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Augu 10 TH Annual EuropEan Cowboy Action Championships st 7 –10i, 2013

By Tex, SASS #4

parany, Czech Repub - ments by receiving his SASS Regu - lic – The largest Cowboy lators Badge during opening cere - Action match ever held monies. Registration was smooth O in Europe was hosted and efficient (it has to be with just outside Prague this past Au - nearly 300 competitors!) and the gust. Roughly 260 competitors scores were posted quickly follow - were in attendance for Wild Bunch, ing each competition. Cowboy Action, side matches, shoot- The shooting match designer offs, and costume contests. It was a was Headshot Jack, SASS huge international class event that #79567,who was responsible for not proved to be well organized, smooth only designing the stages, but set - running, and enjoyable to shoot! ting them up and keeping them op - Organization is always the key erational throughout the event. to truly successful matches. Thun - There are 18 bays at the Oparany der Man, SASS Regulator #29821, shooting facility, and 15 were used was the Match Director and sur - for main match competition. That’s rounded himself with a talented set a lot of targets to be managed and of people who handled the myriad kept in repair! of special tasks that make every - Days of Truth began with Wild thing look simple and easy. Colbert, Bunch. There were some 63 com - SASS #87058, handled registration petitors who shot nine stages over a and scoring for the match and was two-day period—five stages the The Civil War era cannons certainly got everyone’s attention! recognized for his past achieve - first day and four stages in the af - These guns were used to signal the beginning of the ternoon the following day after the evening ceremonies each afternoon. first five Cowboy Action stages were SASS C owboy Chronicle complete. (The nine-stage day was same as last year in Hungary— were stationary, but there were a bit of a challenge, especially since Bandit won … again! knockdowns and one flyer. Starting the weather the first two days of the For Cowboy Action, there were positions varied, and starting lines In This Issue match was well into the 90s (ºF), 15 stages— five each day! Not only were required for every stage. And, and the humidity was high as well!) were the stages well designed and the props went from basic to quite documented, the target sizes and nice, depending upon the scenario. eadquarter s The four standard Wild Bunch cat - 14 H -22 egories were offered and there were placement were exceptional. The This shooting event compared fa - by Grey Fox and a large number of takers. Tex and sizes were generous and the dis - vorably with any found in the Miss Mary Spencer Samuel B. Carpenter (Bandit), tances just far enough away where United States … and that’s no sur - SASS Regulator #34043, once again they had to be shot … but every - prise. These match organizers 16 Beau Bassin found themselves in “head-to-head” thing was VERY hittable. There travel to matches around Europe range riders competition in Wild Bunch Tradi - were “stand and deliver” stages, and here in the US, so they know

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6 FROM THE EDITOR Territorial Governors & The Convention Summit . . . Editorial Staff NEWS Tex 8 Early and Modern Firearms EMF . . . Editor-in-Chief

10, 11 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . . . Cat Ballou CAT’S CORNER Editor 12 Victorian Morning Jewelry . . . Miss Tabitha Asst. Editor 14-23 ON THE RANGE Buffalo Valley Into The West . . . German Territory Regulators Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 24, 25 CLUB REPORTS Shooting Across The USA . . . OK Corral Outlaws . . . Mac Daddy 26-29 WILD BUNCH CORNER Make Mine A Six Pack! . . . The Great Nor’Easter Graphic Design 30-36 GUNS & GEAR Buttercup History On Your Face (Pt 3) . . . Dispatches From Camp Baylor Advertising Manager (505) 843-1320 • Cell: (505) 459-0390 38-39 SASS-CONVENTION (( HURRY TIME RUNNIN’ OUT • SIGN-UP TODA Y!! ! )) [email protected] 40-43 HISTORY Contributing Writers Bloody Bill Anderson . . . Little Known Famous People . . . Alan McBrayer & Thomas Valenza, Apache Wolf, Big Jim Hammond, Blackthorne Billy, 44-46 PROFILES 2013 Scholarship Recipients . . . A True SASS Cowboy . . . Bullwhip Bones, Capgun Kid, Capt. George Baylor, Chilkoot, Col. Dan, Col. Richard Dodge, Cree Vicar Dave, Doc Kemm, 47-61 ARTICLES Cowboy TV . . . The Classic Cowboy/Cowgirl Shootist Award Program Frederick Jackson Turner, Frenchy Cannuck, Graver Bill, Grey Fox & Miss Mary Spencer, Janny Ringo, Joe Fasthorse, Justice Lily Kate, 48 REVIEW PRODUCTS Trade-In Old Gunleather-Frontier Gunleather . . . Larsen E. Pettifogger, Little Nelchina, Loco Poco Lobo & Nawlins Kid, Palaver Pete, R. B. Rooson & Redleg Reilly, 62 TRAIL MARKER Always To Be Remembered . . . Rio Drifter & Tennessee Tall, Sage Chick, Slye Buffalo, Stonewall, Texas Ghost, Whitesmoke Steve, Whitey Coyote & Sweetland, 63-65 GENERAL STORE /CLASSIFIED Phoebe Ann, Wolverine Wrangler The Cowboy Chronicle is published by 66-73 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS (MONTHLY, ANNUA L) The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. SASS MERCANTILE For advertising information and rates, ad - 74 (Nice Collectables) . . . ministrative, and edi to rial offices contact: Chronicle Administrator 75 POLITICAL State Nullification Is Justified . . . 215 Cowboy Way Edgewood, NM 87015 (505) 843-1320 FAX (505) 843-1333 Visit our Website At SASSNET.COM email: [email protected] http://www.sassnet.com 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 - Following in wood, NM and additional mailing offices ® his brother’s SASS Trademarks (USPS #032). POSTMASTER: Send ad- footsteps, this sass ®, single action shooting society ®, dress changes to The Cowboy Chronicle , 215 young German end of trail ®, eot ®, Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. competitor The Cowboy Chro nicle tM , DISCLAIMER - The Single Action Shooting (alias TBD) cowboy action shooting tM , Society does not guarantee, warranty or en - joined SASS cas tM , Wild Bunch tM , dorse any product or service advertised in this newspaper. The publisher also does not during tM Wild Bunch action shooting , guarantee the safety or effectiveness of any Days of Truth. the World championship of product or service illustrated. The distri - His brother, cowboy action shooting tM , bution of some products/services may be il - Little Big Bow-legged cowboy design, and the legal in some areas, and we do not assume German Man, responsibility thereof. State and local laws rocking Horse design joined SASS must be investigated by the purchaser prior are all trademarks of to purchase or use or products/services. during the single action shooting society, inc. Days of Truth WARNING: Neither the author nor The Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi - in Poland Any use or reproduction of these marks without the express written permission bility for accidents or diffe ring results two years ago. 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 November 2013

TErriTorial GovErnors conVention summit , w By Tex, SASS #4 Tex, SASS #4 were, and what, if anything, should responsible for determining the rial Governors to determine what he Territorial Gover - be done about them. Like the gov - rules of the game we play—Cowboy changes make sense and are good nors have been an im - &ernment, we needed individuals to Action Shooting™. The Wild Bunch for the sustained growth of SASS portant part of SASS represent their constituents, pres - retains the responsibility for estab - and to determine in all cases, T for years now. How - ent their views to the Wild Bunch, lishing policy and for making and “what’s the right thing to do.” ever, it’s appropriate every now and take the Wild Bunch’s views, implementing business decisions. In preparation, the Summit and then to review just what their comments, and decisions back to The RO Committee, as explained Agenda is distributed to the Gov - role is within SASS. the clubs for implementation. In last month, simply operates more ernors so the line items can be dis - As SASS grew beyond the abil - short, they were a mechanism to or less like the President’s cabi - cussed with their respective clubs. ity of the Wild Bunch to know each ensure two-way communication be - net—offering advice and counsel to It’s important for the Governors to and every member and to attend tween SASS Headquarters and the the Wild Bunch. understand the feelings of their every match across the country, we membership. Over time, the Terri - As the Summit nears, the constituents, and why they feel the found it was impossible for us to torial Governors, like the govern - time for the Territorial Governors way they do. There is no other way know exactly what all was going on ment, took on more responsibility. to put on their “rule making hats” to represent their constituents. within SASS, what the true issues Today the Territorial Governors are is upon us. It is up to the Territo - During the Summit, the

Visit us at sassnet .com November 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 7 agenda items will be brought Voting Issues forth for consideration. This is al - • If the lever closes on a long gun ways a time of passionate discus - after it is set down open, should sions—as it should be. All views there be a “no call” if it is, in are legitimate and deserve a hear - fact, empty or a penalty if a ing. However, following the dis - spent case or round is still in cussions is the time when the the gun? If the lever closes, the Territorial Governors really earn shooter will be the ONLY one to their pay. After listening to the touch the gun until it is shown discussions, they are obligated to clear or otherwise. decide, “what’s the right thing to • Should the MSV penalty for re - do?” They can no longer simply trieving a dropped or ejected vote the way their club may have round be removed if it can be voted … new information may done safely? have been presented, new rational • Should the external modifica - for a particular course of action tion of re-profiling a curved rifle articulated, or revised wording trigger to a straight rifle trigger may have been introduced. If the be allowed? Governors simply ignore all the • Should the Bisley hammer/grip discussions and vote the way they frame restrictions be removed planned before arriving, there is from the Shooters Handbook really no need for a Summit! Covenants? Some Governors are confident enough to vote their true con - Discussion Items science; others feel obligated to • Classic Cowboy and B-Western make a few calls back home and spurs—how large must the row - get a blessing, but a few in the els be and are jingle bobs re - past have taken the easy way out quired? and simply voted the way they • Should the minimum costuming were instructed to vote. Obvi - standards be increased? Should ously, we want responsible Terri - blue jeans be disallowed (except torial Governors. in B-Western)? The Agenda • Single shot shotguns are al - The agenda this year is bro - lowed in selected categories— ken into three sections—clarifica - should the Handbook be tions, voting issues, and modified to indicate they mus t discussion items. It is appropri - have an external hammer and ate to contact your local Territo - they may have an ejector? rial Governor and let him/her • Should the Handbook be modi - know your thoughts. fied to make it clear octagonal barrels on revolvers are legal? Clarifications • Should Cowboy Action, as is • Change RO-I materials to read done in Wild Bunch™, outlaw “Proper coaching or no coaching the practice of “expediting” a at all is not considered RO in - competitor’s firearms before and terference …” after engaging a stage? • Change RO-I materials to point •Aged-based categories—are they to the Glossary for information age driven or equipment driven? regarding minimum velocity re - (A 60-year-old competitor shoots quirements and minimum gunfighter … can any senior do Power Factor. this, or must it be an “old” gun - • Change RO-I material to clarify fighter?) it’s the Timer Operator’s re - The Convention is only weeks sponsibility to start the shooter away. It’s “all new” this year in in the correct location and posi - Branson, MO and will be a most tion. It’s the shooter’s responsi - enjoyable experience. Be a part of bility to ensure the firearms and the new Convention! One can still ammo are correctly staged. sign up, and Chateau on the Lake • Change RO-I and -II material to hotel rooms may still be available clarify Timer Operator may as - (if you tell them you’re going to sign safety, procedural, and the Convention). But, no matter other penalties independent of what, talk to your Territorial Gov - the spotters, but may not over - ernor and let him/her know what rule spotters regarding misses. you think!

Little Known Fact Robert E. Lee was the descendent of two signers of the Declaration of Independence, Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee. His father Harry Lee was George Washington’s cavalry commander during the Revolutionary War. His son “Rooney” was also a Confederate General.

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q Early and Modq ern FIREARMS Haqll of Fame Inductee – 20q 13 arly and Modern Firearms turing a copy. EMF’s efforts were Company, Inc. (EMF), very successful and essentially cor - General US Grant, SASS nered the market for Colt-style re - E #2, proprietor, is one of the volvers until a gentleman by the firearms eand did a good bumsiness. F early suppliers of Old West firearms name of HY Hunter took a Great Early and Modern Firearms Com - and has been a consistent sponsor Western Revolver to Germany, began pany reduced their name to EMF and supporter of Cowboy matches manufacturing an excellent copy, and because the only way to ship since the inception of Cowboy Ac - then imported them into the USA firearms in those days was through tion Shooting™. through Hawes and Company. The the US Mail in a box with a big red E. W. Spinney Jr. and his father, cost of this imported single action label on it marked “Firearm.” In - E. W. Spinney Sr, incorporated Early was less than half the cost to manu - surance rates soared because they and Modern Firearms Company, Inc. facture the Great Western, hence the were often stolen in transit. in California in 1956. Colt Firearms demise of the Great Western. In 1968 the Federal Gun Con - had recently discontinued manufac - During the 1960s EMF estab - trol Act went into effect. With so turing the Single Action Revolver, so lished two retail gun stores, one in many new restrictions then in place, EMF purchased the Great Western West Los Angeles and one in Studio EMF closed its retail store in Studio Arms Company and began manufac - City. They handled all sorts of City and opened a small office in North Hollywood. The company began offering blackpowder guns through a catalog mail-order busi - EMF began business in 1956 ness because the new Federal Gun and was instrumental in creating Control Act did not cover these guns. SASS though its support and That entire product line was pur - sponsorship of Cowboy Action chased from an importer in Florida. matches around the world. In 1970, General Grant (Boyd Davis) joined EMF as President. shooting range. The General and He determined it would be best to the Judge, along with Gordon Davis purchase directly from the manu - and Bill Hahn, dissolved the Or - facturer and become an importer. ange County Practical Pistol Club He contacted the Italian Consulate and formed what became the Coto and made arrangements to meet Cowboys to start the Cowboy Action with the major manufacturers in Shooting™ Game. EMF donated Italy. He went to Italy, hired an in - just about all the prizes for the first terpreter, and spent a few weeks three World Championships of Cow - meeting with many of the firearm boy Action Shooting™ called END manufacturing companies’ owners. of TRAIL. General Grant became Upon his return to the states, the president of The Single Action he obtained all of the required per - Shooting Society when it was mits and licenses to become an im - formed in 1987, and EMF, through porter and lined up several major General Grant’s efforts, was instru - distributors. This made it possible mental in soliciting match prizes for to buy in large quantities and estab - clubs around the country through lish the company as a major player its contacts in the shooting indus - in the game. try. Even though everyone in the In 1974 EMF moved its opera - industry now recognizes SASS and tion to a large standalone building willingly supports Cowboy Action in Burbank about a block from Shooting™ matches, EMF remains NBC. Then in 1980 EMF purchased a major contributor to the game. an industrial condominium in Because of its exemplary sup - Santa Ana, California where the port of SASS and Cowboy Action business remains to this day. Shooting™ from the game’s incep - In 1981 General Grant met tion, SASS is proud to induct EMF, Judge Roy Bean and joined Coto de General Grant proprietor, into the Caza, a club in Orange County with SASS Cowboy Action Shooting™ a Trap and Skeet facility and a Hall of Fame 2013. Visit us at sassnet .com November 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 9

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don’t let them in. (Right on! I won’t take pictures Costuming is what made us of folks not in costume … or who CosTuMinG nEEDs a FiX! different from the general public wear ball caps and even shorts to totally agree with Tex’s article look good at the same time. at matches, too. When the costum - the award ceremonies. Unfortu - Iregarding costuming and feel That said, SASS and The Cow - ing is not held to a standard and nately there are times when “in - there needs to start being Stage boy Chronicle needs to be held to the general public views a match, they appropriate” photos are all I DQs and penalties for improper at - same standard. Page 26 – “Wild want to start shooting and then have to work with for The Cowboy tire. I’ve seen this go on WAY TOO Bunch & Then Some in Indiana” get the idea they can shoot in mod - Chronicle … but your point is well LONG, and it’s upsetting. I do not (Sept. ’13) should NEVER have ern jeans, etc., as well. If you move taken. Everyone needs to be more expect everyone to dress up as had some of those photos pub - your boundary with a child, they careful about the photos they fancy as I do, but seeing women lished. Here they are mentioning will keep pushing. When we hold take and what I use for the paper. and young women shoot in jeans top shooters showing them in t- strong to our boundary, respect Sunglasses are also not appro - with BLING on their butts (al - shirts, shorts, ball caps, etc. Page comes. It breaks my heart to see priate for photos except for shoot - though its nice for the menfolk to 27 also shows a group photo and costuming basically, and you know ers on the firing line. My favored look at) is NOT appropriate. After there are only two men dressed in me when I say this, “Go to s––t!” approach is to add Wrangler- all these years, my husband and I cowboy gear. The Cowboy Chronicle My husband and I have always style jeans to the “Outlawed” list are starting to wonder why should needs to screen the photos and ar - taken pride in our costumes, but in the Handbook—show up on we dress up when the top shooters, ticles better and not publish if it is seriously have talked about not the range in jeans (unless you or any shooter for that matter, is not held to the standard. Same putting so much effort into it. are dressed B-Western) and earn not held to the rules. The top with awards—do not even give PLEASE do something about it!! a SDQ … two of these in the shooters are role models and even them their award if they are out of Make people accountable. same match and you go home! … though I am not one of them, I’ve costume. PERIOD. If they are not Sister Sara, SASS #1710 Editor in Chief) always believed you can shoot and in costume for dinners, etc., then Prescott Valley, AZ inCrEMEnTal TYrannY olonel Dan: I have been witness - reform is also a hoax. Unfortu - Cing this phenomenon for many nately, too many people believe this years now. I attended the 1977 NRA crap just because the politicians say Cincinnati Convention and worked it is so. Never let a crisis go to to make it the greatest lobbying or - waste, comrade. ganization in the country. I have Keep up the good work. wasted countless stamps and tele - The Cuyahoga Kid, phone calls indicating my views on SASS #25690 many topics that have been mostly Petersburg, TN ignored or over ridden. When I tell people stories of my youth, they are Cuyahoga Kid, thank you for the amazed things could be done legally, thoughtful note and kind words. or at least without major punish - Needless to say, I share your con - ment. However, during this current cern. The future of America right administration it is much more than now is murky at best, but I really do incremental. The lies being told to think the Founders faced greater us to further the agenda are unbe - perils and prevailed. We can do the lievable. Global warming is a hoax, same if, but only if, we, America’s pa - “assault weapons” are a hoax, Oba - triots, have the resolve to do so. macare is a hoax, and immigration Colonel Dan saFE soCKs ree Vicar Dave, I read your article * * * * * * * Con Dickies Socks carried by Wal - Blaze Bisley, mart. I picked up a couple pair, and Thanks a million ta you for taking they are as good as you stated. Wish I the time ta be reedin’ my rightin’. had known about these socks a couple It always gives me a great deal of of years ago, as I would have avoided satisfaction to know I helped out a a lot of agony from very sore feet. I am fellow Cowboy. And yes, it was The not yet a good shot with a pistol, but Vicar’s Wife who found the socks hobbling around Rio Salado Range in by tracking them down at Wal - Mesa, AZ would have been a lot more mart. Thanks again for the kind pleasant. I have always been a rifle words, they means a lot to the Mis - and shotgun guy, but I’ll get the hang sus and me. of these darned pistols yet. Thanks a God bless, million for the excellent advice, or Cree Vicar Dave should I thank the Vicar’s Wife? Blaze Bisley, SASS #92321 Jonesborough, TN

Visit us at sassnet .com November 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 11 ro assisTanCE sEnaTor CruZ siGnaTurE Colonel Dan, ours. Thanks so much for all you Can HavE BaD ConsEQuEnCEs read your Team SASS posting do for our cause. enjoyed last month’s SASS Cow - way in high-heeled boots. Ion the Obama signature on Harold “Doc” Adams, Iboy Chronicle article about Range I recommend a change in pol - the UN arms treaty during the SASS #70487 Officer responsibility (August icy about ROs guiding a competi - Congressional recess. I have Beaver, OH ’13). But by way of rebuttal, I tor through a course. As a contacted my Senators here in Doc, I’ve spoken to Senator Cruz’s would like to express a concern minimum allow the R/O to ask the Ohio about opposing this and got office in Dallas, Austin, and Wash - with the Range Officer giving a shooter if he/she wants assistance. one favorable response from ington. As I knew, Senator Cruz is competitor instruction while on If they do, then the RO is absolved Senator Portman-R and the ex - adamantly opposed to the UN the clock. I do not understand of any potential wrongdoing. His pected response from Senator Small Arms Treaty and will not SASS’ policy of allowing the RO to ticket to heaven is still good. Brown-D. In your thread, Dirty vote for ratification. Why his interfere with someone who is ac - Blue, SASS #9262 Dan Dawkins posted a link on name was not on the list is un - tively shooting. Ostensibly it is Mead, WA August 22 (post #8) to a letter known even to his staffers to whom to correct any competitor’s proce - (Yes, occasionally the RO does signed by 51 Senators opposing I spoke. There are many reasons dural. But, it is also a source of make a mistake. SASS has long the treaty. Conspicuously ab - that could easily explain this … angst amongst the competitors. held to the belief it is always best to sent from this letter is the signa - perhaps he wasn’t in DC when the Just last week I was the RO, and “help the shooter through the course ture of Senator Ted Cruz-R letter was sent for example. At this I inadvertently gave the shooter of fire without incident.” Coaching Texas. Can you enlighten me as point, however, I wouldn’t worry the wrong instructions for the when the shooter has obvious to why he will not/has not signed about that. He IS on our side … stage while he was shooting. The “brain fade” or is obviously going this document? I was under the you can rest assured of that. up shot is I made the mistake, and down a path that WILL result in a impression he was a supporter of Colonel Dan the shooter got a procedural. procedural, safety, or worse yet, a This is the only sport I know “DQ.” Most shooters appreciate of that allows a match official to having the RO “save” them. interfere with a competitor. In my Whenever the RO “interferes” way,” the safe thing for an RO to making mistakes (e.g., missing tar - case the rather large cowboy with the shooter (and that in - do is never say a word! gets), thus providing his friend the wanted to “KICK MY ARSE,” for cludes instructing them into a pro - The dark side of this policy oc - possibility of reshooting the stage for causing him to get the procedural. cedural) the “right thing” to do is curs with an unscrupulous team of a better score. Nothing is perfect, Mind you, I am very quick on my immediately offer the competitor a buddies where the RO INTEN - but if one suspects the interference feet and can avoid such an out - reshoot. Most of us HATE TIONALLY interferes with the has been intentional, steps should be come. But another problem arose. reshoots, but at least it’s a way to shooter after the shooter has begun taken … Editor in Chie f) He was my ride home. I dreaded try and make things right. the prospect of walking all that Although it’s not the “cowboy

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MourninG JEwElrY VictoBry Wihisakey nLil, SASS #25803 many, many symbols that ap - peared on mourning rings (and later carved into jet items): Skeleton in Coffin Immortality Drops Tear Drops Keys To Enter Heaven Cat Ballou, SASS #55 Dove Peace Moon Death & Mourning pin with hair Rebirth or the Victorians, death Butterfly Soul, as 10,000 BC. So great was her did not hold much mys - Rebirth, grief after losing Prince Albert in tery. Early death was Resurrection 1861 that she did not tolerate F commonplace due to Curtains Death, laugher or joviality in her children. massive outbreaks of typhoid, A mourning ring Sorrow Casual expressions of the children cholera, and influenza. Mothers complete with skeleton Arrow Mortality missing their father were not toler - often died in childbirth and babies Bones Mortality ated—seen by the Queen as being and infants could succumb rapidly ing jewels, being placed in very visi - Urn Death & disrespectful of him. Queen Victo - to illness. All you have to do is walk ble positions for others to see. They Mourning ria wore widow’s weeds and her jet through an old New England ceme - were easy and cheap to manufac - Poppy Eternal rest mourning jewelry for the rest of tery, and you see that death came ture, but enabled the wearer to be a Flowers Mature her life and decreed that only often and early in the nineteenth walking tombstone for the person Flowers for mourning jewelry could be worn in century. who was deceased. It was one of the Adults court until 1880. During the mid-Victorian era, easiest pieces of jewelry to be “passed Buds for Jet jewelry was often worn as a the Civil War contributed unthink - down” to family and was more im - Children able casualties. At one point in the portant as a token of remembrance The last one really touched war the Governor of Mississippi than of commercial value. me. At Historic Deepwood Estate tried to pass a law banning Victo - in Oregon (circa 1893) the front rian mourning clothing because it parlor fireplace has a split flue was contributing to the low morale with a Povey stained glass window of the citizens. between the flues. It has three Yes, death was an everyday re - pink roses in full bloom and one ality, and the Victorians adapted to bud. Dr. Port’s son was lost at sea it through culture and tradition. in the 1880s while traveling to This article will focus on the jewelry Germany to study, and he commis - or ornamentation aspect of the Vic - sioned the window to represent torian mourning tradition. Mourn - himself, his wife and daughter as ing jewelry was so important that Victorian mourning ring with the full roses and his son as the many times money was set aside in image of Prince Albert (1819 – 1861) bud, a life not finished. a person’s will to pay for appropri - JET JEWELRY ate pieces to be commissioned for The rings were made out of gold, Queen Victoria is often credited – Jet Mourning set – with “inventing” funerary jewelry the entire family. enameled black, and could be mass- necklace, earrings, bracelet, In this article I will cover four of produced. The purchaser would made from jet; however, it had been and brooch the most well known categories: have it sized and when the message used in jewelry dating back as far Mourning Rings, Jet Jewelry, Hair or symbolism was carved into the sign of wealth, social position, and Jewelry, and Tortoiseshell Accessories. surface it was revealed in gold. status as much as a public display MOURNING RINGS As mentioned before, symbol - of grief. If you wore jet in public, For the first two decades of the ism was important to the Victori - you were advertising you had Victorian Era, black enamel bands ans, and the mourning ring money and were letting everyone were the most recognized of mourn - provided the perfect backdrop. know you could afford it. There was an excellent spot on Let’s define exactly what jet is: Antiques Road Show featuring a It is a hard, coal-like variety of lig - woman who collected mourning nite that dates to the Jurassic Pe - rings—see it if you can catch the riod. Technically it is a petrified rerun—it was enlightening. Many bituminous wood. Its color is a vel - of the mourning rings would ap - vety black that shines rather than pear today as macabre, but wear - being brilliant (highly polished jet ing a skull ring with pearl eyes was considered in poor taste). It was a perfectly normal piece of was perfect for a funerary stone be - Whiskey Lil’s Victorian Victorian mourning jewelry. cause it looked rich without being mourning tiara Listed below are a few of the Jet mourning brooch – 19th Century showy; however, it was very brittle,

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and carving and manufactur - TORTOISESHELL through. The open work will show ing was hard work for the Items fashioned out of tor - tool marks from being hand done, jewelers. Brooches, earrings, toiseshell were acceptable to be plastic open work will be crisp bracelets, headpieces, but - worn during half mourning. and show mould marks. The tines tons, and beads were fash - The jewelry was made from the of a celluloid comb will have more ioned out of jet. shell of the saltwater hawksbill “give” than genuine shell. Real The best jet came from turtle. It was most commonly tortoiseshell will exhibit growth Whitby, England where it used for hair combs until the rings and an unmistakable three- has been washing ashore for mid-Victorian period when the dimensional quality when viewed centuries. At the height of advancement of lathe technol - under a microscope. Stay away the Victorian mourning jew - ogy from foot power to steam from rhinestone imbedded elry era it was a huge busi - power opened up the artistic combs—they are modern plastic. ness boom for this small form of jewelry of intricate open Beware: It is illegal in the United town, so they began mining work and carving. Common States to purchase a modern piece it from the cliffs. Mining pieces from this period include made out of real tortoiseshell. eventually had to be banned Antique tortoise shell necklaces, bracelets, earrings, There is a lot of information for fear the cliffs would col - mourning locket brooches, earrings, cufflinks, about Vintage Victorian Jewelry lapse on the town. Deposits and watch chains decorated out there, and if it interests you, I have also been found in the coal There is quite a nice descrip - with silver inlay. encourage you to do some sleuth Mourning pin with hair country area of Pennsylvania. tion of hair jewelry in the Godey’s Early Victorian hair combs work of your own. A Note of Caution : If you wish Lady’s Book, December 1850, were done in the Spanish peineta Quiz Question : When was the to collect jet mourning jewelry, you which says, “Hair is the most deli - (mantilla) style with varying term “Front Parlor” changed to need to be careful that you are pur - cate and lasting of our materials, heights up to 12 inches, allowing “Living Room?” chasing the genuine thing. Many and survives us, like love. With a the light to shine through the jew - Answer : The Front Parlor in a imitations have been made includ - lock of hair we may almost look up elry piece and to show the intricacy Victorian House was always kept ing: Bog Oak, Gutta Percha, dyed to Heaven and almost say, I have a of the design along with the darker closed and only used for a few oc - horn, black garnets, French jet piece of thee here.” Other senses, markings floating in a translucent casions: the Christmas tree on glass, obsidian, and dyed onyx. Be not just sight, were important to field. Later Victorian combs, due to Christmas morning, to accept and sure to check out the descriptions the Victorians. Memory was sen - powered equipment, were more in - entertain “invited” guests, and to of these imitations before purchas - sory, much like touching and tricately carved with scenes. display the coffin when a family ing. Much of the jet jewelry we see smelling as well as seeing. It was Smaller combs were the favorites, member died. In 1920 the concept today is made of black glass. The almost like having a stand-in for sometimes decorated with pique of the Funeral Home/Parlor was word “jet” has been interchanged the body of their missing. Hair work (inlaying gold or silver). The introduced and the room was re - incorrectly to mean any black jewelry was intimate and could most desirable color for this period named the “living room.” stone. Jet is lightweight, warm to carry family memory over genera - was light amber, which came from Sources: the touch, and when rubbed will tions. (Visit Leila’s Hair Museum the underbelly plates. Ebay: Treasuresrecycled generate static electricity like for other items made of hair.) The manufacturing method in - Compassrosedesignjewelry.com amber. I don’t recommend it, but if Hair was generally retrieved cluded separating the layers of the Extasia.com you rub it across concrete, it will at the point of death, but some - scutes (plates) by heating them, then Morbidoutlook.com leave a black mark. times it was taken beforehand. boiling in salt water. After boiling, Historic_northhampton.org I only own one item of genuine Civil War soldiers in America the plates could be fused together by Artofmourning.com jet mourning jewelry. It is a would often cut a lock of their hair using an iron to get the desired mot - Theconstantgatherer.blogspot.com mourning tiara that has jet at - and give it to their spouses before tling. Shapes were cut out and shap - Nikkihalliford.wordpress.com tached to sprays of spring steel so going into battle. The sample ing and carving would begin. England.prm.ox.as.uk they have movement. The tiara often went into a locket with a pic - Caution : Again, make sure Historicnewengland.com was taken to the Knox Hat Com - ture of the soldier and worn you are purchasing a true Victo - Bell, C. Jeanne, Old Jewelry pany in the 1890s and repurposed around the neck or pinned as a rian piece. Tortoise shell is highly 6th Edition , Iola, WI into a hat by having them add tiny brooch. Another funerary custom copied in horn and celluloid. Real Krause Publications, 2003 black flowers. (See picture). The was for each member of the family shell is lighter than horn and prm.ox.ac.uk original owner probably thought it to tuck a little packet of their own heavier than celluloid. Modern Flanders, Judith, Inside The to be a bit too “showy” for mourn - hair into the casket of a loved one, acrylics are very light, thin, and Victorian Home , New York: ing purposes. symbolism that they would even - flexible. Real tortoiseshell will W.W. Norton & Co, 2003, HAIR JEWELRY tually be together again. have mottling all the way pp. 370 Hair jewelry in the Victorian Preparation of the hair for jew - Era, made from the hair of a de - elry was important. It must be ceased friend or loved one, became boiled in soda water for 15 min - hugely popular. The designs utes, and then sorted into strands tended to be surprisingly complex of 20-30 hairs. A full size bracelet and could incorporate gold and di - called for hair 20-24 inches long. amonds for later stages of mourn - Almost all hair work was formed ing with tiny pearls added to around a mold, boiled for another signify tears. Hair jewelry func - 15 minutes, allowed to dry for sev - tioned as a keepsake of the dead eral days, and then it was ready and as a memento, a reminder for mounting. that death was an ever-present You could also send your hair possibility. It reminded the wearer to companies that would make a she should lead a good life because wide variety of items out of it for death could strike without warn - a fee ranging from $4 to $15. ing. Often a wearer would add This became the second largest more pieces of hair to a glass-cov - jewelry industry at one time, ered brooch when additional rela - making hair more valuable than tives or friends passed away. silver per ounce.

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By Grey Fox SASS #223 Life, Regulator & Miss Mary Spencer SASS #55147 Life, Regulator You CAN miss fast enough to win!

ictoria, BC – In the #89886, and a rookie Single Action later part of the 1800s Shooter, Montana May, SASS Gold Rush fever #95820, organized the event at the V gripped North America Victoria Fish & Game Protective from the ‘49ers in California to the Association facility, August 9th – Yukon and the trail of ‘98. In be - 11th, 2013. They, along with a tween there were other major very efficient committee, fielded events where gold seekers were in 10 main stages and an array of the Dakotas, Montana, and the in - terior of British Columbia. Min - ers poured in from around the globe to get rich quick. The rumor of gold being discovered in Salmo - nella Gulch created opportunity

Ned Kelly showing True Grit and displaying the Spirit of the Game.

and chaos. Many Special Consta - bles were appointed to restore Dead Eye Dawson, age 10, with his order; however, most of them also Grandfather, Buffalo Creek Robie. came to Salmonella Gulch to seek their fortunes. A Special Constable appointed taken over the frontier saloon. to keep order in Salmonella Thus the drama unfolded. Gulch, a rip roaring Gold Camp, Gold Rush at Salmonella steps through the saloon door with Gulch was Cowboy Action Shoot - resolve, steely eyes, his licorice ing™ at its very best. Competi - cigar clamped firmly between his tors from age 10 to 86 assembled Slim Delgado won the gun cart teeth and a nickel-plated, Tiffany for the 22 nd Annual Headquarters, Show & Shine. Pictured with gripped percussion revolver in his oldest SASS affiliated match in Miss Mary Spencer keeping the beach bums from kicking presenters Hurricane Hayley hand. The pistolero is about to Canada. A freshman Cowboy Ac - & Rianna. sand in her face. confront claim jumpers who have tion Shooter, Black Ashley, SASS

Winners Categories Categories Speedshotgun Top Gun E Statesman Saskatoon Barry, Buckarette Hurricane Hayley, ‘97 Senior Haweater Hal, SASS #70295 SASS #94450 Man Haweater Hal SASS #55287 L 49’er Kissin Carol, Frontiersman Bad Bobby Blue Eyes, Lady Montana May, Lady Senior Victoria Diamond, SASS #96421 SASS #73397 SASS #95820 SASS #60952 L Duelist Miss Beadazzled, F Cartridge Preacher ‘87 Categories SASS #72424 Grand Dame Miss Mary Spencer, Man Black Ashley Wrangler Black Ashley, F C Duelist Kilshot Kenny, SASS #55147 Lady Montana May SASS #89886 SASS #91136 Side Matches Mid Range C Cowboy Slim Delgado, 49’er Doc Dalers, Speed Rifle Lever Action Pistol Caliber SASS #85279 SASS #98373 Man Haweater Hal Man Prairie Buck, S Senior Teacher C, Cattle Baron Jingle Bob, Lady Miss Beadazzled SASS #52033 SASS #72703 SASS #51499 Speed Pistol Lady Miss BeaDazzled S Duelist Neut Reno, Duelist Cornelius O’Keefe, Man Haweater Hall Long Range SASS #51654 SASS #60577 Lady Victoria Diamond Single Shot Rifle Caliber L Wrangler Montana May, Young Gun Captain Will Turner, Speedshotgun Man Kilshot Kenny, SASS #95820 SASS #92899 SxS SASS #91136 Senior Jolly Swagman, Buckaroo Dead eye Dawson, Man Black Ashley SASS #85373 SASS #96256 Lady Victoria Diamond

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Neut Reno being presented the Scheutzen Target Costume Winners ~ Miss Mary Spencer, by Cornelius O’Keefe. Swiss Miss, Slim Delgado, Hurricane Hayley, Wagon Master, Ned Kelly, Kissin’ Carol, side matches, plus the long range and Bad Bobby Blue Eyes. and mid range rifle competition ~ Mid Range & Long Range Winners ~ directed by Cornelius O’Keefe Kissin Carol, Gus McRae, Miss BeaDazzled, from Germany, SASS #60577, who Kilshot Keny, with presenter Cornelius O’Keefe. also supplies the much-prized Scheutzen target. The shoot was an excellent affair from start to finish. The side matches were held on Friday, August 9 th . Saturday’s six main stages were a thriller with Haweater Hal, SASS #55287, taking the lead very early in the game. The day was topped off by a copious potluck dinner. The attendees presented a cake to Jingle Bob, SASS #51499, to commemorate Saskatoon Barry is awarded the Western Canadian his 86 th birthday. Jingle Bob is Frontier Society Legacy Award for his service to also a keen competitor and fin - SASS and Cowboy Action Shooting™. Top gun Haweater Hal, with Teacher C, Prior awardees far left, Cornelius O’Keefe, ished in the middle of the shoo - Single Action Sheriff, Montana May, Neut Reno, Third from Left Teacher C, tists’ placement. The Western Top Lady Victoria Diamond, Black Ashley, Fourth from left Neut Reno with Canadian Frontier Shootists Slim Delgado, Rianna the water girl, and Prarie Buck. Legacy Committee Chairman Grey Fox. Legacy Award was presented to Saskatoon Barry, SASS #70295, for his dedication to SASS and Cow - costuming was superb, being adju - Images courtesy of: boy Action Shooting™. dicated by an independent cos - Lanark Rose, SASS #92898, Entertainment was provided at tume authority. The after dinner Grey Fox, SASS #223, various times during the event by awards tell the final story. Montana May, SASS #95820, Rawhide Walt, SASS #3264, Single Another Headquarters is in - Cornelius O’Keefe, SASS #60577, Action Sheriff, SASS #94449, Hurri - cluded in the annals of SASS and Teacher C, SASS #72703, cane Hayley, SASS #94450, and her Cowboy Action Shooting™. Branko Diklitch. little sister, Rianna. The action heated up for Sun - day. The run for the finish is always interesting as the front runners put their all into vying for the crown of glory. Sunday saw the last four stages of the main match and the mid range, long range, and Scheutzen competition. The awards dinner Sunday evening with fine catering by Goldstream Catering Pack horse on Stage 7. capped the exciting weekend. The

Lever Action Pistol Caliber Costumes Man Gus McRae, Best Dressed SASS #85851 Cowboy Slim Delgado Lady Kissin Carol, L Junior Hurricane Hayley SASS #96421 Junior Dead Eye Dawson Kissin Carol proved you can miss Shooting Costumes fast enough to win. None of the L B-Western Kissin Carol ladies hit in the Ladies Long Range B-Western Ned Kelly, Pistol Caliber however, Kissin Carol SASS #93253 posted the fastest time. Coveted Scheutzen Target Costumes Neut Reno, Best Dressed SASS #51654 Couple Bad Bobby Blue Eyes, Clean Match Kilshot Kenny SASS #73397 & Gun Cart Show & Shine Kissin Carol Slim Delgado Lady Swiss Miss Spirit of the Game Man Wagon Master, Ned Kelly SASS #84647 Cowgirl Miss Mary Spencer

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COWBOYS SHOOT IT OUT IN EasTErn CanaDa By Frenchy Cannuck, SASS #86789

ap Pele, New Brunswick to do a proper job of cleaning up the – The Beau Bassin Range county of ruffians and desperados. Riders held their 3 rd an - The Double B Cowboys were mighty C nual Double B Shootout on pleased to have Legendary Lawman, August 10th and 11 th , 2013. SASS #73160, and Serenity, SASS The event was held at the Cap #64982, join this little fracas. Having Pele Firing Range in Cap Pele, New heard rumours of a possible ruckus, Brunswick. Cowboys and cowgirls they saddled up their trusty steed One of the signature Side Matches is inspired by The Good, the Bad, from New Brunswick, neighbouring and headed east from their home and the Ugly. Tuco is in trouble, and it’s up to you to shoot Nova Scotia, and as far as Ontario, province of Ontario to lend a helping the hangin’ rope and set him free! came loaded for bear and proceeded hand in making this year’s annual

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Second Place overall competitor – Rio Bravo Side Match winners – was Legendary Lawman. It Kodiak Al (SASS’ man in Europe!) apparently doesn’t matter what and Wild Bunch™ Ambassador, kind of handguns he is usin g— Legendary Lawman, receive their he’s awesome! certificates from Frenchy Cannuck.

match the best yet. The weather co - ter and a hungry bunch of ranch operated with lots of sun and a nice hands. The posse agreed the BBQ breeze to keep things comfortable. should become a regular event Legendary Lawman and Seren - going forward. Legendary Lawman ity, in their official capacity as “Wild and Serenity were true to form, and Bunch™ Ambassadors” to Canada, came dressed in their Sunday’s held a Wild Bunch™ Clinic that finest. It’s easy to see how this cou - was both informative and enter - ple wins the “Best Dressed Couple” taining. There is certainly interest at END of TRAIL every time they in Wild Bunch™ at the Double B show up. Already, the Beau Bassin Ranch. It is this cowboy’s opinion Range Riders cowboys and girls are stages; some were short and fast, The cowboys went away with that these folks do a tremendous starting to order fineries from their some not so much, but all were fun. great memories and promising to job of not only promoting Wild favorite providers. Next year prom - The overall honours went to Zeke, return next year: “this is just too Bunch™, but are also excellent ex - ises to be impressive. SASS #89367, for the second year in much fun to miss!” On Sunday, the competition re - a row. Legendary Lawman took Cowboy Action Shooting™ is sumed, and the crowd was treated second place, followed by Serenity alive and well in Atlantic Canada, a to more great performances. There in third. Congratulations are in great area of the country to visit. were three more stages on Sunday, order to Joe Boot, SASS #83729, The Beau Bassin Range Riders in - followed by another side match. and Serenity for clean matches. I’m vite you to come and play with us. This time, the shooters were part of thinking there are some cowboys Visit our website WWW.double the movie Rio Bravo . out there that will be looking to bcowboys.com to get contact infor - This match requires a bit of make a name for themselves. Y’all mation as well as match schedule. team work: two shooters team up, come on out and call’em out! See y’all again next year! one on the Side X Side scattergun (Stumpy) and one with a rifle (Chance). The signal is given when Third place competitor and Top Lady Stumpy yells at Chance, “If I throw was Serenity. She has also that dynamite out there, can you hit distinguished herself in it?” Chance answers, “You get it out Mounted Shooting … an excellent all-around Cowgirl! there, and I’ll hit it!” At the beep, Stumpy shoots the scattergun at amples of what “the Cowboy Way” two targets, then runs over to a is all about. table and throws up to four dyna - The shooting got underway at mite sticks at a window. As soon as 10 AM on Saturday morning after a stick gets through the window, the customary safety briefing. Chance shoots four plates and holds After shooting four stages, the with hammer down on the spent shooters were treated to our signa - round. At this point, Stumpy picks ture side match: “The Good, The up his shotgun, reloads, and shoots Bad, and The Ugly.” Both side the last two targets. He then matches are the ideas of Capt. throws up to four more sticks of dy - Henry Cutter, SASS #85380. namite at the window. Again, as In this event, “Tuco” is ready to soon as a stick gets through, hang when the shooter hollers: Chance shoots the last four plates. “Run, Tuco, Run!” The shooter, with The rifle was loaded with nine his rifle loaded with nine rounds, rounds. Chance then ejects the last then proceeds to cut the hanging round or fires it into the berm. rope, releasing Tuco, and then Then the whole thing is re - shooting the hats off eight townies. peated with the shooters swapping This has been a favorite with the roles. The crowd is encouraged to shooters that visit the Double B yell at Stumpy to “hurry up” and Ranch. The winner of this event adds to the fun. Shooters have a was The Black Rock Kid, SASS great time with this side match. #95826, with a clean time of 8.82 The throwing of the dynamite is the seconds, a blistering performance. great equalizer. The teams are This year, the Double B Cow - picked by luck of the draw. boys decided to hold a BBQ for the The winning team was Leg - shooters on Saturday evening. endary Lawman and Kodiak Al, Guests were served steak or SASS #4008 with a combined time chicken with all the trimmings. of 60.64 for both runs. There were good cheers and laugh - The match was full of great

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Page 18 Cowboy Chronicle November 2013 i BuFFalo Valley i into The west By Slye Buffalo, SASS #89200

hateauneuf en Thyme- rais, France – The Buf - falo Shooters organized C the first multi-day Buffalo Valley match in France, supported by all the French Cowboy Action Shooting™ organizations. This was a two-day, 12-stage affair south of Paris, themed “Into the West.” There were some 30 com - petitors from all over France and one from the US. As with all Cowboy Action events, props, decorations, cos - tumes, and people combine to recreate the “Old West” we read about and watch on the silver screen. A “historical” chuck wagon

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more props, facades, and “inciden - tals” to further enhance the feeling of the Old West, and, of course, the re-enactors will be invited again. We’re hoping for even more Cowboy Action Shooters next year … and certainly encourage shooters from throughout Europe and the US to come play “cowboy” with us! Match Organizers Slye Buffalo, SASS #89200 Rio Coronado, SASS Life #89201, Buffalo Valley Territorial Governor and Match Director Josey W. Walker, SASS #80771, Range Master Little Shooting Missie, SASS #80760, and Any Wild Flower, SASS #83482, Posse Marshals Sheriff Ch. Southpaw, SASS #83490, and Frenchie Boy, SASS #86324, French Black Pins was rolled in and re-enactors memorize complicated sequences, some 30 French Federation of Little Shooting Missie, picked nearby campsites to provide some can run fast between shoot - Shooting competitors could handle SASS #80760, the all-important “ambiance” for ing positions, and others simply the Old West firearms and under - John Wolf, SASS #80779, and the match. In addition, building shoot faster! The Match Director stand how Cowboy Action is Barth, SASS #85314, storefronts and Old West decora - had the task of balancing all these played. Wild Bunch™ Regulators tions were added throughout the factors to create a fair and even So, who won? French Boy, Trusty Phil, SASS #28720, shooting stages, including wooden match for everyone. SASS #86324. He was awarded a initiator of Cowboy Action bridges, saloon doors, wagon Through the generosity of the scabbard provided by Sellerie du Shooting™ in France wheels, barrels, and on and on … match sponsors, everyone received Thymerais, a company specializing * * * * * * * * * * Targets were the usual steel a prize. In addition to the competi - in western leather equipment, sad - You can see videos on Y-Tube targets … some were stationary, tors an equally large contingent of dles, and holsters and a cup of the Concours Cowboy Action Shooting some were hanging and moved re-enactors and French Federation FFT. à « Buffalo Valley » - when hit, and some were reac - of Shooters were present at the Planning has already started for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v tionary—falling when squarely hit. match. Some 250 meals were the match next year—“Seven Mer - =hiiNdftQ3D4 The ciblerie was painted in Red, served during the event. cenaries.” In addition to Cowboy Ac - :2ème partie Concours SASS de White, and Blue reminiscent of the Cowboy Action is growing in tion, next year will also feature Wild Buffalo Valley - American and French flags. France as it is throughout Europe. Bunch™ and Mounted Shooting! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v Shooting scenarios ranged The Buffalo Shooters provide op - Plans are being developed for even =KTICwo-dulo from simple to complicated de - portunities for new potential Cow - pending upon target placement boy Action Shooters to handle Old and size, how many shooting posi - West firearms throughout the year, tions were required, and how many and did so again on Sunday follow - rounds were allocated for each ing the match. A “fun shoot” and firearm. Some folks can easily “long range” set up was provided so

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German territory reGulators hold the First SASS EUROPEAN Regional! (Part 1)

By Frederick Jackson Turner, SASS #28271

the European authorities don’t like have broken beneath my fevered surprises. shotgun pumping antics since I Second: Include your invitation filed the paperwork to go to Ger - to the shooting event. many. Apparently, one of the bro - Third: List the exact model and ken ones was the one I was serial number of each of the planning to take with me to Europe. firearms you are taking. What that means at the mo - Fourth: Send the form in early, ment in question is the paperwork so it can ripen, while spending time I filled out in January is no longer in the bureaucratic queue. relevant come June; that was about Target distances and placement Fifth: Go to US Customs, and four broken shotguns ago. That’s are controlled by German shooting regulations … but they don’t say get their impor t/export form. Fill why I’m standing there in the anything about target SIZES! it out. Frankfurt Customs Office sur - Big targets put the “action” back Last of all: The prudent traveler rounded by humorless German offi - into Cowboy Action even though then goes to the Customs Office at cials with three guns matching the they are all set at seven meters Large, prestigious matches are the departure point, informs them customs forms, and a 12 gauge shot - or further. Shotgun targets are beginning to make their of the upcoming trip, shakes a few gun that does NOT match the serial set on berms along the side appearance in Europe, hands, and the morning of the number on the form. It comes to of the shooting bay. including Days of Truth— flight, all goes like clockwork. me, in a flash. OH NO!!! I swapped the European Cowboy Action Shooting™ Championships, And that’s what I did. Then that shotgun out for this one Germany to shoot the German Ter - SASS’ European END of TRAIL, why am I standing here in Frank - months ago! ritorial Round-up, instruct their and the German Territorial furt with a bunch of scowling cus - A bit short of oxygen, I look be - cowboy clinic, and entertain for Roundup—a SASS European toms and immigration officials with seechingly at Coffee. He looks at their big Saturday night beer bash Regional. American cowboys their arms folded across their me, helplessly, but smug in the sat - and party. are encouraged to make the trip chests, glowering at me? isfaction that HE’S going shooting It’s the best match in Europe, to Europe for one or more of these Let’s go back a few months. instead of to jail this week. Sud - and one of the very best in the matches. There are no match See, I break shotguns. A lot. I even denly, with a rush of brains to the world. Spearheaded by the Three surprises—the rules are the same, write songs about that. (“The head, he points to the two of us, em - European Amigos, RePhil, SASS the range commands are the same, and the camaraderie is the same! Wreck Of the Old ‘97”, “97 Ways To blazoned on the German Territorial #5897, Shotgun Boogie, SASS Break Your Heart ...”) I keep sev - Round-up poster. Looking back and #67870, and Olli the Kid, SASS eral gunsmiths in beer, snacks, and forth between the poster and the #68338, it is also the best-attended hillipsburg, Germany upstairs-room-addition money, just two of us, each of us smiling our match in Europe, and SASS has – Cowboy Action Shoot - working on my steadily-growing most angelic smiles, slowly compre - wisely chosen to incorporate this ing™ has truly become a collection of ‘97 Winchesters and hension dawns, and the scowling excellent match as the First Euro - P worldwide phenomenon. Chinchesters. So, two or three ‘97s turns to smiles, as the German Cus - pean Regional. Whoo-HOO! It’s a great game, incorporating fam - toms officials decide we’re not try - I have traveling companions ilies, diverse backgrounds, and a ing to storm the Bundesrat with this year! My posse includes Coffee, wide variety of skill sets. I have been smuggled, hundred-year-old Auntie Em, SASS CEO Misty fortunate to participate in the expan - weapons. The pretty, twenty-ish Moonshine (architect of making sion of this great sport as it spreads customs girl goes back to an office, this match the European Regional), around the globe. No manifestation and comes out a moment later with and for a refreshing change of pace, of this could be more telling than the a stamp and a ribbon of paper flut - my twenty-something daughter, First SASS European Regional held tering in the breeze. “No problem,” Caehle, SASS alias, Prairie Skye. in Phillipsburg, Germany! she explains, “Just please be more It’s a fun, high-spirited crew to be Now, no matter how hard I try, careful next time.” Whew. I will, traveling with, but there’s more. organization just isn’t my thing. too. The unfailing good sense and We’re meeting Dr. George, SASS Even making the trip with me this politeness is to become a hallmark #5234, his wife, Nurse Bobbi, SASS time, with the king and queen of or - of this trip, and it really is a lovely #20234, as well as Bob and Shari ganized, Coffee, SASS #7008, and thing to experience. I hope we treat Mernickle, and master engraver, Auntie Em, SASS #38085,every - travelers half so well in this coun - Jim Downing and his wife, at the thing I do seems last minute. try. Remember this moment, event. This is a real treat for me to Take the firearms import certi - though; I still have to get past U.S. share what I’ve known for years fication forms. Piece of cake. Hospitality abounds! Customs when I return ... now that Cowboy Action Shooting™ First: get the required forms Bill Masterson (with tongs) But for now, pulse returned to is as much fun as you can have, from the German government, via played host to many of the normal, we’re off to a pretty good doing it in Europe is unbelievably the German Territory Regulators, cowboys with copious beer, start! fun, and getting to share this months in advance. This is easily fine wines, and great food. For the last several years, it has supremely special treat with accomplished, but it is important; And then AFTER dinner … been my great pleasure to travel to friends and family bumps the “cool”

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developed a new short-stroke kit for rea sons, to shoot indoors! So, these the Ruger! I have figured out the enormous, contained facilities, such shortest possible link for the ‘73! as the one in Philippsburg, are built How are my friends back in Amer - to satisfy the needs of sportsmen, One of the Three Amigos, ica? Wait ‘til you see the new big and even the military. As men - Shotgun Boogie, picked the visiting American clan up targets we have bought!” After tioned, these warehouse-sized build - at the airport and became the traveling for 12 hours at a mere 600 ings are, however, open to the sky, so tour-guide/host while giving miles per hour, he is determined to one receives all the delightful bene - a lesson in Grand Prix driving! show us some real speed. fits of the German weather, includ - Miraculously, we arrive in ing a usual daily dose of rain, which meter right off the scale. Phillipsburg, unscathed. RePhil does keep the surrounding country - We’re met punctually at the air - and Olli the Kid are waiting there. side, which you can’t see from inside, port by Shotgun Boogie, who has Without a permanent range of their very lush and green. I’m sure it rented a van to squire us all around. own, these intrepid cowboys are keeps the dust down too, something European cars tend toward the com - going to build a world-class match, I’m certain, from personal experi - pact and economical; with four of us complete with props and steel, and ence, hasn’t been seen in Germany A number of Americans made travelers, plus Boogie, our guns, have the whole thing up and run - since the Cretaceous Age ... the trip to Phillipsburg this year, leather, and baggage, we could fill a ning in less than two days. including Bob and Shari Mernickle In addition to the indoor shoot - pretty good sized tour bus. With Lyonner Dundee, his (center). Holding the paper on the ing, they aren’t allowed to shoot Now, Boogie is not only a fast lovely wife JessieBelle, and Joe left is Turner’s attractive daughter, through windows or doorways, as shooter, but if you’ve read my previ - Dakota in tow, all hands pitch in. Prairie Skye. that would mimic combat shooting. ous articles about Europe, you know It’s a lot of work, but with this crew, Distances to the targets are also reg - he is a former champion kart racer, it’s also a lot of fun, and there is here is a cluster of buildings the ulated. Cleverly navigating around and an ace driver. So, he proceeds plenty of excellent local beer and size of a couple of Costcos, divided these unique restrictions is part of to run this van all over Germany for sandwiches to keep energy and up into rooms, each open to the sky, the challenge faced by RePhil, Boo - the next two weeks, driving it like a spirits up. for shooting. gie, and Olli, but face it they do, with Formula 1 car, tires screeching and The huge indoor shooting facil - European shooters have to com - creativity and inventiveness. The engine howling, gesticulating and ity in Phillipsburg is outside of any - pete under a number of handicaps, result is the German Territorial pointing constantly, talking excit - one in the U.S.’s experience. It’s many of which would appall Ameri - Roundup contains 12 cleverly de - edly the entire time. “You must see enormous. By law, sport shooting in can shooters, starting with the re - signed stages that would be a credit the new props I have made! I have Germany must be done indoors, so quirement, for environmental (Continued on page 22 )

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German Territory Regulators (Pt. 1) ...

(Continued from page 21 ) experience has done learnt’ me, I am to any match, anywhere, anytime. not even in the same league as these But first, after a full day of guys. Coffee makes a bold attempt catching up with our friends, and to keep up for a day or two, but even Paperwork is important— both in the US AND in Germany. Frederick Jackson Turner setting up for the match, we settle his relentless training at home can - registered a shotgun he ultimately broke and brought along a down to some serious drinking. not prepare him for the Brobdingna - mistakenly unregistered “slide-action” shotgun. Fortunately Now, when it comes to drinking, I am gian abilities of our hosts. the German authorities were understanding … no lightweight, but sad and bitter Camping accommodations for us getting the gun back into the US is another story … have been made by the thoughtful trio. We are situated in a small Here we are enjoying the finest Three Amigos have traveled all trailer, right next to the range. in trailer living, daughter Caels over the US and Europe, watched, There is no side-pop-out nonsense and I. And for good measure, the taken notes, and competed. This is in Europe! What you see is what Pooley Gang Pool has been set up why they are as fast as any Cowboy you get. But each camper is a right outside any time we want to Action Shooters in the world. But, masterpiece of space-saving inge - take a bracing dip. This is only for they have been paying close atten - nuity. Gallantly, the Brothers the daring, but why not? It’s all of tion to what WORKS. They design Seibel, Phil and Chris, have a good 45 degrees at night! Perfect matches that are fun, clever, and elected to stay in a tent right next for swimming ... if you’re from Min - blessedly free from P-traps and door. I confess to a hint of guilt, nesota. And over it all, rain or nonsense. You can just SHOOT! waking up morning after morn - shine, the unique Pooley Gang flag That gets the competition part of ing, warm, dry, and comfortable, flutters bravely in the breeze. the match out of the way early; the and seeing the match director and The campgrounds are starting to rest of the event is devoted to so - All matches in Germany are indoors. his kin clamber out of their fill. The array of campers and tents cializing, eating, drinking, more The shooting facilities are quite large clammy tent, bleary-eyed, furry- is colorful, and each country sets up eating, and a lot more drinking. with open-air roofs. German cowboys toothed, and rumpled. As long as a campsite, a sort of mini-UN A delightful pair of Italian have found ways to deal with the we get the espresso maker fired emerges. There are lots of familiar shooters, Bill Masterson, SASS stringent German restrictions to the up first thing in the morning, faces, lots of smiles, back-slapping, #71434, and Wonder Bibi, SASS extent the matches are as pleasing there is no complaint; these are and good humor as I greet Curly #81882, are staying right across the and flow as well as any in the world. true gentlemen. Red Rider, SASS #83495, from way from our trailer. That’s a score France, Dutch Bear, SASS #86659, for us because they are great com - from Holland, and El Heckito, SASS pany, high spirited, and fun. They #74835, from Hungary. have also contrived to stock their Thursday morning dawns cool camper with enough food to feed a and dry. I’m still a bit jet lagged, small army—a very hungry one, at but rarin’ to go. Caels and Misty that. There is so much food and are true road warriors, up, dressed, liquor stuffed into every conceivable and ready to entertain, they look nook and cranny in their little like they just stepped out of a spa. camper that I am at a loss to explain I have got to find out what they put where they found room for their in their coffee. clothing and guns! But man-oh- I instruct all day long to a full man, do they know how to live, and, clinic. This is the third year I’ve most fortunately for us, they are de - done this, and there are a lot of re - lighted to share! Shades of my Ital - peat customers. And in three years, ian grandmother belaboring me, they have gotten good; I mean re - “Eat up, my boy! You’ll get skinny!” ally good! I’ll take getting beaten Thus it is on Thursday night we by Hell Hound in the match as a are invited over for some Italian compliment to my instruction, but cooking and hospitality. Spread out the truth is these guys work just as there are three kinds of meat and hard and diligently as any Cowboy four kinds of cheeses served, as well Action Shooter in the game, and as bread, and of course, vino . There Helmut (Hell Hound) has become a is enough food for everyone, and we world-class shooter. The role mod - do a good job on the provisions. It’s els are in place; RePhil, Boogie, and all delicious, and, after all, we Olli already are! wouldn’t want to insult anyone! It’s Scanning through the shooters hard to imagine all of this bounty is manual brings a smile. The match being served out of the back of a is a work of art. German law dic - camper. Little can we imagine, all tates distances of at least 7 meters, of this is just a warm-up for the (about 21 feet,) but Rephil likes Italian main dinner event on Fri - them big and fast, so they have day. Meanwhile, a bit of rain begins large steel targets that seem to to fall. We cluster under the over - shrink the distance. Shotgun hang of the camper, and the party knockdowns must be mounted on goes on until about midnight, be - berms, so there are wide swings be - fore shutting down early. After all, tween targets; the SxS crowd loves the main match starts tomorrow! that. Most importantly of all, the (to be continued …)

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and a few were devious enough to challenge even the experienced shooters. Targets included the usual steel, plus pipes, plates, and a popper. The weather cooperated, only sprinkling a little and getting warm enough to make some prospectors take their long-johns off. Tripod, SASS #57588, and her cookwagon crew provided great vit - tles for two lunches and Saturday’s dinner. Cowboy church was held Sunday, led by Flaco Joe. The social The social highlight this year was the renewal of Lizzy Mae, SASS #92426, highlight this year was the renewal — Top Lady Overall — and Ruben Ryback’s, SASS #89756, wedding vows. The bride was of Lizzy Mae, SASS #92426, and Sweet Valley Whiskey, SASS #98206 beautiful, and the groom was accompanied by two gentlemen Ruben Ryback’s, SASS #89756, wed - with shotguns to ensure things went smoothly. ding vows. The bride was beautiful, and the groom was accompanied by irchwood, AK – On targets were close, the shooting two gentlemen with shotguns to be July 5-7, 2013, a bunch was hot, and the fellowship made it sure things went smoothly, and a of cowboys and cowgirls worthwhile in itself. fun time was had by all. B met at Moose Nugget Many gathered on Friday to Many cowboy and cowgirl vol - Flats (aka Birchwood Shooting and register and participate in the side unteers made the weekend possi - Recreation Park) and had a rootin’ matches led by Scout Brown, SASS ble, too many to name, but all are tootin’ good time. The theme of this Life #36048, and Flaco Joe, SASS appreciated. We also want to rec - year’s Territorial Championship #83282. Thirty-eight shooters ognize all the shooters who trav - was Civilizing the Old West. Terri - joined two posses for two full days eled to the match from other states torial Governor Marshal Stone, of shooting on Saturday and Sun - and other parts of Alaska—thanks SASS Life #53366, led us through day, led by posse marshals Scout for making that extra effort to join twelve stages of the journey and Brown and Flaco Joe. Marshal us. Vendors this year included — Top Man Overall — process of settling the West. The Stone’s scenarios were clever, fun, Arnie’s Custom Bullets, Ear Coho Cowboy, SASS #72119 Alaska, and D Bar J Hat Company. Winners Categories The first two are local Alaskans thank Bullet Splat Jewelry, Crazy Overall L S Senior Tripod, who provide important services. Crow Trading Post, Dixie Gun Man Coho Cowboy, SASS #57588 The third came all the way from Works, Graf and Sons, Lee Preci - SASS #72119 S Duelist Marshal Stone, Las Vegas, and many shooters were sion Reloading, Midway USA, Lady Sweet Valley Whiskey, SASS #53366L fascinated by their 1800s conforma - H2Oasis, Intuitions Day Spa, SASS #98206 Cowboy Tombstone Kenny, tor and the old-time techniques Moose’s and Bear Tooth, Redding Categories SASS #76195 they still use to make hats by hand. Reloading, Single Action Shooting 49’er Coho Cowboy, Cowgirl Sweet Valley Whiskey, Generous sponsors helped Society, Snow Goose Restaurant, SASS #72119 SASS #98206 L 49’er Little Nelchina, C Cowgirl Red Tornado, make our championship possible: Sportsman’s Warehouse, True West SASS #68078 SASS #68721 Action Targets was the Match magazine, Valley Vet Supply, Duelist Potshot Parker, E Statesman D. H. Hauler, Sponsor, and other help was pro - Unique Tek, and our awards SASS #35906 SASS #12815 vided by our stage sponsors, Des - providers Lasting Impressions and L Duelist Dancin Duelist, F C Duelist Dan O’Leary, perado Cowboy Bullets, El Paso ST Machining LLC. SASS #76934 SASS #26047 Saddlery Co., Rugged Gear, Slix Of course folks want to know Wrangler Flaco Joe, F Cartridge Kootenai Brown, Products (TK4B), Brownells, Hi- who shot the best scores, too, so see SASS #83282 SASS #87192 Res Graphics, Starline Brass, Al - the list for our winners. And if you L Wrangler Lanky Jane, Senior Tequila Jack, lure Day Spa and Hair Design, want a good excuse to come to SASS #83283 SASS #91009 B-Western Prussian Pete, L Young Gun Eileen Widowmaker, Northern Knives, Evil Roy Shoot - Alaska, look into our club and join SASS #93937 SASS #89757 ing School, CW Tack and Western us next July! Check out our web - S Senior Low Gap Kid, Wear, and the Birchwood Recre - site at http://www.alaska49ers.pis SASS #89323 ation and Shooting Park. We also tolshooting.com /

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shootin G across !the Washington State

Rio Drifter, SASS #49244 and Tennesse Tall, SASS #49245 By Tennessee Tall, SASS #49245 and Rio Drifter, SASS #49244 ushooter, ansd the respona se is the hootin’ is definitely the same all over: “Come on over, what destination; however, can we do fer ya?” Wouldn’t matter rounding the bend and if you neglected to tell them you S seeing a young bull just robbed the bank! Called moose running alongside the motor Colville Guns and Roses and left a home, meeting Curtis, a real live message. Lt. Jack, “The Sheriff,” prospector, in Republic, Washing - called back saying “Come on over, ton, and watching an eagle pick a dry camping at the range, see ya fish up out of the river are all Sunday.” I reckon it’s just the Cow - “Wow” moments in the journey. We boy Way. found ourselves on a dirt road not Colville Guns and Roses pro - much wider than my jeans at the vided a pine sheltered camping entrance to Little Pend Oreille Na - area overseen by the watchful eye tional Wildlife Refuge. Wasn’t of the infamous Bad Bart. Sunday where we were supposed to be, nei - we engaged in a gun battle with ther was the house at the top of the Bad Bart consisting of a hat and hill. A nice lady came out and redi - two pistol knockdowns, and a shot rected us to the Colville Guns and to the head to “ ring his bell.” For Roses Range, (the one we drove you movie fans remember Fistful of right by earlier). Rio and I have de - Dollars: “To kill, you better hit the cided we really can’t use a bigger Colville Guns and Roses helping us put up our state sticker. heart. Aim for the heart, or you’ll motor home; no way could we turn never stop him. The heart, Ramon, a bigger one around in some of the Visiting SASS clubs across the don’t forget the heart!” Not to fear places we have found ourselves, USA allows us to meet interesting as there were shooters amongst us some of them on purpose. If our people, see our country, and prove who rang the bell, knocked down trips sound like a nature walk, bear you can call a cowboy/girl out of the the hat, the pistols, and hit the with us and remember, we’ve got blue and tell them you are a SASS heart … I didn’t. Rangering in our blood! We shot five great scenarios and retired to a scrumptious potluck lunch provided by the club members. Schofield Kid not only can hold claim to having been a real (Continued on next page)

Dusty Roads is a traveling man; last shot with him in Montana. Lt. Jack, SASS #78763, and Never know who you will see Cheyenne Sadie, SASS #78764, J. T. Kettleman, SASS #37546, at a SASS shoot. with Del Monte at registration. ready to take on Bad Bart. That is “Bad Bart.”

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By Big Jim Hammond, SASS Life #48443

Okeechobee, FL – The monthly SASS shoot, five stages shots; and finally to split a bullet for using my plastic primer hold - OK Corral Outlaws had been completed before mov - on an axe edge and brake two bal - ers like TOP SHOT™ would be hold their monthly ing forward with the exhibitions. loons at the same time. shooting six squares with pistols O shoot match on the 4 th The three exhibitions were: We, yes, I shot twice and split at thirty feet. Sunday of each month. This shooting lollypops (the size of the bullet, braking both balloons Another would be to shoot the month is no different than any quarters) off a 2x4 twenty seven from twenty-seven feet, bench best hand of poker with all 52 other except, we put in three TOP feet down range with pistol or rifle; rested in two shots. We had one cards on a cardboard backing. I SHOT™ type exhibitions to the second was to shoot through a shooter who did all three with his cannot forget splitting the bullet change the atmosphere. For the PVC pipe at a red bottle with three long barrel 45 pistol. I shot the on an axe edge and breaking two lollypops with my 22 bench balloons at forty feet and finally, rested, while others did it with shooting 5 red caps off golf tees at Shooting Across The USA ... their cowboy rifle, both off handed thirty feet. Better still; shoot a (Continued from previous page) Been treated as good, but never and bench rested. Two even shot bullet through the hole of a CD at ranch rodeo hand, he has an im - better. Del Monte, Cheyenne Sadie, the white sticks from the lollypop thirty feet. pressive array of antique guns, and Lt. Jack, Recon Jack, Dusty Roads, with ease. Finally, the idea is to promote he makes a mean pot of chili. Then Josh Roads, J.T. Kettleman, Savery After the exhibition shooting, interest in Cowboy Action Shooting, Recon Jack served up a chocolate Slim, Schofield Kid, and everyone several cowboy and girls came up and enjoy other shooting as well. cake (I vow it was a foot tall), hand else that I missed, thank you folks to me and requested we do it Hopefully, this type of shoot - delivered with a glass of cold milk. for a great time. again in the future. ing will create a stronger shooter For future shoots, I have plans for SASS competition.

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By Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS Life/Regulator #32933

hold six rounds. Or, you can sim - ply buy and install the Wild Bodie 3 Tom six-round conversion kit, Photo 1 , and know it will hold six rounds. The kit consists of two parts, a new magazine tube spring

Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS Life #32933

n Cowboy Action Shoot - ing™ you are usually limited to loading two I rounds in your shotgun. So, it doesn’t matter whether you are shooting a double barrel, a ‘97 or an ‘87, all you can put in it are two rounds. In Cowboy Action Shooting™, the shotguns are also 1 almost always staged open and empty. The rapidly growing sport of Wild Bunch™ shooting makes things a little different for the loading and shooting of the shot - gun. First, the only guns allowed are pump actions, so they will all hold more than two rounds. Sec - ond, the shotguns are typically staged with the action closed; hammer down, but with the mag - azine tubes fully loaded. The Win - chester Model ‘97, the most popular shotgun in Wild Bunch™, was made for over 50 years and there are numerous variations. The ‘97 came in a C model, D 4 model, and an E model. It also came in solid frame and take - 2 down. So, there are six major variations in addition to numer - and a new follower. Photo 2 . ous running changes made in its There are two kits, one for the manufacture during its long pro - solid frame guns and one for the duction life. takedown guns. Follow along, and Many ‘97s will hold six rounds we’ll show you how to install the 5 in the magazine tube. Others kit in either type of gun. First up, won’t because of parts variations the solid frame guns. throughout the years. If your ‘97 Remove the barrel band only holds five rounds, you will be screw, Photo 3 , and pull off the at a competitive disadvantage in a barrel band, Photo 4 . (Remem - Wild Bunch™ match. You can try ber, whenever working on a gun different magazine springs (which use hollow ground screwdrivers vary in the number of coils and made for guns and not a twenty- wire thickness), different follow - nine cent screwdriver from the ers (which vary in length), or re - specials barrel at Home Depot.) sort to ammo that is shorter than Next remove the screw that holds a standard 2 ¾ " shell. You might, on the magazine tube end cap. after some mixing and matching Photo 5 . Make sure you put your of parts and ammo, get your ‘97 to finger over the end of the end cap

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when you pull out the end cap re - Installing a kit in the take - taining screw, as it is spring down models is a little more diffi - loaded! Photo 6 . Put the new cult because you have to deal with magazine follower on the end of part of the takedown mechanism. the new spring, Photo 7 , and When you look at the end of the push it down the magazine tube. magazine tube on a takedown Replace the end cap retaining model, you can see the barrel screw, slide the barrel band into band and end caps are different place and replace the barrel band from the solid frame models. screw. Photo 8 . That’s it. You’re Photo 9 . On the takedown model 6 done! Next up, installing the kit the magazine tube floats inside in a takedown Model ‘97. the barrel band, so you do NOT have to remove the barrel band or its screws. Instead, the first thing that has to be removed is the 10 takedown plunger. Push the take - down plunger down into its re - lease position, but do not turn the magazine tube. Look at the plunger, and you will see a spring in the side of the plunger. Push the spring down near where it en - ters the magazine tube, Photo 10 , and pull the plunger out. Photo 11 shows the tip of the plunger spring and the little nub that is supposed to keep the 7 plunger from falling out of the magazine tube. Next remove the 11 (Continued on page 28 )

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Make Mine A Six Pack! ... (Continued from page 27 ) ones from the kit and reinstall the two screws holding in the maga - magazine end cap, making sure zine end cap. Photo 12 . (Re - all the holes align correctly. member to put your finger over Photo 14 . Push in the plunger the end of the cap so the spring until the nub on the end of the doesn’t launch your cap when you pull out the screws.) When the end cap is out, look at the orienta - 13 tion of the holes and the barrel swivel to make sure you reinstall them in their correct orientation. 14 Photo 13 . Replace the magazine spring and follower with the new

SASS Mercantile, or you can get it directly from Wild Bodie Tom at: Thomas Kister, P.O. Box 1178, Mayer, Arizona 86333. Phone number 602-721-3175.

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plunger spring touches the maga - zine tube, Photo 15 , and push down the spring while pushing in the plunger. Photo 16 . Now your gun will easily hold six rounds. The kit is available from a va - riety of sources, including the

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A W i l d B u n c h Of Shooters At GREAT NOR ’EASTER 2013 By Loco Poco Lobo, SASS #36108, & Nawlins Kid, SASS #36107 wNew England/Northeast Wild Bunch Ambassadors Photos by Professor P. T. Litewell

Wild N Wooly shuckin’ his shotgun

Posse of Wild People

he time was wild and they were donating their time to wooly at The Great “manning” the other side match Nor’easter this year. A stages. We missed ‘em, but appreci - T wild bunch of shooters ate their generosity! posse’d up to shoot through the The crew moved through the three stages of a Wild Bunch™ three stages and waited for a lull in Mini-Match. the Squall/Plainsman match to Although this was not the first jump in and take over the stage. A year the great volunteer staff at the whole lotta lead flew down range New England Regional offered Wild and many, many laughs were Bunch™ as a mini match event, it shared. The bunch had a great time was the first time a majority of the and hope to do it again next year. shooters were able to “posse up” Hopefully our posse can grow as and shoot together. Not all the par - quite a few cowboys/cowgirls ticipants could make the time, as stopped by to watch the fun!

Winners Traditional Dutch Cassidy, SASS #5252 NY Modern Pittsburg Mac, SASS #20796 MA L Modern Dancin Angel, SASS #53686 NJ i

Doc Savage with his live action 1911

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.HisTorY on Your FaCE , Common Spectacle Styles Before, During, and After The Civil War 1835 – 1870 Spectacles in the Civil War ow-ranking soldiers Part 3 of 4 tended to be young—by one estimate, the average L age of the Union army By Alan R. McBrayer and Thomas F. Valenza soldier was twenty-six, too young for most of these men to require the Individuals claiming service ex - Even with myopia, some sol - use of spectacles. Some soldiers emption became a real problem for diers engaged in serious combat. however, had myopia, the medical military service. In fact, claiming Georg e Whittemore, Jr. “was very term for nearsightedness. People service exemption due to myopic near-sighted, and constantly used with myopia see objects more sight became quite popular in the glasses.” He enlisted as a private in clearly when they are close to the North during the Civil War, so pop - the 1st Company of Massachusetts eye, while distant objects appear ular that the Provost General Sharpshooters. His promotion to out-of-focus. By far the most com - changed the regulations so myopic sergeant occurred by the time he Detail of photograph – mon form of myopia, physiologic individuals were required to serve was killed at Antietam on Septem - Gen. Quincy Gillmore’s staff on Folly Island, SC, 1863. myopia, develops in children some - in the Invalid Corps. 17 A Pennsylva - ber 17, 1862. 19 Private Mason, of th (Source: U. S. Army Heritage time between five and ten years of nia newspaper noted, “Near sighted the 7 Regiment New Hampshire and Education Center) age and gradually progresses until men, instead of finding themselves Volunteers entered and beat his op - the eye is fully grown. 15 Most my - exempt, will observe they are to be ponent in “friendlier combat,” an Volunteer Infantry saw their dead opic people require vision correction transferred to the Invalid Corps. impromptu boxing match in camp. had been stripped of clothing arti - from an early age. Henceforth, spectacles and eye The unit historian said he “by day - cles by Confederates in need, but If we are fortunate to live long glasses will not be so popular.” 18 light was rather short-sighted, hav - that personal effects had been care - enough, we will eventually develop ing to wear glasses to aid him most fully laid aside and not stolen: presbyopia, commonly known as old of the time.” 20 “There were watches, spectacles, age sight, a natural part of the The Union and Confederate knives, match-boxes, pipes, tobacco, aging process of the eye in which armies did not issue many specta - handkerchiefs, packs of playing- the crystalline lens of the eye losses cles; they were almost entirely a cards, Bibles, combs, revolvers, and flexibility, causing difficulty focus - privately purchased item. For ex - pictures” and many other items. 23 ing upon close objects. Presbyopia ample, The U.S. Sanitary Commis - Confederate C. Woodward Hut - usually becomes noticeable in our sion reported during the War in the ton, fighting with Hampton’s Le - early to mid-forties. 16 We can safely Valley of the Mississippi they dis - gion, wrote his parents describing assume during the Civil War, or any tributed only 20 pairs of specta - his experiences at First Mannasas: other period, younger people af - cles—this in comparison to over “… our men were subjected to a fected with moderate to severe my - 30,000 blankets and 150,000 cotton raking fire. I was the first who fell. opia would require spectacles to drawers. 21 As a second example, I had put on my spectacles, taken function normally, and many people The Northwestern Sanitary Com - good aim and fired my first shot. over the age of forty, due to presby - Source: mission issued only 19 pairs. 22 As I was in the act of reloading, a opia, would require spectacles for Providence Evening Press Spectacles were purchased by rifle-ball struck me in the head, a reading and other close activities. [Rhode Island], October 4, 1862 both officers and enlisted men. A little above the forehead; and the regimental history notes after a violence of the concussion felled fight at Chickasaw Bayou on De - me to the earth immediately. I cember 29, 1862, members of the drew off my spectacles and flung Thirteenth Regiment of Illinois them aside.” 24

Oval spectacles of silver with band slide temples and crank bridge, made by William H. Calhoun, Nashville, Tennessee, c1855 – 1865. (Author’s collection)

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Naval troops also used specta - Captain John Hinson “was an old cles. A well-known series of photo - deer hunter, and although wearing graphs of the officers taken onboard spectacles, greatly distinguished Burt & Willard patent spectacles, an unusual folding design. 27 the U.S.S. Monitor shows two of the himself as a sharpshooter.” Abraham Lincoln had this pair in his pocket when murdered officers wearing spectacles. In A drummer in the Fortieth Reg - at Ford’s Theater. Note the scroll bridge; this type of bridge fighting near Galveston on January iment New York Volunteers (the became widely used after the Civil War. 1, 1863, the United States Revenue “Mozart Regiment”) constantly (Library of Congress). Cutter Harriet Lane fell to Confed - wore spectacles, and the men called erate troops. U.S. Commander Cap - him “Four Eyes” and “Glass Put In.” He was enormously fat, he wore a short truce, the college graduate tain Jonathan Wainwright, The writer noted, “Without his wig and spectacles and false teeth, Northern man was described as according to newspaper accounts, spectacles he couldn’t see a barn all of which he had lost in the mud “untrained by out-of-door sports, he was shot through the head with a door ten feet distance.” 28 hole, was covered with mud and never so much as slept in the open pistol ball. One account reads, “He At Petersburg early in March, dirt, and you can easily imagine air; he wore spectacles.” 30 was wearing spectacles at the time, 1865, a member of the Thirteenth what a ludicrous and pitiful specta - Many older officers used specta - and the officer who was paroled Regiment of New Hampshire Vol - cle he presented. After he had cles; General Lee used steel- took them to Commander Renshaw. unteer Infantry recorded this amus - wiped the mud from his face and rimmed spectacles at Appomattox 31 , One of the glasses was shot out, ing incident: “Recently while on eyes and had blown it from his and General John Pope wore while the other was covered with picket, one dark night about mid - mouth, he drank a dish of coffee, glasses: “Pope is a thick-set man, of blood and flesh.” 25 night we were suddenly startled by drew a long breath, looked around unpleasant expression, of about In North Carolina, Colonel J.F. a loud cry for help from the dark - upon the circle of our pickets and fifty years of age, average height, Hoke commanded a regiment of ness in our front. Rushing to the then proceeded in the most deliber - thick, bushy black whiskers, and Senior Reserves toward the end of spot with one of our pickets we dis - ate and solemn manner to deliver wears spectacles.” 32 Colonel (later the War. Writing the Commissary covered a rebel deserter stuck fast his opinion of the Confederacy.” His General) Franz Sigel was another Department, perhaps tongue-in- in a swampy place. Reaching out assessment was not positive. 29 officer often described as wearing cheek, he requested “six hundred his musket to us, by means of it we Historian James Kendall Hos - spectacles. “He wore spectacles, pairs of spectacles and spectacle soon pulled him out of the mud hole mer recounted a personal experi - and kept looking around like a cases; four hundred walking canes, and took him to our line. He was a ence that occurred in 1863, during weasel.” 33 At Wilson’s Creek (Au - and three hundred and fifty bottles man about sixty years old, and until a siege of an unnamed Confederate gust 10, 1861) he escaped from the of ‘Radway’s Ready Relief’ for the forced into the rebel army had been fort. In drawing a comparison be - field, being described as a “small cure of rheumatism.” 26 a physician practicing his profes - tween a Union soldier and a Con - reddish looking man with gold spec - Fifty- eight year old Confederate sion somewhere in North Carolina. federate soldier that met during a (Continued on page 32 )

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History On Your Face (Pt. 3) . . . Oval spectacles with ladies’ temples, made from tortoiseshell. These were going out of style by the 1860s. (Continued from page 31 ) ment New York Volunteers com - (Source: Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and tacles, a slouch grey felt hat, and a mented upon the general lack of Philosophical Instruments, Vol. 2, by Benjamin Pike, Jr., 1856). blue blanket worn poncho fash - uniformity in a division of Pennsyl - ion.” 34 At Pea Ridge, his spectacles vania militia, stating their lines were shot away, leaving him un - contained “grave gentlemen in spec - harmed. 35 tacles (and) studious young men in General Meade constantly wore green glasses.” 39 spectacles, as derisively noted in Colored lens spectacles with numerous accounts. One newspa - green, blue, or smoked (gray or neu - per reporter wrote, “He wears spec - tral) glass were readily and cheaply tacles and is not considered a available from any optician or fancy handsome man.” 36 When an an - hardware store. A letter written by noyed friend approached Meade John S. Mahony to Col. A. McMa - with a problem, Meade replied, han notes at Chickamauga, an un - “Why, my dear General, you should known officer with “colored not let that annoy you,” and re - spectacles” gave a command that called an incident where his men resulted in the capture of his regi - called him “a four-eyed son-of-a- ment. 40 Ephraim Anderson wrote of bitch, and upon my soul, I could not Capt. Wade of St. Louis, the com -

Shell or Coquille Spectacles of steel wire with pivot temples. (Not to be confused with tortoiseshell frames). Many had ladies’ temples, “very popular with the soldiery during their marches in the sun.” (Source: The Human Eye, by Walter Alden, Cincinnati, 1866).

green, blue, and smoked glasses. ican authors on the subject of man - Most opticians and oculists had ners and etiquette, found not one strong opinions about the best tint that recommended the use of green of glass for spectacles, and many glass—“Frost’s Laws and By-Laws preferred the gray or “London of American Society,” an 1869 book smoke” glasses, since colors re - on etiquette, declares “blue or mained unaffected by the neutral smoke-colored glasses are the best; tint. Norwich oculist Charles Car - green glasses are detestable.” 43 leton, on the other hand, stated blue We have read and heard claims “is the proper color to be employed. that wearing certain colors of spec - Smoke-glasses should never be tacle glasses treated particular dis - Enlargement of a tintype group portrait of Company H, used, as they diminish the whole eases. It is true persons with Third Arkansas State Troops. Note the soldier wearing colored glass volume of light, and thereby render damaged eyesight often used col - spectacles, second row, second from right. the image less distinct.” 42 Although ored glasses, but the use of specific (Source: National Park Service WICR#30057). green glass had been the preferred colors to treat specific diseases was color of spectacle glasses, by the not done to any great extent. Going get mad at them.” 37 Meade lost his mander of a battery of Missouri ar - 1830s written opinion turned to - further, we have seen lists of differ - spectacles in 1864 when “nearly tillery, describing him as “plain and ward blue, and by the 1860s to neu - ent colored glasses and their uses in surrounded” by Confederates, and unassuming; he usually wore a pair tral gray as the colored glass of specific occupations. We have found “only barely escaped.” 38 of green spectacles.” 41 choice. A careful review of all nothing to support this claim, ex - There is good evidence soldiers Oculists, opticians, and physi - known works written after 1845 by cept in certain circumstances (i.e., in both armies used colored specta - cians often preferred one color over American oculists and opticians, very dark glasses used by metal cles. A surgeon in the 77 th Regi - another when choosing among and similar books written by Amer - smelters). It is a nice story, but pri -

Visit us at sassnet .com November 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 33 horses, swords, side -arms, and etc.) and laid it on the table be - side him, while he drew from his pocket a pair of steel- rimmed spectacles and wiped the glasses carefully with his handkerchief.” 32. Gordon, George H. Brook Farm Typical Shell or Coquille spectacles with iron wire frames, K-bridge, to Cedar Mountain in the War and ladies’ temples. These had blue, gray, and green glasses. of the Great Rebellion 1861 – (Author’s collection). ‘62 . Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885, p. 274 mary sources of the 18th and 19th Sanitary Commission in the 33. Ware, E.F. The Lyon Campaign centuries do not back this claim. Valley of Mississippi during the in Missouri . Topeka, Kansas: Colored glasses were used mainly War of the Rebellion 1861 – Crane & Company, 1907, p. as they are used today—for protec - 1866 . Cleveland: Fairbanks, 336. tion against the sun, although the Benedict & Co., 1871, p.213. 34. Web site, Military Order of the term “sun glasses” had not come 22. Henshaw, Mrs. Sarah Edwards. Loyal Legion of the United into use. (To be clear, occasionally Our Branch and Its Tributar - States, http://suvcw.org/mol - the term “sun glasses” referred to ies; Being a History of the Work lus/warpapers/Wiv4p433.htm lenses used to start fires; i.e., burn - of the Northwestern Sanitary (accessed June 2, 2012). ing glasses.) Commission and its Auxil - 35. Headley, Rev. P. C. Fighting A particular style of colored lens iaries, During the War of the Phil, The Life and Career of spectacles came into use after 1850, Rebellion. Chicago: Alfred L. Phillip Henry Sheridan . and saw some use during the Civil Sewell, 1868, p. 382. Boston: Lee and Shepard, War. These “Coquille” or “shell 23. Committee of the Regiment, ed. 1889, p. 63. spectacles” had curved non- magni - Military History and Reminis - 36. Maine Cultivator and Hallow - fying glasses shaped much like a cences of the Thirteenth Regi - ell Gazette , July 18, 1863. watch crystal. The concave surface ment of Illinois Volunteer 37. Woodward, E.M. Our Cam - of the glass faced the eye, and the Infantry in the Civil War of the paigns; or, The Marches, convex surface bulged outward. United States 1861 – 1865 . Bivouacs, Battles, Incidents of Modern wrap-around sunglasses Chicago: Women’s Temperance Camp Life and History of Our are similar in using non-magnifying Publishing Association, 1892, p. Regiment During its Three glasses with a deep curvature. Ac - 279. Years Term Of Service. cording to Cincinnati optician Wal - 24. Civil War Manuscripts at the Philadelphia; John E. Potter, ter Alden (1866), “During the late Southern Historical Collec - 1865, p. 286. rebellion, these coquille glasses be - tion, Hutson papers, #362, let - 38. Coshocton Tribune (Ohio), May came very popular with the soldiery ter dated July 22, 1861. 25, 1864. during their marches in the sun.” 44 http://www.unc.edu/lib/mss - 39. Stevens, George T. Three Years Chicago oculist John Phillips (opti - inv/exhibits/civilwar/hut - in the Sixth Corps . Albany: cian to Abraham Lincoln) confirmed sonpg.html accessed January S.R. Gray, 1866, pp. 155 – 156. this statement in his 1869 book 7, 2002. 40. Center for Archival Collections, about spectacles. 45 Most of these in - 25. San Francisco Bulletin , Febru - United States Army. Ohio In - expensive imported spectacles were ary 16, 1863. fantry Regiment, 21st, MS 562. cheaply made of steel wire and most 26. Down, Jerome. Sketches of 41. Anderson, Ephraim McD. had blue or grey lenses. Prominent Living North Car - Memoirs: Historical and Per - (Next month … Spectacle Cases …) olinians . Raleigh: Edwards & sonal; Including the Cam - © 2012 Alan R. McBrayer & Broughton, 1888, p. 143. paigns of the First Missouri Thomas F. Valenza. 27. Augusta Chronicle , October Confederate Brigade. Saint All Rights Reserved 18th, 1863. (Originally re - Louis: Times Printing Com - Footnotes ported in the Huntsville Con - pany, 1868, p. 99. 15. medical-dictionary.thefreedic - federate , date unknown). 42. Carleton, Charles M. The Uses tionary.com/myopia 28. Floyd, Fred C. History of the and Abuses of Spectacles. New 16. American Optometric Associa - Fortieth (Mozart) Regiment Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & tion, http://www.aoa.org/pres - New York Volunteers . Boston: Taylor, 1869, p. 6. byopia.xml (accessed F. H. Gilson Company, 1909, p. 44. Alden Walter. The Human Eye, 4/20/2012) 265. Its Use and Abuse Cincin - 17. General Orders, War Depart - 29. Thompson, S. Millett. Thir - nati, 1866, p. 121. ment, Adjutant General’s Of - teenth Regiment of New Hamp - 45. Phillips, John. Advice on the fice, No. 130 . Washington, May shire Volunteer Infantry in the Uses and Abuses of Spectacles 15, 1863. War of the Rebellion 1861 – and Weak Sight . Chicago: John 18. The Agitator [Wellsboro, Penn - 1865 . Boston and New York: Phillips, 1869, p. 48. sylvania], December 23, 1863. Houghton, Mifflin and Com - Alan McBrayer is a long-time re - 19. Higgison, Thomas Wenth - pany, 1888, p. 537. searcher and writer on style and worth, Editor. Harvard Memo - 30. Hosmer, James Kendall. The use of spectacles in America. rial Biographies . Cambridge: American Civil War . New York: Email: [email protected]. Sever & Francis, 1866, pp. 379- Harper & Brothers, 1908, p. 11. Thomas Valenza is a 2nd genera - 388. 31. Brock, R. A., Ed. Paroles of the tion optician and, with his wife, 20. Little, Henry F. W. The Seventh Army of Northern Virginia. Doreen, own and operate The Regiment New Hampshire Vol - Southern Historical Society Pa - Historic Eye Wear Company. unteers in the War of the Rebel - pers, Vol. XV . Richmond: Web site: lion . Concord, New Southern Historical Society, www.HistoricEyewearCompany.com. Hampshire: Ira C. Evans, 1896, 1887, p. xvi. “Lee took it (Au - All are member s of the Ocular pp. 449-450. thor’s note: a letter from Grant Herita g e Society. Web site: 21. Newberry, Dr. J.S. The U.S. allowing officers to keep their www.ocularheritagesociety.com.

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dispatches From . camp Baylor , Captain George Baylor, By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life/Regulator #24287 SASS Life / Rugulator #24287 with a sack suit was a derby. Photos Suits show some men in the west wearing ince the SASS Convention western hats. An 1896 photo of is coming up, let’s talk Texas Rangers all dressed up to pre - S about men’s suits. A man’s vent a prizefight shows them all station in life was visible wearing cowboy hats. (Fig. 2) in a glance in the 19 th century by Lawmen, unlike cowboys, did the way he dressed. For balls, not carry everything they owned on dances, and parties, they dressed up their bedroll. All a lot of them were to the limit of their finances. photographed wearing sack suits, The Sack Suit morning suits, or frock suits. Note The predecessor of the current none of the pants legs are stuffed men’s three-piece suit started off as into boots. the sack suit. “The sack suit, walk - White shirts were appropriate ing suit or business suit (or, in for sack suits. Photos show all Britain, the “lounge suit”) was kinds of collars including band col - Fig. 2—The Texas Rangers, 1896, all wearing suits and cowboy hats, leisure wear for men who might lars with just a collar stud. But despite “The Rules.” Most are in sack suits, with a few Frock coats wear a frock coat, and the best “The Rules” called for a turndown and morning coats. Mostly Windsor ties. clothes of vast majority of American collar and a tie. Bat Masterson, in men. A banker would wear a sack the famous photo of him (Fig. 3) is tinguished by a squared shape at suit to a picnic, and a cowboy or wearing a puff tie with a stickpin the bottom front. Its companion, farmer would wear it to church.” 1 and probably celluloid cuffs, proba - the morning coat was single Sack suits first came into fash - bly a celluloid collar. Bat was a breasted and has a rounded, swal - ion in the 1850s as a large, baggy snappy dresser, and this photo can garment, but became more fitted be considered as being how he during the 1860s. The Wild Bunch, wanted to be seen. It’s a good exam - (the gang, not the founders of ple of how to wear a sack suit. SASS or the movie) in the famous Vests were matching, as were photo (fig 1) were wearing sack the trousers. Note one member of suits, but you will notice all were the Wild Bunch was wearing con - neatly tailored to fit. Vendors have trasting trousers. Colorful vests a variety of sack coats from went out of style after the Civil War straight to tailored. except for professional gamblers, Hats worn with sack suits were and not all of them. If you didn’t top hats in the 1860’s, but as the want people to know you were a pro - derby took over American fashion, fessional gambler, you might dress top hats were limited to frock coats, conservatively. Evening vests were and the most common hat worn cut low to show off the shirt. “In the Fig. 3— Bat Masterson showing 1860s, the day vest was us all how to wear a well-fitted also often fairly low cut sack suit and derby hat. with a broad shawl collar. From the 1870s, the day only the top button was buttoned. vest would tend to be If yours hasn’t buttoned since last fairly high cut and have a year’s Christmas dinner, leave it small, notched lapel.” unbuttoned. The tie could be a Just in case you think everyone Windsor, a puff tie, a who wore a sack suit looked as string bow tie (made sharp and fashionable as Bat Mas - from a black silk ribbon, terson or the Wild Bunch, Fig. 8 about an inch high and a shows a sack suit that was on dis - yard long), or a regular play at the Los Angeles County Mu - bow tie, usually black, seum of Art. Fig. 1— The original Wild Bunch dressed up but sometimes white. The Frock Suit Fig. 4—Outlaw turned lawman in Fort Worth and got their picture taken. The suit could be ‘The frock coat was single or Ben Thompson wearing a frock They’re wearing nicely tailored brand new worn with all 4 buttons double breasted, usually black, bot - suit and top hat. He’s wearing a sack suits, vests, Windsor ties, and derby hats. buttoned, but typically tom hem above the knee, and dis - puff tie and shoes, not boots.

Visit us at sassnet .com November 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 35 ern ones have modern rubber heels, Oak Tree Howitzer boot with a rub - but they look the same on the top. ber sole and matte finish, as does I bought Madison Boots from Wild River Junction Trade Company. West Mercantile this spring. Non- Any lace-up dress shoes with or cowboy sources, such as Macy’s, without cap toes should work. didn’t stock them, and Stacy- Robert E. Lee, in the Brady photos, Adams only makes them in the was wearing Spencer Tie shoes, winter. When I was working on which were plain toe dress shoes. this, I discovered Wild West Mer - What wasn’t worn with any of cantile doesn’t offer the Madison these suits was 17 " stovepipe boots boots, but now sells very similar with the trousers stuffed inside— or spurs. Accessories Watch chains were worn as dec - oration, sometimes double chains with fancy fobs. Consider it a con - Fig. 5—1890’s morning coat. spicuous display of wealth. Pocket- This would usually be worn with grey or grey pinstriped trousers, handkerchiefs apparently hadn’t matching vest, white shirt, and gone into fashion then. Flashy a tie. First choice in hats stickpins or tie tacks are visible in would be a top hat. a lot of photos. Spats were worn Fig, 6—Eveningwear. with the full evening dress outfit low tail shape. Both were referred Black tail coat, black trousers, and with the morning suit for for - to as “morning” dress, to distin - black or white low cut vest, mal occasions. Either white or kid white shirt (heavily starched), guish them from evening dress. gloves were worn with the full white bow tie. His accessories evening dress outfits. Both were worn with top hats. But would include a silk top hat, cape. in the South and West however, top Yes, you can go to any SASS hats were often replaced by broad ball, banquet, or party wearing the brimmed, low crowned hats for ing uniform of black tail coat, small Fig. 8—This is a sack suit clothes you shoot in or any SASS everyday frock suit wear.” Yes, white tidy bow tie, black or white on display at the Los Angeles legal costume. But, if you want to, there exists at least one picture of low-cut vest with shawl lapels County Museum of Art in 2011, you can dress-up, too. At least one Wyatt Earp wearing a frock suit (there seems to have been some per - proof that sack suits didn’t have reader is going to say, “But all those with a Boss of the Plains hat. His sonal latitude in selecting vest to look as sharp as those suits aren’t Old West.” Please note hat wasn’t oversized, and the frock hue—black being the most common) Bat Masterson and the Fig. 1, 2, 3, and 4. Wild Bunch wore. coat wasn’t as long as in Tombstone. and black trousers, with a white, 1All of the quotes are from “The Gen - Stripes and even plaids tleman’s Page” http://walternel Consider that poetic license, kind of heavily starched shirt. The only were “acceptable” colors. like Doc’s 3-shot shotgun. In many thing that changed was the collar, son.com/dr/gentleman other photos, Earp is wearing a which followed the current fashion.” sack suit. Vests were black, white, There are minor differences be - or gray by the 1870s. The colorful tween modern white tie and tails cravats of anti-bellum fashion were formal outfits and 19 th century, such replaced by small black bow ties. as the length of the tails, the cut of After the war it was fashion - vests, and the fact only white ones able to wear grey trousers, often are worn now, but, like the morning pinstriped. The shirt was always suit, if you wore a modern one, al - white. “Winged” collars, like mod - most no one would notice the differ - ern formal shirts, were popular. ence, and no one would mind. Morning Suit A quick check of eBay pro - “In the early 1880s, a compro - duced both cutaway (morning) and mise was made between the, by tailcoats from rental stock from then, rigid formality of the Frock $50 up described as being appro - Suit and the laid back informality priate for costume, Victorian, or of the Sack Suit. The result was the Halloween usage. Morning Suit. (Fig. 5) Footwear “This suit retained the gray, Finding shoes to go with these striped trousers and black vest and outfits is easier, and usually more coat of the Frock Suit, but softened comfortable than finding 19 th cen - the lines a bit by rounding the bot - tury boots. Stacy-Adams is still tom hem of the coat and shrinking making the Madison Boot, which the lapels.” dates from the 1870s (Fig. 7). Mod - Top hats or tall-crowned derby (bowler) hats were appropriate. The morning suit still exists for daytime weddings. There are some differences between 1890 and mod - ern morning suits, but it’s unlikely that anyone would notice the differ - ence if you wore a modern one. Evening Wear “Gentleman’s evening wear Fig. 7—19 th century shoes: changed hardly at all from around Left and middle—Stacy Adams 1860 until the turn of the century Madison boot has been made when the Tuxedo made its gradual since the 1870s and is still in march toward respectability. production. Right—Spencer Tie “From about 1860 to the 1920s, shoes date from the 1860s and look much like modern dress oxfords. proper evening wear was a unvary - Visit us at sassnet .com Page 36 Cowboy Chronicle November 2013

PASSING ON AN INHERITANCE .TO THE GRANDKIDS ,

By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life/Regulator #49907 Cree Vicar Dave ~ SASS Life/Regular #49907

ecently our son-in-law was deployed overseas for the third time. So R our daughter decided to pack up and move back to Michigan for one year along with our two youngest grandkids. This gave me a great opportunity to introduce the two little buckaroos to Cowboy Ac - tion Shooting™. We started with the basics. I Hawkeye Han with proud Grandpa. downloaded the RO-I materials from the SASS website and held four separate one hour classes mix - Yes, the joy of victory. It won’t be Lu with award. ing gun safety, book work, correct long before they will be turning Not everyone gets a Category better times then grandpa! 1st place at their first shoot. firearm handling, and more book work. At ages 9 and 11 it’s not easy to stay focused on the RO-I mate - without getting too mired down. rial, especially because the vocabu - Next, it was out to the range for lary and expressions are geared to safe gun handling, loading and un - adults. But, we waded through loading etiquette, drawing and re - holstering, staging and restaging long guns, use of snap caps, followed by actual stages. After a few drills and remembering when, where, and how to move their feet, it all started Lavender Lu clinking the rifle to come together. But, for the first targets as proud grampa club match I thought it best to limit runs the timer. the firepower to a pair of Ruger Bearcats and a .22 cal. rifle. The .410 double barrel could wait a month. So there are now two new SASS members: Lavender Lu, Deuces Uncle Johnny, SASS #61848, Lu zeroing in on the pistol SASS #98249, and her big brother, checks Hawkeye’s guns targets. She got three at the Unload Table. clean stages at her first shoot! Hawkeye Han, SASS #98248. Hawkeye Han had ta sit out our first club match of the year. Seems he was running a little over the speed limit at school recess, encoun - tered a speed bump on the grassy knoll in the play yard, took a tum - ble, and hit the turf smack dab on his right shoulder, causing a crack Hawkeye Han guarding the Jail in his collar bone. On the plus side with rifle while Riverview Rattler, though, he’s left-handed. So his SASS #67025, keeps time. Cowboy Action debut was delayed a month. It says in Proverbs 13:22a new sport, with a new set of rules to KJV “A good man leaveth an inher - follow, new guns to learn how to itance to his children’s children.” I use, new people to meet, new jargon can’t think of a better way to pass on to decipher, and an old grumpy an inheritance than to teach young - grandpa posing as their instructor. sters about Cowboy Action Shoot - WARNING : If you are a grandpa L to R – Lavender Lu, Cree Vicar Dave, (uncle) Gold Tooth Dave, ing™, a God and Country sport. and still have your wits about you, SASS #86266, (cousin) Indian Paint Brush, They both did very well at their and your young grandchildren want (brother) Hawkeye Han. Lavender Lu’s 1st match. first match, considering it was a (Continued on next page)

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ell folks this month’s buffer. You can do this with files shooting tips is going and stones as well. to be a little different. 2. Another sharp area to be W We are going to talk rounded is the front of the ejec - about doing a little custom work tor rod. Be careful not to remove GraVer on your guns that will make too much metal and damage the shooting a little easier. Remem - mechanism. This can make re - ber this, working on your guns is holstering a little easier. like shooting a high power 3. Using a fine sandpaper or weapon or racing a car … never cloth (3000 to 4000 grit), care - Bill’s proceed beyond your ability!! It’s fully polish the recoil shield area best to practice on your buddy’s of your revolver. DO NOT actu - gun. I think this is where I`m ally remove any metal; only pol - supposed to insert a … LOL. ish the existing metal. My Bits This month’s tips may be diffi - theory is this should facilitate a Graver Bill, SASS #62191 cult to describe without pictures smoother rotation of the cylinder By Graver Bill, SASS #62191 or a video, but I`ll give it a shot. when it is loaded. 1. Removing the sharp cor - 4. Using the same buffing something that is a very smooth tool or files. I feel this helps ners on my guns seems to help and polishing method (again DO surface. This will also make cocking the hammer with less with overall fluid movements. NOT remove metal), hand buff cleaning easier. movement off the target. One area is the sharp corner of the front of the cylinder to a fine 5. Most Ruger handguns Well pards, I need new tips the cylinder flutes front. I start glassy slick finish. It may make come with horizontal lines cut and ideas to keep this column with a belt grinder; then finish cylinder rotation easier because on the hammer spur. I cut cross going. Send your info to up with fine sandpaper and a burned powder does not stick to hatching lines using a Dremel [email protected]

Passing On An Inheritance To The Grandkids .. q (Continued from previous page) q to learn Cowboy Action Shooting™, Photos by: palm them off on grandma and stay The Vicar’s Wife out of the way. This would save ya Indian Paint Brush Winchester ‘97 some headaches, but, alas, you Michelle Archer would be missing out on the joys of Cree Vicar Dave

q q By Stonewall, SASS #51068 sharing in their victories. They both came in 1 st place in their category the first time they My first shotgun to shoot I loved my guns, but most of all shot. There was only one in their Made my nose ran red The old Winchester ‘97 was my category, BUT, as I always say And, yes, the squirrel was not favorite to shoot about getting an award, “It’s all dead We won some trophies in Cowboy about choosing the right category.” Clays and Vintage Skeet, too, [email protected] Years went by, and I grew old never once failed to shoot Looked for something to soothe Hawkeye loving the bang/clang my soul That old shotgun was a lot like sound made by the Bearcats. Heard of Cowboy Shooting, and I me, Yes, he did hit all the was told Scarred and worn with dents and / knockdown targets. They used guns from days of old dings So I had her polished and blued, Six guns, lever guns, and shot - refinished the woodwork, too guns, too Now she looks great and still can Doubles and pump guns and shoot again Winchester ‘97 She’s the one I hold dear and So I got some clothing and equip - she’s given me pleasure over the ment and all the guns, too years And when I’m gone and she’s I slicked them and tuned them, handed down made the ready to play I’m sure she’ll still be a pleasure Joined the SASS and started to for someone to shoot shoot That old Winchester ‘97 The fun I had, oh what a hoot!

Lavender Lu at the Loading Table with Lucky Lennie, SASS #22244, assisting as the Loading Officer.

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Blackthorne Billy, SASS #74914

n 1877, Brown landed in THE OLD WEST New Mexico and became embroiled in the Lincoln I County War, a battle of wills for economic domination of the HENRY NEWTON BROWN • (1857 – April 30, 1884) region between two opposing fac - tions. The first was the association Submitted by Blackthorne Billy, SASS #74914 of Attorney Alexander Mc - Sween and John H. Tunstall, gener - (After carefully extracting the material from Wikipedia) ally noted as “the good guys.” They had the support of cattle baron, stall’s partners, Alexander Mc - per and was quickly dismissed be - John Chisum, and a company of Sween, in McSween’s home in Lin - cause he “was always wanting to young working cowboys that were coln by members of “The House” fight and get his mane up.” to become proficient gunmen and some of Brady’s men. Henry Brown thereafter drifted known as “The Regulators.” Brown Brown was one of three Regulators through the Oklahoma Indian Ter - joined Billy the Kid and others of not actually in McSween’s house at ritory and into Kansas, working on this group as a cowboy working on the time, but instead was sniping at ranches. In July, 1882, when about Tunstall’s Rio Feliz ranch. Brady’s men from a grain ware - 25 years old, he settled in Caldwell, Usually regarded as the “bad house behind the Tunstall store. He Kansas—a rough cattle town com - guys,” the opposing faction known escaped with Billy The Kid and the parable to Dodge City and Abi - as “The House,” was the partner - others when the siegers set fire to lene —where he was first appointed ship of Major Lawrence G. Murphy the house. McSween was shot down Assistant Marshal of the city; then and James J. Dolan, bolstered by a while fleeing the blaze, and his promoted to marshal about five powerful political machine known death essentially marked the end of months later. The Chisholm Trail as the “Santa Fe Ring.” Lincoln Henry Newton Brown the Lincoln County Cattle War. met the Santa Fe tracks in Caldwell County Sheriff William Brady, and Outlaw to Lawman and as the terminus of the trail, it his deputies, as well as a cadre of murder. Roberts received a serious In the fall of that year, Brown, had a long history of violence. gunmen, were loyal to the “House.” gunshot wound from Charlie Bow - Billy The Kid, and a few of the re - Brown, an outlaw turned lawman, On April 1, 1878, Brown, Billy dre that later proved to be fatal, but maining Regulators trailed a herd and Ben Wheeler, who had been a The Kid, Jim French, Frank not before he managed to kill the of rustled horses to the little town former Texas lawman turned out - McNab, John Middleton, and Fred Regulators’ nominal leader, Richard of Tascosa in the Texas Panhandle. law, joined forces (with Wheeler as Waite ambushed and murdered M. Brewer. Retreating into propri - After the horses were sold, the Reg - Assistant Marshal) and effectively Lincoln County Sheriff William etor Blazer’s office, Roberts contin - ulators returned to their old haunts, cleaned up the town. Brady, who was indirectly responsi - ued a prolonged firefight with but Brown, named in two murder Brown was described by contem - ble for the death of the Regulators’ Brown and the Regulators. He died warrants in the state of New Mex - poraries as a “very much undersize” employer, John Tunstall. Three the next day. ico, wisely remained in Texas where man who didn’t smoke, drink, chew, days later, at the famous Blazer’s The Regulators—fugitives now he eventually became a lawman. It or gamble, and was noted to be in Mill fight, Brown and the Regula - for the Brady killing—spent the has not been established whether regular attendance at the Methodist tors engaged in a gunfight with next several months in hiding. he was a deputy sheriff of Oldham Church. Said to be “exceedingly “Buckshot” Roberts, another man Then on July 15, 1878, they became County, Texas, Marshal of Tascosa, modest and, in fact, bashful,” he dis - they believed involved in Tunstall’s trapped, along with one of Tun - or a constable. He had a quick tem - (Continued on page 47 )

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BLOODY BILL ANDERSON By Whitesmoke Steve, SASS #91779 Whitesmoke Steve, SASS #91779 y 1864 the pro-Union unruly. When the hair and beard men of central Missouri were combined with his piercing were being terrorized by dark eyes, Bill Anderson presented at the time of the raid that killed the B murderous outlaws who a visage that instilled fear in chil - elder Anderson, selling a dozen head generally described themselves as dren, women, and men. of stolen cattle to the Union army. pro-Confederate raiders. One of the Bill Anderson had been raised in The death of Anderson’s father most notorious of the lot was a 24 Kansas and had a ready excuse for was a convenient excuse that his year old cold-blooded killer named every man he ever killed and for apologists created long after Bill An - William ‘Bloody Bill’ Anderson. every scrape in which he ever found derson committed a string of mur - ‘Bloody Bill’ looked every inch himself. His explanations usually in - ders and robberies. When Anderson the evil man about whom pro-Union volved the March 1862 death of his rode through the wooded hills and men and women warned their chil - father in a pro-Union/anti-slavery the ravines along the Missouri dren. Pro-Union folks in the Mis - raid on the elder Anderson’s farm. River, no one offered such stories of souri hill country routinely warned The truth was plainer: Bill Anderson Union murder or skullduggery. their children that ‘Bloody Bill’ An - was a hard-hearted killer who found In 1863, Anderson joined the derson would sweep down and steal it easier to steal cattle and horses pro-Confederate group of guerrillas, away children who didn’t behave. and then sell the animals than to Quantrill’s Raiders, generally consid - Anderson relished his image as work for a living. Bill Anderson had ered to be the most savage fighting a dangerous man and because he already embarked on the life of a unit in the Civil War, under the di - tried to maintain that image, he cul - livestock thief when his father was rection of William Clarke Quantrill, tivated a full black beard and wore killed. In fact, Anderson and his a pro-Confederate guerrilla who op - Bloody Bill Anderson his black hair long and purposely brother, Jim, were away from home (Continued on page 43 )

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(Continued from page 41 ) local wealthy resident who had freed erated in Missouri after he fled his slaves, raped Lewis’ 12-year-old Kansas charges of murder and horse black servant and then used a spe - theft. In retaliation for Anderson’s cially trained horse to trample Lewis. guerrilla activities, Union authorities Anderson released the now severely arrested Anderson’s two sisters, ten- injured Lewis in exchange for five year-old Martha and fourteen-year- thousand dollars that had been raised LITTLE KNOWN old Josephine. Josey died in custody by Lewis’ neighbors, allowed his when a three-story brick jailhouse in raiders to rape and beat several of FAMOUS PEOPLE Kansas City collapsed. Years later, Lewis’ female servants, and killed a Anderson’s apologists said the sol - dozen of his pro-Union friends. diers deliberately caused the collapse The advance units of Cox’s forces Way Out West – in order to kill the girl; again, a story caught Anderson 80 miles to the west By Joe Fasthorse, SASS #48769 that was spun long after the fact and of Glasgow, near the small village of primarily used to explain the murders Orrick, Missouri. Anderson’s raiders Anderson committed. turned on Cox’s men and counter-at - Jesse Lee Hall Joe Fasthorse, A year after joining Quantrill’s tacked, although they were greatly out - SASS #48769 Raiders, Anderson repaid William numbered. Anderson’s raiders quickly Quantrill’s initial faith and friendship abandoned the counter-attack, leaving ESSE LEE HALL was born on October 9, 1849 in Lexington, by falsely accusing Quantrill of mur - only Bill Anderson and a single com - North Carolina. In 1869, he took a job as a schoolteacher in Sher - der. When Quantrill was arrested, panion, Archie Clements, to continue man, Texas and for the next seven years he held positions in the hopeless assault on Cox’s men. Anderson seized control of Quantrill’s J Texas towns as Deputy Marshal of Sherman, Deputy Sheriff for raiders and began to intensify the ef - Anderson was hit behind the ear Denison, and as a Sergeant at Arms for the State Senate. In August of fort to terrorize the pro-Union people and killed instantly in his counter-at - 1876, Hall joined the Texas Rangers. He served under Ranger legend Le - of Missouri and the Federal troops tack. Clements rode through the that were in the state to keep Mis - Union lines and escaped. Four of An - ander McNelly, and his first challenge was to solve a recent Goliad bank souri in the Union. derson’s men were killed while Ander - holdup. Hall and his posse tracked the robbers to Mexico, surrounded the In 1864 Anderson led a raid on son raider McClelland Miller was gang, killed four, and scattered the rest. McNelly became severely ill in Centralia, Missouri where his thirty wounded and captured. Miller was October, and Hall took command. As men looted the town and robbed the later killed in an 1876 bloody bank Captain, he and his Rangers passengers of an arriving stagecoach. robbery in Northfield, Minnesota. quelled the famous Sutton-Tay - While the stagecoach passengers were Clements became a bank robber and lor Feud. Three months later, being robbed, a train arrived. Ander - rode with Cole Younger and Jesse Hall split his forces to son’s men seized the train and cap - James, targeting banks associated battle cattle rustlers tured the 25 off-duty, unarmed Union with Missouri Unionists. along the Rio Grande soldiers who were aboard. Anderson’s After Cox’s men secured the hill - and simultaneously raiders robbed the passengers of the top where Anderson had fallen, some - wage war on the Texas train, executed 24 of the 25 soldiers, one dragged Anderson’s body through gunfighter, King Fisher, and then set fire to the train. Ander - the streets of nearby Richmond, Mis - and his band of killers. th son spared the life of the 25 soldier, souri and then placed the body on dis - Jesse retired in 1880 Sargent Thomas Goodman, saving the play at Richmond’s courthouse. At the and joined the fight time of his death ‘Bloody Bill’ Ander - man for a possible prisoner exchange against fence cutters in to free one of Anderson’s men already son was believed to have personally the Fence Cutting War. in Union custody. killed 54 people. He was an agent for the Anderson fled Centralia just Before he was buried in an un - ahead of the arrival of Major A. V. E. marked grave, some Union soldiers Anadarko Indians, Johnston and the one hundred cut off one of Anderson’s fingers to served in the Span - twenty-five soldiers of his 39th Mis - steal a ring he wore. Almost forty ish-American War, souri Volunteer Infantry who already years later outlaw Cole Younger, a for - and saw service as a scout were in pursuit of Anderson and his mer guerrilla who served under in the Philippine Islands. raiders. Johnston had it on good au - Quantrill and rode alongside Ander - Hall died in San Antonio thority his detachment outnumbered son, arranged to have Anderson’s body in 1911 and is buried there at Anderson’s band of raiders, and Major reburied with a headstone to mark the National Cemetery. Jesse Johnston believed his men would the grave and identify the occupant. Lee Hall is a member of the Texas quickly catch Anderson and his pro- The Civil War had a terrible ef - Rangers Hall of Fame. Confederate raiders. Johnston did fect on countless men who saw the catch Anderson in short order, but the ‘beast’ within them awakened by the encounter wasn’t what Johnston had carnage and slaughter of the War. expected. On the outskirts of Cen - Historians who have studied the pe - tralia, Anderson led an ambush of the riod say many men became victims of men of the 39 th , hacking to death all what they called a “culture of atroc - the one hundred twenty-five men who ity,” but the historians who concen - pursued him. A handful of the one trated on the life and times of Bill hundred twenty-five captured were Anderson argued Anderson was a tortured before being killed. character of a different sort. In the aftermath of the raid on In a study of 19th-century war - Centralia, Confederate General Ster - fare, historian James Reid wrote, “An - ling Price assigned Anderson to raid derson suffered from delusional the Union controlled railroads of cen - paranoia, which exacerbated his ag - tral Missouri. Anderson and his men gressive, sadistic personality.” ignored Price’s orders in favor of more Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Cox looting, rape, and murder. It was also became a local hero. Cox served as the in the aftermath of the bloodbath at Daviess County Missouri County Centralia that Lieutenant Colonel Cox Recorder and Circuit Clerk. Cox was assigned to search for Anderson. capped his political career by winning Outside Glasgow, Missouri, An - election as the Tax Collector in Union derson, angry with Benjamin Lewis, a Township, Daviess County, Missouri. Visit us at sassnet .com Page 44 Cowboy Chronicle November 2013

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happen otherwise, but it also gives us an opportunity to truly partici - apache wolf, sass #65272 pate together, side-by-side in a sport we both love. Also, whenever we go to a major shoot around the country, aka Creed Blankenship we also see monuments and other historic places. The first time our Adapted & Edited by family went to Winter Range in 2006, we were able to see the Grand Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000 Canyon and Tombstone. We went to the Mason-Dixon Stampede 2011 Indiana, and Michigan State Cham - him, maybe even more. Soaring and spent some time at Gettysburg. pionships, as well as the Midwest Red Hawk is autistic. Therefore, After we attended END of TRAIL Regional, aka Guns of August. As this fall, I will be attending Central 2012, we went up through Colorado they say, the rest is history. That Michigan University in Mount and Wyoming and saw Devils Tower started me down the path of a life - Pleasant, MI to study Special Edu - Monument and then cut across to time in the shooting sports. I am cation Teaching with a major in South Dakota to see Mount Rush - also a NRA Life member and have Autism. It is because of him I have more, the Crazy Horse Monument, earned my Expert Marksman des - chosen this path. and Deadwood. Without Cowboy ignation through Fenton Lakes’ Hawk just started Cowboy Ac - Action Shooting™ I would most Apache Wolf, SASS #65272 – MI Junior Rifle program. tion Shooting™ two years ago after likely have never seen these parts There are many things I have many years of practicing. When - of our country’s history. accomplished in my life so far. If I ever we would go to a big shoot, he I’d like to thank everyone who y name is Creed Blan - could only pick what I am the most would bring a pair of cap guns with took time out of their lives to recom - ken ship; however, most proud of, I would say my transition him. Before everyone started shoot - mend me for this scholarship: Las - people would know me over this past year from shooting ing or after we were done with a siter, Bad River Marty and Katie M better as Apache Wolf, Young Gun to shooting Gunfighter. stage, we would let him shoot his Callahan, J. J. Longley, my greatest SASS #65272. My home club is the Since last year, I finished 35 th over - cap guns like he was shooting the friend and biggest rival in the Butcher Butte Bunch of Fenton all at our state championship, and I stage. Two years ago, he decided he sport—Duel’in Dylan, and last but Lakes Sportsman’s Club in Fenton, was also the state champion in wanted to start shooting. My father most certainly not least, my hon - MI. I have actually been watching Gunfighter. Our family attended started him off in the basement, orary cowboy grandparents, Dakota Cowboy Action Shooting™ for most Winter Range, 2013 and I finished teaching him the ins and outs of Doc and Cactus Kay. They have of my life (along with my younger 5th in Gunfighter. I am also very gun safety. Following the same given our family much help through - brother, Soaring Red Hawk, SASS proud of my NRA Expert Marks - basic plan Dad used to start me, he out the years, especially during the #93843, since my father, Nevada man designation—especially since started my brother shooting at last couple of years with my brother Gambler, SASS #10225, started in it only took me one and a half years monthly matches. Last year, my starting to shoot. They were also in - 1998. As a matter of fact, I still to earn it. brother competed at END of TRAIL strumental in bringing Cowboy Ac - carry the trading card of Judge Roy I would say the most influential 2012, our state championship tion Shooting™ to Michigan and Bean he gave me at the first Wolver - person in my life is my little (where he was Michigan State making it what it is today with their ine Rangers Range War when I was brother, Soaring Red Hawk. With - champion in Young Gun), and Win - crucial involvement in creating the four years old! out him, I couldn’t imagine where I ter Range 2013, where he earned Michigan Wolverine Rangers Organ - I started to learn to shoot when would be right now. I certainly his first belt buckle. ization. Our sport would not be the I was six years old, and by the time wouldn’t be considering my current My brother’s start in our sport same in Michigan without them. I was nine years old, I wanted to career choice without having the ex - has made Cowboy Action Shoot - I plan to keep supporting the start participating in actual shoots. periences I’ve had with him. He is ing™ a true family affair for us. For Second Amendment and shooting That first year, I went to the Ohio, just as essential to me as I am to our family, Cowboy Action Shoot - as much as I can while attending ing™ is a time for being together we college. If I don’t take advantage can’t get anywhere else. of and defend our God-given un - Besides shooting, baseball is alienable rights, then the antis my other main interest. I play on a have already won. You should community team every year. For never be afraid to say you support the past five years, my little brother the Second Amendment or that you has played on the community team are a NRA member. Any time I for people with special needs. had to write an essay about any - When I don’t have a game on the thing regarding politics, I always same day, I help him out at his chose gun rights (with a little help practices and games. For the past from the Colonel Dan articles). I couple of years, we have had base - also did my best to provide the ball games on the same day. whole story about gun control to Throughout our childhood, we anyone who challenged my beliefs. have not been able to participate to - I hope you all do the same next gether in a sport. Cowboy Action time you find yourself in that situ - Shooting™ is a chance for us to ation. So stick to your guns, stay spend a day together with no dis - safe, shoot straight, and may the tractions, something that wouldn’t Force be with you all!

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Cree Vicar Dave, ~ wolvErinE wranGlEr ~ SASS Lif e/Regulator #49907 By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life/Regulator #49907 gler told me when he started working with computers they took up the space of a good sized living ost Cowboy Action room, were vacuum tube ma - Shooting™ Clubs have chines, and held info that can be at least one member put on a laptop today. Thanks to M who is computer savvy, him we have one of the neatest and Sucker Creek Saddle & Gun Cowboy Action scoring systems Club is no exception. For us, around, one of the nicest Cowboy Wolverine Wrangler, SASS #22963, Action Websites, and one of the fits the bill. He along with his nicest SASS Cowboys you could lovely wife, Lady Bluebird, SASS ever want to meet as a fellow club #49117, were instrumental in the member. And on top of all this, he founding of our club. Lady Blue - is also a contributing writer for bird is always there at our events The Cowboy Chronicle . His series on to lend a hand. Wrangler is a “Cowboy TV” brings back child - board member, treasurer/secretary, hood memories of our cowboy he - computer geek, Web Master, and roes of early television. an all-around Cowboy. Wrangler also puts in his time Did I mention he is our WEB as posse leader, helping The Vicar’s MASTER? Wrangler puts in Wife with scoring, putting the countless hours keeping our Web - monthly scenarios on paper (along site up to date. He is responsible with diagrams), and serves as for posting online items, including Wolverine Wrangler, SASS #22963, Match Director at least once a year. things for sale, upcoming events, is a member of the Sucker Creek Therefore, considering all this, monthly scores, and photos. There Saddle & Gun Club and an I proclaim Wolverine Wrangler to all-around SASS Cowboy. be, “A True SASS Cowboy.” He is, among many other things, If you would like to view our Web Master, Treasurer/Secretary, Wolverine Wrangler’s handiwork Wolverine Wrangler and Computer Expert, and a great go to: www.suckercreek.org . It is asset to our club. Lady Bluebird at one of like a “Work of Art.” our club shoots. [email protected] They are always there early puter programmer/systems ana - Photos by: taking up the slack to make sure the event is a success. lyst/ supervisor in the Information Indian Paintbrush Systems Department. All of that Cree Vicar Dave Photos by: experience has paid off for the Indian Paintbrush are pictures posted on our Website cowpokes at Sucker Creek. Wran - Cree Vicar Dave of shoots from the starting of Sucker Creek Saddle & Gun Club in 2003 to the present. In my tenure as an active member of SASS, I have viewed a goodly number of Cowboy Action Club Websites, but I have yet to come across one that tops Sucker Creek’s, www.suckercreek.org , for quality, ease of access, and just straight forward information. It says in Ecclesiastes 9:10a NIV, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might …” Wrangler serving as Posse Leader at one of our local club shoots. Wrangler’s hard work is well He is also there for Friday set up appreciated. He comes by his tal - and covers any computer problems ent quite honestly, retiring from The Vicar’s Wife might run into while The Dow Chemical Co. where he she computes the match scores. spent most of his years as a com -

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y name is Sarah Harp, but you all probably know me better as Sage sage Chick, sass #48454 M Chick, SASS #48454. I want to first extend a huge thank you to everyone who has con - aka Sarah Harp tributed to the SASS Scholarship fund over the years. I am very Edited & Adapted by grateful to each of you, as well as the SASS Scholarship Foundation, Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000 for your support in my academic life. I live in central Ohio and shoot wants to just pick up brass when ing but a wonderful experience. My at various clubs around the state, you can shoot, too?? Consequently, favorite part is not just the compe - including Ohio Valley Vigilantes I started competing in the matches tition, but also the people I get to be Sage Chick, SASS #48454 – OH (Centerburg, OH), Tusco Long Rid - when I was eight years old. After around. I have met an innumerable ers (Midvale, OH), Firelands Peace - that it turned into a full family number of outstanding people in makers (Rochester, OH), Miami sport with my mom, Fowl Lady, this sport, and they have all really Valley Cowboys (Piqua, OH), and SASS #85215, coming along as well. become like a giant, second family sue a career involving that passion. Big Irons (Middletown, OH). As my brother got a little older to me. Growing up, I could not have I continue to shoot when I can, Our neighbor, Gray Hare, SASS he became more competitive in the asked for a better way to spend and Cowboy Action is something I #20821, got my dad, Rowdy Bishop, sport, and I followed right behind. time with my family and friends, hope will always be a part of my SASS #48453, and my older brother, For about six years, we spent our and the memories I have now (and life. I encourage each of you to get Kilbourne Kid, SASS #35161, inter - family summer vacations traveling continue to make) are priceless. your families involved in this sport, ested in Cowboy Action Shooting™ out west to various shoots, includ - As I get older, the “real world” as it is a great way to spend time when I was seven years old. I ing END of TRAIL. We have been sometimes gets in the way of my with spouses, children, and grand - tagged along to the matches and involved in the sport for well over shooting plans. Things like school children. I also want to encourage helped pick up brass. But who ten years now, and it has been noth - and work demand my time as well. everyone to be involved in your This is where I am extremely community and do what you can in thankful for the SASS Scholarship order to keep our country a place Fund. The scholarship I received where we can freely enjoy the allows me to spend a little less shooting sports. When I have a time working, more time doing family of my own, I want to be able schoolwork during the week, and to take my kids shooting, too. consequently, more time shooting Please, get involved and do as on the weekends! much as you can to keep the free - I am attending Ohio State Uni - doms we have and get back the versity majoring in Animal Sciences ones we have already lost. with plans of attending Veterinary I hope to see each of you down School at OSU to become a food-an - the trail, and I want to once again imal veterinarian. Growing up on a thank all of you for your over - farm, I have a strong appreciation whelming support in both my for the agricultural community and shooting endeavors and my aca - look forward to working in this en - demic ambitions. vironment. I inherited a love for an - (Sage Chick is the imals from my mom and grandpa, 2013 END of TRAIL and they have inspired me to pur - Lady World Champion … Editor)

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By Wolverine Wrangler, SASS #22963

n the 50s, 60s, and The Deputy series ran on early 70s, Western se - NBC from 1959 to 1961. There ries dominatednetwork were 76 half-hour episodes featur - I television, here is a look ing Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal at one of those shows. Simon Fry of the Arizona Terri - tory and Allen Case as Deputy Betty Lou Keim as McCord’s sis - Clay McCord. ter, Fran, in the first season. Read Fonda narrated most episodes Morgan joined the show in the sec - Gunfighters In The Old West ... and appeared briefly at the begin - ond season as Sergeant Hapgood ning and ending of most segments. Tasker, known as “Sarge,” a one- (Continued from page 40 ) KS, A. N. Colson Mayor Dec 1882” He played the lead in only six eyed United States Army cavalry played an introvert presence, but Brown killed a gambler, Newt episodes in the first season and officer stationed in town. “gained the entire confidence of Boyce, with the rifle (in the line of thirteen in the second. Usually he Other guest stars included Vi - the people and conducted himself duty) on December 16, 1883. An - would give his deputy the assign - vian Vance (of I Love Lucy fame) in such a manner that the doors of other killing attributed to Brown ment and then more or less thank and Robert Redford who made his society were always open to him.” in Caldwell was that of Spotted him afterward at the conclusion of TV debut in the episode The Last But, “he had a square set jaw, Horse, a renegade Indian. the episode. Fonda performed all Gunfight (April 30, 1960). The not unlike that of a bull dog” and Henry Brown gained status of his work on The Deputy in sev - half hour format with its older “his face indicated firmness and a in the higher realms of Caldwell eral lengthy sessions so as to leave professional lawman and his lack of physical fear.” “His words society when he married Alice himself free for other projects. young assistant was similar to were few and parted with reluc - Maude Levagood, the daughter of The difference in quality between Warner Television’s Lawman . tantly,” and when duty called, a well-to-do Caldwell brick Fonda’s episodes and Case’s was The Deputy aired at 9 p.m. Brown’s demeanor changed im - maker. Alice had a college de - often cited by both critics at the Eastern on Saturday. The com - mediately. He was easily an - gree—rare for females of that era. time and Fonda himself in later plete series was released on DVD gered; his temper flared instantly, Marshal Brown and his assis - interviews. and contained all 76 episodes of and his outwardly meek manner tant kept the town clean, and by Though based in Silver City, the series. transformed into one of deadly the time they were appointed to the marshal’s district also covered I’ll be turning the rotary TV grave purpose. One contempo - their third term, the citizens several nearby towns. Deputy Mc - channel selector dial now. Stay rary commented “he was a two- lauded them as the best and most Cord was a storekeeper who bore tuned. gun man. He could take a effective team of lawmen the arms with great reluctance. Wal - [email protected] six-shooter in each hand and town had ever had. lace Ford starred as the elderly References: Wikipedia, Internet make one think a battle was on.” Unfortunately, in 1884, after marshal, Herk Lamson, with Movie Database (IMDb). From the grateful commu - a botched bank robbery attempt nity, in appreciation for his serv - in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, ice, he was given an extensively Brown was chased, caught, jailed, engraved, gold and silver and shot with both barrels of a  , (*") "% The Cowboy Chronicle mounted Winchester rifle. A sil - shotgun as he and his two com - ver medallion was affixed to the padres tried to escape. &%** stock inscribed: “Presented to [email protected]   City Marshal H. N. Brown For Sources: Wikipedia;  , (*")"%!%! (  , (*")"%!# ) valuable services rendered In be - “Age Of The Gunfighter,”   . ##
   
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TRAD E -IN OLD GUNLEATHER FOR BEAUTIFUL NEW Frontier Gunleather RIGS typical SASS shooter’s hand-rubbed finishes exclusive to gun rig gets more use in By Janny Ringo SASS #85782 Frontier Gunleather, and will look a few months than its fantastic. It may even help the A historic counterpart on ward a handsome new super- will credit $25 per old holster and shooter compete a little faster, the American frontier of the 1800s durable Bianchi custom rig built $50 per cartridge belt (two hol - certainly more comfortably. would have gotten in a lifetime, ac - to withstand the rigors of mod - sters and one belt per customer), It will also be an instant col - cording to famous holster maker ern-day single action shooting. SASS shooters should count lectible because it will have John Bianchi. As one of the What is Bianchi thinking, giving themselves very lucky. Bianchi’s Bianchi’s name stamped on it world’s foremost experts on gun - such value to trade-ins with the craziness for old gunleather gives (he’ll sign it by hand as well, if leather, he would know. Bianchi gunleather equivalent of 300,000 them a perfect opportunity for a you ask), the same name on cow - has pioneered or profoundly influ - miles on them? very sane investment. boy gunleather worn by legends enced nearly every holster design “I’m not sure. Maybe it’s that Every holster rig from Fron - ranging from John Wayne to Roy in use today, from military and law John just loves gunleather,” says tier Gunleather is tailored to the Rogers. Most important, unlike enforcement holsters to the gun longtime SASS shooter, Kid Cav - person who’ll be wearing it, with the actual rigs of the 1860s, which rigs of Hollywood’s most legendary alier, SASS #35602, aka Matt holsters form-fitted for the spe - Bianchi says were designed for Western stars. Whitaker, master craftsman and cific guns that person will be neither fast access nor good looks If what he says is true, what’s General Manager at Frontier shooting. Frontier Gunleather but “to carry the gun, period,” the up with his first-ever trade-in Gunleather. “John’s been making folks are sticklers for accurate Frontier Gunleather rig, partially program at Frontier Gunleather? cowboy-style gun rigs since he measurements and ask a lot of purchased with the trade-in value Starting this month, SASS shoot - was about 12. I’ve done the math, questions, but they’ll complete the of an old rig, may well last into ers can trade in their disrep - so I can tell you he’s been at it for rig in three weeks or less, and it the next SASS frontier. utable, beat-up old gun belts and over 60 years.” will be entirely hand-made of pre - holsters for as much as $100 to - Regardless of why Bianchi mium full grain leather with

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(Continued from page 1) the dust settled after 15 stages, what works best for the shooters. the difference in their times was Wild Bunch was scored using only .04 seconds! It just doesn’t the “points” system, but the Cow - get any closer or exciting than boy Action match was scored that! Incidentally, Baltic Lobo using total time. That’s a contin - was the number three Wild uing “hot” topic in Europe—total Bunch Traditional competitor be - time vs. Rank Points. We all hind Bandit and Tex in Hungary know the two systems yield differ - last year! Small world! ent results … and for a 15-stage There were only 13 clean Wild Bunch™ Action Shooting was match, the differences are exag - shooters for the match—a stub - one of the major events at this year’s gerated. It’s consistency vs. raw born pistol rack with knockdowns Days of Truth. Samuel B. Carpenter speed. Once again Tex found him - and an aerial target took their (or Bandit as most folks know him) self in a head-to-head competition toll. There easily could have been continues to dominate the Traditional category. The level of competition in with one of his posse members, three times this many clean Europe rivals that found in the Baltic Lobo, SASS #82021. When shooters! “Make up” targets, es - United States—the discipline pecially for aerial targets, is definitely growing! are always a good idea. The physical facilities and ancillary activities were interesting as well. New this year was a “dou - Several “civilians,” including Tex, were given the opportunity ble” big tent to comfortably to shoot the cannon. It’s a unique experience! shelter all the competitors. And it was put to good use. tents and a Civil War period After a couple of overnight camp—complete with a pair of storms of biblical propor - cannons that were used to call the tions, the tents were nearly troops together when it was time destroyed, but quick re - for the next activity. Several pairs kept them in service. “civilians,” including Tex, were After the Friday shooting given the opportunity to shoot one was complete, we received of the cannons … it was a great a nice rain during the af - thrill! ternoon and evening festiv - In Europe there is a Board of ities. Incidentally, the Representatives that meets at weather the last couple of Days of Truth to discuss shooting days of the match was rules and conventions, as well as much cooler and delightful! to establish the shooting schedule When the dust finally settled, There was a Civil War for the next couple of years. Two one shooter stood front and center. brass band playing one major matches, Days of Truth and The Overall Match Winner evening and a very nice SASS’ European END of TRAIL and European Champion 2013 country-western band an - move from country to country. is Hell Hound, SASS #94431 Various clubs/countries can re - from Germany. other evening. There were vendors in self-contained quest the opportunity to host these prestigious events … and the group decides who the host should be. Germany is still work - ing to get a facility that will ac - While there were many interesting commodate the expected number competition stories, one of the most of competitors, and France has exciting this year was the race deferred for another couple of between Tex and Baltic Lobo— years until they can get their in - both Frontier Cartridge Gunfighters. ternal infrastructure squared This was a total time match for away. Current tentative plans 15 stages over three days … and are to hold Days of Truth 2014 in the margin of difference between Italy and then in Slovakia in their scores was only .04 seconds!! It just doesn’t get any closer 2015. European END of TRAIL than that—and both competitors 2014 will be in Hungary and then knew the score was “close” in Italy in 2015. going into the final day’s shooting. The other major discussion item was how to comply (or not) likely make special concessions to with SASS Wild Bunch rules. Austrian competitors, if they can’t Country limitations on gun own - borrow the appropriate shotgun ership continues to cause some at these matches. difficulties. Apparently Austria is The second issue discussed THIS is why major matches have big tents! Everyone stayed dry and the only country where the “pump was the use of “big bore” rifles. happy under the big canvas. Later, when a cool breeze began to pickup, action” shotguns are solidly out - Several representatives argued it the side flaps were closed to keep the interior comfortable. lawed. European matches will was a financial burden for some to

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Wonderful costumes were common Wild Bunch™ Action Shooting was Saturday evening. A formal costume one of the major events at this year’s contest was part of the evening’s Days of Truth. Samuel B. Carpenter entertainment. A panel of judges (or Bandit as most folks know him) graded each contestant while they continues to dominate the Traditional promenaded in front of the audience. category. The level of competition in Europe rivals that found in the United States—the discipline is definitely growing! The match was graced Saturday evening with a mystery celebrity guest seen here with Dr. George and Nurse Bobbie. Yep, the mysterious man in the center is none other than Big Bison was one Shotgun Boogie! of the costume contest participants … and won best Military. He makes a great ! Confederate Officer.

Shotgun George dances with his wife during one of the lighter moments Saturday evening. He is also the Headshot Jack was the mastermind leader of the Board of Representatives behind the great Days of Truth stages. that discusses rules, issues, and He designed them, set them up, and match locations in Europe. kept them running throughout the event. The Board allocated matches for His son was responsible for illustrating 2014 and reiterated the need for each stage set up, and did so admirably! European competitors to The graphics were “world class!” The highlight one evening was a live auction using the “get compliant” with the Another of his sons functioned “casino dollars” from the previous evening. international rules if they wish as match photographer. “Thousands” of dollars were regularly bid for to continue playing Wild Bunch™. A very talented family, indeed. bottles of spirits and other assorted treasures!

acquire a .40+ caliber rifle. In a ply with the international rules … money, and make an appropriate gram lasted into the night. few cases, the number of long guns and if one is simply unwilling to purchase. Under no circum - All in all, Days of Truth was a owned is limited … and some are do so, they need to find another stances will sub-power factor delightful experience. Any shoot - unwilling to relinquish their .38 game. However, to soften that ammo be tolerated. ing event offered in the Czech Re - caliber rifles for a .40 caliber. stance, in Europe sub-.40 caliber Saturday evening a very nice public is well worth attending … Dealing with each argument, rifles that meet the 150 power Costume Contest was organized and in the future, it’s a certainty it was decided it was basically a factor will be allowed until 1 Jan - followed by the awards ceremony. many will! matter of choice on the part of the uary 2016 to give the shooters As with all big matches with competitor whether or not to com - time to reconsider, save their many categories, the award pro - More HIGHLIGHTS on page 52

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It’s good to be Match Director … and it’s even better when a successful event is finally over! Thunder Man enjoys one of his famous cigars while waiting for the awards ceremony to get started. Days of Truth 2013 featured nine stages of Wild Bunch™, and over 60 shooters participated in the competition. Dr. George, a Cattle Baron in Cowboy Action, The flag ceremony at the larger did well as a Modern competitor … international matches are a nice touch. as did Nurse Bobbie! It’s wonderful recognizing the participat - ing nations and provides a deeper appre - ciation of the intensity of the competition.

European Champions L F Cartridge Justice Anne, Main Match SASS #90248 NL Overall Hell Hound, L F C Duelist Madame Ginger, SASS #94431 DE SASS #92605 NO Categories L Gunfighter Trinacria Connie, 49’er Dedo SK SASS #86085 IT B-Western Vic Quazzem, L Senior Nellie Belle, SASS #52157 NO SASS #24695 US Cattle Baron Dr. George, L S Senior Nurse Bobbi, SASS #5234 US SASS #20234 US C Cowboy Elise Horn, L Wrangler Jesse Belle, SASS #68952 CZ SASS #53806 DE Cowboy Hell Hound DE Senior Mayor, Duelist Angelo Siringo, SASS #95460 DE SASS #49474 NO S Duelist Wheel Gunner, E Statesman Wild Charlie, SASS #49252 DE SASS #57348 CZ S Senior Old Rooster, F Cartridge Northern S. T. Ranger, SASS #95020 DE SASS #88548 SE Wrangler Bill Masterson, F C Duelist Young Daddy, SASS #71434 IT SASS #95810 DE Wild Bunch There were experienced competitors from all over Europe at F C Gunfighter Tex, SASS #4 US Traditional Samuel B Carpenter, Days of Truth, and all the categories were well populated. Frontiersman Paden McNelly, SASS #34043 NO One of the “showy” categories is Frontier Cartridge Gunfighter SASS #73689 DE Modern Hell Hound DE where fire, brimstone, and smoke are sent down range and the Gunfighter Lyoner Dundee, L Modern Little Shooting targets all tend to disappear! Thunder Man was leaving the SASS #53807 DE Missie, rest of these competitors in the dust until he missed Junior Tin Tin DE SASS #80760 FR his holster at the end of a shooting string! L 49’er Hunting Lady, Team Match Little Dog and SASS #95022 DE Dedo SK Cowgirl Lady Elena FI Long Range Young Daddy DE

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William WalKer Filibustering in Latin America Col. Richard Dodge, SASS Life #1750

Col. Richard Dodge, 25. Driven to ambition by his supe - SASS #1750 rior academics, Walker was a rest - less soul in search of greatness to ur histories are accented match his visions. He was traveling with the deeds of intelli - in Europe during the 1848 rebel - gent men whose dreams lions that so changed the continent O and aspirations far ex - – and inspired Walker’s mind. He, ceed their grasp, whose visions of too, would someday match the leadership and majesty lie beyond heroic deeds and writings of men their ability to see their own limita - like Karl Marx, Garibaldi and other tions and fail to understand the famed revolutionaries of the time. truth of their own failures. So, back to America he went, a grand liar. He was also an ardent Young and diminutive William this time to New Orleans to study believer in slavery and saw an op - Walker of Tennessee was one of law. He even became a partner in portunity to spread the practice into these. A 5 '2" child genius, he grad - publishing the New Orleans Cres - the thinly populated lands south of uated summa cum laude from the cent newspaper before moving on to the Mexican border. If he could University of Nashville at 14, re - seek his fortune in California in the muster enough support, he thought, ceived a medical degree from the gold rush of 1849 and wound up he could conquer the area, expand University of Pennsylvania at 19, publishing a newspaper in San the Manifest Destiny idea all the and held university degrees in both Francisco. Here, his character way down the Pacific Coast, create medicine and law before the age of showed itself; he fought three duels new slave states for the Union – and William Walker and was wounded in all three. enrich himself in the bargain. The decade of the 1850s was a “Filibuster” is a word familiar to tering was in Baja California in heady one in California. Thousands most of us. Today it refers to a po - 1853. Failing to receive a land grant upon thousands of rowdy, ambi - litical maneuver used and misused from Mexico, he financed a filibuster tious, impassioned men from every - in the halls of Congress and other by selling script redeemable in the where, bringing all manner of legislative bodies to obstruct the in - new state he would form. He then behaviors and attitudes, created the troduction of laws undesirable to “invaded” Baja with a force of 45 perfect cauldron for stirring up all the filibusterer. In the 19 th century, men recruited in San Francisco. manner of mischief and intrigue. “filibustering” was something very First conquering La Paz, he removed Into this world Walker brought his different. It literally meant a pri - his capitol to Ensenada and pro - ever-delusional ego. vately organized and financed inva - nounced himself “President of the This was the time of “Manifest sion of a foreign country with the Republic of Lower California”, adopt - Destiny,” a concept that emboldened aim of conquering, occupying, and ing the laws of the State of even the most hopeless adventurer. ruling that country. It was most Louisiana, which made slavery legal. Here was the perfect justification for commonly aspired to by white He then boldly added the Mexican planning great conquests and Southerners wishing to spread slav - state of Sonora to his imagined em - Walker loved the idea. In spite of his ery into new lands, limited as they pire, proclaiming Baja California to diminutive stature, he was a charis - were from expansion northward. be part of the larger Republic of matic soul, a persuasive spea ker and Walker’s first attempt at filibus - Sonora, though he never set foot in Sonora. His dream was inspired by the example set by the Republic of Texas in its own war for independ - ence almost 20 years earlier. Walker was not only a foolish dreamer, he was an inept tactician. He failed to procure supplies for his forces and he did not anticipate the Mexicans’ displeasure and resist - ance to his invasion. He quickly re - treated back to California where he was tried for violating the Neutral - ity Act of 1794. It took eight min - utes for the jury to acquit him. Hope springs eternal with fools and when a second opportunity arose, Walker quickly forgot lessons learned – or unlearned – and en - Orders: (510) 232-3644 tered into the adventure for which Visit us at sassnet .com November 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 55 he is most noted – Nicaragua. The had actually saved his hide from the There are many stories associ - on the nation’s history. Walker and trade route between the East and firing squad. It wasn’t long before ated with Walker’s filibuster. He those who believed in him were one West Coasts was across that Cen - off he went again, only to be seized was viewed as a hero in the South - of them. One wonders what he tral American nation, up the San by the Navy and returned home yet ern states and a villain in the might have accomplished had not Juan River from the Gulf of Mexico, one more time. This time he took North. To the states of Nicaragua, greed for power blinded him to the across Lake Nicaragua, and by time to write a book of his adven - Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa promise of his own intelligence. wagon train to the Pacific Coast and tures, “War in Nicaragua.” The call Rica, his defeat was viewed as a war References ships to California. This trade of destiny still pulled him and he of independence and is still cele - Bell, Horace; Reminiscences of a route was operated by the Accssory spied yet another opportunity to brated. Colonel Albert Fountain Ranger ; Los Angeles, Yarnell, Travel Company, owned by Wall leave his footprint in the region. was there as a journalist and wrote Caystile & Mathes; 1881 Street tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt. British colonists in Bay Islands of the invasion. Indeed, Walker had May, Robert E.; Manifest Destiny’s When a civil war erupted in off the Honduran coast feared the even issued orders for Fountain’s Underworld: Filibustering in An - 1854 between conservative and lib - Honduran government would move execution, but Fountain escaped tebellum America , 2002. eral factions, Walker was invited by to assert its control over them and disguised as a woman. Major Ho - May, Robert E.; The Southern the liberal Democratic Party to approached Walker to help set up a race Bell of the Los Angeles Dream of a Caribbean Empire. bring a force of 300 men to assist separate, English-speaking govern - Rangers writes of Walker’s foolish Gainesville: University Press of their cause under the sponsorship ment. The British had plans of arrogance as told to him by men Florida, 2002. of then-President Francisco Castel - building their own trans-isthmus who had been there. McPherson, James M.; Battle Cry of lon. Ever-ready Walker sailed from canal and viewed Walker as a trou - Manifest Destiny was a com - Freedom: The Civil War Era . San Francisco on May 3, 1855 with blemaker. The British Navy ar - pelling force that shaped the United New York: Oxford University only 80 men. Upon arrival, his lit - rested Walker and turned him over States’ present boundaries. It did not Press. 1988 tle band was reinforced by some to the Honduran authorities who proceed smoothly, not always with Hittell, Theodore Henry; History of 170 locals and another 100 Ameri - promptly stood him up against a justice or with honor. There were California; N.J. Stone, 1898 can adventurers. wall and ended his dreams of glory dark episodes, more than we might Walker, William; War in Nicaragua ; With that force, Walker was able with a firing squad. think, that remain as dark smudges New York; S. H. Goetzel; 1860 to defeat the conservative Legit - imist Party’s army and seized their capitol of Granada. He set himself up as military ruler through a pro - visional president and his regime was even recognized by President Franklin Pierce. Walker’s dream was about to be realized – and it might have but for two factors: treachery of others and the irritat - ing habit of the locals of resisting the presence of foreign invaders. Trouble began to brew within the Accessory Travel Company when two of Vanderbilt’s subordi - nates attempted to have Walker seize the company’s assets and turn them over in exchange for financial support to Walker. Vanderbilt, out - raged at such duplicity, dispatched secret agents to Costa Rica and managed to stir up enough fear of Walker’s ambitions that the presi - dent of Costa Rica declared war on the little filibusterer. Walker’s trou - bles quickly multiplied when troops from Honduras joined in the game. Walker quickly removed himself to Granada and fashioned a fraud - ulent election to insert himself into the presidency. He began to solicit support from the southern states, encouraged American immigration, revoked the Emancipation Edict of 1824, reinstated slavery, and made English the official language. But his army of supporters was weakening and was soon facing vastly superior numbers of troops from Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala intent on doing him great harm. Finally, he fled to Lake Nicaragua, burning the city of Granada behind him and surren - dered to the U. S. Navy. He was quickly repatriated to New York. He was received as a hero, but he still had not learned life’s hard lessons. He quickly aroused public displeasure by blaming the U. S. Navy for his defeat, when the Navy Visit us at sassnet .com Page 56 Cowboy Chronicle November 2013

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By Texas Ghost, SASS #50125

rother King, SASS thought it was an excellent idea. #69031, poked thought - Both Brother King and Texas fully at a campfire in the Ghost thought it would be a good B Colorado high country. idea to solicit help to get the program It was late 2009, fall round up, and going because really all they had was Brother King had an unshakable a concept. So, they made a list of yen to promote the category of Clas - shooters who were already shooting sic Cowboy and generate more par - CLASSIC, and who they thought ticipation. After pausing to chase might be interested in helping. another rattlesnake out of his The Board of the Magnificent 7 bedroll, he called Texas Ghost, was formed, with Brother King— Lefty Henderson, SASS #50125, and suggested start - Chairman, Texas Ghost—Vice recipient of the 2011 ing some kind of category recogni - Chairman, Dragon Hill Dave, SASS Classic Cowboy Shootist Award. tion program. The Ghost, who had #59561—Treasurer, Vance Mon - been thinking along the same lines, tana, SASS #78957—Award leader, Needmore Gunz, SASS #48268, Cowhand, SASS #63559, and T- – Classic Cowboys – Bone Dooley, SASS #36388. The (l) Texas Ghost and Turquoise Bill Board voted for the 1 st SHOOTIST AWARD WINNER and selected T- which was not an easy task. After Bone Dooley to receive the 2010 much discussion, the Board elected Award. Being a good CLASSIC Solicitor General, SASS #9800, out COWBOY, T-Bone abstained. Vance of Arizona, to complete the “7.” The Montana had a magnificent belt Magnificent 7 now consisted of a buckle designed. The six of us paid Clothing Company Owner, Con - equally, and presented it to T-Bone struction Company Owner, two at Comin’at Cha 2010. Lawyers, a Doctor, a large Lumber After T-Bone Dooley was elected, Company Manager, and a Rancher/ the Board THEN started making Entrepreneur/ Promoter/Show - the requirements for future recipi - man/and I don’t know what all. ents of the CLASSIC COWBOY The hunt for the 2011 recipients SHOOTIST AWARD PROGRAM. It went out over the SASS Wire dur - was decided you did not have to be ing the year 2011. The response a State, Regional, National, or World was awesome. It became very diffi - Champion, but you … cult to select who would receive our • Must shoot CLASSIC consis - elite, “One of a Kind” personal, gold tently at State and above, and silver belt buckles. The cut-off • Must help and encourage others for nominees was the end of Sep - to shoot CLASSIC, tember 2011. We debated in Octo - • Must be a member of SASS in ber. We debated in November. It good standing, was decided. Buckles ordered. The • Must be a good example of Cow - presentation would be at the Winter boy Action Shooting™ and the Range Classic Cowboy Dinner. Cowboy Way, THE CLASSIC • Must be “willin’” as John Wayne COWBO Y/ COWGIRL DINNER: in THE SHOOTIST, WINTER RANGE 2012 • AND, THE PROGRAM WOULD The Classic Cowboy Dinner BE EXTENDED TO INCLUDE started several years ago. Usually, CLASSIC COWGIRL! on the eve of an annual shoot a few The new program had growing of us Classic Cowboys, family, and pains and Cowhand resigned. We friends would get together for din - were sorry, but wished Cowhand ner at a local restaurant. We would the best. The Board went about se - have a few drinks, dinner, and get lecting another board member, (Continued on next page)

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what an understatement that re - Shooting the First Stage ally was. Everyone in our posse was supportive, helpful, and reas - were recited, and as everyone pro - suring. The phrase I remember By Whitey Coyote, SASS #96449, and claimed agreement of understand - the most repeated was, “Don’t Sweetland Phobe Ann, SASS #96450 ing, Jess introduced the two new worry. We’ve all been there.” members, shooters to the group. Slaps on the back, friendly teas - hen the big day arrived, set of smaller caliber revolvers, It was at this point I realized ing, and smiles from everyone and as I said at the be - and as we were in his posse, he just what we had “Gotten our - helped to calm our nervousness ginning, I was asking said we could share his rifle. selves into.” tremendously. T myself “What did we As I said, it was a cool morn - “We got two new shooters We were scheduled to shoot get ourselves into?” ing, cloudy and the threat of rain today,” Jess bellowed out with a last. I assumed it was because we We woke up ridiculously early followed us all day. The turnout big grin. “Whitey Coyote and his would be extremely slow and hold after a restless night and had our wasn’t great, 22 shooters, but we wife, Sweetland Phoebe Ann!” up the show. We witnessed nine coffee. We dressed in our cowboy / divided into two posses, picked our To our surprise and embar - shooters, who to my eyes and ears, cowgirl outfits and loaded the car. categories and gathered at the rassment the entire gathering performed quickly and nearly per - I had managed to get a 12 gauge safety meeting. gave us a cheer and a round of ap - fectly. Then, it was our turn. coach gun, and still had my .45s, Still finding the category plause. “Help em out and go easy By the time I was set and but my wife, “Sweetland Phoebe thing a bit confusing, I signed up on them!” He added. “Now let’s ready, all the previous shooters Ann,” didn’t have any revolvers, as a 49’er and my wife signed up get to shootin!” had their carts packed, ready to and we still didn’t have a rifle. as a Lady 49’er. As the crowd dispersed into move to the next stage. I ex - We got to the range about 45 Jess got up on his “Soap Box,” their posses, many of them came pected, other than our timer and minutes early. Jess greeted us and We raised the flag and recited the over to introduce themselves and spotters, everyone would move loaned my wife a gunbelt, a nice pledge of allegiance. The rules reassured us that they would along to the next stage. To my guide us along. We soon realized (Continued on page 58 ) The Classic Cowboy Cowbo y/ Cowgirl Shootist Award Program ... (Continued from previous page) were curious about all the cowboys to know each other better. That is and cowgirls dressed in 1800s what we thought would happen at duds and finery and some of us Winter Range. WRONG. were even heeled with the blessing After posting on the SASS Wire of the Buffalo Chip. So, at the about the CLASSIC COWBO Y/ opening of the award program, COWGIRL DINNER on the eve of Texas Ghost gave a short explana - Winter Range, the list of cowboys tion of whom and what SASS was and cowgirls wanting to attend and the reasons behind the CLAS - grew and grew. It had gotten bigger SIC COWBOY/ COWGIRL SHOO - than CRACKER BARREL! Up TIST AWARD PROGRAM. Texas steps Classic Cowboy, Turquoise Ghost introduced Brother King, Bill, SASS #39118, of Arizona. who introduced T-Bone Dooley and Turquoise Bill arranged for us Solicitor General. T-Bone pre - to have dinner at the BUFFALO sented the CLASSIC COWGIRL CHIP RESTAURANT in North SHOOTIST AWARD personalized Phoenix. The BUFFALO CHIP belt buckle to SHOTGLASS, SASS was also a vendor at Winter Range. #17153. Solicitor General pre - After talking to Larry, the owner, sented the CLASSIC COWBOY he agreed to host a buffet of all- SHOOTIST AWARD personalized you-could-eat for a very reasonable belt buckle to LEFTY HENDER - price. Larry also provided a stage SON, SASS #56071. Dragon Hill and mic for our award presenta - Dave arrived in time (from a meet - tion. Oh, did I mention that the ing at Winter Range) to congratu - dinner list was over 80! late the winners. The Magnificent Owner Larry reserved a large 7 missed two of the Board, Vance outdoor section for us, which in - Montana and Needmore Gunz. cluded the stage. Folks started ar - The 2011 CLASSIC COW - riving, and that included SASS #1, BOY/COWGIRL SHOOTIST Judge Roy Bean and Justice Lilly AWARD PROGRAM was a great Kate, SASS #1000. Larry as - success, thanks to a lot of dedi - signed a special maître d’ to pro - cated CLASSIC COWBOYS AND vide anything we needed. And COWGIRLS. Now begins the when T-Bone arrived, the party search for the 2012 CLASSIC got started! COWBO Y/ COWGIRL. There were many folks who Who will it be? Visit us at sassnet .com Page 58 Cowboy Chronicle November 2013

timer beeped and instantly my from the shooters, and it was then Our First Match • Part 2 of 3 mind went absolutely blank. “Pro - I realized they had not stayed to (Shooting the First Stage) ... cedure? What procedure? Target? watch me fail. They had stayed to What target? Which gun?” My watch me succeed! (Continued from page 57 ) through. Friendly advice, wel - mind was racing in a fog! I am not a bashful person, but surprise however, everyone stayed come critique on safety, and most “Pistol! Yellow diamond left!” I did feel a massive blush rise up to watch! importantly, explanations and rea - Jess spoke with authority. I in my cheeks! I looked at my wife The thought came to my mind sons for each action gave us the snapped back into reality and a who was wearing a huge smile on that most likely the reason they reassurance we needed. vague memory of the procedure her face, and I couldn’t help but stayed was to laugh at the “new I stood at the table at the first came back to me. Jess talked me grin back. Everyone congratu - kids” messing up, and a knot stage. Revolvers in holsters. Rifle through every shot, which target, lated me. Said I did a great job began growing in my gut. Once and shotgun on the table. Jess which gun, and in a couple minutes (not exactly the truth, but ya gotta again, my feelings were all wrong. raised the timer to my ear and spoke it was all over! I was drenched in take compliments where you can Everyone was a coach, guiding just loud enough for me to hear. sweat and shaking like a palsy cat! get them) and slapped me on the us both through the entire proce - “Don’t worry, I’ll walk ya through it.” I picked up my open rifle and shot - back. Suddenly the call went out. dure. The posse members made it “Do you understand the proce - gun, barrels up and turned toward “Next shooter!” virtually impossible to make a dure?” Jess bellowed out. “Yes,” I the unloading table. I turned to my bride, “Sweet - mistake as everyone talked us said timidly. “Stand by!” The A cheer and applause rose up land Phobe Ann,” and watched as the huge smile she was wearing disappeared along with all the color in her face. Terror! Here was a woman, that only a few short weeks ago, had never pulled the trigger on any kind of gun. Now she was going to shoot three different types, in succes - sion, with a timer and in front of an audience! Fortunately, we had been to a few practice sessions with Jess so she was familiar, still she was terrified! I heard what can only be de - scribed as a whimper and encour - aged her with, “You can do it!” And a thumbs up. Jess smiled and waved her up. She carried the long guns over and even though I couldn’t hear what he was saying, I knew it was words of encouragement and a brief description of the procedure. I stood off towards the back. Fingers crossed, teeth clenched, and hoping for the best. “Are you ready?” Came the call. “Stand by!” And the buzzer sounded. Jess was talking and pointing the entire time. “Bang! Clang! Bang! Clang!” And within a cou - ple minutes, silence. As she picked up the long guns and turned to the unloading table, a great cheer and applause erupted from the crowd! The smile on my wife’s face was a memory I will cherish and remem - ber forever! Everyone, and I mean everyone in the posse, congratu - lated her and said she did great! Our first stage, at our first match was complete. We were both exhausted. And there were five more stages to go! No time to dawdle, guncarts started rolling, and we were on to Stage 2! To be continued … watch for The Rest of the Story … Visit us at sassnet .com November 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 59

The Mystery Cowboy .of Syderstone ,

was there. If he was down in the bloody bollicks like a pair o’ grapes, pasture, I’d whistle and he’d come By Chilkoot, SASS #58803 make no mistake!” With that he running. It crossed my mind that snapped a shilling and sixpence on by stepping on the top of the wall, yonder bloody air base?” He spoke the bar beside me. “Now then, Chilkoot, SASS #58803 mounting the gelding would save with the heavy Norfolk brogue of Yank, ‘eres one ‘n six, fer a pint ta me some steps and allow me to cow - country folk. I nodded and sipped make sure ma message gets ta the boy a short while. I had my mother my nearly empty pint. right bloody fella.” Note: RAF Sculthorpe was in Nor - send my Tony Lamas and Resistol “I want ta’ tell thee summat, The farmer and his wicked look - folk, England, home to two hat from the States. Yank. Duz tha’ know a cowboy out ing cudgel were gone. I left for home squadrons of KB-50 Tankers and a Months later, I stopped at the at that base uv yearn?” and saw the grey down in the pas - detachment of RB-66 Bombers. Black Swan for a pint and was I replied, quizzically, “There’s a ture but I decided against whistling Several hundred officers and en - seated at the bar. A heavy hand on few, I guess. Why?” for him. Soon after, we got a car and listed men who were stationed my shoulder caused me to look up “I ken stand yew bloody blokes the trip to the base became just a there provided the catalyst for some from my beer. “Yes, somethin’ the comin’ here an’ marryin’ our wim - pleasant drive. I’d see the grey once friction between locals and GIs. matter?” Standing behind me, at - menfolk, dotters ‘n sechlike.....” in a while. But you know, I never tached to that hand, was a short, I held up my hand and put my did hear any more about a bloody y wife and I rented a powerful looking farmer with about empty glass on the bar. “Ah well, cowboy with a black ‘at riding the house in Wells-Next-Sea, a three day growth of whiskers. He my wife’s not from here, she’s from ranges of Syderstone. a few miles down the was wearing muddy rubber boots to Lancashire.” M Syderstone Road from his knees and a pair of grimy “Yung fella, wast tha’ takin’ tha the base. I often had to walk or trousers securely anchored by a mickey outta me? I had not said ma hitch a ride to and from the base length of hemp rope. The tip of a red piece.” He started again. “As I wuz due to the flying schedule of my air - necktie stuck out from under his sayin’ afore I wuz bloody inter - craft. It usually landed after the mud caked pullover, and a heavily rupted, I ken put up wi’ yanks run - regular shift people had gone. soiled tweed sport jacket provided nin’ off wi’ tha lasses, but I’ll no Syderstone was about the midpoint pockets for a pipe, tobacco pouch, and stan’ by an’ see me stock abused.” I of the trek. It was a village, in a Farrier’s hoof knife. A wool scarf at started to protest. What was he on farming area, surrounded by pas - his neck absorbed the sweat collect - about? “Me mate, Colin from Stone tures and fields. The Black Swan ing in the creases of his bullish neck. Creek Farm way, cum by Syderston Pub was there providing a conven - His headgear was one of those caps Road Saturday market day. Colin ient stopping point for a rest and a old men with sports cars drive. In looks at ma gelding bein’ rode by a pint, maybe a game of darts. the hand that wasn’t gripping my bloke wearin’ a black ‘at like ‘e wuz Pastures in many parts of Eng - shoulder, he held a stout looking that bloody film star Rory Calhoun land are delineated by stone walls cudgel, polished by years of doing er summat. If tha knows ‘im, tha that have been in place for cen - whatever it is one does with a cudgel. cowboy, I mean, ya tell ‘im, when I turies. They stretch for miles and “Yung man, be tha’ a Yank frum get ma mitts on ‘im, I’ll crush ‘is are everywhere. About four feet high and containing untold millions of rocks, they are astonishing for their stability, lacking any mortar as they are. One of the first times I hoofed (no pun intended) it homeward, as I came abreast of a particular pas - ture, I was greeted by a dappled grey gelding, standing in the corner of his paddock, head over the wall and nickering at me. I stopped to rub his nose, spoke a few soft words to him, and moved on down the road. Behind me, I heard him nick - ering and plodding right along. So it went until another wall stopped him about three quarters of a mile from our start. Every time I made the trip, either coming or going, he Visit us at sassnet .com Page 60 Cowboy Chronicle November 2013 the capGun Kid rides — HUBLEY and MARX — So Many Toys, So Little Time … I still have that Texan in its Keystone Rig hanging next to the adult sized By The Capgun Kid, SASS #31398 Fanner Fifty Rig I made.

n a lot of ways, I believe I am a testimonial to the presence of the Guardian I Angel. I am not talking about the time when the only thing that saved me from walking over a cliff in the pitch dark of our military maneuvers was the firm hand of my Drill Instructor wrenching my col - lar before the fatal step. Nor am I It was called a Buffalo Hunter, but it looked like a real Flintlock. I especially like leathering speaking of the fact that the NVA a six-gun … this on a wrist rig like a B-Western Rig … and CIA ended the war once they survived bringing up twins, and sold figured out I was coming. our house in Pennsylvania during Forget about the time I drove a the crash without losing a dime. hundred miles through a Hurricane Nope. to get home without incident. I am My biggest achievement was not concerned here with 911 happen - surviving the largest crisis you ing in my rear view mirror because could as a kid … “Wait until your fa - the only business meeting I had in ther gets home.” This, after my felo - New York City all year was can - nious act of violating the Gun celled, and I got notified on the road. Control Act of 1954 … no shooting I am, by no means, as adroit as that caps in the house. I might point out, guy with the beard in the beer com - though, that it was not just a cap. mercial who does everything right. I The Louis Marx Toy Company, long about the mid-fifties, started producing miniature capguns that had an uncanny detail about them. There were Sharps and Winchester Rifles, a Navy .36, and a miniature sixgun with a steer’s head in relief on the grips. When you had an eye for accuracy in your toys, the fact that you could pick these up for You pushed the tiny pin fifty-nine cents in the Five and Ten The Hubley .44 … and broke the gun open Cent Store with the sawdust on the I built a Slim Jim for one once. to accept a round cap. floor made them irresistible and easily purchased within your al - little pearls, and they always Just about every kid in those Hubley’s Cowboy, lowance budget. If you were into seemed to mate well with Have Gun days watched Davey Crockett front - their top-of-the-line capgun. cowboys, you could not resist these Will Travel, a Three Musketeers, load old Betsy. Inasmuch as my and/or a Snickers when Grandma forte would prove to be writing Bea took you to the five and dime. books and articles, Engineering 101 It did not take long for my but - was not among my skills, so I saw ton down mind to notice when you no reason why a toothpick could not pushed the tiny pin and broke the come out the muzzle backed by a sixgun open to accept a round cap, small amount of gunpowder. the miniature barrel was bored The kid next store left some through. Not at all like every other firecrackers on the picnic table in cap gun in the world at the time, it blatant disobedience of civil law, so was always intriguing. Toothpicks, I saw no malice in lifting one or two when broken off at the right point, (not the nerdy kid who was into fit like bullets into the three holes slide rulers and probably grew up to bored through the cylinder and bar - be a hacker for the CIA, but the big rel that were meant to vent the cap. kid who always rolled up his pack of There were Sharps and Winchester Rifles. Hhhmmmm … cigarettes in the sleeve of his T-shirt

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too much time talking about God not gun Show, my table usually has a to believe in him, for better or worse, bunch of these minis. Once, at an Clickers. Marx Toys were also the but that’s another topic if I ever airport on my way to some cowboy- Kings of the Five and Ten Cent Store. write for our Diocese Newspaper. ing in Arizona, a Fed confiscated If there ought to be a lasting one under the guise of security not and impressed himself by pulling legacy about Louis Marx and Hub - allowing capguns on airplanes. the bumper off his Chevy and cut - ley capguns, it is they seem to be Seeing the ulterior motive in the ting a hole in the hood to put this the most prevalent capguns turning petty dishonesty of his face, I made dopey chrome scoop through it). up at the shows and on eBay. That’s him summon a State Trooper and Marx Clickers are some Down into the basement of the because they were the most preva - carry it away, muzzle up, because of the most accurate looking Levittown House I went … just a lent capguns out there in the fifties you treat every firearm as loaded. I capguns ever made. man, his Bonomo Turkish Taffy, and think the Trooper was bent outta his sixgun. I thought it sensible to shape because he interrupted his It was called a Buffalo put the cap in first, so as to seal the coffee break. Had it gone further, I Hunter , but it looked like a real breech. I’m guessing about one really don’t know whether I’d have Flintlock. You threw back the grain of firecracker powder went gone to jail defending my gun rights frizzen, put a cap in it, cocked the down the muzzle followed by the or cried like Stan Laurel if cuffed. Cockpiece, and blasted away. Be - thickest part of the toothpick. Marx Toys were also the Kings cause it was Davey’s muzzleloader, Now, even Mom knew what a of the Five and Ten Cent Store be - nobody had to worry about single cap would and wouldn’t do, so there cause they engineered their way shot lock and load. No single cap - was no sense trying to fudge it into plastic. Sometimes I wonder gun ever fit so well with a coonskin when she came running down the whether Louis Marx had a big heart cap as that Hubley. As I was grow - stairs and saw the smoke. The little The Hubley Flintlock cap pistol. for poor children because all of his ing up and began to devour books steer head grips fell off in my hand, on The French and Indian War, it oc - and I never found the toothpick. and sixties. Every kid had one, curred to me this thing looked like My ears were ringing, but it was my whether or not he or she played a Brown Bess, so it ended up doing fanny I was really worried about with them. double duty between the King Of when Dad happened. Marx Toy Company would mar - The Wild Frontier and Northwest You gotta feel bad for atheists ket thousands of miniatures well Passage. Marx made a more accu - who live their lives without sub - into series known as Historical rate looking plastic flintlock rifle, scribing to the idea of a Guardian Guns and The Golden Guns . The but the Hubley held my attention. Angel. Throughout the subsequent latter were the only miniatures I never met a capgun I didn’t trial and sentencing by “Hangin’- they made that I saw on television. like, but Hubley made one that was Judge-Dad,” none of the authorities A Gentleman named Claude Kirsh - Texan Jr., a six-gun with a simply too big for a little kid to han - black steer head on the grips— thought to confiscate my little Marx ner was their universal spokesman a mainstay with Hubley. dle. It was a replica of a Colt .44 Sixgun, and I have it holstered on on TV, and I can remember stopping Cap and Ball and it had magnifi - my key chain to this day. I consider to watch a commercial for the larger toys were affordable. Some of the cent relief engraving and ivory that intervention … another reason Thunderguns . Not much of a most accurate looking plastic toy white plastic grips. It even disas - not to take a professed atheist all Great Garloo fan, but the toy guns guns ever made came out of the en - sembled. It was as big … or bigger that seriously. Besides, they spend could catch my attention every gineering minds at Louis Marx, and … than a real Army .44, and, to this time. Brother Chris and I probably I would have loved to be a fly on the day I remember sitting with my went through a dozen of their plas - wall when they sat in their confer - cowboy pal, Doug, under the tree tic clickers, and all their toy guns ence rooms and came up with this three days before Christmas, demol - seemed to have splendid grips and stuff. They had only one drawback ishing a candy cane and remarking always seemed to be accurate repli - … nothing worked and moved ex - how we hoped Santa would not cas of the guns they represented. cept the metal clicker hammer and bring us one. I built a Slim Jim for The miniature Derringer, Snubnose trigger. In fact, among the capgun one once, and a body is hard pressed .38, Navy .36, and Sharps Rifles masters who go to the shows, they to distinguish the toy from the real were keen, and the Mairs Laig are referred to as just that … Click - thing when it is leathered. looked as absurd as it did on TV. ers. They also had a habit of annoy - BFF (Before Fanner Fifty) most You still hadda have one. ing Mom and Dad when you went of the arms in Brother Chris’s and Some fine sandpaper and steel wool Their Golden Guns came in ex - around pulling the trigger time after my collection were Hubleys. When and a little paint to gussie-up a quisite plastic boxes that look like time. Maybe that infraction is only I was in kindergarten, I had their Marx Mini to make it look real … one crates. The Springfield Rifle had a surpassed by … “are we there yet?” Rodeo . I wasn’t fond of their amber of my displays at a cap-gun show … little tiny bayonet, the Kentucky or “I gotta go to the bathroom” … colored grips (now prized by collec - Rifle had a little tiny Powder horn, when in the car or the prolific and tors), but it fit a kid’s hand, and had and some of the Stagecoach very whine-like lament of … “I don’t an attribute I am still surprised Cap and Balls had an extra like Broccoli” … at the dinner table. was singular … you could work it cylinder. Hubley, however, was another single action … cock and shoot it. To this day I will pick up matter. I never had a Hubley Cap - That’s what the real cowboys did. a Marx Mini on eBay, or at a gun that looked like a real Colt. No double action nonsense. Sort of flea market, and go to work They did have a few that were too like SASS Rules. You could also with my Dremel, some fine big for me, and they were, every sin - twirl it … sort of NOT like SASS steel wool, and a little paint gle one, built to withstand a Nuclear rules … and every capgun cowboy and gussie-up a Marx Mini to Holocaust. It was Hubley I will re - worth his salt had to do so. make it look real. I especially member as being most closely asso - The only other gripe I can think Their Golden Guns came in exquisite plastic like leathering a sixgun and ciated with the first, and probably about with our Hubleys is I cannot boxes that look like crates. I gussied up this putting it on a key chain. still the best, hero many of us ever find one single cowboy hero any - one with shot pouch and beaded strap. When I do get to go to a Cap - had … Davey Crockett. (Continued on page 63 )

Visit us at sassnet .com Page 62 Cowboy Chronicle November 2013 RIDGEVILLE RHETT, SASS #94846 ~ 1947 – 2013 ~ By Doc Kemm, SASS #5255 t is with great sadness the Geechee Gunfight - Iers of Charleston, SC report the untimely pass - e e ing of Ridgeville Rhett, aka Chris Dammer, on August 21, 2013. Rhett was a late comer to SKILLET, SASS #88821 SASS, but like in everything in which he was in - (aka Timothy Leonhardt) volved, he was “all in.” In the all too few years he was involved in Cowboy Action Shooting™ he 15 November 1957 – 23 August 2013 could always be depended upon to “Cowboy Up.” He provided invaluable assistance with construc - By R.B. Rooson, SASS #16974, tion of improvements to the cowboy range and and Redleg Reilly, SASS #46372 was very active with the organizing committee for the SASS Southeast Regional Championship. rolled in Officer Candidate Rhett was one of those guys who, when you asked School. In 1990, his unit was ac - him to do a job, would not only cheerfully com - tivated and deployed in support plete the task you asked of him, but would do a few extra tasks just be - of Operation Desert Storm. He cause someone ought to do them! He was also one of the nicest fellows retired from the military in 1998 a person could ever hope to meet. His optimism and cheerful demeanor with the rank of 1st Lieutenant. was appreciated by all who had the honor of knowing him. His atten - Skillet was an avid hunter, tion to detail has also been noted. In fact, we now expect he is spending enjoying the chase for game such time with the Lord going through a bunch of sticky notes asking God as deer, turkey, and quail. He was just why He did whatever it was Rhett was curious about. also an active shooter with the Rhett was born in New York, NY, son of Edward and Mae Dammer. Shortgrass Rangers, the local He earned a MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( RPI) in Troy, SASS club. A fixture at the un - NY. Besides SASS, he was also very active in the Boy Scouts of America loading table, he was always and was a Stephen Minister. He is survived by his wife, Deborah, and quick with a smile and a com - son, Jason. A private celebration of Rhett’s life was held at his home, ment like “couldn’t be having any which was attended by many of the Geechee Gunfighters in cowboy more fun than this!” Skillet was - costume as well as by numerous other friends and family. His son t is with great sadness the n’t the fastest shooter in the club, mentioned during the event one of the most important of the IShortgrass Rangers report the but chances are when the clean many lessons Rhett taught him was to always leave a place passing of Skillet, SASS #88821. match awards were being handed better than you found it. Well, Rhett, old partner, you cer - Skillet was born and raised in out, his name would be called. tainly left us cowboys better off for having known you! the Lawton, Oklahoma area. And on club work days, you could Upon graduation from Elgin count on seeing a dust cloud mov - e e High School in 1976, he enlisted ing across the range as Skillet in the United States Marine and his lawn tractor conquered DIXIE GAMBLER Corps. Skillet served from 1976 the prairie grass. to 1980 as a mortar crewman and Skillet was laid to rest with 7/8 /54 – 7/6/ 13 marksmanship instructor. He full military honors on 29 August, was qualified as an Expert 2013. His funeral was attended By Bullwhip Bones, SASS Life #10055 Marksman with both rifle and by over 300 people, including pistol, and earned the Scout family, members of the military, lizing her family’s own shooting Sniper designation. Upon his dis - the police, the Shortgrass range until the club moved to charge in 1980, Skillet was em - Rangers, and the Patriot Guard. Mauk, Georgia. She was also the ployed by Dolese He is survived by his loving wife, nurse and office manager in her Brothers as a heavy Sun Kyong, his children, and his husband’s medical practice for 23 equipment mechanic. parents. years and was loved and appreci - He enlisted Skillet was a gentleman, a ated by everyone who came in the Army good friend, and a devoted family through the office … with many National man. He was a valuable asset to coming more to see and visit with Guard in his community and the Short - her than for medical care! She 1983 and grass Rangers. He is sorely loved Cowboy Action Shooting™ was soon missed by all who knew him. and dressing up as cowgirl and after en - Happy trails, Marine. Victorian lady, travelling in her motor home, reading in the quiet at home and at the beach, family vacations, and playing video ixie Gambler, SASS Life poker and blackjack, at which she D#10056, aka JoAnn Ruby was extremely good and lucky. Chase, died peacefully at her She provided the total care home on Lake Harding after a for the last six months of her five year hard, difficult, and mother-in-law’s life, but most im - Little Known Fact painful, but valiant, struggle with portantly she raised five children triple negative breast cancer. She to adulthood and provided Quite often sounds of cannon fire could be heard from as far as forty miles away. is survived by her husband, four strength, guidance, and However, there are a number of documented occasions where huge battles daughters, and a son. comfort to her husband appeared to be silent from as few as a hundred yards. One of these occasions was the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac. Dixie Gambler was one of the and family. This may have been caused by atmospheric conditions. founding members of Pale Riders Dixie Gambler— Cowboy Action Shooting™ club in Miss You Always, the Columbus, Georgia area, uti - Love You Forever!

Visit us at sassnet .com November 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 63 The Capgun Kid Rides ... Nichols Stallion and Mattel Fan - brother’s first Holy Communion ners, was an enormous gun a kid party where I amazed the entire (Continued from page 61 ) saw them a lot. I can still envision could have trouble drawing and family with my prowess until I place who had a sixgun with a black her roaming FAO Schwartz Toy shooting quickly. As with all lost control and almost hit the steer’s head on the grips, a main - Store picking a capgun rig off the Hubley pieces, it was built to last. cake with a flying clicker. In a stay with Hubley. That’ll kill ya shelf to check off Brother Chris and Its only hazard was that, like all one-in-a-million shot, its hammer when your main concern was look - me for the Christmas list, or a birth - Capguns with the lever latch re - hit the table and catapulted it ing like your hero. day, or Easter, or because it was loading system, the gun would into the pool. Nothing but net. I Aunt Rita once bought me one Tuesday. I still have that Texan in start to pop open as it aged. wonder what my Guardian Angel of the best holsters I ever had with its Keystone Rig hanging next to If you could spin a Hubley did to divert the trajectory into a a Hubley Texan in it. Aunt Rita the adult sized Fanner Fifty Rig I Rodeo as mentioned above, then Misdemeanor rather than a was always our main armorer. She made a decade ago. you could really get cranked in Felony. Enjoy the pictures I stole and Uncle Joe were wealthy and Hubley’s Cowboy , their top-of- your tricks with the Louis Marx off of eBay. lived near us on Long Island, so we the-line capgun that competed with Plastic Clickers. I remember my Don’t Shoot Yore Eye Out, Kid

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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 & 3rd tripod 907-373-0140 Birchwood double r Bar regulators 2nd sun Five Jacks 760-949-3198 lucerne Valley sun High sierra drifters 2nd sun grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 railroad Flat golden Heart shootist society 2nd sat & poco loco louie 907-488-7660 Fairbanks richmond roughriders 2nd sun Buffy 650-994-9412 richmond last sun over the Hill gang (the) 2nd sun kooskia kid 818-566-7900 sylmar Juneau gold Miners posse 3rd sun Five card tanna 907-789-7498 Juneau Bridgeport Vigilantes 3rd sat Ben Maverick 909-496-3137 Bridgeport AL Burro canyon gunslingers 3rd sat don trader 714-827-7360 Meyers russell county regulators 1st sat Will killigan 706-568-0869 phoenix canyon city nevada city peacemakers 3rd sat Marlin schofield 530-265-9213 nevada city north alabama regulators 1st sun drake robey 256-313-0421 Woodville north county shootist assoc. 3rd sat graybeard 760-727-9160 pala Vulcan long rifles 2nd sat parson Henry Brown 205-541-2207 Hoover shasta regulators 3rd sat Modoc 530-365-1839 redding alabama rangers 2nd sun dead Horse phil 205-531-7055 Brierfield robbers roost Vigilantes 3rd sat nast newt 760-375-7618 ridgecrest gallant gunfighters 3rd sun Buckboard Jim 205-991-5823 Hoover gold country Wild Bunch 3rd sat sutter lawman 530-713-4194 sloughouse old York shootists 4th sun derringer di 205-647-6925 Hoover High desert cowboys 3rd sun doc silverhawks 661-948-2543 acton AR kings river regulators 3rd sun sierra rider 559-268-1115 clovis White river gang 1st sat arkansas tom 870-656-8431 Mountain panorama northfield raiders 3rd sun gun Hawk 818-761-0512 north Home Hollywood critter creek citizens 1st sun evil Bob 903-701-3970 Fourke south coast rangers 3rd sun lucky Blackjack 805-886-5945 santa Vigilance daniel Barbara Mountain Valley Vigilantes 1st Wkd christmas kid 501-625-3554 Hot springs Murieta posse 3rd sun grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 sloughhouse outlaw camp 2nd & 5th ozark red 501-362-2963 Heber Helldorado rangers 3rd sun Will Bonner 707-462-1466 ukiah sat springs Hawkinsville claim Jumpers 4th & 5th sat lethal les l’amour 530-842-4506 Yreka arkansas lead slingers 2nd sat & dirty dan 479-633-2107 garfield Mad river rangers 4th sat kid kneestone 707-445-1981 Blue lake 4th sun paladin coyote Valley sharpshooters 4th sat nasty Hag 408-859-4300 san Jose south Fork river regulators 3rd sat arkansas Harper 870-994-7227 salem pozo river Vigilance 4th sat dirty sally 805-438-4817 santa Judge parker’s Marshals 3rd sat & sun naildriver 479-651-2475 Fort smith committee Margarita true grit sass 4th sat & sun tombstone 501-786-4440 Belleville california shady ladies 4th sat lady gambler 916-447-2040 sloughhouse shadow Faultline shootist society 4th sun querida 831-635-9147 gonzales AZ the range 4th sun grass V.Federally 530-273-4440 grass Valley White Mountain old West 1st & 3rd Fred sharps 928-245-6276 show low the cowboys 4th sun captain Jake 714-318-6948 norco shootists sat deadwood drifters 4th sun lusty lil 661-775-3802 piru rio salado cowboy action 1st sat a. J. Bob 480-982-7336 Mesa sloughhouse irregulators 5th sat & sun Badlands Bud 530-677-0368 sloughhouse shooting society CO old pueblo shootist 1st sun gilly Boy 520-249-2831 tombstone colorado cowboys 1st sat painted Filly 719-439-6502 lake george association colorado shaketails 1st sun Midnite slim 719-660-2742 Fountain cowtown cowboy shooters 1st sun & Barbwire 480-773-2753 peoria san Juan rangers 1st sun kodiak kid 970-252-1841 Montrose 3rd sat Windygap regulators 1st Wkd piedra kidd 970-799-1133 cortez arizona cowboy shooters 2nd sat gawd awful 503-528-6423 phoenix Briggsdale county shootists 2nd & 4th sat kid Bucklin 970-493-1813 Briggsdale association Vigilantes 2nd sat grizz Bear 719-545-9463 pueblo tombstone shootist society 2nd sat cowboy doug 520-457-3559 tombstone Montrose Marshals 2nd sun Big Hat 970-249-7701 Montrose Whiskey row gunslingers 2nd sun turquoise Bill 928-925-7323 prescott castle peak Wildshots 2nd Wkd old squinteye 970-524-9348 gypsum colorado river regulators 2nd sun & crowheart 928-505-2200 lake Havasu pawnee station 3rd sat red creek dick 303-857-0520 nunn 4th sat Martin naZtY Bunch 3rd sat tumbleweed 928-899-8788 Flagstaff rockvale Bunch 3rd sat cherokee diable 719-371-0172 rockvale rose Four corners gunslingers 3rd sun cereza slim 970-247-0745 durango lake powell gunslingers 3rd sat Bare Fist Jack 928-660-2104 page thunder Mountain shootist 3rd Wkd pinto annie 970-464-7118 Whitewater los Vaqueros 3rd sat Buckeye pete 520-548-8298 tucson northwest colorado rangers 4th sat sagebrush Burns 970-824-8407 craig payson cowboys 3rd sun rowdy lane 575-937-9297 payson sand creek raiders 4th sun sweet Water Bill 303-366-8827 Byers Mohave Marshalls 3rd sun & d B chester 928-231-9013 kingman Black canyon ghost riders 4th sun double Bit 970-874-8745 Hotchkiss 5th sat CT altar Valley pistoleros 3rd sun & Mean raylean 520-235-0394 tucson ledyard sidewinders 1st sat Yosemite gene 860-536-0887 ledyard 5th sun ct Valley Bushwackers 2nd sun Milo sierra 860-508-2686 east granby arizona Yavapai rangers 4th sat Whisperin 928-567-9227 camp Verde DE Meadows padens posse 3rd sun Hazel pepper 302-422-6534 Bridgeville dusty Bunch old Western 4th sat squibber 602-309-4198 casa grande FL shooters ghost town gunslingers 1st sat copenhagen 904-808-8559 st. augustine colorado river shootists 4th sun Boston 928-502-1298 Yuma gold coast gunslingers 1st sat & george Washington 786-256-9542 Fort anniebelle 3rd sun Mclintock lauderdale Bordertown, inc. as sch swift Water 520-883-1217 tucson Hernando county regulators 1st sun shady Brady 352-686-1055 Brooksville CA Miakka Misfits 1st sun serving Justice 914-219-7007 Myakka city sunnyvale regulators 1st & 3rd shaniko Jack 650-464-3764 cupertino Fort White cowboy cavalry 2nd sat deadly sharpshoot 352-317-6284 Fort White Mon night okeechobee Marshals 2nd sat & kid celero 561-312-9075 okeechobee West end outlaws 1st & 3rd chickamauga 951-549-9304 lytle creek 4th sun sat charlie okeechobee outlaws 2nd sat & dead Wait 863-357-3006 okeechobee escondido Bandidos 1st sat devil Jack 760-741-3229 escondido 4th sun the outlaws 1st sat terrell sackett 916-363-1648 sacramento tater Hill gunfighters 2nd sun Judge Jd Justice 941-629-4440 arcadia sierra sportsmen club 1st sat Bugtown dusty 530-260-0806 susanville Weewahootee Vigilance 2nd sun conway kid 407-273-9763 orlando two rivers posse 1st sat & dragon 209-836-4042 Manteca committee 4th sun panhandle cowboys 2nd sun High card 850-492-5162 pensacola 5 dogs creek 1st sat & sun utah Blaine 661-203-4238 Bakersfield southwest Florida gunslingers 3rd sat Jed lewis 239-455-4788 punta gorda river city regulators 1st sun Bangor Brink 530-679-2321 davis Big Bend Bushwhackers 3rd sat sixpence kid 850-459-1107 tallahassee Hole in the Wall gang 1st sun Frito Bandito 661-406-6001 piru lake county pistoleros 3rd sat arcadia outlaw 352-208-2788 tavares cajon cowboys 2nd & 4th sat pasture patti 760-956-8852 devore panhandle cattle company 4th sat desperado dale 850-260-5507 chipley chorro Valley regulators 2nd & 5th sun Mad dog Mccoy 805-440-7847 san luis cowford regulators 4th sat general lee 904-803-2930 Jacksonville obispo smokey shasta regulators of Hat creek 2nd sat cayenne pepper 530-275-3158 Burney indian river regulators 4th sat Belligerent orney 321-403-2940 palm Bay Mother lode shootist society 2nd sat sioux city kid 209-795-4175 Jamestown Bob coyote Valley cowboys 2nd sat Bad eye Bobolu 408-722-0583 Morgan Hill ok corral outlaws 4th sun kokomo kid 863-357-2226 okeechobee guns in the sun 2nd sat Johnny 2moons 760-346-0972 palm springs Five county regulators 4th sun Jed lewis 239-455-4788 punta gorda Buffalo runners 2nd sat grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 rescue doodle Hill regulators 4th sun dave smith 813-645-3828 ruskin dulzura desperados 2nd sat Hashknife Willie 619-271-1481 san diego antelope Junction rangers Fri nite & Mayeye rider 727-736-3977 pineallas park california rangers 2nd sat Jimmy Frisco 209-296-4146 sloughhouse 2nd sat 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 November 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 67

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City GA IN (continued) river Bend rough riders 1st sat done gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville Butterfield gulch gang 1st sun Flinthills dawg 785-479-0416 chapman american old West cowboys 1st sat Josey Buckhorn 423-236-5281 Flintstone Free state rangers 1st sun & Buffalo phil 913-898-4911 parker Valdosta Vigilance committee 1st sat Big Boyd 229-244-3161 Valdosta 3rd sat lonesome Valley regulators 1st sun Wishbone 478-922-9384 Warner powder creek cowboys 2nd & 4th sat el dorado Wayne 913-686-5314 lenexa Hooper robins & 4th Wed providence springs rangers 2nd sat Buckshot Bob 229-924-0997 anderson Mill Brook Wranglers 2nd sun grandpa Buckten 785-421-2537 Hill city doc Holliday’s immortals 2nd sat easy rider 770-954-9696 griffin Millbrook camden county cowboys 2nd sat christian 912-227-5683 kingsland sandhill regulators 3rd sat Moundridge 620-345-3151 Hutchinson Mortician goat roper piedmont regulators 2nd sat Hunter sam 706-391-4630 toccoa capital city cowboys 4th sun top 785-313-0894 topeka south river shootists 3rd sat Man From little 678-428-4240 covington chisholm trail rowdies last sun cody Wyatt 316-204-1784 Wichita river KY tennessee Mountain 3rd sat trail Bones 423-842-6116 ringgold kentucky regulators 1st sat shenandoah slim 270-354-5040 Boaz Marauders Hooten old town 1st sat double eagle 423-309-4146 Mckee cherokee cowboys 4th sat Bad lands Bob 706-654-0828 gainesville regulators dave HI knob creek gunfighters 1st sun drew First 502-644-3453 West point Maui Marshals 1st & 3rd sat Bad Burt 808-875-9085 Maui guild Big island paniolos 3rd sat paniolo annie 808-640-3949 ocean View green river gunslingers 2nd sat Yak 270-792-9001 Bowling single action shootist of 4th sun Branded Buck 808-351-9260 Honolulu green Hawaii levisa Fork lead slingers 2nd sat escopeta Jake 606-631-4613 pikeville IA ponderosa pines posse 3rd sat copperhead Joe 606-599-5263 Manchester turkeyfoot cowboys 1st sat ranger Mathias 319-234-1550 elk run ohio river rangers 3rd sat george rogers 270-554-1501 paducah Fischels Heights Breathitt Bandits 4th sat slowly But surely 606-666-4663 Jackson Fort des Moines rangers 1st sun pit Mule 515-205-0557 indianola rockcastle rangers 4th sat grinnin Barrett 270-792-3196 park city Zen shootists 2nd sat sergeant duroc 515-783-4833 nevada Fox Bend peacemakers 4th sun tocala sam 859-552-9000 Wilmore outlaw’s run 2nd sun capt. Jim 712-621-5726 red oak LA Midnight deadwood Marshals 1st & 3rd doc spudley 504-467-6062 sorrento ID sat gunslingers of Flaming 1st sat Jughandle Jack 208-634-3121 council grand cane gunslingers 1st sat Blackjack 318-925-9851 grand cane Heart ranch charlie southeast idaho practical 1st sat Hell’s Belle 208-529-3594 idaho Falls up the creek gang 2nd & 4th Hardly able 337-474-5058 lake charles shooters sat squaw Butte regulators 1st sun acequia kidd 208-365-4551 emmett Bayou Bounty Hunters 2nd sat soiled dove 985-796-9698 Folsom el Buscaderos 2nd & 4th oddman 208-437-0496 spirit lake grand ecore Vigilantes 3rd sat ouachita kid 318-932-6637 natchitoches sun Jackson Hole regulators 4th sat slick Mcclade 318-278-9071 quitman northwest shadow riders 2nd sat silverado Belle 208-743-5765 lewiston MA southern idaho rangers 2nd sat lone thumper 208-251-4959 pocatello cape cod cowboys 2nd sat curly Jay Brooks 508-477-9771 Mashpee Hells canyon ghost riders 3rd sat J.p. sloe 208-798-0826 Moscow shawsheen river rangers as sch Yukon Willie 978-663-3342 Bedford twin Butte Bunch 3rd sat idaho rusty 208-745-6150 rexburg Harvard ghost riders as sch double r Bar kid 978-771-9190 Harvard Bucket danvers desperados as sch cyrus cy klopps 781-667-2857 Middleton panhandle regulators 3rd sun Halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis orchards gunnysackers sat nantucket dawn 781-749-6951 scituate Border Marauders 3rd Wkd Mud Marine 208-627-8377 east port MD snake river Western shooting 4th sat Missy Mable 208-731-6387 Jerome eas’dern shore renegades 1st sat teton tracy 302-378-7854 sudlersville society thurmont rangers 1st sun cash caldwell 240-285-7673 thurmont IL Monocacy irregulars 2nd tues chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Frederick shady creek shootists 1st & 4th dapper dan 309-734-2324 little York damascus Wildlife rangers 4th sat chuckaroo 301-831-9666 damascus sun porter ME lakewood Marshal’s 1st sat pine ridge Jack 618-838-9410 cisne Big pine Bounty Hunters as sch ripley scrounger 207-876-4928 Willmantic rangeless riders (the) 1st sat the inspector 618-972-7825 Highland capitol city Vigilance as sch Mark lake 207-622-9400 augusta kishwaukee Valley regulators 1st sun snakes Morgan 815-751-3716 sycamore committee Free grazers 2nd sat Fossil creek Bob 217-821-3134 effingham Beaver creek desperados as sch Jimmy reb 207-698-4436 Berwick kaskaskia cowboys 2nd sat Wagonmaster 618-443-3538 sparta Hurricane Valley rangers as sch leo 207-829-3092 Falmouth Ward MI illinois river city regulators 2nd sun granville stuart 309-243-7236 chillicothe rockford regulators 1st sat no cattle 616-363-2827 rockford nason Mining company 3rd & 5th diggins dave 618-927-0594 Benton river Bend rangers 2nd sat pitmaster 574-276-8805 niles regulators sat double Barrel gang 2nd sat. dakota Fats 269-721-8190 Hastings Mclean county 3rd sat Marshall rd 309-379-4331 Bloomington Butcher Butte Bunch 2nd sun grubby Hardrock 810-750-0655 Fenton peacemakers sucker creek saddle and 3rd sat kid al Fred 989-832-8426 Breckenridge litchfield sportsman’s club 3rd sat ross Haney 618-667-9819 litchfield gun club Fort Beggs defenders 3rd sun toranado 815-302-8305 plainfield chippewa regulators 3rd sat no name Justice 906-632-1254 sault ste. long nine cowboys 4th & 5th sun lemon drop kid 217-787-4877 loami Marie good guys posse 4th sun dangerous denny 815-245-7264 rockford Hidden Valley cowboys 3rd sun saulk Valley 269-651-5197 sturgis IN stubby paradise pass regulators 1st sat c. c. top 574-354-7186 etna green rocky river regulators 3rd sun terrebonne Bud 248-709-5254 utica (formly cutter’s raiders) Blue Water gunslingers 4st sun Buggyman 810-434-9597 kimball pleasant Valley renegades 2nd sat nomore slim 812-839-3052 canaan eagleville cowboys 4th sat one son of a gun 231-676-0922 central lake schuster’s rangers 2nd sun coal car kid 219-759-3498 chesterton Johnson creek regulators 4th sat rainmaker ray 313-618-2577 plymouth pine ridge regulators 3rd sat riverboat 765-832-7253 Brazil Mason county Marshals 4th sat two gun troll 231-343-2580 scottsville gambler Wolverine rangers as sch r.J. law 248-828-0440 port Huron Wolff’s rowdy rangers 3rd sat Justice d. 574-536-4010 Bristol saginaw Field & stream club as sch Bad river Marty 989-585-3292 saginaw spencer lapeer county sportsmans sun as ash Flat Water Johnny 314-378-5689 attica circle r cowboys 3rd sat Mustang Bill 219-208-2793 Brookston club Wranglers Westside renegades 3rd sat Johnny Banjo 812-430-6421 evansville MN Wabash rangers 4th sat Henry 217-267-2820 cayuga cedar Valley Vigilantes 1st & 3rd d M Yankee 612-701-9719 Morristown remington sat starke county desert 4th sat Whip Mccord 219-942-5859 knox crow river rangers 1st sun cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 Howard lake Big rock sass 4th sat southpaw too 812-866-2406 lexington granite city gunslingers 2nd & 5th amen straight 612-723-2313 saint cloud red Brush raiders 4th sat doc goodluck 812-721-1188 newburgh sat deer creek regulators 4th sun doc Molar 765-506-0344 Jonesboro lone rock rangers 2nd sat red dutchman 651-402-0368 Farmingtion Wildwood Wranglers 4th sun Voodooman 219-872-2721 Michigan city lookout Mountain gunsmoke 2nd sat Wagonmaster 218-780-6797 Virginia indiana Black powder guild as sch c. c. top 574-354-7186 etna green society 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 68 Cowboy Chronicle November 2013

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City MN (continued) MT (continued) Fort Belmont regulators 2nd sun Mule town Jack 507-840-0883 Jackson lincoln county regulators 4th sat anita nuttergun 406-297-7667 eureka east grand Forks rod & 3rd sun BB gunner 218-779-8555 east grand NC gun club Forks neuse river regulators 1st & 3rd newport 252-726-7977 new Burn MO sat sodbuster ozark posse (the) 1st sat tightwad swede 417-846-5142 cassville old Hickory regulators 1st sat Wendover kid 252-908-0098 rocky Mount West plaines Waddies 2nd & 5th sat Major Missalot 417-284-1432 tecumseh Walnut grove rangers 1st sat Hiem 828-245-5563 rutherfordton Moniteau creek river raiders 2nd sun doolin riggs 573-687-3103 Fayette old north state posse 1st sat tracker Mike 336-558-9032 salisbury shoal creek shootists 3rd sat chaos Jumbles 417-451-9959 Joplin carolina rough riders 1st sun pecos pete 704-394-1859 charlotte gateway shootist society 3rd sun Bounty seeker 314-740-4665 st. louis neuse river regulators 2nd & 4th newport 252-726-7977 Havelock central ozarks Western 3rd sun x. s. chance 573-765-5483 st. robert sat sodbuster shooters carolina single action 2nd & 5th carolina’s 919-383-7567 eden Butterfield trail cowboys 4th sat & smokie 417-759-9114 Walnut shade shooting society sun longarm sun 3rd Wed High country cowboys 2nd sat Wild otter 828-423-7796 asheville southern Missouri rangers 4th Wkd s. M. all 471-461-0033 Marshfield carolina cattlemen’s shooting 2nd sat J. M. Brown 919-291-1726 creedmore MS and social society natchez sixgunners 1st sat silky 601-807-1513 natchez Buccaneer range regulators 2nd sat Jefro 910-330-7179 Wilmington gulf coast gunslingers 1st sun old rebel 228-860-0054 Biloxi gunpowder creek regulators 3rd sat Herdzman 828-493-1679 lenoir Mississippi peacemakers 3rd sat Macon a. 601-954-3720 Mendenhall cross creek cowboys 3rd sat Huckleberry 910-980-0572 Wagram longshot Mike Mississippi river rangers 4th & 5th taska Jim 901-490-2600 Byhalia iredell regulators 4th sat charlotte 704-902-1796 statesville sat ND MT trestle Valley rangers 2nd sat doc Hell 701-852-1697 Minot Honorable road agents 1st sat diamond red 406-685-3618 ennis Badlands Bandits 2nd sun roughrider ray 701-260-0347 Belfield shooting society dakota rough riders as sch Heck catcher 701-220-8131 Moffit sun river rangers shooting 1st sun & Montana lil’ 406-761-0896 simms sheyenne Valley last sat Wild river rose 701-588-4331 kindred society 4th sat skeeter peacekeepers Makoshika gunslingers 2nd sat doc Wells 406-345-8901 glendive NE gallatin Valley regulators 2nd sat el Hombre de 406-388-2902 logan eastern nebraska gun club 2nd sun Flint Valdez 712-323-8996 louisville Montana Flat Water shootists of the 3rd sun Forty Four Maggie 308-383-4605 grand Black Horse shootists 2nd Wkd J. e. B. stuart 406-727-7625 great Falls grand island rifle club island Montana platte Valley gunslingers as sch skunk stomper 402-461-3442 grand Montana territory 4th sat two gun 406-655-8166 Billings island peacemakers Montana NH the dalton gang shooting 3rd Wkd littleton s. dalton 603-444-6876 dalton club of nH pemi Valley peacemakers as sch Bear lee tallable 603-667-0104 Holderness White Mountain regulators as sch dead Head 603-957-0377 candia Merrimack Valley Marauders as sch sheriff r. p. 603-345-6876 pelham Bucket NJ Monmouth county rangers 2nd sun utah tom 732-803-2430 Monmouth delaware Blues 2nd sun Yellow Mike 302-750-2381 quinton Jackson Hole gang 4th sun papa grey 732-961-6834 Jackson NM Magdalena trail drivers 1st & 3rd grizzly adams 575-854-2488 Magdalena sat del norte diablos 1st & 4th nevada ranger 505-220-0892 rio rancho sat Founders ranch shotgun 1st sat Mrs. slick shot 505-934-2533 edgewood sports club Bighorn Vigilantes 1st sat german george 505-286-0830 Founders ranch otero practical shooting 1st sat saguaro sam 505-437-3663 la luz association chisum cowboys gun club 1st sat two Bit tammy 575-626-9201 roswell Buffalo range riders 1st sun garrison Joe 505-323-8487 Founders ranch chisum cowboy gun club 1st sun two Bit tammy 575-626-9201 roswell High desert drifters 2nd sat el Vaquero Malo 505-688-7937 Founders ranch lincoln county regulators 2nd sat gunsmoke cowboy 575-808-0459 ruidoso rio grande renegades 2nd Wed, Mica Mcguire 505-263-1181 albuquerque 3rd sat, 4th sun, 5th sat & sun gila rangers 2nd Wkd chico cheech 575-388-2531 silver city Monticello range riders 3rd & 5th J. W. Brockey 575-744-4484 elephant sun Butte seven rivers regulators 3rd sat stink creek Jones 575-885-9879 carlsbad Monument springs 4th sat Val darrant 575-396-5303 Hobbs Bushwhackers picacho posse 4th sat Fast Hammer 575-647-3434 las cruces tres rios Bandidos 4th sun largo casey 505-330-2489 Farmington rio Vaqueros 4th sun anna sassin 575-744-5793 truth or consequences NV Fort Halleck Volunteers 1st & 3rd green springs 775-753-8203 elko sat thomsen High plains drifters 1st sun Washoe Zephyr 775-721-6619 Fernley eldorado cowboys 1st Wkd charming 702-565-3736 Boulder city nevada rangers cowboy 2nd sun Mt Fargo 702-460-6393 las Vegas action shooting society 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 November 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 69

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City NV (continued) OR (continued) roop county cowboy 2nd sun Jasper agate 775-849-7679 sparks umpqua regulators 4th sun oregun gustaf 541-430-1021 roseburg shooters association columbia county cowboys as sch kitty colt 503-642-4120 st. Helens silver state shootists 3rd sun shotgun Marshall 775-265-0267 carson city PA desert desperados 3rd sun Buffalo sam 702-459-6454 las Vegas perry county regulators 1st sat tuscarora slim 717-789-3004 ickesburg lone Wolf shooters, llc 4th & 5th sun penny pepperbox 775-727-4600 pahrump dry gulch rangers 1st sat pep c. Holic 724-263-1461 Midway NY Boot Hill gang of topton 1st sun lester Moore 610-704-6792 topton crumhorn Mountain 1st & 4th lefty cooper 607-287-9261 Maryland Whispering pines cowboy 1st sun panama red 570-724-7214 Wellsboro cowboys sun committee alabama gunslingers 1st sat Bum thumb 585-343-3906 alabama chimney rocks regulators 2nd sat Hattie Hubbs 814-515-2166 Hollidaysburg tioga county cowboys 1st sat dusty drifter 607-659-3819 owego logans Ferry regulators 2nd sat Mariah kid 412-607-5313 plum Borough Boot Hill regulators 1st sun Judge Zaney 845-352-7921 chester Heidelberg lost dutchmen 2nd sat ivory rose 717-627-0694 schaeffer- grey stown pathfinder pistoleros 1st sun sonny 315-695-7032 Fulton Mainville Marauders 2nd sun dodge Bill 570-477-5667 Mainville salt port Vigilance 2nd sat twelve Bore 585-613-8046 Holley Westshore posse 2nd sun Hud Mccoy 717-683-2632 new committee cumberland Bar-20 inc. 2nd sat Badlands Buck 315-637-3492 West eaton dakota Badlanders (the) 2nd sun timberland 610-434-1923 orefield Hole in the Wall gang 3rd sat el Fusilero 631-864-1035 calverton renegade diamond Four 3rd sat kayutah kid 607-796-0573 odessa river Junction shootist 3rd sat Mattie Hays 724-593-6602 donegal circle k regulators 3rd sun smokehouse dan 518-885-3758 Ballston spa society sackets Harbor Vigilantes 4th sun ranger clayton 315-465-6543 sackets Jefferson outlaws 3rd sat red-eyed kid 443-392-1615 Jefferson conagher Harbor Blue Mountain rangers 3rd sun cathy Fisher 610-488-0619 Hamburg the long riders 4th sun loco poco lobo 585-467-4429 shortsville Matamoras Mavericks 3rd sun Hammerin steel 570-296-5853 Milford d Bar d Wranglers 4th sun captain M.a.F 845-226-8611 Wappingers silver lake Bounty 3rd sun Marshal t. J. 570-663-3045 Montrose Fall Hunters Buckshot Mythical rough riders 5th sun rev dave clayton 716-838-4286 Hamburg purgatory regulators 3rd Wkd dry gulch 814-827-2120 titusville the shadow riders as sch dusty levis 646-284-4010 Westhampton geezer Beach elstonville Hombres 4th sun trusty sidekick 610-939-9947 Manheim east end regulators last sun diamond rio 631-585-1936 Westhampton el posse grande 4th sun Black Hills Barb 570-538-9163 Muncy Valley OH stewart’s regulators 4th sun sodbuster Burt 724-479-8838 shelocta Big irons 1st sat deadwood stan 513-894-3500 Middletown RI tusco long riders 1st sat prairie dawg 216-932-7630 Midvale lincoln county lawmen 4th sun Wyoming Blink 401-385-9907 Foster greene county cowboys 1st sun ruger ray 937-352-6420 xenia SC Firelands peacemakers 1st Wed, angry angus 440-647-5909 rochester palmetto posse 1st sat dun gamblin 803-422-5587 columbia 3rd sat & 5th sun Belton Bushwhackers 2nd sat pants a’Fire 864-760-9366 Belton sandusky county regulators 2nd sat curtice clay 419-836-8760 gibsonburg Meyer shenango river rats 2nd sat & shenango Joe 330-782-0958 Yankee lake Hurricane riders 3rd sat saloon keeper 843-361-2277 aynor last thurs savannah river rangers 3rd sun kid ray 803-960-3907 gaston Miami Valley cowboys 2nd sun Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 piqua geechee gunfighters 4th sat doc kemm 843-863-0649 ridgeville Blackhand raiders 2nd sun duke city kid 614-556-0245 Zanesville greenville gunfighters 4th sun cowboy Junky 864-414-5578 greenville scioto territory desperados 3rd & 5th pickaway tracker 740-477-1881 chillicothe SD sun camp sturgis regulators 1st sat Brother king 970-481-7569 sturgis Wilmington rough riders 3rd sat paragon pete 740-626-7667 Wilmington Medicine creek road 1st sun iron Mender 605-222-5145 onida auglaize rough riders 3rd sun Bear river smith 419-506-0999 defiance agents Brown township regulators 4th sat sandy creek Jake 330-863-1139 Malvern cottonwood cowboy 2nd sun dakota 605-520-5212 clark ohio Valley Vigilantes 4th sat slow Movin ron 614-599-0721 Mt. Vernon association nailbender central ohio cowboys 4th sun stagecoach Hannah 614-868-9821 circleville Black Hills shootist 3rd sun Hawkbill smith 605-342-8946 pringle stonelick regulators as sch carson 513-753-6462 Milford association OK Bald Mountain renegades as sch cottonwood 605-280-1413 Faulkton rattlesnake Mountain 1st & 2nd Black river Jack 918-908-0016 checotah cooter rangers sat TN cherokee strip shootists 1st sat scott Wayne 405-377-0610 stillwater Bitter creek rangers 1st & 3rd oracle 423-334-4053 crossville Wild Bunch sun shortgrass rangers 1st sat & oklahoma spuds 405-640-5650 grandfield greene county regulators 1st sat Boozy creek 423-279-0316 rogersville 3rd sun Wartrace regulators 1st sat & Whiskey 931-684-2709 Wartrace cherokee strip shootists 1st sun scott Wayne 405-377-0610 stillwater 3rd sat Hayes tulsey town cattlemens 2nd & 4th dry gulch deryl 918-697-7396 tulsa Memphis gunslingers 2nd sat cherokee 901-674-8220 arlington association sat sargent indian territory single action 2nd & 5th sun, little Fat Buddy 918-437-4562 sand springs smoky Mountain shootist 2nd sat Jim Mayo 865-300-4666 lenoir city shooting society 3rd sat, 4th Wed society oklahoma city gun club - 2nd sat & Flat top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma orsa’s oak ridge outlaws 2nd sat Hombre sin 865-257-7747 oak ridge territorial Marshals 4th sun city nombre OR tennessee Mountain 3rd sat double Barrel 423-593-3767 chattanooga Horse ridge pistoleros 1st & 3rd Big casino 541-389-2342 Bend Marauders sun north West tennessee 3rd sat can’t shoot 731-885-8102 union city Molalla river rangers 1st sat gold dust Bill 503-705-1211 canby longriders dillion Merlin Marauders 1st sat Mountain grizz 253-208-1105 Merlin ocoee rangers 4th sat ocoee red 423-476-5303 cleveland dry gulch desperados 1st sat runamuck 509-520-3241 Milton TX Freewater orange county regulators 1st & 3rd texas gator 409-243-3477 orange siuslaw river rangers 1st sun Johnny Jingos 541-997-6313 Florence sat table rock rangers 1st sun & Jed i. knight 541-944-2281 White city comanche trail shootists 1st & 5th dee Horne 432-557-0860 Midland 2nd sat sat pine Mountain posse 2nd & 4th Whisperin’ Wade 541-318-8199 Bend texas tumbleweeds 1st sat cayenne 806-355-7158 amarillo Wkd texas troublemakers 1st sat lefty tex larue 903-539-7234 Brownsboro klamath cowboys 2nd sun & Jasper Wayne 541-884-2611 keno plum creek carriage cowboy 1st sat long Juan 512-750-3923 lockhart 4th sat shooting society Jefferson state regulators 3rd sat Jed i. knight 541-944-2281 ashland south texas pistolaros 1st sat saukValley sam 210-379-3711 san antonio Horse ridge pistoleros 3rd sat Big casino 541-389-2342 Bend texas peacemakers 1st sat tennesse star 214-334-8627 tyler oregon trail regulators 3rd sat Willie killem 541-443-6591 la grande thunder river renegades 1st Wkd texas rooster 936-588-6849 Magnolia orygun cowboys 3rd sat kansan 503-539-6335 sherwood concho Valley shooters 2nd sat roamin’ shields 325-656-1281 san angelo oregon old West shooting 3rd sun & tuffy 541-619-7381 albany texas riviera pistoleros 2nd sat stinkng Badger 361-9374845 george West society 4th sat tumbleweed lajitas rangers and rogues 2nd sat texas trouble 915-603-1366 lajitas 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 70 Cowboy Chronicle November 2013

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City TX (continued) UT travis county regulators 2nd sat cherokee granny 979-561-6202 smithville three peaks rangers 1st & 3rd sat curly Jim Whiskus 435-590-9873 cedar city texas tenhorns shooting 2nd sat & Mustang sherry 903-815-8162 greenville Big Hollow Bandits 1st sat Marshal dillon 435-724-2575 Heber club last Full Wkd north rim regulators 1st sat autum rose 435-644-5053 kanab rio grande Valley Vaqueros 2nd sun dream chaser 956-648-7364 pharr copenhagen Valley regulators 1st sat M.t. pockets 801-920-4047 Mantua lone star Frontier shooting 2nd Wkd rock rotten 817-905-3122 cleburne utah territory gunslingers 1st sat lefty pete 801-554-9436 salt lake city club Musinia Buscaderos 1st. sat Buffalo Juan 435-528-7432 Mayfield texican rangers 2nd Wkd Yuma Jack 210-240-8284 Fredericks- dixie desperado s/ 2nd & 4th the alaskan 435-635-3134 st. george burg senior games sat oakwood outlaws 2nd Wkd texas alline 903-545-2252 oakwood deseret Historical shootist 2nd sat old Fashioned 435-224-2321 Fruit Heights canadian river 2nd, 3rd & adobe Walls 806-679-5824 clarendon society regulators 5th sat shooter rio Verde rangers 2nd sat doc nelson 435-564-8210 green river old Fort parker patriots 3rd Wkd colt Faro 832-472-3278 groesbeck cache Valley Vaqueros 2nd sat logan law 435-787-8131 logan Big thicket outlaws 3rd sat shynee graves 409-860-5526 Beaumont Hobble creek Wranglers 2nd sat Hobble creek 801-489-7681 springville tejas caballeros 3rd sat Judge Menday 512-964-9955 dripping Marshall coming springs Wasatch summit regulators 2nd sun old Fashioned 435-224-2321 salt lake city gruesome gulch gang 3rd sat eli Blue 806-729-5887 kress utah War 3rd & 5th Jubal o. sackett 801-944-3444 sandy alamo area Moderators 3rd sat tombstone 210-493-9320 san antonio sat Mary Mesa Marauders gun club 3rd sat copper queen 435-979-4665 lake powell cottonwood creek 3rd sat pecos cahill 325-575-5039 snyder diamond Mountain rustlers 3rd sat cinch 435-724-2575 Vernal cowboys Wahsatch desperados 4th sat sly steadyhand 801-546-4843 Fruit Heights texas Historical shootist 3rd sun charles 281-342-1210 columbus castle gate posse 4th sat rowdy Hand 435-637-8209 price society goodnight VA trinity Valley regulators 3rd sun grumpy 972-206-2624 Mansfield pungo posse cowboy action 1st & 2nd Missouri Marshal 757-471-3396 Waverly grandpa club sat Badlands Bar 3 3rd Wkd t-Bone dooley 903-272-9283 clarksville liberty long riders 1st sun thunder colt 540-296-0772 Bedford Butterfield trail regulators 4th sat texas slim 325-668-4884 anson cavalier cowboys 1st sun & striker 804-339-8442 Hanover comanche Valley Vigilantes 4th sat Billy Bob evans 972-393-2882 cleburne 2nd Wed county green Mountain regulators 4th sat Bar diamond 512-638-7376 Marble Falls Virginia city Marshals 1st tues Humphrey Hook 703-801-3507 Fairfax rider Blue ridge regulators 2nd sun Bad company 540-886-3374 lexington tejas pistoleros 4th sat & sun texas paladin 713-690-5313 eagle lake k.c.’s corral 3rd sat Virginia 804-550-2242 Mechan- tin star texans 4th sat. Mickey 830-685-3464 Fredericks- rifleman icsville burg Mattaponi sundowners 3rd sun & Flatboat Bob 804-785-2575 West point Magnolia Misfits 4th sun attoyac kid 281-448-8127 Magnolia 4th sat

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City VA (continued) INTERNATIONAL pepper Mill creek gang 4th sun slip Hammer spiv 540-775-4561 king george DOWN UNDER Bend of trail 4th sun rowe - a - noc 540-890-6375 roanoke AUSTRALIA (continued) rivanna ranger company as sch Virginia ranger 434-973-8759 charlottesville Fort Bridger shooting club 4th sun duke York 61 41 863 2366 drouin stovall creek regulators as sch Brizco-Z 434-929-1063 lynchburg sasa single action shooting sat & sun Virgil earp 61 74 695 2050 Millmerran VT australia Verdant Mountain Vigilantes 2nd sun doc Mccoy 802-363-7162 st. Johnsbury NEW ZEALAND WA trail Blazers gun club 1st sun sudden lee sudden@farm Mill town northeast Washington 1st Wkd crazy knife al 509-684-8057 colville side.co.nz regulators Bullet spittin sons o’ thunder 2nd sat Billy deadwood 64 63 564 720 palmerston n. Mica peak Marshals 1st & 3rd sat tensleep kid 509-284-2461 Mica Wairarapa pistol and shooting 2nd sun doc Hayes 64 63 796 692 gladstone panhandle regulators 1st & 3rd sun Halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis orchards club renton united cowboy action 1st Wkd Jess ducky 425-271-9286 renton Frontier & Western shooting 2nd sun doc Hayes 64 63 796 692 gladstone shooters sports association tararua rangers 3rd sun J.e.B. stuart 64 63 796 436 carterton Windy plains drifters 2nd & 4th sat Hopalong Hoot 509-220-9611 Medical lake ashburton pistol club 3rd sun aM shellie Jector 643 304 8401 ashburton Wolverton Mountain peace 2nd sat Hellfire 360-513-9081 ariel ashburton pistol club Wild 3rd sun pM shellie Jector 643 304 8401 ashburton keepers Bunch shooting pataha rustlers 2nd sat pinto annie 509-520-2789 dayton Western renegades 4th sat Black Bart Bolton 64 27 249 6270 Wanganui Mima Marauders 2nd sat okie sawbones 360-705-3601 olympia pistol new Zealand (sass) as sch tuscon the terrible 64 32 042 089 Varies smokey point desperados 2nd sun Mudflat Mike 425-335-5176 arlington EUROPE colville guns and roses 2nd sun cheyence sadie 509-684-3632 colville AUSTRIA apple Valley Marshals 3rd sat Wiley Bob 509-884-3827 east sweetwater gunslingers austria as sch Fra diabolo 43 664 490 8032 Vienna Wenatchee CZECH REPUBLIC olympic peninsula strait 3rd sun doc neeley 360-417-0230 port angeles association of Western shooters as sch thunderman 42 060 322 2400 prelouc shooters DENMARK Black river regulators 4th sat Wil sackett 360-786-0199 littlerock danish Blackpowder Federation as sch slim dane 45 20 655 887 copenhagen custer renegades 4th sun Joe cannuck 360-676-2587 custer association of danish Western as sch Mrs. stowaway 45 602 013 65 greve shooters poulsbo pistoleros 4th sun sourdough george 360-830-0100 poulsbo FINLAND rattlesnake gulch rangers last sat ricochet robbie 509-628-0889 Benton city sass Finland as sch Woodbury kane 35 850 517 4659 Various Beazley gulch rangers last sun an e. di 509-787-1782 quincy classic old Western society as sch Woodbury kane 35 850 517 4659 loppi WI of Finland rock river regulators 1st & 3rd sat stoney Mike 608-868-5167 Beloit FRANCE Western Wisconsin Wild 2nd sat Flyen doc 608-790-3260 Holmen sass France greenwood 1st & 3rd Handy Hook 33 68 809 1360 Bormes les Bunch koyote creek Wkd Mimosas Bristol plains pistoleros 2nd sun Huckleberry 815-675-2566 Bristol sass France golden triggers 1st sun cheyenne little 33 67 570 3678 Villefrache de crystal river gunslingers 2nd sun polish pistoleros 920-913-1615 Waupaca of Freetown colibris rouergue Wisconsin old West shootist, 2nd sun & Blackjack Martin 715-949-1621 Boyceville l’arquebuse d’antony 2nd sun Jeppesen 33 14 661 1798 antony inc 4th sat Buffalo Valley as sch slye Buffalo 02 37 63 65 83 châteauneuf-en- Hodag country cowboys 3rd sat Hodag Bob 715-550-8337 rhinelander thymerais liberty prairie regulators 3rd sat dirty deeds 920-229-5833 ripon High plains shooters as sch Jack cooper 336 1384 5580 clermont de l’oise association Mazauguaise de tir as sch redneck Mike 33 494 280 145 Mazaugues oconomowoc cattlemen’s 4th sat Marvin the 414-254-5592 concord sass France alba serena tir as sch Marshall 09 62 53 83 32 Moriani association Moyle club tombstone WV old pards shooting society as sch charles allan 33 1 4661 1798 Versailler dawn ghost riders 1st sun coffee Bean 304-327-9884 Hinton Jeppesen lasalle anthony Frontier regulators 2nd sat captain tay 304-265-5748 thorton club de tir Beaujolais as sch Woodrow the Wild 33 047 838 0374 Villefranche the railtown rowdys 2nd sun Miss print 304-589-6162 Bluefield Frenchie sur saone kanawha Valley regulators 2nd Wkd eddie rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor old West French shooters as sch curly red ryder 33 3 8582 0203 caromb rocky Holler regulators 3rd sun Jessee earp 304-425-2023 princeton Berac as sch reverend delano 33 3 8020 3551 premeaux cowboy action shooting 4th sun last Word 304-289-6098 largent l. oakley prissey sports club de tir Brennou as sch French Bob 00 33 024 767 5888 Varies peacemaker national as sch cole Mcculloch 703-789-3346 gerrardstown reverend oakley’s cowboy as sch reverend delano 333 802 03 551 Varies WY klan l. oakley cheyenne regulators 1st sat dr. Frank powell 307-637-0350 cheyenne les tireurs de l’uzege every sun Marshal dundee 33 04 66 759 529 uzes (old West gunfighters) colter’s Hell Justice 1st sat Yakima red 307-254-2090 Various Black rivers last sun kid of neckwhite 33 3 8526 3029 roanne committee Wsas club de tir de Bernay sat chriswood 33 2 3245 5900 Bernay Bessemer Vigilance 1st sun & smokewagon 307-472-1926 casper sass France Yellow rock sat little shooting 336 7555 8063 ecot committee 3rd sat Bill Missie High lonesome drifters 2nd sat kari lynn 307-587-2946 cody societe de tir Bedoin Ventoux sat-sun sheriff ch. 33 490 351 973 Bedoin sybille creek shooters 2nd sat Wyoming roy 307-322-3515 Wheatland (Windy Mountain Vigilantes) southpaw southfork Vigilance 2nd Wkd Wennoff 507-332-5035 lander tir olympique lyonnais sun Barth 33 6 1324 6128 lyon committee Wsas Halfcock club de tri de nuits saint as sch reverend delano 33 38 020 3551 nuits saint Border Vigilantes 3rd sat assassin 307-287-6733 cheyenne georges l. oakley georges powder river Justice 3rd sun doc Fehr 307-683-3320 Buffalo club de tir sportif de touraine as sch Major John brisset37@ tours committee Wsas lawson hotmail.fr great divide outlaws 4th sat slingn lead 307-324-6955 rawlins cas/sass France as sch Frenchie Boy 336 169 32 076 Varies donkey creek shootists 4th sun poker Jim 307-660-0221 gillette GERMANY germany territory regulators as sch repHil 49 29 216 71814 Varies snake river rowdies as sch sheriff John r. 307-733-4559 Jackson cowboy action shooting last sat Marshal Heck 49 345 120 0581 edderitz quigley germany Jail Bird’s company Mon orlando a. 49 21 317 42 3065 Wegberg INTERNATIONAL Brick Bond DOWN UNDER cas europe We Hurricane irmi 49 28 23 3426 Bocholt AUSTRALIA sass germany Wed il calabrese 49 28 239 8080 pfalzdorf gold coast gamblers 1st & 3rd dagger Jack 61 75 537 5857 gold coast sass germany Wed rhine river Joe 49 28 235 807 spork sat HUNGARY adelaide pistol & shooting 1st sat & lobo Malo 61 08 284 8459 korunye Westwood rebels as sch el Heckito 362 0460 1739 galgamacsa club 3rd sun ITALY Westgate Marauders 2nd sun stampede pete 61 39 369 5939 port Melbourne old gunners shooting club as sch renato anese 33 51 24 5391 toppo di travesio little river raiders 3rd sun lazy dave 61 40 377 7926 little river Western shootist posse sasa little river raiders 3rd sun tiresome 61 25 978 0190 Melbourne green Hearts regulator 1st sun Marshal steven 39 338 920 7989 trevi single action club gardiner cowboy action shooters of 3rd Wkd i.d. 61 29 975 7983 teralba Fratelli della costa onlus 3rd sat oversize 35 05 642 4677 livorno australia lassiter Fan shooting club 3rd sun ivan Bandito 39 34 7043 0400 Mazzano

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INTERNATIONAL WILD BUNCH USA ITALY (continued) Maremma Bad land’s riders as sch alameda slim alamedaslim@ siena AK owss.it alaska 49ers 3rd sat Marshal stone 907-232-1080 Birchwood old West shooting society italy as sch alchimista 39 33 420 68337 Varies AZ canne roventi last sun Valdez 39 07 1286 1395 Filottrano cowtown Wild Bunch shooters 1st sat Wild Bodie tom 602-721-3175 carefree Honky tonk rebels last sun kaboom andy 39 33 5737 8551 Vigevano natZY Bunch 3rd sun tumbleweed rose 928-899-8788 Flagstaff Wild West rebels sun Bill Masterson alberto@fron Malegno-Bs Bordertown inc. as sch pecos clyde 480-266-1096 tucson tisrl.it CA Hole in the Wall gang 1st sat Frederick Jackson 818-640-0945 piru LUXEMBOURG turner SASS Luxembourg as sch smiley Miles 35 26 2128 0606 Varies gold country Wild Bunch 3rd sat sutter lawman 530-713-4194 sloughouse NETHERLANDS CO SASS Netherlands as sch dutch Bear 31 619 430 223 leeuwarden castle peak Wildshots 1st sat old squinteye 970-524-9348 gypsum dutch Western shooting as sch dutch Bear 31 619 430 223 oss, noord pawnee station 1st sun red creek dick 303-857-0520 Fort collins association Brabant Martin NORTHERN IRELAND thunder Mountain shootists 2nd sat colorado Blackjack 970-260-5432 White Water kells county regulators 1st sat independence 28 93 368 004 Varies FL carroll ghost town gunslingers 1st sat copenhagen 904-808-8559 st. augustine NORWAY Wild Bunch Black rivers as sch charles quantrill 47 9325 9669 loten ID quantrill raiders sun charles quantrill 47 9325 9669 loten squaw Butte regulators 4th sun acequia kidd 208-365-4551 emmett schedsmoe county rough riders thurs Jailbird 47 6399 4279 lillestrom IL POLAND kaskaskia cowboys as sch Boben Weev 618-632-0712 sparta sass polish Western shooting as sch trigger Hawkeye trigger-hawkeye lodz IN association @hot.pl pine ridge regulators 1st Wkd riverboat gambler 765-832-7253 Brazil SERBIA LA union of Western shooters of as sch Hombre des 63 721 6934 Humska Jackson Hole regulators 4th sat slick Mcclade 318-278-9071 quitman serbia nudos MO SWEDEN Butterfield trail cowboys 4th Wkd smokie 417-759-9114 Walnut shade sass sweden northern as sch northern s. t. 46 72 206 7005 Varies NC rangers ranger carolina cattlemen’s shooting 4th sat J. M. Brown 919-291-1726 creedmore and social society SWITZERLAND NM Black Mountain gunfighters as sch Blacksmith pete 417 9449 5800 romainma’tier tres rios Bandidos 2nd sun el Mulo Vacquero 505-632-9712 Farmingtion old West shooting society as sch Hondo Janssen 44 271 9947 Zurich rio grande renegades 3rd sun Mica Mcguire 505-263-1181 albuquerque switzerland los pistoleros 4th sat J. Frank norfleet 575-648-2530 Founders NORTH AMERICA ranch CANADA picacho posse 4th sat Fast Hammer 575-647-3434 las cruces aurora desperados 1st Fri destry 905-551-0703 aurora on NV robbers roost Hamilton 1st sat Bear Butte 905-891-8627 ancaster on lone Wolf shooters llc 4th & 5th penny pepperbox 775-727-4600 pahrump red Mountain renegades 1st sun preacher Flynn 604-820-1564 Mission Bc Wkd t. locke OH Bar e ranch 2nd & 4th northern crow 705-435-2807 Barrie on Big irons as sch deadwood stan 513-894-3500 Middletown sat OK Beau Bassin range riders 2nd sat Frenchy cannuck 506-312-0455 riverview nB cherokee strip shootists 1st sat scott Wayne 405-377-0610 stillwater lambton sportsman’s club 2nd sat clay creek 519-542-4644 st. clair on Wild Bunch Wentworth shooting sports club 2nd sun stoney creek 905-664-3217 Hamilton on oklahoma city gun club - 2nd sun Flat top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma Victoria Frontier shootists 2nd sun Black ashley 250-744-4705 Victoria Bc territorial Marshals city Valley regulators 3rd sat kananaskis kid 250-923-6358 courtenay Bc OR prairie dog rebels 3rd sat Valley Boy 519-673-5648 london on Horse ridge pistoleros 3rd sat Big casino 541-389-2342 Bend Valley regulators 3rd sat & High country 250-334-3479 courtenay Bc PA sun amigo logans Ferry regulators 2nd sat Mariah kid 412-607-5313 plum otter Valley rod & gun 4th sun colt Mccloud 519-685-9439 straffordville on Borough robbers roost Wild Bunch as sch legendary 905-393-4299 ancaster on SC greenville gunfighters 5th sun Hondo Jackson 864-414-1968 greenville lawman TN islington sportmen’s club as sch Hawk Feathers 905-936-2129 caledon on Wartrace regulators 3rd sat papa dave 931-723-7896 Wartrace Blueridge sportsmen’s club as sch rebel dale 519-599-2558 clarksburg on TX Waterloo county revolver as sch ranger pappy 519-536-9184 kitchener on comanche Valley Vigilantes 4th sat Billy Bob evans 972-393-2882 cleburne association cooper UT Mundy’s Bay regulators as sch indiana Magnum 705-534-2814 penetan on Wasatch summit regulators 4th sun old Fashioned 435-224-2324 salt lake city guishene WI nova scotia cowboy action as sch Wounded Belly 902-890-2310 truro ns Western Wisconsin Wild Bunch 2nd sat Flyen doc koyote 608-790-3260 Holmen shooting club WV palmer’s gulch cowboys as sch caribou lefty 250-372-0416 Heffley Bc kanawha Valley regulators 2nd Wkd eddie rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor creek ottawa Valley Marauders as sch Button 514-792-0063 ottawa on Monthly Mounted USA alberta Frontier shootists as sch powder paw 403-318-4463 rocky Mtn aB AZ society House tombstone ghost riders 2nd sun dan nabbit 520-456-0423 tombstone club de tir Beausejour as sch richelieu Mike 450-658-8130 st-Jean qc Mounted club chrysostome/ CA lavis california range riders as sch old Buckaroo 408-710-1616 Varies long Harbour lead slingers tues preacher Man 250-537-0083 salt spring Bc CO John island revengers of Montezuma 1st sun aneeda Huginkiss 970-565-8479 cortez SOUTH AFRICA CT pioneer creek rangers 2nd & 4th slow Wilson 27 83 677 5066 pretoria connecticut renegades as sch cowboy cobbler 860-558-7484 granby sat FL Western shooters of 3rd sat richmond p. 27 21 797 5054 cape town sa Bay area Bandits 1st sat slow poke’s darlin 813-924-0156 tampa south africa Hobson ID Border Marauders Mounted as sch Bad Buffalo Bob 208-610-8229 eastport ME Maine cowboy Mounted shooters as sch cowboy Bill 207-282-2821 Biddeford Monthly Mounted International NM LEBANON Buffalo range riders Mounted 3rd sat chili cowboy 505-379-8957 Founders SASS Lebanon - El Rancho as sch packin Jesse 96 1138 5982 Varies ranch Sporting Club NY CANADA island long riders as sch Mecate kid 516-610-8166 Farmingdale quebec Mounted shooting as sch dirty owl Bert 819-424-7842 Joliette OH association Big irons Mounted rangers as sch stoneburner 513-829-4099 Middletown 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 November 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 73

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Dates Contact Phone City State Match Dates Contact Phone City State USA 2013 MAY (continued) NOVEMBER SASS Ohio State Championship 23 - 24 Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 piqua oH SASS North Carolina State 02 - 02 tracker Mike 336-558-9032 salisbury nc Shootout at Hard Times Blackpowder Championship the plainfield incident 29 - 01 Bangor Brink 530-679-2321 davis ca and the Big Iron Showdown SASS SOUTHEAST 29 - 29 Man From 678-428-4240 covington ga SASS SOUTHEAST REGIONAL 07 - 10 doc kemm 843-863-0649 ridgeville sc TERRITORIAL little river CHAMPIONSHIP BLACKPOWDER Gunfight at Givhans Ferry CHAMPIONSHIP SASS California State 08 - 09 Bobcat Brian 831-636-1262 Morgan Hill ca Smoke Out at South River Blackpowder – Smokin’ Irons SASS Georgia State 29 - 01 Man From 678-428-4240 covington ga in the Valley of the Coyotes Championship little river SASS Louisiana State 08 - 10 rattlesnake 985-796-9698 amite la Stampede at South River Championship Blake JUNE 2014 Hangin’ at Coyote Creek SASS North Carolina State 05 - 08 J. 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Brown 919-266-3751 salisbury nc dulzura duststorm 09 - 09 reuben J. 619-997-2755 san diego ca Championship cogburn Uprising at Swearing Creek turkey shoot at the Black canyon 09 - 09 silver rings 970-240-0419 Montrose co SASS Wisconsin State 21 - 22 captain cook 715-248-3727 station Wi the great northfield raid 15 - 17 gun Hawk 818-761-0512 north ca Blackpowder Shootout range Hollywood Smoke in the Hills DECEMBER SASS Maryland State 26 - 28 chuckaroo 301-831-9666 damascus Md SASS Texas State Blackpowder 06 - 08 Mickey 830-685-3464 Fredericks- tx Championship Championship Tin Star burg Thunder Valley Days Lily Christmas Shoot JULY 2014 cowboy christmas Ball 07 - 07 an e. di 509-787-1782 quincy Wa SASS Alaska Territorial 04 - 06 tripod 907-373-0140 anchorage ak Holiday shoot With the dixie 27 - 28 one ton 435-635-2674 Hurrican ut Championship desperados Shootout Under The Midnight Sun JANUARY 2014 SASS Oregon State 18 - 20 tuffy 541-619-7381 albany or SASS Florida State 08 - 12 copenhagen 904-808-8559 st. augustine Fl Championship tumbleweed Championship Shootout at Saddle Butte The Siege At St. Augustine SASS Pennsylvania State 20 - 20 slowpoke John 717-676-3198 ickesburg pa FEBRUARY 2014 Blackpowder Shootout last stand at thunder river 28 - 02 Johnny Morris 713-703-1915 Magnolia tx Smoke on the Ridge MARCH 2014 AUGUST 2014 SASS Florida State Blackpowder 01 - 01 deadly 352-317-6284 Fort White Fl SASS Iowa State Championship 01 - 03 ranger Mathias 319-234-1550 elk run ia Championship Dark Day sharpshooter Ambush on the Prairie Fischels Heights on the Santa Fe SASS Idaho State Championship 07 - 10 Missy Mable 208-734-2905 Jerome id Bayou Blast 07 - 09 possum 337-372-0586 lake charles la Magic in the Valley skinner SASS Kentucky State 22 - 24 double eagle 423-309-4146 Mckee kY trailhead’ 14 20 - 23 charles 281-342-1210 columbus tx Championship dave goodnight Hooten Holler Round-Up raid on old Fort parker 20 - 23 colt Faro 832-472-3278 groesbeck tx SEPTEMBER 2014 SASS Illinois State Blackpowder 24 - 24 Mose 270-349-4392 sparta il ambush on the Butterfield trail 25 - 26 Fast Hammer 575-522-6118 las cruces nM Championship spencer OCTOBER 2014 SASS Texas State Championship – 26 - 29 texas alline 903-545-2252 oakwood tx Huntsmans World senior games 08 - 11 Mokaac kid 435-668-4613 st. george ut Jail Break DECEMBER 2014 APRIL 2014 dixie desperados Holiday shoot 26 - 27 one ton 435-635-2674 Hurrican ut dry gulch at arroyo cantua 03 - 06 sutter lawman 530-713-4194 sloughhouse ca comancheria days 10 - 13 Yuma Jack 210-240-8284 Fredericks- tx burg SASS Louisiana State 11 - 13 slick Mcclade 318-278-9071 quitman la Annual USA Wild Bunch Matches Championship NOVEMBER Duel in the Sun SASS Idaho State Wild Bunch 02 - 03 acequia kidd 208-365-4551 emmett id SASS Utah State Championship 22 - 26 J.t. 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STATE NULLIFICATION . IS JUSTIFIED , necessity that there can be no tri - By Colonel Dan, SASS Life/Regulator #24025 Colonel Dan, SASS Lif e/ bunal, above their authority, to de - Regulator #24025 cide, in the last resort, whether the ous example. Obama appointed nullification action. But what’s our compact made by them be violated; members to that board who he an - choice when the Federal arrogantly Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madi - nvision the day Obama ticipated would be unacceptable to abuses such power, and no court son are stating the incontrovertible signs a dictatorial anti- a significant number of Senators. keeps them in check? What alterna - principle that because the States Second Amendment bill He therefore waited until the Sen - tive remains but to resolutely say no are the originating parties of the E into law and the states, ate went on vacation to appoint in a strongly unified way? Although compact, they are ultimately the as a solid unified majority forcefully them, not in recess, but on vacation, we do have a supremacy clause, its final authority to decide whether respond, “NO! We will not obey!” and issued the ludicrous statement proper and intended application their “creature,” the federal gov - I’ve written about it in my col - that he merely made recess appoint - pertains only to those laws passed ernment, has violated the compact umn, posted it on the Team SASS ments! In essence, he arbitrarily de - by the federal that are within the as expressed in the Constitution. forum and spoke about it many clared the Senate in recess, which constraints of its constitutional lim - THIS fact alone justifies the States’ times … Nullification: the action of a he has NO authority to do! Federal its; otherwise, America sinks into right of nullification! state impeding or attempting to pre - courts rightly ruled against Obama, tyrannical dictatorship. So why don’t the states exercise vent the operation and enforcement but he ignored them. Those NLRB Am I alone in considering state this right? Do they actually fear within its territory of a law of the board members are still there, duti - nullification justifiable? No. federal armed enforcement? In my United States. ~ Merriam-Webster ~ fully dancing to Obama’s tune. In paragraph 5, Federalist No. view, it’s not the threat of federal State Nullification isn’t new. In Other examples abound with 33, Alexander Hamilton writes: arms they fear as much as the fact, as I wrote in my April column, gun rights and Obamacare and “… If the federal government threat of federal money. States are Thomas Jefferson and his col - frankly, some states are getting fed should overpass the just bounds of so dependent on and addicted to leagues cited nullification as the up with several already having its authority and make a tyrannical federal funding for social programs fundamental and justifying princi - passed nullification laws. They use of its powers, the people, whose that even a subtle threat of losing ple in their fight against the uncon - clearly can’t depend on the Supreme creature it is, must appeal to the those subsidies tends to throw most stitutional power grab imposed by Court to hold the legislative and ex - standard [Constitution] they have governors and legislatures into a the Alien and Sedition Acts. Their ecutive branches in check as we saw formed, and take such measures to state of catatonic paralysis. It’s all Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 with the Court’s tortured rulings on redress the injury done to the Con - based on that old familiar twist of rightfully declared that any law McCain-Feingold and Obamacare! stitution as the exigency may sug - the golden rule; “He who has the passed by the federal government Admittedly at this point, individual gest and prudence justify.” gold, rules.” Until the states can that exceeded constitutional limits states are simply sending protest Jefferson writes in the 8th Res - overcome this chronic addiction and was null and void. In my opinion, messages to Washington with such olution of his draft of the Kentucky wean themselves from the Franken - they were absolutely on target. votes if nothing else. To be power - Resolutions: stein monster of federal largess, I My simple question is this: fully effective, however, they must “… they [The States] alone doubt the states will ever have the What recourse do the states have eventually unite and express their being parties to the compact, and necessary resolve to take matters when those in Washington, includ - resolve as a solid unified majority — solely authorized to judge in the into their own hands. In fact, I be - ing the Supreme Court, whose an immutable force the federal last resort of the powers exercised lieve things will have to get much sworn duty is to uphold and enforce couldn’t ignore or overcome. under it, Congress being not a worse before the states are prodded the law, ignore the law? There’s no If the states can’t rely on con - party, but merely the creature of into action and force a return to level remaining to which the states stitutional checks and balances, the the compact, …” constitutional federalism as origi - can turn for judicial appeal and the rule of law, and the limitations im - James Madison: Report on the nally intended by our Founders—if redress of grievances. We’ve seen posed under Article 1 Section 8 of Virginia Resolutions (1799-1800) in indeed they seriously even want the this more in the Obama adminis - the Constitution, what options do the 3rd resolution: return of federalism. tration than is tolerable! This ad - they have but to say “NO” … i.e., It … [is] … a plain principle, Naturally, others also have sug - ministration routinely overreaches, nullify those dictates that fall out - founded in common sense … and es - gestions. As of this writing (late ignores, and arrogantly thumbs its side the federal government’s con - sential to the nature of compacts, August) I’m reading Mark Levin’s nose at existing law and the consti - stitutional authority? Jefferson that, where resort can be had to no book The Liberty Amendments and tution. We know it, the courts openly advocated that course as he tribunal superior to the authority of pondering his proposal of a conven - know it, and so does the “opposition clearly articulated in his Kentucky the parties, the parties themselves tion of the states for the express party;” i.e., the Republicans, yet Resolutions, “… whensoever the must be the rightful judges, in the purpose of proposing constitutional what’s been done to EFFECTVELY general government assumes undel - last resort, whether the bargain amendments designed to rein in stop him—nothing that I can see. egated powers, its acts are unau - made has been pursued or violated. and constrain all branches of the As I’ve always said, “when those thoritative, void, and of no force:” The Constitution of the United federal government. I have several charged with enforcing the law, ig - Several readers have responded States was formed by the sanction questions/concerns at this point, nore the law, there is no law.” And to my position that nullification vio - of the states, given by each in its but perhaps more on that later. that’s exactly what we have right lates the supremacy clause wherein sovereign capacity. … The states, Contact Colonel Dan: now in this federal government— the Federal always has preeminence then, being the parties to the consti - [email protected] Obama’s National Labor Relations over the states and in a court of law tutional compact, and in their sov - Colonel Dan’s Blog: Board appointments being one obvi - nothing would ever come of a state’s ereign capacity, it follows of http://ColonelDan1776.com

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