S A S For Updates, Information and GREAT Offers on the fly-Text SASS toNo7ve7m2be9r 230701 ! CCoowwbbooyy CChhrrooSnniiicclllee ig Page 1 NNSNSoeeoopvpvvetteeeemmmmmbbbbbeeeeerrrr r 2 2 22200000001111 00 CCoowwCCbbooywyw CbbCoohhyyrr oCoCnnhhSiiircrclolloeenniiccnllee PPPaaagggeee 111 B - U u (S F p e F e A T p L o a O d g S a ~ e T y 3 A ! 9 M ) P The Chronicle E D E The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Sh ooting Society ® Vol. 26 No. 3 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. March 2013 SASS CoNveNtioN European wZ f & WILD WEST 201 f END of 2 fChristmas Z By John Bohemia, SASS Life/ Has a New Home for 201 3! Regulator #73504 TRAIL By Misty Moonshine, SASS Life #24262

Range Master Headshot Jack was responsible for constructing the European END of TRAIL stages to replicate those from END of TRAIL 2012. He did a masterful job! All who attended END of TRAIL will instantly recognize the “Jail Stage” The Chateau on the Lake, a AAA Four Diamond Branson Resort, shown here … and several others in the collage photos. is the home for this year’s SASS Convention! An “all new” program parany, CZ – Let me TRAIL. Like this, the European is planned for this “all new” venue, making the SASS Convention the social highlight of the year. start this with a little cowboys have a chance to shoot It’s not to be missed! bit of history. It was al - END of TRAIL without having to O ways rather difficult for travel too far. Of course, the Wild fter months of site visits, the European shooters to travel Bunch backed this. negotiations, and prelim - to the US for END of TRAIL. One Since 2008 this match has SASS C owboy Chronicle inary plans, SASS is has to admit that time and been organized every year; A proud to announce the mainly money plays its role in de - France being the last organizer in 11th installment of the SASS Con - ciding whether or not to make 2011. It was expected French In This Issue vention and Wild West Christmas such a trip. cowboys would organize also 2012 will take place December 4-8, 2013 This was the reason why in EUROPEAN END of TRAIL. 26 Tom HirT HaTs in Branson, Missouri! 2008 Italian cowboys started the However, due to some issues on by The Jersey Kid The 2013 SASS Convention tradition of bringing END of the organization side, they an - will boast a brand new and exciting TRAIL to Europe. The idea was nounced in May they would not 40 Border Wars - format, in a great new location! simple—organize a 3 – 4 day be able to do that, and it was at Ks s TaTe cHampionsHip SASS has negotiated a “run of the match in which the Main Match this point our association, AWS

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6 FROM THE EDITOR Editorial Staff Colonel Dan Is of Team SASS! . . . Tex Editor-in-Chief 7 DESK OF THE GENERAL The Chapel Still Needs Help! . . . Cat Ballou Editor 8, 9 NEWS Ruckus At Red Rock! . . . Waddies Needed For 32nd Annual END of TRAIL . . . Miss Tabitha Asst. Editor 10-12 CAT’S CORNER Fashionable Hair Dressing (Part II) . . . Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 14, 15 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . . . Mac Daddy 16-21 ARTICLES Capt. Gimp And The 1904 Olds . . . Being A Waddie . . . Graphic Design Lilly Mae 22-26 GUNS & GEAR Dispatches From Camp Baylor . . . Springs & Things . . . Advertising Manager (505) 843-1320 • Fax: (877) 770-8687 [email protected] 28 MOUNTED The Durango And Silverton Narrow-Gauge “Victorian Train” Robbery Contributing Writers HISTORY Alamo Annie Jett, Aneeda Huginkiss, 30, 31 Skeleton Canyon . . . Little Known Famous People . . Birdshot, Brother King,Captain Cooper, Capt. George Baylor, Catoosa Red, 32 PROFILES Chico Cheech, Col. Dan, 2012 SASS Scholarship Recipient (Miss Mandy) . . . Col. Richard Dodge, Cree Vicar Dave, Dastardly Dave, Joe Fasthorse, 33 REVIEWS BOOKS John Bohemia, Justice Lily Kate, Ambush On The Rio Puerco . . . Kate Barlow, Larsen E. Pettifogger, Major Payne, Miss Mandy, Miss Tabitha, 35 TRAIL MARKER Always To Be Remembered . . . Misty Moonshine, Palaver Pete, Rio Drifter & Tennesse Tall, Sugah, Tennessee Tombstone, 39 BUFFALO STAMPEDE SIGN-UP TODAY!!! The Jersey Kid, White Smoke Steve, Wolverine Wrangler 40-56 ON THE RANGE The Cowboy Chronicle is published by What’s Goin’ On In Your Town? . . . The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. 59, 60 CLUB REPORTS For advertising information and rates, ad - Italian Shooter Honorary . . . Shootin’ Across The USA . . . ministrative, and edi to rial offices contact: Chronicle Administrator 62-64 THE WILD BUNCH CORNER 215 Cowboy Way Edgewood, NM 87015 (505) 843-1320 64-66 GENERAL STORE /CLASSIFIED FAX (505) 843-1333 email: [email protected] http://www.sassnet.com 67-73 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS (MONTHLY, ANNUA L) The Cowboy Chronicle (ISSN 15399877) is pub - lished monthly by the Single Action Shooting Society, 215 Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. Periodicals Postage is Paid at Edge - wood, NM and additional mailing offices SASS ® Trademarks (USPS #032). POSTMASTER: Send ad- sass ®, single action shooting society ®, dress changes to The Cowboy Chronicle , 215 end of TraiL ®, eoT ®, Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. The Cowboy Chro nicle Tm , DISCLAIMER - The Single Action Shooting cowboy action shooting Tm , Society does not guarantee, warranty or en - Tm Tm dorse any product or service advertised in cas , Wild Bunch , this newspaper. The publisher also does not Wild Bunch action shooting Tm , guarantee the safety or effectiveness of any The World championship of product or service illustrated. The distri - cowboy action shooting Tm , bution of some products/services may be il - legal in some areas, and we do not assume Bow-legged cowboy design, and the responsibility thereof. State and local laws rocking Horse design must be investigated by the purchaser prior are all trademarks of to purchase or use or products/services. The single action shooting society, inc. WARNING: Neither the author nor The Any use or reproduction of these marks Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi - One of the unique events of the 2013 SASS Convention is the Friday without the express written permission bility for accidents or diffe ring results evening cruise on the Showboat Branson Belle, featuring dinner and the obtained using reloading data. Variation of SASS is strictly prohibited. in handloading tech niques, compo nents, best in Branson entertainment. Plan for an elegant time promenading and fire arms will make results vary. Have the decks and enjoying views of the lush Ozark Mountains. a competent gunsmith check your firearms before firing. VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle March 2013

Colonel Dan is commANDER of TEAm SASS ! By Tex, SASS #4

ing organization, firearms re - ence and impassion our general Amendment goes, so go those tailer/distributor, and gun manu - membership to immediately pres - rights. Therefore, you cannot sep - facturer be actively involved in sure politicians and then promote a arate the guarantor of the right preserving our Second Amendment more effective combined and coordi - from the right itself without incur - rights. Colonel Dan’s Cowboy Chron - nated effort in the fight to retain ring the real risk of losing both.” icle political column over the years those Second Amendment rights. If you have not done so al - has demonstrated his insight into In his words, “I know this is not ready, it is important you turn to the significance of the Constitution going to be an easy victory or the back pages of The Cowboy Chron - and its Amendments, and he has quickly completed task, but I icle and read Colonel Dan’s recent Tex, SASS #4 the energy necessary to craft and wholeheartedly believe it is one we essays dealing with today’s na - sustain an appropriate plan to pro - must engage, or we risk losing too tional politics. The Cowboy Chronicle tect those Amendments, including much to contemplate. and the Team SASS Bulleting e are in a Second the Second Amendment. SASS Obviously, we won’t have agree - Board on the SASS website will Amend ment fight that has turned to Colonel Dan to be ment by everyone or every group on continue to publish pertinent pro- has significant conse - our leader and spokesman in everything, but I’ll do my best to gun information and calls for W quences. Shooting tra- this fight for firearms freedom. encourage all with whom I come in SASS membership involvement. ge dies around the country are His Mission Statement : In contact to keep their eye focused on When an initiative is announced, hor rible, no one is happy about close coordination with the Wild the ultimate goal of retaining our PLEASE follow through … SASS them, and because of a few unstable Bunch, lead the SASS effort in our right to keep and bear arms. has many voices, and they’re all individuals, we’re all in jeopardy of fight to maintain and retain our The basis of my constant mes - important when the politicians are losing our ability to play Cowboy Second Amendment rights. Estab - sages to the SASS membership will counting heads at rallies, letters in Action games … and, indeed, to lish SASS as an extremely valued, be for them to keep firmly in mind their mail box, and e-mails on the even possess firearms at all. effective, active, supportive, and the Second Amendment is one of Internet. SASS is a proud member SASS believes it is imperative sought-after ally of the pro-gun fra - the primary guarantors of ALL un - of the national effort to preserve every gun owner, sportsman, shoot - ternity and use our collective influ - alienable rights. As the Second our Second Amendment rights!

VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com March 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 7 same, however, including the an - nual Territorial Governors Summit and important annual meetings to ensure our members’ voices are heard and represented on impor - tant issues. Important and historic ceremonies also occur at the SASS Convention, including the Hall of From The Desk Fame Induction Ceremony and the Wooly Awards. of The General The 11th SASS Convention will also offer the return of the Indoor Wax Cowboy Action Champi - the CHapel onship—right on site at the Chateau on the Lake! We provide the guns still Needs Help! and the ammunition, so this is an “easy add” to round out your SASS By General US Grant, Convention experience. SASS #2 Misty Moonshine, Attendees will enjoy a new and SASS Life #24262 improved lineup of first class semi - he New Chapel is some - nars, speakers, and presentations, thing for which we can The SASS Convention a limited and exclusive presenta - all be very proud. Some General US Grant, SASS #2 and Wild West Christmas tion of exhibitors, fantastic social T of our members have functions, and entertainment ga - Has A New Home given their heart and soul to this been donated for the Chapel, but we lore. The Chateau on the Lake and project, and we are all grateful. still have $9,000 due the contractor. for 2013! . . . all its amenities will be trans - To get the building framed It occurred to me that less than (Continued from page 1) formed into SASS Convention and and covered required the services a dollar from each of our members ful Chateau on the Lake Resort, Wild West Christmas Headquar - of a contractor. The first contrac - would take care of this. The Wild Spa and Convention Center. ters—all for you! tor didn’t work out, so the effort Bunch is each sending a check for The Chateau on the Lake is a In addition to great new semi - was redirected to another local $200 to the SASS Heritage AAA Four Diamond Branson resort nars and fantastic exhibitors, a new builder, who completed the tasks Museum today to prime the pump and spa that offers everything one and exciting entertainment lineup not handled by the first contrac - toward getting this final bill paid. I would expect from a five-star re - will be offered as well. A few high - tor and our volunteers. At the know it is tight out there, but I am sort—including a stunning lake - lights of the entertainment schedule time donations were coming in requesting ALL SASS members front location, luxuriously ap pointed include the triumphant return of the like crazy, so the Wild Bunch de - please send a fully tax deductable accommodations, comprehensive Convention’s traditional Cowboy Pa - cided to complete the basic build - donation today to the SASS West - amenities, choice of dining options, jama Party as well as the first ever ing structure. Subsequently we ern Heritage Museum – Chapel and expansive event space—perfect Cowboy Party on Thursday had quite a few unforeseen chal - Fund. This keeps our contractor for the SASS Convention! All this night! We’ll even have exclusive use lenges with the county and state happy … and means we can all at an affordable price that provides of the movie theatre at the Chateau as to it being a “Public Building,” enjoy a “free and clear” Chapel at a great value for your dollar. And, for enjoying a Western movie. requiring a few more expenses END of TRAIL this year! what truly sets the Chateau apart is A special Friday evening treat is than anticipated. At any rate, as Once this bill is paid, we can their expert staff, all being commit - included in every attendee’s Con - you know the basic building was begin thinking about completing ted to providing each and every ventioneer registration, the SASS up for END of TRAIL 2012. As of the interior of the chapel … guest with an extraordinary level of Convention exclusive full ship char - last month, over $86,000 has Thank you in advance. service that is at once accommodat - ter of the Showboat Branson Belle— ing and professional, yet warm, wel - something you don’t want to miss! coming, and genuine. In full regalia, attendees will enjoy The hotel features 301 beauti - this unique experience—a fantastic if you wish. A formal Ball, the finest seminars and speakers, the SASS fully appointed guest rooms and 57 lake cruise aboard the magnificent entertainment, and a fantastic din - Convention in Branson, Missouri spacious hotel suites with a focus on Showboat Branson Belle. Stroll the ner is being planned that will knock will serve up an experience you supreme comfort, absolute ele - three decks, and enjoy panoramic your socks off—and we left the air - don’t want to miss. 2014 will take gance, and unabashed luxury. views of the lush Ozark Mountains line chicken behind! the Convention to a new location— Rooms at the Chateau are limited, across the turquoise waters of Table Whether it’s the Victorian Tea, so experience Branson and the so get your reservations in early to Rock Lake. During the two-hour the indoor shooting competition, the SASS Convention in 2013! enjoy staying at the Chateau—THE lake cruise, you will experience fab - pajama and pool party, the Show - Registration opens site of the SASS Convention! Lets ulous dining and the best in Bran - boat Branson Belle, or the finest March 1st! fill the place to overflowing with son entertainment. Cowboys and Cowgirls—we have The Grand finale of the SASS the whole resort to ourselves! Convention, and the SASS Social In addition to the accommoda - event of the year returns on Satur - tions at the Chateau, Branson offers day night with the Yesteryear Ball a myriad of other ac com modation op - & Banquet, which will be held at the tions for overflow, to include every - Chateau on the Lake in their gor - thing from rustic cabins, nearby geously appointed Grand Ball condo rentals, as well as a wide vari - Room. To honor the 150 th anniver - ety of campgrounds for RVs. sary of the Civil War, this year’s The re-invention of the SASS theme for the ball will be The Rec - Convention is still underway as we onciliation Ball, where North and work toward providing attendees South will meet to reconcile their with a once in a lifetime experi - “differences.” Get those hoop skirts ence. The vital elements of the and military uniforms ready. Of SASS Convention will remain the course, you can also dress Victorian

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Major Payne, SASS #86012 at eD oCk ixie Desperados, St. r r ! George, UT – I love By Major Payne, SASS #86,012 words! Words have D meaning, and I’ve noted April 17 – 20, 2013 we have many words the diction - ary now calls “Americanisms”— “rumpus” and these words de - fun than a “barrel of monkeys!” words we use in everyday speech, scribe what will happen at (Another “Americanism!”) There words that would “stupefy” “Ruckus” at Red Rock, April 17 to will be some new facades and (“amaze, astound, and astonish”) 20th at the outstanding Southern stages that are built for fun and many from other countries. Utah Shooting Sports Park shoot - excitement, and you can’t help but An “Americanism” is any - ing venue in the St. George area of have fun with a whole bunch thing, as a “custom or word that is Utah. I think all would agree this (“lots”) of great folks. peculiar to America.” One such will be a really great shoot. Those The “Ruckus” will get off to a word is “Ruckus.” of you cowboys and cowgirls who great start with a bunch of really “Ruckus” is a “fracas” or a shoot at this event will have more fun activities. On Wednesday,

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Ruckus at Red Rock! . . . e e waddies Needed for 32nd annual eND of trail By Fancy Free, SASS Regulator #23612

y now most of you know what Waddie, you ask? You will receive Ba Waddie is, but in case you a dollar a day for each day worked don’t, here is a bit of history. during the match, a camping site, Waddies were the extra help and a parking pass for the time the big ranches hired when they you are there. Plus, you will re - needed more hands for big events ceive your Waddie name badge, a such as branding, round ups, trail collector’s pin, a Waddie souvenir, drives, or even fiestas. They were and a chance to win a really great today’s temps. Their pay was a prize, maybe even a gun! You dollar a day and found (food and must be a SASS member to sign a place to throw their bed roll). up as a Waddie. Work is what Waddies do at All we ask is that you sign up END of TRAIL, everything from for a minimum of a 5-½ hour shift the greeter at the main gate, for three days. You must work at there will be a four-stage Wild down and sends up a flyer (1 of 11 parking, the tea tent, getting least four hours in the morning Bunch™ match. Thursday will flyers) and a popup. You shoot an - water to the range, building and for your breakfast and lunch tick - see long-range single shot event, other knockdown target and that painting the props, putting up ets, and for eight hours you also followed by lunch and a warm-up sends another bowling ball left to banners, bartending, running the receive a dinner ticket. Mini-Match. A Plainsman match right. While it’s rolling, you shoot gambling hall, providing security, If this sounds like something will be held later that afternoon two or three knockdown targets. and even taking out the trash. If you would like to be a part of, go to: followed by a chili potluck dinner. The bowling ball then triggers a it is a job that needs doing, a Wad - www.sassnet.com/EndofTrail Friday, April 19 th , will feature flyer for a total of 20 shots … or die will “get ‘er done.” and scroll down to Waddie sign the first six stages of the main so. How fast can you do that? However it isn’t all work, we up. match and a lunch included in the The Dixie Desperados welcome have fun, too! We get to attend all You must sign up before END match fee. During the lunch, any and all comers to the beautiful the events that take place on the of TRAIL so we can have your awards will be presented for the red rock beauty of southern Utah ranch, and are a big part of put - name badge made, as all partici - Mini-Match and Plainsman events. home to Bryce Canyon, Zion ting on the Greatest Word Cham - pants must wear a name badge. Side matches and the long-range Canyon, Moab, and Kanab, UT. pionship possible. Come out early to help set up lever/ caliber will run from Kanab was home to many of the Some of us have been coming and/or stay an extra day to help 1PM to 4PM on the same day. Sat - most famous of John Ford and for over 12 years. tear down. All help is greatly ap - urday the match will conclude with John Wayne’s iconic movies, sev - What do you get for being a preciated! the final six main stages, the team eral made in Monument Valley, shoots and the top-gun shoot-off. UT. All within easy driving dis - The awards banquet will be held tance from the Dixie Desperados Saturday evening. range at the Southern Utah Shoot - If there’s any greater “shotgun ing Sports Park ( www.sussp.net ). challenge” venue in SASS, I’d be See the Dixie Desperados webpage surprised! You stand on the “gal - at www.dixiedesperados.com for lows” and shoot a knockdown tar - information and an event schedule get that sets a bowling ball rolling and registration form.

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FASHIONABLE HAIR DRESSING Arranging the “Newport Knot” part ii The Delineator, December 1894

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Cat Ballou, SASS #55 at Figure No. 4 . In making the has been thus secured upon the French twist, comb the hair upward iron, close the latter so as to heat Note from the contributor: No mat - 1 toward the left, roll it tightly in the the hair through and make the ter how historically accurate a same direction, and pin it as shown. waves more lasting. lady’s outfit may be, the right acces - After the French twist has been Wave as closely as possible to sories can make or break the final made, dispose of the switch in a coil, the head, and for five or six inches effect. Shoes, gloves, reticules, jew - as represented at Figure No. 5 , to down on the hair and so continue elry, and yes – her hairstyle all con - until all the loose long hair has tribute to the “stepped back in time” been treated. Figure No. 7 por - appearance. For your pleasure, the 5 trays more clearly the method of following is an article taken di - winding the hair upon the iron, and rectly from the pages of a popular at Figure No. 8 the hair is shown Victorian magazine of this era, waved all round and the bang word for word. May it entertain 2 combed out ready for curling. Fig - and inspire you! – Miss Tabitha ure No. 9 illustrates the method of

Detailed Instructions he simplicity and classic sug - 7 gestion of the Newport knot, Twith its accompaniment of waves and curls, make this style a favorite for both daytime and keep it separate from the remain - evening. The knot gives the head der; and then begin the waving. a charming contour, in which re - Any kind of steel tongs that are spect puffs and other exaggerated made without springs may be used disposals signally fail; and, besides, for this purpose, and they may be it is easy to form without the serv - heated over an alcohol lamp or a 8 ices of a maid, an advantage that 3 gas jet, preferably the former, be - appeals to the great majority of cause it will not charge the iron womankind. with a deposit of soot. Before using To arrange the admired New - the heated iron, rub it vigorously on port coiffure, first free the hair clean paper to test its heat and at from tangles, so the comb may be the same time remove all impuri - drawn through it easily and freely, ties from its surface. Take up, as the process being as described most convenient, portions of the above (in Part I of this series). hair about half the thickness of the Then part the hair for waving, little finger; wind each portion sep - making the part an inch from the arately about the round jaw of the edge of the hair all round when the tongs, as illustrated at Figure No. tresses are moderately thick, or 6; and when a sufficient quantity only half an inch from the edge when locks are very thick, or an inch and a half from the edge when 6 9 the hair is very scanty. 4 After that portion of the hair that is desired for waving has been divided from the rest, comb out the hair again with the right hand and gather it into a switch with the left, as shown at Figure No. 1 ; then turn it up, as at Figure No. 2 , twist it to form a French twist, as at Figure No. 3 , and secure it with a hair-pin at the crown, as pictured

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combing out the waves, a coarse Variations and Decorations comb being used. The Newport knot, when The correct bang is slightly properly made, is very soft and pointed at the center and is shorter graceful. A front view of the coif - than was formerly stylish. It is fure is given at Figure B. Side- parted at the center, and the hair combs of shell, plain or with at each side of the parting is di - silver mountings, are thrust ver - vided into an upper and lower tically through the upper layer of layer for curling. Arrange the the bang at both sides about half upper layer in three curls, which an inch from the parting. Such may turn upward or downward, as combs vary in length from an preferred. First catch in the iron inch and a half to three inches, the ends of the hair to be curled the choice being left to personal BB and turn the iron until all the hair fancy ( Figure BB ). has been curled round it, running it through the hair at each side of 12 the parting and twisting it to pro - B to mingle with the waves. The duce a slight wave. The lower layer Spanish comb is invariably ad - should be no more than a light coiffure or after it has been com - justed as illustrated, but the more fringe and should be disposed in pleted, as best liked. Figure No. slender and fanciful hair-pins of three curls, the one at the center 12 pictures the former method. shell or silver are thrust in at the being curled downward and flat - Comb the bang from underneath side or wherever else they will be tened with the iron, and the one at with the fine end of the comb at becoming. each side being curled upward and each side of the parting, and allow If the natural growth of hair is toward the part. This process pro - the center curl to hang flatly upon insufficient to render the head pro - duces a V outline. the forehead. portionate in appearance, the defi - When the waves have been Then twist the switch tightly ciency should be supplied by an loosened to look like “Nature’s to the end, bring it up to the crown artificial switch to produce a truly own,” uncoil the switch and secure in suggestion of a loop, as pictured artistic effect. At Figure C the it firmly by twisting round and at Figure No. 13 , holding the bot - knot is scarcely large enough for round it just below the crown a few the head. A more correct and effec - strands of hair that have been sep - 13 tive result may, therefore, be ob - arated from the switch at the right tained by means of additional hair. side, as may be seen at Figure No. Figure No. 17 shows the 10 ; or use a cord instead of the hair. Newport switch, which is made of Then bring the waved portions back to the switch, using the fine end of the comb; and when all have been Figure C represents the fastened to the knot with a hair-pin, Newport coiffure embellished 17 as represented at Figure No. 11 , with one of the new Spanish smooth the switch out once more. It combs, which are of fanciful out - will then be ready for coiling. line and are very fashionable for The bang may be combed out dressy occasions. The outer hair either before proceeding with the is waved, the coil or knot arranged, and the bang curled, as 10 above described. When side- bangs have been cut (they are now an extinct fashion), they are closely curled and brushed back tom of the twist with the left hand, and then coiling the remainder lightly round the knot, which C stands out from the rest, and pin - ning it to the head very securely, as may be observed at Figure A .

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VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com Page 12 Cowboy Chronicle March 2013 Fashionable Hair Dressing (Part II) . . . ing authentic Victorian fashions, (Continued from page 11 ) hair may be thus arranged for D can be acquired through Miss Figure No. 18 , and is then dis - any ceremonious occasion. Tabitha a.k.a. Sharon Guli, at posed over the hair, which has first To be continued … Sugges - www.GuliProductions.com , or been twisted in a tight knot. The tions and illustrations for addi - by calling 970-221-GULI (4854). effect of the arrangement is per - tional styles will follow in a If you lack a surplus of your own fectly natural, as may be seen by future Cowboy Chronicle. hair, full wigs and switches can observing Figure D , where the ======also be obtained through Miss coiffure is shown with the switch Many thanks to Catherine Tabitha. added, which gives the head a full - Bishop for sharing this article ness and the coiffure a complete - from her book, “Hairstyles and ness that are lacking in the Headdresses of the Victorian, Ed - arrangement seen at Figure C . wardian, and Ragtime Eras.” A The Spanish combs represented at copy of this book, and many oth - Figure E have a fancy edge. The ers by Catherine Bishop featur -

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more Help NeeDeD for fouNDers raNCH ince SASS first moved to doesn’t happen overnight. too, so volunteer to help make the We’re looking forward to SFounders Ranch in 2004 we’ve The new facades are thanks to improvements that will bring the working with you! come a long way. the generosity of sponsors and old western town to life sooner The very first END of TRAIL Hipshot’s planning and getting than later—something we’d all Fancy Free, SASS #23612 at the Ranch was quite a shock. It them built, with more to come. like to see. Palmyra, IL was a mostly bare range, and the But, one person can’t do it alone. weather was lousy—rain, snow, It takes a community to build a hail, and COLD. Of course, that town. We need a constant flow was at the end of April. volunteers to help complete the Look at where we are now. We vision of an Old West town. Question have many nice vendor buildings, Much work is accomplished at the NRA museum, a new chapel, the Ranch just before END of new shooting facades, and shades TRAIL takes place, and we always about a on some of the bays, with more to need more able-bodied help with come. The Belle Union has real the set up. Building the facades walls and doors and tongue and and shades, painting the props, ’66 rifle groove paneling on the sidewalls, repairing targets, cleaning up the welve years ago I rode up to with the front and back walls “on range … the list goes on and on TDundee, Michigan to purchase the list.” A new bar is permanently for a successful event. an 1866 Sporting rifle—24 " octagon barrel that will hold 13 rounds of installed, and the ceiling being in - If you’re interested in seeing Matthew Duncan, .45 Colt. It didn’t take too long to sulated is also on the list of things the Ranch improve, please donate SASS #23189 still to be done. We have a perma - some of your time and lend a hand. get a nice patina on the brass. nent Waddie Shack and livery for Start planning for spring. Foot - Then I read on this here web spring. Spring goes flying down storage, and the Doctor’s Office for loose and I and some others usually that some Italian cowpoke named range, glances off a rifle target, and our medical staff is air-conditioned. get there around the first of June, Gorilla likes to over tighten the proceeds into the next county. It is a work in progress, and and there is always plenty to do. screws. So, I went through and got RAT’IN FRAT’IN! I ain’t got a we are making progress, but it Remember, this is your Ranch, them all loosened up. The maga - spare spring or rifle. zine tube plug gave me the most Then I got distracted by the trouble, but a pair of channel locks Spotters yelling something about and a new plug solved that prob - they heard 11 dings, so the next lem. As it turned out it’s a good Shooter had to of loaded more than thing I loosed them up. 10 in his rifle and arguing over I’ve tried wire springs, alu - penalties. minum carriers, and short stroke I clear the ‘66 now all I need is kits. Didn’t like any of those “im - a spring … hmmm. provements” and put the original Some of y’all might remember a parts back in. Did throw on a full Cantina called Fronterspot down by buckhorn rear site to compensate the way of the border. The owner for the trifocals. was a lady called Juggs. She wasn’t A few times a casing wouldn’t called Juggs because the Tequila eject, jamming up the rifle. I’d just was in jugs, y’all get my meaning? reach down in my boot and pull my Just so happens Juggs was the Un - Arkansas toothpick . Use the loading Table Officer, and as I look knife to unhook the extractor from over at her I see a pair of ideas! I the rim of the shell, push down the whisper my idea in her ear, she carrier block, and then knife the turns beat red, reaches for her side casing out. Lever the action and arm, calms down a bit, then nods. finish shooting the Yankee targets. She turns her back for privacy and Here’s what causes the ques - starts gyrating twisting, grunting, tion. and mumbles a few unlady like The last SASS match of the words as she pulls out a long piece year. Blasted Yankee winter of underwire. weather, temperatures were only in With the wire Juggs just re - the mid-50s, so I dressed extra moved and the axle from my gun warm and left my leathered soled cart, I wrap myself another spring! boots back at the ranch. Reassemble the ’66, and I’m good Stage 2 rifle jammed. Look for the next three stages! down in there—yep casing stuck in Here’s the question. the chamber and round on the car - What will solve the problem of rier block. Reach down for my knife empty casings not extracting from … RATS. Ain’t got no knife, knife is the chamber: Replacing the 12- in my boots that I ain’t wearing. year-old extractor? Safely ground the rifle and finished Give the rifle its first cleaning? the stage. At the unloading table, I unscrew the magazine tube plug Matthew Duncan, SASS #23189 forgetting about the magazine Syracuse, IN VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com March 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 15

entered a peach pie? that category. You never know A Tale To Think The questions could go on ... what kind of preparedness that you get the picture. Do you sup - shooter has gone through, nor pose the judges would ever see what they might have had to sac - About ... her enter this contest again? rifice to make it to your match. This is written for those who The first is first and the last is put on matches in the coming last … and all the time in between for matCH DireCtors year. Think about how you go doesn’t change that. about your awards. Choose if you Think about what folks have here was a man, who dearly feeling a great sense of accom - are going to award Top Ten, Top to do to attend your match, and Tloved his wife’s peach pies. plishment. Five, or Top Three … and stay plan accordingly. Without return For many years after his pass - She and her granddaughter with that. If you go for the Top shooters, your match will not stay ing, the wife could not bring her - left her peach pie with the judges, Ten ... then give the ten … no up in numbers. self to make any more pies. And, and they went about the morning matter if the category didn’t have Something to think about … she was so sad. enjoying seeing folks she hadn’t ten entries. The shooter may have Her granddaughter was com - seen in a while. Smiling as they shot the best they ever had, even Singin’ Sue, SASS #71615 ing for a visit during County Fair ate, they chatted and waited for if there where only three of four in Stanley, NM time, and with some coaxing, the the awards to be presented. Not woman decided it would be fun en - that she expected to ribbon, but tering the pie contest. They would there was always the chance. enjoy a great day together, and They stood in the hall as the this made her extremely happy. judges awarded ribbon after rib - pocket pistols She went about preparing for bon for pie after pie. They came the contest. She found the perfect to the peach pie category … and in the main matc h?? basket in which to put her pie and announced, “This year, there was the perfect little piece of red- only ONE peach pie entered … had accumulated enough pocket in the time period in which we checked gingham with which to and with that … we award a Ipistol brass to con - play. I’m sure many of us have a line the basket. An old pie tin was THIRD PLACE ribbon.” sider reloading them. I mused pocket pistol or tucked hiding in the very back of the cab - What? Third place? Didn’t the about the possibility of shooting away and would delight in a inet. She washed and shined it judges say it was the only pie? such pistols in other than a side chance to shoot them, if permitted. up. She didn’t drive to the market When the woman went to receive match and just how we might do Think about it. to get the peaches she needed … her ribbon, she quietly asked why so. I came up with a thought for she went to the back yard, and third place. She was told the judges our stage writers to consider. Lue Dee Kriss, SASS #5422 carrying a small ladder and a just didn’t feel the pie was good Without changing the size or Wyoming, MI bowl she climbed into her peach enough to have a higher ribbon. distance of the main match tar - tree and found the perfect Now … think … gets, at the shooter’s option allow [There are a number of ways this peaches. She looked in the old Don’t you feel the woman did the use of either a standard single could be implemented … but it cookbook and found her mother’s as much as the next woman in action revolver or a smaller five- should be started at the local club recipe for the perfect piecrust ... baking her pie? Don’t you think shot pocket pistol or derringer on level. If there is enough interest written on paper that had yel - she went to the same time and ex - one stage of a match. At that (loaning pocket pistols can help), it lowed with the years. pense as the others? Didn’t she stage everybody is to load one gun could be introduced at the club’s Pie done, kitchen cleaned, and work just as hard preparing, cook - on the clock from a cup of loose annual match. If folks from the clothes chosen for the big day set ing, and cleaning as the others? cartridges, possibly also having state and surrounding areas take over the chair ... she went to sleep Was it her doing that no one else the shotgun cartridges in the to the idea, it can grow. Making same container to be shot last. sure everyone understands what is Yes, I realize most pocket pis - being offered is vital—no sur - tols are double action, and we only prises! Let The Cowboy Chronicle use single action revolvers; how - know how your efforts pan out … ever, such firearms were common Editor in Chief]

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Capt. Gimp aND tHe 1904 olDs By Alamo Annie Jett, SASS #70381 i ho is Capt. Gimp, were early Texas Rangers, and why does he serving under famous Ranger drive an old Captains John Coffee “Jack” W Curved Dash Olds- Hayes and Leander McNelly. mobile? If you attended END Alamo Annie’s great-great of TRAIL 2012, you may have grandfather and his three seen him driving around the brothers all came to Texas village in his snappy 1904 from Tennessee in the 1830s replica Olds. If you looked and early 40s. Two of the closely, you found it was actu - brothers fought under Gen - ally a gun cart. In fact, it won eral Sam Houston against “Best Gun Cart” at END of General Santa Anna in the TRAIL 2012. If you were curi - Battle of San Jacinto shortly ous about how it came to be, after the fall of the Alamo. here is the story. The Texians’ victory in this Capt. Gimp Tumlinson is battle resulted in the inde - a Texas history buff and a pendence of Texas from Mex - lover of the Old West. He and ico and the creation of the Capt. Gimp and Alamo Annie serve as volunteer ambassadors for the Former Texas his wife, Alamo Annie Jett, are Republic of Texas. The broth - Rangers Foundation, taking the old Oldsmobile to SASS competitions and driving native Texans who have re - ers survived the battle and it in various parades and events in Texas. They are life members of The Former Texas tired in Kerrville, Texas. They went on to become Texas Rangers Association, and work to build awareness and support for the exciting new share a love of Texas history Rangers under Capt. Jack Texas Rangers Heritage Center to be constructed in Fredericksburg, Texas. and both have ancestors who Hayes. Those were tough and

dangerous times, and of the four 1841, he likely would not have lived brothers, all of whom became very long. He and his mother may rangers under Hayes, only one, not have made it through childbirth Annie’s great-great-grandfather, due to problems in his delivery. As survived long enough to marry and a child, he probably would have died have a family. from his ruptured appendix or the Capt. Gimp’s great uncles rode rheumatic fever he suffered. “And,” with Capt. McNelly as a Lieutenant he says, “I’m certain someone would and a Sergeant during taming of have shot me as a teenager!” the wild and lawless strip between He grew up on a farm in South the Nueces River in Texas and the Texas where he learned about the Rio Grande border with Mexico in outdoors, camping, and animals— the 1870s. More about the McNelly both wild and domestic. He killed Rangers’ fascinating exploits can be his first deer at the age of six and found in the excellent history, Tam - spent his time hunting or shooting ing the Nueces Strip , by McNelly with friends as a youngster. He Ranger George Durham as told to learned from an early age about Clyde Wantland. safety, guns, hand-loading, ballis - Capt. Gimp has loved old west - tics, trajectory, and so forth from ern movies and shooting sports “Mr. Beck,” owner of the local gun since childhood. Like most kids in store. In addition to hunting and his generation, he grew up watch - target shooting, he enjoyed learning ing black and white westerns with fancy trick shooting. He has contin - stars like Hopalong Cassidy, Lash ued shooting throughout his life. Larue, Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger, In 2004, he was encouraged by Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and Dale his old friend Joe Bowman, “ The Evans. When TV came along, Pal - Straight Shooter, ” to join the fun-lov - adin, , Bonanza, and oth - ing bunch of like-minded fellows in ers became favorites. Then on the SASS. Nothing could have tickled big screen, his all-time favorite him more than a costume party with hero, John Wayne, attained iconic guns! His initial SASS experience status. Capt. Gimp never outgrew began in Colorado, but when he and his love of westerns. In fact, he his wife retired to Texas, they became often used to wish he had been born members of the Texican Rangers 100 years earlier! Club outside of Fredericksburg. He acknowledges though, that When he first thought about if he had actually been born in (Continued on next page)

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(Continued from previous page) In addition to honoring former achieve include “ courage , determi - reach additional youth. It will pro - creating an alias, he was recover - Texas Rangers, a significant pur - nation , dedication , respect , and in - vide web-based interactive pro - ing from neck surgery and was still pose of the new center is to use the tegrity .” The Junior Texas Rangers grams for students studying Texas wearing a brace. (He had also had fascinating history of the Rangers Program will encourage children, history and for children worldwide. knee surgery, back surgery, and to engage the younger generation. including those at risk, to become They can complete the Junior Texas three heart surgeries.) The name The Heritage Center’s gal - better citizens by earning the points Ranger Program on the Internet. “Gimp” occurred to him. It seemed leries are designed with interac - on their badges. It is hoped they Capt. Gimp and Alamo Annie to fit well, but didn’t feel quite com - tive displays and state-of-the-art will learn the fulfillment and power suggest if you are interested in join - plete. He pondered names of Texas museum technology to interest vis - of pursuing positive goals. As the ing the Former Texas Rangers Foun - Rangers he knew of, one in partic - itors of all ages, but a crucial goal Rangers saying goes, “No man in dation or supporting the Heritage ular that his grandmother used to is to further engage youths the wrong can stand up to a man in Center, visit online at www.Former - tell him about. He settled on the through its Junior Texas Rangers the right who keeps on coming.” TexasRangers.org. The Former alias “ Capt. Gimp Tumlinson.” Program. Planners hope to moti - The Former Texas Rangers Texas Rangers Foundation is a But, he explains Capt. Gimp is an vate school age children to incorpo - Foundation will broaden its educa - 501c3 non-profit organization, so all imaginary character that does not rate outstanding character traits tional outreach by providing a field donations, including memberships, now and never did exist. His wife, into their own lives. trip-friendly destination for stu - are tax deductible. Membership in - a San Antonio native whose great- The Rangers’ five main traits dents. In addition, a distance- cludes badges and other goodies great grandfather’s rifle is in the they hope youngsters will strive to learning program will work to SASS members will enjoy. Alamo museum, became “ Alamo Annie Jett .” The Jett surname hon - ors her great-great grandfather, whose grave now bears the honored Texas Ranger Cross. In one of Gimp’s all-time fa - vorite westerns, Lonesome Dove , the Indian named Blue Duck calls Gus and Woodrow a couple of “wore out old Rangers.” Capt. Gimp felt that description fit his character as well, and began to imagine what a “wore out old Ranger” would ride or drive. In John Wayne’s last movie, The Shootist , Richard Boone’s char - acter drove an early automobile, which planted an idea. Two years later, the Internet led to an article in Popular Mechanics magazine and finally to actual pictures of Ransom Oldsmobile’s first cars on display in a museum. Capt. Gimp figured if he were a gimped up, wore out old Ranger (by his description, “shot at and missed, messed at and hit”) in 1904, he might want to get off his horse and ride in an Oldsmobile horseless carriage. So using the pictures and actual dimensions, he began hand-building from scratch his replica of that beautiful old car. With permission of the Former Texas Rangers Foundation, he placed the famous star badge logo on the sides of the car to honor the Rangers and draw attention to the excellent work of the Foundation. Now he and Alamo Annie (who is also known as “ The Shoppist ” in SASS) enjoy serving as volunteer ambassadors for the Foundation, taking the cart to SASS competi - tions and driving it in various pa - rades and events in Texas. They are life members of The Former Texas Rangers Association, and hope to help build awareness and support for the exciting new Texas Rangers Heritage Center to be con - structed in Fredericksburg, Texas.

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Wolverine Wrangler, SASS #22963 they attracted millions of fans worldwide. It is be - lieved Robert Fuller was the more popular of the two he Laramie series aired actors, and Jess Harper the more popular of the two on NBC from 1959 to characters—but that should not mislead anyone into 1963. Of the 124 epi - underestimating the contribution made by John T sodes, 64 were in black Smith as Slim Sherman. and white, and 60 were in color. John Smith was, in fact, originally chosen for the The series attracted a wide range role of Jess Harper and Robert Fuller for the role of of well-known guest stars, including By Wolverine Wrangler, SASS #22963 Slim Sherman. However, it was soon realized they Charles Bronson, Dan Duryea, were far better suited to each other’s part, so they Ernest Borgnine, James Coburn, Lee were swapped. It was a good move that aided in the Van Cleef, and Claude Akins. thought first and acted later. Jess Harper was impulsive success of the Laramie series. Over the four years it ran, the and often acted out of instinct. As the years went by, Jess I’ll be turning the rotary TV channel selector dial characters and their relationships matured but never lost his wild streak, while some of his now. Stay tuned. grew and developed. Slim Sherman impulsiveness rubbed off onto Slim. They were a perfect [email protected] was the sensible logical one who pair, one counter balancing the other, and between them References: robertfuller.info, Wikipedia

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Guns Of August

VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com Page 20 Cowboy Chronicle March 2013 Being a WADDIE began my Waddie experi - ence the last END of TRAIL year in Norco, and the GooD , the BaD , and the uGly I I haven’t missed a year yet at Founders Ranch, so I’ve want, throwing carts, etc., around gathered a few stories … By Captain Cooper, SASS #43639 and then cussing out the Waddies But let’s start at the beginning. that then try and get them to move I’m now generally in charge of the 99.9% of the shooters know when THE BAD: Circumstances have back where they should go in the shooter parking area, so I arrive a and where they’re supposed to be, a way of trapping some folks, and first place—it’s UGLY. When a few days early. My North Star for and the parking lot staff works some folks get trapped a lot … They shooter unloads a string of exple - lot layout is that single little cactus hard to get them parked as come racing through the top gate tives on a young female Cadet, plant that everyone stumbles smoothly as possible, the remain - and down the hill to the parking lot when a shooter storms across the around—please never cut down my ing 1% arrive just at shooting time, and then want to get into a handi - parking lot yelling at the top of single most important guidepost! have forgotten a gun (or two), and capped spot so they can unload and their lungs cuss words that would Using that, I establish a 90-de - want access to a front spot that is get to their shooting bay (sorry but blanch a mule-skinner, when they gree line at this cactus and from open but reserved for handicapped. no can do) and then they get “tight” just don’t get their way and throw the road, which then becomes my We understand the added pressure with staff that’s trying to get them guns and carts back into pick-ups, first parking line. Other chalked here and try and do the best possi - parked the best they can. We un - etc. and kick dirt all the way up the lines are all off this first line and ble to help these folks park and derstand—truly understand—and hill in exiting … well, fortunately, follow established national parking help when asked, but once in a just try and stay out of the way so these are rare occasions and were lot line standards as if I were lay - while tensions just pull tight and these shooters can get assembled immediately handled by other ing out an asphalt parking lot (to can break. But I’ll come back to and on their way … While starting shooters that refused to allow such include separations for backing up, this in a minute. BAD, most of them come back after actions to go unresolved. The etc.) This overall process takes THE GOOD: My staff and I are the day of shooting and stop and GOOD comes out of most everyone about a day and a half, and when forever grateful for the majority of apologize for their “tenseness” ear - every time. Thankfully! The UGLY done, allows the lot to hold about shooters that have now become our lier. BAD turns to GOOD and we are soon gone and soon forgotten. 750 vehicles. This number does not annual very best of friends, cer - understand, and appreciate the Every year Waddies travel include the recently cleared top lot tainly fit to “ride the range” with after the fact discussions … from most every state, spending that now allows us to have vehicle- any day. These folks are always A second group of BAD are hundreds and hundreds of dollars trailer units, small motor homes, cheerful, have time for a welcome those shooters that carry an atti - in gas and expenses to earn that all etc., to travel in and out for day hug and/or handshake, and within tude that they’re just a little better rewarding Waddie pay—a dollar a shooters. The lot capacity has been two minutes, it’s as if we didn’t just than the rest of us, and I’m sure day and “found” (food). And they pushed a few years into the far miss a year since last seeing each you readers can name a few of take away an experience that no right brush area, but everyone got other. Jokes carry across the time these yourselves. They sort of put money can buy—a warm heart a place to park. as if no time had passed, a true rar - up with us Waddies, but rarely ac - earned from a job well done. You The first few days are a bit of a ified experience that makes time knowledge our existence—no eye really need to do it to understand rush for shooters to get to a spot, vanish for all. And I’ve worked contact, no smile, NADA (and it, but it is worth it. unload, and get to safety meetings, with some truly outstanding maybe we’re the better for it?). And, the support from the Wad - etc., and I get my staff assigned a helpers, always ready to do every - THE UGLY: Out of the past ten die Shack gets better and better few days before this so they can be thing possible to make the shooters years of being a Waddie, less than a every year; it just tops off the over - trained (during Wild Bunch days). feel welcome. I just can’t say single hand full of shooters have all worthwhile experience. So generally, with a stable staff enough for the absolutely out - proven themselves to be truly So if you have the time, and we’re ready for the rush of shooters standing people I’ve met at this an - UGLY! And, they were just plain want a truly rewarding experience as they arrive for their shooting nual event, and look forward to UGLY! Arriving late, leaving guns you can enjoy year after year, join times (mostly). seeing them every year, now and in (or bullets, or … you name it) back me and the other Waddies at END I say mostly because while the future. at the motel, parking where they of TRAIL 2013.

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.BIRTh of AN ouTLAW , By Tennessee Tombstone, SASS Life #34723

From the very first time, I knew I Two , a Winchester, and a This time I was ready when that That darn double barrel couldn’t was hooked— double barrel twelve; darn buzzer came; touch those old pumps; Just draw, aim, and fire, that’s all I was ready for my first shoot—I I whipped out those pistols—I was Another trade … more cash … and that it took. was gonna to give ‘em hell. gonna win this game. the double barrel got the bump. The scenarios are written, there’s little left to chance— The buzzer sounded—I grabbed my I emptied my pistols and grabbed From the clones to Lightnings, and Just make the steel ring and do the first gun; my Winchester— back to Vaqueros— cross-draw dance. Thought I was greased lighting … What followed could only be called All I wanted to hear was Boy, this is fun! a disaster. “Misses?—ZERO!” The first thing to do was to get When the dust had all settled and Winchesters, Marlins, Rossis and some equipment; the smoke had all cleared … Those big rifle targets, Man, they Lightnings; Hats, boots, and bullets … Man, “What do you mean seven misses looked tasty, The parade of guns was really what a shipment! on targets that near?!!” I shucked five live rounds ‘fore quite frightening. Not to mention the clothing, the someone yelled, “Safety!” holsters, and cart; It must be the pistols; I’ll trade ‘em A rifle with fewer safeties, now Procedurals, squib loads, dropped My savings were hemorrhaging for clones … that’s the gun for me; rounds, and dropped guns— right from the start. With a set of Peacemakers, I’d be So, for my Winchester … and cash Time plus penalties … higher bad to the bone. … I got a Rossi. math’s not much fun. Of course, the big thing is picking So for my Vaqueros and some Oh, that next shoot, it was really Now, it’s been several years and the your guns— money to boot going my way … swapping I’ve quit … The only type of shopping that’s I thought I was set for my very ‘Til I heard the posse leader holler, ‘Cause I’ve learned I do better just really much fun. next shoot. “‘97s load away!” shootin’ from the hip!

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DISpATchES fRom . , Captain Baylor modeling the Amp AyLoR Mernickle Evil Roy Slim Jim rig c B with matching shotgun belt. (Photo by Lorrie Lott, Mr. Quigley Photography) Who Are Those Guys With the Funny Guns, hey’re called Frontiersmen. and What The Heck Are They Doing? The Frontiersman Category requires percussion re - T volvers and blackpowder in all the firearms. They shoot re - By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life/Regulator #24287 volvers with one hand and generally think anyone shooting smokeless or Percussion—Is that a drum? blackpowder in (or uses paper car - using two hands is cheating. With Percussion, or “cap and ball” was tridges with blackpowder). Then a percussion revolvers, if you don’t hold what preceded metallic cartridges. bullet or ball is forced into the cham - your mouth just right, they don’t The Civil War was fought with per - ber with the gun’s rammer until it work. When the category was de - cussion revolvers and (with a contacts the powder. A nipple is vised, it was called “Guys with funny few notable exceptions). In the US, screwed into the back of the chamber. guns doing things other shooters metallic cartridges didn’t really take The is a small cylinder don’t understand.” But abbreviating over the revolver world until well into of copper or brass with one closed the category on scorecards was a the 1880s. end. Inside the closed end is a small problem—GWFGDTOSU didn’t fit, No Metallic Cartridges amount of a shock-sensitive explosive “Frontiersman” is shorter and abbre - Percussion revolvers have cham - material. Back then it was fulminate viates to FT. bers in the cylinders. The user pours of mercury, which was corrosive. Now it’s lead styphnate, which isn’t. The percussion cap is placed over a hollow metal “nipple” or “tube” at the rear end of the gun barrel. When the ham - mer strikes the percussion cap, it ig - nites the explosive primer. The flame travels through the hollow nipple to ignite the main powder charge. A Rare Breed Frontiersmen are not the biggest group in SASS. At END of TRAIL or Winter Range there might be 20. Popping Caps Some Frontiersmen “pop caps” before loading for the first stage, meaning they put caps on the nipples with no powder or ball in the cham - bers and fire the caps. The stated Capt. Baylor charges his purpose is to burn up any oil or mois - Ruger Old Armies using a ture in the chamber or nipple, but the cylinder loader mounted real purpose is to annoy any smoke - on a folding table that goes less shooters with hangovers. in the gun cart. Here he’s Charging Revolvers wiping off the frame before Charging is putting in powder reinserting the charged cylinder. and balls/bullets. Some shooters do it (Photo by Deadeye Al) with the revolver in hand or on a table, pouring powder into each chamber, and then using the gun’s bles are just too crowded to do it “on” rammer to seat the balls. Some use a the unloading table. It can be done at loading stand on their gun carts. the gun cart. Since the gun has to be Some use a cylinder loader. Charged taken out of the holster, turned barrel revolvers are not “loaded” because up, charged, and returned to the hol - they are incapable of firing. They can ster, common sense and safety rules be holstered and worn as desired. make it necessary to either be facing The guns won’t fire until the nipples a berm or downrange when the gun is are capped. Founders Ranch requires rotated to or from vertical. This is percussion revolvers be charged “at why Frontiersmen put their gun carts the unloading table.” In reality, it near the unloading table. It takes means “near” the unloading table and about 4-5 minutes to charge two per - facing the berm. Most unloading ta - cussion revolvers, 6-8 if you hurry. VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com March 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 23 Greasing balls Chain-fire – All of the unfired Some revolver and powder combi - chambers fire. This is exceedingly nations require some sort of lube on rare. Aside from the obligatory cow - the bullets/balls to keep fouling soft. boy gibberish, the TO isn’t required to Most Frontiersmen use round, soft- do anything. Technically at this point lead balls, but there are conical bul - the revolver is unloaded, but clearly a lets available. Conical bullets have malfunction occurred, so grounding big lube grooves and blackpowder the gun is appropriate. lube in them. Balls don’t. You will see Cap jams – Fired caps can get shooters using a syringe to put lube between the cylinder and the recoil over the seated balls. Some use a lu - shield, requiring two hands and a foot bricated wad between the powder and to rotate the cylinder. They can also the ball. Some use nothing. American get into the action, particularly in Pioneer Powder and Hodgdon’s Triple Colts, and completely jam the gun. Seven work best without lube. The usual rules for trying to fix a gun Capping on the clock apply. If it can’t be “NOTE: Percussion revolver shooters cleared, the gun must be grounded. must exercise care to ensure they When to not talk to the maintain safe muzzle direction dur - Frontiersman ing loading and have fired or cleared When the Frontiersman is charg - all caps prior to leaving the unloading ing his revolvers, watching is okay, area. It is not permissible to seat per - but wait until he has finished to ask cussion caps on a revolver’s nipple questions or start conversations. It using the gun’s hammer. Percussion requires concentration and OCD-like revolvers may only be capped at the thoroughness to get it right every loading area or on the firing line.” time. He’s doing the things you do on Shooters Handbook. your Dillon but without all of the When the gun is capped, it is Judah Maccabee uses a loading buzzers and bells. loaded. stand on his gun cart to charge The other time is when he is cap - Capping can be done with just his percussion Colt Army clones, ping his revolvers, just as you don’t fingers, but using a capper is faster. seating the balls using talk to a shooter loading cartridge An experienced shooter using a cap - the gun’s rammer. pistols. per will cap the guns in about the It is okay to talk to him at parties same time as a cartridge shooter will malfunctioned and wouldn’t fire. It is provided you buy him a drink first. insert 10 cartridges—unless the cap - shiny brass or copper colored. It must Reloads on the clock per malfunctions. Then the result is be removed, or the gun must be fired “If a particular stage requires authentic cowboy gibberish. (downrange, under the Timer Opera - a one shot reload, the sixth cham - Seating tor’s supervision). ber of percussion revolvers may be Seating the caps, meaning push - Shooting Problems charged at the bench and then ing them on so they are tight on the Failure to fire – the hammer capped “on the clock,” either be - nipples and will fire when the ham - drops, and all you hear is “CLICK.” fore the first round is fired or mer strikes, needs an authentic ¼” Like the same sound with a cartridge after the last round is fired.” dowel, an antler, or a Frontiersman pistol, the shooter can “go around” Range Operations Basic Safety Screwknife®, even a BIC pen—not a and try again. Whenever the shooter Course (Level I) . finger or thumb, and not the hammer. has satisfied himself it won’t fire (dud Sometimes chain fires will occur Removing the cylinder from the cap, or the cap fell off), he should on some replicas if a loaded chamber gun and capping it, then reinstalling ground the revolver just as he would is left uncapped, so the shooter needs the cylinder is a bad idea, but legal. a cartridge revolver. the option of first capping and then The Unloaded Chamber – is Cap only ignition – If the cap firing six instead of five, or capping one with no cap on it. I paint the fires and the powder didn’t ignite, it and firing the unloaded chamber at nipple on the unloaded chamber red. sounds much like a primer firing on a the end of the string. That’s the one that goes under the squib. But it’s not. The cap can’t “A complete reload for percus - hammer (or on a safety notch—5 move a well-seated ball into the bar - sion revolver shooters is handled by shot revolvers can be used with rel. “In a “cap only” ignition and fail - staging a loaded, uncapped revolver safety notches). This is easy to see ure to fire, the Frontiersman should be down range or switching uncapped on an open topped Colt. Unlike a allowed to continue firing the remain - cylinders and capping on the clock. cartridge revolver, once the hammer ing chambers.” (Range Officer Train - Loading a revolver to maximum ca - is down, it is impossible to tell if the ing Course (Level II). The chamber is pacity and lowering the hammer on hammer is on an empty on a revolver no longer capable of firing, so the a live round and/or holstering or with a top strap. If you are the load - shooter may holster the revolver after staging the fully loaded revolver ing table officer, the shooter will firing the other four rounds. He may will result in a Stage Disqualifica - show you the naked nipple while the also declare a malfunction and tion.” Range Operations Basic gun is at half cock then lower the ground the revolver. His only penalty Safety Course (Level I) hammer on that nipple. is a miss. Working Unloading Table “The CRO shall not confuse Some think Frontiersmen don’t At the unloading table, Frontiers - these occurrences as potential have time to work on the posse be - men have a lot in common with six squib loads. Misfires during the cause they spend all their time getting topless dancers in a Las Vegas show. course of fire by Frontiersman their revolvers ready. Not true, but They have to display 12 naked nip - will require the Chief Range Of - since the Frontiersman needs a few ples. The unloading table officer is ficer to accommodate clearing minutes to charge his revolvers, he looking for nipples with no caps or cap the gun after completing the may want to work at a particular time fragments on them. The shooter re - stage. The CRO/Timer Operator during a stage so he has time to shoot moves fired caps that haven’t fallen shall always require these clear - and reload before the next stage. off. When the shooter takes a revolver ances be accomplished down Summing it up from his holster, puts the muzzle up, range at the firing line. It is ac - Frontiersmen make excellent and spins the cylinder, he is trying to ceptable to recap and discharge pets, and every posse should have a get any fired caps that are still on the the still loaded chamber(s) or few. Most are housebroken. They gun to fall off. They might need to be simply uncap the charged cham - generally don’t bite, but some do growl pried off with a Screwknife®. An un - bers.” Range Officer Training a lot. You can minimize this by offer - fired cap should only be there if it Course (Level II) ing them chocolate chip cookies! VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com Page 24 Cowboy Chronicle March 2013

&tHiNGs Springs By Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS Life/Regulator #32933 1 spring design. There is a strut with a coil spring slipped over the strut Larsen E. Pettifogger, and a retainer. Photo 4 . The re - SASS Life #32933 tainer sits in a slot in the lower tang and the upper curved end sits

ost of our SASS firearms 4 are marvelously simple 19 th Century designs, but M they all have one thing in common. They will not function without springs—springs for the hammer, hand, and trigger, and springs that make the action per - form as designed. In most modern firearms there is a minimum of hand fitting of parts, and springs 2 against the top tang and is simply are often, in addition to their in - retained by pressure from the ham - tended purposes, used to overcome ference in the handling and feel of 1. Inside the bag are a set of direc - mer spring. friction in the actions. A good ac - a firearm and make the firearm tions, a mainspring, a lever plunger To remove the retainer, simply tion job will take care of most of the more user friendly. spring, four plastic bushings, and push down on the top of the re - problems left unattended by the Coil springs are generally easier four spacers. Photo 2 . The bushings tainer, Photo 5 , and tip it to the factories, and tuning the springs is to tune than flat springs since if you and spacers are color-coded. By side. Photo 6 . Remember, you are part of any good action job. How - cut them too short or thin them too changing how the bushings and ever, even in the absence of an ac - much, you can shim them and still spacers are placed in your Marlin 5 tion job, changing springs will in get acceptable results. Here is a neat rifle, a wide variety of spring ten - many cases make a remarkable dif - little kit for the Marlin rifles. Photo sions can be obtained, making your rifle reliable and easier to operate. The first step is to remove the stock. Marlins have only the tang screw securing the stock, so simply remove it and pull off the stock. Photo 3 . Once the stock is re - moved, you can see the beauty and simplicity of the Marlin hammer 6

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experiment with different combina - tions until you get the best levering releasing tension on the hammer effort and still get reliable primer spring, so make sure you control the ignition. Reinstalling the spring re - spring when you remove the re - tainer completes the installation of tainer. Photo 7 shows the retainer, the new hammer spring. Simply the old hammer spring, and the start the bottom end into the slot in hammer strut. The combination of the lower tang, make sure the end bushings and spacers you will use of the strut is going through the depends on what, if any, modifica - hole in the retainer, and then tip tions you have made to your rifle. If everything forward and into the you have a totally stock gun, you area between the upper and lower will probably need a little more tangs. Photo 10 . The last little spring is designed to reduce the ten - sion of the lever plunger and make levering a bit easier. Simply knock out the pin holding the plunger with a 1/16 th inch punch and replace the old spring with the new one from the kit. Photo 11 . The kit works very well and what is nice is if you make modifi - cations to your rifle at a later date, 8 you can simply change the bushings and spacers to compensate for those modifications. The kit is available from Palo Verde Gunworks: [email protected] . Telephone 480-516-8895.

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spring pressure than one that has, for example, had the internal parts polished and has a one-piece firing pin installed. In Photo 8 the new spring from the kit is shown with the two blue bushings installed. This combination provides the least spring tension. Photo 9 shows the two white bushings installed along with two red spacers on each end. This is the maximum tension pro - 11 vided by the kit. You will have to VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com Page 26 Cowboy Chronicle March 2013 tom Hirt q q Maker By The Jersey Kid, SASS Life/Regulator #287

here is nothing that says Penrose, Colorado to help you real - cowboy more definitively ize your dream. for& the movies T than the cowboy hat. It Fresh from State is recognized the world University, Tom was beginning his over as a sign of the American West career in the movie and TV busi - and is alternately a tool, a signa - ness as a double and stand-in for ture, and an icon. Luckily for us such projects as Comes a Horse - today there are a number of choices man, Centennial, The Sackets , and when it comes to selecting the type even a TV version of True Grit when of hat that best represents our the actors strike brought it to an needs or our imagination. While abrupt halt. Not one to sit around there are certainly a plethora of idle, Tom took an apprentice role at made to stock cowboy hats avail - the famed Weather Hat Shop in able, a great hat stands out with a Colorado Springs and not only glance. In fact, I cannot tell you learned the trade, but bought the how many times I have walked by business from his mentor, Art Hen - people only to hear “now that’s a derson, who was looking to retire. REAL cowboy hat.” There is also Tom gravitated quickly to the nothing as satisfying as designing craft and soon began producing very and owning a custom made and high quality hats. He needed a bit built hat, and I can think of no bet - more exposure, so he called upon ter hat maker than Tom Hirt of some of his old acting buddies and

Buck Taylor and Michael Rooker’s hats were made by Hirt for Tombstone. Jersey Kid (2 nd from right) with Jersey Kid Brother, Dustin (Handsome Stranger), and Dusty Rogers (Ol’ Griz) at the Museum auction. Jersey Kid is wearing his “Conagher” Hirt Hat.

before long he was making hats for which in retrospect gave the movie the likes of Ranger Doug of Riders a much more authentic look, often in the Sky, Charlie Daniels, and his lauded as the most authentic west - old friend, Sam Elliot. Tom built the ern ever produced. Tom was now hat Sam wore in the movie able to add Val Kilmer, Kurt Russell, Conagher, which really is quite a Buck Taylor, and Michael Rooker to statement hat! A short while later, his list of clientele, and the movie filming began for both Kevin Cost - established a new high watermark ner’s Wyatt Earp and Kevin Jarre’s for authentic period hats. Tombstone , and Costner’s produc - Tom Hirt is quite the Renais - tion company quickly and quietly sance man as he also owns and op - locked up all the resources from the erates Bar 20 Chuck Wagon where traditional LA clothing and costume he has an original circa 1900 suppliers. This gave some of the Hullmeier Chuck Wagon, and he smaller players, especially Tom, the prepares and serves “chuck” all over chance to work with Tombstone, Colorado. His culinary skills helped

Tom Hirt is not only an artisan, but holds his own on the range. In addition to regular ranching activities, Tom cooks “chuck” all over Colorado.

VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com March 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 27 Tom Hirt’s hats are of the highest quality and make a statement for the wearer. Whether performing in front of an audience, going for the gold in a Cowboy Action match, or just strolling the streets downtown, these hats are sure to get everyone’s attention!

him win best meat and biscuits at sating for all of the bumps and con - brim. These steps are very manu - The Colorado State Fair. Addition - tours you have gathered along the ally intensive and utilize such ally, Tom is a passionate student of way. The process is simple and uses unique tools as hat blocks, flanges, a 30X, about 75% beaver, and a the or Buckaroo style of three key data points to make sure irons, and a heated sanding bag. 100X which is pure beaver and the horse training, which follows the the fit is accurate and what you The final steps involve applying edg - most beautiful hat I have ever seen. “two rein” process that was devel - would expect from a man of Tom’s ing, binding, sweatbands (of course, Last summer I joined Roy “Dusty” oped to bridge the gap from hack - reputation and talent. personalized), and then the lining. Rogers Jr. at the New York City amore to bridle bit. The two-rein The hat making process Tom Tom Hirt takes a few extra sale of the Roy Rogers and Dale bridle setup consists of a pencil bosal employs today involves the purchase steps like beveling the edges of the Evans estate. I wore a Conagher and a half breed or spade bit with of rough hat bodies from a felting brim so they give a more finished hat built by Tom Hirt, and boy, I rawhide or latigo reins with romal. plant. Years ago this process used appearance and adding a self devel - wish I had a pocketful of business Returning to the subject of hats, mercury, which when inhaled gave oped mixture of sizing based on the cards for Tom because everyone to say Tom Hirt’s hats are of high birth to the term “as mad as a hat - material and the desired outcome. loved it and needed a photo! When quality is an understatement. They ter,” and then based on the hat and The final step is the creasing of the you finally realize the hat you wear are near works of art that not only the customer’s desires, follows an in - crown to meet that specific desire of is your signature, and you no longer make you look good, but feel good as volved process to finish the hat. The the customer, and this is always wish to look like so many others well, since they make you proud to key steps include heating the body done by hand, in Tom’s case, the with an off the shelf hat—give Tom own and wear such a sign of quality. and building the crown, pouncing hand of a master. a call and discuss your dreams. I To order a custom hat from Tom you (sanding the fur felt to be fine), lur - While there is no standard as to know he can deliver. For additional do not travel to Colorado to be fit - ing, which adds heated oils into the what the number of Xs represent in Information please see: ted, as he has developed a rather in - fur and is much more of an art than the hat industry, there are three Tom Hirt Custom Hats genious way for customers to a science, more sanding and then basic qualities of hat bodies offered www.tomhirt.com measure their own head, compen - ironing, forming, and trimming the by Tom: a 10X, roughly 50% beaver, 719-372-9399

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DuRANgo AND , SILVERToN NARRoW wGauGe “victorian trai n” robbery By Aneeda Huginkiss, SASS #23798

Train” chugs out of Durango leather and load our 45 Long every year in mid-October, and Colts. Catch and saddle our Aneeda Huginkiss, every year our “gang” robs it! trusty steeds. Go over the “plan” SASS #23798 We usually hatch our plan a again, to make sure everyone re - few weeks before the robbery and members what they need to do urango, CO – It was a invite several new “gang” mem - and then we hear it … the whistle crisp, clear morning in bers to join us in the train robbery of the train. Southwestern Colorado, … you can never have too many Our horses hear it too; heads D one of those fall days hands to help … you might need turn and ears prick towards the where there is a hint of “brrr” in to tie one of them to the tracks! sound. They are excited too, the air, but you know the day will We don our cowboy/girl duds prancing and pawing, ready to When the law’s not around, wrap you in a blanket of warmth … sometimes saloon girl dresses, chase that train down. We take who’s to argue with the command, when the sun rises over the sometimes frock coats and vests, our positions and as the train “Those jewels or your life!” mountain peaks. sometimes just long johns and steams by us, we take off after it, The annual Durango and Sil - suspenders … depending on our needing to catch and board it. Madam Clarissa. She had made verton Narrow Gauge “Victorian mood. We strap on our gun This year we invited Miss it clear she needed a new dress, Brandy Shot and her friend who and we weren’t to get off that portrayed our Madam … she was train until we either had a dress stationed where the train stopped or the money to buy her one. She as a decoy. (She also held our can be a might testy, so we didn’t ponies while we lightened every - argue. Rico Star stayed mounted one’s pockets on the train!) The and made sure the law didn’t rest of the gang consisted of Rico sneak up on us. Star, Helda Huginkiss and me … Helda and I went to the ca - Aneeda Huginkiss … yup, we are boose and climbed on … boy those small in numbers but we get the trains are tall! Miss Brandy Shot job done. We had a time figuring got on up by the coal car and out a name for ourselves and fi - worked her way towards us … we nally decided on the Stu Pididiot was doin’ really good, collecting Gang, mostly cause so many peo - coin, jewelry, and I even tried to ple called us that! trade Helda’s big black horse, The train stopped and Miss Tophawk, (who she loaned me for Brandy Shot, Helda Huginkiss, the robbery cause my horse, and I jumped off our horses, guns Teaser, gets a might too excited drawn, and handed the reins to about train robbing!) for a real

The “Stu Pididiot” Gang lays in wait to rob the train coming up the canyon!

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treat us to lunch as well (boy was she in a good mood). We hurriedly scrambled onto our ponies and fired off a few rounds to let the train’s passengers know we meant business. Rico kept the train covered and kept everyone on it ‘til we were all mounted, then with and coins jin - gling, we loped off. Unfortunately it wasn’t sunset yet, but we left that train a little lighter for the trip back to Durango. As always the train robbery was fun, excit - ing, and an experience we will be repeating again next year! Chasing down the train is exciting not only for the Pilgrims on the train, Contrary to popular belief we but also for the robbers and horses as well! don’t actually keep the loot … there is always a different charity chosen .45 at the curs that had me tied each year before the robbery takes fast and told them to let me go … place. All the collected coins are they promptly complied, and I turned in at the depot in Durango was free … I drew on them boys and get donated to that charity. So, as well and had them tied up and it’s not only fun, it assists those in sitting down in no time. We need as well … an all-around win - quickly finished our robbing and ning proposition in our books! decided we better get the heck out So … if you don’t have any - of there before we met the law … thing fun and exciting planned something we don’t like to do! next October … get online and get Madam Clarissa made sure tickets to ride the Victorian Train we showed her the coin we col - … we’ll be sure to lighten your lected in our saddle bags before pockets, put a smile on your face, she declared there was surely as well as make a memory that enough for her new dress, and we will last a lifetime! Come join us! did such a good job she decided to We’ll be lookin’ for you …

The central conspirators, the Huginkiss Sisters, review their plans before robbing the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge “Victorian Train.”

nice fur but she caught me … hollered to Rico for help, but he darn it … that fur would have had his hands full keeping people kept me warm this winter … but from getting off the train. I I digress … back to the story. I thought I was a goner, headed for got ahead of Helda by one car and the hoosegow when we entered a couple of cowardly curs ganged the car Miss Brandy Shot was up on me and tied me up … I robbing. She calmly leveled her

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SKELETON CANYON outlaw trail Of The BOO THEEL Col. Richard Dodge, SASS #1750 By Col. Richard Dodge, SASS Life #1750 everal miles north of Apache, Arizona, a rock dirt road leads east and southeast nessed the end of the vengeful old pylon breaks the flat into some of North America’s most ’s bloody career. Interestingly, S landscape along SR 80. A rugged country, crossing the border the site is on private land and almost brass plaque identifies the location with New Mexico to the actual sur - adjacent to the ranch headquarters. nearby of one of the Southwest’s render site—Skeleton Canyon, an Important as the event was, most important events: Geronimo’s ancient dry wash wandering across Skeleton Canyon’s history is far The Tombstone “cowboys” ambushed and final surrender to General Miles in the arid land. more colorful than that sad incident. killed 26 Mexican smugglers and their 1886 that essentially ended the The actual surrender site is Some of the most famous names in mules at the Devil’s Kitchen, and then re - decades-long Indian Wars. Just marked by a six foot-tall rock cairn, Old West history have ridden the portedly buried their ill-gotten treasure south of the monument, a rugged placed there by the troopers who wit - (Continued on next page) nearby, which has never been recovered!

VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com March 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 31 Skeleton Canyon . . . The other “massacre” happened in 1881 when Curly Bill Brocius (Continued from previous page) learned several Mexican smugglers canyon’s dry bed and left some of known as the Estrada Gang were the Old West’s most hair-raising hauling silver loot through the tales along its course. Here, almost canyon enroute to the Tucson area. lost to memory, is one of the most Brocius gathered the usual sus - historic sites of the Old West’s story. pects, including Ringo, Ike and Billy The canyon connects the Ani - Clanton, Frank and Tom McLaury, LITTLE KNOWN mas Valley in New Mexico’s “boot Billy Grounds, and Zwig Hunt. heel” with the San Simon Valley in They ambushed and killed every FAMOUS PEOPLE Arizona and has always presented one of the nineteen smugglers and a convenient and hidden route into their 26 mules near a rock forma - and out of Mexico for smugglers, tion known as “Devil’s Kitchen.” Way Out West – cattle rustlers, gunmen, and adven - The second massacre led to the By Joe Fasthorse, SASS #48769 turers of every stripe and color. The legend of the “Skeleton Canyon canyon’s name is not a frivolous Treasure,” yet another bloody one; over a hundred people have canyon tale of buried treasure. Deadwood Dick Joe Fasthorse, died in it—most of them violently— There was no way to transport the SASS #48769 and for many years it was not un - loot, which was said to have con - usual to find human bones lying sisted of thousands of pesos in sil - at “Deadwood Dick” Love was about. And, it’s certain others have ver coin and a box full of diamonds Na cowboy, performer, yet to be found! and jewelry. Since they had killed Pullman porter, and author. Nat New Mexico’s “bootheel” has all the mules, the treasure was was born a Tennessee slave in been a place of violence and in - buried after each man took a share. 1854. When slavery ended, trigue for European invaders and Later, back in Tombstone, one of the he discovered he had a Apache defenders for two cen - bushwhackers, Jim Hughes, natural talent for break - ing wild horses. In 1869, he headed west. When he reached Dodge City, Kansas, he joined the outfit of the Texas-based Duval Ranch. The crew had driven a herd up to the Kansas railhead. Nat quickly earned a reputation as the best all-around cowboy. He was made Ranch cat - tle buyer. This job often took him to Mexico, and he soon became fluent in Spanish. In 1872, he moved to the Gallinger Ranch in Arizona. Here, he traveled many western trails and fought Indians, rustlers, and bandits. In 1876, Gallinger Ranch delivered a herd of steers to Deadwood, South Dakota. In Skeleton Canyon a brass plaque identifies the nearby location of one The cowboys arrived just in time for the July 4th Celebration. One sched - of the Southwest’s most important events—Geronimo’s final surrender uled event included a $200 prize. Cowboys competed in roping, branding, to General Miles in 1886 that essentially ended the decades-long and shooting. Nat won the $200 and the nickname “Deadwood Dick.” The Indian Wars. The pile of rocks at the actual surrender site and the rock next year Nat was captured in Arizona by Pima Indians. He claimed his pylon by the highway are the only reminders of one of the most life was spared because the Indians respected his fighting ability. Soon important of the Old West’s remarkable stories. after being captured, he stole a pony and escaped into West Texas. Love turies—and not necessarily against planned a double-cross. He re - spent the latter part of his life working as a Pullman porter on the Denver each other. Many of Louis cruited Zwig Hunt and Billy and Rio Grande Railroad. He died in Los Angeles in 1921 at the age of 67. L’Amour’s most popular novels are Grounds to move the treasure to a “Mounted on my horse my ... lariat near my hand, and my trusty guns based on characters and events in new hiding place while he “enter - in my belt … I felt like I could defy the world.” ~ Nat Love, 1871 that desolate and remote region. tained” the others. Hunt and The Skeleton Canyon Mas - Grounds hired a Mexican teamster sacres—there were two of them— to help move the treasure, then involved some very well known Old killed and buried both him and his large treasure. It is most likely the first Skeleton Canyon Massacre. West characters, as we shall see. mules and burned his wagon. Both outlaws blew their shares on So, it was to this storied place In 1879, a group of American men then went into hiding and women, whiskey, and cards in that Geronimo agreed, at the en - outlaws attacked a rancho in Mex - were eventually killed in their own Tombstone’s sordid nightlife. couragement of Lt. Charles Gate - ico’s northern Sonora State, then re - unsuccessful outlaw careers, but Interestingly, in 1891 a couple wood, to meet with General Nelson treated across the border and up the not before Hunt had drawn a crude of riders discovered a leather pouch Miles and surrender his tiny sur - canyon. Several Mexican “ rurales, ” map and managed to mail it to his in the canyon containing several viving band of Chiracaua Apache commanded by one Capitan Alfredo family in San Antonio. The Hunt thousand dollars in Mexican coins. warriors and join the rest of his peo - Carillo, followed, illegally crossing family searched the canyon for Perhaps the treasure might be real, ple in the unimaginable imprison - the border. As they entered the years, finding nothing with the use - after all. ment of far-away Florida. That pile canyon, shots rang out from the hid - less map. An earthquake had oblit - In August of that year, Old Man of rocks at the surrender site and den outlaws; only three rurales sur - erated some landmarks and had Clanton and several rustlers were the rock pylon by the highway are vived, including Capitan Carillo. stopped the flow of water in springs ambushed and slain where they the only reminders of one of the Among the ambushers were none that were marked on the map. slept near Guadalupe Canyon, less most important of the Old West’s re - other than Johnny Ringo, Old Man In truth, the bushwhackers than three months before the epic markable stories. Clanton, Billy Clanton, Curly Bill probably realized only a small for - gunfight at the OK Corral. Histori - Reference Brocius, Florentino Cruz, and oth - tune each, as there was never any ans believe Clanton was killed by Traywick, Ben T.; Showdown: Wyatt ers—household names to anyone record of thefts in Mexico that Mexican rurales led by the vengeful Earp vs. Curly Bill; Western Out - knowledgeable about the Wild West. would have contributed to such a Capitan Carillo, the survivor of the law, Dec. 2009 VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com Page 32 Cowboy Chronicle March 2013

2012 SASS Scholarship Recipient miss mandy, sass #89466 AKA Amanda Cordes

Edited by Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000

where I can design or build air - Robbers Roost Vigilantes in planes/missiles to help defend our Ridgecrest, California. My dad, country. I love airplanes and Orland Granger, SASS #89465, Justice Lily Kate, rockets and I would love to get a and brother, Crumville Kid, SASS SASS #1000 job where I’d get to work with #89467, shoot as well. My mom them every week. I hope to work Suzanne doesn’t shoot competi - idgecrest, CA — My for the Department of Defense or tively, but she and my sister, name is Amanda with a contractor associated with Sarah, are very supportive of our Cordes. I’m 19 and cur - them. I am very supportive of our shooting. Even though our SASS R rently a third year stu - military overseas, and I want to numbers are sequential, I was the dent at California State be able to use my passion for pro - first in my family to start shoot - University Polytechnic Pomona, jectiles to help them defend our ing SASS. I was registered with or Cal Poly Pomona, where I am nation. Between my passion for my home club for a few months pursuing a bachelor’s degree in missiles and rockets and my love before I finally joined SASS. I’ve Mechanical Engineering. After for shooting, I think it’s safe to been shooting for about three graduating I plan on attending say I’m addicted to projectiles years. My dad got me involved in keep me coming home regularly. graduate school to get a Master’s that go boom! SASS the summer before I left for Since we can’t have guns on cam - degree in Aerospace Engineering My alias is Miss Mandy, SASS college. The joke was that he had pus, he figured I’d have to come and hopefully work in a field #89466, and I am a member of the to find something I really liked to (Continued on page 34 )

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once again climb onto their back well. Brown managed to push and resume the ride. himself deeper into the scant Brown saw that Ahiga had his cover offered by the sage and scat - in his right hand, and tered stunted trees. Brown could feel the weight of his Three more shots rang out. rio puerCo two New Model Remingtons on All three missed Brown and By White Smoke Steve, SASS #91779 his hips. Brown thought of his Ahiga, but one hit where his right tied to the saddle on leg had been a moment before and Tawny’s back. Brown would pre - another flew within inches of Deputy U. S. Marshal Turner Brown had been shot: A fact that fer to have that rifle with its Brown’s right shoulder. Brown, finished with both his stint Brown had grasped instantly. greater range and heavier “They’re getting better,” Ahiga as “the law” in Las Vegas and the Brown thought that it served “punch” in his hands now, but he said. Brown nodded and mum - messenger who brought the first him right to have been shot. He dismissed the thought. There was bled his agreement as he turned New Mexico Ranger’s badge to the should have been watching the no purpose to be served in regrets. to the dog. “Hunt?” Brown asked Blañco Valley, rode along the Rio trail instead of letting his mind Feroz appeared at Brown’s side Feroz and then asked Ahiga the Puerco wanting nothing more than wander in consideration of what and licked his cheek. The dog had same question. the peace and tranquility of the Big was and what wasn’t a river. apparently been ranging to the Feroz turned his eyes from Horn Mountains. But Destiny had Brown told himself he had been side of Brown and Ahiga instead Brown to Ahiga and then back to different plans for Brown. First, careless, knowing careless men of in front of them and didn’t have Brown. Feroz thought for a mo - Brown was forced to deal with the didn’t live long west of St. Louis. any opportunity to discover the ment and decided Brown wanted Mormon “Avengers” who wanted re - Brown followed Ahiga’s eyes ambush awaiting them. him to hunt with Ahiga. Ahiga venge for the death of their own. toward the boulders that towered Brown realized he was very smiled a cruel and hard smile and Those “Avengers” caught Brown and above the Rio Puerco as two shots pleased the dog was alive and (Continued on page 35 ) his companion, the Diné warrior, kicked up dust and gravel near Ahiga, along the Rio Puerco. Brown’s head while a third cut through a stand of reeds nearby. rown had fallen hard Ahiga nodded toward the rim against the gravel and of the canyon wall and again told thick gray dust that Brown the obvious. There were at B covered the winding least three men hidden among the trail that paralleled the Rio boulders that ringed the rim of Puerco’s twisting descent in the the canyon. small canyon. “They’re not very good shots,” He felt a deep throbbing in his Brown mumbled through the pain shoulder and a burning sensation that radiated from his shoulder. across his upper back as he found “Not Diné,” Ahiga said with a Ahiga’s strong left hand pressed smile. “Must be white men.” against his chest, holding him to Tawny and Ahiga’s horses had the ground amid the sage and rab - wandered into the stunted cedar bitbrush where he had fallen. and piñon trees that lined the “Be still,” Ahiga hissed in his river. Both animals stood pa - broken English, adding that tiently, waiting for the two men to

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(Continued from page 32 ) boy boots! SASS shoots give me a with myself whenever I made a home on the weekends if I wanted good excuse to get to wear them mistake, and he helped me learn to continue shooting and I guess more often. to keep that under control and he was right. Fourth, I love seeing people’s move on to the next play instead SASS has affected my life in reactions when I tell them I shoot of brooding over the last. This different ways. First, I’ve learned guns competitively. They usually translates to a lot more in life a lot more about gun control. get a shocked look on their face than just volleyball. I’ve learned They don’t call me MISS Mandy and blurt out, “You shoot REAL you can’t control everything, and for nothing, so I can’t say I always guns?! But you’re a girl …” This sometimes you need to just move hit what I’m aiming at, but I feel expression is especially popular on and let things go. This helps a lot safer knowing I can usually considering the fact I live in Cali - with my shooting, too. If you miss hit my target, and I can only get fornia. a shot you need to simply move on better as I get older. Living with Last, SASS has allowed me to and make sure you hit the next roommates in the Los Angeles meet some really amazing people. one instead of getting angry and area, it gives me some peace of Whether it’s at an out of town potentially missing your next few mind knowing I could protect my - shoot or the monthly club shoots shots. This is just one example of self if the situation ever arose. in town, everyone I’ve met has the things he taught me. I think Second, SASS has given me a been so helpful, friendly, and hos - I can honestly say I have a much new hobby. While I was in high pitable. The Robbers Roost Vigi - better attitude and am a better school my whole life revolved lantes have been incredibly person because of him. around school and volleyball. welcoming and friendly. The The last person who has had a Everything I did outside of class members there have given me big influence on my life is my dad. related to volleyball. Since I’m some new role models to look up He’s influenced almost everything not playing in college, I now have to and shown me something to in my life. I’m going to school for a lot more free time. Playing club look forward to when I’m older. engineering because of him, I love volleyball, my weekends were I’d love to still be able to come out volleyball because he got me into usually spent in a car on my way and shoot when I’m 60 and to be the sport, and I wouldn’t be a to LA or San Diego for a tourna - able to do it as quickly and accu - member of SASS without him. I ment, but now that I’ve aged out rately as some of them do. can safely say I’ve always been a of the junior club programs, I As I mentioned before, some of daddy’s girl, and I will always be don’t have much to do on the the more experienced shooters in one. He has a Bachelor’s Degree weekends anymore, and the SASS the club have become role models in Mechanical Engineering and is shoots give me something fun to for me, and it’s not just their ac - one of the reasons why I’m now do on those days. curacy and speed while shooting. pursuing an engineering degree Third, I LOVE wearing cow - They are all great people who are as well. He was my first volley - amicable, helpful, and have a good ball coach and has always been attitude. They seem to view the there to drive me to tournaments, shoots as more of a social event video all my games, and even tape than a competition. There are my ankles, smelly feet and all. rarely any arguments or animos - He’s the one who introduced me to ity toward each other and I see the shooting world and first those as great qualities. You can signed me up to be a member of tell they want to be there and are SASS. Although the three of us, there to have fun, not to compete my dad, brother, and I, are com - and win everything. petitive with each other, I know Another person who has had a it’s a friendly competition, and it lot of influence in my life was my motivates me to be an even better club volleyball coach, Chris Maki. shooter. And last, he’s the one to He started coaching the year I blame for my extremely dry, sar - began playing and his last season castic sense of humor. also happened to be my last year I look forward to continuing playing. He taught me a lot more on in both my education as well as than how to be a better volleyball my shooting, and I thank every - player. I used to get really angry one in SASS for helping me.

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(Continued from page 33 ) rim. “You didn’t even know my told Brown he was always willing name before you killed Deacon to hunt white men. Maser. Probably heard it for the Feroz’s eyes sparkled with un - first time from that sinner Peter - derstanding and agreement. son.” Brown had apparently e e Feroz would rather hunt with guessed correctly. Oldendyke was Brown, but he would hunt with one of three men on the top of the PAUNCHO , SASS #5511 Life Ahiga, if Brown wanted. After all, canyon wall. He didn’t think that Feroz told himself, a “good dog” knowledge would help him, but October 26, 1952 – August 13, 2012 did what his man wanted. Feroz Brown enjoyed knowing the name By Cariboo Lefty SASS Life/ Regulator #5391 enjoyed being a “good dog.” He of the man who wanted to kill had been a “good dog” long ago for him. Two more shots rang out. a man by the big water, but that Both missed Brown. man had gone away. Feroz didn’t “Oldendyke,” Brown yelled. want to see another man go away “I’m a Deputy U.S. Marshal, and and leave him alone I’ve got a half a dozen blank arrest Brown turned to Ahiga and warrants in my saddlebags. All I outlined a plan where Ahiga and have to do is write in your name.” Feroz would circle the canyon to Most Deputy Marshals trav - the north to get behind the gun - eled with blank arrest warrants men. Ahiga agreed and started to in case they were needed, but move silently toward the Brown didn’t have any. In fact, southerly end of the canyon, fol - Brown wasn’t completely certain lowing the path that had led them whether he was still a Deputy into ambush. Feroz looked wor - U.S. Marshal. He had tried to re - shipfully at Brown and then sign before he rode out of Santa crawled after Ahiga. Fe headed for the Blañco Valley.

Brown pulled a pistol from his But, Brown knew his actual sta - Pauncho (c) flanked by the rest of the Tres Amigos, holster and squeezed off a shot in tus made no difference. Neither Too Dusty and Cariboo Lefty (r) . q the general direction of the men be - did his lack of an arrest warrant. q hind the boulders that topped the Willard White Oldendyke was a t is my sad duty to announce far canyon wall. The crease the dead man. Brown knew if Old - Ithe passing of my good friend earlier rifle shot had gouged across endyke didn’t kill him, he’d kill Pauncho, SASS Life #5511. his shoulders still oozed blood, but Oldendyke. Pauncho was one of the first Brown didn’t believe it was life “You’re not going to be able to SASS members in the Interior of ~ PAUNCHO ~ threatening. Brown sighed and write anybody’s name on anything British Columbia and was influ - By Lanark Rose, SASS #92898 thought the pain that radiated when you’re dead,” Oldendyke ential in the success of Cowboy Courtney, BC September 2, 2012 from the gouge was a fitting re - shouted, stood, and squeezed off Action Shooting™ in the area. A minder of his own carelessness. two more wild shots. Brown fired great friend, a hard worker, a Another cowboy has left this The men who had opened fire twice in response to Oldendyke’s man of his word, and a man of the plane from behind the boulders were shots, but the man had ducked be - Lord, Pauncho was always ready But his mortal toil was not in more than a hundred yards away. hind his boulder as Brown’s shots with a smile, a handshake, and a vain It was a very long shot for a pistol, missed. Brown reloaded his Rem - helping hand. Along with Too The many friends of Pauncho and Brown didn’t expect the Rem - ington as Ahiga and Feroz rose Dusty, SASS Life #5447, we com - abound ington to reliably hit anything at from the ground for a sprint up peted in matches all over Western And come from places all that distance, but Brown fired the trail. Canada and some in the States around. twice more toward the top of the As soon as the Indian and the and no one had as much fun as canyon wall. To hit anyone at dog broke from the cover of the the three of us. Big and hearty in silver and that distance with his pistol stunted cedars, two rifle shots came Pauncho was a true gentle - black would be pure luck, but he figured from the boulders on either side of man and had the kindest heart You always knew he’d have your the shots from his Remington Oldendyke’s position followed and most gentle soul of any man back would serve as a diversion and quickly by a shot from Oldendyke … I have known, but he would not The wealth of knowledge this keep the attention of the three (Ambush on the Rio Puerco is the be pushed an inch. We all miss man had men with the rifles. 4th installment in the Turner his goofy grin and his infectious He’d share with all for good or “Oldendyke?” Brown shouted. Brown series. The story follows laughter. bad. Brown had no idea who might be US Marshal Brown from his en - It was my privilege to deliver among the boulders trying to kill counter with the Mormon a short eulogy for Pauncho at the His sense of humour, his hearty him, but he figured the Mormon Avengers that he first battled in SASS Canadian Championship laugh “avenger” would be a good guess. “The Law in New Mexico,” then in Courtney BC, and shortly af - Would fill your heart and make “I’ve got a warrant for the arrest takes him to lawless Lincoln terwards a lady came up to me in you glad of all three of you. Throw down County, New Mexico. Author Steve tears, and gave me the following Now free to ride his two-wheeled your guns and come on down. I’ll Yount is White Smoke Steve and poem. She said she did not know steed make sure all three of you get a resides in Albuqerque, New Mex - Pauncho as well as some of us, And join the posse following the fair trial in Santa Fe.” ico. His Turner Brown westerns but that the words just cowboy creed. “You don’t have any arrest can be purchased as both ebooks came to her. I can’t warrant with my name on it,” the and as paperbacks at Turner - think of a better way voice called down from the canyon BrownWesterns.com.) to say it. q q Little Known Fact Balloonist Thaddeus Lowe was the first person to direct an attack using aerial reconnaissance on September 24, 1861.

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(Continued from page 1) top shooters were there. (Association of Western Shooters, On Thursday morning the Czech Republic), stepped in. Al - main fun started. We shot the though we were half way through Main Match, four stages a day, preparations for our yearly na - starting at 9:00 AM. The stages tional match, we offered SASS the and procedures were exact copies possibility to change it to EURO - of END of TRAIL 2012 with some John Bohemia, PEAN END of TRAIL. This was additional props to make them SASS Life/Regulator #73504 accepted, and we carried on with look even more attractive. Each the preparation. Same time, same shooter obtained a booklet with all place, just different name and the information about the match Winners END of TRAIL stages. We also al - and the stage descriptions. Every - Overall Winners lowed non-SASS members to par - Range Master Headshot Jack (c) thing was bilingual, Czech and Man Rephil, ticipate as many of them were stands with 49’er Category winners, English, including the story behind SASS #5897 DE Shotgun Boogie (DE) (1 st on the left) each stage (by the way, my 17 year Lady Jesse Belle, SASS 53806 DE and Pat McRyan (IT) on the right. old son did the translation into Pat was also the Top Gun Shoot-off Top Gun Shoo t-off winner. Congratulations to both! Pat McRyan, SASS #74108 IT already registered for the original Categories match. This turned out to be an 49’er Shotgun Boogie, advantage as there were people SASS #67870 DE coming to me asking how they B-Western Doc Jack CZ could become SASS members. C Cowboy Elise Horn, SASS #68952 CZ So, we all met on Wednesday Cowboy Clean Kid, September 5, 2012, on a range in SASS #94431 DE Oparany near Tabor. The range it - Duelist Slow Hand Don, self is a perfect place for such a SASS #95040 DE match. It is one of a few ranges in E Statesman Old Pipe Man, the country where such a large SASS #75615 AT match can be organized. It has 25 F Cartridge Preacher, SASS #89271 NL bays altogether, including one for F C Duelist Shotgun George, 100 meter precision shooting. Its SASS #55874 DE location in the centre of South Bo - F C Gunfighter Thunder Man, hemia, one of the most attractive SASS #29821 CZ areas in the country, also it makes Frontiersman Elsa, it interesting for those shooters Of course, what’s the point of SASS #95798 DE who do not want to spend the af - having a “Casino Night” if there’s Gunfighter Lyoner Dundee, SASS #53807 DE ternoons and evenings at the not gambling, loose women, and plenty of whisky? Junior Easy Trigger, range, although this would be a SASS #93508 IT mistake this time as the afternoon European END of TRAIL offered all of the above! L 49’er Crazy Lady DE and especially evening programs Cowgirl Flinstone Lily, were quite appealing. The weather Czech). The stages were all we SASS #91796 DE was nice and sunny, temperatures wanted, needed and expected— L Senior Annie Order, Headshot Jack is a top contender SASS #89489 DE in his own right …and at this reaching up to 20 degrees Centi - fast, exiting, and fun. Big thanks grade. Perfect for such an event, to Headshot Jack, SASS #79567, L S Senior De Ve AS match he was also Range Master L Wrangler Jesse Belle, and responsible for organizing and it stayed like that for the our Range Master, who built, pre - SASS #53806 DE the Team Event and the Top Gun whole match. pared, and put up the stages, and Senior Captain Wildbeard, Shoot-off. He did a great job On Wednesday afternoon we kept an eye on everything through - SASS #45998 DK and everything ran smoothly! started with the first three stages out the whole match. S Senior Blonde Rocky CZ of Wild Bunch™. Here I really In the afternoon we shot the Wrangler Rephil, have to express my sympathy to SASS #5897 DE Austrian shooters who are not al - Clean Shooters lowed to own pump shotguns and, Senior Big Bizon, SASS #49251 CZ therefore, are effectively restricted Captain Wildbeard, from this match. If I understand SASS #45998 DK correctly, some “wise” Austrian of - Classic Big Peter, ficials decided pump shotguns are Cowboy SASS #89266 DE assault weapons and as such are Elise Horn, completely banned for law-abiding SASS #68952 CZ civilians. Hard to comment on this Gunfighter John, SASS #73504 CZ and stay polite; let’s only hope this Wrangler Master Rino, will not spread to other countries! SASS #5745 IT In the evening there was an Wild Bunch The event also hosted a six-stage opening ceremony led by Thunder - Wild Bunch™ match. Overall Clean Kid, SASS #94431 DE Unfortunately, the Austrians were man, SASS Life #29821, and my - In addition to a lively auction Categories at a severe disadvantage since they self. There were 135 shooters with “casino dollars,” there was Modern Clean Kid DE cannot own (and practice with) from 10 countries, including Aus - a very attractive raffle as well, Traditional Robert Houba, Jr. CZ Winchester ‘97 shotguns! tralia. I dare say the European featuring several firearms.

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was definitely positive! In the evening another gam - bling party started. It was a Casino Night party where every - one had a chance to try his/her luck at roulette, Black Jack, or poker. It was again for fake money; everyone received an initial amount of 2,000 casino dollars, and the rest was up to him/her. The losers had a chance to earn extra “cash” at the laser range, which for some people became more popular Thunder Maid relaxes in than the game itself. Registration before gearing up After some two hours of gam - for competition. bling, the game was closed, and the Match Director Thunder Man acts as master of ceremonies during the winners had a chance to bid their On Saturday we finished the One picture says it all … awards program with translation cash in auction. There were 10 last four stages of the Main Match, “You can’t seriously expect me assistance from sidekick, items in the auction, some of the and in the afternoon came the last to actually ride that thing!” John Bohemia. items were quite attractive, like re - side match, the Shoot-off, again loading presses and airsoft guns. prepared by Headshot Jack. A remaining three stages of Wild It was great fun to see how the peo - simple duel of two shooters shoot - Bunch™ and the 100-meter preci - ple were spending their easy ing identical stages built next to sion rifle side match. money or pooling their winnings to each other with the last shot going And in the evening came enter - bid ridiculous amounts to get their into a shotgun target, which upon tainment in the form of Poker desired item. Obviously, the last falling, overlaps with the oppo - Academy, along with a free barbe - item had the highest bids, as nent’s one. Therefore, the one on cue. The barbecue was in the tra - everyone was getting rid of all the bottom was the winner. And, ditional Czech style—the whole pig their money. every miss had to be made up by roasted on a turnspit. As for the And then came the raffle. The extra shotgun shots. This was very poker, there was no gambling with winners were drawn according to fast, very attractive, and pure real money so nobody was in dan - their registration numbers, so adrenalin, especially as it was ger of leaving the evening naked. every shooter had an equal chance. moving towards the finale. The Further exciting side matches All he/she had to do was be present winner and the only “survivor” was followed on Friday afternoon. to win! There were many prizes, Pat Mc Ryan, SASS #74108. First was the World Record. Fol - some of them more attractive than The evening started with the lowing SASS rules for this stan - the others, but at the end there Costume Contest. There were dard stage, the best European were only eight shooters who did many nice costumes presented, shooters tried to beat the record. not win anything. The top prizes and the committee of three ladies They did not succeed, but were were percussion and single shot ri - had quite hard work. Although, very close to it. The best one was fles, percussion pistol, and SAA re - being a jealous male, I still have a Rephil, SASS Life #5897, who volvers. Most of these prizes were feeling that when it came to cate - made it in 15.77 seconds! donated by our sponsors, Dave gory Best Dressed Shooter, they let Second side match of the day Western Guns, Chiappa, Pietta, themselves be biased by the gen - was a Team Match in which two Uberti, and others. (Continued on page 38 ) shooters were shooting a stage as a Tangerine Stone and Trigger Hawkeye are from Poland. Trigger Hawkeye was Match Director for Days of Truth 2010.

team. This very popular match was organized again by Headshot Jack. The winning duo was Clean Kid, SASS #94431, and Slow Hand Don, SASS #95040. Their time was 18.30 seconds; pretty amazing taking into account it represents double the number of shots as com - pared to a regular “one man” stage! On Friday and Saturday after - noon we also organized a Shooting School for the public. The idea be - hind this was to let visitors and spectators try it themselves and The laser guns were another way perhaps become Cowboy Action Sinful gambling raised it ugly head at European END of TRAIL! to earn money if the gambling tables Shooting™ competitors one day. There were many games of chance … and most lost every “casino dollar” were not kind. The reaction of the participants they were given before the night was out!

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(Continued from page 37 ) eral appearance of the winner, Rober Houba Jr. Anyway, my wife said she would decide the same … The program then continued with the awards ceremony. The overall winner was Rephil for men and Jesse Belle, SASS #53806, for ladies. There was a special prize for the overall winner, provided by one of our sponsors, Elton Hodi - narska, A.S. It was a wristwatch made under the trademark of PRIM, the traditional Czech watchmaker. It is not only a pre - cise timepiece, but also a col - lectible item. The entertainment and music then continued until late night. onship of Cowboy Action Shoot - According to the reactions we ing™, Days of Truth. It will be the received so far, this match was a 10th anniversary of this match, success. Until now I have men - which our association actually tioned only some of the organizers, started in 2004. It is open for any - but there were many more people body and everybody, so we look for - from our club who spent their time, ward to seeing all our friends from money, and effort in making this a across the Europe and world there great event. … and hopefully some new ones. Now that it is over, we are in All the details about this match for even a bigger event in early Au - and planned future matches can be gust next year. In 2013, we will be found on our website: organizing the European Champi - www.awsczech.ketnet.cz

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sass, the Bullet Hole tHe free state raNGe&rs Present Border Wars ‘1 2 The SASS 2012 KANSAS STATE Championship Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life/Regulator #49907 By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life/Regulator #49907

arker, KS – Nestled is a Kansas State Championship. The There are also flying clay birds, a valley six miles south - reference to this club as being train ride, Texas Star, and a bell to west of Parker, Kansas unique is made because it differs ring. I call it a “Cowboy Carnival.” P lays the Cowboy Action slightly from most state shoots I Side matches were held on Fri - Camp of The Free State Rangers. have attended. The targets are day up the road a piece. When The head ranger, Buffalo Phil, mostly the regular size, but are they talk about long-range targets, SASS #11879, oversees this unique placed out a little further and they really mean LONG RANGE. Cowboy Action Shooting™ club. sometimes obscured by trees, They shoot at multiple distances Last October 19 – 21, 2012 they props, and/or building fronts. So ya starting at where most state conducted “Border Wars” The do have ta make an attempt to aim. shoots have their long range tar - gets set up, then ending up out around twice that distance. Their long range is for the true squinty eyed. There was also the speed short barreled and long barreled guns competition. After all the targets were done clanging for the Ft. Hays Preacher, SASS #33995, and day, a Pot Luck gathering was held Cree Vicar Dave sharing the pulpit. Friday evening. Ft. Hays Preacher’s gun cart is in the shape of a pulpit. Saturday morning dawned a little on the cool side, but the sun Cowboy Action Chaplain responsi - provided the prospect of a warmer bilities for the weekend. Following day. The cowpokes gathered for Saturday’s five main match stages the pre-shoot meetin’. A collection there was a fine sit down Banquet for the Cowboy Memorial Chapel held in town, where several nice at Founders Ranch was taken up. door prizes were handed out along A total of $87 was collected and with the side match awards. sent in for this great cause. All the Sunday morning was a little rules and regulations were ad - warmer. was at dressed. A Pledge to The Flag and 8:00 AM sharp. The Vicar’s Wife a prayer to our GOD were offered. led the singing; Cree Vicar Dave Ft Hays Preacher, SASS #33995, brought the message, while Ft and Cree Vicar Dave shared the Hays Preacher blessed the gather -

Saturday night banquet in town. Side match awards and prizes were handed out.

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* * * * * * * * * * Photos by: Winter Texan, SASS #50523 Deacon Stone, SASS #58681 The Vicar’s Wife Saturday morning safety and information Cree Vicar Dave meeting. (L to R); Safety Director Chauncey Dewey, SASS #72795, * * * * * * * * * * Match Director Buffalo Phil, SASS #11879, and TG Brazos Peddler, SASS #4235. Shady Willie Brown, SASS #77673, showing off his new black and white ing and pronounced the benedic - striped kitty to Miss Fit .44, tion. It says in Colossians 3:16 SASS #93072, while most of us in the immediate vicinity were NRSV, “Let the word of Christ holdin’ our noses! dwell in you richly; teach and ad - Top shooters: monish one another in all wisdom; Hondo Tucker, SASS #79457, songs to God.” The gathering for and with gratitude in your hearts and Rusty Dove, SASS #71200. Cowboy Church is, in my view, the sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual Congratulations! closest to the way Church is to be held. Then the final five stages were shot, recorded, and the winner awards handed out. It was a good weekend ta shoot, and everyone had a great time. [email protected] www.suckercreek.org The train ride was a lot of fun. Here Cherokee Half Breed, SASS #25108, rolls down the track with guns a blazing.

Friday night potluck. We had a good time seeing old friends and making new ones.

Winners Categories Overall L Wrangler Rusty Dove Man Hondo Tucker SASS #71200 SASS #79457 B-Western Jimmy Reno Lady Rusty Dove SASS #90736 SASS #71200 C Cowgirl Deuces Annie Categories SASS #75327 49’er Ft Hays Preacher F C Duelist Jayhawk Lou SASS #33995 SASS #51333 L 49’er Chantilly L S Senior Copper Rose SASS #28052 SASS #53321 Cowboy Hondo Tucker S Duelist Printer Doc SASS #79457 SASS #53320 Wrangler Saddle Sore Sam S S Duelist Reubin McCoy SASS #33400 Rankin S Senior Silver SASS #34239 SASS #31581 L B-Western Goldie Lu, Senior Col. Diamond SASS #82672 SASS #15265 G Dame Anita Nugun Duelist Shady Willie Brown SASS #16235 SASS #77673 L Senior Cherokee Half Breed E Statesman Jayhawk Jerry SASS #25108 SASS #84162 L Junior Bullseye Becca C Cowboy High Plains Hud SASS #93643 SASS #64232 F Cartridge Richie Reno Gunfighter Digger John SASS #74375 SASS #88514 L F Cartridge Kiamichi Queen Frontiersman The Brisco Kid SASS #26033 SASS #26032

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2012 IN THE uckus OKLRAHOMA NatioNs By Catoosa Red, SASS #57246 sass State Championship Secretary, Indian Territory Single Action Shooting Society and Springs, OK – By to be able to offer both the RO-I and dors. So far all I’ve mentioned was day morning. Shooters had plenty the end of August 2012 RO-II courses, as well as many side the food and the shopping—I guess of time to attend all of the Side all of our planning, hard matches, including our very special you can tell where my mind was! Matches, the RO courses, and still S work, and blood, sweat, Trail Walk. The entry fee included But I can’t leave out our Cowboy have time to do some shopping. and tears was beginning to pay off. lunches Friday and Saturday, an range with all of its great covered The weather Gods smiled on us, Ruckus in the Nations was almost awesome Pot Luck dinner Friday stages. They keep us dry if it rains and after more than 50 days of over here! Were we ready? You bet! We night, and good Cowboy BBQ for the and out of the sun in the summer … 100 degree temperatures, we were were expecting 175 shooters to join awards banquet. We held a Cowboy that’s a blessing in Oklahoma! grateful! Friday morning was us for the shoot and wanted every - Garage Sale on Thursday—ever Now on to the shooting. Since bright and cool. Our Mayor, Rock thing to be perfect. Plus, they been to one? They are a blast! Our we offer three placements in ALL Creek Rustler, SASS #5209, started would get to help us celebrate our park-like setting with its manicured side matches, we had plenty of par - our match by calling everyone to - 20th anniversary! lawn and huge shade trees provided ticipation. You could hear the sound gether for the Pledge of Allegiance. As a SASS club, we were excited an excellent location for our ven - of ringing steel and laughter Thurs - Then we were treated to a beautiful

Winners Categories Oklahoma State Champions Gunfighter Partner, Man Creek County Kid, SASS #51909 IL SASS #89945 OK G S Cap’N Highpockets, Lady Snorin Fanny, SASS #42688 MO SASS #49779 OK L 49’er Highland Scottie, Top Gun Shoot-off SASS #73698 OK Man Cow Bo, L B-Western Sassafrass Cyndy, SASS #55154 OK SASS #87284 OK Lady Hard Head Sam, L Duelist Katie Scarlett, SASS #82397 OK SASS #73126 MO Categories L F Cartridge Kiamichi Queen, 49’er Leroy Rogers, SASS #26033 OK SASS #49777 OK L Gunfighter Partner’s Partner, Buckaroo C R Hickok SASS #54603 IL Buckarette Annie’s Shadow L Senior Arkansas Bell, B-Western Holy Smoke Harmon, SASS #47079 AR SASS #84590 AR L S Senior Copper Rose, Cowboy Creek County Kid, SASS #53321 AR SASS #89945 OK L Wrangler Missouri Mae, C Cowboy Broncho Red, SASS #80828 OK SASS #22987 OK L Y Gun Echo Belle, C Cowgirl Snorin Fanny OK SASS #75636 OK Duelist Jerimiah Blackstone, Senior Ambler, SASS #819715 OK SASS #80374 AR D Duelist Jail Break Jake, S Duelist Little Doc, SASS #5867 MS SASS #21939 OK E Statesman Tail-N-Kid, S Gunfighter Gunny OO, SASS #43807 OK SASS #69512 OK F Cartridge Dirty Dan Paladin, S Ssenior Montana Dan, SASS #49055 AR SASS #15554 OK F C Duelist Roadrunner, Wrangler Cow Polk, SASS #64196 OK SASS #85223 AR F C Gunfighter Y Gun Lil Smokie, Burly Bill, SASS #72145 MO SASS #50840 OK Side Matches Frontiersman The Brisco Kid, Big Bore Lever SASS #26032 OK Man Little Doc OK G Dame Pawnee Rose, Lady Marmalade, SASS #82970 CA SASS #86638 OK

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everything you could imagine. After ished after all! A hardy bunch gath - Our new stage, “The Way Down Yonder Hotel,” was dedicated to Shawnee, the feast, the Side Match awards ered for the Team Matches, Hus - SASS #2734, and his lovely wife, Lucinda, who founded our club September 13, were handed out along with plenty band and Wife, a Skillet Toss for the 1992. Without their hard work and perseverance our club wouldn’t be here. of great door prizes. They included Ladies, and even a Man on Man and several tumblers, gun cleaning kits, Lady on Lady! rendition of our National Anthem felt “Thanks” to both of them. gift certificates to vendors, a Dillon We heard many wonderful com - sung by Tonic Kid, SASS #70340, The stages were well written, loader, and several guns. ments during the shoot about our followed by a stirring prayer for our thanks to Pumkin Roller, SASS Saturday morning we all gath - stages, the food, the awards, and the safety offered by our Vice-Mayor, #13170, and included a variety of ered again for a brief safety meet - organization, and we really do appre - Stiff Finger Jim, SASS #48456L. I targets sizes and placements. ing, and then we were off! Shooting ciate them. However, Ruckus in the mentioned earlier this was our Stages were fast and fun with no soon commenced, and you could Nations wouldn’t be such a great 20th anniversary, and we had a “P” traps! After all of Friday’s hear laughter up and down the fir - shoot with YOU! SASS Cowboys and surprise for our founders. Our new stages were shot, we enjoyed a light ing line. Once again, lunch after the Cowgirls are the greatest! We look stage, “The Way Down Yonder lunch and then shopping with our shooting was over, shopping, and for forward to seeing you at the 2013 Hotel,” was dedicated to Shawnee, vendors. That evening was our Pot some lucky few, a nap! Later, we all Ruckus in the Nations, scheduled for SASS #2734, and his lovely wife, Luck—a club favorite! The club met up for the main match awards. September 19th – 23rd, 2013 Lucinda, who founded our club on provided fried chicken (over 350 More food and awards—does it get For more information on any of September 13, 1992. Without their pieces!) and the shooters brought any better? Congratulations to all our events, please visit our website: hard work and perseverance our everything else. The spread took up the Oklahoma State Champions. www.ITSASS.net or e-mail us at: club wouldn’t be here. Our heart - four big tables and was loaded with Sunday – seems we weren’t fin - [email protected]

Side Matches Traditional Big Bore Single Shot Man Pumkin Roller, Black Powde r SASS #13170 OK Lady Missouri Mae OK Lady Missouri Mae OK Man Tail-N-Kid OK Buckaroo C R Hickok Big Bore Sin gle Shot Pocket Pistol Smokeless Man The Brisco Kid OK Man Tail-N-Kid OK Lady Katie Scarlett MO Lady Wesa, Buckaroo C R Hickok SASS #70957 AR Rifle Fastest 22. Man Leroy Rogers OK Pistol Lady Catoosa Red, Man The Brisco Kid OK SASS #57246 OK Lady Missouri Mae OK Buckaroo One Shot Scott MO Buckaroo C R Hickok Fastest Rifle - Long Range Rifle Pistol Calibe r Man Hell Creek Jack, Man The Brisco Kid OK SASS #90898 OK Lady Catoosa Red OK Lady Missouri Mae OK Buckaroo C R Hickok Buckaroo One Shot Scott, Shotgun SASS #88506 MO Buckaroo C R Hickok Derringer Shotgun – ‘97 Man Naildriver, Man Scott Wayne OK SASS #59139 AR Lady Missouri Mae OK Lady Katie Scarlett MO Shotgun - Double Barrel Buckaroo One Shot Scott MO Man Leroy Rogers OK Fastest Pistol Lady Miss Weev, Duelist SASS #76367 IL Lady Missouri Mae OK Shotgun – Hammered Gunfighter Man Iron Bear, Man Loansome Buck, SASS #7010 OK SASS #77860 OK Trail Walk Lady Katie Scarlett MO Lady Wesa AR Long Range Pistol Man Tightwad Swede, Man Scott Wayne, SASS #22997 MO SASS #86570 OK Buckaroo One Shot Scott MO Lady Snorin Fannie OK Young Gun Lil Smokie MO Buckaroo One Shot Scott MO

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! The 16th Annual ! Ambush CaverN Cove The 2012 ALABAaMt A State Championship Photos & Article by Sugah, SASS #80446

oodville, AL – Nestled of the Year. One can find us 20 in Jackson County, the miles east of Huntsville, Alabama, northeast corner of the 120 miles north of Birmingham, Al - W great State of Alabama, abama and 110 miles south of you will find the peaceful town of Nashville, Tennessee. Property Woodville, the oldest town in Jack - owners Gary and Florence Franks son County. Having been created (Uncle Frank and Granna) have 46 by a legislature meeting in campsites with electricity and Huntsville on December 13, 1819, water while primitive camping is Jackson County is actually one day unlimited! older than the State of Alabama. The first week in October the Posse Marshals with Spirit of the Game Winners Woodville is home to the North Al - peacefulness in the Town of abama Regulators, 2004 SASS Club Woodville was upset by Indian Wars! Cowboys and campers began rolling in the week before the match. Woody Anderson Ford set up their huge BBQ grill and began preparing to feed us for the week. Indian Wars was the theme for the match, and Marshal T. K. D. provided a very interesting back - ground on each featured battle. Cowboys and cowgirls from eight states constituted the 179 shooters for Ambush 2012. Twenty-five shooters partici - pated in an eight-stage Cowboy Rim Fire Match kicking off the competition on Thursday. Woody Anderson Ford treated everyone to a complimentary meal Thursday afternoon. Silver Dollar Don graciously provided a 52- Two Ponies received a costume pound watermelon for all to enjoy. award at the banquet for his Graver Bill hosted his warm-up Native American Costume Night Shoot. Those who partici - pated thought they would be get - ing for a refresher. Friday after - ting an idea of what to expect in the noon the RO-II class had seven “real” event held Friday night – not earning their orange badge with to be true. Each and every year three returning to audit. We all Graver Bill adds a new twist to this “enjoyed” seeing Ranger Cas partic - very entertaining and growing ad - ipating in RO-II as our “Goofy Cow - dition to Ambush. The lights are boy” to see if we could all find the different, the targets are different many, many errors on him as well and the prizes are VERY different! as his guncart, guns, attire, and tar - Friday morning Blue Wolf was gets. Be sure to ask him just ex - busy with registration as many actly WHERE is his belly button! more shooters arrived. Our own Holy smokes! Friday also Buck D. Law, Alabama’s Black Pin found El Camino hosting the bil - RO Instructor, taught an RO-I class lowing Blackpowder Match enjoyed with six participants earning their by 14 shooters. yellow badge as well as three audit - In 1996 Michael Keaton

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starred in a movie called Multiplic - and new, or participate in the Bob - ity where he played numerous roles cat Sparks Memorial Poker Tourna - … he was cloned! Every year at ment. 19 shooters participated in Ambush I think of this movie when the Night Shoot and enjoyed I see Andrew Quigley. He’s every - Graver Bill’s trickery. Unpleasant where, he’s everywhere! There sim - took the top prize followed closely ply HAS to be more than one of by No Limit. The first Tango Kid Andrew Quigley! Countless hours award was presented to Slick’s are spent preparing for side Sharp Shooter. Meanwhile, that matches at Ambush. Numerous poker-faced Parlor House Pearl shooters enjoyed the stages pre - took everyone’s money at the poker pared by Andrew Quigley, and he tournament. presented awards for Side Matches Overall Ambush Winners North Alabama Regulators Irish Dan O’Shootem and Wild Bunch. Shamrock Sadie & Sidekick President Lawman Mark welcomed visited us again from Indiana Cherokee Charlie’s Extreme to make another attempt to take down Big Ned Rimfire had 20 participants. Shoot - minutes to engage the targets. We ers had to shoot eight tiny silhou - had three shooters that hit all eight ette targets at close to 50 yards and went into a shoot-off. We de - everyone to Ambush Saturday using a bench and rest. Cowboy cided the shoot-off had to be shot morning. We all watched the Boy type rifles with open sights only, no within 30 seconds, off-hand, and Scouts of Troup 82 from Grant, Ala - peep sights. Each shooter had five standing. All thee stood shoulder to bama present our colors. The Boy shoulder and shot at the same time. Scouts worked throughout the Two of the shooters hit five targets, match collecting everyone’s brass and we had to have still another and hulls for Sunday’s auction. Am - shoot-off! Again the two stood bush is proud to be a “lost brass” shoulder to shoulder and shot off- match in order to allow the Boy hand while standing in 30 seconds. Scouts to work at this event, which This time both hit four targets, and is their largest fund raiser. Those Alabama State Champions young men put in long days and we had to have a THIRD shoot-off!! Sugah and Sidekick Same scenario, and we finally got a (Continued on page 46 ) winner: HIGHCARD! WILD BUNCH had 29 shooters and plans are already underway to add Ladies Traditional and Ladies Modern to next year’s match. Friday afternoon found Stage Marshal Tuff Stuff conducting the Posse Marshal walk-through. They walked the stages taking notes to ensure everyone had the same un - derstanding of the stages and inter - pretation of the wording used. Once again we enjoyed the de - Josey Dillon led a large group licious cuisine of Woody Anderson at Cowboy Church Sunday Ford while deciding if we wanted to morning, complete with some attend Graver Bill’s Night Shoot, gospel tunes accompanied gather with our friends and enjoy by his banjo the camaraderie with old friends

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Ambush at Cavern Cove . . . (Continued from page 45 ) tending loved “you must be present slept in tents … what memories! to win!” The first six stages of the Sunday morning began with match were shot Saturday, break - Josey Dillon welcoming shooters ing after four for lunch. and guests to Cowboy Church. Ac - Hospitality hour at the Goose companied by Buck D. Law on gui - Pond Civic Center preceded the sa - tar, Josey Dillon played the banjo vory banquet. Best food ever at a while attendees sang some good banquet! Music and dancing was ole’ gospel tunes before enjoying fun for both the participants, as the service. well as the spectators. Door prizes The final four stages were shot were given out and everyone at - and everyone gathered at the Pavilion for the Awards Ceremony and farewells. Six String con - ducted the auction for the Boy Overall Top Gunfighter Buck D. Law goes down range at Sawyer’s Mill Scouts, and we are proud to say we raised over $2,000 for the young boy and cowgirl! by inviting everyone to come back men! 15 Shooters took home a The Alabama State Champions next year for the 17 th Annual Am - Clean Sweep award! Spirit of the were announced and Drake Robey bush at Cavern Cove which prom - Game awards were presented. In and Granna presented awards. ises to be bigger and better than addition to a plaque, the Spirit of Lawman Mark closed Ambush ever! We are excited to announce we the Game winners also received a monetary contribution from Winners & Alabama Champions Senior Tuff Stuff, Whiskey Wildman and Gaucho Overall Winners, SASS #55835 AL Gal. They were unable to partici - Man Sidekick, L S Senior Two Ponies Gal, SASS #40914 AL SASS #39710 AL pate in Ambush this year due to Lady Shamrock Sadie, S Senior Cherokee Sargent, health issues, but wished to con - Alabama’s infamous Big Ned SASS #78511 SC SASS #38868 TN tribute to the match. A true cow - Alabama State Champions Waco Jim, Man Sidekick AL SASS #93979 AL Lady Sugah, L B-Western Shamrock Sadie SC SASS #80446 AL Shawnee Dakota Di, Categories SASS #46706 AL Cattle Baron Two Ponies, B-Western Knot Hardly Dunn, SASS #18032 AL SASS #43113 SC D Duelist Dirt Road Dude, Blackjack Lee, SASS #19816 AL SASS #92634 AL E S Duelist Cornbread Willie S Duelist D. Q. Jones, Brown, SASS #37116 GA SASS #16248 Reno Rick, F C Alabama Shootist, SASS #19512 AL Gunfighter SASS #19768 AL F Cartridge Navajo Kid, Outlaw Larry Earp, SASS #5656 FL SASS #60034 FL Stones, Rooster Cogburn, SASS #28674 AL SASS #85282 AL F C Duelist Bill Carson, S Rimfire Uncle Frank, SASS #52250 TN SASS #40403 AL Buckshot Chamberlin, S F Cartridge Stone Mountain Kid, SASS #74288 AL SASS #32312 AL Frontiersman Joe West, L S F Cartridge Sammy Jo, SASS #1532 GA SASS #89159 FL Andrew Quigley, S S Duelist High Card, SASS #32802 AL SASS #17242 FL C Cowboy Ben T. Iron, Buckaroo Coyote McNeely, SASS #47779 AL SASS #8918 AL Gunfighter Buck D. Law, L Junior Slick’s Sharp Shooter, SASS #62183 AL SASS #77967 GA S Gunfighter Rusty O’Toole, Junior Red Wolf Swain, SASS #64840 AL SASS #89258 AL L Duelist Iron Maiden, Grand Dame Parlor House Pearl, SASS #67188 TN SASS #24630 AL Iva Gun, E Statesman Trail Bandit, SASS #80874 AL SASS #52426 SC Duelist Potshot Parker, Buckboard Jim, SASS #35906 GA SASS #61187 AL Badger McNeely, L Senior Roma Jane, SASS #85898 AL SASS #53037 TN L 49’er Maggie Darlin, Tullamore Dew, SASS #18274 GA SASS #38366 AL Sugah AL Senior Ozark Azz, 49’er Desperado Don, SASS #1827 GA SASS #10748 GA

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Graver Bill’s night shoot gets bigger and better every year will host the FINAL round of the now infamous Triple Crown! Wow – THREE matches in ONE: Ala - bama State Championship, Ambush at Cavern Cove, AND the Triple Crown finale! Ya’ll come! We’ll treat you so good you’ll wonder why you haven’t been with us every year! See you in October 2013!

49’er Six String, Double/‘87 SASS #22270 AL Man Christian Mortician, Wrangler Blackfish Kid, SASS #83177 GA SASS #21537 TN Lady Shamrock Sadie SC Barkeep Casey, Blackpowder Daybreaker FL SASS #86366 AL Speed Rifle L Wrangler Dew R Dye, Man Sidekick AL SASS #59089 TN Lady Dew R Dye TN Diamond Deb, Blackpowder Daybreaker FL SASS #88877 FL Best Dressed Costumes Cowboy Sidekick AL L Evening Jenny James, Cowgirl Carolina Girl, SASS #91870 TN SASS #79564 SC Evening High Card, Daisy Rose, SASS #17242 FL SASS #85117 AL Saloon Girl Carolina Girl, SC Blackpowder Match Junior Red Wolf Swain, F C Duelist Fast Eddie, SASS #89258 AL SASS #76308 GA L Junior– Slick’s Sharp Shooter F C Gunfighter Mad Dane, GA SASS #5536 AL Buckaroo Jon Autrey Frontiersman Georgia Slick, Town Lady Sammy Jo FL SASS #20382 GA T Gentleman Sidekick AL L F C Duelist Iva Gun AL Couple Geneva Jewel Wild Bunch and Navajo Kid FL Traditional Lone Wolf Swain, Military Drake Robey, SASS #40689 AL SASS #21765 AL Modern Blackfish Kid, Native American Ceremonial SASS #21537 TN Two Ponies AL Cowboy Rimfire L Native American Ceremonial Cowboy & Overall Daisy Rose AL Navajo Kid FL Match Costumes S Cowboy El Camino, Cowgirl Shamrock Sadie SC SASS #27208 AL Cowboy Slippery Stew, Duelist Pleasant, SASS #82437 SC SASS #25245 TN C Cowgirl Carolina Girl SC Side Matches C Cowboy Koda Joe, Fastest 3 Gun SASS #89807 GA Traditional L B-Western– Shawnee Dakota Di AL Man Sidekick AL B-Western Blackjack Lee AL Lady Dew R Dye TN Mountain Man Hairtrigger Floyd, Duelist SASS #46603 AL Man Sidekick AL Military Rusty O’Toole AL Lady Iron Maiden TN Buckaroo Coyote McNeely AL Blackpowder Daybreaker, L Junior Slick’s Sharp Shooter SASS #36821 FL GA Speed Shotgun Junior Red Wolf Swain AL ‘97 Man Ozark Azz GA Lady Dew R Dye TN

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A gathering of eagles—Club officials, TG, and Cat and Tex! The Gila Rangers , did a great job hosting the match in a sHootout ‘12 beautiful, historic area. Plan to shoot the match next year, stay in a local B&B, and plan to spend a few extra days October 12-14, 2012 exploring the Mimbres Valley.

By Chico Cheech, SASS Life #35548

ilver City, NM – Wel - significant sawmill operation, pro - come to “Fowler City” in viding much of the rough-cut lum - southwest New Mexico ber in the Mimbres Valley, Silver S Territory. This place is no City, and for many of the home - stranger to Cowboy activities. This steaders and ranchers in the Black range venue is part of a large Cat - Range area. tle Ranch and Gravel Pit owned by This October weekend started the Fowler family for nearly 100 early, as many shooters had al - years, and the Gila Rangers have ready arrived on Thursday to par - Cowboy Clays were a fun “squatted” here for the last 12 take in a full day of Friday diversion during the match. years. At one time, it was also a activities. The Shooters readied Many shot the course for fun … themselves for various side match but there were surely some events such as Long Range compe - serious bird hunters in the group! tition, Warm-Up stages, Quick Draw, and even a Lollipop event. the particulars and safety rules to Although, most shooters enjoyed the anxious crowd. Once com - eating the little suckers as much as pleted, three posses took their shooting them on the rotating mov - places for the five stages on today’s ing target stage. By late afternoon, schedule. Later in the afternoon, Black coffee in a tin cup it was time for the anticipated the Cowboy Clays were started and a warm fir e— Cowboy Clay match. Some com - again, and many deadeye shot gun - there’s noting better on the range in the morning! petitors shot it for fun, while oth - ners were in position to ‘bird hunt’. ers put up a bit of cash to be part of a Pot Shoot competition. Winners Categories On Saturday morning, Capt. Match Winners Gunfighter Vaquero Luna, Eli McDaniel, SASS #30600, re - Man & Overall Bud Guzzlin’, SASS #70518 SASS #59383 F Cartridge Slippery Steve, cited a Cowboy Prayer for the at - Lady Lawless Lill, SASS #29614 tendees, and Co-Match Director SASS #80605 49’er Captain Clark, Chico Cheech, SASS #35548, read Categories SASS #89893 Grand Dame Cat Ballou, Wrangler Bud Guzzlin’, SASS #55 SASS #59383 L S Senior Lawless Lill, Cowboy Gunsmoke Cowboy, SASS #80605 SASS #84261 L Senior Anna Pavlova, Young Gun Capitan Regulator, SASS #57407 SASS #82462 L Duelist Mary Lee Sloshed, Side Matches SASS #30601 LR Rifle L 49’er Annabelle Peacock, Pistol Caliber SASS #50114 Hands, B-Western Dusty Star, SASS #92687 SASS #34026 Lever Action Doc Will, E Statesman Tango Tom, SASS #59634 SASS #80604 Single Shot Mossy Oak, S Senior Greasy Red, SASS #64388 SASS #4532 Fast Draw J.W. Brockey, Co-Match Director, Chico Cheech, Senior J W Brockey, SASS #57406 holds the buckboard reins where SASS #57406 Lollipop Chall enge the competitor’s first action is to S Duelist Led Foulin’, Annabelle Peacock, stop the runaway mules by pulling SASS #18030 SASS #50114 back on the reins and setting S Gunfighter Tex, Cowboy Clays Bud Guzzlin’, the initial shotgun targets. SASS #4 SASS #59383 VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com March 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 49

The Saturday night activities began with an excellent fried cat - fish and chicken dinner with all the fixin’s prepared by our newest club member, Ken Harris, and his family. Door Prizes were distrib - uted, and as night fell, the match participants congregated around a large campfire where a Cowboy Trivia game filled the next hour with interesting facts and multi - ple-choice answers. The stages were well planned and sprinkled with moving props and targets to highlight the fun and challenge. On the Lost Mine — Match Winners — set, a moving Coyote chased a Bud Guzzlin’ and Lawless Lill. This is familiar territory for Bud, Roadrunner across the stage and but it’s a first for Lawless Lill. made an excellent rifle target. Congratulations! Several stages incorporated run - down areas where shooters tackled rifle and pistol targets on the same steel. Another scenario employed Cannon fire at our Fort at the be - ginning of the stage, and another had shooters reset two of their own Shotgun Knockdown ‘Mules’ at the beginning of their Buckboard ad - The team match consisted of shooting the star out of a chunk venture. of playwood—with revolvers ONLY! I don’t care how big a caliber you’re shooting, At our Boot Hill stage, shooters you STILL have to hit the corners! encountered a group of “Zombie” targets and stage props, and tried their ha nd at shooting through a hinged Coffin prop at five Clay Birds embedded in a Zombie that was a mere 18 " from their drawn revolver barrel. Needless to say, Never one to let a quiet moment some of those birds did escape un - go by unproductiv e— scathed, even at that distance! Tex immediately starts his When the smoke cleared on the blackpowder cleanup routine whole match, our champion lady during the awards ceremony! (Continued on page 50 )

Evening activities were simple and reminiscent of times on the trail west. What can be more traditional than cowboys gathering around the campfire at sundown? The Trivia contest kept the conversation and laughter lively for the evening!

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Geronimo Trail • Shootout ‘12 . . .

(Continued from page 49 ) was Lawless Lill, SASS #80605, and the Cowboy and overall match champion, was Wrangler Bud Guz - zlin’, SASS #59383. The Shooting Range was ex - pertly prepared with care by the club VP, Led Foulin’, SASS #18030. He explained the prep work was a

Vaquero Luna is a rising Gunfighter competitor from New Mexico. He’s been shooting Gunfighter for a bit over a year now, and is doing quite well. He expects Winter Range to be his first truly big test. nd Led Foulin’ (2 from r) and wife, Good Luck! Capitan Regulator (l) is a young Attitude Annie (r), created the New Mexican who has developed environment for the match. winning ways. He drug dad, They are seen here with “labor of love” he has for most Gunsmoke Cowboy, along to the Top Lady competitor, On Saturday morning, shooting sports. His spouse, A tti - matches because he wasn’t Lawless Lill, and Capt. Eli McDaniel, SASS #30600, tude Annie, SASS #18031, re - old enough to drive by himself. top Gunfighter, initiated opening ceremonies painted many of the stage props, In self-defense, dad took up arms Vaquero Luna, by reciting a Cowboy Prayer and when not at work, their son and started practicing … both from Albuquerque. for the attendees. and our Club President, champion and now he’s also a champion shooter Bud Guzzlin’, was doing in his own right! Another fathe r/ son success story! building and maintenance duties. Congratulations! Several other Club members also

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The shooting venue in Fowler City is right out of the Old West, and indeed, has a rich Old West history of its own. Club Vice-President Lead Fowlin’ took the lead, and along with family and friends spent many hours creating a wonderful Old West ambiance for the visiting cowboys and cowgirls. The interesting targets and well thought-out stages made this a memorable match.

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amassed many hours of range and place to shoot and camp. The match preparation time . Rangers do just that on every sec - The Gila Ranger’s Club and ond Saturday and Sunday of the this range was the venue of the 1 st , month from March until Novem - 2nd , and 3 rd , New Mexico State ber. The rest of the winter season, Championship Events, and then they usually just do a Saturday again later in 2008. The rustic event. Visit the Gila Rangers at views of Water Canyon in the www.gilarangers.com. midst of the Mimbres Valley in Great shooting, great company, southwest New Mexico is a great great fun.

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single shot rifle, long range lever rifle, speed pistol, rifle, and shot - gun, Plainsman, and, last but not least, four warm-up stages offered at three different times through - out the day. The hustle and bustle provided a chance to immerse oneself in the atmosphere and counted as a nice general warm- up for the match to come. The ladies favored vendors’ lane with tents spilling out all kinds of goods. After the shooting was done, the Howling Wolf Saloon beaconed warmly to all. The sa - loon is the heart and spirit (or should I say spirits) of the shoot. At dusk we gathered to watch a The Masters of Ceremony, movie in tune with the theme of Mescalero, SASS #12167, and Calgary Kate, SASS #33287, the match: “The General,” star - do not waste time. They keep ring Buster Keaton. We enjoyed the winners coming and the free peanuts and sodas while awards going in a brisk pace laughing at Buster Keaton’s com - sprinkled with jokes and pokes. edy set during the Civil War. Friday was a beautiful day.

SASS #36209, a heart-felt prayer said by Reverend Barry M Deep, SASS #38104, and a touching ren - dition of The Star Spangled Ban - ner. I doubt that there was a dry eye on the whole range after that. The cannon shot jolted us back to The weather was always willing reality and off we went to tackle to cooperate with the match the match. schedule. After all, it’s Central The people running this California in May. The day match have it all down to near started with the mandatory perfection. The stages were set in shooter’s meeting, which included such a way that no one crowded an inspiring speech from the 5 anybody, and there was no wait Dogs Creek mayor, Mad Trapper and no wasted time. The two- of Rat River, SASS #78641, the posse system was very successful, Pledge of Allegiance, led by Ore - although some posse leaders gonians Arctic Annie, SASS chose to run their posses in the #37265, and Whisperin’ Wade, (Continued on page 54 )

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Shootout at 5 Dogs Creek (California State Championship 2012)

(Continued from page 53 ) traditional manner. The range at 5 Dogs has shade trees and places to rest at every stage. There are benches and tables sprinkled all around, mostly in the cool shade of fruitless mulberry trees, and that simple fact is one of the things that make shooting at this range a pleasure. Add to that clever scenarios and extremely friendly club members, and you have a match made in heaven. The stages were fairly straightforward but not simple, with three challenge stages for rifle, revolver, and shotgun. The shotgun challenge included clay birds, the rifle, a Texas Star, while the revolver brought back the fa - mous (but dreaded) coyote-shaped targets. Each stage was dedi - the cannon blasted again. I have cated to a Civil War general, and, to say the cannon blast was a nice for those who took the time to touch, especially after I got used read, there were little snippets of to it. First couple of times I found information provided about each myself briefly jumping out of my general at his respective stage. skin whenever the cannon shot At the end of the shooting day, rang throughout the range. The On Saturday we continued the day wrapped up with a fully match, cannon shot, and all. Din - catered delicious dinner served to ner that night was served with 250 people in 22 minutes! Dinner the same speedy efficiency as the was followed by the flying fiddle night before, and afterward the 16 fingers of Mad Trapper of Rat top men and women were invited River, who proved to be not only to shoot the “Mano & Womano” an accomplished fiddler, but also Shoot-off on Sunday morning. a funny and witty entertainer. Judging by the name alone, this Ever heard The Orange Blossom event promised to be a lot of fun. Special played in the style of Pa - We continued the entertainment ganini? It was pretty amazing. after dinner with a live (and

Winners Categories Categories L Senior Choctaw Gal, Buckarette Bonnie Macfarlane, SASS #57176 SASS #92385 S Senior Tex Fiddler, L Y Gun Miss Mean Jean, SASS #10127 SASS #89774 L S Senior Cicada, C Cowboy Harley Hud, SASS #21345 SASS #93935 E Statesman Old Law Dawg, B-Western Mad Dog Mark, SASS #39821 SASS #77911 G Dame Running Bare, L B-Western Whirlwind Wendy, SASS #2323 SASS #79889 Cowboy Lead Dispencer, Frontiersman Big Iron Buster, SASS #27115 SASS #9361 Cowgirl Crazy Little Woman, F Cartridge Lefty Eastman, SASS #82394 SASS #20695 Wrangler Doc Burwood, F C Duelist Beartrap, SASS #79166 SASS #57175 L Wrangler Mame, L F Cartridge Pocket Change, SASS #83535 SASS #58694 49’er Toolbox, Gunfighter Speedy Mcdraw, SASS #83216 SASS #60016 L 49’er Molly Magoo, L Gunfighter Calgary Kate, SASS #74540 SASS #33287 Plainsman Duelist Dastardly Dave, East Lefty Eastman, SASS #2324 SASS #20695 S Duelist High Country, West Billy Bob, SASS #1068 SASS #4239 Senior El Lazo, Ladies Queen of Bling, SASS #13116 SASS #94718

VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com March 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 55 After breakfast everyone gathered n’t quite realize how many dedi - ranges, with plenty of seating around the stage set up for the cated brass pickers are out there. and a stand-out feature: the Shoot-off. The matchbook de - And how really REALLY dedi - beautiful, green, shade trees. In scribed it as “no carnival, just cated they can be! her opinion, the match was well speed.” And so it was! First it was I was sad to see this event organized and the stages not too the men competing against men come to an end. And it wasn’t for complicated but enough to be a and women against women. Then, the shooting, although that was challenge. She considers 5 Dogs for bragging rights, the top man outstanding. But here, at 5 Dogs Range to be a very comfortable competed against the top woman. Creek Range, you come for the and friendly place with very It was great, even for those not shooting but stay for the people. supportive people. The Califor - participating. After the event, It was for this sense of cama - nia State Championship is one Lead Dispencer said, “this is what raderie, for the friends I made of the matches she looks for - a shoot-off should be.” It was fast (don’t we all think our posse was ward to attending. and furious, there was tension, the best?), and for my reluctance Mame, SASS #83535, said this loud cheers, occasional dirt kicked to leave such a reliable, friendly, was the best shoot she’s ever on shoes, laughter, and eventually, and warm group of people and been to, and she could not say defeat for all but two. The top man this simpler way of life that I was enough good things about it. proved to be Swifty Swede, SASS sad to leave it behind. But I left, Lefty Longridge, SASS #9240, and #33879, while the top woman was of course, carrying the promise Lusty Lil, SASS #4103, have none other than Crazy Little and decision to return next year. been coming here for 14 years, Woman, SASS #82394, who took If you wish to register for the and they think the shoot gets last year’s California State Cham - 2013 California State Champi - better every year. They thought pionship by storm. onship, the application is avail - the scenarios were simpler this Now came the moment we all able online at: year, with long and short stages, waited for. Who will be fastest, www.5dogscreek.com . and a bit of everything for all. Mars or Venus? The guns were Questions can be addressed Shaniko Jack, SASS #64163, is a loaded, the audience hushed, the to: Sunnyvale Regulators shooter shooters ready, the signal given, [email protected] . who came to 5 Dogs Range for and it all happened as fast as Hope to see you there! the first time and thought the lighting. Venus took the bragging Other opinions about the California State Championship rights that day, and all the hats match and the range: for 2012 was one of the best were off to Crazy Little Woman! Running Bare, SASS #2323, is an shoots he ever attended. “Lives The awards ceremony fol - amazing shooter that looks up to expectations!” he said. He lowed soon after. There was arm barely over 50 but has 13 grand - also thought the camping ac - candy available to escort the win - children and 7 great grandchil - commodations were great, with ners and guide them on and off dren! She thinks the 5 Dogs a well groomed grassy area and the stage. In addition to the cate - Range is one of the nicest leveled spaces. gory awards there was also a Spirit of the Game award given to a person selected by each posse lively) band and some more danc - for showing a good attitude dur - ing. By the end of the evening ing the match and a dedication to everyone gravitated towards the keep smiling even when all the Howling Wolf Saloon where the wheels fall off the wagon (which spirits were high and abundant, was my case). and laughter, toasts, and jokes While waiting for the award were bouncing around until the ceremony to begin, there was a wee hours of the morning. brass-picking contest. The strat - First on the schedule for Sun - egy to try to win this contest var - day morning was Cowboy Church ied from using the tools of the in the Howling Wolf Saloon. Rev. trade to going on all four and Barry M Deep gave the sermon. scooping the brass by hand. I did -

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Cree Vicar Dave, Blackpowder Shootout SASS Life/Regulator #49907 By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life/Regulator #49907 eber Springs, AR – Deep in the Ozark on the Mountain,” was held Octo - Mountain Foothills of ber 12 – 14, 2012. This SASS H Northern Arkansas Arkansas State Blackpowder there is an “Outlaw Camp.” The Championship Shoot was more fun chief Outlaws, Ozark Outlaw and than a cowpoke should be allowed Ozark Red, along with the cowboys ta have. The match was held at and cowgirls of Outlaw Camp, Outlaw Camp a few miles outside maintain this hideout providing of Heber Springs, Arkansas. Cowboy Action Shooting™ to all The Mayhem started on Friday, The sign at the entrance of Outlaw Camp says it all, “IF YOU AIN’T who would dare venture into this October 12 with side matches. Sev - WANTED — YOU AIN’T WANTED.” mountain top retreat. The sign at eral cowboys/cowgirls tried their the entrance says it all, “If you ain’t skills with the squinty-eyed long off the fun of the day, cowpokes wanted, you ain’t wanted.” guns. Then came the speed fire - lined up against each other in one The second annual “Mayhem arms, short and long ones. To finish on one, last man/woman standing. There were quite a few husban d/ wife teams at the shoot. Here is Rip ‘A’ Quite appropriately the last cowboy Lot, SASS #73073, and her husband, and cowgirl standing were Ozark Road Maker, SASS #73072. Rip ‘A’ Outlaw and Ozark Red. Lot shot her first CLEAN MATCH On Friday afternoon a wonder - at the shoot. You can probably ful meal was served in the New tell that by her BIG smile.

Outlaw Camp Headquarters on Mayhem Mountain. The large green pole barn at right was a new addition for this year’s shoot. It was used for lunches, Saturday night banquet, Cowboy Church, and the Awards. Future plans are to have inside restrooms with showers.

Winners F C Gunfighte r Taska Jim, Overall SASS #82682 Man C S Brady, F C L Senior Arkansas Bell, SASS #63699 SASS #47079 Lady Sunny Girl, F C Senior Moon Dance Kid, SASS #45500 SASS #84120 BLACKPOWDER F C S Duelist Black Jack Rodes, F C Cowboy Little Nacona One SASS #15357 Shot, F C Wrangler Ain’t Dunit, SASS #77433 SASS #71048 F C C Cowboy Strongbox, Frontiersman Rowdy Bob, SASS #19154 SASS #68731 F C Duelist Dewey Cheatem, L F C 49’er High Card Kay, SASS #75620 SASS #85304 F C S Senior Ozark Outlaw, SMOKELESS SASS #19847 49er’ Road Maker, F C E Statesman SASS #73072 Cree Vicar Dave, G Patron Mustang Moore, SASS #49907 SASS #30733

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Stage 9 (The Little Brown Church). The deer had ta be run off before the shootin’ started.

A was provided by Stumpman, SASS #89993, and wife, Mustang Toni, SASS #93341. Stumpman’s father, Short Tree, SASS #90329, and brother, Rock Rotten SASS #90073, pitched in to keep the multi-barreled gun runnin’ smooth. Several lined up to turn the crank.

Green Barn followed with special music by Critter Creek Bob, SASS Stage 1 & 2 Life #19779, Black Jack Rodes, (High Card Hotel and William’s Mercantile, respectively). Most of their stages have three-sided buildings with wood floors. SASS #15357, and Cree Vicar Dave. The barn was recently constructed atop Mayhem Mountain. It is a spacious building, around 36 ' wide by 48 ' long, with a large covered wing on one side. Plans are to in - stall men’s/women’s restrooms with Gunny Buckshot, SASS #69512, sets windage and elevation in showers in the near future. Even preparation to fire the Gatling Gun. outlaws have a hankering ta spruce up from time to time. Pledge to our Flag. Safety rules and Saturday morning came with a announcements were then given threat of inclement weather, but followed by six main match stages. Praise God, the rain held off. The After the first six stages there mob of outlaws gathered for the was “Drive-by-Shooting,” Cowboy match opening. The devious crowd style. For a nominal fee every cow - started to grow unruly when Ozark poke who wanted could try to bust Outlaw quelled the disorderly 10 balloons with 10 blanks while group. He called upon Cree Vicar being driven around the course in a Stage 10 (The Laundry). Dave to offer the match invocation cart. Everyone had a great time This stage was added at right angle to the firing line to our LORD and then lead the (Continued on page 58 ) to be able to go down range and load flyers.

SMOKELESS SMOKELESS B-Western Arkansas Drifter, L S Senior Sweet Water Sue, SASS #46718 SASS #49761 C Cowboy Blackwater Bruce, L Wrangler Cheeka Bow Wow, SASS #85094 SASS #88699 Duelist Wild Big Bill, RB JD Redeye, SASS #37016 SASS #29176 E Statesman Tail N Kid, Senior Riley Roy, SASS #43802 SASS #59560 Gunfighter Gunz Brokus, S Duelist Sundown Duke, SASS #63833 SASS #45727 L 49’er Sweet Water Sage, S Senior Rio Concho Kid, SASS #85289 SASS #24922 L B-Western Oglala Sue, Wrangler C. S. Brady, SASS #9965 SASS #63699 L Duelist Dusty Dee, Y Gun Texas Rattler, SASS #86597 SASS #81532 L Senior Sunny Girl, SASS #45500

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Mayhem on the Mountain . . . then side match awards were handed out, followed by more music (Continued from page 57 ) with Charles Williams, Critter shooting and/or watching the fun. Creek Bob, Black Jack Rodes, and Then, the Gatling Gun was Cree Vicar Dave on the strings. rolled out. Stumpman, SASS Saturday night it rained quite #89993, and wife, Mustang Toni, heavy, but Praise God, it stopped SASS #93341, brought their repro - before the sun came up. Top Guns: duction Gatling Gun to the Match. On Sunday morning a good- — MAN — Anyone who wanted could fire the sized group was in attendance at C. S. Brady, SASS #63699, and “antique gun” for $1 a round. Cowboy Church. The Vicar’s Wife — LADY — Stumpman’s father, Short Tree, led the singing while Critter Creek Sunny Girl, SASS #45500. SASS #90239, and brother, Rock Bob and Cree Vicar Dave accompa - Congratulations! Rotten, SASS #90073, helped main - nied on the strings. It says in tain the stately machine. A paper Psalm 92:1 The Amplified Bible, “It for everyone. So saddle up and ride on over ta Mayhem on the Moun - Ozark Outlaw and Ozark Red tain next October. Whether you graciously provide Cowboy Action “Mayhem” at Outlaw Camp shoot Smokeless or Blackpowder, near Heber Springs, Arkansas. you will enjoy this shoot. They have free dry camping or you can camp target was placed on a plywood at RV parks nearby. Several motels board. Each shooter had to adjust are also in the area. Come and the gun’s sights to the target. The share in the Mayhem at Outlaw top shooters were awarded very nice Camp October 11 – 13, 2013. Send prizes provided by Stumpman and in your application early because his crew. Stumpman said they were Cowboy Church Music was led by there is a maximum of 150 shoot - headin’ for Comin’-at-Cha when The Vicar’s Wife and accompanied ers. Check out their website: Big Ole Brad, SASS #62252, they rode off Mayhem Mountain. on strings by Critter Creek Bob, SASS www.outlawcamp.com produced enough SMOKE for our Life #19779, and Cree Vicar Dave. whole posse. Here he touches off On Saturday evening another or call 501-362-2963, email: a full 10-gauge shotgun load. great meal was served in the Barn, is a good and delightful thing to [email protected] give thanks to the Lord, to sing [email protected] praises [with musical accompani - Photos by: ment] to Your name, O Most High.” Mark Williams The Vicar gave a message from 2 Cree Vicar Dave Chronicles 7:14 and asked all present to remember to pray for our Country. Fol - lowing Church, the final four stages were shot. After the SMOKE was dispersed by the wind, Main Match awards were handed out to the winners. If you ain’t wanted, but you would very much like There was live music Friday and Saturday ta feel “WANTED,” get your night in the Big Green Barn. Charles Williams, Black Jack Rodes, gear together and ride over SASS #15357, Critter Creek Bob, ta partake of the Mayhem SASS Life #19779, and Cree Vicar Dave at Outlaw Camp. This is a picked and grinned for a few hours great Cowboy Action Shoot each evening. Critter shared with a lot of fun activities his guitar with Black Jack.

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is SASS Handle is “Mad italian shooter Becomes Dog Biff Tannen”—a nickname he picked up H from the movie series, Honorary member of Back to the Future . His given name is Roberto Degrassi, and he lives THE PINE MOUNTAIN POSSE with his wife, Paola, in Padova, Italy, not too far from Venice, the Queen City of the Adriatic. This By Palaver Pete, SASS Life/Regulator #4375 past month the Pine Mountain Posse Council granted Biff’s request to become a member of the Posse— welcome Biff! Biff and Paola, AKA Cadillac Girl, plan to visit and shoot with the Pine Mountain Posse this coming summer. Both are personal friends Palaver Pete, of Palaver Pete, who met Biff SASS Lif e/ Regulator #4375 through articles about SASS Italy they co-authored for The Cowboy ant who, upon occasion works with Chronicle . Their friendship was es - the U.S. Military stationed in and tablished through a mutual love of around the Veneto region of Italy. all things western that so many of He also provides consulting services our European friends truly em - to the Italian community as well as brace. Their friendship also demon - local Italian businesses. This rela - strates the solidarity that exists tionship is one small step for Inter - between shooters throughout the national Solidarity, but one big step world. Biff is a computer consult - for Cowboy Action Shooting™! — Biff Tanne n — new member of the Pine Mountain Posse

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ShooTIN ’AcRoSS ThE POWDER CREEK , usa By Rio Drifter, SASS #49244 & Tennessee Tall, SASS #49245 Rio Drifter, SASS #49244 and Photos by Ginger Rail, SASS #95351 Tennesse Tall, SASS #49245

hours later a table full of rowdys ily decided ya had to eat three enexa, KS – The Pow - led by Rowdy Buckshot, SASS squares a day. It got worse, after the der Creek Cowboys #73228, waddled into Granite City Saturday shoot Digger John, SASS shoot was so dang much for more food. #88514, and his wife, Susan, hosted L fun we had to do it Should’ve seen the writing on a pool party. That meant a whole lot twice! The Powder Creek Cowboys the wall. We went on home with more eating, (yes, we did). range is located at Lenexa, Kansas. Titus A. Gnatsass, SASS #71705, I lost my way there — Cowboy Shoots are the second and fourth and Fannie Kicker, SASS #71706, Action Shooting™ — “Shootin’ Our Saturday and the fourth Wednes - and hung out at their house until Way Across the USA” —let me get day. These folks have it figured the Saturday shoot. Fannie Kicker’s back on track. Let’s talk about this out. Wednesday after the shoot, mom, Mrs. Williams, is famous for club a bit. In planning our yearly the cowboys were herded into her baked beans and tenderloin shooting schedule, we rely on web - Callahan’s for appetizers. Two sandwiches. Somebody in that fam - sites for clubs in the areas we want to visit. The website designed and maintained by Deadwood Slim, Rowdy Buckshot, Rio Drifter, SASS #81783, has it all: time the and Tennessee Tall accepting the plaque for state gates open, time of safety meetings, #32 Kansas shoot. (Continued on next page)

The Powder Creek Cowboys of Lenexa, Kansas

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Tennessee Tall seeking career advancement ... driving a cart or herding cats … let me see …

(Continued from previous page) happy to know that Buckshot shooting schedule, directions, pho - Rowdy is “unchanged.” Good fun to tos, and more. One of the best web - see Goldie Lu, SASS #82672, Silver, sites we’ve used. SASS #31581, Hondo Tucker, SASS A lot of time, work, and money #79457, and Big Dog, SASS #67974. went into the design, building, and Powder Creek Cowboys rock! maintenance of the stages at this Thank you to all the cowhands range. There is water, bathrooms, who helped us celebrate Kansas as plenty of shade, and seating avail - our 32 nd state in which to shoot. able. Their jail is a replica of the We were presented a commemora - Monticello County jail; the Drover’s tive plaque we will proudly hang Store is a replica of the Ellsworth, at home. We broke out our cham - KS drover’s store, (Ellsworth cattle pagne mimosas at Digger John shipping was on a level with the and Susan’s and toasted the Pow - Dodge City and Wichita shipping); der Creek Cowboys and the great the Condon Bank is a replica of the state of Kansas. Coffeyville, KS bank where the Dal - ton boys were killed; the Alamo sa - loon is a replica of the Abilene, KS saloon; the corral is fashioned after the Chancey Dewey Cattle Com - pany of Western Kansas. Good club, and good work, folks! Sounds like Kansas was all about food; not really. Kid Drake was a new shooter from North Car - olina, he did well and clearly loves the game. Merlot, SASS #65059, not only enjoys making her cos - tumes, but is serious about her shootin’. Ginger Rail, SASS #95351, and Cash Profitt, SASS #95352, live in Richmond, Missouri Hannah, “granddaughter” of where Ginger Rail gave me a lesson Cash Proffit and Ginger Rail, in cart driving with her miniature on Hondo Tucker’s stagecoach. horse. Folks from Florida will be

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TAyLoRS TAcTIcAL w 1911A1 pistol By Dastardly Dave, SASS #2324

Company (thank you very much) (required in some states), and two and presented at the Wild well made eight-round magazines Bunch™ Awards Ceremony. Run - (more on these later), along with ning Bare had shot in the Lady the pistol. The Taylors Tactical Modern category, and had ex - pistol had an even, smooth, flat pressed an interest in shooting in blue finish. The grip panels were The Taylor Tactical the Lady Traditional category, but fully diamond-checkered walnut. with two mags and case. Running Bare putting the Taylors lacked a qualifying pistol. The All of the parts on this pistol are Tactical through its paces. Taylor Tactical superbly fits the of the 1911A1 type, including the ast year, at the Winter bill. So, needless to say, we were arched mainspring housing, the Range Wild Bunch™ tickled pink to receive this pistol. longer grip safety tang, and the paper target (eight-inch circle National Champi - When we finally got it home, I manual safety lever. The frame is with a four-inch black bulls eye in L onship, my lovely wife, did my usual disassembly, inspec - of the earlier 1911 type, without the center) at 10 yards. Running Bare, SASS #2323, was tion, and cleaning routine. Inside the recess cuts behind the trigger. I then turned Running Bare lucky enough to win a Taylors the supplied plastic hinged case, I The fixed sights are 1911A1 all loose with instructions to Tactical 1911A1 pistol in a ran - found an Instruction Manuel, a the way, short and tight to the “shoot’m up and make each shot dom drawing. It had been do - Firearms Safety pamphlet, a fired slide, without any type of white count,” while I observed. She ran nated by Kirkpatrick Leather casing in an identifying envelope dot or outline of any kind. magazine after magazine through The two supplied magazines the Taylors Tactical without a are beautiful eight rounders, hitch. She said the trigger pull manufactured by ACT-MAG, and was kinda heavy at first, but was so marked. The bad news about manageable (later measured at them is that these magazines are seven pounds) by the end of the unusable for Wild Bunch™, due to 130 rounds. The black bulls eye the extended baseplate that pro - was totally shredded and only a trudes past the pistol’s magwell. couple of rounds landed outside of I do appreciate however, Taylors the eight-inch circle, probably due & Co. Inc. selling the Taylors Tac - to “shooter fatigue.” It did shoot tical this way; otherwise, Califor - to point of aim. Running Bare nia shooters (and possibly other said she was very pleased with states) would not be able to pur - the results. chase one. Taylors & Co. were While I waited a bit for the able to grandfather this pistol pistol to cool, I loaded up some (manufactured by Armscor) magazines with five rounds each through California’s convoluted of my 230-grain round nose lead firearms laws. Had they de - Wild Bunch™ loads. Next I did a manded flush-bottomed maga - quick “wipe down” cleaning and zines, it would have become a lubricating of the pistol and pro - “new” model and not grandfather - ceeded to run several five-round able. I’ve just stuck these maga - sweeps on steel targets at 12 zines into my action pistol bag, yards, with nary a twitch or miss and plan on using my McCormick (when I did my part). We are magazines in this pistol. quite happy with our Taylors Tac - The Taylors Tactical field tical 1911A1 pistol, and after a strips just the same as any mil- quick trip to the gunsmith to get spec 1911, with no internal ma - a lighter trigger pull and bevel chine marks present. As my the magazine well (I know, pre-firing inspection and cleaning Gamey!), we plan on enjoying it to revealed no surprises, it was time the fullest. to go to the range and shoot it. At If you are looking for a Tradi - the range, I loaded a bunch of tional class 1911 or a basic pistol magazines to capacity (seven or to build your perfect Wild eight rounds, depending on the Bunch™ shooter, the Taylors Tac - magazine) with the 130 rounds of tical, with an MSRP of $499, is an Federal 230 grain F.M.J. ammo I excellent choice. had available. I then set up a (Continued on next page)

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moDEL ‘12 ShoTguN By Birdshot, SASS Life/Regulator #3616

rings for Model ‘12 shotguns in vices in the barrel. You can get A few thoughts on Winchester Model ‘12 shotguns … 12 gauge. It is not uncommon a real bargain on one of these, w for the slack adjuster to be im - cut the barrel off so you have a properly adjusted or for a shot - cylinder barrel, and add a new ithout a doubt, the Win - 2) Learn how to examine the lock - gun to have the wrong slack brass bead sight. chester Model ‘12 it is ing recess in the top of the re - adjuster in place. There is also 8) According to a Pre and Post the finest pump gun of ceiver so you can identify a an adjustable headspace ring World War II vintage Winches - W the time and some shotgun that is worn out, re - that could be mis-adjusted by a ter Model ‘12 assembler, there would say it is the finest pump gun sulting in a failure of the bolt home gunsmith or gunsmith were 18 hand-filed and fitted ever. But the Model ‘12 is not some to rise into a fully locked posi - who does not understand the pieces in the trigger group of a simple design that never fails and tion. Repairing a shotgun that Model ‘12. Model ‘12. Unless properly is always safe. If a shooter is going has a battered locking recess 6) Be very careful about having trained, a guy with a file will to get into shooting Model ‘12s in a requires welding up the re - choke tubes installed in Model ruin the timing nearly every competitive manner, they need to ceiver, re-milling the locking ‘12 barrels. Many barrels are time. Use care and get a pro - learn about the shotgun, and they recess, and retiming the shot - too thin to safely have this fessional’s assistance when need to find a gunsmith who knows gun. Not many people know done. Do not trust the local work is required. how to work on them. Very few how to do this anymore, and it guy for this. Use a specialist in (Birdshot is not an alleged expert gunsmiths today know all there is is pretty expensive. shotguns who knows thin on the Model ‘12, but offers sage to know about keeping a Winches - 3) Make certain you know the walled tubes. Briley comes to comments as a “heads up” for any - ter Model ‘12 safe and working chamber length and are using mind. one considering the acquisition of well. Here are a few of the things the correct ammunition. Both 7) There are tons of Model ‘12 a Model ‘12 for Wild Bunch™ Ac - that should be looked at when buy - 16 and 20 gauge guns have ac - shotguns with funky choke de - tion Shooting … Editor in Chief) ing a Model ‘12. commodated more than one 1) Is the firing pin in one piece? chamber length over the life - Often, the nose of the firing pin time of the Model ‘12. will break off and stick in the 4) Make certain the serial num - firing pin hole in the breech bers on the forend assembly face. The result will be a slam match the serial numbers on fire every time the action is the receiver. Over the past 100 closed. It is possible for the years, there have been many slam fire to occur prior to the fakes put together. Serial bolt closing, resulting in a rup - numbers on the forend are eas - tured shell spewing hot materi - ily changed to match the serial als out the right side of the numbers on the receiver, mak - shotgun. Of course, there is no ing a fake multi-barrel set or interrupter in the Model ‘12, replacing a damaged or ruined

and holding the trigger back forend. This can result in a while pumping the gun will also shotgun with incorrect head -

result in slam fires. Buy extra space and/or timing. firing pins in the correct gauge. 5) There are five slack adjusting

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Good times may be in the high 30s Some rule changes effective Jan - and average times may be in the 40s uary 2013 have already begun to be ™ and even 60s. So running almost 80 adopted, and everyone was already WILD BuNc h shooters in an afternoon in November excited about the new rule to allow may mean pressing daylight. At the Model 12s. Famous shotgun gun - Badlands Bar 3, it most certainly smith, Goatneck Clem, sported a means we’ll all have to hurry to make Model ‘12 that was so nice I’m sure Attacks , the evening event. some widow is trying to remember This year the theme was Cowboys what happened to that old thing that Against Cancer, breast cancer that is, took up room in the closet all these and the starting line “IF IT AIN’T years. Did I say it is pretty? Bet the WEARING PINK … SHOOT IT!” was box is even new. the starting line for all four stages. Downrange TV was there to film ortH exas the event for a future show this sea - N t And PINK was everywhere—cowboys, By Brother King, SASS #69031 cowgirls, decorations, fundraisers … son. Wolf Bane (Michael Bane) the including a big raffle right after Wild host of Downrange TV, Indiana Jack - nglish, TX – The month of Wild Bunch™ at Comin’ At Cha is Bunch™ and Side Matches at the big son, and film crew led by Picayune November around the Terri - famous for being “waiting list only” Tyson chicken feed for a custom, had multiple cameras blazing all day. tory of the Dakotas can be a within months of opening the signup lifted, all-terrain, and bad-as-all-get The all new, A.C.E.S Scoring System E frightful month to travel, let list. Matt Masterson had been tapped out PINK Golf cart with all proceeds for smart phones and tablets was in - alone travel the 1187 miles from the to write the stages, approve the Posse going to Susan G. Komen Foundation. troduced to all and seemed to work al - Black Hills to join the Louisiana Marshals and Assistant Posse Mar - Come on lucky ticket #11! most flawlessly throughout the shoot, World Chronograph , Matt Mas - shals, approve all the posse lists, and The year before was not a good including Wild Bunch™. terson, and four full posses’ of regulars in the end still had to go over the 60 one for me as a squib went unde - In the end that scoring system for the WILD BUNCH™ at T-Bone maximum limit or risk severe dissen - tected and the resulting 2 nd round and the new Wild Bunch™ format of Dooley’s Badlands Bar 3 extrava - sion (and even some disappointed bulged the barrel of my brand new scoring has some interesting results. ganza known as COMIN’ AT CHA. cowhands) for the sold out shoot. Colt WWI Repro 1911. As with most To view the full list, go to the Bad - But, the excitement was more than Posses ended up having 18-19 SASS matches, don’t ya know some - lands Bar 3 website: the fear, and a team of 500 horsepower shooters on each posse, which is a one in the form of another cowboy had http://www.badlandsbar3.com/CA was all lubed, oiled, safety checked, “bunch” for Wild Bunch™ when you another barrel. But, Brisco Kid had C2012/CaC2012_Results.htm provisioned, and packed to the roof consider a stage may have as many as to smack it with a dead hammer to While you’re there, you might waiting in the livery. 30 pistol, 10 rifle, and 6-8 shotgun. un-seize the slide from the collar. want to make yourself a New Year’s This year no number of marauding resolution to sign-up. This year’s dates desperados (or failing ammunition) are 31 st October – 2 November, 2013. was going to stop me. The 18 ½ hours Trophies were the new Bar 3 of driving went by quickly, but the box Badges (I think), and I’m pretty sure of cigars was looking slim by the time went three deep ... but could be the red wagon hit the Red River. wrong. When it was all digitally Mr. Masterson even ran the scored the results were: safety meeting, and all concerned were fully turned out in military uni - L Modern Sassy Teton Lady, forms, Mexican banditos, and com - SASS #47525 FL padres from Pike to Dutch crowded L Green Eyed into the Big Barn for the briefing, Traditional Brazos Belle, making it a PINK sea of Wild SASS #82399 TX Bunch™. Several in the crowd had Modern Goatneck Clem, never shot Wild Bunch™ before and SASS #16787 TX the numbers seem to grow at every Traditional Fast Hammer, event I attended this year. The sport SASS #60707 NM is definitely gaining traction.

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City AK CA (continued) alaska 49er’s 1st sat & Tripod 907-373-0140 Birchwood nevada city peacemakers 3rd sat marlin schofield 530-265-9213 nevada city 3rd sun north county shootist assoc. 3rd sat graybeard 760-727-9160 pala golden Heart shootist 2nd sat & Wind drifter 907-457-2113 Fairbanks shasta regulators 3rd sat modoc 530-365-1839 redding society Last sun robbers roost vigilantes 3rd sat nast newt 760-375-7618 ridgecrest Juneau gold miners posse 3rd sun Five card Tanna 907-789-7498 Juneau gold country Wild Bunch 3rd sat sutter Lawman 530-713-4194 sloughouse AL High desert cowboys 3rd sun doc silverhawks 661-948-2543 acton russell county regulators 1st sat Will Killigan 706-568-0869 phoenix city Kings river regulators 3rd sun sierra rider 559-268-1115 clovis north alabama regulators 1st sun drake robey 256-313-0421 Woodville panorama northfield raiders 3rd sun gun Hawk 818-761-0512 north vulcan Long rifles 2nd sat parson Henry 205-541-2207 Hoover Hollywood Brown south coast rangers 3rd sun swifty schofield 805-886-3360 santa Barbara alabama rangers 2nd sun dead Horse phil 205-531-7055 Brierfield murieta posse 3rd sun grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 sloughhouse cahaba cowboys 3rd sun duke slade 205-854-0843 Birmingham Helldorado rangers 3rd sun Will Bonner 707-462-1466 ukiah gallant gunfighters 3rd sun Buck d. Law 256-504-4366 Hoover Hawkinsville claim Jumpers 4th & Lethal Les 530-842-4506 Yreka old York shootists 4th sun derringer di 205-647-6925 Hoover 5th sat L’amour AR mad river rangers 4th sat Kid Kneestone 707-445-1981 Blue Lake White river gang 1st sat arkansas Tom 870-656-8431 mountain coyote valley sharpshooters 4th sat Wif 408-448-3256 san Jose Home pozo river vigilance 4th sat dirty sally 805-438-4817 santa critter creek citizens 1st sun evil Bob 903-701-3970 Fourke committee margarita vigilance california shady Ladies 4th sat Lady gambler 916-447-2040 sloughhouse mountain valley vigilantes 1st Wkd christmas Kid 501-625-3554 Hot springs FaultLine shootist society 4th sun Querida 831-635-9147 gonzales outlaw camp 2nd & 5th sat ozark outlaw 501-362-2963 Heber springs The range 4th sun grass v. 530-273-4440 grass valley arkansas Lead slingers 2nd sat & dirty dan 479-633-2107 garfield Federally 4th sun paladin The cowboys 4th sun captain Jake 714-318-6948 norco south Fork river regulators 3rd sat arkansas Harper 870-994-7227 salem deadwood drifters 4th sun Lusty Lil 661-775-3802 piru Judge parker’s marshals 3rd sat & sun naildriver 479-651-2475 Fort smith sloughhouse irregulators 5th sat & sun Badlands Bud 530-677-0368 sloughhouse True grit sass 4th sun sister sundance 479-970-7042 Belleville CO AZ colorado cowboys 1st sat painted Filly 719-439-6502 Lake george White mountain old West 1st & 3rd sat mustang Lady 928-243-3457 snowflake colorado shaketails 1st sun midnite slim 719-660-2742 Fontain shootists sue san Juan rangers 1st sun Kodiak Kid 970-252-1841 montrose rio salado cowboy action 1st sat a. J. Bob 480-982-7336 mesa Windygap regulators 1st Wkd piedra Kidd 970-799-1133 cortez shooting™ society vigilantes 2nd sat grizz Bear 719-545-9463 pueblo cowtown Wild Bunch™ 1st sat Wild Bodie Tom 602-721-3175 carefree Thunder mountain shootists 2nd sat colorado 970-260-5432 White Water shooters Wild Bunch Blackjack old pueblo shootist 1st sun gilly Boy 520-249-2831 Tombstone Four corners rifle and 2nd sun capt. W. K. 970-565-3840 cortez association pistol club Kelso cowtown cowboy shooters 1st sun & Barbwire 480-773-2753 peoria montrose marshals 2nd sun Big Hat 970-249-7701 montrose 3rd sat Ben Lomond High plains 2nd sun sand river slim 303-771-1920 ramah arizona cowboy shooters 2nd sat deputy curly 602-487-9728 phoenix drifters association castle peak Wildshots 2nd Wkd old squinteye 970-524-9348 gypsum Whiskey row gunslingers 2nd sun Turquoise Bill 928-925-7323 prescott pawnee station 3rd sat red creek dick 303-857-0520 nunn colorado river regulators 2nd sun & crowheart 928-505-2200 Lake Havasu martin 4th sat rockvale Bunch 3rd sat cherokee diable 719-371-0172 rockvale northern arizona cowboy 3rd sat robber Baron 928-607-5640 Flagstaff Four corners gunslingers 3rd sun cereza slim 970-247-0745 durango shooter association Thunder mountain shootist 3rd Wkd pinto annie 970-464-7118 Whitewater Lake powell gunslingers 3rd sat Bare Fist Jack 928-660-2104 page Briggsdale county shootist 4th sat Kid Bucklin 970-493-1813 Briggsdale Los vaqueros 3rd sat Buckeye pete 520-548-8298 Tucson northwest colorado rangers 4th sat sagebrush Burns 970-824-8407 craig Tonto rim marauders 3rd sun silverado cid 928-595-1230 payson sand creek raiders 4th sun sweet Water Bill 303-366-8827 Byers mohave marshalls 3rd sun & d B chester 928-231-9013 Kingman Black canyon ghost riders 4th sun double Bit 970-874-8745 Hotchkiss 5th sat CT altar valley pistoleros 3rd sun & mean raylean 520-235-0394 Tucson Ledyard sidewinders 1st sat Yosemite gene 860-536-0887 Ledyard 5th sun cT valley Bushwackers 2nd sun milo sierra 860-508-2686 east granby arizona Yavapai rangers 4th sat Whisperin 928-567-9227 camp verde DE meadows padens posse 3rd sun Hazel pepper 302-422-6534 Bridgeville dusty Bunch old Western 4th sat squibber 602-309-4198 casa grande FL shooters gold coast gunslingers 1st sat george Washington 786-256-9542 Fort colorado river shootists 4th sun Boston anniebelle 928-502-1298 Yuma mcLintock Lauderdale CA ghost Town gunslingers 1st sat copenhagen 904-808-8559 st. augustine sunnyvale regulators 1st & 3rd shaniko Jack 650-464-3764 cupertino Hernando county regulators 1st sun shady Brady 352-686-1055 Brooksville mon night miakka misfits 1st sun deadlee Headlee 941-650-8920 myakka city West end outlaws 1st & 3rd sat chickamauga 951-549-9304 Lytle creek Fort White cowboy cavalry 2nd sat deadly sharpshoot 352-317-6284 Fort White charlie okeechobee marshals 2nd sat & Kid celero 561-312-9075 okeechobee escondido Bandidos 1st sat devil Jack 760-741-3229 escondido 4th sun The outlaws 1st sat Terrell 916-363-1648 sacramento okeechobee outlaws 2nd sat & dead Wait 863-357-3006 okeechobee Lassen regulators 1st sat chief Wages 530-257-3402 susanville 4th sun Two rivers posse 1st sat & dragon 209-836-4042 manteca Tater Hill gunfighters 2nd sun Judge Jd Justice 941-629-4440 arcadia 4th sun Weewahootee vigilance 2nd sun conway Kid 407-273-9763 orlando river city regulators 1st sun point of orgin 530-304-5616 davis committee mother Lode shootist society 1st sun city Kid 209-795-4175 Jamestown panhandle cowboys 2nd sun High card 850-492-5162 pensacola Hole in The Wall gang 1st sun Frito Bandito 661-406-6001 piru southwest Florida 3rd sat Jed Lewis 239-455-4788 punta gorda 5 dogs creek 1st Wkd mad Trapper of 661-589-7472 Bakersfield gunslingers rat river Big Bend Bushwhackers 3rd sat sixpence Kid 850-459-1107 Tallahassee cajon cowboys 2nd & pasture patti 760-956-8852 devore Lake county pistoleros 3rd sat arcadia outlaw 352-208-2788 Tavares 4th sat panhandle cattle company 4th sat desperado dale 850-260-5507 chipley chorro valley regulators 2nd & mad dog mccoy 805-440-7847 san Luis cowford regulators 4th sat general Lee 904-803-2930 Jacksonville 5th sun obispo smokey shasta regulators of 2nd sat cayenne pepper 530-275-3158 Burney indian river regulators 4th sat Belligerent 321-403-2940 palm Bay Hat creek orney Bob coyote valley cowboys 2nd sat Bad eye Bobolu 408-722-0583 morgan Hill oK corral outlaws 4th sun Kokomo Kid 863-357-2226 okeechobee guns in the sun 2nd sat Johnny 2moons 760-346-0972 palm springs Five county regulators 4th sun Jed Lewis 239-455-4788 punta gorda Buffalo runners 2nd sat grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 rescue doodle Hill regulators 4th sun dave smith 813-645-3828 ruskin dulzura desperados 2nd sat Hashknife Willie 619-271-1481 san diego antelope Junction rangers Fri nite & mayeye rider 727-736-3977 pineallas california rangers 2nd sat Jimmy Frisco 209-296-4146 sloughhouse 2nd sat park double r Bar regulators 2nd sun Five Jacks 760-949-3198 Lucerne GA valley river Bend rough riders 1st sat done gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville High sierra drifters 2nd sun grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 railroad Flat american old West cowboys 1st sat Josey Buckhorn 423-236-5281 Flintstone richmond roughriders 2nd sun Buffy 650-994-9412 richmond valdosta vigilance committee 1st sat Big Boyd 229-244-3161 valdosta over The Hill gang (The) 2nd sun Kooskia Kid 818-566-7900 sylmar Lonesome valley regulators 1st sun Wishbone 478-922-9384 Warner Bridgeport vigilantes 3rd sat Bee Blest 760-932-1139 Bridgeport Hooper robins Burro canyon gunslingers 3rd sat don Trader 714-827-7360 meyers providence springs rangers 2nd sat Buckshot Bob 229-924-0997 anderson canyon piedmont regulators 2nd sat chase randall 864-637-8873 eastanollee To update your SASS Affiliated Club Listing or Annual Match please contact Slipnoose at the SASS Office ph: (877) 411-7277 or [email protected] VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com Page 68 Cowboy Chronicle March 2013

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City GA (continued) KY (continued) doc Holliday’s immortals 2nd sat easy rider 770-954-9696 griffin ponderosa pines posse 3rd sat copperhead Joe 606-599-5263 manchester camden county cowboys 2nd sat christian mortician 912-227-5683 Kingsland ohio river rangers 3rd sat george rogers 270-554-1501 paducah Tennessee mountain 3rd sat Trail Bones 423-842-6116 ringgold Breathitt Bandits 4th sat slowly But surely 606-666-4663 Jackson marauders rockcastle rangers 4th sat grinnin Barrett 270-792-3196 park city cherokee cowboys 4th sat Bad Lands Bob 706-654-0828 gainesville Levisa Fork Lead slingers 4th sun escopeta Jake 606-631-4613 pikeville HI Fox Bend peacemakers 4th sun Tocala sam 859-552-9000 Wilmore maui marshals 1st & 3rd sat Bad Burt 808-875-9085 maui LA Big island paniolos 3rd sat paniolo annie 808-640-3949 ocean view deadwood marshals 1st & 3rd sat doc spudley 504-467-6062 sorrento single action shootist of 4th sun Brandebuck 808-351-9260 up The creek gang 2nd & 4th sat Hardly able 337-474-5058 Lake charles Hawaii cypress creek cowboys 2nd sat smokey shane 318-381-4840 downsville IA Bayou Bounty Hunters 2nd sat soiled dove 985-796-9698 Folsom Turkeyfoot cowboys 1st sat ranger mathias 319-234-1550 elk run guns of sabine pass 3rd sat Hobbel-a-Long 337-463-5690 Hineston Fischels Heights grand ecore vigilantes 3rd sat ouachita Kid 318-932-6637 natchito- Fort des moines rangers 1st sun pit mule 515-205-0557 indianola ches Zen shootists 2nd sat renegade slim 515-987-0721 nevada Jackson Hole regulators 4th sat slick mcclade 318-278-9071 Quitman outlaw’s run 2nd sun capt. Jim 712-623-5726 red oak MA midnight cape cod cowboys 4th sat curly Jay Brooks 508-477-7771 mashpee ID shawsheen river rangers as sch Yukon Willie 978-663-3342 Bedford gunslingers of Flaming 1st sat Jughandle Jack 208-634-3121 council Harvard ghost riders as sch double r Bar Kid 978-771-9190 Harvard Heart ranch danvers desperados as sch cyrus cy Klopps 781-667-2857 middleton squaw Butte regulators 1st sun acequia Kidd 208-365-4551 emmett gunnysackers sat nantucket dawn 781-749-6951 scituate Border marauders 1st sun & mud marine 208-627-8377 east port MD 4th sat eas’dern shore renegades 1st sat Teton Tracy 302-378-7854 sudlersville el Buscaderos 2nd & oddman 208-437-0496 spirit Lake Thurmont rangers 1st sun cash caldwell 240-285-7673 Thurmont 4th sun monocacy irregulars 2nd sat church Key 304-229-8266 Frederick northwest shadow riders 2nd sat silverado Belle 208-743-5765 Lewiston damascus Wildlife rangers 4th sat chuckaroo 301-831-9666 damascus southern idaho rangers 2nd sat Lone Thumper 208-251-4959 pocatello ME oregon Trail rough riders 2nd sun & John Bear 208-562-1914 Boise Big pine Bounty Hunters as sch ripley scrounger 207-876-4928 Willmantic 3rd sat capitol city vigilance as sch mark Lake 207-622-9400 augusta Hells canyon ghost riders 3rd sat J.p. sloe 208-798-0826 moscow committee Twin Butte Bunch 3rd sat idaho packer 208-589-5941 rexburg Beaver creek desperados as sch Jimmy reb 207-698-4436 Berwick panhandle regulators 3rd sun Halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis orchards Hurricane valley rangers as sch Leo 207-829-3092 Falmouth snake river Western 4th sat White eyes 208-734-8440 Jerome MI shooting society rockford regulators 1st sat no cattle 616-363-2827 rockford IL Blue Water gunslingers 1st sun Buggyman 810-434-9597 Kimball shady creek shootists 1st & dapper dan 309-734-2324 Little York river Bend rangers 2nd sat pitmaster 574-276-8805 niles 4th sun porter double Barrel gang 2nd sat. dakota Fats 269-721-8190 Hastings Lakewood marshal’s 1st sat pine ridge Jack 618-838-9410 cisne Butcher Butte Bunch 2nd sun grubby Hardrock 810-750-0655 Fenton rangeless riders 1st sat The inspector 618-345-5048 Highland sucker creek saddle and 3rd sat Kid al Fred 989-832-8426 Brecken- Kishwaukee valley 1st sun snakes morgan 815-751-3716 sycamore gun club ridge regulators chippewa regulators 3rd sat no name Justice 906-632-1254 sault ste. Free grazers 2nd sat Fossil creeek Bob 217-821-3134 effingham marie Tri county cowboys 2nd sat sierra Hombre 815-967-6333 Hazelhurst Hidden valley cowboys 3rd sun saulk valley stubby 269-651-5197 sturgis Kaskaskia cowboys 2nd sat Wagonmaster Ward 618-443-3538 sparta rocky river regulators 3rd sun Terrebonne Bud 248-709-5254 utica river city regulators 2nd sun granville stuart 309-243-7236 chillicothe eagleville cowboys 4th sat one son of a gun 231-676-0922 central Lake vermilion river Long riders 2nd sun Lead poison Lar 815-875-3674 Leonore Johnson creek regulators 4th sat rainmaker ray 313-618-2577 plymouth nason mining company 3rd & diggins dave 618-927-0594 Benton mason county marshals 4th sat Two gun Troll 231-343-2580 scottsville regulators 5th sat Wolverine rangers as sch r.J. Law 248-828-0440 port Huron mcLean county peacemakers 3rd sat marshall rd 309-379-4331 Bloomington saginaw Field & stream club as sch Bad river marty 989-585-3292 saginaw Litchfield sportsman’s club 3rd sat ross Haney 618-667-9819 Litchfield Lapeer county sportsman’s sun as ash Flat Water Johnny 314-378-5689 attica illowa irregulars 3rd sun shamrock sis 309-798-2635 milan club Wranglers Fort Beggs defenders 3rd sun Toranado 815-302-8305 plainfield MN Long nine cowboys 4th & 5th sun Lemon drop Kid 217-787-4877 Loami cedar valley vigilantes 1st & 3rd sat d m Yankee 612-701-9719 morristown good guys posse 4th sun dangerous denny 815-245-7264 rockford crow river rangers 1st sun cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 Howard Lake salt river renegades as sch Lily mae 217-985-4915 Barry granite city gunslingers 2nd & amen straight 612-723-2313 saint cloud IN 5th sat daleville desperados 1st sat Flat Water Bob 765-284-0405 daleville Lone rock rangers 2nd sat red dutchman 651-402-0368 Farmingtion cutter’s raiders 1st sat midnite desperado 574-893-7214 Warsaw Lookout mountain 2nd sat Wagonmaster 218-744-4694 virginia atlanta cattle company 2nd sat Bear creek 765-652-1525 atlanta gunsmoke society reverend Fort Belmont regulators 2nd sun mule Town Jack 507-840-0883 Jackson pleasant valley renegades 2nd sat nomore slim 812-839-3052 canaan east grand Forks rod & 3rd sun BB gunner 218-779-8555 east grand schuster’s rangers 2nd sun coal car Kid 219-759-3498 chesterton gun club Forks pine ridge regulators 3rd sat riverboat gambler 765-832-7253 Brazil MO Wolff’s rowdy rangers 3rd sat Justice d. spencer 574-264-2012 Bristol ozark posse (The) 1st sat Tightwad swede 417-846-5142 cassville circle r cowboys 3rd sat mustang Bill 219-279-2781 Brookston West plaines Waddies 2nd & 5th sat Buckshot Baby 417-284-1432 Tecumseh Wabash rangers 4th sat Henry remington 217-267-2820 cayuga moniteau creek river 2nd sun doolin riggs 573-687-3103 Fayette starke county desert 4th sat Whip mccord 219-942-5859 Knox raiders Big rock sass 4th sat southpaw Too 812-866-2406 Lexington shoal creek shootists 3rd sat chaos Jumbles 417-451-9959 Joplin red Brush raiders 4th sat doc goodluck 812-721-1188 newburgh gateway shootist society 3rd sun Bounty seeker 314-740-4665 st. Louis deer creek regulators 4th sun doc molar 765-506-0344 Jonesboro central ozarks Western 3rd sun X. s. chance 573-765-5483 st. robert Wildwood Wranglers 4th sun voodooman 219-872-2721 michigan city shooters Westside renegades as sch Johnny Banjo 812-430-6421 evansville Butterfield Trail cowboys 4th Wkd smokie 417-759-9114 Walnut indiana Black powder guild as sch c. c. Top 574-354-7186 etna green shade KS southern missouri rangers 4th Wkd pecos steve 417-770-7516 Willard Butterfield gulch gang 1st sun Kanasa Flatlander 785-493-5682 chapman MS powder creek cowboys 2nd & 4th sat el dorado Wayne 913-686-5314 Lenexa natchez sixgunners 1st sat Winchester 601-445-5223 natchez & 4th Wed mississippi peacemakers 3rd sat macon a. 601-954-3720 mendenhall mill Brook Wranglers 2nd sun grandpa Buckten 785-421-2537 Hill city Longshot millbrook mississippi river rangers 4th & 5th sat easy Lee 901-413-5615 Byhalia Free state rangers 3rd & 5th sun Buffalo phil 913-904-8733 parker MT sandhill regulators 3rd sat moundridge goat 620-345-3151 Hutchinson Honorable road agents 1st sat diamond red 406-685-3618 ennis roper shooting society capital city cowboys 4th sun Top 785-313-0894 Topeka gallatin valley regulators 1st sat gooch Hill drifter 406-763-4268 Logan chisholm Trail rowdies 4th sun cody Wyatt 316-204-1784 Wichita sun river rangers shooting 1st sun & montana Lil’ 406-761-0896 simms KY society 4th sat skeeter Kentucky regulators 1st sat derby 270-489-2089 Boaz makoshika gunslingers 2nd sat doc Wells 406-345-8901 glendive Hooten old Town regulators 1st sat double eagle dave 423-309-4146 mckee rocky mountain rangers 2nd Wkd Jocko 406-847-0745 noxon Knob creek gunfighters guild 1st sun Buck shot Jock 502-543-8439 West point Bigfork Buscaderos 3rd sat Bodie camp 406-883-6797 Bigfork green river gunslingers 2nd sat Yak 270-792-9001 Bowling Last chance Handgunners 3rd sat Bocephus Bandito 406-439-4476 Boulder green custer county stranglers 3rd sat Hartshot 406-232-0727 miles city 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 March 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 69

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City MT (continued) NY (continued) montana Territory 4th sat Two gun 406-655-8166 Billings Hole in The Wall gang 3rd sat el Fusilero 631-864-1035 calverton peacemakers montana diamond Four 3rd sat Kayutah Kid 607-796-0573 odessa Lincoln county regulators 4th sat Lady Belle 406-889-3658 eureka circle K regulators 3rd sun smokehouse dan 518-885-3758 Ballston spa NC sackets Harbor vigilantes 4th sun ranger clayton 315-465-6543 sackets neuse river regulators 1st & 3rd sat paddi macgarrett 910-938-3682 new Bern conagher Harbor old Hickory regulators 1st sat Wendover Kid 252-908-0098 rocky mount The Long riders 4th sun Loco poco Lobo 585-467-4429 shortsville Walnut grove rangers 1st sat Hiem 828-245-5563 rutherford- d Bar d Wranglers 4th sun captain m.a.F 845-226-8611 Wappingers ton Fall old north state posse 1st sat Tracker mike 336-558-9032 salisbury mythical rough riders 5th sun rev dave clayton 716-838-4286 Hamburg carolina rough riders 1st sun pecos pete 704-394-1859 charlotte The shadow riders as sch dusty Levis 646-284-4010 Westhamp- carolina single action 2nd & 5th carolina’s 919-383-7567 eden ton Beach shooting society sun Longarm east end regulators Last sun diamond rio 631-585-1936 Westhamp- High country cowboys 2nd sat Wild otter 828-423-7796 asheville ton carolina cattlemen’s 2nd sat Wicked Wanda 919-266-1678 creedmore OH shooting and social society Big irons 1st sat deadwood stan 513-894-3500 middletown Buccaneer range regulators 2nd sat Jefro 910-327-2197 Wilmington middletown sportsmens club 1st sat deadwood stan 513-894-3500 middletown gunpowder creek regulators 3rd sat Herdzman 828-493-1679 Lenoir Tusco Long riders 1st sat prairie dawg 216-932-7630 midvale cross creek cowboys 3rd sat Huckleberry mike 910-980-0572 Wagram greene county cowboys 1st sun ruger ray 937-352-6420 Xenia piedmont gunslingers 3rd sun a. r. stoner 336-922-1900 churchland granger Hill regulators 1st sun Barbwire pete 740-450-8650 Zanesville Flat Branch ranch 4th sat Twelve mile Bluff 910-480-9609 Fayetteville Firelands peacemakers 1st Wed, angry angus 440-647-5909 rochester iredell regulators 4th sat charlotte 704-902-1796 statesville 3rd sat & ND 5th sun Trestle valley rangers 2nd sat doc Hell 701-852-1697 minot sandusky county regulators 2nd sat curtice clay 419-836-8760 gibsonburg Badlands Bandits 2nd sun roughrider ray 701-260-0347 Belfield shenango river rats 2nd sat shenango Joe 330-782-0958 Yankee Lake dakota rough riders as sch Blake stone 701-250-0673 moffit & Last Thurs sheyenne valley Last sat Wild river rose 701-588-4331 Kindred miami valley cowboys 2nd sun Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 piqua peacekeepers scioto Territory desperados 3rd & 5th sun pickaway Tracker 740-477-1881 chillicothe NE Wilmington rough riders 3rd sat paragon pete 740-626-7667 Wilmington platte valley gunslingers 1st sun Firewater 308-226-2255 grand island auglaize rough riders 3rd sun deputy diamond 419-722-6345 defiance eastern nebraska gun club 2nd sun Flint valdez 712-323-8996 Louisville desperado Flat Water shootists of the 3rd sun Forty Four 308-383-4605 grand island Brown Township regulators 4th sat sandy creek Jake 330-863-1139 malvern grand island rifle club maggie ohio valley vigilantes 4th sat ole saddlebags 614-323-4500 mt. vernon NH central ohio cowboys 4th sun stagecoach 614-868-9821 circleville The dalton gang shooting 3rd Wkd Littleton s. 603-444-6876 dalton Hannah club of nH dalton stonelick regulators as sch carson 513-753-6462 milford pemi valley peacemakers as sch Bear Lee Tallable 603-667-0104 Holderness OK White mountain regulators as sch dead Head 603-772-2358 candia cherokee strip shootists 1st sat scott Wayne 405-377-0610 stillwater merrimack valley as sch sheriff r. p. 603-345-6876 pelham shortgrass rangers 1st sat & captain allyn 580-357-5870 grandfield marauders Bucket 3rd sun capron NJ Tulsey Town cattlemens 2nd & 4th sat curly Thom 918-376-4376 Tulsa monmouth county rangers 2nd sun utah Tom 732-803-2430 monmouth association 3rd sun mabry Jackson Hole gang 4th sun papa grey 732-961-6834 Jackson indian Territory single action 2nd & 5th sun, Burly Bill 918-830-2936 sand springs NM shooting society 3rd sat, 4th Wed magdalena Trail drivers 1st & 3rd sat grizzly adams 575-854-2488 magdalena rattlesnake mountain 2nd sat & Black river 918-908-0016 checotah rio rancho regulators 1st & 4th sat sam Brannan 505-400-2468 rio rancho rangers 1st sun Jack Bighorn vigilantes 1st sat catamount 505-281-4402 Founders oklahoma city gun club - 2nd sat & Flat Top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma ranch Territorial marshals 4th sun city otero practical shooting 1st sat saguaro sam 505-437-3663 La Luz Tater Hill regulators 3rd sun Taos Willie 918-355-2849 Tulsa association OR Buffalo range riders 1st sun shanley shooter 505-252-0589 Founders Horse ridge pistoleros 1st & 3rd sun Big casino 541-389-2342 Bend ranch molalla river rangers 1st sat gold dust Bill 503-705-1211 canby chisum cowboy gun club 1st sun Two Bit Tammy 575-626-9201 roswell merlin marauders 1st sat molly B. dam 541-479-2928 merlin High desert drifters 2nd sat shakey shooter 505-294-3233 Founders dry gulch desperados 1st sat runamuck 509-520-3241 milton ranch Freewater Lincoln county regulators 2nd sat Frank coe 575-808-1329 ruidoso siuslaw river rangers 1st sun Johnny Jingos 541-997-6313 Florence Buffalo range riders 2nd sun Tijeras pete 505-227-1449 Founders Table rock rangers 1st sun & Jed i. Knight 541-944-2281 White city Wild Bunch ranch 2nd sat rio grande renegades 2nd Wed, mica mcguire 505-263-1181 albuquer- pine mountain posse 2nd sat & Whisperin’ Wade 541-318-8199 Bend 3rd sat, 4th sun, que sun 5th sat & sun Klamath cowboys 2nd sun & Jasper Wayne 541-884-2611 Keno gila rangers 2nd Wkd chico cheech 575-388-2531 silver city 4th sat monticello range riders 3rd & 5th J. W. Brockey 575-744-4484 elephant Jefferson state regulators 3rd sat Jed i. Knight 541-944-2281 ashland sun Butte oregon Trail regulators 3rd sat Willie Killem 541-443-6591 La grande seven rivers regulators 3rd sat stink creek Jones 575-885-9879 carlsbad orygun cowboys 3rd sat Kansan 503-539-6335 sherwood monument springs 4th sat val darrant 575-396-5303 Hobbs oregon old West shooting 3rd sun & Tuffy 541-919-7381 albany Bushwhackers society 4th sat Tumbleweed Tres rios Bandidos 4th sun Largo casey 505-330-2489 Farmington umpqua regulators 4th sun oregun gustaf 541-430-1021 roseburg rio vaqueros 4th sun anna sassin 575-744-5793 Truth or columbia county cowboys as sch Kitty colt 503-642-4120 st. Helens consequences PA NV perry county regulators 1st sat Tuscarora slim 717-789-3004 ickesburg Fort Halleck volunteers 1st & 3rd green springs 775-753-8203 elko dry gulch rangers 1st sat pep c. Holic 724-263-1461 midway sat Thomsen Factoryville Freebooters 1st sun Tad sloe 570-489-0652 Factoryville High plains drifters 1st sun Washoe Zephyr 775-721-6619 Fernley chimney rocks regulators 1st sun Hattie Hubbs 814-696-5669 Hollidays- eldorado cowboys 1st Wkd charming 702-565-3736 Boulder city burg Lone Wolf shooters, LLc 2nd & 5th sun penny pepperbox 775-727-4600 pahrump conestoga Wagoneers 1st sun no change 215-431-2302 southampton nevada rangers cowboy 2nd sun mT Fargo 702-460-6393 Las vegas Boot Hill gang of Topton 1st sun Lester moore 610-704-6792 Topton action shooting society Whispering pines cowboy 1st sun Buck Johnson 814-945-6922 Wellsboro roop county cowboy 2nd sun Jasper agate 775-849-7679 sparks committee shooters assn. Logans Ferry regulators 2nd sat mariah Kid 412-607-5313 plum Bor - silver state shootists 3rd sun shotgun marshall 775-265-0267 carson city ough desert desperados 3rd sun Buffalo sam 702-459-6454 Las vegas Heidelberg Lost dutchmen 2nd sat ivory rose 717-627-0694 schaeffers- NY town alabama gunslingers 1st sat Bum Thumb 585-343-3906 alabama Westshore posse 2nd sun Hud mccoy 717-683-2632 new cumber- Tioga county cowboys 1st sat dusty drifter 607-659-3819 owego land Boot Hill regulators 1st sun Judge Zaney grey 845-352-7921 chester dakota Badlanders (The) 2nd sun Timberland 610-434-1923 orefield pathfinder pistoleros 1st sun sonny 315-695-7032 Fulton renegade crumhorn mountain cowboys 1st sun Lefty cooper 607-287-9261 maryland river Junction shootist society 3rd sat mattie Hays 724-593-6602 donegal salt port vigilance committee 2nd sat Twelve Bore 585-613-8046 Holley Jefferson outlaws 3rd sat red-eyed Kid 443-392-1615 Jefferson Bar-20 inc. 2nd sat Badlands Buck 315-637-3492 West eaton Blue mountain rangers 3rd sun cathy Fisher 610-488-0619 Hamburg oxford regulators 2nd sun scheriff richie 607-783-2666 oxford matamoras mavericks 3rd sun Hammerin steel 570-296-5853 milford To update your SASS Affiliated Club Listing or Annual Match please contact Slipnoose at the SASS Office ph: (877) 411-7277 or [email protected] VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com Page 70 Cowboy Chronicle March 2013

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City PA (continued) TX (continued) silver Lake Bounty Hunters 3rd sun marshal T. J. 570-663-3045 montrose Tejas pistoleros 4th sat & sun Texas paladin 713-690-5313 eagle Lake Buckshot Tin star Texans 4th sat. mickey 830-685-3464 Fredericks- purgatory regulators 3rd Wkd dry gulch geezer 814-827-2120 Titusville burg elstonville Hombres 4th sun Trusty sidekick 610-939-9947 manheim magnolia misfits 4th sun attoyac Kid 281-448-8127 magnolia el posse grande 4th sun Black Hills Barb 570-538-9163 muncy valley UT stewart’s regulators 4th sun sodbuster Burt 724-479-8838 shelocta Three peaks rangers 1st & 3rd curly Jim 435-590-9873 cedar city RI sat Whiskus Lincoln county Lawmen 4th sun Wyoming Blink 401-385-9907 Foster Big Hollow Bandits 1st sat cinch 435-724-2575 Heber SC north rim regulators 1st sat autum rose 435-644-5053 Kanab palmetto posse 1st sat dun gamblin 803-422-5587 columbia copenhagen valley regulators 1st sat m.T. pockets 801-920-4047 mantua Hurricane riders 3rd sat saloon Keeper 843-361-2277 aynor utah Territory gunslingers 1st sat Lefty pete 801-554-9436 salt Lake city savannah river rangers 3rd sun Kid ray 803-960-3907 gaston musinia Buscaderos 1st. sat Buffalo Juan 435-528-7432 mayfield geechee gunfighters 4th sat doc Kemm 843-863-0649 ridgeville Wasatch summit regulators 2nd & 4th sun old Fashioned 435-224-2321 salt Lake city greenville gunfighters 4th sun cowboy Junky 864-414-5578 greenville dixie desperados/senior 2nd & 4th The alaskan 435-635-3134 st. george SD games sat cottonwood cowboy 2nd sun dakota 605-520-5212 clark rio verde rangers 2nd sat doc nelson 435-564-8210 green river association nailbender desert Historical shootist 2nd sat pronghorn pete 801-498-7654 Kaysville Black Hills shootist 3rd sun Hawkbill smith 605-342-8946 pringle society association Hobble creek Wranglers 2nd sat Hobble creek 801-489-7681 springville Bald mountain renegades as sch cottonwood cooter 605-280-1413 Faulkton marshall TN cache valley vaqueros 2nd sat. Logan Law 435-787-8131 Logan Bitter creek rangers 1st 2nd & oracle 423-334-4053 crossville utah War 3rd & 5th sat Jubal o. sackett 801-944-3444 sandy 3rd sun mesa marauders gun club 3rd sat copper Queen 435-979-4665 Lake powell greene county regulators 1st sat mort dooley 423-335-0847 rogersville diamond mountain 3rd sat cinch 435-724-2575 vernal Wartrace regulators 1st sat & Whiskey Hayes 931-684-2709 Wartrace rustlers 3rd sat Wahsatch desperados 4th sat Highland drifter 801-860-9504 Fruit Heights memphis gunslingers 2nd sat dooly sworn 901-351-6195 arlington castle gate posse 4th sat rowdy Hand 435-637-8209 price orsa’s oak ridge outlaws 2nd sat Hombre sin 865-257-7747 oak ridge VA nombre pungo posse cowboy action 1st & 2nd missouri marshal 757-471-3396 Waverly Tennessee mountain 3rd sat double Barrel 423-593-3767 chattanooga club sat marauders Liberty Long riders 1st sun Thunder colt 540-296-0772 Bedford north West Tennessee 3rd sat can’t shoot 731-885-8102 union city cavalier cowboys 1st sun Kuba Kid 804-270-9054 Hanover Longriders dillion county Highland regulators 3rd Wkd iron maiden 423-628-2715 Winfield virginia city marshals 1st Tues Humphrey Hook 703-801-3507 Fairfax ocoee rangers 4th sat ocoee red 423-476-5303 cleveland Blue ridge regulators 2nd sun Bad company 540-886-3374 Lexington smoky mountain shootist as sch Jim mayo 865-300-4666 Lenoir city K.c.’s corral 3rd sat virginia rifleman 804-550-2242 mechanics- society ville smokey mountain shootist as sch Tennessee 865-986-5054 varies mattaponi sundowners 3rd sun & Flatboat Bob 804-785-2575 West point society Tombstone 4th sat TX pepper mill creek gang 4th sun slip Hammer spiv 540-775-4561 King george Texas Tumbleweeds 1st sat cayenne 806-355-7158 amarillo Bend of Trail 4th sun rowe - a - noc 540-890-6375 roanoke Texas Troublemakers 1st sat Lefty Tex Larue 903-539-7234 Brownsboro rivanna ranger as sch virginia ranger 434-973-8759 charlottes- plum creek carriage cowboy 1st sat Long Juan 512-750-3923 Lockhart company ville shooting society stovall creek regulators as sch Brizco-Z 434-929-1063 Lynchburg alamo area moderators 1st sat Tombstone 210-493-9320 san antonio VT mary verdant mountain vigilantes 2nd sun doc mccoy 802-363-7162 st. Johnsbury south Texas pistolaros 1st sat cibolo sam 210-213-7746 san antonio WA Texas peacemakers 1st sat deadeye greg 903-593-8215 Tyler northeast Washington 1st Wkd crazy Knife al 509-684-8057 colville orange county regulators 1st sat & Texas gator 409-243-3477 orange regulators 3rd sun mica peak marshals 1st & 3rd sat Tensleep Kid 509-284-2461 mica Buck creek Bandoleros 1st sat & Hoofprint prine 254-897-7328 nemo panhandle regulators 1st & 3rd sun Halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis orchards 3rd Wkd renton united cowboy 1st Wkd Jess ducky 425-271-9286 renton comanche Trail shootists 1st sat & dee Horne 432-557-6598 midland action shooters 5th sat Windy plains drifters 2nd & 4th Hopalong Hoot 509-220-9611 medical Lake el vaqueros 1st sun Tom Burden 254-559-7240 Breckenridge sat Thunder river renegades 1st Wkd Two spurs 936-273-1851 magnolia peace 2nd sat Hellfire 360-513-9081 ariel concho valley shooters 2nd sat roamin shields 325-656-1281 san angelo Keepers Texas riviera pistoleros 2nd sat stinkng Badger 361-9374845 george West pataha rustlers 2nd sat pinto annie 509-520-2789 dayton Lajitas rangers and rogues 2nd sat Texas Trouble 915-603-1366 Lajitas mima marauders 2nd sat okie sawbones 360-705-3601 olympia Bounty Hunters 2nd sat cable Lockhart 806-299-1192 Levelland smokey point desperados 2nd sun mudflat mike 425-335-5176 arlington Travis county regulators 2nd sat cherokee granny 979-561-6202 smithville colville guns and roses 2nd sun cheyence sadie 509-684-3632 colville Texas Tenhorns shooting 2nd sat & mustang sherry 903-815-8162 greenville apple valley marshals 3rd sat Wiley Bob 509-884-3827 east club Last Full Wkd Wenatchee rio grande valley vaqueros 2nd sun dream chaser 956-648-7364 pharr olympic peninsula strait 3rd sun doc neeley 360-417-0230 port angeles Lone star Frontier shooting 2nd Wkd Long range 817-980-7206 cleburne shooters club rick Black river regulators 4th sat Wil sackett 360-786-0199 Littlerock Texican rangers 2nd Wkd red scott 210-316-0199 Fredericks- custer renegades 4th sun Joe cannuck 360-676-2587 custer burg poulsbo pistoleros 4th sun sourdough george 360-830-0100 poulsbo oakwood outlaws 2nd Wkd Texas alline 903-545-2252 oakwood Beazley gulch rangers Last sun an e. di 509-787-1782 Quincy canadian river regulators 2nd, 3rd & adobe Walls 806-679-5824 clarendon WI 5th sat shooter Hodag country cowboys 1st & 3rd sat Hodag Bob 715-550-8337 rhinelander old Fort parker patriots 3rd Wkd colt Faro 832-472-3278 groesbeck rock river regulators 1st & 3rd sat stoney mike 608-868-5167 Beloit Big Thicket outlaws 3rd sat shynee graves 409-860-5526 Beaumont Western Wisconsin Wild 2nd sat sierra Jack 608-792-1494 Holmen Tejas caballeros 3rd sat Judge menday 512-964-9955 dripping Bunch cassidy coming springs Bristol plains pistoleros 2nd sun Huckleberry 815-675-2566 Bristol gruesome gulch gang 3rd sat eli Blue 806-293-2909 plainview crystal river gunslingers 2nd sun James rosewood 920-722-4105 Waupaca cottonwood creek cowboys 3rd sat pecos cahill 325-575-5039 snyder Wisconsin old West 2nd sun & Blackjack martin 715-949-1621 Boyceville Willow Hole cowboys 3rd sat & sun Baba Looey 979-571-5614 north Zulch shootist, inc 4th sat Texas Historical shootist 3rd sun charles 281-342-1210 columbus Liberty prairie regulators 3rd sat dirty deeds 920-229-5833 ripon society goodnight oconomowoc cattlemen’s 4th sat marvin the 414-254-5592 concord Trinity valley regulators 3rd sun grumpy grandpa 972-206-2624 mansfield association moyle red river regulators 3rd sun el rio rojo ray 903-838-0964 Texarkana WV Badlands Bar 3 3rd Wkd T-Bone dooley 903-272-9283 clarksville dawn ghost riders 1st sun coffee Bean 304-327-9884 Hinton Butterfield Trail regulators 4th sat Texas slim 325-668-4884 anson Frontier regulators 2nd sat captain Tay 304-265-5748 Thorton Huaco rangers 4th sat Blueeyed Bear 254-715-0746 china spring The railtown rowdys 2nd sun miss print 304-589-6162 Bluefield comanche valley vigilantes 4th sat Billy Bob evans 972-393-2882 cleburne rocky Holler regulators 3rd sun Jessee earp 304-425-2023 princeton (Wild Bunch) Kanawha valley regulators 3rd Wkd eddie rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor comanche valley vigilantes 4th sat Billy Bob evans 972-393-2882 cleburne cowboy action shooting 4th sun Jackson 540-678-0735 Largent green mountain regulators 4th sat Bar diamond 512-638-7376 marble Falls sports purgatory ridge rough riders 4th sat armed to the Teeth 806-777-6182 slaton peacemaker national as sch cole mcculloch 703-789-3346 gerrardstown 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 March 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 71

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City WY FRANCE (continued) colter’s Hell Justice 1st sat Yakima red 307-254-2090 various Les Tireurs de l’uzege every sun marshal dundee 33 04 66 759 529 uzes committee Wsas (old West gunfighters) Bessemer vigilance 1st sun & smokewagon Bill 307-472-1926 casper Black rivers Last sun Kid of neckwhite 33 3 8526 3029 roanne committee 3rd sat club de Tir de Bernay sat chriswood 33 2 3245 5900 Bernay High Lonesome drifters 2nd sat Kari Lynn 307-587-2946 cody sybille creek shooters 2nd sat Wyoming roy 307-322-3515 Wheatland sass France Yellow rock sat Little shooting 336 7555 8063 ecoT southfork vigilance 2nd Wkd Wennoff 507-332-5035 Lander missie committee Wsas Halfcock societe de Tir Bedoin ventoux sat-sun sheriff ch. 33 490 351 973 Bedoin powder river Justice 3rd sun doc Fehr 307-683-3320 Buffalo southpaw committee Wsas Tir olympique Lyonnais sun Barth 33 6 1324 6128 Lyon great divide outlaws 4th sat slingn Lead 307-324-6955 rawlins club de tri de nuits saint georges as sch reverend delano 33 38 020 3551 nuits saint donkey creek shootists 4th sun poker Jim 307-660-0221 gillette L. oakley georges snake river rowdies as sch sheriff J. r. 307-733-4559 Jackson club de Tir sportif de Touraine as sch major John brisset37@ Tours Quigley Lawson hotmail.fr International cas/sass France as sch Frenchie Boy 336 169 32 076 varies GERMANY DOWN UNDER germany Territory regulators as sch repHiL 49 29 216 71814 varies AUSTRALIA cas europe Fri Hurricane irmi 49 28 23 5807 Bocholt gold coast gamblers 1st & 3rd sat Jack 61 75 537 5857 gold coast cowboy action shooting™ Last sat marshal Heck 49 345 120 0581 edderitz germany adelaide pistol & 1st sat & Lobo malo 61 08 284 8459 Korunye sass europe mon niers river Kid 49-282-39-8080 Wegberg shooting club 3rd sun Jail Bird’s company mon orlando a Brick 49 21 317 42 3065 Wegberg Flint Hill prospectors 2nd sat Judge ruger 61 41 838 3299 glenlogie Bond Westgate marauders 2nd sun stampede pete 61 393 695 939 port melbourne sass germany Wed rhine river Joe 49 28 235 807 spork Little river raiders 3rd sun Lazy dave 61 40 377 7926 Little river HUNGARY sasa Little river raiders 3rd sun Tiresome 61 25 978 0190 melbourne Westwood rebels as sch el Heckito 362 0460 1739 galgamacsa single action club ITALY cowboy action shooters of 3rd Wkd i.d. 61 29 975 7983 Teralba old gunners shooting club as sch renato anese 33 51 24 5391 Toppo di australia Western shootist posse Travesio Fort Bridger shooting club 4th sun duke York 61 418 632 366 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 australia Fratelli della costa onlus 3rd sat oversize 35 05 642 4677 Livorno NEW ZEALAND Lassiter Fan shooting club 3rd sun ivan Bandito 39 34 7043 0400 mazzano Trail Blazers gun club 1st sun sudden Lee sudden@farm- mill Town maremma Bad Land’s riders as sch alameda slim alamedaslim@ siena side.co.nz owss.it Bullet spittin sons o’ Thunder 2nd sat Billy deadwood 64 63 564 720 palmerston n. old West shooting society italy as sch alchimista 39 33 420 68337 varies Wairarapa pistol and shooting club 2nd sun doc Hayes 64 63 796 692 gladstone canne roventi Last sun valdez 39 07 1286 1395 Filottrano Frontier & Western shooting 2nd sun doc Hayes 64 63 796 692 gladstone Honky Tonk rebels Last sun Kaboom andy 39 33 5737 8551 vigevano sports association Wild West rebels sun Bill masterson alberto@ malegno-Bs Tararua rangers 3rd sun J.e.B. stuart 64 63 796 436 carterton frontisrl.it ashburton pistol club 3rd sun am shellie Jector 643 304 8401 ashburton LUXEMBOURG ashburton pistol club Wild 3rd sun pm shellie Jector 643 304 8401 ashburton sass Luxembourg as sch smiley miles 35 26 2128 0606 varies Bunch™ shooting NETHERLANDS Western renegades 4th sat Black Bart Bolton 64 27 249 6270 Wanganui sass netherlands as sch Lightning anja 31 51 759 2120 Leeuwarden sass pistol new Zealand as sch Tuscon the Terrible 64 32 042 089 varies NORTHERN IRELAND EUROPE Kells county regulators 1st sat independence 28 93 368 004 varies AUSTRIA carroll sweetwater gunslingers as sch Fra diabolo 43 664 490 8032 vienna NORWAY CZECH REPUBLIC Black rivers as sch charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 Loten association of Western shooters as sch Thunderman 42 060 322 2400 prelouc Quantrill raiders sun charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 Loten DENMARK schedsmoe county rough riders Thurs Jailbird 47 63 994 279 Lillestrom danish Blackpowder Federation as sch slim dane 45 20 655 887 copenhagen POLAND association of danish Western as sch mrs. stowaway 45 602 013 65 greve sass polish Western shooting as sch Trigger Hawkeye trigger-hawkeye Lodz shooters association @hot.pl FINLAND SERBIA sass Finland as sch Woodbury Kane 35 850 517 4659 various union of Western shooters as sch Hombre des 63 721 6934 Humska classic old Western society of as sch Woodbury Kane 35 850 517 4659 Loppi of serbia nudos Finland SWEDEN FRANCE sass sweden northern rangers as sch northern s. T 46 72 206 7005 varies sass France golden Triggers of 1st sun cheyenne Little 33 67 570 3678 villefrache ranger Freetown colibris de rouergue SWITZERLAND L’arquebuse d’antony 2nd sun Jeppesen 33 1 4661 1798 antony Black mountain gunfighters as sch Blacksmith pete 417 9449 5800 romainm- sass France greenwood creek 4th sat Handy Hook 33 68 809 1360 Bormes les a’tier mimosas old West shooting society as sch Hondo Janssen 44 271 9947 Zurich 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 Hamilton 1st sat Bear Butte 905-891-8627 ancaster on association mazauguaise de Tir as sch redneck mike 33 494 280 145 mazaugues south mountain regulators 1st sat dutch charlie 902-538-9797 Berwick ns sass France alba serena as sch marshall 09 62 53 83 32 moriani red mountain renegades 1st sun preacher Flynn 604-820-1564 mission Bc Tir club Tombstone T. Locke old pards shooting society as sch charles allan 33 1 4661 1798 versailler Barrie gun club 2nd & 4th northern crow 705-435-2807 Barrie on Jeppesen Lasalle anthony sat club de Tir Beaujolais as sch Woodrow the 33 047 838 0374 villefranche Beau Bassin range riders 2nd sat Frenchy 506-312-0455 riverview nB Wild Frenchie sur saone cannuck old West French shooters as sch curly red ryder 33 3 8582 0203 caromb Lambton sportsman’s club 2nd sat clay creek 519-542-4644 st. clair on Berac as sch reverend delano 33 3 8020 3551 premeaux Wentworth shooting sports 2nd sun stoney creek 905-664-3217 Hamilton on L. oakley prissey club club de Tir Brennou as sch French Bob 00 33 024 767 varies victoria Frontier shootists 2nd sun Black ashley 250-744-4705 victoria Bc 5888 valley regulators 3rd sat Kananaskis Kid 250-923-6358 courtenay Bc reverend oakley’s cowboy Klan as sch reverend delano 33 3 8020 3551 varies prairie dog rebels 3rd sat valley Boy 519-673-5648 London on L. oakley

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City CANADA Monthly Mounted USA valley regulators 3rd sat & High country 250-334-3479 courtenay Bc AZ sun amigo Tombstone ghost riders 2nd sun dan nabbit 520-456-0423 Tombstone otter valley rod & gun 4th sun colt mccloud 519-685-9439 strafford- on mounted club ville california range riders as sch old Buckaroo 408-710-1616 varies robbers roost Wild Bunch as sch Legendary 905-393-4299 ancaster on CO Lawman revengers of montezuma 1st sun aneeda Huginkiss 970-565-8479 cortez islington sportmen’s club as sch Hawk Feathers 905-936-2129 caledon on CT Blueridge sportsmen’s club as sch rebel dale 519-599-2558 clarksburg on connecticut renegades as sch cowboy cobbler 860-558-7484 granby Waterloo county revolver as sch ranger pappy 519-536-9184 Kitchener on FL Bay area Bandits 3rd sat slow poke’s darlin 813-924-0156 Tampa association cooper ID mundy’s Bay regulators as sch indiana magnum 705-534-2814 penetan- on Border marauders mounted as sch Bad Buffalo Bob 208-610-8229 eastport guishene IN nova scotia cowboy action as sch Wounded Belly 902-890-2310 Truro ns Heartland peacemakers as sch rawhidenlace 765-561-2521 Fountaintown shooting club ME palmer’s gulch cowboys as sch caribou Lefty 250-372-0416 Heffley Bc maine cowboy mounted shooters as sch cowboy Bill 207-282-2821 Biddeford creek NM ottawa valley marauders as sch Button 514-792-0063 ottawa Qc Buffalo range riders mounted 3rd sat chili cowboy 505-379-8957 Founders alberta Frontier shootists as sch powder paw 403-318-4463 rocky aB ranch society mtn House NY chasseurs et pecheurs as sch richelieu mike 450-658-8130 st-Jean Qc island Long riders as sch mecate Kid 516-610-8166 Farmingdale Levisiens inc chrysos- upstate new York smokin’ guns as ash renegade roper 518-883-5981 galway tome/Lavis OH Long Harbour Lead slingers Tues preacher man 250-537-0083 salt spring Bc Big irons mounted rangers as sch stoneburner 513-829-4099 middletown John island WI SOUTH AFRICA renegade rangers as sch ace montana 920-960-1714 ripon Western shooters of south africa 3rd sat richmond p. 27 21 797 5054 cape Town Hobson Monthly Mounted International pioneer creek rangers 4th sat slow Wilson 27 83 667 5066 pretoria LEBANON SASS Lebanon - El Rancho as sch packin Jesse 96 1138 5982 varies Sporting Club CANADA Quebec mounted shooting as sch dirty owl Bert 819-424-7842 Joliette ! association SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Dates Contact Phone City State Match Dates Contact Phone City State USA 2013 MAY (continued) MARCH Buffalo stampede: Founders ranch 07 - 11 sass office 505-843-1320 edgewood nm Bayou Blast 08 - 10 possum skinner 337-372-0586 Lake charles La championship gathering of The posses 15 - 17 squibber 602-309-4198 casa grande aZ THe preview to end of TraiL The ide’s of march 15 - 17 arcadia outlaw 352-208-2788 Tavares FL Blackhawk War 11 - 11 stoneface 801-787-5208 springville uT SASS South Carolina State 21 - 24 cowboy Junky 864-414-5578 greenville sc daguerrean Championship Manse’s Revenge SASS Virginia Blackpowder 11 - 11 striker 804-339-8442 West point va Trailhead 21 - 24 charles 281-342-1210 columbus TX Shootout Smoke on the Mattaponi VI goodnight defend the roost 16 - 19 Just george 760-677-9109 ridgecrest ca Butterfield range War Law 26 - 27 Fast Hammer 575-647-3434 Las cruces nm sass senior games 16 - 18 Honey B. 903-272-9283 clarksville TX enforcement vs cowboys more Fun Less run graceful shootout on the Little river 30 - 30 Big Boyd 229-244-3161 valdosta ga return to Helldorado 17 - 19 Hoot 707-484-9283 ukiah ca APRIL stand on the eagle river 17 - 19 Battle moun- 970-390-1369 gypsum co The plainfield incident 04 - 07 point of origin 530-304-5616 davis ca tain Bandit comancheria days 04 - 07 red scott 210-316-0199 Fredericks- TX SASS NORTHWEST TERRITO- 17 - 19 pinto annie 509-520-2789 milton- or burg RIAL BLACK POWDER Freewater SASS Mideast Territorial Black 06 - 07 deadwood stan 513-394-3400 middletown oH CHAMPIONSHIP Smoke in the Blues Powder Championship shootout at Leadville 17 - 19 red-eyed Kid 443-392-1615 Jefferson pa Smoke in the Woods SASS West Virginia State 17 - 19 eddie rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor Wv Land run 11 - 14 Flat Top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma oK Blackpowder Championship city Smoke over Buffalo Flats ruckus at red rock 17 - 20 Bit Younger 435-817-0056 st. george uT SASS Utah State Blackpowder 18 - 18 rowdy Hand 435-637-8209 price uT shootout at Fort miller 18 - 21 pocket change 559-683-2204 clovis ca Shootout The Castle Gate Smudge Match showdown at purgatory 19 - 21 macon a. Long- 601-954-3720 mendenhall ms SASS Mississippi State 23 - 26 easy Lee 901-413-5615 Byhalia ms shot Championship Smokin’ Guns at Rabbit Ridge Last stand at Thunder river 25 - 27 Texas rooster 936-588-6849 magnolia TX shootout at Three Fingers saloon 24 - 26 dirty sally 805-438-4817 santa ca dry gulch at arroyo cantua 25 - 28 sutter Lawman 530-713-4194 sloughhouse ca margarita SASS Washington State 26 - 28 ricochet 509-628-0889 Benton city Wa ambush at mill creek 24 - 26 ivory Jack 714-739-2721 norco ca Blackpowder Championship – robbie mccloud A Dark Day at Rattlesnake Gulch end of road 24 - 26 White eyes 208-734-8440 Jerome id MAY SASS Ohio State Championship 24 - 26 Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 piqua oH SASS California State 02 - 05 mad Trapper 661-589-7472 Bakersfield ca Shootout at Hard Times Championship of rat river SASS Pennsylvania State 24 - 26 Black Hills 570-538-9163 muncy pa Shootout at 5 Dogs Creek Championship Barb valley SASS Georgia State 02 - 05 done gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville ga North Mountain Shoot Out XI Championship SASS Vermont State 24 - 26 doc mccoy 802-363-7162 st. Johnsbury vT Round Up at River Bend Championship Green Mountain Mayhem SASS Georgia State Blackpowder 02 - 02 done gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville ga duel in the desert 25 - 26 silverado H. d. 520-390-2263 Tombstone aZ Championship great Lakes match 25 - 27 Wall-man 248-628-7424 attica mi SASS Texas State Championship 02 - 05 Long Juan 512-750-3923 Lockhart TX Little Big match 25 - 26 William sackett 360-786-0199 Little rock Wa Ride with Pancho Villa SASS Iowa State Championship 30 - 01 pit mule 515-205-0557 indianola ia SASS Kansas State Blackpowder 03 - 05 Kansas Flat- 785-493-5682 chapman Ks Shoot out at Coyote Gulch Championship lander SASS North Carolina State 30 - 02 J. m. Brown 919-266-3751 salisbury nc Siege at Clark’s Creek Championship Uprising at Swearing Creek SASS Delaware State 03 - 05 Teton Tracy 302-378-7854 sudlersville md SASS MA, CT, and RI State 31 - 02 Barrister Bill 978-667-2219 Harvard ma Championship Championship Shootout at Sawyer Flats Eas’dern Shore Round-up reckoning on the rock 31 - 02 stoney mike 608-868-5167 Beloit Wi

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J. Law 248-828-0440 port Huron mi Yellowstone valley Buffalo 21 - 23 grizzly Bill 406-252-4157 Billings mT Championship stampede Wolverine Rangers Range War SASS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 22 - 30 sass office 505-843-1320 edgewood nm siege at san Juan city 31 - 03 san Juan 970-249-4227 montrose co END of TRAIL SASS Wisconsin State 23 - 23 captain cook 715-248-3727 station range Wi Annual International Matches Blackpowder Shootout AUSTRALIA Smoke in the Hills SASS AUSTRALIAN sep 30 - 06 virgil 61 74 695 2050 millmerran Koruption in paradise – 2013 28 - 30 Korupt Karl 260-438-1044 etna green in REGIONAL earp JULY CHAMPIONSHIP Chisholm Trail railhead 04 - 07 sly puppy 623-776-5724 Williams aZ NEW ZEALAND rocky mountain regional raid 04 - 07 sweetwater 303-366-8827 Byers co SASS New Zealand Wild oct 10 - 12 J. d. Kid 64-03-304-8401 Hokitika Bill Bunch Championship South of the Border SASS Alaska Territorial 05 - 07 Tripod 907-373-0140 anchorage aK CZECH REPUBLIC Championship – SASS European aug 07 - 10 Thunder man 42 060 322 2400 Tabor Shootout Under The Midnight Sun Championship Days of Truth SASS Alaska State Championship 12 - 14 Kootenai 907-377-0331 chatanika aK FRANCE Brown Buffalo valley Jun 14 - 16 slye 02 37 63 65 83 châteauneuf-en- SASS Montana State 12 - 14 montana Lil’ 406-761-0896 simms mT Buffalo Thymerais Championship skeeter Last shot on the Trail Jul 17 - 21 marshal dundee 33 04 66 759 529 uzes Shootout On the Sun River GERMANY Fracas at pemi gulch 12 - 14 Bear Lee 603-667-0104 Holderness nH SASS European Regional sep 26 - 29 repHiL 49 170 231 9708 phipippsburg Tallable German Territorial Roundup The geronimo Trail shootout 12 - 14 chico cheech 575-388-2531 silver city / nm mimbres Mounted Annual Matches Little Big match 12 - 14 pinto annie 509-520-2789 dayton Wa castle gate robbery 18 - 20 rowdy Hand 435-637-8209 price uT FEBRUARY 2013 Hell on the prairie 20 - 21 oklahoma spuds 405-640-5650 Lawton oK SASS National Mounted 22 - 24 dan nabbit 520-456-0423 Tombstone aZ SASS Pennsylvania State 21 - 21 slowpoke John 717-676-3198 ickesburg pa Shooting Championship-Winter Range Blackpowder Shootout JUNE Smoke on the Ridge SASS WORLD MOUNTED 27 - 30 sass 505-843-1320 edgewood nm SASS Colorado State 25 - 27 colorado Black- 970-260-5432 Whitewater co CHAMPIONSHIP office Wild Bunch™ Championship jack END OF TRAIL SASS NEW ENGLAND 25 - 28 capt. morgan 603-772-5041 pelham nH AUGUST REGIONAL rum The Great Nor’easter SASS FOUR CORNERS 23 - 24 icelady 505-263-5619 edgewood nm REGIONAL – Outlaw Trail Mounted

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we must aDopt A NEW STRATEG Y! demonstrations of respect for law- By Colonel Dan, SASS Life/Regulator #24025 abiding citizens and their rights. 3) Put unrelenting pro-gun Colonel Dan, SASS Lif e/ the First Amendment to focus sane. We the people must adopt a pressure on every elected and ap - Regulator #24025 blame. The liberal propaganda ma - new strategy. We the people must pointed official at all levels—to in - chines we call the news media at strongly take the offense and ab - clude the courts—and sustain it this moment in history control the solutely refuse to accept any in - until we win! How? any in our pro-constitu - platforms of public information and fringement on our constitutionally 4) The leadership of every pro- tion crowd are always sit - can therefore paint any picture they guaranteed right to keep and bear gun group must renew their efforts ting on pins and needles desire and use that to ascribe arms. It’s clearly up to us to un - at unifying gun owners everywhere, M waiting for the next gun blame—no matter how misplaced. apologetically maintain that the transforming them into a coordi - related tragedy, hoping beyond hope Think how different things would Second Amendment is just as sa - nated, stronger, extremely effective, that next one never comes. The be if an honest accounting were cred as the First the left so vehe - and more focused political force. lament is, ‘These incidents just have given and blame focused on the mently defends. That takes a large membership cou - to stop or more of our constitutional killer himself, shared by whoever The Second Amendment re - pled with a hardcore drive on the rights will be legislated away by let this nut run wild, or who refused mains in place, and we must never part of the leaders to join forces, or - media supported crusaders.” As if to enforce the law, or those who compromise nor pay tribute to ganize and focus member enthusi - any manmade tragedy can legally failed to properly supervise and tyrants whose goal is subjugation or asm, prepare it for the battle ahead, be used as an excuse to infringe on rear their children. What if the ac - infringement of those rights—pe - and supply the overall strategic an unalienable right?! Let’s face it; tual implement used was never riod. We’ve been pushed far further plan and direction to be executed by whether it’s a tragedy of 1 or 21, in - mentioned because in reality, it than we should have ever allowed that force. It must constantly pro - cidents of people getting shot will doesn’t matter what was used? Do ourselves to be pushed, and it’s up vide the members with coordinated never stop—the odds just dictate you think we would have all this to us to adopt a new strategy with action to be taken that supports the that in a country of over 310 mil - anti-gun fervor in the country uncompromising resolve and deter - overall strategic goals and objec - lion; you know it, I know it, and just today? The answer is NO. mined action at its core. No one tives—they must more actively mo - as importantly, anti-gunners knows Thinking that the only way to ever won a war based on defense bilize, coordinate, and direct the it. In fact, they rely on it. retain our rights is if these inci - alone—the ‘prevent defense’ is a force. A Combined Force Forum Statists know that on any given dents miraculously stop and we myth. I’m convinced that an effec - using the virtual world of the Inter - day somewhere a gun will be mis - continue to use rational logic in tive offense based on principled con - net is one very effective way to co - used and the more dramatically talking with the anti-gun faction is stitutional truth concerning our ordinate a national force and direct horrendous the incident, the better. ludicrous. We’re at war with a fa - sacred God-given rights of self- their combined efforts. They will then focus much of the natical anti-freedom, anti-Bill of preservation will ultimately win. 5) We should steadfastly stand blame on guns and pro-gun groups Rights machine that effectively My suggestion is for pro- along side and encourage gun man - rather than placing the spotlight uses these incidents and its consti - gun/pro-constitutional groups to ufactures to fight government at - where it squarely belongs, on the tutionally protected ability to focus fervently adopt the following strat - tempts at blackmail and/or one who pulled the trigger, the gov - blame and enflame the ignorant in egy—and do so independently of extortion to the extent of actually ernment agency that refused to order to further an agenda of dis - the GOP as necessary: 1) Tell the moving their factories out of puni - prosecute, or the parent that let arming America. anti-gun crowd in no uncertain tive states, taking their tax revenue their child run wild will seldom Reason, talk, and hope are inef - terms that our Second Amendment with them and rewarding other incur as much culpability in the fective methods in dealing with any rights are sacred and therefore states that are fully supportive of press as the gun or the “gun lobby.” group of irrational zealots who push non-negotiable—ever. Without the Second Amendment. The loss Truth doesn’t have a role in their an extreme agenda portraying the even a hint of apology or compro - or gain of revenue always gets a script. Second as sinister rather than sa - mise, let them know we’ll work to politician’s attention. Expensive Additionally, cases like these cred. Pro-constitutional talk and help educate and train people on business for the gun maker? You latest shooting incidents all have conservative pundits, who continue gun safety, we will support enforce - bet, but the alternative may just be unique causes and outcomes—ask pointing out the left’s anti-constitu - ment of the laws against murder, no business at all. Besides, I’m bet - any of our resident lawmen about tional behavior day after day, al - robbery, rape, assault, and meas - ting the first gun manufacturer to that. However, the picture we see though accurate, have ures to keep guns out of the hands stand up and tell the government of painted by the left is that guns are unfortunately been ineffective in of the insane, but we will never dis - a punitive state, “Goodbye Mr. Gov - the root of all evil in every instance. significantly blunting the left’s cuss surrendering or compromising ernor, the Second is sacred, too, and They whip up the most horrendous progress. Statists simply ignore away the right of peaceable citizens it’s on that point we make our image of an event and the final con - logic, truth, facts, law, and the con - to keep and bear arms. That has to stand, so Don’t Tread on Me—we’re clusion, specified or implied, is al - stitution itself as they successfully be made emphatically clear. Re - moving.” would instantly become ways— “…therefore we need more continue to advance tyranny. End - gardless of who’s in office, or how the most popular gun maker in gun control.” less talking, regardless of how fac - many votes they get … or steal, America and sales would explode! Frustrating? You bet. But the tual, does no good with such they’re still ultimately constrained 6) At some point we may be left has something we don’t have in deceitful fanatics, and for conserva - by the constitution—period. talking about civil disobedience this fight—the vast public platform tives to take the same defensive ap - 2) Publicly reward success re - and/or state nullification of this fed - that provides them the constitu - proach over and over again while garding effective punishment of vi - eral intrusion on our rights. So be tionally protected capability under expecting different results is in - olent felons and encourage (Continued on page 61 ) VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com Page 76 Cowboy Chronicle March 2013

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