October 2009 I Outlaw Traili the FOUR CORNERS REGIONAL
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MercantileEXCITINGSee section our SASS Members Only Web Site Kick-Off • Monday, October 19th • www.sassnet.com (starting on page 86) NovemberNovemberNovember 2001 2001 2001 CowboyCowboyCowboy ChronicleChronicleChronicle PagePagePage 111 The Cowboy Chronicle~ The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Shooting Society ® Vol. 22 No. 10 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. October 2009 i Outlaw Traili THE FOUR CORNERS REGIONAL By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life #24287 Photos by Lori Lott, Mr. Quigley Photography Team he Best Kept Secret in See HIGHLIGHTS on pages 72-76 SASS Founders Ranch, New Mexico, a few miles Hunter’s school on Tuesday and get T east of Albuquerque – in even more shooting. Founders Ranch is where END of But the field was small, 107 TRAIL takes place. Two other excel- starters. This is a shame of Biblical lent events happen there, too, proportions. It was as if only 107 Buffalo Stampede in the spring and people showed up for Elvis’s ‘68 Outlaw Trail in August. If you come Comeback Special. An event this to one of those events, you still get good should have a much bigger field the excellent shooting facility of sev- with vendors to match. A main fac- enteen separate bays separated by tor in the low entry was errors made huge berms, copious high-quality in advertising it. The Cowboy Chronicle targets, and expertly written stages. advertisement was late. The web The Belle Union is still there for site wasn’t set up early. Additio- evening activities and awards pre- nally, there are a lot of events in July sentations. But things are a lot less and August, so many that at least formal. RVs are parked down at the one name shooter stayed home from Belle Union level because they can. shooting fatigue (a malady I admit A lot of vendors’ tents are not set up I’ve never suffered.) However, no for these smaller events, so room is matter what the excuse, you should available. Alas, the Gem Saloon has have been there. packed its tent and moved away Why Outlaw Trail after END of TRAIL. The nightly is an outstanding event: shootings at the high stakes poker The air was heavy, the smoke was thick, and the excitement The simple answer is, “the games and the soiled doves will have was contagious! Shooters gathered for a Wild Bunch match, stages.” All 18 stages were keepers. to wait until next year. warm-up stages, and an 18-stage main match at this year’s All were challenging, but not impos- August weather at Founders Founders Ranch Four-Corners Regional. The three-day sible. They followed Baylor’s Rules Ranch is usually warm and windy, main match stages were straight forward with ample for Cowboy Action Shooting™ Stages: but not hot and humid. For this opportunities for everyone to shoot a clean match … but, It’s a gunfight, not a memory event it was near perfect. What rain alas, only one shooter managed to do so! contest. A target is too close when you hit there was came in at night this year. Wednesday has a four-stage warm it with the gun barrel, or lead splat- SASS Cowboy Chronicle The name of this sport is up and a six-stage Wild Bunch ter is dangerous, not just annoying. * Cowboy Action Shooting™. Outlaw match. Long Range is on Wednes- A target is too far away or too small Trail is about shooting, not partying, day, too. On Thursday, after the when too many of the contestants miss In This Issue not costume contests. The main main match comes a three-stage it because of distance or size.** match is three days long with six Plainsman match. That’s 31 stages The purpose of a Cowboy Action 40 MARLIN-(PART 2) stages a day, 18 stages. Where else plus Long Range. The REALLY Shooting™ Match is to entertain the by Larsen E. Pettifogger do you get that? In addition, gung-ho shooters could take Long (Continued on page 71) 60 BAYOU BLAST www.sassnet.com by Delta Dove 87015 NM Edgewood, 215 Cowboy Way Cowboy 215 AKE OUNTY C 64 L C h C IDES OF MARCH r o by Sassy Teton Lady & Greta Dee o w n b i o 66 NORTHWEST c y WILD BUNCH CHAMPIONSHIP l by Leggs Balou e Page 2 Cowboy Chronicle October 2009 October 2009 Cowboy Chronicle Page 3 Page 4 Cowboy Chronicle October 2009 October 2009 Cowboy Chronicle Page 5 The Cowboy CCONTENTSONTENTS Chronicle 6 FROM THE EDITOR Great Matches Don’t Just Happen ... 8-12 NEWS Games Of The Frontier In Tombstone . The Other Bullet . Harvest Fair . Editorial Staff Tex 14-22 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . Editor-in-Chief Cat Ballou 16 CAT’S CORNER The Belt vs. The Suspender . Editor Coyote Calhoun 18 COYOTE DROPPINGS SASS Convention . Members Only Web Site . Managing Editor & Marketing Director 23 POLITICAL An Open Letter To Aspiring Candidates . 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If you’ve invited the pub- match confirmation materials will do lic, you may want to consider providing tant for every club/big match to have a wonders for many of our “more modern” some entertainment for them as well. Tex, SASS #4 web site. The web site can provide travelers in a strange country! Much of the daytime entertainment is ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~ additional information and a little “PR” Decide early on whether or not lost on the shooters … we’re all on the regarding the event and has the advan- you’re prepared to have the public wit- line earning fame, fortune, and glory on tage of being current. As match plan- ness our match. These matches can be the field of honor! veryone worth their salt who ning changes (and it does!), these late great recruiting tools to collect new club Make sure your match personnel has been to a “big match” has breaking changes can be posted on the and new SASS members! The really are happy, friendly, and accommodating. E their own ideas what consti- Internet. It’s discouraging to arrive a large matches actually charge the pub- The shooters and vendors are guests tutes a “good match!” By their very day early (or a day late!) when side lic to park and watch the activities … and are there by choice … often having nature, these matches are generally matches have been juggled around, a another revenue source that can be traveled great distances to attend … the somewhere else, they’re run by folks we number of stages changed, or social tapped.