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ranson, MO – The first and occupied The Library Lounge Saturday night 10 SASS Conventions Tuesday evening, telling SASS was the always were in Las Vegas. stories and fairy tales until after popular B Every year complaints the restaurant closed. On Victorian Ball, were that it was too far away from Wednesday registration went off the theme being (insert location of choice). There without a hitch, and then the “Reconciliation was no 2012 Convention. The 2013 SASS folks REALLY occupied the Ball,” Convention, the 11 th , was at the Library for the SASS Hospitality a popular Chateau On The Lake outside Warmer and Cocktail Mixer. theme Branson, Missouri. This is a “5 Di - There were, according to Misty in the amond” resort, a beautiful 10-story Moonshine, 499 conventioneers, early 1870s. luxury hotel on the lake 5+ miles and I believe most of them were from the nearest end of the Branson having a drink or two in The Li - “strip.” The Chateau has excellent, brary, several into the wee hours. spacious facilities for conventions. (Continued on page 50 ) Branson is hilly with curvy roads and lovely scenery. Getting there requires an effort from both tually, if you played those proverbial coasts. If you fly over a few hun - cards right, you could attend several! dred miles, you have to change Let ’s stay In! The always fantastic and fun planes in Chicago and Atlanta or PJs, Old West Bathing Suits, and loving Dooley Gang hosted the fa - twice in Houston, and your destina - The Dooley Gang at the Convention mous SASS Pajama Party in the tion is Springfield, a 100-mile drive Chateau on the Lake’s lower lobby, to Branson. Once you got there, the By Cat Ballou, SASS #55 complete with karaoke, adult bever - Chateau was beautiful and quite Photos by Honey B. Graceful, SASS #51369 ages, and a PJ Costume Contest. impressive inside and out. SASS The partying continued way into members started arriving Tuesday hursday night was the night to stay in, the night. let your hair down, and party at the 11 th At the Chateau’s indoor swim - SASS Convention in Branson, MO … ming pool Mad Mountain Mike and SASS C owboy Chronicle T and most SASS folks did just that. There Miss Tabitha hosted the first Old were three events going on simultaneously and it – 1 st place Ladies PJs – West Bathing Suit Costume Con - In This Issue Catoosa Red was a hard choice deciding which one to attend. Ac - (Continued on page 55 )

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6 FROM THE EDITOR Betrayed! . . . Editorial Staff Tex 8, 9 NEWS NRA / SASS Member Is Lucky Winner . . . END of TRAIL News Flash! . . . Editor-in-Chief 10, 11 LETTERS Cat Ballou Comments From SASS Members . . . Editor

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14-32 ON THE RANGE Range War . . . Ghost Riders Revenge . . . Adobe Illustrator 36-39 CLUB REPORTS Layout & Design Alaska 49’ers Pass The Hat For Charity . . . Mac Daddy Graphic Design 40-46 GUNS & GEAR Dispatches From Camp Baylor . . . Reloading Hints . . . Prairie Mary Advertising Manager 42, 43 SAS S- END OF TRAIL 2014 (( SIGN-UP TODA Y!! ! )) (505) 843-1320 • Cell: (505) 249-3573 [email protected] 48, 49 HISTORY Nate Champion . . . Little Known Famous People . . . Contributing Writers Badd Dawg Cowboy, Big Boyd, 58 REVIEWS BOOKS Montana Western Heritage Project . . . Capt. George Baylor, Capt. Morgan Rum, Chilkoot, Col. Dan, Deadman Walking, 60, 61 PROFILES Driftwood Dan, Grey Beard, Grey Fox, 2013 Scholarship Recipients . . . Gringo Gordo, Joe Fasthorse, Justice Lily Kate, Lawdog Bob, 62, 63 TRAIL MARKER To Always Be Remembered . . . Little Nelchina, Loco Poco Lobo & Nawlins Kid, 64-71 ARTICLES Palaver Pete, Red River Emma, Cowboy TV . . . Chuckwalla . . . Inspiration In The Old West . . . R J Law, SunShine Marcie, Tater Bug, White Smoke Steve, 72, 73 GENERAL STORE /CLASSIFIED Wolverine Wrangler The Cowboy Chronicle is published by 74-81 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS (MONTHLY) (ANNUA L) The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. For advertising information and rates, ad - 83 POLITICAL Conventions, Nullification, and Voting . . . ministrative, and edi to rial offices contact: Chronicle Administrator SASS MERCANTILE 215 Cowboy Way (Nice Collectables) . . . Edgewood, NM 87015 (505) 843-1320 Visit our Website at 57 POLITICAL Conventions, NullificaTthioe n2,0 a1n3d Voting . . . FAX (505) 843-1333 SASS convention SASSNET.COM email: [email protected] http://www.sassnet.com 58, 59 was a blast! The Cowboy Chronicle (ISSN 15399877) is pub - Awards, meetings, lished monthly by the Single Action Shooting seminars, Society, 215 Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. Periodicals Postage is Paid at Edge - entertainment, ® SASS Trademarks wood, NM and additional mailing offices and parties sass ®, single action shooting society ®, (USPS #032). POSTMASTER: Send ad- created a non-stop end of trail ®, eot ®, dress changes to The Cowboy Chronicle , 215 environment from The Cowboy Chro nicle tm , Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. morning until Cowboy action shooting tm , DISCLAIMER - The Single Action Shooting O-Dark-Thirty! Cas tm , Wild Bunch tm , Society does not guarantee, warranty or en - The Dooley Gang’s Wild Bunch action shooting tm , dorse any product or service advertised in this newspaper. The publisher also does not Ringo Fire the World Championship of guarantee the safety or effectiveness of any personified Cowboy action shooting tm , product or service illustrated. The distri - the craziness Bow-legged Cowboy design, and the bution of some products/services may be il - legal in some areas, and we do not assume (he always does!) rocking Horse design responsibility thereof. State and local laws as everyone are all trademarks of must be investigated by the purchaser prior gathered for the single action shooting society, inc. to purchase or use or products/services. the ever-popular Any use or reproduction of these marks WARNING: Neither the author nor The pajama party. without the express written permission Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi - of SASS is strictly prohibited. bility for accidents or diffe ring results obtained using reloading data. Variation 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 April 2014 i Betrayed ! By Tex, SASS #4 i Firstly, the e-mail blast mistake to make … but it’s a tinuously from that point on. simply over stated the fact mistake. A little history … SASS did its best to publish folks had already signed up The Cowboy Chronicle was al - four issues a year (not always for the digital copy. The sim - ways envisioned as an impor - successfully!). Later the pub - ple fact is the folks who re - tant part of membership lication cycle was changed to Tex, SASS #4 ceived the e-mail blast are fulfillment … something one every other month, and finally those for whom we have an e- received for being a SASS to every month. It went from ’ve received a few mail address. Of course, these member. It was always impor - eight pages initially to as notes from folks ex - are the folks who will be re - tant to SASS, as this was our many as 120 pages in the I pressing the senti - ceiving the digital copy in the way of cementing the member - glory days when there was lots ment they have been betrayed near future … SASS wants to ship into a single focused of advertising, folks joining at … both because the e-mail ensure as many members get group. This was way before the rate of 500 new members blast from Headquarters the publication, uninter - the Wire, Facebook, the web, each month, and the only stated all recipients had or - rupted, as possible. and all the other ways folks method of publication and dis - dered the digital copy of The Secondly, it’s a mistaken receive information today. The tributing was printed media. Cowboy Chronicle , and because notion The Cowboy Chronicle was original promise was for a The point is The Cowboy Chroni - their promised printed copy ever promised as a printed quarterly publication. The cle has evolved over the years; was being taken away. copy. I know that is an easy Cowboy Chronicle evolved con - it’s not the same publication it

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was in the beginning. And, it’s more of a challenge as the There is simply no way to understanding is gratifying changing again. readers get smaller and structure two different lay - and very much appreciated. If You will note … the prom - smaller. Kindles and iPads outs for the monthly publica - you haven’t done so already, ise was never for a printed work, and so do small devices tion. However, when SASS please make sure Headquar - copy … just a periodic issue. like iPhones … but in our can be weaned of the last ters has your e-mail … I don’t SASS is doing everything it present format, there is con - vestiges of the printed copy, want anyone to miss a single can to honor its commitments siderable scrolling when the yet another change can be copy of their Cowboy Chronicle! … and intends to continue font is made large enough to implemented where the ma - The Cowboy Chronicle is an doing so. be easily read. So long as terial is restructured for ease evolving product, and will con - No one should think going SASS has to provide any of reading on even the tinue to be so. The chan ges all digital for The Cowboy printed copies of The Cowboy smaller devices. are envisioned to better serve Chronicle was an easy decision Chronicle , this is a challenge Many Thanks to all those the membership while allow - … or that it was made by only with which all the digital who have written with sincere ing SASS to continue provid - the editors. It was a difficult subscribers will have to live. sentiments of support. Your ing the product. business decision for the or - ganization. I’m old. I was raised on the printed word. I still take a daily newspaper and ignore the available digital copy. I know how the printed version is laid out, I can easily find what I’m looking for, and I can read the paper at breakfast and pet the cats at the same time. I’m busy. When I re - ceive digital magazines, I’ll often set them aside (on my computer) … for later … but for me, “later” never seems to come. When we work as hard as we do to put the paper to - gether, we want it read … cover to cover … by everyone. We work hard to make the publication interesting and informative. The good news is … the digital version is all color. It’s far more attractive than the printed version with only a few color pages throughout. Hyperlinks offer the ability to see an ad, click on it, and go directly to the advertiser’s web site! A real boom for those shopping and wanting to purchase. The ultimate downside to any digital publication is the fact it gets viewed on a wide assortment of readers. The editors have very nice moni - tors and can view The Cowboy Chronicle full screen with fac - ing pages (two page view) … and can actually read the text! It becomes more and Visit us at sassnet .com Page 8 Cowboy Chronicle April 2014

NRA / SASS Member Is Lucky Winner silver screen Legend XVi pple Valley, CA – The drawing for the SILVER of Saturday night, December 14, 2013 most 16 thousand ticket stubs ber and has been an NRA Member SCREEN LEGEND XVI, during the 12 th Annual Curly’s Cow - representing tickets sold through - since the 1970s. He is married to A a spectacular pair of en - boy Christmas dinner and show, a out 2013 to ticket buyers/donors Kerry and is the father of four graved Colt SAA .45 revolvers and a benefit for abused children at the in every state in the country plus children and twelve grandchil - gorgeous Hollywood style double Cooper Home, a project of Happy Canada. The lucky winner is dren. He works in Factory Au - holster rig just like the one Edward Trails Children’s Foundation. Owen Morell aka “Old and In the tomation Sales. He owns and Bohlin made for Ray “Crash” Corri - Kathy Musgrave, widow of popular Way” of Nashville, TN. The win - shoots a number of different gan, and is perhaps the most ornate cowboy singer/songwriter Curly Jim ning ticket number was 8787, one handguns, rifles, and shotguns. outfit that Bohlin made for any Musgrave drew the winning ticket. of eleven tickets Owen purchased Owen said he now can officially western star. The drawing was held The drum was packed with al - for himself. He is a SASS mem - say he won something. To date, the Silver Screen Legend project has raised almost $2 million dollars for abused chil - dren. It is truly a unique case of guns doing good things for kids. The Happy Trails Children’s Foundation is a charitable non- profit organization. All donations are fully tax-deductible to the ex - tent allowed by law, under the In - ternal Revenue Code, Section 501(c)(3). Everyone who bought a ticket for Silver Screen Legend XVI is a winner because you are helping children-at-risk. Your support is sincerely appreciated ! A big tip of the Stetson to those special people who make this drawing possible each year, includ - ing our loyal supporters at Colt’s Mfg. Co. and the folks in the Colt Custom Shop; Jim Lockwood, Jr. of Legends in Leather; Conrad An - derson of Rocktree Ranch; Bob Leskovec of Precision Pro Grips; Mr. David Warther, II of Warther Carvings; and Ron Love. Without these fine folks, there would be no Silver Screen Legend fund raising project. All of these wonderful peo - ple and companies are enduring examples of that very special American Spirit known as “the cowboy way.” Watch for Silver Screen Leg - end XVII, coming in January 2014. Each year the outfit is different from previous years. The Silver Screen Legend XVII will present a Tribute to Ed Bohlin, Saddle - maker to the Stars . The outfit will feature a pair of unique engraved Colt .45 SAA revolvers in a gor - geous and magnificent hand- carved and silver mounted deluxe Hollywood style double gun rig. * * * * * * Joel Dortch Executive Director Happy Trails Children’s Foundation Visit us at sassnet .com April 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 9

e e end of traIL b neWs FLasH! B ews Flash – we have it straight from the horse’s mouth, well the END of TRAIL Match Director’s mouth (T. A. Chance), there will be a one-shot rifle reload at END of N TRAIL, and he wants you all to come ready for that. Also, END of TRAIL offers Senior Gunfighter and this category is a shooting style category governed by the rules of the Gunfighter category.

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e e GUns and tHe PresIdent he article by Colonel Dan “Guns ruled. Substitute lifetime Senators teaM sass Tand the President: 2017” in the and Congressmen. was just reading Col. Dan’s think again. This goes for January 2014 Cowboy Chronicle is ter - I regularly flew Tip O’Neil and Ishort article on “Team SASS is hunters, too. Remember the Clin - rific – as usual. Thanks so much. Newt Gingrich to and from Wash - a Decentralize Organization” in ton gun ban in ‘95 when the im - It’s been at least 55 years since ington and Boston or Atlanta. the January issue. He is ab - port of Henrys, 66s, and 73s were I read Thomas Paine, so I’m re-read - They bought First Class tickets on solutely correct about working at blocked because they held more ing him. I am struck by how his in - my airline. Fair enough. But the the local and state levels of our than ten rounds? Right now it’s dictments of the evils of British rule arrogance of Nancy Pelosi to de - government in affecting Washing - our modern sporting rifles; tomor - in our Colonies are the same as our mand a ROYAL COACH (USAF ton. As gun owning Americans we row it could well be the hunter’s complaints against our Federal transport plane) to whisk her to should all be plugged into what is sniper rifles, and in time, all guns Government today. We have come and from California on a weekly going on in our state and local gov - will be on the list. full circle in less than 240 years. basis is a clear example of ROYAL ernments. He also mentioned If you are holding back on To establish our Constitution, ARROGANCE. NRA, GOA, SAF, and NSSF as na - being a member of any of the na - the various states agreed to a bar - The States delegated to the Fed tional organizations that are fight - tional organizations or state asso - gain where they allotted certain re - the duty to protect us (and our bor - ing the good fight, and we should ciations, you may be part of the stricted and carefully enumerated ders). The Fed now claims the ex - be supporting them all as best we problem. Get your membership in powers to the Fed. They carefully clusive right to perform this can. However, almost every state both; get involved and stay alert to made clear that powers not named delegated service. Now, they not has a State Rifle, Pistol Associa - what is going on and don’t think, were reserved to the States or the only refuse to perform this duty, but tion, working within the State “my guns are safe.” With the SASS People. Thus, the States are sue Arizona for attempting to pro - level of our system. Some of these membership getting involved on supreme over the Fed, which they, tect its borders and citizens? And a like the Texas State Rifle Associa - all levels, where there is great the States, created. The Fed has Federal agency runs guns to Mexi - tion and the California Rifle and strength in numbers, we can beat been infringing and ‘cheating’ on its can drug lords? Pistol Association are quite large back this tide of back door and out - limited powers for decades. In “The In the last six months, we have and have their own lobbyist work - right assaults on our rights. Communist Manifesto,” Marx and suffered 221 killed in Iraq. In the ing in their State Capitols. There Remember when talking to Engels wrote a list of objectives that same period, 292 were murdered in are many very small Associations the anti’s, you are not pro gun ; you had to be met to establish a Com - Chicago. And our so-called Federal with much smaller memberships are pro rights . Let’s get crackin’ munist Eden. The number one item ‘leaders’ want to impose more re - that do not have the money or sup - and be active in the fight on all was a “large and progressive income strictive and punitive “Chicago port of gun owners in those states. levels. Join your State Association tax.” Got that. style” gun laws on us? Obama re - This is where the biggest differ - and support their work for you. In the early fifties, my grandfa - ally let the cat out of the bag when ence can be made on gun laws af - Dallas Stoudenmire, ther’s column in his Huntington he called for the “Australian Solu - fecting all of us. SASS #332, Regulator Beach News warned the city not to tion” in his Washington Navy Yard If you think your guns are President of the accept Federal school money. He speech. There can no longer be any safe from the gun grabber elites, Texas State Rifle Association warned it would lead to loss of local doubt about his intentions to trans - control over curriculum, text books, form American citizens into a herd teacher hiring standards, etc. The of sheep. A quote: “One of the first city did not heed his warnings. So steps necessary to control the peo - now the Fed controls our schools. ple is the establishment of a NA - Guns and The President . . . Thomas Paine complained TIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM … son. Our freedoms, once lost, may Captain Shaw, Thank you for about unelected British governors Vladimir Lenin @ 1918. Got that. be impossible to recover. 2014 will those kind words and your most being out of control. Today, substi - It’s time to choose, pardners. be a turning point year. The elimi - thoughtful note. I very much appre - tute Federal agencies. He wrote of Either we stand up and claim our nation of the filibuster in Senate ciate you taking the time to share the attempt by Gen. Thomas Gage American citizenship or lie down Rules now means a simple majority your concerns and views with me. I to disarm American citizens. Sub - and become a subject. We gained can impose its will upon us without certainly agree—none of us can af - stitute Obama, Schumer, Feinstein, our rights through blood, sweat, and restraint. Want to bet on the U.N. ford to sleep through 2014. We must et al. Paine wrote a scathing in - tears. My ancestors, Samuel Far - Smalls Arms Treaty? Want to bet remain alert and resolute. dictment of hereditary powers quhar (and his brother Joseph) on “Australian Rules?” Soldier on my friend… handed down through generations were there. They were granted Don’t sleep through this year, Colonel Dan of European families. He noted large tracts of land in the new Ohio pards! how they became arrogant and to - Territory for their services in gain - Captain Shaw, SASS #16191 tally disconnected from those they ing our freedom by President Jeffer - Okeechobee, FL

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e e 2013 eas’dern sHore FoUr GeneratIons roUnd-UP year great grand-daughter, La Pequena, SASS #98840, aged By Deuces, SASS #88602 and Kandi, SASS #88603 seven, joined us at Pawnee Sta - great time, even to the point they tion. So far we’ve done quite gave Kandi a standing ovation for well. Wabash was top Wyoming her one CLEAN stage (this was her Cowgirl at Cody in 2011. El first away shoot, and she was a little Joven was Wyoming State nervous). I’m sure it would have Champ in 2012 at Cody. been the same on any of the posses, El Viejo Pobre, SASS #91455 but we were made to feel very wel - Lakewood, CO come and comfortable. When we left we couldn’t wait for the next year. A long year goes by and our an - ticipation is high as we go in to re - sister and get “HOWDY KANDI!” They remembered us; well at least The MOB at Pawnee Station Kandi (I must have looked a little in 2013, which was La Pequena’s Deuces, SASS #88602 amd different—“HaHa”). The rest of the first shoot. Kandi, SASS #88603 shoot was pure joy, different posse, but same results, fun-fun-fun. enjoyed Cree Vicar Dave’s ar - I don’t believe I explained why we call ourselves The MOB. owdy! Just got back from the Kandi and Lena Okley had a run - ticle in the January Cowboy I There are seven of us shooting to - H2013 Eas’dern Shore Round- ning commentary on who had an ac - Chronicle and thought I’d share gether in the same family group. up. There were less Cowboys/Cow - cent. Deacon Will and Cody our story. We’re a four-genera - This shows the trailer we use to girls this year. I hope it was due to Conagher changed Kandi’s alias to tion shooting family—known as haul all our stuff. Included in the political climate because this is “Vanna” for her help explaining the the MOB in Cheyenne and the MOB are myself and my wife, one great shoot. Kandi and I at - scenarios (she did a lot of running). Pawnee Station. El Viejo Pobre and Madam Jinx; tended the first one in 2012. Now I Kandi also became their “tar - Great-grandad, El Viejo my daughter and her husband, Wabash and Stagecoach; my don’t know if it’s the same for get” for help with her shooting. Pobre, SASS #91455, started the everyone, but usually the ride to They explained how they get just as grandson and his wife, El Joven whole thing years ago. Daugh - and Mistress Morane; and my somewhere is filled with excitement much fun helping someone become ter, Wabash Cannonball, SASS great grand daughter, and anticipation and the ride home a better shooter. Kandi said, “Do #88649, then joined in. Grand - La Pequena. This is a wonderful is sad and long, because it’s over. you want me to get better than you? son, El Joven, SASS #88651, way to have the whole family We travel from New York, so the They both yelled, “YES!” She loved together for wholesome fun. drive on a good day is 5 hours there every minute. What a great time! joined in the next year, and last and 5 to 6 hours back. Both rides When the awards were handed out, home have been shortened (only in we headed home. Same Thing—we our minds. Dang!) because we can’t talked all the way about what a stop talking about the great time great time we had. stage Points scoring - and wonderful pards we’ve met. Thank you, SASS and The The first year we walked in to Eas’dern Shore Renegades. I hope register and were greeted by more Cowboys and Cowgirls come too CoMPLex? “HOWDY! You must be Kandi and to the 2014 match because as long ice article on “Understanding up” lost time on a stage by speeding Deuces, our New Yorkers. WOW!” as we are invited, we’ll be back. NStage Point Scoring” in the Feb - up on another. With total time, it’s Next we met our posse and had a YEE HAW!!!!!! ruary Cowboy Chronicle , but it seems clearly ONE competition with sev - pretty complicated to me. With scor - eral components. ing as with pretty much everything Stage Points are basically an else, simpler is usually better. Why Olympic approach to scoring and is are yoU a rIno? can’t we just have the fastest used in other Action Shooting sports. As always, I enjoyed Colonel all into Com...... ts, you know shooter at the end of the day be the Like Rank Points, it is several sepa - Dan’s column about being a Rino! what I mean. I am really afraid he winner? It seems to work pretty rate competitions that result in a col - I have joined the Tea Party of will skirt 2016 and tell us no more well in just about every other sport.” lection of scores that get added sorts, sent in a couple of bucks, have elections and make himself our R. J. Law, SASS #15466 together to determine the winner. As their flag in my yard for many “dictator!” Troy, MI with Total time, one can win … but years, etc. and, like you, am a regis - Red Rose, SASS #38972 it makes a difference whether the tered Republican! But when the Los Angeles, CA RJ — there are impassioned win was by a little bit or by a signif - Republican party calls or mails for opinions on both sides of this ques - icant amount. It’s a nice compro - donations, I always tell them … “the Rose, Thank you for the kind tion. Many of our champions have mise between the two earlier systems. Tea Party” gets my money! words of support for my column. I counseled that total time simply cre - I have a spread sheet that AU - If you have not joined the Tea very much appreciate you expressing ates a “speed” game. Rank Points re - TOMATICALLY does 100% of the Party, you should, as they are on top of your thoughts. I am a member of the warded “consistency.” The two calculations … all one does it declare breaking news as fast as Glenn Beck! Tea Party Patriots, and I agree we the approaches result in very different the point count for the stage and And yes, you will get tons of emails, people must take this government strategies for success. One of the start entering adjusted stage times. but they are informative, and we need back. I don’t put much of anything things I personally like about Rank Of course, the ACES and the SASS to keep our ears to the ground. passed Obama but to cancel elections Points is the match is essentially a Scoring systems also do all the work “We the People” need to take I feel would instigate riots … dozen separate competitions that get automatically … so “complexity” of back this country before Pinocio O Remain resolute and soldier on… aggregated in the end to produce a the calculations is never an issue. shows his true colors and turns us Colonel Dan winner. One simply cannot “make Tex

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GLORIOUS COSTUMES AT THE 11TH ANNUAL . sass ConventIon , By Cat Ballou, SASS #55 and Aspen Filly, SASS #50535 Photographs by Blackjack McGinnis, SASS #2041 Cat Ballou, SASS #55 Judge’s Choice. Handling that ever so difficult job of judging were hateau on the Aspen Filly, Greeneyed Gypsy, and Lake, Branson, Nellie Blue with Aspen Wrangler MO – To paraphrase and Owen Nowun helping as “Cos - C a well-known Christ - tume Wranglers.” mas song, “The weather outside It would be great to describe all was frightful, but the scene was the winning costumes, but we just so delightful,” set the mood for don’t have that much real estate in the Best Dressed Costume Con - The Cowboy Chronicle , so let’s look at test at the SASS Convention. Outside were nothing but snow, ice, and very COLD tempera - tures, but inside we were all warm and cozy surrounded by the holiday ambiance of the luxurious Chateau on the Lake Hotel. This year’s theme was a Reconciliation Ball, a coming THE JUDGES AND THEIR HELPERS together of the North and (l-r) Greeneyed Gypsy, Owen Nowun, Nellie Blue, South after the hostilities Aspen Wrangler, and Aspen Filly. ended 148 years ago. Many Photo by Major Photography costumes reflected that Civil War era while others dressed in just the first place winning outfits … First place winners for Best true Victorian style. First Place Best Dressed Lady Dressed Couple were Miss Kay Fifty-three SASS members was Velvet Glove. Velvet had recre - and Richard. Miss Kay had on a stood in line to present their ated from Harpers Bazaar an 1873 beautiful brown with black velvet marvelous costumes to the Worth Design peacock dress. She flocking dress from the reconcilia - judges. In fact, this year the Mil - creatively used silk saris to repro - tion period. This dress was con - itary category had 13 partici - duce this stunning gown, elabo - structed with hook closures, pants. Categories judged were rately trimmed and accented with correct for this period. She ac - Best Dressed Lady, Gentlemen, sapphires and jewels. Paying close cented this dress with a gorgeous Couples, Military, Reconciliation – JUDGES CHOICE – attention to details, she acces - hand painted fan, a large cameo Lady and Gentleman, and Sixgun Scotsman sorized her outfit with a beautiful and jet jewelry, period correct hair feather fan, gloves, jeweled reticule, snood and décor, gloves, reticule, velvet shoes, and sapphire jewelry. and embroidered stockings. First Place Best Dressed Gen - Richard stepped out in a dapper tlemen was Rough Rider Rich. outfit consisting of a gray cut away This was an absolutely beautiful frock coat, and a beautiful double- vintage 1890s conductor’s uniform. breasted cream vest. He sagely ac - He purchased this outfit from a cented his outfit with a railroad museum. The coat had double-chained watch, shirt studs, the original buttons from the pe - cravat, leather soled shoes, gray riod. He accessorized this uniform gloves, and top hat. with an engineer pin, a Union Pa - Timber Jack Thompson was cific buckle, 1880s watch, all origi - first place in Best Dressed Military. nal pins, period correct glasses, He presented himself in a NCO and leather soled shoes. Rough 79 th Highland Infantry Uniform Rider Rich was a wealth of knowl - (1861 Sergeant). This was a fabu - edge for the history of this uniform lous uniform consisting of a kilt and position. He topped it off by jacket with NY Militia buttons and BEST DRESSED COUPLES also carrying his grandmother’s shoulder boards stating Marine (l-r) 1st , Miss Kay and Mr. Richard; 2 nd , Emerald Anne Holiday and Capt. Dan Blodgett; 3 rd , Frontier Faith and Minnesota Clay field cook knife. Corps. The kilt was box pleated,

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BEST DRESSED LADIES (l-r) BEST DRESSED 1st , Velvet Glove MILITARY nd (l-r) 2 , Cheeka Bow Wow 1st , Timber Jack 3rd , Alice K. Grierson Thompson 2nd , Mustang John Bass 3rd , Col. Benjamin H. Grierson.

RECONCILIATION GENTLEMEN (l-r) 1st , Wyatt H. Ristl 2nd , O Bar Freddie

RECONCILIATION 3rd , Bulldog McGraw LADIES (l-r) 1st, Callie Crossfox 2nd , Texas Flower 3rd , Aunt E. Cues

BEST DRESSED GENTLEMEN WINNERS Reconciliation Theme (l-r) Best Dressed Ladies: st Ladies: 1st Callie Crossfox, 1 , Rough Rider Rich 1st Velvet Glove, SASS #87193 2nd , Mild Will Cheatum SASS #50276 2nd Texas Flower, 2nd Cheeka Bow Wow, SASS #43753 3rd , Cow Bo SASS #88699 3rd Aunt E. Cues, 3rd Alice K. Grierson, SASS #89636 SASS #76680 Gentlemen: Gentlemen: 1st Wyatt H. Ristl, 1st Rough Rider Rich, SASS #5132 SASS #42846 2nd O Bar Freddie, 2nd Mild Will Cheatum, SASS #22369 SASS #73594 3rd Bulldog MacGraw, hand knit socks with tie garters the long tabs. Her finishing ac - 3rd Cow Bo, SASS #55154 SASS #57384 and with a weapon. Watch chain cents made the complete ‘picture Couples: Judges Choice: and watch, Red Sash, and belt perfect’ with period correct hose 1st Miss Kay, 1st Sixgun Scotsman, with an 1839 baby US buckle. He and flat satin slippers, knit SASS #99173 SASS #68879 carried an 1840 NCO saber, ac - gloves, reticule, ribbon necklace, & Mr. Richard cented with a beautiful sporran and period hair and hair décor. nd 2 Emerald Anne Holiday, Judges: and wore period correct shoes. Our Reconciliation Gentle - SASS #99298 & Aspen Filly, SASS #50535 His cap was an original from the men in first place was Wyatt H Capt. Dan Blodgett, Nellie Blue, SASS #54399 SASS #75655 Greeneyed Gypsy, SASS #60086 period. His documentation and Ristl, all the way from Austria. 3rd Frontier Faith, history were fabulous. Wyatt wore a period correct frock SASS #94293 & Costume “Wranglers”: Callie Crossfox was a gor - coat trimmed with black velvet Minnesota Clay, Aspen Wrangler, SASS #50536 geous first place for Reconcilia - cuffs and upper collar, and black SASS #45970 Owen Nowun, SASS #60376 tion Lady. Callie made this gown handkerchief in breast pocket. Military: herself and paid extreme atten - Under this he wore a beautiful, 1st Timber Jack Thompson, tion to every little detail. The bright colored vest with pocket SASS #55358 gown was period correct with a watch and chain. He accented his 2nd Mustang John Bass, slightly higher waist. The trim outfit with a lovely print cravat SASS #53153 3rd Col. Benjamin H. was exquisite, with beads, hand - and cravat pin, white gloves, and Grierson, / made flower petals, covered but - a black satin top hat. He wore pe - SASS #76679 tons, and edge trimming on all (Continued on page 17 )

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SASS WESTERN CANADIAN REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

By Grey Beard, SASS #79061 tory Grey Beard had no end of ma - Territorial Governor for Saskatchewan terial with which to work as he wrote the stages. For three days the air was filled with gunshots from side matches and the main match along with RO Courses, swap meets and vendors in the event tent, a saloon girl contest, and other fancy dress contests each night. We played cowboy golf (with guns of course) and the members of the Saskatoon Muzzle Loader Club hosted a Knife and Hawk Trail Walk, to name a few of the activities. Thursday started with an RO-II course while many of the ladies – OVERALL CHAMPIONS – dressed up in their best finery and Wobbly Three Beer and traveled to Boomtown for a Victo - Prairie Storm. rian Tea. There they were treated Congratulations! to a museum tour and served a sit down luncheon. Comments from askatchewan, Canada those who took part indicate it was – August 8 – 10, 2013 a big hit, and they would like to see saw the first SASS affil - it repeated next year again. The S iated match held in folks who run the museum are hop - Saskatchewan. Cowboys and cow - ing they return as well. They com - girls from across Canada came to - mented it was a real treat for other gether to take part in the first SATURDAY NIGHT COSTUME CONTEST museum goers to see so many beau - SASS Western Canadian Champi - (l-r) 3rd place, Dapper Dynamite Dick and Burnt Bacon; tiful ladies dress in 1800s garb. onship. The members of the Saska - 2nd place, Granny One Shot and Grey Beard; Thursday afternoon side toon Muzzle Loader Club opened 1st place, Alberta Annie and South West Trapper. (Continued on page 16 ) their doors to partner with the Saskatchewan Association of Wild make it bigger and better next year. WINNERS West Shooters to host the event With no past shoot history to Overall Winners Man Wobbly Threebeer, held on the newly built dedicated draw on, a committee of members SASS #11670 Cowboy Action Shooting™ range, from both the Saskatchewan Asso - Lady Prairie Storm, “Bounty Gulch,” named after the ciation Wild West Shooters and the SASS #83255 ghost town of Bounty, Sas - Saskatoon Muzzle Loader Club was Categories katchewan. While the range is formed. The committee members Young Guns Big Hungry Andy, under construction, it features a worked tirelessly throughout the SASS #98122 mission, sheriff’s office, saloon, gen - winter and summer months leading L Senior Granny Oneshot, eral store, and bank with plans to up to the shoot. Their hard work SASS #79062 made the event a huge success. Cowboy Wobbly Threebeer With the rich history of the 49’er Short Fingered Bill, town of Bounty, the shoot commit - SASS #82161 L 49’er Prairie Storm tee decided the first SASS Affiliated Wrangler Clint Chisum, shoot should honour the cowboy SASS #42877 spirit of the pioneers that settled Gunfighter Too Dusty, and built Western Canada. After SASS #5447 much research, “Tales of the Big C Cowboy Southwest Trapper, Muddy” was chosen as the shoot SASS #82702 theme. The Big Muddy Valley is a Senior D. Bogus Bandit, wild, rough area of badlands in SASS #83582 Southern Saskatchewan filled with Duelist Many Bullets, SASS #77931 coulees, caves, twists, and turns S Senior Kriss P. Bacon, that made it a perfect area in which SASS #78723 outlaws could disappear. The area Cowgirl Manitoba Belle, was home to Station Number 1 of SASS #96499 Too Dusty stopping the jail break the Outlaw Trail that ran all the E Statesman Snow Cap, on Stage 7, Gunfighter style. way to Mexico. With that much his - Kanada Girl shooting Stage 8. SASS #86575

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SASS Western Canadian Regional Championships . . .

Doc Thompson shooting Stage 5.

At the end of the night, Burnt Bacon The Saloon Girls getting warmed up for the show. was crowned Top Saloon Girl with Anita Gun and Granny One Shot in (Continued from page 14 ) rustling cattle and robbing banks second and third place respectively. matches set up by Pepper Em in back and forth on both sides of the The contest was a big hit and will Lead and Wild Boone were a big hit, Saskatchewan-Montana border. surely be repeated next year. featuring both speed and precision The scenarios included jailbreaks, Saturday night was the awards shooting matches using shotguns, robberies, and many gun battles. banquet and dress-up night. Roast revolvers, and rifles. We shot speed Having targets that were big, close, beef with all the trimmings was on pistol, rifle, and shotgun along with and hittable added to the fun, re - menu followed by door prizes and Robs Coaches shooting the precision pistol and rifle with prizes sulting in many accolades to the the awards presentations. With outlaw in the outhouse for the top men and women in each host committee for a well-run shoot. the support of our sponsors, we category. Thursday evening fea - One of the most entertaining gave away four guns and a set of $202 to be donated to the SASS tured a steak supper followed by stages was Stage 6, which featured custom leather holsters to partici - Scholarship Fund. cowboy poet, Jim Boswell, who en - an outlaw hiding in the outhouse. pants. Best Dressed, side match, Thank you to SASS and all the tertained us with stories, poems, After cleaning up most of the ban - category, and the top 10 overall folks who supported us with dona - and songs. Everyone laughed until dits with their revolvers and five men and women were recognized tions to our prize tables, making their sides hurt and there were rifle rounds, the gang leader is to end a very successful first West - sure every shooter received a prize. many requests to have him back found hiding in the crapper. After ern Canadian Regional Champi - The committee vows to make the next year. shooting the door open, contestants onship. The committee raffled off shoot bigger and better next year, so The main match stages were en - dumped all remaining rounds on the a replica of a Moose Horn with a watch for the posters and get it onto tertaining and depicted actual gang leader hiding just inside the hunting knife attached and raised your shoot schedule. events that took place along the door, then finishing the stage with Saskatchewan-Montana Border. four knock-down shotgun rounds. Shooters acted out stages that in - Over the two-day main match, cluded Station #1 on the Outlaw cowboys and cowgirls shot every Trail with outlaws like Dutch type of sweep imaginable. Comple - LADY 49’ER WINNERS Henry and Sam “Red” Kelly tion at the top was fierce, but at the (l-r) end of the day Prairie Storm and 1st Prairie Storm Wobbly Threebeer edged out the nd completion, earning the buckles 2 Alberta Annie with well-deserved overall victories. 3rd Kanada Girl After each day’s shooting, the 4th Cup Cake competitors were treated to some de - th licious food prepared by the Saska - 5 Meadow Creek Ma. toon Muzzle Loader Club members. After Friday night’s supper of fried chicken, we were treated to a Saloon Girl contest hosted by Doc Thomp - son and the newly ordained Rev - erend Sweet Dorsey. The contest started with a sermon from Sweet Dorsey on the evils of wine, women, and song filled with lots of Oh Yahs. SENIOR WINNERS Then the cowboys had the opportu - (l-r) nity to purchase a drink with their st favorite saloon girls, bidding on their 1 De Bogus Bandit specialties like … well maybe I bet - 2nd Grey Beard ter not go there. In fact, a couple of 3rd Hammer Jammer visiting ladies also stepped up and th purchased the right to have a drink 4 Wolf Stenson with Doc and Sweet Dorsey. I can say it didn’t take long for the rev - Granny One Shoot getting ready erend to drop his newly ordained to shoot Stage 1. title and convert his pulpit to a bar. Visit us at sassnet .com April 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 17

GLORIOUS COSTUMES AT THE 11TH ANNUAL . sass ConventIon , (Continued from page 13 ) really fabulous costumes to judge this year. In some cases riod correct shoes with white spats and carried a Morgan we had to make some really tough calls because everyone silver dollar. paid close attention to detail and style. And just for the Judge’s choice was Six Gun Scotsman. This was a beau - record, even though we said you didn’t need a story, most tiful military outfit portraying a Commander – 1 st Lieu - had a wonderful story to tell.” tenant in the Marines. This uniform was a beautiful Thanks so much to my very knowledgeable judges and cream-colored wool coat with naval buttons and piped edge. their helpers. It’s one of the most difficult, but rewarding jobs, The trim work was well done, especially the braided shoul - to determine the costume winners from all those fantastic cos - der epaulets. The sleeves were detailed with gold cording tumes. And thanks to every one who participated in the Best and gold piped dark cuffs. Regulation blue uniform pants Dressed Costume Contest. You really are all winners because were worn with this coat. The red sash and leather belt your costumes continuously support and promote our sport. with regulation buckle, military insignias, and correct but - And now, get out those cowboy boots and vintage Stet - tons all worked to tie this uniform together. The saber, sons, saddle up your favorite Cayuse (er, SUV), and head matching hat, and brogans completed the look nicely. The on down to the Lone Star State and San Antonio for the 12 th history and knowledge he shared with us was fantastic. Annual SASS Convention. See you at the Menger Hotel. As Judge Aspen Filly relates, “All in all, we had some Yee haw!

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. RANGE WAR , SASS MICHIGAN STATE Championship

ort Huron, MI – An - other successful Range august 30 – september 1, 2013 War is in the can. P Range War, also known as the SASS Michigan State Championship of Cowboy Action R. J. Law, SASS Life #15466 Shooting™, is held over Labor Day Territorial Governor – Wolverine Rangers weekend each year near beautiful Photographs by Major Photography Port Huron, Michigan. A total of 227 registered shoot - fourth Michigan State Champi - ers from the states came to partic - onship and K.J.’s eighth! ipate. It was nice to see most of Range War for 2013 was bitter - our old friends come back and to sweet for us. A few days before welcome a bunch of new shooters. Range War we lost one of our We also had the regular contingent shooting brothers. Our good Not only is Gunner Gatlin our of our Canadian brothers and sis - friend, Gaslight, SASS #30516, Michigan State Champion ters (23 this year) come over the passed away unexpectedly on Au - Pale Rider Gunfighter, but Blue Water Bridge near beautiful gust 27, 2013 at the age of 43. This he is also the new Facebook administrator for the Port Huron. was a major body blow to many of Wolverine Rangers. Congratulations to the Over - our shooters, especially his best We really appreciate his all Winner, Santa Fe River Stan, friend, Sixgun Scotsman, SASS commitment to the SASS #36999, from Florida who #68879. Gaslight was a big man Wolverine Rangers organization attended Range War for the first with a big personality, and he will and Cowboy Action Shooting™ time and Overall Lady Winner, be sorely missed. He loved shoot - in the State of Michigan. Two Sons, SASS #12636, from In - ing blackpowder, especially with diana. Congratulations also to Congratulations to our Overall his Dad, Axle Shaff, SASS #30520, had on-line registration available Deuce Stevens, SASS #55996, the Champions—Santa Fe River Stan and his Mom, Dragon Dix, SASS with the option to pay via PayPal and Two Sons! They are modeling #81793. We dedicated Range War Michigan State Champion and his custom handmade leather pistol or credit card. This was again lovely wife K.J. Steven, SASS cases made by our Main Awards 2013 in honor of Gaslight, our very well received. Most of our #62782, the Michigan State Lady Sponsor, Michigan Rattler. friend and shooting pard. shooters are now computer liter - Champion. This was Deuce’s This was the second year we ate and appreciate the conven -

Winners Categories Categories Categories Overall Champions F Cartridge Crazy Mingo, L 49’er Lainey Mae, S Duelist Smokin’ Iron, Man Santa Fe River Stan, SASS #64041 MI SASS #62147 MI SASS #22149 OH SASS #36999 FL F C Duelist Stone Creek Drifter, L F C Duelist Senora Vaquera, Drover Dan, Lady Two Sons, SASS #58853 OH SASS #88673 MI SASS #47291 MI SASS #12636 IN Royal Flush Chuck, L F Cartridge Miss Elaineous, S F Cartridge Scholfield Ranger, Michigan State Champions SASS #89617 MI SASS #45042 MI SASS #24545 MI Man Deuce Stevens, F C Gunfighter L Gunfighter Krazy Legs Kay, S Gunfighter Lassiter, SASS #55996 MI Hondo Dan, SASS #87857 TX SASS #2080 OH Lady K.J. Stevens, SASS #45041 MI La Senior Honey B. Quick, Bad River Marty , SASS #67782 MI Frontiersman Slippery Pete, SASS #47009 OH SASS #23076 MI Categories SASS #40726 MI T.N.Tina, S Senior Ole Short Tom, Buckaroo Spud, Grand Dame Cactus Kay, SASS #57583 MI SASS #12635 IN SASS #35418 IL SASS #15157 MI L S Senior Two Sons, Lightning Wayne, B-Western Faygo Kid, Grand Patron Ringo Wiguns, SASS #12636 IN SASS #45658 MI SASS #26408 MI SASS #30085 MI Ruby Red Jo, Wrangler Santa Fe River Stan, Cattle Baron Deuces Uncle Johnny, Gunfighter Dang-It Dan, SASS #71481 MI SASS #36999 FL SASS #61848 MI SASS #13202 XX L Wrangler Short Fuse Ruby, Three Gun Cole, C Cowboy Ethan Callahan, Apache Wolf, SASS #47939 KY SASS #50738 MI SASS #41005 MI SASS #65272 MI Longshot Lillian, Young Gun Vaquero Jake, Cowboy Deuce Stevens MI L B-Western Pearly R. MaTeeth, SASS #94602 MI SASS #69781 XX Cowgirl K.J. Stevens MI SASS #29198 IN Outlaw Hundred X Kid, Crazy Nate, Duelist Doc Roy L. Pain, Eleanor Jewel, SASS #34788 IN SASS #78754 MI SASS #28321 MI SASS #26409 MI Pale Rider Gunfighter L Young Gun C.W. Shadow, E Statesmen Hair Trigger Elden, L Duelist Buslin’ Belle, Woody Shootem, SASS #98814 MI SASS #67205 MI SASS #91885 MI SASS #24816 OH 49’er Doc Noper, Gunner Gatlin, SASS #65017 MI L 49’er Dang It’s Darlin’, SASS #10274 MI F Cartridge Mean Gun Mark, SASS #17502 FL Senior Riverview Rattler, SASS #78668 OH SASS #67025 MI

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ience of singing up on-line. This year we tried something new and used the ACES Scoring System to score our match. We had a few kinks in working through this, but we were all very pleased with the way the ACES Scoring System worked. It defi - nitely saved a lot of time. This year we continued our tra - dition of posting the shooting scenar - ios for all our stages on our website at www.wolverinerangers.org . Our primary purpose is to promote the Michigan State Championship and to get shooters thinking about Range War. Several of our local clubs use the shooting scenarios for their local matches that immedi - ately precede Range War. This helps generate excitement for Range War. We will post the entire Shooter’s Handbook and scenarios approxi - mately two weeks before the 2014 Range War, which will take place August 29 – 31. This was the seventh year for The Stevens have done it again … SASS Regulator Deuce Stevens as our Michigan State Champions Dang it Dan, Santa Fe River Stan, Delta Glen, were husband and wife, Match Director and he did another and Dang Its Darlin’ drove to Michigan from Florida Deuce Stevens and K.J. Stevens. great job. A large part of the suc - to attend their first Range War. All that time This is the 4th year they have been cess of Range War over the last on the trail didn’t seem to bother them as they Michigan State Champions together. seven years is due to the fact all placed within the top 10% with Congratulations! Deuce is our Match Director. Santa Fe River Stan as the Overall Champion. Deuce and his wife, K.J., design all Now that’s some mighty fine shootin’!

Our mission each year is to did a great job. I had a lot of fun First Lieutenant Bad River Marty, make sure Range War is a compet - hanging out with our Cowboy SASS #23076. We then shot five itive, fun shoot for anyone who Singer, Ernie Sites from Idaho, stages on Saturday in pleasant wants to participate. We know we who came in on Friday. We spent late summer weather. The are in the entertainment business. some time in the Dixie Rose weather in Port Huron in early We want our shooters to have a Band’s trailer after the show, and September has been great for fun weekend, and we strive to pro - the band members and Ernie took Range War just about every year. vide good food, good entertain - turns playing solid country gold On Saturday afternoon Mike ment, and friendly competition in hits. We even had an adult bever - Fink, SASS #29047, and Moe a stress free environment. age or two. It was a blast for me. Guns, SASS #26854, again ran our On Friday, we held our Wild Saturday morning our Open - popular Cowboy Trap event. It is Bunch Mini-Match along with our ing Ceremonies commenced at an annual tradition at Range War normal side matches, including the 8:30 a.m. with the safety meeting where our cowboys and cowgirls return of our long-range side match. given by Match Director Deuce get to shoot their cowboy shotguns 44 shooters participated in the Wild Stevens and the opening prayer by Range War this year was dedicated (Continued on page 20 ) to our shooting brother, Gaslight, Bunch Mini-Match. We also contin - who unexpectedly passed away ued with our Cowboy Mini-Match in the days preceding Range War. this year with 73 shooters partici - He will be sorely missed. pating. Many of our shooters like the opportunity to shoot some prac - of the stages with virtually no tice stages with all their guns. We input from anyone else. We found will definitely continue the Cowboy too many cooks spoil the stew, so Mini-Match and the Wild Bunch we don’t design stages by commit - Mini-Match in 2014. tee. Deuce is also a great ambas - Friday evening the Board of sador for Cowboy Action Directors of the Blue Water Shooting™. In addition to being Sportsman’s Association, our one of the fastest and best shooters Range War host, was kind enough in the world, he is a genuinely nice to bring in the Dixie Rose Band, a guy who loves people. We try to local band of seasoned musicians make Range War a reflection of with a show consisting of classic Deuce’s personality, and that is country hits. We had a little bit of one of the best things we have rain on Friday night that put a going for us. damper on the show, but the band

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Range War • SASS Michigan State Championship

(Continued from page 19 ) ished the remaining five stages. We on the trap range at the Blue will be moving back the starting Water Sportsmen’s Association, time for shooting on Sunday for our host range. On Saturday 2014 to 9:00 am to give our shooters evening Ernie Sites provided the sufficient time to attend Cowboy evening entertainment after din - Church and still get their gear ner in the Club House. Ernie put ready to start shooting on time. on a great show. Ernie is a real We were able to return to our cowboy and is a great singer. favorite banquet location this year Please check out his website at at Alexander’s in Marysville. www.erniesites.com . Due to popu - Alexander’s is just a few minutes lar demand, Ernie will be back for from the Range, and they have Range War in 2014. been our regular banquet and Sunday morning started with awards presentation location on Cowboy Church at 7:30 led by Bad Sunday night just about every River Marty who took over this year. We are known for having one year for Rev. Missalot, SASS of the nicest banquets in SASS, #53069. Rev. Missalot has been and Alexander’s is a big part of preaching at our Cowboy Church that. We already have our reser - for the last six years and has a vation in for 2014. loyal following of cowboys and cow - Artie Fly and Sexie Sadie of entation. We were done this year by an action job and parts donated by girls. Unfortunately, Rev. Missalot Major Photography are usually kept about 8:30 pm. Sunday is a long Colt McAlister, SASS #13823; a was unable to make it this year pretty busy at the banquet taking day and we try to be efficient in get - shotgun belt donated by Doc due to family health issues. We pictures of our cowboys in their ting our business done. Noper, SASS #65017; leather gear look for him to be back in 2014. finest frock coats and their ladies in Raffle awards/door prizes in - donated by Steady Eddie, SASS After some spiritual nourish - their finest gowns and dresses. We cluded a new 1897 shotgun with #29255; and other donations by ment at Cowboy Church, we started always try to get our shooters out at an action job done by Jimmy some of our vendors. shooting on Sunday at 8:30 and fin - a decent time after the awards pres - Spurs; a new Model ‘73 rifle with One of the things we have been

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doing each year is to make comment cards available for each of the shoot - ers at the Banquet. We value the feedback from our shooters and se - riously consider all comments. The Board of Directors of the Wolverine Rangers reviews all comments, and we try to make improvements where we can based on the feedback from our shooters. We decided to eliminate the mid-day break the posses had each day, so all posses could shoot through. This was a change suggested by our shooters, and it was well received. We will continue with the elimination of the mandatory break in 2014. Thanks to all of the cowboys and cowgirls who worked to make 2013 Range War a success. Our sport does not work without many volunteers! We look forward to having all our shooters back and to meeting new friends in 2014. If you are looking for a competitive, fun shoot in pleasant late summer weather in Michigan’s Blue Water country, Range War over Labor Day week - end is the place to be.

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By Gringo Gordo, SASS #84138

Side Matches Thursday was side match day, with perfect weather. In ad - dition to the normal selection of events, a Pig Iron Lane inspired event called “Cut the Rope” took

Judge Roy Bean and Justice Lily Kate were honored guests at the Regulators Reckoning, the Tennessee State Championship.

– TENNESSEE STATE CHAMPIONS – – PRESIDENT OF THE Dew R. Dye and Prestidigitator WARTRACE REGULATORS – Whiskey Hayes, SASS #41999 place. It was a 1/4 " rope out at 30 ', and it looked darn small! helbyville, TN – The This was an event for charity Wartrace Regulators that raised $322.20 for the S hosted the 10th Regu - American Cancer Society. lators Reckoning, The Main Matches Tennessee State Championship, Friday morning was a perfect October 10 – 12, 2013. atmosphere for shooting—clear We limited registration to and calm. Most shooters were in 190 shooters, which we reached – OVERALL CHAMPION – their shirtsleeves. Missouri Lefty well in advance of the match. Whiskey Hayes welcomed everyone and told them all the de - tails about the match. He also in - troduced our honored guests, Judge Roy Bean, SASS #1, and his bride, – OVERALL Lady CHAMPION – Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000. Slick’s Sharp Shooter

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Wes Outlaw, SASS #9268, was the man behind many of the range improvements.

table looked like the bottling room at Jack Daniel’s distillery (about 50 bottles). The special door prizes were a SR1911 from visit us again. Ruger, a .22/.22mag Heritage re - After dinner, we had the Side volver from Franklin Gun Shop, Match Awards and door prize and a Stoeger coach gun. drawings. We continue to enjoy Thanks to Sheriff Frank Canton generous sponsors, vendors, and for rounding up all those door Papa Dave gave the Safety drawn at random, so it made for a prize contributors, and we prizes again this year. Meeting. Whiskey Hayes gave very interesting event. The win - handed out well over 100 door Saturday morning brought the thanks, and then we recited the ning team consisted of Kid Ziggy, prizes. Once again, the prize (Continued on page 24 ) Pledge of Allegiance. Slick’s Sharp Shooter, and Pine We shot the first five stages ei - Ridge Jack. ther on the Hill or on our new row Friday Night Dinner of five recently constructed stages, on the Range depending on which posse you Again this year, our dinner were assigned. Whiskey wrote on the range was prepared by some fast and challenging stages Rollin’ Chopstix, and it just with no “P” traps in any of them. couldn’t have been any better. After the five main match Rollin’ Chopstix was with us for stages were finished, we again the entire match. had a team match consisting of Chickamauga Slim and three person teams shooting the Whiskey Hayes treated us to Texas Star and a plate rack with Karaoke prior to our meal, and a rifle, a second Texas Star and Charlie Bowdre gave the blessing. five knock-downs with a pistol, Whiskey Hayes again recog - and two knock-downs and any - nized our honored guests, Judge thing left standing for cleanup Roy Bean and Justice Lily Kate. with a shotgun. The teams were We were honored to have them

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Regulators Reckoning • SASS 2013 TENNESSEE STATE Championship . . .

(Continued from page 23 ) Events Center made for a com - Some Last Thoughts ated a general purpose range fortable and most enjoyable Last year, I closed by telling where we can shoot our hunting final five stages of the match, and venue. We had great food catered you we were planning to make and carry guns. Hats off to Wes the weather was sunny and by the Bell Buckle Cafe, and the improvements to our range be - and the young men of the Arrow - warmer. Everything went smooth - decorations were ramrodded by fore this year’s match. I’d say we head Ranch who also helped. Of ly, and folks had adequate time to Alchemist Belle, assisted by delivered on that one in spades. course, a number of members get to their room and don their Chickamauga Slim and his wife, We all need to thank Wes Out - pitched in, mostly on Saturdays. dress duds for the big banquet. Miss Lila, and Miss Whiskey. law, who developed the concept As soon as the weather here The Awards Banquet The Tennessee State Cate - for a 15 stage range, ran the bull - gets sufficiently warm in the Saturday night brought what gory Champions received dozer to fill in a pond, reshaped spring, we will be getting out for is certainly one of the best awards plaques, and the top five shoot - the hillside, built a couple of new Saturday work parties to make banquets in all of Cowboy Action. ers in each category received road sections, and so forth. He range improvements for the 2014 The food was great, as usual, and belt buckles. Twenty cowboys also improved the overall match, scheduled for October 16 – this year the spacious Tullahoma and cowgirls shot a clean match. drainage of the range and cre - 18, 2014. This is a week later than our previous Regulators Reckoning. Everyone enjoyed the 2013 Tennessee State Championship … we hope you will return to Wartrace to compete and social - ize in 2014!

Winners Categories Cattle Baron Ruff Edge GA SASS #20553 Papa Dave TN SASS #17266 D Duelist Risin’ Outlaw SC SASS #64767 Double Eagle Dave TN SASS #47357 E Statesman Duelist Tom Horn TN SASS #86684 F C Gunfighter Fire N Fallback KY SASS #60185 L D Duelist Mae Berry TN SASS #90835 L S Duelist Justice Lily Kate TX SASS #1000 Outlaw Tenn. Tombstone TN SASS #34723 Sen. Gunfighte r Cassalong Hopidy GA SASS #39703 Yankee Dutchman TN SASS #66127 Young Guns Vaquero Jake KY SASS #69781 L Young Guns Slick’s Sharp Shooter, SASS #77967 GA Buckaroo Missouri Lefty MO SASS #91721 Mr. Black TN SASS #84716 Grand Dame Cimarron Lil KY SASS #25823 Ida Shotem TN SASS #26131 E Statesman Sunshine Billy TN SASS #28919 L Senior El Paso Susie IN SASS #35199 Roma Jane TN SASS #53037 Senior Fast Eddie GA SASS #76308

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Categories Categories Side Matches Senior Ocoee Red TN 49’er Cumberland Drifter Speed Shotgu n Cowgirl SASS #31751 SASS #69559 TN Hammerless Double L S Senior Witch Doctor GA Wrangler Mose Spencer KY Slick’s Sharp Shooter SASS #70062 SASS #63490 GA Silver Senior Swift Stoney SC Buck Dodgers TN Hammered Double or 1897 SASS #49735 SASS #39695 Alchemist Belle AL Cherokee Sgt TN Cowboy Prestidigitator TN 1897 Dew R Dye TN SASS #38868 SASS #52251 3 Gun L B Western Dodge City Dixie TN Cowgirl Wild Jill Hickok TN Cowboy Prestidigitator TN SASS #90920 SASS #88903 Cowgirl Slick’s Sharp Shooter B Western Copperhead Joe KY L Wrangler Dew R Dye TN GA SASS #39162 SASS #59089 Team Match Kid Ziggy, Frank Buckshot TN SASS #76870 TN SASS #77781 Black Powder Match Slick’s Sharp Shooter GA S Duelist Randy St. Eagle TN L F Cartridge Alchemist Belle AL Pine Ridge Jack, SASS #64903 F Cartridg Silver City Rebel GA SASS #51167 IL L F Cartridge Alchemist Belle AL Lever Action Rifle - 100 yds SASS #93666 Wild Bunch Off Bags: Wes Outlaw F Cartridge Silver City Rebel GA Traditional Duck River TN Off Sticks Dirtwood Dobber SASS #38607 SASS #63679 Hand Held Duck River Duck River TN Modern C. W. Knight TN Single Shot Rifle - 200 yds SASS #63679 SASS #47289 Off Bags Chickamauga Slim L F C Duelist Apple Annie AZ Off Sticks Dirtwood Dobber SASS #11105 Side Matches Hand Held Dirtwood Dobber F C Duelist Bill Carson TN Speed Pistol Cowboy Lever Action Rifle - 200 yds SASS #52250 Traditional Unpleasant, Off Bags Duck River Frontiersman Cleve TN SASS #47592 NY Off Sticks Wes Outlaw SASS #87025 Duelist Shaddai Vaquero KY Hand Held Wes Outlaw C Cowgirl Bella Spencer KY Gunfighter Unpleasant NY SASS #63491 Speed Pistol Cowgirl Best-Dressed Contest C Cowboy Ben T Iron AL Traditional Slick’s Sharp Shooter Cowgirl Dodge City Dixie SASS #47779 GA Saloon Girl Bella Spencer Wichita Colt TN Speed Rifle Young Girl Melissa SASS #79551 Cowboy Prestidigitato TN Young Boy Pony Rider L Gunfighter Last Kiss TN Cowgirl Slick’s Sharp Shooter Gentleman Demented Frenchman SASS #34954 GA Military Capt. D Gunfighter Let’s Go TN Speed Shotgun Cowboy SASS #82713 1897 Prestidigitator TN Shooting Costume L Duelist Iron Maiden TN Hammerless Double Man Brush Creek SASS #67188 Duke Skywalker, Lady Dixie Pistol Duelist Shaddai Vaquero KY SASS #26871 IN SASS #69779 Hammered Double or 1897 Wes Outlaw TN Ben T Iron, SASS #9268 SASS #47779 AL L 49’er Garnet Gal TN SASS #53738

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septemb er 27-29, 2013 G HOST R IDERS R EVENGE The 2013 SASS Cowboy Action Shooting™ neW HaMPsHIre State Championship

By Capt. Morgan Rum, SASS #6859, TG & Regulator Photos by P. T. Litewell

Mountain Regulators and con - tacted the Ramrod for the Pemi group, Bear Lee Tallable, SASS #23670, and offered a way out of his predicament. We would take on the event and run it on one of our regularly scheduled fall week - end shoot dates. Both Bear Lee Tallable and I contacted SASS and told them what we planned to do – RENEGADE ROPER – and arrangements were finalized. Overall Lady While planning for the event, I discovered the White Mountain Regulators were founded in 1993 as a Cowboy Action Shooting™ Club. It is the oldest Cowboy Ac - tion Shooting™ Club in New Ghost Riders have taken over the Hampshire and most of New Eng - Train Station Ticket Booth! land. This would be our opportu - – CRYSTAL CREEK CHRIS – nity to invite the New England New Hampshire State andia, NH – The White Cowboy Action Shooting™ commu - Lady Champion 2013 Mountain Regulators of nity to help us celebrate our 20 th New Hampshire weren’t Anniversary as a Club. In spite of Ghost Riders Revenge, the New C supposed to host a the short time frame, we decided to Hampshire State Championships SASS State Championship in forego the usual 10-stage format of Cowboy Action Shooting™! 2013. A different club was sup - and run a 12-stage event, the first September 27 – 29, Candia, – MISS DELANEY BELLE – posed to do that, but the Pemi Val - 12-stage SASS sanctioned Cowboy New Hampshire, The Kinnicum Cowgirl Winner and ley Peacemakers ran into Action Shooting™ event in New Fish and Game Club hosted the her first Clean Match! difficulties when several key mem - England! So that is how our regu - 2013 SASS New Hampshire State bers of their organization became larly scheduled late September one Championships over three days of Confederate soldiers in the corn - ill, and one was seriously injured day, six stage shoot Ghost Riders beautiful New England fall field to rot. Thirteen years later, in an accident. It was almost half Revenge became The White Moun - weather. The theme for the Ghost the Ghost Riders returned from way through the year when I spoke tain Regulators of New Hamp - Riders Revenge match was based the dead seeking revenge on the with key players in the White shire’s 20 th Anniversary Shoot on a story by the same name found locals and relatives of the Union on the Internet. Blowing Screams soldiers now living in the area who Farm is an outdoor haunted at - had desecrated their bodies. traction located on Blowing In this match competitors Springs Farm in Flintstone, Geor - played the role of deceased rebel gia. The story is a fictional ac - soldiers returned from the dead count of a small band of seeking revenge for that fateful Ghost Riders Confederate soldiers massacred in night of October 13, 1864. rising from a cornfield by Union forces in Friday’s side events included a the cornfield! Blowing Springs Tennessee. After three-stage warm-up that could the battle in which Union forces also be shot as a Plainsman or Wild suffered heavy losses and all the Bunch™ three-stage mini-match. Confederate soldiers were killed, Those with the right equipment the Union troops buried their could shoot all three options. dead, but left the corpses of the Along with the usual speed events,

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– JIMMY SPURS – New Hampshire State Champion 2013 and Overall Man. Outstanding! which included a Texas speed-star, there was a .22 gallery shoot, a six - teen shot shotgun run, and long range events. Saturday there were six main match stages followed by a BBQ dinner. Sunday featured the remaining six main match stages followed by the awards cer - emony. It was a well-attended match in spite of the very short (Continued on page 28 )

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Ghost Riders Revenge . . . crew of White Mountain Regula - that came and helped us celebrate tors that made the match happen twenty years as a SASS Cowboy and to the Cowgirls and Cowboys Action Shooting™ Club!

Winners Side Matches NH State Champions Rifle Caliber Lever Man Jimmy Spurs, Tulsa Jack, SASS #65014 NH SASS #57793 VT Lady Crystal Creek Chris, Rifle Caliber Lever BP SASS, #64500 NH Kid Rich, High Overall SASS #92249 ME Man Jimmy Spurs NH Pistol Caliber Lady Renegade Roper, Man Flint Diamondback, SASS #86367 NY SASS #96251 NH Categories Lady Nanny Oakley RI C Baroness Bonnie Dee, Pistol Caliber BP SASS #28413 MA Kid Rich ME Cattle Baron Beaver Trapper, Long Range Pistol SASS #15684 MA Main Match Pistol Accuracy Buckaroos Tommy Two Spurs, Doc Silverfinger, SASS #92043 ME SASS #3444 MA B-Western Six Shot Steve, Pocket Pistol Accuracy SASS #66105 NH Doc Silverfinger MA C Cowboy Vance Montana, Derringer Accuracy SASS #78957 ME Man Pittsburg Mac, G Dames Crackshot Bev, SASS #20796 MA SASS #59869 NH Lady Shirttail Bess, E Statesman Dirty-Deadeye Don, SASS #92250 ME (Continued from page 27 ) Crystal Creek Chris, SASS SASS #65395 CT Speed Rifle Man Jimmy Spurs NH time frame involved. #64500, as well as overall winners L S Senior Shirttail Bess, SASS #92250 ME Lady Renegade Roper NY Congratulations to New Jimmy Spurs and Renegade S Senior Fly Rod, Speed Rifle BP Splinter Bill, Hamp shire State Champions Roper, SASS #86367. Special SASS #70309 MA SASS #91487 NH Jimmy Spurs, SASS #65014, and thanks to the small, but dedicated L S Duelist Nantucket Dawn, Speed Pistol SASS #15681 MA Man Jimmy Spurs NH Senior Eastern Tenderfoot, Lady Renegade Roper NY SASS #15682 MA Speed Pistol BP S Duelist Bear Lee Tallable, Splinter Bill NH SASS #23670 NH Speed Shotgun S Gunfighter Chelsea Kid, Man Jimmy Spurs NH SASS #47400 NH Lady Renegade Roper NY L 49’er Crystal Creek Chris Speed Shotgun BP NH Splinter Bill NH 49’er Jimmy Spurs NH Texas Speed S tar Frontiersman Kidd Thunder, Man Jimmy Spurs NH SASS #25814 WA Lady Renegade Roper NY L F Cartridge Boston Lady, Shotgun Run SASS #3662 MA Man Six Gun Schwaby NY F Cartridge High Springs Drifter, Lady Renegade Roper NY SASS #92057 NH Warm-up Mini Match F C Duelist Callous Clyde, Man Jimmy Spurs NH SASS #4677 NH Lady Renegade Roper NY F C Gunfighter Gun E. Bear, SASS #5557 VT Wild Bunch™ L Duelist Nanny Oakley, Modern Pittsburg Mac MA SASS #85920 RI Traditional Callous Clyde NH L Gunfighter Emma Goodcook, SASS #49743 NH Plainsman Callous Clyde NH Duelist Six Gun Schwaby, SASS #87405 NY Clean Shooters Gunfighter Preacher Ben Pray’n, Callous Clyde NH SASS #85919 RI Colton Scattergun, SASS #91141 NH L Wrangler Renegade Roper NY Dirty Deadeye Don CT Wrangler Splinter Jack, Doc Savage, SASS #76749 NH SASS #47317 ME Fly Rod MA Cowgirl Miss Delaney Belle, Hawkeye Kid, SASS #24196 CT SASS #6860 NH Jimmy Reb, SASS #54804 ME Cowboy Darksider, Miss Delaney Belle NH SASS #89296 NH Nantucket Dawn MA Side Matches Shirttail Bess ME Long Range Rile Six Gun Schwaby NY Single Shot Beaver Trapper MA Wilfred Aubrey, SASS #78230 NH Single Shot BP Yankee, SASS #266 MA Man Six Shot Steve NH Lady Raven Maniac, SASS #92943 NH

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2013 SThHoE otLoIuTtT oLn E RIVER

aldosta, GA – The annual By Big Boyd, SASS #41359 in this match, the largest number of match of the Valdosta Vig - participants at any match put on by V ilance Com mittee was the Valdosta Vigilance Committee. held on a beautiful day in The four posses moved through the South Georgia on March 30, 2013. scenarios proficiently, aided by The theme of the match was How members of the Lowndes County the West was Won . We shot through Sheriff’s Office Explorers, young many different scenarios from the people who helped with parking, re - classic movie by the same name. setting of shotgun targets, and pick - Marshal Troop, SASS Life #70448, ing up brass. The appreciative wrote the story line and designed cowboys took up a collection of the stages. There were multiple op - nearly $150 for this group of young portunities for the shooter to make people. a choice about which firearm to While most of our shooters begin with and/or which targets to came from Georgia, Florida, Ala - engage first. Many enjoyed this op - bama, and South Carolina, we had portunity. a few from North Carolina and from The match was dedicated to the as far away as New Hampshire. memory of Papa Jake, SASS The top shooters for this match #48550, who passed from this life were Wabash Valley Slim, SASS on February 28, 2013. He embodied #71092, and Shamrock Sadie, SASS the Spirit of the Game as well as #78511. Congratulations to both. any cowboy we know. We have They are not only good shooters, but named our Spirit of the Game fine ambassadors for our sport. Award for Papa Jake. Several members of our parent Much work was done to get the club, the Little River Sportsman’s range back in shape for the match, Association , put in several hours of due to rain and flooding. Top Shooters Wabash Valley Slim and Shamrock Sadie manual labor the week before the Sixty-six shooters participated match. After the match, we shared

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Sam’s Famous Bar-B-Que with all am impressed with the extreme the fixin’s. The tables were set up tenacity required to put on this under the shelter on the pistol match. The range was under 15 feet range, while what was left of the of water two weeks ago. Outstand - floodwaters was still lapping at the ing effort. My congratulations.” – edges of the concrete floor. Several Talon Macleod, SASS #29883. shooters referred to this as riverside “Excellent variety of stages and dining, and it seemed to add a little target placement … there was not ambiance to the lunch. one stand and deliver stage. There We were supported by hard - was one stage with no shotguns and working non-shooters who helped one stage with no rifle ... now that make the match run smoothly—Mel was fun. Marshall Troop did a great Evans, Blue Jeans, Wild William, job writing the stages, and all the and Just Lee. Their hard work be - folks that built the props and set fore and during the match was in - everything up are to be commended valuable. Just Lee also served as ... just a great all around annual the official photographer. match … Great match and congrats A few of the comments we re - to all the winners, and many thanks ceived after the match: to all who worked so hard to put on “Great one day match.” – Major such a great match and ordering up Mishap, SASS #40451, and Ennah that perfect match weather. This is Tizzy, SASS #58791. an annual match ya’ll should put on “Really enjoyed the match. Es - your calendars for next year.” – pecially getting to shoot with both Krazy Kajun, SASS #91338. Florida and Georgia friends. “Bea Itchin’ and I had a great Thanks to all who worked to make time. More misses than I’m used to. this shoot possible, and congrats to We plan on being back next year.” – the winners. Miss you, Papa Jake.” Rolan Kraps, SASS #24084. – Cassaong Hopidy, SASS #39703. “FLASH FORWARD TWO “Brisket and I had a great time. YEARS ... Remember that little My thanks to all the folks who shoot in Valdosta? Well I heard they worked so hard to make this a fun had 150 shooters this year. That’s match. The stages had lots of what I predict will happen with this shooter options and movement. The shoot. Especially if they promise the lakeside dining was really neat, and same kinda people, weather, food, the BBQ was delicious. And, on top and fun stages. Thanks for all the of all that, the weather was perfect! work [the Valdosta Vigilance Com - We enjoyed meeting up with some mittee did]. Posse 4 – a great mix of old friends and making new ones. I new and old friends.” – Loco Notion, even won a door prize AND a coozy.” SASS #20214. – Badlands Bob, SASS #61228. “Wow, what a good time!!! … I’’l “Good match. Good people. I be back next year! Besides, I have to come back to find my stool I left behind after the last stage! Well Done, Folks – Great Match.” – Mis - sissippi Kid, SASS #96425. “I had a great time shootin’ with Posse 1. Fun time had by all, and I even won a door prize while enjoying the great food. My pa would have been proud. Love you Papa Jake.” – Wild Bill Jake, SASS #97318.

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ber 20-22, 2013

F APPALAFCHIAN SHOWDOWN

argent, WV – “You are the number two By SunShine Marcie, SASS #64900 L man in an Irish street gang, your boss and a few other members are wiped out in an ambush by a rival gang. You flee New York and #4x368. As xwith eveIry yeI ar, the head west.” This year’s West weather for Showdown is any - Virginia State Championship one’s guess. This year was no ex - stories were written by Walker ception, as the weatherman Colt, SASS #3035, and Twin, called for rain after four o’clock. SASS #9553. They traced the Punch kept the opening cere - journeys, battles, and obstacles monies short, but effective. of a lone Irishman heading west. Keep ing an eye on the sky, Friday’s events began with Punch, along with the Showdown all the usual venues, speed pis - Executive Board, made the deci - tols, speed rifle, speed shotgun, sion to shoot through lunch. This derringer, pocket pistol, long- turned out to be a great decision. range rifle, and Fracas at the The rain held off until after the Fort. “Fracas at the Fort” could first six main stages were shot, be shot cowboy style, Wild and everyone had their guns and Bunch style, or for some, both. equipment safely put away. Sat - Hosted by Lady Benson at urday evening, everyone enjoyed the “Singing Hill’s Ranch,” the the company of fellow cowpokes — 2013 West Virginia State Champions — opening ceremonies were led by and the hog roast under the tent SunShine Marcie, SASS #64900, and Twin, SASS #9553 new President, Punch, SASS and pavilion. Side match awards

Winners Senior Longhorn Louie, Derringer Fracas at the Fort Overall & SASS #34359 VA Cowboy Twin WV Cowboy Version West Virginia State Champions L Senior Miss Shir Dar, Buckarette Blazin Bailey WV Cowgirl SunShine Marcie VA Man Twin, SASS #52388 VA Buckaroo Sundance Sam Cowboy Twin WV Wrangler Twin WV SASS #9553 WV Young Gun Maverick WV Buckarette Blazin Bailey WV Lady SunShine Marcie, L Wrangler Sidesaddle Sue, Pocket Pistol L Young Gun Rimfire Randi WV SASS #64900 VA SASS #73023 DE Cowgirl Tricky Trina VA Young Gun Maverick WV Categories S Senior Cash Caldwell, 49’er Punch, SASS #5505 MD Cowboy Twin WV Wild Bunch Version SASS #4368 WV L Silver Senior Wichita Wanda, Buckaroo Sundance Sam WV Cowgirl Sagebrush Sal, L 49’er Kiddo Caldwell, SASS #34360 VA Speed Shotgun SASS #7357 WV SASS #55504 MD S Duelist Chilliwack Buck, Buckaroo Sundance Sam WV Cowboy Twin WV Buckarette Blazin Bailey, SASS #57645 MD L Young Gun Rimfire Randi, Clean Main Match SASS #98388 WV Young Gun Maverick, SASS #87690 WV Lena Ockley, SASS #6987 SASS #92789 WV Buckaroo Sundance Sam, Young Gun Maverick WV Last Word, SASS #22225 SASS #95397 WV L Young Gun Rimfire Randi, Model ‘97 Flatboat Bob, SASS #32310 B-Western Rawhide Ron, SASS #87690 WV Cowgirl SunShine Marcie VA Twin, SASS #9553 SASS #70866 VA Cattle Baron Flatboat Bob, L B-Western Honey Hold This, SASS #32310 VA Cowboy Twin WV Memorial Award Winners SASS #49514 WV Grand Dame Tango Rose, Double Barrel Three Barb Benson Memorial Award Cowboy Trapper Dan, SASS #51321 WV Cowboy Mad Dog Max, 64 th Place Overall SASS #40361 VA Side Matches SASS #92788 WV 2 Bits Caldwell, Cowgirl SunShine Marcie VA Long Range Rifle Speed Pistol SASS #55505 Duelist Red Cavanaugh, Lever Action Pistol Caliber Cowgirl SunShine Marcie VA Hardrode Memorial Award 34 th Place SASS #68971 VA Cowgirl Sidesaddle Sue, Cowboy Twin WV Overall E Statesman One Eyed Rooster, SASS #73023 DE Buckarette Blazin Bailey WV Marshal Stubbs, SASS #12109 VA Cowboy Rustler Randy, Buckaroo Sundance Sam WV SASS #11561 F Cartridge Mad Dog Max, th SASS #92788 WV SASS #84653 DE L Young Gun Rimfire Randi WV Dusty D. Weems Memorial Award 27 L F Cartridge Tricky Trina, Buckaroo Sundance Sam, Speed Rifle Place Overall SASS #59582 VA SASS #95397 WV Cowgirl SunShine Marcie VA Kuba Kid, F C Duelist Dirt Slider, Lever Action Rifle Caliber Cowboy Birdseye Jack, SASS #34652 SASS #65857 PA Cowboy Missouri Marshal, SASS #58564 WV Top Gun Shoot Off Winners F C Gunfighter John Barleycorn, SASS #50682 VA Buckaroo Sundance Sam WV Cowgirl Last Word, SASS #76982 PA Single Shot L Young Gun Rimfire Randi WV SASS #22225 WV Gunfighter Walker Colt, Cowgirl Tricky Trina, Young Gun Maverick WV Cowboy Hand Cannon, SASS #3035 VA SASS #59582 VA SASS #60485 WV L Gunfighter Bdoc, SASS #76983 PA Cowboy Missouri Marshal VA

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were presented. This year’s stages were meant to be fun and fast with a lot of movement. Something for everyone! For example, Stage 3 featured the tenth rifle round on a shotgun target. The stage had five shotgun targets, so if you knocked down a shotgun target with your tenth rifle round, you would only have to shoot four shotgun targets with (Continued on page 34 )

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Appalachian Showdown XXII . . . Last Word, SASS #22225, stood as the top Cowgirl. Hand Can - (Continued from page 33 ) each sweep. Other targets in - non, SASS #60485, stood as the your shotgun! This stage was cluded a pop can thrower, Texas top Cowboy, and you guessed it, written by Punch. star, and a “bubba” target. the top Cowgirl beat the top Stage 6, written by Hand Can - Something for everyone! Every Cowboy in the final round. Con - non, SASS #60485, used a set of target has to be set up with care gratulations Last Word! You three rifle/pistol targets and a set because of the uphill grade and done it again! Category awards of two rifle/pistol targets with a se - rocky landscape. were then presented. quence of 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1 on the first Sunday at 9:00 a.m. the last If you missed the Ap - set of targets then double tap 4 four main stages were shot, fol - palachian Showdown XXII, you and 5 on the second set of targets. lowed by the Top Gun Shoot-off missed another great match, Stage 7, written by Cody at the fort. The Top Gun Shoot- and we hope to see you at the Conagher, SASS #6986, required off was open, so all shooters had Appalachian Showdown XXIII, four separate sweeps on four tar - the chance to participate. When 2014. Same time, same place— gets, moving a double tap with everyone else was eliminated, September 26 – 28, 2014!!!

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FRee gRazeRs ,

ffingham County, IL – wThe Midwest region of our country is locked in Pass It on E sub-freezing tempera - tures as I write this, and as much as By Deadman Walking, SASS #42086 I suffer in the summer heat, the rec - ollection of a HOT July Cowboy Ac - tion Monthly Match is actually pleasant as I look out the window at Fossil Creek Bob and the snow and ice that covers the Bull Skinner started the day off with welcome trees and grass in my back yard. and instructions on The members of the Effingham Two demonstration the day’s activities. County Sportsman’s Club have been stages were shot loyal NRA supporters for many for the benefit of several stalwart Effingham Free years. A wide variety of shooting the visiting Scouts, Grazers: Fossil Creek Bob SASS disciplines are supported and en - including a #7286, Bull Skinner, SASS #32372, couraged, including Cowboy Action Wild Bunch™ Old Pathfinder, SASS #22526, and Shooting™. I have been shooting course of fire. Marshal Duncan, SASS #47203. I with the Free Grazers the second apologize to any Free Grazers I Saturday of every month since have unintentionally left out. The about 2001. Despite the challenges Free Grazers, like so many clubs, of operating a shooting facility in a depend on the hard work of visiting state that is decidedly unfriendly to Cowboy Action Shooters that spend not only their money to shoot the the shooting sports, the Free Graz - match, but their hard work and ers have cultivated and earned the sweat setting up and taking down loyalty of a large group of Cowboy targets and props. Action Shooters from champions to The July 13th Free Grazers first time shooters. The second Sat - match was marked by the atten - urday of July 2013 was one of the dance of special guests: a variety of more special Cowboy Shoots put on Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Eagle by the Free Grazers. Scouts, and some of their parents. Running a Cowboy Action shoot Also in attendance to sign auto - over a long period of time is a spe - graphs, visit with everyone, and an - cial challenge. That challenge has swer questions was James Drury, been met in the best of traditions by star of the 1960s television series,

Scouts and parents receive instruction from Bull Skinner and members of the Free Grazers prior to shooting the stages.

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Deadman Walking proceeds to shoot the stage.

The Virginian . Knife and toma - hawk throwing was demonstrated by Tonto look alike, John Phipp. The Scouting retinue was en - couraged to watch as the Cowboy Ac - tion Shooters shot two stages in the warm July heat and humidity. After the Cowboys had finished shooting the two exemplary stages, the Scouts and their parents were encouraged to try it out for themselves. The Joe Shelby takes the stage in US Cavalry garb. shooting Scouts were given a brief, but thorough explanation of the Several Scouts shot a firearm der shotgunning! That boy will lever action rifles, single action re - for the first time that Saturday in grow up dangerous … to criminals volvers, and shotguns, as well as July. All of them enjoyed the expe - and competitors! safety issues. Fossil Creek Bob and rience, but one or two displayed a Yep, the Free Grazers know how Bull Skinner were aided in the edu - tendency towards Cowboy Action to pass it on. I hope every Cowboy cation and the safety officer roles addiction in its early stages. Every and Cowgirl who reads this thinks (loading/unloading tables, timer/RO, once in awhile a high pitched about how they can encourage and spotters) by Railroad Bill, SASS “YAAAHOOO!” was heard and a young shooters to become safe and #25174, Hassayampa John Moss - dirty, sweaty smiling face was at the knowledgeable gun owners in the man, SASS #32663, Bushy Cap, unloading table begging to shoot future. It’s our duty, a pleasure, and Hassayampa John Mossman SASS #15175, Ellie Oakley, SASS and Pine Ridge Jack again. One little feller showed one is one way to help ensure the contin - start the Scouts shooting. #45229, and several other Free of the worst signs of Cowboy Action uing exercise of our constitutional Grazers and Cowboy Action pards. addiction—the LOVE of blackpow - right to keep and bear arms.

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. aLaska 49 ’eRs , Pass tHe Hat For CHarIty By Little Nelchina, SASS #68078

nchorage, AK – The Alaska 49’ers raise money for nonprofit groups, most notably at the Charity Shoot they hold every year. On October 5, 2013, the Charity A Shoot raised money on and off the range, ending with a dinner and live auction where shooters donated over $1000. This year, the club donated money to Alaska Healing Hearts (a group that provides shooting and other experiences for wounded vets), the SASS Scholarship Fund, and the Alaska Gun Collectors Association Scholarship Fund, which gives scholarships to young Alaskans involved in shooting sports.

Trail Boss Tequila Jack, SASS #91009, and Solicitor General Manzanita Jack, SASS #84584, present the check to Alaska Gun Collectors Association President Dwight Walker (l) .

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e e WHAT TO DO ON SUPER BOWL SUNDA Y? By Driftwood Dan SASS #62738 Life /Regulator

(From Left to Right) 1st Sgt Driftwood Dan, Sgt Whisperin Wade, Colonel of Artillery Rowdy Rex, 1st Sgt Tex Dover, Ordnance Sgt. Boxcar, Capt. Lefty Lem, Corporal Celilo, and Sgt. Major Brother Bob. Photo by Meadow Patty

lorence, OR – Well, Oregon coast, 32 shooters showed for the Siuslaw River up, including the Siuslaw River Rangers of Florence, Cavalry. Great fun was had at the F Oregon, there was no match and the after match question—have a match! On this potluck. Rowdy Rex was the over - beautiful Sunday morning on the all winner.

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Dispatches FRom . camp BayLoR , Captain George Baylor, By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life/Regulator #24287 SASS Life / Rugulator #24287 stained wood. Now, when I come off this because I have the hate email the years I’ve seen a bunch of no - Wagon Gun Carts the unloading table looking for my to prove it, and several cowboys table gun cart wagons. he use of gun carts in gun cart, I am faced with a sea of have cornered me and ranted about Making your own buckboard or SASS was born of neces - Rugged Gear gun carts. They come how they are destroying the sport Conestoga wagon or Concord stage - sity once we started in a few colors. But after a few and are as bad as shooting with two coach is a task for a master crafts - T using rifles and shot - matches if you shoot out west, hands, or, heaven forbid, practicing. man. Probably the ultimate in this guns and shooting several stages they’re all desert sand colored until However, the cool factor wagons respect was probably the museum that might be separated long dis - hosed off (something I do religiously, have no enemies. Everybody loves quality scale model Conestoga wagon tances. They evolved along two dif - meaning around Easter and Christ - them, well, everybody except for the by Sheriff E. M. Horton, SASS #7534 ferent lines, practical and cool. mas), and they all look alike. I have occasional spouse who gets tired of (Photo 2) . It won best gun cart at Almost all wheeled items of useful a flag on mine so I can find it. pushing the 100 lb. Concord size have been used as the basis of Wooden carts are still there, but Stage Coach up the ramp on the gun carts—from little red wagons to clearly Rugged Gear is a factor. back of the pickup truck her golf carts, even a wheelbarrow. Cowboy Shooters Supply sells over husband bought just to trans - That last one is probably the most $20,000 worth a year and has for port his gun cart. uncomfortable gun cart conceivable, several years. They are fairly inex - Recently I was watching so don’t think of it. pensive compared to high quality “The War Wagon” on TV The practical vein has con - wood carts (especially if you make (again). When I saw the war sisted mostly of two wheeled gun the wooden ones yourself), and they wagon running through the carts, both home made and com - don’t weigh very much—35 lbs desert, it reminded me that mercially made. Little red wagons empty. Steel rimmed wooden wagon once upon a time someone 2 were practical when we could just wheels weigh as much as 10 lbs showed up at a match in Texas put our guns in soft cases and lay each by themselves. If you have a with a perfect replica of the war Seen at Winter Range 2002, Sheriff E. M. Horton, SASS #7534, them in the wagons. When vertical pickup truck with a ramp and a wagon for a gun cart (Photo 1) . built what may be the carry became required at many winch, then that 100 lb. war wagon That pretty much defines the ultimate gun cart wagon. ranges, little red wagons lost their isn’t much of a problem—until you cool cart. It reminded me over popularity. I had one and put a ver - have to push it up hill at a END of TRAIL until they made him tical rack in it. Soon I discovered, place like Founders Ranch, a judge. When vertical gun carry be - with the narrow track, the raised where a geographical anom - came de rigueur, I guess he had to center of gravity made them dan - aly occurs. It is uphill from add a trailer to his gun cart. gerous in rough terrain. After one the parking lot to Bay 1 … Commercial Wagon Gun Carts tipped over in rough terrain and and uphill back! (It was in There are at least two compa - broke my rifle stock, I came to the Ripley’s Believe it or Not a nies that make realistic, but still conclusion this wasn’t as good an few years ago.) The Rugged practical, wagons that look like 19 th idea as it seemed and moved on to Gear carts have brakes, century Old West wagons, but work other designs, as did most shooters. which become important very well as gun carts. The latest practical cart trend when you park one on the Off The Wall Gun Carts has been the Rugged Gear carts top of the hill. A long time manufacturer is Off that look like berserker baby bug - But for some reason 1 The Wall Gun Carts, 224 North gies. I got a Rugged Gear gun cart there are people who hate Howard Street Greentown, IN a few years back out of necessity. them with a passion equiva - This scale model War Wagon was seen 46936, Phone (765) 628-2050/Fax at a match in Texas circa 2002. They used to be rare, and you could lent to Pepsi hating Coke, or (765) 628-1899, www.guncarts.com. Guaranteed to get a lot of attention. find them in the sea of walnut Ford hating Chevy. I know Gunther Cartwright, SASS Life

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4 #20136 is the cart builder. I first Wendel’s Wagons met him in 2001 or so. Back then he Among the carts that im - didn’t make a cart that would fit in pressed me when I first started and my vehicle. His carts were impres - still do are the wagons made by sive then. They still are. He makes Robert Wendel at Wendel’s Tool a variety of carts with enough op - Rental, 375 East Hwy 6,Alvin, tions to make everyone happy, from Texas 77511(281-331-5766, the three-gun breakdown “Jackrab - http://www.wendels.com/wagons bit” to full-sized three- and four-gun .htm.) Robert retired from the tool carts (Photo 3) to a five-gun break - rental business a few years ago, down cart. (I should note “break - gave his business to his son, and does woodworking for pleasure. He 3 makes some of the neatest wagons I’ve ever seen—Buckboards (Photo 9) , Conestoga Wagons (Photos 6 and 7) , and Chuck Wag - (Continued on page 44 )

“Prairie Runner” Wagon by Off The Wall. The bed is 40 " long and has 20 " and 14 " Amish wooden wheels with steel rims.

5 9 Buckboard wagon with brakes and gun rack by Robert Wendel.

Seen at Winter Range 2002, One of Off The Wall’s 2-wheeled Sheriff E. M. Horton, SASS #7534, carts. This one holds four long built what may be the guns and has most of the options. ultimate gun cart wagon. down” doesn’t mean it will break down frequently, it means it can be disassembled to fit in your SUV or your trunk. It doesn’t mean you can put the five-gun breakdown model 48 " Top Flairside Wagon by in your Smart Car.) Off The Wall without gun rack Holders for six-pack coolers are and accessory box. available options on the big carts. This is a big deal for those of us who wide tracks don’t have the rollover want to remain hydrated and a problem of little red wagons. He shortcoming of several commercial makes a 40 " bed model called the carts. Wheels range from wire with Prairie Runner (Photo 4) and a 48 " 6 solid rubber tires to 20 " cannon model called the Top Flair Side wheels with steel rims. Axles, Wagon (Photo 5) . They both look Covered wagon with brakes brackets, and hubs are all profes - like buckboards, but with big verti - by Robert Wendel. sional grade. “All gun carts are cal gun racks. They come with 14 " handcrafted in my shop one at a and 20 " Amish wagon wheels. 7 time using the finest hardwoods These are multi-spoke wagon available. They are made of solid wheels with steel rims just like Old lumber (not all plywood), glued, West wagon wheels, but a lot screwed, pinned, and sanded prior smaller. Even the Prairie Runner to shipping (Carts are unfinished). won’t fit in a lot of vehicles. You’ll The wheels are 16 " hard rubber, need a big SUV or a pickup. The ball bearing, steel spokes, and solid wagons are not cheap. The wheels steel axle. The wheels are remov - are a significant part of the price, able, as is the main ammo box.” but they “make” the wagons. The He also makes a couple of spec - woodworking is superb, with op - tacular wagons, buckboards with tional dovetailed joints on the big wagon wheels and a wide track. boxes. Gunther sells most of his Side view of a covered wagon Wagons with big wagon wheels and carts unfinished. by Robert Wendel.

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(Continued from page ) 10 Dispatches from Baylor . . .

(Continued from page 41) Four-wheeled vehicles without brakes will roll downhill. Trust me Buckboard wagon ons (Photo 8) . Over the years he on this. When I first saw his wag - with gun rack and custom paint has sold 120 and has several in ons in Texas, I was impressed by by Robert Wendel. stock. I asked about the wheels. the neat paint jobs with pin strip - They are made like wheelwrights ing and sometimes the shooter’s made them in the 19th Century alias (Photos 10 and 11) . They with steel rims and needle bearing looked like brand new John Deere hubs. He has never had one come wagons just out of the factory. back for warranty work. I’ll also Sadly, the hurricane of 2008 took note he puts brakes on the wagons out his paint shop, and now they’re (an option). This is important. sold unpainted. I would really like to have 11 8 one of these wagons, but I have no place to put one due to my limited space constraints. They are not practical for everyone. If they are practical Buckboard wagon for you, then you won’t be as - with John Deere saulted by wagon haters, be - color scheme cause there aren’t any. by Robert Wendel. Everybody loves them. You will have fans. On the other Chuckwagon by Robert Wendel hand, you might not get too with custom paint. The paint many offers to pull your wagon is no longer available, from the parking lot to Bay 1 but it sure looks good. and back at Founders Ranch!

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Badd Dawg Cowboy, reloading Hints SASS #71282 curacy, you begin the Bang and eloading can be a might By Badd Dawg Cowboy, SASS #71282 Clang Dance, only to be stopped mid- dangerous, as there is no stream with the deafening sound of Loading Class 101 that I to see if the primer pocket is clean, halt? The primer has caught on the “Poof!”! Oh dang-it, it’s a “BLIB” R know of, where a feller or if there are any primer rings to frame of the pistol, and you cannot (Bullet Logged in Barrel, refer back might get a few helpful hints to keep remove when using military brass. turn the cylinder. This leaves you to last month’s article), due to no ya from blowing up your gun or This can be done with a primer once again, while meandering ever so powder or not enough powder. Now hurt’n yourself (which I have done, pocket reamer tool. slowly to the unloading table, shak - then, you know what comes next. but that’s another article). Third Step: Mouth opening. ing your head as you count the un - It’s head’n over to the unloading One of the most important Mouth opening your shell is very im - fired cartridges still in your revolver, table hollering, “Anybody got a Rod?” things I learned while working for portant. If you do not get the mouth ruining your clean match. Hmm, and once again, as you drive the Remington Arms was you can’t in - of the shell opening large enough, it what could you have done to avoid logged bullet from the barrel of your spect your cartridge loading proce - will shave the sides of the bullet as such a match embarrassment? rifle or revolver, someone else is dure too much. When the finished you seat it in the shell. One problem Hmm, I wonder. An easy way to counting the unfired cartridges as cartridge comes down the chute, In - with this is when you shave the bul - check to see if you have a high primer they hit the table. spectors give each cartridge a good let, it leaves small slivers of lead hid - is to set the cartridge on your loading Step Six: Bullet Crimp: Now “once over” and pack them in the ing between your bullet and the table primer down and lightly flick - you have the shell correctly charged, boxes. But, let me take you back and shell. These slivers can cause your ing the bullet with you finger. If the and the bullet is seated to the correct start at the beginning. rifle not to function properly or jam cartridge wiggles, you have a high length with the appropriate crimp Today I will focus on the reload - up, with a buildup inside your re - primer. A couple of seconds perform - applied to the bullet. Are you sure?? ing components and the order in ceiver. Again, finding yourself at the ing this inspection could save you the Surely, you have never fired nine which I reload my ammunition. Now unloading table trying to figure out “Dreaded Primer Lock.” cartridges from your sweetly tuned adding 20 to 30 minutes to your re - why your rifle jammed and counting Fifth Step: You now have the ‘73 or ‘92, only to have the last round loading time by inspecting your the unfired cartridges still left in shell’s mouth open to the appropri - jam your rifle. Have you? Well, why shells after each reloading stage your magazine tube, sounding famil - ate diameter to accept the bullet in tarnation did that happen? This might save you 20 or 30 seconds iar? To remove the slivers of lead, I without shaving lead off of it, and can be caused by not having enough added to the stage you are shooting. inspect the loaded cartridge pretty you have seated the primer to the crimp applied to the bullet, allowing First: starting with retrieving much the same way as I inspected correct depth. Now it is time to pow - the bullet to travel back into the the shells out of the cleaner, you do the shells for splits and folded shells, der charge your shells. Depending shell due to the pressure of the Mag - clean your shells, right? Clean except this time I let my thumb nail on whether you have a single stage azine Tube Spring and the recoil of shells help you to find defects, splits, slide along the bullet where it meets press or multi stage, you will charge the rifle. Something I always “Try” folded shell mounts, and besides, the shell, as I rotate it toward me, each shell separately with the single to remember to do when I have set they are a danged sight prettier. I this will allow the thumb nail to re - stage loader, using a powder meas - my crimping die in the press is to empty the clean shells into a box move any lead slivers. urer, or, using the multi press, will load 10 rounds, measure and mark and begin inspection of each one. I Forth Step: Priming the Shell: throw the powder charge each time the 10 th round for ID purposes, and hold each shell between thumb and you move the lever. load it first. Then I fire nine rounds, forefinger on my right hand (cause I If I use my sin - removing the 10 th round and meas - am right handed, but, like a sweep, gle stage press, I ure it to see if the bullet has traveled you can begin at either end), rotat - have my shells in a back into the shell. If it has, it is ing the shell away from me, I let my 50 round wooden time to adjust the crimp a little thumb nail of the other hand rest loading plate. Why tighter and repeat this test until you against the mouth of the shell so I wood? It doesn’t have no bullet travel. can feel the edge of the mouth open - build up a static Step Seven: The LAST STEP, ing for splits or folds in the end of electrical charge as and this is where I take each loaded the shell. will a plastic one cartridge and inspect it one last time I normally find 2–3 split shells often will, and it for folded mouth edges on the shell, per hundred. This is an important makes it easier to lead slivers, and make sure the bul - step because you don’t want to be stick the shells let is seated to the right length. Last standing at the Unloading Table try - under the mouth of but not least, make sure you have a ing to remove the empty, split shell, the powder meas - primer in the shell (not upside down stuck in your rifle barrel and count - urer. After charg - or sideways), and it is loaded to the ing the unfired cartridges still in ing/filling each correct length. your magazine tube against your shell, I take a pre- Well, Partner, there you have it. score. Not fun! You have already checked the marked dowel rod and stick it down It might be a tad long, but it is the Second Step: Resizing and de- primer pocket in step two. Now, you into each shell. The mark on the simplest way I know of loading my priming the shell. If you do not have seat your primer to the proper depth dowel rod will tell me if I have a cor - cartridges and making sure when I carbide loading dyes, you will need so the primer does not stick up above rect powder charge, or if I have any go to the unloading table I have all to lubricate your shells as you run the base of the shell, causing a high powder at all. rounds fired and accounted for. them through the press. Again, this primer. How many of us have I know this has never happened Then I can mosey on up to the un - is a good time for inspecting the started a stage, with a smile on our to you, but you are standing at the loading table and Holler, “Hot-Dang, shell to see if there are any splits or face, fast wheeling our pistol, when line, rifle in hand, the buzzer goes Clean match, and not one misfire!” folds in the mouth opening and look all of a sudden it comes to an abrupt off, and with lighting speed and ac - Yee Haw! 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Visit us at sassnet .com Page 48 Cowboy Chronicle April 2014 NATE CHAMPION ! By White Smoke Steve, SASS #91779 White Smoke Steve, ! SASS #91779 County. On April 5, 1892, a large ranch house/cabin. There were two party of cattlemen, five stock detec - trappers, Ben Jones and Bill ate Champion became a tives, and 23 gunfighters left Walker, who had taken shelter with hero of Wyoming’s John - Cheyenne and headed towards Champion to escape a sudden snow - son County “War” more Johnson County and the town of storm. When Jones stepped out of i N than a hundred years Buffalo, Wyoming, cutting the tele - the cabin the next morning to fetch ago. The War is now considered to graph lines along the way in order a pail of water, he was captured. A be among the first armed struggles to prevent any alarm being half hour later, Walker went to look between the forces of the American sounded or sent to the small ranch - for Jones and was also captured by corporation and the little man. ers in the area. the Association’s hired guns. The Johnson County War was a The ranch of Nate Champion, a With the capture of Walker and western version of such conflicts as spread Champion rented from a Jones only Nate Champion and his the Pullman Strike and the Hay - landowner named John Nolan friend, itinerant cowboy Rueben market Riot. While the Pullman called the KC Ranch, was along the “Nick” Ray, were in the cabin. When Strike and the Haymarket Riot in - road to Buffalo. In the best of Ray stepped out of the cabin a few volved organized labor, the Johnson times, Champion ran some 200 minutes later, Frank Wolcott, the County War involved cattle. head of cattle on his rented land, leader of the WSGA forces and still The corporations at hand were but he was a target for the WSGA addressed as “major,” because he in most part financed by English in - gunmen primarily for his work had attained that rank while serv - vestors who were interested only in with the Northern Wyoming Farm - ing with Union forces during the a return on their investment. Gain - ers and Stock Growers Association, Civil War, told one of his hired gun - ing that return on investment was a rival of the WSGA and a driving men to shoot Ray. Ray was severely relatively certain because the cattle force behind a cattle roundup being wounded and began to bleed heav - in which they invested lived and fed planned by small-time ranchers ily. Champion quickly grabbed Ray on public lands. However securing across northern Wyoming. and pulled him back into the cabin. that return on investment became The gunmen hired by the Champion held out for several more and more difficult after the WSGA besieged Champion’s cabin hours, killing at least four of the be - very hard winter of 1886 in which just north of the Powder River. i sieging gunmen, and wounding sev - temperatures hit 45 to 50 below When the gunmen arrived, they eral others. During the attack, zero. Thousands of head of cattle found four men inside Champion’s (Continued on next page) were killed by the freezing temper - atures or trapped and overwhelmed by the massive snowdrifts that fol - lowed the devastating snowstorms that ravaged the Great Plains. NATE CHAMPION BIBLIOGRAPHY “Setting Cattle Kate’s Story Straight,” – The Weekender. The immediate response by the Hoofprints of The Past Museum, Kaycee, Wyoming Casper, Wyoming Star-Tribune corporate cattlemen, organized as The Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum, Buffalo, Wyoming Frontier Justice – Jim Averill & Ella Watson, http://www.jcs- group.com/oldwest/homepage.html the Wyoming Stock Growers Asso - Fort Phil Kearny Museum, Sheridan, Wyoming “Cattle Kate” Ella Watson lynched. ExecutedToday.com » 1889 ciation (WSGA), was to exert their Kaycee Area Chamber of Commerce, Kaycee, Wyoming control over public lands and ag - The Hanging of “Cattle Kate” and Jim Averell Davis, John W. (2010). Wyoming Range War: The Infamous In - gressively seize water supplies that vasion of Johnson County. Norman, Oklahoma: University of http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ewytttp/history/johnson/i made life possible on that land. Oklahoma Press, ISBN 978-0-8061-4106-0. ndex.html The corporate cattlemen also “Nate Champion” – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pullman Strike – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia claimed ownership over every un - Nate Champion (1857-1892) – Find A Grave Memorial Johnson County, Wyoming | WyoHistory.org branded cow or calf found on the Haymarket Square Riot — History.com open range while barring most Johnson County, Wyoming – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kaycee, Wyoming – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia small-time ranchers from the Asso - Buffalo, Wyoming – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ciation’s annual roundup of cattle. Johnson County Cattle War – April, 1892, Wyoming’s Wild Past Haymarket affair – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The WSGA also redefined Why was Ella Watson hanged? – Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo.com Johnson County War of Wyoming, Legends of America.com rustling to include anyone who Ellen Watson – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Johnson County War Collection: 1884-1893, Texas A&M Uni - versity claimed an unbranded cow or calf “The Bandits Of The Plains”, University Of Oklahoma Press, and imported gunmen, whom they Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 54-5940 Frank Wolcott – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia called regulators, to enforce their Buffalo, Wyoming Chamber of Commerce website, Historical Perspective: The Ijams family and the Johnson new standards. (http://www.buffalowyoming.org) County War of 1892, Casper, Wyoming Star-Tribune , Novem - ber 13, 2011 In April 1892 the WSGA hired BighornMountains.Com – Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming Photo some 50 men, including a number Gallery Outlaw Gangs in the American West, Legends of America.com of known Texas killers, to eliminate Johnson County War – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Johnson County War—Wyoming Tales and Trails the alleged rustlers in Johnson Visit us at sassnet .com April 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 49 Nate Champion . . . (Continued from previous page) hired gunmen fortified in a log sta - Champion kept a poignant journal ble on the TA Ranch along Crazy that contained a number of notes Woman Creek, outside Buffalo. he wrote to friends while taking While Sheriff Angus began a siege cover inside the cabin. at the TA Ranch, the telegraph lines “Me and Nick was getting the regulators had cut were re - breakfast when the attack took stored, and the acting-Governor sent LITTLE KNOWN place. Two men was with us—Bill an urgent request for help to Presi - Jones and another man. The old dent Benjamin Harrison. Harrison man went after water and did not ordered soldiers to relieve the siege FAMOUS PEOPLE come back. His friend went to see and take the regulators into custody. what was the matter, and he did not Walcott and his gunmen sur - Way Out West – come back. Nick started out, and I rendered to the Army and were told him to look out, that I thought taken into custody. Most of the men By Joe Fasthorse, SASS #48769 there was someone at the stable and were held at the barracks of Fort would not let them come back.” D.A. Russell because the Laramie George “Bittercreek” Newcomb Joe Fasthorse, “Nick is shot but not dead yet. County jail was unable to hold as SASS #48769 He is awful sick. I must go and many prisoners as were involved in wait on him.” the case. The men reportedly re - EORGE “BITTERCREEK” NEWCOMB was born near “It is now about two hours since ceived preferential treatment and Ft. Scott, Kansas in 1866 and began working as a cowboy at the first shot. Nick is still alive.” were allowed to roam the base by age twelve. In 1892, he “Boys, there is bullets coming day as long as they agreed to return G like hail.” to the jail to sleep at night. drifted into the Okla - “Them fellows is in such shape Eventually the invaders were homa Territory and joined the I cant get at them.” released on bail and were told to re - Dalton Gang. After being called “They are shooting from the sta - turn to Wyoming for the trial. “too wild” by Bob Dalton, George ble and river and back of the house. Many fled to Texas and were never and Bill Doolin started the Wild Nick is dead, he died about 9 o’ - seen again. In the end the WSGA Bunch. Two months later, the clock. I see a smoke down at the sta - group went free after the charges Dalton Gang was wiped out in ble. I think they have fired it. I were dropped when the sparsely Coffeyville, Kansas. don’t think they intend to let me get populated Johnson County was un - Bittercreek took a fancy to away this time.” able to pay either the Army’s bill a fourteen-year old girl named “Boys, I feel pretty lonesome just for housing the defendants or the Rose Dunn, who had four out - now, I wish there was someone here estimated cost of a trial. law brothers. George and the with me so we could watch all sides Nate Champion wasn’t the brothers were buddies and stood at once.” first, or the last man killed in the shoulder to shoulder in several “I heard them splitting wood. I Johnson County War. In fact, we shootouts with lawmen. Then guess they are going to fire the could be talking today about Jim the Dunn boys became bounty house tonight.” Averell and his wife, Ella Watson. hunters. Newcomb had a $5,000 “I think I will make a break Averell maintained a combina - dead or alive reward on his when night comes, if alive.” tion restaurant and small general head, and when Bittercreek The gunmen from the Wyoming store, a road ranch in the parlance rode up to the Dunn ranch to Stock Growers Association then of the day, on his ranch alongside took a wagon, loaded it with flam - Horse Creek, a hundred miles see Rose on May 2, 1895, Bill mables, and shoved it into the cabin. southwest of Casper, Wyoming. Dunn and his three brothers “The house is all fired. Goodbye Averell attracted the attention of were hiding in the house. boys, if I never see you again.” the WSGA when he wrote to a When Bittercreek got off his —Nathan D. Champion Casper newspaper in 1889 to call horse, the four bounty hunters Nate Champion did “make a the big ranchers and their financial opened fire and Bittercreek New - break’.” He ran from the burning backers “land sharks” and worse. comb fell dead. cabin with a pistol in one hand and “They are land-grabbers. They a knife in the other. Champion was are opposed to anything that would killed as he made his dash from the settle and improve the country or cabin, hit by at least 28 bullets. The make it anything but a cow pasture invaders later pinned a note on for eastern speculators. They ad - the lariat (as with a) branding iron.” Cattle baron Albert Bothwell Champion’s chest that read “Cattle vance the idea that a poor man has Watson was accused, under the had watered a hay meadow from Thieves Beware.” They also care - nothing to say in the affairs of this name Kate Maxwell, of robbing a Horse Creek at the site of Ella’s fully removed entries from the diary country, in which they are wrong, as faro dealer and killing a black boy. homestead claim. Bothwell was that named some of the attackers. the future land owner in Wyoming There was apparently no truth to outraged when she claimed the Champion’s mad dash from the will be the people to come, as most of the newspaper stories. There is no land. After Ella bought the cattle burning cabin was a desperate break these large tracts are so fraudulently historical or contemporary evi - and fattened them on the open that has been glorified in a bronze entered now that it must ultimately dence to indicate that Ella Watson range, Bothwell accused her of statue in downtown Buffalo, change hands and give the public was ever charged with any crime or rustling the animals. Bothwell’s Wyoming, although the man de - domain to the honest settler.” that she was ever known as Kate vigilantes then abducted Ella, picted in the statue carries a Win - Ella Watson and James Averell Maxwell or “Cattle Kate.” found Jim Averell at his ranch a chester rifle instead of the knife Nate were hanged July 20, 1889, on the In hindsight, it appears Ella’s mile away, and hanged both from Champion carried in his right hand. Association’s claim they were cattle great sin was the fact she had filed the same limb of a pine tree. The WSGA gunmen had fired on rustlers. The newspapers also re - a homestead claim for 60 acres of It appears we remember Nate two passers-by. The two passers-by ported Watson had been a prostitute public land along Horse Creek out - Champion instead of Jim Averell rode to local rancher, Jack Flagg, and she was known as “Cattle Kate.” side Sweetwater, Wyoming, and and Ella Watson because Cham - who reported the situation to John - The Cheyenne Sun wrote, “The then had the audacity to stock her pion had a death that could be glo - son County, Wyoming Sheriff Red woman was as desperate as a man, 60 acres with 26 nearly starved cat - rified with a statue and because he Angus. Angus raised a posse of 200 a daredevil in the saddle, handy tle she bought from an Oregon- wrote a heart-rendering descrip - men and found Wolcott and his with a six-shooter, and as adept with bound pilgrim. tion of the final hours of his life.

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(Continued from page 1) SASS #13283, The “Reel” West, was almost full. (I entered, but Mounted Territorial Governors Then the seminars started. If and another seminar, The “Real” with four seminars to give and in - and Advisory Committee Summit. you worked very hard, you still West, by Jim Dunham, aka Kid terviews to get, I not only didn’t The SASS RO Committee and Wild couldn’t make it to all of them. Rio, SASS #2741, The Ralph Fos - get to shoot any, I didn’t make it Bunch RO Committee had meet - Each time slot had as many as four ter Museum, by Tom Dean, Mu - into the room to watch.) Sadly, ings, as did Regional Match Direc - seminars going at once, including seum Registrar, and How to Hold there are no blackpowder cate - tors and State Match Directors. The Doctor Wore Petticoats by Au - a New Shooters Clinic, and Ad - gories in wax bullet matches! There was also a Wild Bunch RO thor Chris Enss, aka Cora Hub - vanced Stage Writing, by Chucka - Additionally at the same time, class. A fella could get really busy bard, SASS #91003. Later Chris roo, SASS #13080. Several there were several other things here. If you were a Regional would do two more seminars: Tales seminars were repeated, which happening. “Victorian Dressing Match Director who was a Territo - Behind the Tombstones, and Bed - made it a little easier to get to the from the Inside Out,” was a rial Governor on the SASS RO side Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw seminars you wanted. unique stage show presentation in Committee, shooting the Wax Bul - Women of the Midwest. While all of this was going on, which Miss Tabitha demonstrated let Championship and giving a After that there was Shotshell three flights of shooters went how a Victorian lady would have seminar or two, and managed to do Reloading Without a Press, by through three stages a day of the dressed “from the inside out.” it all, you’re probably just coming Bottom Dealin’ Mike, SASS Indoor Championship of Cowboy Miss Tabitha, bundle of energy out of a coma now. #22273, Mundy’s Law, by author Action Shooting™. The match that she is, also gave Victorian Those were all daytime activities. Monty McCord, aka Marshal Star, was limited to 75 shooters and Dance Lessons, useful for the Ball Convention Exhibit Hall Saturday night. Dances included Simultaneously, while all of The Grand March, the Virginia this was going on in various meet - Reel, and Quadrilles. ings and ballrooms, the Convention ~ opening Ceremonies ~ Authors Marshal Star and Exhibit Hall was open. When I first Chris Enss held book signings. walked in, I was greeted by General The one and only Velvet Glove U.S. Grant, SASS #2, and com - and friends put on a Ladies Fash - manding general of EMF, Inc. He ion Forum that attracted a large informed me in my END of TRAIL audience. article I mentioned all of the other On Saturday there was a Vic - torian and Old West Fashion Show headed by Miss Tabitha and Mad Mountain Mike. There was also a SASS

At the conclusion of the Opening Ceremonies the Judge declared the 2013 Convention NRA Board Member, Tom King, “OPEN!” has been President of the NY Rifle and Pistol Association for many years and related Phil Schreier, senior curator his first hand experiences of the NRA’s National Firearms illustrating the importance of Museum, brought firearms active political involvement for display from the in defending our Springfield NRA facility Second Amendment Rights. he has worked on for the The Outstanding 2013 past many months … Territorial Governor and introduced the Wooly Award was captured Keynote Speaker, Tom King. by Rowdy Yates of Orange, CA.

The Wooly Award for the best Affiliated SASS Club went to the Wartrace Regulators of Shelbyville, TN.

The Best Merchant of the Year 2013, was determined to be Colonel Dan attended Cowboy Shooters Supply, the Convention to host a The Brisco Kid and The Best Annual Match Team SASS Seminar with Kiamichi Queen, of Ft. Lawson, Wooly Award for 2013 NRA Board Member Tom King. Thursday morning started Oklahoma. The Best Product went to the SASS Alabama The Colonel extended an with breakfast and the of the Year was State Championship, invitation to all Conventioneers Opening Ceremonies. Shotgun Boogie’s Ambush at Cavern Cove, to attend the seminar and The first order of business Short Stroke Kit, and was accepted by get politically involved in our was the 2013 Wooly Awards. Darmstadt, Germany. Marshal T.K.D. Second Amendment fight.

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SASS Firearms companies except TGs ruled it is a legal modification, EMF. First off, I remember writing making Slick and his customers a laudatory paragraph about EMF very happy. ~ seMInars ~ in the END of TRAIL article. Shortly before the Convention Searching through the version in a major clothing vendor canceled The Cowboy Chronicle I find it’s miss - out due to the difficulty of getting ing. I can only conclude Tex edited their wares there from 1300 miles. it out for space. That’s my story, This left an opportunity for White and I’m stickin’ to it! Wolf Trading Co. and Old Scyene. Anyway, please note I am men - White Wolf had a big booth con - tioning EMF first among the ven - taining everything they had from dors. I also mentioned them hats to dress gloves (which I among the Hall of Fame inductees needed), and traffic and sales (see photos). were brisk. White Wolf has been at many matches quietly building a clientele for the last few years. Their presence at the Convention The Seminars continued Captain Baylor hosted Hall of Fame was a coup for both the conven - throughout the Convention. multiple seminars, including tioneers and the company. My old The Judge hosted a couple of “Blackpowder for Dummies,” and “Judge Roy Bean Holds Court” friends at Old Scyene also “Authentic Men’s Costuming.” sessions where he had an Induction brought everything they could get opportunity to provide a little into their trailer and were re - history, relate a little philosophy, warded with a constant flow of and simply interact with the customers. I was glad to see it. SASS membership. These Old Scyene is a small company are always interesting sessions! that doesn’t get the bulk dis - counts from their suppliers the big dealers do, but often they’re the only clothing vendors at some matches and deserve business. I’m sure I missed some ven - dors. If so, it’s Tex’s fault! There were three leather makers present, Ted Blocker Hol - sters, T Star Leather, and Mer - Three different historical nickle Custom Holsters. Ted seminars were presented by Blocker Holsters, in addition to Sergeant Shuster, SASS #60835— their fine line of cowboy leather, Lozen: Apache Woman Warrior, Lincoln County War Characters – had a new line of concealment On Friday another daytime activity The Real Story, and was the 2013 Hall of Fame vests. With the rise in concealed Apache Ethnogenesis: Induction Ceremony and luncheon. carry permits nationwide, there From Munwua to New Mexico. The inductees were — should be a market for this. They Sergeant Shuster also had a (l – r back row) looked really good. Bob Mernickle Convention floor booth and TA and Mist Chance, greeted me by opening a box with sold several varieties of Lead Dispencer, Lassiter, the rig I had ordered at Border - Kona Cowboy Coffee, both by (l – r front row) the bag and by the cup. When Justice Lily Kate, town. The story of the rig is chronicled in the February 2014 he left to do his seminars, he put and EMF (General Grant) up a sign indicating he was doing “Dispatches from Camp Baylor.” Shoot Like a Champion a seminar, to take what you wanted, An outstanding SASS gun - The Mernickles always do well at in Cowboy Action Shooting™ 1 Seminar and leave the money in a cigar box. smith was there, Slick McClade, SASS functions. They both have (“Advanced” was a second seminar) Now at most conventions, this would Slick Magic Guns. He has devel - ever-cheerful attitudes and work by Frederick Jackson Turner, be an invitation to get free coffee. oped several new heavy-duty parts, very hard. They also donate a lot SASS #28271, Here it was a good marketing ploy. such as an extractor for the ‘66/‘73 to SASS matches and charities. (with the assistance of Lassiter), When he returned the cigar box was rifles that is stronger than stock. The 2013 Wooly Award winner was well attended. full of money! SASS is like that. The stock one is heat treated, but for best SASS Merchant, Cowboy beneath that is softer metal. These Shooters Supply, is the creation of are harder all the way through. Kiamichi Queen and The Brisco The ejector on Marlins is two Kid. They had a lot of hard-to-find pieces, and the spring breaks. He supplies, like primers and powder, has one that’s one piece. He also and they had Rugged Gear gun had a zinc coated (for rust preven - carts on display. Rugged Gear tion) 13 lb. spring for Ruger Vaque - carts are extremely popular in ros. Larsen E. Pettifogger, who SASS, primarily because of im - does great gunsmithing oriented provements The Brisco Kid got articles for The Cowboy Chronicle took into the carts. Brisco, a gunsmith, some of the new parts for an article also fixed some guns that broke as well-done and informative as during the Indoor Championship. Colonel Dan and Tom King the one on Slick’s brass front sights Laced Ladies had corsets and host an interactive session The first 1-1/2 hour Seminar in the December 2013 Cowboy other Victorian ladies’ finery. The where strategies and opportunities segment featured Chronicle . Additionally the “Widder - men staring were not dirty old men. for political activism were discussed “Gunsmithing Simplified” matic” con version Slick does on They were contemplating Christ - with interested SASS members. by Coyote Cap, SASS #14184, Marlins results in a trigger being mas gifts for their wives. Really. Getting SASS members politically followed by active at the local and state levels “Tricks of the Trade” straightened, and on Friday the (Continued on page 52 ) is critical to our success. 1 and 2.

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(Continued from page 51 ) formal frock coat outfit, including Major Photography had a spats, all the way from Austria. booth and spent Saturday evening Well, the hat was collapsible, but memorializing the formal cos - still … For more about the out - tumes of hundreds of convention - standing costumes presented, see eers in their finest. Cat Ballou’s article in this issue. Bullet Splat Jewelry had a The plan for Sunday was the good-sized end booth. In addition Convention Exhibit Hall would be to solid silver jewelry molded from open until noon, but we learned bullets that have hit steel targets The ball went off without a hitch, with excellent table service (no buffet), Saturday night all but about three and splattered into one-of-a-kind outstanding food, and entertainment by Jim Dunham, concluding with vendors had packed up in order to “flowers,” Lady T also sells “The a promenade of the costume contestants and the costume contest awards. get out Sunday morning, fearing Ultimate Hat Hanger,” which is worse weather. Thus Sunday the only hanger that will allow me knives. New vendor Cherokee uniform and a US General’s uni - morning most of the convention - to hang 14 cowboy hats in the bed - Firearms was present, but unfortu - form to a Scottish 79 th Highland In - eers checked out and headed room of the motorhome. nately I didn’t get to talk to them. fantry uniform with a kilt that won. home. Considering that many Dixie Gun Works, one of Guns of the Old West was The best-dressed lady, Velvet conventioneers needed two lug - SASS’ longest-term vendors, was listed, but Bottom Dealin’ Mike Glove, who wins wherever she gage carts to get their costumes to there. They’ve been to all of the had to come by himself and goes, seemed to have on a different the rooms, this made leaving no Conventions. couldn’t run the booth and do sem - costume every time I saw her, in - mean feat. But, we all got out. Doc, of Doc’s Old West, who inars by himself, so they didn’t cluding one with 7120 sequins. It was a memorable Conven - makes all kinds of chaps, includ - have a booth. She made all of the outfits with a tion. Misty Moonshine and the ing the shotgun chaps I wore most Normally I talk with every little help from her friends. SASS staff and volunteers did a of the week, had a question for me. vendor I can, and most are happy, The best-dressed gentleman, fantastic job and should be congrat - A customer asked for vegetable but there’s always one who isn’t. Wyatt Ristl, from Austria man - ulated. I would suggest The Wild tanned chaps, thinking they were This time I couldn’t find that guy. aged to bring a silk top hat and Bunch consider a bonus to the staff more authentic. Vegetable tan - This is a sign of success. ning would make them stiff, like Parties saddle leather. I went to the foun - Thursday night three parties tain of all knowledge concerning were going simultaneously. Wear - ~ Wax Match ~ 19 th century clothing, Mad Moun - ing long-johns to a party proves tain Mike, and he gave me a quick you don’t mind looking ridiculous history of tanning in the Old West. to entertain. The ladies wore The short answer was, no, that much nicer costumes, from PJs to wouldn’t be authentic—or wear - nightgowns to robes. able. Doc was happy and emailed Friday night the plan was for his customer. a riverboat cruise and dinner. Redwing Trading Co. was busy But, worst-case scenario weather selling screw knives and clothing occurred. It had been snowing all week. The screw knife has be - since Thursday. Some people had come a must-have tool for shooters. been commuting to the Conven - There were also some first time tion from other hotels. At least vendors. Page Custom Knives was one couple put on Facebook they there, with beautifully made were snowed in, and I never saw them at the Convention again. By Friday night the roads hadn’t been ~ tea ~ plowed because it was still snow - ing, and it was cold, bottoming out at 5°F. The buses to take us to the riverboat couldn’t travel, so the cruise was canceled, and the hotel’s restaurant staff did the dinner very efficiently with four buffet lines and a traffic director. It was excellent, especially consid - ering the short notice. The staff was fantastic. The Yesteryear Ball The ball was preceded by the biggest costume contest I’ve seen in years at any SASS event, reminis - cent of the first Convention with a The incomparable long line of women who had first Green-Eyed Gypsy and her entourage hosted the class superb costumes. The mili - Victorian Tea. Elegant tary category had at least a platoon The Indoor Championship competitors shot provided firearms and socializing and informative of accurate, well-done uniforms wax bullets at steel targets in a variety of Cowboy Action Shooting™ history make this a popular ranging from a Confederate Marine scenarios. All of the firearms were staged. Cowboy Fast Draw and memorable experience. first lieutenant to a naval officer’s also set up their shooting booth next to the wax bullet range.

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River Crossing, home of the It was surprising to see ever-busy Miss Tabitha Jim Downing sitting at his and Mad Mountain Mike display, “The Gun Engraver,” had a busy booth as well. and not busily engraving guns. I posted a lot of photos of the It made sense he wouldn’t be Convention on Facebook because most conventioneers and my blog, Journal Of A didn’t have their guns, unlike Gypsy Cowboy. The photo of a at matches, where he spends smiling Miss Tabitha (when is his time engraving. But, this she not smiling?) was one of the The SASS Territorial Governors Summit was held 11 to 2 on Thursday was a good will visit. Showing most popular. Everybody loves and 9 to 12 on Friday. The rumor that three duels were fought off his work would generate Miss Tabitha. Where would the over some of the proposed regulations was exaggerated … slightly. bookings for future engraving. Convention be without them? Who would teach us how to dance a Quadrille? for their grace under pressure. replica of the taproom in the House Next year the Convention will of Lords Club in London. Several be in San Antonio next door to the rooms are reputed to be haunted. Alamo, a shrine to what makes One of the ghosts is Captain Texas different from the other 49 Richard King, the founder of the states, in the historic Menger Hotel, King Ranch, who died there in built in 1859. Teddy Roosevelt re - 1885. No place but Texas. cruited Rough Riders in the bar, a (Continued on page 54) ~ vendors ~ At Taylor’s when I asked At Cimarron Firearms the pretty young lady they were very proud of behind the counter a one-of-a-kind takedown what was new and different, gun rack that an artist she showed me a SAA in wood had made with a black nitride finish. This is a finish that’s for them. Sadly When I saw Lefty Gunz-Ales, they won’t be having pretty permanent and adds lubricity, enabling you to keep who, when he’s not shooting those for sale, but Frontiersman, is a Ruger VP, as a recovering your guns drier in windy/sandy climates. Mounted Shooters, and asked about a new run woodworker I could of Ruger Old Armies, he dropped appreciate the artistry who shoot in dusty arenas, will find this especially useful. a bomb. He said he was working even without a rack full on it, but was having trouble of SASS rifles. They’ll also have it on 1911s. Holster wear will take off convincing the board there was a conventional blue/case a demand. He told me to go hardened finish, which is to the Ruger website. There authentic in appearance, is a drop down menu for but certainly makes the gun “News and Resources.” look worn quickly and leaves One of the choices is it vulnerable to rust. “Tell the CEO.” Nitride is a tough finish Go there and send an email that will last a long time. to the CEO telling him you want more Ruger Old Armies. I did and spread the word as well as I could through the SASS Wire and Facebook. Please do the same. Then come back and finish reading this article!

Earthwalker Boots, as usual, First time vendor spent the Convention measuring feet Custom Metal Products, LLC Of course the SASS Mercantile (including a mold of one foot) had AR500 steel targets for sale, had a big booth just inside and taking orders for their offering free shipping, the entrance. As expected, / comfortable and popular boots. a big deal with heavy targets. it was busy.

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TStar Leather of Berlin, Maryland was a new vendor at the Convention this year. The NRA Museum had a display of Another first time vendor, TStar specializes in hand-crafted leather Hollywood guns, including one used by Buckaroo Hats, goods using the finest of materials. Elvis as well as John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, was busy every time I walked by. All their pieces are hand cut and finished, Glenn Ford, Tom Selleck, and other western Historically the Convention is a and all decorations are carved and tooled stars. Phil Schreier is always a delight good place for a hatter to display. by hand. TStar has just introduced to talk to, always cheerful, and with At the Convention we’re the a new Wild Bunch TM rig, specially built interesting stories about guns. Single Action Shopping Society! for competing in Wild Bunch TM matches.

Cimarron Firearms has an in When I asked what was new and different At Ruger when I asked what new, development single-trigger hammerless at EMF, I was shown a beautiful I was shown a neat little 3 " barreled double 12 gauge made in Pakistan. laser-engraved Pietta SAA, birdshead grip Single Six .22 that is It looked as finely finished as an blue and casehardened, with beautiful only sold through the distributor, Lipsy. expensive European double. It should. laser scrimshawed faux ivory stocks. It has an ejector that completely ejects Many of them are made in the same factory. It’s called the Liberty. Their full line .22 LR cases and an engraved cylinder. Some are finished there, some in Europe. was on display, and they seem to have It’s not a SASS gun, but it is cute. This will be an under $800 shotgun. most of the categories covered with both It was tightly fitted, which is a good thing. SASS ‘73s for everything but B-Western and It will need a good SASS action job. ‘92s for B-Western, SAAs and percussion Right now for SASS single-trigger doubles pistols, and a line of 1911s for Wild Bunch. there is the budget priced Stoeger single-trigger double in the under $500 range, and used SKBs and Browning BSS, both well over $1300, plus gunsmithing. There’s definitely a place for this gun.

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(Continued from page 1) test and Pool Party. Many of those Old West bathing suits ended up drenched, as some participants just had to push others into the pool! For those wanting a milder evening, they could attend a Western movie night in the Chateau’s SASSfras Theatre.

– 1 st place Couples PJs – Gaye Abandon and – 1 st place Ladies and Sweetwater Jack – 2 nd place Men’s Swimsuit – – 1st place Men’s PJs – Men’s Swimsuits – Black Jack Ketchem Cole Trigger Texas Flower and Texas Mac (Continued on page 56)

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– 2 nd place, Men’s PJs – Dirt Merchant

– 1 st place rd Ladies Purple PJs – – 3 place Men’s PJs – – 3 rd place Men’s Swimsuit – Fannie Kicker Blackcat James Lefty Mills

– 2 nd place Ladies Swimsuit – – 3rd place Ladies PJs – Seneca Sadie Cheeka Bow Wow

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hateau on the Lake, and Mustang John Bass, and Branson, MO – One of Seneca Sadie and Black Jack the most popular Ketchum. New Mexico was repre - C events at the SASS sented by Wind O. Smith and Aunt Convention is the Victorian and E. Cues and Tex and Cat Ballou. Wild West Fashion Show hosted by The Texas contingent included Miss Tabitha and Mad Mountain Texas Flower and Texas Mac and Mike of River Crossing, Inc. It was Ellie Gant and T-Bone Dooley with nearly a two-year hiatus since the T-Bone’s daughter and young last presentation, and the crowd grandson. And from Arkansas— filled up a very large room in the the always exquisitely attired Vel - – 3 rd place Ladies Swimsuit – – 2 nd place Ladies PJs – Chateau to enjoy this year’s show. vet Glove. Salty Sandy Laurie L’Amour SASS members presented their Come on down to San Antonio own fashions, as well as fashions to see what the next Victorian from the vendors in attendance. and Wild West Fashion Show will Seen “strutting their stuff” highlight at the 12 th Annual SASS Pajama Costume Winners Purple PJ Award were Coloradans Cool Hand Lizzie Convention! Ladies 1st Fannie Kicker, SASS #71706 1st Catoosa Red, SASS #57246 2nd Laurie L’Amour, SASS #94581 Victorian Swimsuit Winners 3rd Cheeka Bow Wow, Ladies SASS #88699 1st Texas Flower, SASS #43753 2nd Seneca Sadie, SASS #88387 Men 3rd Salty Sandy, SASS #88726 1st Cole Trigger, SASS #80601 2nd Dirt Merchant, SASS #61422 Men 3rd Blackcat James, SASS #29509 1st Texas Mac, SASS #43494 2nd Black Jack Ketchem, Couples SASS #88386 1st Sweetwater Jack, 3rd Lefty Mills, SASS #73235 SASS #28885 Gaye Abandon, SASS #44556

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MONTANA WESTERN HERITAGE PROJECT FIrearMs , GUnLeatHer , and attIre of the Todd D. Kesner, William Abbot, FrontIer West 1860 – 1900 and Katelyn Andersen, Authors ast summer, my wife, Reviewed by Lawdog Bob, SASS #80263 Barbara, and I were the Old West. While initially in - traveling through Ne - tended as an educational tool for ed - thors and set designers for movies. L braska and made it a ucators, the authors acknowledge Firearm photos are artistically point to stop at the Stuhr Museum the book’s potential value for re-en - posed and as good as many seen in of the Prairie Pioneer near Grand actors, history buffs, and Cowboy Ac - the various “coffee table” firearms Island. For western history afi - tion Shooters. I couldn’t agree more. books you’ll find in the bookstores. cionados, this museum is a must-see The publication is a soft-cover As a matter of fact, several of the experience, with its collection of re - book with semi-gloss pages that en - photos are superior to anything I’ve located 19 th century buildings, a hance the professional level full- seen. (My only quibble is that some working farm, railroad equipment, color photography. The print, otherwise fine photos are divided be - reconstructed businesses, and pro - headings, and page numerals are tween two pages, a necessary publi - fessional museum displays. While classy in appearance. While a 156- cation evil, I suppose.) For instance, there, I stopped in the bookshop to page book cannot be comprehen - there are numerous close-ups of the browse around and discovered the sive, there is, nonetheless, a large breeches and open actions of every - publication listed at the head of this amount of historical information of thing from Remington rolling article. Designed as a primer on great value to the student of blocks, to Winchester ‘73s, Spring - western artifacts and their histori - firearms, gunleather, and historical field trap door rifles, and period cal associations, the book is a fantas - clothing (the latter for both men shotguns. Weathering and wear of tic resource for anyone interested in and women), as well as western au - the metal and wooden parts, as well

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as engraving details are clearly vis - complete the survey of typical west - ible. There are numerous well-fo - ern clothing. Detailed and knowl - cused close-ups with great lighting. edgeable descriptions of men and Many pre-Civil war era women’s fashions, and their custom - firearms are featured, as well as the ary usage in the Victorian era sup - well-known later-era firearms with plement the photos. which most Cowboy Action Shoot - The sidebar stories provide con - ers are familiar. Several pages are cise factual information on supple - devoted to cartridge conversion mentary topics in a way that firearms, particularly the variety of doesn’t bog down the primary text post-Civil War Colts that were tried narrative. For instance, a summary up until 1872. What I like about of the development of cartridge pis - the photos is they represent typical, tols in the text narrative focuses well-used firearms of the frontier only on single actions. However, a period, firearms that might have sidebar mini-text provides an ab - been used by working cowboys, set - breviated introduction to Colt’s tlers, soldiers, Native Americans, early experiments in developing lawmen, or desperadoes. While Colt and marketing double action and Winchester firearms predomi - firearms without going into too nate, Smith and Wesson, Reming - much detail. A period catalog illus - ton, and other gun makers are tration accompanies this sidebar. fairly represented in this necessar - In the section on period attire, a ily abbreviated pictorial history. sidebar is used for a concise history This is not so much a book of Levi Strauss’s invention that about fancy engraving, gold plating, eventually became what we refer to or presentation firearms that have today as blue jeans or “Levis.” A been hidden in vaults for over a historical timeline is provided on hundred years. Accompanying the improvements such as belt loops firearm photos are excellent de - and pocket rivets. Still another scriptions filled with historical ref - short sidebar pinpoints the develop - erences. Numerous sidebar stories ment and acceptance of such items throughout the book supplement in men’s attire as snap closures and the basic narrative of each chapter. zippers. This sort of “factoid” infor - While pictures and text about mation can be useful to the Cowboy firearms constitute the first half of Action Shooter who is trying to de - the book, there are also equally in - velop a historically authentic shoot - formative chapters on gunleather, ing costume. hats, boots, chaps, and Victorian era Not all the illustrations are of clothing. Specimens of everything museum artifacts. There are sev - from Colt Patterson revolvers to eral reproductions of period women’s undergarments were as - sketches, paintings, lithographs, sembled from several notable muse - and photographs, all of which are ums across the West to create used to illustrate particular points interesting and informative photos. in the text. There is little or noth - Of particular interest is a story ing in the way of “filler” material in about the items recovered from a this book. Everything I read was steamboat named the Bertrand that interesting, whether it was a histor - had sunk in the Missouri River in ical treatment of the lever action Montana Territory in 1865. The rifle, pommel saddles, hoopskirts, or boat was eventually covered by corsets. While no discussion is what thirty feet of mud and lay undis - you would call comprehensive, all turbed until it was rediscovered in discussions are informative. After 1968. Because of the airtight burial, all, the authors acknowledge that the artifacts on board the boat were the book is meant to be an overview in remarkably good condition when of the various topics. The inquiring archaeologists excavated the find. reader is provided with a well-con - (The Missouri had changed course structed, useful bibliography for by 1968. As a result, the boat was further reading, as well as a list of found several hundred yards from museums, important libraries, and the river.) Over half a million arti - historical societies that contributed facts in near-pristine condition were to the production of the book. removed, and many are now on dis - The Montana Western Heritage play at the Visitors’ Center of the Project is published by Montana DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. State University Extension, copy - Ten of the photos in the book show right 2011, ISBN 0-9635114-3-2. articles of apparel from the wreck My copy cost $25. All proceeds from such as boots, shoes, frock coats, var - the sales of this book go to support ious men’s hats, shirts, trousers, a the Montana 4-H Shooting Sports rubber slicker, and a dress. Many Program, which is reason enough to other photos from various museums purchase a copy of this book.

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2013 SASS Scholarship Recipient

WHy everyone needs to Be a s UCCessFUL sHooter

By Tater Bug, SASS #90160 perience and more dedicated to the sport, they also encourage Adapted & Edited by others to do better by setting such Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000 an inspiring example. Another characteristic of a can think of is being safe; a disci - The safe procedures you follow successful shooter that goes hand plined and cautious shooter is al - when handling your gun ensures in hand with the others is main - ready well on their way of the safety of the people around taining an optimistic, positive at - becoming a successful one. Gun you, as well. In our current polit - titude and good, high spirits in safety is of the utmost importance ical situation, it is even more im - the sport. Practically all the in any kind of shooting sport. A portant to be vigilant in our safe shooters I know would attest to gun not handled with extreme operation of guns. A successful the fact the most important thing Tater Bug, SASS #90160-OK caution and control can turn just shooter has learned safety is about matches and shooting in a tool into the most dangerous paramount in shooting sports, general (besides safety, of course) weapon. They are not to be taken and while they follow all safety is to have fun and be happy in hen I think of the topic, lightly. When first learning to procedures and handle guns with just having the opportunity to be “Why everyone needs shoot guns, learning how to han - caution, what really distinguishes there. Fun should always be the to be a successful dle them safely, and how to abide them is they teach others how to more important motive in partici - W shooter,” I first have to by gun safety rules and regula - enjoy shooting safely as well, and pating in matches, as compared to qualify what I believe to be quali - tions should be the first subjects are watchful of their fellow shoot - the competition and winning. The ties of a successful shooter. One covered, instead of concentrating ers. The use of firearms comes successful shooters I know of do of the most important aspects I on accuracy or speed right away. with a responsibility, and a suc - not let the competition go to their cessful shooter knows part of head and are simply there to in - their responsibility is the educa - teract with others and enjoy tion of others. shooting guns. A good shooter A successful shooter also holds should be able to keep a positive, the drive and desire to improve. graceful attitude even when they While I was just starting my ex - might not be having the best perience in shooting, I became match, especially when things quickly aware of the difference be - seem to go wrong. I personally tween shooters at matches who struggle with this occasionally, as didn’t much care whether they I have a very competitive nature, improved since their last match but I can always rely on my and those who were always striv - friends, family, and fellow shoot - ing to do better. Anyone wishing ers to remind me what outlook I to be successful, whether a should be holding on to. shooter or not, should wish to im - All of these characteristics prove and push themselves con - found in successful shooters hold stantly to do better. I believe true in all other aspects in life as people who challenge themselves well. A safe, responsible, driven to do better in everything, in turn, individual with a contagiously make themselves better people. positive attitude can have a great The shooters I’ve observed who do influence on everyone around this not only seem to be more in them, which makes them truly Over 11,000 i tems tune with their own shooting ex - important indeed.

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2013 Scholarship Recipient

WHy everyone needs to Be a s UCCessFUL sHooter

he first thing that came to mind when I consid - Red River Emma, SASS #90161 ered this prompt was T this question: how do Edited & Adapted by we measure success in shooting? Red River Emma, SASS #90161 To answer that question I had to Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000 – OK determine what I thought made a shooter successful. I have been a servant. Firearm safety is even sport. This positive outlook is with their current performance. member of Cowboy Action Shoot - more important now as our Sec - something to be applied to all of My dad is one of these improve - ing™ for nearly three years now, ond Amendment rights are being life so we can live life to the ment-driven shooters. He is not and in my time I have been able to questioned. A safe shooter shows fullest. I believe optimism is im - afraid to ask for advice from more observe a few shooters I would we can accept the responsibility of portant to defeating troubles and experienced shooters, and works consider successful. These shoot - owning and handling a firearm, depression, and we can learn this to apply the wisdom he learns to ers all have three things in com - and we deserve those Second from our attitudes in shooting. his own shooting. This is a con - mon: they practice very safe Amendment rights. A mindful My final conclusion about a cept that can hold true to all of firearm handling, they have a fun shooter is also most likely accus - successful shooter is they have a life. Change is how we get better, and positive attitude toward com - tomed to paying attention to their mind of improvement. They are and we can always improve. A petition, and they have a drive to surroundings and considering always working to be safer, more successful shooter understands improve. These are things every - how their actions affect other peo - accurate, and more efficient. A this and can apply the things one should work toward achieving, ple. This is useful and important shooter who does not work to im - they’ve learned at the range to as these attributes not only make in life even when not shooting. prove their skills is stagnant, and their everyday life to become a a successful shooter, but a success - The second attribute I ob - can become frustrated or bored more successful person. ful person in all aspects of life. served in successful shooters was In any shooting sport, gun their attitude and spirit of the safety is paramount. When my fa - sport. Nearly all Cowboy Action ther was teaching me how to Shooters will agree having fun is shoot, our first and foremost con - more important than winning. I cern was that I learned how to am naturally competitive and per - handle the guns with caution. sonally struggle with this some - Dad emphasized my safety, as well times. However, my friends and as the safety of the people around family always remind me of this me, were far more important than philosophy, and by the end of the speed and competition. A good match, I know I had fun and that score will never justify careless - is all that matters. ness with a gun. I believe the per - A good shooter in my opinion son handling the gun is what is one who accepts competition makes a firearm dangerous, and it and loss gracefully, and is able to is every shooter’s responsibility to stay positive when things go handle their firearms safely, as wrong. This kind of shooter has well as be watchful of others. what we call “the spirit of the Every good shooter I have game,” and preserves the familial seen excels in being safe and ob - aspect and camaraderie of the

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how she might enjoy this. “Bookworm,” as she was called Bookworm sandy, sass #75829 by most SASS members, was not a SASS shooter—in fact, never in her entire life did she fire a round in aka Sandy Hovonick competition. She was, however, known throughout the Midwest for her abilities as a scorekeeper, regis - August 17, 1946 – February 3, 2014 trar, organizer, and as a cook. Be - ginning locally, she kept score and By Count Sandor, SASS Life/TG #74075 helped with registration and organ - ization wherever we traveled. She quickly became widely known and n February 3, 2014 Bookworm year and told her mother she was sought after for those abilities, and OSandy, SASS #75829, aka going to grow up to be a teacher— her culinary contributions were in Sandy Hovonick, passed away un - and she never wavered from that great demand at every potluck. (I expectedly at the far too young age conviction. Immediately after col - sometimes joked I was invited to be of 67, from a pulmonary embolism. lege, she was hired to teach in Rock a posse marshal so Sandy would be Sandy was born August 17, Island, where she remained for her there to do her thing—no one ever 1946 in Rock Island, Illinois, where, whole career, teaching in the ele - really corrected me!) She served as except for her final two years of col - mentary grades for 40 consecutive a posse scorer (and ramrod!) at lege, she lived her entire years, then working as the district’s nearly 250 events, including State life. She was called to the New Teacher Mentoring Coordina - level shoots in seven states, and at teaching profession at an tor for the next two. Even after re - Gunsmoke 2013, the Midwest Re - early age—the fam - tirement, Sandy couldn’t give up gional. In addition, Sandy was my ily legend is that teaching, spending the following Co-Match Director for our club’s she came home four years working one or two days She also served several terms as three-day annual, and in 2013, had one day halfway a week as a mentor to students who President of the Rock Island Educa - also begun conducting training through her needed extra help, and holding this tion Association, the local bargain - classes in the use of A.C.E.S. In kindergarten position right up until her death. ing unit. recognition of her many contribu - Sandy and I met in high school, tions to SASS and to the sport, last and after our very first date were September she received the honor exclusive partners for just a few of being nominated by her peers as days short of 50 years. We married a SASS Regulator. on her birthday in 1968, the week Although I will do it, I am not between her college graduation and looking forward to the first time I the start of her teaching job. When turn with timer in hand, and she is I decided to take up Cowboy Action not there to record the score … that Shooting™ in 2007, she went with will be tough; but then, it wouldn’t me to a new shooter’s clinic and surprise me at all if a passing watched. The next day we showed breeze brought to my ears a whis - up at the monthly shoot, dressed in per of her voice reciting her second- the full costumes of “the Count and favorite three word phrase … “Get his lady.” I did not shoot, but in - over it!” stead we walked around, talked, Love ya, Sandy … see you on and observed, and she allowed as the other side.

CAYCUSE WAGONMASTER , SASS #84647 Obituary Correction

aycuse Wagon - Cmaster’s alias was misspelled in Caycuse Wagon Master (left) his obituary in the receiving his March ‘14 Chroni - award at cle. Caycuse is the Headquarters town in British Co - 2013 from lumbia where he Neut Reno lived. The Chroni - and cle sincerely apolo - Rhianna. gizes to his family for the typographi - cal mistake.

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e e German Jack, sass #37442 January 16, 1924 – February 14, 2014

Submitted by his family

aker City, OR – Ger - Bman Jack, SASS #37442 (Herman Charles Schlingman), 90, died Feb - ruary 14, 2014 at his home. A Celebration of Life was held at the Baker City Church of the Nazarene on March 15, 2014. German Jack was born on January 16, 1924 in Denver, Colorado. His in - credible journey began in Denver where life took him to several cities before end - ing up in Gold Beach, OR at five years old. Here, he un - knowingly met the love of his life, Virgene, early on (she practiced there for 30 years was eight) because he was where he was loved and re - friends with her brothers. He spected. graduated high school from During this time, he raised Gold Beach in 1942. In Decem - four children and belonged to ber 1943, he enlisted in the Air numerous organizations. He force and was certified in single loved to scuba dive, shoot, boat, engine aircraft as a pilot. He hunt, fish, and host the “great finished his active duty in 1945. pumpkin” at Halloween. His He then went to college at greatest love was his wife and UC Davis in California where family. In his later years he he attended undergrad and vet - loved to do Cowboy Action erinary school. He graduated in Shooting™, and won a Gold 1954 with a Doctor of Veteri - Medal at the Huntsman Senior nary Medicine degree. Games in St. George, Utah. During this time period he German Jack traveled ex - re-met and married Virgene tensively and lived life to the Wright on January 29, 1950 in fullest, as he did not want to Redmond, OR. He said it would miss anything in life. be a cold day before he married, He is survived by his wife of and it was so cold Virgene’s cor - 64 years, Virgene, son Wyatt sage froze while she was walking and wife Anne Schlingman of between the car and the church. Delta, CO, son Dyrk and wife After graduation from veteri - Kathy Schlingman (Doc nary school, he moved to Baker Blondie, SASS #46708, and Hit City to join a veteri - N Miss, SASS #83861) of Ore - narian practice at gon City, OR, daughter Sherrie the Animal Clinic of and husband Joe White of Baker on 10 th Beaverton, OR, and seven won - street. He derful grandchildren.

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Wolverine Wrangler, tHe taLL Man SASS #22963

n the 50s, 60s and early 70s, Western se - ries dominated net - I work television. Here is a look at one of those shows. The Tall Man is a half-hour, black and white, fanciful western about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the garded a gun as a way of survival gunfighter, Billy the Kid, which when there was no alternative. aired from 1960 to 1962 with sev - By Wolverine Wrangler, SASS #22963 Billy saw his gun as the great enty-five episodes. It stars Barry equalizer. His unlawful activities Sullivan as Pat Garrett and Clu Tall Man as one of Billy’s girl - He is depicted merely as a mis - kept bringing him and Pat closer Gulager as William H. Bonney, friends, Rita. guided young man, not a sadistic to the day of reckoning. better known as Billy the Kid. This highly fictionalized se - killer. Despite the fact they were Garrett eventually shot Billy Clu Gulager was thirty-two in ries provides a more humane on opposite sides, Pat Garrett and dead in a night-time ambush at a 1960, eleven years older than image of Billy the Kid than Billy Bonney were close friends. farmhouse in Fort Sumner, New Billy the Kid at the time of his recorded in real history. On the Pat looked upon Billy as a Mexico, but no concluding episode death in 1881 at the age of TV series, Billy the Kid is a young younger brother or son, but some - depicting the grim conclusion was twenty-one. Marianna Hill was gunslinger with a penchant for how knew someday they would be filmed. Set in and about Lincoln, cast in several episodes of The getting in trouble with the law. forced to a showdown. Pat re - New Mexico, the series opens with

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Glu Gulager (Billy the Kid) serenades Marianna Hill (Rita) in “The Tall Man” series.

a view of the extremely long rett, unaware the two were then on shadow cast by Sullivan on a friendly terms. western street, hence the name, I’ll be turning the rotary TV chan - “The Tall Man.” nel selector dial now. Stay tuned. In the premiere episode which * * * * * * aired on September 10, 1960, “Gar - [email protected] rett and the Kid,” Garrett arrives in * * * * * * Lincoln, depicted in the series as a References: Wikipedia; Wikimedia gold-mining boomtown, as the new Internet Movie Database(IMDb) deputy sheriff, only to learn a Alex McNeil, Total Television , crooked saloon owner, Paul Mason Penguin Books, 1996, 4 th ed.; (Robert Middleton), dominates the Ronald Jackson, Classic TV West - community, including the marshal, erns , Citadel Press, 1994 Dave Leggert (Denver Pyle). When Harris Lentz III, Television West - he sees his power threatened, erns Episode Guide , McFarland, Mason tries to hire Billy to kill Gar - 1997.

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By Chilkoot #58803

amined. “Yup. One left.” Crick “Uh, sorry. High falutin’ name “Fren? … fren? I jes’ come on closed the action and re-holstered. fer a hoss, ain’t it? Crick, huh? yew, hobblin’ ‘long this here dusty “Mornin’. Hot ain’t it?” That all there is ta it? What wuz trail less ‘n tweny minutes ago, an’ “Mornin’, yer own self. Well, I yer pap’s name?” alreddy yew gone an’ got me in - wuz hopin’ it’d turn off a mite “Dry Wash ... Iffen it’s impor - volved in an attemted murder! warmer, so’s I cud ride nekkid. I tant ta yew.” Step back, fren, I gotta move on!” Chilkoot, likes ta feel the breeze on my hide. “ Wait … wait, don’t tell me, bet Crick kicked Richard into a fast SASS #58803 Great day fer a ride iffen a feller’s yew got a brother named, Flood.” trot and as he turned off the trail got a hoss. Whar’s yourn?” Eb went to slappin’ his knee. into Chuckwalla, he looked back to ars pointed up the trail. “Oh, he’s livin’ the high life, “Got no brother. Got a sister, see Eb fading back toward Three A nickered alert. “I see there in the Chuckwaller Hotel, ... tho, name of Crystal Pure Spring, Penny. He felt a pang of regret, but ‘im, hope he ain’t wantin’ yew know, soft bed, fresh hay ‘n How’s thet?” it didn’t last. “Tsk,tsk, tsk! Pur ole E ta be feisty, Richard. I oats, delivered by a purty senorita “When you folks name yer Eb Tyde! … Hate ta see a feller ain’t got but one cartridge left after ... waal a senorita, ... couldn’t git ‘im hosses an’ women ya’ll pull out all down on his luck like thet … But killin’ breakfast this mornin’. Dang ta leave. Say, my name’s Eb Tyde, the stops, don’t ya?” then folks will gamble, even that rabbit wuz hard to hit, ... tough yew know like the soap powder. “Say! We’re near back ta knowin’ odds is ‘agin ‘em!” besides!” Crick pulled the Merwin What’s yourn?” Chuckwaller, wan’t yew goin’ t’other Crick tied Richard to the hitch - Hulbert revolver from its holster, “Crick. Hey! Quit holdin on ta way ta Three Penny?” ing rail and eased into the hotel, unlatched the barrel, and slid it for - Richard’s bridle, he don’t like folks “Waal, I wuz, but it don’t mat - one of three ramshackle buildings ward, allowing the cylinder to be ex - messin’ with his stuff!” ter, I wuz gonna borry my cuzin’s that formed the metropolitan center rifle, ‘n see couldn’t I persuede that of Chuckwalla. thievin’, tinhorn, Smilin’ Smith, to “Hep yew?” turn loose of Swampfrog, my hoss. “I’m right smart hongry. Yer But I see yew got a respectable ‘Bill of Fare’ says round steak ... one piece on yer belt. Would you be of a dollar. Thet right?’ mind ta borry it ta me fer a spell?’ “Right as rain! Comes with Fri - “Doubt that I would. I’m not joles n’ coffee … no xtra charge! one to mix in another’s affairs. Iffen yer wantin’ one, I’ll git the ‘Sides what iffen yew kills ‘im? cook ta skin … er prepare one now. Puts me awful close on to responsi - Jes’ set tight.” ble, bein’ my pistola ‘n all, don’t it?” Crick cast a critical eye on his “Look here, Crick, yew gonna hands and nails and seeing noth - hep a fren, er not? They ain’t a ing needing attention, wiped them speck of law in thet town, an’ people on his greasy vest. The rest of ben sayin’ how ol’ Smiley has over hotel also fell under his surveilling staid his welcome, an’ I ain’t all thet gaze. The table at which he was good a shot … I’ll prolly miss ‘im, seated was made more or less level ‘less he’s leanin’ ‘gainst the muzzle!” by the use of rocks under its bro -

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ken legs. Only one good chair ex - now I gotta dismount an’ see ken I isted … he was in it. A sign pro - fin’ it. Damn! See th’ trouble claiming ‘Bar Closed’ hung over strangers causes. Damn!” empty space. “Whar’s the bar?” he “Watcha lookin’ fer?” asked. “Had to burn it last winter.” “Nunaya durn beeswax!” Came the answer. “Not ver’ frenly, thar, neighbor. “Okay, here yew go! One steak I wuz ‘bout to hep yew look ... iffen ‘n all th’ fixens. Enjoy! ... Er ... a ride ta Chuckwaller, thar wuz in careful o’ tha’ bones ... an’ an’ don’t the offin’.” eat tha’ head!” His lips kinda “Whar’s yer hoss? Yew know, curled and a shiver ran thru the thet thar high steppin’ sorrel with waiter’s frame. the fancy name, Crick? Smilin’ Crick looked at the cracked Smith got ‘im, dint he? Har, har, plate in front of him. “Whut th’ har. Why ya wantin’ ta go ta hell is this? Looks like a tree limb Chucwaller any ways? Looks ta with th’ bark rubbed offen it! It’s me like yew jes’ lef’.” a dang snake, ain’t it? You said “Well, I admit it. Thet sorry “steak,” this ain’t steak! … I don’t human bean needs six feet of desert mind eatin’ a snake iffen it’s pre - sand real bad, an’ thet’s a fact. He pared right, but don’t tell me it’s got my pistola an’ all my plunder.” steak. Deception don’t set well “Whut gotcha, Crick?” with me! And, whar’s the beans?” “Pair of eights an’ lyin’ eyes, to “Waal, it’s sort of a play on my three card straight, deuce low. words … you know steak … snake, Dern deck, only got forty five cards! tis round tho … th’ frijolies are in Here, let me hep look . Whut we thar, jes’ search aroun’ a mite, hopin’ ta fin’?” yew’ll fin’ ‘em! They’s fresh today! “Yew know th’ house rule is thet Coffee’ll be up, quick as we mend lowball hand is only good on the the pot … Yer dollar handy? ... second Friday of the fourth month! Whar yew kin reach it now, jus’ in Oh, a .30-40 Krag cartridge.” case I got to make change … “Come on prosperous of a sud - Anythang else?” den, since I last laid eyes on yer “I’ll have a beer … cervaza … worthless hide, dint yew?” none o’ thet damn pulke, hear, I ‘ve “Thet cuzzin I told yew ‘bout got seen whut goes in it!” tarred of the Big Show an’ passed A drop of sweat fell off the end on. Lef’ me all his goods. Dammit, of his nose and hit the table. A five now I got ta look after ‘em … an’ al - lined skink darted out from under ready lost a cartridge. Dern respon - the edge of his plate and got the sibilities other folks’ll put on a drop of sweat and darted right person, I swear!” back under the plate. Crick “Here tis!” watched the skink with amuse - “Nossir, Thet’s a .45-70, keep ment and lifted his plate slightly. lookin’” The lizard was gone. “We git thru, I’m aimin’ ta let a “Wuz, that part of my dinner, little daylight thru Smily’s gizzard, er jus’ entertainment? … Got eny I’ll tell yew!” hot sauce?” Crick ate in silence. A “Eb … he’s gone … him ‘n Sor - woman approached his table, “ rowful Sue lit out two days ago … Hey, cutie, yew wanna dance, my sweatin, both of em like a couple of card ain’t full yet?” hogs … took everythin’ but the roof “Sorry, lady, two left feet. of th’ hotel. Peckerwood Paul cain’t Whar’ll I find Smilin’ Smith?” cook anythin’ fer th’ guests now cuz The woman made a sour face all the cook pots is gone with Smilin’ at Crick and pointed over in the Smith n’ Sue. Went to Laredo they corner. “That’s him sittin’ thar say. Hope thar gud ta Richard!” grinnin.’” “Looka here, then. Ain’t no use “Wanna try yer luck, stranger? goin’ back ta Chuckwaller, and they I’m a push over!” ain’t nothin’ ta do in Three Penny … —————— let’s hit fer Filthy Creek.” Ears pointed up the trail. A ‘What’d we wanna go thar fer?” nickered alert. “I see ‘im. Best be “Well, pard, they’s a ‘dobe thar cautious. Yew can meet some un - run by a Mexican mamacita who friendly folks on this road an’ they makes a prarie dog mole’ that’ll ain’t above takin’ a body’s goods.” beat eny fried snake yew ever et! Eb pulled his rifle from the scab - She’ll have a cool pot of pulke ta bard and worked the bolt. The wash it down. Les’ go, I’m Krag threw a cartridge into the hongry,ain’t yew? We kin take a dust. “Damn! I only wuz gonna wash in the crick. Damn, it’s still check ta see iffen it wuz loaded, hot ain’t it?”

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.Inspiration In ,

Grey Fox, SASS Life Regulator #223, the oLD West & Miss Mary Spencer, SASS Life #55147 By Grey Fox, SASS #223 Life, Regulator, Hall of Fame Inductee ody, WY – In 1982 three creative pistoleros conjured up a new C shooting discipline, Cowboy Action Shooting™. The Judge, SASS #1, Diamond Jim Chisholm, SASS #27 (deceased), and Bill Hahn (deceased) dreamed up an Old West shooting sport, which led to the creation of the Single Action Shooting Society. These Cowboy Action Shoot - ing™ events stirred an incredible amount of press. All the high pro - Each year the match continues to expand … file gun writers in the 1980s clearly the desires of its customers are being satisfied! spread the word. Every magazine was a-buzz with this unique inno - the Cody Shooting Complex in the vative format. This press gave summer of 1989, the first annual rise to interest everywhere, which Cody Country Cowboy Shoot. The motivated other creative folk to legend began. act. The concept was infectious Grey Fox discovered this event and in the Old West town of Cody, and attended. What a wonderful Wyoming a dedicated cadre of time! The pistoleros in Cody were shootists organized a club called a joyous and welcoming group. “The Hart Mountain Range Regu - Bad River Bob, Three Fingers Even the Judge held court at lators.” Their association would Connett, Cheyenne Able Hooks Buffalo Bill’s Summer Range. be among the earliest to field Cow - and their five co-conspirators put It was always nice to retreat boy Action Shooting™ events. on a fun shoot. to the Irma for an evening of Bad River Bob, SASS #720, Cheyenne Able Hooks was an relaxing and visiting with Stan “Three Fingers” Connett, and extremely talented artist. The new-found friends! Cheyenne Able Hooks, SASS #9860 committee built plywood props, (deceased), enlisted five more en - which Able Hooks painted as Wild matches from all around the U.S. thusiastic shootists to assemble West characters. They cut steel and a few from Canada. The one of the first organized Cowboy targets and constructed a small growth was noteworthy. Action Shooting™ matches held at façade … their creativity and re - The torch was then passed to the Colter’s Hell Justice Commit - tee. A new association created in The Grey Fox and Miss Mary Cody, Wyoming led by President Spencer have seen various inclemencies in the weather Yakima Red, SASS #13539, devel - during Cody matches— oped Buffalo Bill’s Summer desert heat, snow, high winds, hail, Range. The name engendered by and torrential rain. Yakima Red, the fevered imaginations of SASS #13539, did not let the boat Yakima Red and his cohorts in the sink during the deluge of 2004! lounge of Buffalo Bill’s hotel, “The Irma.” Yak’s quote—“we did our sourcefulness caught the attention best work there.” 1998 launched of shootists from far and wide. By the first Buffalo Bill’s Summer the mid-1990s the Hart Mountain Range. The improvements at the Range Regulators established a Cody Shooting Complex continued By 2001 Mounted Shooters had discovered the Wyoming State dedicated cowboy range at the with bermed bays, spectator barri - Championship. What could be more “cowboy” than horses, six-guns, Cody Shooting Complex. Competi - ers, vendors row, and prop storage. and miles and miles of “open range?” tors began to attend subsequent By 2001 the spectacle of

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The core conspirators of the Hart Mountain Range Regulators— Bad River Bob (l) , Cheyenne Able Hooks, and Three Fingers Connett.

Lucky Bill, SASS #765, and the Wyoming State Championship onship flourished. Doc, the thespian mule, as well. Members of the Wild Canadians had attended the on patrol during Buffalo Bill’s Bunch from SASS—The Judge, Cody Summer Match from the be - Summer Range 2001. SASS #1, Tex, SASS #4, Cat Bal - ginning in 1989. The Grey Fox lou, SASS #55, and other SASS lu - and Nine Toe Jim became Hart Mounted Shooting was introduced minaries attended. The legend Mountain Range Regulators num - and a great array of Mounted had grown large. ber 11 and 12. The number of Shooters and hundreds of partici - 2007 the torch was passed to Canadians had steadily increased The Russian, SASS #78317, pants from mainland U.S., the High Lonesome Drifters of by the late 2000s. The Canadian winning best dressed Military Hawaii, Australia, Germany, and Cody. Kari Lynn, SASS #13849, contingent became a significant at the High Lonesome Drifters Canada were attending the Cody and Joe Cross, SASS #13848, di - component of the Cody event, Wild West Shootout in Summer event. rected Cody’s Wild West Shootout. bringing with them keen competi - Cody, Wyoming 2013 In 2003 BBSR began to host The Wyoming State Champi - (Continued on page 70 )

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Inspiration In • THE OLD WEST . . .

(Continued from page 69 ) each month (contact Yakima Red, 307-254-2090) or the High tors, many of whom would take Lonesome Drifters second Sat - home laurels. The Canadians urday of each month (contact The Grey Fox discovered this match are noted for their superb cos - Kari Lynn 307-587-2946). in the very beginning. He is seen here tuming, particularly “The The Grey Fox acknowledges – (l) with Cheyenne Able Hooks and Russian,” SASS #78317, whose Stan “Three Fingers” Nine Toe Jim along with some persona is The Archduke who Connett of Cheyenne’s painted “cowboys.” 1992 Poster by Cheyenne Able Hooks hunted in Wyoming during the Nine Toe Jim, SASS #678 1870s. The Russian has a uni - Bad River Bob, SASS #720 form for every reason and Yakima Red, SASS #13539 every season. The legend was Artie Fly, SASS #25397 perpetuated. Sexy Sadie, SASS #25398 2014 will see the Wyoming The Grey Fox appreciates State Championship moved to their contribution of vignettes Cheyenne. The host event will and images from the near past. be “Hell on Wheels” June 12 – They are invaluable in recon - 15, 2014. To participate, phone structing the last 25 years of 307-287-6733. Cody Summer Matches. The Grey Fox has attended The Grey Fox also thanks the summer events in Cody all the others, many now de - from 1989 to 2013. The regular ceased, who contributed their monthly matches are hosted by time, effort, and resources over By 1995, word had gotten out and many more competitors made the journey the Colter’s Hell Justice Com - the years to create the legend to Cody for the Summer Range match. mittee the first Saturday of of Cody’s summer events.

Humble Beginnings – A basic few attended the first Summer Ranges in the early 1990s.

In 2001 most of the amenities SASS competitors have grown to expect at State Matches were in evidence at Summer Range.

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HOW TO EXPLAIN ACTION SHOOTING TO VISITORS ON THE RANGE . “Shooting the Stag e”, icture yourself at your gun By Palaver Pete, SASS Life/Regulator #4375 cart, waiting for space at Palaver Pete, the loading table, when a simple explanation of the stage can shooting on the clock. Winners are de - SASS Lif e/ Regulator #4375 P you notice a party of visi - be made, and here is an approach you termined by the best times over a se - tors standing close-by, watching the might consider using. ries of 10 stages—any questions thus under supervision for safety, and shooting with great interest, but none After introducing yourself, you far?” Now that you have made some when completed shooting the stage, of the shooters seem interested in the might want to explain the stage as friends and possibly new SASS mem - they head for the unloading table visitors—sound familiar? I’ve seen follows: bers, you might continue as follows: (pointing out both), where their this situation often, and although I “The cowboy/cowgirl shooters you “Shooters are randomly selected firearms are inspected to ensure they can sometimes break-away to explain see before you are gathered into what for a posse, and consist of many differ - are empty and safe. You will also note what it is they are watching, there are we call a posse. Each posse you see ent categories. Some are shooting shooters point their firearms down- times when I simply cannot. Unfortu - here at the range is shooting a differ - blackpowder, and some are shooting range and/or up in the air for safety. nately, these spectators are often ig - ent stage. Each stage has a scenario modern smokeless powders. Some are It’s a very serious penalty if a shooter nored, and eventually they move on to describing how the shooters are to shooting one-handed, called Duelist, forgets safety for a moment, and other venues without having received shoot that particular stage. You are and some are shooting with both points any firearm toward the audi - any explanation at all—this is not watching posse number one.” hands, called Traditional. Some cate - ence. Doing so means either a dis - good for our sport and game. As soon as you see you have their gories are age related, like over 60 and qualification from the stage, or even This scenario happens often be - attention, you can continue along over 70, and some are gender related, more serious, a disqualification from cause most shooters are thinking this line: such as Lady Senior. So in essence, the match—any questions? Well, if about the stage they are going to be “The shooter must hit the re - cowboy shooters are not competing you have questions later on, don’t hes - shooting, and not who is visiting or volver, rifle, and shotgun targets in a with each other, they are competing itate to ask any shooter, and thank who is watching them—this is normal, prescribed sequence. If they hit all within their respective categories.” you for being here!” and frankly, the safe thing to do— the targets as directed, they have then Continuing on: Treating our spectators with cour - shooters waiting to shoot the stage shot the stage clean, and you will see “You will note the Shooters load tesy is the cowboy way! You’re a Daisy should be thinking about not only the the scorekeepers raising their fists, as their firearms at the loading table if ya do, and HAPPY TRAILS, Pard! stage scenario itself, but how to shoot an indication that the stage was shot the stage as safely as possible. How - clean. If they miss one or two shots, ever, if you have already shot the you will see the scorekeepers raise a stage, or if you have time before your number of fingers that correspond to turn is up, then you might want to the number of misses. If the Shooter think about approaching the visitors does not shoot the stage in accordance and giving them a ‘rundown’ about our with instructions, they receive a pro - sport, and about the scenario of the cedural. The penalties are 5 seconds stage and how it is being shot. You re - added to their total time for a miss, ally don’t need to go through the entire and 10 seconds added to their total history of Cowboy Action Shooting™— time for a procedural. All shooters are e e Military Mounts for Muster at FORT MISERY By Loco Poco Lobo, SASS #36108, & Nawlins Kid, SASS #36107 New England/NorthEast Wild Bunch Ambassadors

ios are being finalized and the troops are whitewash - ing the facilities for the in - coming bunch. Thanks to Ruger for covering our new recruits and keeping the cold, white stuff off their heads! Ruger has stepped up to sponsor the New York State Wild Bunch TM State allston Spa, NM – Wild Bunch Championship AND have donated a Ruger Ambassadors Loco Poco Lobo and SR 1911 for the Wild Bunch TM raffle! B Nawlins Kid reporting in from the We hope the troops can muster up field on the latest training exercise Satur - enough ammo to meet us at Ballston Spa day, March 15, 2014. We have 14 fresh re - May 24 – 26, 2014 for “Muster at Fort cruits and several refreshed Wild Misery!” Bunch™ Range Officers ready to roll for For more info visit: the 1st Annual New York State Wild http://www.circlekregulators.com/wild Bunch™ Championship. The scenar - bunchchampionships.html

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City AK AZ (continued) alaska 49er’s 1st sat & tripod 907-373-0140 Birchwood old pueblo shootist assoc 1st sun gilly Boy 520-249-2831 tombstone 3rd sun Cowtown Cowboy shooters 1st sun & Barbwire 480-773-2753 peoria golden Heart shootist society 2nd sat & poco loco louie 907-488-7660 Fairbanks 3rd sat last sun tombstone shootist society 2nd sat Cowboy doug 520-457-3559 tombstone Juneau gold miners posse 3rd sun Five Card tanna 907-789-7498 Juneau Whiskey row gunslingers 2nd sun turquoise Bill 928-925-7323 prescott AL Colorado river regulators 2nd sun & Crowheart 928-505-2200 lake russell County regulators 1st sat Will killigan 706-568-0869 phenix City 4th sat Havasu north alabama regulators 1st sun drake robey 256-313-0421 Woodville naZtY Bunch 3rd sat tumbleweed rose 928-899-8788 Flagstaff Vulcan long rifles 2nd sat sugah 256-504-0820 Hoover lake powell gunslingers 3rd sat Bare Fist Jack 928-660-2104 page alabama rangers 2nd sun dead Horse phil 205-531-7055 Brierfield los Vaqueros 3rd sat Buckeye pete 520-548-8298 tucson gallant gunfighters 3rd sun Buckboard Jim 205-991-5823 Hoover payson Cowboys 3rd sun rowdy lane 575-937-9297 payson old York shootists 4th sun derringer di 205-647-6925 Hoover mohave marshalls 3rd sun & d B Chester 928-231-9013 kingman AR 5th sat White river gang 1st sat arkansas tom 870-656-8431 mountain altar Valley pistoleros 3rd sun & mean raylean 520-235-0394 tucson Home 5th sun Critter Creek Citizens 1st sun evil Bob 903-701-3970 Fourke arizona Yavapai rangers 4th sat Whisperin’ 928-567-9227 Camp Verde Vigilance meadows mountain Valley Vigilantes 1st Wkd Christmas kid 501-625-3554 Hot springs dusty Bunch old Western 4th sat squibber 602-309-4198 Casa grande outlaw Camp 2nd & 5th ozark red 501-362-2963 Heber shooters sat springs Colorado river shootists 4th sun Boston anniebelle 928-502-1298 Yuma arkansas lead slingers 2nd sat & dirty dan 479-633-2107 garfield Bordertown, inc. as sch Quicksand 520-290-8599 tombstone 4th sun paladin CA south Fork river regulators 3rd sat arkansas Harper 870-994-7227 salem sunnyvale regulators 1st & 3rd shaniko Jack 650-464-3764 Cupertino Judge parker’s marshals 3rd sat & sun naildriver 479-651-2475 Fort smith mon night true grit sass 4th sat & sun tombstone 501-786-4440 Belleville escondido Bandidos 1st sat devil Jack 760-741-3229 escondido shadow the outlaws 1st sat terrell (rondo) 916-363-1648 slough- AZ sackett house White mountain old West 1st & 3rd Fred sharps 928-245-6276 show low sierra sportsmen Club 1st sat Bugtown dusty 530-260-0806 susanville shootists sat two rivers posse 1st sat & dragon 209-836-4042 manteca rio salado Cowboy action 1st sat a. J. Bob 480-982-7336 mesa 4th sun shooting society 5 dogs Creek 1st sat & sun utah Blaine 661-203-4238 Bakersfield river City regulators 1st sun Bangor Brink 530-679-2321 davis Hole in the Wall gang 1st sun Frito Bandito 661-406-6001 piru Cajon Cowboys 2nd & 4th sat pasture patti 760-956-8852 devore Chorro Valley regulators 2nd & 5th sun mad dog mcCoy 805-440-7847 san luis obispo shasta regulators of Hat Creek 2nd sat Cayenne pepper 530-275-3158 Burney mother lode shootist society 2nd sat sioux City kid 209-795-4175 Jamestown Coyote Valley Cowboys 2nd sat Bad eye Bobolu 408-722-0583 morgan Hill guns in the sun 2nd sat Johnny 2moons 760-346-0972 palm springs Buffalo runners 2nd sat grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 rescue dulzura desperados 2nd sat Hashknife Willie 619-271-1481 san diego California rangers 2nd sat Jimmy Frisco 209-296-4146 sloughhouse imperial Valley rangers 2nd sun southern southpaw 760-587-1744 imperial double r Bar regulators 2nd sun Five Jacks 760-949-3198 lucerne Valley High sierra drifters 2nd sun grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 railroad Flat richmond roughriders 2nd sun Buffy 650-994-9412 richmond over the Hill gang (the) 2nd sun kooskia kid 818-566-7900 sylmar Bridgeport Vigilantes 3rd sat Ben maverick 909-496-3137 Bridgeport Burro Canyon gunslingers 3rd sat don trader 714-827-7360 meyers Canyon nevada City peacemakers 3rd sat marlin schofield 530-265-9213 nevada City robbers roost Vigilantes 3rd sat nast newt 760-375-7618 ridgecrest gold Country Wild Bunch 3rd sat sutter lawman 530-713-4194 sloughouse High desert Cowboys 3rd sun doc silverhawks 661-948-2543 acton kings river regulators 3rd sun sierra rider 559-268-1115 Clovis murieta posse 3rd sun grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 sloughhouse Helldorado rangers 3rd sun Will Bonner 707-462-1466 ukiah Hawkinsville Claim Jumpers 4th & 5th lethal les 530-905-1407 Yreka sat l’amour mad river rangers 4th sat kid kneestone 707-445-1981 Blue lake Coyote Valley sharpshooters 4th sat nasty Hag 408-859-4300 san Jose pozo river Vigilance 4th sat dirty sally 805-438-4817 santa Committee margarita California shady ladies 4th sat lady gambler 916-447-2040 sloughhouse Faultline shootist society 4th sun Querida 831-635-9147 gonzales the Cowboys 4th sun Captain Jake 714-318-6948 norco deadwood drifters 4th sun lusty lil 661-775-3802 piru sloughhouse irregulators 5th sat & sun Badlands Bud 530-677-0368 sloughhouse CO Colorado Cowboys 1st sat painted Filly 719-439-6502 lake george Colorado shaketails 1st sun midnite slim 719-660-2742 Fountain san Juan rangers 1st sun kodiak kid 970-252-1841 montrose

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City CO (continued) ID (continued) Windygap regulators 1st Wkd piedra kidd 970-799-1133 Cortez gunslingers of Flaming Heart 1st sat Jughandle Jack 208-634-3121 Council Briggsdale County shootists 2nd & 4th sat kid Bucklin 970-493-1813 Briggsdale ranch Vigilantes 2nd sat grizz Bear 719-545-9463 pueblo southeast idaho practical 1st sat Hell’s Belle 208-529-3594 idaho Falls montrose marshals 2nd sun Big Hat 970-249-7701 montrose shooters Castle peak Wildshots 2nd Wkd old squinteye 970-524-9348 gypsum squaw Butte regulators 1st sun acequia kidd 208-365-4551 emmett pawnee station 3rd sat red Creek dick 303-857-0520 nunn el Buscaderos 2nd & 4th oddman 208-437-0496 spirit lake martin sun rockvale Bunch 3rd sat Cherokee diable 719-371-0172 rockvale northwest shadow riders 2nd sat silverado Belle 208-743-5765 lewiston Four Corners gunslingers 3rd sun Cereza slim 970-247-0745 durango southern idaho rangers 2nd sat lone thumper 208-251-4959 pocatello thunder mountain shootist 3rd Wkd pinto Being 970-464-7118 Whitewater oregon trail rough riders 2nd sun & gem Hunter 208-466-0061 kuna northwest Colorado rangers 4th sat Black mountain Cat 970-824-8407 Craig 3rd sat sand Creek raiders 4th sun sweet Water Bill 303-366-8827 Byers Hells Canyon ghost riders 3rd sat J.p. sloe 208-798-0826 moscow Black Canyon ghost riders 4th sun double Bit 970-874-8745 Hotchkiss twin Butte Bunch 3rd sat idaho rusty 208-745-6150 rexburg CT Bucket ledyard sidewinders 1st sat Yosemite gene 860-536-0887 ledyard Border marauders 3rd Wkd mud marine 208-627-8377 east port Ct Valley Bushwackers 2nd sun milo sierra 860-508-2686 east granby snake river Western shooting 4th sat missy mable 208-731-6387 twin Falls DE society padens posse 3rd sun Hazel pepper 302-422-6534 Bridgeville IL FL shady Creek shootists 1st & 4th sun dapper dan porter 309-734-2324 little York ghost town gunslingers 1st sat Copenhagen 904-808-8559 st. augustine lakewood marshal’s 1st sat pine ridge Jack 618-838-9410 Cisne gold Coast gunslingers 1st sat & george Washington 786-256-9542 Fort rangeless riders (the) 1st sat the inspector 618-972-7825 Highland 3rd sun mclintock lauderdale kishwaukee Valley regulators 1st sun snakes morgan 815-751-3716 sycamore Hernando County regulators 1st sun shady Brady 352-686-1055 Brooksville Free grazers 2nd sat Fossil Creek Bob 217-821-3134 effingham miakka misfits 1st sun serving Justice 914-219-7007 myakka City tri County Cowboys 2nd sat msgt. sH long 815-967-6333 polo Fort White Cowboy Cavalry 2nd sat deadly sharpshoot 352-317-6284 Fort White kaskaskia Cowboys 2nd sat Wagonmaster Ward 618-443-3538 sparta okeechobee marshals 2nd sat & kid Celero 561-312-9075 okeechobee Vermilion river long riders 2nd sun lead poison lar 815-875-3674 leonore 4th sun illinois river City regulators 2nd sun granville stuart 309-243-7236 milan okeechobee outlaws 2nd sat & dead Wait 863-357-3006 okeechobee nason mining Company 3rd & 5th diggins dave 618-927-0594 Benton 4th sun regulators sat tater Hill gunfighters 2nd sun Judge Jd Justice 941-629-4440 arcadia mclean County peacemakers 3rd sat marshall rd 309-379-4331 Bloomington Weewahootee Vigilance 2nd sun Cypress sam 407-847-7285 orlando litchfield sportsman’s Club 3rd sat ross Haney 618-667-9819 litchfield Committee illowa irregulars 3rd sun shamrock sis 309-798-2635 milan panhandle Cowboys 2nd sun High Card 850-492-5162 pensacola Fort Beggs defenders 3rd sun toranado 815-302-8305 plainfield southwest Florida gunslingers 3rd sat Jed lewis 239-455-4788 punta gorda long nine Cowboys 4th & 5th sun lemon drop kid 217-787-4877 loami Big Bend Bushwhackers 3rd sat sixpence kid 850-459-1107 tallahassee good guys posse 4th sun dangerous denny 815-245-7264 rockford lake County pistoleros 3rd sat arcadia outlaw 352-208-2788 tavares IN panhandle Cattle Company 4th sat desperado dale 850-260-5507 Chipley paradise pass regulators 1st sat C. C. top 574-354-7186 etna green Cowford regulators 4th sat general lee 904-803-2930 Jacksonville atlanta Cattle Company 2nd sat Bear Creek 765-652-1525 atlanta smokey reverend indian river regulators 4th sat Belligerent orney 321-403-2940 palm Bay pleasant Valley renegades 2nd sat nomore slim 812-839-3052 Canaan Bob schuster’s rangers 2nd sun Coal Car kid 219-759-3498 Chesterton ok Corral outlaws 4th sun kokomo kid 863-357-2226 okeechobee pine ridge regulators 3rd sat riverboat gambler 765-832-7253 Brazil Five County regulators 4th sun Jed lewis 239-455-4788 punta gorda Wolff’s rowdy rangers 3rd sat Justice d. spencer 574-536-4010 Bristol doodle Hill regulators 4th sun dave smith 813-645-3828 ruskin Circle r Cowboys 3rd sat mustang Bill 219-208-2793 Brookston antelope Junction rangers Fri nite & mayeye rider 727-736-3977 pineallas Wabash rangers 4th sat Henry remington 217-267-2820 Cayuga 2nd sat park Westside renegades 4th sat Johnny Banjo 812-430-6421 evansville GA starke County desert 4th sat Whip mccord 219-942-5859 knox river Bend rough riders 1st sat done gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville Big rock sass 4th sat southpaw too 812-866-2406 lexington american old West Cowboys 1st sat Josey Buckhorn 423-236-5281 Flintstone red Brush raiders 4th sat doc goodluck 812-721-1188 newburgh Valdosta Vigilance Committee 1st sat Big Boyd 229-244-3161 Valdosta deer Creek regulators 4th sun doc molar 765-506-0344 Jonesboro lonesome Valley regulators 1st sun Wishbone Hooper 478-922-9384 Warner Wildwood Wranglers 4th sun Voodooman 219-872-2721 michigan robins City providence springs rangers 2nd sat Buckshot Bob 229-924-0997 anderson indiana Black powder guild as sch C. C. top 574-354-7186 etna green doc Holliday’s immortals 2nd sat easy rider 770-954-9696 griffin KS Camden County Cowboys 2nd sat Christian mortician 912-227-5683 kingsland Butterfield gulch gang 1st sun Flinthills dawg 785-479-0416 Chapman piedmont regulators 2nd sat Hunter sam 706-391-4630 toccoa Free state rangers 1st sun & Buffalo phil 913-898-4911 parker south river shootists 3rd sat man From little 678-428-4240 Covington 3rd sat river powder Creek Cowboys 2nd & 4th sat el dorado Wayne 913-686-5314 lenexa Cherokee Cowboys 4th sat Bad lands Bob 706-654-0828 gainesville & 4th Wed HI mill Brook Wranglers 2nd sun grandpa Buckten 785-421-2537 Hill City maui marshals 1st & 3rd sat Bad Burt 808-875-9085 maui millbrook Big island paniolos 3rd sat paniolo annie 808-640-3949 ocean View sandhill regulators 3rd sat moundridge 620-345-3151 Hutchinson single action shootist of 4th sun Branded Buck 808-351-9260 Honolulu goat roper Hawaii Capital City Cowboys 4th sun top 785-313-0894 topeka IA Chisholm trail rowdies last sun Cody Wyatt 316-204-1784 Wichita turkeyfoot Cowboys 1st sat ranger mathias 319-234-1550 elk run KY Fischels Heights kentucky regulators 1st sat shenandoah slim 270-354-5040 Boaz Hawkeye outlaws 1st sat Forgunz 712-251-5550 sioux City Hooten old town regulators 1st sat double eagle 423-309-4146 mckee Fort des moines rangers 1st sun pit mule 515-205-0557 indianola dave Zen shootists 2nd sat sergeant duroc 515-783-4833 nevada knob Creek gunfighters guild 1st sun drew First 502-644-3453 West point outlaw’s run 2nd sun Capt. Jim midnight 712-621-5726 red oak green river gunslingers 2nd sat Yak 270-792-9001 Bowling ID green panhandle regulators 1st & 3rd sun Halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis levisa Fork lead slingers 2nd sat escopeta Jake 606-631-4613 pikeville orchards ponderosa pines posse 3rd sat Copperhead Joe 606-599-5263 manchester

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City KY (continued) MT ohio river rangers 3rd sat george rogers 270-554-1501 paducah Honorable road agents 1st sat diamond red 406-685-3618 ennis Breathitt Bandits 4th sat slowly But surely 606-666-4663 Jackson shooting society rockcastle rangers 4th sat grinnin Barrett 270-792-3196 park City sun river rangers shooting 1st sat & sun Charlie Whiskers 406-455-1441 simms Fox Bend peacemakers 4th sun tocala sam 859-552-9000 Wilmore society LA makoshika gunslingers 2nd sat doc Wells 406-345-8901 glendive deadwood marshals 1st & 3rd sat doc spudley 504-467-6062 sorrento Bitterroot Buckaroos 2nd sat nine lives 406-381-9376 Hamilton grand Cane gunslingers 1st sat Blackjack Charlie 318-925-9851 grand Cane gallatin Valley regulators 2nd sat el Hombre de 406-388-2902 logan up the Creek gang 2nd & 4th sat Hardly able 337-474-5058 lake Charles montana Bayou Bounty Hunters 2nd sat soiled dove 985-796-9698 Folsom Black Horse shootists 2nd Wkd J. e. B. stuart 406-727-7625 great grand ecore Vigilantes 3rd sat ouachita kid 318-932-6637 natchitoches montana Falls Jackson Hole regulators 4th sat slick mcClade 318-278-9071 Quitman rocky mountain rangers 2nd Wkd Jocko 406-847-0745 noxon MA last Chance Handgunners 3rd sat Vince pontillo 406-439-4476 Boulder Cape Cod Cowboys 2nd sat Curly Jay Brooks 508-477-9771 mashpee Custer County stranglers 3rd sat Hartshot 406-232-0727 miles shawsheen river rangers as sch Yukon Willie 978-663-3342 Bedford City Harvard ghost riders as sch double r Bar kid 978-771-9190 Harvard montana territory peacemakers 4th sat two gun montana 406-655-8166 Billings danvers desperados as sch Cyrus Cy klopps 781-667-2857 middleton lincoln County regulators 4th sat anita nuttergun 406-297-7667 eureka gunnysackers sat nantucket dawn 781-749-6951 scituate NC MD neuse river regulators 1st & 3rd sat paddi macgarrett 910-330-1998 new Burn eas’dern shore renegades 1st sat teton tracy 302-378-7854 sudlersville Walnut grove rangers 1st sat two gun terry 828-453-7721 ellenboro thurmont rangers 1st sun Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 thurmont old Hickory regulators 1st sat Wendover kid 252-908-0098 rocky monocacy irregulars 2nd tues Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Frederick mount damascus Wildlife rangers 4th sat Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 damascus old north state posse 1st sat tracker mike 336-558-9032 salisbury ME Carolina rough riders 1st sun pecos pete 704-394-1859 Charlotte Big pine Bounty Hunters as sch ripley scrounger 207-876-4928 Willmantic neuse river regulators 2nd & 4th sat paddi macgarrett 910-330-1998 Havelock Capitol City Vigilance as sch mark lake 207-622-9400 augusta Carolina single action 2nd & 5th sun Carolina’s 919-383-7567 eden Committee shooting society longarm Beaver Creek desperados as sch Jimmy reb 207-698-4436 Berwick High Country Cowboys 2nd sat Wild otter 828-423-7796 asheville MI Carolina Cattlemen’s shooting 2nd sat J. m. Brown 919-291-1726 Creedmore rockford regulators 1st sat no Cattle 616-363-2827 rockford and social society river Bend rangers 2nd sat pitmaster 574-276-8805 niles Buccaneer range regulators 2nd sat Jefro 910-330-7179 Wilmington double Barrel gang 2nd sat. dakota Fats 269-721-8190 Hastings gunpowder Creek regulators 3rd sat Herdzman 828-493-1679 lenoir Butcher Butte Bunch 2nd sun grubby Hardrock 810-750-0655 Fenton Cross Creek Cowboys 3rd sat Huckleberry mike 910-980-0572 Wagram sucker Creek saddle and 3rd sat kid al Fred 989-832-8426 Brecken- iredell regulators 4th sat Charlotte 704-902-1796 statesville gun Club ridge ND Chippewa regulators 3rd sat no name Justice 906-632-1254 sault ste. trestle Valley rangers 2nd sat doc Hell 701-852-1697 minot marie Badlands Bandits 2nd sun roughrider ray 701-260-0347 Belfield Hidden Valley Cowboys 3rd sun saulk Valley 269-651-5197 sturgis dakota rough riders as sch Heck Catcher 701-220-8131 moffit stubby sheyenne Valley peacekeepers last sat Wild river rose 701-588-4331 enderlin rocky river regulators 3rd sun terrebonne Bud 248-709-5254 utica NE Blue Water gunslingers 4st sun Buggyman 810-434-9597 kimball eastern nebraska gun Club 2nd sun Flint Valdez 712-323-8996 louisville eagleville Cowboys 4th sat one son of a gun 231-676-0922 Central Flat Water shootists of the 3rd sun Forty Four 308-383-4605 grand lake grand island rifle Club maggie island Johnson Creek regulators 4th sat rainmaker ray 313-618-2577 plymouth platte Valley gunslingers as sch skunk stomper 402-461-3442 grand mason County marshals 4th sat two gun troll 231-343-2580 scottsville island Wolverine rangers as sch r.J. law 248-828-0440 port Huron NH saginaw Field & stream Club as sch Bad river marty 989-585-3292 saginaw the dalton gang shooting 3rd Wkd littleton s. 603-444-6876 dalton lapeer County sportsmans sun as ash Flat Water 314-378-5689 attica Club of nH dalton Club Wranglers Johnny pemi Valley peacemakers as sch Bear lee tallable 603-667-0104 Holderness MN White mountain regulators as sch dead Head 603-957-0377 Candia Cedar Valley Vigilantes 1st & 3rd sat d m Yankee 612-701-9719 morristown merrimack Valley marauders as sch sheriff r. p. 603-345-6876 pelham Crow river rangers 1st sun Cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 Howard lake Bucket granite City gunslingers 2nd & 5th sat amen straight 612-723-2313 saint Cloud NJ lone rock rangers 2nd sat red dutchman 651-402-0368 Farmingtion monmouth County rangers 2nd sun utah tom 732-803-2430 monmouth lookout mountain gunsmoke 2nd sat Wagonmaster 218-780-6797 Virginia delaware Blues 2nd sun Yellow mike 302-750-2381 Quinton society Jackson Hole gang 4th sun papa grey 732-961-6834 Jackson Fort Belmont regulators 2nd sun mule town Jack 507-840-0883 Jackson NM east grand Forks rod & 3rd sun BB gunner 218-779-8555 east grand magdalena trail drivers 1st & 3rd sat grizzly adams 575-854-2488 magdalena gun Club Forks del norte diablos 1st & 4th sat nevada ranger 505-220-0892 rio rancho MO Bighorn Vigilantes 1st sat german george 505-286-0830 Founders ozark posse (the) 1st sat tightwad swede 417-846-5142 Cassville ranch mountain oyster gang 1st sun siegfried 660-909-6519 Higginsville otero practical shooting 1st sat saguaro sam 505-437-3663 la luz (Formerly rocky Branch rangers) association West plaines Waddies 2nd & 5th sat major missalot 417-284-1432 tecumseh Chisum Cowboy gun Club 1st sat two Bit tammy 575-626-9201 roswell moniteau Creek river raiders 2nd sun doolin riggs 573-687-3103 Fayette Buffalo range riders 1st sun garrison Joe 505-323-8487 Founders shoal Creek shootists 3rd sat Chaos Jumbles 417-451-9959 Joplin ranch gateway shootist society 3rd sun Bounty seeker 314-740-4665 st. louis Chisum Cowboy gun Club 1st sun two Bit tammy 575-626-9201 roswell Central ozarks Western 3rd sun X. s. Chance 573-765-5483 st. robert High desert drifters 2nd sat el Vaquero malo 505-688-7937 Founders shooters ranch southern missouri rangers 4th Wkd s. m. all 471-461-0033 marshfield lincoln County regulators 2nd sat gunsmoke Cowboy 575-808-0459 ruidoso MS rio grande renegades 2nd Wed, mica mcguire 505-263-1181 albuquer- natchez sixgunners 1st sat silky 601-807-1513 natchez 3rd sat, 4th sun, que gulf Coast gunslingers 1st sun old rebel 228-860-0054 Biloxi 5th sat & sun mississippi peacemakers 3rd sat macon a. 601-954-3720 mendenhall gila rangers 2nd Wkd Chico Cheech 575-388-2531 silver City longshot monticello range riders 3rd & 5th J. W. Brockey 575-744-4484 elephant mississippi river rangers 4th & 5th sat taska Jim 901-490-2600 Byhalia sun Butte 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 April 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 77

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Contact Phone City NM (continued) OR (continued) seven rivers regulators 3rd sat stink Creek Jones 575-885-9879 Carlsbad table rock rangers 1st sun & Jed i. knight 541-944-2281 White City monument springs 4th sat Val darrant 575-396-5303 Hobbs 2nd sat Bushwhackers pine mountain posse 2nd & 4th Wkd Whisperin’ Wade 541-318-8199 Bend picacho posse 4th sat Fast Hammer 575-647-3434 las Cruces klamath Cowboys 2nd sun & Jasper Wayne 541-884-2611 keno tres rios Bandidos 4th sun largo Casey 505-330-2489 Farmington 4th sat rio Vaqueros 4th sun anna sassin 575-744-5793 truth or Jefferson state regulators 3rd sat Jed i. knight 541-944-2281 ashland Consequences oregon trail regulators 3rd sat Willie killem 541-443-6591 la grande NV oregon old West shooting 3rd sun & tuffy tumbleweed 541-619-7381 albany Fort Halleck Volunteers 1st & 3rd sat green springs 775-753-8203 elko society 4th sat thomsen umpqua regulators 4th sun oregun gustaf 541-430-1021 roseburg High plains drifters 1st sun Washoe Zephyr 775-721-6619 Fernley Fort dalles defenders 4th sun Frisco nell 360-835-5630 the dalles eldorado Cowboys 1st Wkd Creeker 702-328-4867 Boulder City PA nevada rangers Cowboy 2nd sun mt Fargo 702-460-6393 las Vegas perry County regulators 1st sat tuscarora slim 717-789-3004 ickesburg action shooting society dry gulch rangers 1st sat pep C. Holic 724-263-1461 midway roop County Cowboy 2nd sun Jasper agate 775-849-7679 sparks Boot Hill gang of topton 1st sun lester moore 610-704-6792 topton shooters association Whispering pines Cowboy 1st sun panama red 570-724-7214 Wellsboro silver state shootists 3rd sun shotgun marshall 775-265-0267 Carson City Committee desert desperados 3rd sun Buffalo sam 702-459-6454 las Vegas Chimney rocks regulators 2nd sat relentless 814-414-1461 Hollidays- lone Wolf shooters, llC 4th & 5th sun penny pepperbox 775-727-4600 pahrump renegade burg NY logans Ferry regulators 2nd sat mariah kid 412-607-5313 plum Crumhorn mountain Cowboys 1st & 4th sun lefty Cooper 607-287-9261 maryland Borough alabama gunslingers 1st sat Bum thumb 585-343-3906 alabama Heidelberg lost dutchmen 2nd sat ivory rose 717-627-0694 schaeffer- tioga County Cowboys 1st sat dusty drifter 607-659-3819 owego stown Boot Hill regulators 1st sun Judge Zaney grey 845-352-7921 Chester mainville marauders 2nd sun dodge Bill 570-477-5667 mainville pathfinder pistoleros 1st sun sonny 315-695-7032 Fulton Westshore posse 2nd sun Hud mcCoy 717-683-2632 new salt port Vigilance Committee 2nd sat twelve Bore 585-613-8046 Holley Cumberland Bar-20 inc. 2nd sat Badlands Buck 315-637-3492 West eaton dakota Badlanders (the) 2nd sun timberland 610-434-1923 orefield oxford regulators 2nd sun scheriff richie 607-783-2666 oxford renegade Hole in the Wall gang 3rd sat el Fusilero 631-864-1035 Calverton river Junction shootist society 3rd sat mattie Hays 724-593-6602 donegal diamond Four 3rd sat kayutah kid 607-796-0573 odessa Jefferson outlaws 3rd sat red-eyed kid 443-392-1615 Jefferson Circle k regulators 3rd sun smokehouse dan 518-885-3758 Ballston spa Blue mountain rangers 3rd sun Cathy Fisher 610-488-0619 Hamburg sackets Harbor Vigilantes 4th sun ranger Clayton 315-465-6543 sackets matamoras mavericks 3rd sun Hammerin steel 570-296-5853 milford Conagher Harbor silver lake Bounty Hunters 3rd sun marshal t. J. 570-663-3045 montrose the long riders 4th sun loco poco lobo 585-467-4429 shortsville Buckshot d Bar d Wranglers 4th sun Captain m.a.F 845-226-8611 Wappingers purgatory regulators 3rd Wkd dry gulch geezer 814-827-2120 titusville Fall elstonville Hombres 4th sun trusty sidekick 610-939-9947 manheim mythical rough riders 5th sun rev dave Clayton 716-838-4286 Hamburg el posse grande 4th sun Black Hills Barb 570-538-9163 muncy Vlly the shadow riders as sch dusty levis 646-284-4010 Westhamp- stewart’s regulators 4th sun sodbuster Burt 724-479-8838 shelocta ton Beach RI east end regulators First sun diamond rio 631-585-1936 Westhamp- lincoln County lawmen 4th sun Wyoming Blink 401-385-9907 Foster ton SC OH palmetto posse 1st sat dun gamblin 803-422-5587 Columbia middletown sportsman Club 1st sat deadwood stan 513-894-3500 middletown Belton Bushwhackers 2nd sat pants a’Fire meyer 864-760-9366 Belton tusco long riders 1st sat prairie dawg 216-932-7630 midvale Hurricane riders 3rd sat saloon keeper 843-361-2277 aynor greene County Cowboys 1st sun ruger ray 937-352-6420 Xenia savannah river rangers 3rd sun kid ray 803-960-3907 gaston Fireland peacemakers 1st Wed, 3rd sat old iron Hip 440-355-8410 rochester geechee gunfighters 4th sat doc kemm 843-863-0649 ridgeville & 5th sun greenville gunfighters 4th sun Cowboy Junky 864-414-5578 greenville sandusky County regulators 2nd sat Curtice Clay 419-836-8760 gibsonburg SD shenango river rats 2nd sat & shenango Joe 330-782-0958 Yankee Camp sturgis regulators 1st sat Brother king 970-481-7569 sturgis last thurs lake medicine Creek road agents 1st sun iron mender 605-222-5145 onida miami Valley Cowboys 2nd sun Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 piqua Cottonwood Cowboy assoc. 2nd sun dakota nailbender 605-520-5212 Clark Blackhand raiders 2nd sun duke City kid 614-556-0245 Zanesville Bald mountain renegades 3rd sun Cottonwood Cooter 605-280-1413 Faulkton scioto territory desperados 3rd & 5th sun pickaway tracker 740-477-1881 Chillicothe Black Hills shootist association 3rd sun Hawkbill smith 605-342-8946 pringle Wilmington rough riders 3rd sat paragon pete 740-626-7667 Wilmington snake Creek rustlers 4th sun o’ town kid 605-252-8403 Faulkton auglaize rough riders 3rd sun Bear river smith 419-506-0999 defiance TN ohio Valley Vigilantes 4th sat slow movin ron 614-599-0721 mt. Vernon Bitter Creek rangers 1st & 3rd sun oracle 423-334-4053 Crossville Central ohio Cowboys 4th sun stagecoach Hannah 614-563-6070 Whitehall greene County regulators 1st sat Boozy Creek 423-279-0316 rogersville stonelick regulators as sch Carson 513-753-6462 milford Wartrace regulators 1st sat & 3rd sat Whiskey Hayes 931-684-2709 Wartrace Brown township regulators last sat sandy Creek Jake 330-863-1139 malvern memphis gunslingers 2nd sat Hot lead lefty 901-601-7459 arlington OK smoky mountain shootist 2nd sat Jim mayo 865-300-4666 lenoir City rattlesnake mountain rangers 1st & 2nd sat Black river Jack 918-908-0016 Checotah social Club shortgrass rangers 1st sat & oklahoma spuds 405-640-5650 grandfield orsa’s oak ridge outlaws 2nd sat Hombre sin 865-257-7747 oak ridge 3rd sun nombre Cherokee strip shootists 1st sun scott Wayne 405-377-0610 stillwater tennessee mountain 3rd sat double Barrel 423-593-3767 Chattanooga tulsey town Cattlemens assoc. 2nd & 4th sat dry gulch deryl 918-697-7396 tulsa marauders indian territory single action 2nd & 5th sun, little Fat Buddy 918-437-4562 sand north West tennessee 3rd sat Can’t shoot 731-885-8102 union City shooting society 3rd sat, 4th Wed springs longriders dillion oklahoma City gun Club - 2nd sat & Flat top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma ocoee rangers 4th sat ocoee red 423-476-5303 Cleveland territorial marshals 4th sun City TX OR orange County regulators 1st & 3rd sat texas gator 409-243-3477 orange Horse ridge pistoleros 1st & 3rd sun Big Casino 541-389-2342 Bend Comanche trail shootists 1st & 5th sat dee Horne 432-557-0860 midland merlin marauders 1st sat mountain grizz 253-208-1105 merlin texas tumbleweeds 1st sat Cayenne 806-355-7158 amarillo dry gulch desperados 1st sat runamuck 509-520-3241 milton texas troublemakers 1st sat lefty tex larue 903-539-7234 Brownsboro Freewater plum Creek Carriage Cowboy 1st sat long Juan 512-750-3923 lockhart siuslaw river rangers 1st sun Johnny Jingos 541-997-6313 Florence 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 Page 78 Cowboy Chronicle April 2014

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City TX (continued) VA (continued) south texas pistolaros 1st sat saukValley sam 210-379-3711 san antonio Bend of trail 4th sun rowe - a - noc 540-890-6375 roanoke texas peacemakers 1st sat tennesse star 214-334-8627 tyler rivanna ranger Company as sch Virginia ranger 434-973-8759 Charlotte- thunder river renegades 1st Wkd texas rooster 936-588-6849 magnolia sville Concho Valley shooters 2nd sat roamin’ shields 325-656-1281 san angelo stovall Creek regulators as sch Brizco-Z 434-929-1063 lynchburg texas riviera pistoleros 2nd sat stinkng Badger 361-9374845 george West VT lajitas rangers and rogues 2nd sat texas trouble 915-603-1366 lajitas Verdant mountain Vigilantes 2nd sun doc mcCoy 802-363-7162 st. Johnsbury travis County regulators 2nd sat Cherokee granny 979-561-6202 smithville WA texas tenhorns shooting Club 2nd sat & Hairtrigger Hayes 972-658-4347 leonard northeast Washington 1st Wkd a. t. mcgee 509-684-2325 Colville last Full Wkd regulators rio grande Valley Vaqueros 2nd sun dream Chaser 956-648-7364 pharr mica peak marshals 1st & 3rd sat tensleep kid 509-284-2461 mica lone star Frontier shooting 2nd Wkd rock rotten 817-905-3122 Cleburne renton united Cowboy action 1st Wkd Jess ducky 425-271-9286 renton Club shooters texican rangers 2nd Wkd Yuma Jack 210-240-8284 Fredericks- Windy plains drifters 2nd & 4th sat svenska annie 509-953-1113 medical burg lake oakwood outlaws 2nd Wkd texas alline 903-545-2252 oakwood Wolverton mountain peace 2nd sat ten gauge 360-772-0716 ariel Canadian river regulators 2nd, 3rd & adobe Walls 806-679-5824 Clarendon keepers 5th sat shooter pataha rustlers 2nd sat pinto annie 509-520-2789 dayton Big thicket outlaws 3rd sat shynee graves 409-860-5526 Beaumont mima marauders 2nd sat okie sawbones 360-705-3601 olympia tejas Caballeros 3rd sat Judge menday 512-964-9955 dripping smokey point desperados 2nd sun mudflat mike 425-335-5176 arlington Coming springs Colville guns and roses 2nd sun Cheyence sadie 509-684-3632 Colville gruesome gulch gang 3rd sat eli Blue 806-729-5887 kress apple Valley marshals 3rd sat First Chance 509-884-3827 east alamo area moderators 3rd sat tombstone mary 210-493-9320 san antonio Wenatchee Cottonwood Creek Cowboys 3rd sat pecos Cahill 325-575-5039 snyder olympic peninsula strait 3rd sat doc neeley 360-417-0230 port texas Historical shootist 3rd sun Charles 281-342-1210 Columbus shooters angeles society goodnight Black river regulators 4th sat pop-a Cork 360-878-8911 littlerock Berger sharpshooters 3rd sun Hoss Jack 903-546-6291 greenville Custer renegades 4th sun Joe Cannuck 360-676-2587 Custer trinity Valley regulators 3rd sun grumpy grandpa 972-206-2624 mansfield poulsbo pistoleros 4th sun sourdough 360-830-0100 poulsbo Badlands Bar 3 3rd Wkd t-Bone dooley 903-272-9283 Clarksville george Butterfield trail regulators 4th sat texas slim 325-668-4884 anson rattlesnake gulch rangers last sat ricochet robbie 509-628-0889 Benton City Comanche Valley Vigilantes 4th sat Billy Bob evans 972-393-2882 Cleburne Beazley gulch rangers last sun an e. di 509-787-1782 Quincy green mountain regulators 4th sat Bar diamond 512-638-7376 marble WI rider Falls rock river regulators 1st & 3rd sat stoney mike 608-868-5167 Beloit tejas pistoleros 4th sat & sun texas paladin 713-690-5313 eagle lake Western Wisconsin Wild Bunch 2nd sat Flyen doc koyote 608-790-3260 Holmen magnolia misfits 4th sat & sun attoyac kid 281-448-8127 magnolia Crystal river gunslingers 2nd sat polish pistolero 920-913-1615 Waupaca tin star texans 4th sat. mickey 830-685-3464 Fredericks- Wisconsin old West shootist, 2nd sun & Blackjack martin 715-949-1621 Boyceville burg inc 4th sat UT Hodag Country Cowboys 3rd sat Hodag Bob 715-550-8337 rhinelander three peaks rangers 1st & 3rd sat Curly Jim 435-590-9873 Cedar City liberty prairie regulators 3rd sat dirty deeds 920-229-5833 ripon Whiskus oconomowoc Cattlemen’s 4th sat marvin the moyle 414-254-5592 Concord Big Hollow Bandits 1st sat marshal dillon 435-724-2575 Heber association north rim regulators 1st sat autum rose 435-644-5053 kanab WV Copenhagen Valley 1st sat m.t. pockets 801-920-4047 mantua dawn ghost riders 1st sun Coffee Bean 304-327-9884 Hinton regulators Frontier regulators 2nd sat Captain tay 304-265-5748 thorton utah territory gunslingers 1st sat lefty pete 801-554-9436 salt lake the railtown rowdys 2nd sun miss print 304-589-6162 Bluefield City kanawha Valley regulators 2nd Wkd eddie rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor musinia Buscaderos 1st. sat Buffalo Juan 435-528-7432 mayfield rocky Holler regulators 3rd sun Jessee earp 304-425-2023 princeton dixie desperados/ 2nd & 4th sat the alaskan 435-635-3134 st. george Cowboy action shooting 4th sun last Word 304-289-6098 largent senior games sports deseret Historical shootist 2nd sat old Fashioned 435-224-2321 Fruit peacemaker national as sch Cole mcCulloch 703-789-3346 gerrard- society Heights stown rio Verde rangers 2nd sat doc nelson 435-564-8210 green WY river Cheyenne regulators 1st sat Wild Horse John 307-637-6974 Cheyenne Cache Valley Vaqueros 2nd sat logan law 435-787-8131 logan Colter’s Hell Justice Committee 1st sat Yakima red 307-254-2090 Various Hobble Creek Wranglers 2nd sat Hobble Creek 801-489-7681 springville Wsas marshall Bessemer Vigilance Committee 1st sun & smokewagon Bill 307-267-1155 Casper Wasatch summit regulators 2nd sun old Fashioned 435-224-2321 salt lake 3rd sat City High lonesome drifters 2nd sat kari lynn 307-587-2946 Cody utah War 3rd & 5th sat Jubal o. sackett 801-944-3444 sandy sybille Creek shooters 2nd sat Wyoming roy 307-322-3515 Wheatland mesa marauders gun Club 3rd sat Copper Queen 435-979-4665 lake powell southfork Vigilance Committee 2nd Wkd Wennoff Halfcock 507-332-5035 lander diamond mountain rustlers 3rd sat Cinch 435-724-2575 Vernal Wsas Wahsatch desperados 4th sat ruckus rick 801-201-0700 Fruit Heights Border Vigilantes 3rd sat assassin 307-287-6733 Cheyenne Castle gate posse 4th sat rowdy Hand 435-637-8209 price powder river Justice Committee 3rd sun doc Fehr 307-683-3320 Buffalo VA Wsas pungo posse Cowboy action 1st & 2nd sat missouri marshal 757-471-3396 Waverly great divide outlaws 4th sat slingn lead 307-324-6955 rawlins Club donkey Creek shootists 4th sun poker Jim 307-660-0221 gillette liberty long riders 1st sun thunder Colt 540-296-0772 Bedford snake river rowdies as sch sheriff John r. 307-733-4559 Jackson Cavalier Cowboys 1st sun & striker 804-339-8442 Hanover Quigley 2nd Wed County Virginia City marshals 1st tues Humphrey Hook 703-801-3507 Fairfax Blue ridge regulators 2nd sun Bad Company 540-886-3374 lexington k.C.’s Corral 3rd sat Buckshot Bob 804-382-3407 mechan icsville mattaponi sundowners 3rd sun & Flatboat Bob 804-785-2575 West point 4th sat pepper mill Creek gang 4th sun slip Hammer spiv 540-775-4561 king george 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 April 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 79

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WV INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL DOWN UNDER GERMANY (continued) AUSTRALIA Jail Bird’s Company mon orlando a Brick 49 21 317 42 3065 Wegberg gold Coast gamblers 1st & 3rd Virgil earp 041 876 5839 gold Coast Bond sat Cas europe Wed Hurricane irmi 49 28 23 3426 Bocholt adelaide pistol & shooting Club 1st sat & lobo malo 61 08 284 8459 korunye sass germany Wed il Calabrese 49 28 239 8080 pfalzdorf 3rd sun sass germany Wed rhine river Joe 49 28 235 807 spork Westgate marauders 2nd sun stampede pete 61 39 369 5939 port melbourne HUNGARY little river raiders 3rd sun lazy dave 61 40 377 7926 little river Westwood rebels as sch el Heckito 362 0460 1739 galgamacsa sasa little river raiders 3rd sun tiresome 61 25 978 0190 melbourne ITALY single action Club old gunners shooting Club as sch renato anese 33 51 24 5391 toppo di Cowboy action shooters 3rd Wkd i.d. 61 29 975 7983 teralba Western shootist posse travesio Fort Bridger shooting Club 4th sun duke York 61 41 863 2366 drouin green Hearts regulator 1st sun marshal steven 39 338 920 7989 trevi sasa single action shooting sat & sun Virgil earp 61 74 695 2050 millmerran gardiner NEW ZEALAND Fratelli della Costa onlus 3rd sat oversize 35 05 642 4677 livorno trail Blazers gun Club 1st sun sudden lee sudden@farm mill town lassiter Fan shooting Club 3rd sun ivan Bandito 39 34 7043 0400 mazzano NEW ZEALAND maremma Bad land’s riders as sch alameda slim alamedaslim@ siena owss.it side.co.nz old West shooting society as sch alchimista 39 33 420 68337 Varies Bullet spittin sons o’ thunder 2nd sat Billy deadwood 64 63 564 720 palmerston n. Canne roventi last sun Valdez 39 07 1286 1395 Filottrano Wairarapa pistol and shooting 2nd sun doc Hayes 64 63 796 692 gladstone Honky tonk rebels last sun kaboom andy 39 33 5737 8551 Vigevano Club Wild West rebels sun Bill masterson [email protected] malegno-Bs Frontier & Western shooting 2nd sun doc Hayes 64 63 796 692 gladstone LUXEMBOURG sports association sass luxembourg as sch smiley miles 35 26 2128 0606 Varies tararua rangers 3rd sun J.e.B. stuart 64 63 796 436 Carterton NETHERLANDS ashburton pistol Club 3rd sun am shellie Jector 643 304 8401 ashburton sass netherlands as sch dutch Bear 31 619 430 223 leeuwarden ashburton pistol Club Wild 3rd sun pm shellie Jector 643 304 8401 ashburton dutch Western shooting as sch dutch Bear 31 619 430 223 oss, Bunch shooting association noord Brabant Western renegades 4th sat Black Bart Bolton 64 27 249 6270 Wanganui NORTHERN IRELAND sass pistol new Zealand as sch tuscon the terrible 64 32 042 089 Varies kells County regulators 1st sat independence 28 93 368 004 Varies EUROPE Carroll AUSTRIA NORWAY sweetwater gunslingers as sch Fra diabolo 43 664 490 8032 Vienna Black rivers as sch Charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 loten CZECH REPUBLIC Quantrill raiders sun Charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 loten association of Western shooters as sch thunderman 42 060 322 2400 prelouc schedsmoe County rough riders thurs Jailbird 47 6399 4279 lillestrom DENMARK POLAND danish Blackpowder Federation as sch slim dane 45 20 655 887 Copenhagen SASS Polish Western Shooting as sch trigger Hawkeye trigger-hawkeye lodz association of danish Western as sch mrs. stowaway 45 602 013 65 greve Association @hot.pl shooters SERBIA FINLAND union of Western shooters of as sch Hombre des 63 721 6934 Humska sass Finland as sch Woodbury kane 35 850 517 4659 Various serbia nudos Classic old Western society of as sch Woodbury kane 35 850 517 4659 loppi SWEDEN Finland sass sweden northern as sch northern s. t. 46 72 206 7005 Varies FRANCE rangers ranger sass France greenwood Creek 1st & 3rd Handy Hook 33 68 809 1360 Bormes les SWITZERLAND Wkd mimosas Black mountain gunfighters as sch Blacksmith pete 417 9449 5800 romainm- sass France golden triggers of 1st sun Cheyenne little 33 67 570 3678 Villefrache de a’tier Freetown Colibris rouergue old West shooting society as sch Hondo Janssen 44 271 9947 Zurich l’arquebuse d’antony 2nd sun Jeppesen 33 14 661 1798 antony switzerland Buffalo Valley as sch slye Buffalo 02 37 63 65 83 Châteauneuf- INTERNATIONAL en-thymerais CANADA High plains shooters as sch Jack Cooper 336 1384 5580 Clermont de aurora desperados 1st Fri destry 905-551-0703 aurora on l’oise robbers roost Wild Bunch 1st sun legendary 905-393-4299 ancaster on association mazauguaise de tir as sch redneck mike 33 494 280 145 mazaugues lawman sass France alba serena tir as sch marshall 09 62 53 83 32 moriani red mountain renegades 1st sun Flynn t. locke 604-820-1564 mission BC Club tombstone Bar e ranch 2nd & 4th northern Crow 705-435-2807 Barrie on old pards shooting society as sch Charles allan 33 1 4661 1798 Versailler sat Jeppesen lasalle anthony Beau Bassin range riders 2nd sat Frenchy Cannuck 506-312-0455 riverview nB Club de tir Beaujolais as sch Woodrow the Wild 33 047 838 0374 Villefranche sur lambton sportsman’s Club 2nd sat Clay Creek 519-542-4644 st. Clair on Frenchie saone Wentworth shooting sports Club 2nd sun stoney Creek 905-664-3217 Hamilton on old West French shooters as sch Curly red ryder 33 3 8582 0203 Caromb Victoria Frontier shootists 2nd sun Haweater Hal 250-920-8707 Victoria BC BeraC as sch delano l. oakley 33 3 8020 3551 premeaux Valley regulators 3rd sat kananaskis kid 250-923-6358 Courtenay BC prissey prairie dog rebels 3rd sat Valley Boy 519-673-5648 london on Club de tir Brennou as sch French Bob 00 33 024 767 5888 Varies Valley regulators 3rd sat & High Country 250-334-3479 Courtenay BC reverend oakley’s Cowboy klan as sch delano l. oakley 333 802 03 551 Varies sun amigo les tireurs de l’uzege every sun marshal dundee 33 04 66 759 529 uzes robbers roost Hamilton 3rd sun Bear Butte 905-891-8627 ancaster on (old West gunfighters) (Wild Bunch) Black rivers last sun kid of neckwhite 33 3 8526 3029 roanne otter Valley rod & gun 4th sun Colt mcCloud 519-685-9439 strafford- on Club de tir de Bernay sat Chriswood 33 2 3245 5900 Bernay ville sass France Yellow rock sat little shooting 336 7555 8063 eCot islington sportmen’s Club as sch Hawk Feathers 905-936-2129 Caledon on missie Blueridge sportsmen’s Club as sch rebel dale 519-599-2558 Clarksburg on societe de tir Bedoin Ventoux sat & sun sheriff Ch. 33 490 351 973 Bedoin Waterloo County revolver as sch pappy Cooper 519-536-9184 kitchener on (Windy mountain Vigilantes) southpaw association tir olympique lyonnais sun Barth 33 6 1324 6128 lyon mundy’s Bay regulators as sch indiana magnum 705-534-2814 penetang- on Club de tri de nuits saint as sch delano l. oakley 33 38 020 3551 nuits saint uishene georges georges nova scotia Cowboy action as sch Wounded Belly 902-890-2310 truro ns Club de tir sportif de touraine as sch major John brisset37@hot tours shooting Club lawson mail.fr palmer’s gulch Cowboys as sch Caribou lefty 250-372-0416 Heffley BC Cas/sass France as sch Frenchie Boy 336 169 32 076 Varies Creek GERMANY ottawa Valley marauders as sch Button 514-792-0063 ottawa on german territory regulators as sch repHil 49 29 216 71814 Varies alberta Frontier shootists as sch powder paw 403-318-4463 rocky mtn aB Cowboy action shooting last sat marshal Heck 49 345 120 0581 edderitz society House 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 80 Cowboy Chronicle April 2014

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INTERNATIONAL WILD BUNCH USA CANADA (continued) Club de tir Beausejour as sch richelieu mike 450-658-8130 st-Jean QC NV Chrysostome/lavis lone Wolf shooters llC 4th & 5th Wkd penny pepperbox 775-727-4600 pahrump long Harbour lead slingers tues preacher man 250-537-0083 salt spring BC OH John island Big irons as sch deadwood stan 513-894-3500 middletown SOUTH AFRICA OK pioneer Creek rangers 2nd & 4th slow Wilson 27 83 677 5066 pretoria Cherokee strip shootists 1st sat scott Wayne 405-377-0610 stillwater sat Wild Bunch™ Western shooters of 3rd sat richmond p. 27 21 797 5054 Cape town sa oklahoma City gun Club - 2nd sun Flat top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma south africa Hobson territorial marshals City OR WILD BUNCH USA Horse ridge pistoleros 3rd sat Big Casino 541-389-2342 Bend PA AK logans Ferry regulators 2nd sat mariah kid 412-607-5313 plum alaska 49ers 3rd sat marshal stone 907-232-1080 Birchwood Borough AZ SC Cowtown Wild Bunch™ 1st sat Wild Bodie tom 602-721-3175 Carefree greenville gunfighters 5th sun Hondo Jackson 864-414-1968 greenville shooters TN natZY Bunch 3rd sun tumbleweed rose 928-899-8788 Flagstaff Wartrace regulators 3rd sat papa dave 931-723-7896 Wartrace Bordertown inc. as sch pecos Clyde 480-266-1096 tucson TX CA Comanche Valley Vigilantes 4th sat Billy Bob evans 972-393-2882 Cleburne Hole in the Wall gang 1st sat Frederick Jackson 818-640-0945 piru UT turner Wasatch summit regulators 4th sun old Fashioned 435-224-2324 salt lake gold Country Wild Bunch 3rd sat sutter lawman 530-713-4194 sloughouse City CO WI Castle peak Wildshots 1st sat old squinteye 970-524-9348 gypsum Western Wisconsin Wild Bunch 2nd sat Flyen doc koyote 608-790-3260 Holmen pawnee station 1st sun red Creek dick 303-857-0520 Fort Collins WV martin kanawha Valley regulators 2nd Wkd eddie rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor thunder mountain shootists 2nd sat Colorado Blackjack 970-260-5432 White Water FL ghost town gunslingers 1st sat Copenhagen 904-808-8559 st. Monthly Mounted International Wild Bunch augustine LEBANON ID SASS Lebanon - El Rancho as sch packin Jesse 96 1138 5982 Varies squaw Butte regulators 4th sun acequia kidd 208-365-4551 emmett Sporting Club IL CANADA kaskaskia Cowboys as sch Boben Weev 618-632-0712 sparta Quebec mounted shooting as sch dirty owl Bert 819-424-7842 Joliette IN association pine ridge regulators 1st Wkd riverboat gambler 765-832-7253 Brazil LA Jackson Hole regulators 4th sat slick mcClade 318-278-9071 Quitman Monthly Mounted USA MO AZ Butterfield trail Cowboys 4th Wkd smokie 417-759-9114 Walnut tombstone ghost riders 2nd sun dan nabbit 520-456-0423 tombstone shade mounted Club NC CA Carolina Cattlemen’s shooting 4th sat J. m. Brown 919-291-1726 Creedmore California range riders as sch old Buckaroo 408-710-1616 Varies and social society CO NM revengers of montezuma 1st sun aneeda Huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortez tres rios Bandidos 2nd sun el mulo Vacquero 505-632-9712 Farmingtion NM rio grande renegades 3rd sun mica mcguire 505-263-1181 albuquerque Buffalo range riders mounted 3rd sat Chili Cowboy 505-379-8957 Founders los pistoleros 4th sat J. Frank norfleet 575-648-2530 Founders ranch ranch OH picacho posse 4th sat Fast Hammer 575-647-3434 las Cruces Big irons mounted rangers as sch stoneburner 513-829-4099 middletown

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Dates Contact Phone City State Match Dates Contact Phone City State USA 2014 APRIL (continued) APRIL SASS Territorial Blackpowder 26 - 27 deadwood stan 513-304-3505 middletown oH dry gulch at arroyo Cantua 03 - 06 sutter lawman 530-713-4194 sloughhouse Ca Championship shootout on the little river 05 - 05 Big Boyd 229-244-3161 Valdosta ga Smoke in the Woods the reckoning at turtle Flats 06 - 06 serving Justice 941-219-7007 myakka City Fl regulators revenge 26 - 26 Bar diamond 512-638-7376 marble Falls tX Comancheria days 10 - 13 Yuma Jack 210-240-8284 Fredericks- tX rider burg MAY Chimney rock Crap shoot 11 - 13 Five Jacks 951-347-0862 lucerne Ca SASS California State Champ 01 - 04 utah Blaine 661-203-4238 Bakersfield Ca Valley Shootout at 5 Dogs Creek 2014 iron Cowboy annual match 11 - 12 grinnin Barrett 270-792-3196 park City kY us open Cowboy Championship 01 - 03 mose spencer 270-349-4392 sparta il SASS Louisiana State Champ 11 - 13 slick mcClade 318-278-9071 Quitman la SASS Kansas State Blackpowder 02 - 04 shady Willie 785-556-2547 Chapman ks Duel in the Sun Championship Siege at Clark’s Creek Brown shootout at Fort miller 17 - 19 pocket Change 559-683-2204 Clovis Ca SASS Delaware State Champ 02 - 04 teton tracy 302-378-7854 sudlersville md land run 24 - 27 Flat top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma ok Eas’dern Shore Round-up City mo-kan Border skirmish 02 - 04 siegfried 660-909-6519 Higginsville mo SASS Utah State Championship 24 - 26 J.t. Wild 801-829-8989 st. george ut SASS Mississippi State Champ 02 - 04 diamond lilly 601-608-7956 mendenhall ms Ruckus at Red Rock Showdown at Purgatory Cowford stampede 25 - 27 Willy Whiskers 904-683-5624 Jacksonville Fl the Best shoot by a damn site 03 - 04 Charming 702-565-3736 Boulder City nV monument springs Bushwhacker 25 - 27 Val darrant 575-396-5303 Hobbs nm middle of the road 10 - 11 gem Hunter 208-466-0061 kuna id annual Fandango shootout at oyster Flats 10 - 10 Curly Jay Brooks 508-641-3606 mashpee ma SASS Washington State 25 - 27 ricochet robbie 509-628-0889 Benton City Wa Blackhawk War 10 - 10 stoneface 801-787-5208 springville ut Blackpowder Championship daguerrean A Dark Day at Rattlesnake Gulch SASS Virginia State Blackpowder 10 - 10 striker 804-339-8442 West point Va Butterfield range War Shootout law enforcement vs Cowboys 26 - 26 Fast Hammer 575-522-6118 las Cruces nm Smoke on the Mattaponi VII more Fun less run defend the roost 15 - 17 Just george 760-677-9109 ridgecrest Ca 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 April 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 81

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Dates Contact Phone City State Match Dates Contact Phone City State USA 2014 JUNE (continued) MAY (continued) Yellowstone Valley Buffalo 27 - 29 grizzly Bill 406-252-4157 Billings mt SASS Georgia State Champ 15 - 18 Fast eddie 404-405-8266 Covington ga stampede Stampede at South River SASS Annual Scholarship 29 - 29 dangerous 815-245-7284 dry gulch il koruption in paradise Shootout denny ranch John Wayne 15 - 18 korupt karl 260-438-1044 etna green in Annual USA Mounted Matches shootout at leadville 16 - 18 red-eyed kid 443-392-1615 Jefferson pa SASS West Virginia State 16 - 18 eddie rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor WV JUNE Blackpowder Championship SASS END of TRAIL MOUNTED 27 - 29 Chili Cowboy 505-379-8957 Founders nm Smoke over Buffalo Flats WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ranch shoot out on the pecos 17 - 18 stink Creek Jones 575-885-9879 Carlsbad nm August Castle gate smudge match 17 - 17 rowdy Hand 435-637-8209 price ut SASS Four Corners Regional 22 - 24 Chili Cowboy 505-379-8957 Founders nm thunder in the Brush 17 - 18 Buckshot Bob 804-382-3407 mechanics- Va Mounted Champ – Outlaw Trail ranch ville Annual USA Wild Bunch Matches shootout at three Fingers saloon 22 - 25 dirty sally 805-438-4817 santa Ca margarita MARCH siege at san Juan City 22 - 25 san Juan 970-249-4227 montrose Co SASS Arkansas State Wild 14 - 16 naildriver 479-651-2475 Fort smith ar end of road 23 - 25 missy mable 208-731-6387 twin Falls id Bunch™ Championship the Cowboy Charity shoot Hell on the Border (to Benefit st. Jude Children’s SASS California State Wild 31 - 02 sutter lawman 530-713-4194 sloughhouse Ca research Hospital) 23 - 25 shamrock sis 309-798-2635 milan il Bunch™ Championship smokin’ guns at rabbit ridge 23 - 25 oglala sue 901-237-0892 Byhalia ms APRIL SASS Ohio State Championship 23 - 25 Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 piqua oH SASS Utah State Wild Bunch™ 22 - 23 second Fiddle 435-668-3299 Washington ut Shootout at Hard Times Championship sue duel in the desert 24 - 25 silverado H. d. 520-390-2263 tombstone aZ Hell of a Ruckus at Red Rock Where the old West stayed Young 24 - 25 sagebrush Burns 970-208-3196 Craig Co MAY the Fast and Furious 24 - 25 moundridge 620-345-3151 Hutchinson ks SASS Alaska State Wild Bunch™ 17 - 18 marshal stone 907-232-1080 Birchwood ak goat roper Champ – Shootout at Moose Nugget Flats second annual may mayhem 24 - 25 two shot Hoss 417-839-8325 marshfield mo SASS New York State Wild 24 - 25 roy Cassidy 518-584-9869 Ballston nY no Frills/all Fun shoot Bunch™ Championship spa little Big match 24 - 25 William sackett 360-786-0199 little rock Wa Muster At Fort Misery the plainfield incident 29 - 01 Bangor Brink 530-679-2321 davis Ca JUNE 12th annual shootout at 29 - 31 pit mule 515-205-0557 indianola ia SASS Illinois State Wild Bunch™ 12 - 13 mose spencer 270-349-4392 sparta il Coyote gulch Championship Robbers Roost SASS NORTHWEST REGIONAL 29 - 01 Big Casino 541-389-2342 Bend or SASS Oklahoma State Wild 14 - 15 Flat top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma ok CHAMPIONSHIP Bunch™ Championship City Shootout at Horse Ridge SASS END of TRAIL Wild 19 - 22 sass office 505-843-1320 Founders nm SASS MA, CT, and RI State 30 - 01 Barrister Bill 617-529-8601 Harvard ma Bunch™ Championship ranch Championship AUGUST Shootout at Sawyer Flats SASS FOUR CORNERS REG 21 - 24 sass office 505-843-1320 Founders nm pursuit in the osage Hills 30 - 31 Burly Bill 918-830-2936 Bartlesville ok WILD BUNCH™ CHAMPIONSHIP ranch Outlaw Trail JUNE SASS North Carolina State 05 - 08 J. m. Brown 919-266-3751 salisbury nC SASS Oregon State Wild Bunch™ 29 - 31 Hoss reese 503-907-6522 Bend or Championship Championship Uprising at Swearing Creek SASS South Carolina State Wild 30 - 31 Hondo 864-414-1968 greenville sC Battle of rogue river 06 - 08 mountain grizz 253-208-1108 grants pass or Bunch™ Championship Jackson reckoning on the rock 06 - 08 stoney mike 608-868-5167 Beloit Wi Raid on Conestee round up at river Bend 07 - 07 done gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville ga OCTOBER ambush at ricochet Junction 07 - 08 a. t. mcgee 509-684-2325 Colville Wa SASS Missouri State Wild 22 - 23 smokie 417-759-9114 Walnut mo shootout on the Comstock 12 - 15 dutch dalton 775-790-0390 Fernley nV Bunch™ Championship shade SASS Wyoming State Champ 12 - 15 assassin 307-287-6733 Cheyenne WY NOVEMBER Hell on Wheels Chisum Cowboys Wild Bunch™ 14 - 15 two Bit 575-626-9201 roswell nm revenge of montezuma 13 - 15 stumble leena 970-739-9705 Cortez Co Championship tammy SASS Illinois State Champ Spring 13 - 15 Beaucoup Joe 618-521-3619 sparta il Annual International Matches Roundup at the Gulch SASS North and South Dakota 13 - 15 Wild river rose 701-588-4331 enderlin nd AUSTRIA State Championship showdown in the Camp Jun 19 - 22 Fra diabolo 43 664 490 8032 Vienna Peace in the Valley CANADA Helldorado rides again 19 - 22 Hoot 707-484-9283 ukiah Ca SASS CENTRAL CANADIAN Jul 18 - 20 northern Crow 705-435-2807 Barrie on SASS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 19 - 29 sass office 505-843-1320 Founders nm REG Battle at the Bar E Ranch END of TRAIL ranch 23rd annual HdQ salmonella Jul 25 - 27 Haweater Hal 250-920-8707 Victoria BC Fort Halleck days 19 - 21 green springs 775-753-8203 elko nV gulch gambler of the old West thomsen SASS WESTERN CANADIAN aug 07 - 09 granny 306-749-2822 saskatoon sk Bush Whack & Beazley gulch 19 - 22 an e. di 509-787-1782 Quincy Wa REG Shootout at Bounty Gulch oneshot 1st annual Women’s Wild 21 - 21 two shot Hoss 417-859-2058 marshfield mo SASS CANADIAN NATIONAL aug 29 - 31 gunfighter 250-573-2885 kamloops BC West shootout CHAMPIONSHIP Jim thunder in the Valley 21 - 23 angry angus 440-647-5909 amherst oH Shootout at Twin Rivers Cowtown SASS Wisconsin State 21 - 22 Captain Cook 715-248-3727 station range Wi SASS Ontario Wild Bunch sep 14 - 14 legendary 443-852-5024 ancaster on Blackpowder Shootout Provincial Championship lawman Smoke in the Hills AUSTRALIA law dawgs Vs Cowboy 22 - 22 m. r. Fearnot 307-262-2841 Casper WY SASS AUSTRALIAN sep 29 - 05 Virgil earp 61 74 695 2050 millmerran Charity shoot REGIONAL Chisholm Trail SASS Maryland State Champ 26 - 28 Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 damascus md gunfight at the ok Corral oct 25 - 26 duke York 61 418 632 366 drouin Thunder Valley Days 20th annual FRANCE old West shootout may 30 - 01 Vallombreuse 330 233 657 690 athis de l’orne Buffalo Valley Jun 13 - 15 slye Buffalo 02 37 63 65 83 Châteauneuf- en-thymerais ambush at greenwood Creek sep 12 - 14 Handy Hook 33 68 809 1360 Bormes les mimosas GERMANY SASS European Regional – may 14 - 18 repHil 49 170 231 9708 phipippsburg German Territorial Roundup To update your SASS Affiliated Club Listing or Annual Match please contact Slipnoose at the SASS Office ph: (877) 411-7277 or [email protected]

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CONVENTIONS , NULLIFICATION , both, these masters of sell out will quickly turn it to their advantage. AND VOTING , At the Team SASS Seminar in Branson MO, Mr. Tom King, a mem - By Colonel Dan, SASS Life/Regulator #24025 ber of the NRA Board of Directors and President of the New York Colonel Dan, SASS Lif e/ State Rifle and Pistol Association, Regulator #24025 “When those sworn to uphold the safer in that our founding document who co-chaired the event with me, law, ignore the law, there is no law.” would not be vulnerable to political gave what I consider the most co - 3. It would be very difficult to evisceration; i.e., being gutted! Ad - gent example why single issue vot - his month I’ll address successfully organize 50 states into ditionally, nullification doesn’t re - ing is critical when confronting several issues in one col - such a convention and limit them to quire 50 states or even a majority of politicians. “Let’s say they vote umn: First, Mark Levin’s considering only those worthy states … one state can independ - against late term abortion but for T idea of convening a con - amendments suggested by Levin or ently initiate that action and send a gun control. They can and will vention of the states for the purpose limiting them to anything! What’s powerful message to Washington. I come back at us saying, ‘well I got of proposing constitutional amend - to prevent today’s liberal faction therefore believe encouraging or the best deal I could make giving ments followed by the alternative of from joining forces at such a con - forcing state level nullification is the you half of what you wanted.’” state nullification and finally, why vention and ramrodding an amend - best hope for “We the People” and is Bottom line: Our efforts to pre - it’s important that Team SASS be ment that repeals any or all of the something we can more likely bring serve the Second Amendment could single issue voters. Bill of Rights? NOTHING! We’ve about and influence given its point be intentionally marginalized by In his latest book, The Liberty had amendments that repealed of origin being our home states. the compromising nature of these Amendments , Levin advocates a con - other amendments, so there is Additionally, I’ve personally political animals. vention of the states for the purpose precedent for such action; e.g., pro - heard Mr. Levin say the Founder’s If however, we confront them as of proposing 11 constitutional hibition. There’s simply no way to didn’t agree with nullification. How - single-issue voters, they have noth - amendments. First, let me say, ide - constrain the delegates of a faction ever, that’s incorrect. In fact, I ing to deal away when answering to ally, I believe Levin’s amendments bent on “fundamentally transform - quoted several Founders in my No - their gun rights constituents. The would be good for today’s America IF ing America” once the movement vember 2013 article regarding their pressure for them to do the right the convention were honestly moti - has an empowered forum and gains support and actual advocacy of nul - thing regarding the Second Amend - vated by the love of freedom, honor - momentum. This was even true for lification. Did they support nullifica - ment is enhanced and magnified to ably proposed with an eye the convention of 1787 that eventu - tion of the entire Constitution or any a greater degree than if confronted exclusively toward ensuring individ - ally adopted our current constitu - of its fundamental principles? No, with multiple issues from which they ual liberty by constraining govern - tion. Their original publicly stated they supported nullification of laws could arbitrarily pick and choose. ment, and if those amendments were purpose was to “fix” the Articles of or actions from the federal that fall Mr. King’s illustration was a constitutionally ratified by the states Confederation. What they did was outside the constitutionally enumer - great way to clarify the reasoning and strictly enforced by all three write a totally new constitution. Al - ated constraints by declaring such behind the single-issue approach in branches of government. Despite the beit a document for the better, it actions null and void at the out set. one lucid example. I urge Team merit of these well-considered shows what can and will happen at The risk in nullification: states SASS to adopt this tactic when con - amendments, the concerns I have such gatherings. And do we think will be held hostage by the loss of fronting our political leadership. with such an assembly are three fold. those attending a convention today federal funding. The trade off: con - Please don’t misunderstand. I’m 1. I don’t trust politicians. are just as honorable, dedicated to stitutional liberty and state sover - not suggesting you give up support - They’ve proven they’re generally not and motivated by their love of indi - eignty in trade for unconstitutional, ing other issues of interest, but motivated to do the right thing for vidual freedom as our Founders? I string-laden federal dollars and when confronting these politicians America compared to their interest certainly don’t; ergo, my ardent dis - perpetual subservience. The ques - under the Team SASS banner , in promoting a personal agenda of trust of them and serious apprehen - tion: Would the states be willing to NEVER include any other issue in amassing power at our expense. sion of the final result. pledge their subsidized fortunes the discussion. However, my long- And, it would certainly be politi - Underlying all of my concerns and sacred honor for renewed sov - held admonition steadfastly re - cians or their hand picked puppets is unquestionably the fundamental ereignty? The answer: TBD. mains regarding any interaction that would comprise the delegation and indisputable FACT that it is As for voting, I strongly believe with politicians: Ignore what they attending such a convention. NOT our constitution that’s broken Team SASS members who confront say, rather watch what they do … 2. Today’s “ruling class” ignores and in need of repair, it’s today’s their political leaders under the then judge them “by their fruits.” the current Constitution with im - federal government and the “ruling Team SASS banner must be single- As Team SASS travels free - punity at virtually every opportu - elite” that’s dysfunctional, constitu - issue voters. Why? Politicians are dom’s trail, the same trail blazed by nity. We’ve seen this repeatedly. tionally lawless, and out of control. by “genetic make up” a our Founders, keep in mind the Once they get an inch, they incre - Given the above, I believe there wheeling/dealing species. As we’ve words of Sam Adams; “It does not mentally take a mile. So what as - would be a greater chance of suc - seen, they’ll compromise away virtu - take a majority to prevail ... but surance do we have politicians cessfully thwarting an out-of-control ally anything in the interest of rather an irate, tireless minority, would obey these new amendments? federal by convincing a number of “striking a deal,” even if their conces - keen on setting brushfires of freedom What would be the enforcement ve - states to “resolutely just say NO;” sions violate our Constitution. And, in the minds of men.” Be a Team hicle—the States? They haven’t i.e., nullification of those laws that most times this nonstop compromis - SASS spark of freedom’s fire my thus far. Certainly not the Supreme fall outside the enumerated powers ing doesn’t sit well with true patri - friends and resolutely soldier on … Court! That body has ignored and specified in the Constitution. A nul - ots. If Team SASS members confront Contact Colonel Dan: bastardized the Constitution along lification movement would not only politicians on gun control AND late [email protected] with the other branches of govern - be easier to orchestrate since a for - term abortion for example, clearly Article Archives: ment. It’s as I’ve always said, mal convention is unnecessary, but stating our vehement opposition to http://coloneldan1776.com/ Visit us at sassnet .com Page 84 Cowboy Chronicle April 2014

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