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io n The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Sh ooting Society ® Vol. 24 No. 5 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. May 2011 The GreaT Nor’easTer SASS New England Regional

udson, NH – Though it See HIGHLIGHTS pages 30-34 doesn’t seem possible, July 22-25, 2010 the SASS New England vendettas from the period we reen - H Regional turned five in By Iron Pony, SASS #36769 act. The Earp family chasing the 2010, and since the Roman nu - Photos by P.T. Litewell and others Cowboys across the southwest; meral for five is “V,” we chose “V ’s part in the Lincoln for Vendetta” as the theme. High - County War; and the equally infa - lighting Old West feuds, some 250 mous Johnson and Mason County plus shooters gathered at the Wars were brought to life for us. Nor’easter’s home, the Pelham Lesser known, but equally con - Fish and Game Club, to enjoy four tentious, bloody, and important days of shooting, visiting, and of parts of our heritage and history course, friendly competition. As were also brought to light through much as I hate to admit it, this the careful attention of the Toledo year’s match did not live up to the Kid, SASS #35150, Capt Morgan name, reputation, and history. Rum, SASS #6859, Callous Clyde, Well, the weather didn’t that is. SASS #4677, and others. No hurricanes, squalls, mi - Regional events are about giv - crobursts, or torrential rains. ing folks who travel the opportu - Sure, it was hot, but what’s a nity to shoot a lot, so this year Nor’easter without Wild Bill Plainsman and Mini- Blackerby’s, SASS #34989, lake on Matches were included with the vendor row or the Soggy Bottom annual favorite three-stage warm Boys—Sheriff Rusty P Bucket, up event known as ”The Squall.” SASS #44721, Chelsea Kid, SASS 1911s, 1897s, Trapdoor Spring - #47400, et al—just about working fields, along with cap and ball re - themselves to death trying to volvers, from the Ruger Old Army drain the ranges? Everything else to the single most beautiful hand - was as always—top notch, first gun ever produced, Colt’s 1860 class, and whatever superlative Army, were all hauled out to great you might apply. pleasure on Thursday. Happily the Many of us know of the famous .22 gallery had plenty of ammo to spare, along with prizes to boot, so

Saguaro Jack, SASS #33974, and SASS C owboy Chronicle friends were able to keep folks plinking at falling plates without interruption. Throw in speed In This Issue events, long range shooting, with

everything from .32 revolvers to 46 .45-110 buffalo guns, along with by Capt. George Baylor your favorite hideout pocket pistol, and it’s hard to imagine anyone 62 fl s tate Mounted haMPionshiP Doc Perry, SASS #42552, Frontier Cartridge Winner, loading on the run! (Continued on page 30) C

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6 FROM THE EDITOR END of TRAIL (The Granddaddy of them All!) . . . Editorial Staff 8-18 NEWS SliX-Hand . . . Legendary Tackaberry Buckle . . . Blue Book Publications, Inc. Tex Editor-in-Chief 14 CAT’S CORNER What Women Wore: The Language of the Fan . . . Cat Ballou Editor 16 COYOTE DROPPINGS 30 Years and Counting . . . Miss Tabitha Asst. Editor 20-22 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . . . Coyote Calhoun Managing Editor & Marketing Director 23-44 ARTICLES Wyoming Trails and SASS . . . One Pot Chuck . . . Draw!!! . . . Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 46-60 GUNS & GEAR Horse Drawn Road Grader . . . Cowboy Carpentry . . . Mac Daddy Graphic Design 51-54 SASS END of TRAIL Sign-up Now . . . Sassy Swede 62-64 MOUNTED Florida Mounted Shooting State Championship . . . SASS . . . Advertising Manager (505) 843-1320 • Fax: (877) 770-8687 [email protected] 66 PROFILES From Tender Foot to President . . . Contributing Writers Blackthorne Billy, Capt. George Baylor, 68, 99 HISTORY Tales of Old California . . . Famous People Way Out West Col. Dan, Col. Richard Dodge, Cree Vicar Dave, Dan Nabbit, Doc McCoy, Inspector, Iron Pony, Jesamy Kid, Joe Fasthorse, Knot Werkin, 70 TRAIL MARKER Always To Remember . . . Lone Wolf McCrary & Sassparilla Sundance, Madd Mike, Miz Annie Ross, Nota John, Palaver Pete, Pencil Pusher, Poke, 72-84 ON THE RANGE What’s Goin’ On In Your Town? . . . Rio Drifter & Tennessee Tall, RJ Law, Rosebrook Kid, Saddle Tramp, Second Amendment Kid, 86-92 CLUB REPORTS Snazzy McGee & Appaloosa Amy, The Jackson Hole Gang’s Cowboy Top Shot . . . Cheerful Givers Texas Slick Willy, Whooper Crane

The Cowboy Chronicle is published by 88-91 SASS MERCANTILE (Nice Collectables) . . . The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. For advertising information and rates, ad - 92-94 GENERAL STORE /CLASSIFIED ministrative, and edi to rial offices contact: Chronicle Administrator 95- SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS (MONTHLY, ANNUA L) 215 Cowboy Way Edgewood, NM 87015 (505) 843-1320 102 POLITICAL GUNS: Common Sense And Nonsense . . . FAX (505) 843-1333 email: [email protected] http://www.sassnet.com 103 SASS NEW MEMBER APPLICATION The Cowboy Chronicle (ISSN 15399877) is pub - lished monthly by the Single Action Shooting Society, 215 Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. Periodicals Postage is Paid at Edge - wood, NM and additional mailing offices SASS ® Trademarks (USPS #032). POSTMASTER: Send ad- dress changes to The Cowboy Chronicle , 215 ® ® Hall of Fame Inductee sass , single action shooting society , Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. Grey Fox, SASS #223, and Eric, end of tRail ®, eot ®, DISCLAIMER - The Single Action Shooting his Norwegian Fjord horse tM The Cowboy Chro nicle , Society does not guarantee, warranty or en - are ready for another trip Cowboy action shooting tM , dorse any product or service advertised in to town. Yep, the outfit Cas tM , wild Bunch tM , this newspaper. The publisher also does not and the horse are a way wild Bunch action shooting tM , guarantee the safety or effectiveness of any product or service illustrated. The distri - of life for Grey Fox and the world Championship of Miss Mary Spencer, bution of some products/services may be il - Cowboy action shooting tM , legal in some areas, and we do not assume SASS #55147, Bow-legged Cowboy design, and the responsibility thereof. State and local laws of Victoria, Rocking horse design must be investigated by the purchaser prior British Columbia. to purchase or use or products/services. Some things never change, are all trademarks of the single action shooting society, inc. WARNING: Neither the author nor The and that’s just fine Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi - with Grey Fox! Any use or reproduction of these marks bility for accidents or diffe ring results without the express written permission obtained using reloading data. Variation of SASS is strictly prohibited. in handloading tech niques, compo nents, and fire arms will make results vary. Have a competent gunsmith check your firearms before firing. VisiT us aT sassNeT .com Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle May 2011

.eND of TraiL , The Granddaddy of Them Al l! By Tex, SASS #4

Tex, SASS #4 ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~

ext month SASS will be hosting the 30 th END of TRAIL! Who would have N thought? It’s sure to be a grand spectacle with record-breaking crowds, and Coyote has a fantastic program planned (see Coyote Drop - In 1984 END of TRAIL was a nice, local annual match. The first END of TRAIL pings elsewhere in this issue). But, My, how things have changed! Rockin’ Horse. Most of us hated it was it always like this? Not hardly! … and it was always a hoot In the late ‘70s shooters who small, exclusive community in the matter of extreme competition and are watching a young Judge would later be known as Judge Roy Southern California foothills known often “money games.” It takes WORK TRY and climb aboard! Bean, General Grant, and Hipshot as Coto de Caza. Fun as that was, al - to get good and to maintain that excel - This rider is Jerry Kroopnick were playing Action Pistol games at a most all shooting games become a lence. The result is nearly always (before SASS and aliases).

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Early on, there were a few cowboys that excelled in costuming, including Grey Fox (left), Widowmaker (2 nd left), and Wes Terner (2 nd right).

shooters at our monthly matches! After a few years of “informal” Cowboy Action Shooting™, the Judge wanted an annual match. The idea was the cattle drive had just ended, the cowboys had been paid and had new clothes, a bath, and the attention of a female companion, … and it was now “party time” with drinking, smoking, gambling, and a little shoot - ing! Obviously NO KIDS! The cow - boys were at the END of the TRAIL! Fortunately, other folks with broader visions became involved over the years, and the event became more of an Old West festival where families were welcomed and comfortable. There were a few individuals who realized costuming was important— Wes Terner (Dennis Mader), Grey Fox The first END of TRAIL Winner— (Gary Kangas) of Canada, and “Guts” Gosnell. Rawhide Rawlins (Phil Spangen - Never saw him again. berger). These guys made costume Dorothy Hahn was the first Top Lady. contest judging easy … they were the only ones not wearing blue jeans and “burn-out” followed by “drop-out.” snap button shirts! The Judge, along with two other We had international competitors shooters, Hall of Famers Bill Hahn from the very beginning, which ulti - and Gordon Davis, got together and mately led McCloud, one of our devised an Old West style shooting Southern California competitors to game based loosely on the other Ac - suggest this was a “World Champi - tion Shooting games of the day. “Old” onship.” That idea ultimately took guns came out of the gun safes, and hold and stuck! jeans, snap button shirts, and pointy- The second END of TRAIL fea - toed boots were the dress when a tured a chili cook-off in the Coto de bunch of Action Shooting cowboys Caza covered arena. A slightly inebri - headed for the range. Since not ated RJ Poteet fired off a couple of everyone had an old rifle, shotgun, shotgun blanks in the arena, much to AND single actions, guns and leather the consternation of the horses sta - were passed around so everyone bled nearby … and their owners! could play … and that tradition has That was nearly the end of END of persisted to this very day for new (Continued on page 33 ) NOTICE Email Failure At SASS Headquarters etween February 11 and March 2, 2011 some 2000 unread e-mail mes - Bsages were lost at SASS Headquarters! Migration from one host server to another did not go as easily as it should, and during the “fix,” a backlog of messages was inadvertently lost. If you initiated an electronic message from one of the many forms on the web site (The SASS Mercantile was un - affected) during this time period and have never received any kind of re - sponse, please assume your message was lost and start the transaction again. SASS apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused. VisiT us aT sassNeT .com Page 8 Cowboy Chronicle May 2011 sLi X-h aND Tired of gouging your palm while loading your C&B? Need that extra leverage to seat your balls? There are two different designs …

K4B Enterprises, makers of bending your loading lever by using SliX-Prings, SliX-Pins, and the wrong tool. TSliX-Main announces a new As with all of the SliX branded innovation for loading your Cap & products, one size will not exactly Ball revolvers. After several exper - fit all. The two different models are iments with padded gloves, sawed- designed to fit the narrowest of the off broom handles, pieces of pipe, loading lever ribs and can easily be and old crescent wrenches, the folks fit for any levers outside the stan - at TK4B decided a righteous tool for dard dimensions. At the most, a loading C&B pistols was needed; simple operation of minor filing ei - ergo, the SliX-Hand . A high qual - ther the length or width of the lever ity tool machined from solid aircraft slot will have the SliX-Hand work - A custom powder coated SliX-Hand with Alias and SASS Number aluminum that is adaptable for any ing for your specific pistol. Most of the more popular C&B pistols. pistols will require some amount of slot and lever bore. The C51 will fit In addition to the two different You will no longer need to deal with beveling or a radius of the tool the Colt 1851 and other pistols with models available, the refined sore palms, having to find and use mouth to clear the barrel frame. a wide lever rib, and the RC60R is shooter may also customize their a pair of gloves, worrying about a The two models, C51 and designed to fit the Ruger Old Army, SliX-Hand with a variety of powder- wrench slipping off and scratching RC60R, are distinguished only by Colt 1860, and the Remington coated colors and/or with your per - your valuable pistol, or excessively the width and depth of the lever rib model 1858. (Continued on page 11 )

Come Celebrate WiLD BiLL ’s Birthday By Cougar Cat, SASS #82208

ince a young man I have been interested in Wild Bill SHickok. Wild Bill was born just twelve miles from my home in a town called Homer; now present day Troy Grove, Illinois. His life so influenced me at 14 years old that I carried an 1851 Navy re - volver (when it was allowed) on my hip like Bill. I never found that revolver to be as accurate as Soon after, it was eaten by car - Bill’s was! Time gave way to more penter ants, and then gone! In modern revolvers, and I now carry 2009 the town announced the a brace of two 1851 conversions, unveiling of a new bronze bust as he did later in life. that is gorgeous to this day. In 2008 my neighbor, Rough The town historian, Mrs. Ham - Neck Curly, SASS #82210, and I mel, asked me if I would be in - went to see a bust of Wild Bill the terested in putting on a display city had placed in their park. It of firearms and memorabilia. was a wood carving, beautiful! (Continued on page 11 )

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NorT h -souTh skirmish associaTioN ,iNc . Civil War Heritage Preservation

he North-South Skir - North-South Skirmish Asso - that traditionally opens the mish Association will ciation (N-SSA), the oldest year’s activities. Competi - hold its 123rd Na - and largest Civil War shoot - tions, called “skirmishes,” Ttional Competition on ing sports group in the na - will be held throughout the May 20-22, 2011 at Fort tion. Commemorative events summer on a regional basis. Shenandoah, near Winchester, are planned for all National At a skirmish, participating Virginia. Member units com - Competitions during the four- teams shoot at breakable tar - pete in live-fire matches with year observance. The first gets in several timed events. original or authentic reproduc - will be at the 123 rd National; The teams with the lowest cu - tion Civil War period muskets, a twilight smoothbore musket mulative times win medals or carbines, rifles, revolvers, mor - match featuring eight-man other awards. tars, and cannons. It is the all-star teams from each of Women participate along largest Civil War event of its the N-SSA’s 13 regions. with the men in all events. site at: www.n-ssa.org . The 123 rd National will kind in the country. Founded in 1950, the N- There are also competitions Members of Chew’s be held May 20-22, While the federal and SSA has 3,500 individuals for authenticity of Civil War Battery compete in the 2011 at the Associa - many state governments that make up its 200 member period military and civilian smoothbore musket tion’s home range, Fort have chosen to ignore the teams. Each team represents dress, period music, and lec - match at a recent na - Shenandoah, near Win - 150 th anniversary of Amer - a Civil War regiment or unit tures on topics of historical tional competition. chester, Virginia. For ica’s greatest conflict, Civil and wears the uniform they interest. This spring’s national more information, visit War enthusiasts will play a wore over 150 years ago. Spectators are welcome and will kick off the obser - www.n-ssa.org . major role in bringing the N-SSA members come admission is free. There is a vance of the Civil War Contact: Bruce Miller events of 1861-1865 to the from all over the country to large sutler area and food serv - sesquicentennial and Phone: (248) 258-9007 country’s consciousness. One Fort Shenandoah each spring ice is available. For more infor - feature a twilight all- E-mail: spartan70@sbc of these organizations is the for this national competition mation, visit the N-SSA web star smoothbore match. global.net

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SliX-Hand . . . Customized lettering and SASS # is $12.00 (Continued from page 8) Powder coating to your favorite sonalized alias and SASS num - color is $6.00 ber on the sides. This customized SliX-Hands are available service is only available if pur - through: chased through the Desperado Desperado Cowboy Bullets at: Cowboy Bullets shopping cart. www.cowboybullets.com The cost of the basic SliX-Hand Long Hunter Shooting Supply at: is $15.95 http://www.longhuntcom/

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A standard Slix-Hand on a “X”-1/2 " Colt. Notice the radius on the mouth of the hand has been modified to clear the frame with the shorter barrel and loading lever.

Come Celebrate Wild Bill’s Birthday . . . (Continued from page 8) (blanks), we entertained 1200 people! One hundred people were present Not bad for our first reenactment! for the display and the unveiling of Present was State Re pre sentative the bust. What a display! There Frank Mautino, who has since tried were five tables of guns and memo - to make Day a state rabilia, all items owned by Rough holiday and has proposed to erect a Neck Curly, my wife, Hosta Mar - sign on Interstate 39 showing “Birth - jarita, Bailey Creek, SASS #5759, place of Wild Bill Hickok.” Thanks to and myself. the efforts of a group of dedicated In 2010, Troy Grove invited our people, we have put Troy Grove and display back. I contacted friends Wild Bill back on the map! (members of SASS), 10 in all, and we Please join us on Sunday, May now call ourselves the Old West Reg - 29th 2011 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. to ulators. We acted out four scenarios enjoy the birthday of one of the from Wild Bill Hickok’s life, plus two greatest men in history. encores. With our great acting, Information available at: speaking, and shooting skills http://www.wildbillhickok.net/ VisiT us aT sassNeT .com Page 12 Cowboy Chronicle May 2011

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WhAT WOMEN WORE The Language of the By Miz Annie Ross, SASS #60919 an Cat Ballou, SASS #55 F ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~

he Ladies of East Asia tysburg, PA. Have fun with the were using fans to stir Language of the Fan, Ladies … the air and cool them - after all, this is a Fantasy Game!!! T selves as early as the The Language of the Fan 2nd century BC. Ancient texts Resting her fan on her lips: “ I don’t relate the use of fans in the 4 th trust you!” century BC in the Greek civiliza - Fanning herself with her left hand: tion. Movies portray the Pha - “Don’t flirt with that woman!” raohs and their Queens as being Running her fingers across the fan’s fanned by their servants in even ribs: “I want to talk with you!” more ancient days. Stirring the Slowly fanning herself and looking air with a flat broad surface to away: “Don’t waste your time; cool oneself is probably one of I don’t care for you.” mankind’s first “inventions!” Quickly fanning herself (eyes down - Always popular in the Far cast demurely): “I’m so at - East, fans made a re-appearance tracted to you …” in Europe after the Middle Ages. Tossing hair back while fanning: Queen Elizabeth I is pictured “Don’t forget me.” holding crossed folding fans dur - ing her reign in the 17 th century. By the 18 th century, artistically decorated folding fans were be - coming increasingly popular, and it was rumored the ladies of Texas Flower, SASS #43753, the court developed their own chose a fan made of Language of the Fan to commu - Battenburg lace, an added nicate subtlety what they could detail to complete the look not say out loud (more about of her ‘60s ball gown. that later!) Lizzie Marie, SASS #18774, One look at the attire of the Passing the fan back from hand- chose a fan made of red feathers Victorian Era shows us how eas - to-hand: “I see you’re flirting to complete her Parlor House ily fans might fit into the every - Madam Tea Gown costume … with someone else.” day life of a lady who wore and to help keep those Hitting her palm: “Love me!” undergarments that might actu - rowdy cowboys cool!! Carrying the fan closed and ally affect breathing and skirts hanging from her left hand: that often made it difficult to help keep themselves cool when “I’m engaged,” or “I’m mar - move. No wonder Victorian shooting on warm days. A fan can ried” Ladies suffered so often from the be an interesting accessory to add Carrying the fan closed and vapors and needed a nearby detail to an evening outfit or just for hanging from her right hand: “fainting couch,” just in case! A fun when you’re playing Saloon Girl. “I’m available!” wide variety of fans, simple fold - As for the Language of the Fan , Quickly snapping the fan closed: ing fans of bamboo or increas - some “experts” say it was all a “I’m jealous” ingly ornate fans of silk, sham, re-introduced in the 20 th Cen - Resting the fan on her heart; “My parchment and feathers, often tury as a marketing tool by a fan love for you is breaking my designed to match a specific cos - company. Regardless, there are nu - heart.” tume are seen in photo plates of merous sites across the Internet Half opening the fan over her the era. that do talk about the Language of face: “ We’re being watched.” Many SASS cowgirls find the Fan . My favorite Language is Sly, SASS #28067, displays Hitting any object: “ I’m impa - the fan a fun accessory for the version I’m including below. a lovely painted scenic silk fan, tient.” evening dress up and may use a This is edited from a handout I was the perfect complement Dropping the fan: “I belong to simple bamboo or palm fan to given at a Civil War clothier in Get - to her evening outfit. you.”

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VisiT us aT sassNeT .com Page 16 Cowboy Chronicle May 2011 Coyote With Coyote Calhoun Droppings 30YEARS AND COUNTING By Coyote Calhoun, SASS #201 The Action Shooting stages will be based on some of the END of TRAIL stages of by-gone days. After looking at past years’ stages, it was very obvious we’ve come a long way. As an example, the first stage shot at the 1982 END of Bill Hahn’s artwork has always TRAIL, which was the first END of been a part of END of TRAIL. Coyote Calhoun, SASS #201 TRAIL, included one shotgun and ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~ two rounds and one revolver and We will be bringing back some of five rounds. The procedure was to the crowd favorites such as “Wirth shoot your shotgun at the two bad Les Ded,” The Two Target Rocker ND of TRAIL ®, the Sin - guys and then shoot your revolver everyone always loved, and a safe gle Action Shooting So - five times at the other five bad built by Bill Hahn over twenty five ciety’s World Cham- guys. There was no place to put years ago. We are also bringing E pion ship of Cowboy Ac - your shotgun, so you held it in one back the “Jail Break” team event tion Shooting ™ and the nation’s hand while you shot your revolver that features the old ball and greatest Wild West Festival will Duelist style. Also, during first chain. I think you will like the celebrate its 30 th Anniversary this few years there were only two cat - END of TRAIL stages this year— the target distances will be close, year at Founders Ranch. This No one made it easy for the egories: Men’s and Women’s. Life year’s theme will be The Ghosts of early shooters! After shooting the was good in the Old West! and the action will be fast! END of TRAILs Past - meaning we long gun, one often had to shoot Don’t worry, we have updated For Mounted Shooters this will revive some of the exciting their revolver … with no place all the older stages to the more year, they will find one of the best moments of past END of TRAILS. to discard the long gun! common standards of our game. END of TRAILS ever. The

VisiT us aT sassNeT .com May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 17 Mounted Match Director for this and 20 th . We are also planning a END of TRAIL nine years ago. year’s END of TRAIL will be Ex - Wild Bunch seminar during END Saturday Night we welcome back pressman. He is a past END of of TRAIL for those not quite sure of Frederic Jackson Turner and Big TRAIL World Champion and the rules and procedures of Wild Red Sky to rock us through the knows Mounted Shooting inside Bunch Action Shooting. The Wild night. Also on hand will be Dave and out. The Buffalo Range Riders Bunch RO Committee will be Bourne at the piano. Dave has not Mounted Club will be the host club, teaching the class. been with us for awhile, and it will with Sierrita Slim, Icelady, and Entertainment this year at be great to have him back! All of Stuttering Wayne as assistant END of TRAIL will be the finest this along with what Dr. Buck has match directors. In addition to the ever. Once again, we will have Syd in store for the daytime entertain - six main match stages, there will Master’s Swing Riders on Thurs - ment and the Wild West Show, Dr. be a warm-up match and numerous day night. Ever since we moved to Buck’s Wild West Arena Show , side matches, as well as extreme , Syd Masters has en - starring literally a Best in the stages to keep you shooting all day. tertained us with some of the best West collection of performers this Also for Mounted Shooters, Ex - cowboy music around. Then Fri - side of … anywhere, will make the pressman will be teaching two day night Kid Rio, aka Jim Dun - 30 th Anniversary of END of TRAIL clinics. The first is a Beginning ham, will entertain us with the an event not to be missed! Shooters Clinic, held on Wednes - This is the 1986 match application Old program he did at I hope to see you there! day June 22 nd from 1:00 PM to 4:00 form … note the categories offered. PM. This clinic assumes you have Things were certainly simpler them! horseback riding and basic gun your position on your horse. The safety skills. We acclimate your Mounted Warm-Up match is also horse to gunfire and balloons and include in the fee. teach basic Mounted Shooting This year’s END of TRAIL will skills. The second will be the also be the World Championship of “Sharpshooters Mounted Shooting Wild Bunch Action Shooting. The Clinic.” This clinic will be held Wild Bunch match will be com - Thursday June 23rd, from 9:00 AM prised of twelve stages using – 2:00PM. This clinic is designed twelve different shooting bays. The to take any Mounted Shooter to stages will be fast and furious and the next level by teaching and will be a bit more challenging than practicing competition techniques the action side of shooting. All of and working on various ways of last years’ World Champions and improving your times, including this years’ National Champions correcting common mistakes, stage will be on hand. The Wild Bunch reading, course negotiation, shoot - warm-up match starts on Saturday ing techniques, gun change, barrel June 18 th , and the main match will set up and turn, rein position, and be Sunday and Monday June 19 th

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As can be seen in the photograph above, the 90 gr..32 caliber bullet re - tains the ogive and meplat of the existing line of .32 caliber bullets. The .38 caliber 105 gr. and the .45 caliber 170 gr. bullets have a modified ogive and meplat to improve feeding in some rifles. We hope you take a certain amount of pride in realizing you have changed our thinking and production. You asked for them, and we are now producing them. Please give them a try. Order yours from: www.cowboy bullets.com Thanks from the folks at Desperado Cowboy Bullets, LLC VisiT us aT sassNeT .com May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 19

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ECONOMICALLY is, and proving itself in my real world of finding funding. What is REAL RETIRED my point? I have more time on my hands, with 80% less cash ta COWBOYS … By Madd Mike, spend! SASS Life/Regulator #8595 I still love, enjoy, and promote SASS/Cowboy Action Shooting™ several days, and meetin’ past and its new Wild Bunch opportu - TOP stars, I paid attention ta nities. And with that being said, I master shots, ¾ shots, ½ shots, ain’t never been a slide gun feller, close ups, etc. Reality TV has too nope-nada-never. But, fer what - Madd Mike, many camera angles to be sponta - ever reason, I seem to have SASS Life/Regulator #8595 neous in nature. Sure they took or jumped into the fire. Pecos Clyde may have taken, or perhaps en - suckered me in, with his direct, hanced a spontaneous action, and honest, helping, and guiding hand. eality TV is hot on the tube then made it worthy of our time Folks, whatever your back - these days; however, it is watching it. ground, whatever your economic Rnot REAL. But, Madd My “reality” happened in situation, please include SASS Ac - J. P. Lower, SASS #18563 Mike, it’s called reality TV. 2010. I suddenly became “eco - tion Shooting, SASS Mounted, or irst, let me say the new online My answer is “Yup, that is what nomically retired” (that is my BS SASS Wild Bunch in yer endeav - version of The Cowboy Chronicle is called, but it ain’t real.” Folks, politically correct wording). Sure ors. Last Sunday, I did not shoot, is just about as wonderful as don’t git me wrong, it’s on TV, and I am an older type white guy but I showed up in proper dress, F apple pie and milk. This here ad - they are lining their bank accounts (legal question on gov’t forms). I and helped do things. It sure beat vanced telegraph device is one (hopefully) on its viewership. speak only good ol USA for a lan - staying at home and moping. amazing invention. We can save In my past, I had the wonder - guage, and heaven forbid, I come So enjoy what you have, and the home office a lot of money by ful opportunity to be part of a from a 40-year background in the do not look back at what ya lost. not printing on paper anymore! movie thanks to my par - construction industry. We all have Have fun and share the positive But now, may I address my detrac - ticipation in SASS. I have always heard about the THREE strikes side of life with others, ‘cuz it just tors who have been so bruised by been a person that learns by and you’re out rule in law. Well, I might rub off on yerself! my satirical article about “Real watching and while on the set for count three on this one, sad as it [email protected] Cowboys Shooting Duelist.” I ask you all, as “Cowboy” Ac - tion Shooters, what reference do you have that shows us cowboys ‘FIGHT using two hands and slicked up guns for most of their work? I know THE we closely emulate our movie he - roes, and I do recall seeing at least GOOD one star use two hands to steady a shot as the bad guy got away. But, FIGHT! find me a scene where two hands hold one gun for close shooting, and hank you Col. Dan for being don’t include that tough little girl in a Watch Tower, and thank “True Grit” shooting Tom Haney. Tyou Tex for having the guts This two handed hold is a modern to be his wingman. incarnation of military and police. I don’t agree with Col. Dan all Heck, even the 1911 training by the the time—just most of the time. U.S. Army focused on a one handed Like most of us, he is very con - hold, and there is film to prove it. cerned about the erosion of our The ‘92 Winchesters carried by “God Given “Rights”—and we’re John Wayne, Chuck Conners, and NOT afraid to say “God Given.” Steve McQueen are about as close The Government can give and the to slicked as we can get in film lore. government can take away. Col. Can’t find one in history though. Dan recognizes this all too well. Furthermore, there seems to be Without Col. Dan, Tex, and others plenty of thin-skinned people out like them not only would our there that think using the word sport be gone, but our right to “sissy” is a personal attack on them. self-defense and our entire way of This is not name calling nor any at - life would disappear. tempt to degrade anyone. I have re - — News flas h— lated how it was when all this gun IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE totin’ and shootin’ was part of ARTICLE— everyday life. We owe it to our - TURN THE PAGE! selves to never forget our forebear - Fight the good fight Col. Dan. ers who have left their legacy to us, We’ve got your back. a legacy that enabled our legends Conejo Kid, and heroes in print and film. We SASS #51342 often talk of the “Spirit of the Newbury Park, CA (Continued on next page)

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in The Cowboy Chronicle except for this REAL COWBOYS … (cont.) THANKS FOR THE HELP letter of thanks. Game,” but the real spirit is in the Cowboy Shooters are the best. By Owen Bolo Judice, SASS #24581 history, for without it there would THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP, as Match Director Texas Troublemakers be no game. Do you think the word I could not have gotten through this “sissy” was not in their vocabulary? tough time without it. The pages of The Cowboy Chronicle hen we started the Texas folks set and painted the targets (Cowboys (and girls) are a great are filled with historical references, Troublemakers, we had 15 and cut the grass. bunch of folks, and often all it takes printed history, and film icons, so Wfolks on the Board of Direc - For the June match, I asked folks is asking for their help. These cow - somebody must appreciate the tors, and one of our first decisions to come early to help set up and stay boys have certainly demonstrated tough, individualistic, and inde - was not to ask for help at the work late to help take down after, and I The Cowboy Way! … Editor inChief) pendent image of the westerner, days. We figured with 15 people on was not disappointed. Trooper vernacular and all. I urge everyone the Board, we should be able to take Hawkeye was waiting for me when I to read up on the historical events care of anything that needed to be got to the range to start the set up. we emulate. There are thousands of done. Well, it has been almost 10 Busted Flush came early, and a crew books, some of them very old that years, and we are down to four mem - from the Texas Tenhorns, Lethal can be found that relate many facts bers on the Board who are still active Larry, SASS #58429, Diablo Slim, about guns, law enforcement, and in Cowboy Action Shooting™, and SASS #59344, Ruidoso, SASS shootings in the Old West. we have had to start asking for help #66801, and Traveller, SASS #70994, My article was meant to give a at the work days. drove 100 miles and got to the range perspective from a person who lived In March, we had 10 folks an - about an hour early just to help set in the old days with a humorous swer the call for help to do some re - up. I wish I could give credit to the twist. Take away all the tricks in - pair work on our office Bent Barrel folks who helped take down after the side your guns, all the special loads, Betty, SASS #33237, built and do - June match, but for health reasons I and what do you have? I noticed nated to the club nine years ago. It had to leave early. I’m pretty sure not one of the commentators took needed to be painted and weather- the same folks stayed late to help put up my challenge to shoot with them proofed. These folks came out — up everything. using stock guns. So again I ask, Lefty Tex Larue, SASS Life #25594, Then, as if that were not enough, are you a real Cowboy Action Coyote Rose, SASS Life #25595, about the same bunch of folks Shooter, or a sissy in stacked heels? Busted Flush, SASS #46687, Big Al, showed up early for the July match Now don’t get all riled up, as my SASS #48836, Texas Mongoose, and helped after the match. Some of goal here is to have another cate - SASS #40275, Brendanna, SASS the folks listed above have their own gory where only stock guns are used #40276, Trooper Hawkeye, SASS health problems to deal with and with no tricks. Those of us who still #69968, Hop A Long, SASS Life still came out to help in any way they retain a sense of humor are urged #20467, and Dolly Judice, SASS could, and it is much appreciated. to comment on this possibility. #79368. Because of a sudden and The Texas Tenhorns crew runs their By the way, if you don’t know very serious illness, I had to ask for own club and matches, and one of the who J. P. Lower was, do some re - more help in May and June, and the reasons they come to shoot with us is search. It will give you a perspec - following folks once again came to so someone else can do the match set tive on the why’s of my article. Just my rescue: in May, Hop A Long, up and take down and they can just type that name into the engine in Trooper Hawkeye, Busted Flush, shoot, but when I needed help, they your new fangled telegraph, and Coyote Rose, Dolly Judice, Blackfoot really came through for us at the you’ll find history on him! Drifter, SASS #11947, and Who Texas Troublemakers. Most of these J. P. Lower, SASS #18563 Shot John, SASS #44460. These shooters will never see their names Medina, OH dies to load for him. I was aware of THE .38 WCF the .38 WCF, but never dealt with it. CARTRIDGE I knew my Winchester ‘73, which OUTSTANDING has NO caliber marking, was avail - There’s nothing new (Continued on page 22 ) ARTICLES under the Sun! wish to take a moment and ex - press my appreciation for njoyed Tuolumne Law - IColonel Dan’s outstanding arti - man’s piece on the .44 WCF cles. They are always the first item Ecartridge. I load .44 WCFs I look to see in The Cowboy Chronicle. for a pair of sequential numbered His thoughts are right on! Colts, an 1879 Model ‘73, and an I am somewhat of a new mem - 1895 Model ‘92. My 1886 built ber—I joined a couple of years ago. S&W #3 in .44 Russian uses the Shooting fast is not my thing; how - same bullet, with variations be - ever, I do love the history and reen - tween .427 " to .429 ". Seems the actments of our American West. Russian ballistics people, working Our history truly respects the hon - with S&W, just copied the .44 esty and dedication of our forefa - WCF bullet into a short case. thers. As one apparently rare I recently got a surprise when a individual, I feel today so many neighbor asked me to look over a want something for nothing. Colt SAA for him. It turned out to Caprock Louis, SASS #85807 be a very nice 5 1⁄2 " .38-40 of 1907 Cleburne, TX production. I’ll be ordering some

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AN ADDITIONAL “THANKS!” INTEGRITY, COURAGE, AND hank you for your previous Tiger, SASS #74829, as Match Di - stage setting, and to our two spon - editorial covering the Rio rector for writing stages that sors, Color Spot LLC for all of the CHARITY TGrande Renegades’ Hal - pleased all club members, regard - themed banners and to ABSW Re - Are the Three Most loween fun match held in support less of their opinions. frigeration of Hobbs, NM, for Important Human Traits of the Cowboy Memorial Chapel. Thanks to Crotchety Old Bart, making sure we reached the Whilst the editorial admirably SASS #26601, Dollar Bill, SASS $1500! et again in The Cowboy Chronicle is covered the match and the $1500 #57784, and Major Frank Mor - Without all this help and the Ya whining missive about “a kids raised, I feel recognition is due to gan, SASS #6429, for their help enthusiastic embracing of the “It’s game.” the great efforts put in by Texas with steel hauling, slinging, and New Mexico, you can buy your way I started riding for the SASS out of anything” attitude by most brand in 1995 and have gone through shooters at the match, it would not innumerable letters moaning about have been the success it was. every single aspect of our great sport, Continued good luck with the Cowboy Action Shooting™. I enjoy fund raising. being with folks who live their lives English Lyn, SASS #74828 with the “Spirit of the Game” and the Tjeras, NM “Cowboy Way.” The good Lord knows many people living in the good old US of A don’t seem to understand the concept of the “Spirit of the Game” and the “Cowboy Way.” Quite simply, the concept is based on the same basic philosophy our wonderful Constitution is built upon, “Individual Liberty.” No per - son is born to be a slave! Unfortu - nately, many people on earth live under a government that represses “Individual Liberty.” But, so far, and although there are continuing as - saults on our precious “Individual Liberty,” we still have it, and ours is the only Constitution that is built on it and was crafted to preserve it. HOWEVER, many of our citizens do not understand the basic truth of “Individual Liberty.” You must give it to have it . It is not, as the politi - cally correct liberal socialists believe, “My way or the highway.” It takes a real man and a real woman to live up to the responsibili - ties of “Individual Liberty” where In - tegrity, Courage, and Charity are the three most important human traits. Cal Brennan, SASS Life #7692 Glasgow, MO

THE .38 WCF CARTRIDGE . . . (Continued from page 21 ) able in .38 WCF in 1879. In 1882, Winchester added .32 WCF and only then began to mark the ‘73 for cal - iber. When I looked up loading data for .38 WCF I was surprised to dis - cover it uses the same .401 bullet as the “new” .40 S&W and 10 mm auto! Our local Okeechobee Sheriff Deputies carry the .40 S&W, which was developed for the FBI. Wonder what they’d think if they knew their “new” .40s used the same bullet at about the same ve - locity as a 132-year-old Winches - ter or Colt SAA? What a hoot! Captain Shaw, SASS #16191 Okeechobee, FL VisiT us aT sassNeT .com May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 23

.Wyoming Trails and sass , By Poke, SASS #4968

aving been a SASS mem - Douglas, Wyoming and then went periences in the cow - ber for many years and a to Bend, Oregon for a job. Even boy state. Hperson totally immersed though I was working in Bend In 2009 I and two in the history of the west since my and raising a family there, of my best friends, Big early childhood, I have found that Wyoming beckoned. Then SASS Casino, and Mojave shooting SASS matches and going came along, and it seemed kind of Mick, ventured forth to Wyoming go hand-in-hand. natural to someone who liked to Cody, Wyoming for Many years ago, I worked in Wyoming and the life style one ex - their State Champi - onship shoot. We drove from Bend to Idaho Falls where we stayed the first night and the next day we drove through Yellow - Downtown Sheridan is on the National stone Park and down Register of Historic places. the Wapiti Valley into Cody. If you haven’t driven from We spent several wonderful Yellowstone to Cody down this days in Cody shooting, eating won - valley, do so. This is one of the derful food, and enjoying the most scenic drives in the United friendly nature of the townsfolk. States. During my years of going We had a good shoot and repre - to Cody, I have seen moose, grizzly, sented our home SASS club, the Site of old Ft. Kearney. The army had hardly left the fort before bison, deer, big horn sheep, and Horse Ridge Pistoleros, quite well. the Indians fell on it and burned it to the ground. wolverine on this drive. (Continued on page 24 )

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Wyoming Trails and SASS . . . States. Coming over the Big Horn Horns into tiny Dayton and on to Mountains is again, one of the Ranchester before connecting with (Continued from page 23 ) built in 1902 by Cody. most beautiful drives in the coun - Interstate 90. If you turn north on Mojave Mick took first place Du - The rooms are all original with try. Highway 14 leaves tiny Shell, Interstate 90, you cross the Mon - elist, Big Casino took first place some modern features, such as air Wyoming eastbound and ascends tana border and go past the Little 49er, and I took third place Senior. conditioning and cable TV. the Big Horns going past Shell Big Horn Battlefield about one While in Cody, we stayed at We ate wonderful food at The Falls and up to Granite Pass at an hour north of the border. Cody’s old hotel, The Irma. The Proud Cut Saloon, the Wyoming elevation of 9032 ft. From there Turning south, you come to hotel is an original Old West hotel Rib and Chop House, and the the highway levels out for several Sheridan, Wyoming. In Sheridan Irma Hotel restaurant. If you like miles of breathtaking beauty. you will find the Sheridan Inn, beef or seafood, these are the Along the way you have a good which has been restored over a places to go. If you like good Mex - chance of seeing lots of wildlife, in - period of years. Buffalo Bill Cody ican food, La Comida is just down cluding moose. Going past Sibley was part owner of the Inn, and he the street from the Irma. Also in Lake you will descend the Big would sit on the big front porch Cody you will find the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Old Trail Town, and many more historic sites. You won’t be bored. While we were in Cody, we wore our cowboy garb the whole time, in - cluding our guns, in town. After all, we were in Wyoming, not New York. I can’t tell you how many times tourist, especially European tourists, stopped us on the street and asked to take our picture! Fetterman Memorial Monument— From Cody, it’s a short drive a disobeyed order and a well-planned ambush due east to Greybull and from cost the lives of many US soldiers. there over the Big Horn mountains 81 Troopers were no match to one of the most historically rich Custer Hill at the Little Big Horn Battle site. Audio guides for the waiting 2000 warriors! areas of western lore in the United that can be played in your car make the entire battlefield come to life.

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must see. Several miles south of Sheri - dan at Interstate 90 exit 44, you will find the history of ’s War with the . Taking exit 44 and follow - ing the signs for about a mile, you come to an intersection. Turning There’s a fantastic saloon inside right, the road ends at the site of the Irma. This beautiful rosewood the Fetterman Battle. Turning bar and back-bar were a gift to The hotel offers authentic and left, the road takes you to the site Cody from Queen Victoria. historic accommodations with all the of Fort Kearney. Going past the modern comforts. The saloon is fort about five miles on the old when the train came in and audi - always open, and the Virginian restau - rant serves some of the best meals this tion people coming off the train side of the Mississippi River. for his Wild West Show. The Inn will be renting rooms in 2011 and place to wet your whistle. Across currently has one of the best the street is King Ropes and Sad - restaurants in the country. dlery. If you like fine leather Downtown Sheridan is on the products, saddles, ropes, or any National Register of Historic other cowboy stuff, this is the This bronze of Cody is just outside places. Here you will find the place to go. Walking through the the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Mint Bar, the oldest bar in store to the back door and across There are five (!) museums inside Wyoming and a very friendly the alley, you enter the ware - the Center … a must stop for house, which is full of saddles and King’s Ropes and Saddlery. anyone interested in the Old West! ropes and also houses one of the If you like fine leather products, best Cowboy Museums in the saddles, ropes, or any other Wagon Box Road, you come to the country. There is no charge, just cowboy stuff, this is the place to go. site of the Wagon Box fight. sign the guest register Going past this site, you come to and enjoy Story, Wyoming—one of the most Also in Sheridan you unique and beautiful small com - will find the old Gover - munities in the country. nor’s Mansion and just About 13 miles south of Story outside of town is the on Interstate 90 is the small town Brinton Memorial, which of Buffalo, Wyoming. In Buffalo a is only open during the person can experience the Old Wagon Box Fight Monument— summer. If you ever West by staying at the Occidental While chopping wood for wondered how a cattle Hotel, which is on the main street Ft. Kearney, the gatherers were baron lived in the old attacked by a very large force in town. Established in 1880, the of Indians. The wagon boxes days or if you like origi - Occidental has seen guests such were drawn into a tight circle, nal Russell, Remington as , , and the soldiers held off art, Native American ar - The Occidental Hotel in Buffalo as seen in , Buffalo Bill Cody, the attack until help arrived. tifacts, etc., this is a 2003. It has now been completely renovated. (Continued on page 26 )

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Wyoming Trails and SASS . . . (Continued from page 25 ) well as other Presidents, have Teddy Roosevelt, and Owen Wis - stayed at the Occidental. ter, the author of The Virginian . The hotel was purchased in Many other famous persons, as 1997 and saved from demolition

The Governor’s Mansion, located in Sheridan, is truly impressive. This was home to the John B. Kendrick family. One of Wyoming’s most successful rancher/politicians, Kendrick was a self-educated Texan who began his career as a penniless cowboy and ended it as a If you ever wondered how a cattle baron lived in the old days United States Senator. In between, he was a rancher, banker, or if you like original Russell, Remington art, Native American artifacts, land developer, entrepreneur, and Wyoming Governor. etc., the Brinton Memorial is a must see.

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by Dawn Wexco. During a period oldest grandsons, and they had a of several years, Dawn renovated ball. Can’t say enough about the the hotel and restored the interior Occidental Hotel at the foot of the to its original state, going so far as Big Horn Mountains. to have the original wallpaper re - A little further south of Buffalo produced. Everything in the hotel is the famous Hole in the Wall and is period and original, including the TA ranch where the Johnson the bullet holes in the saloon. County cattle war culminated. If The hotel offers authentic and you drive west from Buffalo on High - historic accommodations with all way 16, you are on the southern the modern comforts. The saloon is most route over the Big Horn range. always open, and the Virginian Also in the Big Horn range, you restaurant serves some of the best can visit the Medicine Wheel and meals this side of the Mississippi Sibley Lake where Lt. Sibley and River. The hotel was featured in Na - his command were ambushed by tional Geographic Traveler in April Indians just before the battle 2009 and has also received the Best at the Greasy Grass (Little Big Hotel in the West Award in 2007 and Horn). And if you like to fish, there 2008 by True West magazine. are 265 lakes and countless streams Every Thursday night local and rivers in the Big Horns. Bluegrass and Country musicians There are many more historic gather in the saloon starting at sites to visit in this part of the 6:30 PM for a night of music, no country and there is a SASS club cover charge. I can’t say enough in Buffalo. So if you like to shoot about this entertainment. Usu - Cowboy Action matches, eat fan - Cody’s old hotel, The Irma—this hotel is an original Old West hotel ally there are about fifteen to tastic food, and be a part of west - built in 1902 by Buffalo Bill, and named after his daughter. twenty musicians who play, and ern history, visit Cody and the The rooms are all original with some modern features, such as the saloon is packed. I know, my Powder River country around air conditioning and cable TV. wife and I have been there several Sheridan and Buffalo. You won’t times. This year we took our two be disappointed!

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Shootin’ Our Way Across The USA Part Two By Tennessee Tall, SASS #49245, and Rio Drifter, SASS #49244 he first week of August our champagne and added our 19th were ready for the Badlands Ban - found us in Simms, Mon - state to our map. dits out of Belfield, North Dakota, tana, at the Sun River On the road east this morning, on Sunday. Roughrider Ray, SASS TRangers range. Didn’t we discovered the delightful town of #71219, and his wife, Ren-e-gade, think ranges could get any better Fort Benton, Montana. Liked the SASS #84912, were great hosts. We ‘til we found this one. It is right up area so much we stayed two nights spent a peaceful night at their there with Possum Trot. We had with D&S RV Park, toured the mu - range. We had a good shooting day, our coffee this morning on the front seums, and had a glass of wine on made even better after we finished porch of the Wrangler’s Bunkhouse, the patio by the river at the Grand shooting when Ren-e-gade brought watching deer cross the foothills. Union Hotel. We stopped in Havre back Dairy Queen ice cream for We shot with Jeb Stuart Foley, and took the underground city tour, everyone. Broke out the cham - SASS #89144, Kid Colt, SASS and visited the in-progress Mon - pagne and added the 20th sticker to #2630, Little Skeeter, Rattlesnake tana Cowboy Hall of Fame. The our USA map. Ross, Thorny Rose, SASS #12302, Montana Hall of Fame folks turned One of our most enjoyable de - and a bunch of other good folks. us on to the in Sidney, Mon - tours was to Medora, North Dakota, (When I fail to mention your name, tana. Of course we donned our hats to Theodore Roosevelt National it isn’t because I didn’t enjoy shoot - and boots and joined the cowboys Rio Drifter on his favorite horse, Park. The park consists of 70,000- ing with you. I already told you—I for the rodeo. Thunder, taken during Ambush at plus acres of badlands and open was just old and forgetful!) We had Life ain’t all shooting, but we Cavern Cove in Alabama. prairie with buffalo and wild horses.

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(Continued from previous page) #57092, and Rootin’ Tootin’ Tim, Had a good day hanging out with #20214, Hap Hazard, SASS #1707, Rio proved he COULD be a real cow - SASS #57091. Those folks know Cayuse, SASS #14412 Sachem Ranger John Paxton, SASS #17833, boy! We took the park loop road into how to have a good time. The shoot - Rose, SASS #35781, Lou Graham, Uncle Henry, and Bird Dog Quail, to the back country where he herded a ing was excellent. We had the folks SASS #26112, and May Rein, SASS name a few, since I can’t ever recall two-mile long herd of buffalo with over for mimosas, and stuck up our #45274. We happily added our Con - names. Overall, we decided the the Conestoga wagon. We visited 21st state sticker. Yee-haw! necticut sticker and drank our mi - Ambush at Cavern Cove was right the North Dakota Cowboy Museum We went moose looking in Jack - mosas, toasting our 23rd state. up there with . Broke out and Hall of Fame. Add this area to man, Maine, and spent the evening Been hearing about how great the champagne and had our mi - your list of places worth seeing. listening to the loons and watching the shoot was at Cavern Cove in Al - mosas as we added our 24th state, Shootin’ Our Way Across the the seaplanes come and go. High - abama. Just happens Alabama was and decided if we stayed on the USA sounded right easy ‘til we way 1 has a special meaning for us a state we had not shot in so we road much longer we would have to found out fitting our traveling with since we met at its southernmost loaded up and headed south. The add AA meetings to our shooting the schedules of the clubs might not terminus in Key West, Florida. Just camping at Cavern Cove is real engagements. always work out. We drove across had to get our pictures made at the fancy—got running water, electric - As we pulled into our drive - Minnesota and on into the Upper northernmost end in Fort Kent, ity, showers, and flush johns. First way, we had 24,439 miles on our Peninsula of Michigan. We weren’t Maine. After a stop in Machias at night in camp, Posse One members motor home and memories far too able to add either state to our map, Helen’s for a piece of her pie, we invited us to join them in their an - precious to imagine. Thanks to all but we have ‘em on the list for next continued on down Highway 1 to nual potluck supper, and Uncle of you with whom we were privi - year. In order to remain on speak - Prospect, Maine, to visit my son and Frank, SASS #40403, and Gramm leged to spend our summer while ing terms with my family, we his wife. bent over backwards to see every - meeting our goal of “Shooting Our stopped in Gladwin, Michigan, to September 2nd found us camp - one was welcomed. Haven’t pulled Way Across the USA.” Thank you visit my favorite cousin and his ing in Dalton, New Hampshire, a gun and so far all the stories to those folks who freely gave us family. They made Rio’s day by tak - with the Shooting about how great Cavern Cove is combinations to their gates and ing him to a real live Amish hard - Club and Littleton S. Dalton, and have been true. Didn’t know shoot - said come on in and stay a spell. ware store. He was in heaven. Nan Dalton. Very gracious hosts, ing could get to be much more fun, Watch out for us on the road next Thank goodness we were traveling well thought-out range, and loads of but I had never done a night summer, we’ve got a lot of in the motor home (little motor good shooters and stages made for shoot—ain’t had so much fun since miles/states to go before we hang home). He came away with a few a good day. Shooting in New Hamp - the hogs ate my little brother! We up our guns! We are already reg - goodies, but we still had room for shire allowed us to put our 22nd were privileged to shoot on Posse istered for the Gunfight at Givens our hats. sticker on the map. Seven with Daybreaker, SASS Ferry. Think you can stand to hear Rambled on through Ohio, Shooting is good fun, especially #36821, Harman Hammer, SASS about that one? Pennsylvania, and into New York. if you sprinkle a few detours in with The Adirondack Mountains were a it. We returned to Blue Hill, Maine delight with the lakes and streams for their agricultural fair where we and small towns. Vermont was spent the day watching the oxen equally as beautiful with loads of pulls, the horse pulls, Tina’s Lum - friendly folks. Dolly Copp camp - berjack show, and the sheep dog tri - ground in New Hampshire’s White als. We decided as former Park Mountains National Forest pro - Rangers, we needed to spend at least vided us with a quiet place to rest one night in Acadia National Park. up. This shooting and traveling is We rode the Island Explorer to our rough if you ain’t used to it. heart’s content and went downtown Just when you think it can’t get to Bar Harbor for the next day’s ad - any better, shore enough it does. We ventures. Ocean and mountains to - camped at the Big Pine Gun Club in gether are hard to beat. Wilmatic, Maine, with the Big Pine On September 11th we man - Bounty Hunters—Ripley Scrounger, aged to shoot with the CT Valley SASS #48756, Ripley Lilly, SASS Bushwackers in East Granby, Con - #47748, No Nonsense Nancy, SASS necticut, at the Hartford Gun Club.

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(Continued from page 1) the weather was consis - had ammunition left to shoot the tent throughout the two main match! days. Shooters had no Everyone must have planned perceived or real advan - accordingly and brought suffi - tage shooting one area cient ammunition, because on first, as the range condi - Friday the main match kicked off tions remained near per - with the first five of 10 stages to fect each day. be shot over two days. If you Posse size and the haven’t visited the Nor’easter at well-planned schedule al - the beautiful 377-acre Pelham lowed time for shooting, facility, the stages are set up in socializing, and shopping two groups: 1-5 and 6-10. Each with the plentiful ven - day shooters reported to one of dors. Participants could the areas and shot basically a have arrived buck-naked Hammerin’ Steel, SASS #74478, with his first grade lunch box. five-stage match; then swapped on Thursday and had everything they needed to compete on Friday morn - ing while walking down our huge Vendor Row. One could get a new leather rig from Circle M Appaloosa Amy, SASS #63949, Saddlery & Gun Leather and Jimmy Spurs, and wrap it around fine SASS #65014— 2010 New England stylish clothing available Regional Champions. from “Gun Powder Creek Trading Post” and “Bandit areas for the following day. Un - & Belle” (formerly True like previous years, our resident West Mercantile). Fire - wea ther jinx, Dead Head, SASS arms and supplies from Callous Clyde, SASS #4677, #29768, must have been warned, (Continued on pagee 32) breaks a shot! or hog-tied and left in his tent, as Nobody move or the Chicken gets it!

Clean and Smooth Appaloosa Amy Barrister Bill, SASS #5230 Bob Maverick, SASS #16130 Chama Chuck, SASS #63014 Dapper Dan, SASS #40887 Doc McCoy, SASS #8381 El Fusilero, SASS #10462 Feany Valentine, SASS #35024 Fly Rod, SASS #70309 Frosty Friday, SASS #86788 Gun E Bear Henry Starr, SASS #76482 Ike Shotgun McCoy, SASS #4982 Illustrated Man, SASS #77202 Jimmy Spurs Lefty Bob, SASS #83048 Marshal Freeman, SASS #56787 Mustang Megs, SASS #60070 Oneshot Willtravel, SASS #75183 Peddler Jack, SASS #18828 Quaker Hill Bill, SASS #61021 Shoulda Married Money, SASS #67920 Sled Dog Man, SASS #19446 Smilin’ Pete Smitty, SASS #18147 Stormy Shooter, SASS #57333 Terrible Terrill Tucson Tess, SASS #27624 Turkey Creek Vic, SASS #80846 Wheels Cartwright, SASS #14985 Wilfred Aubrey, SASS #78230 Wyatt Hurts, SASS #72737 Yosemite Gene, SASS #49759 The Concord Coach Society was on hand to display their beautifully restored Coach number XIV built in 1847.

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(Continued from page 30 ) Plenty of cowboy bling was tina” and get your authentic tin - was Pecos Pav, SASS #36327. “Lost Targets Shooting Supplies” available from “Jillary Designs” type portrait taken by “M & D Tin - Saturday concluded main could be put to good use from tar - and cowboy lead from “Moulton type Photography.” You could even match shooting and, while scores gets made by “Bullet Proof Tar - Lead.” Then you could grab a put that photo in a nice engraved were input, cowboys and cowgirls gets” during the shoot off. bite to eat from “Christina’s Can - frame from “Klassic Laser Works” in the know headed home to clean who also makes all of up for the Saturday night banquet. our awards and Rusty P Bucket’s rustic outdoor badges. All you nee- showers were in demand, and after ded was cash or plas - the heat of the day, the fact they tic to get the job done, were cold didn’t seem to cause any and once you did, alarm after the initial “Whoa!” should the desire to Cowboy camping was as popular as customize or get your in the past, with tents, pop-ups, new irons race ready, tagalongs, fifth wheels, and every Jimmy Spurs, SASS class of RV gathered at the club. #65014, of Cowboy Ida Mae Holliday, SASS #48419, Gunworks and Jim continues to shine as the woman Downing “The Gun who gets it done when it comes to Engraver” were on wrangling the folks who keep the hand to make them go cowboys and cowgirls well fed. Be - fast and look good tween the Boy Scouts, Chris tina’s doing it. As is his tra - Cantina, and the caterers doing dition, Dutch Henry of the Saturday banquet, I doubt any - Gun Powder Creek one went hungry or lost weight Trading Post supplied over the long weekend. a complete clothing Like many large matches, help outfit to the shooter is hard to come by, and the folks run - who finished in the ning the show are usually going “Middle of the Pack.” from “can see” ‘till “can’t see,” long Snazzy McGgee, SASS #66689, timed by Yankee, SASS #266. This year’s winner (Continued on next page)

Winners E Statesman Bear Lee Tallable, Top Overall Shooters & SASS #23670 New England Regional Champs L B-Western Emma Goodcook, Man Jimmy Spurs, SASS #49743 SASS #65014 NH L Duelist Nantucket Dawn, Lady Appaloosa Am, SASS #15681 SASS #63949 CT L F Cartridge Miss Delaney Belle, Category Champions SASS #6860 B-Western Yankee Hoo, L 49’er Stormy Shooter, SASS #74330 SASS #57333 Classic Cowboy Travis Spence, C Cowgirl Wild Sage, SASS #59583 SASS #40879 Cowboy Timberland Cowgirl Southpaw Slingin’ Renegade, Sally, SASS #58071 SASS #39737 Duelist Smilin’ Pete, L Wrangler Three Barrel Chris, SASS #31699 SASS #70513 Frontiersman Patchogue Mike, L Senior Calico Jan, SASS #8626 SASS #61842 F Cartridge Doc Perry, L S Duelist Terrible Terrill, SASS #42552 SASS #32278 F C Duelist Gun E Bear, L S Senior May Rein, SASS #5557 SASS #45274 F C Gunfighter Dead Head, G Dame Crackshot Bev, SASS #29768 SASS #59869 Gunfighter Grazer, Buckarette Lil Miss Sassy, SASS #38845 SASS #80579 49’er Hammering Steel, Buckaroo Dan The Man, SASS #74478 SASS #80527 Wrangler Jimmy Spurs, L Young Guns Snazzy McGee, SASS #65014 SASS #66689 Senior Jeremiah Longknife, Young Guns Outlaw Jimmy SASS #21326 Wales, S Duelist John Derringer, SASS #49316 SASS #31360 (I noticed these folks had , S Gunfighter Tick Ridge, Senior Gunfighters, and Frontier SASS #67818 Cartridge Gunfighters … outstanding!! S Senior Rowdy Bill, … Editor in Chief) SASS #9628

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(Continued from previous page) before the event starts and long after that last happy shooter pulls away from the range. So, if you happen to be a match director, stage overlord, vendor wrangler, or any of the other vital people who get things done and still want to com - pete, you probably “pre-shoot” the match a day or so before. Unlike the rest of the folks, you normally do it in one day, not two. Wednes - day was our day for match organiz - ers to run through those ten stages. Picture if you will a hot New Hampshire day with humidity equal to the temperature. You and the rest of the match labor force started early that morning and have finished working out the kinks, checking each stage, and Top Gun Finalists—Appaloosa Amy and James Samuel Pike, SASS #53331 (Amy won!) nailing down any loose ends. Sim - ply put it’s a long day. male champions, Jimmy Spurs Wrangler James Samuel Pike, The match ended on Sunday and Appaloosa Amy, SASS SASS #53331. Once that young - with a Shooter vs. Shooter Chal - #63949, and you all better stay on ster gets as good with his rifle as lenge Charity Event, the ever- your toes. Running the Challenge he is with his handguns, that blur popular Top Gun Shoot-off Stage, I watched Buckaroo you see passing you will be him! sponsored by Bullet Proof Targets, shooter Dan the Man, SASS Special thanks to the Concord A clean stage always brings and awards. Congratulations to #80527, compete with the current Coach Society for once again a smile! this year’s overall male and fe - END of TRAIL World Champion (Continued on page 34)

END of TRAIL (The Granddaddy of them all!) . . . (Continued from page 7) area was a dairy preserve). Sponta - TRAIL right at the beginning! neous combustion inside the berms By 1987 this Southern Califor - produced acrid smoke all the time. nia association (it wasn’t even a And the flies … there were millions! club!) decided it needed a little more The day after the first END of formality. The organizers had al - TRAIL at Raahauges, the roof inside ready started calling themselves The my Suburban was still black with Wild Bunch (because of the movie), flies from the range! Leadville and realized they needed a small Lloyd, one of the Wild Bunch at the Handbook to codify the rules, mem - time, admonished all the END of berships for revenue where regis - TRAIL attendees to please return all tered aliases, badges, and designated the flies by the end of the match … Early END of TRAILs were held at Coto de Caza—the hills were green, shooter numbers were central, and a we had rented them at great per - the birds sang, and the outlaws were ugly (more of Bill Hahn’s work). It was Shangri-La! periodic publication to “tie every - sonal expense and were obligated to thing together”. The Single Action return each and every one of them! TRAIL each year. staff. At least when the wind blows Shooting Society (SASS) and The I’m not sure anyone laughed! By 2004 END of TRAIL was here, that grit sometimes felt in your Cowboy Chronicle were born! SASS ultimately spent thou - again feeling constrained by its teeth is honest sand … not cow ma - After joining the Wild Bunch, sands of dollars turning the bays shooting venue, and after locating nure! And, New Mexico is the land Tex took on the responsibility of around, reconstituting the berms what became Founders Ranch on the of Billy the Kid, old time outlaws and forming the Coto Cowboys, which be - with sand, and creating a dozen Internet, made the move to New lawmen, cattle drives, Civil War bat - came the largest Cowboy Action shooting bays. With expanded shoot - Mexico. What a change (shock!). Yes, tles, and the Bent Broth - Shooting™ club in the world. This ing facilities, END of TRAIL could fi - the Ranch cost far less in New Mex - ers, Indians, Mexicans, and club evolved into The Cowboys, still nally really grow! There was ample ico than something like it would Spaniards—this is OUR Old West! the largest club, after SASS moved to real estate to camp and accommo - have cost in Southern California … SASS now has four areas of in - New Mexico. date several hundred competitors … but New Mexico has WEATHER terest—Cowboy Action Shooting™, SASS continued to use the and they came. Of course, it didn’t (year round!), there are far fewer Mounted Shooting, Wild Bunch Ac - Olympic shooting facilities and the hurt that the site was located only a “civilians” to attract to our festival, tion Shooting, and the Wild West Per - 25-year-old Hunt Lodge at Coto de short drive from one of the great and it’s equally tough on everyone to forming Arts Society. All will be Caza for monthly matches and END metropolitan areas in the United travel to Founders Ranch … but featured at END of TRAIL’s 30 th An - of TRAIL until developers and States! Finally, in addition to the Ac - what a Ranch! Founders has al - niversary. If you’ve never been to money politics forced all shooting out tion Shooting, Mounted Shooting lowed SASS to set down roots, begin END of TRAIL, this is the time to of the community. could be showcased, and Old West the LONG process of building a come! A “full house” is over 700 Ac - In 1991 END of TRAIL moved to arena shows reminiscent of Buffalo Western community, establish a tion Shooters, and we’ll have that this Raagauges in Riverside County. Bill’s of a hundred Mounted Shooting facility, and estab - year, including over 100 competitors There were six east-facing bays com - years ago would begin drawing up - lish our very own Headquarters from overseas. Don’t be left out— posed entirely of cow manure (this wards of 20,000 spectators to END of building with a wonderful, dedicated there’s somet(Chionngt ifnoure edv oenry poangee! 35)

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Side Matches Double Speed Pistol Lever Rifle - Pistol Caliber – 100m Derringer Man Marshal Freeman Man Jimmy Spurs – BP Speed Lady Annabelle Lady Appaloosa Amy Man Yankee Hoot Man Jimmy Spurs Bransford, Juniors Dan the Man & Lady Ruby Blast Lady Ruby Blast, SASS #11916 Lil Miss Sassy Long Range Pistol – 50m SASS #74331 Juniors Snazzy McGee & Long Range Man Wild Phil Coyote, Accuracy Dan the Man & Single Shot –- 200m SASS #20124 Man Pittsburg Mac, Lil Miss Sassy Man El Otro Doc, Lady Ruby Blast SASS #20796 Lever SASS #58695 The Squall Lady Watchman Warrior, Man Barley Pop Bill, Lady Three Barrel Chris Man James Samuel Pike SASS #73654 SASS #35019 Single Shot - 200m – BP Lady Stormy Shooter Pocket Pistol Lady Ruby Rose Man El Otro Doc Juniors Dan The Man & Speed Longshot, Lady Three Barrel Chris Snazzy McGee & Man Rowdy Bill SASS #67697 Quigley Match Offhand -200m Lil Miss Sassy Lady Ruby Blast Hammered Double Man Dead Head Plainsman Patchogue Mike Accuracy Man Dusty Levis, Lady Three Barrel Chris Wild Bunch Man Sled Dog Man, SASS #67796 Lever Rifle - Rifle Caliber – 150m Traditional Doc McCoy SASS #19446 Speed Rifle Man BP Gunns, Modern Pittsburg Mac Lady Ruby Blast Man Jimmy Spurs SASS #23578 Shoot-offs Speed Shotgun Lady Appaloosa Amy Lady Three Barrel Chris Wild West Sweethearts Pump Juniors Outlaw Jimmy Lever Rifle - Rifle Caliber – 150m – Appaloosa Amy Man Quaker Hill Bill Wales & Snazzy BP The Showdown James Samuel Lady Mustang Megs, McGee & Man BP Gunns Pike SASS #60070 Lil Miss Sassy Lever Rifle - Pistol Caliber – 100m Top Gun Appaloosa Amy Man Diamond Rustler, SASS #58273 Lady Three Barrel Chris

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(Continued from page 33 ) bringing their fully restored 1847 #XIV to dis - play at our event. Thanks to our Regional Presenting Spon - sors Dillon Precision, Black Hills Ammunition, Chiappa Firearms, The National Rifle Association, Cimarron Fire- arms, Taylors & Company, Ruger Firearms, Wild West Mercantile, Wah Maker Old West Clothing, and The Single Action Shooting Society. And thanks to the many hard work - ing Cowboys and Cowgirls that make our event a great success each year. Judging from the smiles, everyone had a great time, and we hope to see every - one again next year! Mark your calendar early for the 2011 event, which will be held on July 21 – 24 , 2011. There’s no telling what the crew will come up with, but prece - dent shows it will be another real corker!

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

cooking is the way to convert the meat into a tender, delicious en - trée. We suggest you plan on about six hours of simmering to wind up with fork-tender goodness. This slow-cooking method starts with actually boiling the Whooper and The Missus beef for about a half hour over hot coals before pulling out most of oday’s One Pot Chuck is the coals for the simmering. Nat - a favorite of sons of the urally, you’ll need to add more old sod (Irishmen), even coals as the hours pass … but only T though it’s more an enough to keep your pot simmer - American dish than it is Irish. ing. And, as you’ll see, you’ll be We’re talkin’ ‘bout a boiled din - adding your vegetables at differ - Here’s a great meal for hungry cowboys! ner of Corned Beef, Cabbage, Red - ent times during the cooking skin Taters, and other tasty process. It’s a labor of love … but Directions Add the cabbage about 5 1/2 hours veggies. It’s always a favorite at you’ll LOVE the results! Heat water in your Dutch Oven into your cooking time. our place around St. Paddy’s Day Hint: Better use a deep 12 " over a bed of 15-16 glowing char - If you’ve kept your pot simmering … and that’s when we’re preparing Dutch Oven since the beef and the coal briquettes until boiling. nicely for the full 6 hours, every - it right now, on March 17 th . veggies need some room. Add Corned Beef, along with the thing should be ready for feast - Now, you know corned beef is juices and spices that come in the ing. Serve with sourdough or just another form of brisket, the Mike Redmond’s bag, plus your own spices into the Irish soda bread. same firm (some say “tough”) cut Corned Beef & Cabbage pot and boil for a half hour, covered. We like chili sauce on our corned that’s the barbecue favorite in After the first half hour, pull half of beef and cabbage. Some folks Texas and other parts of the Ingredients your coals out from under the pot prefer flavored mustards, like Southwest, only pickled in a sa - 3 Cups of Hot Water and put them on top of the lid. grey poupon. vory brine for some time before 1 3-4 pound Corned Beef After another half hour, add 8 new We’re having tapioca for dessert. cooking. Don’t worry, our recipe 1 Head of Cabbage, quartered coals beneath and 8 on the lid. Our friends prefer rice pudding. starts with the pre-pickled, pre- 6 Large Carrots, quartered Repeat this last procedure once Actually, a nice bowl of cherry cob - packaged variety you find at your 8 Small Redskin Potatoes each hour until you’re ready to bler would be best! You decide! local Fry’s or Piggly-Wiggly, so 2 Large Yellow Onions, quartered serve (about 6 hours.) Hmmm, Did I say Cherry Cob - you don’t have to do the pickling 2 Tablespoons of Minced Garlic Add the potatoes, carrots and bler ? Let’s make that our recipe yourself. Bay Leaves, Rosemary, and fresh onions about 3 hours into your for next month!!! With any firm cut, long, slow Ground Pepper to taste cooking time. Photos by Deadeye Al

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PaT GarreTT Murder Site

By Saddle Tramp, SASS #16500 Photos by Saddle Tramp and Tijeras Pete, SASS #75465

Actual marker of ’s murder site constructed by Jarvis Garrett in 1939. Saddle Tramp and Cody by the murder site.

hursday, January 13, deeply so. As a result, he had 2011, Alamogordo, NM - agreed to rent some of his land to In my workshop I have a Wayne Brazel who worked for Pat’s Twood burning stove, and I neighbor W.W. Cox. Garrett had al - usually start my fires with wadded- ready borrowed several thousand up pages of old newspapers. On this dollars from Cox, plus there was day I was in the process of doing other debt in addition to back taxes. that, and I turned around to grab When Garrett discovered Brazel another newspaper and found my - had moved a large herd of goats self staring at the face of Pat Gar - onto his land, that was too much, rett. Being a big fan of Lincoln and he made it plain he wanted both County history, especially dealing Brazel and the goats off. Brazel re - with Billy the Kid, that picture sud - fused and tensions naturally grew. denly had my full attention. The ar - Garrett needed to find a way to evict ticle was from the Alamogordo Brazel, and both parties agreed to Daily News dated December 5, 2010 meet in Las Cruces to resolve the and the headline was about local matter, but Pat never made it. historians hoping to preserve Gar - Garrett left his Bear Canyon rett’s murder site from real estate ranch near San Augustine Pass in development. Apparently this site his buggy that morning along with is right in the path of the future a man named Carl Adamson who Mesa Grande Drive, a major four- had agreed to lease Garrett’s ranch. lane artery that will serve a new Along the way they met up with subdivision. Brazel, and as they rode along, Gar - Pat Garrett’s luck ran out on rett began arguing about the goats, February 29, 1908, at this spot on a and apparently he threatened quiet sandy road known as Alameda Brazel that he, Garrett, was going to Historical marker on New Mexico Highway 70. It’s “near” the murder site Arroyo. Garrett seemed to always get Brazel off his land one way or … but it’s only the beginning of an adventure finding the actual site! be in debt, and at this point, he was another. According to Adamson’s

VisiT us aT sassNeT .com May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 39 recollections, the three stopped sults showed several listings, but along the road to urinate. A gun - most concerned the tourist marker shot rang out and Garrett fell with on Highway 70, and I knew that a bullet in the back of his head. wasn’t right. Then, I found a web - They covered Garrett’s body and site someone had created that not Pat Garrett’s rode into Las Cruses to notify the only had pictures of the marker and grave in the sheriff. Brazel immediately con - the area, but also had a three Las Cruses, fessed to the crime and was eventu - minute video, and the pictures New Mexico ally tried, but found not guilty. showed one more thing … power Masonic (Brazel claimed self defense, claim - lines! There was the narrow utility cemetery. ing Garrett was armed with a shot - road the article mentioned … now, I gun and was threatening him. had what I needed. Adamson backed up Brazel’s story.) The next day I called up my Move forward thirty-one years friend, Brushy Bill, SASS #44261, area and finally decided it was time ago as he mixed the cement and … the year is 1939 and Garrett’s and told him of my plans. We were to head home. made a marker so the spot could be youngest son, Jarvis, located the supposed to go to the range that day, As we drove home, we talked remembered. I intend to follow up spot where his father fell and made but when he heard my plans, he about what we had found, and I on this and hope the Friends of Pat a small memorial of stones and ce - said to come pick him up. Again, I kept thinking about the whole situ - Garrett are able to preserve this ment. In the cement he scrawled “P. took Cody, picked up Bill, and we ation. I found myself wondering spot. Interested readers can go to Garrett” and “Feb. 1908.” headed out. It took us awhile to lo - what Jarvis Garrett must have felt www.friendsofpatgarrett.com and I read the article twice more and cate the power lines … they are sin - as he located the exact spot where see the marker and pictures of the decided I wanted to find that spot, gle-pole lines that come into the his dad was murdered and fell to the area. For those who would like to so, the next day I loaded my dog, back of a new subdivision, probably ground. And, I wondered what his see the marker, for a nice fee I can Cody, and we headed for Las Cruces. the one mentioned in the article. It thoughts might have been 82 years … no, just kidding! Unfortunately, the article did not was pretty slow going because of the contain a picture of the marker and loose sand and the roughness of the no real directions, so I had no idea utility road. Luckily I have 4-wheel what I was looking for. According to drive, but finally we decided it was the article the spot was about a mile getting pretty rough, so we parked southwest of Onate High School, so and walked. I located the school and started try - Brushy Bill went on ahead as I ing to find a road or trail that would locked the truck and grabbed my take me into the desert. There were camera. By the time I caught up to several, but after trying a couple of him, he had just spotted it … he them, I soon realized I was getting pointed towards the ground and nowhere. After driving and hiking said, “There it is!” Sure enough, at for about two hours, I realized I just the base of the hill shown in the was not in the right area … trouble photo and just off the utility road, was I didn’t know where the right there was the little marker I had area was, so we headed home. seen on the website! We brushed When you need information and some of the sand and pebbles off and have looked just about everywhere, began taking pictures. We stayed check the Internet. I did a search on there about an hour taking more “Pat Garret Murder Site.” The re - pictures and kind of scouting the

The road to Pat Garrett’s murder site is unpaved and rough. A 4 wheel drive is a must to finding the site.

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SECOND AMENDMENT KID coWBoy acTioN shooTiN ’ Loves By Second Amendment Kid, SASS #88942

he historic Wild West cul - and The Duke left an indelible im - ture of America’s cowboy print on my life. period, through SASS, is a So much so, in my speeches Tnew experience for us. It is today I present my nine-inch barrel exciting and becoming very special Buntline (yep, the very same one to my wife and me. I promote it that saved the Second Amendment everywhere. But, joining the Single in the Supreme Court) as my fa - Action Shooting Society® did not vorite work of art, even over the just happen overnight—no-siree- Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and the Bob, it goes much deeper. David I saw in Paree in that fer- As a young pup, way back be - away country where Frenchmen fore Dad trusted me with his BB come from. But whoa … I’ve wan - gun, I pined for owning plastic dered off target. replicas of cowboy pistols. Growing Nope, I hadn’t heard squawk up on six-cent tickets at Lash Larue about SASS. But I’d been thinkin’ movies (once, those six pennies even for years about how awesome and included bringing him to the movie transforming it would be if some - theater), Charles Starrett as the how, some group, somebody, some - The Second Amendment Kid (Dick Heller) on the steps of the Durango Kid, Lone Ranger serials, where could start a club and Supreme Court following a successful battle over the interpretation and finally Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, resurrect our old hearty, self-reliant, of the Second Amendment. A cowboy at heart, when the chips are down, it’s time to saddle up and get ‘er done! Well-done and welcome to SASS!

adventuresome Wild West culture as a pass-on to the next generation so they’d know what happened in the country after the Founding Fa - thers did so much for us. I’m thinkin’ it was at the 2009 Shot Show in Florida I got my first exposure to so much Cowboy Shootin’ iron all in one place. Right then and there I knew there was somthin’ going on I’d been missing. There was this authentically dressed up western girl poppin’ her musta-been 20 foot long snake bull- whip and sportin’ the biggest pair of cannons, on ‘er hips, that must have been owned by !! I fer - git what she was advertizin’, but I KNEW she was from a hidden world out there I didn’t know about. Then at the Phoenix/NRA Show in 2009, I saw the same cowboy iron and a slick dressed dude, lookin’ like a cross between Hopalong Cas - sidy and Wild Bill Hickock, and he filled me in on this well-hidden so - ciety. Y’all MUST-a been keepin’ it a secret—I know a lot about the gun world—YET, how could I NOT know about this SASS?? So, one day I found myself with a free Saturday in April 2010 when I didn’t have to work. I searched for Second Amendment Kid a SASS location and found the clos - has the guns – (Continued on next page) now he needs some cowboy duds! VisiT us aT sassNeT .com May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 41

Texas Ant, SASS #40301, lends Second Amendment Kid, SASS #88942, a rig and some firearms for the Kid’s first Cowboy Action match at the KC Corral’s SASS Club in Mechanicsville, VA

Toccoa Kate, SASS #47669, was very helpful to introducing Second Amendment Kid to the fun of Cowboy Action Shooting™.

Second Amendment Kid’s wife, China Jane, tries her hand at Cowboy Action Shooting™.

(Continued from previous page) Second Amendment concept, is so est shooting match to me would be alien to their dictator culture that, in Mechanicsville, Virginny, some trying to talk to a Chinese there 100 miles away from Washington, about shootin’ is like trying to de - D.C. My wife and I knew we were scribe one of those big Unknown finally getting close to the KC’s Cor - Flying Things shootin’ across the ral Range when we heard for the sky they ain’t never seen before. So first time the musical pong-pang- for Jane, it was a thrilling new cow - ping of lead on steel. We missed the boy experience in which to partake. grub wagon by arriving in the after - As you can see by the photo, noon, but we had time to observe being a newbie SASS shooter, we the four-gun firing line ritual and own nothing western yet, so we are t’meet folks. Texas Ant, SASS starting out like other folks in some #40301, and Toccoa Kate, SASS of The Cowboy Chronicle stories I’ve #47669, were very helpful and in - read and will be depending on find - structive about procedures and gra - ing second-hand equipment for our cious in lending me the use of a rig startup. So, I might start out lookin’ and long guns. like a hand-me-down dude, but I re - My wife, China-Jane, even got a main faithful to the Shootin’ and chance to participate and throw Second Amendment cause, since some lead down range! She looked “Heller (2) vs. D.C.” is in the Federal perfectly at home and happy sling - District Appeals Court, and “Heller ing lead with a pair of .32’s in her (3) vs. D.C.” is on the drawing board. hands for the first time. She had (The Second Amendment Kid is THE shot before in the U.S. but … being Dick Heller of the landmark Supreme from China, and even a lawyer Court Case—Heller vs. DC. We’re there … gun ownership, or even a glad to have him among cowboys!!) VisiT us aT sassNeT .com Page 42 Cowboy Chronicle May 2011

Dra W!!! By Pencil Pusher, SASS #88369

raw!!! When readers of Dale’s introduction to Cowboy The Cowboy Chronicle hear Action was an annual competition that expression, they’re sponsored by the Gold Coast Gun - Dmore than likely going to slingers. He assembled a modest reach for their “s ix shooters” in display and completed four West - their hand-tooled leather holster ern portraits, using images from slung low on their hips. When an some of his favorite films. In that artist like Dale Lewis hears “Draw,” first event, he immediately real - he’ll probably reach for a Carb-Oth - ized how much at home he felt. ello Pastel Pencil and a sheet of tex - “You’re not likely to find a finer tured, pastel drawing paper. group of people, more thoughtful Unlike art media such as oils, and caring, and more dedicated to acrylics, and watercolors, pastels the traditions that made this Na - are a dry art media, the essence of tion great, than at a SASS shoot - which is one’s ability to “draw.” ing event!” The goal, of course, is Pastels are sometimes thought of as to hopefully sell his art, but even “chalk,” but they are in actuality, failing to do so, he always leaves very pure art pigments. (Continued on next page)

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(Continued from previous page) more recent Westerns command each shoot with a good feeling attention because of their dedica - about the new friends he invari - tion to preserving this genre of ably has made as a vendor. film, the often outstanding acting His artistic remembrances of performances, and the develop - our Western heroes and his SASS ments in special effects film mak - competitor custom commissioned ing. An all-time “old” favorite, pieces are all at least 24 " x 30 " because of the sweeping scale of and larger (limited more by the the astonishingly beautiful loca - size of the available pastel papers tion, the dazzling use of a color and the quality of the reference film process called “Three Strip photos made available than by Technicolor,” and a John Wayne anything else). performance he thinks is un - As a vendor at a few Florida equaled is “The Searchers.” Al - shoots, the question he is most though not a Clint enthusiast, he often asked is, “Can you draw me?” enjoys all of Clint’s “Spaghetti A printed “storyboard” would help Westerns” with equal fervor and answer that question, a failing in found “The Outlaw Josey Wales” his display soon to be remedied. to be among Clint’s best films. Dale said, “In creating a custom Dale also enjoyed “The Quick and portrait of a SASS shooter, we the Dead” because it gave him an begin with a high quality photo opportunity to do some extreme provided by the client. At the close-up portraiture and because same time, I’m asking him or her it was a pretty darn good Western. to think about potential back - In addition to the original por - grounds we might use. Here is traits, which may be purchased, where your Western fantasies can and the custom work that may be come into play. Do you imagine commissioned, soon to be offered yourself in a favorite scene from a are lines of signed and numbered, favorite Western? Do you imagine Limited Edition Prints, showing yourself in the bar at the Long - “Rooster Cogburn”—first with Jeff branch Saloon? Are you one of Bridges in his critically regarded Wyatt’s posse, at the OK Corral? remake, and ... of course ... “The For example, in one of the two Duke” in his classic performance. portraits of Silver Buck Chuck he Full size prints (approx 24 " x 34 ") wanted to be seen as a stagecoach will be offered. Future Limited guard for a Wells Fargo Coach. Edition Prints are to follow. In Major Augustus Steele, on the each of these portraits, the back - other hand, looked extremely grounds represent the “artist’s powerful and commanding and creativity.” Jeff Bridge’s remake envisioned himself standing at of “True Grit” did NOT, of course, the gate of his huge ranch, over - take place in Monument Valley ... seeing all around him. In the case but Dale felt it needed that sense of Silver Buck Chuck being de - of epic spectacle. And, this great picted as a town Marshal, the capture of the Duke, mounted on original photos were of Silver horseback, had a much more Buck Chuck in his own back yard. pedestrian kind of background in Dale decided to replace the back - the original shot, which he chose yard with a building resembling to make look more “timeless” and an old Marshal’s Office along with “Old West” in appearance. a sign to which Chuck’s own name Dale’s new web site where might be added. This portrait of more information may be ob - Chuck featured an “old” sepia tained, including his schedule of tone kind of look. vendor participation in SASS Of course, no series of Western sho ots such as “END of TRAIL” in portraits can be complete without late June, is located at: choices from Dale’s own favorite http://cowboy-western-art.com “classic” Westerns and scenes cap - Dale said with a smile, “I cor - tured from recent Western films. dially invite all you Cowpokes and Despite his not unusual devotion the equally enth usiastic ladies of to the Western stars and their SASS out there to stop by and say, films of the 1940s and 1950s, Howdy!” FACTOID At Andersonville Prison, disease, malnutrition and abuse claimed many lives. An average of 127 men died each day. Bodies were buried at the rate of one every eleven minutes. This death rate was higher than that of most battles.

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BARgAIN BARRELL BUddIES Movies you’ll just wanna own!

By Whooper Crane, SASS Life #52745 Whooper Crane, SASS Life #52745

’know, we’ve been putting together our Sidekicks & Y Heavies column for 2 1/2 years now, featuring those guys who helped and those who got in the way of Duke and Gene and Roy and a host of other big name Western stars in horse operas through the years. Now, we’d like to take a slightly different approach to en - joying the oaters we all love so much. A current phenomenon in the entertainment industry is the taking of some of the lesser- known movies from the past 50-60 years and reproducing them in a really cheap DVD format and of - fering them in what I call Bargain Barrels at Walmart and other mass-merchandising outlets. Among these offerings are a whole passel of Westerns that, while perhaps never Oscar nomi - nees, are still fun for us cowboy wannabes to enjoy on those days when we’re not at the range. Sometimes these Bargain Bar - rel Buddies actually feature big name Cowboy stars; in others, the players are little known outside of Tinseltown … but they’re all great (Continued on next page)

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(Continued from previous page) name Director … but which never fun to watch, nonetheless. made it to your local big-screen So, starting with this issue of emporium! How can that be? The Cowboy Chronicle , we’ll put the We’re talking about Louis Sidekicks & Heavies column to the L’Amour’s Crossfire Trail , which side and introduce our new Bar - was directed by Lonesome Dove gain Barrel Buddies column in and Quigley Down Under’s Simon which we’ll feature two of these Wincer, and which starred that DVDs (often priced as low as five great natural cowboy actor, Tom bucks) that you can snap up at your Selleck! local Wally World to add to your col - Why didn’t you see it at your lection of oldie-but-goody oaters. neighborhood Bijou? Because it We’ll review the plots, the was a Made-for-TV flick that stars, the action, and any behind- aired on Turner Network Televi - the-scenes dirt we can dig up sion in 2001. about the films and their players. This Louie L’Amour novel- We won’t rate these flicks, how - based flick was a bit of a spinoff of ever. We want you to have that his earlier short story Hondo , privilege. which was made into a Western The first of our Bargain Bar - standard starring The Duke, as rel Buddies is Appaloosa, starring you’ll recall. Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen, So … we’ve got this hero-type, which we picked up for $8.88 at Rafe Covington (Tom Selleck) Target. making a deathbed promise to a Even though we’ve seen some dying buddy he’ll help his buddy’s Westerns in recent years, like The widder when he gets back to Assassination of … Wyoming. (Sound familiar?) and the remake of 3:10 to Yuma , The widder (Virginia Mad - this flick, which hit theaters in sen), is being harassed by a local 2008, was really the only notewor - rich guy, (hmmm, could he be just thy “cowboy buddy picture” to one more of those evil “big ranch - reach us in quite a spell (maybe as ers?) who wants to marry her so far back as Open Range in 2003). he can take over her ranch. It’s about two gunslingers, Vir - So, Tom (oops, I mean Rafe) gil Cole (Ed Harris) and sidekick and some buddies come to the Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) poor widder’s rescue and have it who ride into town at the behest of out (in some pretty exciting action the town fathers to clean up the sequences) with the villain’s toad - place, which has been overrun by ies and several other local ne’er- the murderous “big rancher” (ain’t do-wells. big ranchers always the best vil - Now, we’ve got to give credit lains?) Randall Bragg (Jeremy to pretty-boy Mark Harmon (son Irons) and his henchmen. of famed football hero and sports - The boys kick some butt and caster, the late Tom Harmon) who make some progress in cleaning plays a really oily villain. Ya re - up the joint (with the help of ally come to hate him. He’s BAD! Everett’s 8-gauge SxS) until a And when it comes to the final pinch-faced floozy named Allie scene, he’s ready to plug poor Tom (Renee Zellweger) arrives aboard (I mean Rafe) who’s lying the Noon Flyer, causing Virgil to wounded and defenseless before lose his cool and the evil Bragg him, when (are you ready for and a couple hired guns to pull a this?) through the doorway steps kidnap, necessitating a major the widder with Rafe’s rifle! shootout between the Goods and Guess what happens? Nah, I the Bads. don’t want to spoil it for you! Great storyline (by the late You’ll have to pick up a DVD of Robert B. Parker) … fine acting Crossfire Trail and watch it your - (except perhaps by Ms. Zell - self! You won’t be disappointed! weger) … and great directing (by With all this talent (not to Harris himself) make this one of mention a whole herd of really the very best DVD bargains in the good support players), this oater Bargain Barrel! is definitely worth the measly $5 Pick one up and make it part or so you’ll plunk down to own it. of your top-shelf Hay-Burner col - Dive into the Bargain Barrel and lection! grab some gen-u-ine Western fun! ——————————————— Next month we’ll review a cou - Our #2 Bargain Barrel Buddy ple good Randolph Scott pictures. this month is an outstanding Yes … even old Scotty is one of our horse opera with a big-name star, Bargain Barrel Buddies! a big-name Author, and a big- Photos by Deadeye Al.

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Page 46 Cowboy Chronicle May 2011 Dii sPaTches from camP BayLor i Boss of the Plains By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life #24287

he legend started in 1865. West, he sold it. Rejuvenated by the John B. Stetson, the son of a clean mountain air, and possibly by In 1885 in , Wyoming, two Thatter, had been given a death the thought of how badly good hats dudes bought all new hats, clothes, sentence. His doctors told him he were needed out west and the leather gear, and guns and got had tuberculosis. He wanted to see money he could make supplying their picture taken, leaving a legacy of what everything looked the West before he died, so he went them, he returned to Philadelphia like when brand new. They both to Colorado on a hunting trip. The and formed the John B. Stetson bought Stetson Boss of the Plains legend is that, needing a hat, he Company, all thoughts of dying from hats with 4 " crowns and 4 " brims. made one from fur felt over a camp - tuberculosis gone. He would live for fire using a pot to block the crown. 41 more years; his hats would be - The Montgomery Wards catalog ad When offered $5 for it in Central come icons of the Old West, and the for a copy of the Boss of the Plains City, Colorado, a lot of money in the with the double buckle hatband. John B. Stetson Company would be - come an empire. His first hat was called “The Boss of the Plains.” The original had a 4 " crown and a 4 " brim. The brim was flat, and the crown had straight sides and rounded corners. He didn’t originate the style. Ap - parently they had pots in England. Christy’s Hats of Bristol, England, held the patent on this design. Original Boss of the Plains After losing a lengthy court battle, from “Cowboys and the Stetson ended up having to pay a li - Trappings of the Old West,” censing fee to Christy’s Hats for the an excellent resource. This one has a tooled leather hatband use of the Boss of the Plains design. with a double D adjuster. Heavily lacquered to make Looks like it’s a 4-1/2 " crown, them stiff, the brims were adver - 3" brim.

Rand Custom Hats made this copy of the original, down to the hand In the old days, Stetsons tooled leather hatband. 5 " crown, were pretty much waterproof, 4" brim. It was ordered “dis - so the image of the cowboy tressed,” and after several years of demonstrating he could lead wear it has gained some more “dis - a horse to water and make him tress” and faded a little, but it is drink became their ad still in excellent shape. This is a and their liner. high quality rabbit/beaver blend. VisiT us aT sassNeT .com May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 47

tized as “Never Flop.” Brims another was tremendously suc - that “flopped” were useless, cessful at selling them. Stetson and men out west lived in didn’t dominate the civilian hat their hats. Stetson, in a bril - market as much as you think. liant marketing move, sent Bradford and Baileys were one at no charge to every hat quite popular. Much of Stet - store in the United States, son’s production went to mili - and the hat took off. Just as tary hats, and a significant men were moving west by the amount went to make som - thousands, the perfect hat for breros, which were shipped to their adventures came along. Mexico and then embellished They were made of high with bullion and braid. Still, quality fur felt. They were when you think of hats in the satin lined, with lambskin or The wool Boss of the Plains several years later. Old West, you think of Stetson. sheepskin sweatbands. They It has lost all of its original shape, and it has Today the folks at Stetson don’t were well made, with blind faded, but it has gained a lot of character. A even have a block for the Boss chain stitching attaching the wool hat, if used hard in SASS, will look 20 of the Plains. When Knudsen years old in a year or so. This isn’t all bad. It sweatbands. The importance Hat Co. wanted to sell genuine looks right for a working cowboy or lawman. of this is the hat can be re - Stetson Boss of the Plains hats, built numerous times, but if a they had to order the hats un - sewing machine punches holes in blocked, and they finish block them the body, it can’t. They had wide in their store. Grosgrain ribbon hatbands with a X- Rated bow on the left side. Cowboys The Xs in the hatband did not quickly added leather hatbands for denote the percentage of beaver in adjustment for hot and cold and for the fur as is commonly believed. individuality. Originally they were aids to the They left the store with a flat sales people. A 5X hat made of nu - brim, but hat shaping began imme - tria fur sold for $5. A 100% beaver diately by accident. A hat that got marked 30X sold for $30. At one soaking wet would be soft, and the If you want your Boss of the Plains point they were all 100% beaver, crown acquired dents that dried in. brim to stay flat, one way to do it even 3X models, which sold for $3. The brim would curl with handling. is with a brim press. Cowboys made $20-$30 a month. But, unlike a wool hat, it would not collapse or disintegrate. Working cowboys quickly realized the impor - tance of the hat that held its shape and was waterproof. The wide flat brim might keep them from burn - ing up in the sun. It might be the only thing they had on them that would hold water. Soon Stetson’s logo included a drawing of a man watering his horse using his hat. (Do not try this at home with most modern machine made hats). That hat would never be in the shape it left the store again unless a skilled hatter with steam and perhaps blocks worked on it. So cowboy hats quickly became unique to the owner. They developed “character,” and characters wore them. A popular variant of the Boss of the Plains was the Prescott crown. Stetson= This one is in natural beaver with brown Grosgrain ribbon, edge binding, One cowboy, in his diary, men - and pencil rolled edge. Another museum quality hat by D Bar J.

tioned a young boy on his first cattle So a $5 hat was a major investment drive, showed up with a wool hat. for a cowboy, and a $30 beaver hat After a few days the hat had become was “suitable for a cattle king or a unusable, the brim having collapsed. bandit king,” as a Texas Ranger de - One of the experienced hands rode scribed John King Fisher’s brown with him into a nearby town, and beaver hat. “And he was both.” the young man bought a Stetson, It’s hard to go higher than and the problem was solved. 100%, so a well-made 100% beaver Another mentioned how he hat is the ultimate, no matter how A wool Boss of the Plains by avoided a fight. “I picked up my many Xs are embossed in the Knudsen Hats, ordered distressed. John B and left.” sweatband. Winchester, in Portu - It was brand new when Cowboys took to Stetsons. gal, is the only maker of cowboy hat photographed. Word of mouth from one cowboy to (Continued on page 48 ) VisiT us aT sassNeT .com Page 48 Cowboy Chronicle May 2011

Stetson 4 x 4 Boss of the Plains by Knudsen Hats after years of use. The hat was ordered distressed and gained more on the trail. It is a 4X Stetson. The double buckle hatband Dispatches From Camp Baylor . . . is by Lone Rider Leather (Continued from page 47 ) pieces of ply, and they could be tight - modeled after an 1870s bodies, and they sell them to all of ened down to hold it flat. This photograph and an 1895 the makers. Another company in wasn’t hard to make. I used the Montgomery Wards catalog ad. Portugal makes hat bodies for Eu - cardboard piece from a D Bar J hat - ropean hats using bodies Winches - box for the pattern for cutting the ter doesn’t consider suitable for hole out with a saber saw, then cowboy hats. So no one starts with sanded the edges smooth. I found a better hat body than a Winchester some ¼ " bolts, washers, and wing 100% beaver. It won’t be cheap. Of nuts and bolted the device together. Pure Beaver course, a lot of us can’t afford a It works. If your hat brim is flat, just 100X Charcoal 100% beaver hat. But you do get keep it in the jig. If it isn’t, steam 4 x 4 Boss of the what you pay for, so get the nicest the brim until it’s soft and pliable, Plains by you can. More Xs means more and put it in the jig so it will cool off D Bar J with Grosgrain beaver, less rabbit than a lower flat and keep the shape. Redo as ribbon and number of Xs from the same manu - needed. Your mileage may vary. bound edge. facturer at the same time period. My name is George, Keeping it flat and I’m a hataholic If you can keep your high qual - I live in a 40 ft. motor coach ity Boss of the Plains in its hatbox, (think bus), about 400 sq. feet. If I using the cardboard brim flatteners were smart, I would own one or two that came in it, it will probably stay hats for SASS matches. But I’m not. flat. If you hang it on the wall, it I own 19 hats. Five of them are Boss won’t. Getting the brim flat, and to of the Plains variants, ranging from stay flat, is sometimes difficult. wool to all beaver. The two pure The charcoal D Bar J David Johnson of D Bar J suggested beaver hats from D Bar J are mu - Boss of the Plains. I make a device to keep the hats flat seum quality. David measured my This is as close to an original Boss of the in a ½ " plywood bottom with a ¼ " head with a pre-war Millard head- Plains as you’ll get plywood top with an oval cut out so measuring device, and he built the outside of a museum. the hat could be put between the two hats to fit. And fit they do. He has

an outstanding collection of restored it wet and pick it up with four fin - pre-war hat building machines and gers, you can make a Montana tools and can do some things most Peak. It can become a pinch, or a custom hat shops can’t do. Carlsbad (Gus). One is a charcoal classic 4 " x 4 " One of the reasons hat styles with bound edge and Grosgrain rib - were regional was the fact the local bon hatband. Like the high quality hat stores had only so many blocks. hats of the 19 th century, their sweat - Eventually you could tell where a bands are sewn on by hand using a cowboy was from by the style of his blind stitch. When I put it on my hat. Texans needed taller crowns for head, it fit perfectly, as if I had been cooling, and wider brims. Montana wearing it for years. It’s charcoal cowboys needed lower crowns and because David said black was rare smaller brims because of the winds. in the Old West. Most cowboys But a lot of photographs of both bought natural hats, colors like groups show the majority of cowboys sand or silver belly depending on wearing Boss of the Plains hats. what part of the nutria or beaver The Boss of the Plains is a pop - was used. They didn’t want to pay ular hat in SASS. It is authentic for the extra dollar for dye. Those that any category except B-Western. It did learned quickly that the dyes of can be new, clean, and flat- the day faded to charcoal. brimmed, or it can look like Curly The other is a natural beaver Bill or in Tombstone or color. I wanted a bound, rolled edge, look like it’s been used as a pillow popular options at the time for all winter. The brim can be any - durability and shape keeping, and where between 3 " and 5 ". The David wanted to demonstrate a crown can be 4 " or taller. It is per - popular variation of the Boss of the fect for Classic Cowboy. It can be a Plains, the Prescott crown. A hat cheap wool that looks worn out in a store in Prescott, Arizona had a few months, or it can be 100% rounded (open crown) block. The beaver and last longer than you do. height of the block could be as low The most common cowboy hat in as 4 " or as high as 6-7 " using spac - Old West photos is the Boss of the ers. You can see the development of Plains. The most common hat in the modern cowboy hat starting the Old West was the derby. But with the Prescott crown. If you get that, as they say, is another story.

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horse DraWN roaD GraDer By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life #49907

ne thing I really enjoy doing is traveling around the country Oshooting at different Cowboy Action Shooting™ Clubs and seeing the 1800’s style machinery on display. I Cree Vicar Dave ~ wish I’d known about Cowboy Action SASS Life #49907 back in the nineteen seventies. I’m sure I could have gotten my dad inter - ested in our sport, as he loved talking about farming with horses, riding in a buggy, and driving an eight penny nail at twenty paces. Our club, The Sucker Creek Saddle & Gun Club, has a few glimpses of the past on display; a Logging J D Adams Road Grader Sled, a Covered Wagon undercarriage, and What really draws my enthusiasm is mised the grader is around 100 years other small odds and seeing a rusty relic of retrospect re - old. Three teams of horses pulled the ends that reflect the stored to its former glory. grader. There is a seat on the back of Adams Township Road Grader Monument spirit of bygone years. A while back I found out about one the grader for the operator and an as - such mechanical apparatus that was to - sortment of wheels, levers, and cranks tally restored and on display less than to adjust the machine. three miles from our spread, as the crow Hubert knew about the grader flies. In the courtyard of the Adams and talked to others in the township Township Hall, Arenac County, Michi - about restoring it. The grader was gan sits a Horse Drawn J.D. Adams cleaned up, rebuilt, and painted to look Leaning Road Grader, Model 31. From like new. Hubert applied the lettering, what I could find out, the company was and the manufacturer’s brass plate in business from around the turn of the was replaced. The money used to re - century to the mid 1960s. store the grader, build the pavilion, Back in the days when the grader and buy the life size composite horses was in use, there wasn’t much of a was all covered by the funds brought “Road Commission.” The people pooled into the township from the sale of their money to buy machinery, or the township property pine trees that townships that could afford it put up were planted by local residents years the cash to buy the tools required to ago. The total cost of the restoration maintain their roads. Then, those who was around $8,000. Hubert refers to had the means to operate the equip - it as a “Piece of History.” It is quite a ment took care of the roads in exchange Monument to the heritage of Adams for paying their taxes. In Matthew Township, a tangible history lesson for 22:19-21 (KJV) Jesus says: “19 “Shew me the youth of today. the tribute money. And they brought When one thinks about all the unto him a penny. 20 And he saith unto unique antiques that have been carted them, Whose is this image and super - to the scrap yard of late, it’s good to scription? 21 They say unto him, Cae - know some people have the foresight sar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render and fortitude to save a great piece of therefore unto Caesar the things which history and display it for all to see. I are Caesar’s; and unto God the things thank the Adams Township Board, that are God’s .” The grader was there - everyone who worked on this project, fore a symbol of limited government, as and all the like-minded people of our Founding Fathers intended, a sym - Adams Township for erecting this great bol of freedom and/or self-government. Monument. It is truly a beautiful sight Recently I talked to Hubert Fisk to behold. who was instrumental in bringing this The Adams Township Hall is lo - antique back to life. He said his older cated at: brother, Chet Fisk, who is 90 years old, 6600 West Sterling Road remembers seeing the grader in use Sterling MI 48659 when he was a boy of five. So, he sur - [email protected]

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casTiN G BuLLeT s Blackthorne Billy, SASS #74914 For Those ost of my Cowboy pards shoot not only the low ve - Mlocity loads mandated by SASS regulations, but it seems SOME of them own a few of the “Othe r”Rifles more modern, high-power rifles. In today’s economy, the cost of com - By Blackthorne Billy, SASS #74914 mercial jacketed bullets is becom - ing prohibitive, and many Cowboys Smooth-Bores, and go all over the I hoped for. want to do lots of shooting with the place, especially over 100 yards. The Internet is the best inven - .308, .30-06, .35 Remington, and Those “Old-Timey” firearms en - tion since sliced bread or peanut even those dang “Maggies” of super gineers in the late 1800s recognized butter. Clicking and clicking power. Then, there’s the stiff loads the problem with lead bullets and around, I finally found Roto Metals for .45-70 and the Big 50’s that are designed the “Ballard” rifling, which Corporation (http://www.rotomet chambered in reproductions of orig - is deeper than today’s modern high- als.com/Bullet-Casting-Alloys- inal falling block 1885s and lever power rifles. The lands dug deeply s/5.htm) that offers all kinds of action 1886s, and 1895 Winchesters into the bullets and made them spin grades of bullet casting alloys, as and Marlins. sufficiently to stabilize them after well as pure lead, pure tin, and The problem jumps up when ve - leaving the barrel. Way back, com - other “stuff.” They have ingots of locities get upwards of the 1200 to petitions with .45-70s and like car - Number 2 Lyman alloy, Linotype, 1500 FPS range that were common tridges were commonly used for hardball alloy, and their “Super- using the dirty blackpowder. With 1000-yard competitions. Try shoot - Hard” alloy, formulated to be commercial jacketed bullets for ing a Number 2 Lyman alloy in a blended with pure lead or wheel these zippers running up to a half a modern rifle at 200 or more yards at weights to cast very hard bullets. buck each, it doesn’t take long to go 2000 FPS. It ain’t gittin it done! (Ordering 100 pounds+ of product through $25 and more at the range. The solution is to make harder comes freight-paid) So, most of my pards turn to casting bullets. Much harder. And, make For my “Safari” gun, I ordered a their own bullets, using moulds dawgonned sure to size them one or quantity of straight Linotype, and from Lyman, RCBS, Lee, and other one and a half thousandths OVER ran a hundred bullets through my suppliers. bore size. (Read the bullet casting Lyman mould. I used the Corbin Some of the recommended al - manuals!) And, make sure to use a HCT-2 tool mentioned in a previous loys of lead, hardened with tin and very good lube, such as one with article, and my own recipe Moly antimony, such as the common lots of Moly in it. (Lyman sells lube, sizing them exactly .001” Lyman Number 2 alloy, work very “Super Moly” lube.) Keep in mind OVER the groove diameter of the well at the lower velocities. Then, even the hardest lead alloy bullets barrel (You need to “slug” the barrel using reloading manuals touting are softer than Gilding metal, and with a pure lead ball and “Mic” it to maximum velocities, gee, the barrels barrel wear is non-existent. You get this reading) tend to lead up, and accuracy goes won’t “Shoot Out” a barrel with The following session at the to Hell and gone. Imagine that! lead alloy bullets! club range was pleasing. Out to 100 The problem is so-called “Mod - Several months ago, I bought a yards, the 300-grain bullets printed ern” rifles use very shallow rifling, Remington bolt action chambered nice 1.25 inch groups. There were engineered toward Gilding Metal in .375 H&H Magnum. Yeah, I no “flyers.” There was no leading of jacketed bullets. Poke a much know, I ain’t going to Africa on Sa - the barrel upon cleaning. And, I can softer lead alloy down the spout, fari. The price was right, and I just shoot that beast all day long for $5 and accuracy is dismal. I’ve seen LOVE big boomers. My first event worth of my hard-cast loads! “keyholes” in the paper from bullets at the St. Joseph County Conserva - Shooting 1200 to 1400 FPS at tumbling once they get airborne. tion Club range in Sturgis, MI was the Cowboy range is fun, and doesn’t The thing is, when you blast a terrible. Starting at 75 yards, I knock you silly. Trying to have fun soft lead alloy bullet into the shal - couldn’t get on paper. At 50 yards, AND save money shooting takes low lands and grooves of modern ri - bullet holes were all over the map. “Roll Your Own” bullets. To make fles, they tend to SKID as they I quit. After looking into informa - sure you get it right and keep accu - enter the rifling. Along the transit tion about cast bullets, it hit me— racy in the 10X, make those bullets through the barrel, they can lose my new rifle wouldn’t work well harder, size them correctly for your grip on the rifling and become no with softer cast #2 Alloy Lyman rifle, and use a high quality lube. better than those old 1700s lead bullets at the 1700 to 2000 FPS [email protected]

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coWB oy carPeNT ry By Knot Werkin, SASS #82307

t the end of the 2010 structing some new tables. Once we shooting season, Nomore got the okay for a grubstake from Slim, beloved and revered our generous and lovely banker, Aleader of the Pleasant Val - Lizzy of the Valley, it was time to get ley Renegades (also TG for the a move on. Being retired, hence, not rolling hills in this part of Indiana) workin’, I had the time. remarked it was probably time to (Not to digress too far, but did replace our loading and unloading you ever hear of a cowboy who tables. In a former life, the current didn’t work for a living? Even rob - tables had been electric cable reels. bers, thieves, and gunslingers had a After several years of constant ex - job at one time or other. To take this posure to sun, rain, wind, errant #8 a step further, did cowboys, back in shot, and such, most of the tables the day, retire? Once a cowboy were getting a tad shaky, at best. reached 65 (or 70 or 75, and assum - Although an older coot and still ing he reached that ripe age), he Upper frame (unloading table). fairly new at this game, I learned was still a cowboy and had to fend Open portion on right will be Bottom (or skirt) frame, early on what it means to “ride for for himself unless he had had the the “corral” area for the unloading table the brand,” so I offered whatever wherewithal to build a sizeable nest unloading officer. skills I had to try my hand at con - egg over the years.)

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I’ll tell you right off, I’m not a car - penter, builder, cabinet maker, a Tom Silva, or a Norm of This Old House fame, nor have I even had “shop” in high school. However, I am a cobbler. But, and let me make this perfectly clear, not a cobbler like in This Olde Shoe. What I can do is ‘cobble’ to - gether most anything that I need. Would it meet stringent specs? Prob - ably not, but then again, ‘close enough for government work’ is a good credo to follow. Probably my most famous cobbled work consisted of three stone Loading table with legs attached to upper and lower retaining walls my wife, Annie Dan, frames. Lower frame is 3 ½ " from the ground SASS #82308, and I built at a former (width of a 2x4). Note the “corral” area for the Loading table with top slats residence. Total cost of the project was loading officer is on the left (but would be (5/4-6, 26 " in length) attached. around $108,000. Before you get im - on the right for an unloading table). pressed by the numbers or annoyed by the perceived bragging, the walls were $2000; later on, but the loading table is about one foot lumber) and one’s sense of what looks good. the remainder of the cash went to the neurosur - longer than the unloading table. This allows Getting all posse members to agree to a partic - geon, hospital, and physical therapists to rehab two cowpokes to load simultaneously. Unless ular look might not be that easy, but then again, my lower spine! Regardless, I still cobble, but folks are shooting in pairs, I don’t know that most cowboys would rather just shoot and eat not on such a grandiose scale. more than one person would ever be unloading (in that order) than design. Besides, when it’s All that having been said, I’m sure the real at a given time, thus the shorter length for that built, it’s built, so deal with it! carpenters out there will see some flaw or a bet - table. The “corral” is built such that the table For the Pleasant Valley setup, the loading ta - ter way of construction on this project. Any im - officer has an official spot in which to stand or bles are 64 " long; the unloading tables 54 " in provement or suggestion is appreciated. The sit (albeit sitting on the rails, much like in a cor - length. To allow for ingress/egress of the load - neat thing about this project (and, I suppose, cow - ral setting). ing/unloading officer, the upper ‘open’ frame of boy carpentry, in general) is there are no city or Design is pretty simple—two frames, six legs, the loading table is cut to 40 " and the upper state building codes to follow. The frustrating and a top. As noted earlier, the loading table frame of the unloading table is cut to 30 inches thing, too, is there are no city or state building length is longer than the unloading table. To (this allows for a “living space” of around 16 " in codes to follow. I checked the SASS Members’ keep things simple, though, there’s nothing to width x 24 " in length). The cross members of Only page and the SASS Wire for a plan, but to say both tables couldn’t be the same size. Your both tables are 16 ", which gives an overall frame no avail. I also tried a general Internet search budget could be the deciding factor here. The width of 19 " (to the uninitiated, the width of a for “loading table” and did find stuff for building frames/legs are cut from pressure treated (PT) 2x4 is not 2 ", but 1½ ", so 1½ + 1½ + 16 = 19 "). a re-loading table, but nothing else. 2x4s. The top is 5/4-6 PT deck lumber (1x6 could The legs are 34 ". This is a tad higher than what From past issues of The Cowboy Chronicle , I re - also be used, but the price of the 5/4-6 at the big is found in the home, but the extra height (also membered the one guy who seemed to have built box where I shop was the same as a 1x6 and, in add in the thickness of the top boards) should ac - almost everything cowboy-related was Cree Vicar the end, looked better). The six legs attach to the commodate for boots, gravel, and/or a boardwalk. Dave. After an e-mail or two, the Vicar (with help two frames (an upper frame and a lower frame). Note I have been using the terms “frame from his Mrs.) forwarded an article he had writ - The top frame is open on one end for occupancy width” or “frame length.” This references the ten for The Cowboy Chronicle on this very subject. by the table officer. The pictures should better basic structure, i.e., the base to which the top is Online at SASS, I found the article and, of equal clarify this feature. attached. The ‘top’ consists of 5/4-6 (five quarter importance, pictures. (Through the e-mails, I The 5/4-6 is cut into slats that act as the top. lumber, 6 inches wide) cut 26 inches in length. also learned the good Reverend was not holed up I tried to space these less than ¼ " apart to accom - I guess a word needs to be said here about in the wintry confines of Sucker Creek but, at the modate Buckaroos loading .22s so their ammo safety when dealing with PT lumber. As a time, was basking at a sultry hideout in Texas. won’t disappear through the cracks (although starter, check with your distributor or on the In - And, if I didn’t express it before, thanks, Vicar, for that shouldn’t be a problem anyway since most ternet about the chemicals used to treat PT lum - your help.) loading tables are covered by a rug, canvas, or ber. If you’re allergic to any of these components, The Vicar’s loading/unloading table design whatnot). Most of the PT 2x4s I used had at least have someone else build the tables. When cut - wasn’t quite in line with the stage style used at one good side (these were cheaper than ‘appear - ting the pieces to size, it might not be a bad idea the Pleasant Valley Renegades’ camp, but I ance’ boards). Remember, these things are going to wear a dust mask (that probably would be true thought the seating feature in his plan was a to be outside forever, and the top will usually be when cutting any wood in volume), or even a res - most commendable idea. With that in mind, I covered with a rug during a shoot. But, how pirator if you have a respiratory condition. Like laid out several ‘stickman’–type drawings that purdy your table looks is up to you. most everythin’ else, it does come down to com - included an ‘open’ area (or corral) for the load - Dimensions are arbitrary and would seem to mon sense and, if you lack that, you shouldn’t be ing/unloading officer. 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Cowboy Carpentry . . . broken or blasted part. Should a leg crack or a slat be broken, it’s a (Continued from page 57 ) simple matter to unscrew the old, shootin’ in the first place. screw on the new. But, if a piece Also, PT lumber may not be has also been glued in place, it ain’t your thing. Obviously, any outdoor a’goin’ nowhere without a fuss, a rated wood from cypress to cedar fight, and a mess. could also be used. And, although If you want to fancy up your not very cowboy-like, I suppose table rig, there are two accessories Trex or some other synthetic would that can be built from leftover also serve the purpose. Granite pieces. For starters, on those bru - also comes to mind, but then, I tally hot summer days or when guess, that might be over the top! shelter is desired from rain, what I might mention all of the ta - unloading or loading table officer bles at Pleasant Valley needed to be wouldn’t appreciate an umbrella? replaced. With six stages, that To accessorize your table, add an meant 12 tables. As all woodwork - umbrella standoff. This is merely ers know, repetitive and consistent two pieces of 2x4 or 5/4-6 cut to a cuts can be a real challenge free - length that will ‘stand proud’ of the hand, even when using a circular frame/table slats. These can also be saw. This is where a miter saw and cut into a shape of your whim just stand come in mighty handy. For so long as it’s stable enough to hold just one or two tables, you can get Rug holder thingies. the umbrella shaft. The ones I cut by with a handheld power saw. are in the shape of a roundnose bul - However, if you’re going to need good ole days, cowboys were most makings of the screw had been let and have a 7/8 " diameter piles of cut wood, a miter saw and familiar with a good nailin’. It was around for a long time before cow - through hole in the top piece and a jig for length will save time in both cheap and quick. A good screw, boys, but just weren’t that popular 7/8 " hole drilled partially in the setup and sawing. however, was difficult to find, cost in everyday use. The tables can be bottom piece (the shaft would fall How to put all of this wood to - money, and could only be had under assembled more quickly with nail - through, otherwise). To complete gether is a matter of choice. In the the best of circumstances. The ing, especially using a power nail the bottom piece, a through hole gun. I relied on star drive screws smaller than 7/8 " is necessary for rated for PT lumber and used a drainage. (BTW, a good source for power screwdriver. Wanting to a cheap umbrella with a 7/8 " diam - avoid splitting the wood, I also eter shaft is Big Lots). predrilled. It takes a little extra What else could possibly be time/effort, but if you have a ten - made to make life easier at the dency to go absolutely berserk when loading or unloading table? Well, wood splits on you, I’d recommend what about a pair of rug hold- predrilling. If you want to cost out downs for each table? I’m sure for screws, each of the tables in this most cowboy camps don’t leave article required just shy of a pound their rugs out yearlong, and it’s just of 2 ½ " deck screws. (Lesson: if one of those rituals when setting up you’re building a bunch, buy screws for a shoot to also lay out the rugs. in 5 lb. or more bulk packs.) Well, if the rugs have a tendency to Note I have not mentioned glue. ‘scootch’ or blow off in windy condi - Even though glue rated for out - tions, the hold-down is just a sim - doors might work well for this proj - ple device to prevent that. It’s cut ect, the use of glue eliminates the almost like an old-fashioned possibility of ‘cleanly’ replacing a clothespin (but larger) where the

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gap between the prongs is greater than the thickness of the slat, but will just about accommodate the pile of the rug being used. A good rap with the hand will hold them in place. (Or you could just buy a bunch of spring clamps that will do the same thing. But, using scrap pieces to make the hold-downs is a ‘green’ way to go.) Well, for what it’s worth, there you have it. This was a nice winter project. I would have otherwise been makin’ bullets all that time and, even with a single stage Lee, would probably have made enough for a nice size , not that there’s anything wrong with that. So, for any cowpokes out there needin’ an idea on how to cobble together a loading table or two, hope this helps. And, keep ridin’ for the brand … (Nice job and well thought-out! Two styles of umbrella standoff. Umbrella standoff attached below seat However, I would recommend the This is one way to use leftover lumber. for loading officer. unloading table be at least as long as the loading table. In my experi - ence one often sees an unloader managed such a wonderful, ‘clean’ fending firearm can be safely un - charge their revolvers for the next “lolly-gagging” at the unloading stage! Also if someone has a gun loaded and/or bought back to life. stage. There’s often LOTS of activ - table trying to explain his one or problem, they will take up residence Similarly, the percussion folks will ity around most unloading tables! more misses, or, if he’s lucky, how he on the unloading table until the of - often use the unloading table to … Editor in Chief)

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Confessions and RAMBLINgS of a HALF FAST SHOOTER ~ Stage Writing ~ By Rosebrook Kid, SASS #74349 Edited by K-9 Cocker Cookie, Gunn Dawg Scamper, and Emma Holly Shooter

o paraphrase someone a home in northern Mississippi has had my hat hanging in a dozen whole lot smarter and our future home in North of these great United States and T(maybe crookeder) than I Carolina. Our current home several of her territories. will ever be: “You can please was more or less thrust upon What’s this got to do with stage some of the people some of the us by her employer transfer - writing? All this running around time, other people none of the ring her job to Memphis. For has given me the privilege of either time, and nobody all of the me, I was retiring from my po - shooting with or visiting a bunch of time.” Or something like that. lice department, and the fine Cowboy outfits. And you know This is especially true Coast Guard Reserve had what, each bunch does it a little bit when writing stages for our gainful employment for me, different than others. Even clubs wonderful sport of SASS Cow - also in the Memphis area. that are affiliated with one an - boy Action Shooting™. Moving to Kan na polis, NC is other and often share membership My wife and I are experi - a return to her childhood rosters each do it a bit different. encing the mixed blessing of home. For me it is, hopefully, You get to see a lot of different living between our current the last stop on a trail that The editors! ways of enjoying our sport.

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If you shoot often enough with END of TRAIL or something or one club, sooner or later a pattern other, he’d have shot better at this appears: you shoot the same stages or that stage. Then, someone else with minor tweaks over and over. said they were like something Why, you may ask? (Please ask why, they had shot over at so and so. pretty please.) Maybe it is the same Now, after several more expo - club member who, month after sures to stages from off yonder, month, steps up to write the stages, folks are getting used to different, again and again, and he or she just and many do seem to like it. More runs out of new ideas. Or maybe it than one pard has told me: is the same group showing up on “There’s nothing wrong with Friday evening or Sunday morning, them, they are just different.” No - to set targets and nobody has put body says anything about boring. anything together, and they set ‘em More importantly, other folks up in the usual familiar and com - are making attempts at writing fortable way so there is something stages. Several times two or three to shoot. Or maybe it’s the way the pards teamed up to write a couple club has gotten used to doing things of stages each. And they got their and wants them that way. share of teasing and “What were It gets kinda boring, don’t it? you drinking when you wrote Sooner or later somebody will say: this?” Or did that so-and-so half “This again,” or something similar fast shooter put you up to this? (or not as nice). And, he or she It was sorta’ summed up at who wrote the stages or set the one recent shoot when the line targets will say: “If you don’t like read: “You’ve gotta have a thick it, come out and help, or, better skin to write stages for this yet, write some stages.” crowd!” ‘Nuf said. I admit I was one of those I put this rambling together gripers who didn’t write and re - after about a dozen, that’s right a ally did not have a dog in that dozen, Mississippi River Rangers hunt. So, I wrote a set of stages. had just come off the range setting It really was not as easy as I targets for our January shoot. You thought it would be. Our club can see from the photos that we safety officer had to make more still had snow a week after it Holster and Belt $425 than a couple of changes so that stopped coming down. Remember, 2 Holsters and Belt $585 one posse was not shooting the we are in Mississippi, you know, in back of another posse’s targets the South, and had 6 to 10 inches (just kidding). Enough folks liked of the white stuff. Our them that I didn’t get lynched. I forecast/best guess for next Satur - wrote some more stages and did day is clear, sunny, and maybe mid not get lynched that time, either. to upper 40’s. Balmy! Holster and Belt $190 Well, I wrote some stages I Oh, well, a couple of years ago 2 Holsters and Belt $265 plagiarized from a couple of Car - (back in those bygone days before olina clubs, and it was a good iPhones and DROIDS), twenty thing the motorized gun cart was some MRR Cowboys and Cowgirls parked facing off the range: whoo- shot in SNEET (a mix of snow/ ee, those stages were really differ - sleet/fog that made white painted ent, and a couple of shooters used targets a bit difficult to see, let to the usual way of doing things alone shoot. The temperature was got a couple of P’s. The tar bucket 26 degrees (up from the teens), Holster and Belt $155 was on the campfire and some - and we had a blast! Our story and 2 Holsters and Belt $225 body was hunting feathers. Then, picture even made the pages of one of the better shooters said he this good old Cowboy Chronicle! wished he’d shot these stages be - That folks, is what puts the fore he went to Mule Camp or SPIRIT in our game!

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mouNTeD shooTiNG Florida State Championship Hosted by the SASS FLORIDA OUTLAWS Mounted Shooting Club Submitted by Lone Wolf McCrary, SASS #37932, and Sassparilla Sundance, SASS #73445

ewberry, FL – Sixty of against each other in a six-stage Florida’s best cowboy match that guaranteed mega- Mounted Shooters from horsepower excitement, heart Nall over the State of pounding competition, and extreme Florida converged on the Canter - horsemanship. Riders from as far bury Showplace Arena in New - as the Florida Panhandle to south berry, Florida on November 20 th Florida, including several riders and 21 st to battle it out with blazing from the Bay Area Bandits, the six-guns and high performance newest SASS Mounted Shooting horses during the Florida Mounted Club in Florida, came to compete Shooting State Championship. for the championship buckle. Bare - Hosted by The Florida Out - back Johnny, a champion bronc laws, the at Pilgram’s rider from Brazil was also there to Pass State Championship match challenge us all. pit Florida’s best Mounted Shooters The weekend started off with a Friday night potluck dinner where Florida Gunrunner showed off his cooking skills with four deep fried turkeys. Everyone else brought an assortment of wonderful covered dishes and all enjoyed a feast. While enjoying an evening of great Black Death, SASS #11129, was crowned the Florida State food, music, and fellowship, dona - Mounted Shooting Champion. Congratulations! tions and dares were shared to help raise money for one of our members off to a good start. At the conclu - Outlaw’s Grand Entry, then you are whose husband is in dire need of an sion of the prayer, the riders fol - missing something really special. organ transplant. The dares con - lowed the American Flag out of the Three stages and the rifle com - sisted of an array of challenges and arena inspired and ready to shoot. petition were scheduled for Satur - clothing adornment to be worn dur - If you have never seen a Florida day. After the three stages were ing the match, most of completed, the rifle competition which added comedy relief started with 12 competitors, two to the competition. of which were ladies. The arena Saturday morning was surrounded by competitors started with all the normal and spectators cheering for one pre-match sounds and another throughout the entire nervousness for what the day. All breeds of horses and day held in store. It looked mules competed in the match, like we had stepped back making the competition even in time to the 1800’s with more personal for Muleskinner 57 cowboys and cowgirls Carol who designs and creates and three Buckaroos all many of her outfits and riding dressed to win the coveted accessories. In addition to Sadie “Best Dressed Award.” Mae, Mule Skinner Carol’s Mule, After the safety meeting, there were Paso Finos, Arabians, the competitors followed Foxtrotters, Morgans, Quarter the American Flag carried Horses, Paints, Thoroughbreds, by Panhandle Slim into Standardbreds and more, all try - the arena to the sound of ing to outrun each other. Times America The Beautiful for were fast and competition fierce. the Grand Entry. Chinks The Top Overall Florida Lady competitor, At the end of the day and sang the National Anthem riding with her signature pink accoutrements, after our equine partners were and Lawdawg gave an in - was Pinky Amanda, SASS #78220. fed and cared for, our annual Outstanding! spirational prayer to get us (Continued on next page)

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awards banquet got underway with was voted Most Improved, and up, more jumps, moving targets, All in all, it was a great Florida members sporting their “Saturday Bareback Johnny received the props, gates and our famous flying weekend filled with family, fellow - night going to Town” outfits. A deli - Best Sportsmanship award while balloon. Nineteen competitors ship and fun along with great com - cious catered dinner of chicken and Chinks’s horse Spanky won the gave it a try with everyone having petition! For more information rice, baked ziti, salad, bread, tea and Performance Horse award. a lot of fun. about the SASS Florida Outlaws dessert was served to 107 shooters Dakota Darcy’s horse, Jesse, was As soon as everyone tacked Mounted Shooting Club or to view and family members. Everyone voted Horse Ambassador for help - down and took care of their horses, our monthly match calendar, visit commented on how great the food ing many new shooters get we headed off to the awards cere - our website at: tasted, and it was so plentiful that started. In addition to the awards mony to see who the top honors for gallopingguns.com. many went back for seconds and ceremony, the new Florida Out - the match would go to. As shooters You may also contact: thirds. Following the dinner all the laws Board of Directors was assembled, many raffle prizes and Loco Shooter at 352-303-0193 or annual awards were given out to elected. The evening ended with great giveaways were passed out . Rocky Rider at 352-262-0494. well deserving recipients, including everyone having a great time and the prestigious Cowboy Way Award looking forward to another day of presented by Morning Star Min - fast shooting and fellowship, all in istry. This year’s recipient was JR the Spirit of the Game. Denton, a Florida Outlaw non- Sunday started bright and shooter who has gone above and be - early with Cowboy Church where yond in serving our Club. Lawdawg blessed us with some Year-end awards were pre - very moving and thoughtful words sented featuring our Highpoint from the Gospel before we started Overall Men’s winner, Bareback the final three stages of the match. Johnny, and the Highpoint Ladies Once we completed the main Overall was presented to both Two match, shooters tested their skills Gun Gina and Outlaw Granny who with our infamous Xtreme Chal - were tied when the final points lenge. The Xtreme Challenge was were tallied. Florida Painted Lady full of jumps, cavilettis, backing

Winners Buckaroos Wild West Will, Overall State Champions Giddyup Grace, Man Black Death, SASS #86492 SASS #11129 L Div 1 Ms Rattler, SASS #86544 Lady Pinky Amanda, L Div 2 Tink, SASS #87660 SASS #78220 L Div 3 Yellow Wolf, SASS #77929 Division Champions L Div Outlaw Granny, Div 1 Buddy Ringo, SASS #73200 SASS #90142 L Div 5 Pinky Amanda, Div 2 Lone Dutchman, SASS #78220 SASS #79474 L Senior 1 Gunslingin’ Granny, Div 3 Jack Jackson, SASS #79334 SASS #86607 L Senior 2 Smokies Shootin Mama, Div 4 Bareback Johnny, SASS #79441 SASS #86490 L Senior 3 Muleskinner Carol , Div 5 Black Death, SASS #79617 SASS #11129 Side Matches Senior 1 Lasso Vaquero, Rifle SASS #90319 Man Chinks, SASS #40727 Senior 2 Paso Kid, Lady Outlaw Granny, SASS #83426 SASS #73200 Senior 3 Grumpy Gunslinger, Extreme Challenge SASS #62528 Man Chinks, SASS #40727 Lady Pinky Amanda, SASS #78220

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SASS ARIZONA sTaTe mouNTeD chamPioNshiP December 11-12, 2010 By Dan Nabbit, SASS #5537

considered an Ol’ West epic. They Stage.” Cowboy preacher/rancher/ All Around good job!!! led their good sized posse into poet extraordinaire, the Pastor Steve Sunday morning dawned to greet Dan Nabbit, SASS #5537 Tombstone, from the Livery of the Lindsey, conducted the ceremony, another glorious day of mid-70’s same name, to the amazement of which concluded with the audience weather. Two final Stages were run ombstone, AZ – MORE FUN the locals and tourists alike. standing and an ovation of guns a followed by our “infamous Pony Ex - TTHAN A BIG OL’ STOCK Dressed to the “NINES” we rode blazing, perforating the atmosphere. press” team match. Judging by the TANK IN JULY!!!!! past all the Historic Landmarks for Blanks of course. hoots and hollers, I’d say this may That is what the WED’N and which Tombstone is known. In front Saturday morning back at the have been the perfect way to conclude SASS Arizona State Championship of the Bird Cage Theatre Brian Livery the popular SASS courses a “mighty fine” event. The awards match turned out to be! Everyone Bausch, SASS #72150, even rode were set. Horsemanship is re - ceremony was conducted by our very departed Sunday afternoon for Roman Style on his two horses to the quired, and we have to think! own “Comedy Central” escapee and their respective haciendas with “shock and awe” of everyone. Kinda hard for me, but I got to range master, Snake Bite Annie, that giddy little tingle in their Tequila Terri, SASS #60273, rode all watch my wife, Latigo Lulu, SASS SASS #75608. Most of the winners stomachs that always indicates fun the way in her stunning lavender #63690, ran before me, and I just were properly recognized and embar - and hilarity has recently been satin Victorian gown complete with followed her example, best I could. rassed. This was expected and fun, there. Kinda sad to leave such a a parasol. Our mounts found refuge Four awesome courses were set by fun, fun!!! Carole Dodson was a dou - event. Well, that is what the next tied safely inside the “Helldorado our “temporarily horseless” stage ble winner taking the Ladies Over All one is for! The WED’N betwixt Town” arena and the “fair and im - manager, Dakota Inkster. He is a Title and the gun supplied by Ruger. Dave (July Johnson, SASS #107) partial hitch’n” was perpetrated in master at providing fiendishly fun Thanks Ruger! The local merchants and Susan Anderson might well be their nearby “Gun Fight Town/ stages! Shotguns appeared after in Tombstone supplied many gift cer - the fourth stage for an exhibition tificates, which were awarded Satur - run. Chispa showed me how it’s day during the match. Bronco done stating, “Gee I’ve never done Trading, Madame Mustache, Red this before!” Sheeeeesh, girls! She Buffalo, Geno DeAmbrose, and Lin - then proceeded to the “Live ammo” das Books Store/Saddle shop, Tomb - All Around competition for her first stone Mercantile, Helldorado Town, try at this, too. Results were pre - Tombstone Livery’s generosity knows dictable. She excelled again! no limits! Thank you all! The Tombstone Ghost Riders The complete results can be sister club ran this two-stage side found on the Tombstone Ghost Rid - match for about a dozen of us, and ers website. we are grateful to Wily Yankee, I cannot close without mention - SASS #63066, and crew for their ing our overall match winner, Buck time! The All Around Cowboy win - Doff, SASS #64494, and his per - ner was Cowboy Doug, SASS formance horse winner, Chisps! Fi - #60272, and the All Around Cowgirl nally, a big thank you to Toco and was Mustang Momma, SASS his amazing Outlaw Blanks! If’en #64495, after all six mounted stages you’re a-shootin’ blanks, think Tuco! were added to the two action stages. Salute and Vya con Dios, ya’ll.

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From Tender Foot to President An Email Interview with English Lyn

Palaver Pete, By Palaver Pete, SASS Life/Regulator #4375 SASS Life/Regulator #4375

y name is Lyn Galpin, “Well, you are doing just fine; pened upon a Cowboy Shoot, and AKA English Lyn, SASS however, I do have a quick question the fire was lit. Yes indeed, I was in M#74828. I grew up in for you, amidst all that activity, how the land of the free and could buy “Dorset, England admiring your did you manage to catch a Tiger by guns again!” American Western Heroes. I came the tail?” “Thanks for saying that. We all the way from England to Albu - “It wasn’t so much ‘a catch’ as it who have lived here all our lives querque, New Mexico to marry was an engineering feat. I rode into often forget that—we just take it Terri, the woman I love. She’s now town on a silver horse with the dou - for granted. Sorry to interrupt, a Cowboy Action Shooting™ cham - ble AA Brand, and swept her off her please continue.” pion better known as Texas Tiger, feet. It is said a good woman will “Your welcome. Okay, now SASS #74829, but I’m getting ahead draw you further than dynamite where was I?” of myself here. I’m a Mechanical will blow you, and I was drawn to “I think you were on a silver Engineer by profession and worked Albuquerque five years ago, swept horse.” in support of the Royal Navy until that girl up, and married her. Al - “Right, sweeping her off her my early retirement. I met Tiger on most immediately we took to Cow - feet. Okay, got it, I’m back on track. a business trip to the East Coast Don’t mess with the one in stripes. boy Action Shooting™. I had read Terri (Tiger that is) had not fired nearly seven years ago, although Actually, it’s best not to mess with an article about Evil Roy some handguns before. Her only shoot - she had no idea she would become a either one! Texas Tiger and English years before while in England, so ing experience up to that time was Tiger. How am I doing so far?” Lyn at Comin’ At ‘Cha, 2010. on a trip to the local range we hap - (Continued on next page)

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(Continued from previous page) not talk about what she does, and some upland bird hunting, so to en - I don’t ask! When you mix a com - courage her, we purchased some .22 petitive, red-headed Texan with revolvers and a .22 rifle. About Cowboy Action Shooting™, it is a that same time we discovered the bit like Alchemy — you know Rio Grande Renegades SASS Club something is going to happen but and joined. you are not sure what! Terri was still a little apprehen - Well, that ‘what’ turned out to sive, so quiet range practice with be Tiger winning the Lady Wran - the .22’s took place. Well, after the gler category at END of TRAIL third practice session, I was asked last year, as well as winning the ‘can I grow up now?’ — .38’s were Sweet Sixteen Shoot-off. Addition - purchased shortly thereafter! ally, after much hard work and Since joining the Renegades four practice, Tiger has also won the years ago, I have risen from tender - title of Lady Wrangler Champion foot Englishman to Club President! of the State of New Mexico this I guess when volunteers are asked year. Naturally I was very proud to step forward, I’m the one who of her and somewhat confused stands still while everyone else when she announced she needed a Having won the Lady Wrangler category at END of TRAIL last year, takes one step backwards!” Dillon. A little puzzled, I asked Texas Tiger is shown on her way to winning the Sweet Sixteen Shoot-Off. “Well, English Lyn, I think why? ‘So you can load my ammo your election to Club President re - faster,’ was her reply.” Bunch, I knew we had really be - English Lyn is not only elo - veals the collective wisdom of the “Lyn, I see your wife is as crafty come soul mates, playmates, and a quent in his speech and presenta - members of the Rio Grande Rene - as she is smart.” team when after the first two Wild tion, he is also a top-notch gades. Seems like they recognized “Yes, indeed she is. We have Bunch matches the Tiger looked me competitor. While he gives great a devoted leader and dedicated progressed over the last four years, lovingly in the eyes and said, ‘You credit to his lovely wife, he, himself, SASS couple, don’t cha’ think?” traveling and meeting new friends, need another Dillon!’ is a damned good competitor and “I sure hope so. We’ll see about although I find the vastness of this I could go on about our adven - currently Senior Champion, State that ‘collective wisdom’ at our next country still a challenge. When we tures in Cowboy Action Shoot - of New Mexico. Warning: don’t let club election, which is coming up drove to Comin’ at ‘Cha ( the SASS ing™, but I guess this will do. Use the accent fool you! soon. In the interim, let me tell Southwest Regional in English, what you want, Pete, and let us Thank you, English Lyn and you a bit about Tiger. She works Texas) last November that was the know if we can be of any help in Texas Tiger—incidentally, since you for the Sandia National Labora - furthest I have ever driven in my furthering our sport. Just give us now have a Dillon 650 bolted to tory, apart from having degrees up life without crossing salt water. a holler and be sure to find our your workbench, do you think you the ‘ying yang’ in Mathematics Now that the Tiger has taken hitching post when you next head can load a few 38 Specials for me? and Computer Science, she does up the challenge of shooting Wild for Founder’s Ranch.” You’re a Daisy if Ya do.

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TaLes of oLD caLiforNia The 1850s – California’s Wild West THE STORY OF RICARDO URIVES Col. Richard Dodge, SASS #1750

would to the Native Americans. ous and massive consumption of hind and from both flanks. He was The events of the are liquor, no matter how foul, served only shot, cut, and clubbed. His clothes well known and have been told and to grease the administration of jus - were almost ripped from his bleeding retold many times over. It can be tice. Murders and hangings—not nec - body. With revolver and Bowie knife, Col. Richard Dodge, surmised that a great majority of the essarily related—were almost daily he fought his way, roaring defiance SASS #1750 gold seekers were cut from the affairs. During this decade, Los Ange - the length of that street of hellholes rougher cloth of society, the type of les boasted the highest murder rate of to where his horse was hitched. y the time of America’s men who sought easy riches and any city in history to this very day. Calmly mounting the startled “Wild West” of the 1870s were willing to do whatever it took to Into the previously genteel world beast, hatless and bleeding from at and 1880s, California was that end. Their misdeeds, both foul of the Californios this obscenity de - least a score of wounds, he quietly re - Balready settled down, but and pathetic, live on in legends of scended uninvited and unwelcome. garded the mob, now somewhat sub - the Golden State did have it own that mindless, fruitless search. In short time its atrocities began to dued by the presence of several Wild West in its first decade of state - Some of these scoundrels were so affect even the most upstanding of bleeding and supine victims of Ri - hood as part of the growing pains in - bad that even the others couldn’t abide the native Californios and among cardo’s fury. Not satisfied with having flicted by the Gold Rush and its their ways, and those not hanged on them there arose examples of the escaped from the clutches of almost Anglo immigrants. the spot were often given the alterna - finest Spanish outrage, equal to the certain death, the desperado charged Several events coincidently hap - tive of removing themselves to some - worst of the despised gringos. back up the street from which he had pened almost in sequence—The Mex - where else. And they did. One such man was Don Ricardo just emerged, using his heavy—and ican-American War, the Bear Flag , then but a small vil - Urives. Ricardo was as fine an exam - now empty—Colt Dragoon as a club Rebellion, Gold Rush and State - lage, soon became the gathering place ple of a desperado as ever graced the on any close enough to reach, scatter - hood—that brought together a mix of for these Argonaut rejects, the worst soil of the City of the Angels. He could ing his enemies as he went. He cultures with widely divergent views of the worst, and Los Angles became take more shooting and stabbing than emerged from whence he had started of the world and how it should be a din of iniquity—in spite of its label the average grizzly bear. One fine and rode off to heal his wounds. managed. In a preview of the strife as “City of the Angels.” Justice be - Sabbath morning, Ricardo got into a It was determined he had been and turmoil that was to come two came a rule of brute force, the fast fight at the upper end of Calle de los shot three times, cut and stabbed nu - decades later in America’s heartland, blade, and the roar of the heavy Colt’s Negros and raised the ire of a large merous times, but he returned to Los Americanos clashed with Californios dragoon—of which every man was crowd intent on raising his scalp. He Angeles fully healed and ready to and imposed their presence as they weighed down by two. The continu - was attacked from in front and be - fight. He spent an hour riding up and down the main street of the Angels, daring any gringo officer to arrest him. None did. It seems Ricardo’s fury was that . of the bully, not fearing any whom he TraiL ’s eND , deemed less formidable than him - self. That bravado proved to be something more fragile than he MAGDALENA ,NEW MEXICO would have imagined in a confronta - apt. Billy Sanders and his crew of tion with one who would not yield. cowboys, circa late 1800s, camping- A quiet, young gringo happened Cdown for dinner on the high plains at to pass through the aforementioned the Water Canyon Railroad Station, 12 miles Calle de los Negros when Ricardo to the east of Magdalena, New Mexico. These was on a drunken rampage, heaping cowboys were a hearty lot, moving the cattle insult and abuse on any within about 10 miles a day, followed by the relief sight. His abuse seemed to be fo - horses and chuck wagon. cused on a young Mexican lad, Sporting the second largest cattle stock - greatly frightened by Ricardo’s yard in the territories, Magdalena was threats. The gringo stepped in. dubbed Trail’s End by the cowboys who’d “Stop that.” drive their cattle and sheep from the West, Ricardo’s visage displayed an using the historic 125 mile long “Stock Driveway,” to the railroad/spur line that was built in 1885 amazement of unequaled proportions. to transport the cattle, sheep, ore, and timber to all points East. The original stockyards at Mag - How dare this young gringo spoil his dalena are still intact, and the feel of the Old West is alive and well. fun? He turned on the young man, and his Bowie sprang to his hand, (Continued on next page) VisiT us aT sassNeT .com May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 69

Tales of Old California . . . (Continued from previous page) the gang took a shine to. He wisely ready to draw gringo blood. made no objection, even providing LITTLE KNOWN As suddenly, the desperado found food and drink in the best Californio himself staring down the barrel of a tradition. Eventually the gang left FAMOUS PEOPLE small Colt’s revolver, its bearer’s eyes with their booty, and Ricardo was calmly boring into his own. freed. Big mistake. Way Out West – “Put up that knife.” In full fury and without a word, The order was ignored. Don Ri - Ricardo mounted a horse and rode By Joe Fasthorse, SASS #48769 cardo advanced, the keen blade lead - off to inflict retribution. He knew ing the way to this new enemy. Their they were headed to the Colorado Jackson eyes locked; cool gaze meeting glar - River and what route they would Joe Fasthorse, ing fury. take through San Gorgonio Pass. He SASS #48769 Ellis “Put up that knife, or I’ll shoot gathered a band of Indians you dead.” The young American had and ambushed the unsuspecting ackson Ellis served simultaneously as an Indian Policeman in not moved, not blinked, showed no fugitives, slaughtering them to a the Choctaw Nation and as a U.S. Deputy Marshal in 1885. That fear. Ricardo paused; then quietly man and recovering all that was lost. year, the lawman had a shootout in Tahlequah, Oklahoma with sheathed his deadly blade. Though the Indians remained hid - a desperado named Trainer, and Ellis shot the outlaw dead. In “Vayasse,” “Begone,” spoke the den, Ricardo joyfully attacked the J 1887, Ellis attempted to arrest American. To the utter astonish - gang head-on and alone, charging Dick Vann, the man who murdered ment of all, the bully quietly com - into their midst with pistols blazing, U.S. Deputy Marshal Sam plied, turning and slinking away, determined that the miscreants Sixkiller the year before. When cowed by the calm, determined know who was inflicting the full Vann went for his measure of revenge and retribution. courage of an unfamiliar enemy. pistol, gunplay That young American was John Don Ricardo was actually a fine erupted G. Downey, later to become a re - fellow who lived for the fight, cut of and the spected Governor of California and the same cloth as those who would for whom the city of Downey, Califor - gain fame a quarter-century later in assassin nia is named. He was to demon - the next “Wild West.” Rightly, he was left dead strate a life-long example of that died at the hands of another, with in the dust. same courage in his service to the his boots on, a pistol ball through his Later that Golden State. body. But not for the intrusion of the year, a young rough - A year or so following Ricardo’s gringo, he might have lived his life neck named Finn mur - confrontation with Downey, a band as a genteel don, his potential never dered his father. When of outlaws passed through Los Ange - having been realized. Ellis confronted the les. Their intentions to withdraw Sources: killer, again guns flared riches from the city were stymied by Bell, Horace; “Reminisces of a and Finn fell — dead be - the presence of a troop of U. S. Dra - Ranger”; Yarnell, Caystile & fore he hit the ground. At goons, and they were forced to settle Mathes; Los Angeles, 1881 another time, Ellis was on a for seizing the Coyotes Rancho of the Morrison, Frederick; “Tales from train bound for Texas when bandits Ocampos. Don Ricardo happened to Southern California and New tried to hold up the express car. Ellis be majordomo and was seized by the Mexico”; California Folklore killed one outlaw and chased off the rest before they got the gold. Mar - gang and forced to turn over a num - Quarterly, Vol 2, No. 2; Western shal Ellis resigned his duties as a lawman and retired in 1902. ber of horses and whatever riches States Folklore Society, 1943

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Laylow Curly, SASS Life #57501 e e Tensleep, SASS #5756 Fearful Leader of the Infamous DAMMIT Gang Regulator January 3, 1959 to February 8, 2011 aka Joe Billy Cole By Jittery Jim Jonah, SASS Life #64913 October 2, 1947 – August 8, 2010

the ‘Inland Empire Friends of By The Dusty Trail Posse NRA’ for six years, serving until the time of his departure from us. etersburg, VA – Tensleep He also served as Shotgun Director Pwas born in Dallas, Texas, for the West End Gun Club for four on October 2, 1947. He has al - years and enjoyed many activities ways been a cowboy, growing up and events there. West End Gun in Dallas and at the family Club recently honored him with an ranch in East Texas near Ben honorary life membership. Wheeler. Laylow’s love for military his - Unfortunately, when he tory and the Old West led him to graduated from Texas A&M– become involved in Cowboy Action Commerce, there were no jobs Shooting™ as a life member of the teaching agriculture in Texas, so Single Action Shooting Society he was recruited to come to Vir - (SASS). He was a member of ‘The ginia with the promise of a good Cowboys’ in Norco. He was the teaching job and house on a driving force behind forming the great fishing lake! He always oreno Valley, CA – Laylow DAMMIT gang, who now count said he “left Texas and came to MCurly aka Edward Kerley de - members in the hundreds around Virginia and raised the IQ of iting local schools to help stu - parted in answer to a call from his the world. both states!” dents understand the develop - Lord and maker just after sunrise His passion for these activities Tensleep became involved in ment of the Old West through Tuesday morning February 8, 2011 and everything cowboy was second Cowboy Action Shooting™ in Tensleep’s eyes. having fought a gallant battle with only to the love of his life, Jes Pep - 1997 when he joined SASS and After retirement in 2005, he cancer for 11 months. Seems he is per, SASS #57502, his wife, best began to build the 1870s town of enjoyed traveling across the US, answering yet another playing of friend, and confidant for over 27 Lost River on land he owned in shooting with SASS clubs, and the ‘DAMMIT’ chip. years. Pepper was the reason Lay - VA. The Dusty Trail Posse was meeting online friends in per - Laylow was known worldwide low started shooting Cowboy Ac - born that year and began hold - son. These travels always in - in the SASS community as a great tion. She liked the costumes and ing monthly practices at the cluded an annual trip to END of friend and ambassador for our encouraged him to join, saying, range they built at Lost River. TRAIL in New Mexico, where he sport. He volunteered for six years “You could buy more guns ...” Tensleep helped start the was proud to win the Couples at END of TRAIL in various capac - Laylow’s easy confidence and Pungo Posse and also enjoyed Costume Contest in 2005 and a ities and was honored in 2007 with friendliness earned him the nick - shooting with the Blue Ridge shooting buckle in 2009. the ‘Waddie Spirit Award.’ name ‘Social Butterfly,’ among Regulators, the Mattaponi Sun - (Tensleep wasn’t much for Laylow served his country with other names. He always had a downers, the Old Hickory Regu - “dressing up in city duds” but honor in the United States Marine kind word and offered encourage - lators, and other local clubs in dressed up for Miz Annie in the Corp followed by service to his ment and his quick wit freely. His Virginia and North Carolina. Costume Contests because she community as a police officer with influence in the shooting sports, He enjoyed chatting with other liked it so much!) He joined the the city of Colton for a short time and particularly in SASS, has been cowboys and sharing stories Founder’s Club to help build a before settling at the University of felt worldwide, and friends in the first on “The Frontier Spot” and home for END of TRAIL at California, Riverside, where he United States, England, Ireland, then on CAS City. Founder’s Ranch, NM. served for 35 years as a Communi - Scotland, Germany, Italy, Aus - In 2004, he was honored Tensleep rode off into the cations Supervisor for the Univer - tralia, and New Zealand mourn the with the first ever “Spirit of the dawn on 8/9/10 and was buried sity Police Department. loss of a great friend who could al - Game” Award at the Star City, that weekend in Edom, Texas His passion for the Second ways challenge your mind and Bend of Trail, VA SASS Cham - with full Dooley honors. Amendment led him to become a bring a song to your heart. Those pionship match. He is survived by his par - life member of the National Rifle closest to him also knew him as Tensleep was not just a cow - ents and siblings in Texas, wife Association. He was a valuable ‘Special Ed,’ and he really was boy; he was a “histographer.” Miz Annie Ross, SASS #60919, committee member and officer for truly a special person. He enjoyed wearing his cowboy his daughter and granddaugh - Stories have been written clothes, taking all his gear (ex - ter in WVA, and the members of about Laylow, his compadres, and cept his guns, of course) and vis - the Dusty Trail Posse. the DAMMIT gang, expressing the vibrant and sometimes violent life of the Old West. One of his great - est achievements is living “The wife, Terry; sister, Terry, and her meet again soon ... Cowboy Way” and setting a stan - husband, Kenny; sister, Louise, and * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * dard very difficult to reach. her family; nephew, Bruce, and his Say not in grief that he is no more Laylow Curly left a great wife, Dionne; three stepsons, Dale, but say in thankfulness that legacy as well as a large empty Sean, and Lance; and a ‘host’ of he was. spot in the hearts of all who knew close friends across this planet. A death is not the extinguishing him. He is survived by his loving Happy Trails my pard. We will of a light.

VisiT us aT sassNeT .com e e May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 71 Loon Lady, SASS #12100 Singin’ Zeke, The Biggest Little Cowgirl to Ever SASS #69807 Ride and Shoot By Bronco Birnbaum, SASS Life #1320 By Hell-Bent Wade, SASS #18285

olden Valley, AZ – With a arble Falls, TX – Singin’ Gsad heart I report the passing MZeke died December 15, of a wonderful woman, good 2010. His real name was Joel friend, great wife and mother, and Allen Green Sr., but so many peo - all around cowgirl. Mary Cifers, ple in the Central Texas Hill Loon Lady, passed in her sleep Country knew him as just Zeke. I Tuesday night, February 25th, remember the first time I met with her family nearby. him. I quickly realized this man, Loon Lady, SASS #12100, who was short on stature, was ex - joined SASS 16 years ago, and she ceptionally tall on leadership. kept up her membership, even as ing demonstrations in Jean, Ne - Zeke was a rock solid man. time made the sports of Cowboy vada. Loon Lady had an earplug He was a person who could be Action Shooting™ and Mounted business, and the two traveled all counted on. He was a person who Shooting too difficult for her to over the West with Loon Lady sell - could be trusted. He was a person participate. ing earplugs and Cimarron Dan who would stand fast to his be - shooting. He built a four hundred Alaska is filled with the beau - working as a gunsmith as well as liefs. There are several hundred yard range on his ranch and cre - tiful loon-waterfowl, and she loved shooting SASS Cowboy Action and people in Marble Falls, Austin, ated a long range shooting sub- to collect loon decoys, paintings, SASS Mounted Shooting. and that called him group within the GMR Club. I and taxidermy-birds. Loon Lady With Mounted Shooting grow - a friend and held him dear in instantly fell in love with big bore and husband, Cimarron Dan, ing in Las Vegas, they invited the their hearts. shooting. Many of us did. To - SASS #12099, helped found the Las Vegas Mounted Shooting Asso - Zeke was a creative man with gether we created and tested first Alaskan SASS Cowboy Action ciation to host a “Border Battle” in vision. Zeke was the founder of loads, built shooting benches, Shooting™ club, The Golden Heart the windy highlands of Kingman, the Green Mountain Regulators welded targets, and argued over Shooting Society. They spent their Arizona. Loon Lady rode and com - (GMR) SASS Club, which he rifle action types. time off the shooting range living peted in all four annual events hosted on his own Hill Country Zeke created my vision of true like real cowboys; hunting fowl, from 2006 to 2009. She acquired ranch. This club built ten stages cowboy fun. Whenever I was on bear, and mountain lion, and keep - ‘Rojo,’ a sorrel mule, in 2007 and and flourished under his leader - his ranch, I could actualize my ing the cold winters busy with rode him in the Las Vegas Pat- ship. It became a very shooter cowboy experience. crafts and western movies. Clark SAMS-Cowboys 8th Annual friendly venue. He embraced the Zeke was an expert guitarist. When they moved to a Shootout. Rojo too- idea friends like to shoot with He played his vintage Stratocast - warmer Wyoming, they bought a soon passed of illness, and she friends, and he worked hard to ers like any professional rock and pair of mules. A stout little 12 picked up ‘John-John,’ a big sweet- make a community of the GMR roller could, and it was a pleasure hand tall, dappled-grey, ‘Rio,’ was hearted mule from a cattle opera - Club. to see his body bend and his face just the right size for the Loon tion in Texas. Loon Lady’s last Zeke also urged the GMR grimace as his fingers pushed up Lady, and ‘Gus,’ a 15-plus dark bay Mounted Shoot was January 2009 women’s membership to form a to bend the strings and change for Cimarron Dan. Soon they when they got stuck in traffic for sub group to promote their own the chords as he jammed away. moved to a warmer climate in Ari - two and half hours coming over program and drive the club from Zeke was 64 when he died. He zona and continued Cowboy Ac - Hoover Dam (before the bridge was their point of view. He called was a native Texan who was born tion Shooting™, including trips to open). They arrived in Boulder them “The Bad Girls.” He was the and died in Burnet County. He the Nevada Rangers ‘Stampede,’ City just in time for her to ride the only male member allowed in that hurt his shoulder while working The Great , The Jer - last stage of the event, and be pre - club, and I was just a bit envious. on the ranch. During that treat - sey Lilly, END of TRAIL, and other sented with her first ever Mounted The Bad Girls was a great idea, ment his doctor discovered Zeke fun shoots. Shooting Champion Buckle Award. and it created a great deal of fun had cancer. I can’t help wonder - In 2001 Loon Lady and Loon Lady is dearly missed for the entire Club. ing about the friend I leave be - Cimarron Dan rode in one of the and loved by her family and Zeke recognized the pent up hind. He is really not dead as very first ever SASS Cart-Shoot - friends. demand for long-range cowboy long as I remember him. W. Breeze, SASS #40792 ing to have as few misses as possi - AKA John B. Williams ble. At our December match, he had two clean stages and two stages August 25, 1942 – February 11, 2011 with one or two misses … the sparkle in his eyes was undeniable. By Dusty Webster, SASS #15372 & Rev Barry M. Deep, SASS #38104 His motto was to enjoy life now AMESTOWN, CA – In lieu of loved nothing better than riding because you never know what’s Jour March monthly match, we through the foothills of the Mother next. He was looking forward to held a memorial for one of our own, Lode, except of course, for shooting shooting at Winter Range, but did W. Breeze (just Breeze at our club, his favorite cowboy armaments. He not make it. the Mother Lode Shootists Society will be long remembered for his The Rev. Barry M. Deep, a close of Jamestown), a true cowboy, mentoring of fellow shooters with friend to Breeze, conducted the eu - whose boots will not be filled easily, eyesight disabilities. After over - logy, and family and friends attended for he will be long remembered. coming his own disability, he guided our cowboy sendoff to that range in The steady rain was a punctuation two of our cowboys to switching to the sky, concluding with a shotgun mark to our saddened hearts. the non-dominate eye and shooting salute on the shooting range. Breeze was a cowboy, through left-handed. At times he had the Farewell until we meet again, and through. He owned a horse and slowest stage times, but kept work - Breeze.

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2010 shoW -m e shooTouT The State Championship wHosted by The souTherN missouri October 21-24, 2010 . raNGers , Winners B-Western Fast Fingers OK By Inspector, SASS #41400 Match Winners Green, SASS #37898 Photos by Gabby Ruddick Man Naildriver, AR SASS Kerman Kid, MO Special thanks to Smokie SASS #6061 #59139 SASS #25129 Lady Prairie Dawn, MO C Cowgirl Neeter Bear, OK ranson, MO – “After wasn’t sarcasm either, as this past SASS #2963 SASS #73777 eleven years it’s about fall Midwesterners were treated to Missouri State Champions Cowgirl Frisco Rose, MO time we had some decent over six weeks of dry, picture-per - Man Doc Hurd, MO SASS #73142 B weather for this year’s fect autumn weather—every morn - SASS #12379 L Wrangler Prairie Dawn, MO Show-Me Shootout!” ing in the 50s, and rising to the Lady Prairie Dawn, MO SASS #2963 These were the words that upper 60s to low 70s in the after - SASS #2963 L 49’er Cheyenne IL opened the 2010 Show-Me noons. It almost didn’t seem right Categories Cinder, Shootout, the Missouri State Cow - not breakin’ out the wool long coats E Statesman Smackwater OK SASS #55699 Miss Shirl, MO boy Action Shooting™ Champi - and gloves for the first time of the Jack, SASS #36751 SASS #54419 onship and were met with a rowdy season; not that I’m complainin’ … Jim Cummins, MO L Senior Ruby Red Jo, MI YEE-HAW from the crowd. That It ain’t just Cowboy shootin’ SASS #5324 SASS #71481 S Senior Hair Trigger MI Sedona Roxy, MO Elden, SASS #68229 SASS #67205 L S Senior Copper Rose, AR Hard Cash, MO SASS #53321 SASS #68128 Bluebell Bess, MO Senior Greasy Creek MO SASS #62551 Slim, G Dame Tootsie Pop, WI SASS #68373 SASS #41486 S Duelist Colonel Darlin, IL L’ Gunfighter Partner’s IL SASS #18069 Partner, Dun Vegan, MO SASS #54603 SASS #72444 L Duelist Katie Scarlett, MO 49’er Doc Hurd, MO SASS #73126 SASS #12379 L F Cartridge P. Kainya, MO Wrangler Ned Plinkerton, MO SASS #57702 SASS #41905 L B-Western Kate E. Talon, IL Cowboy Naildriver, AR SASS #35385 SASS #59139 El Paso Kay, MO You Bet, MO SASS #85255 SASS #48429 Young Gun Callaway Kid, MO Duelist Blue Steel TX SASS #82862 Traveller, Buckaroo Done That, MO SASS #70994 SASS #62301 J.J. Drifter, MO Category winners are listed first SASS #28478 followed by Missouri Champions C Cowboy John Lee, IL SASS #33226 Side Matches Gunfighter Partner, IL Fastest Kangaroo Pete, OK SASS #51909 Derringer SASS #68035 Old Man Sykes, MO Fastest Doc Hurd, MO SASS #36600 Pocket Pistol SASS #12379 F Cartridge Gunsmith MO Fastest You Bet, MO Frank, Six-Gun SASS #48429 SASS #69897 Fastest Naildriver, AR F C Duelist Jackson Rose, MO P-Cal Rifle SASS #59139 SASS #45478 Fastest ‘97 Ben There, MO Frontiersman Wyandot Jim, TX SASS #62300 SASS #66953 Fastest ‘87 Lost Camp, MO Rootin Tootin MO SASS #32014 Rangebum, Fastest Naildriver, AR SASS #57701 SXS SASS #59139

VisiT us aT sassNeT .com May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 73 that is an excuse to visit Branson. distracted from what’s really im - First of all, late October is one of portant—that’s the shootin’! These the prettiest times of the year for folks have a knack for takin’ care of this part of the country. The hills all the details for you. Once you’re are bright with the vibrant fall col - there to shoot, you don’t need to run ors. If you’re more inclined for in - back into town for anything. door activities, well, Branson has First, they picked an excep - plenty of that to offer as well. It tional facility at which to hold the ain’t much of a secret that Branson match, located ten miles north of itself is a vacation destination. town known as Ozark Shooters Branson offers hundreds of hotels, Sports Complex right on Highway dozens of shows, so many different 65 (the main road going into Bran - types of restaurants you’ll never son.)—you can’t miss it. Parking is eat the same foods twice, and so right behind the range, so you are much shopping you’ll have to hire never more than a couple hundred teamsters to haul all your loot yards from your car, even if you ar - home for you! rive late. The ten stages are set in With all that’s going on in a sunburst pattern, which brings Branson you may almost forget you the firing line for each stage closer came here to shoot. Don’t worry together, and pushes the targets though, you see the Missouri farther apart between each of the Rangers don’t want you getting’ (Continued on page 74 )

Fastest You Bet, MO Best Dressed Costume Contest .22 Cal. SASS #48429 Lady Wesa, OK Rimfire SASS #70957 Long-Range Rock Creek OK Gent Printer Doc, OK Pistol Rustler, SASS #53320 SASS #5209 Little Cowgirl Melanie Long-Range Old Man Sykes, MO Little Cowboy Isaac MO P-Cal. Rifle SASS #36600 Working Hassayampa IL Slingshot Ned Plinkerton, MO Cowboy John Mossman, SASS #41905 SASS #32663 Fastest Jackson Rose, MO Couple Outlaw Joe C. MO Josey Wales SASS #45478 Pails, SASS #73761 Big Bore Ned Plinkerton, MO & Elizabeth Belle Single Shot SASS #41905 Soiled Dove Darlene IL Big Bore Old Man Sykes, MO L B Western Belle Kaye, TX Repeater SASS #36600 SASS #35884 Cowboy Trap Jim Cummins, MO B Western Fingers McGee, MO SASS #5324 SASS #28654 Robin Hood Pecos Steve, MO Best Frisco Rose, SASS #66838 Character SASS #73142 L Fastest Missouri Mae, OK Personification & Frisco Kim, MO Derringer SASS #80828 SASS #74143 L Fastest Just L, OK Military Col. Benjamin KS Pocket Pistol SASS #34123 Grierson, L Fastest Ruby Red Jo, MI SASS #76679 Six-Gun SASS #71481 L Fastest Missouri Mae, OK Team Match P-Cal Rifle SASS #80828 1st Rootin Tootin Rangebum, MO L Fastest ‘97 Prairie Dawn, MO SASS #57701 SASS #2963 Ned Plinkerton, L Fastest ‘87 P. Kainya, MO SASS #41905 SASS #57702 Son of a Plinkerton, L Fastest SXS Catoosa Red, OK SASS #76002 SASS #57246 Remy Charon, L Fastest Wesa, AR SASS #60985 .22 Cal. SASS #70957 2nd Rock Creek Rustler, OK Rimfire SASS #5209 L Long-Range Prairie Dawn, MO Burly Bill, Pistol SASS #2963 SASS #50840 L Long-Range Catoosa Red, OK Matt Valentine, P-Cal. Rifle SASS #57246 SASS #24950 L Slingshot Wesa, AR Fast Fingers Green, SASS #70957 SASS #37898 L Fastest Just L, OK 3rd Frisco Red, MO Josey Wales SASS #34123 SASS #60175 L Big Bore Catoosa Red, OK Ned Plinkerton, Single Shot SASS #57246 SASS #41905 L Big Bore Catoosa Red, OK Son of a Plinkerton, Repeater SASS #57246 SASS #76002 Cowgirl Trap Just L, OK Coffin Sam, SASS #34123 SASS #46904 L Robin Hood Prairie Dawn, MO SASS #2963 Man-on-Man Man You Bet, MO SASS #48429 Lady Prairie Dawn, MO SASS #2963

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2010 Show-Me Shootout . . . (Continued from page 73 ) tails these folks address to make stages. This configuration results the shooters feel welcome and com - in less pushin’ around of the gun fortable, and they seem to keep cart and makes it easier to socialize raising their standards every year. with folks in the posses next to you. They really do think of everything. Second, they feed you lunch Thursday’s side matches fea - three out of the four event days. tured the usual suspects, but the Also, dinner for Friday night and, of Southern Missouri Rangers have course, the Saturday night banquet added a couple of not-so-common is provided as well. In fact, consid - side matches, including Josey ering most hotels serve breakfast Wales (four pistols for time), Sling - these days, the only meals you need shots (which have become regulars to worry about are those traveling at this event), and primitive to and from the event. Heck, this archery (for those of the Injun per - year they even set coolers behind suasion). Side matches are op - the gun cart parking area full of tional, but Thursday is also the day complimentary bottled water and to receive a warm Ozark welcome sodas. There’s really not enough from the Rangers at registration. room on the page to go into the de - Friday morning’s shooters meet -

ing began with 215 participants rep - my favorite, casino night. Each at - resenting 16 states. As I have men - tendee was given several raffle tioned in the past, loyalty to this tickets and $1000 in “funny money” event is very strong. It seems once to gamble the night away. The goal you attend this event, they’ll keep was to win enough funny money to you coming back again and again. buy additional raffle tickets at Having said this, it is no wonder all $1000 each. These tickets were the stages were again written by used to draw for a variety of great loyal past participants and not Mis - prizes. Games of chance included souri Rangers themselves. Living Texas Hold-em, roulette, and craps. up to their reputation, the course of I wish I could share with you the fire had just the right mix of variety details of this event, but I can only and challenge without being repeti - tell you about what happened at tive or confusing. The targets were the craps table … again. set at recommended SASS distances The Rangers sure found one of to be safe, but not so far out to be the best bands that have ever frustrating. Friday afternoon saw played for this event, The Honky - six stages put behind us, but the day tonk Renovators. They brought the wasn’t over yet … house down, and were so popular The Friday night social began they were invited back next year with a social hour, followed by a de - before they finished their last set of licious fried chicken dinner, then this event. They were so good I the costume contest, dancing, and caught one of the craps dealers

VisiT us aT sassNeT .com May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 75 / another fine catered meal, followed they have set for themselves in pre - by the recognition of those shooters vious years and again hosted an - who shot best in their categories, other first class event. If you’ve side matches, or demonstrated the never been to Branson, maybe this best Spirit of the Game. event is the incentive you need to Sunday morning was ushered come on out and visit. Whether it in by Cowboy Church, followed by is for entertainment, shopping, din - team matches. The Saturday night ing, or shooting, the Southern Mis - storm had blown through, and Sun - souri Rangers will guarantee you day’s weather was again pleasant. won’t be disappointed. The 2011 The Missouri Rangers have Show Me Shootout will be held Oc - again lived up to high standards tober 20-23 rd .

dancing behind the table. She was so distracted dancing to the music, she forgot to watch the dice! Picture perfect skies greeted us Saturday morning for the third day in a row. The last four stages went quickly, and we were done in time for lunch just as the clouds started rolling in. That afternoon at the clubhouse, watching the door to the back room was like Christmas, as we saw each participant walking out with some great door prizes. After lunch, we still had plenty of time to go into town and take advantage of all that Branson has to offer before the Saturday night banquet. That evening, we all met back at Cobblestone Inn for its final event before closing its doors per - manently. Just before dinner was served, those gray skies observed at lunch let loose in a torrential down - pour that was more like a May thunderstorm. Luckily it didn’t last long, and we were warm and dry inside pattin’ ourselves on the backs, or kicking ourselves with the woulda-coulda-shoulda’s that may have rendered better scores, as they were posted within just a few hours of a cold range. The festivi - ties Saturday night opened with

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raNGe War 2010 By R. J. Law, SASS Life #15466 Photos by Major Photography

ort Huron, MI – The Wolverine Rangers had another successful SASS Michigan State Championship / Range War over PLabor Day weekend on the first weekend in September. We thank our Main Match Sponsor, Jimmy Spurs and Cowboy Gunworks, www.cowboy gunworks.com . A total of 240 shooters came from the states of California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Ken - tucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and West Virginia. We also had 38 shooters from Canada come over the Blue Water Bridge near beautiful Port Huron and two shooters from Australia, Constable Nelson and Rooster Cockburn, making Range War truly an in - ternational shoot. Congratulations to Overall Win - ner and Michigan State Men’s Champion, Deuce Congratulations to Overall Winner and Michigan State Men’s Champion, Stevens, SASS Life #55996, and to Deuce’s lovely Deuce Stevens, SASS Life #55996, wife, Michigan State Ladies Champion, KJ Stevens, and to Deuce’s lovely wife, Michigan State Ladies SASS #62782. Congratulations also to all of our cat - Champion, KJ Stevens, SASS #62782. egory winners and all other winners. After Saturday night dinner, This year our stages were all multiple Western Music based on the book, Appaloosa, writ - Association award winner ten by the great Robert B. Parker. Juni Fisher gave a concert In 2008 the book was made into a in the Clubhouse. good movie staring Ed Harris as the Juni is a great singer/song gun fighter, Virgil Cole, and Viggo writer and performer, and her Mortensen as his 10-gauge shotgun CDs are highly recommend! sporting partner, Everett Hitch. Renee Zellweger was Virgil’s love will be sorely missed. interest, Allie French, and Jeremy This year we continued our tra - Irons was the bad guy, Randall dition of posting the shooting sce - Bragg. All of the shooting lines narios and story lines for all our were taken from the book. Robert stages on our website at B. Parker is the best at capturing www.wolverinerangers.org . Our the essence of the western persona primary purpose is to promote the and the ability to convey powerful Michigan State Championship and meaning in his dialog with minimal to get shooters thinking about words. Unfortunately, Robert B. Range War. All of our stages are Parker passed away in 2010. He (Continued on page 78 )

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Winners Pale Rider Blackjack Beeson, Gunfighter SASS #11523 Range War 2010 Winners Michigan State Champions Senior Ole Short Tom, Man & Overall Deuce Stevens, SASS #12635 SASS #55996 Life *Two Rig A Tony, Riverview Rattler, SASS #67025 Hammered SxS Lady K.J. Stevens, SASS #54423 Snuffy Dave Edwards, Man Bad Brass, SASS #62782 L Senior Two Sons, SASS #51055 SASS #84355 Categories SASS #12636 Victoria Secret, SASS #47822 Lady Smoke ‘N Ash Buckarette Smoke ‘N Ash, *Katie Callahan, Side Match Winners 2010 LR Pistol SASS #86017 SASS #23077 Derringer Man Three Gun Cole Buckaroo Mini Doc, S Duelist Smokin’ Iron, Man Six Gun Scotsman, Lady Pinky Buscadero SASS #82314 SASS #22149 SASS #68879 LRR Pistol Caliber B-Western *Faygo Kid, *Lucky Lennie, Lady Honey B. Quick Man Three Gun Cole SASS #26408 SASS #22244 Pocket Pistol Lady Two Sons L B-Western *Pinky Buscadero, S F Cartridge No Buk Chuck, Man Gaslight, Cowboy Trap SASS #74038 SASS #24540 SASS #30516 Team Big Bad Jim, C Cowboy *Chili Pepper Pete, S Gunfighter *Bad River Marty, Lady Honey B. Quick SASS # 83859 & SASS #11917 Life SASS #23076 Speed Pistol Dynamite Daryl, Cowboy *Deuce Stevens S Senior Wichita Wayne, Duelist SASS # 85502 Cowgirl *K.J. Stevens SASS #26920 Man Doc Roy L. Pain Top Shooter Slow Don, Duelist *Doc Roy L. Pain, *Hair Trigger Lady Miss Lead Lisa SASS #66977 SASS #28321 Elden, Gunfighter Fun Game Sinola Kid, L Duelist Miss Lead Lisa, SASS #67205 Man Bad River Marty SASS #30558 SASS #51615 L S Senior *Cactus Kay, Lady Laporte Lil Singles Buckskin Slim, E Statesmen *Teton Tomahawk, SASS #15157 Two-Handed SASS #10183 SASS #40443 Wrangler Black Tom, Man Colt McAllister Wild Bunch Mini Match 49’er *Mustache Kid, SASS #43775 Lady K.J. Stevens Modern SASS #39293 Life *Three Gun Cole, Speed Rifle Man Blackjack Beeson L 49’er Honey B. Quick, SASS #50738 Man Deuce Stevens Lady Two Sons SASS #47009 L Wrangler Short Fuse Ruby, Lady Two Sons 59’er *Lainey Mae, SASS #47939 Speed Shotgun Man Smokin’ Iron SASS #62147 *Tessa Two Gunner, ’87 Lady Honey B. Quick F Cartride *Slippery Pete, SASS #72924 Man Lassiter Traditional SASS #40726 Young Gun *Duelin’ Dylan, Lady Two Sons Man Ethan Callahan, L F Cartridge *Miss Elaineous, SASS #68052 ‘97 SASS #41005 SASS #45042 (First place winners are shown. Man Colt McAllister Lady Lady Smith, F C Duelist Stone Creek Drifter, MI State Champions are denoted Lady Katie Callahan SASS #41871 SASS #58853 with an “*”.) SxS *Crazy Mingo, Clean Match Listing Man Deuce Stevens SASS #64041 Andy Horshurodinon, SASS #20360 Lady Two Sons F C Gunfighter Split Rail, Bad River Marty, SASS #23076 SASS #24707 Black Tom, SASS #43775 Frontiersman Marcus Allen, Buffalo Creek Kid, SASS #45529 SASS #4357 Dakota Doc , SASS #9695 *Mike Fink, Doc Wire, SASS #26490 SASS #29047 Goatlips, SASS #13135 Gunfighter Lassiter, Grubby Hardrock, SASS #58839 SASS #2080 J.J. Longley, SASS #38655 *Cayuse Jack, Mustache Kid, SASS #39293 Life SASS #19407 Nine Finger Bob, SASS #27128 L Gunfighter Lady Smith, No Cattle, SASS #22849 SASS #41871 Old Doc Potter, SASS #51519 *Laporte Lil, Onyx, SASS #35964 SASS #33413 Rattler Rex, SASS #71047

VisiT us aT sassNeT .com Page 78 Cowboy Chronicle May 2011 Range War 2010 . . . (Continued from page 76 ) posted approximately two weeks before Labor Day weekend, and sev - eral of our local clubs use the shoot - ing scenarios for their local matches that precede Range War. This helps generate excitement for Range War among our shooters. We will post all our shooting scenarios and the entire Shooter’s Handbook approx - imately two weeks before 2011 Range War, which will take place on September 2 nd , 3 rd , and 4 th . Deuce Stevens did another great job as Match Director for Range War this year. A large part of the success of Range War over the last four years is due to the fact urday afternoon, we held the char - tend not to be night owls. Dinner Deuce is our Match Director. Deuce was full, and everyone who at - ity raffle benefiting the Kimberly was served at about 6:00 p.m. and is a great ambassador for Cowboy tended came away with some new Anne Gillary Foundation. The mis - the awards presentation and pic - Action Shooting™ in Michigan and insight on what it takes to compete sion of the Foundation is to donate tures completed by approximately elsewhere. In addition to being one at the highest level. automated external defibrillators 8:30 p.m. Raffle awards/door prizes of the fastest and best shooters in On Friday, we held our first (AEDs) and training to local Michi - included a pair of Ruger New Va - the world, he is a genuinely nice guy Wild Bunch mini-match along with gan high schools. queros with an action job and en - who loves people. We try to make our normal side matches. In 2011, After dinner on Saturday night, graving done by Jimmy Spurs, a Range War a reflection of Deuce’s we will also add a Cowboy mini- multiple Western Music Association $500 gift certificate to Dillon dealer personality, and that is one of the match to be shot at the same time award winner Juni Fisher gave a Brian Enos, a new ‘97 shotgun, and best things we have going for us. as the Wild Bunch mini-match. concert in the Clubhouse. Juni is a other great prizes. Things were a little more com - On Saturday morning our open - great singer/song writer and per - Thanks to all of the cowboys plicated for Deuce and KJ this year ing ceremonies commenced at 8:30 former and I would highly recom - and cowgirls who worked to make due to the addition of their son and a.m. with the safety meeting given mend you try to see her sometime 2010 Range War a success. It is not shooter-to-be, Mason, AKA “Speed by Match Director Deuce Stevens or check out her CDs. I have all of practical to list everyone by name, Stevens.” He is the little guy in the and an opening prayer by First her CDs and love them all. Please but without volunteers our sport picture with Deuce and KJ. Al - Lieutenant Bad River Marty, SASS see www.junifisher.net . In 2011, does not work. This year we put the though KJ shot very little this year #23076. We then shot five stages on our entertainment will be provided names of all the volunteers into a due to the enlargement of their Saturday in pleasant late summer by cowboy singer, picker, fiddler, hat and drew two names for free en - family unit and the addition of weather. The weather in Port lasso twirler, poet and downright tries to Range War 2011. The win - Mom duties, she still was able to re - Huron seems to be great for Range funny guy Pop Wagner, www.pop ners were Riverview Rattler and 3 peat as Michigan State Ladies War every year with the tempera - wagner.com . Gun Cole. Congratulations to these Champion. ture generally in the low 70’s— On Sunday we finished with fine shooters. We will do a similar Our mission each year is to great shooting weather. We have our remaining five stages followed drawing in 2011 as a way to say make sure Range War is a competi - yet to have any significant prob - by our banquet at Alexander’s. Our thank you to our volunteers. tive and fun shoot for anyone who lems with rain. Hopefully, I will not mission for the banquet is to allow Everyone seemed to have a wants to participate in our annual jinx us for 2011. Besides, it’s bad some time for our shooters to en - great time, and we look forward to match. We know we are in the en - luck to be superstitious! gage in socializing before dinner having all our shooters back and tertainment business. We want our On Saturday afternoon Mike and have an adult beverage or two. meeting new friends in 2011. If you shooters to have a fun weekend, Fink, SASS #29047, and Moe Guns, We then serve a good dinner (which are looking for a competitive, fun good food, good entertainment, and SASS #26854, ran our popular Cow - included turkey and mashed pota - shoot in pleasant late summer friendly competition with their boy Trap event, an annual tradition toes and gravy), issue the awards weather in Michigan’s Blue Water pards in a stress-free environment. at Range War where our cowboys and raffle prizes, and then get our country, Range War over Labor Day On Thursday, we held another and cowgirls get to shoot their cow - shooters out at a decent time. We weekend will be the place to be. shooting school handled by World boy shot guns on the trap range at know some of our shooters plan on PS: Thanks to Artie Fly, SASS Champion and Michigan’s own Colt the Blue Water Sportsmen’s Associ - leaving after the banquet to go #25397, of Major Photography for McAllister, SASS #13823. The class ation, our host range. Also on Sat - home, and many of our shooters the excellent photos!

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green mouNTaiN mayhem SASS Vermont State Championship Memorial Day, May 27-30, 2010 By Doc McCoy, SASS #8381 Photos by Emma Goodcook SASS #49743, Miss Lainey, SASS #14230, and Lightnin’ Jeff

arshfield, VT – For six urday was clear cool weather for years the Vermont State the first five Main Match stages. MChampionship has been Stages were well laid out with combined with the New Hamp - many opportunities to use the shire State shoot. In midsummer transitions practiced in the side 2009 a few crazy cowboys got the events. Big, close targets and even idea we were ready to do it our - make-up targets were set for those selves. On Memorial Day ‘10 who don’t practice wing shooting weekend 105 shooters came to the for a couple of clay birds. first in-state Vermont Champi - Our Main Match Sponsor onship, the Green Mountain May - Moulton Lead (Island Pond Paul, hem. The feedback says we were SASS #65015) was a busy cowboy, not so crazy after all; they had fun! shooting, vending, and providing The Verdant Mountain Vigi - bullets for many competitors. lantes club has been hosting Cow - A wide range of vendors at - boy Action Shoots since 1993 and tended, especially for our first in- had 200+ shooters in the late state championship. We expect to 1990s. After a change of venue do even better next year. Offerings (due to whiney neighbors) and the included everything from ban - development of many more clubs danas to bullets, leather to rain in New England, the Verdant gear (not needed this time). We 21 Gun Salute fired in memory of Grizzly T, SASS #19089, Mountain Vigilantes shrank to had fine displays of Cimarron and long time club member who recently got his Trail Marker. about 50 shooters. It was in - Pioneer firearms—each had a rep - tensely gratifying to have 105 at stage Warm Up, a Transition ern and Traditional categories and resentative onsite. Lunch was this event! Stage, and some speed events. Our our own Wild Phil Bunch category handled by the local 4-H shooting Friday side events included Wild Bunch match, under the di - with the addition of high power ri - club and dinner by Rick’s Cater - several Long Range categories, rection of Wild Phil Coyote, SASS fles, such as the Springfield 1903. ing. We know a good thing when Plainsman, Wild Bunch, a two- #20124, included the SASS Mod - With classic Cowboy luck, Sat - we taste it; Rick is already sched -

Aerial view by RC airplane flown by Lightnin’ Jeff

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Vermont State Champions— Island Pond Paul, SASS #65015, Eagle Eye Alger, SASS #77297, Ranger Sgt Jake McCandless, & Emma Goodcook, SASS #49743. received a Puma rifle in A spectator—we welcome them all! SASS #3368, Green Mountain recognition of being a Mayhem Committee member Verdant Mountain Vigilantes Top Guns—Quaker Hill Bill, SASS Eagle Eye has attended Verdant and President of lifetime Junior shooter. Verdant Mountain Vigilantes. #61021, and Stormy Shooter, SASS Mountain Vigilantes’ shoots since Eagle Eye has attended #57333, and the Vermont State just before she was born. Origi - Verdant Mountain Vigilantes’ uled for 2011! Champions—Island Pond Paul, nally known as 22 Short, she has shoots since just before Sunday dawned cool and clear SASS #65015, and Emma Good - outgrown that alias. She has a she was born! again. The next five stages went cook, SASS #49743. couple years left as a Junior and fast and smooth. Did I mention A special award was presented shows no signs of stopping there. the targets were big and close? to our long time Junior shooter. We greatly appreciate the sup - Shooters helped with breakdown Eagle Eye Alger, SASS #77297, re - port of our Presenting Sponsors: Lost while scores were finalized. ceived a Puma rifle in recognition Target Shooting Supplies, Ruger The Awards started on time, of being a Verdant Mountain Vigi - Firearms, Peaceable Hill Game no small feat for laid back Vermon - lantes lifetime Junior shooter. Farm, and the Great Nor’easter. ters, with lots of categories and a wide range of raffles. OK, too many raffles. So many the Match Director in mid-ceremony prom - ised never to it that way again! The top Vermonter in each cate - gory was recognized with a laser etched logo mug from Klassic Laser Works. Stage winners were presented in a unique manner. Winners were the top shooters from each of the ten largest cate - gories, so Stage 1 went to the top shooter in 49’er category, Stage 2 to the Duelist category, and s forth. The final awards went to the

Winners L 49er Stormy Shooter, 49’er Rootin Tootin’ Tim, SASS #57333 SASS #57091 L B-Western Emma Goodcook, Buckaroo Winning Hand Eric, SASS #49743 SASS #88701 L Cowgirl Crystal Creek Chris, B-Western Darksider, SASS #46500 SASS #80637 L Duelist Nantucket Dawn, C Cowboy Just Plain Larry, SASS #15681 SASS #13965 L Senior Calico Jan, Cowboy Quaker Hill Bill, SASS #61842 SASS #61021 L Silver Senior May Rein, Duelist Hawkeye Kid, SASS #45274 SASS #24196 L Wrangler No Nonsense Nancy, E Statesman Ike “Shotgun” SASS #57092 McCoy, L Young Gun Snazzy McGee, SASS #4982 SASS #66689 F Cartridge Capt. Morgan Rum, Senior Brett Cantrell, SASS #6859 SASS #33868 F C Duelist Gun E. Bear, S Duelist Bear Lee Tallable, SASS #5557 SASS #23670 F C Gunfighter Dead Head, S Senior Pittsburg Mac, SASS #29768 SASS #20796 Frontiersman Doc McCoy, Wrangler Island Pond Paul, SASS #838 SASS #65015 Grand Dame Bonnie Dee, Young Gun Ludlow Lad, SASS #28413 SASS #78081 Gunfighter Grazer, SASS #38845

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ma–cT–ri , 2010 SASS State Championships By Snazzy McGee SASS #66689, and Appaloosa Amy, SASS #63949 Pictures Courtesy of One-Eyed Black Jack, SASS #66068

arvard, MA, June 4 th – Having such an interesting 6th 2010 – This was the theme made for some inspirational Fifth Anniversary of the stage writing. As usual there was HHarvard Ghost Riders plenty of movement, lots of shooting hosting the SASS MA–CT–RI State positions, and a gazillion targets … Championships (AKA The Tri- okay it was more like 120 targets, State) so it had to be special. What but who’s counting? Stages were could be done to make this year bet - designed so each one was really dif - ter than the previous four? One ferent from the next and had fun, way of achieving that goal was hav - easy to remember shooting se - ing a remarkable theme like “Cattle quences with targets that were very Drives of The Old West” to build the hittable. One stage everyone match around. seemed to really enjoy was Stage 8

2010 State Champs from left: James Samuel Pike & Appaloosa Amy (CT), Husband and Wife Teams—Grazer & Hawley McCoy (MA), and Wild Sage & Brett Cantrell (RI)

Where there’s SMOKE there’s FIRE! Blackpowder shooter, Tucson Tess, SASS #27624, of Ludlow, MA isn’t afraid of a little powder … or maybe it’s the whole keg!

A full-scale boxcar prop graced Stage 10. Stages rich in props made for a very pleasing shoot with great ambiance!

where shooters ran down a hallway ents of committee members like blasting shotgun knockdowns Grazer, SASS #38845, Tick Ridge, through several doorways. Also, the SASS #67818, Yankee, SASS #266, ten stages had a good mix of start - and Beaver Trapper, SASS #15684, ing guns, and, as is the Ghost Rider the shooting bays came to life— way ... lots of shotgun! from the livery stable on Stage 1 to What sets apart an unremark - the full scale boxcar on Stage 10. able match from one to remember? And, what is a cattle drive without In a word, PROPS. It is no easy cattle? There were over 16 individ - task filling up the 10 separate bays ually painted steers roaming the at the Harvard Sportsmen’s Club stages plus a few head of horses with “cool” eye catching stuff, but that really gave the facility a true they got it done. Thanks to the tal - western atmosphere.

VisiT us aT sassNeT .com May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 83 where we pair the #1 lady with the #16 man, #2 with #15 ... Announcing the teams is always fun. And, over a third of the folks called were new to the shoot-off from the year before! A few of the newbies were Canadian Two Feathers, SASS #70784, (from guess where); Tug Hill, SASS Boston Lady, the 2010 Starpacker Spirit of the Game Selection, joins an Elite Club of Tri-State area Standout Cowpokes: Cayuse – CT, Yankee – MA, Eastern Tenderfoot – MA, and Barrister Bill – MA. Pittsburg Mac of Massachusetts Did I mention the banquet was smoked the competition with teammate Appaloosa Amy to win free this year? The Ghost Riders be - the 2011 Top Gun Team Shoot Off! lieve in shooters getting their money’s worth! The Saturday night boy Gunworks out of Derry, NH for shindig was the “give-back” to our stepping up and being our Match shooters, and it was a good one. The Shooting in her underwear! Sponsor for the third year in a row. food was delicious and there was It’s Shocking! Rhode Islander, Gunpowder Creek, Peace Pipe plenty for seconds. A cowboy’s gotta Nanny Oakley, SASS #85920, Traders, L&M Lenses, Circle M, eat, right? And, not to be forgotten has some really cool outfits … Moulton Lead, and Cowboy Storm particularly in the hot June sun. … the costume contest was fierce Gear, all repeat vendor/sponsors, with so many excellent costumes … #15764, and No One, SASS #52804, make for a true cowboy experience. Crystal Creek Chris, SASS #64500, from Maryland; Big Sky Di, SASS Last but certainly not least are and Crackshot Bev, SASS #59869, #73088, and Illustrated Man, SASS the awards. Tazz, SASS #45750, looked amazing, as always. Another Miss Birdie Cage, SASS #32773, #77204, both of NY; and local Mass and Single Rose, SASS #52133, of draw to the banquet is finding out of MA looks pretty in pink resident, Eastern Tenderfoot, SASS Klassic Lazerworks once again pro - who the Top 16 Teams are for Sun - on her way to taking top honors #15682. Interesting enough, on Sun - vided unique hand engraved tro - day’s signature Team Shoot-off in Ladies B-Western. day afternoon three of the four com - phies. As always, they were on the petitors in the final round were fresh premises for any last minute addi - Winners E Statesman Steelman, faces to the shoot-off: Maryland resi - tions and had a tent full of distinc - MA State Champions SASS #49633 dent, River Banks, SASS #55949, his tive gifts for folks to peruse! Man Grazer, G Dame Bonnie Dee, teammate, Nantucket Dawn, SASS One special award that needs SASS #38845 SASS #28413 #15681, of Mass, and Pittsburg Mac, mentioning is the Starpacker Spirit Lady Hawley McCoy, Frontiersman Doc McCoy, SASS #20796 also of Mass. of the Game Award that goes to a SASS #59588 SASS #8381 If it weren’t for our sponsors, Tri-State Cowboy or Cowgirl that F Cartridge Doc Perry, CT State Champions the Tri-State might just be another demonstrates all those qualities that Top Gun James Samuel SASS #42552 ho-hum match. Sponsors make it impress the heck out of all us shoot - Pike, L F Cartridge Miss Delaney SASS #5333 Belle, possible to provide many of the ex - ers. This year’s recipient, Boston Top Lady Appaloosa Amy, SASS #6860 tras that put smiles on our patrons Lady, SASS #3662, of Massachu - SASS #63949 F C Duelist Callous Clyde, faces! Thanks once again to Cow - setts, is a most deserving awardee. RI State Champions SASS # 4677 This cowgirl is super organized and Man Brett Cantrell, F C Gunfighter Dead Head, keeps things running on all “horses.” SASS #33868 SASS #29768 With her tireless attention to detail, Lady Wild Sage, Gunfighter Grazer, this shoot can’t miss! SASS #38845 SASS #40879 Thanks to everyone for coming Senior One Eyed Black Jack, and making this event so much fun! Category Winners th Buckaroo Al B Crazy, SASS #66068 And don’t forget, the 6 Annual Tri- SASS #66690 L Senior Calico Jan, State promises to be a repeat per - Buckarette K’Darlin, SASS #61842 formance, so make plans to get you SASS #59843 S Duelist Peddler Jack, Long time Cowboy Action Shooter, and your buddies to Harvard, Mas - th Young Guns Not So Lonesome SASS #18828 Bob Maverick, SASS #16130, of CT, sachusetts on June 3-5 , 2011 for Mike, S Senior Rowdy Bill, blazes away with a beautiful another match to remember! SASS #81639 SASS #9628 pair of pistols. harvardghostriders.com L Young Guns Snazzy McGee, L S Senior May Rein, SASS #66689 SASS #45274 49’er Rootin’ Tootin’ Wrangler James Samuel Tim, Pike, SASS #57091 SASS #53331 L 49’er Stormy Shooter, L Wrangler Big Sky Di, SASS #57333 SASS #73088 B-Western Spirit Warrior, Starpacker Spirit of the Game SASS #57526 Award L B-Western Birdie Cage, Boston Lady, SASS #32773 SASS #3662 Cowboy Quaker Hill Bill, Top Waddie Henry Ross SASS #61021 Sterling Cowgirl Southpaw Slingin Top Gun Team Shoot Off Sally, Appaloosa Amy SASS #39739 & Pittsburg Mac, C Cowboy Tom Payne, SASS #20796 SASS #13115 Gunpowder Creek ‘Middle of the Duelist Hawkeye Kid, Pack’ Award SASS #24196 Snazzy McGee, L Duelist Nanny Oakley, SASS #66689 SASS #85920

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ThUNdER at BiG saLTy 2010 High Plains Regional Blackpowder Championship By Texas Slick Willy, SASS #53477

alt Lake City, UT – Seem - ingly like so many shoots, the High Plains Blackpow - Sder Regional presented by the Utah War Club in got off to a rough start. On Thursday, the day of the side matches and long-range shoot, the weather decided not to cooperate, as sometimes happens in the high desert. As the Pocket Pistol and Derringer side match shooters were showing their skills, the sky de - cided to open up and show us who scrap steel. Two old refrigerated proving the looks and function of as the weather permits. is really in charge. We had finished truck trailers left on the property our range. As I am sure many of Since Utah and the High Plains the first five shooters when the were converted and are being used you have done, we have scrounged Region are favored with many ex - rains came. Since we were shooting as locked storage. There was an old building materials from anywhere cellent shooters, including World, from inside the church, we didn’t building on the property as well. they were available. We have taken National, Regional, and Local think we had to worry about the We literally cut the center out of it down several old wooden fences to Champions, the competition during weather, BUT, when you break the and moved the two ends, each eight get wood for our buildings, and the shoot was quite exciting. Our 100 year old record for amount of feet long, and after reattaching have made much use of old railroad competitors came from as far away rainfall in a 15 minute period, well, them, they are now our church ties for many other projects. Just as Australia and from as close as we got wet to say the least (for building. We cut the ends out of in the last few weeks we have just down the highway. Many of some reason I used to think Utah several discarded fiberglass water added 130 tons of gravel to our bays our competitors were shooting the was in the desert)! Not to be dis - tanks, each of which was eight feet to keep us on dry ground when it is holy black for only the first or sec - couraged, however, the final shoot - in diameter and about 30 feet long, wet, and we are scheduled to add ond time and watching them whoop ers kept shooting even though the and they are now our mine tunnel. another 150 tons of gravel as soon it up as the smoke billowed forth rain was blowing through the We didn’t waste anything we could shooting window and soaking them use for props. Winners Vigilante Highland Drifter, to the skin. All in all, it made a Also, the property was prone to Frontier Cartridge Categories SASS #71109 good story that none of us get tired getting a little wet when it did rain 49’er Tin Camp, Wrangler Westwater Kid, of telling! or snow. With the help of a local ex - SASS #22003 SASS #65513 The BIG SALTY RANGE where cavating company who needed a B-Western Lefty Pete, Frontiersman Categories the event was held has been an on - place to dump dirt removed from SASS #77373 Frontiersman Utah N. Tex, SASS #45323 going project for over two years, building projects, and over 1000 Cowboy Brer Rabbit, SASS #54820 Cowboy Salt Lake Shorty, and the progress, considering it has loads of dirt, we were able to level C Cowboy Porter Rockwell, SASS #86555 been done with little outside help, out the whole property, build the 14 SASS #7756 Senior Texas Slick Willy, has been amazing. Two years ago berms, and raise the back berm to Duelist Jubal O Sackett, SASS #53477 the range was literally a dump. In form the shooting lanes. SASS #22531 S Senior Luke Lane, fact, our back berm for the entire On Friday when the real shoot - E Statesman Sergeant Cody, SASS #86798 200-yard length of the 14 bays is ing finally got underway, the SASS #3251 Blackpowder Side Matches the south end of the former Salt weather cooperated, and we had Gunfighter Col. Butch Simons, Derringer Ace High Bill, Lake County dump ground. When two days that were beautiful, al - SASS #77845 SASS #38339 Pocket Pistol Capt. Le Phew, we started the project of transform - though quite hot. The shooting L Young Gun Nikki Violet, SASS #89579 SASS #37210 ing the area into what is becoming started in the Church and then L Wrangler South Dakota Sadie, Lever Rifle— 200 yd one of the finest shooting ranges in moved down the line to the Bank, SASS #70610 Porter Rockwell, Utah, there was so much trash and Saloon, Mine Tunnel, and Rail - Outlaw Indiana Kid, SASS #7756 discarded materials we filled a gi - road. On day two, Saturday, we SASS #76398 Single Shot Rifle—300 yd gantic dumpster many times. shot at the Freight Office, Stage Senior Sparks, SASS #1412 Porter Rockwell, Four old and discarded Coach, Jail House, Cemetery, and S Duelist Ace High Bill, SASS #7756 draglines (think steam shovel, and Outhouse. SASS #38339 Plainsman Texas Slick Willy you have the right picture in your Our members have built all our S Senior Colt Heart, mind) were hauled off and sold for stages, and we are constantly im - SASS #55206

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was fun for all! tion, as it seemed he couldn’t get Regional Blackpowder shoot May forever, come on out and join us for Cap and ball shooters were es - through a single stage without 26 to 28, 2011, and we are already the Regional in 2011. If you hap - pecially entertaining to watch, as some type of failure to fire. In his planning many new and exciting pen to be passing through on the they had to deal with the particular defense, he is really a sharp stages and activities for the shoot. 1st, 3 rd , or 5th weekend of the problems associated with their dresser! And, due to his tenacity Our goal is to have a new covered month, stop by and join us for a shooting style. A few additional ex - and determination, he is now, along pavilion in the early summer of good time. We shoot at 9 AM dur - pletives were uttered as the caps with many others, the owner of a 2011 and real toilets with running ing the summer, Daylight Savings either failed to fire or came off the shiny new Blackpowder Regional water before the summer ends. Time, and 10 am during the winter. cylinder nipples. One shooter in Championship belt buckle. If you want to have one heck of Yes, it does get a little cold in the particular seemed to have been The Utah War Club will once a good time with Cowboys that will winter, so be prepared, but if it isn’t cursed by the god of failed cap igni - again be the host to the High Plains treat you like they have known you wet, we will be there shooting!

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The JacksoN hoLe GaNG ’s Cowboy By Jesamy Kid, SASS #34841 Top Shot reehold, NJ – After having including your guns. As they ride Ace of Spades out of his sleeve. You and arrows from him. He uses the watched the History Channels off, your only chance is to get the call him a low down cheatin’ skunk. bow and shoots an arrow to bring Ffirst “Top Shot” season special, last one leaving camp on horseback Now that riles him up, and he down another brave. Bill grabs his I got to thinking; this could work into with your sling shot. It works, and reaches for his gun belt hanging on rifle while you get your pistols and a monthly match quite well. We you retrieve your guns and finish off a nail in the post behind the table. say, “Let’s send them to their happy shoot five stages at our monthly the rest of them hostiles! You pull your shootin’ iron, shoot hunting grounds!” match. The thought would be to do TASK # 1: Hit target at 25 ' with the nail head and his gun belt falls Task #4: Pick up the bow and five different marksman tasks, one a wax bullet using a sling shot. to the floor. As he scrambles to get shoot an arrow at a 12 " target 30 ' for each stage. I decided to do these his gun, all his buddies start away. tasks off the clock prior to the buzzer shootin’, and all hell breaks loose! going off except for the Texas Star, Task #2: Shoot a 1 " dot at 30 ' which was included in your time. For with a single .22 caliber Single Six each top shot task you completed, shot. you received a five-second bonus. If anyone did all five tasks, they would get a free shoot entry at the next match they attended. Stage #1 Sling Shot: You’re sit - ting in your camp when you hear a rustling in the brush. Then out of Stage #2 Hit the Nail on the nowhere a band of Indians rush you! Head: You’re sitting in the Jackson Stage #5 Texas the Lone Star You escape with the clothes on your Hole Saloon in a heated poker State: On a cattle drive down in back and a sling shot in your pocket. game. You notice the gambler sit - Texas with your cowboys, you’re The redskins grab all of your gear, ting across the table is pulling an moving your herd from the Rio Stage #3 Thomi Hawk: You Grande up to Abilene. There you and your friend, Thomi Hawk, are will get a fair market price. Along sitting along the river restin’ spell. the trail you encounter five Vaque - Your raft with supplies for the Army ros. This bunch has a different idea at Fort Misery is tied to a tree. Sud - where that herd will be going. denly Cimarron Boca and his gang Their plan is to take then south of come to get your supplies. You need the border. The cowboys won’t have to save the Army’s goods, and this, so they grab their Winchesters thanks to your friend, Thomi Hawk, and give them a taste of Texas Hos - you know how to throw a Toma - pitality. hawk. You get off the log and send Task # 5 Is done under the the tomahawk flying to the tree, clock during the stage. To get the cutting the rope and setting the raft bonus, you have to shoot the five floating down the river towards the plates off the Texas star with the fort. Now it’s time to take care of first five shots from your rifle. the Boca gang. Task # 3: Throw a tomahawk 15 ' and stick it in a 24 " log.

Stage #4 Bill Tell: You’re out hunting buffalo with your old friend, Bill Tell. Just as you come across a herd of buff, along comes a couple of Indians. You and Bill see some movement in the prairie grass. There is a lone Indian brave trying to sneak up on you. Bill gets the jump on him and takes the bow

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cheerfuL GiVers By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life #49907

n February, the Vicar’s and they would also pass the hat Wife and I rode over to again at their State Shoot in May the Texican Rangers 2011, for which I thanked them on I Club. It was a very cool behalf of the Cowboy Memorial February morning for Texas. The Chapel Fund Raising Committee. Cree Vicar Dave, Club was started in 1995 and is When it came time for the SASS Life #49907 located between Fredericksburg Shooter’s Meeting, Dusty Cham - and Comfort, Texas, just off Hwy bers called me up to the platform, also reap generously. 87. They are hosting the Texas introduced me, and let me have a 7 Each man should give what he State Shoot again this year in few minutes to tell about the has decided in his heart to give, not May of 2011 for the third time. (l-r) Handlebar Bob, SASS Life #4650, Chapel. Afterwards, they passed a reluctantly or under compulsion, for Last year they maxed out on Cree Vicar Dave, and Dusty Chambers, bucket around for the collection. God loves a cheerful giver.” shooters, so if you plan on shoot - SASS Life #4408. Dusty Chambers is It was too cold to pass the hat, as Their cheerful response to sup - ing at the SASS Texas State President of the Texican Rangers and the temperature was a hovering in port the SASS Cowboy Memorial Shoot, you might want ta get Handlebar Bob is Vice President. the low 20’s degree Fahrenheit Chapel was uplifting. I would like your reservations in early. Two nicer cowboys you will never meet. range. Praise God, the money col - to thank Madam Ella Moon, Dusty The Club is set off the road through. They have a nice layout of lected was well over $100! It was Chambers, the Texican Rangers quite a-piece on a working cattle permanent stages with plenty of a joy ta see cowpokes so eager to Board, the Texican Rangers club ranch. So, cowpokes are obliged to room for “ACTION.” support such a worthy cause. It members and all those present for see to it the gates that are opened Madam Ella Moon, the Texican says in 2 Corinthians 9:6-7 (NIV): the generous gift to the Chapel. are also shut properly after riding Rangers Treasurer, greeted me at “6 Remember this: Whoever sows God bless you all real good for the registration desk. A more- sparingly will also reap sparingly, your donations. friendly cowgirl one will never and whoever sows generously will [email protected] meet. After signing in, I asked Madam Moon if their Club had taken up a collection for the Cowboy Memorial Chapel. She said there was no reason they couldn’t take one up that very day. So, she marched me right out and intro - duced me to their President, none Madam Ella Moon, SASS Life other than Dusty Chambers. The #56526, is Treasurer of the two of them decided a collection Texican Rangers would be in order for that morning,

The Dentist, Barber, Surgeon This stage is called Stage. They have a barber/dentist “Blazing Saddle.” chair with a surgeon standing by. You get the ride of your life while Operations are very reasonable, shooting the paint off the targets! but anesthesia is extra.

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sass at CABELA ’S By Nota John, SASS #51089

amburg, PA – Ca - boy Chronicle and made bela’s held a NRA him aware of the NY HWeekend February and Germany club list - 5&6, 2011 offering in-store ings. Turns out one of space and a table if SASS the Germany contact was interested in dissemi - persons listed a town nating Cowboy Action near his hometown. Shooting™ information. Of May have a European course we were!!! SASS Cowboy Action Shoot - Headquarters provided ing™ recruit!!! copies of The Cowboy Chroni - Clubs represented cle , membership pamphlets, were The Dakota Bad - condensed category/rules landers, The Three Ami - sheets, stickers, END of gos, and The Blue TRAIL information cards, Mountain Rangers. Ca - and Pennsylvania club loca - bela’s was quite pleased tion flyers as handouts to with the results and interested passerbys. mention was made as to A brisk business oc - a possible return for an curred both days with outside demonstration many people having heard in the warmer weather about Cowboy Action such as what was done Shooting™, but looking for at the Tex and Cat Bal - more information and lou visit July 4 th , 2005. where to observe Cowboy We thank the follow - Action Shooting™. Also ing Cabela’s staff for pro - utilized was a continuous viding us the op por tunity playing video of scenes to promote SASS and Cowboy Action Shoot - from the 2010 Mason/Dixon (Left to right)—Ruger Ron, J.S. Sooner, Mustang Megs, and Two Dancin’ Guns Stampede Northeast Re - ing™—Harold Luther, gional Match to assist in the ex - Germany stop by as he was on an Cowboy Action Shooting™, and Events Co-ordinator, Bruce Bieden - planation of Cowboy Action extended work assignment in was looking for club locations in harn, Store Manager, and Ron Leh, Shooting™. We had a fella from New York State, interested in NY. We supplied him with a Cow - Space Planner.

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City AK CA (continued) alaska 49er’s 1st sat & tripod 907-373-0140 Birchwood Burro Canyon gunslingers 3rd sat don trader 714-827-7360 Meyers Canyon 3rd sun nevada City Peacemakers 3rd sat Marlin schofield 530-265-9213 nevada City golden heart shootist 2nd sat Col. Reed 907-488-3903 Chatanika north County shootist 3rd sat graybeard 760-727-9160 Pala society & last sun assoc. AL shasta Regulators 3rd sat Modoc 530-365-1839 Redding north alabama Regulators 1st sun drake Robey 256-313-0421 woodville Robbers Roost Vigilantes 3rd sat nasty newt 760-375-7618 Ridgecrest alabama Rangers 2nd sun RC Moon 205-410-5707 Brierfield gold Country wild Bunch 3rd sat sutter lawman 530-713-4194 sloughouse Vulcan long Rifles 3rd sat havana Jim 205-979-2931 hoover Kings River Regulators 3rd sun slick Rock 559-299-8669 Clovis gallant gunfighters 3rd sun Buck d. law 256-504-4366 hoover Rooster Russell County Regulators 5th sat will Killigan 706-568-0869 Phenix City south Coast Rangers 3rd sun swifty schofield 805-886-3360 santa Barbara AR Murieta Posse 3rd sun grizzly Peak Jake 530-676-2997 sloughhouse Mountain Valley Vigilantes 1st wkd Christmas Kid 501-625-3554 hot springs Panorama northfield 3rd sun desperado 818-341-7255 sylmar outlaw Camp 2nd & 5th ozark outlaw 501-362-2963 heber springs Raiders sat ukiah gun Club 3rd sun will Bonner 707-462-1466 ukiah white River gang 2nd sat loco toro 870-435-2768 Mountain home Mad River Rangers 4th sat Kid Kneestone 707-445-1981 Blue lake lead slingers 2nd sat dirty dan 479-633-2107 garfield deadwood drifters 4th sat lusty lil 323-353-3898 Piru & 4th Paladin Coyote Valley 4th sat wif 408-448-3256 san Jose sun sharpshooters Judge Parker’s Marshals 3rd sat Reno sparks 918-647-9704 fort smith Pozo River Vigilance 4th sat dirty sally 805-438-4817 santa south fork River 3rd sat Kid thorn 870-488-5447 salem Committee Margarita Regulators California shady ladies 4th sat lady gambler 916-447-2040 sloughhouse true grit sass 4th sun sister sundance 479-970-7042 Belleville hawkinsville Claim 4th sat & lethal les 530-842-4506 Yreka AZ Jumpers 5th sat l’amour white Mountain old west 1st & 3rd sat Mustang lady 928-243-3457 snowflake faultline shootist society 4th sun Querida 831-635-9147 gonzales shootists sue the Range 4th sun grass V. 530-273-4440 grass Valley Rio salado Cowboy action 1st sat a. J. Bob 480-982-7336 Mesa federally shooting society the Cowboys 4th sun Captain Jake 714-318-6948 norco Cowtown Cowboy shooters 1st sun & Barbwire 480-488-3064 Phoenix sloughhouse irregulators 5th sat & sun Badlands Bud 530-677-0368 sloughhouse 3rd sat CO arizona Cowboy shooters 2nd sat Big tim 602-757-3728 Phoenix Colorado Cowboys 1st sat el gato gordo 719-683-6713 lake george association san Juan Rangers 1st sun Kodiak Kid 970-252-1841 Montrose tombstone ghost Rider 2nd sat wily Yankee 520-400-5598 tombstone Colorado shaketails 1st sun Midnite slim 719-660-2742 Ramah outlaws windygap Regulators 1st wkd Piedra Kidd 970-565-9228 Cortez whiskey Row gunslingers 2nd sun turquoise Bill 928-925-7323 Prescott four Corners Rifle and 2nd sun Capt. w. K. 970-565-3840 Cortez Colorado River Regulators 2nd sun Crowheart 928-505-2200 lake havasu Pistol Club Kelso 4th sat Castle Peak wildshots 2nd sun old squinteye 970-524-9348 gypsum Mohave Marshalls 3rd & 5th ol’ doc James 928-753-8038 Kingman Montrose Marshals 2nd sun Big hat 970-249-7701 Montrose sun Ben lomond high Plains 2nd sun sand River slim 303-771-1920 Ramah lake Powell gunslingers 3rd sat Bare fist Jack 928-660-2104 Page drifters los Vaqueros 3rd sat Buckeye Pete 520-548-8298 tucson Rockvale Bunch 3rd sat ghostmaker 719-275-5265 Rockvale tonto Rim Marauders 3rd sun silverado Cid 928-595-1230 Payson Pawnee station 3rd sat Red River 970-225-0545 wellington altar Valley Pistoleros 3rd sun Mean Raylean 520-235-0394 tucson wrangler & 5th sun four Corners gunslingers 3rd sun Cereza slim 970-247-0745 durango arizona Rangers 4th sat whisperin 928-567-9227 Camp Verde thunder Mountain shootists 3rd wkd Pinto Being 970-464-7118 grand Junction Meadows Briggsdale County shootist 4th sat governor 970-656-3851 Briggsdale dusty Bunch old western 4th sat squibber 520-568-2852 Casa grande general shooters northwest Colorado 4th sat sagebrush 970-824-8407 Craig tombstone Buscaderos 4th sat diamond Pak 520-780-4852 tombstone Rangers Burns Colorado River shootists 4th sun Cluelass 928-726-7727 Yuma sand Creek Raiders 4th sun sweet water 303-366-8827 Byers CA Bill sunnyvale Regulators 1st & 3rd shaniko Jack 650-464-3764 Cupertino Black Canyon ghost Riders 4th sun double Bit 970-874-8745 hotchkiss Mon night CT west end outlaws 1st & 3rd Rob Banks 714-206-6893 lytle Creek ledyard sidewinders 1st sat Yosemite gene 860-536-0887 ledyard sat DE silver Queen Mine 1st & 3rd t. e. Kidd 562-598-7771 azusa Padens Posse 3rd sun hazel Pepper 302-422-6534 seaford Regulators sun FL escondido Bandidos 1st sat devil Jack 760-741-3229 escondido gold Coast gunslingers 1st sat l. topay 305-233-5756 fort lauderdale the outlaws 1st sat terrell sackett 916-363-1648 sacramento howey in the hills 1st sat ol glor e 352-455-6508 howey in the lassen Regulators 1st sat Chief wages 530-257-3402 susanville Cowboys hills two Rivers Posse 1st sat & dragon 209-836-4042 Manteca hernando County 1st sun shady Brady 352-686-1055 Brooksville 4th sun Regulators River City Regulators 1st sun Point of orgin 530-304-5616 davis gunslingers 1st sun Macinaw 904-307-3532 st. augustine Mother lode shootist 1st sun sioux City Kid 209-795-4175 Jamestown fort white Cowboy Cavalry 2nd sat Pudy sharp 352-332-6212 fort white society okeechobee Marshals 2nd sat & Kid Celero 561-312-9075 okeechobee hole in the wall gang 1st sun frito Bandito 661-406-6001 Piru 4th sun 5 dogs Creek 1st wknd Mad dog draper 805-497-2857 Bakersfield okeechobee outlaws 2nd sat & dead waite 863-357-3006 okeechobee Cajon Cowboys 2nd & 4th Pasture Patti 760-956-8852 devore 4th sun sat tater hill gunfighters 2nd sun Judge Jd Justice 941-629-4440 arcadia Chorro Valley Regulators 2nd & 5th Marshal Chance 805-460-9082 san luis obispo weewahootee Vigilance 2nd sun weewahootee 407-857-1107 orlando sun Committee shasta Regulators of hat 2nd sat Cayenne Pepper 530-275-3158 Burney Panhandle Cowboys 2nd sun Panhandle B. 850-432-1968 Pensacola Creek Kid Coyote Valley Cowboys 2nd sat Bad eye Bobolu 408-848-5301 Morgan hill Big Bend Bushwhackers 2nd sun sixpence Kid 850-459-1107 tallahassee guns in the sun 2nd sat Johnny 2moons 760-346-0972 Palm springs southwest florida 3rd sat Jed lewis 609-335-0346 Punta gorda Buffalo Runners 2nd sat grizzly Peak 530-676-2997 Rail Road flat gunslingers Jake lake County Pistoleros 3rd sat deadwood woody 352-357-3065 tavares dulzura desperados 2nd sat hashknife willie 619-271-1481 Miakka Misfits 3rd sun deadlee headlee 941-650-8920 Myakka City California Rangers 2nd sat Paniolo lady 916-483-9198 sloughhouse Cowford Regulators 4th sat J Bird Blue 904-778-4184 Jacksonville double R Bar Regulators 2nd sun five Jacks 760-949-3198 lucerne Valley indian River Regulators 4th sat Belligerent 321-403-2940 Palm Bay high sierra drifters 2nd sun grizzly Peak 530-676-2997 Railroad flat orney Bob Jake five County Regulators 4th sun dead shot scott 239-261-2892 Punta gorda Richmond Roughriders 2nd sun Buffy 650-994-9412 Richmond doodle hill Regulators 4th sun dave smith 813-645-3828 Ruskin the over the hill gang 2nd sun Kooskia Kid 818-566-7900 sylmar antelope Junction Rangers fri nite & Mayeye Rider 727-736-3977 Pineallas Park Bridgeport Vigilantes 3rd sat Bee Blest 760-932-1139 Bridgeport 2nd sat

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City GA IN (continued) River Bend 1st sat done gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville deer Creek Regulators 4th sun doc Molar 765-948-3844 Jonesboro american old west 1st sat Josey Buckhorn 423-236-5281 flintstone wildwood wranglers 4th sun Voodooman 219-872-2721 Michigan City Cowboys westside sportsman’s Club as sch snakebite 812-626-0890 evensville Valdosta Vigilance 1st sat Big Boyd 229-244-3161 Valdosta indiana Black Powder guild as sch C. C. top 574-354-7186 etna green Committee KS lonesome Valley 1st sun wishbone 478-922-9384 warner Robins Butterfield gulch gang 1st sun Kanasa flatlander 785-493-5682 Chapman Regulators hooper Powder Creek Cowboys 2nd & 4th sat eldorado wayne 913-686-5314 lenexa ’s immortals 2nd sat easy Rider 770-954-9696 griffin & 4th wed Camden County Cowboys 2nd sat Christian 912-227-5683 Kingsland Mill Brook wranglers 2nd sun grandpa Buckten 785-421-2537 hill City Mortician Millbrook Pale Riders 2nd sat will Killigan 706-568-0869 Mauk free state Rangers 3rd & 5th sun Buffalo Phil 913-904-8733 Parker Mule Camp Cowboys 3rd sat Marshal dan 770-833-7505 Covington sand hill Regulators 3rd sat MoundRidge 620-345-3151 hutchinson Cutter goat Roper tennessee Mountain 3rd sat trail Bones 423-842-6116 Ringgold Capital City Cowboys 4th sun top 785-313-0894 topeka Marauders Rowdies 4th sun Y. s hardey 620-367-2636 wichita Cherokee Cowboys 4th sat Joe west 706-864-9019 gainesville KY HI Kentucky Regulators 1st sat derby 270-489-2089 Boaz Maui Marshals 1st & 3rd sat Bad Burt 808-875-9085 Maui hooten old town 1st sat Bullfork shotgun 606-782-0239 Mckee single action shootist of 4th sun Brandebuck 808-351-9260 honolulu Regulators Red hawaii Knob Creek gunfighters 1st sun Cumberland 502-548-3860 west Point IA guild drifter fort des Moines Rangers 1st sun Pit Mule 515-205-0557 indianola green River gunslingers 2nd sat Yak 270-792-9001 Bowling green outlaw’s Run 2nd sun Capt. Jim 712-623-5726 Red oak Rockcastle Rangers 4th sat Bitter Creek Jack 270-749-4101 Park City Midnight levisa fork lead slingers 4th sun escopeta Jake 606-631-4613 Pikeville Zen shootists 4th sat Renegade slim 515-987-0721 nevada fox Bend Peacemakers 4th sun tocala sam 859-552-9000 wilmore ID LA gunslingers of flaming 1st sat Jughandle Jack 208-634-3121 Council Border Vigilantes 1st sat Cooper York 504-722-8988 sorrento heart Ranch up the Creek gang 2nd & hardly able 337-474-5058 lake Charles Border Marauders 1st sun & Mud Marine 208-597-6191 Bonners ferry 4th sat 4th sat Bayou Bounty hunters 2nd sat soiled dove 985-796-9698 amite el Buscaderos 2nd & 4th oddman 208-437-0496 spirit lake Cypress Creek Cowboys 2nd sat Mav dutchman 318-805-4840 smokey shane sun Cajun Cowboy shooters 2nd sun durango dan 225-752-2288 Baton Rouge northwest shadow Riders 2nd sat silverado Belle 208-743-5765 lewiston society southern idaho Rangers 2nd sat gordo Perro 208-234-7121 Pocatello guns of sabine Pass 3rd sat hobbel-a-long 337-463-5690 hineston Rough Riders 2nd sun John Bear 208-562-1914 Boise grand ecore Vigilantes 3rd sat ouachita Kid 318-932-6637 natchitoches 3rd sat Jackson hole Regulators 4th sat slick McClade 318-395-2224 Quitman hells Canyon ghost Riders 3rd sat J.P. sloe 208-798-0826 Moscow deadwood Marshals 4th sat Barkeeps 225-715-8711 sorrento twin Butte Bunch 3rd sat idaho Packer 208-589-5941 Rexburg MA Panhandle Regulators 3rd sun halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis orchards Cape Cod Cowboys 4th sat Curly Jay Brooks 508-477-9771 Mashpee snake River western 4th sat Missy Mable 208-731-6387 Jerome harvard ghost Riders as sch Yosemite Kid 781-373-2411 harvard shooting society danvers desperados as sch Cyrus Cy Klopps 781-667-2857 Middleton IL gunnysackers sat nantucket dawn 781-749-6951 scituate shady Creek shootists 1st & 4th dapper dan 309-734-2324 little York MD sun Porter eas’dern shore Renegades 1st sat teton tracy 302-378-7854 sudlersville the lakewood Marshal’s 1st sat Pine Ridge Jack 618-838-9410 Cisne thurmont Rangers 1st sun Cody Conagher 304-258-1419 thurmont Rangeless Riders 1st sat the inspector 618-345-5048 highland Monocacy irregulars 2nd sat Church Key 304-229-8266 frederick Boneyard Creek 1st sun wild Pike 217-356-5136 newman damascus wildlife Rangers 4th sat Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 damascus Regulators ME Kishwaukee Valley 1st sun grasshopper 815-758-1946 sycamore Big Pine Bounty hunters as sch Ripley scrounger 207-876-3541 willmantic Regulators BCi Capitol City Vigilance as sch Mark lake 207-622-9400 augusta the free grazers 2nd sat fossil Creeek Bob 217-821-3134 effingham Committee tri County Cowboys 2nd sat sierra hombre 815-967-6333 hazelhurst hurricane Valley Rangers as sch leo 207-829-3092 falmouth Kaskaskia Cowboys 2nd sat Beaucoup Joe 618-521-3619 sparta MI Bristol Plains Pistoleros 2nd sun huckleberry 815-675-2566 Bristol Rockford Regulators 1st sat no Cattle 616-363-2827 Rockford illinois River City 2nd sun granville stuart 309-243-7236 east Peoria River Bend Rangers 2nd sat Pitmaster 574-276-8805 niles Regulators double Barrel gang 2nd sat. dakota fats 269-721-8190 hastings Vermilion River long 2nd sun lead Poison lar 815-875-3674 leonore Butcher Butte Bunch 2nd sun grubby hardrock 810-750-0655 fenton Riders sucker Creek saddle & 3rd sat Kid al fred 989-832-8426 Breckenridge nason Mining Company 3rd & 5th sat diggins dave 618-438-6401 Benton gun Club Regulators Chippewa Regulators 3rd sat lazy eye Ben 906-632-2720 sault ste. Marie Mclean County 3rd sat Marshall Rd 309-379-4331 Bloomington hidden Valley Cowboys 3rd sun saulk Valley 269-651-5197 sturgis Peacemakers stubby litchfield sportsman’s Club 3rd sat Ross haney 618-667-9819 litchfield eagleville Cowboys 4th sat trusty Rusty 231-342-6462 Central lake illowa irregulars 3rd sun shamrock sis 309-798-2635 Milan Johnson Creek Regulators 4th sat gabby glenn 248-474-0590 Plymouth fort Beggs defenders 3rd sun torandado 815-302-8305 Plainfield wolverine Rangers as sch R.J. law 248-828-7714 Port huron long nine Cowboys 4th & 5th sun Postman 217-415-1118 loami Rocky River Regulators as sch terrebonne Bud 248-709-5254 utica Marion County Renegades 4th sat shell stuffer 618-266-9813 sandoval saginaw field & as sch Bad River 989-585-3292 saginaw good guys Posse 4th sun dangerous 815-245-7264 Rockford stream Club Marty denny lapeer County sportsmans sun flat water 314-378-5689 attica IN Club wranglers Johnny daleville desperados 1st sat flat water Bob 765-284-0405 daleville MN Cutter’s Raiders 1st sat Midnite desperado 574-893-7214 warsaw Cedar Valley Vigilantes 1st & 3rd sat d M Yankee 612-701-9719 Morristown atlanta Cattle Company 2nd sat Bear Creek 765-652-1525 atlanta Crow River Rangers 1st sun Cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 howard lake Reverend lone Rock Rangers 2nd sat Red dutchman 651-402-0368 Rosemount Pleasant Valley Renegades 2nd sat nomore slim 812-839-3052 Canaan lookout Mountain 2nd sat wagonmaster 218-744-4694 Virginia schuster’s Rangers 2nd sun Coal Car Kid 219-759-3498 Chesterton gunsmoke society Pine Ridge Regulators 3rd sat Mountain 765-795-3016 Cloverdale granite City gunslingers 2nd sat & Rev. Cepheus 320-267-6576 saint Cloud Preacher 5th sat wolff’s Rowdy Rangers 3rd sat Justice d. 574-264-2012 Bristol fort Belmont Regulators 2nd sun Mule town Jack 507-840-0883 Jackson spencer east grand forks Rod & 3rd sun BB gunner 218-779-8555 east grand Circle R Cowboys 3rd sat Mustang Bill 219-279-2781 Brookston gun Club forks wabash Rangers 4th sat henry Remington 217-267-2820 Cayuga ike’s Clantons 4th sun dawgnapper 320-275-2052 new ulm starke County desert 4th sat whip Mccord 219-942-5859 Knox MO Red Brush Raiders 4th sat doc goodluck 812-721-1188 newburgh the ozark Posse 1st sat tightwad swede 417-846-5142 Cassville

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City MO (continued) NV (continued) Rocky Branch Rangers 1st sun iza littleoff 816-524-1462 higginsville eldorado Cowboys 1st wkd Charming 702-565-3736 Boulder City west Plaines waddies 2nd & 5th sat Buckshot Baby 417-284-1432 tecumseh fort halleck Volunteers 2nd & 4th green springs 775-753-8203 elko Moniteau Creek River 2nd sun doolin Riggs 573-687-3103 fayette sat thomsen Raiders lone wolf shooters 2nd & 5th Penny 775-727-4600 Pahrump gateway shootist society 3rd sun Bounty seeker 636-464-6569 st. louis sun Pepperbox Central ozarks western 3rd sun X s Chance 573-765-5483 st. Robert nevada Rangers Cowboy 2nd sun Cross Keystone 702-506-7023 Jean shooters action shooting society southern Missouri Rangers 4th wkd smokie 417-759-9114 willard Roop County Cowboy 2nd sun Russ t. Chambers 775-747-1426 sparks Mississippi Peacemakers 3rd sat squinter 601-825-8640 Mendenhall shooters assn. Mississippi River Rangers 4th & 5th sat easy lee 662-838-7451 Byhalia silver state shootists 3rd sun tahoe Bill 775-586-9178 Carson City MT desert desperados 3rd sun Buffalo sam 702-459-6454 las Vegas honorable Road agents 1st sat diamond Red 406-685-3618 ennis silver City shooters society 4th sun iona Vequero 775-764-0257 indian springs shooting society NY sun River Rangers shooting 1st sun & Jeb stuart 406-727-7625 simms alabama gunslingers 1st sat Bum thumb 585-343-3906 alabama society 4th sat tioga County Cowboys 1st sat dusty drifter 607-659-3819 owego gallatin Valley Regulators 2nd sat gooch hill drifter 406-763-4268 logan Regulators 1st sun Judge Zaney grey 845-352-7921 Chester Rocky Mountain Rangers 2nd wkd Jocko 406-847-0745 noxon Pathfinder Pistoleros 1st sun sonny 315-695-7032 fulton Bigfork Buscaderos 3rd sat Bodie Camp 406-883-6797 Bigfork Crumhorn Mountain 1st sun lefty Cooper 607-547-6008 Maryland last Chance handgunners 3rd sat Bocephus Bandito 406-439-4476 Boulder Cowboys Custer County stranglers 3rd sat hartshot 406-232-0727 Miles City salt Port Vigilance Comm. 2nd sat twelve Bore 585-613-8046 holley 4th sat Backstrap Bill 406-652-6158 Billings Bar-20 2nd sat Badlands Buck 315-637-3492 west eaton Peacemakers Border Rangers 2nd sun dammit dick 607-724-6216 greene lincoln County Regulators 4th sat gideon withette 406-250-4790 eureka hole in the wall gang 3rd sat el fusilero 631-864-1035 Calverton NC diamond four 3rd sat Kayutah Kid 607-796-0573 odessa neuse River Regulators 1st & 3rd sat Paddi Macgarrett 910-938-3682 new Bern Circle K Regulators 3rd sun smokehouse dan 518-885-3758 Ballston spa old hickory Regulators 1st sat wendover Kid 252-908-0098 Rocky Mount d Bar d wranglers 4th sat Captain M.a.f 845-226-8611 wappingers fall old north state Posse 1st sat tracker Mike 336-595-8853 salisbury sackets harbor Vigilantes 4th sun Ranger Clayton 315-465-6543 sackets harbor Carolina Rough Riders 1st sun Pecos Pete 704-394-1859 Charlotte Conagher Carolina single action 2nd & 5th Carolina’s 919-383-7567 eden the long Riders 4th sun loco Poco lobo 585-467-4429 shortsville shooting society sun longarm Mythical Rough Riders 5th sun Rev dave Clayton 716-838-4286 hamburg high Country Cowboys 2nd sat wild otter 828-423-7796 asheville the shadow Riders as sch dusty levis 646-284-4010 westhampton Buccaneer Range 2nd sat dodge City 910-270-3351 wilmington Beach Regulators dude east end Regulators last sun diamond Rio 631-585-1936 westhampton Bostic Vigilantes 2th sat Bostic Kid 704-434-2174 Bostic OH gunpowder Creek 3rd sat fannie 828-754-1884 lenoir Big irons 1st sat deadwood stan 513-894-3500 Middletown Regulators Kikinshoot tusco long Riders 1st sat split Rail 330-364-6185 Midvale Cross Creek Cowboys 3rd sat huckleberry Mike 910-980-0572 wagram west Jeff ghostriders 1st sun Col. Cord Mcnalley 614-563-6070 west Jefferson iredell Regulators 4th sat stump water 704-630-9527 statesville firelands Peacemakers 1st wed, Johnny shiloh 440-984-4551 Rochester ND 3rd sat, 5th sun Badlands Bandits 3rd sat Roughrider Ray 701-260-0347 Belfield sandusky County Regulators 2nd sat Curtis Clay 419-836-8760 gibsonburg trestle Valley Rangers as sch doc hell 701-852-1697 Minot shenango River Rats 2nd sat shenango Joe 330-782-0958 Yankee lake dakota Rough Riders as sch RoughRider 701-673-3122 Moffit & last thurs Jim Bob Miami Valley Cowboys 2nd sun Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 Piqua sheyenne Valley Peacekeepers last sat wild River Rose 701-588-4331 Kindred granger hill Regulators 2nd sun Barbwire Pete 740-450-8650 Zanesvill NE scioto territory desperados 3rd & 5th sun Pickaway tracker 740-477-1881 Chillicothe Platte Valley gunslingers 1st sun firewater 308-226-2255 grand island wilmington Rough Riders 3rd sat Paragon Pete 740-626-7667 wilmington alliance Cowboy Club 2nd sun Panhandle slim 308-760-0568 alliance auglaize Rough Riders 3rd sun deputy 419-722-6345 defiance Miles diamond desperado eastern gun Club 2nd sun flint Valdez 712-323-8996 louisville ohio Valley Vigilantes 4th sat d. J. Mcdraw 740-767-2326 Mt. Vernon flat water shootists of the 3rd sun fortyfour 308-383-4605 grand island Central ohio Cowboys 4th sun stagecoach hannah 614-868-9821 Circleville grand island Rifle Club Maggie stonelick Regulators as sch Carson 513-753-6462 Milford NH OK the dalton gang shooting 3rd wkd littleton s. 603-444-6876 dalton Cherokee strip shootists 1st sat Paladenton 405-547-2533 stillwater Club of nh dalton shortgrass Rangers 1st sat & Captain allyn 580-357-5870 grandfield white Mountain Regulators as sch dead head 603-772-2358 Candia 3rd sun Capron Pemi Valley Peacemakers as sch laconia 603-524-2240 holderness tulsey town Cattlemens 2nd sat & Curly thom 918-376-4376 tulsa Merrimack Valley as sch sheriff R. P. 603-345-6876 Pelham association 4th sat Mabry Marauders Bucket gun Club - 2nd sat & lee Roy Rogers 405-799-0381 oklahoma City NJ territorial Marshals 4th sun Jackson hole gang 4th sun Papa grey 732-961-6834 Jackson single action 2nd sun, Burly Bill 918-830-2936 sand springs NM shooting society 3rd sat, 4th wed Magdalena trail drivers 1st & 3rd sat grizzly adams 575-854-2488 Magdalena 5th sun Rio Rancho Regulators 1st & 4th sat sam Brannan 505-400-2468 Rio Rancho tater hill Regulators 3rd sun taos willie 918-355-2849 tulsa otero Practical shooting 1st sat saguaro sam 505-437-3663 la luz horse Ridge Pistoleros 1st & 3rd sun Big Casino 541-389-2342 Bend association Molalla River Rangers 1st sat gold dust Bill 503-705-1211 Canby Buffalo Range Riders 1st sun garrison Joe 505-323-8487 founders Ranch Merlin Marauders 1st sat Molly B. dam 541-479-2928 Merlin Chisum Cowboy gun Club 1st sun two Bit tammy 575-626-9201 Roswell dry gulch desperados 1st sat Runamuck 509-525-2984 Milton Bighorn Vigilantes 2nd sat lawdog Bob 505-883-8829 edgewood freewater lincoln County Regulators 2nd sat John steele 575-937-3023 Ruidoso siuslaw River Rangers 1st sun Johnny Jingos 541-997-6313 florence Rio Vaqueros 2nd sat, anna sassin 575-744-5793 truth or table Rock Rangers 1st sun & Jed i. Knight 541-944-2281 white City 3rd sun Consequences 2nd sat high desert drifters 2nd sun wild shot 505-843-1320 edgewood Pine Mountain Posse 2nd & Juniper Butch 541-416-0361 Bend Rio grande Renegades 2nd wed, english lyn 505-550-9230 albuquerque 4th sunday 3rd sat, 4th sun, Jefferson state Regulators 3rd sat Jed i. Knight 541-944-2281 ashland & 5th sat/ sun oregon trail Regulators 3rd sat willie Killem 541-443-6591 la grande gila Rangers 2nd wkd Chico Cheech 575-388-2531 silver City orygun Cowboys 3rd sat & dog-leg don 702-378-9885 sherwood Monticello Range Riders 3rd & 5th sun J. w. Brockey 575-744-4484 elephant Butte 4th sat seven Rivers Regulators 3rd sat stink Creek Jones 575-885-9879 Carlsbad oregon old west shooting 3rd sun & Mid Valley 541-259-2774 albany Monument springs 4th sat Val darrant 575-370-0650 hobbs society 4th sat drifter Bushwhackers umpqua Regulators 4th sun Big lou 541-484-5900 Roseburg Picacho Posse 4th sat fast hammer 505-647-3434 las Cruces fort dalles defenders 4th sun frisco nell 360-835-5630 the dalles tres Rios Bandidos 4th sun largo Casey 505-330-2489 farmington lewis River Rangers as sch Johnny Colt 503-289-1280 st. helens NV Columbia County Cowboys as sch Kitty Colt 503-642-4120 st. helens high Plains drifters 1st sun irish ike 775-424-2336 fernley

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Contact Phone City PA TX (continued) Perry County Regulators 1st sat tuscarora slim 717-789-3004 ickesburg Cottonwood Creek Cowboys 3rd sat Pecos Cahill 325-575-5039 snyder dry gulch Rangers 1st sat Pepc holic 724-263-1461 Midway willow hole Cowboys 3rd sat & sun Baba looey 979-820-1457 north Zulch factoryville freebooters 1st sun tad sloe 570-489-0652 factoryville texas historical shootist 3rd sun Charles 281-342-1210 Columbus Chimney Rocks Regulators 1st sun hattie hubbs 814-696-5669 hollidaysburg society goodnight Conestoga wagoneers 1st sun no Change 215-431-2302 southampton trinity Valley Regulators 3rd sun Byron wells 972-206-2624 Mnasfield Boot hill gang of topton 1st sun lester Moore 610-704-6792 topton Badlands Bar 3 3rd wkd t-Bone dooley 903-272-9283 Clarksville whispering Pines Cowboy 1st sun Mac traven 570-723-8885 wellsboro Butterfield trail Regulators 4th sat texas slim 325-668-4884 abilene Committee huaco Rangers 4th sat Blueeyed Bear 254-715-0746 China spring logans ferry Regulators 2nd sat Mariah Kid 412-607-5313 Plum Borough green Mountain Regulators 4th sat singin’ Zeke 830-693-4215 Marble falls heidelberg lost dutchmen 2nd sat ivory Rose 717-627-0694 schaefferstown Purgatory Ridge Rough 4th sat armed to the 806-777-6182 slaton westshore Posse 2nd sun hud McCoy 717-683-2632 new Riders teeth Cumberland tejas Pistoleros 4th sat & texas Paladin 713-690-5313 eagle lake River Junction shootist society 3rd sat deputy Keck 724-423-6255 donegal sun Jefferson outlaws 3rd sat oracle Jones 410-239-6795 Jefferson tin star texans 4th sat. Mickey 830-685-3464 fredericksburg easton greenhorns 3rd sat Ragweed 610-847-2798 lower saucon Valley Vigilantes 4th wkd Billy Bob evans 972-393-2882 Cleburne township texas tenhorns shooting Club last wkd Cole Bluesteele 817-577-1854 greenville Blue Mountain Rangers 3rd sun Cathy fisher 610-488-0619 hamburg UT Matamoras Mavericks 3rd sun hammerin steel 570-296-5853 Milford three Peaks Rangers 1st & 3rd sat Curly Jim whiskus 435-590-9873 Cedar City silver lake Bounty hunters 3rd sun Marshal t. J. 570-663-3045 Montrose Big hollow Bandits 1st sat P.J. McCarthy 435-671-1929 heber Buckshot north Rim Regulators 1st sat autum Rose 435-644-5053 Kanab Purgatory Regulators 3rd wkd dry gulch 814-827-2120 titusville Copenhagen Valley 1st sat lead Culpepper 801-627-4692 Mantua geezer Regulators elstonville hombres 4th sun Basket lady 717-949-3970 Manheim wasatch summit 1st sun Boots Rob 435-649-3625 Park City el Posse grande 4th sun Black hills Barb 570-538-9163 Muncy Valley Regulators stewart’s Regulators 4th sun sodbuster Burt 724-479-8838 shelocta dixie desperados 2nd &4th sat Clark Poulton 435-688-1699 st. george RI Rio Verde Rangers 2nd sat doc nelson 435-564-8210 green River lincoln County lawmen 4th sun wyoming Blink 401-385-9907 foster deseret historical shootist 2nd sat Pronghorn Pete 801-498-7654 Kaysville SC society Palmetto Posse 1st sat dun gamblin 803-422-5587 Columbia hobble Creek wranglers 2nd sat hobble Creek 801-489-7681 springville Piedmont Regulators 2nd sat Chase Randall 864-637-8873 anderson Marshall hurricane Riders 3rd sat saloon Keeper 843-361-2277 aynor Cache Valley Vaqueros 2nd sat. logan law 435-787-8131 logan savannah River Rangers 3rd sun surly dave 803-892-2812 gaston utah territorial 3rd & Jubal o. sackett 801-944-3444 salt lake City geechee gunfighters 4th sat edisto ike 843-869-2429 Ridgeville gunslingers 5th sat greenville gunfighters 4th sun Cowboy Junky 864-414-5578 greenville Mesa Marauders gun Club 3rd sat Copper Queen 435-979-4665 lake Powell SD diamond Mountain Rustlers 3rd sat Cinch 435-724-2575 Vernal Black hills shootist 3rd sun hawkbill smith 605-342-8946 Pringle wahsatch desperados 4th sat indiana Kid 801-299-1094 fruit heights association Castle gate Posse 4th sat Rowdy hand 435-637-8209 Price Bald Mountain Renegades as sch hilltop Kid 605-392-2319 faulkton VA TN Pungo Posse Cowboy 1st sat V. B. southpaw 757-471-6190 waverly Bitter Creek Rangers 1st sat silver stallion 931-707-9452 Crossville action Club greene County Regulators 1st sat Mort dooley 423-335-0847 Rogersville liberty long Riders 1st sun thunder Colt 540-296-0772 Bedford wartrace Regulators 1st sat & will Reily 615-948-4143 wartrace Cavalier Cowboys 1st sun Kuba Kid 804-270-9054 hanover County 3rd sat Virginia City Marshals 1st tues humphrey hook 703-801-3507 fairfax Memphis gunslingers 2nd sat loco Perro 662-838-9803 arlington Blue Ridge Regulators 2nd sun Bad Company 540-886-3374 lexington oRsa Cowboys 2nd sat Keystone 865-755-2567 oak Ridge K.C.’s Corral 3rd sat Virginia Rifleman 804-550-2242 Mechanicsville tennessee Mountain 3rd sat double Barrel 423-593-3767 Chattanooga Mattaponi sundowners 3rd sun & flatboat Bob 804-785-2575 west Point Marauders 4th sat highland Regulators 3rd, 4th & iron Maiden 423-628-2715 winfield Bend of trail 4th sun Cavern Bill 540-380-4965 Roanoke 5th wkd Rivanna Ranger Company as sch Virginia Ranger 434-973-8759 Charlottesville ocoee Rangers 4th sat ocoee Red 423-476-5303 Cleveland stovall Creek Regulators as sch Brizco-Z 434-929-1063 lynchburg smoky Mountain shootist as sch Jim Mayo 865-300-4666 lenoir City VT society Verdant Mountain 2nd sun snake-eye alger 802-476-6247 st. Johnsbury smokey Mountain shootist as sch tennessee 865-986-5054 Varies Vigilantes society tombstone WA TX northeast washington 1st wkd a. t. Mcgee 509-684-2325 Colville texas troublemakers 1st sat lefty tex larue 903-539-7234 Brownsboro Regulators texas Riviera Pistoleros 1st sat longstar 361-334-1978 Corpus Christi olympic Peninsula strait 1st sun doc neeley 360-417-0230 Port angeles alamo area Moderators 1st sat tombstone Mary 210-493-9320 san antonio shooters south texas Pistolaros 1st sat Cibolo sam 210-213-7746 san antonio Renton united Cowboy 1st wkd Jess ducky 425-271-9286 Renton texas Peacemakers 1st sat deadeye greg 903-593-8215 tyler action shooters orange County Regulators 1st sat & texas gator 409-243-3477 orange windy Plains drifters 2nd & 4th sat hopalong hoot 509-299-6296 Medical lK 3rd sun wolverton Mountain Peace 2nd sat hellfire 360-513-9081 ariel Buck Creek Bandoleros 1st sat & hoofprint Prine 254-897-7328 nemo Keepers 3rd wkd Pataha Rustlers 2nd sat doc day 509-382-4898 dayton Comanche trail shootists 1st sat & dee horne 432-557-6598 Midland Mima Marauders 2nd sat okie sawbones 360-705-3601 olympia 5th sat smokey Point desperados 2nd sun Mudflat Mike 425-335-5176 arlington Plum Creek Carriage & 1st sat sun delta Raider 512-376-2602 lockhart Colville guns and Roses 2nd sun Cheyence sadie 509-684-3632 Colville shooting society apple Valley Marshals 3rd sat silent sam 509-884-3875 east wenatchee el Vaqueros 1st sun tom Burden 254-55-7240 Breckenridge Panhandle Regulators 3rd sun halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis orchards thunder River Renegades 1st wkd two spurs 936-273-1851 Magnolia Black River Regulators 4th sat Montana slim 360-754-4328 littlerock Concho Valley shooters 2nd sat Roamin shields 325-656-1281 san angelo Custer Renegades 4th sun Joe Cannuck 360-676-2587 Custer Bounty hunters 2nd sat Cable lockhart 806-299-1192 levelland Poulsbo Pistoleros 4th sun sourdough george 360-830-0100 Poulsbo travis County Regulators 2nd sat Cherokee granny 979-561-6202 smithville Rattlesnake gulch last sat Ricochet Robbie 509-628-0889 Benton City lone star frontier 2nd wkd long Range Rick 817-980-7206 Cleburne Rangers shooting Club Beazley gulch Rangers last sun an e. di 509-787-1782 Quincy texican Rangers 2nd wkd dusty Chambers 830-377-6331 fredericksburg WI oakwood outlaws 2nd wkd texas alline 903-545-2252 oakwood Rock River Regulators 1st & 3rd sat stoney Mike 608-868-5167 Beloit Canadian River Regulators 2nd, 3rd, adobe walls 806-679-5824 Clarendon western wisconsin wild 2nd sat sierra Jack 608-792-1494 holmen 5th sat shooter Bunch Cassidy old fort Parker Patriots 3rd wkd slowaz Molasses 254-412-0904 groesbeck Crystal River gunslingers 2nd sun ghost Chaser 715-281-7823 waupaca Big thicket outlaws 3rd sat shynee graves 409-860-5526 wisconsin old west 2nd sun Blackjack Martin 715-949-1621 Boyceville tejas Caballeros 3rd sat whiskey Runner 512-288-3399 Johnson City shootist 4th sat gruesome gulch gang 3rd sat eli Blue 806-293-2909 Plainview liberty Prairie Regulators 3rd sat dirty deeds 920-229-5833 Ripon san antonio Rough Riders 3rd sat tombstone Mary 210-493-9320 san antonio hodag County Cowboys 3rd sun hodag Bob 715-550-8337 Rhinelander To update your SASS Affiliated Club Listing &/or Annual Match please contact Slipnoose at the SASS Office ph: (877) 411-7277 or [email protected] VisiT us aT sassNeT .com May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 99

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City WV FRANCE (continued) dawn ghost Riders 1st sun Coffee Bean 304-327-9884 hinton Club de tir sportif de as sch Major John brisset37@hot tours frontier Regulators 2nd sat Captain tay 304-265-5748 thorton touraine lawson mail.fr the Railtown Rowdys 2nd sun Miss Print 304-589-6162 Bluefield Cas/sass france as sch John Peacemaker 33 4 4273 9157 Varies Rocky holler Regulators 3rd sun Jessee earp 304-425-2023 Princeton GERMANY Kanawha Valley Regulators 3rd wkd eddie Rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor germany territory Regulators as sch westphalian Phil 49 2921671814 Varies Cowboy action shooting 4th sun Jackson 540-678-0735 largent sass–europe Monday niers River Kid 49-2823-98080 wegberg sports Jail Bird’s Company Monday orlando a Brick 49 2131 742 3065 wegberg WY Bond Cheyenne Regulators 1st sat deputy Cuny 307-634-2449 Cheyenne Cas–europe wed hurricane irmi 49-2823-5807 Bocholt nRw Colter’s hell Justice 1st sat Yakima Red 307-254-2090 Various sass germany wed Rhine River Joe 49-2823-5807 spork Committee wsas ITALY Bessemer Vigilance 1st sun & smokewagon 307-472-1926 Casper old gunners shooting Club- as sch Renato anese 33 5-124-5391 toppo di Committee 3rd sat Bill western shootist Posse travesio green hearts Regulator 1st sun Marshal steven 39-0742-24180 trevi high lonesome drifters 2nd sat Kari lynn 307-587-2946 Cody gardiner southfork Vigilance 2nd wkd wennoff 507-332-5035 lander fratelli della Costa onlus 3rd sat oversize 35 05-642-4677 livorno Committee wsas halfcock lassiter fan shooting Club 3rd sun ivan Bandito 39 34 7043 0400 Mazzano Powder River Justice 3rd sun doc fehr 307-683-3320 Buffalo old west shooting society as sch alchimista 39-3342068337 italy Committee wsas italy donkey Creek shootists 4th sun Poker Jim 307-660-0221 gillette Maremma Bad lands as sch alameda slim alamedaslim@ siena snake River Rowdies as sch sheriff J. R. Quigley 307-733-4559 Jackson Riders owss.it Canne Roventi last sun Valdez s.ottaviani@ filottrano univpm.it International honky tonk Rebels last sun Kaboom andy 39 33 5737 8551 Vigevano wild west Rebels sun Bill Masterson [email protected] Malegno-Bs DOWN UNDER LUXEMBOURG AUSTRALIA sass – luXeMBouRg as sch smiley Miles 35 26 2128 0606 Varies gold Coast gamblers 1st & 3rd dagger Jack 61-7-5537-5857 gold Coast Qld NETHERLANDS sat sass netherlands as sch lightning anja 31 5 1759 2120 leeuwarden adelaide Pistol & shooting 1st sat & lobo Malo 61-8-2890606 Korunye s.a NORTHERN IRELAND Club 3rd sun Kells County Regulators 1st sat independence 28 9336 8004 Varies flint hill Prospectors 2nd sat Judge Ruger 61 4 1838 3299 glenlogie ViC Carroll little River Raiders 3rd sun lazy dave 61 3 4037 77926 little River ViC NORWAY ssaa-sasa little River 3rd sun tiresome 61 2 5978 0190 Melbourne ViC sass norway as sch Charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 loten Raiders single action Club Quantrill Raiders sun Charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 loten Cowboy action shooters of 3rd wknd i.d. 61-2-9975-7983 teralba nsw schedsmoe County Rough thurs Jailbird 47-6399-4279 lillestrom australia Riders shooting Club 4th sun duke York 61-3-9551-2902 drouin ViC SERBIA sasa single action sat/sun 61-7-4695-2050 Millmerran Qld union of western shooters as sch hombre des 63 721 6934 humska shooting-australia of serbia nudos NEW ZEALAND SWEDEN trail Blazers gun Club 1st sun ernie southpaw 64-3-755-7654 Mill town sass sweden as sch wild Bull 46 5861 2045 Varies Bullet spittin sons o’ thunder 2nd sat Billy deadwood 64-6-3564720 Palmerston n. SWITZERLAND wairarapa Pistol and 2nd sun doc hayes 64 6 379 6692 gladstone old west shooting society as sch hondo Janssen 44 271 9947 Zurich shooting Club INTERNATIONAL frontier & western 2nd sun souther Cross 64 6 379 8086 gladstone CANADA shooting sports assoc. islington sportmen’s Club as sch hawkfeathers 905-936-2129 humber on tararua Rangers 3rd sun J.e.B. stuart 64 6 379 6436 Carterton Victoria frontier shootists as sch haweater hal 250-920-8707 Vitoria BC western Renegades 4th sat Bolton 64 2 7249 6270 wanganui haha Robbers Roost 1st sat R.t. ways 905-627-4123 ancaster on sass – Pistol new Zealand as sch tuscon the terrible 64 3 204 2089 Varies Red Mountain Renegades 1st sun Preacher flynn 604-820-1564 Mission BC t. locke EUROPE Barrie gun Club 2nd & northern 705-435-2807 Barrie on AUSTRIA sweetwater gunslingers as sch fra diabolo office@sass- Vienna 4th sat Crow austria.at Beau Bassin Range Riders 2nd sat frenchy Cannuck 506-3125-0455 Riverview nB CZECH REPUBLIC lambton sportsman’s Club 2nd sat Clay Creek 519-542-4644 st. Clair on association of western shooters as sch thunderman 420-603-222-400 Prelouc wentworth shooting sports 2nd sun stoney Creek 905-664-3217 hamilton on Club DENMARK association of danish western as sch Mrs. stowaway 45 602 013 65 greve Valley Regulators 3rd sat high Country 250-334-3479 Courtenay BC shooters amigo danish Black Powder federation as sch slim dane 45-561-465-58 Varies Prairie dog Rebels 3rd sat Valley Boy 519-673-5648 london on Valley Regulators 3rd sat. high Country 250-334-3479 Courtenay BC FINLAND Classic old western society as sch woodbury Kane 358505174659 loppi amigo sass finland as sch woodbury Kane 358505174659 Various nova scotia Cowboy action 3rd sun wounded Belly 902-890-2310 truro, ns shooting Club FRANCE sass – france golden triggers 1st sun Cheyenne little 33-6-7570-3678 Villefrache otter Valley Rod & gun 4th sun Colt McCloud 519-685-9439 straffordville on of freetown Colibris de Rouergue islington sportmen’s Club as sch hawk feathers 905-936-2129 Caledon, on l’arquebuse d’antony 2nd sun Jeppesen 33 1 4661 1798 anthony Blueridge sportsmen’s Club as sch Rebel dale 519-599-2558 Clarksburg on old Pards shooting society as sch Charles allan 33 1 4661 1798 anthony Palmer’s gulch Cowboys as sch Caribou lefty 250-372-0416 heffley Creek BC Jeppesen lasalle waterloo County Revolver as sch Ranger Pappy 519-536-9184 Kitchener on Club de tir Beaujolais as sch Jesse sandwhite jean-claude. Villefranche association Cooper poceblanc@ sur saone Champ de tir saint- as sch Richelieu Mike 450-658-8130 napierville QC orange.fr Jacques-le-Mineur old west french shooters as sch Curly Red Ryder 33 3 8582 0203 Caromb ottawa Valley Marauders as sch Button 514-792-0063 ottawa QC BeRaC as sch Rev. delano l. 33 3 8020 3551 Premeaux alberta frontier shootists as sch Mustang heart 780-464-4600 Rocky Mtn aB oakley Prissey society house Club de tir Brennou as sch french Bob 33 2 4767 5888 Varies Victoria frontier shootists as sch teacher C. 250-592-4311 Victoria BC Reverend oakley’s Cowboy as sch Rev. delano l. 33 3 8020 3551 Varies SOUTH AFRICA Klan oakley western shooters of 3rd sat Richmond P. 27-21-797-5054 Cape town Black Rivers last sun Kid of neckwhite 33 3 8526 3029 Roanne south africa hobson Club de tir de Bernay sat Chriswood 33 2 3245 5900 Bernay Monthly Mounted International sass france - Yellow Rock sat little shooting 33 6 75558063 eCot Missie LEBANON societe de tir Bedoin Ventoux sat-sun sheriff Ch. 33 4 9035 1973 Bedoin sass lebanon – el Rancho as sch Packin Jesse 9611385982 Varies outhpaw sporting Club tir olympique lyonnais sun Barth 33 6 1324 6128 lyon CANADA Club de tri de nuits saint as sch Rev. delano l. 33 3 8020 3551 nuits saint QueMounted shooting as sch dirty owl Bert 819-424-7842 Joliette georges oakley georges association To update your SASS Affiliated Club Listing &/or Annual Match please contact Slipnoose at the SASS Office ph: (877) 411-7277 or [email protected] VisiT us aT sassNeT .com Page 100 Cowboy Chronicle May 2011

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Monthly Mounted IN AZ heartland Peacemakers as sch Rawhidenlace 765-561-2521 fountaintown tombstone ghost Riders 2nd sun dan nabbit 520-456-0423 tombstone MD Mounted Club thurmont Mounted Rangers 3rd sun timber smoke 410-997-9370 thurmont CA ME ghost town Riders 1st sun steely eyes earp 951-737-6596 norco Beaver Creek desperados as sch Jimmy Reb 207-698-4436 Berwick California Range Riders as sch old Buckaroo 408-710-1616 Varies NM CO Buffalo Range Riders 3rd sat ice lady 505-263-5619 founders Revengers of Montezuma 1st sun aneeda huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortez Mounted Ranch FL NY florida outlaws Cowboy 1st & 3rd two gun gina 321-636-5399 ocala island long Riders (the) as sch Mecate Kid 516-610-8166 farmingdale Mounted shooting sat upstate new York smokin’ guns tBa Renegade Roper 518-883-5981 galway Bay area Bandits 3rd sat shootin shoer 813-623-6137 tampa OK ID oklahoma gunslingers as sch ima sandy storm 918-244-8060 Claremore Border Marauders Mounted as sch Bad Buffalo Bob 208-610-8229 eastport WI Renegade Rangers as sch ace Montana 920-960-1714 Ripon

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Dates Contact Phone City State Match Dates Contact Phone City State USA 2011 MAY (continued) MAY fast and furious 28 - 29 goat Roper & 620-345-3151 hutchinson Ks SASS Georgia State 05 - 08 done gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville ga little Big Match 28 - 29 will sackett 360-786-0199 little Rock wa Championship JUNE Round Up at River Bend utah summer games SASS Georgia State Black 05 - 05 done gone 770-3616966 dawsonville ga the Quick and the dead 01 - 04 nevada law dawg 435-590-3063 Cedar City ut Powder Championship Rocky Mountain Regional Raid 02 - 05 303-745-2529 Byers Co ambush at Ricochet Junction 06 - 08 Capt. Morgan 603-772-5041 Colville wa SASS North Carolina State 02 - 05 J. M. Brown 919-266-3751 salisbury nC Rum Championship The Uprising SASS Kentucky State 07 - 08 appalachian 859-749-9292 McKee KY at Swearing Creek Championship alan SASS Arkansas State 03 - 05 sister sundance 479-970-7042 Belleville aR Hooten Holler Round-Up Championship – Pursuit By SASS Texas State Championship 12 - 15 dusty 830-377-6331 fredericksburg tX Rooster Cogburn’s Posse Comancheria Days Chambers SASS Iowa State Championship 03 - 05 Pit Mule 515-205-0557 indianola ia SASS Arizona State Blackpowder 13 - 15 silverado Cid 928-595-1230 Payson aZ Shoot out at Coyote Gulch Shootout Tonto Rim Smoke Out SASS MA, CT, and RI State 03 - 05 Barrister Bill 978-667-2219 harvard Ma fracas at frisco 14 - 14 dirty dan Paladin 479-633-2107 garfield aR Championship Paladin Shootout at Sawyer Flats SASS California State Black 14 - 15 Just george 760-677-9109 Ridgecrest Ca SASS Oregon State 03 - 05 texas Jack 503-907-6522 Bend oR Powder Shootout - Resurrection WILD BUNCH Championship Morales at Robbers Roost SASS Colorado State and 09 - 12 Colorado Black 970-260-5423 whitewater Co Middle of the Road 14 - 15 John Bear 208-562-1914 Kuna id Wild Bunch Championship Jack Blackhawk war 14 - 14 stoneface 801-489-7863 springville ut SASS Wyoming State 09 - 11 Joe Cross 307-587-2946 Cody wY daguerrean Championship Cody’s SASS Virginia Black Powder 14 - 14 Missouri Marshal 757-471-3396 west Point Va Wild West Shootout Shootout Smoke on the Mattponi IV SASS State Championship 10 - 12 el dorado wayne 913-686-5314 lenexa Ks SASS - State Wild Bunch 19 - 19 Boben weev 618-632-0712 sparta il SASS Ohio State Championship 10 - 12 Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 Piqua oh SASS Illinois State Championship 19 - 22 Beaucoup Joe 618-521-3619 sparta il Shootout at Hard Times – Spring Roundup at the Gulch seventh Battle of Rogue River 10 - 12 Molly B’ dam 541-479-2928 grants Pass oR shooting shindig 20 - 22 stink Creek Jones 575-885-9879 Carlsbad nM Raid on andersonville 10 - 12 Chase Randell 864-637-8873 anderson sC shoot out on the Pecos family day 11 - 11 Calamity dame 928-537-0832 taylor aZ shootout at leadville 20 - 22 Colt starbucks 410-902-7939 Jefferson Pa shootout at the Bar M Ranch 11 - 11 Buckshot Baby 417-284-1432 tecumseh Mo SASS West Virginia Blackpowder 20 - 22 eddie Rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor wV western states Championship 16 - 19 dutch dalton mmuel65744@ fernley nV State Championship aol.com Smoke over Buffalo Flats ambush at hat Creek 17 - 19 Modac 530-365-1839 Burney Ca SASS Alaska State Blackpowder 21 - 21 four Bucks 907-243-0781 anchorage aK Revenge of Montezuma 17 - 19 stumble lenna 970-565-9228 Cortez Co Shootout Smoke in the Greatland SASS Idaho State Black Powder 17 - 18 idahao Rusty 208-745-6150 Rexburg id shootout at oyster flats 21 - 21 Curly Jay Brooks 508-641-3606 Mashpee Ma Shootout Bucket SASS NORTHWEST 21 - 22 frisco nell 360-835-5630 the dalles oR Black Powder Blowout TERRITORIAL BLACK POWDER SASS North/South Dakota 17 - 19 wild River Rose 701-588-4331 Kindred nd SHOOTOUT Smoke in the Gorge State Championship Peace in the Valley SASS Utah State Blackpowder 21 - 21 Rowdy hand 435-637-8209 Price ut thunder in the Valley 17 - 19 Johnny shiloh 440-984-4551 amherst oh Shootout-The Castle Gate Smudge Match oregon trail shootout 17 - 19 t J Maverick 541-910-4244 la grange oR thunder in the Brush 21 - 22 Virginia Rifleman 804-550-2242 Mechanicsville Va the dalton gang June shootout 18 - 19 littleon sidecar 603-444-6875 dalton nh SASS Mississippi State 26 - 29 easy lee 662-838-7451 Byhalia Ms dalton Championship – SASS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 19 - 20 sass office 505-843-1320 founders nM Smokin’ Guns at Rabbit Ridge WILD BUNCH Ranch SASS Regional Black Powder 26 - 29 Jubal o. sackett 801-944-3444 salt lake City ut SASS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 20 - 26 sass office 505-843-1320 founders nM Shootout Thunder at Big Salty END of TRAIL Ranch shootout at three fingers saloon 27 - 29 dirty sally 805-438-4817 santa Ca SASS Maryland State 23 - 25 Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 damascus Md Margarita Championship Thunder Valley Days ambush at Mill Creek 27 - 29 ivory Jack 714-739-2721 norco Ca Yellowstone Valley Buffalo stampede 24 - 25 Backstrap Bill 406-652-6158 Billings Mt McCloud gunfight in the Badlands 24 - 26 whisperin wade 541-318-8199 Bend oR end of Road 27 - 29 white eyes 208-731-6387 Jerome id SASS Wisconsin State Black 26 - 26 Blackjack Martin 715-949-1621 Boyceville wi James gang Rides again 27 - 29 shaddai Vaquero 406-231-2329 Park City KY Powder Shootout Smoke in the Hills shootout at Cypress Creek 27 - 29 louisiana lady 318-397-2035 downsville la SASS HIGH PLAINS REGIONAL 30 - 03 Red River 970-225-0545 Cheyenne wY true grit 27 - 29 oregun gus 541-430-1021 Roseburg oR Hell on Wheels wrangler SASS Pennsylvania State 27 - 29 Black hills Barb 570-538-9163 Muncy Valley Pa JULY Championship – SASS Alaska Territorial 01 - 03 tripod 907-373-0140 anchorage aK North Mountain Shoot Out XI Championship – Shootout gunfight on the texas frontier 27 - 29 diablo slim 214-695-1946 greenville tX Under The Midnight Sun SASS Vermont State Championship Railhead 01 - 04 sly Puppy 623-925-2559 williams aZ Green Mountain Mayhem 27 - 29 three Barrel Chris 802-259-2631 st.Johnsbury Vt independence shoot 02 - 02 diamond Red 406-685-3618 ennis Mt open Range 28 - 29 diamond Pak 520-780-4852 tombstone aZ fort halleck days 07 - 09 green springs 775-753-8203 elko nV where the old west stayed Young 28 - 29 sagebrush Burns 970-824-8407 Craig Co thomsen To update your SASS Affiliated Club Listing &/or Annual Match please contact Slipnoose at the SASS Office ph: (877) 411-7277 or [email protected] VisiT us aT sassNeT .com May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 101

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JULY (continued) SEPTEMBER (continued) SASS Alaska State Championship 08 - 10 darlin’ Caroline 907-378-9472 Chatanika aK showdown 30 - 02 Rob Banks 714-206-6893 lytle Creek Ca SASS Montana State 08 - 10 Jeb’s lady 406-727-7625 simms Mt Comanche Moon shootout 30 - 02 dee horne 432-557-6598 Midland tX Championship Shootout On the Sun River OCTOBER the final showdown 08 - 10 d. J. Mcdraw 740-767-2326 Mt. Vernon oh huntsmans wold senior games 03 - 15 Clark Poulton 435-668-1699 st. george ut Renegade 09 - 10 John Bear 208-562-1914 Boise id defent the Roost 06 - 09 Just george 760-677-9109 Ridgecrest Ca second almost annual shooter 10 - 10 sixty-nine Cent 970-339-3650 Briggsdale Co SASS Tennessee State 06 - 08 whiskey hayes 931-684-2709 wartrace tn appreciation BBQ wizard Championship Regulators Reckoning SASS Utah State Championship 14 - 16 Rowdy 435-637-8209 Price ut weekend Roundup 07 - 09 adobe walls shooter 806-679-5824 Clarendon tX Castle Gate Robbery terror in the timbers 08 - 08 Pitmaster 574-276-8805 niles Mi hell on the Prairie 15 - 17 Captain allyn 580-357-5870 lawton oK founders Ranch Match 08 - 09 wild shot 505-843-1320 founders Ranch nM Capron SASS New Jersey State 14 - 16 Peacemaker Reb 908-359-8794 Jackson nJ SASS State Black Powder 16 - 16 snappy lady 717-789-3893 ickesburg Pa Championship Purgatory in The Pines Shootout Smoke on the Ridge wild west extravaganza shootout 14 - 16 Penny Pepperbox 775-727-4600 Pahrump nV SASS New England Regional 21 - 24 Capt. Morgan 603-772-5041 exeter nh los Vaqueros 2 day 15 - 16 Buckeye Pete 520-548-8298 tombstone aZ The Great Nor’easter Rum diamond four Roundup 15 - 16 Kayutah Kid 607-796-0573 odessa nY SASS Oregon State Championship 21 - 24 Big Casino 541-923-3000 Bend oR hanging tree shootout 16 - 16 X s Chance 573-765-5483 st. Robert Mo SASS Indiana State Wild Bunch 22 - 24 Padre Pw 260-414-1098 Jonesboro in West Virginia State Wild Bunch 16 - 17 eddie Rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor wV Championship Hoosier Ambush Championship Bessemer Jail Break 29 - 31 w.t. Cookie 307-577-1639 Casper wY the gunfight Behind the Jersey lilly 20 - 23 Captain Jake 714-318-6948 norco Ca SASS Minnesota State Black 30 - 31 Reverend 320-267-6576 st. 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COMMON SENSE gUNS: AND NONSENSE By Colonel Dan, SASS Lif e/ Regulator #24025

gree. Used to express negation, de - That’s a significant difference lent? Where have many shootings nial, refusal or prohibition” be : isn’t it? occurred? Answer; “gun free zones” “Make: cause to become” in - (6) Guns up; violent crime aka “free fire or killing zones.” And fringed : “To encroach upon some - down. I next compared violent where is violent crime more wide - thing.” Broken; violated; crime rates of all 50 states per spread? Places where gun laws are Another way then to state the 100,000 of population in two cate - strict or more relaxed? Colonel Dan, Founder’s concept of the Second gories. States with non-discre - (9) Tools aren’t behavior. A gun SASS Life #24025 Amendment using definitions of tionary rules, i.e. “shall issue” is an inanimate tool not deviant be - their own period would be: “The states, and states that forbid the havior, and crime is deviant behav - right of the people to keep and bear concealed carry of handguns alto - ior. not an inanimate tool. You can’t ver the years, we’ve all arms must in no way or to no de - gether. Violent crime is defined as prevent deviant behavior by regu - learned the hard lesson gree be broken, violated, or en - murder, rape, aggravated assault, lating tools because tools are inca - of what it means when croached upon.” and robbery. The facts are again pable of behavior, and the number O anti-gun advocates call (4) The Founders’ intent: Their very clear: of tools available to the world’s de - for more “common sense gun con - purpose was not some nonsense States allowing concealed viants is endless. Furthermore, trol legislation.” What they’re re - about arming a then nonexistent carry: 378.8 violent crimes per laws against violent crime already ally saying is they want to further National Guard as many anti-gun - 100,000 exist—regardless of the tool. Guns infringe on your right to keep and ners claim based on the prologue States forbidding concealed are merely one in a long line of de - bear arms and will use any tragic “A well regulated militia ...” The carry: 715.9 violent crimes per vices used to gain a power advan - incident, excuse, or opportunity to intent is evident not only in the 100,000 tage. Even if you could legislate all impose their will. Generally, their Amendment itself, but their con - States forbidding concealed firearms out of existence, as many definition of common sense, how - cept is widely seeded throughout carry had an 89% higher violent anti-gunners dream, deviants ever, is radically different from their personal writings, including crime rate than states permitting would and have used other things mine, and I suspect from 99.9% of the Federalist Papers and other concealed carry! Why is that you that gave them power over their our SASS gang too—its just utter documented quotes. Reference ask? Read on … victims—knives, clubs, rocks, nonsense. George Mason “Father of the Bill of (7) Criminals ignore gun laws. chains, baseball bats, box cutters, Here are 10 logical arguments Rights” who said, “I ask, sir, what To think that thugs, who disregard screwdrivers, even sharp sticks— I consider to be common sense re - is the militia? It is the whole peo - laws against murder, robbery, all of which are obviously legal and garding guns. ple, except for few public officials.” rape, and assault, will, by some very accessible. (1) The Founders’ Constitu - (5) Freedom up; Murder down. stretch of lunacy obey gun control (10) “Gun control” is about tion: The primary point of all oth - I compared three states in terms of laws is the purest form of non - power control, not crime control. ers that follow is based on our murder rates per 100,000 of popula - sense. Does anyone think those Our Founders recognized this fact Creator endowed unalienable tion — New York, California, and planning a murder or a robbery as common sense like most think - right to secure life and liberty and Vermont. The comparison was would be dissuaded because they ing students of history. And don’t trumps all counter arguments made per 100,000 so the total popu - would first be required to register be fooled, anti-gun fanatics know ever made by man … “ A well regu - lation figures of the three states their guns or obtain a permit? this to be true also. Fortunately, lated militia, being necessary to used wouldn’t bias the results since And who really thinks that requir - our Founders took steps to ensure the security of a free state, the right Vermont has by far, a lower popula - ing a sane and solid citizen to reg - such power was in the right hands. of the people to keep and bear tion. We all know New York and ister his guns or have that Simply put, people that have guns arms, shall not be infringed .” That California are two of the most re - government permit will deter vio - dominate those that don’t. As statement is simple and supreme. strictive states in the union when it lence? He isn’t planning any Thomas Jefferson forewarned, But let’s dig a little deeper. comes to gun rights. Vermont, on crime—never has; never will. So “Those who hammer their guns into (2) The Founders’ words: Many the other hand, is one of the most where’s the sense in this “common plows will plow for those who do were lawyers themselves and gun friendly—no permits required sense gun control?” Background not.” Sam Adams’ position was therefore knew exactly what they to buy or carry, open or concealed, checks to deter felons and the in - brilliantly brief, supremely simple wrote, and what they wrote is ex - it’s all okay. Personal responsibility sane from legally obtaining guns and crystal clear, “And that said actly what they meant. If you no - for individual behavior is their com - is common sense, but requiring Constitution be never construed to tice, the phrase doesn’t say, “… mon sense approach. Gun control gun registration and permits of authorize Congress to infringe … or shall not be infringed except for … advocates, however, always peddle everyone is nonsense. to prevent the people of the United ” it says what it says. Trying to their nonsense that unrestricted ac - (8) Criminals prefer unarmed States, who are peaceable citizens, read anything else into those cess to guns is a formula for blood victims and avoid potentially from keeping their own arms.” words is more than utter non - in the streets, but here are the ver - armed citizens: a brilliant flash of That, my friends is the differ - sense; its deceit. ifiable facts per John Lott’s book, common sense that anti-gunners ence between common sense and (3) The Founders’ definition: “More Guns, Less Crime” try hard to ignore or cover up. But nonsense as I see it, but as I always “… shall not be infringed.” Ac - New York ranked #2 with 13.2 put yourself in the thug’s shoes. say, it’s just the view from my saddle. cording to Webster’s 1828 diction - murders per 100,000 Who would you rather confront, an Contact Colonel Dan: ary: shall: Determination or California ranked #4 with 12.66 armed citizen or an unarmed one? [email protected] promise. Command. A directive per 100,000 Where would you focus your life of Article Archives: or requirement. To have to: Vermont ranked #49 with 0.7 per crime? In areas where guns are http://mddall.com/sbss/SB MUST. not: “In no way; to no de - 100,000 outlawed or where guns are preva - SShome.htm VisiT us aT sassNeT .com May 2011 Cowboy Chronicle Page 103

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