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July 2020 Wildshot — It’S Been an Exciting Ride! Vol CONTENTS 2 COVER FEATURE The Future of SASS® 3-8 PROFILES Judge Roy Bean — Still Good to be the Judge Tex — It’s Time for a Change PUBLISHED BY THE WILD BUNCH Cat Ballou — Closing the Chapter on Life’s Greatest Adventure Hipshot — Thanks for the Memories THE COWBOY CHRONICLE, JULY 2020 Wildshot — It’s Been an Exciting Ride! VOL. 2 #19 Mrs. Slick Shot — Time to Say Goodbye Single Action Shooting Society® 215 Cowboy Way, 9 EDITORIALS Edgewood, NM 87015 Skinny’s Soapbox 505-843-1320 • Fax 877-770-8687 © 2020 11-17 ANNUAL MATCHES All rights reserved The Cowboy Chronicle Magazine is Winter Range 2020 Designed and Printed by The Single Action Shooting Society® 18-20 COSTUMING CORNER Visit the SASS web site at: www.sassnet.com Winter Range 2020 Costume Contests 21-23 TRAILMARKERS McCabe EDITORIAL STAFF Hard Times EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 25-32 SASS AFFILIATED CLUB LISTINGS Skinny 2020 Monthly & Annual Shooting Schedules MANAGING EDITOR Misty Moonshine 34 BONUS DIGITAL EDITION EDITORS EMERITUS 35-41 ANNUAL MATCHES Tex & Cat Ballou 20th SASS West Virginia State Championship — Appalachian Showdown ADVERTISING MANAGER Twenty Years and Counting — Bordertown 2019 Square Deal Jim 2019 Southeast Regional — Ambush at Cavern Cove 410-531-5456 | [email protected] 42-43 WILD BUNCH BAMM Drills and Skills - Jumping on the BAMM Wagon GRAPHIC DESIGN Texas State Wild Bunch Championship 2019 Mac Daddy 44-45 OPINION STAFF WRITERS The State of the Game Big Dave, Bronc, The Capgun Kid, Capt. George Baylor, Col. Richard Dodge, Joe 46 COSTUMING CORNER Fasthorse, Justice Lily Kate, Larsen E. Miss Mary Spencer and Grey Fox at Vintage Fair Pettifogger, Tennessee Tall & Rio Drifter, Texas Flower, Tuolumne Lawman, Yuma Jack 47-52 NEWS 4-H Western Heritage Match Cimarron Video Series Debuts The Cowboy Chronicle (ISSN 15399877) is published quarterly by the Single Action HAVA – Honoring American Veterans Afield Shooting Society®, 215 Cowboy Way, Edge- Henry Repeating Arms Introduces Two New Side Gate Lever Actions wood NM 80715 for the benefit of its mem- Wisconsin Old West Shootists - Shoot for a Day bers. Periodicals Postage paid at Plattsburgh, Silver Screen Legend XXIII Dedicated to Buffalo Bill Cody NY and additional mailing offices (USPS #032 Permit #20591). 52 COWBOY POETRY POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Captain’s Mountain The Cowboy Chronicle, 215 Cowboy Way, Heavy Load Edgewood, NM 87015. To My Shooting Friends DISCLAIMER: The Single Action Shooting Society does not guarantee, warranty, or en- 53 HEALTH & FITNESS dorse any product or service advertised in this Caveman Cowboy - How The Paleo Diet Kept Me Shooting publication. The publisher also does not guar- antee the safety or effectiveness of any prod- 54-61 GUNS & GEARS uct or service illustrated. The distribution of some products/services may be illegal in some Dispatches From Camp Baylor - Jim Bowie’s Short Stroked Ruger New Vaquero areas, and we do not assume responsibility Dominator’s Holsters for Hollywood thereof. State and local laws must be inves- Taylor’s/Uberti’s Wells Fargo Model - 1875 Schofield .45, Top Break, with Five-Inch Barrel tigated by the purchaser prior to purchase or use of products/services. 62-64 HISTORY/MILITARY WARNING: Neither the author nor The Captain Tod Carter’s Homecoming Cowboy Chronicle can accept any respon- sibility for accidents or differing results 65-79 COMIC BOOK CORNER obtained using reloading data. Variations in handloading techniques, components, Billy West #2 — The Secret Raiders and firearms will make results vary. Have a component gunsmith check your firearms before firing. SASS® Trademarks PRINTED IN CANADA SASS®, Single Action Shooting Society®, The Cowboy ChronicleTM, Cowboy Action ShootingTM, END of TRAILTM, The World Championship of Cowboy Action ShootingTM, Founders RanchTM, SASS TM TM TM TM Western Heritage Museum & Cowboy Action Shooting Hall Of Fame , SASS Scholarship Foundation , Wild Bunch , Wild Bunch Action Shooting — are all trademarks of The Single Action Shooting Society®. Any use or reproduction of these marks without the express written permission of SASS® is strictly prohibited. COWBOY CHRONICLE 1 Cover than 10 years and I am as committed today as ever to translate the vision of a strong, sustainable organization into Feature a reality we can all count on for gener- ations to come. The retirement of the ® Wild Bunch Board of Directors is a sig- THE FUTURE OF SASS nificant milestone in our organization’s history. I look forward with anticipation SASS ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES to the assembly of a new advisory board By Misty Moonshine, SASS from within our membership and mov- Patron #83232 ing forward with resolve to ensure the future of SASS is secure and poised for or many years now, SASS mem- growth and continued success. Fbers have wondered, worried, and As we move forward together with a inquired about the future of the organi- hard work, they are poised to enjoy their renewed vision and the drive for success, zation. With each passing year, the need retirement and enjoy their families, their I take pause and reflect upon those who to establish a continuity plan became friends, and their future as SASS mem- have come before us, paving the way for increasingly evident. The SASS Wild bers and Cowboy Action Shooters™. Cowboy Action Shooting™ and growing Bunch Board of Directors have spent Their retirement creates the opportunity SASS into the unrivaled organization it several years evaluating options regarding to form a new SASS Board from with- is today. Their vision and dedication to the future of SASS and has begun mak- in the membership, comprised of SASS SASS has spanned nearly 40 years, and ing moves to position the organization members who possess the talents, com- I count myself grateful to have spent the and key personnel to ensure the success mitment, and desire to shape the future last decade with them. of a transition plan. of the sport and the organization. Just as for most of you, SASS has Effective October 1, 2020, the cur- In the coming weeks and months truly become a family for me. The sup- rent SASS Wild Bunch Board of Direc- leading up to the October 1 transition port I have received from our members tors—many of whom are the founders date, fundamental shifts in operations has always inspired me and I look for- of the sport of Cowboy Action Shoot- will occur in an effort to streamline ward to the opportunity to continue ing™ and SASS—will step down from membership benefits and operations, to serve SASS and its members in the their roles within the organization. Judge enhance SASS club experiences, and to future. I am confident that together we Roy Bean (SASS #1), Tex (SASS #4), garner key information from within our can build upon the pillars of SASS and Cat Ballou (SASS #55), Hipshot (SASS membership ranks to solidify the future the sport of Cowboy Action Shooting™, #7), Wild Shot (SASS #51), and Mrs. business model for SASS. Exciting things overcoming any challenges that come our Slick Shot (SASS #691) will no longer are in the works! way and identifying opportunities for play a role in the operations of SASS. It has been an honor and a privilege SASS’ continued success for generations After nearly 40 years of dedication and to serve the members of SASS for more to come. END of TRAIL — the World Championship of Cowboy Action Shooting™ — is sponsored by SASS annually and draws competitors and spectators from around the globe. 2 COWBOY CHRONICLE PROFILEs Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000, has kept Like many SASS members, I was always a me alive and available for travel as cowboy. I was a three-piece suit, cowboy we’ve visited matches and conventions as hat and boots, Software Engineering Ambassadors and represented SASS in Manager and marketing executive before dealings with the NRA. SASS. These trade-mark pieces of my persona traveled with me around the world for Hughes Aircraft Company. we did it with gusto! It was as if we went from riding tricycles to driving Harleys with a lot of help from many IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE By Tex, SASS #4 It’s good to be the Judge! like-minded folks, whom I will love forever. cannot imagine a more exciting, life changing experience than I’ve had in The last 40 years have been like a I STILL GOOD TO BE THE JUDGE! fairy tale. I’ll never forget the things the last 40 years playing cowboy in the By Judge Roy Bean, SASS #1 I’ve seen, the places I’ve been, and Single Action Shooting Society! had been in the shooting sports most importantly, the people I’ve met On a happenstance evening in 1983, Ifor a long time – IPSC, Soldier of and gotten to know and am proud Cat and I wondered into a local gun shop Fortune, trap, skeet, sporting clays, to “ride the river with.” The best, of and my life changed forever. I purchased and bullseye. I enjoyed them all, but course, is Justice Lilly Kate. We met at a Ruger three-screw .357 (the .357 Colt there was something missing. After I a cowboy match in Texas and married in the case was $500… much too much shot my first Cowboy match in Janu- at END of TRAIL 2001. The ride for for my blood!) and reloading materials. ary 1980 in Coto de Caza, California, Kate and me isn’t over, as we’ll still Within months I was at my first Cow- I was hooked. And I believed this new travel to see old friends and make new boy match with the West End Gun Club sport could be the start of something ones.
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