Sinquah, and decides to stops dancing}, and of ask you, “Gramps, were you Really At END of TRAIL!}. All the Wild West a few surprises! {OK, so I didn’t course, Miss Tabitha, Peaches O’Day, there?” {put that in your Barrel and Entertainers from the Wild West know everyone by press time, so and a cast of multi-talented perform - think about it …} Arena Show will also be individually Shoot Me! ... hmmm, make a note, ers in the New for 2010 Pietta’s Wild Well, as always, my Bunkhouse performing their very own shows, “not a good thing to say around SASS West Variety Show extravaganza! Door is available for knock’n and my either on stage in the Belle Union, members.”} You can be Amazed? So ya say you wanna be a Gun Wireless Telegraph is charged just in Tex’s outdoor stage, the Gem Saloon, Amused? by the Dueling Magic Spin’n, Trick Rope’n, Whip Crack’n, case you have questions, want informa - or in the Arena. Plus, the always Team of Col. A.P. Green and Knife Throw’n Wild West Performer? tion on WWPAS, or want to be added to charming and ever popular Miss Mysterioso or see what your Future Well, then here’s another reason my “Ever Growing” list of people that Tabitha will be on hand showcasing {shooting scores?} just might be at why you have to be at the 2010 SASS receive our special WWPAS Gazette her many talents on the Belle Union Madame Zamora’s Palm Reading END of TRAIL Wild West Jubilee. monthly newsletter … Adios for now. Stage {I am personally keeping my Gypsy Tent. But wait … there’s more! WWPAS will also be hosting daily Buck Bloodsworth ~ fingers crossed for the Underwear Now even if you’re not shooting at Workshops and Seminars on all the WWPAS Trail Boss Page 34 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

SASS buffAlo hunt in neW mexiCo ! By Tex, SASS #4

ell, it could be! And, no, it’s hours in the saddle actually trying to not at Founders Ranch! This locate the animals (“flatlanders” can Wparticular hunt was spon - do their hunting in a four-wheel sored by and host - mule), and then the stalking begins! ed by LaMont’s Wild West Buffalo Getting close enough to the big brutes Hunts located on a 20,000-acre ranch for a quick, killing shot is no small next to the Turquoise Trail (Highway chore unless the junipers happen to be strategically located. Rino Chiappa (Master Rino, SASS #5745) of Chiappa Firearms is getting

Tex, Jellico Kid, and Master Rino At last! An opportunity all took shots … only Tex failed for a killing shot! to draw blood. ready to debut his new 1886 14) just south of Santa Fe. Herds of Winchester in .45-70, as well as his wild buffalo roam freely among the line of Sharps rifles, and this hunt junipers and Piñons in a land accentu - was the perfect way of showcasing ated with small mountains and dotted these guns. The long guns imported with gold and turquoise mines. The for this hunt were beautifully fin - terrain is right out of the Old West … ished with Turnbull bluing and gor - This is a real “cowboy” hunt. and the buffalo are just as wild! geous furniture. Reno was hoping to It starts on horseback until the Now let’s get this straight— bag a big bull buffalo with his new buffalo can be located, and then there’s a huge difference between a 1886 and others in the party could the action shifts to the ground “buffalo shoot” and a “buffalo hunt!” If Once the buffalo have been located, have a go at taking a cow. Plans were for the final stalk. you’re a cowboy, this hunt requires the stalk begins. made, reservations verified, and the June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 35 drop, and we occasionally received a should be very impressive! few sprinkles. It was marvelous! If you decide hunting trophy class After lunch we bundled up against buffalo is the thing for you, remember the coming weather and climbed back to dress for the weather, be in riding in the saddle. In a little less than an and walking condition for the altitude, hour, we spotted THE big bull on the have a rifle and ammo YOU are famil - ranch! And, he had a companion—a iar with, and it’s OK to wear a side arm. cow with a really nice set of horns. The Trail Boss did as did the wranglers The stalk was on! that accompanied the hunt party. This We tracked the animals on foot for is New Mexico, and there’s more than miles and miles (at least that’s the one kind of critter in that backcountry! Under Turning Bull’s expert way it seemed to me!). I quickly LaMont’s Wild West Buffalo Hunts guidance Master Rino successfully learned old men shouldn’t stalk buffa - are the “real deal” and highly recom - This beautiful cow dropped instantly stalked his buffalo bull into the when Turnin Bull put a .475 lo at 7,000 feet in cowboy boots, spurs, ranch’s high country. One shot, mended. They can be reached at: Turnbull round through her spine. chaps, a double .45 rig with extra one bull. His shot brought this expe - www.lamontbuffal.com When the cow was processed back ammo, two vests (one of buffalo hide), dition to a successful conclusion. 505-869-4438 at camp, it was discovered and an Australian Outback oilskin 800-286-2863 Jellico Kid had also ing chairs on the cook shack porch [email protected] scored a killing hit. while Master Rino and the young Tell ‘um SASS sent you! guns sought fame, fortune, and glory hunt party set off for the ranch. on the field of honor! It soon became The Jellico Kid, SASS #24283 clear they had no intention of return - (Chiappa Firearms Marketing Mana- ing empty handed! They tracked one ger, Ron Norton) made the arrange - of the big boys into perhaps the most ments for the hunt. Turnin Bull, SASS inaccessible portion of the ranch. He #20212 (Doug Turnbull, yes, THAT sought refuge in a high mountain val - Turnbull!) was invited and carried his ley where it would be impossible to own 1886 chambered in .475 Turnbull, get any mechanized help in later to Accommodations were rustic, a brand new that just received haul out the meat, hide, and head. but more than adequate … SAMMI certification. Bighorn, SASS After carefully creeping in to within and highly appreciated, especially #1522, and Tex, SASS #4 from Founders when the snow started to fly! shooting distance, Rino took his shot Ranch rounded out the party. … and the Hornady Leverevolution™ Monte Fastnacht was the Trail coat … especially after the wind quit .45-70 round brought the big boy Boss and provided all the necessary blowing and the sun came out! down with one shot! This was Master A justifiably proud Master Rino horses, tack, wranglers, skinners, Jellico Kid finally got a shot at the Rino’s first wild animal kill—he did basks in the glow of a successful cooks, and just about anything and cow using the 1886 and .45-70 lead well and was justifiably proud of his hunt with Tex and Big Horn. everything else that was needed. He bullets. He got a nice heart shot—the accomplishment! The bull buffalo will It was a wonderful few days on the made it clear how we would proceed bullet went completely through, left to be stuffed, mounted for display, and range and an experience with the hunt, but was always accom - right, but the cow stayed with the shipped to Italy for use at various that will long be remembered. modating and considerate of his hunt - herd, which moved on. Turnin Bull shows featuring Chiappa firearms. It This buffalo hunt is the “real deal!” ing guests. While watching for buffa - used his .475 Turnbull round and put lo, he provided tidbits of local color the cow down instantly with one shot regarding the history of the area and through the spine. pointed out items of interest. It was It turns out Turnin Bull is not nearly always his sharp eyes and only an interesting person to be knowledge of the terrain and habits of around, he’s also quite an accom - his buffalo that allowed us to locate plished hunter. This is the 43rd ani - the big woolies. The first morning of the hunt we rode for five hours. Late in the morn - ing we spotted our prey. After a short stalk up a draw and up a hillside, the line of buffalo moving on the uphill ridgeline 250 feet away offered an inviting, but very difficult, shot—which I took. The shot went harmlessly low and left … but the very low light (heavy overcast), distance, tiny tang sight, and strange gun using my ammo, all should have told me to pass up the opportuni - ty! As we continued our hunt on horse - A place for old men! Tex and back, one could see a storm moving in Big Horn spent the second day from Santa Fe—rain and snow showers sitting on the Cook Shack porch and drinking coffee with the cocinero. were all around, the wind was picking Having fun is a lot of work! up, the temperature was starting to mal his beautiful hunt rifle has taken! All that remained now was to find a bull for Master Rino. When we lost the evening light, we decided to head back to the camp’s chuck wagon banquet of filet steaks and all the trimmings, including Dutch oven biscuits and cobbler, and resume the hunt in the morning. After turning in, the heavens opened up with rain and snow … tomorrow was going to be interesting! The evening meal was off the chuck The next morning the ground was wagon and right out of the Old covered with a blanket of snow! The West—steaks, potatoes, and Dutch second day hunt party was smaller … oven biscuits and peach cobbler. they left the old men sitting in rock - Page 36 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

gunS of the CoWboyS ,lAWmAn And bAdmAn Part Two – A

By Tuolumne Lawman, SASS Life #6127

Tuolumne Lawman, ried the Colt Peacemaker. It was nat - SASS Life #6127 ural then, we would assume all the real heroes of the West like Wyatt o most people, the Colt 1873 Earp and Jessie James would also Single Action Army revolver have carried them. From a historical T(or Peacemaker as it was some - point of view, percussion revolvers times called) was the all like the Colts and Remingtons were cowboys carried in the Old West. For also as important back then as the over a century and a half, the saying 1873 Colt Single Action Army. “God created man, Samuel Colt made Remington cartridge revolvers, the them equal” was synonymous with Number 3 Smith and Wesson top the West. Our cowboy movie heroes breaks, and the Colt double action like “the Duke” (John Wayne), the 1877 models, also played a vital role. S&W No.3 Russian S&W No. 3 Schofield Lone Ranger, Hop-along Cassidy, Roy In this article, I will try to give a pro - Rogers, and many others always car - file of the most prevalent and impor - tant handguns of the West. The “Wild West” as we know it was a fairly short period of time in the history of this country. The west - ward migration of the California Gold Rush in 1849 is considered the “beginning” of the Old West. It con - tinued until just after 1900 when the last of the gangs like the Butch 1860 Colt Conversions Cassidy gang and the Wild Bunch disbanded. For the first 25 years of this westward expansion, the percus - sion revolver was basically the only sidearm available. These same per - cussion revolvers dominated the West until the late 1870s, and were still very common well into the 1880s! That is almost two thirds of the 55-year time frame of the “Old West” as we know it. THE PERCUSSION REVOLVERS 1858 Remington and COLT AND REMINGTON 1860 Colt Revolver Colt was the first to introduce percussion revolvers with its 1836 generally used. In 1851, at the Patterson. The Patterson revolver height of the Gold Rush in was exceptionally popular with California, Colt introduced the slim, Captain Jack Hays and the Texas sleek .36 caliber 1851 Navy Model Rangers for Comanche fighting in which was Wild Bill Hickok’s the 1840s. In 1847 Colt collaborated favorite. This was a true “belt with Captain Samuel H. Walker, and model” like the earlier Patterson. created the massive and powerful During the Civil War and the “Walker model” .44 Colt revolver. It subsequent westward migration, the was so large it was generally carried Colt 1851 Navy and 1860 Army were in pommel holsters on horseback, favorites and were carried by cow - rather than a belt holster. In 1849, boys, lawmen, and badmen alike. Colt introduced a scaled down .44 Until 1878 when Colt introduced horse pistol, called the Dragoon their 1873 “Peacemaker” in .44 WCF model. While smaller than the (.44-40), the term “Colt’s .44 Walker, pommel holsters will still (Continued on next page) June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 37 (Continued from previous page) first with its .46 short rim-fire conver - revolver” actually meant a .44 1860 sion. Colt followed closely with its .44 Army percussion revolver. During Martin (Colt) center-fire cartridge. the majority of the pre-Custer An entire article could be written Indian/Cavalry conflicts, the .44 Colt about cartridge conversions, but I will 1860 Army model was the most com - leave that for another time. mon revolver used in the Indian THE SMITH & WESSON Wars. On the civilian side, outlaws #3 TOP BREAKS Sam Bass and John Wesley Hardin Some of the first metallic cartridge favored the 1860 Colt Army for seri - revolvers, even before the cartridge ous social work. All totaled, more conversions of the Colt and Reming- than 500,000 of the1851 and 1860 ton, were the Smith & Wesson tip up Colt revolvers were made. No. 1 and No. 2 rim-fire revolvers. The first widely successful They fired an anemic .22 and .32 rim- Remington revolver was the New fire round. Though very popular dur - Model Army 1858 in .44 caliber. This ing the Civil War, the expansion west - was second only to the Colt in both ward (with its own variety of hostili - production numbers and in populari - ties) prompted S&W to re-examine ty. Part of its popularity was due to their pistol line after the end of hostil - its well-deserved reputation its one- ities between North and South. piece frame was much sturdier than Virtually all of the revolvers in use in the inherently weaker two-piece the west, with the exception of their frame of the 1851 and 1860 Colts. own tip up revolvers, were percussion Another excellent feature of the 1858 designs. They wanted to market a revolvers were the “safety notches” more powerful revolver to meet the for the hammer between the cham - needs of the frontier. bers on the cylinder. This made the S&W applied their Rollin White Remington percussions safe to carry patent to a new “top break” revolver with all six chambers loaded with design. Instead of the barrel tipping the hammer securely resting up, like on the No. 1 and 2, the frame between the percussion caps in these was hinged at the bottom, and the deep notches. It was one of the few barrel tipped down. When the action 19th Century revolvers safe to carry was opened, the mechanism activat - with a fully loaded cylinder. ed an ejector star in the middle of the Both the Remington and Colt rear face of the cylinder, simultane - Army percussion revolvers were often ously ejecting all six empty cases. later converted to fire self-contained Six fresh rounds could then be quick - metallic cartridges. Remington was (Continued on page 41 ) Page 38 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

moRe About buSCAdeRo beltS By Purdy Gear, SASS Life #33315

horseback. That lowered holster interfered with work and often pinched and chafed. When the auto - mobile finally became commonplace to the law enforcement community, and officers had to sit in those cramped spaces over rough roads, once again, the Buscadero would not have been the rig of choice. The swivel holster and high riding border holster came out of that with an additional real While not the walk & draw rig Purdy Gear, SASS Life #33315 boost in the late 20’s when Tom Three Persons and Sam Myers got together originated by Andy Anderson, this and built a high-riding Slim-Jim hol - rig certainly exhibits similar t is probably unknown whether ster with an exposed trigger and a characteristics. The holster is looped over the belt yet is dropped the Buscadero belt met with grips forward rake. It remains one of so it resembles the same sort of drop overwhelming enthusiasm or the greatest holsters of all time! Still a buscadero rig might give an acceptance in its early life. I sus - … some folks liked the Buscadero rig I otherwise high-riding holster. pect it caught on with some lawmen, enough for it to continue to be made. but there were likely more who stuck About that time, a new industry and sidekicks generally got the older, This holster, patterned closely after to their older straight-cut belts and was catching holt in California. That straight-cut stuff.) one worn by Buck Jones in his early standard holsters. 1920 roads and was the movies, and once they discov - The holsters used on Buscadero pictures shows the lowering of the terrain were often unsuited for those ered the Buscadero belt, there was no belts to this point were the standard height at the cylinder and the fully- new-fangled “ottermubbles” and a turning back! All the big screen stitched-through-the-toe, skirted hol - exposed trigger, strong influences Buscadero rig was a poor choice on heroes had to have one. (Bad guys (Continued on next page) from the Tom Three Persons’ holster. June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 39 (Continued from previous page) only gets sloppier until it, too, finally sters of the late cowboy era. They succumbs to fatigue. were cut high on the cylinder and had Harrumph. a well-defined trigger recurve. (The In spite of that, the sport of quick trigger recurve is that little dip and draw was growing. The Buscadero cut-out over the trigger area.) As was THE belt. It positioned the guns westerns caught on, you could see the for the fastest and most ergonomic influence of the Tom Three Persons draw and, after all, you didn’t wear it holster coming into some of the movie too much longer than to stage your holsters. The trigger recurves on the guns and shoot a couple of rounds, so holsters became shorter and then it was okay. turned into gentle curves as the height Not too many changes occurred in on the cylinder decreased. While the the Buscadero rig until around the rake of the early John Hughes rig and 50’s. The belt was pretty much as the Tom Three Persons holster never developed as it was going to be. But seemed to have truly caught on in the holsters … Hollywood, old and prestigious firms Dee Woolem, a feller who was like El Paso Saddlery, Heiser, and working at Knott’s Berry Farm in Visalia made plenty of holsters config - Southern California doing quick draw ured with the “FBI” rake, as well as shows for the tourists got real serious “straight up’s,” for their non- about the sport. He not only devel - Hollywood Buscadero-wearing clients. oped the timer used for those events, The less leather at the cylinder but took it upon himself to develop a and trigger guard, the faster the draw. new style of holster. This was one with Unfortunately, this also caused guns a light metal lining, which allowed the to fly out of holsters during action cylinder to spin freely in the holster scenes. That meant guns needed to be and made for an intensely faster draw. lashed down either with a thong or a The Woolem holster was a departure tab. (The old holsters didn’t need ‘em from standard skirted holsters in that unless they were downright sloppy the pouch was actually separate. It with age or just bad-built!) The quick - was held in place by a wedge-fit into ness of the draw also mandated tying the holster loop plus a single rivet in the holster down so it wouldn’t come the toe. Strange, you say. Not so. It up with the pistol as it was drawn. made sense when you realized this Nothin’ worse than having your made the throat of the holster angle favorite cowboy hero’s holster flopping away from the skirt just enough so around like a landed bass every time there was no leather to get in the way he went for his shooters. As you might of the draw. The holster was so popu - guess, that, too, created issues. lar the Tandy Leather Company actu - Back then, Buscadero belts and ally offered a kit for it! It’s long gone holsters were made pretty much the now, but it was certainly a best seller same as standard doubled and for many years. stitched gun leather of that time. The Well, that was good, but then holsters were NOT heavy nor were along came a bunch of guys who would the belts, generally no more than 9-10 really put the Buscadero rig on its ounces or so. (Just over 1/8” thick.) ears yet again. Arvo Ojalla (pro - Tied down holsters bound the slot nounce the “j” soft like in ”jello.”) came when a feller moved his leg or sat. up with a slim-skirted holster that This and the weight of a six-gun was metal lined and open-toed, and wallered out that slot ’til it couldn’t quick draw changed forever. His hol - waller any more and would finally sters are the ones you see most in the tear. Of course, Hollywood didn’t TV westerns. (In fact, Arvo’s the feller worry a lick. The studios were mak - who never quite manages to outdraw ing money like mad, and so when one Matt Dillon at the beginning of every of the stars began suffering from a “Gunsmoke” episode.) Pert near frumpy-looking, saggy rig, they just everyone had to have an Arvo rig (or got another. one made by his former shop foreman, Of course, in the real world, Andy Anderson). You see a lot of them things weren’t quite that easy. Once in the movies of the time, too. folks started getting Buscadero rigs of Andy Anderson also contributed their own—especially once the sport the “Walk & Draw.” The holsters are of quick draw started coming on dropped low, but do not hang from the strong —folks figured it out quick traditional drops. They are suspended these lightweight rigs were going to over the top of the belt. This solves two wear out fast at the drops. So … they issues, the excessive wear and tear on made the belts heavier, which made the slots, and any issues with placing them more uncomfortable to wear and the gun(s), as the holsters are com - even more uncomfortable to walk in, pletely free to move! Problem solved. sit in, or ride in. One of the solutions Compadres, I’ve run out of space. to this was to build the slot as an elon - There’s more to say about the Buscadero gated arc (a semi-circular cut). This and about their pros and cons, but this cut was wider than the holster leather about covers the history. My thanks to that looped over it, which allowed the Kid Rio for his info on the Dee Woolem holster to swing and move with the rig. And my thanks to you all for listen - motions of the walker. It would cer - ing. If you need to comment, crab, or tainly make sitting and riding easier. add, get me through the usual channels: Trouble was, a long, semi-circular slot 706-692-5536, is weaker than a straight, short one [email protected] because the weight of the revolver or through the link on my website, tends to want to go to the center. An www.purdygear.com . arced slot is sloppy to begin with and I’ll see you on down the trail! Page 40 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 tReAt CASt bulletS foR ReduCed leAding By Blackthorne Billy, SASS #74914

hate cleaning lead out of rifle tor without having to heat it. I in the opposite end cap. I melted barrels. I hate having to hold tested the hardness with the old the lube again just until it would velocities under 1200 FPS to “Thumbnail Press” after it cooled pour. I squeezed the PVC mould in I reduce leading. I’ve tried a until I felt it was just right. I wood blocks in a vertical position, dozen commercial lubes over the made a mould with PVC tubing filled it with the lube, and capped 35+ years I’ve been casting my own and end caps with a 3/8 inch steel it off to align the rod in the center bullets, and none will prevent rod fastened in the center with a until it cooled and solidified. Cut leading when velocities go to 1400 nut on one threaded end and a hole (Continued on next page) FPS+, regardless of whose lube is used. So, I made my own. From right side—an as-cast 340 Everyone who does high-power grain bullet for the .45-75. rifle shooting with jacketed bullets Next is the bullet with regular is familiar with “Moly Coating,” size/lube. Third is a cast bullet after which greatly reduces barrel cop - knurling, and fourth is that bullet per fouling. Moly, or molybdenum- after sizing and lubing. You can see disulfide, is an extremely efficient the small indentations with lube embedded into the driving bands solid lubricant, superior in lower - to add much more lubricity. ing friction under extreme loads, such as is created when jacketed then added moly powder. Lots of bullets enter lands of rifle barrels moly powder. To this thick slurry, upon firing. I added just enough 10W40 motor I took bees’ wax and melted it oil to soften the bees’ wax to allow Details of the knurling machine. One complete turn of the handle under low heat until semi-liquid, it to flow through the sizer/lubrica - and the driving bands are textured to hold additional lube. Handlebar Doc Shooting Schools

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www.handlebardoc.com Handlebar Doc 903-732-5245 - [email protected] June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 41 Guns Of The Cowboys, Lawman And Badman GIVE TO THE (Continued from page 37 ) One Cavalry officer, Major SASS SCHOLARSHIP ly loaded. This was the beginning of George Schofield, was particularly FOUNDATION their No. 3 series originally offered impressed with the Smith & (A non-profit, tax-deductable charity) only in .44 Henry Rim fire, with its Wesson. He patented several modi - 210 flat point or 216 grain conical fications to the No. 3 to make it eas - MAKE lead bullets over a charge of 26-28 ier to reload on horseback while THE grains of blackpowder. This new holding the reins. In 1875, revolver was called their “No. 3 Schofield submitted this modified DIFFERENCE! American Model.” Released in 1870, No. 3 to the Ordnance Board. It was it was promptly submitted to the adopted as substitute standard in Army Ordnance Board for trials as a 1875. The “Schofield Model” was in Treat Cast Bullets For possible replacement for the 1860 a new .45 Smith & Wesson caliber, Reduced Leading . . . Colt Army .44, and 1858 Remington more powerful than the .44 .46 caliber rim-fire conversions that American. It had a 230-grain coni - (Continued from previous page) were in service. cal lead bullet pushed by 29 grains into three-inch pieces, it fit right When the Ordnance Board sug - of blackpowder. In performance, it into the chamber of my RCBS gested a center fire round to increase is close to the venerable .45 ACP, Sizer/Lubricator. reliability, S&W created the .44 which is still popular after 100 I usually cast a few hundred American round. It was essentially a years! Even after the adoption of bullets for .45-70, .40-65, and .405 center fire .44 Henry. Like the the 1873 Colt SAA, the Schofield Winchester calibers, and then run Henry round, it had an outside lubed and the earlier .44 American were each bullet in a wonderful bullet (where the bullet is the same still very popular with the troops. “Knurling” tool I bought from diameter as the case, with a rebated Some people even claim George Corbin (P/N HCT-2. http://www. bullet base crimped in the case Armstrong Custer carried a corbins.com/) that puts a pattern of mouth like a modern .22 rim fire). In Schofield at the Little Big Horn bat - diamond-shaped indentations in the military loading, its .442 diame - tle, but recent archaeological finds the bullets. The machine runs a ter, 225-grain lead bullet was pushed tend to disprove that. little over a “C-Note.” You place by about 25 grains of blackpowder. The Top-break Smith and the bullet in the rollers, close the This round subsequently developed a Wesson’s were also very successful handle and press gently, then turn well-earned reputation as a fairly with the civilian population. The the handle one revolution. Done! reliable fight stopper, superior to the long list of notables on both side of Once done with that 8 to 10 second .36 or .44 caliber cap and ball the law that favored the Smith & operation, I run the bullets revolvers with their lighter round Wesson is amazing. Some of the out - through the Sizer/Lubricator. The ball bullets. When you factored in laws are Frank and Jesse James, moly/bee’s wax/10-40 lube is forced the tremendous increase in Cole and Jim Younger, Charlie Pitts, into the tiny recesses, as well as in and ease of loading, it was impossible John Wesley Hardin, and Bob Ford. the lube grooves, and serves to for the No. 3 S&W not to be a suc - Some of the lawmen and scouts that lubricate the driving bands cess. They later introduced their favored the S&W are Texas Jack extremely well. I experience no improved “No. 3 Russian Model” ver - Omohundro, Pat Garrett, Virgil leading of any of the rifles’ barrels sion with a modern type, inside Earp, Bill Tilghman, Marshal Dallas even at 1700 FPS! (Note: Corbin lubed, center-fire bullet. Stoudenmire, and the Indian fighter, does not recommend knurling with Many officers and enlisted men Ranald MacKinzie of the 4th this tool on jacketed bullets.) preferred the Smith & Wesson No. Cavalry. Even my paternal The knurling is another step in 3’s to the much slower to load Colt Grandmother’s cousin, Buffalo Bill making the bullets, but at 5 or 6 1860 .44 percussion revolvers. While Cody, carried a pair of S&W No. 3 per minute, I can get a couple hun - the US Army bought about 2,000 of American Models. They all liked the dred done in an hour. It works very the revolutionary No. 3 Americans fast reloading firepower for which well to really reduce and almost for issue, large numbers were also the Smith and Wesson No. 3 was sec - completely eliminate leading at the privately purchased by the troops. ond to none. On the down side, how - higher velocities I prefer. The No. 3 S&W’s were carried in ever, the Number 3 S&Ws were not Additionally, I achieve a very many engagements against the as rugged as the 1873 Colt, and also decent increase in velocity over the Native Americans several years tended to foul quicker from extended conventional lube without knurling before the Colt Single Action Army firing of blackpowder loads. with the very same grains of pow - revolver was finally issued. (to be continued …) der. Apparently, the reduction in friction allows the bullets to gain acceleration without an increase in pressure! It works! For standard revolver loads, holding velocities under 1000 FPS, this extra step isn’t necessary, but for rifle velocities, it works mira - cles. Cleaning the barrels after a shooting session is simple and fast. Actually, since the moly has a strong affinity for steel, some of the moly remains imbedded in the bar - rel even after cleaning. A little extra step and you save yourself the scouring of lead shav - ings from your rifle, achieve a little velocity increase, and greatly reduce wear in the barrel. And, you don’t have to blend your own lube. The knurling will help with all the common commercial lubes.

Page 42 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 di iSpAtCheS fRom CAmp bAyloR By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life #24287 i Captain Baylor modeling the Mernickle Evil Roy Slim Jim rig on a very hard to get Runnin’ Iron with matching shotgun belt. from Tammy Loy of Taylor’s at (Photo by Lorrie Lott, Winter Range. Since this was Mr. Quigley Photography) Arizona and I’m a Texan, that meant I couldn’t do a 4473. Taylor’s & Co. Runnin’ Iron (Fortunately a gun writer/hack may hat’s a Runnin’ Iron? It’s take possession of a firearm for up a branding iron that is to 60 days on the FFL of the trans - Wnot bent into the shape of feror.) That meant I had to work the mark, but rather requires the with all deliberate speed. Fortu- Runnin’ Iron on top, Ruger Taylor’s & Co. .357 Magnum user to write the desired brand. nately that was possible because the New Vaquero with Super Blackhawk Runnin’ Iron in Stainless Steel hammer on bottom This allows writing any brand. In Runnin’ Iron is basically a Smoke other words, it’s a tool for rustlers. Wagon with a Black hawk-like ham - Hammer Mania removed) has been a LEGAL main In this case, it’s rustling some pop - mer and other options, including To quote Pale Wolf Brunelle in match revolver for SASS Action ular ideas and putting them on a STAINLESS STEEL. I was very the April Cowboy Chronicle , “As of the Shooting. Prior to that acceptance Uberti SAA clone. familiar with the Smoke Wagon, December 2008 Territorial Gover - it was only allowed for SASS It’s also a very popular and fast having tested one for The Cowboy nors Summit, the Ruger Montado Mounted Shooting. With the selling gun. I finally got my hands Chronicle a few issues ago. (with the grip enhancing grooves (Continued on next page) Cochise Leather Reproductions from the Frontier West Era

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Wide Ruger-like trigger on the (Continued from previous page) Runnin’ Iron makes the trigger approval of that revolver, the SASS feel lighter Firearms Covenants (modification rules) were amended to allow the guns are race ready, perfectly Widened rear sight, mated to a exchange of the Montado/Super timed, light, and smooth. The one I widened front sight means Blackhawk (SBHK)-style hammers tested shot close to point of aim, a quicker sight acquisition with the standard hammers on all little low with light bullets, which revolvers.” means the barrel is on straight, So, suddenly, Super Blackhawk and tuning to your wimpy little 105 same is true for Vaqueros with and Montado hammers became gr. bullets can be accomplished hammers of the same height. I very popular. (The Montado has a with careful filing or stoning of the have a couple and have encoun - checkered hammer spur, while the front sight. tered the same problem there. I Super Blackhawk has grooves.) The gun weighed 2 lb 8.9 oz., cured it with practice, so it’s not a And, Taylor’s brought out the compared to a similar New Model deal breaker. Runnin’ Iron with their version. Ruger Vaquero at 2 lb. 15 oz. I found only one minor annoy - Details Groups ance. When shucking empty shells, The Runnin’ Iron is available in I did a quickie Ransom the ejector was running over some - 3-1/2 ", 4-3/4 ", and 5-1/2 " barrel Rest/Chronograph session. My thing rough on the inside of the lengths in blue and stainless steel. match load of 10.6 gr. American ejector housing. I haven’t played Stainless steel is perfect for Pioneer Powder 3f behind wimpy with any other Runnin’ Irons, so I Mounted Shooters, who shoot little 105 gr. LTC bullets averaged don’t know if it’s common or a one- blackpowder blanks. It’s also per - 735 ft/sec for a power factor of 77 of-a-kind annoyance. fect for Action Shooters who have and gave a best 6 shot group of Conclusion noticed most pistol targets are .80 ". This means you can’t blame Another excellent, race-ready black, and black sights blend in the gun when you miss! gun from Taylor’s & Co. and Cody while stainless sights stand out. Shooting Conagher. Additionally, stainless guns are It was fun to shoot. The low - Hmm … two in a row from excellent for us blackpowder shoot - ered, widened hammer, with Taylor’s/Cody Conagher. We’ve got ers. We (should) clean our guns Blackhawk-like grooves, made to stop meeting like this. People often; it’s easy to see when all of Duelist shooting very easy. It also will talk. I need to test some guns that pesky black stuff is gone. was gentle on my deteriorating from someone else. Oh, yes, I have Also, we don’t have to worry about thumb joint, which smarts a bit five guns from one of SASS’ finest scrubbing off the finish! after and sometimes during every gunsmiths! Stay tuned. It comes with thin, checkered shooting session. Compared to a Retail prices for the Runnin’ gunfighter grips, a wide front sight, standard height hammer, it was Iron are: and widened rear sight channel. It noticeably less painful. Blue-checkered walnut also has a wide, Ruger-like trigger Two handed shooting, however, grips - $650 that is quite comfortable and feels wasn’t as conclusive. My shooting Stainless-checkered walnut lighter than it is. It is available in hand kept riding up on the grip, grips - $780 .357 Magnum and .45 Colt. and the hammer hit the web of my 3-1/2 ", 45LC, Stainless-check - So, I got a stainless 4-3/4 " .357 hand, causing short stroking. The ered black polymer grips - $810. Magnum model for testing. Fit and finish were excellent. The hammer pull was reasonably light, and the trigger was a near perfect 2 lb., 9.8 oz. on my Lyman Digital Trigger Pull Gauge. At least that’s near perfect for me. The gun uses a wire bolt spring and a Ruger-like coil handspring, solving many Colt- style reliability problems. Cody Conagher, one of SASS’ premier gunsmiths, does the tuning. The

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. the hoWling , Why You’d Have to be Crazy to Own a Custom Gun

By Wolf Bane, SASS #13557

hole in the water into which money Hodgdon had one and said it disappears. I know this to be true not was the coolest DA revolver only because I once owned a sailboat, in the world (it is, BTW). but because, perversely, I collect cus - For me at least, custom tom guns. I would like to tell you I guns start out in the middle of am a serious collector, with a strategy the night when I can’t sleep, based on a deep understanding of the an exercise of “what if” that is Wolf Bane, SASS #13357 firearms market, a keen sense of var - the gunny’s equivalent of ious makers, and Warren Buffett’s counting sheep. Perhaps uncanny ability to make money. unfortunately, I remember all That, however, is not true. the little sheepies in the morn - “I like to ride my horses and shot As a collector of custom ing, and I start taking notes. my guns firearms—and, as my Sweetie Let me give you the latest You know a cowboy’s work is never would say, pretty much in all This is EXACTLY what I wanted, which is example. On Lee Martin’s done …” aspects of my life—I am more like the ultimate appeal of a custom gun … Single Action Forums I saw a Hank Williams Jr. an eight-month old in a crib, slap - of course you have to be crazy … picture of a revolver from the “Women I’ve Never Had” ping at random bright baubles on old Texas Longhorn Arms the mobile spinning above my head. an homage to a gun I couldn’t afford Company, a “Border Special.” It was Really … I’m not joking here. This is how I have come to commis - when I was in high school, and a beautiful, a short-barreled, bird - Custom firearms are the gun-cul - sion such guns as a BSA Martini .38-40 S&W N-Frame revolver shead-gripped, color-casehardened ture equivalent of a sailboat, to wit, a single shot rifle in .357 Magnum as because Birdshot (Mike Daly) from (Continued on next page) June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 45 (Continued from previous page) Revolver); he can work miracles. A study in .44 Special. It was also quick email to Hamilton, a bit of crazy expensive and belonged to a mental gymnastics involving the friend of mine who I’d probably have balance on my credit card and the to kill to get it from. necessity of buying food, and away That night at the low-life-force all the parts went. witching hour of 4AM, my eyes The only thing missing was popped opened and a thought, fully grips. Strangely enough, custom formed, emerged into my head— grips for birdshead Rugers are there’s a beat-up old model .44 hard to come by. All the birdshead Magnum Vaquero in the gunsafe! guns, the .32 H&Rs and the sher - Yes, I thought. That’s just the ticket! iff’s model .45, are no longer cata - I lay awake until 5AM, plotting. loged, and Ruger never made a The next morning, after a pot of bunch of them in any case. A bit of coffee, I started making notes—the Googling turned up an interesting old Vaquero would become the tidbit … a Ruger distributor, TALO, “donor” gun. All I needed was a got the last of the .45 birdsheads blue steel birdshead gripframe and did a special run of customs, (Midway USA, order quick since called The Last Cowboy, including aliens might be reading my a really neat set of custom check - thoughts and stealing my ideas), a ered walnut grips with the Ruger more elegantly contoured Super eagle and the logo “The Last Blackhawk hammer (Brownells, I Cowboy” lasered on. Of course, the have an account), changes in the guns were sold out in 2005, but front and rear sight, the barrel cut undeterred I started searching for off short, a new and refitted base a set of the custom grips. Some - pin, a decent action job, a freespin times karma rolls with you … with - pawl, a steel ejector rod housing to in a week, a set went up on no less replace the beat-up original, decent than the SASS Wire! A quick check color casehardening (“Turnbull,” I dashed off, and The Last Cowboy jot beside that entry) and refinish - grips were headed to Hamilton. ing, plus a decent set of grips. So, stir gently and wait a year That’s not so bad, I thought or so. brightly! That’s the thing about Here’s the results … The Last custom guns … you can actually Cowboy .44 Magnum Vaquero, I write a list that basically says “start designed it as my perfect packin’ with a gun, replace everything, then pistol, but it’s almost too pretty to refinish” and say to yourself, “that’s carry. not so bad!” Sort of like when the It is EXACTLY what I wanted, sailboat needed new sails … that’s which is the ultimate appeal of a not so bad! custom gun … of course you have Then comes the fun part, picking to be crazy … just the right mechanic to spin this Wolf Bane is the alias for Michael pile of parts into a little bit of the Bane, executive producer of COW - Holy Grail. For this project, there BOY, producer and host of SHOOT - was only once choice. Hamilton ING GALLERY and THE BEST Bowen of Bowen Classic Arms could DEFENSE, all on Outdoor Channel, carve a revolver out of a bar of soap occasional author and general all- and not only would it work, but it around raconteur. He’d like you to would be beautiful as well. He liter - know he shot Winter Range clean … ally wrote the book (The Custom slow, but clean.

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By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life #49907 TG Sucker Creek,

spools that wire or plastic pipe also comes a lot of responsibility. come wrapped on. They served Because of this freedom we are their purpose for a few years. We able to construct permanent stages added patio umbrellas to help fend as well as permanent LOADING off the elements, but we continued and/or UNLOADING tables. We put to look forward to a better way. a lot of forethought into our tables. Sucker Creek is fairly unique. After looking at what other clubs Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life #49907 Many Cowboy Action Clubs are had and reflecting on old and new Territorial Governor, part of a larger organization and ideas, we decided upon combining Sucker Creek, Michigan share the shooting range with the loading/unloading tables and other activities. This mandates placing them at the end of the side table area if ya have the extra room ur club, Sucker Creek removing everything after each berms. There is a seat between the and cash. And best of all, they have Saddle & Gun Club, start - shoot. Some are part of an organi - tables wide enough for a loading and a roof that protects the tables as well ed out like most Cowboy zation, but have their own berms unloading officer to sit on at the as the shooters from the elements. OAction Shooting™ clubs. and can put up permanent stages. same time. The tables are a little The basic support of the struc - We had a few targets, a couple Then some like ours have their over three feet wide with a protective ture is four 4 "x6 "x16 ' in line treated portable storefronts, and a lot of big own berms and are not under a wall on the back and sides to protect posts. Treated 2 "x4 " were used to ideas. Our loading/unloading tables larger gun club. This offers a little from spatter. The total width is 10 ' frame and brace the tables and roof. consisted of those large wooden more freedom of choice, but with it but 12 ' would give ya a little more (Continued on next page) June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 47

(Continued from previous page) Treated 2 "x8 " were used for the back wall and 2 "x10 " for the seat. Various types of roofs were installed to depict different looks. Then, facades were installed to the 4 "x6 " posts that extend above the roof. Each board member took on the responsi - bility to design and install the façade of at least one table to resem - ble a building between the perma - nent stages. As you look down Main Street of Sucker Creek from Bay 1 to Bay 7, the stages and loading/ unloading tables resembles a row of Because of the cantilever/ over - 19th Century buildings. hang design of the tables, hold back Bay 1 chains were connected between the Loading table ~ Feed Store top of the two center 4 "x6 " posts Stage ~ Livery Stable and anchors in the side berm. Between Bay 1 and 2 (Posts could be added to the table Loading/unloading table ~ front on the right and left side.) Sucker Creek Stage Co. Side shields were also added to the Bay 2 Stage ~ Jail tables to protect from spatter and Between Bay 2 and 3 to diminish the chance of an acci - Loading/unloading table ~ dental sweep off the table. Trading Post If your club is in the market for Bay 3 Stage ~ Shoe Shoppe ~ tables, I would hope this article Saloon ~ Hotel will stimulate the gray matter Between Bay 3 and 4 between the ears in a positive way. Loading/unloading table ~ It says in Proverbs 24:3, “By wis - Dr Snook Spectacles dom a house is built, and through Bay 4 Stage ~ Gallows understanding it is established.” Between Bay 4 And 5 When ya get the urge to build Loading/unloading table ~ something, process what ya know Sleepy Vulture Undertaker and use God given wisdom so as to Bay 5 Stage ~ Sucker Creek construct a product that will last. Community Church Always follow all safety and health Between Bay 5 and 6 rules when working on things or Loading/unloading table ~ playing with them. Sucker Creek Depot If you would like to see pictures of Bay 6 Stage ~ “John Bull” the construction of these tables go to: Railroad Train www.suckercreek.org then click Between Bay 6 And 7 on PICTURES, then click ONGOING Loading/unloading table ~ CONSTRUCTION, then LOADING Hardware and Mine Supplies TABLES. Bay 7 Stage ~ Lucky Strike Mine [email protected] Page 48 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

. SWAlloWfoRk , A Spoonful of Canadian Delight By Palaver Pete, SASS Life/Regulator #4375

University of Toronto and graduated “Well Swallowfork,” said I, you with a degree in forestry. “I joined have certainly come a long way since the Ontario Deptartment of Lands those cap gun days, and you haven’t and Forests in 1960 and spent the really changed that much. A good Palaver Pete, next 30 years doing a job I loved,” he study of the photo of you at three years SASS Life/Regulator #4375 said in a recent interview. “I wonder old, and then a comparison of the recent how many of people can say that?” photo at END of TRAIL convinces me ike many of us, John Simpson he added with a big smile. you have had a good Cowboy life! was born 100 years too soon. “Not many,” I thought to myself. “Well, that’s about it … No, wait, LThere was Cowboy in his genes His reward for education and hard there is one more thing,” John was quick from the very start of life, so at age work was to be appointed Park to say. “To fulfill my cowboy dream, I three he ordered his first gun and Superintendent and District Mana - bought a really nice four year old quar - posed for this article. Had there been ger for Ontario’s mighty Algonquin ter horse (High Time Freckles) back in a SASS back in 1936, John would have Provincial Park, a 3,000 square mile 1983. With boots, spurs, chaps, hat, and been the first to mail in his Cereal Box piece of heaven, consisting of forests, a rope tied to my saddle, my four-legged Top for a SASS badge. Instead, and lakes, and canoe routes. “Living and pard and I traveled together for 21 until the time SASS would come along, working in the park was like being in years over the trails and back roads of John realized if he wanted a western heaven,” he recalled. rural Ontario. I lived that Cowboy life style, he must create it himself, John heard about Cowboy Action Swallowfork’s DNA reads: and this he did with perfection. Shooting™ in the early 90’s and Cowboy at Heart. Here he is You would be hard pressed to thought, “boy, that’s for me.” He was pictured at three years of age with his Riding Chaps hitched-up and his find a SASS member who doesn’t retired by then and living near trusty Cap Colt strapped to his side. have a deep-seated love and appreci - Orillia, Ontario. ation for our Canadian brothers and “I went to a Cowboy Action our club (Orillia Gun Club). The sisters. Why heck, even Chief Joseph Shooting™ match to see what it was reward for all the work we did was tried to escape to the warmth and all about, and there I met another shooters seemed to like our matches.” hospitality of our Canadian kin, but Orillia area shooter by the name of Well that’s the most important thing, his dream was ended by a disci - Jim Two Draws Brown, SASS John … just ask the Judge! plined band of blue coats. This #35520. He showed me around, and Swallowfork’s forte is long-range respect and admiration is mutual! I was hooked! Two Draws and I went lever guns, particularly his .38-55. The love and enthusiasm Canadians on to become the best of lifelong “This old gun has won me the have for Cowboy Action Shooting™ pards and shooting buddies. He is Montana State Championship twice, has helped weld a relationship that one of the top shooters in Ontario plus a few other matches. I cast my goes far beyond our common roots. and placed second overall at the 2009 own .38-55 and .40-65 bullets, and Now an Elder Statesman, John Simpson, AKA Swallowfork, Canadian Cowboy Action Shooting™ they seem to work pretty good for me. but still full of Cowboy DNA, SASS #35326, represents the epito - Championship. Two Draws and I call I shoot in the Elder Statesman (I pre - Swallowfork enjoys the very first me of that mutual admiration. ourselves The Green River Cattle Co. fer “Older ‘n Dirt”) category and won SASS World Championship at Founders Ranch, New Mexico. To pursue his dream of living Along with a few other club mem - one state match and placed in several the cowboy life, John enrolled in the bers, we ran a number of shoots at others—I do this best when the really dream with my faithful friend. Then, in good old guys stay home!” 2007, at the age of 71 (me), my wife and Hey, Swallowfork, I fare the same I packed up and moved to cowboy coun - way … when the good guys stay try in southern Alberta—I guess that’s home, that is! another extension of my dream.” “My wife and I have been fortu - “If you want to know where my nate to be able to do some traveling to alias comes from, I’ll give you a SASS matches. So far I have shot in hint—I have a notch in my right ear. Michigan, Ohio, , Florida, Do a search for ear brands, and you Mississippi, Arizona, New Mexico, can figure it out for yourself. Or, just Oregon, and Montana in the U.S., and ask Wobblin Bob out of Waterford, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia California. He’ll tell ya!” in Canada. During that time we have “Okay” says I. Someday I’ll pull met many wonderful people and have Wobblin Bob’s chain to find out what made several good friends. One such Swallowfork means, but then again, if person is Craig Lefty Too Slim Tharp, I do that, the guessing game would be SASS #44564, from Las Cruces, NM over. In a way, I rather like not know - whom we met at a state match in New ing. But if you, dear reader, really Mexico. Since then, Lefty Too Slim want to find out, I recommend you do and I have attended the first World the computer search Swallowfork Championship at Founders Ranch as suggests, or contact Wobblin Bob. well as Winter Range together.” You’re a Daisy if Ya do. June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 49

AleS of LITTLE KNOWN t FAMOUS PEOPLE eARly WAY OUT WEST – CAlifoRniA By Joe Fasthorse Harrill, SASS #48769 Joe Fasthorse Harrill, SASS #48769

Johnston McCulley illiam “Bloody Bill” Anderson was the (Author of Zorro) Wmeanest man in Missouri. Bill was born in Missouri in 1839 and the family moved to Kansas in 1857. Five years later, his father got Col. Richard Dodge, SASS #1750 into a quarrel with a Pro-Northern neighbor and was hanged by Union soldiers. Bill killed the neighbor and couple of Yankee soldiers, then high - Col. Richard Dodge, tailed it back to Missouri to join Quantrill’s SASS Life #1750 q q raiders. As an act of reprisal, Federals arrested Bill’s sisters. Unfortunately, the building where they were held captive col - lapsed, killing one sister and maiming another. Bill rode with Quantrill until 1864 when he formed his own band, which includ - ed the teenage Jesse James. That year “Bloody Bill” and his raiders raided the town of Centralia, Missouri. The cutthroats murdered two-dozen unarmed Union soldiers and bushwhacked and killed the Federal troops that set out in pursuit. The guerillas were ambushed a month later by a troop of Union soldiers under Capt. Cox, and Bill was shot dead. When Cox examined Bill’s body, he found 17 bullet holes, seven revolvers, several watches, and a wad of cash. Union troopers cut off Bill’s head and stuck it on a telegraph pole. His torso was then dragged behind a horse before it was buried in an unmarked grave.

Johnston McCulley (second from left) with members of the Zorro production crew.

any times an author’s New York, found his way to Los work becomes so well Angeles in the very early days of the Mknown it overshadows the film industry. A prolific writer of author, his fictional characters Old West pulp fiction, he authored becoming part of American folklore several of the early B-Western while the author’s name fades movies, now long forgotten. In away. Such was the case with 1919, he created the Zorro story and Johnston McCulley. continued to write movie scripts for A native of Illinois, McCulley many years to continue the series. was a journalist and writer who, He lived in the Lake Arrowhead after living in both Colorado and area until he died in 1948.

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AWA uSA inC -Jim mARtin Kit Gun By The Jersey Kid, SASS #287, Life, Regulator

assembly line. Samuel Colt, in a letter One piece, beautifully to his father wrote, “The first workman grained Arizona mesquite would receive two or three of the most AWA manufactures SAA “kit guns” burl grips add a very special important parts and would affix these that Jim Martin assembles and tunes touch to any SAA. and pass them on to the next who add to perfection. a part and pass the growing article on to another who would do the same, and so on until the complete arm is put together.” After the close of the Paterson, NJ plant, Sam Colt’s inventive vision continued in his Jersey Kid, Hartford, Connecticut factory, SASS Lif e/ Regulator #287 which included the use of inter - changeable machine parts, A well-finished revolver assembly line production, imple - carried in a striking Slim Jim hile either Henry Ford or Eli menting a shorter, ten-hour is bound to put Whitney is generally credited workday, addressing employees’ This beautiful pair of SAAs sporting 7 ½ " barrels a little extra “bounce” Wwith being a pioneer in the physical discomforts within the are blued with color case hardening and are in any buckaroos stride! area of assembly line or mass produc - factory, providing recreational chambered in .44-40/.44 Special. tion, it was Samuel Colt who supplied outlets for employees, and building and innovative mainsprings, creating a quoted extensively in The Colt Single the leadership, knowledge, and modern, custom housing for his work wonderfully smooth action, AWA USA Action Revolvers: A Shop Manual, finances to permit an engineer like Eli force. Thus was born a process that to has taken their approach one step fur - Vols. 1 & 11 by noted authority, Jerry Whitney to accomplish tasks such as a large extent continues today in all ther with the introduction of the Jim Kunhausen. multiple drilling and early pro - gun companies around the world. Martin custom single action kit. The The AWA “Kit Guns” are shipped grammed machining. Samuel Colt There are, however, a few gun man - kit is reminiscent of the kits The Great with the barrel fitted and all polishing also never claimed to have invented ufacturers who have deviated from this Western Company manufactured in the and finishing complete; both gorgeous the revolver, as his design was merely established method and returned to 1950’s, but for the time being these will mottled case coloring and blue or nick - a more practical adaption of Collier’s more of a “custom” approach and take be distributed to Jim Martin of el are available. Since the barrel is revolving . He did, however, the time to polish and hand-fit Kingman, Arizona Territory, who will already fitted, the majority of the work greatly contribute to interchangeable machined parts to ensure a tighter tol - take the time to assemble the single then is focused on the correct parts fit - parts. Colt was not pleased with the erance and better fit and functioning action revolver, applying his 40 years of ting and tuning of the action. This is high cost of hand-made guns, and with gun. One such company is AWA USA of single action gunsmith knowledge and where the time spent doing it right the knowledge only some parts of guns Hialeah, Florida who has one of the experience to produce a beautifully translates into a smooth action that were currently being made by most proactive programs ever devel - smooth Cowboy Action revolver. will provide many years of hard use in machine, Colt wanted all the parts on oped towards recreating authentic For those of you unfamiliar with our sport. The pair I ordered are two every Colt gun to be interchangeable American western firearms. Long Jim Martin, he was a Technical of the smoothest cocking and firing and machine-made. His goal was the known for their high quality handguns Advisor and Gun Coach for both pistols I have ever fired, and since I Paramount and MGM Studios where have been competing in SASS since he befriended and worked with Rodd 1986, that is quite a big number! s. Redwing. He also produced the first The single actions in the accompa - gun TOP OF THE LINE ur y yo pla Cowboy Action Shoot in Arizona along nying pictures are a pair of the first n is SINCE 1957 o r d with Bill Waller and Norm Smith. completed Jim Martin specials and are ng ge e vi u ad a R Tr Since Jim started shooting fast draw, blue and case colored with 7-1/2 " bar - gr & r n lt o E o le he won the California State Cham - rels chambered for both .44 WCF and C a m S o ed r pionship four times, twice with live .44 Special. 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nothing in hiS Soul but iRon By Celtic Knight, SASS #68617

the buckle, was a factory blued Colt ing another approach, “and I’m not his face, “but I can’t help you with .45 Peacemaker with a five inch bar - going to fight you, so why don’t you balls if you don’t got those.” rel. He was wearing a brick red linen clear off.” Doc was at the bar talking to a shirt under a soft tan leather vest “I’m not going anyplace, you large, thick set cavalry sergeant with silver concho buttons. He had thimble rigger,” came the belligerent when he heard the gunman’s chal - come into the Oriental and headed response, “until you give me back the lenge. His instincts had already told directly for Wyatt’s table. After losing money you just stole from me.” He him this rooster was much more a couple of hands of poker, he loudly was slowly pulling on skin tight than just an irate gambler sore at accused Wyatt of cheating. leather gloves of the same color as losing. The kid’s looks, the way he Celtic Knight SASS #68617 Such an accusation was much his vest. carried himself, his swagger, his more than a matter of insult. It was Earp felt the blood start to manner of dress and his weapons all is name was Mace Beaumont. an attack on a gambler’s character thump in his ears and the veins cord spelled big trouble. He was a rugged, cocky young and hence his livelihood, which was on his neck, but he merely stared at Holliday moved quickly from the Hpistolero with longish black reputation driven. Simple logic dic - the man issuing the insult while he bar to where Wyatt was sitting. As hair, hazel eyes, and sunburn tated if you couldn’t be trusted, no distractedly shuffled the cards for a he reached Earp’s side he interrupt - splashed across his nose and cheeks. one would play at your table. fresh deal. ed, “You got ear trouble, Sonny? The A darling of the señoritas at 20 years Therefore, such an accusation was “You’ve had too much to drink, man said he’s not going to fight you.” old, he was well built, and on this day usually enough for the insulted young man, and like I said, I’m not With face flushed and a mali - carried a pair of six shooters. The one party to demand a retraction or go armed, so there will be no gun play cious glint in his eye, Beaumont in his tied down holster, riding low on for iron. Earp, unlike Doc, was never between us. You lost on the up and up.” shrugged, “I guess that’s his prob - his right hip, was a nickel-plated an eager shooter, and tried to coax “As for a gun, take mine.” Mace lem, not yours.” Remington seven inch .44-40, a the hot head off his war path, but placed his Colt butt first on the green “Well, Buckwheat, I’ve just made known favorite of Frank James—a that only seemed to increase the cloth table in front of Earp. “You can it mine,” Doc replied. fact Beaumont was proud to brag on. other’s recklessness. let me worry about how much I’ve “Suit yourself,” the shootist The other, stuck in his belt behind “I’m unarmed,” Wyatt said, try - had to drink,” a faint smile cracked (Continued on page 56 ) Page 56 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

Nothing In His Soul But Iron . . . (Continued from page 55 ) ness, “will tell you if you get lucky shrugged again. “I’ll have something and plug me you’ll be doing me a for you when I’m done with this favor. Dying now from a bullet will other old guy,” he stated, nodding in be an improvement over barking Wyatt’s direction. myself to death.” He tapped himself e e Creek, with spurs jangling, lightly on the chest with his left clumped noisily up beside Doc and hand, then his eyes locked on the interrupted, “Say there, young fella, young gunman. “But, I also know ~birt h~ before you get translated to the that a pup like you ain’t likely to Sweet By ‘n By, would you consider pull that off.” Doc smoothed his selling me that fancy leather vest mustache with his left hand and neW ShooteR in before it gets all punctuated?” reflected, “No, not likely at all.” Beaumont just stared at him, Holliday smiled and pointed at expressionless. Beaumont. “Boy, you’re already col - the meAdoWS ClAn Creek continued, “I’ll send two lecting sweat on your upper lip. dollars to the person of your choice That tells me you’re scared and By Whisperin Meadows, SASS #56313 the moment they drag your dead doubtful. The best you could hope riparian ass out of here.” Johnson’s for would be to wound me, and I’d amp Verde, AZ – Meet the penchant for peppering his talk with really hate that.” He took a couple of Cnewest member of the large words for their own sake was - steps closer to his younger adver - Meadows clan, Adrianne Eliza - n’t to be altered by the seriousness of sary and in an almost confidential beth Peoble, born January 10, the situation. As usual, they meant manner cocked his head forward and 2010. No, Echo Meadows is not nothing and baffled his listeners, but said, “So, here’s what’s going to hap - the new mama! She is the sounded grand to Creek. pen. I propose to shoot out your daughter of Starry Meadows and At first momentarily puzzled, the right eye.” There were nudges, Doc Meadows. Her grandparents gunslinger stared at Creek, then his grins, and winks in the crowd. “By are Johnny Meadows and gaze shifted back to Doc and Wyatt. the time you hit the wood you’re Whisperin Meadows. Proud “What the hell is this ... an old standing on,” Doc said, tracing a grand pa has already purchased folks’ home for drunks and crescent in the air with his finger, her first gun, a bright pink swindlers?” he asked with a contemp - and pointing to the floor around the Cricket .22 rifle. Next up is pick - tuous smile. Then addressing Creek young man’s boots, “your left eye will ing her SASS alias and member - he said, “I’ll tell you what, Pappy, why be staring up at nothing and your ship. She was born January 10, don’t you ask me that question when scalp hair will be on that wall.” 2010 and everyone is doing fine. I’m done with these two.” Holliday pointed toward a place Doc used Creek’s distraction to behind the gunman where his bullet move a couple of steps to his left, put - would come to rest after passing ting distance between himself and through his brain. Mace’s sternum, chewing an almond The skin on John Henry’s emaci - Wyatt. As he did so he thought, “This A dull smirk and shrug was size bite out of his pulmonary artery. ated body was fish white every - kid’s a handful.” Then he told the gun - Mace’s only reply. His face froze in stunned surprise, and where except for pink scars from man, “Listen to me carefully, Sonny. About then, Doc began to cough with unseeing eyes and a feeble paw - old wounds he had collected since I’ll tell you this just once; you’ve bit off softly. As he kept his eyes fixed on the ing effort at his shirt front, he tried to leaving Atlanta. Read together, way more than even your big mouth gunslinger, he slowly reached into his get a look at the fatal wound. The they constituted a diary of Doc’s can chew. The best thing for you to do left outside coat pocket to get his hand - room spun, and he was swallowed in violent past and, simultaneously, a is to leg it on out of here while your kerchief. Beaumont saw his opportu - silence as he crashed to the floor. His life blessed with incredible luck. boot soles are still on the bottom.” nity and what he mistakenly thought foolhardy life was used up in less than They were testimony to lethal Mace threw a cocky, impatient was a shadow of fear flicker across four minutes as it pumped swiftly out encounters he had survived in such wave of his left hand like he was Holliday’s face. In rashness, he jerked of him. Blood soon drenched the hand - places as Fort Griffin, Deadwood, shooing flies, and in a taunting voice his Remington. Just as its long barrel some vest. The final indignity, his Dodge, Arizona Territory, and some asked, “... and ... if I don’t?” He cleared leather, he felt what was to be bladder voided as he lay dying. back waters not even on the map. moved his hands, palms up, and ever the last physical sensation in this life, Excerpted from Michael A. Crane’s, From Michael Crane’s, “A Fistful of so slightly away from his sides. a thunderous impact to his chest. A “A Fistful of Thorns,” available Thorns,” at Doc-Holliday.com or “Most folks around here,” single, half ounce lead slug from Doc’s from Doc-Holliday.com or Amazon’s Kindle Books . Holliday replied with severe calm - Maiden Aunt mushroomed through Amazon’s Kindle Books . Printed with permission … June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 57

SAGEBRUSH BILL, SASS LIFE #5269 ANNIE NOAH, SASS #46441 William G. Wynne By Her Husband, Pelon, SASS #38658

July 20 1948 – August 4 2009 uburn, NE – On January 11, A2010, the Blue River Regulators, By his Pards, Palaver Pete, SASS #4375, and Hill Beachy, SASS #5327 Nebraska Territorial Rangers, the NRA, and SASS lost a loyal member, Annie Noah, aka Cathie L. Parrino. t is with great sadness we report She chose the alias, Annie Noah, to Iour Pard, Sagebrush Bill, has gone honor her grandmother, circa 1890s. over the Great Divide and joined Annie Noah battled ovarian can - God’s Posse. Although not as active in cer for two years before losing her Cowboy Action during the past few long and brave fight. She was 64 years, Bill was a Life member of both years old. SASS and the Horse Ridge Pistoleros Annie first became involved in of Bend, Oregon. Cowboy Action Shooting™ by Bill and his wife, Toni, enjoyed watching me in the early 2000’s at traveling in their motor home to the Capital City Gun Club in many of the SASS clubs throughout Topeka, Kansas. Before long, cow - the State of Oregon. Like so many boy guns were no strangers to her faithful SASS Shooters, they would as she had over nineteen years with show up early at shoots and help the the Port Hueneme Police Depart- hosting club set-up their stages. ment in California. Sagebrush Bill grew up in Parma, Annie made many friends at Ohio, where he met and married the shooting matches in Oklahoma City; Annie Noah loved shooting and love of his life, Antoinette (Toni). He Grand Island, Nebraska; Kings dressing in period clothing. Nearly also had a lifelong love of dogs, inher - River Regulators, Fresno, California; 170 attended her funeral dressed in ited no doubt from his father’s many Two Rivers Posse, Manteca, their 1890’s clothing to honor her. years as an animal trainer and per - California; Logan, Iowa; and She was also known as the former. He was a veteran and the son Valparaiso, Nebraska. “Cookie Queen” at the Valparaiso, of a WWII veteran. At 19, he enlisted She leaves behind three children, Nebraska range. Once God finds out in the Marines (1967-1970) and was a Oregon and for 28 years as a reserve two step-children, six grandchildren, how good her cookies are, he will combat veteran of Viet Nam (1st deputy sheriff in Grant County. two parents, and two sisters, as well have her baking. Aircraft Wing). He was a very proud Sagebrush Bill enjoyed hunting, as a brother in law, Mariposa Slim, So long, partner. Rest in peace. Marine, and if you were to ask him, he shooting, photography, fishing, SASS #45708, and sister-in-law, I love you and miss you very much. would tell you he STILL considered leatherwork, horses, and travel by RV Bootjack Belle, SASS #47293, of the We will meet again on that Range himself to be a Corporal of Marines. with Toni and his father. He was a Kings River Regulators. in the Sky. He later went to work as a communi - member of many great service organ - cations specialist for US West and izations, including SASS, the CenturyTel from which he had retired Benevolent Order of Law Dawgs JINGO, SASS #7770 just two months prior to his death. (BOLD), the National Rifle Asso- Sagebrush Bill served our Nation ciation, the American Legion, the February 27, 1943 – March 1, 2011 and his fellow veterans all his life. Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Elks By Sundance, SASS #2773 Several years after moving to Oregon, Club, the American Quarter Horse he joined the Army National Guard Association, and the Rocky Mountain erseyville, IL – On March 1st we where he served as a Scout and an Elk Foundation. Jlost another cowboy, Jingo, aka Armored Crewman in L Troop, 3/116 Sagebrush Bill is survived by his Gerald “Jerry” E. Wells. Jingo was Armored Cavalry Squadron. This wife, Antoinette (Toni), his father, from Rock Island, IL, and it was there was followed by a stint with the US William A. Wynne, and eight brothers he started Cowboy Action Shooting™. Marine Corps Reserve (4th Tank and sisters. I met Jingo not at a cowboy Battalion, 4th Marine Division). He If the Army and the Navy match, but at an Ohio Fast Draw also spent 13 years as a volunteer Ever look on Heaven’s scenes Association match held in Plainfield, Veterans’ Service Officer at the They will find the streets are guarded Illinois in 1995. The Fort Beggs Veteran’s Administration, assisting By United States Marines Defenders shoot there the third countless veterans over the years. … and a new Corporal of the Sunday of the month. Bill also served for 29 years as a Guard has reported for duty. Rest Jingo and his wife, Mary, moved Reserve Police Officer in John Day, in peace friend. to the St. Louis area 10 years ago. He continued to shoot cowboy match - es in Southern Illinois, as well as fast draw matches across the country. Jingo shot his single actions not only in SASS, but also in the Cowboy Fast Draw Association and the World Fast Arsenal Island. Draw Association. I will miss Jingo. He was a good Eight members of the Missouri man and lived the cowboy way. For AD Rates Raiders FDC made the last ride with Every time I shoot his Uberti Jingo to his final resting place. As an Winchester ‘73 at a match, I’ll KIRSTEN • (505) 843-1320 Army Veteran, he took his place at remember the good times. the Rock Island National Cemetery, Vaya Con Dios! Page 58 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

AmbuSh At hAt CReek By Jasper Agate, SASS #11697

urney, CA – BeeBad, SASS long range. I spent the rest of my our guns before dinner. #25307, and I have been day at long range and didn’t even get The weather gods weren’t with hearing about this shoot for my side match guns dirty! us that evening, and it started to Ba few years, and everyone After a quick clean up, it was off to rain just as we arrived at the ban - who has attended said it was a beau - the potluck sponsored by the home quet to listen to the band. The rain tiful place and a good shoot to boot! club, the Shasta Regulators. We spent put a damper on the outside affair, We are home after seven years on the rest of the evening visiting with affecting not only the evening’s din - the road and could schedule in this old friends, including the Possum ner and the side match awards, but shoot, and we’re sure glad we did! Holler folks from The Ukiah Gun the musicians ran for cover with The drive up was beautiful, as we Club. They are a wonderful group of their equipment. Winners 49er Royal Flush, have never been up to that area of cowboys that make you feel right at A few of us brave souls stuck SASS #78333 Northern California. The range was home in their camp, just watch out for around for the Night Plainsman C Cowboy Gus Ashcroft, set back in the woods with camping their Apple Pie! I’m not talking about Match; that’s right, I said a Night SASS #27341 either on the flats below the range, the kind served with ice cream!!! Plainsman match!! What a hoot!! Cowgirl Camp Hag, with an outstanding view, or up in The following day was an early Four of us intrepid souls loaded our SASS #84031 the woods at the top of the hill. We start with six stages to shoot before cap and ball revolvers, grabbed up Duelist Rico Kid, chose the later. We both like smaller lunch. We knew almost everyone on our single shot rifles and shotguns, SASS #13942 annual matches, and with 83 shoot - our posse, and it was a great posse! and shot late into the night! E Statesman De Sabla Don, ers it was the perfect size for us. It BeeBad was the first to shoot for the Stranger, SASS #16621, and the SASS #76121 F Cartridge Smokin Gator, seems you can get to know most day, and the posse leaders, Lefty guys that put on that part of the SASS #29736 everyone at a more intimate match. Hangfire, SASS #32069, and Lefty match deserve a big thanks from us Frontiersman Tumbleweed Ed, We arrived on Thursday after - Malone, SASS #37703, weren’t quite Plainsmen! They worked really hard SASS # 65484 noon and had a great Mexican ready for her full house 12-gauge to ensure we had a great time with Gunfighter Speedy McDraw, potluck with a group of our friends blackpowder loads! The stages were big rifle targets way the heck out SASS #60016 that evening. The Management was inventive and had lots of different there. At one point I heard one of the Junior Hammerin Hank, very friendly and seemed to make it sweeps. The targets might be a little helpers say if I blew out another SASS #79046 to all the different camps to say small for some, but everyone had to lamp, they were going to make me L 49er Redwood Rose, hello. Friday was a side match day shoot at the same steel! After the pay for it! I don’t quite understand SASS #60017 L F Cartridge Jessie Lyn, with a wonderful long-range semi - first six stages, we ate a late lunch what the problem was. I was shoot - SASS #7989 nar put on by Red Blaze, SASS and most headed back to camp to get ing a cute little roller in .50-70 and a L Senior Marsha Dillon, #5313, and Old Curly, SASS #3351. ready for the evening’s festivities. 10-guage ‘87. Doesn’t everyone play SASS #9634 BeeBad took the class and ended up I hung around for a run at the the game with big bore guns? L Wrangler Ima Goner, beating me at long range. She Shotgun Frenzy, and I’m sure glad I So, to recap my Saturday, I shot SASS #77027 learned a lot from those boys! They did!! A minimum of 29 targets, rang - from 8:30 in the morning until 10:30 Senior Rambling Dave, also offered cowboy silhouette, a ing from potatoes hung on rebar to a at night, and I had a ball! The next SASS #21864 wonderful Shotgun Frenzy, I’ll tell Texas star, and all the poppers morning came way early after my S Duelist Kid Kneestone, you more about that later, a .22 loaded with full coke cans and char - late night with four more stages to SASS #14851 S Senior Whiskey Rivers, match, and all the other side match - coal briquettes were all you could shoot before the team-shoot and the SASS #15783 es you would expect to find. I shot want to shoot. I was fortunate awards. That day’s stages were more Wrangler Simpson Shootist, cowboy silhouette before the seminar enough to shoot first that afternoon of the same with us ending on their SASS #71732 and after a break for lunch headed to so I could get back to camp and clean infamous shotgun stage, and it was a June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 59

good one! We started with rifle tar - to be cut down with rifles. It was a gets at the end of the berm followed very good team shoot!!!! by two snakes (pieces of some 1 1/4 " Despite the rain on Saturday hose) that needed to be shot across a and a few minor glitches that accom - line. The four poppers loaded with pany a small match, it was a blast. soda cans were next as you moved The Shasta Regulators made us feel down range towards the revolver tar - right at home even though it was our gets. You ended the stage with the first time at their range. We will def - rifle targets used as revolver targets. initely be putting this one on the cal - The team shoot was fun with five endar for next year. The setting was person teams and 50 knockdown sil - beautiful, and the drive was breath - houette targets shot with revolvers taking. Maybe I can redeem myself and any misses made up with shot - next year and beat my dear wife at guns before engaging a post that had long range … or maybe not! Page 60 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

Smokeout in the hillS 2009 ! By Goose Jennings, SASS #60298

infield, TN – Maybe it is Saloon, the Campfire Olympics took clean our guns ‘cause blackpowder is, the history, the Kentucky place with a chili cook-off, best brew well, you know, dirty, icky, gummy Wlong rifle taming the first sampling, pie eating contest, and and nasty—hence, the attraction. wild, wild west. Maybe it’s the loca - everyone’s favorite best liar contest. By evening, the rain had cleared tion, on the soil where cap and ball It’s the event where each contestant and all cowpokes gathered in the took the lives of both blue and gray. begins his/her tale with, “This is the saloon to dine on homemade, slow Maybe it’s the beauty, the mountains honest truth, I swear, I wouldn’t lie cooked, pulled pork barbeque, com - draped with yellow, orange, and gold, to you nice people,” and the audience pliments of the Highland Regulators the complementary colors to gray. starts reaching for the shovels. I don’t know what it is, but SASS Saturday morning the match brothers and sisters, if you have not began in a cool mist that accentuated shot blackpowder in the Appalachian the black smoke. Shooters were transported to Deadwood, South Dakota where we assisted Sheriff Seth Bullock against Al Swear ingen’s thugs from the Gem Saloon. We shot bank robbers, outlaws, and horse The Possum Trot Saloon offered thieves. We shot them at the livery, comfortable respite from the the depot, and through every window misty/rainy weather, especially or door we could find. We shot the Early on the weather was on during the best brew sampling. Death Star (whoops that’s a sci-fi ref - the “iffy” side. hack, gasp) black smoke. The event erence)—the Texas Star, which own Iron Chefs. Then in our post is held at the Possum Trot Trading proved deadly to many a shooter’s gluttonous stupors, we kicked back to Post in Winfield, Tennessee and time. And when we had this frontier the smooth, sweet music from south - attracts shooters from as far away as town under control, we rushed off to ern rock and blues band, MilkBone. Texas and Michigan. It also attracts Their lead singer is cowboy Honest, I wouldn’t lie to you END of TRAIL Champions like Blackwater Desperado, who starts a nice people … Copperhead Joe, Silver City Rebel, T- song sounding like himself and ends Mountains, your cowboy life is Bone, and No Purse Nez. What’s it sounding just like John Fogarty. incomplete. And the BEST way to more, this year a third of the regis - Sunday morning was cool, crisp, fill this void is The Smokeout in the trants arrived two days early just to and very still, bad news for anyone Hills—The SASS Kentucky and visit, spit in the fire, and play poker. interested in actually seeing a tar - Tennessee Blackpowder Shootout. Now that’s love. get. Arthritic knees popped and Hosted by the Highland Regu - Friday was dedicated to side backs cracked while bobbing around lators (Possum Trot) and Greene matches. Cowboys and girls pushed to take aim. Chilled shooters formed County Regulators and held the their guns well beyond the limits circles around the campfires and cof - fourth weekend of October, this Misters Winchester and Colt had Cheyenne Culpepper demonstrates feepots provided warm stimulation annual shoot has become a well-oiled planned for both speed and volume. remarkable form, style, and between every stage. Heck, one match of fun, speed, and (cough, That evening in the Possum Trot expertise in the pie-eating contest! (Continued on next page) OFF THE WALL . Gun Carts , 7 Cart styles Suited for the Rowdiest 3 Species of wood Cowboys & Cowgirls 224 N. howard st. 7 Wheel options Greentown, indiana 46936 2 Wagons Tel: (765) 628-2050 2 New Sheriffs Rack Fax: (765) 628-1899 E-mail: [email protected] “The Ultimate Gun Cart for C.A.S.” Now a SASS Gun ther Cart wright www.guncarts.com Affiliated Merchant SASS Life Member #20136 June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 61

Winners L 49er Shotgun Schoolmarm, 49er Ringer, SASS #48552 SASS #56734 B Western Copperhead Joe, L B Western Perfecto Vaquera, SASS #39162 SASS #69780 Buckeroo Vaquero Jake, L Duelist Iron Maiden, SASS #69781 SASS #67188 C Cowboy Buffalo Dick, L F Cartridge No Purse Nez, SASS #12880 SASS #17532 C Cowgirl Bella Spencer, L Gunfighter Last Kiss, SASS #63491 SASS #34954 Cowboy Little Wing, L Senior Kitty Kitty Bang Bang, SASS #18241 SASS #59861 Duelist Will Reilly, L Traditional Triple B, SASS #68449 SASS #12375 L Wrangler Kill-em-all Kate, E Statesmen Papa Dave, SASS #45804 SASS #17266 Outlaw Tennessee Tombstone, FCD Black Jack Beeson, SASS #34723 SASS #11523 Senior Baby Bull, F Cartridge Black Tom, SASS #52542 SASS #43775 S Duelist Cherokee Big Dog, Frontiersman Stone Creek Drifter, SASS #17531 SASS #58853 Silver Senior K.C. Jones, Gunfighter Tall Drink A Water, SASS #39124 SASS #68448 Wrangler Shaddai Vaquero, Josey Wales Lucky Lee Roy, SASS #69779 SASS #31712

(Continued from previous page) boy hat makers in America; a very stage even had a Ben Franklin pot - talented engraver; and an embroider, belly stove complete with roaring Mose N Bella, who could make the fire. That organizing committee Possum Trot logo look fantastic on thinks of everything, including any garment. another homemade meal for lunch. I Sunday afternoon awards were counted—that was two breakfasts, presented to the Kentucky and two lunches, and two dinners all Tennessee champions of each cate - included in the registration fee! gory. Handshakes and best wishes The match attracted several ven - were exchanged and commitments loads are never an issue with this wrangler down, which in turn start - dors, including True West Mercantile were made for next year’s match blackpowder match. One shooter’s ed a small rock slide that broke out with some beautiful/handsome cloth - which, dear reader, I hope you are loads were so heavy the percussion a car window. Honest, I wouldn’t lie ing; Brims and Trims, the finest cow - doing as well. I might mention light waves literally knocked a lady to you nice people … Page 62 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

the SASS ! ioWA StAte ChAmpionShip By Ranger Mathias Fischels, SASS #71753

vansdale, Iowa July 31st – for those that had items pertaining to speed pistol, long range EAug 2nd – The Turkeyfoot the sport they wished to sell. pistol, and, of course, the Cowboys hosted “Ambush on the Friday morning the final touches infamous Iowa Chal - Prairie” at the Turkeyfoot Range. were put into place, vendors were lenge, which this year The Turkeyfoot range has continued given assigned areas to setup their had a new twist. The to evolve over the years, and 2009 wares, and registration packets were Iowa Sweep Challenge was no exception. laid out in anticipation of early (traditional Iowa Chal- There were those that came to arrivals. The stage was set for the lenge) and All Round visit with old friends, to have some “2009 SASS Iowa State Cham - Gun Hand (contestants good ole fashion fun, some cama - pionship.” Expectations were high. had to shoot in all three raderie, and meet and make new Every minute detail was covered for styles—Traditional two acquaintances. Some came to try a second and third time. The hand method, Duelist, and claim the Iowa Championship or Turkeyfoot Cowboys were ready to and Gunfighter). Every overall winner. There were those welcome all comers. entry to the Iowa that wanted it all. It was a good beginning to what Challenge earned a raf - We had 82 confirmed contest - was going to be a gorgeous three day fle ticket toward the ants, 16 sponsors promoting the event with plenty of shooting for main prize giveaways, a Clean Shooters event (four of which were on site). everyone, ten main stages, eight side pair of Cimarron Model (left to right front row) – Lefty Henderson, Folks came from eight states to par - matches, and the Iowa Challenge, P revolvers, one in .45 Trigger Happy Zach ticipate in a great shooting event. We which would give everyone their Long Colt and the other (left to right back row) – Triggerlock, M I Dun, even had a cowboy/cowgirl barn sale shooting money’s worth. in .38/.357 caliber, along Lieutenant Gatewood, High Plains Sodbuster, Tryin’ Hard, Pokey Loader, and Mosey West The day start - with other great prizes ed with registra - donated by our generous sponsors. stages in the morning, indulging tion for those that Out of the ten main stage sce - lunch (more like a feast), side match - didn’t pre-regis - narios, there were a combination of es, and the Iowa Challenge. ter, picking up close target, knock-down shotgun There was plenty of time to visit packets, looking and rifle targets, targets a far, a bell the vendors between lunch and the through the book - to ring, and even a herd of buffaloes. side matches. Janniece Kanellis put let, reconnoitering Scenarios were straightforward and on a feed both Saturday and Sunday the 10 main easy to manipulate, through. that was beyond belief. No wonder stages, and warm - Saturday morning started with a she has earned the reputation of ing up with the cowboy welcome, the mandatory safe - having “The best darn chuck wagon side matches. ty meeting with an emphasis put on west of the Mississippi.” No one Side matches con - any stage that required movement, went away hungry. Daily Costume Top Ten Shooters sisted of der - SASS news from our Territorial awards were given for best dressed (left to right) – Trigger Happy Zach, Lefty Henderson, ringer, pocket pis - Governor, Dusty Tagalon, and the on the range. Turkey Legs, Wild Buckhorn Bill, Capt Jim Midnight, tol, 5 x 5, speed Pledge of Allegiance. Five posses After shooting ended around Blaze O Glory, Hatchet Molly, Mockingbird, and Wild rifle, speed shot - were assigned and posse photos 4:00 p.m., folks headed for their Ben Raymond. Missing from picture – Flyen Doc Koyote gun pump/double, taken. We were shooting five main (Continued on page 64 ) June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 63 Page 64 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 The SASS Iowa State Championship . . . and a long list of great folks that came together throughout the year (Continued from page 62 ) multitude of dance moves. In no to make it all happen. Thanks to our ranches to clean up and dress up in time we put on an old fashion coun - vendors that supported this great their best attire for the banquet. The try hoedown and entertained the sport, without them it would make it banquet, awards, and costume con - crowd. The next hour and a half very difficult to survive. And, thanks tests were accompanied by some proved to be a fantastic time. to Kingdom Kid for creating the good ole fashion country music, The costume contest brought Ambush on the Prairie booklet and square dance calling, and teaching out the best in several categories— stage scenarios, Dusty Tagalon for some of the old barn dances, all spon - Best Dressed Formal wear for deciphering the scores, and the sored by Colorado Rock Mountain Gentleman, Best Dressed Cowboy, Turkeyfoot family. Dancers, aka Christina Moreland. Best Military outfit, Ladies Best It was fantastic weather for a A small group of brave souls Dressed Formal wear, Ladies Best fun-filled 2009 “Ambush on the took to the floor, and Christina pro - Dressed Cowgirl, Ladies Best Prairie” Iowa State Championship. vided step-by-step instructions to a Pioneer or Frontier outfit, and Best The upcoming 2010 season promises Dressed Couple. There were a lot to be even more exciting. of great looking folks that partici - Till we meet again … Keep your pated, and it was tough for the sights in life pointed down range, judges to decide. be deliberate in your actions, and Sunday morning began with enjoy life to its fullest. cowboy church presided over by Overall Men Champ Kingdom Kid. The cowboy choir was Wild Ben Raymond lead by Greenbrier Rose. Then, the awards presentation was completed mandatory safety meeting and and photos taken. Pledge of Allegiance. All five posses The moment arrived that every - were energized and ready to engage one had been waiting for—the final the remaining five main stages. results. You could see the anticipa - After finishing the main stages, tion in the faces of those who knew folks broke for lunch and visited the they had a great several days of vendors. There was an overwhelm - shooting. As the names were called ing amount of enthusiasm for the out, the crowd congratulated each Iowa Challenge. All shooting ended winner and runner up with cheers, by 3:00 p.m. Scores were tallied for handshakes, whistling, and applaud - all categories, and raffle tickets were ing. Spirit of the Game certificates drawn for the main prizes. were handed out to those folks that As much as SASS is about the really stood out amongst their poss - Iowa State Champs sport of shooting, it’s also about the es. Award certificates were given to Wild Ben Raymond and costuming, and everyone was encour - the nine clean shooters. Overall Women Champ Granny Annie aged to stay in costume ‘till the Thanks to all who participated Hatchet Molly

Winners Senior Rattler Lane, Iowa State Champs SASS #66254 Brendanna’s First Clean Match . . . Man Wild Ben Raymond, F Cartridge Silverado Rider, (Continued from page 31 ) shotgun. The first thing I did was SASS #23108 SASS #59120 Lady Granny Annie, Side Matches next day I went out to my gun call Rose to see if I had somehow SASS #37063 shop and cleaned all the guns from got her shotgun. She said no, but Overall Champs Man George Emmett, the previous day’s match and put it might be Brendanna’s, and she Man Wild Ben Raymond SASS #61160 them in the gun vault. We don’t would call her to see. Sure enough, Lady Hatchet Molly, Lady Greenbier Rose, practice, so that’s where the guns she had my shotgun, and I had SASS #59032 SASS #50211 stayed for the next three weeks. hers. She had been so excited to Categories Long Range Revolver The Friday night before the shoot the match clean and win one Frontiersman Dusty Tagalon, Man Kingdom Kid, September shoot, I started getting of the new clean match awards, she SASS #32291 SASS #46970 everything we would need for the had picked up the wrong gun on S Duelist Wheeler, Lady Hatchet Molly SASS #4487 Speed Revolver match on Saturday (we being the unloading table and took it Gunfighter Blaze O Glory, Man Mockingbird, myself and my wife of 27 years, home. My excuse is the summer - SASS #33128 SASS #22893 Dolly Judice, SASS #79638). I time heat has been very hard on S Senior Dry Fire, Lady Hatchet Molly began with the truck, getting the me the last few years, and after a SASS #48383 Speed Rifle ammo, leather, gun cart, and the match I’m really exhausted, even L 49’er Turkey Legs, Man Captain Jim signs for the club. Then it was into the next day. Needless to say, SASS #48384 Midnight, time to get the guns into the gun I have my shotgun back, and Wrangler Mockingbird, SASS #32438 cases. When I opened the gun Brendanna has hers. Now she SASS #22893 Lady Hatchet Molly vault, I noticed something wrong wants to “mistakenly” take home 49’er Flyen Doc Koyote, Pocket Pistol SASS #31508 Man Huckleberry with the shotguns—they were both her rifle and revolvers so I can L B-Western Calamity Judy, Lady Miss Kitty Morris, the same length. I shoot an clean those guns, since Mongoose SASS #45808 SASS #74587 unmodified Stouger SXS, and Dolly won’t do it for her. If the heat ever C Cowboy Lefty Henderson, Speed Shotgun shoots a shorter Stouger SXS gets so bad that I mistake SASS #55021 Double loaned to her by Coyote Rose. All Brendanna’s Birdshead .32s for my L Duelist Granny Annie Man George Emmitt of a sudden, I started to feel sick. I .357 Blackhawks, I will have to Cowboy Wild Ben Raymond, Lady Granny Annie thought, “This isn’t my shotgun!” give up this sport! SASS #23108 Pump And it wasn’t. I had brought home, P.S. Mongoose, PLEASE go L S Senior Granger Grannie, Man Flyen Doc Koyote cleaned, and put up someone else’s clean Brendanna’s guns! SASS #44508 Lady Turkey Legs Duelist Huckleberry, 5 x 5 SASS #43860 Man Captain Jim L Wrangler Hatchet Molly Midnight E Statesman High Plain Lady Hatchet Molly VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT Sodbuster, SASS #52722 WWW.SASSNET.COM June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 65 Page 66 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

uS open – 2009 By Ringo Fire, SASS #46037 Photos provided by Sugah, SASS #80446, and Major Photography

Opening ceremony with the local VFW representatives parta, IL – The U.S. Open, the and our mounted flag presentations. name alone conjures up visions of Shigh caliber athletes in top notch competition. That, my friends, is exact - ly what there was at the 1st ever SASS U.S. Open of Cowboy Action Shooting™, held September 10–13, 2009 at the Sparta, Illinois World

Winners Kaskaskia Cowboys tribute to 49er Asleep At The Wheel, Opening gate. U.S. Veterans. SASS #47187 Buckaroo Campo Kid, over by Back 40, SASS #23910, and SASS #82432 Overall Winners, B-Western Copperhead Joe, Two Sons, SASS #12636, and Slick McClade, SASS #69490; a SASS #39162 Deuce Stevens, SASS # 55996. Mounted Shooting exhibition, put on by C Cowboy Cowhand, Okaw, SASS #30137, and Cowhand; SASS #63559 Shooting and Recreational Complex. plus Cowboy Church in the mounted C Cowgirl Bella Spencer, The Dooley Gang was asked to put on arena on Sunday morning. SASS #63491 a championship quality Cowboy Action The 10-stage main match began Cowboy Deuce Stevens, Shooting™ match. So, after the Saturday with each stage being spon - SASS #55996 Complex became SASS affiliated and sored by a SASS major match, includ - Cowgirl Sugah, SASS #80446 received the go-ahead from the Wild ing four Regionals. The stages were a Duelist Doc Roy L. Pain, SASS #28321 Bunch, the Dooley Gang rolled up their nice mixture of stand-and-deliver and E Statesmen Spintler Houser, sleeves and went to work. Since the movement, with 9 of the 10 stages SASS #20742 Shooting Complex had 12 permanent being Gunfighter friendly. The targets F Cartridge Ringer, SASS #48552 stages (with plans for several more!) were the epitome of big and close, with F C Duelist Billy Boots, and all of the targets we could use, the pistol targets set at three to five yards SASS #20282 Gang got off to a roaring start. In spite and rifle targets set at seven to ten Mascoutah Marc with an over-the-top maneuver. Frontiersman Split Rail, of a few roadblocks along the way, side yards. Of the 184 shooters entered in SASS #24707 match day arrived right on time. the match, 181 showed up to shoot. Grand Dame Tootsie Pop, As shooters began showing up (Continued on page 68 ) SASS #41486 Gunfighter Max Montana, Friday morning, they were greeted by SASS #23907 four characters of dubious intent. T- Lady Turkey Legs, Bone Dooley, SASS #36388, Nuttin’ SASS #48384 Graceful, SASS #39117, Cowhand, L B-Western Pinky Buscadero, SASS #63559, and myself welcomed SASS #74038 shooters to the match, directed them to L Duelist Iron Maiden, the sign-up building, and filled them SASS #67188 with a fair amount of BS before sending L F Cartridge Ruthless McDraw, them on their way. There was a little SASS #37556 LGunfighter Buffy Logal, something for everybody: the normal SASS #46039 array of side matches (alas, no long L Senior Two Sons, range this year); a Wild Bunch™ match Buck D. Law proves they were SASS #12636 (with well over 40 entrants) presided really that close. L S Senior Miss Weev, SASS #76367 L Wrangler Dew R Dye, Scream N Squaw, SASS #82429, SASS #59089 blastin’ away. Outlaw T-Bone Dooley, SASS #36388 Senior Ole Short Tom, SASS #12635 S Duelist Lucky Lennie, SASS #22244 S F Cartridge Life-R, SASS #44051 S Gunfighter Ugly, SASS #18106 Silver Senior Col. R. M. Moore, SASS #11654 Wrangler Aint Dunit, SASS #71048 Cowboy Church by horseback. Truly a sight to see! How about a hayride from 10 to 1? June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 67 Page 68 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

US Open – 2009 . . . By all accounts, this was a suc - (Continued from page 66 ) cessful match, with general consen - Shooters from all across the sus being this one is going to be big. country, Pennsylvania to Texas, The dates for the 2010 U.S. Open are Michigan to Alabama, a great many September 8–12. of whom were World, National, One final thing. There’s an old Regional or State champions, helped western saying, “going to see the ele - kick off this inaugural event with phant,” which I took to mean you’ve got great success. Deuce Stevens, SASS to see it to believe it. In my opinion, #55996, was the Over-All Match the World Shooting and Recreational Champion. Just the week before, Complex is the finest shooting complex Deuce was doing a bang-up job as the in the nation, if not the entire world. match director for the SASS With everything they have to offer, Michigan State Cham pionship! The such as 1,000 full electrical and water top lady competitor was two-time hook-ups for RVs, 20 private showers, World Champion Two Sons, SASS 5 stocked lakes, 3 dump stations, 2 #12636, from Indiana. Several guns restaurants, and a paaartriiidge in a were given away at the awards cere - pear tree! Words alone cannot do it mony, which was over by two p.m., justice, so, at some point, do yourself a allowing shooters ample time to get a favor and “go and see the elephant.” good leg up on their journeys home. You won’t be disappointed! June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 69 Page 70 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 bSASS hAll of fAme B (Continued from page 1) her to graduate from college with President of the Coto Cowboys for six Rebel was invited to join the Wild a degree in business marketing. years, hosted monthly matches, and Bunch and use his military logistics Today, Holy Terror is working for introduced the ammo burner, 21 experience to help in the relocation GLOCK Inc. in Smyrna, Georgia, stage match, “Just Shootin’.” In and production of END of TRAIL. where she lives with her husband. 1992, he won the Frontier Cartridge In the ensuing years Rebel took She is looking forward to shooting category at the Winter Range responsibility for the non-shooting SASS for many years to come. National Championships. side of the fence for END of TRAIL, Doc became the National Director and Lady Rebel continued to develop of SASS Mounted Shooting in 1996 the next generation of cowboys and together with his horse, Sonny, through expansion of the Kids Korral. traveled over 30,000 miles annually As their own children became old to promote SASS Mounted Shooting enough to shoot, Young Un, SASS Life Holy Terror and develop Mounted Shooting clubs #940, and Lori Dani Dixie, SASS Life across the United States. As a #1695, carved out roles for them - Holy Terror, Mounted Shooter, he was Reserve selves, as shooters and Regulators. SASS #13562 Division Two Champion at the 1998 Lori even began writing a monthly State Championship match, Reserve column for The Cowboy Chronicle . oly Terror aka Randi Rogers Champion at Chisholm Trail SASS got this family as a TEAM, started shooting in 1998 H Roundup, Senior World Champion at constantly working together to ensure when she was eleven years old. END of TRAIL in 2000, and Overall END of TRAIL was successful, and She spent a summer with her Champion at the South Central developing ideas and being role mod - grandfather, Evil Roy, SASS Regional Championships in 2000. els for how to make the event fun. #2883, in Durango, Colorado. They were constantly visible organiz - Fearing she would get bored, he Doc Bones ing, installing, and working to see started taking her to the range that all shooters, vendors, riders, wad - when he went to practice. Later Doc Bones, dies, conventioneers, and spectators that year, Holy Terror moved to got in and out of END of TRAIL, were Durango and took up shooting SASS #158 safe, and had a good time. Later, permanently. orn in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1941, Rebel’s brother, Oracle, SASS Life Holy Terror’s shooting career Dan Howard, a.k.a. “Doc Bones,” B #4854, joined this constantly working is filled with firsts. Through the grew up around Quarter horses, team and was key in the hardest task, years she has competed in local, guns, and many of the great, authen - clean up after the event. State, Regional, National, and tic cowboys of the era. He developed With the guidance of other Wild World championships. As she his athletic prowess at an early age Bunch members and an army of grew and matured, she accom - and earned the title of Oklahoma friends and supporters, the legacy of plished many different goals she Junior Calf Roping Champion. He this family transcends years of dedi - set for herself. Most notably, in went on to capture titles in wrestling cated service to their friends, shooters, 2002 at only 15 years old, she and football and at the University of and SASS. finished 15th overall at END of Tulsa, he was selected for the Rebel & Lady Rebel TRAIL winning her first High Scholastic All Lady World Championship. This Team and captured the Floyd Neil Rebel, SASS #549 also made her the first woman to Martin Award for Scholastic and compete in the Top 20 Shoot-off. Athletic achievement. Lady Rebel, SASS #550 The next year she became the Doc’s first endeavor in comple - n the pre-SASS days of Cowboy first woman to finish in the top tive gun sports began with Bench IAction Shooting™, cowboy match - ten at the World Championships Rest Shooting while still in es and END of TRAIL were held at when she finished ninth. At the Oklahoma. When he moved to Coto de Caza in Southern California. 2006 World Championships, she California, he continued his involve - A young family from Tennessee won both the Ladies Sweet 16 ment and won the California Bench started participating as competitors and the Master Gunfighter Rest Rifle Championships in 1986, and supporters of the sport. Rebel, shoot-off. In 2008, she won the and also added trap and skeet to his SASS Life #549, and Lady Rebel, first ever Wild Bunch match at list of interests. SASS Life #550, shot in these match - the World Championships. Doc holds a degree as a Doctor es, using Cowboy Action Shooting™ In addition to her shooting, of Chiropractic Medicine and to help raise their children in the Elder Katie Holy Terror has been involved was the Director of Physical Cowboy Way. Shortly after SASS with SASS in several different Medicine for Bristol Park Medical was formed, Lady Rebel began activ - ways. Holy Terror has taught at Group, hence the alias, “Doc Bones.” ities for young family members, and The Elder Katie, the Evil Roy Shooting School While attending a mystery din - this evolved into what is known since its inception in 2000. She ner, he was introduced to single today as the Kids Korral. Using her SASS #5707 has also written many articles for action shooting by R.J. Poteet, knowledge as a Physical Education he Elder Katie, aka Karen The Cowboy Chronicle and given SASS #3. This introduction led to teacher, Lady Rebel based the Kids TJennings, started shooting at the seminars at The SASS Conven - Doc’s lifelong involvement in SASS Korral activities on games and crafts age of five with her father. He was tion. Holy Terror has also been a Cowboy Action Shooting™ as it of the cowboy era. She received her her teacher and his most important representative for the sport encompassed both his love of guns Regulators badge with the first rule was safety. You simply didn’t speaking to the AZ State and the cowboy way. As badge group of recepients. make a mistake when you handled a Legislature, a Women and Guns #158, Doc became a member of the As Rebel was retiring from the firearm, and that rule was one of the Conference, and instructing SASS Wild Bunch Board of Army, SASS and END of TRAIL were most important factors in why Katie SASS shooters in New Zealand. Directors in 1991. During his four - maturing and the matches moved to started Cowboy Action Shooting™. The SASS Scholarship helped teen-year tenure, he served as Norco, California. At that time, She joined SASS in 1996 after June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 71 b 2010 B shooting matches for several years. fan of the early B-Western As time went on, she became more movies, which shaped the way he involved locally, and after meeting thought and lived for the rest of members of the Wild Bunch, she his life. Joe moved to Houston decided she wanted to be a when he was 12 and that’s was Territorial Governor in Washington his home ever since. He was a State. Sometime after that she was decorated WW-II hero and later presented with a Regulator Badge opened a boot shop where he from Judge Roy Bean. made what we would today call Through the years she has B-Western Boots. He was later been a SASS Recruiter, and cur - twice nominated for the rently is a Territorial Governor, American Handgunner of the SASS Wire Moderator, and an Year Award and received a spe - RO–I & –II Instructor, a SASS cial Texas Ranger badge from a Scholarship Judge, and in 2005 Governor of the State of Texas. was named the “SASS Governor of In addition to his Straight the Year” at the SASS Convention. Shooter Shows, he participated She has been traveling to in fast draw competitions, Europe recently as a SASS coached movie stars in gun han - Representative, teaching future dling, and taught police and RO Instructors in Norway, Sweden, SWAT teams the fine art of Finland, Italy, Hungary, Serbia, instinct shooting. Czech Republic, France, Austria, Joe’s Straight Shooter act Luxembourg, and Germany with included shooting aspirin tablets more in the near future. at 30 paces, putting out two can - Traveling to Europe has ful - dles by splitting .22 bullets on an filled several dreams of Katie’s. axe head, splitting cards edge One, she loves to travel, and two, she wise, slight of hand card tricks, gets to meet new friends and cow - and a running commentary of boys. She says it’s like starting the Old West stories. He shot aerial adventure all over again. The game targets with his six-guns and is fairly new in Europe, and it has performed over the shoulder invigorated Katie. shots using a diamond ring as a And yes, she still shoots. As mirror. Joe could draw and accu - she says, not good, not bad, but rately shoot three rounds from then she has other priorities. They this six-gun so fast it sounded are family, friends, and cowboys. like a single report. He toured throughout the United States as well as internationally. Joe lived by a code spawned by those old Western movies where it was easy to understand the difference between good and bad. “He could never quite accept a world in which Roy Rogers no longer counted.” So much of what Joe did during his life was to remind folks of their childhood and those morality plays on the big screen. He was also dedicated to preserving images of the Old West for those who came to the West expecting Joe Bowman – to see cowboys, fancy six-gun The Straight Shooter handling, and the polite “can-do” attitude of the American Cowboy. Joe Bowman, Joe, the Straight Shooter” Bowman was the personification SASS #3800 of the myth of the Old West, and The Straight Shooter will be fondly remembered for a Vaquero Pistolero long time to come. August 12, 1925 – June 28, 2009 oe was born in Johnson City, JTennessee in 1925 and early on learned to shoot, dispatching flies on a garbage can with his trusty BB gun! He was an avid / Page 72 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 . Chimney RoCk . (Continued from page 1) sion was in full swing, and revelers their performance. Their perform - heavily pink-ified to remind folks of array of shotgun targets were sang, danced, and enjoyed them - ance, whether with gun or bottle, the disease cancer, which they are engaged. It was a great opportunity selves well into the night. was impressive on both counts! To determined to shoot down, ranged to show shooting and dance skills. Friday, the main match began top it off, talented German gun - from spectacular to hysterical. After the gunfire had echoed in earnest. Did I mention it was a smith, Shotgun Boogie, SASS Every one of them shot safely, and into the hills, and the smoke drift - challenge? Rangemaster Ransome #67870, could usually be found, up well, but they showed how much ed off into the twilight, it was time Hawk, SASS #18185, was full of to his elbows in gun parts, at all fun a posse could have, even while for the night to come to life. devious tricks, with lots of action hours of the night, coaxing the best competing at a major match. Every Different shooters prepare for a for the Cowboy Action Shooters. I performance possible out of anx - clean stage got an enthusiastic main match in different ways, so at suspect the blurred vision of a few ious cowboys’ guns. WHOO-YEAH!!!! that echoed up some of the campsites, bores were late-night revelers might have I had the honor and privilege of and down the firing line. At one swabbed, springs tested, and skewed the outcome of the match. being the Posse Marshal for one of point, the posse next to us came screws were tightened. At others, But, the indefatigable Euros two Pinkerbelle Posses. With over to see what all the commotion the clink of bottles and the sound packed away all manner of fine hearts of gold and clothes of pink, was about. It seems they were hav - of laughter filled the air. At imported brew, on a nightly basis, these fine cowboys and ‘gals were ing trouble hearing their gunfire Twitchy Finger’s saloon, a jam ses - without any discernable impact on an absolute hoot. Their costumes, over the whooping and hollering lASt StAnd At Chimney RoCk . At Home Abroad! . By Westphalian Phil, SASS #5897

ucerne Valley, Southern California he was hardly able to keep up! sisting of BT-Blade, Lucky Wheeler, Young - – There were some strange looks we As the environment became increasingly blood, Lacy Anne Leather, Cliffhanger, Lreceived early Wednesday morning, rural, dusty, and hot, we knew we were getting Desert Dawg, Ransome Hawk, Kentucky October 7th, when our posse strolled through closer, and then there it finally was—Chimney Gal, and many others turned these wonder - the Frankfurt Airport, since Westphalian Rock! “Home” with friends! We pulled into ful days into perfect days. Throughout the Phil, Shotgun Boogie, Colorado Frank, el the camping space our friend Waggoners Fritz entire time, we met great new folks, as well Hekito, Pipers Pearl, and Olli the Kid all defended with his life and quickly got into our as many friends from our previous visits. wore Cowboy hats, which needless to say is cowboy gear. We planned to hurry to registra - The evening entertainment consisted of a something strange in Germany. The flight tion and then on to the side matches. Yeah, very nice play, a poker tournament (beware: was not big, but a rather long deal, immigra - right! Like that could have worked! From going “all in” after half a bottle of 12 year old tion no problem, and customs professional, everywhere we heard friendly “Hellos!” and rum is not a good idea when you hope for a but officials were a little curious about these between all the heartfelt welcoming, we man - draw after the needed card was already folks bringing a total of 26 cowboy guns and aged to get 1/3 of the side matches done and dealt!), superb dinner, and great music enter - a gazillion rounds of ammo to the US. get some of the jetlag out of our systems. tainment from Frederick Jackson Turner Once cleared into the country, we were Thank God we managed to get the “Twitchy and the band, “Big Red Sky,” motivated met by our good friend, Marshal Bob Wilcox Fingers Saloon Fight” done because that is Shotgun Boogie to scout for single Ladies to from Atlanta, whom we had the pleasure of about as forbidden in Germany as it gets. kidnap to the dance floor! shooting with back home in Germany. True Hitting, stabbing, shooting through windows Waking up on Sunday was naturally hard - cowboy-gentleman that he is, he brought and doors, and knocking people off barstools er than on other days, and not only because of flowers for our only lady in the group and with tequila bottles is just a little too much for severe jetlag. All complaining did not change helped us haul the tons of luggage to the air - the German authorities! Perhaps that’s the the fact that attendance at the Top Gun port hotel where we spent the first night. reason we wanted to shoot it so badly. Shoot-Off was mandatory since not only some Needless to say, Bob Wilcox’s room was After the superb warm up with a of us guys actually made it, but also our lady, prepped for a little welcoming reception with thrilling variety of side matches, we finished Pipers Pearl, fought her way into contention! enough cases of beer to last for the duration the evening with a couple of beers among And just when we thought you can’t ask for of the entire three week trip. So, we got many good friends we had not seen for a more with all the good results we were able to down to business! “Cheers!” whole year. We went to bed rather late that achieve, Westphalian Phil managed to win yet Next day we hurried to the RV place, night with intense anxiety about the next another trophy. What a weekend! grabbed the keys, and while the confused rep - day’s main match. So, it was with great satisfaction when resentative was still explaining the different Marshall Broussard’s opening “Big Bang” we broke camp, but also with great sadness, types of waters, three RVs left the premises from a flintlock musket woke us up rapidly, knowing it will be a whole year until we can with squeaking tires to make it to Lucerne and we began shooting the two-day main relive this wonderful scenery, the excellent Valley, California in time for “Side Matches!” match. A really nice variety of big targets match organization, the love for detail, and Equipped with walkie-talkies, Phil took the and relatively close distances, combined with the wonderful friendships we were blessed to lead and ignored the static he thought he was differing scenarios in a beautifully arranged witness. And, while others were leaving the hearing. After a while, he realized it was Olli western town, made for a super match that parking, we were discussing where to set up screaming through the walkie-talkie because caters to any liking. A wonderful posse con - the RV next year! June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 73 . 2009 .

The RR Bar Regulators’ Lions Pride Park props are outstanding! They could easily be used as a movie set, and many of the buildings are functional. This setting is truly a step back in time! emanating from our bay! been a couple of mild earthquakes and won the Top Gun overall. Me? Imagine the Top Gun scenario: And each day brought forth on Saturday. The targets seemed I’ve recently converted to shooting Two shooters shooting simultane - new costumes and outfits built to start moving every time the two-handed. It didn’t make a differ - ously—Alternate rifle knockdown/ around the common theme of buzzer sounded … ence. A couple of years back, I fin - stationary targets for ten shots. PINK! Pink hats, pink boots, pink When the shooting wrapped up ished 3rd overall, as a Duelist. This Two shotgun knockdowns; move; scarves, pink vests, even, gulp— on Saturday night, though, it was year, I finished 3rd overall, shooting engage four more shotgun knock - pink hair! And, they laugh. A lot. time to let down your hair, kick up two-handed. Sigh. Getting old is not downs. Move to 3rd position for 10 They hoot, they holler, they encour - your heels, and fandango! for sissies! And, of course, there alternating pistol shots. Back to age one another, they work hard, My band, Big Red Sky was hon - were those earthquakes … shotgun, where misses could be shoot straight, and laugh. Pretty ored to be the band again for the But, there was some pretty made up on a make-up plate. Back much what SASS is all about, with SASS Western Regional, and with great shooting going on to get there. (Continued on page 74 ) the underlying good intentions of guitars twanging, violin sawing, working for the Cure. Being their and bootheels kicking up a storm, Winners L Senior Pocket Change, posse leader was a pleasure, it was whatever sweat hadn’t been Overall Match Winner SASS #58694 an honor, and it was a weekend I’ll expended on the match was quickly Westphalian Phil, L S Senior Running Bare, never forget. And, the job came worked up at the dance. No one, I SASS #5897 SASS #2323 complete with a brace of pink arm mean NO ONE, parties like a bunch Western Regional Champions L Wrangler Nellie Blue, garters for me, which color-coordi - of cowpokes, and even the ‘Sky, who Man J. D. Bull, SASS SASS #54399 nated magnificently with my green have played for everything from #49954 Senior Cold Iron Charly, cowboy shirts … state fairs to college frat parties, Lady Sweetwater, SASS #40009 Although the competition was well, even they couldn’t get over SASS #1122 S Duelist Blue Ridge Ranger, fierce, sartorially, the highlight how energetic and enthusiastic the Categories SASS #31232 49’er Frederick Jackson S Gunfighter Two Gun Sam, may have been SASS #2348, Tom crowd was. It was—fantastic! Turner, SASS SASS #18045 Foolery’s, prison garb – and bright The Europeans, of course, sat #28271 S Senior Badman Bob, pink wig. quietly over in a corner, drinking B-Western Lash Latigo, SASS #70751 After bounding around cactus, imported beer from a gun cart SASS #35308 Wrangler Olli the Kid, shooting across wagons, and over hastily converted into a rolling Cowboy Westphalian Phil SASS #68338 campfires (NICE stage props, RR cooler, (GREAT idea!) singing in C Cowboy Chekahsah Joe, Costume Contest Bar!), it was time to sit back, com - heavily accented twangs to every SASS #26301 Soiled Dove Ima Schofield, pare scorecards, and prepare, each song, dancing with every girl in the Cowgirl Sweetwater SASS #50012 in their own way, for the final day joint, and practically swinging from Duelist Aimless Lee, Huckleberry Silver Tom, SASS #49904 SASS #69552 of the main match. the chandeliers. E Statesman Dr. George, SASS Working Friday night is always a bit Did I mention the catered din - #5234 Cowboy Capt. Lewis, subdued and tense at major match - ner? The incredible costumes for Frontiersman Lefty Eastman, SASS #58462 es. Hard-core competitors don’t the costume contest? The party SASS #20645 Cowgirl Brandy Rose, want to lose their edge, and less that lasted well into the night? F Cartridge Snake Bite, SASS #38294 intense shooters tend to be respect - The RR Bar Regulators expend SASS #4767 B-Western ful of that. The partying was a bit every effort to ensure a high quali - F C Duelist Larsen E. Pettifogger, Man Lash Latigo more muted than the night before. ty shooting event, and, not content SASS #32933 Lady Fannie Mostly Even the Europeans wrapped it up to rest on their laurels as one of the Gunfighter Red Haymaker, Best Dressed SASS #34218 Man Mad Trapper of Rat early, as, after only a couple of most incredible ranges in the L 49’er Irish Eyes, River, SASS #78641 quarts each, they were in bed by United States, they encourage SASS #22130 Lady Allie Mo, SASS sunup. Like I said—impressive. responses from shooters and ven - L B-Western Fannie Mostly, #25217 Whether blinded by Tom dors as to how to make it better, SASS #41799 Couple Gus Ashcroft, Foolery’s bright pink wig, or the year after year. L Duelist Pepper Shot, SASS #27341 haze of trying to keep up with the Special note should be made of SASS #34370 Brandy Rose Europeans, Saturday was the day the Top Gun Shoot-off. In addi - Grand Dame Stagecoach Sally, Military Sgt. Major O’Donnell, that kicked me, hard. I shot every - tion to team and posse events, SASS #26400 SASS #60671 thing in sight, except, apparently, Sunday means a side-by-side L F Cartridge Black Chip Mary, Judge’s Choice Miss Wendy, SASS #52858 SASS #31568 the targets. Shaking his head shoot-off that is as exciting to L Gunfighter Calgary Kate, later, Tupelo Flash, SASS #27453, watch as it is to compete. SASS #33287 agreed with me; there must’ve Westphalia Phil had a great run, Page 74 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 . Chimney RoCk

(Continued from page 73 ) Clan’s hospitality, with Coffee, SASS my first ever “major” match. At the quite apprehensive about signing to the starting position, load one #7008, and Auntie Em feeding all com - time of the match, I had only been up for the event since I am a new rifle round, and knock down the ers; the fun of hanging out with Olli with SASS for about a year and a shooter and hadn’t shot for a few finish plate some 30 yards away. the Kid, Shotgun Boogie, Phil, half. I was quite honored to be invit - months, but I went ahead and Fun stuff, and for my money, the Colorado Frank, Waggoners Fritz, and ed to shoot on the Pink Posses. What jumped in, and I must say I am so most adrenaline charged, fun-filled The Hungry Man (from Hungary, got a wonderful, giving group of people. glad I did. Of course, I had butter - event in Cowboy Action Shooting™! it?); playing for the most enthusiastic Everyone worked well together on flies not knowing what to expect Special note should be made of cowboy crowd I’ve ever seen; or visit - the posses, not only helping each and thinking I was going to mess SASS #10127, Tex Fiddler’s, elimina - ing with old friends at RR Bar; the other as needed, but making sure the everything up for everyone else tion round. His rifle jammed, and 2009 Western Regional was an stages ran smoothly as well. They since I’m so slow. However, all of when he came back to load and shoot absolute home run of an event. RR were also a huge help with all of the my fears were completely unfound - the final knockdown plate with his Bar President Five Jacks, SASS “Pinkerbelle” activities, such as the ed. Everyone helped me along with rifle—well—that wasn’t going to hap - #23711, promises even more fun and spur raffle and the other American the stages and gave so much pen. So, he calmly loaded a round off faster stages for 2010, and I’m sending Cancer Society benefit activities. I encouragement and praise. I was of his belt into his revolver, sighted a in my application as soon as this arti - forged many friendships that week - on a wonderful posse with our fear - split second, and knocked it down cle is sent off to The Cowboy Chronicle ! end that I won’t ever forget.” less leader Mr. Frederick Jackson with that one, well-aimed .45 shot. What impressed me the most Latin Guns – ”This is a match I Turner himself. What a trooper he No, he didn’t win, but it brought was, no matter what the skill level, it plan on attending for many years to is and so much fun. Everyone was about the biggest ovation of the day! seemed like there was something for come.” a team player, and it was great to I had a great time, truly, one of the everyone. Here’s what a few of the Sarah Bernhardt added, see how many people participated best I have ever had at a match. shooters had to say about the match. “Chimney Rock was our first major (Continued on next page) Whether it was the legendary Coffee Calamity Kris – “Well, this was shoot. We had a wonderful time. I was CoStume ConteSt WinneRS

q q Best Huckleberry – Silver Tom

Best Dressed Couple – Best Dressed Lady – Best B-Western – Best B-Western Lady – Judge’s Choice – Gus Ashcroft and Allie Mo Lash Latigo Fannie Mostly Miss Wendy Brandy Rose

Best Working Cowgirl – Best Dressed Man – Best Soiled Dove- Best Military – Best Working Cowboy – Brandy Rose Mad Trapper of Rat River Ima Schofield Sgt. Major O’Donnell Capt. Lewis June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 75 2009 .

(Continued from previous page) ever, I felt like I came in first with in wearing pink for such a good being with friends, meeting new cause.” people, enjoying a well put together “The RR Bar has a great facili - event, and winding up having so ty. I couldn’t believe how nice the much fun. We will definitely have town stages were. A lot of work this event on our calendar for years went into the facility, and it really to come. P.S. if you saw an odd pris - shows. As I stated above, I am slow, oner trying to hide in a bright pink and I did come in dead last; how- wig, that was my other hal f!” Page 76 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

WeStmAtCh xviii SASS Washington State Championship July 31, August 1-2, 2009 The Hammer Clan drew we had to completely set up this year, the short straw and were assigned By Elder Katie, SASS #5707 however, the match went on without a the task of “keeping an eye on the Photos by Miss Creant hitch thanks to all the people willing to Aussies!” From all accounts one get out, work, and make it happen. needed to be a confident Cowboy Action Shooter enton, WA – It was “A Celebration By the end of the week, and during to keep one’s wits and focus of Clint East wood”—The match the match, we were in a normal tem - when the fun started! Rwith No Name, and it was a hot perature range, and all our shooters one! This year our stage designers had to completed the stages without dropping Law Enforcement Officers, and, boy, do dig deep to get their stages ready because over. Of course, everyone was remind - they know how to have fun! the Seattle area set all time records for ed to stay hydrated numerous times. Washington State Champions – If you are not prepared to laugh, high temperatures! Our Australian visitors, Con stable May B. Shecann and Shifty Jack point, giggle, and shoot Duelist style, Congratulations! A 107 degrees in some parts of the Nelson, SASS #11784, and Rooster you probably don’t want to join them. country is normal, but if you’ve ever vis - Cockburn, SASS #11791, said they were from our Aussie friends, I wondered Constable Nelson and Rooster ited the Northwest, you know we aver - quite comfortable with the heat. what Posse to put them on. I wanted to Cockburn not only held their own, but age around 80 degrees during the day, Apparently they live in a very warm cli - make sure they had a great shooting gave back as good as they got! I wan - and drop to the 60s at night, so when mate and were ready to thaw out while experience, as well as fun, so who better dered over to check on the boys a couple the thermometer gets into the 90s, we were fanning ourselves. than our notorious “Hammer Clan!” A of times and had to walk away shaking we’re hot! It took just about everything When I received the entry forms good portion of the Ham mers are retired my head … what a bunch of crazy cow -

Winners Frontiersman Hellgate, .22 Rifle Fastest Picker & Setter Match Winner & SASS #3302 Man Hey Granpa Man Diamond Slinger Washington State Champion Senior Rick O’Shea Russ, Lady Shot Z. Lady Lady Nelly Shifty Jack, SASS #2221 Are Ya’ Fast Enough Man-on-Man In Category Winners SASS #65353 L Senior The Elder Katie, Man Runamuck Cowboy Deputy Scar Top Lady May B. Shecann, SASS #5707 Lady May B. Shecann Cowgirl Heather Hills SASS #58075 S Duelist Omache Kid, Speed Pistol & Rifle Wrangler Diamond Slinger Second Overall Lawbreaker, SASS #5282 Man Shifty Jack, L Wrangler Bittersweet, SASS #32106 S Senior R.P. Dodge, SASS #65353 SASS #15672 Third Overall Constable Nelson, SASS #20279 Lady May B. Shecann 49’er Dakota Slim SASS #11784 L S Senior Shot Z. Lady, Speed Rifle & Shotgun L 49’er May B. Shecann Categories SASS #60903 Man Diamond Slinger C Cowboy Festis Thayer, Cowboy Deputy Scar, E Statesman Hey Granpa, Lady May B. Shecann SASS #13149 SASS #79629 SASS #60902 Speed Pistol & Shotgun C Cowgirl Calli Blue L Cowboy Heather Hills, Grand Dame Bea A. Starr, Man Diamond Slinger B-Western Jess Ducky SASS #78029 SASS #28873 Lady May B. Shecann L B-Western Paniolo Annie Wrangler Johnny Buck, Young Gun Spokane Shooter, Speed Pistol & Double Barrel Duelist Johnny Pinebox SASS #32311 SASS #46313 Man Bonesteel Badger L Duelist Lefty Liz L Wrangler Indian Girl, L Young Gun Li’l No Missy, Lady Shot Z Lady Gunfighter Bones McCrackin SASS #16917 SASS #68568 Wild Bunch F Cartridge Runamuck 49’er Dakota Slim, Buckaroo Machado, SASS #25309 Man Rick O’Shea Russ F C Duelist Carlsbad Kid, SASS #5675 Buckarett e Fightin’ Irish Rose, Lady The Elder Katie SASS #25682 L 49’er May B. Shecann SASS #58093 Long Range Pistol (Two Handed) Senior Rooster Cockburn C Cowboy Dutch Van Dooler, Side Match Winners Man One Eyed Wayne, L Senior The Elder Katie SASS #48790 Trap SASS #61286 S Senior J.D. Dakota, C Cowgirl Calli Blue, Man Hedley Lamar, Lady Dallas Dancer SASS #15325 SASS #77137 SASS #14478 Long Range Pistol (One Handed) L S Senior Shot Z. Lady B-Western Jess Ducky, Lady May B. Shecann, Man Appy Dan S Duelist Omache Kid SASS #4275 Derringer Long Range S.S. Rifle Caliber E Statesman Hey Granpa L B-Western Paniolo Annie, Man Diamond Slinger, Man Hey Granpa G Dame Bea A. Starr, SASS #71269 SASS #59807 Lady Nelly, SASS #11609 SASS #28873 Duelist Johnny Pinebox, Lady Paniolo Annie Long Range L.A. Rifle Caliber Young Gun Spokane Shooter SASS #58074 Pocket Pistol Man Willy Hitum, L Y Gun Freedom Thayer, L Duelist Lefty Liz, Man Runamuck SASS #64179 SASS #74916 SASS #68839 Lady Shot Z. Lady, Lady Nelly Buckaroo Machado Gunfighter Bonesteel Badger, SASS #60903 Long Range L.A. Pistol Caliber Buckarette Fightin’ Irish Rose SASS #56088 .22 Pistol Man Willy Hitum F Cartridge Runamuck, Man Dakota Slim Lady Nelly SASS #49216 Lady Dallas Dancer, Best Couple’s Event F C Duelist Appy Dan, SASS #42365 Johnny Pinebox & SASS #67998 May B. Shecann June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 77

Constable Nelson, along with side-kick, Rooster Cockburn, travel from Australia each year to experience the Cowboy Action Shooting circuit … and compete Local shooters and friends filled the air with lead and laughter during this championship match. at a very high level. Several even shot the match clean … great time was had by all! Constable Nelson finished this match at third overall! would try to make this match with differ - other that we will make every effort to RUCowboy Action Shooting™ week - boys! Yah got to love all of them. ent languages, as well as black and white. accommodate travelers that honor us end of shooting, companionship, and This year’s match produced the We sent an invitation to our with their presence. fun. The upcoming dates are July 30, largest number of clean shooters we have European friends in the hope we would So there you have it … another 31, & August 1, 2010. Go to: http:// ever had, so we must be doing something get some of them to visit us. We have year gone by. We hope in the future rucascowboys.com for more informa - right. Our Clean Match Shooters are had so much fun learning from each you will consider joining us for a tion and entry form. Yeehaw! Haole, SASS #49825; Johnny Mooseskin, SASS #7231; Lawbreaker, SASS #32106; Rick O’Shea Russ, SASS #2221; Rooster Cockburn, SASS #11791; Shot Z. Lady, SASS #60903; and Stormy Jo, SASS #12187. Congratulations to all of you, and I hope to join your group someday! Another very important award given out each year is for the Spirit of the Game. We consider it our highest honor to bestow on a fellow shooter. This year’s recipient is Hank Hills, SASS #78028. He is a very deserving gentleman, and I was extremely happy to present him with the award. Best Stage Design and Best R.O.’s went to Bonesteel Badger, SASS #56088, and Bones McCrackin, SASS #46721. They practically built a city in the bay, and ran the stage throughout the match. The shooters and I applauded their extreme effort, and showed the appreciation they so richly deserved. Congratulations, Gents. When the dust had cleared, and the last shooter left we had the opportunity to sit for a short spell and reflect on the match. If you have ever been a Match Director for more than one year, you know that for the most part things were okay; however, one should never be so foolish as to believe you made every - thing perfect for everyone, try as you may. As always, after having a couple of cool ones, and giving your feet the oppor - tunity to stop throbbing, you amble off with the thought that we must always learn from our mistakes and not repeat them. Secondly, and more important, you and the staff were able to get every - one through the match safely. Our upcoming 2010 theme is “Classic Westerns Around the World. A Black and White Production.” All our stages will be from old movies as seen in black and white as they were in the good old days when Roy Rogers and Tom Mix ran through the hills with blazing six-guns, except we will be doing it with a European twist! I have been bringing back the shooters’ books from our European trav - els, and our local shooters were so impressed with them we thought we Page 78 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

lASt StAnd on the fRozen pondeRoSA Colonel Dan, SASS #24025, Life/Regulator

rlando, FL – “Woooooo Stand (TLS) 2010 … but I’ll try. sponsor, Jackson’s Western Wear, country. The Shoot Out this year fea - Hoooooooo What a Match!” Despite severe weather, over 300 Range Officer Sponsor, Gun Craft, tured not only the top 32 going head to Oexclaimed Chili Pepper Pete, shooters hung in there and were and the TLS Committee, headed up head, but the top juniors, top ladies, SASS #11917; “The weather was rewarded with one of the best match - by Weewahootee, SASS #13169, and and top blackpowder shooters! something we’ll be talking about for es ever … regardless of level. The Santa Fe River Stan, SASS #36999, An appreciative salute to Delta years to come, and so will the match. match, based on the TV series the 2009 Florida State Champion, put Glen, SASS #39197 for wrangling the The stages were the best 10 stages I Bonanza , had lots of movement, big on the finest Shooter’s Shoot we’ve ROs with great skill, but even more have ever seen at this match, period! close targets—three stages that seen yet. How they manage to exceed so for bringing the lovely Miss Creative, fast, and challenging.” included movers—imaginative scenar - the previous year every year is Hawkeye Gin, SASS #44595, with Deadlee Headlee, SASS #54317, ios, great props, super food, and hun - beyond me, but they do! Speaking of him. Not only is she the 2010 State remarked “I didn’t think there was dreds of the best people on earth. This the Range Officer sponsor, Gun Craft Champion Cowgirl, but more impor - any way to top last years match, but fantastic combination came together again generously donated a revolver tantly she’s Weewahootee’s official somehow ya’ll did it.” “One hellava during the second week of January in for a lucky RO, which this year was fashion coordinator! SALUTE to Gin! great match. I am already looking “sunny” Orlando—a winter paradise won by John Bernal, SASS #47548. Gun Dawg, SASS #21042, our forward to next year,” said Cypress as some northerners told me. Well, Not only did TLS committee esteemed SBSS Badge Meister, aka Sun, SASS #16978. compared to the sub-zero tempera - orchestrate a superb main match, “Super Wiener Dawg” hand made These three just summed up our tures of the northland, 33 degrees they also provided multiple side the three Wild Bunch Trophies as whole week on the frozen Ponderosa with drizzle is quite balmy, but those events and a well-attended Wild well as the almost larger-than-life in Central Florida, so there’s little of us who live here were freezing! Bunch match, all culminating Sunday Last Man Standing Trophy featuring left for me to say about The Last Along with their main match with one of the top Shoot Outs in the (Continued on next page)

Winners L B-Western Pearly R Mateeth, F C Duelis t Confederate Colt Lever Rifle-Rifle Overall SASS #29198 Frontiersman Buffalo Brady Man General Lee Smokey Man Deuce Stevens, L Duelist Iron Maiden, Gunfighter Jesse Toothpick, Lady Tivie Two Shot, SASS #55996 SASS #67188 SASS #41358 SASS #71085 Lady Appaloosa Amy, L F Cartridge Witchdoctor, L 49’er Oakley Mouse, Pocket Pistol SASS #63949 SASS #70062 SASS #34428 Man Cypress Sam, Florida State Champions L F C Duelist Yazoo City Gal, L B-Western Quicksdraw Connie, SASS #10915 Man Badlands Drifter, SASS #68552 SASS #29743 Lady Sidesaddle Sue, SASS #68560 L Gunfighter Bonfire, L Duelist Sassy Teton Lady, SASS #73023 Lady Mama Missalot, SASS #69461 SASS #47525 Single Shot Long Range – 300yd SASS #47747 L Senior Ms. Jewel, L F Cartridge Saltillo Jane, Man Poinciana Pete, Last Man Standing SASS #62556 SASS #20487 SASS #58950 Fireball, SASS #7709 L S Duelist Miz Annie Ross, L Gunfighter Bonfire Lady Ima Pettifogger, Category Winners SASS #60919 L S Senior Chancey Lady SASS #77572 49’er Ozark Azz, L S Senior Chancey Lady, L Wrangler Mamma Missalot Speed .22 SASS #18273 SASS #25650 Senior Shoulda Dun Gun, Man Cypress Sam B-Western Cheyenne Culpepper, L Wrangler Appaloosa Amy SASS #59889 Lady Dynamite Deed, SASS #32827 Senior Geronimo Jim, S Duelist Amaduelist SASS #61645 Buckarett e K. Darlin, SASS #21775 Silver Senior El Lobo Rojo, Speed Rifle SASS #59843 S Duelist Amaduelist, SASS #28 Man Deuce Stevens Buckaroo Throwdown Kid, SASS #68092 Wrangler Santa Fe River Stan Lady Sunshine Marcie, SASS #70596 Silver Senior River Rat Randy, Young Gun Mad Man McLean, SASS #64900 C Cowboy Chili Pepper Pete, SASS #52574 SASS #63015 Speed SG ‘87 SASS #11917 Wrangler Santa Fe River Stan, L Young Gun Pistol Packin Peanut Man Fireball C Cowgirl Bella Spencer, SASS #36999 Wild Bunch Winners Lady The Lady, SASS #63491 Young Gun Two Gun Tuco, Modern Deadlee Headlee, SASS #15467 Cowboy Deuce Stevens SASS #78297 SASS #54317 Speed SG ‘97 Cowgirl Pious Player, L Young Gun Pistol Packin Peanut, Traditional Delta Glen, Man Arcadia Outlaw, SASS #66297 SASS #58931 SASS #39197 SASS #71385 Duelist Texas Jack McCoy, Category State Champions Duelist Sagebrush Kid, Lady Appaloosa Amy SASS #23899 49’er Cypress Sun, SASS #42525 Speed SG SXS E Statesman Dead Eye Bob, SASS #16978 Side Matches Man Deuce Stevens SASS #35700 B-Western Jeremiah Longknife, Derringer Lady Shotgun Bodine, F Cartridge Black Diamond Doug, SASS #21326 Man Desperado Dale, SASS #83724 SASS #20485 Buckarette Kalamity Kae, SASS #25754 Team Shoot Delta Glen, F C Duelist Confederate Colt, SASS #79716 Lady Lil Feathers, SASS #39197 SASS #31216 Buckaroo Throwdown Kid SASS #48564 J. P. Law, Frontiersman Buffalo Brady, C Cowboy Deadwood Woody, Iron Cowboy SASS #76820 SASS #24830 SASS #22184 Man James Samuel Pike, John Bernal, Grand Dame Bonnie Dee, Cowboy Badlands Drifter SASS #53331 SASS #47548 SASS #28413 Cowgirl Hawkeye Gin, Lady Appaloosa Amy Gunfighter Tall Drink A. Water, SASS #44595 Lever Rifle-Pistol SASS #68448 Duelist Texas Jack McCoy Man General Lee Smokey, L 49’er Sixgun Sallie, E Statesman Dead Eye Bob SASS #74757 SASS #38989 F Cartridge Black Diamond Doug Lady Lil Feathers June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 79 “The folks at TLS still put on one of the best matches I’ve been to. THE WINNERS SHOOTERS SHOOT sezs it all!” Vance Montana, SASS #78957, “The weather was brutal!!!!! For all of those who stayed with it to the end, we know who the real cowboys and cowgirls are!!!!” Camille Enoich, SASS #48444, “I LOVED IT! Can we do it in Florida next year for real?” Appaloosa Amy, SASS #63949, “The Last Stand 2010 was what you would call a shooter’s match that was fun for everyone. They have targets that are bigger and closer than any - Top Overall Top Lady Overall — Sole Survivor Wild Bunch — Appaloosa Amy Shoot-off Winner — thing I’ve ever shot at, and the stages Deadlee Headlee Fireball had plenty of movement and sequences that were interesting without being mind bending.” Chuckaroo, SASS #13080, “This shoot never lets me down. I’ve made them all and will be there again in 2011.” John E. Law, SASS #75866, “Another Awesome ‘The Last Stand,’ a huge Thank You to the Committee Members for putting on such a won - derful, fast, fun match. They just keep getting better and better. My only regret is that it’s already over.” Cheyenne Culpepper, SASS Spirit of the Game — FL State Champions — Top Man Overall — #32827, “GREAT MATCH and thank Professor Cubby Bear Badlands Drifter / Deuce Stevens Mama Missalot you!!!!” Easy Rider, SASS #10407, “Great (Continued from previous page) enjoyed himself Saturday night—I Match! This was the most fun I have a silhouette of Hoss—Hoss Blocker, saw him first hand! ever had at a match.” SASS #26096, being Gun Dawg’s At Sunday’s Award Ceremony, (Continued on page 80 ) model—Hoss by the way, was the after the ice and drizzle had cleared hands down winner of Saturday from the frozen Ponderosa, Deuce night’s Look Alike Contest! These Stevens and Appaloosa Amy had were again the most impressive taken top honors for the match with awards I’ve seen anywhere. Once 40 crack-shot troopers shooting clean! more, Fireball, SASS #7709 was the As for our Florida State Champions, last man standing after the shoot out 16-year-old Badlands Drifter, SASS and went home with his second con - #68560, our local “Wunderkind” secutive Dawg creation! reigned as King and Mama Missalot, Speaking of trophies, all the SASS #47747, extended her domi - main and side match trophies were nance for yet another year. hand crafted by Ol Glor E, SASS Great credit again goes out to #42968, and Lady Robin, SASS our scoring master, Jesse Toothpick, #20488, with the able assistance of SASS #41358. We had all the results the TLS committee. Ol Glor E and just after the last posse finished up Robin have always gone above and Saturday—Outstanding, Jesse! beyond with trophies, targets, props, Hanging around the Wire in my and whatever is needed, and we all quote collection effort, I found no end very much appreciate them. of material—these are just some of The evening events this year the comments from the cowpokes were modified significantly from who stuck it out! prior years. Instead of the standard Deuce Stevens, SASS #55996, Friday evening BBQ and the formal “This match had it all, lots of move - Saturday night gala at the hotel, ment, big and close steel, three mov - Friday was left open for the shooters ing targets that provided lots of chal - to roam the Orlando area footloose lenge and fun at the same time … and fancy free. Saturday evening This was my third Last Stand, and it was transformed into an informal keeps getting better.” gathering under the big tent at the Fireball, SASS #7709, “What a range with some of the finest catered fun match! Thanks to the committee BBQ to be found anywhere from for taking such good care of the RO’s!” Bubbalous. Based on the feedback I Marshal Troop, SASS #70448, heard, the folks really appreciated “Even through Saturday’s brutal the option of an open Friday, which cold, shooters were smiling and jok - gave them a chance to hit the hay ing throughout. A great match that early since we were shooting the showed the hard work and dedica - next day, and they really enjoyed the tion the committee put on for us informality of the Saturday evening Cowboy Action Shooters.” program. I know Red River Ray Red River Ray, SASS #33254, Page 80 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 LAST STAND ON THE FROZEN PONDEROSA . . . I was cold, but I wasn’t sorry, and I to make you smile and hope every wasn’t disappointed. And I’ll be back. year to improve on it.” (Continued from page 79 ) vendors were awesome, parking And from several who put it on … Next year promises to be even Hoss Lytle, SASS #30285, “I tell was great, food was delicious, and Santa Fe River Stan, SASS better. Join us January, 6-9, 2011 you I had a great time at this shoot. the weather … well, what are ya #36999, TLS Range Master, “We sure and watch our website for more info It was a great match, and the people gonna do?” enjoyed having everyone at the on TLS 2011: laststand.org made it even better.” J.P. Law, SASS #76820, “This is match and can’t wait ‘till next year!” Finally, we want to render a Stump Water, SASS #48329, my second Last Stand, and I had the Zack McGee SASS #46908, RO farewell salute of appreciation to “Absolutely Top Shelf! This was our best time of my life.” supreme, “As much as I am amazed at Stumpy Ryan, SASS #30172, first Last Stand, and it certainly Professor Cubby Bear, SASS the talent level of SASS competitors, I Feathers Ryan, SASS #42129, Shiloh lived up to it’s billing ... and more.” #29521, who’s traveled from am equally amazed at the cama - Jasper Green, SASS #16357, Saltillo Buckeye Di, SASS #70798, “This California every year for the passed raderie and good fellowship shown by Jane, SASS #42195, Salsa Sure Shot, being my first year shooting and my nine to attend TLS and the 2010 EVERYONE. The good fun and SASS #20486, and Black Diamond first out of state match, I must say Spirit of the Game winner, “I vote laughter even under rough weather Doug, SASS #20485. These devoted how impressed I was with the organ - with my furry feet for this match, conditions was just amazing to me.” troopers are retiring from TLS after ization of the match. coming all the way across the conti - Dang it Dan, SASS #13202, a many years of dedicated service I met a lot of great people, the nental United States, year after year. national level champion and valued helping to put on one of the best member of TLS crew succinctly matches found anywhere. Thank summed up the whole committee’s you all so very much for everything ACTION feelings with this, “We do what we do you’ve done over these many years. June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 81 Page 82 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

RAilheAd 2009 Reviving a Classic ! By Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS Life #32933

illiams, AZ – Once some - maxed out at 240. Then, it all ended, risk and try to put on Railhead 2009. teers offered to haul all the trailers to thing is gone it’s often diffi - as Buckskinner Park could no longer As noted, Williams is 150 miles Williams and have them on-site so Wcult or impossible to revive be used to host shooting matches. from Phoenix and EVERYTHING those shooting END of TRAIL could it. Look at the numerous attempts to Railhead had lost its home. needed for the match had to be trail - simply continue down I-40 to revive the Indian motorcycle, the two- Every year around the 4th of ered to Williams. If anything was Williams instead of going back to seater Ford Thunderbird or other July local shooters would lament, forgotten, it was a 300 mile round Phoenix. As July 4th neared, every - bygone favorites. The old magic is “Sure wish Railhead was still trip back to Phoenix. Old files were thing was falling into place. gone or, oft as not, something seems around.” Every year calls were made drug out and Railhead checklists The City completed the range, more magical with the passage of time to the Williams city officials and found. Trailers were refurbished numerous awards and buckles were than it really was, as nostalgia kicks every year the answer was a reluc - and new tires purchased. Props ordered, and they came in on time. A in and makes the good old days look tant “We still can’t allow you to shoot were taken out of storage and refur - hundred other details were better than they really were. in Buckskinner Park.” Then in bished. The Winter Range board addressed: porta-potties had to be Railhead was a magical shoot. It February of 2009, the Arizona threw its support behind Railhead hauled in from MILES away because started in 1984 on a little finger of Cowboy Shooter’s Association and offered stage fronts, targets, there was no service in Williams. land next to a lake in Buckskinner (ACSA, the former host club for trailers, and to write the stage sce - Dumpsters were brought in, traffic Park in Williams, Arizona. (Photo 1.) Railhead) got a call, “was ACSA narios. If Railhead were to succeed control plans and emergency plans interested in putting on a in future years, the first new match put in place, etc., etc. Starting on new Railhead?” The City in five years had to be not just good, the Monday before the July 4th had been working with the but memorable. weekend volunteers began arriving, U.S. Forest Service for sev - After considerable discussion, it and a cowboy city arose on the new eral years and had received was decided the first new shoot site, and everything was ready for a special use permit to should be a blast from the past and the beginning of the match on build a new range a couple continue where the old Railhead left Thursday, July 2, 2009. of miles from Buckskinner off. That meant, among other things, One hundred and sixty-six shoot - Park. The ACSA Board there would only be 15 shooting cat - ers began to arrive for the side saddled up and drove to egories as that’s all there had been matches, and then the main match Williams to meet with City in 2004. Turned out the shooters was shot. The match was a resound - officials. (Williams is 150 didn’t mind at all. For example, (Continued on next page) miles north of Phoenix, there was only a single “Black Arizona.) ACSA was Powder” category. No men’s, no Winners shown the new site and women’s, no Frontier Cartridge, no 49er Pecos Clyde, asked for input on how to Frontier Cartridge Duelist, no SASS #48481 build the range so it would Frontiersman, just Black Powder. L 49er Etta Mae, accommodate a revitalized Turned out to be the largest category SASS #12478 Railhead. (Photo 2.) and everyone had a blast! Blackpowder Gil T. Azell, SASS #62569 Some drawings were made The July 4th weekend was the Photo 1 – Buckskinner Park, original site Duelist Wily Yankee, and then the big question, weekend after END of TRAIL. Many SASS #63066 of Railhead. Old Deadeye established this “could the City get the of the Railhead organizers regularly match almost single-handedly and the E Statesmen Frisco, range done and could attend END OF TRAIL, so volun - SASS #6542 cowboys all camped under the trees . ACSA organize Gunfighter Teddy Bear, Railhead grew in popularity, and a major shoot by July 4th, SASS #27609 through the years drew the finest 2009?” More importantly, Junior Spunky Sparky, shooters in SASS and became an would anyone come? SASS #72140 L Duelist Lola Jane, annual 4th of July event. Railhead Several more trips SASS #71423 began with four categories and by were made to Williams to L Senior Cicada, 1998 had grown to a whopping eight look over banquet sites, SASS #21345 categories. It became the SASS motels, campgrounds, and L Modern Irish Eyes, Southwest Regional Championship. to try and assess local SASS #22130 In retrospect, it was amazing five support. Several shooters L Traditional Silver Heart, stage fronts fit on that little finger of with other Arizona clubs SASS #48482 land, and equally amazing that over were asked if they Modern Harley B. Gone, two hundred shooters could fit. Each thought their members SASS #67282 Senior Palo Verde, front was used for two scenarios, so would go to a new SASS #56522 Railhead was a ten-stage match and, Railhead. It looked like S Duelist Blue Ridge Ranger, because of space limitations, could there was support and Photo 2 – The site of Railhead’s new home. SASS #31232 not grow beyond ten stages. By 2004 Railhead still had consid - Arizona has been good to Cowboy Action Traditional Blackjack Zak, there were fifteen recognized SASS erable name recognition. Shooters, using public funds to provide safe, SASS #26828 categories and the shooter count was It was decided to take a attractive shooting facilities and props. June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 83 (Continued from previous page) What made Railhead, RAILHEAD, at the Wild West Junction, an old boys went out to the curb to watch, ing success. However, the match is was going into town after each day’s western section of Williams. (Photo and it was a vision right out of a not what made Railhead “RAIL - shooting and going to the local bars, 6.) They welcomed the Cowboy Norman Rockwell painting. It was HEAD.” There was something hotels, and restaurants. The Cowboy Action Shooters with open arms. old town, Middle America. Seems like more—the City of Williams! Action Shooters became part of the They had one bar, (Photo 7) but that everyone in town was in the parade Williams is on old Route 66, and tourist attraction for those getting on wouldn’t be big enough for the esti - on a tractor, on a fire engine, or walk - when the interstate highway the Grand Canyon Railway for a trip mated number of cowboys, so they ing. Given the size of Williams, it was bypassed it, Williams became almost to the Grand Canyon. Being in build us another bar, and it was open amazing to see a number of “Blue frozen in time. If the cars were Williams was truly “the Closest in time for Railhead! (Photo 8.) A Star” mothers. Fortunately, there did removed and the streets filled with You’ll Get to the Old West Short of a canopy was put over the Junction not seem to be any “Gold Star” moth - dirt, you would think you were back Time Machine.” town square and the banquet held ers. The cowboys saluted the colors in the 1880’s. (Photos 3, 4, and 5.) Headquarters for Railhead was there. (Photos 9 and 10.) It was each time they passed (Photo 12) July 4th, the weather was perfect, and people kept leaving their posi - the match went flawlessly, and it was tions in the parade, running up to the about to get better!!! cowboys, shaking their hands, and As we were getting ready for din - saying, “THANK YOU FOR COMING ner, the City of Williams 4th of July BACK TO OUR TOWN!” The magic parade was beginning and proceeding of Railhead is alive and well, and down the main street right in front of Railhead was home. Come join us the the banquet. (Photo 11.) The cow - 4th of July 2010.

Photo 3 – The Red Garter is now a bakery, but in the old days the second floor was a bordello! If one looks closely, the ghost of girls past can sometimes still be seen! Photo 6 – Wild West Junction, Photo 7 – Wild West Junction “Headquarters” for Railhead. offered all the appropriate ameni - This very “western” addition to ties, but the scale was a bit off. Williams provided the ideal This wonderful cowboy saloon was ambiance for our 1880’s cowboys. simply too small to accommodate the expected number of patrons.

Photo 9 – Who needs a “big tent?” A canopy over Wild West Junction provided all the “indoors” needed for the evening festivities.

Photo 4 – Main Street, Williams, AZ, an Old West town frozen in time!

Photo 8 – To ensure EVERYONE had a place to conveniently acquire an adult beverage and get Photo 11 – A picture right out of silly, Wild West Junction provided Norman Rockwell. The entire city an additional cowboy saloon, and of Williams participated in the had it ready in time for the event! 4th of July Parade.

Photo 12 – How could Photo 5 – To Williams’ credit, many of the old buildings have been one NOT be patriotic preserved, modernized, and kept in service. Throughout the West the in the midst of a original wooden buildings often burned to the ground by the turn of the “middle America” century and were replaced by more substantial brick buildings, but Photo 10 – It was “party time” community the architecture was never “plain.” during the Saturday night banquet! 4th of July Parade? Page 84 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

the RoCky RiveR . RegulAtoRS . By Bad Penny, SASS #1453

Decking. Hundreds of feet of decking to shoot from on all the stages—except the corral stage, that is. How come? “Well we have this town,” says Bad Penny, SASS #1453 Longley. And it is a beauty. Big, beautiful buildings housing no less than 13 stages, and they also have a J.J. Longley, SASS #38655 50-yard range. “And we have some (248) 549-1075 very interesting weather in [email protected] Michigan and since we like to shoot Terrebonne Bud, SASS #64353 winter and summer, weather permit - that you realize the amount of (248) 709-5254 ting, we are either standing in six improvements you’ve made. It’s like [email protected] inches of water or on snow.” losing weight.” The Sportsmen’s Club That was one of Longley’s pet Too true. No one notices the 49800 Dequindre Road, peeves. The other thing he was ounces and pounds slipping away Utica, Michigan 48317 always harping on was, while you until an old acquaintance rushes up 586-739-3500 have these wonderful buildings, no and asks if you’ve got some dreadful www.d-s-c.org one can see to follow the action. The between them and give different disease. spotters have to become steeplejacks options for the scenarios and then So, what does each Wolverine or roofers just to count misses. Also, get the decking so the shooting could Ranger Club have to do for the he Detroit Sportsmen’s Con - buildings begin to own the range be high and dry. Michigan State Championship gress (DSC) was founded in and limit your options. Each stage This meant a summer with a Range War each year? TDetroit, Michigan in 1936 for tends to be “shoot through the win - great bunch of guys and gals paint - “Well, in the old days each club the purpose of promoting better hunt - dow, shoot through the door, and ing and pounding nails. had to write a stage,” says Longley. ing and fishing within the state. It shoot through the other window”— “You don’t really notice what a “The only problem with that was one has been on its 106-acre location on time after time after time. It’s job you’re doing, while you’re doing club’s targets would be big and close, Dequindre Road between M-5 and 23 almost all you can do. it,” Longley admits. “It was only while the next club’s steel was so far Mile Road, Shelby Township since So, the plan was to move some of after a bunch of archers strolled up away you could hardly see it.” 1948. There is a full-service club - the buildings to open up spaces and said, ‘Oh! That looks beautiful,’ Now a match director, one of the house with bar and kitchen and 190 campsites at another location on the Oxford River in Oxford, Michigan for members to use from April to October. There is every kind of gun sport plus archery at DSC. And, it is the very cozy home of The Rocky River Regulators, one of the dozen or so / clubs that make up The Wolverine Rangers, Michigan State’s Associa - tion of Cowboy Action Shooting clubs. The Wolverine Rangers put on the “must shoot” annual, three-day Michigan State Championship called Wolverine Ranger’s Range War at the Blue Water Sportsmen’s Association, in Port Huron, Michigan every Labor Day weekend. This is one of the best shoots of the Cowboy Action Shooting™ year. The straw boss of the Rocky River Regulators is J. J. Longley, SASS #38655. And, there was no secret what would be happening after he took over the club’s reins! June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 85

best—Deuce Stevens—has taken last year. We were hoping the cow - over. He writes the stages while the boys would show up with their .22 clubs man the side events on Friday, lever rifles, but we took anything, provide posse leaders and ROs for even semi-autos to introduce folks to the main event, plus help set up and our 50-yard range. tear down all the steel and props. “This year we’re trying a gentle Also, the huge administrative chal - .22 Cowboy Action Shooting™ shoot lenge of a State Championship/ban - for young and even us old people, as quet/prizes/registration/auctions/etc. well as the .22 silhouette matches is shared out. once again. We want an atmosphere The Rocky River Regulators that does not intimidate and is fun. come out to play every third Sunday We have spinner targets and a of the month. motorized duck target all ready to “If you look at Michigan, there is go,” Longley says. That duck target a ton of Cowboy Action Shooting™ should get some old timers who clubs,” Longley points out. There remember the fall fair shooting isn’t a month in the calendar with 12 booths coming out to bang away with Sundays in it, so conflicts in schedul - their pump Winchesters in .22 Short. ing are unavoidable. That’s okay as And while it is meant to attract jun - there is always a club near the cow - ior shooters, Longley knows the boy wanting a shoot. snags in that plan. Match attendance at DSC is a “Young people get really hot for a high of 60 in the summer and a low while and then they cool off when of 20 in the winter with a good con - they find other interests,” he says. sistent average of 40. “You don’t get them back until they “With our new set up, we are are around 30.” able to mix it up and give every Lastly, there are several mem - month a different look,” says bers who are very keen to try out Longley. SASS Wild Bunch, so that’ll be a go The last three of the Rocky River this year, too. Regulators annual matches were Value for money is a must in held in October. these times and $18 for 6 stages and “But October conflicts with bow lunch is a bargain in any language hunters, so we’re trying the last with juniors shooting for just $1. week of September this year. Longley pays tribute to his “fantastic October weather can be really beau - cowboy committee” and picks out two tiful or really cold, so we’re trying to cowboys , Terrebonne Bud, SASS beat the really cold weather by three #64353, and Canyon Jack, SASS weeks in our fifth year.” #77932, who just put in a ton of Longley is also going to repeat hours. And, of course, Canyon Jack’s one of last year’s innovations and try wife, Penny Annie, SASS #81113, a couple more. who prepares delicious lunches on a “We put on what I call an inter - shoestring budget. She richly esting and fun .22 silhouette shoot deserves her tribute, too. Page 86 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010

the hoRSe Ridge piStoleRoS By Poke, SASS #4968

ment. My partner at the time was Big Casino, SASS #4306, the sec - ond founding member. Both of us had been involved in shooting Poke, SASS #4968 sports for many years, and we kept hearing rumors of something called Cowboy Action. Curious, end, OR – Hello from Central we talked to a friend and gun Oregon, home of the original store owner, Texas Jack Morales, BCentral Oregon SASS Club, SASS #5026, the third founding the Horse Ridge Pistoleros. It has member of the Pistoleros. been a long journey from the start of Texas Jack told us the Albany our club to winning the Wooly Award Rifle and Pistol Club in Albany, for 2009. The Horse Ridge Pistoleros Oregon, was putting on something The Horse Ridge Pistoleros thank SASS for the Wooly Award recognizing them as the 2009 Club of the Year. thank SASS for this prestigious called SASS Cowboy matches. We award. We will continue to live up to decided to investigate. Several we were shooting monthly matches in was the question. The name, Horse those edicts set forth by SASS and to Sundays later, we loaded up some the High Desert on BLM land. Ridge Pistoleros, sounded good to put on quality Cowboy Matches in cowboy guns and drove over the At first, we used old saw blades everyone, so the name was adopted. the Cowboy Way. mountain. We shot our first SASS as targets and old steel bed frames as Horse Ridge is the name of the area I am one of the founders of the match and have not looked back target hangers. Soon we had quite a where we held our first monthly Horse Ridge Pistoleros. In 1992, I since. Coming back to Central crowd showing up to shoot, and the matches, and because of the good was working in the Detective Oregon, we spread the word to friends three of us decided it was time to shooters we had in the club, Division at the Bend Police Depart- about this type of shooting and soon start a club. What to name the club (Continued on next page) June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 87

indiAn teRRitoRy Single ACtion Shooting SoCiety ~~March 2009 • February 201 0~~ By Catoosa Red, SASS #57246 The Year In Review and Springs, OK – What a as well as celebration. The ITSASS person signed in and got a handout ty of guns and ammo for any and all transformation! In less that group gathered in January—what that included a myriad of helpful that wanted to try their hand at Sone year the Indian Territory should we do? The answer—Cowboy information. The club also had Cowboy Action. There were a few Single Action Shooting Society went Shooter Orientation! What should Cowboy Chronicles available for them shooters who didn’t make it to the from being homeless to finding a we cover? The answer—everything! to take home. ITSASS members range—instead they headed to the home at Red Castle, building eight So with that in mind, an agenda was greeted the newcomers and helped gun show to buy guns! large stages, putting on a successful devised, documents were created, to make them feel welcome. By the I offered to hold an “All Cowgirl Ruckus in the Nations, and grew by volunteers volunteered, an e-mail time the meeting started, there were Clinic,” no boys allowed! I enlisted leaps and bounds! We thought our flurry was started, and all manner of over 45 new shooters in attendance!! the help of Just L, SASS #34123, club would grow when we joined one chaos ensued! Burly Bill, SASS #50840, called Neeter Bear, SASS #73777, Annie of the largest gun clubs in We were worried, would anyone the meeting to order and then we Hickok, SASS #37899, and Prairie Oklahoma, but never in our wildest come? Would too many come? Are were off! There were presentations Diamond, SASS #59371, because I imagination did we think we would we crazy? Step to February 27th, on costuming and aliases, safety, knew I couldn’t do this alone. Nine grow by this much! It became quite 2010—the day dawned bright and what happens at a shoot, how a posse Cowgirls took us up on the offer. apparent to us when, at our sunny (the first in many days!), and runs, different types of guns, reload - They arrived with big grins on their December shoot, 11 out of the 33 ITSASS members arrived bringing ing, and carts. The meeting lasted for faces and were ready to see what shooters were brand new! This guns, leather, clothes, carts, food, etc. about three hours with a break for this was all about! As I discussed meant that 1/3 of our shooters did … Then, the new shooters started coffee and cookies. When the meeting the finer points of shooting each not know how to shoot Cowboy showing up. By twos and threes and was over, we were off to the range! firearm, Just L would demonstrate Action! This was a cause for alarm even families started to arrive. Each ITSASS members brought plen - (Continued on page 88 )

(Continued from previous page) Hell Town and many other perma - an inspiration to all of us, becoming shooter, he never fired a shot in a Pistoleros finished the picture. nent props, as well as a range build - a member in 1992 at the very begin - match, but was always there as an Speaking of good shooters, we ing and several storage buildings. We ning of the club. At the time, he was inspiration to us all and as a proud are proud to have several state and have also built on our reputation to 83 years old, having lived a very supporter of the Horse Ridge Regional champions among our shoot the Cowboy Way, support SASS, adventurous life beginning on a Pistoleros. We now give an annual ranks. Big Casino is the current COSSA, the NRA and our Second ranch in Yampa, Idaho, and acting as award called the “Let Er Buck Hale Oregon State and Northwest Amendment Rights. This is ongoing a child star with Tom Mix. Let Er Award” to the member of the club Regional 49’er champion. Mick and a major part of our philosophy. Buck joined the Navy in the 1920s, who has worked the hardest during Howard, SASS #6973, is the current In past years the club has been survived the Pearl Harbor attack, the year and has demonstrated the Oregon State and Northwest inspired by several members who commanded a ship in the Pacific true Cowboy spirit. Regional Duelist champion. Texas have since passed on. One of those Theatre during the war, and retired During the year, we put on sever - Jack Morales is the current North- members was a gentleman named as a full Commander. Although he al large shoots that include the SASS west Regional Senior Champion. Let Er Buck Hale. Let Er Buck was dressed the part and had his own six Northwest Wild Bunch shoot, which Leggs Balou, SASS #10400, is the will be held June 4-6 this year, and current Oregon State and North - the Annual SASS Governor’s Cup west Regional Cowgirl champion. July 22- 25. Also, on September 4-5 Last Chance Morales, SASS #67180, we will be hosting the Annual Indian is the current Oregon State and Shoot and Old Time match. Our reg - Northwest Regional Junior Cham- ular monthly match is on the first pion and the current Oregon State Sunday of the month with a second Overall Champion. Sunrise Bill, match on the third Sunday of the SASS #64301, is the Current Oregon month, and a Wild Bunch match the State and Northwest Regional third Saturday of the month, March Classic Cowboy Champion. through October. Shortly after the club began the This year we are expanding our Central Oregon Shooting Sports activities with the public by chal - Association (COSSA) was estblished lenging the local Police Depart - just east of Horse Ridge. This is a ments to a match. We have also group of shooters who negotiated a issued a challenge to the local IPSC land lease from BLM and started one club for a match. Later this year, we of the premier ranges in Oregon. are hosting a Kids Day, as well as a With over 600 acres, the range has wax bullet match and demonstra - many venues including a 1000 yard tion for the VFW. range sponsored by Nosier Bullets, 2010 will be a very busy year, which is located here in Bend. We and we hope to see many new shoot - have now been associated with Horse Ridge Pistoleros founders, Texas Jack Morales, Big Casino, and ers out on the range. Again, we COSSA for 15 years. During this Poke, proudly display the club’s SASS Wooly Award and a supporting express our deep appreciation to time we have been able to build a pair of wooly chaps at their annual club Christmas party. SASS for the Wooly award. Page 88 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 Indian Territory Single Action Shooting Society (Continued from page 87 ) the money will go towards some - how it was done. After each Cowgirl thing special for our club or putting had handled each firearm (revolver, on the next Orientation! rifle, and shotgun), they got to use After a long day of great live ammo! Two shooting bays were Cowboy Action and camaraderie, open, so each shooter received plenty we all packed up to head home. of individual attention from one of Here are some of the comments we the ITSASS Cowgirls. heard: “I feel so powerful,” “I want After everyone got to shoot to do this now!”, “I can’t wait to get each firearm, we put together a my guns and stuff!”, “ I wish I had simple scenario they ran through. taken a class like this years ago.” You have never heard so much So, 2009 was quite a year for cheering and laughing in your life! our club. I can’t wait to see what These Cowgirls were hooked! We we get done this year!! couldn’t keep the Cowboys away. I The ITSASS board sends a guess they wanted in on the fun, great big “Thank You” to all of our too! The Cowgirls were having so members who made these events so much fun they were the last to successful! leave the range! New Shooters are always There was no charge to new “Welcome” to come and shoot with shooters, but donations were wel - the Indian Territory Single Action come. Over $150 was donated to Shooting Society at the Red Castle help us defray the cost of ammo. Gun Club in Sand Springs, OK. But, guess what? None of our Please visit our website for more shooters would take any of it! So, details www.ITSASS.NET June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 89 Page 90 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 91 Page 92 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 93

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SASS AFFILIATED CLuBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDuLE Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City State C l u b Name Sched. Contact Phone City State alaska 49er’s 1st sat & 3rd sun tripod 907-373-0140 birchwood aK Ghost town Gunslingers 1st sun Copenhagen 904-808-8559 st. augustine fL Golden heart shootist society 2nd sat & Last sun Col. reed 907-488-3903 Chatanika aK hernando County regulators 1st sun shady brady 352-686-1055 brooksville fL Juneau Gold Miners Posse 3rd sun five Card tanna 907-789-7498 Juneau aK fort White Cowboy Cavalry 2nd sat Pudy sharp 352-332-6212 fort White fL North alabama regulators 1st sun drake robey 256-313-0421 Woodville aL okeechobee Marshals 2nd sat & 4th sun Kid Celero 561-312-9075 okeechobee fL alabama rangers 2nd sun rC Moon 205-410-5707 brierfield aL big bend bushwhackers 2nd sun sixpence Kid 850-459-1107 tallahassee fL Vulcan Long rifles 3rd sat havana Jim 205-979-2931 hoover aL Panhandle Cowboys 2nd sun Panhandle b. Kid 850-432-1968 Pensacola fL Gallant Gunfighters 3rd sun buck d. Law 256-504-4366 hoover aL tater hill Gunfighters 2nd sun Judge Jd Justice 941-629-4440 arcadia fL old york shootists 4th sun derringer di 205-647-6925 hoover aL Weewahootee Vigilance Committee 2nd sun Weewahootee 407-857-1107 orlando fL russell County regulators 5th sat Will Killigan 706-568-0869 Phenix City aL Lake County Pistoleros 3rd sat halfbreed don 352-669-1700 tavares fL Mountain Valley Vigilantes 1st Wkend Christmas Kid 501-625-3554 hot springs ar southwest florida Gunslingers 3rd sat Jed Lewis 609-335-0346 Punta Gorda fL outlaw Camp 2nd & 5th sat ozark outlaw 501-362-2963 heber springs ar Miakka Misfits 3rd sun deadlee headlee 941-650-8920 Myakka City fL Judge Parker’s Marshals 2nd sat reno sparks 918-647-9704 fort smith ar Cowford regulators 4th sat J bird blue 904-778-4184 Jacksonville fL White river Gang 2nd sat Loco toro 870-435-2768 Mountain home ar indian river regulators 4th sat belligerent orney bob 321-403-2940 Palm bay fL arkansas Lead slingers 2nd sat & 4th sun dirty dan Paladin 479-633-2107 Garfield ar Panhandle Cattle Company 4th sat tac hammer 850-785-6535 Port st. Joe fL south fork river regulators 3rd sat Kid thorn 870-488-5447 salem ar doodle hill regulators 4th sun dave smith 813-645-3828 ruskin fL true Grit sass 4th sun sister sundance 479-970-7042 belleville ar five County regulators 4th sun dead shot scott 239-261-2892 Punta Gorda fL White Mountain old antelope Junction rangers fri nite & 2nd sat Mayeye rider 727-736-3977 Pineallas Park fL West shootists 1st & 3rd sat Mustang Lady sue 928-243-3457 snowflake aZ Withlacoochee renegades, the Last sat hungry bear 850-929-2406 Pinetta fL rio salado Cowboy action american old West Cowboys 1st sat Josey buckhorn 423-236-5281 flintstone Ga shooting society 1st sat bullseye bucky 480-980-2115 Mesa aZ river bend rough riders 1st sat done Gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville Ga Cowtown Cowboy Valdosta Vigilance Committee 1st sat big boyd 229-244-3161 Valdosta Ga shooters, LLC 1st sun & 3rd sat barbwire 480-488-3064 Phoenix aZ Lonesome Valley regulators 1st sun Wishbone hooper 478-922-9384 Warner robins Ga arizona Cowboy shooters doc holliday’s immortals 2nd sat Easy rider 770-954-9696 Griffin Ga association, inc 2nd sat big tim 602-757-3728 Phoenix aZ Pale riders 2nd sat Will Killigan 706-568-0869 Mauk Ga tombstone Ghost rider outlaws 2nd sat Wily yankee 520-400-5598 tombstone aZ Mule Camp Cowboys 3rd sat sheriff Lord 706-337-4203 Covington Ga Whiskey row Gunslingers 2nd sun turquoise bill 928-925-7323 Prescott aZ tennessee Mountain Marauders 3rd sat trail bones 423-842-6116 ringgold Ga Colorado river regulators 2nd sun & 4th sat Cherokee Cowboys 4th sat Joe West 706-864-9019 Gainesville Ga (sept-Jun) Crowheart 928-505-2200 Lake havasu aZ Maui Marshals 1st & 3rd sat bad burt 808-875-9085 Maui hi Los Vaqueros 3rd sat august West 520-544-7888 tucson aZ single action shootist of hawaii 4th sun brandebuck 808-351-9260 honolulu hi tonto rim Marauders 3rd sun silverado Cid 928-595-1230 Payson aZ turkeyfoot Cowboys 1st sat (Mar-Nov) ranger Mathias fischels 319-234-1550 Elk run heights ia altar Valley Pistoleros 3rd sun & 5th sun Mean raylean 520-235-0394 tucson aZ fort des Moines rangers., inc 1st sun (apr-oct) Pit Mule 515-205-0557 indianola ia Mohave Marshalls 3rd sun & 5th sun Mizkiz 928-897-2705 Kingman aZ Zen shootists 4th sat (Mar-oct) renegade slim 515-987-0721 Nevada ia arizona yavapai rangers 4th sat Whisperin Meadows 928-567-9227 Camp Verde aZ Gunslingers of flaming dusty bunch old Western heart ranch 1st sat Jughandle Jack 208-634-3121 Council id shooters 4th sat squibber 520-568-2852 Casa Grande aZ southeast idaho Practical shooters 1st sat idaho Packer 208-589-5941 idaho falls id tombstone buscaderos 4th sat diamond Pak 520-780-4852 tombstone aZ squaw butte regulators 1st sun & 2nd sat acequia Kidd 208-365-4551 Emmett id Colorado river shootists 4th sun ClueLass 928-726-7727 yuma aZ border Marauders 1st sun & 4th sat Mud Marine 208-597-6191 bonners ferry id sunnyvale regulators 1st & 3rd Mon shaniko Jack 650-464-3764 Cupertino Ca El buscaderos 2nd & 4th sun oddman 208-437-0496 spirit Lake id West End outlaws 1st & 3rd sat rob banks 714-206-6893 Lytle Creek Ca Northwest shadow riders 2nd sat silverado belle 208-743-5765 Lewiston id silver Queen Mine regulators 1st & 3rd sun t. 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Kidd 562-598-7771 azusa Ca oregon trail rough riders 2nd sun & 3rd sat John bear 208-562-1914 boise id deadwood drifters 1st sat Lusty Lil 323-353-3898 Piru Ca hell’s Canyon Ghost riders 3rd sat J.P. sloe 208-798-0826 Moscow id Escondido bandidos 1st sat devil Jack 760-741-3229 Escondido Ca twin butte bunch 3rd sat idaho Packer 208-589-5941 rexburg id Lassen regulators 1st sat Chief Wages 530-257-3402 susanville Ca Panhandle regulators 3rd sun halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis orchards id the outlaws 1st sat terrell sackett 916-363-1648 sacramento Ca snake river Western shooting two rivers Posse 1st sat & 4th sun dragon 209-836-4042 Manteca Ca society 3rd sun & 4th sat Missy Mable 208-731-6387 Jerome id hole in the Wall Gang 1st sun frito bandito 661-406-6001 Piru Ca shady Creek shootists 1st & 4th sun dapper dan Porter 309-734-2324 Little york iL Mother Lode shootist society 1st sun sioux City Kid 209-795-4175 Jamestown Ca rangeless riders 1st sat the inspector 618-345-5048 highland iL river City regulators 1st sun Point of orgin 530-304-5616 davis Ca the Lakewood Marshal’s 1st sat Pine ridge Jack 618-838-9410 Cisne iL 5 dogs Creek 1st Wknd Mad dog draper 805-497-2857 bakersfield Ca boneyard Creek regulators 1st sun Wild Pike 217-356-5136 Newman iL Cajon Cowboys 2nd & 4th sat bojack 760-956-8852 devore Ca Kishwaukee Valley regulators 1st sun Grasshopper bCi 815-758-1946 sycamore iL Chorro Valley regulators 2nd & 5th sun Marshal Chance 805-460-9082 san Luis obispo Ca Kaskaskia Cowboys 2nd sat beaucoup Joe 618-521-3619 sparta iL buffalo runners 2nd sat Nyack Jack 916-812-0434 rail road flat Ca the free Grazers 2nd sat fossil Creeek bob 217-821-3134 Effingham iL California rangers 2nd sat Paniolo Lady 916-483-9198 sloughhouse Ca tri County Cowboys 2nd sat sierra hombre 815-967-6333 hazelhurst iL dulzura desperados 2nd sat hashknife Willie 619-271-1481 san diego Ca illinois river City regulators 2nd sun uncle outlaw 309-360-6152 East Peoria iL Guns in the sun 2nd sat Johnny 2moons 760-346-0972 Palm springs Ca Vermilion river Long riders 2nd sun Lead Poison Lar 815-875-3674 Leonore iL shasta regulators of hat Creek 2nd sat Cayenne Pepper 530-275-3158 burney Ca Nason Mining Company regulators 3rd & 5th sat diggins dave 618-438-6401 benton iL brimstone Pistoleros 2nd sun rowdy yates 714-532-2922 Lucerne Valley Ca Litchfield sportsman’s Club 3rd sat ross haney 618-667-9819 Litchfield iL double r bar regulators 2nd sun five Jacks 760-949-3198 Lucerne Valley Ca Macoupin County regulators 3rd sat one Good Eye 618-585-3956 bunker hill iL high sierra drifters 2nd sun Peaceful 209-293-4456 railroad flat Ca McLean County Peacemakers 3rd sat Marshall rd 309-379-4331 bloomington iL richmond roughriders 2nd sun buffy 650-994-9412 richmond Ca fort beggs defenders 3rd sun torandado 815-302-8305 Plainfield iL the over the hill Gang 2nd sun Kooskia Kid 818-566-7900 sylmar Ca illowa irregulars 3rd sun (apr-oct) shamrock sis 309-798-2635 Milan iL bridgeport Vigilantes 3rd sat bee blest 760-932-1139 bridgeport Ca Marion County renegades 4th sat shell stuffer 618-266-9813 sandoval iL burro Canyon Gunslingers 3rd sat don trader 714-827-7360 Meyers Canyon Ca Long Nine Cowboys, inc. 4th sun Postman 217-415-1118 Loami iL Gold Country Wild bunch 3rd sat sutter Lawman 530-713-4194 sloughouse Ca Good Guys Posse 4th sun (apr-oct) dangerous denny 815-245-7264 rockford iL Nevada City Peacemakers 3rd sat Marlin schofield 530-265-9213 Nevada City Ca salt river renegades as sched Lily Mae 217-985-4915 barry iL North County shootist assoc. 3rd sat Graybeard 760-727-9160 Pala Ca Cutter’s raiders 1st sat Midnite desperado 574-893-7214 Warsaw iN Plunge Creek Cowboys 3rd sat horace falcon 951-845-4827 highland Ca atlanta Cattle Company 2nd sat bear Creek reverend 765-652-1525 atlanta iN robbers roost Vigilantes 3rd sat Nasty Newt 760-375-7618 ridgecrest Ca Pleasant Valley renegades 2nd sat Nomore slim 812-839-3052 Canaan iN shasta regulators 3rd sat Modoc 530-365-1839 redding Ca schuster’s rangers 2nd sun (apr-Nov) Coal Car Kid 219-759-3498 Chesterton iN high desert Cowboys 3rd sun doc silverhawks 661-948-2543 acton Ca Pine ridge regulators 3rd sat Mountain Preacher 765-795-3016 Cloverdale iN Kings river regulators 3rd sun slick rock rooster 559-299-8669 Clovis Ca Circle r Cowboys 3rd sat Mustang bill 219-279-2781 brookston iN Murieta Posse 3rd sun Grizzly Peak Jake 530-676-2997 sloughhouse Ca daleville desperados 3rd sat flat Water bob 765-284-0405 daleville iN Panorama Northfield raiders 3rd sun desperado 818-341-7255 sylmar Ca thunder Valley 3rd sat redneck rebel 812-755-4237 Campbellsburg iN south Coast rangers - Perry adams Wolff’s rowdy rangers 3rd sat Justice d. spencer 574-264-2012 bristol iN Cowboy Match 3rd sun swifty schofield 805-886-3360 santa barbara Ca starke County desert 4th sat Whip Mccord 219-942-5859 Knox iN ukiah Gun Club 3rd sun Will bonner 707-462-1466 ukiah Ca Wabash rangers 4th sat henry remington 217-267-2820 Cayuga iN California shady Ladies 4th sat Lady Gambler 916-447-2040 sloughhouse Ca red brush raiders 4th sat doc Goodluck 812-721-1188 Newburgh iN Coyote Valley sharp shooters 4th sat Wif 408-448-3256 san Jose Ca deer Creek regulators 4th sun doc Molar 765-948-3844 Jonesboro iN Mad river rangers 4th sat Kid Kneestone 707-445-1981 blue Lake Ca Wildwood Wranglers 4th sun VoodooMaN 219-872-2721 Michigan City iN Pozo river Vigilance Committee 4th sat dirty sally 805-438-4817 santa Margarita Ca indiana black Powder Guild as sched C. C. top 574-354-7186 Etna Green iN hawkinsville Claim Jumpers 4th sat & 5th sat Lethal Les L’amour 530-843-4506 yreka Ca butterfield Gulch Gang 1st sun Kanasa flatlander 785-493-5682 Chapman Ks faultLine shootist society 4th sun Querida 831-635-9147 Gonzales Ca Powder Creek Cowboys 2nd & 4th sat & 4th Wed Eldorado Wayne 913-686-5314 Lenexa Ks the Cowboys 4th sun Captain Jake 714-318-6948 Norco Ca Mill brook Wranglers 2nd sun Grandpa buckten Millbrook 785-421-2537 hill City Ks the range 4th sun Grass V.federally 530-273-4440 Grass Valley Ca free state rangers 3rd & 5th sun buffalo Phil 913-904-8733 Parker Ks sloughhouse irregulators 5th sat & sun badlands bud 530-677-0368 sloughhouse Ca sand hill regulators 3rd sat Goat roper 620-345-3151 hutchinson Ks Colorado Cowboys 1st sat El Gato Gordo 719-683-6713 Lake George Co Capital City Cowboys 4th sun Newton 785-925-0281 topeka Ks Colorado shaketails 1st sun Midnite slim 719-660-2742 ramah Co Chisholm trail antique Gun assoc. 4th sun y. s hardey 620-367-2636 Wichita Ks san Juan rangers 1st sun Kodiak Kid 970-252-1841 Montrose Co Kentucky regulators 1st sat Kentucky dover 270-658-3247 boaz Ky Windygap regulators 1st Wknd Piedra Kidd 970-565-9228 Cortez Co hooten old town regulators 1st sat (Mar - dec) bullfork shotgun red 606-782-0239 Mckee Ky ben Lomond Knob Creek Gunfighters Guild 1st sun Cumberland drifter 502-548-3860 West Point Ky high Plains drifters 2nd sun sand river slim 303-771-1920 ramah Co Green river Gunslingers 2nd sat yak 270-792-9001 bowling Green Ky Castle Peak Wildshots 2nd sun old squinteye 970-524-9348 Gypsum Co Lonesome Pine Pistoleros 2nd sun isom Kid 606-633-4465 Jeremiah Ky four Corners rifle ohio river rangers 3rd sat George rogers 270-554-1501 Paducah Ky and Pistol Club 2nd sun Capt. W. K. Kelso 970-565-3840 Cortez Co Levisa fork Lead slingers 4 th sun Escopeta Jake 606-631-4613 Pikeville Ky Montrose Marshals 2nd sun big hat 970-249-7701 Montrose Co fox bend Peacemakers 4th sun tocala sam 859-552-9000 Wilmore Ky Pawnee station 3rd sat red river Wrangler 970-225-0545 Wellington Co border Vigilantes 1st sat Cooper york 504-722-8988 sorrento La rockvale bunch 3rd sat Ghostmaker 719-275-5265 rockvale Co up the Creek Gang 2nd & 4th sat hardly able 337-474-5058 Lake Charles La four Corners Gunslingers 3rd sun ruff Cobb 970-247-4386 durango Co bayou bounty hunters 2nd sat soiled dove 985-796-9698 amite La thunder Mountain shootists 3rd Wknd Pinto being 970-464-7118 Grand Junction Co Cajun Cowboy shooters society 2nd sun durango dan 225-752-2288 baton rouge La Northwest Colorado rangers 4th sat sagebrush burns 970-824-8407 Craig Co Cypress Creek Cowboys 2nd Wknd Mav dutchman 318-396-6320 downsville La Pawnee sportsmens Center 4th sat Governor General 970-656-3851 briggsdale Co Grand Ecore Vigilantes 3rd sat ouachita Kid 318-932-6637 Natchitoches La sand Creek raiders 4th sun sweet Water bill 303-366-8827 byers Co Guns of sabine Pass 3rd sat hobbel-a-Long 337-463-5690 hineston La Ledyard sidewinders 1st sat yosemite Gene 860-536-0887 Ledyard Ct deadwood Marshals 4th sat barkeeps 225-715-8711 sorrento La Ct Valley bushwackers 2nd sun Cayuse 203-457-1031 East Granby Ct Jackson hole regulators 4th sat slick McClade 318-395-2224 Quitman La Paden’s Posse 3rd sun hazel Pepper 302-422-6534 seaford dE danvers desperados as sched Cyrus Cy Klopps 781-667-2857 Middleton Ma Gold Coast Gunslingers 1st sat L. topay 305-233-5756 fort Lauderdale fL harvard Ghost riders as sched yosemite Kid 781-373-2411 harvard Ma howey in the hills Cowboys 1st sat Lady robin 352-429-2587 howey in the hills fL shawsheen river rangers as sched yukon Willie 978-663-3342 bedford Ma If your Listing is incorrect, please notify Prairie Mary (505) 843-1320 . 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Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City State C l u b Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Gunnysackers sat Nantucket dawn 781-749-6951 scituate Ma border rangers 2nd sun (apr-oct) dammit dick 607-724-6216 Greene Ny Eas’dern shore renegades 1st sat teton tracy 302-378-7854 sudlersville Md hole in the Wall Gang Ny 3rd sat El fusilero 631-864-1035 Calverton Ny thurmont rangers 1st sun Cody Conagher 304-258-1419 thurmont Md diamond four 3rd sat (apr-oct) Kayutah Kid 607-796-0573 odessa Ny Monocacy irregulars 2nd sat Church Key 304-229-8266 frederick Md Circle K regulators 3rd sun smokehouse dan 518-885-3758 ballston spa Ny damascus Wildlife rangers 4th sat (Mar-Nov) Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 damascus Md d bar d Wranglers 4th sat Captain M.a.f 845-226-8611 Wappingers fall Ny beaver Creek desperados as sched Jimmy reb 207-698-4436 sanford / springvale ME sackets harbor Vigilantes 4th sun ranger Clayton Conagher 315-465-6543 sackets harbor Ny big Pine bounty hunters as sched ripley scrounger 207-876-3541 Willmantic ME the Long riders 4th sun Loco Poco Lobo 585-467-4429 shortsville Ny blue hill regulators as sched dangerous d. dalton 207-667-3586 blue hill ME Mythical rough riders 5th sun rev dave Clayton 716-838-4286 hamburg Ny Capitol City Vigilance Committee as sched Mark Lake 207-622-9400 augusta ME rockdale renegades as sched scheriff richie 607-783-2752 rockdale Ny hurricane Valley rangers as sched Leo 207-829-3092 falmouth ME the shadow riders as sched dusty Levis 646-284-4010 Westhampton bch Ny rockford regulators 1st sat No Cattle 616-363-2827 rockford Mi East End regulators Last sun diamond rio 631-585-1936 Westhampton Ny river bend rangers 2nd sat Pitmaster 574-276-8805 Niles Mi big irons 1st sat deadwood stan 513-894-3500 Middletown oh butcher butte bunch 2nd sun Grubby hardrock 810-750-0655 fenton Mi Middletown sportsmens Club, inc. 1st sat deadwood stan 513-894-3500 Middletown oh double barrel Gang 2nd sun dakota fats 269-721-8190 hastings Mi tusco Long riders 1st sat split rail 330-364-6185 Midvale oh Chippewa regulators 3rd sat Lazy Eye ben 906-632-2720 sault ste. Marie Mi West Jeff Ghostriders 1st sun Col. Cord McNalley 614-563-6070 West Jefferson oh sucker Creek saddle & Gun Club 3rd sat Cree Vicar dave 989-654-3636 breckenridge Mi firelands Peacemakers 1st Wed, 3rd sat hidden Valley Cowboys 3rd sun saulk Valley stubby 269-651-5197 sturgis Mi & 5th sun Johnny shiloh 440-984-4551 rochester oh Eagleville Cowboys 4th sat trusty rusty 231-342-6462 Central Lake Mi sandusky County regulators 2nd sat Woodfox 419-726-7950 Gibsonburg oh Johnson Creek regulators 4th sat Gabby Glenn 248-474-0590 Plymouth Mi shenango river rats 2nd sat & Last thurs rocky river regulators as sch terrebonne bud 248-709-5254 utica Mi (May-oct) shenango Joe 330-782-0958 yankee Lake oh saginaw field & stream Club as sched bad river Marty 989-585-3292 saginaw Mi Miami Valley Cowboys 2nd sun buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 Piqua oh Lapeer County sportsmans scioto territory desperados inc. 3rd & 5th sun Pickaway tracker 740-477-1881 Chillicothe oh Club Wranglers sun flat Water bill 314-378-5689 attica Mi Wilmington rough riders 3rd sat Paragon Pete 740-626-7667 Wilmington oh Cedar Valley Vigilantes 1st & 3rd sat d M yankee 612-701-9719 Morristown MN auGlaize rough riders 3rd sun deputy diamond desperado 419-722-6345 defiance oh Crow river rangers 1st sun Cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 howard Lake MN ohio Valley Vigilantes 4th sat d. J. Mcdraw 740-767-2326 Mt. Vernon oh Lookout Mountain Gunsmoke soc. 2nd sat Wagonmaster 218-744-4694 Virginia MN Central ohio Cowboys 4th sun ( Mar-Nov) stagecoach hannah 614-868-9821 Circleville oh Granite City Gunslingers 2nd sat & 5th sat rev. Cepheus 320-267-6576 saint Cloud MN Jackson six shooters Last sat (Mar-oct) flat iron fred 330-538-2690 North Jackson oh East Grand forks rod & Gun Club 3rd sun bb Gunner 218-779-8555 East Grand forks MN shortgrass rangers 1st sat & 3rd sun Captain allyn Capron 580-357-5870 Grandfield oK ike’s Clantons 4th sun (apr-sep) dawgnapper 320-275-2052 New ulm MN Cherokee strip shootists 1st sun Paladenton 405-547-2533 stillwater oK the ozark Posse 1st sat tightwad swede 417-846-5142 Cassville Mo rattlesnake Mountain rangers 2nd sat black river Jack 918-908-0016 Checotah oK rocky branch rangers 1st sun iza Littleoff 816-524-1462 higginsville Mo tulsey town Cattlemens asso. 2nd sat & 4th sat Curly thom Mabry 918-376-4376 tulsa oK West Plaines Waddies 2nd & 5th sat buckshot baby 417-284-1432 tecumseh Mo oklahoma territorial Marshals 2nd sat & 4th sun Missouri Mae 405-373-1472 oklahoma City oK Moniteau Creek river raiders 2nd sun doolin riggs 573-687-3103 fayette Mo indian territory single action 2nd sun, 3rd sat, Central ozarks Western shooters 3rd sun X s Chance 573-765-5483 st. robert Mo shooting society 4th Wed & 5th sun burly bill 918-830-2936 sand springs oK Gateway shootist society 3rd sun bounty seeker 636-464-6569 st. Louis Mo tater hill regulators 3rd sun taos Willie 918-355-2849 tulsa oK southern Missouri rangers 4th Wknd smokie 417-759-9114 Willard Mo horse ridge Pistoleros inc. 1st & 3rd sun big Casino 541-389-2342 bend or Natchez six Gunners 1st sat Winchester 601-445-5223 Natchez Ms dry Gulch desperados 1st sat runamuck 509-525-2984 Milton freewater or Mississippi Peacemakers 3rd sat squinter 601-825-8640 Mendenhall Ms Merlin Marauders 1st sat bear bone smith 541-582-4144 Merlin or Mississippi river rangers 4th & 5th sat Easy Lee 662-838-7451 byhalia Ms Molalla river rangers 1st sat Gold dust bill 503-705-1211 Canby or honorable road agents siuslaw river rangers 1st sun Johnny Jingos 541-997-6313 florence or shooting society 1st sat diamond red 406-685-3618 Ennis Mt table rock rangers 1st sun & 2nd sat Jed i. Knight 541-944-2281 White City or sun river rangers shooting soc. 1st sun & 4th sat Jeb stuart 406-727-7625 simms Mt Pine Mountain Posse 2nd sun Cowboss 541-548-7325 bend or Gallatin Valley regulators 2nd sat (apr-sep) Gooch hill drifter 406-763-4268 Logan Mt Klamath Cowboys 2nd sun & 4th sat Mad river Mongo 541-884-1905 Keno or rocky Mountain rangers 2nd Wknd Jocko 406-847-0745 Noxon Mt Jefferson state regulators 3rd sat Jed i. Knight 541-944-2281 ashland or bigfork buscaderos 3rd sat bodie Camp 406-883-6797 bigfork Mt oregon trail regulators 3rd sat Willie Killem 541-443-6591 La Grande or Custer County stranglers 3rd sat hartshot 406-232-0727 Miles City Mt orygun Cowboys 3rd sat & 4th sat dog-leg don 702-378-9885 sherwood or Last Chance handgunners 3rd sat (apr-Jul) bocephus bandito 406-439-4476 boulder Mt oregon old West shooting society 3rd sun & 4th sat Mid Valley drifter 541-259-2774 albany or Lincoln County regulators 4th sat Gideon Withette 406-250-4790 Eureka Mt fort dalles defenders 4th sun frisco Nell 360-835-5630 the dalles or Montana territory Peacemakers 4th sat backstrap bill 406-652-6158 billings Mt umpqua regulators 4th sun big Lou 541-484-5900 roseburg or yellowstone regulators 4th sat (Jun-sep) Chisler Wood 307-690-2676 West yellowstone Mt Lewis river rangers as sch Johnny Colt 503-289-1280 st. helens or flatwood’s Cowboys 1st sat seth hawkins 910-346-3612 hubert NC Columbia County Cowboys as sched Kitty Colt 503-642-4120 st. helens or old hickory regulators 1st sat Wendover Kid 252-908-0098 rocky Mount NC dry Gulch rangers 1st sat Pepc holic 724-263-1461 Midway Pa old North state Posse 1st sat tracker Mike 336-595-8853 salisbury NC Perry County regulators 1st sat tuscarora slim 717-789-3004 ickesburg Pa Walnut Grove rangers 1st sat hiem 828-245-5563 rutherfordton NC boot hill Gang of topton 1st sun Lester Moore 610-704-6792 topton Pa Carolina rough riders 1st sun Pecos Pete 704-394-1859 Charlotte NC Chimney rocks regulators 1st sun hattie hubbs 814-696-5669 hollidaysburg Pa buccaneer range regulators 2nd sat dodge City dude 910-270-3351 Wilmington NC factoryville freebooters 1st sun tad sloe 570-489-0652 factoryville Pa Carolina Cattlemen’s shooting Whispering Pines Cowboy Comm. 1st sun Mac traven 570-723-8885 Wellsboro Pa and social society 2nd sat Wicked Wanda 919-266-1678 Creedmore NC Conestoga Wagoneers 1st sun (dec-Mar) No Change 215-431-2302 southampton Pa high Country Cowboys 2nd sat Wild otter 828-423-7796 asheville NC heidelberg Lost dutchmen 2nd sat ivory rose 717-627-0694 schaefferstown Pa bostic Vigilantes 2th sat bostic Kid 704-434-2174 bostic NC Logans ferry regulators 2nd sat (apr-Nov) Mariah Kid 412-607-5313 Plum borough Pa Cross Creek Cowboys 3rd sat huckleberry Mike 910-980-0572 Wagram NC Mainville Marauders 2nd sun dodge bill 570-477-5667 Mainville Pa Gunpowder Creek regulators 3rd sat fannie Kikinshoot 828-754-1884 Lenoir NC the dakota badlanders 2nd sun barley Pop bill 610-770-1189 orefield Pa Carolina single action Westshore Posse 2nd sun hud McCoy 717-683-2632 New Cumberland Pa shooting society 3rd sun Carolina’s Longarm 919-383-7567 Eden NC river Junction shootist society 3rd sat deputy Keck 724-423-6255 donegal Pa Piedmont Gunslingers 3rd sun sam Carp 704-596-7120 Churchland NC Jefferson outlaws 3rd sat (Mar-Nov) oracle Jones 410-239-6795 Jefferson Pa iredell regulators 4th sat stump Water 704-630-9527 statesville NC Easton Greenhorns 3rd sat (Mar-oct) ragweed 610-847-2798 Lower saucon Pa badlands bandits (the) 3rd sat roughrider ray 701-260-0347 belfield Nd blue Mountain rangers 3rd sun Cathy fisher 610-488-0619 hamburg Pa dakota rough riders as sched roughrider Jim bob 701-673-3122 Moffit Nd Matamoras Mavericks 3rd sun hammerin steel 570-296-5853 Milford Pa trestle Valley rangers as sched doc hell 701-852-1697 Minot Nd silver Lake bounty hunters 3rd sun Marshal t. J. buckshot 570-663-3045 Montrose Pa sheyenne Valley Peacekeepers Last sat (apr-sep) Wild river rose 701-588-4331 Kindred Nd Purgatory regulators 3rd Wknd dry Gulch Geezer 814-827-2120 titusville Pa Platte Valley Gunslingers 1st sun firewater 308-226-2255 Grand island NE Elstonville hombres 4th sun basket Lady 717-949-3970 Manheim Pa alliance Cowboy Club 2nd sun Panhandle slim Miles 308-760-0568 alliance NE stewart’s regulators 4th sun sodbuster burt 724-479-8838 shelocta Pa Eastern Nebraska Gun Club 2nd sun (apr-oct) flint Valdez 712-323-8996 Louisville NE El Posse Grande 4th sun (Mar-oct) black hills barb 570-538-9163 Muncy Valley Pa flat Water shootists of the Pinetree Gun Club 4th sun Wyoming blink 401-385-9907 foster ri Grand island rifle Club 3rd sun fortyfour Maggie 308-383-4605 Grand island NE Palmetto Posse 1st sat dun Gamblin 803-422-5587 Columbia sC the dalton Gang shooting Club, Piedmont regulators 2nd sat Chase randall 864-637-8873 anderson sC of Nh LLC 3rd Wknd (apr-oct) Littleton s. dalton 603-444-6876 dalton Nh hurricane riders 3rd sat saloon Keeper 843-361-2277 aynor sC Merrimack Valley Marauders as sched sheriff r. P. bucket 603-345-6876 Pelham Nh savannah river rangers 3rd sun surly dave 803-892-2812 Gaston sC Pemi Valley Peacemakers as sched Laconia 603-524-2240 holderness Nh Geechee Gunfighters 4th sat Edisto ike 843-869-2429 ridgeville sC White Mountain regulators as sched dead head 603-772-2358 Candia Nh Greenville Gunfighters 4th sun Cowboy Junky 864-414-5578 Greenville sC thumbusters 2nd sun doc fanizzo 732-892-7272 Minmouth NJ Cottonwood Cowboy association 2nd sun dakota Nailbender 605-520-5212 Clark sd Jackson hole Gang 4th sun (Mar-Nov) Papa Grey 732-961-6834 Jackson NJ black hills shootist association 3rd sun hawkbill smith 605-342-8946 Pringle sd Magdalena trail drivers 1st & 3rd sat Grizzly adams 575-854-2488 Magdalena NM bald Mountain renegades 4th sun hilltop Kid 605-392-2319 faulkton sd rio rancho regulators 1st & 4th sat sam brannan 505-400-2468 rio rancho NM bitter Creek rangers, the 1st sat silver stallion 931-707-9452 Crossville tN otero Practical shooting assoc. 1st sat saguaro sam 505-437-3663 La Luz NM Greene County regulators 1st sat Mort dooley 423-357-8464 rogersville tN buffalo range riders 1st sun Garrison Joe 505-323-8487 founders ranch NM Wartrace regulators 1st sat & 3rd sat Chisum Cowboy Gun Club 1st sun two bit tammy 575-626-9201 roswell NM (apr-sept) Will reily 615-948-4143 Wartrace tN bighorn Vigilantes 2nd sat Lawdog bob 505-883-8829 Edgewood NM Memphis Gunslingers 2nd sat Loco Perro 662-838-9803 arlington tN Lincoln County regulators 2nd sat John steele 575-937-3023 ruidoso NM orsa Cowboys 2nd sat Kid Ziggy 865-675-1270 oak ridge tN high desert drifters 2nd sun Phillip doboy taylor 505-286-6686 Edgewood NM North West tennessee Longriders 3rd sat Can’t shoot dillion 731-885-8102 union City tN rio Grande renegades 2nd Wed, 3rd sat, 4th sun, tennessee Mountain Marauders 3rd sat double barrel 423-593-3767 Chattanooga tN & 5th sat/ sun English Lyn 505-550-9230 albuquerque NM highland regulators, inc 3rd, 4th & 5th Wknd iron Maiden 423-628-2715 Winfield tN Gila rangers 2nd Wknd Chico Cheech 575-388-2531 silver City /Mimbres NM ocoee rangers 4th sat ocoee red 423-476-5303 Cleveland tN seven rivers regulators 3rd sat stink Creek Jones 575-885-9879 Carlsbad NM El Vaqueros 1st & Last sun tom doniphan 254-559-9896 breckenridge tX Monument springs bushwhackers 4th sat Val darrant 575-370-0650 hobbs NM alamo area Moderators 1st sat tombstone Mary 210-493-9320 san antonio tX Picacho Posse 4th sat fast hammer 505-647-3434 Las Cruces NM south texas Pistolaros 1st sat Cibolo sam 210-213-7746 san antonio tX tres rios bandidos 4th sun Largo Casey 505-330-2489 farmington NM texas Peacemakers 1st sat deadeye Greg 903-593-8215 tyler tX high Plains drifters 1st sun irish ike 775-424-2336 fernley NV texas riviera Pistoleros 1st sat Longstar 361-334-1978 Corpus Christi tX Eldorado Cowboys 1st Wknd Charming 702-565-3736 boulder City NV texas troublemakers 1st sat Lefty tex Larue 903-539-7234 brownsboro tX fort halleck Volunteers 2nd & 4th sat (Call) Green springs 775-753-8203 Elko NV orange County regulators 1st sat & 3rd sun texas Gator 409-243-3477 orange tX Lone Wolf shooters, LLC 2nd & 5th sun Penny Pepperbox 775-727-4600 Pahrump NV buck Creek bandoleros 1st sat & 3rd Wknd hoofprint Prine 254-897-7328 Nemo tX Nevada rangers Cowboy action Comanche trail shootists 1st sat and 5th sat dee horne 432-556-8446 Midland tX shooting society 2nd sun Cross Keystone 702-506-7023 Jean NV Plum Creek Carriage roop County Cowboy & shooting society 1st sat sun delta raider 512-376-2602 Lockhart tX shooters association 2nd sun russ t. Chambers 775-747-1426 sparks NV badlands bar 3 1st Wknd t-bone dooley 903-272-9283 Clarksville tX desert desperados 3rd sun buffalo sam 702-459-6454 Las Vegas NV thunder river renegades 1st wknd two spurs 936-273-1851 Magnolia tX silver state shootists 3rd sun tahoe bill 775-586-9178 Carson City NV Concho Valley shooters 2nd sat roamin shields 325-656-1281 san angelo tX steptoe Valley raiders 4th sat Cheyenne Kid 775-296-2053 Ely NV bounty hunters 2nd sat Cable Lockhart 806-299-1192 Levelland tX silver City shooters society 4th sun iona Vequero 775-764-0257 indian springs NV travis County regulators 2nd sat Cherokee Granny 979-561-6202 smithville tX alabama Gunslingers 1st sat bum thumb 585-343-3906 alabama Ny texas tenhorns shooting Club 2nd sun & 4th sat Cole bluesteele 817-577-1854 Greenville tX tioga County Cowboys 1st sat dusty drifter 607-659-3819 owego Ny texican rangers 2nd Weekend dusty Chambers 830-377-6331 fredericksburg tX Crumhorn Mountain Cowboys 1st sun Lefty Cooper 607-547-6008 Maryland Ny Lone star frontier shooting Club 2nd Wknd Long range rick 817-980-7206 Cleburne tX Pathfinder Pistoleros 1st sun (apr-Nov) sonny 315-695-7032 fulton Ny oakwood outlaws 2nd Wknd texas alline 903-545-2252 oakwood tX boot hill regulators 1st sun (apr-oct) Judge Zaney Grey 845-352-7921 Chester Ny Canadian river regulators 2nd, 3rd & 5th sat blacksmith Jim 806-355-7158 Clarendon tX salt Port Vigilance Committee 2nd sat twelve bore 585-613-8046 holley Ny old fort Parker Patriots 3rd Wknd slowaz Molasses 254-412-0904 Groesbeck tX bar-20, inc. 2nd sat (apr-Nov) badlands buck 315-637-3492 West Eaton Ny Cottonwood Creek Cowboys 3rd sat Pecos Cahill 325-575-5039 snyder tX (Continued on page 98) Page 98 Cowboy Chronicle June 2010 SASS AFFILIATED CLuBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDuLE (Cont.)

Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City State C l u b Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Gruesome Gulch Gang 3rd sat Eli blue 806-293-2909 Plainview tX san antonio rough riders 3rd sat tombstone Mary 210-493-9320 san antonio tX EuROPE MONTHLY MATCHES tejas Caballeros 3rd sat Whiskey runner 512-288-3399 driftwood tX sweetwater Gunslingers Willow hole Cowboys 3rd sat & sun baba Looey 979-820-1457 North Zulch tX austria as sched fra diabolo [email protected] Vienna au red river regulators 3rd sun El rio rojo ray 903-838-0964 texarkana tX old West shooting texas historical shootist society 3rd sun Charles Goodnight 281-342-1210 Columbus tX society switzerland as sched hondo Janssen 044-271-99 47 Zurich Ch butterfield trail regulators 4th sat texas slim 325-668-4884 abilene tX association of Western Green Mountain regulators 4th sat singin’ Zeke 830-693-4215 Marble falls tX shooters as sched thunderman 420-603-222-400 Prelouc CZ Purgatory ridge rough riders 4th sat armed to the teeth 806-777-6182 slaton tX Cowboy action shooting huaco rangers 4th sat (Jan-Nov) blueeyed bear 254-715-0746 China spring tX Germany Last sat Marshal heck +49 160 97652588 Edderitz dE Comanche Valley Vigilantes 4th Wknd denton dancer 214-384-3975 Cleburne tX Jail bird’s Company Monday orlando a brick bond 0049 2131 7423065 Wegberg dE tejas Pistoleros, inc. 4th Wknd texas Paladin 713-690-5313 Eagle Lake tX sass-Europe Monday Niers river Kid 0049-2823-98080 Wegberg dE tin star texans 4th Wknd Mickey 830-685-3464 fredericksburg tX Cas-Europe Wed hurricane irmi 0049-2823-5807 bocholt NrW dE three Peaks rangers 1st & 3rd sat second amendment 435-590-5436 Cedar City ut sass Germany Wed rhine river Joe 0049-2823-5807 spork dE big hollow bandits 1st sat P.J. McCarthy 435-671-1929 heber ut association of danish Copenhagen Valley regulators 1st sat Lead Culpepper 801-627-4692 Mantua ut Western shooters as sch Mrs. stowaway +45 602 013 65 Greve dK North rim regulators 1st sat autum rose 435-644-5053 Kanab ut Classic old Western Wasatch summit regulators 1st sun boots rob 435-649-3625 Park City ut Crow seeps Cattle Company L.L.C. 1st. sat buffalo Juan 435-528-7432 Mayfield ut society of finland as sched Captain Woodbury Kane 3.58505E+11 Loppi fiN fi dixie desperados 2nd &4th sat Moe Greens 435-668-6622 st. George ut sass finland Various Capt. Woodbury Kane 3.58505E+11 Various fi deseret historical shootist society 2nd sat Pronghorn Pete 801-498-7654 Kaysville ut Golden triggers of freetown 1st sun Capt. Jack dimonds Lebeau (33) 627721309 Villefrache de rouergue fr hobble Creek Wranglers 2nd sat hobble Creek Marshall 801-489-7681 springville ut L’arquebuse d’antony 2nd sun Jeppesen 01 46 61 17 98 antony fr rio Verde rangers 2nd sat doc Nelson 435-564-8210 Green river ut Club de tir beaujolais as sch Jesse sandwhite [email protected] Villefranche sur saone fr utah War 3rd & 5th sat Jubal o. sackett 801-944-3444 salt Lake City ut bEraC as sched reverend delano L. oakley 33 3 80 20 35 51 Premeaux Prissey fr diamond Mountain rustlers 3rd sat Cinch 435-724-2575 Vernal ut Les tireurs de l’uzege dimanche Lictevoet Jean-Claude +33(0)466 759 529 uzes fr Mesa Marauders Gun Club 3rd sat Copper Queen 435-979-4665 Lake Powell ut Club de tir de bernay sat Chriswood 02.32.45.59.00 bernay fr Castle Gate Posse 4th sat rowdy hand 435-637-8209 Price ut CtsVE sat Little shooting Missie +33 6 75558063 ECot fr Wahsatch desperados 4th sat sly steadyhand 801-546-4843 fruit heights ut societe de tir bedoin Pungo Posse 1st sat V. b. southpaw 757-471-6190 Wakefield Va Ventoux sat-sun sheriff Ch. outhpaw 049 035 1973 bedoin fr Liberty Long riders 1st sun thunder Colt 540-296-0772 bedford Va tir olympique Lyonnais sun barth 33 0 6 13 24 61 28 Lyon fr Cavalier Cowboys 1st sun (Mar-dec) Kuba Kid 804-270-9054 hanover County Va Cas/sass france Varies Charles allan Jeppesen Lasalle 33146611798 Varies fr Virginia City Marshals 1st tues humphrey hook 703-801-3507 fairfax Va Club de tri de nuits blue ridge regulators 2nd sun bad Company 540-886-3374 Lexington Va saint Georges Varies reverend delano L. oakley 0033 90 0380 203 551 Nuits saint Georges fr K.C.’s Corral 3rd sat Virginia rifleman 804-550-2242 Mechanicsville Va Kells County regulators 1st sat indepenence Carroll 028 9336 8004 Varies iE Mattaponi sundowners 3rd sun & 4th sat flatboat bob 804-785-2575 West Point Va Green hearts regulator 1st sun Marshal steven Gardiner -24883 trevi it bend of trail 4th sun Cavern bill 540-380-4965 roanoke Va fratelli della Costa onlus 3rd sat oversize + 35 056424677 Livorno it Pepper Mill Creek Gang 4th sun slip hammer spiv 540-775-4561 King George Va Lassiter fan shooting Club 3rd sun ivan bandito -430708 Mazzano it stovall Creek regulators as sch brizco-Z 434-929-1063 Lynchburg Va rivanna ranger Company see sched Virginia ranger 434-973-8759 Charlottesville Va Maremma bad Land’s riders as sched alameda slim [email protected] siena it Verdant Mountain Vigilantes as sched snake-Eye alger 802-476-6247 st. Johnsbury Vt old West shooting Mica Peak Marshals 1st & 3rd sat old timer Gus 509-325-9253 Mica Wa society italy as sched alchimista 39-3342068337 italy it North East Washington regulators 1st (full) Wknd a. t. McGee 509-684-2325 Colville Wa Canne roventi Last sun Valdez [email protected] filottrano it renton united Cowboy honky tonk rebels Last sun Kaboom andy 39 335 7378551 Vigevano it action shooters 1st Wknd Jess ducky 425-271-9286 renton Wa Wild West rebels sun alchimista -3342068304 Malegno-bs it Windy Plains drifters 2nd & 4th sat hopalong hoot 509-299-6296 Medical LK Wa sass Luxembourg as sched smiley Miles +352-621 280 606 Varies Lu Mima Marauders 2nd sat okie sawbones 360-705-3601 olympia Wa sass Netherlands as sched Lightning anja 0031-517-592120 Leeuwarden NL Pataha rustlers 2nd sat doc day 509-382-4898 dayton Wa sass Norway as sched Charles Quantrill 47-932-59-669 Loten No Wolverton Mountain Quantrill raiders sun Charles Quantrill 4793259669 Loten No Peace Keepers 2nd sat hellfire 360-513-9081 ariel Wa schedsmoe County Colville Guns and roses 2nd sun Cheyence sadie 509-684-3632 Colville Wa rough riders thurs Jailbird 47-6399-4279 Lillestrom No smokey Point desperados 2nd sun Mudflat Mike 425-335-5176 arlington Wa sass sweden Varies Wild bull 4658612045 Varies sE apple Valley Marshals 3rd sat silent sam 509-884-3875 East Wenatchee Wa Ghost riders 3rd sun sidewinder sam 425-836-8053 fall City Wa Panhandle regulators 3rd sun halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis orchards Wa SOuTH AFRICA MONTHLY MATCHES black river regulators 4th sat Montana slim 360-754-4328 Littlerock Wa Custer renegades 4th sun Joe Cannuck 360-676-2587 Custer Wa Western shooters of Poulsbo Pistoleros 4th sun sourdough George 360-830-0100 Poulsbo Wa south africa 3rd sat richmond P. hobson 027-21-797-5054 Cape town sa rattlesnake Gulch rangers Last sat ricochet robbie 509-628-0889 benton City Wa beazley Gulch rangers Last sun an E. di 509-787-1782 Quincy Wa rock river regulators 1st & 3rd sat stoney Mike 608-868-5167 beloit Wi DOWN uNDER MONTHLY MATCHES Western Wisconsin Wild bunch 2nd sat sierra Jack Cassidy 608-792-1494 holmen Wi bristol Plains Pistoleros 2nd sun huckleberry 815-675-2566 bristol Wi Gold Coast Gamblers 1st & 3rd sat dagger Jack 61-7-5537-5857 Gold Coast QLd au Crystal river Gunslingers 2nd sun Ghost Chaser 715-281-7823 Waupaca Wi adelaide Pistol Wisconsin old West 2nd sun & 4th sat & shooting Club 1st sat & 3rd sun Lobo Malo 61-8-2890606 Korunye s.a au shootist, inc. (apr-oct) tracker Jack daniels 715-643-2011 boyceville Wi Little river raiders 3rd sun Lazy dave 61 3 403777926 Little river, Victoria au Liberty Prairie regulators 3rd sat dirty deeds 920-229-5833 ripon Wi ssaa-sasa Little river raiders hodag County Cowboys 3rd sun hodag bob 715-550-8337 rhinelander Wi single action Club 3rd sun tiresome 02 5978 0190 Melbourne ViC au oconomowoc Cattlemen’s Cowboy action shooters association 4th sat Marvin the Moyle 414-254-5592 Concord Wi of australia 3rd Wknd i.d. 02-9975-7983 teralba NsW au the bad Guys Posse as sched speedy dan 262-728-6577 Elkhorn Wi fort bridger shooting Club inc. 4th sun duke york 61-3-9551-2902 drouin ViC au dawn Ghost riders 1st sun Coffee bean 304-327-9884 hinton WV ssaa single action frontier regulators 2nd sat Captain tay 304-265-5748 thorton WV shooting-australia sat/sun Virgil Earp 61-7-4695-2050 Millmerran QLd au the railtown rowdys 2nd sun Miss Print 304-589-6162 bluefield WV trail blazers Gun Club 1st sun Ernie southpaw 64-3-755-7654 Mill town NZ rocky holler regulators 3rd sun Jessee Earp 304-425-2023 Princeton WV bullet spittin sons o’ thunder 2nd sat billy deadwood 64-6-3564720 Palmerston N. NZ Kanawha Valley regulators 3rd Wknd Pike Marshall 304-925-9342 Eleanor WV frontier & Western shooting Cowboy action shooting sports association 2nd sun souther Cross 0064 6 3798086 Carterton NZ sports, inc. 4th sun (Mar-Nov) Jackson 540-678-0735 Largent WV Wairarapa Pistol and shooting Cheyenne regulators, inc. 1st sat dr. frank Powell 307-637-0350 Cheyenne Wy Club, inc. 2nd sun doc hayes 06 379 6692 Gladstone NZ Colter’s hell Justice Committee tararua rangers 3rd sun J.E.b. stuart (64) 6 3796436 Carterton NZ Wsas 1st sat yakima red 307-254-2090 Various Locations Wy Western renegades 4th sat black bart bolton 027 249 6270 Wanganui NZ bessemer Vigilance Committee 1st sun smokewagon bill 307-472-1926 Casper Wy high Lonesome drifters 2nd sat Kari Lynn 307-587-2946 Cody Wy southfork Vigilance Committee Wsas 2nd sat Wennoff halfcock 507-332-5035 Lander Wy SASS MOuNTED MONTHLY MATCHES sybille Creek shooters 2nd sat Wyoming roy 307-322-3515 Wheatland Wy Prescott ranch rangers Varies July Johnson 951-775-1957 Paulden aZ Powder river Justice Committee tombstone Ghost riders Mounted Club 2nd sun dan Nabbit 520-456-0423 tombstone aZ Wsas 3rd sun doc fehr 307-683-3320 buffalo Wy California range riders as sched old buckaroo 408-710-1616 Varies Ca donkey Creek shootists 4th sun Poker Jim 307-660-0221 Gillette Wy snake river rowdies as sched sheriff J. r. Quigley 307-733-4559 Jackson Wy Ghost town riders 1st sun steely Eyes Earp 951-737-6596 Norco Ca revengers of Montezuma 1st sun (apr-oct) aneeda huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortez Co bay area bandits as sched shootin shoer 813-623-6137 tampa fL CANADIAN MONTHLY MATCHES florida outlaws Cowboy red Mountain renegades 1st sun Preacher flynn t. Locke 604-820-1564 Mission bC CaNada Mounted shooting as sched two Gun Gina 321-636-5399 ocala fL Valley regulators 3rd sat high Country amigo 250-334-3479 Courtenay bC CaNada border Marauders Mounted as sched bad buffalo bob 208-610-8229 Eastport id Long harbour Lead slingers as sched Preacher Man John 250-537-0083 salt spring island bC CaNada heartland Peacemakers as sched rawhidenlace 765-561-2521 fountaintown iN Palmer’s Gulch Cowboys as sched Caribou Lefty 250-372-0416 heffley Creek bC CaNada Victoria frontier shootists as sched teacher C. 250-592-4311 Victoria bC CaNada thurmont Mounted rangers 3rd sun timber smoke 410-997-9370 thurmont Md Western Canadian frontier New hampshire Mounted shooters as sched Myaz b. dragon 603-487-3379 New boston Nh shootists society as sched Gunfighter Jim 250-573-2885 Kamloops bC CaNada Cowboy Legends Mounted shooting Nova scotia Cowboy action association as sched Crown royal Cowboy 973-296-6283 Pompton Plains NJ shooting Club 3rd sun Wounded belly 902-890-2310 truro, Ns Ns CaNada buffalo range riders Mounted 2nd sat sass office 505-843-1320 founders ranch NM badlands of h. a. h. a. 1st sat r.t. Ways 905-627-4123 ancaster oN CaNada oklahoma Gunslingers as sched ima sandy storm 918-244-8060 Claremore oK barrie Gun Club 2nd & 4th sat Northern Crow 705-435-2807 barrie oN CaNada Lambton sportsman’s Club 2nd sat Payton 519-337-9058 st. Clair oN CaNada Lone Pine rangers 3rd sat hawkeye scout 541-447-7012 Prineville or Wentworth shooting sports Liberty Prairie Mounted shooters as sched halfpint holloway 920-748-8405 ripon Wi Club 2nd sun stoney Creek 905-664-3217 hamilton oN CaNada Waterloo County revolver Quebec Mounted Shooting association as sched ranger Pappy Cooper 519-536-9184 kitchener oN CaNada Champ de tir saint-Jacques- Association Varies dirty owl bert 819-424-7842 Joliette QC CaNada le-Mineur as sched richelieu Mike 450-658-8130 Napierville QC CaNada ottawa Valley Marauders as sched button 514-792-0063 ottawa QC CaNada alberta frontier shootists as sched Mustang heart 780-464-4600 rocky Mtn house CaNada VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE blueridge sportsmen’s Club inc as sched rebel dale 519-599-2558 Clarksburg.oN CaNada AT rocky Mountain house WWW.SASSNET.COM old West shootists as sched Luke a. Leathersmith 403-845-4347 rocky Mtn house CaNada June 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 99 SASS AFFILIATED CLuBS ANNuAL MATCHES Match Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Match Name Sched. Contact Phone City State utah summer Games ambush at durham ferry sep 02 - 05, 10 dragon 209-836-4042 Manteca Ca Lonesome dove Jun 02 - 05, 10 second amendment 435-590-5436 Cedar City ut SASS Nebraska State Championship SASS Arkansas State Championship Pursuit Midwest Roundup sep 02 - 05, 10 firewater 308-226-2255 Grand island NE By Rooster Cogburn’s Posse Jun 04 - 06, 10 sister sundance 479-970-7042 belleville ar SASS Michigan State Championship Wolverine showdown Jun 04 - 06, 10 rob banks 714-206-6893 Lytle Creek Ca Ranger Range War sep 03 - 05, 10 deuce stevens 616-890-6657 Port huron Mi SASS MA, CT, and RI State Championship MN border town shootout sep 03 - 05, 10 bb Gunner 218-779-8555 East Grand forks MN Shootout at Sawyer Flats Jun 04 - 06, 10 barrister bill 978-667-2219 harvard Ma shoot’n in the shade sep 03 - 05, 10 bulldog McCgraw 501-337-9368 hot springs ar SASS Idaho State Black Powder Shootout Beaver Dick SASS Virginia State Championship Black Powder Blowout Jun 04 - 05, 10 idaho Packer 208-589-5942 rexburg id Star City Shootout sep 03 - 05, 10 trapper dan 540-890-5162 roanoke Va the Great Northwestern sass underwear day sep 03 - 05, 10 runamuck 509-525-2984 Milton freewater or Wild bunch Championship Jun 04 - 06, 10 texas Jack Morales 541-420-3955 bend or shoot out at high Lonesome sep 03 - 05, 10 two bit tammy 575-626-9201 roswell NM shootout at Coyote Gulch Jun 04 - 06, 10 Pit Mule 515-205-0557 indianola ia siege at Clark station sep 04 - 05, 10 Kansas flatlander 785-493-5682 Chapman Ks SASS NORTHWEST TERRITORIAL WILD BuNCH battle in the badlands sep 04 - 04, 10 roughrider ray 701-260-0347 belfield Nd Championship Jun 04 - 06, 10 texas Jack Morales 503-907-6522 bend or SASS Nebraska Black Powder Shootout rifleman’s holliday Jun 05 - 05, 10 Mustang Lady sue 928-243-3457 snowflake aZ Smoke ‘N Steel III sep 06 - 06, 10 firewater 308-226-2255 Grand island NE SASS Colorado State Championship Battle at the John Wayne shoot-out sep 09 - 12, 10 Marshal Chance 805-460-9082 san Luis obispo Ca Bird Cage Theatre Jun 10 - 13, 10 san Juan 970-901-9582 Montrose Co ruckus in the Nations sep 09 - 12, 10 burly bill 918-830-2936 sand springs oK Western states Cowboy SASS uS Open sep 09 - 11, 10 ranger rex 618-295-2700 X8467 sparta iL action shooting Jun 10 - 13, 10 dutch dalton [email protected] fernley NV shootout at the bar h sep 10 - 12, 10 blacksmith Jim 806-355-7158 Clarendon tX SASS Wyoming State Championship standoff at smokey Point sep 10 - 12, 10 Mudflat Mike 425-335-5176 arlington Wa Cody’s Wild West Shootout Jun 10 - 12, 10 Joe Cross 307-587-2946 Cody Wy shootout at stoney bottom sep 10 - 12, 10 Woodfox 419-726-7950 Gibsonbong oh raid on andersonville Jun 11 - 13, 10 Chase randell 864-637-8873 anderson sC SASS Maine State Championship fisher house Charity shoot Jun 11 - 13, 10 soiled dove 985-796-9698 amite La Thunder over Beaver Creek sep 10 - 12, 10 rhino Jacks 207-324-3117 berwick ME SASS Ohio State Championship dakota territory Gold rush sep 11 - 12, 10 hawkbill smith 605-342-8946 Pringle sd Shootout at Hard Times Jun 11 - 13, 10 buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 Piqua oh shootout ‘10 sep 11 - 12, 10 Cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 howard Lake MN Prince of the Pistoleers Jun 11 - 13, 10 Eldorado Wayne 913-686-5314 Lenexa Ks table rock rangers invitational sep 11 - 11, 10 Jed i. Knight 541-944-2281 Medford/White City or Gunfight in the badlands Jun 11 - 13, 10 Cow boss 541-408-5890 bend or SASS Minnesota State Championship shootout at the bar M ranch Jun 12 - 12, 10 buckshot baby 417-284-1432 tecumseh Mo Gunsmoke ‘10 sep 16 - 19, 10 Mogollon drifter 507-838-0026 Morristown MN thunder in the Valley Jun 18 - 20, 10 Johnny shiloh 440-984-4551 amherst oh SASS New York State Championship revenge of Montezuma Jun 18 - 20, 10 stumble Lenna 970-565-9228 Cortez Co Heluva Rukus sep 17 - 19, 10 homer suggs 518-274-8505 ballston spa Ny ambush at hat Creek Jun 18 - 20, 10 Modac 530-365-1839 burney Ca a Gunfight in dixie sep 17 - 19, 10 Loco Perro 662-838-9803 arlington tN SASS North Dakota and South Dakota State Championship Gateway to the West sep 17 - 19, 10 bounty seeker 636-464-6569 st. Louis Mo Peace in the Valley Jun 18 - 20, 10 Wild river rose 701-588-4331 Kindred Nd six Gun Justice sep 17 - 18, 10 teton County Jr. 208-709-1708 rexburg id SASS High Plains Mounted Regional bridgeport Vigilantes Eastern Revenge Of Montezuma Jun 18 - 20, 10 aneeda huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortz Co high sierra shootout sep 17 - 19, 10 bodie Kid 760-932-1139 bridgeport Ca oregon trail shootout Jun 19 - 20, 10 t J Maverick 541-910-4244 La Grange or SASS New Mexico State Championship the dalton Gang June shootout Jun 19 - 20, 10 Littleon sidecar dalton 603-444-6875 dalton Nh Old Magdalena sep 17 - 19, 10 Grizzly adams 575-854-2488 Magdalena NM SASS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP shootout at the happy Jack Mine sep 18 - 18, 10 happy Jack 435-979-4665 Lake Powell ut END of TRAIL Jun 21 - 27, 10 sass office 505-843-1320 founders ranch NM Chippewa regulators sep 18 - 19, 10 Lazy Eye ben 906-632-2720 sault ste. Marie Mi SASS Maryland State Championship Willimantic smoke sep 18 - 19, 10 ripley scrounger 207-876-4928 Willimantic ME Thunder Valley Days Jun 24 - 26, 10 Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 damascus Md Wolverton Mtn. Peace Keepers 5th anniversary match and SASS New Hampshire State Championship warmup for the NW regional sep 18 - 19, 10 hellfire 360-513-9081 ariel Wa Flat Gap Jack Cowboy Shootout Jun 25 - 27, 10 Capt. Morgan rum 603-772-5041 Candia Nh rocky Mountain regional raid sep 23 - 26, 10 sweet Water bill 303-366-8827 byers Co yellowstone Valley shootout at three rivers sep 23 - 26, 10 o bar freddie 505-325-2167 farmington NM buffalo stampede Jun 25 - 26, 10 backstrap bill 406-652-6158 billings Mt SASS NORTHWEST REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SASS Wisconsin State Black Powder Shootout Rattlesnake Gulch Roundup sep 23 - 26, 10 ricochet robbie 509-628-0889 benton City Wa Smoke in the Hills Jun 27 - 27, 10 Cattail rose 715-643-2011 boyceville Wi SASS Oklahoma State Championship SASS HIGH PLAINS REGIONAL Shoot Out at the OKC Corral sep 23 - 26, 10 Missouri Mae 405-373-1472 oklahoma City oK Hell on Wheels Jul 01 - 04, 10 fight’n Joe baker 307-220-5222 Cheyenne Wy adobe Walls sep 24 - 26, 10 Querida 831-635-9147 Gonzales Ca SASS Alaska Territorial Championship Shootout SASS West Virginia State Championship under The Midnight Sun Jul 02 - 04, 10 tripod 907-373-0140 anchorage aK Appalachian Showdown XVIII sep 24 - 26, 10 twin 304-289-6098 Largent WV SASS Midwest Wild Bunch SASS Indiana State Championship Championship Jul 03 - 04, 10 deadwood stan 513-894-3500 Middletown oh Hoosier Ambush sep 24 - 26, 10 thorney rose 574-893-7214 Warsaw iN fort halleck days Jul 08 - 10, 10 Green springs thomsen 775-753-8203 Elko NV Verde Valley range Wars sep 24 - 26, 10 Whisperin Meadows 928-567-9227 Camp Verde aZ SASS Alaska State Championship Jul 09 - 11, 10 darlin’ Caroline 907-378-9472 Chatanika aK Purgatory rush sep 24 - 26, 10 dry Gulch Geezer 814-827-2120 titusville Pa SASS Montana State Championship hell fire ‘10 sep 24 - 26, 10 slick McClade 318-395-2224 Quitman La Shootout On the Sun River Jul 09 - 11, 10 Jeb’s Lady 406-727-7625 simms Mt rampage sep 25 - 25, 10 sly steadyhand 801-546-4843 fruit heights ut the final showdown Jul 09 - 11, 10 d. J. Mcdraw 740-767-2326 Mt. Vernon oh ambush at rocky river sep 25 - 26, 10 J. J. 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AdeClARAtion of ReStoRAtion ! !

By Colonel Dan, SASS Lif e/ Regulator #24025 Colonel Dan, SASS Life #24025 future security.” I can’t think of a There’s much in this legisla - and significant role to play. First more appropriate description of tion that lends itself to court and foremost, we should keep the what we face or a longer train of challenges on constitutional heat on this current crop in ’m starting this column the abuses than those imposed on us grounds—of that there’s little power. We then have to flush day President Obama signed by contemporary politicians and doubt. Those challenges must Congress in November, replacing the healthcare bill and am which indisputably demands a be fast tracked to the Supreme it with die-hard traditionalists. I having trouble constraining restoration of our founding prin - Court and injunctions filed Once that’s done its imperative, myself—there’s so much to write ciples and values. until those cases can be ruled we hold their feet to the fire as and so little space. But let me Genuine traditionalists, who upon. At the same time, well—they, too, must feel the start with a question for the hold or will hold office, must do although unable to unilaterally pressure and abide by their cam - President: Mr. President, three things both now and after strike down a signed bill, paign pledges to us, their bosses. Democrats have long peddled they take control of Congress Congress does have the power of Just because we elect them does - health care as a human right. If next year…and I pray tradition - the purse and can vote to cut off n’t mean our obligation has been that’s the case, why must you alists do take control: Initiate the funding needed by the fulfilled—we’ve got to keep a pass a bill forcing us to buy that court challenges, refuse to fund offices charged with implement - sharp eye on the hen house. right under penalty of law? Can’t the implementation of oppressive ing and enforcing the provisions Just as importantly, when we answer that one can you, sir? legislation, and begin repeal and of the law. Money is the moth - do find those having the forti - Suffice it to say that “We the replace actions. Let there be no er’s milk of any legislation and tude to stand up and fight our People” are at a defining moment compromise—block the statist in to cut it off essentially neuters fight, we must do all in our power in history—not unlike the politi - everyway known to parliamen - its execution even though the to support them to the fullest. cal environment faced by our tary man. law technically remains in We should publically reward 18th century ancestors that ulti - We the People also have sev - effect. If it can’t be implement - good behavior while harshly pun - mately inspired a Declaration of eral “must dos”: Vote out those ed or enforced while being chal - ishing the bad. Most significant - Independence. It’s now the obli - responsible; Hold all politicians’ lenged, it is essentially useless. ly, we must never, never give up, gation of this generation to renew feet to the fire; Support those Now wouldn’t that just tweak and we must never again accept our Founder’s inspiration with a who are fighting for us and have those statists who were recently any form of pseudo conservatism Declaration of our own—a the courage to act on our convic - popping champagne corks over or allow such un-American legis - Declaration of Restoration—fully tions. No compromise and no its passage? lation to get by. Lastly, we’ve got restoring that original spirit of accepting weak or pretend con - As all such blocking maneu - to have the courage of our convic - American independence and servatives—ever again. vers are under way, the new tions by being prepared to sup - politically defeating her domestic Although complex, drawn out Congress should draft formal port all justifiable actions neces - enemies of the 21st century. and difficult at best, those who repeal action. Granted, a full sary to thwart tyranny whenever That first Declaration clearly aspire to office must pledge to us repeal of any legislation requires it emerges. articulated the obligation we all and our posterity to do all in the signature of the President, Unquestionably, these are indeed must shoulder, “…when a long their power to reverse this trend and we all know where President the times that try men’s souls, but train of abuses and usurpations, of un-American legislation and Obama would stand on that. America is certainly well worth the pursuing invariably the same begin to right the wrongs. However, if “We the People” can blood, sweat, and effort required of object evinces a design to reduce There’s no choice if we want to provide enough new traditional - us. The torch of liberty, carried them under absolute despotism, it preserve, protect, and defend as ists this November, a 2/3rds courageously by our Forefathers, has is their right, it is their duty, to our patriotic obligation demands. majority can override Obama’s now been passed to us. We have an throw off such government, and to Obviously no new congress can veto. Failing a 2/3rds majority, obligation to restore the flame of that provide new guards for their arbitrarily strike down in a day the various blocking actions torch so it can be proudly passed to what has been forced on us in the must be sufficiently effective future generations—generations of recent past, but they can do until a constitutionalist can be staunch American patriots. adVErtisiNG many things to block, slow, and elected President in 2012 who Just the view from my saddle… prevent its full implementation. will sign the repeal action and iNforMatioN They should take such blocking replace it with tort reform and * * * * * asK for actions simultaneously and do so free market competition across Contact Colonel Dan: with a tenacious dedication not state lines. [email protected] Kirsten • (505) 843-1320 seen since Jefferson penned our As for the people, we must be Article Archives: original Declaration. avidly engaged. 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