RED MOUNTAIN RENEGADES 2006 SASS Canadian Regional Championship RECKONING at RED MOUNTAIN PASS by Rusty Wood, SASS #50427 SASS Canadian Regional Match Director
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MercantileEXCITINGSee section our NovemberNovember 2001 2001 CowboyCowboy ChronicleChronicle(starting on pagePagePage 90) 11 The Cowboy Chronicle~. The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Shooting Society ® Vol. 19 No. 12 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. December 2006 RED MOUNTAIN RENEGADES 2006 SASS Canadian Regional Championship RECKONING AT RED MOUNTAIN PASS By Rusty Wood, SASS #50427 SASS Canadian Regional Match Director ept 1-3, 2006 Mission, BC. See HIGHLIGHTS on page 73 – Mayhem ensued as every S competitor got shot … a shot day’s stages and shooting challenges glass that is. Hosting the fourth they posed, but most were distracted annual SASS Canadian Regional for by the drifting aroma of the roast the first time in Mission, BC, the pigs slowly turning on the spit over Red Mountain Renegades wanted to hot coals. As in all Red Mountain ensure all shooters had a great time Renegades shoots, the vittles took and left with fond memories and a first prize, and all competitors memento. So in the true Cowboy enjoyed the fabulous buffets laid out way, everyone was presented with a for their consumption at the lunches custom etched two-oz whiskey shot and dinners. While we all waited for glass commemorating the event and the pig to roast to perfection, four- treated to a first class three-day man teams were randomly drawn event in a truly picturesque setting for a team side match consisting of with ample camping and RV space. 100 targets and 13 no shoots. All After last minute setup and fin- had fun participating, but the high- ishing touches were completed by light was when a team of all black- the hard working volunteers on powder shooters took the line and Friday morning, it was time to get proceeded to unleash their furry on the ball rolling. This year’s event the small targets. I take my hat off started with seven side matches on to those boys because darned if I Friday afternoon, and it was a busy could see the targets let alone hit afternoon! With a huge interest in one in that haze of smoke and flame! the side matches, we had to be fast Saturday evening after devour- on our feet to ensure everyone got a ing the desert table, shooters were chance to show their skills and chal- entertained by Rusty Wood’s and lenge their friends. Things flowed Gifford Gringo’s antics as they joy- well and all enjoyed the afternoon in fully gave away over $8500 in prizes the sun. Later, after some vittles, all from the bountiful prize table, including no less than six firearms. Dallas Dancer, SASS #42365, Lady 49’er Champion shows off her A Puma 1892 rifle donated by winning form at the 4th SASS Canadian Regional hosted by the SASS Cowboy Chronicle Legacy International went to a very Red Mountain Renegades in beautiful Mission, British Columbia. excited Cathouse Willie for being relaxed and socialized around the bell rang, calling all shooters to con- first drawn out of the hat. Paddy In This Issue campfire in the evening while con- vene at the safety meeting. Under O’Weary from The Bullet Barn won templating their strategies for clear, sunny skies, competitors broke a striking stainless Ruger 10/22 EVOLUTION OF COWBOY 50 donated by Wild West Shooting BOOTS Saturday’s stages. into five posses and headed to their by Capt. George Baylor Saturday morning the Wild Rose first stage. As usual, all enjoyed the (Continued on page 72) 64 UBERTI’S .45 FRISCO MODEL REVIEW by Tuolumne Lawman C 74 WOLVERINE RANGE WAR h C by Katie Callahan r o o w ELUVA UKUS n b 76 H R by Annabelle Bransford i o c 23255 La Palma Avenue y Yorba Linda, California 92887 78 FRACAS AT PEMI GULCH l by Iron Pony e www.sassnet.com 7302 E. Main St., Suite #7, Mesa, AZ 85207 800-596-0444 • (480) 218-1181 • FAX 888-528-5487 Email [email protected] www.wildwestmercantile.com December 2006 Cowboy Chronicle Page 5 The Cowboy CCONTENTSONTENTS Chronicle 1 ON THE COVER 2006 SASS Canadian Regional Championship . 6 FROM THE EDITOR Civility And The Internet . Editorial Staff 8-14 NEWS SASS Announces Membership Dues Increase . SASS® Mounted Shooting Club Affiliation Tex Editor-in-Chief 16 A Victorian Metamorphosis . Cat Ballou CAT’S CORNER Editor Chiz 18 CHIZ BIZ What’s Goin’ On . Managing Editor Advertising Director 20-24 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . 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Also, one never was only through the civility of the anything … differences in opinion knows what others may do with that recipients the originators were not are natural, and we’ve all long since message … if someone forwards it to sued for slander. Unless things learned how to have a discussion everyone they know, the original change, someday someone will reach expressing differing points of views. statement is then read far and wide the end of their patience and sue Even when the feelings are deeply … and everyone knows who said it. someone for everything they own … felt and passionately argued, we all Even if the original message was it won’t be a pretty sight … and know how to have the discussion intended to be private, but gets wide before it’s all over, you can bet every- without ever getting personal, deni- distribution and turns out to be slan- one will know what happened! grating one’s personality, or other- derous and/or libelous, guess whom Similarly, there are many self- wise being seriously offensive. In the guilty party is! professed “experts” on the wire who grade school most of us learned if If something said about another really don’t have a clue what they’re you insulted a person to their face, person is true, it may not be pretty, talking about. Once again, you’re Tex, SASS #4 you were likely going to eat a knuck- but it’s not libelous or slanderous. If not doing anyone any favors when ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~ le sandwich! We just don’t slander you have first hand information you pass along bad advice and incor- folks to their face. regarding the credibility of the infor- rect information.