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June 2015 Th SSAASSSS CCOONNVVEENNTTIIOONN San Antonio , 12 by Capitan in George Baylor, SASS Life #24287 Regulator Photos by Black Jack Mcginnis, SASS #2041 !! S S C For Updates, Information and GREAT Offers on the fly-Text SASS to 772937! A ig L CCCooowwwCCbbboooywywy CbbCCoohhyhyrr r oCoConnnhhiiiiirccrcclollolleeeneniiccllee I November 2001 CowCboyw Cbohyr oCSnhircloe niicnlle PaCge 1 NNSNSoeeoopvpvvetteteememmmmbbbbbeeeererrr r 2 2 2 2020000001111 00 S - PPPPaaaagggKgeeee 1 111 E u H ( p E S N R e D T E Cowboy Chroniiclle e o ! October 2010 P page 1o d ! October 2010 a a g f y ~ e T R ! 7 A The Cowboy Chronicle ) I L The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Sh ooting Society ® Vol. 28 No. 6 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. June 2015 th SSAASSSS CCOONNVVEENNTTIIOONN San Antonio , 12 By CapItan in George Baylor, SASS Life #24287 Regulator Photos by Black Jack McGinnis, SASS #2041 he Menger Hotel, San Antonio, TTexas, January 7-11, 2015. The Alamo is next door. The Alamo—only a small portion survives. It is a place of legend. The siege of the Alamo defines Texas. In 1836 for 13 days a few Texians held an indefensible mission from the most powerful army on the continent, Santa Anna’s Mexican army. The Texi - ans were outnumbered by more than ten to one. The Alamo fell on the morn - ing of March 6, 1836, and the defenders died to the last man. Sam Houston would rouse his troops with “Remember Historical impersonator Tom Jackson (complete with U.S. Krag carbine) the Alamo,” and “Remember Goliad.” On at the Menger Bar recreates what it would have been like to be a bright, sunshiny April afternoon, recruited into the Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt. through sheer luck at a patch of ground overlook - sulted in the death of more than 600 Mexicans ing a marsh called San Jacinto, Sam Houston’s and the capture of 740, including Santa Anna. undisciplined, poorly equipped force of 910 men at - The importance of that victory is inscribed on tacked Santa Anna’s army during siesta and de - the base of the 570-foot tall San Jacinto Monu - stroyed it in 18 minutes. The fury of the Texians ment: “Measured by its results, San Jacinto was over the massacres at the Alamo and Goliad re - one of the decisive battles of the world. The freedom of Texas from Mexico won here led to annexation and to the Mexican War, resulting SASS C owboy Chronicle 44 in the acquisition by the United States of the DISPATCHES FROM In This Issue CAMP BAYLOR states o f Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, by Capt. George Baylor California, Utah, and parts of Colorado, 10 C Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Almost one- ICTORIAN OURNING h C V M 52 HE UNS OF r third of the present area of the American na - o (P T. I) T G o w by Texas Flower CONNECTICUT tion, nearly a million square miles of territory, n b by Shot Doc i changed sovereignty.” o 14 c y EST RESSED AT THE So, yes, Texans do remember the Alamo. It B -D 74 l SASS C ONVENTION THE VIEW FROM OUR LENS e might be noted I am a native Texan. I was by Aspen Filly and Cat Ballou by Artie Fly and Sexie Sadie ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CLICK any section ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ( CLICK HERE to continue on page 20 ) Cowboy Chronicle Page 2 June 2015 The Cowboy Chronicle CONTENTS 5 FROCMLI CTK HoEn aEnDy IsTecOtiR ons e Skinny’s Soapbox . Editorial Staff 6 NEWS Skinny SASS At The Lehigh Valley Sportsman Show III . Editor-in-Chief 7 SAS S- END OF TRAIL 2015 Misty Moonshine ((( Time Running Out! • SIGN-U P TODA Y!! ! ))) Managing Editor 8 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . Tex and Cat Ballou 10-19 COSTUMING CORNER Editors Emeritus Victorian Mourning (Pt. I) What To Wear And For How Long Adobe Illustrator 20-33 12th ANNUAL SASS CONVENTION (Highlights) Layout & Design Mac Daddy 34-41 ON THE RANGE Graphic Design High Noon At Tusco 2014 . 2015 END of TRAIL Tea Room Prairie Mary 42, 43 CLUB REPORTS Advertising Manager Shootin’ Across America . 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Cowboy Chronicle sold by Hake’s Ameri - Any use or reproduction of these marks can accept any responsi - bility for accidents or diffe ring results ob - cana & Collectibles for without the express written permission tained using reloading data. Variation in of SASS is strictly prohibited. handloading tech niques, compo nents, $347.88 in 2007. and fire arms will make results vary. Have a competent gunsmith check your firearms before firing. VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle June 2015 Page 3 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle Page 4 June 2015 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle June 2015 Page 5 i SKINNY’S SOAPBOX The SASS Convention so I installed tihat and This issue focuses on the twelfth annual SASS retested my tap water. It Convention, which was held in San Antonio last Jan - now registers “clean,” so Skinny, SASS #7361 uary. Of course, I couldn’t pass up attending—espe - that’s what I’ll be drinking cially because it was being held in the place of my from now on. That or distilled water. Never being one birth—and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. The Conven - to go half way, I also researched home water distillers tion is every bit at much fun as the articles and pho - and settled on a model available from tos contained in this edition suggest. If you’ve never www.H2OLabs.com . With it I can distill one gallon of attended one, I recommend you do so. water every evening while I sleep. Distilled water, of * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * course, contains NO contaminants. Finally, I’m also Hall of Fame currently taking HM-Chelat, available from the same The Convention saw the induction of five more wor - outfit that sells the self-test kits. It’s supposed to gen - thy SASS members into the Hall of Fame. Welcome to tly chelate heavy metals from your body over a period Chuckaroo (SASS #13080, Maryland); Half-A-Hand of six months to a year. So I’ll retest myself in six Henri (SASS #9727, New Mexico); Jim Bowie (SASS months and see how it’s going. (I’m not getting paid #4775, California); Pale Wolf Brunelle (SASS #2495, by any of these companies, by the way, nor do any of Oregon); and Two Sons (SASS #12636, Indiana). them know I’m promoting them.) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * —Skinny Wooly Awards Congratulations, as well to this year’s recipients of the Wooly Award for excellence in the field of Cow - boy Action Shooting™, awarded at the Convention’s opening ceremonies. They are: The Alaska 49ers for Best SASS Affiliated Club; Black Hills Ammunition for Best Merchant; J.M. Brown (SASS #27309, North Carolina) for Territorial Governor of the Year; SliX - pring Products for Best Product; and Gunsmoke, The SASS Midwest Regional Championship, Minnesota, for Best Annual Match. See the match report on Gun - smoke 2014 by Brat Masterson (SASS #88980), fea - tured in last month’s issue. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * More on Lead Last month I reported the lead levels in my body are slightly elevated and I presumed that was be - cause I’ve been shooting and reloading for thirty-plus years, but that might not be the case.
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