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The kudos for 25 matches a year, you become ex - this outstanding success must go to perienced in quite a short period of Northern Crow, who made all the time,” explains Crow. Yup, hard steel targets and his spouse-in-arms work is the answer. Two matches a Lady Smith, who wrote all the month plus an annual match that stages. They jointly boss the outfit has morphed into the SASS Central with the help of a dozen loyal Canadian Championship has made rancheros. “And some members of the Bar-E Ranch the premier SASS neighboring clubs who shoot with us destination in central Canada. and are considered part of our fam - The word of SASS is holy writ ily,” adds Crow. at the Bar-E, and they make a point The Bar-E Ranch is the Cowboy of honoring all SASS categories. Action Shooting™ branch of the The targets are big and close, there Barrie Gun Club situated just west are no mind games tucked into the of the town of Barrie, Ontario, scenarios to collect procedurals, and Canada. The Championship boas - the match ran smoothly and on ted 104 entrants, 98 of whom time. But if you think a Bar-E showed up. It was the largest gath - match is not a challenge, let me tell ering of cowpokes in this neck of the you—the 98 shooters produced just woods, ever. Back in the ‘90s the three—count ‘em three—clean Sandy Town Boys in Tillsonburg matches! And, the rancheros have and the Detroit Sportsmen’s Club in always had a distinctly fresh ap - Michigan used to host 80 to 90 wad - proach to things. dies—the majority of them Ameri - How many times have we all cans—at a cross-border, two-day Match Director Northern Crow makes smoke at his favorite heard it? “In this game the only annual shoot dubbed the Can/Am watering hole—the Crow Saloon, where else? way to leave with a Cadillac is ar - match. All these years later there Crow made all the targets and his spouse-in-arms, Lady Smith, rive in a Cadillac. Har, har, har!” were just six shooters from the wrote the stages. These two have done wonders developing It’s the sound of a proud Cowboy Cowboy Action at the Bar-E in Barrie, Ontario. Action Shooter bragging that, in Cowboy Action it isn’t all about win - SASS C owboy Chronicle ning and valuable prizes. It’s about U.S.A., five from New Jersey and first Bar-E Cowboy Action Shoot - The Cowboy Way, The Spirit of the one from Michigan, but this is a dra - ing™ attempts, shotguns could only Game, and A Way of Life that em - In This Issue matic increase since Canada’s long- be loaded with inch-long sections of bodies the Values We all Aspire To. gun registry (since repealed) and garden hose ahead of a wad and a Gamers beware etc., etc. Right? 40 Coyote Cap passports were required to cross our pinch of blackpowder in the car - “Yada, yada, yada,” chant the stout- prototype once peaceful pre-9/11 borders. tridge. To this day, those brave few hearted Rancheros of the Bar-E by Capt. George Baylor Only seven years ago a member have their “rubber bullets” laced to Ranch as they tore the seat out of of the Barrie Gun Club, who wanted their long guns to show their pio - the duckings of the above-men - 42 ruger gunsmithing to go Cowboy Action Shooting™ had neer status. Today, the club is the tioned bragger by presenting the -p art 3 to travel to a club that permitted leader in recruitment and training winner, one Rawhide Wilson, who by Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp such Wild West shenanigans. At the of Cowboy Action Shooting™ com - (Continued on page 25 ) m o c . t e n s s a s . w w 55 Land run w 5 1 0 7 8 m n , d o o w e g d by Flat Top Okie e y a W y o b w o C 5 1 2 58 iLLinois state C Championship , h C pring oundup r o s r o w by Mr. Russ n b i o 64 maryLand c y Chapionship , hunder aLLey ays l t V d e by Chuckaroo Page 2 Cowboy Chronicle October 2012 ViSit uS At SASSnet .Com October 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 3 ViSit uS At SASSnet .Com Page 4 Cowboy Chronicle October 2012 ViSit uS At SASSnet .Com October 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 5 The Cowboy CONTENTS Chronicle 6 FROM THE EDITOR Clubs Are The Lifeblood Of SASS . Editorial Staff Tex Editor-in-Chief 8, 9 NEWS Another Success For The Wild West History Association . Cat Ballou Editor 10, 11 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . Miss Tabitha Asst. Editor 12-30 ARTICLES Justified . Nails . The Best Little Powder House In The West . Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 14 CAT’S CORNER Carpenter To Cowboy (Jeans, That Is!) . Mac Daddy 33-46 GUNS & GEAR Stage Points Scoring System . Dispatches From Camp Baylor Graphic Design Buttercup 49, 50 HISTORY Notorious New Mexicans . Little Known Famous People . Advertising Manager (505) 843-1320 • Fax: (877) 770-8687 [email protected] 51, 52 PROFILES A Life Lived The Cowgirl Way . 2012 Scholarship recipients . Contributing Writers 53 REVIEWS BOOKS Bad Penny, Ben Shootin, Talking With Horses . Blackthorne Billy, Capt. George Baylor, Chilkoot, Col. Dan, Col. Richard Dodge, 54 TRAIL MARKER Always To Be Remembered . Chuckaroo, Cree Vicar Dave, Deadman Walking, Dr. Buck Montgomery, Flat Top Okie, 55-64 ON THE RANGE What’s Goin’ On In Your Town? . Ima Darlin, Joe Fasthorse, Justice B. Dunn, Long Johns Wolf, Madd Mike, Mr. Russ, Nubbins Colt, 68-71 CLUB REPORTS SASS Makes A Stand At Bohemia Mining Days . 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They must make came “regulars” at the few local newcomers feel welcome (and matches, and local clubs begin to The Judge’s job was to listen mean it!). They really, really form. The “game” was beginning to folks across the country, make need some sort of social program to take hold! suggestions where appropriate, as well.