July 2015 MASON- DIXON STAMPEDE .,2014 Northeast Regional by Dogmeat Dad, SASS #48563 Photos by Bob Cumberland, Idle Time Photography
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S !! S C For Updates, Information and GREAT Offers on the fly-Text SASS to 772937! ig L CCCooowwwCCbbboooywywy CbbCCoohhyhyrr r AoCoConnnhhiiiiirccrcclollolleeeneniiccllee I November 2001 CowCboyw Cbohyr oCnShircloe niicnlle PaCge 1 NNSNSoeeoopvpvvetteteememmmmbbbbbeeeererrr r 2 2 2 2020000001111 00 - PPPPaaaagggKgeeee 1 111 S u H ( C p E S R e o T E Cowboy Chroniiclle e n o ! October 2010 P page 1 d ! October 2010 Paage 1v a g e y ~ e n ! 5 t ) io The Cowboy Chronicle n The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Sh ooting Society ® Vol. 28 No. 7 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. July 2015 MASON- DIXON STAMPEDE .,2014 Northeast Regional By Dogmeat Dad, SASS #48563 Photos by Bob Cumberland, Idle Time Photography hurmont, Marylan d— October T 2-5, 201 4— Home of the Thur - mont Conservation & Sportsman’s Club and the host for the 2014 SASS Northeast Regional, the Mason-Dixon Stampede. And what an awesome match it was. Def - initely one for the record books, as they say. Shooters arrived from all over the re - gion, with more than a few from outside as well, converging to experience big, close, and 100 percent guaranteed hit- able targets. How can I guarantee 100 percent hit-able targets you ask? Well, yours truly, managed to “Get ‘em All,” The Future Of SASS even staring through the voluminous (l to r): Eagle Eye Drew (SASS #74807), Cobb Richardson, (SASS #91364), clouds of black powder Smoke! Maverick (SASS #92789), Lead Slinging Nick (SASS #82660), Over the last several years, the Mason- Calico Cutie (SASS #90394), BB Richardson (SASS #91363). Dixon Stampede has experienced rather unusual periods of light rain, and, much to the delight of weather for the area, including a Hurricane, a heat the black powder shooters, a breezy day on Sat - wave, and a flood. This year, the weather returned to urday to waft the clouds of smoke away. Hard to normal for early fall in Maryland. Cool mornings, get much better than that! cobalt blue skies, white fluffy clouds, a few very brief After months of planning, setup started the Saturday prior to match weekend, with many new props, including a new building on Stage 1 SASS C owboy Chronicle 40 and a store front made from reclaimed barn wood ISPATCHES FROM D to add just that period-correct touch. Many folks In This Issue CAMP BAYLOR by Capt. George Baylor deserve recognition for their hard work building 12 C props, painting, cutting back weeds, decorating L OSSE RANDE h C E P G 44 IVES ACK HO AS HOMAS AST r the stages, etc. I can’t possibly name them all, but o G B W W T N ? by Big Dave o w by Aravaipa Al special recognition goes to Montana Max (SASS n b i #81717), Chance Calico (SASS #54214), and MT o 16 62 c y HE OLT IREARMS Chambers (SASS #76185) for their dedicated ef - VICTORIAN MOURNING T C F l (P T. II) COLLECTION e forts year after year after year. I would like to by Texas Flower by Shot Doc ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CLICK any section ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ( CLICK HERE to continue on page 20 ) Cowboy Chronicle Page 2 July 2015 The Cowboy Chronicle CONTENTS 5 SASSC LCICOK NoVn EanNyT sIeOcNtio ns e ((( SIGN-U P TODA Y!! ! ))) Editorial Staff 6 FROM THE EDITOR Skinny Regulators: What’s the “Right Stuff?” . Editor-in-Chief 8-14 NEWS Misty Moonshine PRVC Moves To The Camatta Ranch . Allegiance: Named Team SASS Deputy Dir. Managing Editor 16-18 COSTUMING CORNER Victorian Mourning (Pt. II) Proper Etiquette and Customs . Tex and Cat Ballou 26-28 ON THE RANGE Editors Emeritus 2015 Kansas Black Powder Championship . Adobe Illustrator 30-35 CLUB REPORTS Layout & Design Shootin’ Across America . Never The Same Again! . Mac Daddy 36-38 THE WILD BUNCH CORNER Graphic Design Pine Mountain Posse’s 2nd Ann. Match . Prairie Mary 39 THE WILD BUNCH CORNER Advertising Manager The Mason-Dixon Stampede Wild Bunch . (505) 843-1320 • Cell: (505) 249-3573 40-43 GUNS & GEAR [email protected] Dispatches From Camp Baylor . Staff Writers Big Dave 44-49 HISTORY Capgun Kid Who Was Thomas Nast? . Little Known Famous People . Capt. George Baylor 50-55 PROFILES Col. Richard Dodge Idaho Six Gun Sam . 2014 Scholarship Recipient (Flaming Star) . Jesse Wolf Hardin Joe Fasthorse 55 TRAIL MARKER Larsen E. Pettifogger Always To Be Remembered . Palaver Pete 56-65 ARTICLES Tennssee Tall and SASS On The Move . One Pot Chuck . Shooting The Stage . Rio Drifter Texas Flower 66, 67 GENERAL STORE /CLASSIFIED Whooper Crane and the Missus The Cowboy Chronicle is published by 68, 69 SASS MERCANTILE The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of Nice Collectibles . The Single Action Shooting Society. 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Variation in 2015 Black Powder Championship. of SASS is strictly prohibited. handloading tech niques, compo nents, Look for the full match report in this issue. and fire arms will make results vary. Have a competent gunsmith check your firearms before firing. VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle July 2015 Page 3 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle Page 4 July 2015 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle July 2015 Page 5 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle Page 6 July 2015 REGULATORS What’s the “Right Stuf f?” Guest Editorial by Tex, SASS #4 Tex, SASS #4 ASS has a very rich mixture of folks who make up our ranks. champions. As laudable as these folks and their accomplishments Many are very supportive in a variety of ways, but most are are, these are simply the goals of every SASS competitor who Ssimply happy to come to a match and shoot. Every club needs vol - wishes to move past the recreational level. Like club administra - unteers for maintenance, to pull targets, set them up, tear down at tion, this is simply another facet of the basics of Cowboy Action the end of the match, and put things away. Scoring, stage design, Shooting™. Neither of these is grounds for being a Regulato r. and club administration are all required. Some clubs handle these It’s not unusual for SASS Headquarters to receive nominations necessary jobs better than others… some have very dynamic offi - for Regulators naming the club’s entire Board of Directors as re - cers who go beyond the minimum and make their club experience cipients. Others have started their own personal petition, collecting a memorable one. Many clubs also take the time to go to local gun signatures attesting to their worthiness, and still others have peti - shows, set up a booth, and actively recruit new members. These tions generated by close personal friends or a spouse to “get them activities are all necessary on one level or another for a club to be a Regulator badge.” These are inappropriate as well. established and for a club to flourish. If good club administrators, champion shooters, and close Top shooters are generally standout-outs in every club. Some friends all received Regulator badges, a huge number of folks would shooters are talented enough and work hard enough in practice have them, and they would be as common as regular SASS badges. sessions to become state, Regional, National, and even World (Continued on next page) VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle July 2015 Page 7 Regulators • What’s the “Right Stuf f?”. (Continued from previous page) So, what is a Regulator and what does the Regulator Review Committee look for in a new nomination? Regulators are people who have a positive impact on SASS and Cowboy Action Shooting™ that goes far beyond the bounds of one’s own club. This can be done in several ways—there is no “magic” recipe. Very active Wild Bunch Ambassadors, for example, do much to stimulate the growth of Wild Bunch Action Shooting. Key people in France have been working the politics to create a unified approach to Cowboy Action Shooting™ in France.