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MercantileEXCITINGSee section our NovemberNovemberNovember 2001 2001 2001 CowboyCowboyCowboy ChronicleChronicleChronicle(starting on pagePagePagePage 90) 111 The Cowboy Chronicle~. The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Shooting Society ® Vol. 20 No. 4 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. April 2007 . END of TRAIL 2007 . A TRUE WEST EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE By Chiz, SASS #392 ND of TRAIL is a Cowboy HIGHLIGHTS on pages 72 & 73 Action Shooting™ institu- E tion that continues to get Shoot on Wednesday. The six-stage better with age. Like a good saddle, Mounted Shooting main match be- the more you ride it, the more com- gins on Thursday with two stages be- fortable it gets. ing shot each day through Saturday. END of TRAIL 2007 is shaping Conventioneers Rejoice! Two up to be an incredible event people Conventioneer stages will straddle have come to expect. Now stretched the center bay where a Manu- out over a period of ten days, END of facturers Gallery will be set up. A TRAIL offers SASS members a full greater effort to include the widest spectrum of activities, shooting variety of firearms and ammunition opportunities, and entertainment is underway and will provide an along with a passel of new ideas to opportunity for all END of TRAIL make the event even better! participants as well as the public to It all starts on Friday, June 15 shoot the guns of the Old West. when the six-stage warm up match Conventioneers can shoot to their for the overflow shooters and Stage hearts content! Drivers begins. This group also All shooters will be treated to a shoots the main match on Saturday, series of all new shotgun targets as Sunday, and Monday. For those not well as an addition of new rifle and shooting the first weekend looking pistol targets. Also new for the en- for something to do, they can sign up joyment of main match shooters is a for the Evil Roy Shooting School that TC Thorstenson and Harvey Wallbanger, Jr. will again be performing at recorded description of stage des- takes place on Saturday and Sunday. END of TRAIL. The bond between trainer and performer is evident criptions and scenarios. Based on by the trust each shows for the other as they entertain competitors As the town begins to fill with ven- the series, Classic Gunfights by Bob and spectators alike. Don’t miss this amazing show! dors and exhibitors, the warm up Boze Bell as seen in True West match for the main weekend match Plainsman Event. In addition, all will be set up to immortalize each Magazine, the theme of END of starts on Tuesday followed on Side Match Awards will be present- Posse with a picture. TRAIL 2007 will focus on the stories Wednesday with Side Matches for all ed just prior to Opening Ceremonies If all things go right, the and illustrations as compiled by this participants. New this year is a $20 on Wednesday evening, freeing up Mounted Shooters will be using two author/artist. The championship “All You Can Shoot” program that time for participants who will spend arenas for the World Championship shooting stage descriptions will be includes all Side Matches and the less time during the Sunday Awards match. Plans are to level the dam at written by and vocally performed by Ceremony. The Main Match begins the end of town and install a brand Bob Boze Bell, utilizing recorded SASS Cowboy Chronicle Thursday with shooters plying four new professional arena that is in broadcasts on each shooting stage. stages each of the three days. easy walking distance to town and Artwork created by Bell, who is Included in the main match included in the main activities area. noted as one of America’s preemi- event is the Team Shoot, which will The Mounted Shooting program nent Old West Gunfight experts and In This Issue be added as a “5th Stage” during one begins on Monday with a New an accomplished artist with hun- 64 TAYLOR’S UBERTI of the main match days. The Team Shooters Clinic. A three-stage warm dreds of provocative illustrations on 1858 REMINGTON event will also accommodate the up match will take place on Tuesday, the subject, will be used throughout Posse Photo where Artie and Sadie and there will be a two-stage Fun by Tuolumne Lawman (Continued on page 72) 71 GREAT PINEAPPLE ROUNDUP by Lobo Negro 74 SHOOTOUT AT GIVHAN’S FERRY C h C by Henry McKenna r o o w 76 RANDOLPH COUNTY RUCKUS n b by Juaquin Malone i o 23255 La Palma Avenue 78 SMOKIN’GUNS AT c y Yorba Linda, California 92887 RABBIT RIDGE l by Easy Lee e www.sassnet.com Page 2 Cowboy Chronicle April 2007 7302 E. Main St., Suite #7, Mesa, AZ 85207 800-596-0444 • (480) 218-1181 • FAX 888-528-5487 Email [email protected] www.wildwestmercantile.com April 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 3 Page 4 Cowboy Chronicle April 2007 April 2007 Cowboy Chronicle Page 5 The Cowboy CCONTENTSONTENTS Chronicle 1 ON THE COVER END of TRAIL 2007 . 6 FROM THE EDITOR Winter Range–An Outstanding National Championship Editorial Staff 8-11 NEWS International Combat Stress Conference (CSC) . Dutch Is Recovering Nicely . Tex Editor-in-Chief Comments From SASS Members . Cat Ballou 12-20 LETTERS Editor Wanted: Military Costume Judges . Chiz 16 CAT’S CORNER Managing Editor Advertising Director 18 CHIZ BIZ What’s Goin’ On . Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 22 POLITICAL Hate Crime Is Thought Crime . Mac Daddy Graphic Design 24-36 ARTICLES Back In The Good Old Days . Winning With Wisdom And Treachery . Donna Oakley Advertising Administrator 38-48 GUNS & GEAR One Man With Courage Makes A Majority . Wax Bullets . Contributing Writers Bob Boze Bell, Bob Crismon, Capt. George Baylor, Cinnamon Lucy, 50, 57 MOUNTED What We Do With Our Horses In The Off-Season ... Ride!! Col. Dan, Cree Vicar Dave, Ellsworth T. Kincaid, Holy Terror, Ioway, Joe Fasthorse Harrill, 53-56 END of TRAIL 2007 . Juaquin Malone, Madd Mike, Mr. Quigley, Nubbins Colt, Yosemite Valley Sam, SASS #73791 . The Shooter’s Persona . Purdy Gear, Quick Cal, 58 PROFILES Sierrita Slim, Swift Montana Smith, Tuolumne Lawman 60 HISTORY This Month In History . Little Known Famous People . The Cowboy Chronicle is published by The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting 61, 62 REVIEWS-BOOKS The Guns Billy The Kid . Knott’s Berry Farm’s Ghost Town Society. For advertising information and rates, administrative and editorial Taylor’s & Co. Uberti 1858 Remington .45 Colt Cartridge offices contact: 64 REVIEWS-PRODUCTS Chronicle Administrator 23255 La Palma Avenue VENDORS Lonerider Leather . 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Grant is Bow-legged Cowboy Design, and the Cowboy Chronicle can accept any seen here last year at Rocking Horse Design responsibility for accidents or diffe- END of TRAIL sporting ring results obtained using reloading are all trademarks of data. Variation in handloading tech- new River Crossing The Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. niques, components, and firearms buckskins and Any use or reproduction of these marks will make results vary. Have a compe- dispatching the bad guys without the express written permission tent gunsmith check your firearms with his engraved ‘97. before firing. of SASS is strictly prohibited. Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle April 2007 WINTER RANGE – AN OUTSTANDING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP By Tex, SASS #4 but by then it was all over but the The second innovation was a ry. All match stages were well shouting. murder mystery dinner Thursday dressed, providing a pleasing “Old There were a couple of impres- evening. This unique bit of enter- West” environment for the shooting sive innovations this year everyone tainment allowed the diners to problems. Tex, SASS #4 seemed to enjoy and appreciate. become involved in a fun-filled And, the shooting problems ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~ First, the Opening Ceremony’s safe- evening of “who done it.” Other sported plenty of targets … several ty briefing was a humorous video match directors might want to con- stages called for ten shot revolver with scenes every airline passenger sider something like this as another sequences, for instance, and there he Winter Range Rough Riders knows by heart.