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S S For Updates, Information and GREAT Offers on the fly-Text SASS to 772937! Cowboy ChrAoniiclle ig NNSNSoeeoopvpvvetteeeemmmmmbbbbbeeeeerrrr r 2 2 22200000001111 00 CCoowwCCbbooywyw CbbCoohhyyrr oCoCSnnhhiiircrclolloeenniiccnllee PPPaaagggeee 111 (S S - e C u e O p p T a N o g V e d s E a ~ N y 3 8 T ! , 3 IO The Cowboy Chronicle 9 ) N The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Sh ooting Society ® Vol. 26 No. 10 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. October 2013 GREAT NOR ’EASTER 2012 wSASS NEW ENGLAND Regional By Iron Pony, SASS #36769 elham, NH, July 26 – built around the “Shady Ladies of 29, 2012 – “Thanks for the Old West” and featured stages all the hard work. Had illuminating the fairer sex who just P a ball. Great shoot. This happened to be gamblers, madams, match just keeps getting better and gunfighters, rustlers, or brand of better. We’ll be back next year.” outlaws. Not left out were those When you hear words like these who tried to go straight and failed from cowboys and cowgirls not only or who became caught up in bad after but also during a match, you marriages that left few options but feel good about the work you’ve to take up with notorious men on done. So it was at the Great the wrong side of the law. Includ - Nor’easter of 2012. Local ammuni - ing such colorful characters as tion manufacturer “AMMO2U ” was Squirrel Tooth Alice, Sally Skull, this year’s Main Match Sponsor Big Nose Kate, Cattle Annie, and providing ammo specifically de - Little Britches, as well the better signed for Cowboy Action Shoot - known Etta Place who was a regu - ing™. If you were lucky enough to lar fixture in the infamous Wild draw the right door prize number Bunch of Butch Cassidy and the you won a box of ammo you could Sundance Kid, just to name a few. The “Nor’easter” just keeps getting better and better! actually use in the match! The Pelham Fish and Game This year the weather cooperated and the match ran smoothly. The theme of the match was Club facility has been the home of This four-day event was action packed everyday, ensuring the Nor’easter from its inception; everyone had an opportunity to engage in as much shooting as the hard working crew of organiz - they could handle. Blackpowder competitor, Iron Pony, is seen here SASS C owboy Chronicle ers who gather there continue to working for his “Wicked Good Shooter” belt buckle! improve the match and welcome shooters from the region and be - lenges aplenty for every shooter still options for entertainment and In This Issue yond. Included this year, along wherever they went on the club interaction. The first was Wild Bill with the 10-stage main match were grounds that kept them busy from Blackerby’s array of vendors morning until evening. where goods and services from regOn tate the “run what you brung” stages of 16 O S our Thursday mini-matches for If you didn’t want to shoot on cowboy clothing to cowboy guns ChampiOnShip shooters who wanted to participate Thursday, or didn’t show up on were on offer. Rumored water taxi by Sweetwater Jack in Wild Bunch, Plainsman, or “ The Wednesday with a bunch of other service was not needed this year Squall ” for standard categories. folks to take Jimmy Spurs, SASS nor were duckboards or waders. 20 texaS State Add in speed events, long range, #65014, Top Gun Shooting School Notorious weather jinx, Dead ChampiOnShip cowboy trap, the .22 gallery, pocket with guest instructor, Deuce Head, SASS #29768, must have by Dragon Hill Dave & Long Juan pistol … Well there were chal - Stevens, SASS #55996, there were (Continued on page 50 ) m o c . t e n s s a s . w w t hite OWbOy w 5 1 0 7 8 m n , d o o w e g d 24 F . W C e y a W y o b w o C 5 1 annual matCh 2 by Jane Deere C h C 32 alaSka State Wild r o bunCh ChampiOnShip o w by Little Nelchina & Tripod n b i o c y 34 revenge mOunted atCh l m e by Aneeda Huginkiss Page 2 Cowboy Chronicle October 2013 Visit us at sassnet .com October 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 3 Visit us at sassnet .com Page 4 Cowboy Chronicle October 2013 Visit us at sassnet .com October 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 5 The Cowboy CONTENTS Chronicle 6 FROM THE EDITOR SASS’ RO Committee . Editorial Staff NEWS Tex 8 Cowboy News From Italy! . Editor-in-Chief 12 CAT’S CORNER The SASS Convention (Just Around The Corner) . Cat Ballou LETTERS Editor 14 Comments From SASS Members . Miss Tabitha Asst. Editor 16-28 ON THE RANGE Ft. White Cowboy Calvary . Italy’s Wild West Rebels Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 30 CLUB REPORTS Shootin’ Our Way Across The USA . Mac Daddy 32 WILD BUNCH CORNER Alaska State Wild West TM Championship . Graphic Design 34, 35 MOUNTED Buttercup Revenge Of Montezuma . The Never Ending Rundown . Advertising Manager (505) 843-1320 • Cell: (505) 459-0390 36-49 GUNS & GEAR Dispatches From Camp Baylor . Classy Walking Stick . [email protected] 38-39 SASS-CONVENTION Contributing Writers ((( ( SIGN-UP TODA Y!! ! )))) Alan McBrayer & Thomas Valenza, Aneeda Huginkiss, Appaloosa Alex, 55 REVIEW PRODUCTS Gunleather For You, And Only You . Appaloosa Amy, Blue, Capt. George Baylor, Col. Dan, Cree Vicar Dave, Dog Eared Dan, 56, 57 PROFILES What The Second Amendment Means To Me . Lucky Lennie . Dragon Hill Dave & Long Juan, Graver Bill, Jane Deere, Janny Ringo, J. A. Ueckert, Joe Cannuck, 58 HISTORY The Sandia Mountain Desperado . Little Known Famous People . Joe Fasthorse, Little Nelchina & Tripod, Mad Dog Biff Tannen, Nubbins Colt, 59 TRAIL MARKER Always To Be Remembered . Palaver Pete, Rio Drifter & Tennessee Tall, Savannah Georgia, Sweetwater Jack, Tuscarora Slim, Two Ponies, 60 REVIEW BOOKS Hell On Wheels . Wolverine Wrangler, The Cowboy Chronicle is published by 61-63 ARTICLES Cowboy TV . Time Machines Anyone? . Still Want To Be . The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. For advertising information and rates, ad - 63-65 GENERAL STORE /CLASSIFIED ministrative, and edi to rial offices contact: Chronicle Administrator 66-73 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS (MONTHLY, ANNUA L) 215 Cowboy Way Edgewood, NM 87015 (505) 843-1320 74 SASS MERCANTILE (Nice Collectables) . FAX (505) 843-1333 email: [email protected] 75 POLITICAL The Great American Nightmare . 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 - wood, NM and additional mailing offices ® SASS Trademarks (USPS #032). 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Roswell, the site of the 2014 New Mexico SASS Cowboy Action Championships, is also the location of John Chisum’s the Single action Shooting Society, inc. WARNING: Neither the author nor The famous cattle operation, and where Billy the Kid took John’s cattle in Any use or reproduction of these marks Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi - bility for accidents or diffe ring results payment for services he felt rendered … but, it is also home to … ALIENS! without the express written permission obtained using reloading data. Variation No, not the south of the border kind, but more the “out of this world” kind. of SASS is strictly prohibited. in handloading tech niques, compo nents, This pristine new cowboy range is home to not only a great shooting and fire arms will make results vary. Have program, but also to “little green men.” Plan to join the fun in 2014! a competent gunsmith check your firearms before firing. Visit us at sassnet .com Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle October 2013 SASS’ RO COMMITTEE By Blackjack Zak, SASS Life/Regulator #26828 rom time to time it be - tions/clarifications. The two com - shooting sport and the shooting comes appropriate to re - mittees were merged and their size community at heart. Our intent is mind and inform the reduced to become a manageable to serve the SASS community and F shooting community and relevant working group. maintain the “intended course” of Tex, SASS #4 about the workings of the various The ROC has never at any Cowboy Action Shooting™ in gen - groups within SASS, namely the time been a “rule making” body, eral. Often a difficult task, we re - Range Officer Committee (ROC). and remains the same today. main mindful of the “Cowboy Way,” The Range Officer Committee is an We are confident many of you are Whilst the ROC has significant and apply those standards to the important part of SASS’ effort to familiar with the purpose and op - input, offering advice and direc - decision making process.