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END of TRAIL 2012 END of TRAIL Accolades By Captain George Baylor, SASS #24287 Photos by Black Jack McGinnis, SASS #2041, Mr. Quigley Photography, hank you very much for a Tex, SASS #4, and Slow Southern Draw’l, SASS #93892 Tgreat END of TRAIL and “thanks to you for the great organ - trance is at 7000 feet, and the ization. This was one of the best “town” i2s a tho0usand 1feet bel2 ow at END of TRAILs I have ever at - the bottom of the hill, and every - tend!” – Alchemista thing is visible from the hillcrest. A “END of TRAIL 2012 was a fantastic view it is. It is part per - very well run match, with hittable manent buildings, part tent city, targets and well planned stages. A with more permanent buildings must for new shooters interested each year. If you had been here be - in seeing how matches should be fore, the improvements were visible run.” – Johnny Meadows from first look. The new buildings “The view from my saddle were brightly painted. The new was only positive. Everything chapel was off to the left looking ap - went well, no problems I could propriate for a western movie. Past see. The props were much better, the town is what you came for, the and there was a bunch more huge 17 bay range designed for shade on the bays. Nice cold Cowboy Action Shooting™. On the water was always available, brass range you could see two new perma - rats were polite and careful. The nent sets, both brightly painted. targets and stages were well There were new welcoming signs as thought out and 100% hittable. you drove slowly down the road to Our overall experience was very The final “big event” at END of TRAIL was the Top Gun Shoot-off. the town and range area. positive. I’ve sorta lost track on There were men’s and ladies’ brackets in both Cowboy Action END of TRAIL is the biggest how many END of TRAILs we’ve and Wild Bunch™, plenty of color commentary, 40 knockdowns SASS match held on a ranch dedi - attended, but this was a GOOD for two competitors going head-to-head, and each round ended with cated to Cowboy Action Shooters. one! Many thanks to all of you a “bang!” Cheers and groans were common as various champions Founders Ranch is not a state- who worked so hard to show us a either prevailed or went down in defeat. It was entertaining owned range. It’s not rented. No good time.” – Mudflat Mike for both the competitors AND the audience! uncooperative landowner or un - (Continued on page 24 ) friendly political administration ounders Ranch, New are still wild and desolate, and west - will shut it down on a whim. It is Mexico, June 16-24, ern movies are made there today. expensive to keep up. A ranch eats SASS C owboy Chronicle 2012 – New Mexico did not The Lone Ranger had wrapped this money like cattle eat hay. The Wild F become a state until 1912, spring not far away. If you’re look - Bunch has done several things to the last of the Old West territories ing for a glimpse into the Old West, change that. The buffalo herd have In This Issue to become a state. Much of its his - as the salsa commercial used to say, been replaced by Longhorn cattle, a tory has become Old West legend, “This ain’t New York City.” potentially more profitable and eas - 14 END of TRAIL from Billy The Kid and the Lincoln The 31st Annual END of TRAIL ier to manage herd. All the cattle County War to Black Jack Ketchum, celebrating the New Mexico Cen - have names now, so we’ll see how osTumE oNTEsTs C C the Apache wars, Buffalo soldiers, tennial was held in Founders that works out. Opening a shotgun by Cat Ballou and Pancho Villa’s raid on Colum - Ranch, surrounded by more than club at the entrance and opening bus. There was a cattle queen, glimpses of the Old West. the range for public shooting when 52 END of TRAIL Susan McSween, cattle drives, and Entering the ranch is striking the facility is not in use help offset mouNTED ChAmpIoNshIp silver mines. Parts of New Mexico in more ways than one. The en - (Continued on page 25 )

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6 FROM THE EDITOR What’s Happened To Our Costumes? . . . Editorial Staff Tex Editor-in-Chief 8-10 NEWS Five Honorees Garner Prestigious (Cowboy Keeper Award) . . . Cat Ballou Editor 12-16 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . . . Miss Tabitha Asst. Editor 14 CAT’S CORNER Lots Of Great Costumes At 31st Annual END of TRAIL! . . . Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 22-40 ARTICLES The Chapel Stands Tall But More Needs To Be Done! . . . Mac Daddy 42-50 GUNS & GEAR One Pot Chuck . . . Dispatches From Camp Baylor . . . Graphic Design Buttercup Advertising Manager 52 MOUNTED SASS Mounted Shooting World Championship . . . (505) 843-1320 • Fax: (877) 770-8687 [email protected] 57 PROFILES The Outlaw and Annie . . . Contributing Writers 59, 60 HISTORY Capgun Kid, Capt. George Baylor, Geronimo . . . Little Known Famous People (Way Out West) . . . Col. Dan, Cree Vicar Dave, Deadly Sharpshooter, Elzie Creed, 62 REVIEWS BOOKS Escape From The Alamo . . . Gringo Gordo, Inspector, Joe Fasthorse, Long Johns Wolf, TRAIL MARKER Maurice "Mo" Lasses, 63 Always To Be Remembered . . . Palaver Pete, Sgt. Shuster, Sierrita Slim, Slick’s Sharpshooter, 64-68 ON THE RANGE What’s Goin’ On In Your Town? . . . Whooper Crane, White Smoke Steve, Wichita Ol’ Salt, 70 CLUB REPORTS RO Classes Can Be Fun! . . . Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp 71-73 GENERAL STORE /CLASSIFIED The Cowboy Chronicle is published by The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. 74-77 SASS MERCANTILE For advertising information and rates, ad - (Nice Collectables) . . . ministrative, and edi to rial offices contact: Chronicle Administrator 78-85 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS (MONTHLY, ANNUA L) 215 Cowboy Way Edgewood, NM 87015 (505) 843-1320 86 POLITICAL I’ll Remember In November . . . FAX (505) 843-1333 email: [email protected] http://www.sassnet.com 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 - SASS ® Trademarks wood, NM and additional mailing offices sAss ®, single Action shooting society ®, (USPS #032). POSTMASTER: Send ad- dress changes to The Cowboy Chronicle , 215 ® ® END of TRAIL , EoT , Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. The Cowboy Chro nicle Tm , Cowboy Action shooting Tm , DISCLAIMER - The Single Action Shooting Society does not guarantee, warranty or en - Tm Tm CAs , Wild Bunch , dorse any product or service advertised in Wild Bunch Action shooting Tm , this newspaper. The publisher also does not The World Championship of guarantee the safety or effectiveness of any Tm product or service illustrated. The distri - Cowboy Action shooting , bution of some products/services may be il - Bow-legged Cowboy Design, and the legal in some areas, and we do not assume Rocking horse Design responsibility thereof. State and local laws are all trademarks of must be investigated by the purchaser prior to purchase or use or products/services. The single Action shooting society, Inc. Any use or reproduction of these marks WARNING: Neither the author nor The The Judge and NRA’s Kayne Robinson ceremoniously cut Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi - the ribbon on the new NRA Museum at Founders Ranch. without the express written permission bility for accidents or diffe ring results The NRA reached deep into their gun vault and brought of SASS is strictly prohibited. obtained using reloading data. Variation many rare and interesting guns to END of TRAIL, in handloading tech niques, compo nents, and fire arms will make results vary. Have especially guns made famous in Hollywood. a competent gunsmith check your firearms before firing. VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle September 2012

What’s Happened To our Costumes? from which they are constructed. • Boots are required and must be By Tex, SASS #4 • Nylon, plastic, or Velcro accouter - of traditional design with non- ments. grip enhancing (i.e. “NO Lug”) at all match events: dinners, award • The displaying of manufac - soles. Moccasins are not allowed. ceremonies, dances, etcetera. turer’s, sponsor’s, or team logos on • Hats must be worn for the entire • ALL clothing and equipment apparel. match. MUST be worn appropriately, In addition, there are special re - B-Western how it was intended and how it quirements for our “costume” cate - • Leather: Buscadero holster rigs or would have been worn in the gories … drop holster rigs. (All of the re - Tex, SASS #4 OLD WEST or as seen on B-West - Classic Cowboy volver(s) must be carried below the ern movies and television. • Must choose at least five of the re - top of the gun belt.) All belt and Similarly, there are several quirements listed below. All holster rigs must be embellished he Shooters Handbook is things expressly outlawed … clothing items must be worn ap - (fancy stitching, conchos, spots, or clear when it comes to cos - • Short sleeve shirts (Male com - propriately during all shooting tooling). All holsters must be of T tumes … petitors only) events and awards ceremonies. the “Double Strong-Side” type. No • Cowboy Action Shooting™ is a • Short sleeve tee shirts, long sleeve • Chaps, spurs, cuffs, tie or scarf crossdraw, shoulder rigs, or butt combination of historical reenact - tee shirts, and tank tops for all worn loosely around the neck or forward con fi gu rations allowed. ment and Saturday morning at competitors. with scarf slide, vest, pocket • Costuming: Shirts must be of the the matinee. Participants may • Modern feathered cowboy hats watch with full length chain, “B” Western style with snap buttons choose the style of costume they (Shady Bradys). Straw hats of jacket, sleeve garters, knife, botas, or any of the following: “Smiley wish to wear, but all clothing traditional design (e.g., Stetson, leggings, braces; no straw or Pockets,” embroidery, appliqués, must be typical of the late 19th Bailey, sombreros,) are acceptable. palm hats allowed. fringe, or different colored yokes. century, a B-western movie, or • Designer jeans • No Buscadero or drop holster rigs Shield shirts are also allowed if it Western television series. • Ball caps allowed (i.e., part of the grip must has piping or embroidery. • All shooters must be in costume … • All types of athletic shoes or com - be above the belt on which the • Pants must be jeans, ranch pants, Shooters must remain in costume bat boots, no matter the material holster hangs). or pants with flap over the rear

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pocket, keystone belt loops, game. It takes awhile to get com - and/or piping or fringe. fortable with the notion of dress - • Pants must be worn with a belt. ing 1880s style or as our Suspenders are not allowed. Felt B-Western heroes … and it takes hats only, no straw hats. Hats even longer sometimes to develop must be worn. an appropriate period-correct out - • Boots are required and must be of fit (or two … or three … or …). traditional design with fancy Also, while there are some who stitching or multi-color fancy de - have developed their costume … sign with non-grip enhancing (i.e. it’s a pity when they deem it ap - “NO Lug”) soles. Lace up boots propriate to only have one … even and moccasins are not allowed. in the Old West, folks generally • Western Spurs with rowels are re - had more than one set of clothes! quired for men. When it’s 103 at the range, • You must choose at least one or EVERYONE is motivated to dress more of the following optional lightly and try to stay cool … but items: gloves or gauntlets, scarves that doesn’t mean it’s OK to wear with slides or tied around the t-shirts and tennis shoes! Leave neck or bolo tie, coat, vest, chaps the vest and wool shirt at home, or cuffs. dig out your lightest weight pants • All costumes are expected to be and a cotton shirt (or one of those fancy and flashy. The “B” West - thoroughly modern, but correctly ern costuming must be worn dur - styled Cooler Cowboy Shirts™). ing the entire match and awards When it’s 30 degrees at the ceremony with exception of range, it’s time to pull out the buf - evening formal occasions. falo robes, Indian blankets, fur- Costuming has always been lined dusters and rain coats, and important to SASS and the game maybe a couple of Henleys to wear we play, Cowboy Action Shoot - under that wonderfully warm ing™. It not only enhances our wool shirt! Modern-day synthetic own sense of fantasy, it provides an cold weather coats are out of Old West atmosphere where we place. If the cowboy of old could can all drift back into a simpler herd cattle while the snow was time of yesteryear where a man’s blowing … you can also dress cow - word was his bond, kids were po - boy when shooting in inclement lite to their elders, women were weather! Find a way to do it “in treasured and treated with utmost style!” respect, and our integrity was all Most of us are old … and our we really owned. It’s the thing feet hurt. For many, boots hurt that sets Cowboy Action aside our feet and for some, they are from all the other shooting sports. simply not an option … but for Yes, Cowboy Action IS a sport, but most, they can be. Moccasins, low- it’s also a game … and whether heeled boots, and orthotic in-soles one considers it a game or a sport, are all options for hurtin’ feet. it has rules. Some of the rules deal Work boots, modern athletic with costuming requirements. shoes, and tennis shoes are not. And, we all know what we call What is particularly disap - folks who don’t follow the rules … pointing is to see some top-notch SASS is clearly an 1880s game competitors out of costume … … not a 1980s game. Modern day even wearing t-shirts at some cowboys are wonderful and have competitions! These are folks who their own “look” … but that’s not SHOULD be setting an example the “look” of an 1880s-style SASS for the newer and younger com - cowboy (or cowgirl). A modern- petitors. Young folks and new day cowboy with belt supported folks will often be seen in inappro - wranglers, work or snap-button priate outfits … simply because shirt, modern straw “cowboy” hat, they don’t know any better … it’s and “roach killer” boots or work up to the older, more experience boots just doesn’t cut it. Worse shooters to show them the way … yet, it’s not in conformance with to set a good example so they can the rules … it’s a slap in the face be emulated. These “rookies” may to all those who do go to the effort then grow up to be not only excel - to develop a “period-correct” cos - lent competitors, but they’ll look tume, and it destroys the illusion great as well! for the rest of us of helping tame This game is about more than the western frontier for the likes just the shooting. It’s also about of God-fearing families! incorporating the costuming rules Of course, all sorts of slack is laid out many years ago in the freely offered for those new to the SASS Handbook.

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2012 five Honorees Garner Prestigious Cowboy Keeper Award Recognition , ach year since 2006, the dation, J.R. Sanders, Susan Thomas, school and college, achieving fame National Day of the Cow - and the Will James Society. as a rodeo rider, including 1976 boy 501(c)3 has selected Idolized by rodeo fans, writing World Champion Bareback Rider. E individuals and organi - timeless songs that captured the When his musical star began to rise, zations that have contributed signif - essence and spirit of rodeo and cow - he went to Nashville to try his luck, icantly to the preservation of boys, forever immortalized in Garth where he was told “his music would - pioneer heritage and cowboy cul - Brooks’ “Much Too Young to Feel n’t sell.” With true cowboy grit, ture, to receive its Cowboy Keeper this Damn Old,” legendary on stage Chris started his own record label, Award . The award was conceived in for a wildly soaring energy level, leg - selling his music everywhere he support of the National Day of the endary cowboy Chris LeDoux ex - could. Thirty-six albums and mil - Cowboy’s mission to increase aware - celled at everything he tried. He lions of sales later he showed the ness for and celebration of the Na - received a horse as a boy and made world a man who stuck with his tional Day of the Cowboy. The up his mind to be a ridin’, ropin’ dreams. He eventually achieved esteemed recipients of the 2012 cowboy. He soon began rodeoing, success at every level of rodeo and Cowboy Keeper Award are Chris winning championships early on International acclaim as a sin - LeDoux, Cowgirls Historical Foun - and continuing to rodeo in high ge r/ songwriter, but Chris wanted to be known best for being “a good hus - The artist image selected for use band and family man.” in the 2012 Cowboy Keeper Award A Gold Record recipient, member is the heartwarming painting, of the Pro Rodeo and Rodeo Halls of “Morning Lessons,” the work of Fame, Wyoming’s Chris LeDoux was Phil Beck, a renowned and gifted the epitome of the cowboy little western artist from Arizona. buckaroos want to grow up to be. He looked you in the eye with a broad Old West history is reflected in his warm smile and spoke to you cowboy literary articles and his books, such to cowboy. Respected for his mod - as The Littlest Wrangler, as well as esty, humbleness, friendliness, and in his work as a living historian in kindness, he lived to exemplify what which he regularly portrays cow - he believed a good cowboy should be. boys, lawmen, and Gold Rush On the road with LeDoux for years, prospectors in creative historically Mark Sissell of TKO Entertainment correct presentations to schools, col - sums Chris up, “Working with Chris leges, and historical societies was like getting up every morning throughout Southern California. He and going down the road with John has worked both on-camera and be - Wayne. The only difference was, hind the scenes on A&E/History there was no on-screen/off-screen; Channel’s documentary series Dan - Chris was the same extraordinary gerous Missions . J. R. Sanders is person every day, all the time. Any - also an active member of the West - one who ever associated with Chris ern Writers of America, the Na - LeDoux ended up the better for it.” tional Day of the Cowboy, and the California’s Western author, J. Wild West History Association. R. Sanders, is the tireless catalyst Arizona’s beloved ambassadors behind the groundbreaking national of western heritage the Cowgirl’s Read Em Cowboy project he devel - Historical Foundation, a non-profit oped and initiated in 2011 in sup - organization, faithfully “Saddled Up port of the quest for a National Day for Service.” These young women of the Cowboy. As a result of his work continuously to increase public work, there will be at least eight awareness around the importance of Read Em Cowboy events nationwide the preservation of western heritage in 2012; all focused on encouraging and the equestrian life style. Their young people to read and write initiatives are met through excellent western literature and cowboy po - educational programs, including etry while learning about pioneer workshops they conduct teaching history. Sanders’ deep interest in (Continued on next page) VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com September 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 9

e e Cowboy Keeper Award . . . (Continued from previous page) have faithfully hosted the annual poise, horsemanship, and public “Will James Gather,” educating, en - Chapel Contributions speaking skills. You may find these tertaining, honouring, and fundrais - he SASS Western Heritage Museum’s Cowboy Memorial Chapel talented young ladies performing ing through the sharing of music, Twill need financial support from many sources. Your contribution precision equestrian drill team western literature, cowboy poetry, will ensure success in bringing such a worthwhile project to fruition. demonstrations or acting in their and story telling. They steadfastly Please be a part of this momentous milestone by becoming a Contrib - children’s play, Keeping Our Western recreate a campfire atmosphere and utor to the Museum’s Memorial Chapel. Past Alive, or you may be lucky invite the best of storytellers and enough to attend one of their electri - cowboy singers and writers to partic - Bronze Level Donor $100 fying cowboy couture fashion shows ipate in the Gather. • Name inclusion on Cowboy Legacy Plaque placed in the Chapel featuring collectible rhinestone stud - The Will James Gifting Program Silver Level Donor $500 ded vintage western wear from Hol - is the Society’s way of bringing sto - • Name Inclusion on Cowboy Legacy Plaque placed in the Chapel lywood’s glitterati age. These ries, written and illustrated by Will Gold Level $1,000 Cowgirls also spotlight Western Her - James, to communities everywhere, • Name inclusion on Cowboy Legacy Plaque with Prime Placement itage by riding on beautiful vintage so young and old alike can read placed in the Chapel parade saddles, paying tribute to the about and enjoy Will’s cowboy expe - past while honoring the future. They riences. James wrote about horses, Patron Level $2,500 have won many awards for their pa - rodeos, ranching, and the cowboy • Name inclusion on Cowboy Legacy Plaque with Prime Placement rade participation, including appear - way of life as only a true cowboy can. placed in the Chapel ances in the legendary Tournament The Will James Society has given Pew Donor $5,000 (Limited availability) of Roses Parade. The Cowgirls par - away over 1,700 Will James books in • Engraved plaque placed on pew ticipate faithfully in numerous local, the past five years. state, and national events and they Raised on a ranch in Wyoming, Donations of items for the Memorial Chapel lend a gracious volunteer hand at as Susan Thomas inspires and encour - • Will be recognized at one of the levels referenced above and in - many charity fundraising events as ages young people to strive to be all cluded on the appropriate Cowboy Legacy Plaque with Prime time and funds allow, cheerfully they can be through her own life Placement placed in the Chapel doing whatever needs to be done, work as an educator. As a cowgirl of I would like the plaque to read: performing hundreds of hours of unlimited compassion she has spent In Memory of ______community service annually. nearly four decades advocating for The artist image selected for use Nevada’s Will James Society the rights of children with special Donated by ______in the 2012 Cowboy Keeper Award nonprofit organization promotes the needs. She has served, and continues (your Name or your Clubs name) is the heartwarming painting, legacy, literature, and art of the great to serve, on the Boards of numerous “Morning Lessons,” the work of cowboy and author of the American Phil Beck, a renowned and gifted community organizations, including western artist from Arizona. West, Will James, through the giving the Board of Reach for a Star Riding in passage of the National Day of the boy legacy will live on forever.” of full sets of his inspiring and capti - Academy, the Natrona County Fair Cowboy resolution into Wyoming Susan Thomas has honored vating western books to public and Board, the Raising Readers Board, law on March 13, 2012, making Wyoming, Craig’s memory, and her school libraries, as well as to hospi - and the Advisory Council, Grand Wyoming the first state to pass the country through her 36 years of ex - tals and members of the military, Teton National Park Foundation. resolution in perpetuity. With this cellence in teaching and through her throughout the world. Will James Riding beside her husband, action, she graciously brought the persistent efforts on behalf of estab - Society members are dedicated to Craig, in the Cheyenne Frontier work of her late husband, U.S. Sena - lishing the National Day of the Cow - preserving the works and memory of Days parade, carrying the National tor Thomas, full-circle as the original boy for her fellow citizens. James, a renowned western author Day of the Cowboy flag, Susan sponsor of the Day of the Cowboy in Chris LeDoux, the Cowgirls and artist who won the Newbury Thomas exemplified the extraordi - 2005. As the resolution was signed Historical Foundation, J. R. Prize for Literature in 1927 for his nary cowgirl she is. Her dedicated by Governor Matt Mead, Susan Sanders, Susan Thomas, and the most famous book, Smoky the work as a National Day of the Cow - spoke these words, “I want to thank Will James Society, the five out - Cowhorse . For twenty years they boy volunteer in Wyoming resulted the Legislature for their votes, their standing recipients of the 2012 belief in the Great West, and most Cowboy Keeper Award , have all importantly, their belief in the Na - demonstrated a powerful commit - tional Day of the Cowboy, as spon - ment to the preservation of pioneer Little-Known-fact sored by Craig, and subsequently heritage and cowboy culture. The By the end of the Civil War, the Union had purchased about passed under his leadership in the U. National Day of the Cowboy lifts its 840,000 horses and 430,000 mules. S. Senate in 2005 and 2006. Your ac - hat high to each of these tremen - tion ensures Craig Thomas’s cow - dously deserving honorees.

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Jacket from some of his amazing leather goods and Tabitha how much you appre - inches, premium full race action Mad Mountain Mike for our first two raffles. He had ciate their support even during job, and 18K gold filled lettering ad Mountain Mike lost his told the Committee he would do - their own trying times. and numbering. All internal parts Mhome in the Colorado fires in nate again for the 2012 fund rais - jeweled, rechambered for modern June he and his wife, Miss ing campaign, but one could ammo. High grade walnut for Tabitha, shared. Despite having hardly expect him to donate again Dusty Levi’s Gun Cart butt stock and forearms, custom to evacuate the area and then considering his current circum - o you want a gun cart that gun case, special Chapel artwork finding out the house was totally stances. Dfolds up to the size of a suit - on butt stock, custom made stain - lost, and after two weeks of living But, donate he did! We have case, is fully self-contained, and is less steel “Coyote Cap Commemo - as nomads, they were at END of for auction a lady’s leather jacket FAA approved as luggage? Here rative” choke tube set, and best of TRAIL doing business as usual. with hand painted details, valued we have it!! Our friend Dusty all, a one year no BS Coyote Cap Hard to believe their attitude at $795. Starting bid for this won - Levis, from Wooden Works West, warranty! WOW, and that is not could be so positive after the loss, derful hand made jacket will be has made a unique folding cart all of it. There were only 27 of the but positive it was, despite some $500. Let’s show Mike and and has donated one for the 1901s made, so this is truly some - moments of sadness and tears Tabitha how much we appreciate Chapel project. thing any collector would want for shed with friends. their donations by taking the The product description reads his collection, and with Coyote Mad Mountain Mike was one price of this well over the retail like this. “At last, a full-size gun Cap’s name attached to it, you of the first vendors in SASS to price. You will be supporting the cart that can fit in the trunk of a just can not go wrong! show his support for the Cowboy Chapel project, getting a unique compact car and meets FAA size re - Starting bid will be $10,000 Memorial Chapel, and he donated period jacket, and showing Mike quirements for checked baggage. on this, with an estimated value The Carried Away™ gun cart is per - conservatively set at $15,000. fect for traveling to shoots, but so Good luck! nice you’ll want to use it all the time. It holds up to six long guns and has a built-in locking ammo box. When Print from Stan Lynde folded, the full axle and 16 " wheels of a Rick O’Shay comic store neatly inside. By the way, the rowing up, we all watched pneumatic wheels can handle the GRoy, Gene and Hoppy. A lot of roughest terrain. But, even rough us can remember a cartoon char - terrain can’t mar the elegant styling acter called Rick O’Shay, which of brass hinges, clasps, feet and cor - was done by Stan Lynde. Mr. ner guards, or the leather handle. Lynde has had success with sev - (Folded size: 9 " x 18 " x 28 ")” eral comic strips, and has written List price is $625, with our many Western novels. starting bid at $400. Be the first He has donated a print called on your posse to have this well The Elk Hunt, described this way: built, rugged cart! “Many an adult hunter has done this for a young first-time hunter—and chances are good Shotgu n/ rifle combo someone did it for us when we from Coyote Cap started out. Hipshot backs up f you have been around SASS Quyat’s shot, and Rick willingly Ifor any length of time, you know joins in the conspiracy!” the name Coyote Cap, and know The print is signed and num - his reputation. Well, he donated bered and is one of only 1,500 limited a truly unique firearm that has to edition prints, measuring 11 " h x 21 ". be seen to be believed!! Here is Minimum bid on this item is the description of it: Coyote Cap $75. This will look great framed 1901 Prototype Rifle/Shotgun in and hung in any man cave, reload - 70/150 caliber and 12 gauge. Bar - ing room, or trophy room ... well, rel cut and crowned at 18 1/4 just about anywhere!!

Little-Known-fact Captain Richard Dowling fought off 15,000 Northern troops with only 43 men and six cannons, without losing a single man.

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Unalienable Is Correct Alienable vs. Inalienable Colonel Dan, to the Declaration of Independence, e don’t know each other per - which was read in the ceremony. Wsonally, but it seems we The keepers of Thomas Jefferson’s vs. Unalienable share a lot in common in how we legacy did use “Unalienable.” Colonel Dan, was, not as they think it should see the world. I enjoy reading I’m 61 today, born on the 4th fter reading your article in the have been. My thoughts from the each of your articles in The Cowboy of July. Retired Army Lieutenant AMay 2012 Cowboy Chronicle I trenches … Chronicle . I especially liked the Colonel, AUS. One of my sons, an contacted Rep. Stearns office, and Bourbon Jon, SASS #10743 one on “Alienable vs. Inalienable Army Major, is on his way home they made an inquiry to the De - Middleburg, FL vs. Unalienable.” from a deployment to Afghanistan partment of the Interior for me. My wife and I attended the today also. My dad was born on They were not optimistic of a reply, Bourbon Jon, 50th Annual Independence Day February 22nd, same as George but I did receive one. This is the Sir, I sincerely salute you and Celebration and Naturalization Washington. paragraph that was the answer to your conscientious effort in fol - Ceremony today at Monticello, Hollymead Kid, SASS #93911 my question: A portion of the quo - lowing this issue through at the Thomas Jefferson’s home. We Charlottesville, VA tation in the memorial includes ex - D.C. level! were the guests of a Masonic cerpts from the Declaration of It is absolutely true that sev - Brother that became a U.S. Citi - Hollymead Kid, Independence, including a refer - eral draft versions of the Declara - zen the legal way. He made this Thank you for those kind ence to “inalienable right.” This tion used the word “inalienable” choice as a mature adult. He un - words and for your on-going sup - wording was chosen by the Thomas but as we know, Jefferson, Adams, derstands what we have more port. I very much appreciate both. Jefferson Memorial Commission and Franklin went round and than many of our fellow citizens. That ceremony I’m sure was because the term “inalienable” ap - round over every word choosing You will be happy to know the very moving. I’m happy they used pears in Thomas Jefferson’s hand - each with extreme care and finally people in the Thomas Jefferson the right word in their program ... written drafts of the Declaration of settled on “unalienable” for the Foundation got it right in the pro - many do not. I thank you for that Independence. Some period ver - simple reason it best described the gram brochure. I can make and special report. sions of the Declaration of Inde - concept they so desperately wanted send a copy as a PDF if you like. It Soldier on cowboy pendence attributed to other copyist to convey. In fact, “unalienable” is has a printed copy of the preamble Colonel Dan refer to “unalienable rights” in - seen very clearly in THE final ver - stead, but both handwritten and sion written in Jefferson’s own printed versions from 1776 are not hand, reverently stored and dis - consistent in their use of either played for public viewing at the term. This is word for word of that National Archives building. paragraph. I believe working I also salute your astute pick copies of the draft probably did use up on when the Jefferson memo - “inalienable” instead of “unalien - rial was built and under whose able,” but the Founding Fathers administration—coincidence per - went to great lengths to use the haps? We may never know, but proper words to put forth the Dec - you have done a super job on this, laration of Independence and the and again, I salute you sir! word “unalienable” is used in the Soldier on…. final version of the Declaration of Colonel Dan Independence. As this monument [Who would have thought a year was built between 1938 and 1942 ago we would be discussing the nu - under FDR, I have to wonder if in - ances between the terms inalien - doctrination was under way back able and unalienable? Part of our then. I wish the education system continuing education … Thanks would really teach history as it Colonel Dan! … Editor in Chie f]

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END of TRAIL Was A Great Match - After Al l! y wife, Hawley McCoy, and I many years. For years many have away with a different opinion, but I not be missed. If you do, you are Mjust returned from our first told me Winter Range is a much have to tell you, our only regret is cheating yourself out of a one of a visit to Founders Ranch and END of better shoot than END of TRAIL, that we waited so long to get there! kind experience. They are both fun TRAIL, and we had a fantastic and if given a choice of attending These are the National and shoots where one gets to mingle time! I felt compelled to dispel ru - one or the other, Winter Range was World Championships, folks! I re - with the best competitors in the mors some may have heard regard - by far the better shoot. For this rea - spectfully disagree with the sug - game! I don’t know of another ing END of TRAIL and how it son alone we have always made gestion one is better than the other. sport where the Founders of the compares with Winter Range. Winter Range our winter vacation In fact they are both outstanding game and the Champions of the We have been Cowboy Action destination. Such a mistake! Only and unique shoots that represent game are so friendly and accessi - Shooting™ for seven-plus years because of a free entry did we de - the best our game has to offer, each ble. We have met so many good now and have been to our share of cide this year to give END of TRAIL in their own way! I highly recom - people from all around the world by state and Regional matches. We a try. Now, I understand changes mend to everyone who plays this playing cowboy and cowgirl that have competed at Winter Range in were made at this year’s event … game—END of TRAIL and Winter when it comes to friends, we con - Phoenix, AZ at least five times in as that may very well be why we came Range are must shoots and should (Continued on page 20 )

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LOTS OF GREAT COSTUMES AT THE 31 sT ANNUAL END of TRAI L! . By Cat Ballou, SASS #55 , Cat Ballou, SASS #55

ounders Ranch, NM – Wild Bunch Daytime Soiled Doves and The 31 st END of TRAIL Costume Contest: Costume Contests: Parlor House Madams: may have been a bit hot This contest is based on the These costumes are basically Head honcho, Shotglass, liter - F and dusty, but it didn’t classic “Wild Bunch” film from what we shoot in, as well as our ac - ally brought a bit of “variety” to stop folks from dressing to the 1969. Most cowboys either dress cessories; i.e., gun carts. Cate - this year’s Soiled Doves and Parlor nines! Costuming and Cowboy Ac - like the cast as Pike Bishop, Dutch gories are Shooting Costumes, House Madams costume contest tion Shooting™ , have gone hand Engstrom, Lyle Gorch, Tector (Male, Female, and Juniors), Con - by adding a show to the contest. in hand from the beginning of the Gorch, or in military uniforms of ventioneers, Vendors, Gun Carts, There was a cute opening skit as sport, and many participants enjoy the era. The movie didn’t have and Waddies. Costumes are well as some great entertainment the dressing up “cowboy” aspect of much costuming opportunities for judged in the Gem Saloon over a by singer-guitarist Frederick Jack - our game as much as the shooting. women, other than Mexican pros - period of two days, Thursday and son Turner, and a marvelous job of Our many costume contests at titutes, so our ladies have entered Friday. Judges were Copper emceeing by Texas’ own Handle - END of TRAIL continue to be spon - the military side of dressing also. Queen, Captain Cooper, Sloan bar Bob (talk about wearing lots of sored by Wild West Mercantile of Judges were Copper Queen, Cap - Easy, and Granny Getchergun. “bling!”). Also the ladies compete Mesa, Arizona, C. S. Fly and Clau - tain Cooper and myself. First Creek Harding was the Gun Cart before the contest by asking event dia Feather, Proprietors. We do so place winners were Captain judge. Sign up Wrangler was The goers to contribute dollars to their appreciate their many years of sup - George Baylor and Sassy Teton Redhead. Check out the photos for “cause,” and all monies raised go port of costuming. And, we couldn’t Lady. Check out the Wild Bunch all the great daytime costumes and to the SASS Scholarship Fund. do it without our judges and their photos for a description of their gun carts. The ladies bringing in the most dedication to determining which costumes. money receive a Bond Girl Der - costumes are the best of the best. (Continued on next page) WB CosTUMEs

Second place Wild Bunch First place Wild Bunch Lady, Louisiana Lady, Lady, Sassy Teton Lady, dressed as a Mexican First Place Wild Bunch, in a 1916 Cavalry uniform Senora in a full skirt Second place Wild Bunch, Captain George Baylor, with buttoned jodhpurs trimmed with lace and Constable Nelson all the dressed as a Captain in the and matching shirt with a a matching Peasant blouse. way from Australia, Third place Wild Bunch 11th Cavalry around 1916, service medal. Cavalry She wore a tooled red rose dressed as a private in the Lady, Wicked Felina, with leather leggings, spurs, boots, spurs, campaign hat belt and a red rose decorated Infantry wearing three adopts the military look and his campaign hat and belt completed her self her hair. Matching boots and campaign ribbons and metals with pants, hat, belt, complete with goggles. made outfit. Outstanding! hat completed her outfit. from Cuba, Spain, and China. and leggings.

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1st Place Shooting Costume – Lady, Chiricahua 1st Place Conventioneer – Mama, dressed as a Female, Birdie Walker, Chiricahua Apache Scout, 1st Place Conventioneer Waddie – Lady, 1st Place Shooting attired in a 1895 shopping with white pants and – Male, all the way from Deville Dalton, in an 1880s Costume – Male, outfit carrying a velvet loincloth, moccasins, and South Africa, Richmond P. side-saddle riding outfit Tejon Buckaroo, dressed as parasol, reticule, Victorian head band covering her Hobson, dressed as a pros - complete with hat and gloves, a real working cowboy from boots, and sporting a beautiful long braid. perous rancher circa 1899. all handmade by Deville. California in the 1880s. feathered hat.

2nd Place Conventioneer 2nd Place Shooting Costume 2nd Place Shooting Costume – Male, Crow Walker as a – Male, New Mexico’s own J. 3rd Place Shooting Costume – Waddie – Man, Yul Lose, – Lady, Evergreen Rose, in a drifter on the Mexican bor - W. Calendar, portraying a Lady, May B. West, in a wearing a magnificent pink B-Western outfit with der wearing Vaquero pants, mercantile owner circa 1888, purple B-Western outfit with buffalo coat made from a lots of rhinestones. sombrero, red tie, and sash. a prosperous one, no doubt! holsters and guns to match. buffalo he shot last fall.

(Continued from previous page) Best Dressed Ladies: ringer donated by Bond Arms of Costume Contest: First place winner, Sweetheart Granbury, Texas, or a custom dag - Evening is the time to bring out Magdalene, came all the way from ger from Redwing Knives of Kim - your best and present it to the Italy with her handmade 1864 Civil ball, Nebraska. The SASS judges at the Best Dressed Cos - War gown, complete with petticoats, Scholarship Fund is now over tume Contest. Categories are hoops, feathered hat, and acces - $2700 richer due to their efforts. Ladies, Men, Couples, Military, B- sories. I don’t know how she man - Soiled Dove, Bella Spencer, won the Western Man and Lady, and Jun - ages all that in her luggage! derringer, raising $1350, and Parlor iors. Judges were Copper Queen, Second place Dixie Bell was House Madam, won the custom Captain Cooper, Granny Getcher - stunning in an 1870s red and gold dagger, raising $715. gun, and Sloan Easy. The Redhead silk ball gown, and third place, Sun - The very “difficult” job of judg - handled the sign ups. Let’s de - shine Belle, was demure in an ing these two contests fell to Judge scribe the winning costumes. 1870s cranberry and off-white town Roy Bean, Bumble, Kiwi Witch Doc - dress and hat. tor, Stroud, and Texas Gator. 3rd Place Shooting Costume – See more WINNERS starting on Page 18 Male, Double Bit, dressed Thank you, Shotglass, for con - in an 1898 forest ranger’s tinuing to make this event such fun. working outfit of green shirt and pants, proper ranger’s hat, and tall eyelet boots.

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old farm Wagon With steel Wheels Cree Vicar Dave, tical boards along the length of each tensions to the regular walls of the your project. I wish you success in always enjoy reading your arti - side for strength. On the inside of wagon. The top edges had flat steel restoring your farm wagon. Icles in The Cowboy Chronicle . Hav - the sides, there were two parallel bar lengths of about 1/16 " x 1/2 " Dr. John Writtenword Newlife, ing read your article “A Trip Down vertical boards with a 1 " space be - screwed into the edge. Screws were SASS #90577 Memory Lane” in Feruary. 2012 (pp. tween them where the front and counter sunk into the steel bar. Four Oaks, NC 34 & 35) issue, I was surprised to rear end walls (similar construction This would preserve the edge from see the picture of the old farm as the sides) could be slid down be - livestock chewing the wood frame. Dr. John Writtenword Newlife, wagon with steel wheels you bought tween the sides. Verticals were This farm box wagon had a Thanks for taking the time ta looks very much like the one my fa - joined to the horizontals by carriage tongue my father would connect to read my humble articles! ther had on our farm when I was a bolts with the round heads to the his old Ford tractor, load the wagon Well, I’m taken aback by your child. The steel wheels, chassis, and outside of the box. with hay, manure, or other stuff, and vivid memory. I, too, have fond the 2X4 sticking out the rear of the The sides stood on the floor - away we’d go. The wagon’s steel memories of my tenure on the farm, wagon convinced me of the similar - boards that were 2x4s laid across wheels made a loud ringing noise but minus the to the point details. ities. We used to use that 2x4 to the frames above the axles and be - when pulled over a gravel road. Thank you very much for your step up into the back of the wagon tween the uprights for the side - There are pictures of a John input. I’ll keep your letter in mind at the rear. walls. Floorboards were the same Deere box wagon with steel wheels when I get started on the project. Our wagon (painted blue) had length as the sidewalls. At each end and flared walls on the Internet God’s blessing upon you and stout upright braces (red) on the of each floorboard, the width was (Google images). It looks very classy. your family, upper frame near each steel wheel cut down to about 1.25 " for about Well, these are just some ideas for Cree Vicar Dave (red) that supported the sides of the the last 4 " of the floorboard (at both wagon box. The sides were about ends). I can’t tell you why. 2.5-3 feet high made of horizontal There were also additional boards that were about 1 " thick. walls and ends that extended the Little-Known-fact Vertical boards of about 1-2 " width sides up another 3 feet. They were Carrying the flag was a dangerous job, as it often provided joined the boards at maybe 6 " from of wood frame with heavy (rat wire) an easy target. On one day alone at Gettysburg, twenty-three the front and back ends of the sides. screen between the frames. Vertical flag bearers were killed from just two units. Maybe there were a few other ver - boards on the frames held these

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(Continued from page 15 ) Man: First place went to Wild Horse John dressed as a “sporting house” Gun Carts operator of questionable ethics. Don’t know what happened to the rest of the men this year. I expect more of you gentlemen to show up next year dressed in your finest! Couples: First place couple, Printer Doc and Copper Rose, dressed as a gen - tleman rancher and his lady at - tired in a green satin and rose Polonaise. Second place couple, Scary Indian Dude and Anxious Annie, portrayed a gentleman who rescues a lady in distress. Military: First place military was the ever-dapper Captain George Bay - lor who came as a captain in the 1st Place Guncart was Capt. Gimp Tumlinson’s th 3rd Place Guncart was 10 Cavalry with a European style “paddy wagon.” Inspired by Richard Boone’s Dirty Earl’s outhouse uniform, circa 1870. Second place horseless carriage in “The Shootist,” 2nd Place Guncart was Yul Lose’s inspired cart complete with military, Juan Bad Hombre’s uni - it was a 1904 Oldsmobile constructed black walnut cabinetry cart with 12 gauge brass appointments. corncobs inside! form was an 1876 Indian Wars cav - as a paddy wagon. Unbelievable workmanship alry soldier. and fun to get around in, too! B-Western Ladies: First place winner, Nevada Skye, sported her handmade yel - cream-colored outfit was adorned B-Western Man: school in her green prairie dress. low outfit adorned with horseshoes with horses and purple fringe. First place Man With No Name Third place More Guns Ann Ammo and embellished with rhinestones. Dale Evans would have been proud came as Clint Eastwood’s character wore an 1890s theatre outfit (not Second place, May B. West’s, of you both. Man With No Name. Again, need to pictured). Need you Junior Boys to see more of you B-Western fellows show up next year, please. in the evening contest next year. Thanks to everyone who partic - Juniors: ipated in the numerous costume First place Junior Girl events at this year’s END of TRAIL. Kalamity Kae dazzled the judges in You are all winners, and I hope to her 1870s purple Polonaise, and see many more of you at the 32 nd second place Virginia Vaughan Annual END of TRAIL in 2013! came as a young cowgirl going to ! Winners Juniors: 1st Olin Winchester, Wild Bunch SASS #83099 Men: 2nd Sass Kicker, SASS #91899 1st Captain George Baylor, 3rd Diamond Kate, SASS #24287 SASS 395104 nd 2 Constable Nelson, Conventioneer – Male SASS #11784 1st Richmond P. Hobson, rd 3 Coho Kid, SASS #16095 SASS #32728 Ladies: 2nd Crow Walker, st 1 Sassy Teton Lady, SASS #42748 SASS #47525 Conventioneer – Lady nd 2 Louisiana Lady, 1st Birdie Walker, SASS #34986 SASS #42749 rd 3 Wicked Felina, 2nd Darlin Diana, SASS #3483 SASS #89193 Shooting Costumes 3rd Donna Darlin Men: Waddies: 1st Tejon Buckaroo, 1st Yul Lose, SASS #74578 SASS #22550 1st Deville Dalton, 2nd J. W. Calendar, SASS #81294 SASS #65524 Sutlers: 3rd Double Bit, SASS #11086 1st Brother King, Ladies: SASS #69031 1st Chiricahua Mama, 1st Buckaroo Bobbins, SASS #40623 SASS #4744 2nd Evergreen Rose, SASS #37972 3rd May B. West, SASS #82183

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Best Dressed Ladies (l-r) 1st place, Sweetheart Magdalene; 2nd place, Dixie Bell; 3rd place, Sunshine Belle.

B-Western Man – Man With No Name

Best Dressed Couples, (l-r) 1st place, Printer Doc and Copper Rose; 2nd place, Scary Indian Dude and Anxious Annie.

Best Military (l-r) 1st place, Captain George Baylor, 2nd place, B-Western Ladies, Juan Bad Hombre. (l-r) 1st place, Nevada Skye; 2nd place, May B. West

Best Dressed Man – Wild Horse John

Best Dressed Juniors The Best Dressed Judges start to tally the results. (l-r) 1st place, Kalamity Kae; (l-r) Granny Getchergun, Captain Cooper, Sloan Easy, and Copper Queen. See more 2nd place, Virginia Vaughan. WINNERS on Page 20 Gun Carts: Couples: 1st Capt. Gimp Tumlinson, 1st Copper Rose, SASS #53321 SASS #63304 Printer Doc, SASS #53320 2nd Yul Lose, SASS #74578 2nd Anxious Annie, 3rd Dirty Earl, SASS #94084 SASS #81946 Scary Indian Dude, Soiled Doves & SASS #79500 Parlor House Madams Military: Doves: 1st Captain George Baylor, 1st Half Pint, SASS #13219 SASS #24287 2nd Bella Spencer, 2nd Juan Bad Hombre, SASS #63491 SASS #73487 3rd Sue Render, SASS #87925 B-Western Ladies: Madams: 1st Nevada Skye, 1st Cookie Baker, SASS #54791 SASS #60696 2nd May B. West, SASS #82183 2nd Evergreen Rose, B-Western-Man SASS #37972 1st Man With No Name, 3rd Dixie Bell, SASS #5366 SASS #8285 Best Dressed Juniors: Ladies: 1st Kalamity Kae, 1st Sweetheart Magdalene, SASS #79716 SASS #84439 2nd Virginia Vaughan 2nd Dixie Bell, SASS #5366 3rd Morguns Ann Ammo, 3rd Sunshine Belle, SASS #92217 SASS #91375 Men: 1st Wild Horse John, SASS #85594

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(Continued from page 19) SOILED DOVES

Handlebar Bob did a fine job emceeing the contests.

The Judges and some of the Contestants strike a pose. It’s good to be the Judge!!

Parlor House Madam winners Shotglass organized (l-r) 1st place, Cookie Baker; this year’s Soiled 3rd place, Dixie Bell, and Doves/Parlor House Madams Costume 2nd place, Evergreen Rose. Soiled Dove Winners (l-r) 1st place, Half Pint; 2nd place, Bella Spencer, Contests and 1st place received a Bond Girl 3rd place, Sue Render’s group. The first place winner received a Bond Girl Variety Show Derringer and 2nd and 3rd place Derringer donated by Bond Arms, and the 2nd and 3rd place winners received and did a great job! received a custom Redwing knife. a custom dagger donated by Redwing Knives.

END of TRAIL Was A Great Match - After Al l! . . . (Continued from page 13 ) love would never be what it has sider ourselves blessed. come to mean to all of us. Our hats go off and a hearty Thank you END of TRAIL and Yee-Haw to all the cowboys and Winter Range for the fun, friendships, cowgirls that work so hard to put on and memories—past and future! these two excellent competitions. If Grazer, SASS #38845 not for their efforts this game we all Harvard, MA

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The Chapel stands Tall But More Needs To Be Done! ity may surprise onlookers, but not By Palaver Pete, SASS Life/Regulator #4375 us—we know it’s the CODE— IT’S THE COWBOY WAY! And that generosity and goodness of heart is no better revealed than our united effort to raise sufficient funds for the construction of the Cowboy Me - Palaver Pete, “What we have now is a SASS Lif e/ Regulator #4375 great start … and a useable building … what we need Merchants and Vendors were there The Chapel is standing tall, but much remains to be done! to do now is finish it!” from day one, donating goods for Great framing job by Johnny Jingoes and crew. Thanks again, Pards, ~ Tex, SASS #4, raffles and auctions, and as I write and thanks to all those SASS clubs and members who have so Hall of Fame Inductee this article, many are now in the graciously contributed to this worthy effort. process of donating more items for We will be enjoying our Chapel for years to come! morial Chapel. Now that construc - forthcoming auctions to be held on tion is underway, the final touches the SASS Website (more on that hen the need arises, earth. When natural disasters need to be secured—we are not fin - below). It would be difficult to as - Cowboys respond, espe - occur, we are there to help our ished yet—there is more to be done. sess financially what these mer - cially SASS Cowboys! brothers and sisters, and when one But before I continue, let’s re - chants have donated, but it would W Collectively we are per - of us becomes ill, the hat is immedi - view what WE SASS members be no stretch to say they have do - haps the most generous people on ately passed around. This generos - have collectively achieved. Our nated thousands of dollars worth of

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merchandise, and they are still do - The Crew, led by Johnny Jingos, $5,000 plaque. When the anony - Okay Pards, that’s about it for nating. Hand in hand with our SASS #8494, consisted of Will mous donor heard that, he said, now. As you can see from the ac - merchants, our SASS affiliated Shootem, SASS #29892 (that’s Joe “let’s round that up to $65,000” companying photos, the Chapel clubs dipped into their bank ac - Alves of Pioneer Gun Works), High (again, it’s the COWBOY WAY)! stands tall and serves not only as a counts and sent in contributions, Court Drifter, SASS #85438, Key At this point, an already place of worship, but also as a trib - and many clubs raised funds West, SASS #85439, Doug Yer stunned Maurice ‘MO’ Lasses re - ute to the hard work of all our monthly by selling ‘shoot insurance Grave, SASS #55244, and Big Lou, ceived word a Foundation wished to SASS members. Now it’s time to policies,’ and passing the hat SASS #7632. These Volunteers donate $10,000 for the Pulpit take a look at the items up for auc - around at Cowboy Church—the traveled from California, Oregon, Plaque. Maurice ‘MO’ Lasses real - tion and place your bid—as always, money was coming-in, one way or and Tennessee to do the Chapel ized upon receipt of that donation, you’re a Daisy if ya do. the other, the word was out: “the framing before the start of END of the original objective of $75,000 Chapel would be built!” TRAIL. If you happen to run into would be achieved—needless to say, Chapel Committee Members, any of these Cowboys, be sure to he was on cloud nine! But, as such as Cree Vicar Dave, SASS give them a big ‘thank you!’ pointed out by the other Chapel Co- Life/Regulator #49907, and Singin’ And, a big cowboy thanks goes chair, Long Jim Hancock, SASS Sue, SASS Regulator #71715, vis - to C. J. Mead Construction and Regulator #47369, before we can all ited clubs, made presentations, and Skip Mead, aka Zeb Pike, SASS rejoice, we must take into consider - passed the hat to collect hundreds Life #68800, and his crew for fin - ation the Chapel needs to be ‘fur - of dollars. These two members ishing the chapel in time for serv - nished-out.’—Pews, Pulpit, Club, were continuously ‘brain storming’ ices at END of TRAIL. and Individual Plaques need to be for ideas to raise funds for the So, what have our efforts purchased; the Chapel needs to be Chapel. Cree and the Vicar’s Wife, achieved, and where do we stand painted, and funds for ongoing Nancy, plus the ruler of the house, today? When END of TRAIL 2012 maintenance must be considered. Sterling Meg, the family dog, trav - started, we had $58,723.91 in the The Goal now is to continue to eled near and far from their home bank. raise funds for completion of the to preach the need for a Cowboy An anonymous donor ap - Chapel. As Tex said in the July Chapel, and their efforts were proached Chapel Committee Co- issue of The Cowboy Chronicle: “the richly rewarded. Singin’ Sue man - chair Maurice ‘MO’ Lasses, SASS first construction phase of the aged to obtain a Motor Home that Life #65309, and offered to double chapel has been completed! Exte - was raffled for use during END of whatever amounts were raised at rior painting, landscaping, and all TRAIL 2012. Cree and Sue’s ef - END of TRAIL! We raised $800 at the interior work have yet to be forts did not go unnoticed, and the Chapel services—we raised done. While, hopefully, volunteer much to the joy of all SASS mem - $376 from donations at the Infor - labor will do the rest of the work, bers, both Cree and Singin’ Sue mation Booth, placed in a bird there are still significant material were deservingly awarded Regula - house that was shaped like an old expenses in the months ahead, in - tor status by the Wild Bunch! Our mission style chapel—total thus cluding, electrical, fans, pews, inte - own NRA Foundation, aided by the far: $59,899.91. rior walls, ceiling, and the like. efforts of New Mexico Representa - The anonymous donor matched What we have now is a great start tive, Mr. Peter Ide, AKA: Rusty the $1,176, bringing the total to: … a useable building … what we Pete, SASS #85975, donated $61,075.91. The Circle K Regula - need to do now is finish it!” $2,000—a demonstration of soli - tors, the New York SASS affiliated Donated auction items will soon darity and unity within the shoot - club that ‘MO’ Lasses is a member be listed on the SASS Website at ing sports. of pledged to add $2,300 to make www.sassnet.com/ When there, The Chapel project seems to the total $63,375.91. The $2,300 scroll-down to Charities and click have embodied a new spirit within added to the $2,700 already con - on Cowboy Chapel. This will take SASS reflected by the volun - tributed by the Circle K Regula - you to www.sassnet.com/chapel/ teerism of not only the Chapel tors, makes them the first club to index.php where items to be auc - Committee, but also the construc - raise $5,000 for the Chapel effort tioned will be listed. Instructions tion crew that framed the Chapel. and the first club to receive the for bidding will be listed as well.

VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com Page 24 Cowboy Chronicle September 2012 TRAIL 2012 gets put right up near onships of Cowboy Action Shoot - END of TRAIL 2012 Accolades . . . the top. Great job to all who planned ing™ then the only person that is (Continued from page 1) shooters shoot. Everyone shot at the and executed this year’s END of getting hurt is you. The rest of us “END of TRAIL 2012 was out - same targets, big or small, no choos - TRAIL. I don’t know who all to had a blast. Sure, there were lots of standing in every way. The fast ing to shoot stationary or moving, name but, if you were involved in its opinions ... all year ... mine included. shooters were there. While only my just straight up shooting with no planning, this line is just for you. In the end, the awards said it tongue second END of TRAIL, the excite - bonuses. I would give this particular Thank you for a very entertaining in cheek, the fighting is over, Cow - ment, entertainment, friendships shoot an A++. I had a great time and enjoyable END of TRAIL. As boys and Cowgirls. The new facades gained, organization, awards, and even though a pistol decided to jump Arnold would say, “I’ll be bach.” – are top class. The targets are top give-aways were all first class. out of my holster on stage 1, but it Parson Delacroix class (with a nod to the resets not Thanks for a great shoot and world was a well-written and fast stage. “The greatest shoot-off in the working very well). There is shade, championship. We appreciate all the And was there movement? You bet - history of earth. That’s all. If you water, facilities sprinkled every - effort the SASS members and volun - ter believe it. They had some new missed it then you missed it. It was where, shuttles, emergency, etc. etc. teers went through to provide such props, which were outstanding. The a hoot. It was amazing. It was a dis - etc.” – Brother King a successful event. Thanks for going Long Hunter Saloon was designed play of talent in our sport that was “The bottom line is the Wild the extra mile to ensure everyone well and can be shot in a multiple of the best against the best. If you Bunch and the staff at Founders had a great time.” – Kirk James ways. Just imagine it and shoot. think you’re one of the best, and you Ranch made it abundantly clear they “This was my first time to attend There are many shoots I attend and got some personal agenda about not are there to make sure the shooters END of TRAIL and had a great time. have fun and this year, END of making it to the World Champi - (Continued on next page) The scenarios were very good, and the targets were very hittable. I en - NEW REGULATORS 2012 Deacon Will, SASS #24170 DE Rock River Ted, SASS #34156 WI joyed meeting a lot of new friends Paden’s Posse Rock River Regulators and visiting with old friends. I will Alaskan, SASS #79504 UT Deadeye Dick, SASS #702 CA & NV Row-A-Noc, SASS #64745 VA recommend attending END of Dixie Desperados several clubs Rowdy Lane, SASS #82087 NM TRAIL to anyone. Thanks to the Badlands Bob, SASS #61228 GA Driftwood Dan, SASS #62738 OR Lincoln County Regulators END of TRAIL staff for a great job.” Cherokee Cowboys Suislaw River Rangers Sheriff Lord, SASS #22746 GA Bear Butte, SASS #11231 Canada Dunbar Dandy, SASS #42432 WI River Bend Rough Riders – Texas Gator Belle Kaye, SASS #35884 TX Rock River Regulators Sherriff Robert Love, SASS #8960 TX “My first END of TRAIL, the ex - Old Fort Parker Patriots English Lyn, SASS #74828 NM Silverado Cid, SASS #51750 AZ perience of a lifetime. I attended Bit Younger, SASS #37957 UT Rio Grande Renegades Singin’ Sue, SASS #71615 NM my first END of TRAIL last week, Dixie Desperados Fingers McGee, SASS #28654 MO Buffalo Range Riders not much to say except, I am still Black Harris, SASS #154 CA Central Ozarks Western Shooters Slick Fours Eyes Nick, SASS #38489 smiling big time!!! If anybody is The Cowboys Hank Dodge, SASS #16127 CA CA Blue Ridge Ranger, SASS #31232 AZ Faultline Shootists T. L., SASS #5365 UT thinking about attending END of Bodie Kid, SASS #17377 CA I. Reckon, SASS #35883 TX Dixie Desperados TRAIL for the first time, DO IT!!! Bridgeport Vigilantes Old Fort Parker Patriots Texas Tiger, SASS #74829 NM Thank you to everybody that helped Bootstrap Bill, SASS #75736 WI, James Earl Dalton, SASS #81293 NM Rio Grande Renegades put this event on … Oh yeah, one Rock River Regulators Buffalo Range Riders Tripod, SASS #57588 AK more thing, POSSE 20 Boxcar, SASS #65664 OR JB Sledge, SASS #82229 PA Alaska 49ers Molalla River Rangers Chimney Rock Regulators True Grit Gary, SASS #33883 AZ ROCKED!!!!” – Travelin Kid Brother Bob, SASS #79444 OR John Bear, SASS #45620 ID Tucson the Terrible, SASS #47089 “This adventure has been about Suislaw River Rangers Judge’Em All Duncan, SASS #67320 New Zealand more than shooting and WE (the Calamity Jill, SASS #86159 PA River Bend Rough Riders GA W.T. Slick Clemens, SASS #29463 Cracker Crew) hope that YOU will Chimney Rock Regulators Kid Rio (Jim Dunham), SASS #2741 GA Colorado Cowboys CO make the effort to come to END of Captain George Baylor, SASS #24287 Larsen Pettifogger, SASS #32933 AZ Weaver Gal, SASS #71821 AZ TRAIL and experience what we All over Lil Bit Younger, SASS #37956 UT Wild Bodie Tom, SASS #67918 AZ Captain Cooper, SASS #43639 CA Dixie Desperados Willamette Kid, SASS #2625 have. It’s certainly made an impact Cariboo Lefty, SASS #5391 Canada Marshal Stone, SASS #53366 AK Yo Montana, SASS #72343 OR on our kids and has given them Constable Nelson, SASS #11784 Alaska 49ers Suislaw River Rangers memories they will cherish forever.” Australia Miss Mary Spencer, SASS #55147 BC Yuma Colorado, SASS #5139 OR – Santa Fe River Stan Cree Vicar Dave, SASS #49907 MI Parson Swede, SASS #32104 AZ Suislaw River Rangers “I have been to END of TRAIL Dallas Rose, SASS #52943 NY Pigpen, SASS #1339 seven times now and this was the Dan Diamond, SASS #61820 NV Renegade Riley, SASS #79445 OR Suislaw River Rangers cream of the crop. This to me was a

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(Continued from page 1) Action Shooting™ is expensive, some loss in entries. SASS do - and they couldn’t get into it both - expenses. Renting it out for such this means the break-even point nated “two for one” entries to each ered some people. Really, it’s a things as the Ruger Rimfire Chal - is easier to reach. Clearly the SASS affiliated club in an effort to tiny saloon with a few stools and lenge and Warrior Dash help. In tough times and high fuel prices, help at least some contestants a (G rated) painting of a naked tough economic times when trav - especially in the spring when de - overcome the high fuel prices. In lady on the wall, not the eling to the center of all Cowboy cisions were being made caused the end the entries were about Cheyenne Social Club. This year the same as last year, which, it was open to all. under the economic circum - New! Improved! Trophies! stances, exceeded expectations. The trophies were improved. These certainly look like World Championship trophies. The top ten buckles were improved as well. Turquoise highlights in the Zia or sunburst design of the New Mexico flag stand out. Whether you brought home one of the new trophies or belt buckles or just an END of TRAIL pin and the other goodies given to contestants, it came from the (Continued on page 26 )

New this year were the “world class” trophies—globes mounted on heavy wooden bases. Even the buckles down through 10th place The Judge Is Back were attractive with the turquoise highlights in the Zia sunburst. The bright, new look was the visible part of the change coming to END of TRAIL. Several people worked very hard for several END of TRAIL 2012 Accolades . . . months to make this happen. But (Continued from previous page) ubiquitous water stands, which are there was a lot more. A big part have a great match and a great time constantly being refilled by the hard- of the impetus for change was The in general. For those that have been working waddies with icy cold Crys - Judge Is Back. Recovered from a sitting on the fence or for newbies try - tal Springs water, to the handsome, horrendous battle with cancer, ing to decide whether to go to END of anodized aluminum water bottles Judge Roy Bean, SASS #1, saw TRAIL, ignore those on the wire that that came in our shooter packages, things at recent END of TRAILs say they won’t go because it is a lost and the water truck circulating to he thought could be improved and brass match or because they don’t water down the town and bays, this determined to change them. have the Ladies Blackpowder Left California native is honestly, com - No more VIPs Handed Lithuanian category, etc., etc. pletely comfortable. After the Open - One of the things that had SASS’ special celebrity guest this The only opinion that counts is ing Ceremonies, which were brief bothered contestants was the VIP year was J.P. Garrett and his YOURS, and you don’t have the basis and sincere, The Judge formally an - room at the Happy Jack Saloon. finance, Star. J.P. is the grandson to make an informed opinion unless nounced the commencement of END Other big events have VIP tents, of Pat Garrett, who brought Billy the Kid to justice. YOU have been there. (This was my and no one seems to complain. of TRAIL 2012. I’m pretty sure the Here in New Mexico the Old West 12th END of TRAIL, and I have at - resounding “Whoo-YEAH!!!!” that But the fact that the Happy Jack was not that long ago. tended all that have been held at followed is probably still echoing in sat temptingly on top of the Cop - New Mexico was still a Territory Founders Ranch.) END of TRAIL is space. And THEN, END of TRAIL per Queen Hotel at the front of filled with desperadoes END of TRAIL. It is the one, the orig - treated the entire match population the Belle Union and was a saloon of all sorts until 1912! inal, and the only World Champi - to a free hot dogs, potato salad, and onship of Cowboy Action Shooting™. potluck dinner, complete with a free The Wild Bunch invented the game, bar! You should have seen the and they still know how to play it. jostling and good natured merriment (U.S. Grant, SASS #2, is 82 years old, in that chow line! Folks lingered in and he shot the match clean!)” – the Belle Union, at the Gem Saloon, Larsen E. Pettifogger or just wandered and talked, under “Remarkable improvements a warm velvet sky filled with a mil - have been made to the facility! The lion stars. It was That Kind Of An first thing shooters will notice is the Evening. One of the Aussies com - new permanent stage facades; really mented that it felt like END of impressive edifices by Taylors and TRAIL had found its soul, once the Long Hunter Saloon. The cow - again. I couldn’t agree more.” – boy chapel is built on its own quiet Frederick Jackson Turner reflective spot; the Belle Union is fin - “They really went out of their way ished and decorated; heck, they’ve to make everyone very welcome. Like even put flowers on all the stages! the new change up with the schedule Then there’s visiting with old of evening stuff and ending with the friends, and making new ones. They Dooley Gang on Saturday night. Not say it’s hot and dusty out here, but a dull moment the entire evening! There were 32 Cowboy Action Shooting™ World Champions between the new permanent shade The whole atmosphere was happy! and 4 Wild Bunch™ Action Shooting World Champions covers, which are excellent, and the Really loved it!!!” – Aspen Filly recognized this year. Outstanding Accomplishment—Congratulations!

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(Continued from page 25 ) major league parks that hire rock World Championship of Cowboy idiots and reality show performers Action Shooting™. You can’t get to mangle the Star Spangled Ban - those anywhere else. ner should just contact SASS. Wild Bunch™ Among the things happening there END of TRAIL has grown the Top Hand award was given out three days to accommodate the to a well-deserved and overworked rapidly growing sport of Wild Bighorn, and the current SASS Bunch™ Action Shooting. Pecos Scholarship recipients named, rep - Clyde was Match Director of the resenting SASS’ future. Repre - Wild Bunch™ match. He is likely senting those who made SASS the most experienced match direc - what it is today was the 2012 class tor in Wild Bunch™, and it showed of Regulators. Also announced was with twelve well-crafted stages. It the Chapel Fund reached its was, like most championship level $75,000 goal, rewarding a massive Wild Bunch™ matches, harder effort by a lot of people. than the Cowboy match. In Wild The NRA was present again Bunch™ you shoot at rifle dis - SASS has always been pleased with the participation of our this year with Kayne Robinson tance targets with your 1911, and International guests. This year New Zealand sent seven competitors (Viper, SASS #20081), introducing clean matches are rare. 20-25 to vie for fame, fortune, and glory on the field of honor! the new NRA Museum at rounds of pistol per stage are com - It was delightful to see the two youngsters in this group Founders Ranch. Special celebrity mon. The shotgun often has six or hold their own in both Cowboy Action AND in Wild Bunch ™! guest, J.P. Garrett and his fiancé, more targets and starts stoked, nities to shoot a six-stage warm up Star, were also introduced. J. P. is but misses cannot be made up. match to get the kinks out and see Pat Garrett’s grandson (yes, grand - Knockdown targets abound for what the targets look like. Then on son!) … only in New Mexico … rifle and pistol, and they can’t be Wednesday, side matches filled the New this year, after the cere - made up. Additionally they are bays. Instead of just Speed Pistol, monies was a hot dog and potluck calibrated appropriately for the we had Speed Pistol Gunfighter, dinner by the Dooley Gang. They hotter am mu nition required. Speed Pistol Duelist, and Speed can cook hot dogs as well as they Sometimes they just laughed at Pistol Two-handed. Fastest Shot - entertain. This is one of the new low or edgy hits with full charge gun was divided into Hammerless ideas tried that needs to be put on .45 ACP loads. The stages were Double, Hammer Double, ‘87, and the “do every year” list. Music by challenging, but satisfying. ‘97. For those wondering, the Frederick Jackson Turner capped The Wild Bunch™ match, for fastest shotgun at END of TRAIL off the evening. His songs are the first time, went ten deep in was a ‘97, wielded by Robyn about Cowboy Action Shooting™. awards in the four categories. DaVault, at 3.43 secods, vs. Deuce Most of us can relate to his tale of There is no junior category, but Stevens’ double at 3.62, Lassiter’s woe, “The Wreck of the Old ‘97” there were three juniors. I saw all ‘87 at 3.87, and Possum Skinner’s and other SASS ballads. three of them shoot, and it was in - hammer double at 4.39. In addi - Main Match spiring to see a junior girl, Slick’s tion to the “usual” side matches, Thursday morning the main Sharp Shooter, and the Junior World’s Fastest Cowboy, Cowgirl, END of TRAIL Overall Cowboy match started. END of TRAIL is boys, Bumble and King’s River and Young Gun, and Texas Surren - Action Shooting™ Champions— big. It requires three shifts, shoot - Kid, handling their 1911s like Ma - der were offered. Long Range in - Badlands Bud, SASS #15821, and ing four stages a day to handle the rine sergeants. cluded rifle caliber single shot, Holy Terror, SASS #15362. number of contestants. That Side Matches smokeless, blackpowder, and buf - This is Bud’s fourth overall win means 12 bays, each devoted to a Between the Wild Bunch and falo rifle, and lever action, and pis - and Holy Terror’s tenth! stage, and 36 posses. Making it all That’s outstanding! side matches you had two opportu - tol caliber lever action. At the work requires a pretty big support Congratulations! staff. Situations requiring Chief other extreme were rimfire pistol Range Officers occur, and supplies and rifle. Simultaneously a four- have to arrive, such as water and stage, two-category Plainsman match took place. Dividing Plains - man into Modern and Traditional has brought out rifles thought un - competitive against rifles with ejectors, now in Modern, and more shooters and new life to the match as a result. All of that took place before the opening ceremonies Wednesday night. Beginning with a parade of the flags of all of the countries rep - resented at END of TRAIL and a The Top Gun Shoot-off was a “hoot” this year! The Overall Wild Bunch™ stirring Star Spangled Banner Leader Board displays and running color commentary supplied by Man and Lady top finishers Ringo and T-Bone Dooley kept the audience “in the game.” sung by the aptly named and im - were Modern competitors Both Cowboy Action Shooting™ and Wild Bunch™ Action Shooting mensely talented Singin’ Sue, the Last Chance Morales, were showcased. As the top competitors made their way through the stage, opening ceremonies are not to be SASS #67180, and the knockdowns tumbled in a smooth-flowing wave—it was magic missed. SASS always finds superb Half-a-Hand Henri, SASS #9727. to watch! And … the Cowboy Action Shooters had the faster times! singers for this job. Perhaps those Congratulations!

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to New Mexico history, this staging were not used, eliminating happened. The goal was to allow being New Mexico’s Centennial potential disqualifications from “new” categories where the num - as a state. Thus the starting problems associated with vertical bers demanded, such as Cattle line was, “Those outlaws out - staging. Target distances ranged Baron (75+). Cattle Baron had 12 side just robbed the Kingston from, “pretty close” to “medium” by contestants, and Elder Statesman, stage … Get em!” In front of current norms. The “close” rifle which lost those 12, still had 23. the left window are five tar - targets in the stage described Cattle Baroness did not happen be - gets, one a BIG cowboy with a above were properly angled down, cause there were only two entries. knockdown on each side at and we were shooting from an ele - Grand Dame had five. Much con - “rifle” range, and three cow - vated position. By the end of the sternation had occurred on the Special awards are not given every year, boys at “pistol” range. With the match lead splatter had produced SASS Wire over the fate of the cat - but when they are, they’re well deserved. rifle, engage the four station - a big trench cut in front of them. egory, but I find it hard to believe The Top Hand Award is SASS’ highest ary targets twice each and the All in all the stages were excel - they wouldn’t have waived the award, and is given for exemplary service knockdowns, in any order. Or lent, the best I can remember, and rule. It is, after all, Grand Dame. to SASS. This year’s recipient was with the shotgun, engage any an excellent model for how to write Lady Gunfighter happened with Big Horn, the Founders Ranch Manager. four of the five shotgun targets. and execute really good stages. only three contestants. His insightful and protective service to Then go to the other window Fifty shooters shot the match There were enough Senior SASS and Founders Ranch throughout and follow the above procedure. clean, almost the magic 10%. Gunfighters for a category, and the year, and especially during END of TRAIL, have been invaluable. Move to the doorway, and, with There were no targets that more, 14, and Gunfighter still had your revolvers engage the couldn’t be hit by any of the shoot - 20. Net results, no categories were target paint. Chief Range Officers ers, but, of course, no target is too lost and two were added. Those Lassiter, T A Chance, and Virgil close or too big to miss. The elu - who canceled in fear of not having Earp were roving the range in golf sive white buffalo, given for clean a category would have had one. carts, responding to calls, and matches, remained elusive, but at - This is a combination of “If you proactively searching for situa - tainable. On the other hand, stage build it, they will come,” and “if tions where they could help. Ex - six had nine rifle plate rack tar - they come, you will build it.” tremely helpful in many ways were gets with no make-ups. I contend Costume contests had been re- the cadets of the Bataan Military the reason there weren’t 80+ clean arranged so Saturday night, a Doo - Academy, who did clean up, policed shooters was this rack. The tar - ley Gang Party occupied the usual up brass, helped paint targets, and gets looked like little cowboys and slot for the best-dressed costume ran all kinds of errands, always circles, but they were really white contest. The Dooley Gang has with a polite and helpful attitude. buffalo with wings flapping as earned a permanent gig doing par - Among the range improve - Every year the General gives a gun they flew away! ties at END of TRAIL. If you ments this year were large shade to the competitor who places More Categories haven’t been to one, well, they’re areas on several stages. These the same as the General’s age. Somewhat controversial was unique in SASS, well produced, were extremely popular, as you This year’s winner was the decision to require 10 men or 5 lively, and noisy. Several guns Rosita Gambler, SASS #41377. would expect. ladies for a category. There were were given away to those present. Stages were generally simple, three close targets with three people who canceled because their All in all over 40 guns were given appropriate for average shooters, rounds on the outside and four category hadn’t filled out—in out at END of TRAIL, including a who make up the bulk of contest - rounds on the center target. Since April. In the end, those categories (Continued on page 28) ants. Complicated, difficult stages no order was specified, the pistol only widen the gap between the rounds could be shot in any order. top shooters and average shooters. Instructions were simple and Winners come from the same com - self-explanatory, such as “engage petitive group whether the stages the five revolver targets with two are easy or hard. Two impressive rounds each,” “engage the three new permanent building sets were rifle targets with three rounds debuted at END of TRAIL. One each,” “sweep the five revolver tar - was the Taylor’s & Co. Gun Store. gets from either end, then sweep Built on what is now Bay 9, it is a them in the opposite direction,” good-looking Old West building and “engage the outside four re - front designed for shooting. Build - volver targets twice each, and the ing such sets is an art. I’ve seen a center two revolver targets once few beautiful sets at ranges that each.” Generally you could start were difficult to shoot from or to from either end. That is a good spot from, or just to negotiate from thing. Ask any blackpowder the loading table through the shooter. Procedurals were rare. It stage to the unloading table. was a gunfight, not a memory con - These were open and accessible. test or a spelling bee. There was a Both are handicap accessible, of lot of movement, with three shoot - course. Taylor’s Gun Store has ing positions being common. Addi - two windows and a door. The tionally, “housekeeping” directions stage went like this: were kept to a minimum. If you Shooter starts standing at the shot the rifle from the doorway, left window, rifle in hand, OR in and the next gun from a table, you These are the members of the Class of 2012 SASS Regulators the right window, shotgun in hand. could ground the rifle wherever who were in attendance at END of TRAIL. (Yes, an ambidextrous stage!) The you wanted. There was ALWAYS a Fifty-three new Regulators were inducted this year. shotgun is staged in the right win - flat surface available for grounding The complete list of inductees is provided in this issue of dow. Each stage had a connection long guns. Vertical staging and re- The Cowboy Chronicle.

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(Continued from page 27 ) friends. Also hopefully, gasoline Colt SAA given out at the won’t be $4/gallon next spring, and opening ceremonies and more people will be able to afford one for the winner of the going. The improvements this year poker tournament. It helped this to become one of the should be noted the guns best run, most fun ever. The high were given away without quality of this event moves it even extra cost raffle tickets. higher. It’s not just the one and Sunday morning Saturday night was party only World Championship of Cow - brought the shoot-offs. time at END of TRAIL! boy Action Shooting™, it’s a really This year the “stop The Dooley Gang kept fun way to spend eight days with plates” activated explod - things hopping and their several hundred of your closest signature Karaoke sing- ing targets, making the friends—other SASS shooters! fest had wanna-be croon - shoot offs even more ex - ers carrying on all citing than usual. De - evening long! spite the fact all the Wild Bunch RO Committee targets were knock - member, Pecos Clyde, SASS downs, and there were a #48481, was the Match Di - lot, the matches went rector for this year’s World Championships of Wild Bunch™ Action Shooting. The number of participants for this challenging Action Shooting game continues to grow. There’s still time to “get in at the beginning” … The Code Talkers were a very special set of Navajo quickly and smoothly. The soldiers in the Pacific audience was overflowing. Theater during World Much cheering occurred. War II. They developed a The Dooley Gang did the “code within a code” that awards presentation, as well. greatly facilitated mili - I believe it took three min - The Waddie Spirit Award 2012 went to Gambling once again raised it sinful head tary communications and utes and 30 seconds. Not re - Yul Lose . He spent the entire event at in the evenings during END of TRAIL. was never broken by the ally, but it went quickly and the front gate with a smile on his face Games of “chance” were hosted every Japanese. Chester Nez , was pretty exciting. and a friendly greeting for everyone who the last surviving mem - entered Founders Ranch. That’s a long, evening … and to everyone’s surprise, And, the great circus of ber of the original 29 hot, dusty job … and he does it every a brand new Colt SAA was the prize Code Talkers, graciously contestants, RVs, etc. folded year. His is the first face all visitors to for the top overall player! I’ll bet autographed books in the their tents and went home. the Ranch see … and his attitude sets there are even more gamblers SASS Mercantile during They’ll be back next year, the tone for all our visitors. This was at the gaming tables next year … END of TRAIL. hopefully bringing their another well-deserved award!

Winners Cowboy Badlands Bud, L F Cartridge Half-a-Hand Henri, L Traditional Texas Tiger, SASS #15821 CO SASS #9727 NM SASS #74829 NM Action Shooting Cowgirl Holy Terror, L F C Duelist Connivin Katie L Modern Half-a-Hand Henri, Overall Match Winners SASS #15362 TX Jones, SASS #9727 NM Man Badlands Bud, Duelist Potshot Parker, SASS #58535 OR Plainsman SASS #15821 CA SASS #35906 GA L Gunfighter Buffy Logal, Traditional Split Rail, Lady Holy Terror, E Statesman Cerveza Slim, SASS #46039 TX SASS #24707 OH SASS #15362 TX SASS #9724 CO L Senior Etta Mae, Modern Blue Mesa, Wild Bunch Frontiersman Split Rail, SASS #12478 AZ SASS #63240 AR Overall Match Winners SASS #24707 OH L S Senior Two Sons, Side Match Man Last Chance F Cartridge Silver City Rebel, SASS #12636 IN Speed Pistol Morales, SASS #38607 GA L Wrangler Texas Tiger, Gunfighter SASS #67180 OR F C Duelist Doc Roy L. Pain, SASS #74829 NM Cowgirl Buffy LoGal TX Lady Half-a-Hand Henri, SASS #29321 MI Senior Hells Comin, Cowboy Bones McCrakin, SASS #9727 NM Grand Dame Running Bare, SASS #56436 AZ SASS #46721 WA Action Shooting SASS #2323 CA S Duelist J. M. Brown, Duelist World Champions Gunfighter Lightning Cat, SASS #27309 NC Cowgirl Iron Maiden, 49’er Dang-it-Dan, SASS #19274 CO S Gunfighter Lassiter, SASS #67188 TN SASS #13202 FL Junior Rattlesnake SASS #2080 OH Cowboy Shaddai Vaquero, Buckaroo Cody James, Wrangler, Silver Senior Texas Gunslinger, SASS #69779 KY SASS #90540 AZ SASS #54580 TX SASS #10706 TX Two Handed Buckarette Sweet Sister Kit, L Junior Sass Kicker, Wrangler Santa Fe River Stan, Cowgirl Holy Terror TX SASS #79916 AR SASS #91899 AZ SASS #36999 FL Cowboy Deuce Stevens, B-Western Copperhead Joe, L 49’er Addie Rose, SASS #55996 MI SASS #39162 KY SASS #24062 AZ Wild Bunch World Champions Speed Rifle Cattle Baron Rosita Gambler, L B-Western Shamrock Sadie, Traditional Crazy Kurt, Cowgirl Holy Terror TX SASS #41377 CO SASS #78511 SC SASS #55520 NM Cowboy Deuce Stevens MI C Cowboy T-Bone Dooley, L Duelist Dixie Bell, Modern Last Chance SASS #36388 TX SASS #5366 UT Morales, C Cowgirl Bella Spencer, SASS #67180 OR SASS #63491KY

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Speed Shotgun Rimfire Double Barrel Pistol Cowgirl Shamrock Sadie, Cowboy Lash Latigo, SASS #78511 SC SASS #35308 NV Cowboy Deuce Stevens MI Texas Surrender Hammered Cowgirl Holy Terror TX Cowgirl Bella Spencer KY Cowboy Single Barrel CA Cowboy Possum Skinner, Young Guns Olin Winchester, SASS #60697 LA SASS #83099 GA ‘87 Long Range Rifle Lever Cowboy Lassiter OH Rifle Caliber ‘97 Cowgirl Shamrock Saddie SC Cowgirl Holy Terror TX Cowboy Goatneck Clem, Cowboy Robyn DaVault, SASS #16787 TX SASS #87360 AZ Pistol Caliber Pocket Pistol Cowgirl Shamrock Saddie SC Cowgirl Hey You, Cowboy Goatneck Clem TX SASS #64946 TX Long Range Single Shot Rifle Cowboy Last Chance Smokeless Morales OR Cowgirl Ruby Doe, Derringer SASS #29882 CO Cowgirl Hey You TX Cowboy Navajo Kid, Cowboy Waterloo, SASS #5656 FL SASS #46072 TX World Fastest Rimfire Cowboy Single Barrel CA Rifle Cowgirl Crazy Little Woman, Cowgirl Penny Pepperbox, SASS #82394 CA SASS #50750 NV Young Gun Apache Wolf, Cowboy Single Barrel, SASS #65272 MI SASS #60184 CA

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.The 2012 NRA Convention , Seven Hours from the Perspective of an Ordinary Cowboy

By Inspector, SASS #41400 Photos by The Alamo Kid, SASS #8100, and David Akers

n 2007, the NRA Conven - tion came to the St. Louis region. At that time, I had I a choice to make, attend the Convention or take advantage of the last remaining opportunity to achieve a personal goal. I chose the latter. In retrospect, I am not dis - appointed in my choice, but cannot deny I made a big sacrifice in miss - ing such a big event. Of course, all my friends at - tended the 2007 Convention, and I was treated to tales from my friend about all the details from such a large event. Salt in my wounds. The Alamo Kid, SASS #8100, Here it is five years later. I was and one of the many floor models. Charter Arms custom made this Orange County Chopper. thumbing through my latest copy of the American Rifleman, and was Saturday morning came, and I thrilled to see the NRA Convention met up with my buddy Dave over at is coming back to St. Louis for 2012. his house where Gary had come This time, I marked my Outlook down to stay the night before. We Calendar so even my boss could see all loaded into the car and made the I was not going to miss this event. 15-minute drive into downtown. Thursday, opening day of the Two blocks after crossing the river, Convention, came. I was tied up we were engulfed in a traffic jam traveling back from a business two blocks from, and related to, the meeting, and the results of that show. We crept past the front doors meeting had me tied up all day Fri - of the America’s Center at a snail’s day. That’s okay, my buddy, Dave, pace entrained in the bumper-to- had texted me and told me our mu - bumper traffic. Seeing the banners tual friend, Gary, from our home and some of the outdoor displays town, was coming down for the only made us more anxious to ditch weekend just to attend the show, the car and check out what was in - and invited me to come along with side. Two blocks and ten bucks them on Saturday. later, we squeezed into a parking Friday night, my wife was on spot on the top level of a five-story Facebook catching up on the exploits parking garage. of my Cowboy friend, Alamo Kid, The lobby of the Convention SASS #8100. Alamo went to the was crowded. The Convention web - Convention earlier that day, and site stated admission was free to all posted pictures on his Facebook page current NRA members. Upon to prove it. Here is a man, old closer examination, I believe this enough to be my father, posing in half event was open free to the general a dozen pictures with every pretty public as well. Even though the sales representatives and models on registration desk was crowded, the the exhibition floor who were willing NRA volunteers were moving folks to stand in front of a camera with through the line quickly, and soon him. Typical Alamo behavior … we had our lapel stickers signifying Aside from Alamo’s flirtatious ourselves as NRA members, kinda skirt chasing, what captured my at - like an admission ticket. tention was he mentioned on his The slogan for this year’s Con - page he spent seven hours at the vention was “Acres of Guns and show that day. This tidbit of infor - Gear.” Honestly, I had no precon - mation baffled me. How on earth ceived notion as to what to expect at could anyone spend seven hours at this event, so upon entering the ex - a trade show? hibition floor, I was almost over -

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whelmed at the sheer size of the swer my question thoroughly, he event and the volume of vendors shared with me several minutes on , and displays in one place. In my ca - everything I ever wanted to know reer, I have attended several profes - about his products. He showed me sionally related trade shows, but I displays, catalogues, and videos, never conceived of a show of this and the more he spoke, the more magnitude. “Acres of Guns and questions I asked. (BTW, the an - Gear” was not a slogan, it was a lit - swer: They are very brittle, and it eral reality. requires more precision in the load - As usual, the NRA Convention floor was crowed with enthusiastic There is not enough page space ing process than the average re - gun owners—all looking at the very latest new products. in this publication to share with you loader can achieve.) all the details of this show, so with My experience with Interna - Several high profile faces were Hunters.” Ted Nugent was even in - some brevity, I will try to hit the tional Cartridge Corporation is typ - in the crowd as well. Next to the terviewed on the exhibition floor. highlights. First, let me explain the ical of the service and technical SASS booth was EMF Corporation. Despite celebrity, it was the place was crowded. I saw on the expertise that was shared by every General Grant, SASS #2, was busy products themselves that captured website that in excess of 60,000 at - vendor at the show with whom I with another attendee, so I did not my attention. Seeing the products tendees were expected for this came into contact. In fact, I asked get a chance to meet him. At the end and displays changed my opinion on event. Although it was crowded one question of a Taurus rep who of the day, I followed Evil Roy, SASS several manufacturers whom I have Saturday, the attendees were excep - replied, “That is a very good ques - #2883, out the door of the Conven - seen advertised in the past, and in - tionally polite. Every bump was tion, I don’t know. Let me call one tion Center, but again, there was not troduced me to new products I did met with an, “Excuse me,” and I of our Engineers back at the office, enough time to meet him either. not even know were on the market. caught several folks looking over and I will have an answer for you.” In fact, several higher profile Kel Tec was able to make the their shoulders and stepping away He disappeared behind the display, faces were on the exhibition floor. I biggest impression on me with a from the displays to allow others to and came back a couple minutes stood in the background as Ronnie new bull-pup design shotgun, 26.1 have a turn at seeing all of the great later with a direct answer to my Barrett of Barrett Firearms was in - inches long, with two tubular maga - products being shared by the ven - question. It made me feel pretty terviewed on camera. Several folks zines holding a total of 15 rounds ca - dors. Pathways were promptly smart I had actually stumped a were standing in line to get auto - pacity. They also make some pretty cleared for the elderly on scooters to manufacturer’s rep, but it also graphs from Gunny Sergeant R. Lee cool bull-pup semi-auto rifles, too. pass, and I was pleased to see demonstrates the attitude these Ermey. The line was, however, Bersa was able to change my dozens of Boy Scouts in uniform in reps have towards customer service. shorter for autographs by Ton Jones preconceived notion that they only the crowd all day long. Dave and Gary are not Cowboy of the Spike TV show, “Auction (Continued on page 35 ) Through years of conditioning, Action Shooters, (Hey, it ain’t for we shooters understand there is eti - lack of me tryin’.), and I was anx - quette to the handling of display ious to find my way to the SASS dis - firearms at local gun stores and gun play, so we parted ways to meet up shows. We always ask the seller to later. In my futile search in a sea of see a firearm before handling it. displays, a guy dressed in cowboy Not so at the NRA Convention. It duds passed by me. I caught up to took me about an hour to overcome him and asked him for directions to years of conditioning in this eti - the SASS display. I did not recog - quette to accept that at this show. If nize this particular cowboy at first, it’s on display, feel free to pick it up but upon hearing his voice, I real - and play with it. Cycle the action, ized he was Black Jack McGinnis, dry fire it, look down the sights, set SASS Life Regulator #2041. Black it down, pick up the gun next to it, Jack, you need to start standing a and do it all over again. Go to the little closer to your razor. next display and repeat. Following Black Jack’s direc - It wasn’t just the crowd and the tions, I was greeted at the SASS displays that impressed me the booth by local Cowboys Shell Stuffer, most about the show, it was the ven - SASS #33146, Black Jack’s wife, dors and the manufacturer’s repre - Marley Devereaux, SASS #31853, sentatives that completed the entire and Sergeant Eli, SASS #35882. experience. Browsing the displays, SASS Home Office was represented I’d see a product that would bring by Misty Moonshine, SASS #24262, forth a question stored away in the and Buttercup, SASS #86742. Later recesses of my mind. I soon discov - in the day, I ran into several more of ered no question was too silly or too my fellow SASS members, Railroad trivial for these vendors. They were Bill, SASS #25174 Life Regulator, all respectful, helpful, friendly, and and his wife Miss Ellie Oakley, enthusiastic about their products. SASS #45229 Regulator. I also ran I remember breaking the ice by into a motley threesome, Terrible asking my first question of the day Shot, SASS #87969, and his friend to the representative for Interna - Dogtown Duncan, SASS #91366, tional Cartridge Corporation, with their partner in crime Bad maker of frangible ammunition, Luck, SASS #58140, out scouting “Why aren’t frangible projectiles more trouble so I did not get a sold as reloading components?” Not chance to catch up with him. All only did Dan Smith, of Interna - were ordinary cowboys, like me, just tional Cartridge Corporation an - checking out the show.

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bLANco sTATE pARk Cowboy Action Country Hot Spot

By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life #49907

shoot every weekend with a mini - boundaries of the park. Trout are Cree Vicar Dave, mum amount of driving time. So if planted in the river around four SASS Life #49907 ya spend the cold months in a RV, times from November to March. Se - the Hill Country is the place to be! curity is well covered. There are o my recollection, Texas has The park I found most ta my two Park Police officers—Park Su - over 40 Cowboy Action Shoot - liking is Blanco State Park in perintendent Ethan Belicek and Ting™ Clubs. The Hill Coun - Blanco, Texas. It is located right in Ranger Donnie Nance. The local try of central Texas is a Cowboy the thick of things. From November police departments patrol the park Action “Hot Spot.” For the past two to the end of February they have a from time to time, as well. winters, the Vicar’s Wife and I have monthly rate a little nicer than Mary Alice Partain is the head circled our wagon on or near High - most private parks. It’s best to of a volunteer program at Blanco way 281 in Central Texas, where we make a reservation. It says you can State Park. The volunteer program have visited several RV parks. At do it online, but we ended up calling (Continued on next page) most any park ya happen ta bed Blanco State Park. We talked to down in from around Spring Ranger J at the park office and got Branch ta south of Marble Falls, it worked out. Around half of their there are close ta 10 Cowboy Action campsites are full hook-ups. They Clubs from 25 miles to just over 60 have well-kept restroom facilities, miles away. That means ya can showers, and campsites.

Assistant Office Manger, J Erlanson. Besides checking Campers into the Park and other office duties, J tends the Colors at the Park Office.

The park covers some 100 acres on both sides of the Blanco River. There are several step dams on the river, two of them are within the Mary Alice Partain is the State Park boundary. They were Park’s Volunteer Coordinator built by the CCC back in the early & Park Interpreter. They have various programs 1900s. If ya like ta fish, you can do year round to entertain and so without even having ta buy a li - educate Park guests. cense, as long as you stay within the

VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com September 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 35 Blanco State Park . . . (Continued from previous page) allows campers to stay for free while working a few hours a week. This way you could shoot every weekend and have money left over ta buy a new gun. It says in Proverbs 14:23a NIV, “All hard work brings a profit.” If you are looking for a good place ta park your RV for the win - ter and ya like ta shoot at nearby clubs, Blanco State Park is the place ta be. Look up Texas State Parks on the web. Their website is www.tpwd.state.tx.us , or call the Blanco State Park office at 830-833- 4333, ask for Ranger J, and tell him Cree Vicar Dave sent ya. Their Park Police Officer, mailing address is Blanco State Donnie Nance. Park, 101 Park Rd 23, Blanco, Donnie also works on the Texas, 78606. maintenance team during Hope ta see ya on the trail. the Winter Months. Park Superintendent, Ethan Belicek. God bless. You will notice the park’s lower Ethan lives with his family on the park property. [email protected] Blanco River dam behind Donnie. He is also one of the Park Police Officers.

One very nice feature of their campsites is the covered picnic table area. It keeps the rain and the sun at bay.

The Blanco River flows through the Blanco State Park. Two of the many step dams on the river are within the park boundaries. This is the upper dam at the park.

The 2012 NRA Convention . . . (Continued from page 33 ) that subject from my friend Alamo make compact .380s; they also … make full sized 9mm, .40 S&W, and After the Heizer booth, Dave, even .45 ACP models as well. I Gary, and I started heading out the even saw that Taurus now makes a door, as the show was closing for Raging Judge in .454 Casull. Cool! the evening. We’d been rushed all In a recent copy of the Ameri - day trying to take it all in, and can Rifleman, I saw an advertise - barely got to cover the highlights of ment for a .45 ACP derringer, made the show. Dave had grabbed so of an aluminum or titanium frame, many catalogues and freebies the with a two round storage capacity handle on his plastic sack ripped in the grip. What caught my atten - out! tion was it was manufactured in On the way back to my car, I St. Louis. Toward the end of the looked at my watch, and what - day, my friends and I finally stum - duyano, we’d been there seven bled across the Heizer Defense hours … I chuckled to myself, how booth, and what a popular booth it could Alamo spend seven hours at was. Here it is close to closing, a single trade show? I guess I herds of folks are filing out of the found out for myself. arena, and they still have specta - If anyone who has read this far tors stacked shoulder to shoulder has an opportunity to attend an two deep across the counter to get NRA Convention when it comes to a look at one of their Double Tap your neck of the woods, I urge you pistols, or maybe it was the pretty to attend; you won’t regret it. If models hanging out behind the you do choose to attend, I caution counter; I’m not quite sure. Maybe you, give yourself plenty of time, at I’ll get a little more clarification on least say … seven hours!

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ThE cApguN kID RIDEs Mint in Box. I Have This old Capgun ... and you might know what it is.

By The Capgun Kid, SASS #31398

kid is sold down the river by the now that Santa was long since ex - bad kid in a situation like this. posed as Dad was compounded by Before my foot even crossed the the fact I was twelve years old. The Capgun Kid, threshold of their door, I regarded Dr. Mattagliano, our Principal in SASS #31398 myself as done in. Bethpage Junior High School, was As it turned out, he was not already advising us to shed our think I remember the such a bad kid after all, so I did toys and begin pursuing grades. kid’s name as Ricky or not get into trouble. Nevertheless, To this day I wonder if my Dad Ronnie or something I found myself in a conundrum wrote his speech for him. Within I like that. He was the that lasted about fifty years. Sit - a year I would have my first job, son of one of the men my dad ting on his bed, newly sent him and within four my first Red Volk - worked with, so the visit to his from somewhere in the Midwest swagen Beetle with a ragtop that house was fraught with the perils by some Aunt whose name I can’t got me through college before the of being pleasant and not getting remember, was a Mattel Fanner crankshaft blew. You’d think the into trouble. I wonder how many Shootin’ Shell Forty Five, still in issue of the Mattel Shootin’ Shell movies were made where the good its box. I did not even know Mat - Forty Five was dead. John Bray and his Nope. wooden models of our capguns. Somewhere in the nineties my daughter went to work for the tel produced this capgun, and see - Late Great Barnes and Noble. ing the most perfect replica of a One Christmas she brought home real sixgun ever made ... right a book by a man named Jim down to its loading gate and single Schleyer entitled, “Backyard action ... was amazing. It looked Buckaroos, Collecting Western Toy like it jumped right out of Roy Rogers’ gunbelt. I never saw that kid again. I know for a fact he never took that Fanner out of its box. In a way, that makes him almost an idol of collectors ... only in America can we pay so outrageous a price for an antique (These Fanners can go for up to $350) that is pristine be - cause it is referred to as ... Mint in Box. You know ... that means some kid in the distant past never played with it. A box of figures every kid in the For a while I dreamed about fifties had and scattered all over that toy, but the issue of not Mattel Rifles still in their boxes. the floor to Mom’s distress. knowing how to even ask for it

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My first Red Volkswagen Beetle with a ragtop that got me through college before the crankshaft blew (restored).

John’s hand painted and assembled miniatures that will knock your eyes out with their detail and photographic quality.

proach you with a comment and gun shows whenever I can. That’s question maybe every other shoot where I got the idea to write this or so .... “I have this old capgun, piece, which is essentially a and you might know what it is” … source manual for places to go to Penn Waldron’s Table ... It is also gratifying to know I was re-discover some of the details of every year at never really alone in my interests; our childhood. Herb Taylor’s Harrisburg Show … most of those Backyard Bucka - Getting off my sorry butt to roos are still out there. Every actually write it was another Guns.” I could not believe what year on Christmas Eve I try to story. That came about when I got happened when I opened it. open up Jim Schleyer’s book and a chance to go to one of the Holy There was a compilation of just leaf through it, and I attend cap - (Continued on page 38 ) about every capgun that every kid ever played with, gunbelts in - cluded. I was amazed, and even more gratified because, in the back of the book, he listed capgun dealers and ... even more impor - tantly ... capgun shows. Within a year I was posting replica capgun belts on Ebay as The Capgun Kid, and each of my postings had a story about Grandma Bea and my days as a kid. I soon had other people con - tacting me to make specialty items. Some of them had a hard time believing that they were not to pay me beyond materials, but The place instantly brought back visions of what it was like to be 5 and 6. had to make a donation to a char - ity as my fee. I went to my first capgun show, and made several friends I still see every year to this day. Then I found out SASS had long since been east of the Missis - sippi. That brought to an end my days as a French and Indian War Trekker. It also spawned the alias, which I had been writing under for several years before becoming SASS #31398. When you have an alias like The Capgun Kid, it is During the fifties and sixties millions of kids went through there. only natural somebody will ap - VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com Page 38 Cowboy Chronicle September 2012

The Capgun Kid Rides . . . (Continued from page 37 ) through there. Nestled in the Grails of our childhood here in the Adirondacks in one of New York Northeast. Frontier Town , as it State’s most beautiful areas, it was named, was built outside of was a vacation mecca for many of North Hudson, NY, in the middle us who grew up watching Hoppy, of Nowhere, by a visionary named Roy, and Gene. There were sev - Art Bensen. During the fifties eral other attractions like this in and sixties millions of kids went the Northeast, such as Netcong,

A “Mint-In-Box” Nichols Stallion and Roy Rogers Gunbelt that will yank a Christmas Morning Memory right out of you!

New Jersey and Patchogue, Long tals to B Westerns and Cowboy He - Island, but Frontier Town was roes. The people involved are all Frontiertown . familiar with SASS, but are not al - The bad news is Mr. Bensen ways shooters, so there is a tran - Kid Colt next to a model of a Concorde coach from has long since walked the streets scendent bond there. John Bray’s crafted collection. of glory, Frontier Town had to The site will list Jim Quick’s close under tax burdens, and has and Don Raker’s Capgun Show in since fallen into decay, constantly Carolina, as well as Herb Taylor’s up for sale. The good news is Mr. Show in Harrisburg, Pennsylva - Bensen wrote his story in a book nia, as well as others. You can’t go entitled, “The Story of a New York to one of those shows without at Tenderfoot and His Adirondack least one fond memory jumping Mountain Adventure.” The really out and grabbing you. good news is a man named Steve One Table will have your old Gross built a website devoted to Roy Rogers Lunchbox, another it, www.frontiertown.net , and I actu - your Mattel Rifles still in their ally got to go through the old site boxes, some of your old figures are itself last summer to take some awaiting your cash, and another pictures. Walking through the di - table will feature a craftsman. lapidated main gate sent chills up You make instant friends there ... my spine. Even though it’s falling Andy Bandzowiek had a table down, the place instantly brought with a box of figures every kid in back visions of what it was like to the fifties had and scattered all be five and six and have Mom and over the floor to Mom’s distress. Dad take me and my sibs there Brian Roeder had one Roy Rogers every year. lunchbox I bought several years Again, Frontier Town was not ago. He also had a “Mint-In-Box” the only site of its kind, and there Nichols Stallion and Roy Rogers are a lot of us who went to such Gunbelt that will yank a Christ - places in the midwest, west, and mas Morning Memory right out of south that have long since fallen you. He kept his eye out and into decay or been bulldozed, but found another lunchbox shown on life does not end when a building his table at the Harrisburg show, falls down on a vacant lot. Mount and I almost bought it for Brother up and take a ride to www. Chris. nicholscapguns.com . Here the de - It is impossible to run short of scendants of the Nichols Capgun conversation at these shows. Company have erected a website Anne and I met Penn and Robin that not only coordinates those of Waldron during the nineties, have us perpetuating the memory, but advanced into the world of grand - proactively keep an open door to parenting with them, and look Capgun Show Postings. This is forward to seeing them annually like opening a door to a world every year at Herb Taylor’s Har - joined with kid memories and por - risburg Show. I have holstered

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several of his Nichols Stallion Capguns, and his table is always packed with quality toys. John Bray and his wife, Shirley, will put out a table of John’s hand painted and assem - bled miniatures that will knock your eyes out with their detail and photographic quality. I did not even know there was a show for model and figurine makers, but his work is amazing enough to want to go to one. When I saw his model of Kid Colt ... if you don’t remember Kid Colt, John had a couple of comic books with the fig - urine to remind you ... it had to adorn my display case. Don’t get me started on comic book collec - tors. I stopped short of buying his scaled up Hoppy and Schmidt A “Mint-In-Box” Nichols Stallion and Roy Rogers Gunbelt Capgun, but seeing him at six foot It looked like it jumped right out of Roy Rogers’ gunbelt. that will yank a Christmas Morning Memory right out of you! many inches holding the wooden model he made instantly conjured America advances into the 21 st sity of those folks who shoot with up memories of Brother Chris Century. I can’t think of anything us. I hope to see more of them, when he was still a toddler. sad about our memories, but our and wish each of us would take I wanted my Pards to have passing is America’s loss. Most of the time to check out the sources this piece because, good, bad, or us were children of a generation I listed here. Enjoy the little indifferent, our way of life and who saved the world, and we actu - photo essay.! these memories are going away as ally get to see a reasonable den - Don’t shoot yore eye out, kid!

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My First SASS Event By Elzie Creed, SASS #92987 END OF TRAIL first got interested in SASS 3 – 4 years ago through MidWay USA’s I “Cowboys” on Outdoor Channel. As I watched more and more episodes with the excellent host, Tequila, SASS really appealed to me. My wife and I had been plan - ning to move to the Southwest, so I saw a natural fit. I joined SASS in August of 2011, and for or my alias, I chose Elzie Creed, a tribute to my 19 th century Grandfather, Elzie Creed Isenberg, born in the 1880s. Kari and I moved to New Mexico in the spring of 2012. I wanted to be ready to attend END of TRAIL. As I was living in hostile to the shooting sports Illinois, I never made any con - We really liked the Taylor’s storefront prop. tact with SASS clubs there. Now you may think making END of had filled my gunbelt loops with TRAIL the very first SASS event I dummy cartridges I had made. attended is like a newcomer to the Once fired .45 LC brass, fired primer tropical fish hobby starting with a still in place, no powder and a round 500 gallon aquarium, and maybe nose cast bullet. I ended up leaving that’s right, but that’s what we did. my belt, handmade Bowie, Peace - My first impression as I topped maker, and ammo all in the car. The longhorns being ridden out and Founder’s Ranch came into After we purchased tickets, we in town were great! view was it could just as easily be were met just inside by a SASS named Founder’s Valley. It’s a beau - waddie. He stopped a small group Cowboys and Cowgirls riding like tiful near 500 acres, surrounded by of us, and gave us all an introduc - the wind, and bustin’ balloons. green mountains. As we pulled into tory talk, stressing fun, and safety. Speaking of walking the the parking area, I was disap - He again emphasized ONLY com - grounds. If you are not going in cos - pointed. Here was a sign stating petitors were allowed to wear tume, by all means wear very com - “Only Competitors may wear firearms on the grounds. He then fortable shoes. The roads, and firearms.” Being a hand-loader, I brought up liquor. A cowboy in front paths are a mix of hard packed dirt, rough gravel, and red sand. When I got interested in SASS, a friend asked what I saw my alias charac - ter as. Without even thinking I said “Dusty Frontiersman;” at END of TRAIL I got my wish! We were very impressed by the Professor Farquar’s old time medi - deep, tall bays where the other ac - cine show was very entertaining. tion shooting was going on. The Taylors storefront prop in Bay 9 of us owned up to carrying. He was was our favorite, really authentic asked to produce the hip flask, and looking, from the spectator dis - pour all the contents out on the tance, at least. ground. I thought PERHAPS that In the shooting area, we was a part of the show, so I asked, watched Badlands Bud shoot clean and the waddie assured me it was in good time. There’s nothing like for real. The last thing before he those young reflexes! A few min - sent us on our way was “groping” utes later it was Long Hunter doing (his word) any camera bag, purse, well. As we walked back through etc just to be certain no non-com - the concessions area, there at a petitor took in a firearm. It was sug - table was Evil Roy. Even though gested we all start at the Mounted some of us only see these guys and Shooting, as it ends for the day ear - gals on TV, they’re just regular liest. Kari and I took that sugges - folks. If I had gotten a chance to tion. We walked all the way to the speak to Badlands Bud, I’d have North end of the valley, spent some told him he’s a lot taller than he The roar of the Gatling guns could be heard throughout the valley. time watching some well matched looks on TV.

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The memorial chapel shining in the sun with its new tin roof.

Much to our surprise the Chapel that had been in the plan - ning stage appeared finished. It stands on an appropriate high spot, all gleaming in the sun with its new tin roof. The NRA had a fun booth with several great displays, guns and props from classic Western movies and TV. There was Loren Green’s inlaid 1873 Winchester from “Bo - nanza,” Chuck Connors bow-lever The 1904 Oldsmobile Paddy wagon Winchester from “The Rifleman,” was a big hit with everyone. an 1897 Ernest Borgnine carried in “The Wild Bunch,” Clint Eastwood’s tried to get a real Stagecoach ride Colt Walker replicas from his for several years. We were able to spaghetti Westerns, even a black at END of TRAIL. I sat in a window vest Henry Fonda wore in “My Dar - seat, and had a fine view. I was ling Clementine.” looking to my right, when I turned The longhorns being ridden At the south end of the grounds left, I was startled. There was in town were great! were several Gatling guns, and yes SASS #1, “THE Judge,” very close you could shoot them. Out of defer - to the Stagecoach, all by himself in ence to my damaged hearing, I did his cart, paisley vest, and a big cigar not. They could be heard all over in his hand. Without thinking, I the valley, deadly “talk” for sure. blurted out “HOWDY JUDGE,” and We found two non-shooting I think I startled him as much as I events interesting. “Professor Far - did myself. I hope he knows it was quar’s Medicine Show” was enter - a compliment. I’d like to tell him taining, and a replica 1904 THANKS for several generations of Oldsmobile Paddy-Wagon was qui - Americans who enjoy the shooting etly roaming the grounds. sports, and especially Cowboy Ac - Kari and I had unsuccessfully tion Shooting™.

The mounted cowboys and cowgirls were ridin’ like the wind!

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Do-It-Yourself Gamer Gunsmithing of the RugER VAquERo “Less Is More” And Related Shooting Techniques Part 2 heavy pair of work gloves to By Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, SASS #76992 depress the hammer spring properly position the clamp seat and remove the captive and depress the spring out of or more extensive work, takedown manuals are explicit pin that you installed during the locking recess in the trig - as said by Wild Bill and have not been included, the disassembly process. ger/cylinder latch pivot pin Hickok just before the except for the following hints: Keep your face well clear so the latter can be gently F final gunfight in the a. As noted in the online article, from the strut in case the tapped out with a punch. If movie, Purgatory , “Let’s get to it.” Rugers for Cowboy Action spring violently launches you are only replacing the Make sure your gun is unloaded Shooting™ (http://www.cur into low earth orbit after re - hammer, trigger, pawl, etc., and no ammunition is present in trich.com/ruger.html), the moving the captive pin. you may wish only to push the work area. All parts references most complete compendium b. After removing the grip as - out the pin towards the gate have used Kuhnhausen’s nomencla - of methods to safely remove sembly portion of the frame, detent spring enough to re - ture and, to my best efforts, have the hammer spring from the insert a small screwdriver lease the trigger. not been abbreviated in following strut is found at http:// under the exposed curved discussions for clarity: www.cylindersmith.com/Rug portion of the loading gate 1. To save space, Kuhnhausen’s er-spring.html). I prefer to detent spring at the front on disassembly instructions, as il - lock the strut and captive the revolver and move it lustrated by the referenced spring in a vise and use a gently upwards. This causes the end resting on the load - ing gate to move off the load - ing gate and forward of the gate to take tension off the area of the spring that must be subsequently depressed to remove the trigger/cylin - der latch pivot pin. c. Put the frame into a drill vise on your worktable with small pieces of wood on each side and foam on the bottom to protect the frame. Partial Removal Of Trigger/ d. Before using your Ruger Cylinder Latch Pivot Pin Showing: gate spring clamp, signifi - (1) The Recess In The Pin That Is cantly taper the exposed end Held By The Gate Detent Spring, of the Allen-head screw that (2) Trigger And Trigger Recess Into Which Trigger Spring Fits, bears on the loading gate de - And (3) Hammer Recess For Strut tent spring to avoid digging into the inside edge of the re - f. Complete standard disas - volver frame. sembly results in a tray of e. Significant “finagling” and parts. patience is necessary to 2. Recoil Plate Removal a. After basic disassembly, mark and gently file a diag - onal notch across half of the recoil plate into the frame to - wards the cylinder opening using a guide. I have found that, over time, Ruger has decreased attention to this area—now leaving the vital headspace to be determined by the high points of slight ridges left in this area by Gate Spring Clamp Showing some sort of “finishing.” You Relationship Of Allen Head Screw may wish to gently file this To Loading Gate Detent Spring area to reduce, but not elim - VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com September 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 43 frame. The 5/64-inch punch plate is an agonizing deci - chuck the drill flutes in your specified on page 119 of the sion. When the recoil plate is electric drill, dab on some Kuhnhausen book will not almost out, create a “catch 600-grit abrasive compound fit. For most punches, the re - basket” by wrapping duct on the reverse end of the coil plate cross pin can be re - tape around the frame to re - drill and spin it for a moved by hand or gentle tain recoil plate, firing pin minute—note you are not pressure with a pair of pliers and firing pin rebound drilling, but polishing. immediately before the point spring. From personal expe - 4. Hammer strut work (done when the drift punch jams in rience, all of these parts seem while frame is soaking): the hole by hitting the taper. to have legs and, once mobile, a. Put the hammer strut in a d. Attempt to partially drive are tasty morsels for your vise and clamp it on the out the recoil plate with the work area floor to consume. sides. File the ridges on the frame held vertically in a 3. Recoil Plate Component Work edges that contact the heavy vise with the barrel on a. Gently file and smooth the spring and file a radius on Ruger Small Parts: # 1 - Trigger a ¾o wood black and be - factory chamfer of recoil each of the four edges. Then # 2 - Trigger / Cylinder Latch Pivot Pin tween two 2x4 blocks gently plate. stone the edges and the new # 3 - Cylinder Latch tightened to avoid damaging b. Using a small rat-tail file, radii. Carefully stone the # 4 - Recoil Plate, Recoil Plate Cross Pin, the ejector mechanism and extend each side of the chan - edges of the rounded contact Firing Pin, Firing Pin Rebound Spring front sight. You may wish to nel for the recoil plate cross point with the hammer # 5 - Transfer Bar dig out a clearance for the pin into the surface of the while rotating the strut— # 6 - Pawl front sight. A much heavier small recoil plate. The pur - the point is not to change # 7 - Hammer with Hammer Plunger and ball peen hammer is sug - pose is to provide a curved the dimensions of this fea - Hammer Plunger Pin gested, in conjunction with a surface for the recoil plate ture. ALL STONING # 8 - Loading Gate # 9 - Loading Gate Detent Spring 1/8-inch punch applied on cross pin to initially contact WORK REQUIRES THE #10 - 5 x Grip Frame Screws the back of the firing pin as, and then hopefully “track” STONE BE OILED. #11 - Cylinder Latch Spring and Cylinder being amateurs like me, you into the channel—particu - b. You have probably already Latch Spring Plunger may not have access to a larly if the re-installed recoil installed a 14-pound Wolff #12 - Pawl Spring and Pawl Plunger press. Depress the firing pin plate is slightly misaligned spring as part of your prior #13 - Hammer Pivot Pin with the punch before strik - from the marking line you “getting to know you” gun - ing it. You may wish to gen - created in the frame. In the smithing process. Cut off inate the ridges. I suggest tly file off the sharp edges on following picture, I have 2½-complete coils for a New placing the essential orienta - the sides of the driving end used the 5/64-inch punch to Vaquero. Using a grinder or tion mark diagonally as it of the punch to reduce the hold the recoil plate in-place file, smooth the sharp end will cut across, rather than (very excellent) possibility of while working on it. created by the cut-off and be parallel to, the lines left damage when the punch by the poor quality factory strikes the frame. Usually, finish work as shown by the you can move the recoil plate following picture. out a few thousandths of an b. Soak in Kroil for a few hours inch. Impact marks to the to overnight—a coffee cup area around the firing pin greatly reduces the amount can be filed out and then the required. firing pin hole can be lightly chamfered with a drill bit.

Figure 8. Filing the Recoil Plate Channel

c. Stone sides of the recoil flatten about 1/8-inch of the plate by rotating it over the cut-off projecting part of the stone using a small punch or spring to allow it to lay bet - nail as an axle. ter on the hammer spring d. Smooth the firing pin hole seat that contains the with 5/64 reamer. lawyer-mandated mecha - e. Cut the firing pin rebound nism lock. When remount - spring exactly in half to ing the spring over the leave 2-1/2 coils. strut, the cut-off section f. If using a transfer bar, re-use faces the hammer spring Soaking In Penetrating Oil the factory firing pin. If seat and not the top of the Showing Marked Recoil Plate Wood Block Arrangement In Vise eliminating the transfer bar, strut. As a result of signifi - For Driving Out Recoil Plate you may use the longer af - cant experimentation, cut - c. Attempt to carefully drive termarket firing pin. In ei - ting off 4-coils results in out the recoil plate cross pin e. Soak in Kroil for 24-hours ther case, gently chuck the some ignition problems from the loading gate recess more, if not longer. thin part of the firing pin in when slip thumbing, which out through the top of the re - f. Use the large ball peen ham - your drill and use it as a are far less frequent (to al - volver with a 1/16 " punch mer to drive out the recoil lathe to gently stone the most non-existent) when and a small hammer. The plate with the 1/8-inch sides of the projection that using the trigger each time. frame may be secured verti - punch. It has been said that rides in the recess of the re - As of my most recent test - cally as below-noted or hori - some of the recoil plates have coil plate and then stone the ing, a 2½-coil reduction ap - zontally between the been installed, “… tighter sides of the base that pass pears to allow slip wood-padded jaws of your than dammit.” From per - through the frame. thum bing with total igni - drill vise. Having the punch sonal experience, continuing g. Select an English drill whose tion reliability and approx - slightly bent at the taper to exert heavy efforts to re - reverse end fits best into the imates the hammer pull of helps it clear the revolver move a recalcitrant recoil recoil plate’s large recess, the Evil Roy Cimarron. VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com Page 44 Cowboy Chronicle September 2012

one pot chuck Cooking Up Some Tasty Grub Like Cookie Did Out On The Trail By Whooper Crane, SASS #52745, and The Missus

and invited guests. It gets its Wild West flavor from the mesquite barbecue sauce, cumin, and cilantro (and the Cholula Hot Sauce she serves on the side). Since beef was readily available to Cookies in the Old West, it’s the standard meat for this great “com - Whooper and The Missus fort food” dish, but don’t be afraid to use pork or lamb or veal (or any Sly Puppy’s Southwest-style combination of these) to give your Meatloaf Meatloaf your own special touch. hen she’s at a big match Some cowboys like to smother like Bordertown or Rail - their Meatloaf with salsa or chili head, good shooting sauce (or, Heaven forbid, ketchup), W buddy, Sly Puppy, SASS but Puppy says just a few shakes of #78115, likes to whip up this great- Cholula’s is sufficient. tasting Meatloaf for Jackrabbit Joe By the way, when the potato and zucchini are in your plate, slice ‘em into “coins” and sprinkle with some of your garlic salt. You’ll be Cooked and ready to serve-up to your cowboys! ready for 10 more Stages!

Ingredients Directions of them. 1 Pound, lean ground Beef Wash your hands thoroughly. Put your Dutch Oven on the re - 1 Large Onion, chopped In a large mixing bowl, with your maining coals. 1 Green or Red Bell Pepper hands, mix together everything Lay your loaf pan on the trivet or 1 Cup mesquite-flavored Barbecue but the potatoes and zucchinis. small stones in your Dutch Oven. Sauce Put all this mixture in a greased Lay your potatoes and zucchinis 1 Envelope homestyle Meatloaf Mix metal loaf pan. alongside the loaf pan. (we use Pioneer brand) Light up about 30 charcoal bri - Put lid on your Dutch Oven and put 1 Tbs. Garlic Salt quettes. your 20 set-aside coals on top. 1 tsp. Ground Cumin Put a trivet or a few small stones in Cook for an hour. 1 Cup Fresh Cilantro, chopped your 12 " Dutch Oven (to keep When done, cut Meatloaf into four 3-4 Potatoes your food off the bottom). thick slices. 2-3 Zucchinis When coals are ready, set aside 20 Put one of these, along with one potato and 1/2 a Zucchini on each cowboy’s plate. Dig in!!! Photo by Deadeye Al

Little-Known-fact During the entire Civil War, both sides each lost only one commander of an army. The North lost General James McPherson of the Army of Tennessee in Atlanta, and the South lost General Albert Johnston, who headed the entire western theater at Shiloh.

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Part fIVE sTRINg Two sToRy By Cree Vicar Dave, BANjo SASS Life #49907 popular in the mid 1800s. Many Levites, Jahath and Obadiah of Cree Vicar Dave, cowboys preferred banjos to gui - the sons of Merari, along with SASS Life, #49907 tars while riding the range be - Zechariah and Meshullam, of the cause banjos were less likely to be sons of the Kohathites, to have harmed by heat and/or moisture. oversight. Other Levites, all n researching materials Apparently banjos could with - skilled with instruments of music, for the “Five String stand changes in temperatures were over the burden bearers and Banjo Part One” I found and humidity without being dam - directed all who did work in every I this instrument is aged far better than guitars. That kind of service; …” Maybe that’s unique to America, created in the gives a whole new way of imagin - where the expression, “Whistle slave community. The early ban - ing a Silver Screen Cowboy or a while you work” originated. jos had a gourd body with the top period Drover on a Cattle Drive. Well a few days after complet - John Salicco of “The Banjo Factory.” third cut off and a fretless neck. Music has always been a part of ing “Banjo Part One” I was surf - John builds vintage style five-string An animal skin was stretched good work ethics. It says in ing the NET and found a company banjos, (gourd or wood hoop). over the gourd and gut strings Chronicles 34:12-13a NRSV, “The in Tacoma, Washington that still He also travels to put on a minstrel were placed over a bridge set on people did the work faithfully. makes banjos the old fashioned act he performs depicting the mid-1800s type music. the skin. The banjo became very Over them were appointed the way. It’s called “The Banjo Fac -

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Action Shooting™. If your club is close to the Northwest, you might want to contact him for a special event. You can contact him at: www.banjofactory.com or by phone, 206-497-0049 Right now I’m thinking of put - Wood hoop banjo on a coffin banjo case. ting together a gourd banjo kit. If John makes banjos to order. People choose the type of banjo they want I manage ta get all the parts to - and select what options they would like. gether in a timely/orderly fashion, I’ll let ya know how it turns out. tory. To date he has sold close to a mid 1800s repertoire based upon [email protected] 75 gourd banjos and 15 wooden his interpretation of minstrel www.suckercreek.org hoop banjos. Around 33% of the tunes of that time, throwing in a Photos courtesy of: banjos head across the Atlantic few Victorian jokes. Presently he “The Banjo Factory” Ocean to Europe. is putting together a CD. The Vicar’s Wife John now performs regularly The time period John portrays with his banjos. He has developed coincides very well with Cowboy

Gourd banjo, showing the front and back, made by John. To date he has built close to 100 banjos total in the gourd or wood hoop style. tory” and is operated by John Sal - icco. John builds fretless gourd and wood hoop banjos to order. A gourd banjo kit is also offered to those who enjoy a challenge. He also builds unique banjo cases; one resembles a casket. John is a self-taught banjo picker. He purchased his first banjo from a pawnshop some 35 years ago for $8. He later traded that banjo for a Plains Indian hand drum. About the same time he was given an antique open back banjo from a Living History friend who is also a Cowboy Ac - tion Shooter. Entertaining at Living His - tory Reenactments and Ren - dezvous has been a part of John’s life for three decades. He started using an early 20 th Century banjo in his performances because he couldn’t find an early 19 th Cen - tury gourd banjo. After doing re - search for a few years, he decided to plunge in and build a period banjo out of a large gourd given to him some five years earlier. Using only a chisel, hammer, handsaw, spoke shave, hand drill, rat-tail file, and a pocketknife, he constructed his first gourd banjo. He then experimented with cigar box banjos and canjos. A while later he decided to build another gourd banjo. Someone asked him if it was for sale, the rest is his -

VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com Page 48 Cowboy Chronicle September 2012 Cap & REVoLVERs coNVERsIoNs By Long Johns Wolf, SASS #81095, Ball PUT To THE TEsT Panhandle Paden, SASS #68806, & Bumble Bee, BDS #2589, Socks, SASS #69087, Conversions, Open Tops, and Magic Joe, SASS #92431 and some Conclusions Pa technology—which represents the rt 3a particular charm of this type of re - volvers to the authors. ig bore percussion replica industry but a few vari - field conversions of Colt and Rem - Smokeless is easy: All breech revolvers, their con - ants are missing for demand - ington, plus fun pistols like off- loaders in the test were 100% reli - versions and the Colt ing competitors. springs of the silver screen. able with nitro and able of more B Open Tops tamed the Our findings might help Wild • When you compete with cap than sufficient accuracy for Cow - American West, not the Colt West aficionados to select their new and ball (C&B) revolvers in a BDS boy Action Shooting™ purposes. Single Action Armies, which pair of conversion or Open Top sanctioned match you do not have Torture test blackpowder came too late. In their 1870 match pistols. Which revolver mod - to meet a power factor. But with ammo? The only true powder sep - class—equivalent to the SASS els were to be entered in the test breechloaders you have to be in arates the men from the boys. We Frontiersman category—Ger - was based on these assumptions: the MIP 112,5 bracket. Since we had our first “drop-outs” from man cowboys and cowgirls • Most shooters in the market are in this launch phase for the MoS2 lubing when we attempted prefer clones of the venerable for conversions will pick guns avail - new “1875 Conversions Class” to fire blackpowder rounds quickly Colt 1860 and Remington 1863. able from reputed makers of the in - sponsored by the Hesse State divi - through a given revolver. It is our When it comes to newly fabri - dustry. The variants currently sion of the BDS, the current objec - considered opinion MoS2 can be cated conversions we note an offered cover a basic range of newly tive is to get maximum awareness used for conversions if loaded with emerging interest for cur - made, solidly manufactured models and to foster interest for this type smokeless rounds only, but should rently available models of the of the Colt Open Top, factory and of revolver. To make entering this not be used with blackpowder car - class easy, no MIP is defined yet. tridges; see notes above under Once the 1875 class is up and run - C&B revolvers. Once the limited ning, ammo delivering a minimum use of MoS2 was established, this MIP is likely to be required in the “new to us” finding was considered future. This is in line with the in the further testing. Spirit of the Game. The MIP will Conversions disabled by MoS2 probably be the same 112,5 like in lubrication during our first black - the 1880 and 1890 class. powder series, namely Centaure The charm of conversions: Mumme Colt Army Long Cylinder If you want a conversion with PC Conversion #120X9, Uberti Mumme dimensions, currently the only way Remington New Model Army Con - available is having one made by a version #242X9, and Uberti Colt conversion artist because he will Army Richards-Mason Conversion be using a percussion revolver as #X027X1 were granted a re-start. the base gun. Apart from being a Before this they were completely technical gem, this new C&B pis - disassembled, all MoS2 residue re - tol turned breech loader of yours moved, then assembled, and lubed will comprise the constructive with a blackpowder compatible lube weaknesses of this 19th century based on vaseline (HP .357).

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Italian platform strategy: stages, apply new lube to the cylin - • Revolver with wide gap REVoLVERs coNVERsIoNs On the other hand, cylinder diam - der pin, or add a few drops of Bal - between conversion ring/back eters and height of the frames of listol or a spray shot of WD-40 to plate/recoil shield: Armi San conversions from the Italian the fore-front of the cylinder to Marco Colt Army Richards (R1), replica industry are bigger, fatter make sure that moving parts Uberti Colt Army Richards Transi - PUT To THE TEsT than the same parts of the respec - maintain their movability. tional (R2) and Richards-Mason, tive percussion guns. They are Safety first and how to Uberti Colt Navy Richards-Mason, beefed-up to accommodate six avoid stress at the loading Uberti Man-with-no-Name conver - round cylinders for cartridges big - table: We conversion aficionados sion, Uberti Colt Open Top; custom ger and stronger than the histori - know our revolvers inside out. Colt Army Long Cylinder and cally correct .38 and .44 calibers. A But, it is unlikely your range offi - Remington New Model Army “fac - few aesthetics might feel offended cer at the next match shares the tory” conversion by this move. There is an impor - deep knowledge about these some - Weak main spring: Exchang - tant feature on their Colt conver - what exotic pistols. We suggest, ing the original heavy main spring sions, however, that gets them light therefore, you introduce your for a lighter one might be useful in years ahead of period correct con - prized irons and their “finesses” to custom conversions of percussion versions in the function depart - the loading table RO. Why’s that? revolvers, but check the brand of ment. What is this? Italian Colt A few conversions are a bit your primers for positive ignition. type conversions feature a gas ring tricky. They were designed with * * * * * * * * * as an integrated part at the fore- an almost non-existing gap be - Actual testing to be presented end of their cylinders. This gas tween conversion ring and breech next month … ring protects this critical area from end of the cylinder, or an integral © Wolf D. Niederastroth blackpowder fouling once a black - lip as part of the conversion ring April 1, 2012 powder compatible lube is applied. that covers this gap. Add recessed Hammer resting on an empty This not PC approach keeps your chambers to this construction and chamber? Difficult to see on conversion going day after day you know what we are driving at. Uberti Remington (top), without cleaning or further lubri - To visually check safe loading of but no issue with Uberti Colt cation. Yesteryear only the Colt five rounds only and the hammer Navy-conversion (bottom) Open Tops had cylinders with on the empty chamber is a chal - / these gas rings. But, at the dismay lenge for the loading table RO on of a few purists, the Italians in - such revolvers. Hence, it might be stalled, such cylinders also in their useful if you and your loading Richards Transitional (Uberti) or table RO count the five rounds to Richards-Mason (Uberti) conver - be loaded together and load the sions. This feature keeps the pards piece with him closely supervising, and pardettes in the game who ensuring the hammer eventually compete with such conversions rests on that empty chamber. loaded with blackpowder rounds.

Recesses for the cartridge rims of Uberti Remington conversion (left) and “flat” breech side of chamber of Uberti Colt .38er Colt Navy conversion cylinder (left) conversion (right) with Remington Navy conversion cylinder without gas ring (right). The gas ring on However, most conversions the Colt protects the arbor from fouling and all Open Tops feature a wide gap between conversion ring, back Historical correctness: Mo - plate or recoil shield, and cylinder. dern custom conversions of the The visual check on these re - Colt Army 1860 or the Remington volvers is a simple affair like on New Model 1863 Army and the clones of the Colt SAAs and Ruger Remington conversions of the in - Vaqueros. dustry are not equipped with this • Revolvers with narrow type of cylinder as protection gap between conversion ring against blackpowder fouling. Even and cylinder: Uberti Remington with the right lube, these models New Model 1863 Army and Navy, are sensitive to blackpowder foul - custom Remington conversions ing like your C&B revolver. You with wide conversion ring, custom are well advised to wipe off the Colt Army Richards conversion crud from the cylinder between (R1)

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Captain Baylor modeling the Mernickle Evil Roy Slim Jim rig with matching shotgun belt. cAmp bAyLoR (Photo by Lorrie Lott, Mr. Quigley Photography) Come to the Dark Side. We have Cookie s. get about 500 emails a day, but once I’ve deleted Pub - lishers Clearing house, I By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life #24287 Nigerian princes, and offers to alter the size of body parts, I’m left with two or three letters from best with no compression. SASS folks. A lot of those are ques - Q. You suggest cleaning with tions about blackpowder. Windex with Vinegar. How much Frequently Asked vinegar do I add to the Windex? Blackpowder Questions A. None. Windex has several Q. What’s a good starting load formulas. Original Windex has am - for my cartridge? monia. The residue from blackpow - A. The starting load for all der and all of the substitutes is blackpowder cartridges is the same: alkaline. Vinegar is mildly acidic you fill the case leaving room for the and will neutralize that. Look for the bullet with a little compression, say word “Vinegar” on the label. Wal- 1/16 ". Triple Seven (777) works Mart, among other places, has it.

Captain Baylor shooting blackpowder at Buffalo Stampede ‘12. (Photo by Tex)

Q. What about other cleaning the big Ruger Old Armies with my methods? arthritic shooting hand. So I clean A. The traditional method is with Windex and wipe the guns soap and water. Tex uses that, tak - down with Break Free CLP. ing the grips off the pistols and im - Q. Which blackpowders can you mersing the pistols in water and load on a (insert progressive loader dish soap. Tex works harder than I of choice)? do. Make sure the gun is dry when A. Well, Dillon, for example, you’re done. Using a hair dryer or says not to load any blackpowder on spraying with WD40 will get rid of their machines. Blackpowder man - the moisture. If you’re in the ufacturers recommend only all desert, you probably don’t have to brass powder dispensers or meas - do much to dry the guns. ures to prevent static electricity Then there’s what we’ll call sparks. But the manufacturers say Murphy’s Mix. It has a less appe - 777, Pyrodex, and APP are safe for tizing name we won’t mention here. ordinary powder measures. All “Murphy’s Mix” paints a better blackpowder substitutes are propel - mental picture when I’ve got my lants, while blackpowder is an ex - hands wrist-deep in it and my nose plosive. Think about that when is itching. It is, depending on who you’re loading and a pound or so is is giving you the formula, some - in the measure 6 from your face. thing close to equal amounts of Using a dipper or an all brass pow - Murphy’s Oil, Hydrogen Peroxide, der dispenser is the approved and Isopropyl Alcohol. I’ve used it method for Wholly Black. This is a lot, and it has two things going for one of the reasons my cartridges are it. The alcohol and hydrogen perox - nearly all APP. ide will dry out leaving only the Q. The load in Loading Hand - Murphy’s Oil, so you won’t have book Du Jour says 35 gr. of black rust caused by failing to remove all powder is the load for a .45 Colt. of it. But, it leaves the guns slip - But when I tried to put in 35 gr. of pery unless you remove it, and I Triple Seven, it overflowed. Why? have enough trouble hanging on to A. Two things. ALL BLACK VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com September 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 51 POWDER LOADS ARE STATED may sound heretical, but some IN VOLUME. Grains are a meas - years back World Champion Spur urement of volume. It just so hap - Roberts told me he was using 36 gr. pens that 100 gr. by weight of most Goex Cowboy and 1-1/8 oz. of shot, blackpowders is APPROXI - and I lowered my loads consider - MATELY 100 gr. by volume. What ably. a coincidence! Q. Can I use modern plastic Blackpowder substitutes, how - wads with blackpowder? thing else you may. 15-18 gr. (vol - of oil and leave the guns oily. This ever, are less dense than blackpow - A. Yes, and you probably should ume) of most blackpowder or substi - will protect against corrosion and der. Some years back I weighed 100 with modern shotguns. tutes will meet/exceed the smoke minimize hard fouling, so the guns gr. volume samples of blackpowder Q. When I tried it, there was a standard. You need to fill the space will be easy to clean when you get substitutes and came up with these black, plastic “snakeskin” in the between 15 gr. and the bullet with to them. weights: bore. What should I do? either wads or fillers. If you are Q. I just want to shoot black at Goex FFg: 100 gr. A. You do need to clean your using filler such as corn meal, the annual blackpowder Shootout, American Pioneer Powder FFg: shotgun occasionally. It will come ground corncob, or grits, fill the case not convert to a new religion. What 85.0 gr. out. If you can clean it at the range, to 1/8 " of the case mouth so the bul - do I do? Triple Seven FFg: 73.3 gr. usually spraying the bore with let will compress it and prevent mi - A. Assuming you don’t load Pyrodex RS: 68.4 gr. Windex/Vinegar and then running gration. Migration means the filler shot shells and/or don’t want to load Now, if you do this and come up a Bore Snake through it once will gets between the powder and the blackpowder shells for one match, with different weights because you clean it. Oil on the aft end of the primer, and squib loads result. get one of your friends who loads didn’t fill the measure exactly the snake will leave the bore protected. Q. Can I use wads instead of blackpowder shot shells to load you same way I did, feel free to use your If you can’t do that, spray the bore filler? a few boxes. Bribery helps. If you number. with Windex/Vinegar then oil before A. Yes, but either use un-lubed have no friends, Ten-X and Powder Q. Do I have to use special you put the gun away. If you can wads or put a card wad between Inc. sell blackpowder shotgun shells blackpowder bullets? hold the barrels under running any lubed wads or grease cookies and cartridges. Ten-X uses substi - A. If you use Wholly Black or water, the snakeskin will come out. and the powder, or you’ll get powder tutes. Powder Inc.’s Black Dawge Pyrodex, you will get the best re - Don’t use the kitchen sink unless contamination and really erratic Cartridges uses Goex blackpowder. sults using soft lead blackpowder you’re single or want to be. Use an loads. You can load APP rounds for pistol bullets with big lube grooves and a outdoor faucet. If this isn’t avail - Q. What about cookies? and rifle using the same bullets soft blackpowder lube such as SPG. able, when you clean it, spray A. I prefer chocolate chip. you’re using now, needing only to Black Dawge bullets sold by Pow - Windex/Vinegar down the bore, lay Thank you. adjust the powder measure. Clean der, Inc., and Big Lube™ bullets are the barrels down flat, and clean one Q. Do I have to use Ballistol the powder measure thoroughly be - good examples. pistol. Turn the barrel over and with blackpowder? fore and after using APP to avoid If you’re using APP or 777, spray it again. Lay it down flat. A. No. Ballistol is a good lube, contamination with smokeless. You you’ll have better results with Clean the other pistol. Spray the and a lot of blackpowder shooters can go from smokeless to APP and cheaper smokeless bullets. Some shotgun barrels with Windex/Vine - use it. A lot of blackpowder shoot - back without special gun cleaning. Wholly Black loads with bullets ad - gar and start the Bores Snake ers use “Moose Milk,” which is 10% No “seasoning” is necessary. How - vertised as being blackpowder wor - through at chamber end. Pull the Ballistol, 90% water, to clean their ever, it is very important to clean thy have fouled out in the rifle in as Bore Snake through while over your guns. Be careful in a humid cli - the smokeless residue from your few as 30 rounds. I test every new trash basket, putting the wet snake - mate. If you don’t get rid of the guns before using blackpowder or rifle load until they foul out and skin into the basket. Usually that water, the Ballistol won’t prevent Pyrodex. The blackpowder fouling Captain Baylor shooting blackpowder at Buffalo Stampede ‘12. clean the bore accordingly. If a load barrel is clean. Yes, you may use a rust. This probably isn’t a problem sticks to the smokeless residue … (Photo by Tex) fouls out after 30 rounds, I run a bore brush and patches instead. in Phoenix. Drying the gun with a and that makes a very “sticky” Bore Snake through the bore every Q. How come I can’t put 40 gr. hair dryer to evaporate the water or mess! Soap and water won’t cut the 20. If you’re using Wholly Black or in my .45 Colt? Wasn’t the Old spraying with WD40 would solve smokeless residue and Hoppes #9 Pyrodex, you will need more lube West load 40 gr. and a 250 gr. bul - this problem. Break Free CLP won’t clean the blackpowder foul - for longer barrels. APP and cheap let? seems to work with everything— ing. Only a lot of elbow grease will smokeless bullets haven’t fouled out A. Modern cartridges have less black, subs, and smokeless. cure the problem!! even after extended practice ses - volume than 19 th century “Balloon Q. Do I really have to clean my Q. Whenever I shoot, the smoke sions and over 150 rounds. Head” cases, but they’re much guns every day? leaves half the workers choking and Q. APP says to start with 22 gr. stronger. If you’re trying to dupli - A. No, but it’s a good idea. gasping. What should I do? in .45 Colt. According to your con - cate the alleged velocity of 19 th cen - Blackpowder is not the corrosion A. Use more powder. version chart, that’s 1.46 ccs. I use tury loads, start with a hot powder, monster it was thought in the 19 th Captain Baylor can be reached at a Lee Dipper. Is it okay to use the such as Swiss FFFg, American Pio - century when primers were corro - [email protected]. 1.5 cc. dipper? neer Powder’s Jim Shockey’s Gold sive. If you can’t do a quick clean - Answers are free. A. Yes. Measuring blackpowder FFFg or 777 FFg. ing, spray the bore with your choice Correct answers are extra. or blackpowder substitute loads to Q. Should I use FFg or FFFg? the hundredth grain is an exercise A. Yes. in futility. Half a grain consistency Oh, that wasn’t enough answer? is pretty good for either a Dillon Except for 777, I use FFFg in all powder measure or Lee Dippers. main match guns, including shot - Q. I’ve used 85 gr. FFg in my 12 guns. 777 has the tightest restric - gauge, and I still can’t knock the tions in the factory literature. They targets down. Why not? insist you only use FFg in car - A. First, make sure your tridges, even small ones like .38 friends aren’t standing on the tar - Special. FFg, of course, will work. get ropes. If they’re not, pattern But I’ve had clogged up powder dis - your shotgun at 10-15 yards. If it pensers using FFg. It also simpli - looks like a donut, with a hole in the fies supply. middle where the target goes, you’re Q. A .45 Colt case filled with using too much powder. Modern powder makes a hot load. How do I shotguns are different from an - make reduced recoil loads? tiques that were designed for black - A. Well, with 777 you can’t. powder. My loads pattern about 10 Read their online instructions on inches at normal SASS distances the Hodgdon website and DO NOT from shotguns with no choke. It deviate from them. But with every - VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com Page 52 Cowboy Chronicle September 2012

sAss mouNTED shooTINg woRLD chAmpIoNshIp . Making History with the , Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association

oundes Ranch, NM – The sun lept over the juniper By Sierrita Slim, SASS Life/Regulator #4054 covered ridge, suddenly Photos by Mr. Quigly Photography F shedding direct light on the Wah-Maker Arena at Founders Ranch. of people on both sides of the fence have bers in SASS and is still a level six rider. This year’s END of TRAIL turned a new ideas about why not, I even had some Even before Jim got to the ranch, Dan page in the history of Cowboy Mounted misgivings myself. But now that it’s Plaster, CMSA’s President was there and Shooting as the Cowboy Mounted Shoot - over, I believe people will come to realize brought in a commercial tractor with at - ing Association (CMSA) hosted the there are many more positive aspects of tachments, which he drove himself day SASS World Championship of Mounted the re-joining of the two cowboy shooting after day, preparing the arena. The next Shooting! A new page that makes history sport powerhouses than negatives. Com - official to arrive was CMSA’s Vice Pres - and repeats it at the same time. You see petitors who attended saw it first hand. ident, SASS member and M3 Brady Carr. Dan Nabbit, SASS #5537, the first three SASS Mounted Shooting I’ll explain as the article progresses and He and their “dirt expert” M6 Gary Vick - was one of the obviously very World Championships were also run by by the time you finish reading I think ers travelled together and worked to - experienced Action Shooters the CMSA. The idea behind this current you’ll understand what I mean. gether. And boy did they work! Water who competed in the endeavor is while SASS is the absolute Jim Rodgers, CMSA #1, was at truck after water truck was closely super - Mounted Shooting All Around best in the world at Cowboy Action Founders Ranch for an entire week before vised making sure the water was spread Cowbo y/ Cowgirl match. Two Action Stages were shot Shooting™, CMSA has the same undis - the Mounted Shooting started. What across the arena evenly and in correct as part of that competition. puted claim where Cowboy Mounted many of you might not know is Jim is amounts to do what the arena needed. Shooting is concerned. So ... why not also William Bruce, SASS #5. Yep, he Between loads of water the arena floor have CMSA run END of TRAIL? Lots was one of the original Wild Bunch mem - was carefully worked and reworked until no sign of it’s months of idleness could be found. Dan prepped it for Gary and new SASS member Gary Vickers (Shady Three Feathers, SASS #96043) took it from there, readying the arena for all lev - els of riders. Some of the fastest Mounted Shooters on earth would ride in it through the whole match, and you never saw even one horse falter or slip. New Mexico’s 10% or less humidity saw to it we had a dusty match, but the arena was ready and proved fast and safe for all competitors. Shady Three Feathers also competed in the All Around Cowboy match and proved himself a tough competitor, firing Dan Byrd is seen here on his way lead bullets with his feet on the ground! to winning Stage 1 of the Main Match. There were other CMSA members be - He later distinguished himself by sides Brady Carr and Shady Three Feath - winning the Shotgun Match as well. ers who joined SASS just to compete at

Winners Division Champions Overall World Champions L Div 4 Mustang Momma, Man SASS #64495 AZ 1st Shady Three L Div 3 Fire Fox, Feathers, SASS #80377 NM SASS #96043 TN L Div 1 Michelle Runyan, Reserve Calvin N Hobbes, SASS #96042 NM SASS #17218 TX Div 6 Shady Three Lady Feathers TN 1st Outlaw Annie, Div 5 Buckskin Doc, SASS #14042 AZ SASS #44596 NM Reserve Morning Dove, Div 4 Buck Doff, SASS #7889 NM SASS #64494 AZ All Around Cowboy/Cowgirl Div 3 Brady Carr Man Calvin N Hobbes TX Div 2 Bronc Twister Burks, Lady Barbary Coast, SASS #95464 NM SASS #21965 TX Div 1 Clinch Cutter, Division Champions SASS #92934 CO L Div 6 Outlaw Annie AZ S L Div 5 Snakebite Annie, L Div 5 Morning Dove NM SASS #75608 AZ

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END of TRAIL, and likewise there were for the Rifle and Shotgun matches. The SASS members who joined CMSA to competition was made up of fifty-five compete in the match. The spirit of the tough Mounted Shooters, not counting Mounted Shooting game was alive and the wranglers! Spectators showed up in well this year at END of TRAIL! Team even greater numbers than the day be - work was clear to see as our own Stutter - fore! Word must have spread Cowboy ing Wayne stayed in close contact with Mounted Shooting is really exciting and Brady, serving as a liason and guide to great fun to watch! Thundering hooves help save time walking down the wrong threw dirt into the air as horses thundered path to get something done. past, their riders filling the air with the Thursday meant free Mounted Shoot - acrid yet sweet smell of burned black - ing clinics with Cowboy Mounted Shoot - powder and balloons bursting as the ing icons Outlaw Annie, SASS #14042, burning embers of powder break their and William Bruce, SASS #5. Yep, free skin, releasing the compressed air inside! clinics! Lots of people you wouldn’t nor - There’s just nothing else to compare to mally expect to see in a clinic were there the excitement of Cowboy Mounted Shooting, even as a spectator! to learn from two of the best and most ex - The parade through “town” is always a highlight for perienced instructors in the game! Any - END of TRAIL Mounted Shooters. With the first two stages completed one not taking part in the clinics or the Who can resist being the center of attraction while everyone in town we had a scheduled Mounted Parade warm-up match headed into SASS Town, is all smiles and the cameras are going crazy? through SASS Town! Action Shooters, the Old West town, for entertainment and spectators, tourists, and vendors alike all shopping with the vendors. CMSA mem - canvas tents. Just like in the old days— Cowboy competition, taking the lead and took great pleasure in seeing the bers who hadn’t been to Founders Ranch tents were replaced with permanent struc - firing the first shots! Ten mounted shoot - Mounted Shooters in costume riding their before were amazed at the set up! There tures, and that is a constant work in ers shot lead bullets at steel targets with horses through town. I can’t even begin are permanent buildings just like a west - progress at Founders Ranch, too. pistols, shotguns, and rifles. After two to tell you how many pictures or videos ern movie set ... well, that’s what it will be Then in the afternoon things got se - stages of real bullets, we all headed back were taken as we rode by. What great fun when it’s finished! About half the town is rious as the “First Shot of END of to Horse Camp to ready ourselves for the it was! Then back in the Mounted Camp permanent and the other half consists of TRAIL” Warm-up Match got under way. Mounted Shooting competition of the the Rifle and Shotgun competitions got Thirty-three riders hit the ground run - day. Two main match stages would be under way, exciting the spectators even ning for stage one, and run they did! completed along with preliminary runs (Continued on page 54 ) There were riders representing all six levels of skill, and with the arena in top shape, the times were fast! We had spec - tators in the bleachers all day, and they were duly impressed with the horseman - ship and gunhandling skills displayed by the Mounted Shooters. That evening everyone readied them - selves for the main END of TRAIL World Championship match the next day. It’s in - teresting to see what routines some people go through in preparation for a big match Always an aggressive competitor, like that ... dancing, singing, people Barbary Coast, SASS #21965, watching, and, since there were no guns attacks the course with gusto! in town after 5pm, spirits were enjoyed, She and hubby, Calvin N Hobbs, too! Liquid spirits that is, not the floating, SASS #17218, from Texas took scary kind; the liquid smooth kind! overall honors in the Friday started with the mounted All Around Cowboy competition. competitors shooting in the All Around

Division Champions Mounted Rifle S L Div 3 Latigo Lulu, Dan Byrd SASS #63690 AZ Double Down Match S L Div 1 Renay Watt A Div Clinch Cutter, S Div 6 William Bruce, SASS #92934 CO SASS #5 AZ AAA Div Shady Three S Div 5 Rick Jones, Feathers TN SASS #75030 FL Cool Down Match S Div 4 Yankee Duke, Man SASS #64387 NM 1st William Bruce, S Div 3 Chili Cowboy, SASS #5 AZ SASS #59663 NM Reserve Buckskin Doc, S Div 2 Gettysburg SASS #44596 NM Cowboy, Lady SASS #74480 NM 1st Painted Lady, S Div 1 Jerry Kurtz SASS #74481 NM WRL TR Twister, Reserve Latigo Lulu, SASS #86853 NM SASS #63690 AZ Mounted Shotgun El Paso Bob TX

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SASS Mounted Shooting World Championship . . . (Continued from page 53 ) Saturday morning dawned sunny more! Afterward horses were taken care and clear with many of us gathered in of and our riders headed into SASS Town Horse Camp next to the food vendor eat - for another crack at the vendors and en - ing some of the best burritos you’ll ever tertainment … and FOOD! have. Great friends, great competition, and great food all right there in the same place! Woo Hoo it was fun! The two re - mainining stages of the main match got under way and went fast. Balloon setters didn’t waste time and neither did the rid - ers. Balloons were ready to go just as fast as the riders could get into the arena—a smooth operation, for sure. Our spectators were back and even brought out some friends, too! The bleachers were filled up just about the whole time we were shooting! It was a great show to watch and a great match to shoot in! With Stages 3 and 4 out of the way, we jumped right into the Rifle and Shot - New Mexico and Four Corners Regional Champion, gun finals! More thundering hooves, Morning Dove, SASS #7889, has now fully recovered from a nasty wreck burned powder, and busted balloons! last year and is back to her old form. The older, but wiser Outlaw Annie, That’s the way we like it! Saturday’s however, still has the moves and emerged as the END of TRAIL shooting went even faster than Friday’s, Overall Lady World Champion. Congratulations Buckskin Doc, SASS #44596, and it was over by the time we had the to both of these excellent riders! was the clear leader in the parade! Everybody loves a parade, and Shotgun Match for the first two you could sure see that old addage place you looked you saw smiling faces! stages, only to fade in the later proven out with the response we got rid - When the results for mounted com - stages as Dan Byrd came on strong. ing through town. Wonderful! Every petitions and the All Around Cowboy were tallied, there was an award cere - mony right there in Horse Camp under the large tent SASS provided! Misty Moonshine from SASS HQ brought down the SASS awards, and things were under way! The competition was tough all weekend, and it was exciting to see who ended up winning what! The way the All Around Cowboy (and Cowgirl) competition was scored is those who registered in the All Around match were pulled from the main match results into a roster of their own and earned rank points for their finish against Local Buffalo Range Riders member, each other. The fastest Mounted Shooter Fire Fox, SASS #80377, is a consistent of the All Around shooters earned one competitor and leader within the club. rank point. The next fastest earned two She’s seen here ready to break the rank points, and it continues down the balloon with a well-aimed crossover shot! line like that. The final Action Shooting

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tough as ever. Sunday’s END of TRAIL Cool Down match topped off the week - end with a nice three-stage match. With the main championship already complete, everyone enjoyed trying to make up for errors made earlier in the week, and the competition was fierce once again. When it was all said and done, the SASS World Championship of Mounted Shooting, as presented by CMSA, was a great success! CMSA’s hard work Calvin N Hobbes was always a helped the match and arena run top Action Shooter, and that tradition continues right into smoothly, and people new either to Mounted Shooting! He was CMSA or SASS found the “others” to be the Reserve Champion for both great fun. With the Cowboy Action the Warm-up Match and the Shooting™ World Championship taking END of TRAIL World Championship place at the same time and with the as well as the top male SASS “Town” with the vendors and en - SASS All Around tertainment, a good … no ... GREAT Cowboy competitor. time was had by all. We’re looking for - Good job! ward to seeing you there next year!

portion of the All Around competition was scored the same way. Total times were calculated and the shooters earned rank points accordingly. The Action Shooting rank points were added to the Mounted shooting rank points and the lowest total won! In the event of a tie (we had one for 2nd place), the most ac - curate shooter (fewest misses) wins the tie. If there was still a tie (there wasn’t), the breaker would be the fastest total time of the two events. All that said and done, the 2012 SASS World Champion All Around Cowboy was Calvin N Hobbes, SASS #17218, and the 2012 SASS World Champion All Around Cowgirl was his Shady Three Feathers is a wife, Barbary Coast, SASS #21965. That Level 6 rider who joined SASS puts a new meaning to the phrase “the at END of TRAIL. He not only family that shoots together stays to - helped groom the arena gether.” They did great! into championship form, Next came the Double Down! he was the top SASS competitor and won END of TRAIL Overall. Though Double Down entry numbers Truly a champion! were down, the competition was just as

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ouTLAw AND ANNIE By Palaver Pete, SASS Life/Regulator #4375

HE: “I’m not satisfied where Outlaw was commissioned “We met some great people,” wwith simply being a and later served in the Army as an added Outlaw. “We left the Winter Lady Cowboy Action Engineer. This experience, along Range Shoot all enthusiastic, and S Shooter™. I want to with his inherent mechanical abil - when we returned home, we were take an active part in hosting ity and artistic talent, has made even more enthusiastic when we shoots, setting up stages, and serv - him a much sought after Sign discovered how many SASS clubs ing my club.” Maker. He has made all the signs there are in Oregon.” Cascades HE: “I do whatever she tells for the Cowboy section of the Cen - Annie was quick to add, “in Cow - me.” tral Oregon Shooting Range and for boy Action Shooting™ we found a Well, the HE in this case is the major events held there, plus group of people who share our Rod Mayfield, better known as Sil - making awards for the Oregon same ideals and sense of having ver Sage Outlaw, SASS #70532, State matches conducted by the fun. Outlaw and I have always Premier Carpenter and all around Oregon Old West Shooting Society. been active members of outdoor Fixit Man and Sign Man for the He will, I’m sure, be tasked to do groups from Oregon Hunters As - Pine Mountain Posse, located in even more when Annie conducts sociation, where Rod served as Bend, Oregon. He does listen to her next major shoot. President for a while, to Central whatever she has to say, but he On September 22 nd and 23 rd of Oregon Llama Association where rides his own horse and knows this year, Cascades Annie will I served as Treasurer for seven how to get to the barn by himself. serve as Match Director for the years. We discovered groups are For brevity purposes, I will refer to Second Annual Oregon State only as good as their members, Outlaw as … well, Outlaw. Blackpowder Championship, and the members we find in Cow - SHE is HE’s wife, Cheryl May - called “Smoke in the Badlands.” boy Action Shooting™ certainly field, AKA Cascades Annie, SASS Building on the reputation she es - make their organizations work— #70533, (herein called Annie). She tablished last year, Annie will once they are fun to be around!” is a Match Director, Banker, and again permit those who shy away Well, if you want to meet two News Editor, and when she’s not from the dark side to also partici - of the most dedicated and enthu - doing anything, she teams up with pate by shooting smokeless. So es - siastic supporters of Cowboy Ac - him (HE) to help build a clubhouse sentially, she will be conducting who are members of the Tempe Di - tion Shooting™, as well as or set up a stage. It matters not two matches: one for the dark side ablo’s Sheriff’s Posse. In 2007 the dedicated club members, come on what she does, as long as she’s and one for the white side (is that Diablo’s were putting on raffles at out to the Second Annual Oregon doing something, and as long as how you say it?). A total of 10 Winter Range, and the Mayfields State Blackpowder Shoot. Keep in he’s around to help. Together this Stages will be shot over a two-day were invited to participate, being as mind you don’t have to shoot the husband and wife team have be - period. For Shoot Flyer and Reg - they were known to like all things dark stuff. Both Outlaw and come an integral part of the ma - istration form go to: Western. “We were told,” said Annie Annie will welcome all shooters, chinery that drives the Pine http://www.pinemountain “to dress Old West, and join the Di - so go to that website listed above, Mountain Posse, much to the sat - posse.com/uploads/blackpowder_re ablo’s at Winter Range to help out. and for only $40 you will have one isfaction of all the members of this gistration.pdf Well, we did just that, and noticing of the best shoots ever! You’re a SASS affiliated club. When asked how they discov - all the folks dressed in Cowboy at - Daisy if ya do! Outlaw and Annie attended ered Cowboy Action Shooting™, tire and having fun, we were imme - Arizona State University in Tempe, Outlaw responded they have friends diately hooked.”

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Adapted by Sgt. Shuster, SASS Regulator #60835

alry in this command, and Geron - headache, he was able to march on imo thought that by properly sur - the return to Arizona. Geronimo Sgt. Shuster, prising them, he could defeat them. did not fully recover for months, SASS #60835 The warriors set up an ambush on and for the rest of his life wore the the trail over which the Mexicans scar given him by that Mexican Geronimo, Stephen Melvil Bar - were to come. This was at a place musketeer. rett, and Frederick W. Turner. where the whole company had to In this fight, the Apaches had Geronimo: his own story. New pass through a mountain defile. lost so heavily that there really was York: Penguin, 1996. The Apache war party held their no glory in their victory, and they Sgt. Shuster, SASS Regulator fire until all of the troops had returned to their home in Arizona. #60835 is a social and cultural his - passed through; then Geronimo No one seemed to want to go on the torian, founder of the Lincoln gave the signal to fire. The Mexican warpath again that year. County Regulators in Ruidoso, NM troopers, seemingly without a word SOURCES: and purveyor of the official SASS of command, immediately dis - Barrett, S.M., ed., Geronimo’s coffee: Cowboy Action Coffee. mounted, and placing their horses Story of His Life. New York: on the outside of the company for Duffield, 1906 breastworks, made a good fight against the Indians. Geronimo saw the warriors could not dislodge the Mexicans without using up all their ammuni - tion, so Geronimo led a charge. The ost of us know of the Indians suddenly pressed in from all Apache leader Geron - sides and they fought hand to hand. imo, but most of what During this encounter, Geronimo M most of us know we raised his spear to kill a Mexican learned at the movies. Leader of soldier just as the Mexican leveled the Chiricahua Apaches, Geronimo his gun at him. Geronimo was ad - led the fight against the expansion vancing rapidly, but his foot slipped into Apache tribal lands by the in a pool of blood. Geronimo fell be - United States during the Apache neath the Mexican trooper. The Wars. But, you knew that much Mexican struck Geronimo over the from the movies. The greatest head with the butt of his gun, knock - wrongs that were visited upon the ing him senseless. Just at that in - Apaches were from the United stant, a warrior who had been States government. But, it all following in Geronimo’s footsteps started in Mexico … and we con - killed the Mexican with a spear. tinue with the story. Within a few minutes, not a In the summer of 1860, Geron - Mexican soldier was left alive. imo was again able to take the When the Apache war-cry had died warpath against the Mexicans, this away, and their enemies had been time with twenty-five warriors. scalped, the Indians began to care They followed the trail of the Mexi - for their own dead and wounded. can troops last mentioned, the Mex - Geronimo was found lying uncon - icans who had attacked the Apache scious where he had fallen. They settlement in Arizona, and entered bathed Geronimo’s head in cold the Sierra de Sahuaripa Mountains. water and restored him to con - On the second day in these sciousness. Then they bound up mountains, the Indian scouts dis - Geronimo’s wound and the next covered mounted Mexican troops. morning, although weak from loss There was only one company of cav - of blood and suffering from a severe

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How james Butler LITTLE KNOWN Hickok Became FAMOUS PEOPLE Way Out West – wILD bILL By Joe Fasthorse, SASS #48769 ... and how Davis Tutt became “Nobody” Joe Fasthorse, Ed O’Kelly SASS #48769 By White Smoke Steve, SASS #91779 DWARD CAPEHART O’KELLY dent that would approach the popu - is the man who killed Bob Ford— lar image of such confrontations. Ethe man who murdered Jesse It happened on July 21, 1865 in James for the reward money. O’Kelly the town square of Springfield, Mis - grew up in a time when guerrilla wars souri, and it involved two local gam - divided the border states during the blers: James Butler Hickok and War Between The States. In 1892 Bob Davis Tutt. Ford opened a saloon in the rip-roaring Tutt and Hickok frequented the mining town of Creede, Colorado. On same saloons and had once been opening day, Ed O’Kelly strode into the friends, despite the fact Tutt was a saloon, said, “Hey Bob,” and killed Bob Confederate Army veteran, while Ford with a blast from a 12-gauge shot - Hickok had ridden for the Union. gun. After the shooting, O’Kelly showed The two men reportedly became bit - up in Oklahoma City and could fre - ter enemies in disputes over quently be found at the saloons where women. There were rumors Hickok known criminals regularly hung had once seduced, impregnated, out. In 1903 Officer Joe Burnett ar - and then abandoned Tutt’s sister, rested Ed as a suspicious character. while Tutt was thought to be trying After his release he was often heard to seduce Hickok’s paramour, Su - to say he was gunning for Burnett. In early 1904 Burnett was walking Wild Bill Hickok illustration sanna Moore. from Harper’s New Monthly By the time the two men met in his beat when O’Kelly approached the of - Magazine, February, 1867. the street in Springfield, Missouri, ficer and threatened to kill him. A life- Hickok and Tutt were sworn ene - and-death struggle followed. O’Kelly fired six shots that missed, but he Old West image of a mies. Hickok refused to play in any Burnett shot Ed dead with two shots. Ed O’Kelly was buried in a casket gunfight has become a card game that included Tutt, while provided by the county at a cost to taxpayers of $12.48. staple of American Tutt made a habit of openly sup - T mythology and a main - porting other local card-players stay of almost every ‘Western’ of with advice and money in a con - dollar debt from a horse trade. his gun and steadied it on his oppo - the past one hundred years. As is certed attempt to bankrupt Hickok. Hickok shrugged indifferently and site forearm. Witnesses said later often the case, reality of the Old The anger and animosity came handed over forty dollars. Tutt that both men fired a single shot West has very little to do with to a head during a high-stakes game then claimed Hickok owed him an - each at essentially the same time. image of the Old West. of poker at the Lyon House Hotel in other thirty-five dollars from a long- Tutt missed, but Hickok’s bullet In fact, historians have deter - Springfield. Tutt stood nearby ad - past poker game. Hickok told Tutt struck Tutt in the left side. Tutt mined the classic, in-the-street, vising Hickok’s rivals and loaning it was twenty-five dollars, not cried out, collapsed, and died in the man-on-man gunfights depicted in them money as needed, while thirty-five. Tutt grabbed one of street. Hickok was arrested two so many books, movies, and televi - Hickok won what amounted to two Hickok’s Waltham Repeater gold days later, but was acquitted in a sion shows were extremely rare. hundred dollars of Tutt’s money. pocket watches from the table and three-day trial. Most authorities on the reality of the Irritated by his losses, Tutt sud - said he’d keep Hickok’s watch until Several weeks after the gun - Old West can point to only one inci - denly reminded Hickok of a forty- the thirty-five dollars was paid. fight a writer for the prestigious The next day, just to prove he Harper’s Magazine began a series wasn’t afraid of Hickok and to fur - of interviews that would eventually ther humiliate his rival, Tutt wore turn then-unknown gunfighter Hickok’s pocket watch onto the James Butler Hickok into ‘Wild Bill Wild Bill Hickok town square. A mutual friend tried Hickok’ and create one of the great threatens the friend to negotiate a settlement, but legends of the Old West, while of Davis Tutt after failed. Hickok appeared and calmly Davis Tutt slipped into obscurity. defeating Tutt in a walked to within seventy-five yards To the best of the author’s duel, in an illustra - of Tutt, warning the man not to knowledge the Historical Sketches tion from Harper’s cross the town square wearing posted here and at TurnerBrown - New Monthly Maga - Hickok’s watch. Westerns.com are accurate and fac - zine, February 1867. Both men faced each other side - tual, but they are, in essence, a ways in the dueling position and retelling of generally available re - hesitated briefly. Then, Tutt ports, and no claim is made that reached for his pistol. Hickok drew they represent original research.

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VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com Page 62 Cowboy Chronicle September 2012 Escape from the Alamo By Dac Crossley Reviewed by Sgt. Shuster, SASS Regulator #60835

and the new Republic of Texas. A retired professor and History claims no one survived noted ecologist, Dac Crossley that battle, but this South Texas was raised in South Texas on quest for manhood postulates that tales of forgotten trails and Sgt. Shuster, someone might have. The es - railroad tracks, bandits, SASS #60835 capades of young George Hanks raiders and Indian attacks, take him from his awakening alone getaways and gunfights, and hey called him “Pos - and confused on the battlefield of the strong women who held sum” because of his San Jacinto to a career with the Texas together. A graduate of grin. That’s what fel - Texas Rangers, and confrontations Texas Tech, Dac majored in T low Tennessean David with Anglo war refugees, Co - Biology and earned his Doc - Crockett called George Hanks at manches, bandits, Apaches, two torate at the University of the Alamo. But by the time au - Mexican armies, and a lovely Kansas. He retired at the thor Dac Crossley takes the Senorita along the way. Escape University of Georgia and, reader to the conclusion of this From The Alamo mixes early Texas from there in the Deep adventure, red headed George history with the excitement of the South, hit his stride in writ - Hanks is known as Don Colorado. traditional Western novel and ing about his home state. His two The brave defenders of the might have been written to order South Texas novels, Guns Across Alamo gave their lives for freedom for fans of Western adventure. The Rio and Return Of The Texas Return Of The Texas Range r are Ranger , both won awards for excel - available from Amazon.com. lence. Escape From The Alamo Sgt. Shuster, SASS Regulator carries on South Texas traditions #60835 is a social and cultural his - in an earlier time, when Texas was torian, founder of the Lincoln an independent republic. County Regulators in Ruidoso, NM Escape From The Alamo, as and the source of the Official SASS well as Guns Across The Rio and Coffee: Cowboy Action Coffee.

Little-Known-fact Future President William McKinley was a member of the Twenty-third Ohio Regiment and saw constant action in places like Antietam, Cedar Creek, and Winchester. He often said he spent four years in uniform without a day in the hospital from a wound or from illness. He was later assassinated in Buffalo, New York by an unemployed mill worker.

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he family of Cowboy Ac - tion Shooters lost one of our own on Sunday June T 3, 2012. Deadeye Duke was at the range of the Mt. Valley Vigilantes in Hot Springs, AR on Saturday June 2 shooting just like he has nearly every month. His ever-present smile was just as Deadeye Duke, sAss #13133 bright as ever and just as always; he went out of his way to try and AKA Glenn Adams make sure he spoke to as many shooters and visitors as possible. March 17, 1935 – June 3, 2012 Perhaps the Lord knew he was going to be calling Deadeye home By Willy Fire, SASS #75733 the next morning because several folks commented on how they seemed to have more conversation smile, a hugger, a true cowboy, a Only one miss away from a clean than usual with Deadeye on Satur - friend, a confidant, an encourager, an one – DAGNABIT! Perhaps – just day. He and I had a great time kid - ambassador, and yes—a gentleman! perhaps – someone a lot wiser than ding each other about our counting Some of you may be wondering any of us here on earth knew Dead - abilities and our shooting skills. how Deadeye Duke did in his final eye Duke was about to be entering While I fall short in the skills area, match here on earth. The Mt. Val - a place where he will have nothing Deadeye was consistently encourag - ley Vigilantes give a dog tag for but Clean Matches. ing me. If he was counting when I attire. There is no doubt Duke was something we call a Dagnabit. You Rest in peace, Deadeye Duke. shot, he seemed to go out of his way smiling down on us as the chapel get one of these when you are only We miss you already; but we know to look me up and say, “Willy – you was filled up. one miss away from having a clean you are excited about being in a were shooting your rifle a little high Deadeye was also a big propo - match. You know – well Dagnabit I new place where you can tell folks … etc.” Deadeye Duke was quite nent of safety on the range. He held almost shot a clean match today! about Cowboy Action Shooting™. the encourager, and we are surely newbie classes for several years For someone as humble as the Duke And, we have no doubt you have going to miss him. that introduced untold numbers of was, it almost seems fitting in his rounded up quite a posse of out - In the wee hours of the morning new shooters to our sport. This was final match he earned a Dagnabit. standing shooters! on Sunday, Deadeye Duchess found something he took a large part in at Duke had passed into his eternal the Mt. Valley Vigilantes. There is home in their home in Alexander, no telling how many people sat Arkansas. While this was an aston - through one of his classes. ishing shock to the cowboy commu - Deadye was one of the establish - nity, several commented on “what a ing members of the Mt. Valley Vigi - way to go.” Doing something you lantes and saw it grow from infancy enjoy with all your heart one day to averaging over 70 shooters at and then the next day you have en - monthly matches. Deadeye served tered into the kingdom where there several terms on the Board of Direc - are no misses, no procedurals, no tors of the Mt. Valley Sportman’s As - squibs—only perfect shooting. sociation (the Vigilantes parent club) Deadeye Duke was perhaps the and had a huge influence on the suc - greatest ambassador of Cowboy Ac - cess of the club. Deadeye also was a tion Shooting™ that ever walked past president of the True Grit SASS the earth. If you showed up at a Club near Dardanelle, AR in Yell Cowboy Action match where Dead - County. He was also a frequent eye Duke was present, you were a shooter at Outlaw Camp. stranger but once. It was almost Deadeye Duke was a U.S. Air like he had some type of radar. He Force Veteran of the Korean War would sometimes seem to welcome era. He retired from the IRS after folks to the range before they even 26 years of service. After his retire - got out of their vehicle. He would ment, he and his wife sold their take you by the arm and make sure home, bought an RV, and traveled he introduced you to as many shoot - the Western United States. He was ers as possible. Deadeye had a way fortunate to live his passion of of making you feel you were the shooting with his bride by his side. most important person on earth. Deadeye is survived by his wife, Over 300 folks showed up to Deadeye Duchess (Wilma Adams), a pay their last respects to Deadeye daughter, Sharon Adams Beggs, Duke. It was incredible to hear how and her husband, Ronnie (Teeshot), many visitors said, “Deadeye Duke a son, Andrew G. Adams, three was the first person I met in Cow - brothers, several nephews, nieces, boy Action.” And, there were quite cousins, and many friends. a few that said, “I would have not Deadeye Duke leaves behind ever gotten into this sport if it quite a legacy, especially in the sport wasn’t for Deadeye Duke.” At his of Cowboy Action Shooting™. He funeral service several folks showed touched more lives in a positive way the ultimate respect to Deadeye than many of us could ever hope to Duke by showing up in full cowboy touch. Words heard at his service dress. Members of the Mt. Valley and visitation being used to describe Vigilantes served as pallbearers him were humble, nice, sweet, amaz - and were dressed in formal cowboy ing, kind, outgoing, always with a VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com Page 64 Cowboy Chronicle September 2012

.gEoRgIA sTATE chAmpIoNshIp , Round Up at River Bend

awsonville, GA – After By Slick’s Sharp Shooter, SASS #77967 M shoving Olin Winchester ay 3-6, 2 through Georgia Slick’s, 012 D SASS #20382, tiny RV window after being locked out by two Jack Russells, running around like crazy with scorebooks and ice water, and fighting possibly the hottest weekend we’ve had yet, the Georgia State Match, Round Up at River Bend, turned out to be a great match! Right off the bat I would like to say thank you to all of those who came to have fun with us. This year we had 226 shooters! They came from the West (New Mexico) from the North (Minnesota) from the East (New York) and, of course, from Miss Dixie Critter, SASS #91731 the South. We had about 100 home- All of the participants of the Shoot-off grown Georgia shooters and nearly those who came out to help. Put - as many from Florida, Tennessee, ting on a match like this would not #70062, our club range officer, Done had last year called “Save Tuco.” and North and South Carolina. We be possible without all of you cow - Gone, SASS #49052, and our Round This year, we kept with the tradi - really appreciate all of you. boys’ and cowgirls’ hard work. Our Up at River Bend match director, tion. The brains behind the mad - I would also like to thank all of club president, Witchdoctor, SASS Judge’m all Duncan, SASS #67320, ness, Pig Iron Lane, SASS #70063, put in maybe ten thousand (proba - came up with an even better idea bly seems like that anyway) hours planning and presenting a match that made the whole club really proud. Thank you! On Wednesday the first official rounds of the state match went down range during the worker posse shoot through, and boy, was it HOT! Thursday marked the start of the side matches, Wild Bunch, and the GA State Blackpowder Championships. Doc Griffin and his gang preparing the You may remember hearing Friday night meal in his chuck wagon. Koda Joe, SASS #89807 Ring the Bell challenge about our “specialty” side match we

Winners Categories Categories Categories BH Rocky Walls, Frontiersman Split Rail, L Senior Sassy Teton Lady, Overall Match Winners SASS #90454 SC SASS #24707 OH SASS #47525 FL Man Deuce Stevens, Buckaroo Kalamity Kae, G Dame Green Eyed Indian, L Wrangler Dew R Dye, SASS #55996 MI SASS #79716 FL SASS #51116 NC SASS #59089 TN Lady Sixgun Sallie, C Cowboy Persuader, Gunfighter Max Montana, L Young Gun Slick’s Sharp Shooter, SASS #28989 NC SASS #74492 SASS #23907 IN SASS #77967 GA GA State Overall Champions Cowboy Deuce Stevens, L 49’er Sixgun Sallie, Outlaw Tennessee Tombstone, Man Ozark Azz, SASS #55996 MI SASS #28989 NC SASS #34723 TN SASS #18273 GA Cowgirl Pistol Whippin Patti, L B-Western Shamrock Sadie, S Duelist Amaduelist, Lady Maggie Darlin’, SASS #82758 FL SASS #78511 SC SASS #28092 FL SASS #18274 GA Duelist Risin’ Outlaw, L Duelist Iron Maiden, S Gunfighter Widowmaker Hill, Top Gun Shoot-off Champions SASS #64767 SC SASS #67188 TN SASS #59054 TN Man Justin S. Accurate, E Statesman Papa Dave, L F Cartridge Yankee Red, S Senior Swift Stoney, SASS #52652 GA SASS #17266 TN SASS #39038 GA SASS #49735 GA Lady Slick’s Sharp Shooter, F C Duelist Stone Creek Drifter, L Gunfighter Last Kiss, Senior Ozark Azz, SASS #77967 GA SASS #58853 OH SASS #34954 TN SASS #18723 GA Categories F C Gunfighter Dash Caliber, L Outlaw Yazoo City Gal, Wrangler Santa Fe River Stan, 49’er Dang-It-Dan, SASS #84114 GA SASS #68552 GA SASS #36999 FL SASS #13202 FL F Cartridge Parson Delacroix, L S Senior Ms. Jewel, Young Gun Vaquero Jake, B-Western Cheyenne Culpepper, SASS #38863 MS SASS #62556 NC SASS #69781 KY SASS #32827 OH

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one man had to wear a bonnet while he was shooting! The team match was a hoot! I think everyone en - joyed watching that! Friday night Doc Griffin and his gang served a delicious BBQ meal out of his chuck wagon fol - lowed by Doc’s famous peach cob - Christian Mortician bler (of course!). After dinner the and the infamous hat Blackpowder, Wild Bunch, Side Match, Couples Match, and Team Match awards were given out. The Kaitlyn Rose, SASS #48142, the awards table was swaying. Con - Ladies Gunfighter State Champion. gratulations to all the winners! Saturday everyone shot the Save Tuco, clean the wheel, and final five stages and then went back raise all five flags, and you have Slick’s Sharp Shooter and rung the bell! The few who beat Justin S. Accurate this expert marksman challenge re - — Shoot-off winners — ceived a button that said, “I Rang the Bell!!” If you rang the bell, you to the hotel or camper and got all were going to make sure everyone purdied up for the Saturday night knew you did by flaunting that but - banquet. It being Cinco de Mayo ton! I can tell you, they are rare! and all, Cheppe’s Mexican Grill Hoping to beat the heat, Wild catered the meal and, keeping with Bunch started early in the morning, the theme, we even had a best and from what I heard and from my dressed Mexican woman and best Slick’s Sharp Shooter, personal experience, everyone had dressed Mexican man categories in Vaquero Jake and Marshal WD SASS #77967, the Lady Young a great, fun time shooting the 3- the costume contest! After every - shooting in the “Left Coast” Guns State Champion stage Wild Bunch match. Later on one’s bellies were full, the main couples category match in the day was the State Blackpow - (Continued on page 66 ) this year. He called it “Ring the Bell.” It started with shooting a clothesline in two with the rifle so we could save Tuco again. Then we moved on to a spinning wheel that was a four-clay shotgun target. A board hid the clays from view until they were up and ready to shoot. Then all you needed was your pis - tols, and in order for you to “ring the bell,” you had to shoot a topshot- esque scenario. You had 10 bullets to shoot through 5 silver dollar sized holes. Every time you shot through a hole, a flag would raise. Ring the Bell challenge Bluff, SASS #28259, the Gunfighter State Champion

der Championship. Though it was hot, we were given a nice breeze to blow away that smoke! Everyone was bright eyed and bushy tailed on Friday morning, ready to shoot em’ up! The first five stages went by fast, and so did the cool morning air! Luckily everyone finished up early enough to get out of the heat, grab some lunch, and shop along vendor row. Later in the day the couples match and the team matches were held. For the couples match, we made it a little different this year with some different cate - gories. One was obviously the tra - ditional man/woman couple. Then After breaking his foot Friday night, we had what we called the “left Big Boyd, SASS #41359, returned coast” category, where two men on Saturday to cheer on his posse! could shoot together, but to be fair VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com Page 66 Cowboy Chronicle September 2012

Georgia State Campionship (Round Up at River Bend) . . .

(Continued from page 65 ) Cowboy Gunworks, and also all the match awards were presented. vendors who sponsored stages. Your Congratulations to all the Geor - support was so much appreciated. gia State Champions and all the vis - After the awards were pre - iting winners! We thank our Main sented, Santa Fe River Stan took Match Sponsor, Jimmy Spurs with the mike. Being the funny man he is, he called for Christian Mortician, SASS #83177, to come up. For those of you that know Christian, you know his hat. Stan yanked that thing off his head, threw a $100 bill in it, and said, “The fund has started to buy this man a real cow - boy hat!” People started flooding the stage, throwing money in the — All the Georgia Junior Shooters — hat. By the time people stopped Slick’s Sharp Shooter, SASS #77967; Olin Winchester, SASS #83099; coming up, there was over 500 Sass E. Miss, SASS #78893; Little Mavrick, SASS #91759; and bucks in that darn thing, with the Miss Dixie Critter, SASS #91731 (not pictured) money going to the young shooters fund. The next morning Arcadia same, the River Bend Rough Riders Outlaw, SASS #71385, brought have been raising money all year Christian’s old hat to the shoot off, for our young shooters fund. At the and I think you can guess what we banquet, Olin Winchester, SASS did with it! 15 cowboys and cow - #52652, and myself, Slick’s Sharp Will E. Shoot, SASS #36318, girls plus 30 shotgun shells equals Shooter, SASS #77967, were each the Senior Gunfighter one messed up hat! given money so we could go to END State Champion Just as many of you do the of TRAIL. I speak for the both of us when I say we are truly thankful for all of your support and encourage - ment. Without your help and kind - ness, we would not be able to be where we are today. We both plan to shoot END of TRAIL and make you all proud! The following Sunday morning was cowboy church and the shoot- off. Just like last year, the shoot off was open, meaning anyone who wanted to shoot in it could! We had an excellent turn out! After shootin’ up that ol’ hat, the shoot-off began. I hope everyone had as much fun as I did at the shoot-off! Thank y’all for coming and we Sass E. Miss, SASS #78893, hope to see you here next year! the B-Western State Champion Happy Trails!

Overall Match Winners Maggie Darlin’ and Ozark Azz

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By Gringo Gordo, SASS #84138 Photos by Randy Saint Eagle, SASS #64903

helbyville, TN – The Wartrace Regulators hosted the 8th Regulators Reckoning, The Tennessee State Championship, October 6- S 8, 2011. Exactly 157 Cowgirls and Cowboys from 12 states were treated to FANTASTIC weather, much better than we could have asked or hoped for. Thursday boasted great weather and the usual side matches. Main Match wood Country Club did some rearranging, so we were Friday morning started with Whiskey Hayes wel - able to seat more folks and it wasn’t crowded like last coming everyone and telling them about the match. Papa Dave gave the Safety Meet - year. Whiskey Hayes gave away two guns donated by ing and Charlie Bowdre gave thanks and then led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Ruger, our Main Match Sponsor. We shot the first five stages either on the Hill or in the Old Town, depending on First in the Awards, we gave buckles to all the Cat - which posse you were assigned. Whiskey Hayes wrote some fast and interesting egory State Champions; then, we sent them to see Mose stages with no “P” traps in any of them. and Bella Spencer. If you haven’t heard, the Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources gave After the five Main Match stages were finished, we had a Team Match consisting every SASS Category State Champion a free entry to the 2012 US Open. Mose and of three person teams shooting the Texas Star with a rifle, pistol, and shotgun knock - Bella handled this for all of us. The US Open has the goal of being the largest Cowboy downs and a clay bird. The teams were drawn from a hat so it made it very interest - Action Shooting™ Match in the World. ing. Ten teams tried it and the winning team consisted of Duck River, Sergeant Next we passed out the plaques to the top five shooters in each Category, and Shooter, and Ruff Edge. then the Top Guns. Dinner on the Range Prestidigitator was the Top Gun and Dew R Dye was the Top Lady. No surprises This was followed by dinner on the range prepared by Rollin’ Chopstix and it there! was as good a meal on a range as I have ever had. They were also our food vendors Seventeen cowboys and girls shot a clean match. Congratulations to them! for the entire weekend, including breakfast. Pancakes and country ham on the range A Final Note are hard to beat! Many of you travelled some distance and spent some hard-earned bucks to come After dinner, we had the Side Match Awards and Dooley Gang inspired high-speed here and compete. We Regulators appreciate that and try our best to make each an - tag team door prize drawings. Thanks to generous sponsors, vendors, and prize con - nual match a little better than the previous one. You probably noticed some of the tributors, we handed out well over 100 door prizes. I might have even seen lots of Jack physical improvements we’ve made since you attended the 2010 match. I’m confident Daniels during the process. A big thanks to Frank Canton for rounding up all those the larger parking lots are a help to all. door prizes again this year. Already, we’re conducting Saturday workdays to get ready for the 2012 match, Next up was Chickamauga Slim, committing Karaoke. There was some pretty scheduled for 11-13 October. We have already added more shade trees and comfort - good singing, including Charlie Bowdre. When most folks left, the Karaoke was still able benches on the hill. going, with a group of cowboys singing. Last I heard, they were still trying to come We have another project underway. There were concerns expressed about some up with a name. I kind of like Buck and the Dodgers . Some observers believe they of our diamond-shaped rifle and pistol targets. As a result, we have begun the process might have advanced music theory by inventing a new key! of replacing all our diamonds with squares. Saturday morning brought the final five stages of the match and the weather With the objective of making your shooting experience even better, Wartrace has was just as great as the first two days. purchased eight 24 " x 24 " targets and eighteen 16 " x 16 " targets. These targets will The Big Banquet be placed throughout the stages. Saturday night brought what is certainly one of the best Awards Banquets in all I hope everyone enjoyed the 2011 Tennessee State Championship and you re - of Cowboy Action Shooting™. The food was great as usual, and this year the Lake - member us when you sit down to plan your future match schedules.

Winners F C Gunfighter Jackalope Jasper TN Senior Knob Creek KY Speed Pistol Cowgirl Main Match SASS #54049 Drover Traditional Dew R Dye Buckaroo Missouri Lefty MO 49’er Silver City Rebel GA SASS #29843 Duelist Walking Short SASS #91721 SASS #38607 Ocoee Red TN Gunfighter Last Kiss B-Western Marshal WD TN Sergeant Shooter TN SASS #31751 Speed Rifle SASS #75089 SASS #78856 Silver Senior Purly GA Cowboy Marshal WD Cowboy Prestidigitator TN L 49’er Sixgun Sallie NC SASS #57438 Cowgirl Dew R Dye SASS #52251 SASS #38989 Tombstone John TN C Cowboy Sgt. Eli IL Mrs Pleasant TN SASS #57419 Speed Shotgun Cowboy SASS #35882 SASS #76987 L S Senior Witch Doctor GA Widowmaker Hill Whiskey Hayes TN Frontiersman Buffalo Brady FL SASS #70062 Hammerless Double SASS #41999 SASS #24830 Ida Shot’em TN Silver City Rebel C Cowgirl Bella Spencer KY Cleve TN SASS #26131 Hammered Double or 1897 SASS #63491 SASS #87025 Wrangler Duke Skywalker IN Whiskey Hayes 6 Cowgirl Vaquera TN G Dames Two Ponies Gal AL SASS #26871 Cowgirl – 1897 SASS #90835 SASS #38710 Buck Dodgers TN Dew R Dye D Duelist Potshot Potter GA Gunfighter Widowmaker Hill TN SASS #39695 3 Gun SASS #35906 SASS #59054 L Wrangler Dew R Dye TN Cowboy Marshal WD Randy St Eagle TN S Gunfighter Valrico Kid FL SASS #59089 Cowgirl Dew R Dye SASS #64903 SASS #77635 Young Guns Vaquero Jake KY Team Match Sgt. Shooter Duelist Shell Stuffer IL Rounder TN SASS #69781 Duck River SASS #33146 SASS #75785 Sunset Rider TN Ruff Edge Let’s Go TN L Gunfighter Last Kiss TN SASS #90787 Lever Action Rifle - 100 yds SASS #82713 SASS #34954 Wild Bunch Off Bags Last Kiss L Duelist Walking Short TN Outlaw Tennessee Traditional Emmett Moon TN Off Sticks Buffalo Red Rock SASS #68059 Tombstone TN SASS #8279 Hand Held Long Gulch E Statesman Tabasco Jot TN SASS #34723 Modern Shell Stuffer IL SASS #31179 S Duelist Amaduelist FL SASS #33146 Single Shot Rifle - 200 yds F Cartridge Tuco Forsyth GA SASS #28092 Side Matches Off Bags W.D. Motly SASS #72674 Cherokee Sgt TN Speed Pistol Cowboy Off Sticks Tom Horn Scattergun Kid TN SASS #38868 Traditional Unpleasant Hand Held Dobber SASS #29593 L Senior Roma Jane TN Duelist Shaddai Vaquero L F Cartridge Anita Margarita TN SASS #53037 Gunfighter Clancy O’Connell Lever Action Rifle - 200 yds SASS #54050 L D Duelist Wildcat Belle TN Off Bags Papa Oso F C Duelist Long Gulch TN SASS #77506 Off Sticks Dobber SASS #53035 Hand Held Buffalo Red Rock

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oc tober 8, 201 The Eleventh Annual Shootout on the 1

but the match was also marked by By Deadly Sharpshooter one of the greatest displays of good SASS Life #35828, sportsmanship this side of the Territorial Governor Pecos. Now it so happens the Fort santa fe White Cowboys, who hosted this match, have an agreement in their ort White, FL – Life on mite, an arrow, a rope, or a saber. land-use contract that when a fu - the frontier was fragile Each of the Berm Marshals had the neral is scheduled nearby they have and emotions easily ran dual roles of “safely assisting the to shut down shooting for the dura - F to the ultimate insult— shooters through the course of fire” tion. It’s a Match Director’s night - Rolling Thunder of shotguns bade Murder. Alas, such was the case in AND convincing the shooters they mare. Yup, you guessed it, there farewell to a lost shooter and Pard, the frontier town of Mystery, where were the guilty parties with their was a funeral scheduled for that Awesome Cactus Jack, SASS #623L. the Territorial Governor managed weapons. The opening ceremony day, and shootin’ had to stop from to alienate most everyone in town. began with the Governor encoun - about 10:30 to 1:30. I’m here to tell Eventually his sins caught up with tering each of the eight suspects you, though, just about every Cow - him, and someone done him in. who acted out their plan to kill him boy and Cowgirl there enjoyed with their weapon of choice. Old themselves talkin’ about whodunit Gov staggered out of sight and was an’ all until we got back shootin’, not seen the balance of the day, and I didn’t hear a single complaint. lending credence to the idea that As if that weren’t problem he’d been done in. enough, a scary lookin’ thunder - storm was developin’, and hit us. Guess when? Yup, right during the break, and the rain stopped right Confederate Colt, SASS #31216, around 1:00, so we got back to fires the last salute to his father and shooting companion, shootin’ fairly dry, full of good Awesome Cactus Jack. The town of Mystery awaits arrival catered food, and the day ended well; of the 125 cowboys and cowgirls except, of course, for the poor Gover - get down out of the mine, requiring who came to the match and were nor, but you cain’t please everbody! three rounds. A miss on the knock - deputized to help solve the mystery We lost a Pard and fellow down could be made up, but the of the Territorial Governor’s shooter, Awesome Cactus Jack, Deputies then had to reload the heinous murder. The Governor, already wearing SASS Life #623, in the days leading rifle later to put the required a rope necktie and a stick of up to the match, so the match was rounds (three each, any order) on Now we needed help in solvin’ dynamite in his britches, faces yet this murder mystery, so we depu - another weapon from Red Bag, dedicated to his memory. As part of two static targets, With the rifle tized each and every one of the (Jesse Toothpick, SASS #41358) that dedication, the ROs held a safe, shooters then moved down shooters. These deputies of the law in a re enactment of his murder. “Rolling Thunder” in Jack’s honor, range to a dynamite box where they had the authority to talk to each of with his son and shootin’ compan - put four rounds on each static tar - the suspicious individuals on this At the end of the match, shoot - ion, Confederate Colt, SASS get, and two on the cowboy, in any here range, and at the end of the ers, er … um … Deputies, pro - #31216, firing the last shot. For order. Four shotgun knockdowns day, make their judgment as to nounced their verdicts, and the those unfamiliar with this tradi - finished the stage. whodunit. Now, it seems there were Berm Marshal who most convinc - tion, the rolling thunder repre - The Governor’s wife, Regretta eight suspects; suspiciously like the ingly demonstrated their guilt got sented about 25 shooters, shoulder Dee (Greta Dee, SASS #63811) number of stages to shoot. Further - their reward, (actually it was a free to shoulder with shotguns at the more, each of those stages was dinner at Outback Steakhouse!). It ready. On command, they all “made manned by persons of interest; made for an entertaining and fun- ready” and waited for the signal to namely the following: Shorty filled match, as the Berm Marshals fire. The signal was delivered by Fews—the mine foreman, Regretta really got into their roles. At the the Range Master, running behind Dee—the Governor’s wife, Cook D end of the day, it was Shorty Fews, the line and tapping each shooter Books—the Mercantile Proprietor, (aka Oakley Mouse, SASS #34428) on the shoulder, and then turning Colonel Cornelius—the calliope who got the blame, and everyone and running back the other way, so owner, Red Bag—an Indian not-so- agreed justice had been done. everyone fired two rounds. Done brave, Isabelle Candice Fraw (I Perhaps it was the shooter’s in - properly, this produces the sound of, Candy Fraw)—the Bartender (and volvement, or maybe just the fun of well, rolling thunder. Then at the the Governor’s mistress), Senior playing a Wild West version of Clue, command of “muzzles up,” Confed - Wigaleeto—the crazed Mexican In - erate Colt stepped forward and surgent, and General—General Lee fired the last farewell to Jack. Missin, Commandant of the Fort. Now for the shootin.’ On Stage Each of these persons of interest 1, shooters held a stick of dynamite had all the attributes of a mur - (Shorty’s weapon) and said, “ This “Shooter up” on Stage 1. derer—motive, opportunity, and would make a heck of a murder Shooter holds the stick of dynamite, most especially, a weapon! weapon.” And Shorty replied, and on the RO’s comand says, When the Governor was done Shorty Fews, (Oakley Mouse, SASS “Well, it ain’t quiet, but it’s “Well, it ain’t quiet, but it’s final!” in, there was evidence his demise #34428), the mine Foreman and a final!” With their rifle, the She will then shoot the red knockdown could have been wrought by a gun, prime suspect in the heinous murder Deputies then shot a knockdown target, releasing the cowboy target to come rolling down out of the mine. a knife, poison, snakebite, dyna - of the Territorial Governor. target that launched a cowboy tar -

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waited on Stage 2 to show the trancing I. Candy Fraw, Barkeep, rifle and revolvers. With their volver. Deputies finished by down - Deputies she could have done in and expert with all sorts of drinks, rifle, from the middle position, ing two shotgun knockdowns the Governor with her little pistol including her specialty, Killer they were instructed to shoot the where they were, then running to hidden in a thigh holster. Deputies Daiquiries! The featured target se - large center target, then one of the the opposite side for two more. had a chance to fire their own guns, quence on this stage was a skull and five outer targets, maintaining with nine rounds on a nine-plate crossbones, (natch!). Deputies had that alternation until the rifle was rack with two knockdowns under to shoot the skull first, then single dry (10 rounds). Then with re - the rack. Three targets on the right tap four targets making up one of volvers, it was a sweep beginning of the stage felt the sting of their the crossbones; then repeat the in - on the same center target, back revolver rounds, at least one on structions for the other crossbone. and forth to two of the closer tar - each target from each revolver. gets for five rounds Two more shotgun targets finished with each revolver. the stage. If an Indian was Stage 3 found Colonel Cor - taken off the range, nelius, whom readers might re - does that mean he was member with his colorful steam deranged? It certainly calliope from the successful match seemed so. Red Bag, last year. Seems the Colonel and had an unnaturally the Governor both had eyes for the powerful grudge beautiful new barkeep at the sa - against the Governor, loon (Stage 4), but the only weapon and was good with bow the Colonel had was a hank of and arrow. Standing rope, which he fastened into a with bow in hand, the Senior Wigaleeto (Wigley Down Yonder, SASS #67002) in siesta hangman’s noose. At the line, “ “I Skull ‘n Crossbones target, Deputies faced a deci - (artwork by Ennah Tizzy, SASS #58791) before turning the wrath of don’t want to hang around sion-making process, signifies the use of poison to kill the Governor. his serpents on the Governor. here much,” the RO replied, based on their prowess “From what I hear, it might be Cook D. Books, Proprietor of with handguns. There were two General Lee Missin had his catchin,” the buzzer sounded, and the Mercantile, waited for the closely spaced targets, and two saber ready on Stage 8 to convince pickin’ up the rifle from its vertical Deputies’ arrival with his assas - more, one on each side, with a Deputies how the atrocity had rack caused a cowboy target to sin’s dagger in hand. When the knockdown target front center. been committed, The Deputies raise up, (we called him the “Risin’ Deputies got the chance to hold Deputies had to shoot the knock - started down a ramp from the bat - Outlaw”) and a black shroud on that dagger, they said, “ Wow, this down, and then alternate on the tlement wall of our fort, holding the hangman’s beam dropped, re - thing’s wicked sharp!” and closely spaced targets for a total of the saber. Deputies observed, vealing another target farther Books replied, “ I think you get five rounds. If they knocked it “This is a cool sword,” and the downrange. The cowboy wore a the point,” and the shootin’ down with their first shot, their re - General responded, “Better put rope necktie, and Deputies had to started. Now Deputies had their quirement with the rifle was to al - that thing down before you hit him five time as he went up choice of places to start, left or ternate rounds on the two closely hurt yourself.” The Deputies and then hit the far target five right, and their choice may have spaced targets for 10 rounds. If ran up the ramp to the battlement times. Revolvers were a simple included whether they wanted to they missed, no miss penalty was wall, where their shotgun and two Progressive sweep on four targets shoot the two shotgun knock - applied, but they then had to alter - knockdown targets waited. With (1, 2, 3, then 4). downs first, or the four shotgun nate on the two more widely the shotgun safely staged, they en - When the Deputies got to the knockdowns. Either way, they had spaced (and slightly smaller) tar - gaged three targets in a continu - Saloon, they were met by the en - six to deal with before going to gets. With a move to the right po - ous Nevada sweep, with a double sition, Deputies were faced with tap on the center target. And Winners F Cartridge Cookie Hernz, five more knockdown targets for then, moved to the left of the bat - Overall SASS #44764 their second revolver, to be shot in tlement wall where they pushed Male Arcadia Outlaw, F C Duelist Confederate Colt, any order. Any misses on these the release mechanism to start the SASS #71385 SASS #31216 targets could then be made up large swinging target, END of Female Arkansas Kitten, Gunfighter Deadly Sharpshooter, SASS #144 SASS #41358 with their shotgun. TRAIL-style. With rifle, they shot Category Champions L Gunfighter Dakota Lil*, On Stage 7, Senior Wigaleeto, a static target on either side of the Senior Kid Romeo*, SASS #13593 waited with serpent in hand. swinger, and the swinger itself by SASS #26819 r Duelist B’Ville Bandit, Wigaleeto was off a might, and jest repeating instructions for the re - L Senior Sassy Teton Lady, SASS #7671 couldn’t forget the Alamo. He volver, (continuous Nevada sweep SASS #47525 B-Western Sandhill Sandy, blamed the Governor for every - with a double tap on the center S Senior El Lobo Rojo, SASS #76723 thing from Santa Anna’s ultimate target). They finished by moving SASS #28 L B-Western Bandana Barb, defeat to the fact his tacos were too to the far right of the battlement L S Senior Chancy Lady, SASS #25755l salty. In his mind, the serpent’s wall and doing justice to four shot - SASS #25650 Duelist Kingfish Dave, 49’er Angus McNasty, SASS #53158 sting would solve it all. Now I gun knockdown targets. SASS #17362 C Cowboy Chilly Willy, gotta tell ya the serpents weren’t Despite the delay and the L 49’er Arkansas Kitten SASS #20420 real, but a few of them Deputies weather, everybody was in good Wrangler Fireball, Young Gun Mad Man McLean, were mighty glad to drop them and cheer. We enjoyed the shootin’ and SASS #7709 SASS #63015 get to shootin’! The rifle sequence playin’ detective, so it was a fine, L Wrangler Dynamite Deed, Buckaroo Sharp Bamboozler, was a repeating sweep on four tar - fun day after all. Our hats are off SASS #61645 SASS #89010 gets, alternating with one, then to all the shooters who came to Cowboy Roughneck Rod, Buckarette Kalamity Kae, two rounds, until dry. The revolver play with us, and especially to the SASS #81741 SASS #79716 sequence was a simple single tap RO’s who characteristically ac - Cowgirl Hawkeye Gin*, Josey Wales Dublin Kid, SASS #44595 SASS #21855 on center target (of three), and cepted their dual roles of range of - E Statesman Latonka, * = clean match double tap on each outer target, re - ficers and thespians with equal SASS #67424 peating instructions for second re - aplomb and skill.

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Ro cLAssEs cAN bE fuN ! . (As Well As Instructive) , By Wichita Ol’Salt, SASS Life #69255

ichita, KS – On a hot and Dalton did an excellent job of stormy Saturday morn - covering all the information pro - ing in June, 25 Drovers, vided by SASS. Yet, kept the morn - W led by their Territorial ing session moving and the Governor, Mongo Jay, SASS Drovers alert and interested in the #36648, rode in to the Chisholm material. About 4-1/2 hours later, Trail Antique Gun Association we took the RO- I test, which was Yes, the RO is sometimes the best person to know if the targets have Headquarters Range House wet passed by each of the Drovers, then been engaged in the correct sequence, and ready for a hot cup of coffee broke for lunch. Cody Wyatt, SASS but his first obligation is to keep an and donuts. They had come in for #81758, CTAGA Cowboy Action eye on the competitor and anticipate a day of school! Shooting™ Match Director, served what the shooter is going to do. The Chisholm Trail Antique lunch (Cookie got the day off). The RO is NOT a counter. Gun Association aka CTAGA Once again, right on schedule, What’s going on here? Freeda cracked the whip and 20 of Learning what makes for a “good” Kansas afternoon! This training ses - stage vs. a “bad” stage is important— sion provided great hands-on in - both for potential Match Directors struction on how to run a good, safe and for Posse Leaders who will try stage and overall enjoyable matches. and safely shepherd their posse These teachers really threw some members through a match with no procedurals or other “incidents.” problems and shooter mistakes to us. Right- and left-hand “horse” props They required each drover to act as are only one area of potential trouble … a Range Officer/Timer, even though all had acted in that position several (ctaga.net) hosted the SASS RO- I times in the past. What a learning ex - Range Operations Basic Safety perience this turned out to be! Course and the RO-II Range Offi - After a long, full, and very edu - cer Training Course June 16th cational day, the Drovers were dis - 2012. The teachers, who rode missed and rode off into the sunset down from the Grand Island, NE, well satisfied with what they had Platt Valley Gunslingers were A good RO is like a pro-football learned. The Chisholm Trail An - Freeda Bee Mee, SASS #56443, linebacker—balanced and ready tique Gun Association shooting and her sidekick Dalton Master - to move in any direction in an range is located a few miles east of son, SASS #51139. Freeda and instant, close enough and Wichita, KS. The facility consists Dalton cracked the whip (figura - attentive enough to anticipate six areas designed for member There are good targets … tively speaking) right on schedule, anything the competitor might do shooting. These areas are: a 200 and to coach if necessary, and and there are “worn out” targets. to start the RO- I session. You yard rifle range with large range Shotgun targets with a certainly needs to be in a position could tell Freeda is a schoolteacher to try and prevent the competitor house and covered shooting sta - “sandpaper” surface will spit by profession, as she kept the tions, a 25 yard pistol range, a 100 back lead sinfully! from doing anything rowdy Drovers in line all day! She inappropriate. How’s she doing? yard rifle range, a shotgun trap shooting area, a primitive area des - the Drovers who had met all of the ignated for Muzzleloader shooting ! SASS RO-II requirements were (Continued on next page) ready for the afternoon RO-II classroom session. This por - tion of the RO- II training went on for about the first half of the afternoon followed by another test. Again, all Drovers received a passing grade! After a short break Freeda and Dalton herded the Drovers over to the CTAGA Cowboy Action The range portion of the RO class Shooting™ Delano Town for where everyone role-plays under the practical field training supervision is perhaps the most valuable session. Fortunately, the portion of the training. The first order storm had passed and we of business is setting up trail stages with were greeted with a “HOT” both good and bad situations built in.

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Good instructors make the material It’s OK to make the An appropriate classroom with After the classroom work, testing lively and interesting. Everyone can shooters do something good lighting, teaching aids, and verifies who was paying attention read the book—great instructors teach that’s just outside a controlled environment is most and who is ready for the “field work” the book. Freeda Bee Mee and Dalton their comfort zone … but conducive to good learning. portion of the training. Masterson filled the bill nicely! when is enough enough?

(Continued from previous page) Bee Mee and Dalton Masterson for their ex - that has a new log cabin range cellent training program set up to make all house, camping/ Rendezvous area, participants much more knowledgeable, safe and shooting trail. The sixth area is One of the lighter moments shooters, and for match directors to run good a recently completely rebuilt five- in the training is spotting clean fun matches. stage Cowboy Action Shooting™ all the things wrong with town, named after the Wild West or an upcoming shooter. Even though it’s an “other side of the river” part of Wi - entertaining exercise, chita known as Delano. The club it’s also vitally important range has an area designated for to learn what’s legal RV parking with a few first come and what’s not … electrical outlets. and just as importantly, For CTAGA monthly shooting how to politely and activities go to our website, non-confrontationally ctaga.net, or The Cowboy Chronicle for deal with the issue. Not dealing with the our Cowboy Action Shooting™ situation “cheats” all monthly and semi-annual shooting the shooters who have made activities. Visiting Cowboy Action the effort to be 100% Yes, it’s important to get the time for all Shooters are welcome to partici - in compliance with all the the shots, and especially the last shot … pate in these matches. dress and equipment rules. but when does timing become too Before putting the campfire aggressive? And, should this shooter out, we, the CTAGA, want to thank be offered a reshoot? (Of course, this is RO interference!) SASS and most especially Freeda

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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 Coyote Valley Cowboys 2nd sat Bad Eye Bobolu 408-722-0583 morgan hill 3rd sun Guns in the sun 2nd sat Johnny 2moons 760-346-0972 palm springs Golden heart shootist 2nd sat & Wind Drifter 907-457-2113 fairbanks Buffalo Runners 2nd sat Grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 Rescue society Last sun Dulzura Desperados 2nd sat hashknife Willie 619-271-1481 san Diego Juneau Gold miners posse 3rd sun five Card Tanna 907-789-7498 Juneau California Rangers 2nd sat paniolo Lady 916-483-9198 sloughhouse AL Double R Bar Regulators 2nd sun five Jacks 760-949-3198 Lucerne Valley North Alabama Regulators 1st sun Drake Robey 256-313-0421 Woodville high sierra Drifters 2nd sun Grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 Railroad flat Russell County Regulators 1th sat Will Killigan 706-568-0869 phenix City Richmond Roughriders 2nd sun Buffy 650-994-9412 Richmond Alabama Rangers 2nd sun Dead horse phil 205-531-7055 Brierfield over The hill Gang (The) 2nd sun Kooskia Kid 818-566-7900 sylmar Vulcan Long Rifles 3rd sat parson henry 205-871-4237 hoover Bridgeport Vigilantes 3rd sat Bee Blest 760-932-1139 Bridgeport Brown Burro Canyon Gunslingers 3rd sat Don Trader 714-827-7360 meyers Cahaba Cowboys 3rd sun Duke slade 205-854-0843 Birmingham Canyon Gallant Gunfighters 3rd sun Buck D. Law 256-504-4366 hoover Nevada City peacemakers 3rd sat marlin schofield 530-265-9213 Nevada City old York shootists 4th sun Derringer Di 205-647-6925 hoover North County shootist Assoc. 3rd sat Graybeard 760-727-9160 pala AR shasta Regulators 3rd sat modoc 530-365-1839 Redding White River Gang 1st sat Arkansas Tom 870-656-8431 mountain Robbers Roost Vigilantes 3rd sat Nasty Newt 760-375-7618 Ridgecrest home Gold Country Wild Bunch 3rd sat sutter Lawman 530-713-4194 sloughouse Critter Creek Citizens 1st sun Evil Bob 903-701-3970 fourke high Desert Cowboys 3rd sun Doc silverhawks 661-948-2543 Acton Vigilance Kings River Regulators 3rd sun slick Rock 559-299-8669 Clovis mountain Valley Vigilantes 1st Wkd Christmas Kid 501-625-3554 hot springs Rooster outlaw Camp 2nd & 5th ozark outlaw 501-362-2963 heber springs panorama Northfield 3rd sun Gun hawk 818-761-0512 North sat Raiders hollywood Arkansas Lead slingers 2nd sat & Dirty Dan 479-633-2107 Garfield south Coast Rangers 3rd sun swifty schofield 805-886-3360 santa Barbara 4th sun paladin murieta posse 3rd sun Grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 sloughhouse south fork River Regulators 3rd sat Arkansas harper 870-994-7227 salem helldorado Rangers 3rd sun Will Bonner 707-462-1466 ukiah Judge parker’s marshals 3rd sat & Naildriver 479-651-2475 fort smith hawkinsville Claim 4th & 5th Lethal Les 530-842-4506 Yreka sun Jumpers sat L’Amour True Grit sAss 4th sun sister sundance 479-970-7042 Belleville mad River Rangers 4th sat Kid Kneestone 707-445-1981 Blue Lake AZ Coyote Valley sharpshooters 4th sat Wif 408-448-3256 san Jose White mountain old West 1st & 3rd mustang Lady 928-243-3457 snowflake pozo River Vigilance 4th sat Dirty sally 805-438-4817 santa shootists sat sue Committee margarita Cowtown Wild Bunch 1st sat Wild Bodie 602-721-3175 Carefree California shady Ladies 4th sat Lady Gambler 916-447-2040 sloughhouse shooters Tom faultLine shootist society 4th sun Querida 831-635-9147 Gonzales Rio salado Cowboy Action 1st sat A. J. Bob 480-982-7336 mesa The Range 4th sun Grass V. federally 530-273-4440 Grass Valley shooting society The Cowboys 4th sun Captain Jake 714-318-6948 Norco old pueblo shootist 1st sun Gilly Boy 520-249-2831 Tombstone Deadwood Drifters 4th sun Lusty Lil 661-775-3802 piru Association sloughhouse Irregulators 5th sat & Badlands Bud 530-677-0368 sloughhouse Cowtown Cowboy shooters 1st sun & Barbwire 480-773-2753 phoenix sun 3rd sat CO Arizona Cowboy shooters 2nd sat Deputy Curly 602-487-9728 phoenix Colorado Cowboys 1st sat El Gato Gordo 719-683-6713 Lake George Association Colorado shaketails 1st sun midnite slim 719-660-2742 fontain Whiskey Row Gunslingers 2nd sun Turquoise Bill 928-925-7323 prescott san Juan Rangers 1st sun Kodiak Kid 970-252-1841 montrose Colorado River Regulators 2nd sun & Crowheart 928-505-2200 Lake havasu Windygap Regulators 1st Wkd piedra Kidd 970-799-1133 Cortez 4th sat Vigilantes 2nd sat Grizz Bear 719-545-9463 pueblo Northern Arizona Cowboy 3rd sat Robber Baron 928-607-5640 flagstaff four Corners Rifle and 2nd sun Capt. W. K. 970-565-3840 Cortez shooter Association pistol Club Kelso Lake powell Gunslingers 3rd sat Bare fist Jack 928-660-2104 page montrose marshals 2nd sun Big hat 970-249-7701 montrose Los Vaqueros 3rd sat Buckeye pete 520-548-8298 Tucson Ben Lomond high plains 2nd sun sand River slim 303-771-1920 Ramah Tonto Rim marauders 3rd sun silverado Cid 928-595-1230 payson Drifters mohave marshalls 3rd sun & D B Chester 928-231-9013 Kingman Castle peak Wildshots 2nd Wkd old squinteye 970-524-9348 Gypsum 5th sat pawnee station 3rd sat Red Creek Dick 303-857-0520 Nunn Altar Valley pistoleros 3rd sun & mean Raylean 520-235-0394 Tucson martin 5th sun Rockvale Bunch 3rd sat mister 719-784-1342 Rockvale Arizona Yavapai Rangers 4th sat Whisperin 928-567-9227 Camp Verde four Corners Gunslingers 3rd sun Cereza slim 970-247-0745 Durango meadows Thunder mountain shootists 3rd Wkd pinto Being 970-464-7118 Grand Dusty Bunch old Western 4th sat squibber 520-568-2852 Casa Grande Junction shooters Briggsdale County shootist 4th sat Kid Bucklin 970-493-1813 Briggsdale Colorado River shootists 4th sun Boston Anniebelle 928-502-1298 Yuma Northwest Colorado Rangers 4th sat sagebrush Burns 970-824-8407 Craig CA sand Creek Raiders 4th sun sweet Water Bill 303-366-8827 Byers sunnyvale Regulators 1st & 3rd shaniko Jack 650-464-3764 Cupertino Black Canyon Ghost Riders 4th sun Double Bit 970-874-8745 hotchkiss mon Night CT West End outlaws 1st & 3rd sat Chickamauga 951-549-9304 Lytle Creek Ledyard sidewinders 1st sat Yosemite Gene 860-536-0887 Ledyard Charlie CT Valley Bushwackers 2nd sun milo sierra 860-508-2686 East Granby silver Queen mine Regulators 1st & 3rd T. E. Kidd 562-598-7771 Azusa DE sun padens posse 3rd sun hazel pepper 302-422-6534 Bridgeville Escondido Bandidos 1st sat Devil Jack 760-741-3229 Escondido FL The outlaws 1st sat Terrell sackett 916-363-1648 sacramento Gold Coast Gunslingers 1st sat George Washington 786-256-9542 fort Lassen Regulators 1st sat Chief Wages 530-257-3402 susanville mcLintock Lauderdale Two Rivers posse 1st sat & Dragon 209-836-4042 manteca Ghost Town Gunslingers 1st sat Copenhagen 904-808-8559 st. Augustine 4th sun hernando County 1st sun shady Brady 352-686-1055 Brooksville River City Regulators 1st sun point of orgin 530-304-5616 Davis Regulators mother Lode shootist society 1st sun sioux City Kid 209-795-4175 Jamestown miakka misfits 1st sun Deadlee headlee 941-650-8920 myakka City hole In The Wall Gang 1st sun frito Bandito 661-406-6001 piru fort White Cowboy Cavalry 2nd sat Deadly 352-317-6284 fort White 5 Dogs Creek 1st Wkd mad Trapper 661-589-7472 Bakersfield sharpshoot of Rat River okeechobee marshals 2nd sat & Kid Celero 561-312-9075 okeechobee Cajon Cowboys 2nd & 4th pasture patti 760-956-8852 Devore 4th sun sat Tater hill Gunfighters 2nd sun Judge JD Justice 941-629-4440 Arcadia Chorro Valley Regulators 2nd & 5th mad Dog 805-440-7847 san Luis Weewahootee Vigilance 2nd sun Conway Kid 407-273-9763 orlando sun mcCoy obispo Committee shasta Regulators of 2nd sat Cayenne pepper 530-275-3158 Burney panhandle Cowboys 2nd sun high Card 850-492-5162 pensacola hat Creek southwest florida Gunslingers 3rd sat Jed Lewis 239-455-4788 punta Gorda

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City FL (continued) IL (continued) Big Bend Bushwhackers 3rd sat sixpence Kid 850-459-1107 Tallahassee Good Guys posse 4th sun Dangerous 815-245-7264 Rockford Lake County pistoleros 3rd sat Arcadia outlaw 352-208-2788 Tavares Denny Cowford Regulators 4th sat General Lee 904-803-2930 Jacksonville salt River Renegades As sch Lily mae 217-985-4915 Barry smokey IN Indian River Regulators 4th sat Belligerent orney 321-403-2940 palm Bay Daleville Desperados 1st sat flat Water Bob 765-284-0405 Daleville Bob Cutter’s Raiders 1st sat midnite 574-893-7214 Warsaw panhandle Cattle Company 4th sat Desperado Dale 850-832-2837 port st. Joe Desperado oK Corral outlaws 4th sun Kokomo Kid 863-357-2226 okeechobee Atlanta Cattle Company 2nd sat Bear Creek 765-652-1525 Atlanta five County Regulators 4th sun Jed Lewis 239-455-4788 punta Gorda Reverend Doodle hill Regulators 4th sun Dave smith 813-645-3828 Ruskin pleasant Valley Renegades 2nd sat Nomore slim 812-839-3052 Canaan Antelope Junction Rangers fri nite & mayeye Rider 727-736-3977 pineallas park schuster’s Rangers 2nd sun Coal Car Kid 219-759-3498 Chesterton 2nd sat pine Ridge Regulators 3rd sat Riverboat 765-832-7253 Brazil GA Gambler River Bend Rough Riders 1st sat Done Gone 770-361-6966 Dawsonville Wolff’s Rowdy Rangers 3rd sat Justice D. 574-264-2012 Bristol American old West 1st sat Josey Buckhorn 423-236-5281 flintstone spencer Cowboys Circle R Cowboys 3rd sat mustang Bill 219-279-2781 Brookston Valdosta Vigilance 1st sat Big Boyd 229-244-3161 Valdosta Wabash Rangers 4th sat henry Remington 217-267-2820 Cayuga Committee starke County Desert 4th sat Whip mccord 219-942-5859 Knox Lonesome Valley Regulators 1st sun Wishbone 478-922-9384 Warner Big Rock sAss 4th sat southpaw Too 812-866-2406 Lexington hooper Robins Red Brush Raiders 4th sat Doc Goodluck 812-721-1188 Newburgh providence springs Rangers 2nd sat Buckshot Bob 229-924-0997 Anderson Deer Creek Regulators 4th sun Doc molar 765-506-0344 Jonesboro piedmont Regulators 2nd sat Chase Randall 864-637-8873 Eastanollee Wildwood Wranglers 4th sun Voodooman 219-872-2721 michigan City Doc holliday’s Immortals 2nd sat Easy Rider 770-954-9696 Griffin Westside Renegades As sch Johnny Banjo 812-430-6421 Evansville Camden County Cowboys 2nd sat Christian 912-227-5683 Kingsland Indiana Black powder Guild As sch C. C. Top 574-354-7186 Etna Green mortician KS south River shootists 3rd sat man from Little 678-428-4240 Covington Butterfield Gulch Gang 1st sun Kanasa flatlander 785-493-5682 Chapman River powder Creek Cowboys 2nd & 4th sat El Dorado Wayne 913-686-5314 Lenexa Tennessee mountain 3rd sat Trail Bones 423-842-6116 Ringgold & 4th Wed marauders mill Brook Wranglers 2nd sun Grandpa Buckten 785-421-2537 hill City Cherokee Cowboys 4th sat Bad Lands Bob 706-654-0828 Gainesville millbrook HI free state Rangers 3rd & 5th sun Buffalo phil 913-904-8733 parker maui marshals 1st & 3rd Bad Burt 808-875-9085 maui sandhill Regulators 3rd sat moundRidge Goat 620-345-3151 hutchinson sat Roper Big Island paniolos 3rd sat paniolo Annie 808-640-3949 ocean View Capital City Cowboys 4th sun Top 785-313-0894 Topeka single Action shootist of 4th sun Brandebuck 808-351-9260 honolulu Chisholm Trail Rowdies 4th sun Cody Wyatt 316-204-1784 Wichita hawaii KY IA Kentucky Regulators 1st sat Derby 270-489-2089 Boaz Turkeyfoot Cowboys 1st sat Ranger mathias 319-234-1550 Elk Run hooten old Town 1st sat Double Eagle 423-309-4146 mckee fischels heights Regulators Dave fort Des moines Rangers 1st sun pit mule 515-205-0557 Indianola Knob Creek Gunfighters 1st sun Buck shot Jock 502-543-8439 West point Zen shootists 2nd sat Renegade slim 515-987-0721 Nevada Guild outlaw’s Run 2nd sun Capt. Jim 712-623-5726 Red oak Green River Gunslingers 2nd sat Yak 270-792-9001 Bowling midnight Green ID ponderosa pines posse 3rd sat Copperhead Joe 606-599-5263 manchester Gunslingers of flaming 1st sat Jughandle Jack 208-634-3121 Council ohio River Rangers 3rd sat George Rogers 270-554-1501 paducah heart Ranch Breathitt Bandits 4th sat slowly But surely 606-666-4663 Jackson squaw Butte Regulators 1st sun Acequia Kidd 208-365-4551 Emmett Rockcastle Rangers 4th sat perfecto Vaquera 406-231-2359 park City Border marauders 1st sun & mud marine 208-627-8377 East port Levisa fork Lead slingers 4th sun Escopeta Jake 606-631-4613 pikeville 4th sat fox Bend peacemakers 4th sun Tocala sam 859-552-9000 Wilmore El Buscaderos 2nd & 4th oddman 208-437-0496 spirit Lake LA sun Deadwood marshals 1st & 3rd Doc spudley 504-467-6062 sorrento Northwest shadow Riders 2nd sat silverado Belle 208-743-5765 Lewiston sat southern Idaho Rangers 2nd sat Gordo perro 208-234-7121 pocatello up The Creek Gang 2nd & 4th hardly Able 337-474-5058 Lake Charles oregon Trail Rough Riders 2nd sun & John Bear 208-562-1914 Boise sat 3rd sat Bayou Bounty hunters 2nd sat soiled Dove 985-796-9698 folsom hells Canyon Ghost Riders 3rd sat J.p. sloe 208-798-0826 moscow Cypress Creek Cowboys 2nd sat smokey shane 318-381-4840 Downsville Twin Butte Bunch 3rd sat Idaho packer 208-589-5941 Rexburg Guns of sabine pass 3rd sat hobbel-A-Long 337-463-5690 hineston panhandle Regulators 3rd sun halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis orchards Grand Ecore Vigilantes 3rd sat ouachita Kid 318-932-6637 Natchitoches snake River Western 4th sat White Eyes 208-734-8440 Jerome Jackson hole Regulators 4th sat slick mcClade 318-395-2224 Quitman shooting society MA IL Cape Cod Cowboys 4th sat Curly Jay Brooks 508-477-9771 mashpee shady Creek shootists 1st & 4th Dapper Dan 309-734-2324 Little York shawsheen River Rangers As sch Yukon Willie 978-663-3342 Bedford sun porter harvard Ghost Riders As sch Double R Bar Kid 978-771-9190 harvard Lakewood marshal’s 1st sat pine Ridge Jack 618-838-9410 Cisne Danvers Desperados As sch Cyrus Cy Klopps 781-667-2857 middleton Rangeless Riders 1st sat The Inspector 618-345-5048 highland Gunnysackers sat Nantucket Dawn 781-749-6951 scituate Kishwaukee Valley 1st sun snakes morgan 815-751-3716 sycamore MD Regulators Eas’dern shore Renegades 1st sat Teton Tracy 302-378-7854 sudlersville Kaskaskia Cowboys 2nd sat Wagonmaster 618-443-3538 sparta Thurmont Rangers 1st sun Cash Caldwell 240-285-7673 Thurmont Ward monocacy Irregulars 2nd sat Church Key 304-229-8266 frederick free Grazers 2nd sat fossil Creeek Bob 217-821-3134 Effingham Damascus Wildlife Rangers 4th sat Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Damascus Tri County Cowboys 2nd sat sierra hombre 815-967-6333 hazelhurst ME Illinois River City Regulators 2nd sun Granville stuart 309-243-7236 Chillicothe Big pine Bounty hunters As sch Ripley scrounger 207-876-4928 Willmantic Vermilion River Long Riders 2nd sun Lead poison Lar 815-875-3674 Leonore Capitol City Vigilance As sch mark Lake 207-622-9400 Augusta Nason mining Company 3rd & 5th Diggins Dave 618-927-0594 Benton Committee Regulators sat Beaver Creek Desperados As sch Jimmy Reb 207-698-4436 Berwick mcLean County 3rd sat marshall RD 309-379-4331 Bloomington hurricane Valley Rangers As sch Leo 207-829-3092 falmouth peacemakers MI Litchfield sportsman’s Club 3rd sat Ross haney 618-667-9819 Litchfield Rockford Regulators 1st sat No Cattle 616-363-2827 Rockford Illowa Irregulars 3rd sun shamrock sis 309-798-2635 milan Blue Water Gunslingers 1st sun Buggyman 810-434-9597 Kimball fort Beggs Defenders 3rd sun Torandado 815-302-8305 plainfield River Bend Rangers 2nd sat pitmaster 574-276-8805 Niles Long Nine Cowboys 4th & 5th Lemon Drop Kid 217-787-4877 Loami Double Barrel Gang 2nd sat. Dakota fats 269-721-8190 hastings sun Butcher Butte Bunch 2nd sun Grubby hardrock 810-750-0655 fenton To update your SASS Affiliated Club Listing or Annual Match please contact Slipnoose at the SASS Office ph: (877) 411-7277 or [email protected] VIsIT us AT sAssNET .com Page 80 Cowboy Chronicle September 2012

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City MI (continued) NE sucker Creek saddle & 3rd sat Kid Al fred 989-832-8426 Breckenridge platte Valley Gunslingers 1st sun firewater 308-226-2255 Grand Island Gun Club Alliance Cowboy Club 2nd sun panhandle slim 308-760-0568 Alliance Chippewa Regulators 3rd sat No Name Justice 906-632-1254 sault ste. miles marie Eastern Nebraska Gun Club 2nd sun flint Valdez 712-323-8996 Louisville hidden Valley Cowboys 3rd sun saulk Valley 269-651-5197 sturgis flat Water shootists of the 3rd sun fortyfour 308-383-4605 Grand Island stubby Grand Island Rifle Club maggie Rocky River Regulators 3rd sun Terrebonne Bud 248-709-5254 utica NH Eagleville Cowboys 4th sat one son of A Gun 231-676-0922 Central Lake The Dalton Gang shooting 3rd Wkd Littleton s. 603-444-6876 Dalton Johnson Creek Regulators 4th sat Rainmaker Ray 313-618-2577 plymouth Club of Nh Dalton mason County marshals 4th sat Two Gun Troll 231-343-2580 scottsville White mountain Regulators As sch Dead head 603-772-2358 Candia Wolverine Rangers As sch R.J. Law 248-828-0440 port huron merrimack Valley As sch sheriff R. p. 603-345-6876 pelham saginaw field & stream Club As sch Bad River marty 989-585-3292 saginaw marauders Bucket Lapeer County sportsmans sun flat Water 314-378-5689 Attica NJ Club Wranglers Johnny Thumbusters 2nd sun ol’ sea Dog 732-892-7272 monmouth MN Jackson hole Gang 4th sun papa Grey 732-961-6834 Jackson Cedar Valley Vigilantes 1st & 3rd D m Yankee 612-701-9719 morristown NM sat magdalena Trail Drivers 1st & 3rd Grizzly Adams 575-854-2488 magdalena Crow River Rangers 1st sun Cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 howard Lake sat Granite City Gunslingers 2nd & 5th Amen straight 612-723-2313 saint Cloud Rio Rancho Regulators 1st & 4th sam Brannan 505-400-2468 Rio Rancho sat sat Lone Rock Rangers 2nd sat Red Dutchman 651-402-0368 farmingtion otero practical shooting 1st sat saguaro sam 505-437-3663 La Luz Lookout mountain Gunsmoke 2nd sat Wagonmaster 218-744-4694 Virginia Association society Buffalo Range Riders 1st sun shanley shooter 505-252-0589 founders fort Belmont Regulators 2nd sun mule Town Jack 507-840-0883 Jackson Ranch East Grand forks Rod & 3rd sun BB Gunner 218-779-8555 East Grand Chisum Cowboy Gun Club 1st sun Two Bit Tammy 575-626-9201 Roswell Gun Club forks Bighorn Vigilantes 2nd sat Lawdog Bob 505-883-8829 founders MO Ranch ozark posse (The) 1st sat Tightwad swede 417-846-5142 Cassville high Desert Drifters 2nd sat shakey shooter 505-294-3233 founders West plaines Waddies 2nd & 5th Buckshot Baby 417-284-1432 Tecumseh Ranch sat Lincoln County Regulators 2nd sat frank Coe 575-808-1329 Ruidoso moniteau Creek River 2nd sun Doolin Riggs 573-687-3103 fayette founders Ranch Wild Bunch 2nd sun Tijeras pete 505-227-1449 founders Raiders Ranch Gateway shootist society 3rd sun Bounty seeker 314-740-4665 st. Louis Rio Grande Renegades 2nd Wed, mica mcGuire 505-263-1181 Albuquerque Central ozarks Western 3rd sun X. s. Chance 573-765-5483 st. Robert 3rd sat, 4th sun, shooters 5th sat & sun Butterfield Trail Cowboys 4th Wkd smokie 417-759-9114 Walnut shade Gila Rangers 2nd Wkd Chico Cheech 575-388-2531 silver City southern missouri Rangers 4th Wkd pecos steve 417-770-7516 Willard monticello Range Riders 3rd & 5th sun J. W. Brockey 575-744-4484 Elephant MS Butte Natchez sixgunners 1st sat Winchester 601-445-5223 Natchez seven Rivers Regulators 3rd sat stink Creek Jones 575-885-9879 Carlsbad mississippi peacemakers 3rd sat Woodie B. 601-214-4009 mendenhall monument springs 4th sat Val Darrant 575-396-5303 hobbs Western Bushwhackers mississippi River Rangers 4th & 5th Easy Lee 901-413-5615 Byhalia picacho posse 4th sat fast hammer 575-647-3434 Las Cruces sat Tres Rios Bandidos 4th sun Largo Casey 505-330-2489 farmington MT Rio Vaqueros 4th sun Anna sassin 575-744-5793 Truth or honorable Road Agents 1st sat Diamond Red 406-685-3618 Ennis Conse- shooting society quences Gallatin Valley Regulators 1st sat Gooch hill 406-763-4268 Logan NV Drifter fort halleck Volunteers 1st & 3rd sat Green springs 775-753-8203 Elko sun River Rangers shooting 1st sun & montana Lil’ 406-761-0896 simms Thomsen society 4th sat skeeter high plains Drifters 1st sun Irish Ike 775-424-2336 fernley Rocky mountain Rangers 2nd Wkd Jocko 406-847-0745 Noxon Eldorado Cowboys 1st Wkd Charming 702-565-3736 Boulder City Bigfork Buscaderos 3rd sat Bodie Camp 406-883-6797 Bigfork Lone Wolf shooters, LLC 2nd & 5th sun penny pepperbox 775-727-4600 pahrump Last Chance handgunners 3rd sat Bocephus Bandito 406-439-4476 Boulder Nevada Rangers Cowboy 2nd sun mT fargo 702-460-6393 Las Vegas Custer County stranglers 3rd sat hartshot 406-232-0727 miles City Action shooting society montana Territory 4th sat Backstrap Bill 406-652-6158 Billings Roop County Cowboy 2nd sun Russ T. Chambers 775-747-1426 sparks peacemakers shooters Association Lincoln County Regulators 4th sat Lady Belle 406-889-3658 Eureka silver state shootists 3rd sun shotgun marshall 775-265-0267 Carson City NC Desert Desperados 3rd sun Buffalo sam 702-459-6454 Las Vegas Neuse River Regulators 1st & 3rd paddi macGarrett 910-938-3682 New Bern NY sat Alabama Gunslingers 1st sat Bum Thumb 585-343-3906 Alabama old hickory Regulators 1st sat Wendover Kid 252-908-0098 Rocky mount Tioga County Cowboys 1st sat Dusty Drifter 607-659-3819 owego Walnut Grove Rangers 1st sat hiem 828-245-5563 Rutherfordton Boot hill Regulators 1st sun Judge Zaney Grey 845-352-7921 Chester old North state posse 1st sat Tracker mike 336-558-9032 salisbury pathfinder pistoleros 1st sun sonny 315-695-7032 fulton Carolina Rough Riders 1st sun pecos pete 704-394-1859 Charlotte Crumhorn mountain Cowboys 1st sun Lefty Cooper 607-287-9261 maryland Carolina single Action 2nd & 5th Carolina’s 919-383-7567 Eden salt port Vigilance Committee 2nd sat Twelve Bore 585-613-8046 holley shooting society sun Longarm Bar-20 Inc. 2nd sat Badlands Buck 315-637-3492 West Eaton high Country Cowboys 2nd sat Wild otter 828-423-7796 Asheville Border Rangers 2nd sun Dammit Dick 607-724-6216 Greene Carolina Cattlemen’s shooting 2nd sat Wicked Wanda 919-266-1678 Creedmore hole In The Wall Gang 3rd sat El fusilero 631-864-1035 Calverton and social society Diamond four 3rd sat Kayutah Kid 607-796-0573 odessa Buccaneer Range Regulators 2nd sat Jefro 910-327-2197 Wilmington Circle K Regulators 3rd sun smokehouse Dan 518-885-3758 Ballston spa Bostic Vigilantes 2th sat Bostic Kid 704-434-2174 Bostic sackets harbor Vigilantes 4th sun Ranger Clayton 315-465-6543 sackets Gunpowder Creek 3rd sat fannie 828-754-1884 Lenoir Conagher harbor Regulators Kikinshoot The Long Riders 4th sun Loco poco Lobo 585-467-4429 shortsville Cross Creek Cowboys 3rd sat huckleberry mike 910-980-0572 Wagram D Bar D Wranglers 4th sun Captain m.A.f 845-226-8611 Wappingers piedmont Gunslingers 3rd sun A. R. stoner 336-922-1900 Churchland fall flat Branch Ranch 4th sat Twelve mile Bluff 910-480-9609 fayetteville mythical Rough Riders 5th sun Rev Dave Clayton 716-838-4286 hamburg Iredell Regulators 4th sat Charlotte 704-902-1796 statesville The shadow Riders As sch Dusty Levis 646-284-4010 Westhampton ND Beach Trestle Valley Rangers 2nd sat Doc hell 701-852-1697 minot East End Regulators Last sun Diamond Rio 631-585-1936 Westhampton Badlands Bandits 3rd sat Roughrider Ray 701-260-0347 Belfield OH Dakota Rough Riders As sch Blake stone 701-250-0673 moffit Big Irons 1st sat Deadwood stan 513-894-3500 middletown sheyenne Valley peacekeepers Last sat Wild River Rose 701-588-4331 Kindred middletown sportsmens Club 1st sat Deadwood stan 513-894-3500 middletown 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 September 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 81

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City OH (continued) RI Tusco Long Riders 1st sat split Rail 330-364-6185 midvale Lincoln County Lawmen 4th sun Wyoming Blink 401-385-9907 foster Greene County Cowboys 1st sun Ruger Ray 937-352-6420 Xenia SC Granger hill Regulators 1st sun Barbwire pete 740-450-8650 Zanesville palmetto posse 1st sat Dun Gamblin 803-422-5587 Columbia firelands peacemakers 1st Wed, 3rd sat Angry Angus 440-647-5909 Rochester hurricane Riders 3rd sat saloon Keeper 843-361-2277 Aynor & 5th sun savannah River Rangers 3rd sun surly Dave 803-892-2812 Gaston sandusky County 2nd sat Curtice Clay 419-836-8760 Gibsonburg Geechee Gunfighters 4th sat Doc Kemm 843-737-3501 Ridgeville Regulators Greenville Gunfighters 4th sun Cowboy Junky 864-414-5578 Greenville shenango River Rats 2nd sat & shenango Joe 330-782-0958 Yankee Lake SD Last Thurs Cottonwood Cowboy 2nd sun Dakota 605-520-5212 Clark miami Valley Cowboys 2nd sun Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 piqua Association Nailbender scioto Territory Desperados 3rd & 5th sun pickaway Tracker 740-477-1881 Chillicothe Black hills shootist 3rd sun hawkbill smith 605-342-8946 pringle Wilmington Rough Riders 3rd sat paragon pete 740-626-7667 Wilmington Association AuGlaize Rough Riders 3rd sun Deputy Diamond 419-722-6345 Defiance Bald mountain Renegades As sch Cottonwood 605-280-1413 faulkton Desperado Cooter ohio Valley Vigilantes 4th sat ole saddlebags 614-323-4500 mt. Vernon TN Central ohio Cowboys 4th sun stagecoach 614-868-9821 Circleville Bitter Creek Rangers 1st 2nd & oracle 423-334-4053 Crossville hannah 3rd sun Big Irons mounted Rangers As sch stoneburner 513-829-4099 middletown Greene County Regulators 1st sat mort Dooley 423-335-0847 Rogersville stonelick Regulators As sch Carson 513-753-6462 milford Wartrace Regulators 1st sat & Will Reily 615-948-4143 Wartrace OK 3rd sat Cherokee strip shootists 1st sat scott Wayne 405-377-0610 stillwater memphis Gunslingers 2nd sat Dooly sworn 901-351-6195 Arlington shortgrass Rangers 1st sat & Captain Allyn 580-357-5870 Grandfield oRsA’s oak Ridge outlaws 2nd sat hombre sin 865-257-7747 oak Ridge 3rd sun Capron Nombre Tulsey Town Cattlemens 2nd & 4th sat Curly Thom 918-376-4376 Tulsa Tennessee mountain 3rd sat Double Barrel 423-593-3767 Chattanooga Association 3rd sun mabry marauders Indian Territory single Action 2nd & 5th sun, Burly Bill 918-830-2936 sand springs North West Tennessee 3rd sat Can’t shoot 731-885-8102 union City shooting society 3rd sat, 4th Wed Longriders Dillion Rattlesnake mountain 2nd sat & Black River 918-908-0016 Checotah highland Regulators 3rd Wkd Iron maiden 423-628-2715 Winfield Rangers 1st sun Jack ocoee Rangers 4th sat ocoee Red 423-476-5303 Cleveland oklahoma City Gun Club - 2nd sat & flat Top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma smoky mountain shootist As sch Jim mayo 865-300-4666 Lenoir City Territorial marshals 4th sun City society Tater hill Regulators 3rd sun Taos Willie 918-355-2849 Tulsa smokey mountain shootist As sch Tennessee 865-986-5054 Varies OR society Tombstone horse Ridge pistoleros 1st & 3rd Big Casino 541-389-2342 Bend TX sun Texas Tumbleweeds 1st sat Cayenne 806-355-7158 Amarillo molalla River Rangers 1st sat Gold Dust Bill 503-705-1211 Canby Texas Troublemakers 1st sat Lefty Tex Larue 903-539-7234 Brownsboro merlin marauders 1st sat molly B. Dam 541-479-2928 merlin plum Creek Carriage Cowboy 1st sat Long Juan 512-750-3923 Lockhart Dry Gulch Desperados 1st sat Runamuck 509-520-3241 milton shooting society freewater Alamo Area moderators 1st sat Tombstone mary 210-493-9320 san Antonio siuslaw River Rangers 1st sun Johnny Jingos 541-997-6313 florence south Texas pistolaros 1st sat Cibolo sam 210-213-7746 san Antonio Table Rock Rangers 1st sun & Jed I. Knight 541-944-2281 White City Texas peacemakers 1st sat Deadeye Greg 903-593-8215 Tyler 2nd sat orange County Regulators 1st sat & Texas Gator 409-243-3477 orange pine mountain posse 2nd sat & Juniper Butch 541-416-0361 Bend 3rd sun sun Cassidy Buck Creek Bandoleros 1st sat & hoofprint prine 254-897-7328 Nemo Klamath Cowboys 2nd sun & Jasper Wayne 541-884-2611 Keno 3rd Wkd 4th sat Comanche Trail shootists 1st sat & Dee horne 432-557-6598 midland Jefferson state Regulators 3rd sat Jed I. Knight 541-944-2281 Ashland 5th sat oregon Trail Regulators 3rd sat Willie Killem 541-443-6591 La Grande El Vaqueros 1st sun Tom Burden 254-559-7240 Breckenridge orygun Cowboys 3rd sat Kansan 503-539-6335 sherwood Thunder River Renegades 1st Wkd Two spurs 936-273-1851 magnolia oregon old West shooting 3rd sun & Deaf Eagle 541-990-7816 Albany Concho Valley shooters 2nd sat Roamin shields 325-656-1281 san Angelo society 4th sat Texas Riviera pistoleros 2nd sat Longstar 361-334-1978 George West umpqua Regulators 4th sun oregun Gustaf 541-430-1021 Roseburg Bounty hunters 2nd sat Cable Lockhart 806-299-1192 Levelland Lewis River Rangers As sch Johnny Colt 503-289-1280 st. helens Travis County Regulators 2nd sat Cherokee Granny 979-561-6202 smithville Columbia County Cowboys As sch Kitty Colt 503-642-4120 st. helens Texas Tenhorns shooting 2nd sat & mustang sherry 903-815-8162 Greenville PA Club Last full Wkd perry County Regulators 1st sat Tuscarora slim 717-789-3004 Ickesburg Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros 2nd sun Dream Chaser 956-648-7364 pharr Dry Gulch Rangers 1st sat pep C. holic 724-263-1461 midway Lone star frontier shooting 2nd Wkd Long Range 817-980-7206 Cleburne factoryville freebooters 1st sun Tad sloe 570-489-0652 factoryville Club Rick Chimney Rocks Regulators 1st sun hattie hubbs 814-696-5669 hollidays- Texican Rangers 2nd Wkd Red scott 210-316-0199 fredericksburg burg oakwood outlaws 2nd Wkd Texas Alline 903-545-2252 oakwood Conestoga Wagoneers 1st sun No Change 215-431-2302 southampton Canadian River Regulators 2nd, 3rd & Adobe Walls 806-679-5824 Clarendon Boot hill Gang of Topton 1st sun Lester moore 610-704-6792 Topton 5th sat shooter Whispering pines Cowboy 1st sun Buck Johnson 814-945-6922 Wellsboro old fort parker patriots 3rd Wkd Colt faro 832-472-3278 Groesbeck Committee Big Thicket outlaws 3rd sat shynee Graves 409-860-5526 Beaumont Logans ferry Regulators 2nd sat mariah Kid 412-607-5313 plum Borough Tejas Caballeros 3rd sat Judge menday 512-964-9955 Dripping heidelberg Lost Dutchmen 2nd sat Ivory Rose 717-627-0694 schaeffers- Coming springs town Gruesome Gulch Gang 3rd sat Eli Blue 806-293-2909 plainview Westshore posse 2nd sun hud mcCoy 717-683-2632 New Cumber- san Antonio Rough Riders 3rd sat Tombstone mary 210-493-9320 san Antonio land Cottonwood Creek Cowboys 3rd sat pecos Cahill 325-575-5039 snyder Dakota Badlanders (The) 2nd sun Timberland 610-434-1923 orefield Willow hole Cowboys 3rd sat & sun Baba Looey 979-571-5614 North Zulch Renegade Texas historical shootist 3rd sun Charles 281-342-1210 Columbus River Junction shootist 3rd sat Chuckwagon sam 724-626-2001 Donegal society Goodnight society Trinity Valley Regulators 3rd sun Grumpy Grandpa 972-206-2624 mansfield Jefferson outlaws 3rd sat oracle Jones 410-239-6795 Jefferson Red River Regulators 3rd sun El Rio Rojo Ray 903-838-0964 Texarkana Blue mountain Rangers 3rd sun Cathy fisher 610-488-0619 hamburg Badlands Bar 3 3rd Wkd T-Bone Dooley 903-272-9283 Clarksville matamoras mavericks 3rd sun hammerin steel 570-296-5853 milford Butterfield Trail Regulators 4th sat Texas slim 325-668-4884 Anson silver Lake Bounty hunters 3rd sun marshal T. J. 570-663-3045 montrose huaco Rangers 4th sat Blueeyed Bear 254-715-0746 China spring Buckshot Green mountain Regulators 4th sat singin’ Zeke 830-693-4215 marble falls purgatory Regulators 3rd Wkd Dry Gulch Geezer 814-827-2120 Titusville purgatory Ridge Rough 4th sat Armed to the 806-777-6182 slaton Elstonville hombres 4th sun Trusty sidekick 610-939-9947 manheim Riders Teeth El posse Grande 4th sun Black hills Barb 570-538-9163 muncy Valley Tejas pistoleros 4th sat & Texas paladin 713-690-5313 Eagle Lake stewart’s Regulators 4th sun sodbuster Burt 724-479-8838 shelocta sun 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 82 Cowboy Chronicle September 2012

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City TX (continued) WI (continued) Tin star Texans 4th sat. mickey 830-685-3464 fredericksburg Liberty prairie Regulators 3rd sat Dirty Deeds 920-229-5833 Ripon magnolia misfits 4th sun Attoyac Kid 281-448-8127 magnolia hodag County Cowboys 3rd sun hodag Bob 715-550-8337 Rhinelander Comanche Valley Vigilantes 4th Wkd Billy Bob Evans 972-393-2882 Cleburne oconomowoc Cattlemen’s 4th sat marvin the 414-254-5592 Concord UT Association moyle Three peaks Rangers 1st & 3rd Curly Jim 435-590-9873 Cedar City WV sat Whiskus Dawn Ghost Riders 1st sun Coffee Bean 304-327-9884 hinton Big hollow Bandits 1st sat Cinch 435-724-2575 heber frontier Regulators 2nd sat Captain Tay 304-265-5748 Thorton North Rim Regulators 1st sat Autum Rose 435-644-5053 Kanab The Railtown Rowdys 2nd sun miss print 304-589-6162 Bluefield Copenhagen Valley 1st sat m.T. pockets 801-920-4047 mantua Rocky holler Regulators 3rd sun Jessee Earp 304-425-2023 princeton Regulators Kanawha Valley Regulators 3rd Wkd Eddie Rebel 304-397-6188 Eleanor utah Territory Gunslingers 1st sat Lefty pete 801-554-9436 salt Lake City Cowboy Action shooting 4th sun Jackson 540-678-0735 Largent musinia Buscaderos 1st. sat Buffalo Juan 435-528-7432 mayfield sports Dixie Desperados 2nd & 4th The Alaskan 435-635-3134 st. George peacemaker National As sch Cole mcCulloch 703-789-3346 Gerrardstown sat WY Rio Verde Rangers 2nd sat Doc Nelson 435-564-8210 Green River Cheyenne Regulators 1st sat Deputy Cuny 307-634-2449 Cheyenne Desert historical shootist 2nd sat pronghorn pete 801-498-7654 Kaysville Colter’s hell Justice 1st sat Yakima Red 307-254-2090 Various society Committee WsAs hobble Creek Wranglers 2nd sat hobble Creek 801-489-7681 springville Bessemer Vigilance 1st sun & smokewagon 307-472-1926 Casper marshall Committee 3rd sat Bill Cache Valley Vaqueros 2nd sat. Logan Law 435-787-8131 Logan high Lonesome Drifters 2nd sat Kari Lynn 307-587-2946 Cody Wasatch summit Regulators 2nd sun old fashioned 435-224-2321 park City sybille Creek shooters 2nd sat Wyoming Roy 307-322-3515 Wheatland utah War 3rd & 5th Jubal o. sackett 801-944-3444 sandy southfork Vigilance 2nd Wkd Wennoff 507-332-5035 Lander sat Committee WsAs halfcock mesa marauders Gun Club 3rd sat Copper Queen 435-979-4665 Lake powell powder River Justice 3rd sun Doc fehr 307-683-3320 Buffalo Diamond mountain Rustlers 3rd sat Cinch 435-724-2575 Vernal Committee WsAs Wahsatch Desperados 4th sat highland Drifter 801-860-9504 fruit heights Great Divide outlaws 4th sat slingn Lead 307-324-6955 Rawlins Castle Gate posse 4th sat Rowdy hand 435-637-8209 price Donkey Creek shootists 4th sun poker Jim 307-660-0221 Gillette VA snake River Rowdies As sch sheriff J. R. 307-733-4559 Jackson pungo posse Cowboy Action 1st sat missouri 757-471-3396 Waverly Quigley Club marshal Liberty Long Riders 1st sun Thunder Colt 540-296-0772 Bedford Cavalier Cowboys 1st sun Kuba Kid 804-270-9054 hanover County International Virginia City marshals 1st Tues humphrey hook 703-801-3507 fairfax DOWN UNDER Blue Ridge Regulators 2nd sun Bad Company 540-886-3374 Lexington AUSTRALIA K.C.’s Corral 3rd sat Virginia 804-550-2242 mechan- Gold Coast Gamblers 1st & 3rd Dagger Jack 61 75 537 5857 Gold Coast Rifleman icsville sat mattaponi sundowners 3rd sun & flatboat Bob 804-785-2575 West point Adelaide pistol & 1st sat & Lobo malo 61 08 284 8459 Korunye 4th sat shooting Club 3rd sun pepper mill Creek Gang 4th sun slip hammer spiv 540-775-4561 King George flint hill prospectors 2nd sat Judge Ruger 61 41 838 3299 Glenlogie Bend of Trail 4th sun Rowe - A - Noc 540-890-6375 Roanoke Westgate marauders 2nd sun stampede pete 61 393 695 939 port melbourne Rivanna Ranger Company As sch Virginia Ranger 434-973-8759 Charlottesville Little River Raiders 3rd sun Lazy Dave 61 40 377 7926 Little River stovall Creek Regulators As sch Brizco-Z 434-929-1063 Lynchburg sAsA Little River Raiders 3rd sun Tiresome 61 25 978 0190 melbourne VT single Action Club Verdant mountain Vigilantes 2nd sun Doc mcCoy 802-363-7162 st. Johnsbury Cowboy Action shooters of 3rd Wkd I.D. 61 29 975 7983 Teralba WA Australia Northeast Washington 1st Wkd Crazy Knife Al 509-684-8057 Colville fort Bridger shooting Club 4th sun Duke York 61 418 632 366 Drouin Regulators sAsA single Action shooting sat/sun Virgil Earp 61 74 695 2050 millmerran mica peak marshals 1st & 3rd Tensleep Kid 509-284-2461 mica Australia sat NEW ZEALAND panhandle Regulators 1st & 3rd halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis orchards Trail Blazers Gun Club 1st sun Ernie southpaw 64 37 557 654 mill Town sun Bullet spittin sons o’ Thunder 2nd sat Billy Deadwood 64 63 564 720 palmerston N. Renton united Cowboy 1st Wkd Jess Ducky 425-271-9286 Renton Wairarapa pistol and 2nd sun Doc hayes 64 63 796 692 Gladstone Action shooters shooting Club Windy plains Drifters 2nd & 4th hopalong hoot 509-220-9611 medical Lake frontier & Western shooting 2nd sun Doc hayes 64 63 796 692 Gladstone sat sports Association Wolverton mountain peace 2nd sat hellfire 360-513-9081 Ariel Tararua Rangers 3rd sun J.E.B. stuart 64 63 796 436 Carterton Keepers Western Renegades 4th sat Black Bart Bolton 64 27 249 6270 Wanganui pataha Rustlers 2nd sat pinto Annie 509-520-2789 Dayton SASS Pistol New Zealand As sch Tuscon the Terrible 64 32 042 089 Varies mima marauders 2nd sat okie sawbones 360-705-3601 olympia EUROPE smokey point Desperados 2nd sun mudflat mike 425-335-5176 Arlington AUSTRIA Colville Guns and Roses 2nd sun Cheyence sadie 509-684-3632 Colville sweetwater Gunslingers Austria As sch fra Diabolo 43 664 490 8032 Vienna Apple Valley marshals 3rd sat silent sam 509-884-3875 East CZECH REPUBLIC Wenatchee Association of Western shooters As sch Thunderman 42 060 322 2400 prelouc olympic peninsula strait 3rd sun Doc Neeley 360-417-0230 port Angeles DENMARK shooters Danish Black powder federation As sch slim Dane 45 20 655 887 Copenhagen Black River Regulators 4th sat Wil sackett 360-786-0199 Littlerock Association of Danish Western As sch mrs. stowaway 45 602 013 65 Greve Custer Renegades 4th sun Joe Cannuck 360-676-2587 Custer shooters poulsbo pistoleros 4th sun sourdough 360-830-0100 poulsbo FINLAND George sAss finland As sch Woodbury Kane 35 850 517 4659 Various Beazley Gulch Rangers Last sun An E. Di 509-787-1782 Quincy Classic old Western society of As sch Woodbury Kane 35 850 517 4659 Loppi WI finland Rock River Regulators 1st & 3rd stoney mike 608-868-5167 Beloit FRANCE sat sAss france Western Wisconsin Wild 2nd sat sierra Jack 608-792-1494 holmen Golden Triggers of freetown 1st sun Cheyenne 33 67 570 3678 Villefrache Bunch Cassidy Colibris de Rouergue Bristol plains pistoleros 2nd sun huckleberry 815-675-2566 Bristol L’Arquebuse d’Antony 2nd sun Jeppesen 33 1 4661 1798 Antony Crystal River 2nd sun James Rosewood 920-722-4105 Waupaca sAss france 4th sat handy hook 33 68 809 1360 Bormes les Gunslingers Greenwood Creek mimosas Wisconsin old West 2nd sun & Blackjack martin 715-949-1621 Boyceville high plains shooters As sch Jack Cooper 336 1384 5580 Clermont De shootist, Inc 4th sat L’oise 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 September 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 83

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City FRANCE (continued) CANADA (continued) Association mazauguaise de Tir As sch Redneck mike 33 494 280 145 mazaugues Barrie Gun Club 2nd & 4th sat Northern Crow 705-435-2807 Barrie oN sAss france As sch marshall 09 62 53 83 32 moriani Beau Bassin Range Riders 2nd sat frenchy Cannuck 506-312-0455 Riverview NB Alba serena Tir Club Tombstone Lambton sportsman’s Club 2nd sat Clay Creek 519-542-4644 st. Clair oN old pards shooting society As sch Charles Lasalle 33 1 4661 1798 Versailler Wentworth shooting sports Club 2nd sun stoney Creek 905-664-3217 hamilton oN Anthony Victoria frontier shootists 2nd sun Black Ashley 250-744-4705 Victoria BC Club de Tir Beaujolais As sch Wild frenchie 33 047 838 0374 Villefranche- Valley Regulators 3rd sat Kananaskis Kid 250-923-6358 Courtenay BC sur saone prairie Dog Rebels 3rd sat Valley Boy 519-673-5648 London oN old West french shooters As sch Curly Red Ryder 33 3 8582 0203 Caromb Valley Regulators 3rd sat & high Country 250-334-3479 Courtenay BC BERAC As sch Reverend oakley 33 3 8020 3551 premeaux sun Amigo prissey otter Valley Rod & Gun 4th sun Colt mcCloud 519-685-9439 strafford- oN Club de Tir Brennou As sch french Bob 33 2 4767 5888 Varies ville Reverend oakley’s Cowboy Klan As sch Reverend oakley 33 3 8020 3551 Varies Robbers Roost Wild Bunch As sch Legendary 905-393-4299 Ancaster oN Les Tireurs de l’uzege sun Jean-Claude 33 04 66 759 529 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marauders As sch Button 514-792-0063 ottawa QC CAs/sAss france As sch frenchie Boy 336 169 32 076 Varies Alberta frontier shootists society As sch powder paw 403-318-4463 Rocky AB GERMANY mtn house Germany Territory Regulators As sch REphIL 49 29 216 71814 Varies Chasseurs el pAcheurs As sch Richelieu mike 450-658-8130 st-Jean QC CAs Europe fri hurricane Irmi 49 28 23 5807 Bocholt LAvisiens Inc Chrysos- Cowboy Action shooting Last sat marshal heck 49 345 120 0581 Edderitz tome/LAvis Germany Long harbour Lead slingers Tues preacher man 250-537-0083 salt spring BC sAss Europe mon Niers River Kid 49-282-39-8080 Wegberg John Island Jail Bird’s Company mon orlando A Brick 49 21 317 42 30 Wegberg SOUTH AFRICA Bond 65 Western shooters of 3rd sat Richmond p. 27 21 797 5054 Cape Town sAss Germany Wed Rhine River Joe 49 28 235 807 spork south Africa hobson HUNGARY Westwood Rebels As sch El heckito 362 0460 1739 Galgamacsa Monthly Mounted USA ITALY AZ old Gunners shooting Club As sch Renato Anese 33 51 24 5391 Toppo di Tombstone Ghost Riders 2nd sun Dan Nabbit 520-456-0423 Tombstone Western shootist posse Travesio mounted Club Green hearts Regulator 1st sun marshal Gardiner 39 338 920 7989 Trevi CA fratelli Della Costa onlus 3rd sat oversize 35 05 642 4677 Livorno California Range Riders As sch old Buckaroo 408-710-1616 Varies Lassiter fan shooting Club 3rd sun Ivan Bandito 39 34 7043 0400 mazzano CO maremma Bad Land’s Riders As sch Alameda slim alamedaslim@ siena Revengers of montezuma 1st sun Aneeda huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortez owss.it CT old West shooting society Italy As sch Alchimista 39 33 420 68337 Varies Connecticut Renegades As sch Cowboy Cobbler 860-558-7484 Granby Canne Roventi Last sun Valdez 39 07 1286 1395 filottrano FL honky Tonk Rebels Last sun Kaboom Andy 39 33 5737 8551 Vigevano Bay Area Bandits 3rd sat slow poke’s Darlin 813-924-0156 Tampa Wild West Rebels sun Bill masterson alberto@ malegno Bs ID frontisrl.it Border marauders mounted As sch Bad Buffalo Bob 208-610-8229 Eastport IN LUXEMBOURG heartland peacemakers As sch Rawhidenlace 765-561-2521 fountaintown sAss Luxembourg As sch smiley miles 35 26 2128 0606 Varies ME NETHERLANDS maine Cowboy mounted shooters As sch Cowboy Bill 207-282-2821 Biddeford sAss Netherlands As sch Lightning Anja 31 51 759 2120 Leeuwarden NM NORTHERN IRELAND Buffalo Range Riders mounted 3rd sat Icelady 505-263-5619 founders Kells County Regulators 1st sat Independence 28 93 368 004 Varies Ranch Carroll NY NORWAY Island Long Riders As sch mecate Kid 516-610-8166 farmingdale Black Rivers As sch Charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 Loten upstate New York smokin’ Guns As Ash Renegade Roper 518-883-5981 Galway Quantrill Raiders sun Charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 Loten WI schedsmoe County Rough Riders Thurs Jailbird 47 63 994 279 Lillestrom Renegade Rangers As sch Ace montana 920-960-1714 Ripon POLAND sAss polish Western shooting As sch Trigger hawkeye triggerhaw Lodz Monthly Mounted International Association [email protected] LEBANON SERBIA SASS Lebanon - El Rancho As sch packin Jesse 96 1138 5982 Varies union of Western shooters As sch hombre des 63 721 6934 humska Sporting Club of serbia Nudos CANADA SWEDEN Quebec mounted shooting As sch Dirty owl Bert 819-424-7842 Joliette sAss sweden Northern Rangers As sch Northern s. T. 46 72 206 7005 Varies Association Ranger SWITZERLAND Black mountain Gunfighters As sch Blacksmith pete 417 9449 5800 Romainm- A’tier old West shooting society As sch hondo Janssen 44 271 9947 Zurich switzerland INTERNATIONAL CANADA Aurora Desperados 1st fri Destry 905-551-0703 Aurora oN Robbers Roost hamilton 1st sat Bear Butte 905-891-8627 Ancaster oN south mountain Regulators 1st sat Dutch Charlie 902-538-9797 Berwick Ns Red mountain Renegades 1st sun preacher flynn T. 604-820-1564 mission BC Locke 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 84 Cowboy Chronicle September 2012

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Dates Contact Phone City State Match Dates Contact Phone City State USA 2012 OCTOBER SEPTEMBER SASS NORTHEAST 04 - 07 Evening Star 240-367-0034 Thurmont MD Third Annual Great Basin 01 - 03 Cascades 541-318-8199 Bend OR REGIONAL Long Range Shootout Annie Mason Dixon Stampede SASS US Open 04 - 09 Mose Spencer 270-349-4392 Sparta IL SASS Nevada State 04 - 07 Charming 702-565-3736 Boulder NV SASS Maine State 07 - 09 Rhino Jacks 207-324-3117 Berwick ME Championship – Eldorado City Championship SASS Alabama State 05 - 07 Drake Robey 256-313-0421 Cavern AL Thunder over Championship Cove Beaver Creek Ambush At Cavern Cove Shootout at Stoney Bottom 07 - 09 Curtice Clay 419-836-8760 Gibsonbong OH High Noon at Tusco 05 - 07 Split Rail 330-364-6185 Midvale OH Standoff at Smokey Point 07 - 09 Mudflat Mike 425-335-5176 Arlington WA Huntsmans World Senior 08 - 12 Mokaac Kid 435-668-4613 St. George UT Coyote Valley Cowboys 08 - 08 Bad Eye 408-722-0583 Morgan CA Games Welcome the Boy Scouts Bobolu Hill SASS Tennessee State 10 - 12 Whiskey 931-684-2709 Wartrace TN of America Championship Hayes Northwest Territorial 08 - 09 White Eyes 208-734-8440 Jerome ID Regulators Reckoning Shootout SASS WESTERN 11 - 14 Five Jacks 760-949-3198 Lucerne CA Third Almost Annual Shooter 09 - 09 Sixty-Nine 970-339-3650 Briggsdale CO REGIONAL Last Stand Valley Appreciation Chuckwagon Cent Wizard at Chimney Rock Feed and Swap SASS Arkansas State 12 - 13 Ozark Outlaw 501-362-2963 Heber AR Shootout 2012 09 - 09 Cantankerous 763-682-3710 Howard MN Blackpowder Mayhem Springs Jeb Lake On the Mountain SASS Minnesota State 13 - 15 Bronco Kate 507-269-2230 Morristown MN SASS Arizona State Wild 12 - 14 Pecos Clyde 480-266-1096 Tucson AZ Championship – Bunch Championship Gunsmoke Wild West Extravaganza 12 - 13 Penny 775-727-4600 Pahrump NV Six Gun Justice 14 - 15 Teton County 208-709-1708 Rexburg ID Shootout Pepperbox Jr. SASS Long Island 12 - 14 Dusty Levis 631-475-5556 Westhamp- NY SASS Indiana State 14 - 16 Thorny Rose 574-893-7214 Warsaw IN Championship ton Beach Championship Melee on the Bay Hoosier Ambush SASS Wisconsin State 12 - 14 Flyen Doc 608-790-3260 Holmen WI Gateway To The West 14 - 15 Bounty Seeker 314-740-4665 St. Louis MO Championship Koyote Shoot Out at Old 14 - 16 Half-A-Hand 802-233-3710 Magdalena NM Mississippi Fandango Magdalena Henri The Shootout on The 13 - 13 Deadly Sharp- 352-332-6212 Fort White FL SASS New York State 14 - 16 Homer Suggs 518-274-8505 Ballston NY Santa Fe shooter Championship – Spa Peacefuls End of Track at 18 - 21 Grizzly Peak 530-676-2997 Railroad CA Heluva Rukus High Sierra Jake Flat Purgatory Rush 14 - 17 Dry Gulch 814-827-2120 Titusville PA SASS Kentucky State 19 - 21 Copperhead 606-599-5263 Manchester KY Geezer Blackpowder Joe Championship Tennesse State Blackpowder 14 - 16 Cherokee 901-674-8220 Arlington TN Championship Sargent Smokeout in the Hills A Gunfight in Dixie SASS New Jersey State 19 - 21 Peacemaker 908-359-8794 Jackson NJ Championship Reb Ambush at Indian Creek XIV 15 - 16 Chuckwagon 724-626-6836 Donegal PA Purgatory in The Pines Sam The Last Hurrah 19 - 21 First Chance 509-667-9377 East WA SASS Texas State 15 - 16 Billy Bob 972-393-2882 Cleburne TX Wild Bunch Evans Wenatchee Championship SASS Florida State 20 - 20 Kid Celero 561-312-9075 Okeechobee FL Wild Bunch on the Brazos Blackpowder Championship The Whoopin’ 15 - 15 Judge Menday 512-964-9955 Dripping TX Code of the West End 20 - 20 Johnny Banjo 812-430-6421 Evansville IN Coming Springs SASS Kansas State 20 - 21 Buffalo Phil 913-898-4911 Parker KS Cheyenne Autumn 15 - 15 Eli Blue 806-293-2909 Kress TX Championship – SASS Oklahoma State 20 - 23 Rock Creek 918-224-4743 Sand OK Border Wars Championship Rustler Springs Diamond Four Roundup 20 - 21 Trail Boss 607-796-0573 Cayuta NY Ruckus in the Nations SASS West Virginia State 20 - 21 Eddie Rebel 304-397-6188 Eleanor WV Verde Valley Range Wars 21 - 23 Whisperin 928-567-9227 Camp AZ Wild Bunch Championship Meadows Verde Hanging Tree Shootout 21 - 21 X. 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Chance 573-765-5483 St. Robert MO Adobe Walls 21 - 23 Querida 831-635-9147 Gonzales CA SASS Arizona State 24 - 28 Mean 520-235-0394 Tucson AZ Hell Fire 21 - 23 Slick McClade 318-278-9071 Quitman LA Championship – Rayleen SASS West Virginia State 21 - 23 Last Word 304-289-6098 Burlington WV Bordertown Championship The Gunfight Behind The 25 - 28 Captain Jake 714-318-6948 Norco CA Appalachian Showdown XXI Jersey Lilly SASS Oregon State 22 - 23 Whisperin’ 541-318-8199 Bend OR SASS Missouri State 25 - 28 Longshot 417-461-0033 Marshfield MO Blackpowder Wade Championship John Championship The Show-Me Shootout Smoke in the Badlands Comin Thru The Rye Gunnin’ 26 - 28 Derringer Di 205-647-6925 Hoover AL Do-Over Shootout 22 - 23 Trusty 610-939-9947 Manheim PA Fer A Showdown Sidekick Sussex County Range War 26 - 28 Missouri 757-471-3396 Waverly VA Rampage 22 - 22 Highland 801-860-9504 Fruit UT Marshal Drifter Heights Guns of Autumn 27 - 27 Bad Lands Bob 706-654-0828 Gainesville GA SASS Maine State 23 - 23 Ripley 207-876-4928 Willimantic ME NOVEMBER Blackpowder Championship Scrounger SASS SOUTHWEST 01 - 03 Honey B. 903-272-9283 English TX Willimantic Smoke REGIONAL Comin’ At Cha Graceful SASS Outlaw Trail 26 - 30 SASS Office 505-843-1320 Founders NM SASS Utah State Wild 02 - 03 Alaskan 435-635-9134 St. George UT Ranch Bunch Championship Rattlesnake Gulch Roundup 28 - 30 Ricochet 509-628-0889 Benton WA Dixie Desperados Go Wild Robbie City Big Iron Shootout 03 - 03 Tracker Mike 336-558-9032 Salisbury NC Vengeance Trail 04 - 04 Shady Brady 352-686-1055 Brooksville FL

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USA 2012 MAY (continued) NOVEMBER (continued) SASS Mississippi State 23 - 26 Easy Lee 901-413-5615 Byhalia MS SASS SOUTHEAST 08 - 11 Doc Kemm 843-737-3501 Ridgeville SC Championship REGIONAL Smokin’ Guns at Rabbit Ridge Gunfight at Givhans Ferry James Gang Rides Again 24 - 26 Shaddai 406-231-2329 Park City KY SASS Southwest 09 - 11 Rattlesnake 985-796-9698 Amite LA 3rd Annual Vaquero Regional Blackpowder Blake Little Big Match 25 - 26 William 360-786-0199 Little Rock WA Championship Sackett Hangin’ at Coyote Creek SASS North Carolina State 30 - 02 J. M. Brown 919-266-3751 Salisbury NC Dulzura Duststorm 10 - 10 Reuben J. 619-997-2755 Dulzura CA Championship Cogburn Uprising at Swearing Creek The Great Northfield 16 - 18 Gun Hawk 818-761-0512 North CA SASS MA, CT, and RI State 31 - 02 Barrister Bill 978-667-2219 Harvard MA Raid Twentieth Hollywood Championship Anniversary Shootout at Sawyer Flats DECEMBER JUNE Cowboy Christmas Ball 08 - 08 An E. Di 509-787-1782 Quincy WA SASS Oregon State 01 - 02 Hoss Reese 503-907-6522 Bend OR Wild Bunch Championship JANUARY 2013 SASS Colorado State 06 - 09 Pinto Being 970-464-7118 Whitewater CO SASS Florida State 02 - 07 Copenhagen 904-808-8559 St. FL Championship Championship Augustine SASS Kansas State 07 - 09 El Dorado 913-686-5314 Lenexa KS Siege at St. Augustine Championship Wayne Yuma Territorial Prison 18 - 20 Boston 928-502-1298 Yuma AZ SASS Ohio State 07 - 09 Buckshot 937-418-7816 Piqua OH Breakout Anniebelle Championship Shootout Jones Ambush at Butterfield 26 - 27 Fast Hammer 575-647-3434 Las Cruces NM at Hard Times Trail SASS Oregon State 07 - 09 Molly b’Dam 541-479-2928 Grants OR MARCH Championship Pass Trailhead 21 - 24 Charles 281-342-1210 Columbus TX Battle of Rogue River Goodnight SASS HIGH PLAINS 13 - 15 Jubal O. 801-944-3444 Sandy UT Butterfield Range War 23 - 23 Fast Hammer 575-647-3434 Las Cruces NM REGIONAL Blackpowder Sackett Law Enforcement vs State Championship Cowboys More Fun Less Run Thunder at Big Salty APRIL SASS Illinois State 14 - 16 Beaucoup 618-521-3619 Sparta IL Comancheria Days 04 - 07 Red Scott 210-316-0199 Fredericks- TX Championship Joe burg Spring Roundup at the Gulch MAY SASS Maryland State 20 - 22 Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Damascus MD SASS California State 02 - 05 Mad Trapper 661-589-7472 Bakersfield CA Championship Championship of Rat River Thunder Valley Days Shootout at 5 Dogs Creek SASS Wisconsin State 23 - 23 Captain Cook 715-248-3727 Station WI SASS Georgia State 02 - 05 Done Gone 770-361-6966 Dawsonville GA Blackpowder Shootout Range Championship Smoke in the Hills Round Up at River Bend November SASS Georgia State 02 - 02 Done Gone 770-361-6966 Dawsonville GA SASS Nevada State Wild 10 - 11 Penny 775-727-4600 Pahrump NV Blackpowder Bunch Championship Pepperbox Championship SASS Texas State 02 - 05 Long Juan 512-750-3923 Lockhart TX Annual International Matches Championship CANADA Ride with Pancho Villa Wild Bunch Rendezvous sep 14 - 16 Legendary 905-393-4299 Ancaster oN SASS FOUR CORNERS 08 - 12 SASS Office 505-843-1320 Edgewood NM Lawman REGIONAL Robbers Roost Rendezvous sep 15 - 15 Bear Butte 905-891-8627 Ancaster oN Buffalo Stampede AUSTRALIA SASS FOUR CORNERS 08 - 10 SASS Office 505-843-1320 Edgewood NM SASS AUSTRALIAN sep 24 - 30 Virgil Earp 61 74 695 2050 millmerran REGIONAL REGIONAL Wild Bunch Championship CHAMPIONSHIP SASS Virginia 11 - 11 Missouri 757-471-3396 West Point VA Chisholm Trail Blackpowder Shootout Marshal Gunfight at the ok Corral oct 27 - 28 Duke York 61 418 632 366 Drouin 18th Annual Smoke on the Mattponi VI CZECH REPUBLIC SASS Utah State 18 - 18 Rowdy Hand 435-637-8209 Price UT SASS European sep 06 - 08 Thunder man 42 060 322 2400 Tabor Blackpowder Shootout – End of Trail The Castle Gate Smudge Match Hell’s Coming With Me SASS Alaska State 19 - 19 Four Bucks 907-350-4422 Anchorage AK GERMANY Blackpowder Shootout The fight to Way mountain sep 01 - 01 hurricane Irmi 49 28 233 4426 Wegberg Smoke in the Greatland Texas Ranger Cup Dec 01 - 02 Rhine River Joe 49-2823-3426 Wegberg shootoff Championship Dec 08 - 09 Rhine River Joe 49 2823 3426 Wegberg SOUTH AFRICA End of Year shoot-off Dec 15 - 15 Richmond p. 27 21 797 5054 Cape Town hobson

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I’ll Remember In NovEMBER forced by the Obama media. Using By Colonel Dan, SASS Life/Regulator #24025 the cry of racism to hide truth has been worn so thin over the years as I’ll remember in November. cut even 1% from federal expendi - to be completely worn out with most You brag about doling out tril - tures—the inevitable result being of us, and we’ll definitely remember lions in entitlements, yet you’ve sad - more spending for you and higher in November! Colonel Dan, dled America with those trillions in taxes for us who pay the bills to in - You continually castigate politi - SASS Life #24025 debt that we’ll be paying for via in - clude your salaries and perks. Yet cal opponents for actions you your - creased taxes and reduced value of you throw billions away on foreign self have taken in the past, but when emorandum To: Wash - our dollar for generations. And you aid to countries that hate us, extrav - you did it, “Oh that was totally dif - ington Politicians. You expect us to grovel at your feet in a agant party perks in exotic places, ferent.” You pass yourselves off as pernicious purveyors of state of perpetual gratitude?!?! I’ll and salaries that far exceed the pri - divine while characterizing the M political power who remember in November. vate sector that pays for your extrav - other side as satanic, and you expect think you’re impervious to any over - Early Leninists enflamed a na - agance. On-going waste and fraud thinking people to buy that? Such sight by and repercussions from the tion by fomenting class warfare, by the billions in corrupt-filled pro - behavior is disgustingly hypocritical, “unwashed masses” outside the promising a worker’s paradise, but grams like food stamps, Medicare, and I will remember in November. Washington Beltway should wake in reality turned Russia into a police Medicaid, disability, and welfare … Mr. President, how can you con - up. The ability to successfully hide state of communist oppression. I see to include benefits for illegals … and tinue to say it was Bush and the Re - your despicable behavior is being today’s politicians using a version of you want more from us! I say not publicans who are totally to blame curtailed as I sense a powerful and that same class warfare tactic. If di - one dime more, and believe me, I will for the mess we’re in and that it was ever growing grassroots renaissance viding America into groups and pit - remember in November. they who blocked your solutions? coming your way. American patriots ting them one against the other isn’t You took an oath that demands Your party had total control of both are becoming increasingly aware of repeating history, it sure rhymes a the application of equal justice houses of Congress and the White what you do thanks to the Inter - lot. For those of you who seek to di - under the law, yet you plotted to un - House for the first two years of your net—an information outlet unfil - vide us—I’ll remember in November. dermine our Second Amendment term, and you got everything you tered and uncontrolled by your I recall the fall of the Soviet through “Fast and Furious,” which wanted. If you think we’re that stu - servile media. You’re clearly not as Union and the primary causes of led to the death of a border agent pid, I can assure you we’re smart insulated from public wrath as in their demise—a corrupt system of and hundreds of Mexicans, yet no - enough to remember in November! years past, and although I can’t outrageous lies, suppression of indi - body has thus far been held to ac - You folks, especially this Presi - speak for others, I can assure you I’ll vidual freedom, coupled with unsus - count. You ignored thugs with clubs dent, that want more government remember in November. tainable government growth and at polling places who openly intimi - control and increased power over For those of you who oppose spending. America’s politicians have dated anyone who might vote every aspect of our lives must think states requiring photo ID to vote, been taking us down a frighteningly against your candidates, and nobody the only reason for our existence is to you’re so transparent as to be laugh - similar path. Truth, integrity, and was held to account. Under the pay taxes and re-elect you. You lie to able if you weren’t so dangerously honor are increasingly foreign in mantle of hate crime, you zero in on us daily, and your legislation is de - serious in your conspiratorial role as DC—I’ll remember in November. a minuscule few while totally ignor - signed for only two things; more an enabler and proponent of voter Speaking of lies, I spent the lat - ing a multitude of others, and you power for you and more dependency fraud. I’ll remember in November. ter years of the 1970s living in bor - expect us to accept that as the new for us. You’ve gotten our lives so con - For ALL those who support this der camps and patrolling the East norm!?! I’ll remember in November! voluted and complex as to be virtually deceit-ridden Obamacare, which we German border. When at those You, Mr. President, illegally by - unmanageable because you think you were assured was not a tax, but was camps, I could pick up the English passed Congress and the law grant - can and should control everything — then unconscionably upheld as a tax version of Radio Moscow. It was ing amnesty to young illegals via the Constitution be damned! I can’t by a spineless swing voting Chief Jus - pure Soviet propaganda spewing the unilateral executive action less than speak for all, but from my saddle, I’ve tice who is apparently more con - most outrageous lies, distortions, a year after stating you didn’t have had more than enough, and I’ll re - cerned about upholding his image and deceit imaginable about how the power to do that! You thumbed member in November. among liberals than his sworn duty of terrible life was for the “working your nose at both the law and SCO - Bottom Line; I can’t trust the ma - upholding the Constitution, I’ll most class” in the US under our oppres - TUS, instructing Homeland Security jority of you, including the Supreme certainly remember in November! sive capitalistic system. How could to ignore calls from Arizona when Court , to have the vital interests of You routinely treat our Constitu - any news agency and government they attempt to verify immigrant America at heart. In fact, I’m con - tion as a doormat, intentionally try to deceive their citizens and the status as Federal law requires! Your vinced many in your circle support twisting its provisions to support world like that? Sadly, I see the arrogantly corrupt action in pander - the objective of “fundamentally your Machiavellian schemes and dis - seedlings of many parallels today ing for Latino votes is contemptu - transforming” America in ways that regarding it when politically conven - concerning lies and deceit from a ously transparent … and pandering are intentionally destructive of our ient. Many of you Republicans claim cesspool of corrupt politicians fo - is exactly what it is; we’re not stupid! basic values and closely held princi - to be constitutional conservatives, cused on retaining political power Then when concerned patriotic ples! So let there be no doubt what - but act like progressive liberals be - and a complicit media who has un - Americans such as the Tea Party be - soever, I will remember in November! hind closed doors, and you want us to apologetically gone from watchdog to come active and protest your under - Contact Colonel Dan: re-elect you? You must think we’re lapdog. 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