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Vol. 25 No. 12 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. December 2012 EuropE aN ChampioNshi p abas, Hungary – It all started one night last D August as we sat around a good sized campfire just outside Oslo, Nor - way. Nellie Belle, SASS Regulator #24695, Samuel B Carpenter, ays of ruTh D By Mudflat Mike, SASTS #20905 SASS Regulator #34043, and I were swapping lies about our re - cent shootout in Sweden, known locally as Purgatory 2012, and how we cleaned out that country of thieves, rustlers, and varmints without a single casualty! That very night we received an urgent dispatch from our old pard, El Heckito, SASS #74835, exclaim - ing the area around Budapest on the broad Hungarian plain was ex - periencing an outbreak of sheep stealing that had become epi - demic. He’d heard of our great success in Norway and Sweden in blasting the bad guys into submis - sion and now requested our help in Hungary to run the sheep rustlers to earth. He further ad - vised a well- known American

Days of Truth ‘12, the European Cowboy Action Championship, was held just outside SASS C owboy Chronicle Budapest, Hungary this year. This very historic area on the Danube suffered considerable damage during WWII when the Russians “liberated” Hungary from its German sympathizers. The entire waterfront, including the Parliament building In This Issue seen here, is lit up at night. It’s a very beautiful and impressive display!

42 OregOn State ne’er-do-well and his gang had lady, Cat Ballou, along with the gary. Cheap clean room (appox ChampiOnShip been seen in the area of many of medical genius gone bad, Dr. $50/night US with air condi - by Molly B’Dam & Britt Ponsett the crimes. His description George. tioning) and really good inex - matched perfectly with a gang We headed south and soon pensive grub right at the hotel. 46 appalaChian we’d dealt with before. It was found comfortable lodgings in El Heckito had summoned ShOwdOwn XXi “Tex” and his lovely (but evil) the small town of Dabas, Hun - (Continued on page 22 )

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6 FROM THE EDITOR Editorial Staff SASS Regionals (What Does the Future Hold?) . . . Tex 8 NEWS Editor-in-Chief A Belated Thank You To The Waddies At The 31st END of TRAIL . . . Cat Ballou Editor 10 CAT’S CORNER Derringers & Daggers (Madam Contest) . . . Miss Tabitha Asst. Editor 12, 13 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . . . Evil Roy Wild Bunch Editor 14-21 ARTICLES Cowboy and Golden West Quiz of Knowledgeable Cowpersons . . . Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 25 TRAIL MARKER Always To Be Remembered . . . Mac Daddy 26-34 GUNS & GEAR Dispatches From Camp Baylor . . . The Capgun Kid Rides . . . Graphic Design Lilly Mae Advertising Manager 35, 36 HISTORY The “Wild” American Indian . . . Little Known Famous People . . . (505) 843-1320 • Fax: (877) 770-8687 [email protected] 36, 37 PROFILES Being A Successful Shooter . . . 2012 SASS Scholarship Recipients . . . Contributing Writers Artie Fly, Bennet Shootin, 39-54 ON THE RANGE What’s Goin’ On In Your Town? . . . Blackthorne Billy, Capt. George Baylor, Chilkoot, Col. Dan, Col. Richard Dodge, Cree Vicar Dave, Fancy Free, Flaming Star, 58 CLUB REPORTS Shootin’ Across The USA (Outlaw’s Run) . . . Goatneck Clem, Grey Fox & Miss Mary Spencer, Joe Fasthorse, Lilly Blossom, Molly B'Dam & Britt Ponsett, 59-64 THE WILD BUNCH CORNER Mudflat Mike, Palaver Pete, Rio Drifter & Tennesse Tall, Shotglass, Sunshine Marcie, 64-66 GENERAL STORE /CLASSIFIED Sweetwater Jack, The Capgun Kid, Whiplash LaRue, Wounded Belly 67-73 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS (MONTHLY, ANNUA L) The Cowboy Chronicle is published by The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. 74 POLITICAL For advertising information and rates, ad - From Unalienable Rights To Regulated Privileges? . . . ministrative, and edi to rial offices contact: Chronicle Administrator 75 SASS MERCANTILE (Nice Collectables) . . . 215 Cowboy Way Edgewood, NM 87015 (505) 843-1320 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 - Our New Mexico SASS ® Trademarks wood, NM and additional mailing offices cowboys will SaSS ®, Single action Shooting Society ®, (USPS #032). POSTMASTER: Send ad- dress changes to The Cowboy Chronicle , 215 ® ® recognize this end of trail , eOt , Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. banner instantly The Cowboy Chro nicle tm , Cowboy action Shooting tm , DISCLAIMER - The Single Action Shooting as the Hungarian Society does not guarantee, warranty or en - tm tm version of the CaS , wild Bunch , dorse any product or service advertised in tm New Mexico State wild Bunch action Shooting , this newspaper. The publisher also does not the world Championship of guarantee the safety or effectiveness of any question— product or service illustrated. The distri - Cowboy action Shooting tm , red or green? bution of some products/services may be il - Bow-legged Cowboy design, and the legal in some areas, and we do not assume Guess where rocking horse design responsibility thereof. State and local laws are all trademarks of must be investigated by the purchaser prior paprika to purchase or use or products/services. comes from? the Single action Shooting Society, inc. Any use or reproduction of these marks WARNING: Neither the author nor The Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi - without the express written permission bility for accidents or diffe ring results of SASS is strictly prohibited. obtained using reloading data. Variation in handloading tech niques, compo nents, and fire arms will make results vary. Have a competent gunsmith check your firearms before firing. Visit us at sassNEt .Com Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle December 2012

sass regionals What Does the Future Hold? By Tex, SASS #4

SASS Regional Program. Action match for cowboys living in onships”—one east and one west— The Regional program is under the eastern half of the United have been considered. Eastern Re - review … and changes are ex - States. Winter Range is the Na - gionals would send their winners Tex, SASS #4 pected. Nothing has been decided tional Championship, but dis - to the Eastern Divisional; Western as of this writing and considerable tances are long and expenses are Regionals would send theirs to a othing ever remains the review and coordination is in great for eastern cowboys traveling Western Divisional. The male and same. The only thing process with existing Regional west. Interestingly, Winter Range female winners from each of these that is constant is Match Directors and Winter attracts more folks from the east two Divisionals would be given a N “change.” We know Range. At least among this group, coast than was realized. Rather free entry to Winter Range to com - today’s costumes don’t look like there should be “no surprises!” than “just a few,” well over 100 pete for the National Champi - what they did 30 years ago. Since there is always wild con - cowboys traditionally travel to Ari - onship title. This plan has Stages are very different today. jecture on the Wire, and “conspir - zona for this prestigious match. merit—it offers equal opportuni - The number and variety of cowboy acy theories” thrive, the following Whatever decisions are made in ties for both east and west coast accruements and firearms is dras - insights are offered so everyone un - the future, they must always con - cowboys, and it decreases the num - tically different today. Even the derstands what is being discussed. sider the impact they have on Win - ber of free entries Winter Range shooting categories we’re willing One of the initial motivations ter Range—no one wants to injure must accept. to consider in our matches are con - for considering changes was to pro - that program. The notion of dual Divisionals tinuing to evolve. So, too, is the vide some sort of “major” Cowboy A pair of “Divisional Champi - raises the question of where these

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matches would be hosted. Should have a National Championship some “new” venue be adopted to that somehow alternates each year create yet another major match … between the east and west coasts. or is it better to pick an existing, Remember—nothing has been very successful venue to become decided yet … all good ideas are on the new eastern match and an - the table … and not all potential other to become the major western changes need be introduced at one match (Winter Range, of course, time. While the existing match di - would retain it’s role as the Na - rectors are being consulted, it’ll be tional Championship). up to the Wild Bunch to ultimately One of the most successful east make the appropriate decisions for coast matches, and one that is cen - any changes. Match Directors trally located, is the Mason-Dixon often view these potential changes Stampede. The Judge had permis - from their own parochial point of sion to being negotiations with view, but in the end the Wild Bunch these folks, although in retrospect, must decide what is right and what that permission was premature. will work best for the Regional pro - However, that discussion lead to gram as whole. other considerations … that match Donations is currently a Regional, which The General reminds us De - would “go away.” How should it be cember is a great time for dona - replaced? The existing eastern Re - tions—any end of year donations gionals could be revamped to ac - can be reported on your 2012 in - commodate the states currently in come tax … and anything that can that Region. be done to reduce one’s taxes is At the other end of the country, good! However, he also reminds us Chimney Rock has given up the not all charities are the same. The Western Regional, Hell on Wheels American Red Cross, United Way, has given up the High Plains Re - and UNICEF all have tremendous gional, the north-central states have overhead. In the case of UNICEF, historically been under-represented only 4.4% of the donated funds go Regional-wise, and the Four Corners to the cause! On the other hand, Regional has been under-perform - the Salvation Army, American Le - ing for the past few years. Clearly, gion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, changes in the Regional hosts are on Disabled American Veterans, Mili - the table and restructuring of sev - tary Order of Purple Hearts, and eral of the Regionals is also a defi - the Vietnam Veterans Association nite possibility. It would be all have little to no overhead. preferable to keep the total number Within SASS we still owe of Regionals at nine in accordance $15,000 for the existing construc - with SASS’ existing agreement with tion of the Cowboy Chapel (part of the Regional sponsors. the SASS Museum), and the SASS Another notion that was con - Scholarship Foundation is always sidered, but has been discarded for in need of funds. Both of these ac - the time being, was to establish an tivities are tax-exempt … AND Eastern Divisional (only) to some - 100% of the proceeds go to the how compliment the National Chapel and the scholarship fund! Championship … but that doesn’t If you can, please pick a char - seem to offer any new benefits for ity and donate … but as with the overall program. Another no - shooting categories, pick your tion with definite possibilities is to charities wisely …

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A Belated Thank You To The Waddies At The 31 ST END of traiL By Fancy Free, SASS Regulator #23612, Waddie Czar

he 31st END of TRAIL is history and the ranch is back to normal. Wad - Tdies from nine states volunteered their time and energy to make the SASS World Championship a success.

Arizona Brushy Briggs, Pencil Push N Ann, SASS #16605 Shooting Gallery SASS #33624 Scoring Cash Cassidy, Willamette Kid, SASS #85023 All Around Helper SASS #2625 Security Cajun Dog, California SASS #70827 Horse Manure Captain Cooper, Crochety Ole Bart, SASS #43639 Parking Czar SASS #26601 Builder Hank Dodge, Extraordinaire SASS #16127 Security Darlin’ JD, ILB Driftin, SASS #93294 Tea Tent SASS #57888 Security Deville Dalton, and Public Greeter SASS #81294 Mounted Greeter Snapshot Katie, Elijah Craig, SASS #17669 Ramrod Posse SASS #76275 Ramrod Posse Flirtin Critter, Fidgit, SASS #50531 Ramrod Posse SASS #94310 Ramrod Posse Yul Lose, Jana Bandana, SASS #74578 Ranch Greeter SASS #92617 Gem Saloon Waddie Spirit Award winner Waitress Florida James Earl Dalton, Lone Trailrider, SASS #81293 Trams SASS #89867 Trams Ramrod Posse South Pacific, Knotso Slick, SASS #59402 Trams SASS #91877 Ramrod Posse Squint Eyed Jake, Lil Bit Bighorn, SASS #94247 Trams, First Aid SASS #85331 Ramrod Posse Illinois Montana Star, Foot Loose, SASS #76276 Gem Saloon SASS #1797 My Chauffer Waitress Water Distributor, N. T. Booth, All Around Hard Worker SASS #90083 Parking Montana Notorious Nick, Buckshot Jr., SASS #85024 Clays Range SASS #42597 Tram Ramrod Saddle Sore Sandy, Oklahoma SASS #89810 My “Couldn’t Boss Armstrong, Do Without” Assistant SASS #85360 Parking Sgt. Shuster, Utah: SASS #60835 Announcer Alaskan, Sioux City Sandy, SASS #79504 pre END of TRAIL SASS #69592 Tea Tent help Squid, Dusty Garnet, SASS #59827 Ramrod Posse SASS #95327 Nurse pre END of TRAIL help Juan Bad Hombre, Ten High, SASS #73487 Parking SASS #56149 Belle Union Washington Bartender and much more High Steppin, Verda Valeria, SASS #23821 Scoring SASS #76267 Security New Mexico and much more Artimus Finch, W.T. Clifton, SASS #79134 pre, during, SASS #68267 Gem Saloon and after END of TRAIL Bartender Brodie Lane, A very special thank you to Cro - SASS #71616 Information Booth (Continued on page 12 )

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DErriNgErs & DaggErs A Different Kind of soiled Dove & Parlor house Madam Contest Cat Ballou, SASS #55 By Shotglass, SASS Life/Regulator #17153

he 2012 END of TRAIL the enviable and extremely dif - as well. Half Pint, SASS #13219, Soiled Dove and Parlor ficult job of making the tough and Cookie Baker, SASS #60696, House Madam contest decisions as to which of the most each won a Bond Derringer with T cooled off and heated up luscious, sexy, and “marketable” their first place finishes in the everyone at the same time. The ladies would win. Fortunately Soiled Dove and Parlor House “garbage disposal” frozen mar - for them, the double blind scor - Madam Contests, respectively. garita machine engineered by ing system kept them all honest. Evergreen Rose, SASS Texas Jack Daniels, SASS #8587, There were nine Soiled Doves #37972, Dixie Bell, SASS #5366, made and distributed 14 gallons flitting about: Half Pint, SASS Bella Spenser, SASS #63491, of frozen margaritas in 20 min - #13219, Bella Spencer, SASS and Sue Render, SASS #87925, utes. Obviously, there were some #63491, Sue Render, SASS each won a Custom Redwing thirsty Pards and Pardettes in #87925, Carolina Girl, SASS Dagger for their second or third the Copper Queen that night. #79564, Shamrock Sadie, SASS place finish as well. The ladies The Doves and Madams plied #78511, Brodie Lane, SASS sold raffle tickets for a Bond their trade with the crowd, and #71616, Darlin’ Diana, SASS Derringer during the course of over $2,000 was raised for the #89193, and On a Roll Nicole, the week. Bella Spenser was a SASS Scholarship fund. SASS #76108. Three Parlor repeat winner raising $1,350 for This year’s contest was ra - House Madams Cookie Baker, the Scholarship Fund. Cookie Shotglass presided over cheted up a notch with excellent SASS #60696, Evergreen Rose, Baker raised another $715. In the hugely successful sponsorship from Bond Arms, SASS #37972, and Dixie Bell, all, the ladies raised $2,350 for Soiled Doves and Parlor House Red Wing Knives, and Major Pho - SASS #5366, were gathering up the SASS Scholarship fund. Madams Contests at the tography, which allowed a shift in clients for their respective houses Handlebar Bob, SASS 2012 END of TRAIL. gears to award some unique items. The winners of the Soiled #4650, was the program MC. Dove and Parlor House Madam Bob really stepped up the ac - contest each received a Bond tion, considering the hub-bub Derringer and there were custom that always goes on. Frederick daggers from Red Wing Knives Jackson Turner, SASS #28271, for the second and third place did a fine job entertaining, and winners. The ladies helped spon - Shotglass, SASS #17153, as Ex - sor a raffle to raise money for the ecutive Director, told everyone SASS Scholarship fund. The lady where to go and what to do. selling the most tickets also won Squawty Bawdy, SASS #62932, a Bond Derringer, with a drawing and Scholarship Vanguard Jus - for a fourth Bond Derringer and tice Lily Kate, SASS #1000, Redwing Dagger as well. Major managed the logistics and oper - Photography was all over the ations and provided the horse - place taking pictures of all the power behind the paperwork. girls and guys having a great As an added bonus, several time. Artie Fly and Sexy Sadie of vendors stepped up and offered Major Photography memorialized to help expand the contest for the event for everyone. next year. Can you say “Bigger Judges for this fun event raffles, more guns, and gear?” were an international, cross sec - How about “Free hot dogs and tion of SASS starting with nachos?” And even more Judge Roy Bean, SASS #1. “Frozen margaritas and frozen Other notable judges were Bum - daiquiris?” Of course, we hope ble, SASS #90679, Kiwi Witch more cowboys and cowgirls will Doctor, SASS #93691, Stroud, The contests Judges and Contestants pose after the results. step forward to support the con - SASS #66749, and Texas Gator, Being a Judge at the Soiled Doves and Parlor House Madams test and the Scholarship Fund. SASS #74485. These guys had is no easy job, right? Will you be there?

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I fear your focus has eclipsed my fa - vorite aspect of the series— its ir - reverent humor, the constant a “JusTifieD ” response one-liners, and the dry sarcastic banter between its characters. This just finished reading the article Mr. Colt, in your description of ble finding in my own. Regardless aspect is so prevalent in the show Ititled, “Justified” by Nubbins the show, “Justified” as a modern of the fact the story takes place in that my friend, Alamo Kid, SASS Colt, SASS Life #7802, in the Octo - day western, you have put into modern day Appalachia and the #8100, posts his favorite quote from ber issue of The Cowboy Chronicle . words that which I have had trou - guns are semi-automatics, its de - the show on his Facebook page after meanor and storylines are closer to each episode, (Oh, and he also posts that of a western than that of a the body count, too.). “cop” show. As an example to your readers This is a point I have been try - who do not yet watch the show, Capgun Kid’s article ing to get across to my good friend, there is a scene where Rayland Joe Shelby, SASS Life #18328, as I tosses a 9mm round at a bad guy Brought Back Memories have been bugging him to start and says, “The next one will be com - watching the show since it first ing at you a lot faster.” Or, Ray - enjoyed The Capgun Kid’s arti - Street buildings are still there. aired in 2010. land’s comment, after decking a bad Icle about old cap guns in the Dodge City was the better of Mr. Colt, I understand the guy wearing a fake bomb vest, stat - September Cowboy Chronicle . It the two. They had real Indian focus of the article was to bring the ing, “I’m from Harlan County; and brought back many good memo - dancers and a famous gun spin - reader’s attention to the generali - in Harlan, we know the difference ries, especially what he wrote ner, Joe Phillips, and his dancing ties of the show and more towards between dynamite and road flares!” about Old West theme parks in horse. He passed away about its author, Elmore Leonard, and But, I digress, lest I begin to Long Island, New York. There four years ago. you did an excellent job of doing so. ramble myself. You wrote an excel - were two of them—Dodge City in My favorite shooting toy in I also understand if one does not lent article on a great topic, and I Patchogue and Frontier City in those days was a plastic cork gun stay on message in an article, an intend to look into reading Mr. Amityville. I worked in both of that shot plastic corks. The gun author can allow oneself to become Leonard’s Western Stories. them. Dodge City became a shop - hooked on a small fence. mired in details and begin to ram - Thank you for your article. I ping center, and Frontier City be - Luke Tall, SASS #6417 ble. You stayed on message like a read it with great enthusiasm, came a trailer park. The Front Centereach, NY professional. Inspector, SASS #41400 However, if you will indulge me, Collinsville, IL shoulder holsters and huckleberry rigs have a request for the readers … holsters. I say no way! Ito answer a long-standing dis - Nor have I seen historical evi - agreement between myself and a dence of the so-called “Huckleberry few friends over the question of Rig.” I thought the purpose of a when did shoulder holsters appear shoulder holster was to “conceal” and become widespread? the presence of a gun, but that I have been a student of the strap across the chest or belly is a War for Southern Independence giveaway; i.e., “Hey look, I’m and the Old West for some 53 packin’ a hogleg, but you can’t see years, and I have never seen or it, just the belt strap across my read any evidence of shoulder hol - belly!” Looks like Hollywood adopt - sters existing before 1874. But ing a World War I or II Colt 1911 some of my friends insist they .45 ACP for Civil War/Old West! evolved during 1861 – 1865, and Jesse James Quantrill, it’s okay to portray Civil War SASS #4349 troops and civilians using shoulder La Puente, CA

A Belated Thank You To The Waddies At The 31st END of TRAIL . . . (Continued from page 8) (Editor’s Note: Fancy Free submit - chety Ole Bart who worked in his ted her Waddie Thank You article garage all winter building the in July, but it was somehow lost in frames for the shades on the bays. the shuffle. All of us at SASS He also worked on the tongue and deeply appreciate all the volunteer groove walls for the Belle Union. help the Waddies have given us If it needs to be built, Crochety over three decades. We could not gets it done! put on an event like END of See you all at the 32 nd TRAIL without them!) END of TRAIL in 2013!

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Costuming is Very important! just received my September folks just don’t get it. Without the I2012 issue of The Cowboy Chroni - costuming and aliases we would cle and as always turned straight be just another shooting event. to see what Tex had to say. This Good friends, who were good month he sure said a mouthful. shooters, were always pushing the Hooray to him is what I say. envelope. The number one reason I was As Tex says, it just isn’t fair to attracted to SASS, way back in those who follow the rules and that other century, was the cos - certainly not in the Spirit of the tuming. Of course the aliases and Game to try and cheat. I person - cowboy guns had a part also. ally feel it is no greater sin to During the ten years I ram - cheat on a shooting event, than it rodded The Withlacoochee Rene - is to cheat on your costume. gades, I had much of the same Hungry Bear, SASS #28669 trouble he talks about here. Some Pinetta, FL

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.CaBineT CarDs , The First Quality Photographic Portraiture Artie Fly of Major Photography let’s explore the genesis of this ele - By Artie Fly, SASS #25397 gant form of personal portraiture. In the 1850s and ‘60s portrait produce two Cabinet Card expo - nter any antique store photography was gaining popular - sures. Consequently, photographers and you will inevitably ity with the introduction of could produce the new size with find a box of old photo - Dagguerrotypes, Cartes-de-Viste, minimal equipment changes. E graphs, many of them and other forms of photographic The new size was introduced in mounted on a firm card called Cab - presentation. Most of these pro - the U.S. in 1866, and quickly caught inet Cards and depicting someone’s cesses produced small and/or poor on as the public responded well to ancestor. Many people collect these quality images, with the Carte-de- the much easier viewed representa - images for their historical value, as Viste becoming the most popular tion. Additionally, since the larger fashion guides for reenactment or due to its relatively low cost and re - size allowed for much bigger head authenticity in dress, or just a gen - producibility. However, by the late sizes, photographic artists could re - eral appreciation of the Victorian 1860s professional photographers touch the original image, usually and Edwardian ages. My interest recognized the public demand for with graphite pencil, and correct in Cabinet Cards grew out of my these small (2 " x 3½ ") images was flaws, enhance complexions, mini - love of photography, history, and dropping and a new product was mize distractions and deformities, Cowboy Action Shooting™. First, needed to reignite the public’s en - accentuate lighting, and even add backgrounds. It also forced the pho - tographer to pay more attention to details before the exposure that were not as noticeable in the smaller Carte-de-Viste. Hence, more care Edwin Booth is remembered today was taken in personal preparation, as the brother of Lincoln’s posing, and props used in the photo - assassin, but Edwin was a player graph. In the end, that produced of great renown in his own right, much higher quality portraits for and admired still today in his the customer. Photographers could profession. This image is from also use the backside of the larger a Newsboy Plug Tobacco series. card to advertise their studio with [See paragraph 7] elaborate, gold foil impressions.

thusiasm for personal portraiture. What resulted was the new style that originated in England, the Cabinet Card. According to George Gilbert’s Photography: The Early Years , Cab - inet Cards were so named because their size was still appropriate for the popular photo albums of the day and yet were large enough to display on its own inside the glass cabinets prevalent in Victorian middle-class homes where they displayed their china, objects d’arte, and small stat - uary. The product was very similar to the Carte-de-Viste in production, but provided an image size of ap - proximately 4 " x 5½ " on a firm card backing of 4¼ " x 6½ ". This new for - mat was actually easier to put to - gether for the photographer due to A Cabinet Card we made for its larger size. The other advantage Miss Mary some years back, for the photographer was the stan - and still my favorite portrait dard glass plate used for eight of her. Kind of reminds me Cartes-de-Viste exposures would of Pauline Hall.

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subject, Pinup photography. Ac - graphs we make for our customers, tresses in their roles were some of but the end result is a much more the best-dressed women around. authentic period-looking product. During the theatrical offseason, Some of our customers have even these trend-setters would go abroad reported to us the new card was to London or Paris and have the lat - mistaken for a product more than est trousseau made to introduce in 100 years old in very good condition; America the next season. These i.e., “Is that your great-grandfa - outfits greatly influenced the styles ther?” So, next time you see us at worn throughout the country, and an event, think about having a Cab - since not everyone could be in New inet card made up for your inner York for a performance and see the Victorian Geek. And if you have an Our Cabinet Card back imprint, new gowns, the cabinet card was original family cabinet card, maybe modeled after Strunk’s back. the vehicle by which these styles we can reproduce the sitting! and the beauties that wore them References: While photographers continued gained acceptance and fame. I have Photography: The Early Years. to offer other, smaller forms of pho - no doubt Judge Roy Bean admired George Gilbert, Harper & Row, tography, having the higher quality Lillie Langtry by viewing her Cabi - New York, 1980. portrait made was a sign of success net Card, maybe even the same Photography in America, The Form - and prestige. Soon, mass-produced Newsboy image sold on Ebay. ative Years 1839-1900, William celebrity photographs became all I began collecting Cabinet Cards Tame Bill was one of our early Welling, Thomas Y. Crowell Com - the rage and celebrity photogra - soon after I began creating formal subjects for this style of pany, New York, 1978. phers like Napoleon Sarony, Ben - portraits for Cowboys and their photography. Similar to a jamin Falk, Jose Mora, and others Ladies dressed up for the banquets celebrity card that would have soon developed followers of their that accompanied the annual shoot - been sold to the general public. own. Theatrical players especially ing events. From them I learned ap - would seek out one of these promi - propriate poses for individuals, quite a bit about period clothing and nent men to help make them fa - couples, and groups, took ideas for how what was worn when. I have mous. The photographers would props and backgrounds, and learned picked up some real gems, including display their celebrity cards in their an Edwin Booth (John Wilkes’ storefronts and sell them to the brother and the finest actor of his public directly, or provide cards to day), and several of Lillian Russell, other businesses for them to use as “The American Beauty.” Many of incentives of return purchases. The my cards are Newsboys of various most notable of these other busi - actresses in their stage character nesses may be tobacco companies costumes, scantily clad beauties of a like Newsboy Plug Tobacco, which bygone era. issued cards by series such as en - In February 2003, Sadie and I tertainers, public figures, or exotic decided to re-introduce the Cabinet locales. The more successful enter - Card for Victorian aficionados, to tainers like Lillian Russell would use a more modern term, Victorian order large quantities to distribute Geeks, of which we are two. We at notable performances of her were able to locate two-toned card shows, such as the 100 th perform - stock similar to some of our origi - ance or closing night. Many of nals and using an original produced One of the most popular actresses these cards can still be found in an - by John D. Strunk of Reading, Penn - from the 1880s through the 1910s, tique stores or for sale on Ebay, as sylvania as a guide, we designed a Pauline Hall was known for her alluring figure as well as her there is a thriving collector’s mar - gold foil impression for our studio. talent in comic and light operas. ket for these historical items. A re - The production process takes a little [See paragraph 7] cent Ebay auction was offering a longer than the standard photo - Newsboy card of Lillie Langtry for This card back is representative $49.99, but most Newsboys can be of the studio promotion and had for $10 – $20 for the lesser- “branding” afforded by the large printable area available. known personalities. [See Paragraph 4] Which brings me to a favorite !

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CowBoy and golDen wesT Quiz for KNOWLEDGEABLE COWPERSONS

Compiled by Chilkoot, SASS #58803

If you know your lore of The West, this should be a snap! What do these terms mean? The answers can be found on page 21 .

1. Honda – Not the ‘Duke’s African movie or a car! 11. Sudadero or fender – Not that dented thing on your pickup 2. Snaffle – Not ‘Snafu’! 12. Tapaderos – Not a new dance. 3. Latigo – Not “latigo, latigo, latigo, lover!” 13. Wampus – Not Bigfoot or Lizardman 4. Cantle –Not “like a cantle in the wind” 14. Crumb Incubator – Not your home toaster. 5. Tree – Don’t look for apples on it! 15. Remington – Chance for two right answers. 6. Mesa – Not a town in Arizona. 16. Remuda – Not an island off the Carolina coast. 7. Pewee – No, not him! 17. Butterfield – For an acre of biscuits? Not! 8. Conk Cover – What is a Conk??? 18. The Jersey Lily – Not a flower from the garden state. 9. Martingale. – No, not the bird! 19. Maverick – Not James Garner. 10. Duckins – Not a place to get out of the rain! 20. Hackamore – Not a big taxi in NYC.

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! Cowboys By Whiplash LaRue, SASS #86037 work on a government was assured there was no reason dead run. I saw full-grown cows I don’t know what the purpose installation that leases for concern. jump a three-strand barbed wire of the roundup was. Branding some of its wide-open Today I headed out to lunch and fence like deer in an effort to escape. maybe or a trip to the veterinarian? I spaces to local cattle a walk. And like any other day, my Had it not been for the pickup What do I know about cowboys and ranchers. Each day I drive the route took me past the grazing cat - truck hauling the cattle trailer cattle? All I know is, it was better forty minutes to and from work, tle. Only, today they weren’t graz - slowly around the field, following than any health walk at lunchtime. and each day I watch as the cows ing. Today, every head was up, tails the cowboys, it could have been a I know cowboys don’t get paid a for - wander the fields, enjoying the swishing nervously, and all eyes hundred and fifty years ago. The tune for what they do, but today green grass and the shade provided were on the horizon. Today was dif - cowboys wore the boots, hats, and they did more than just round up by the trees that line the creeks. ferent, and for me, it was a spectacle gloves I had seen in the movies. some cows. They took me away Last year I stopped my car along to behold. Six mounted cowboys, Some wore chaps; others wore from the everyday humdrum of life the side the road and watched as a separated by five or ten yards, were chinks. They were real “By God” in an office, straight back into his - mother cow gave birth to her calf in moving slowly across the pasture in Cowboys! And I wasn’t the only one tory. They really are American freezing weather. the direction of the herd. As they who noticed. As I sat there in my icons. They have been my heroes Having never worked on a closed the distance, they spread out car watching this real life rodeo, since I was a kid. Next week, I’ll go ranch, my only experience with in both directions and began to sin - other motorists began pulling off out and play cowboy at the Ala - cows was as a young boy picking gle out the “teenagers” in the herd. the road. A grass cutting crew bama State Championships (Am - blackberries on a local dairy farm. I have no idea what the actual term parked their tractors and watched bush at Cavern Cove), but today I Stealing a Tupperware ® bowl from is for these cows. They weren’t the while they ate their lunch. I was got closer to history than any cow - the kitchen, I would head out the little calves, but they weren’t full supposed to be out walking for my boy shoot can take me. back door on a mission to provide grown either. One thing they were, health, but instead, I was sitting in Just my view from my little the neighborhood ladies with black - however, was fast! my car wishing I were a cowboy. Toyota ® on the side of the road. berries in exchange for a small do - I pulled my car off the road and nation to whatever cause I had rolled to a stop on the gravel shoul - going at the moment. I would care - der mesmerized by the scene. If the fully work my way into the thickets Magnificent Seven had come over and briars to get to the berries, only that hill in front of me, I wouldn’t to be met by a cow that walked have been any more or any less right through the bushes as if they transfixed than I was at that mo - weren’t there, trying to see what I ment. I watched in amazement as had in my bowl. I was worried the cowboys worked the herd, lari - about that newborn calf, so I called ats swinging overhead, and the cows someone to let them know, and I scattering to the four winds at a

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tEars IswaitiNg By Chilkoot, SASS #58803

I started to ask about his sit - “Maybe he is. We’re both old show and maybe have a beer or uation, but he stopped me and and used up.” He grabbed the two after. Some days they’d ride said if I had a pint of “Jack” he’d pint and took a hard swallow. The out on Tears and picnic down by lay it all out for me. I didn’t have other items seemed to hold no im - the creek. She always smelled of the required price for his story, mediate interest. Marshall honeysuckle. She liked cornflow - but I’d drive the few miles to town Tucker wafted from a transistor ers, he remembered. She had a and get it. I asked if there was radio, tuned to Del Rio Country. bad, racking cough. TB he anything else he wanted or I asked if he was alone out thought. She’d bring biscuits hot needed. He seemed to have a list there. He pointed out there was from the oven, one for him and Chilkoot, SASS #58803 at the ready. Frijolies, Arbuckles, Tears and his dog, Soldier. Tears one for Tears. She was one of the some side meat ... oh and maybe got left behind when the others last to leave when the ranch some sugar. He liked his coffee drifted away, and he wasn’t worth folded. He never saw her again. never knew his name. sweet. Don’t forget the ‘”Jack!” his feed. Soldier had come one But, he thought of her often. He never offered it. I I was gone about an hour. day, feet bloodied and pads ripped, One hot afternoon, a “hippie didn’t ask. When I first When I got back, he was by the cor - and a skinned up chin from a hard gal” came in off the interstate. I met him he was living ral scratching the nose of a skinny, landing. He thought Soldier had She had a pack full of stuff, flow - in the tumbledown remains of a spavined, sway backed buckskin. been tossed out of a speeding car ers in her hair, peace signs every - bunkhouse. The ranch having He told me the horse was called ... There had been a woman in the where, ragged shirt and jeans, gone down when the new inter - “Tears” on account of the dark past. She was kitchen help at the and she wanted to paint some pic - state came through. The inter - tracks that ran down both of the cook shack. He said they used to tures of the old buildings. She state brought me there as it did a horse’s cheeks. He said it looked as take her car to town before the in - wanted to stay for a time. He said lot of curiosity seekers. if the horse were crying. terstate came and see a picture she could. She said she put

Visit us at sassNEt .Com December 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 19 “magic” in her paintings. He said would disturb the other folks. I she might have because they were shugged and slipped the pint so realistic. A day came when she from my pocket and handed it to disappeared and never came him. He took a couple of swigs back. Behind she’d left a painting and handed it back. I indicated of Tears, looking much younger, that he should keep it, but he and there was Soldier right at said they’d find it and take it, like Tears’ heels. He showed me the they did everything else. With painting. It was good. that, he opened the door on his Over a few months I went to night table and pulled out that see him as often as I could and al - painting. The nurse had allowed ways took a pint of “Jack” for his him to keep it because he’d told “miserys.” One rainy, gray day her she could have it when he after a long absence, I thought I’d was gone. It was a special paint - take him to town for a meal. My ing. He told me to look closely at truck splashed and spun in the it. He was sure Soldier had muddy lane and when it slid to a changed position, sitting by stop, I saw Tears wasn’t in the Tear’s hind leg, to sort of trotting corral. The door was open on the with the horse. I couldn’t say, I bunkhouse. Inside were a few of didn’t really remember, it looked his things, but he was gone. His the same to me. Just then, the transistor radio, that was always floor nurse came in and shooed tuned to Country KDRO Del Rio me out. Visiting was over! “No was gone and the painting of wet beds in the morning … or Tears and Soldier was as well. I y’all’l know what’ll happen!” she heard a whining from under the said as she pushed me out. I told bunk. A skinny, mangy looking him I’d come again in the morn - Soldier came belly-crawling out. ing, and we’d go for coffee. The He recognized me. The old man nurse said that wasn’t allowed asked me long ago to take care of without the doctor’s permission, Tears and Soldier if anything hap - and he was on days off. I said I’d pened to him. I said I would. be back anyway. She frowned and Later I found Tears’ remains gave an exaspirated sigh. down by the creek. I was too late He thought he heard a soft for him. Sadly, I got Soldier into voice, coming from his night my truck, and we headed for stand. “Hurry! Its getting light!” town. I dropped Soldier at the an - The room was dark except for the imal hospital for treatment and light of a street lamp outside. He went to see if I could find out pulled the painting from the about the old man. A lady, at the stand. She was on Tears, and ex - diner said the man was in the tending her hand to him. He county home in San Sabo. The vet could feel grass under his feet. shook his head, when I got back to Tears stamped his feet, impatient check on Soldier and allowed as to go. He felt Soldier pawing at how he’d do better if left for a few his leg. “Hurry, Tears is waiting.” days to recover. He bent and lifted little Soldier up The drive to San Sabo took to the horse’s back, took her arm longer than I’d thought, but I and swung up behind her. He found the county home and after smelled honeysuckle and saw the some attempts to tell them who it cornflowers twined in her hair. was I’d come to see, I was ushered They were away. He’d never felt down a dark hall to a room with such joy … ever! As they rode to eight beds. It smelled of urine, the rising sun, the feeling grew Clorox, sweat, and resignation. stronger still! It was like riding He was in the third bed back. I down a long dark tunnel and into was shocked by how thin and frail the sunlight of a new day. he’d become. I touched his foot. I had taken a motel in San Light came into his eyes. He Sabo for the night. In the morn - knew me. I looked around at the ing I called the vet. Soldier had others in the room. Carbon copies passed during the night. Kidney of the old man. Forgotten by failure and fever or something. friends and families. Now, it was I’d let the old man down again. I checkers or cards, sleep, medicine, went to the drive thru and got two and lousy food ... and more bor - coffees. When I got to the home, dom and waiting. the day nurse took the coffee ... Questions snapped me back not allowed without permission. to him. Did I take care of Tears We went down the hall, and she and Soldier as he’d asked? I opened the door and pointed at choked a little, but nodded. He his bed. “Gone!” was all she said smiled. I asked if he wanted to go and shrugged. On his bed was a outside and get some sun. He gray form gripping a blank canvas said it wasn’t allowed. I asked with paint stained fingers. Some where his radio was, thinking scrapings of paint clung to the bed some music would help. He said clothes. I thought I smelled ... they took the radio because it honeysuckle ... maybe.

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By Sweetwater Jack, SASS Life/Regulator #28885

(I had total left shoulder re - the sound of .45 caliber revolver says: “What’s THIS word, here?” posse and go AFTER them miscre - placement in May and have been shots roared out of the bank’s front and he points to where you wrote it ants!!?? Along with “Damn! undergoing physical therapy since door ahead of the acrid clouds of wuz a bank robbery and we had Stepped in ANOTHER “Horse then, several times a week. Last powder smoke. The lookout in the GUBS, and not to mess around Apple.” The owner of the Runnin’ month I tried to open the garage alley, Sidesaddle Smith (so-named with alarms and dye packs and all Wild Ranch, a full-blood door to let out my new Chevy for a due to an old and very unfortunate that bank robbery stuff … GUBS?! Fugawee, asked what the thieves run and, slipping on a pinecone, mumbledy-peg accident with a Bar - GUBS?! No WONDER he ast me had got away with … a Saloon gal rammed my left index finger into the low knife) raced to the rear of the for a PHOTO ID!” (ACS) answered; “ I heered it was wall by the code key pad. “Dislo - bank, leading his pardners’ saddled “So ya showed him yer Ralston- the MINE PAYROLL!” With that, cated” it 90 degrees to the right. mounts behind him, arriving just as Purina Straight Shooter Club Bob Runnin’ Wild, of the RWR said: Grabbed it and straightened it be - the two robbers burst out of the Card? Kinda’ did make the ban - “Oh Hell! Them rich mine owners fore the pain hit. Huge swelling and back door, bandannas covering danna over the face thing look a lit - kin afford it!” Marshal CH called hand turned blue. Ignored it. After their faces, and each clutching a tle silly, didn’t it?” Now if’n that back “And, Bob they got YOUR al - three weeks Gaye Abandon forced canvas draw-string sack embla - teller lives, the LAW will know imony payments to your ex-wives me to see my doc. Xrays ... com - zoned with the bank’s name. Both what we look like …” too!” “STRING THE FILTHY DEV - pound fracture. Surgery … left figures leapt astride their mounts, Meanwhile, back in Jack - ILS UP!” hand in a cast/splint/pin/etc. Left- and the trio pounded down the sonville, the teller, very much alive, Steely-eyed, the Marshal took in handed ... back to Gaye Abandon muddy and manure-strewn street is telling the Town Marshal, Mar - the crowd of about 80, looking for driving and cutting my meat up for towards the river in the direction of shal Chapped Hyde, not only just men and some women, too, to form a me like a three-year-old. Taking the bustling town of Middle Ford. exactly what the one deranged out - posse. “I’m lookin’ for a few folks to pain meds and not sleeping again … Gasping for breath as he clung des - law looks like, but his NAME and ride hard, sleep on the trail, eat cold If the Chronicle has a stupid sto - perately to remain atop the side- Ralston-Purina Club number, too! food, and chase down these owlhoots, ries section this might fit. Started saddle, Sidesaddle called out: Whut “Marshal, now that you know that and possibly face death at the end of this at midnight the other night went wrong!? How come there wuz we were held up by JD Skipper, I the trail … Who’s WITH ME!!??” when the pain meds were just start - shootin?! I thot we wuz sposed to suppose you’ll be able to run him A moment later, speaking to the ing to kick in ~ Sweetwater Jack ) do this job QUIET-like! Weren’t down over there in Sam’s Valley two still standing nearby, “How that the plan??!! without much trouble, and bring in about YOU, Homer?” “Sorry Mar - t was a dark and stormy The leader, Perforated Smith, his sidekicks, the Perforated Smith shal, I have a dental appointment Inight.” … No, that won’t work yelled back: “Talk to yer Gang, with no trouble, either. “The in an hour, just trying to get my … overused as a “lead-in.” BROTHER! He’s the one what shot thing that puzzles me is why in the boot unstuck from this horse apple. “ OK, OK, I HAVE IT … “It was the TELLER, the blamed idjet!! world ‘Ol JD shot me with them Only one left was a scrawny-con - a dark and stormy afternoon in the “Oh yeah! Blame ME!” the BLANKS! I heard as how he don’t sumptive-looking gent in a long, sleepy mining town of Jacksonville, third owlhoot shot back at Purga - like heavy recoil and all, but black frock coat, and flat-brimmed when two bright flashes penetrated tory … (Ooops, I mean PERFO - BLANKS!!??” Stetson. How ‘bout you, stranger? the gloom for the mounted stranger RATED … PERFORATED …) It By now the street in front of the You willin’?” If ya are, grab a badge peering in through the alley-facing wuz YOU wrote the hold-up note! bank has filled with the concerned from my office, pin it on an’ meet windows of the Jacksonville Bank. Soon as I handed it to the teller and the curious. Grumbling and me at the livery in five minutes.” Those flashes signaled TROUBLE feller he put on his bio-focal glasses mumbling from the crowd … And with that Marshal Hyde for the Perforated Smith Gang, as and kinda’ squinted at the note and “When’s the Marshal ‘gonna’ form a (Continued on next page)

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CowBoy Quiz answers 1 Honda – leather or other material used as a chafe guard in a 13 Wampus – a light rain jacket used in high brush country where a lariat loop. slicker would get ripped to shreds. 2 Snaffle – a type of bit on a bridle, featuring loose construction 14 Crumb Incubator – cowboy’s slang for his bedroll. 3 Latigo – heavy leathers that secure the cinch when saddling. 15 Remington – either a popular revolver of the period or Frederick, 4 Cantle – high leather back support, forms the seat on a saddle. a western artist. 5 Tree – the main structure on which a saddle is built. 16 Remuda – small herd of spare mounts that accompanied the trail drive. 6. Mesa – flat topped hill or mountain structure, common in parts of the west. 17 Butterfield – operators and makers of a well–known stagecoach company. 7 Pewee – low–topped boots, popular in the 20s & 30s. 18 The Jersey Lily – Judge Roy Bean’s Courthouse on the Pecos River. 8 Conk Cover – cowboy’s slang for his Stetson. 19 Maverick – an unbranded heifer or cow 9 Martingale – breast strap used to help position and secure saddle in hilly country. 20 Hackamore – a headstall preferred by cowboys of the southwest over a more traditional bridle. 10 Duckins – canvas pants supported by suspenders, featuring a high back. SCORE: 11 Sudero or Fender –a large flat leather that protects a horse’s 1–10, Go home and help with the dishes! side from chafing by stirrup straps. 11–15, There’s hope! 12 Tapadero – leather cover for stirrup, prevents rider’s foot from going through stirrup. 16–20, Keep on ridin’, Cowpoke!

A Dark and Stormy Night ... ahead and ask … they were sou - The town’ll be celebratin’ the re - (Continued from previous page) shirt front. Close examination re - venirs from a well-known saloon turn of the loot AND the robbers, stalked away … veals the animal to be a badger … (ACS) gal named Rocky Meadows and if Wimpy Hank Yoho unloads Six hours later, having tracked “Dammit, no, Sweetwater, I said who left town unexpectedly for that case o’ Apple Pie he was the three bank robbers through grab a BADGE from my office …” Texas ... - another story), and bringin’ in on his buckboard, and field, stream, bush, and pasture to Curious to see just what and knowing the townsfolk were riled sells ‘er before we get back, ever - Sam’s Valley, the two-man posse how much the robbers got away up considerable by these owlhoots body’s a’gonna’ be too drunk to no - confronts the bedraggled robbers with, Marshal Hyde untied the robbin’ the bank of the only give- tice little details like that!” and in a hail of gunfire, the Perfo - drawstrings on the bank sacks and away toasters the bank had, Mar - “Awright! Does that mean rated Smith Gang suddenly exists looked into one, and then the other shal Hyde made a quick decision. ah’m still yer DEPUTY ‘til we get only in legend! As the blackpowder ... Rocking back on his heels, a puz - “Sweetwater, help me load these back at town?” and Pyrodex smoke clears, the mar - zled expression on his rugged face, bodies back on their horses and “Of COURSE it does! … No! shal looks over at his new deputy, he let out a low whistle … “These we’ll take ‘em back to Jacksonville No! Don’t put that BADGER back Sweetwater Jack, and sees him, boys musta’ been in a whale of a for a proper trial and hangin’!!” on yer … Awwww. Dammit!” hunched over and clutching his hurry to escape that bank! Grabbed “But, they’re DEAD, Marshal! (This is what happens when you ac - chest, dazed from loss of blood and these bags off the New Account How’s that a-gonna’ work?” cept material from folks on drugs! about to fall from his saddle. Run - Desk and bolted.” Shaking out both “Won’t make no nevermind! … Editor in Chie f) ning to his side, Marshal Hyde sees bags, two bright shiny TOASTERS the man is clutching his left breast, tumbled to the ground ... a look of excruciating pain on his Binding up Sweetwater’s bleed - face … Coming within a few feet, ing badger wounds with strips from the law dog sees his compadre is a petticoat he always carried in his holding a small, furry animal to his saddlebags, (Don’t ask) (No, go

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(Continued from page 1) sounds of Sharps, High Wall, and We encountered the gang, but i posse members from all over Eu - Rolling Blocks echoed across the they knew we were coming and rope (14 countries) to deal with plain. Several tried their hands at had armed themselves with 1911 the gang and 166 heavily armed speed rifle, pistol, and shotgun pistols and 1897 shotguns. In two cowboys and cowgirls showed up events. days of wild gunfire punctuated to help. Camping on a nice range We located the evil Cat Ballou by lever action rifle fire through just a few minutes’ drive from holed up in a saloon in town. After six separate scenarios, we fought town, they were in tents, campers, several hours of intense interroga - until we ran low on ammo. Dr. motor homes, and just about every tion, she finally directed us to the George was down, but only kind of RV you’d expect in Cowboy sheep-stealing varmint she was wounded. Tex was still standing. Action Shooting™. traveling with. “I don’t care where We regrouped. One of SASS’ newest members— Before the pursuit began, the old miscreant is; I think he is Food for the cowboys was served Little Big German Man posse members were welcome to at the range looking for unlocked at the range. It was different than received his badge from Tex. try out the big boomers, and the cars.” We had him cornered! what we are accustomed to, but it Little Big German Man persuaded his dad to finally sign up as well! Way to go!

was very good and also inexpensive. On the second day we engaged the gang in six different shootouts through Indian camps, mine shafts, freight wagons, and several saloons. The 12 separate posses split up, but each battle was fierce and mean. Then night fell. Gunfire could be heard into Tex and Samuel B Carpenter (Bandit) have gone head to st head several times in Wild Bunch™ matches in the United the night as the 1 European States, trading victories between them. This match be - Blackpowder Night Shoot com - longed to Bandit—he was the top Traditional competitor menced. Also that night our hosts with Tex close behind. Congratulations! arranged a trip by bus from our encampment to the metropolitan city of Budapest. The city had been spared the bombings during WWII and much of the old city re - mains. A barge trip up and down the Danube River allowed us to see the old buildings lit up like a giant Disneyland. Cost for the bus and river trip, $19 US! One of the nice touches during opening proceedings The third day found us again was the Flag Ceremony. Mounted flag bearers in the battle, ammo running paraded each country’s flag outside the big tent at short, but lots of food and water. breakneck speed, then passed the flag to a lovely Again, we fought the gang across young lady who brought the flag to the main stage. the grasslands that make up this beautiful country. Shooters faced their task with steely nerve and The range is a huge shotgun facility with small cutouts deadly accuracy. Tex’s gang was for bays at various spots for Cowboy Action. The initial shot to pieces until only their age - reaction two days before the match was “no way will the ing leader was left standing. As range be ready!” However, El Heckito had a large crew of dedicated waddies that worked ahead of the shooters and we closed in on him, his long time, had everything ready to go as needed. Good Job! long suffering partner, Cat Ballou, was heard to say “you got him, you keep him!” As the rope was passed round his neck on Stage 5, deep sighs of relief were heard coming from sev - eral nearby sheep. A bad end for bad cowboy. Just as we started to kick the stand from under his feet, a huge cloud of blackpowder smoke induced a coughing fit on all present and obscured the vision of the cheering crowd. Imagine El Heckito did a great job energizing the local media our horror as it blew away and we to cover the event—cowboys are a big attraction not The Board of Representatives calls the shots for discovered Tex, Cat Ballou, and Dr. only in Hungary, but throughout Europe! Cowboy Action in Europe. They discuss unique gun George had escaped their fate! We Both Tex and Mudflat Mike spent time in front of the issues faced in many of the countries and determine tracked them for days, an easy cameras. This particular crew apparently worked for who will host Days of Truth, the European task as they left empty Imodium a Chinese News Agency—who would have known? Championship, each year.

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Meals on the range were plentiful and inexpensive. The stuff in the big cauldrons was delicious AND hot The first two days were dedicated to a (both temperature wise and spicy). The Hungarians Wild Bunch™ Championship. use paprika liberally. Paprika is another word for These guys are already fluent in the chili powder—just like that found in New Mexico, Wild Bunch™ rules, and many of the costumes where the early chilies originated! are also “first rate!”

and mosquito repellant bottles We had a good shindig to cele - along their trail. It appears they brate our shooting experiences, and Match Director— made it across the border into much drinking, back slapping, El Heckito. He engineered Poland and most likely have re - hand shaking, and hugging meant an excellent match and proved turned to America. I’ll be watching our odyssey was over. Thank you to be a wonderful host for ‘em behind every tree. to our many friends, new and old. for his visitors! Well Done!

Match Winners— Rephil and Jesse Belle, both from Germany. Congratulations!

Thunderman from the Czech Republic shot as a Frontiersman this Dr. George puts the chicken in the pot. year with his Lightning rifle and ’87 shotgun. He proved to be a This was his initial stage… and he shot fearsome competitor, winning the category and becoming the it well … as he did the rest of the match. European Frontiersman Champion. Outstanding! He was top Cattle Baron! /

El Heckito (with mike in hand) officiated at the Opening Ceremonies. He was accompanied by translators, ensuring everyone understood what was going on. Apparently native Hungarian is not well understood by ANYONE except other Hungarians! The “Pooly Gang” was in full stride again! It’s a pleasant interlude from the rigors of the match … unless of course you drink too much and stay too long! (More HIGHLIGHTS continued on page 2 4)

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SASS very much wants all the major European matches to be “SASS” matches—SASS rules and SASS members participating. TOP 10 OVERALL— Accordingly, SASS provided the a who’s who of SASS winners’ buckles and set up European Cowboy Action Shooting™! a table to sell SASS memberships . Clean Match Competitors— nearly 10% of the registered competitors. This is a sign of a well-designed match with challenges but few procedural issues.

Winners L Gunfighter Trinacria Connie, Overall Winners SASS #86085 IT Man Rephil, L Senior Nellie Belle, SASS #5897 DE SASS #24695 US Lady Jesse Belle, L Wrangler Jesse Belle, SASS #53806 DE SASS #53806 DE Categories Senior Mudflat Mike, 49’er Dedo SK SASS #20905 US B-Western Vic Quazzem, S Senior Horseman DE SASS #52157 NO Wrangler Rephil, Cattle Baron Dr. George, SASS #5897 DE SASS #5234 US Wild Bunch C Cowboy Elise Horn CZ Traditional Samuel B Carpenter, Cowboy O’Reilly SK SASS #34043 NO Cowgirl Flintstone Lily, Modern Capt. Woodbury Kane, SASS #91796 DE SASS #64887 FI Duelist Rev. Delano L. Speed Events Oakley, Stage 1 Capt. Woodbury Kane, SASS #83494 FR SASS #64887 FI E Statesman Old Pipe Man, Stage 2 Shotgun Boogie, SASS #75615 AT SASS #67870 DE F Cartridge Olli the Kid, Stage 3 Rephil, SASS #68338 DE SASS #5897 DE F C Duelist Young Daddy DE Night Shoot Capt. Woodbury Frontiersman Thunder Man, Kane, SASS #29821 CZ SASS #64887 FI Gunfighter Lyoner Dundee, Long Range SASS #53807 DE Lever Action Junior Little Big German Blackpowder Milan Blazo SK Man, Smokeless Steve Colt HU SASS #95974 DE Single Shot L 49’er Hunting Lady DE Blackpowder Young Daddy DE L F Cartridge Justice Ann, Smokeless Camel SK SASS #90248 NL Optics Gran’pa Jef FR

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Witt). Ivan Inaacurate (James Taylor) as well as Wild Bunch Deadwood Jake Member #4, Tex, also enjoyed these SASS Lif e/ Regulator #13592 reenactments. Deadwood Jake also imperson - (aka Robert H. Harris) ated General Rosser, who hap - pened to be General Custer’s best August 6, 1950 - June 21, 2012 friend at West Point prior to the Civil War. The two Generals acksonville, FL We lost a By Dakota Lil, SASS #13593 fought on opposite sides in that Jgreat cowboy on June 21, 2012. War Between the States. Yes, Deadwood Jake lost his three-year He was an RO-II Instructor and Rosser was a Confederate and valiant fight against cancer. He was also voted to be a SASS Regu - Custer was a Union Man. The two fought hard, but ultimately lost the lator. He was always doing some - of them, Custer and Rosser, got to - battle. Jake was a born optimist, thing good for the sport of Cowboy gether again after the Great War, with a great sense of humor. He al - Action Shooting™. He encouraged during the building of the first rail - Cat Ballou stands with El Heckito ways looked at life as very full, not and taught many shooters. He was road across the Wild West. Jake following the costume contest. at all empty. He was a great role a man of great integrity. gave several lectures and historical Cat not only led the judging, model for many shooters, both but she described the strong points Jake also enjoyed being in - events to preserve this close histor - of each of the winning costumes. young and “old.” volved on several occasions in the ical friendship. Jake was Sheriff of The Cow - reenactments at the Custer Battle - Deadwood Jake is missed by ford Regulators, Jacksonville, field in Montana with General many friends and family members Florida from 2002 to 2005, and he Custer (aka Steve Alexander}, Cap - and especially by his devoted wife served as Territorial Governor for tain Yates (Roy Viessman), and his and best friend, Dakota Lil, SASS the same club, from 2005 to 2007. close pard, Jake Hardin (Don De - #13593.

grizzly george SASS #16854 William (Bill) George Walker February 13, 1936 - October 1, 2012 By Palaver Pete, SASS Life/Regulator #4375

ission Viejo, CA – My Pard, and worked his way up the ladder to Mmy friend, and a loved one, Bill West Coast Regional Manager. I met “Grizzly George,” Walker, reluctantly Grizzly George in 1979 while both of left us to join the Posse in the Sky us were working in Seattle, Washing - this past October. The Lord had a ton, on a pilot project for the U.S. De - tough time getting Bill to agree to partment of Transportation. The join the Posse. This devoted husband purpose of the project was to deter - and father, resisted the call for 17 mine the types and amounts of haz - the way! He fought until exhausted, months before agreeing to posse-up. ardous materials being transported and then fought some more. His desire to live, and his reluctance and used in the Puget Sound Region. Grizzly George shot with most of to leave Serena, his loving wife of 53 As a result of this study, training pro - the Cowboy Action Shooting™ clubs years kept Bill and the Lord at arm’s grams for combating hazardous ma - located in the Southern California length until he decided enough was terials incidents were developed for area—that is he shot until physically enough, and being the obedient ser - Emergency Responders throughout incapable of doing so. I was fortu - vant he was, he finally joined-up. the United States. Thanks to Grizzly nate that he and Serena often visited Grizzly George leaves behind George’s contribution, a system of with us in Washington and Oregon four loving daughters: Serena II, placarding vehicles, as well as plac - so we could shoot Cowboy together. Kim, Susan, and Nancy, and an en - ing warnings on the windows and In June 2001, Grizzly George tire passel of loving grandkids. His doors of warehouses containing haz - and I attended the 20th END of daughters, as well as his many ardous commodities, was developed. TRAIL™ Anniversary Shoot held at grandchildren, are all productive and With these warning devices in place, Raahauge’s Ranch in Norco, Califor - responsible citizens, thanks to Bill Emergency Responders would imme - nia. He assisted me in writing the and Serena’s standards for upbring - diately know what hazards they feature article about this milestone ing and teaching of American values faced in responding to transportation of a shoot by taking all the photos and citizenship. Serving their coun - as well as warehousing incidents. and writing down the names and try through education, hard work, Grizzly George had been fighting SASS numbers of all those who were and volunteerism is the norm for this diabetes for years, and eventually photographed. We loved working to - family, not the exception. this crippling disease required a con - gether, and I will miss that for sure. When not playing Cowboy, or out stant need for dialysisa painful God bless you Grizzly George—I hunting and shooting, Grizzly process he coped with for almost two look forward to working with you George served his country as a re - years. His desire and fortitude to live again. Until then, watch me do a serve Infantry Officer. After his mil - made it difficult for this disease to poor job of trying to imitate you and itary commitment was complete, he eventually win out. As was custom - all your qualities. We can laugh joined Air Products, Incorporated, ary with him, he fought adversity all about that later.

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Captain Baylor modeling the amp ayLor Mernickle Evil Roy Slim Jim rig C b with matching shotgun belt. (Photo by Lorrie Lott, Mr. Quigley Photography) .Tombstone Leather , his article began in a place long ago and far T away, the 2010 SASS Convention in a mythical place called Las Vegas. Cowboys Tupelo flash rig TV host Tupelo Flash, SASS #27453, was at the Tombstone By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life/Regulator #24287 Leather booth. He demonstrated his rig and convinced me to re - view it. But, of course, I needed a get an appropriately undressed suede, so it doesn’t slip around, rig for the article. Measurements topless model to do the demon - 1 and the bottom is rounded to were taken at the Convention. strating so I could take the pic - avoid interfering with the gun - Now, why did it take me so long to tures, but they all wanted money, belt. The loops are tapered. do the test? I didn’t receive the resisting my promises to make When you get it, put some rounds rig from Tombstone until the them famous in the SASS world, in for a few days to mold it, using SASS Convention 2011. Paying and that the nudity would be a little hot water if necessary. customers don’t have to wait this tasteful and integral to the story Then, insert the rounds enough so long. It had been ready at END of line. They wanted more money to they don’t fall out, but not in vise TRAIL 2011, but it didn’t have wear cowgirl clothes instead. tight. When you grab two rounds the Tupelo Flash stamp on it, so Unique for your double, with index finger they wouldn’t let me have it. I’ve If you glanced at the pictures, on top, thumb on the inside, roll searched it pretty completely, and you might not have noticed the the rounds outward. ( Photo 2 ) there is no maker’s stamp or Tu - feature that makes this rig Sombrero Required pelo Flash stamp. After that, it’s unique. Look closer. Can’t figure You might have noticed I’m entirely my fault. I can’t demon - it out? Okay, I’ll just tell you. It’s wearing a sombrero in the pic - strate and take pictures of myself the buckle. No, just kidding. It’s tures. There’s nothing in the in - simultaneously. The Redhead the bandoleer, of course. You doesn’t like to take pictures or be knew all the time, didn’t you? 2 in them, and she minimizes my Bandoleers are VERY uncommon Photo 1 – How NOT to use a ban - asking by cutting my head off in in SASS because the rules make doleer. When you pull up on your the pictures. Hmm. So I needed most of them uncompetitive: shotshells, the entire bandoleer Tex and Founders Ranch (or “Bandoleers, cartridge belts, and goes with it. “Oh, no, Mr. Bill!” equivalent) to get the pictures, pouches must be of traditional de - But don’t give up. Read on. which put the picture taking off sign (e.g., bandoleers must be until summer. I did attempt to loose and not secured in any way to prevent movement).” (Shooters Handbook, Version 18.1. page 10) When you pull a couple of shells from the top, the bandolier, which cannot be tied down, comes with it. ( Photo 1 ) But the “Tupelo Bando,” as the Tombstone Leather’s website calls it (cleverly avoiding the ban - doleer/bandolier spelling issue), was thoughtfully designed for Cowboy Action Shooters, specifi - cally Tupelo Flash, who wouldn’t be using it if he didn’t think he could shoot faster with it. Several “Fastest Shotgun” wins have con - Photo 2 – Slide your (weak) hand firmed he is, indeed, fast with it. over two shotshells (for a dou - Instead of one piece on the top, ble), index finger on top of the the bandoleer is two, laced to - shells, thumb behind to get a gether, so it will hang better and good grip on the shells so you can control them. stay in place. It’s backed with Visit us at sassNEt .Com 3 December 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 27

4 5 to roll UP because nothing is hold - ing the bandoleer down. Yes, I’m Photo 3 – Don’t pull the shells out demonstrating left-handed. Right- on the top, ROLL them out. handers will have to deal with it. ‘97 Techniques structions with the rig (no in - I ordered it set up for a double structions at all, of course) requir - shotgun. Tupelo shoots a ‘97 and ing a sombrero, but somehow demonstrated for me at the SASS bandoleers and sombreros just Convention. In Photo 10 he seem to go together, that and (Continued on page 28 ) practicing “Bodges? We ain’t got Photo 4 – Then roll the shells into no bodges. We don’t need no the chambers. Note how close the 10 bodges. I don’t have to show you chambers are to where the ammo any steenking bodges.” (Take was. Distance=time. Photo 5 – Rifle ammunition can be that Spell-check.) The sombrero rolled out with the weak hand. shown is from D Bar J. They do might be a good idea if you’re re - several variations. This one is a ally serious about Cowboy Action replica of the one Captain John Shooting™, but awkward at the 6 Hughes wore. beach, not to mention expensive). The rounds roll out easily and Distance equals time. T-Bone consistently. ( Photos 3 ) Now Dooley talks of inches and feet in your ammo is less than a foot his training, not seconds. from the chamber. Photo 4 Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’ shows how little you’ve moved in Similarly rifle ammunition is order to load the shotgun, which, rolled out with the weak hand of course, is already on your (right in this case), ( Photo 5 ) or shoulder. You’ve saved a couple of pulled out with the strong (left) Photo 10 – Tupelo Flash demon - feet of hand/arm movement vs. hand ( Photo 6 ). You can pull strates grabbing three shells for navel level ammo, assuming you DOWN on the ammo in the ban - Photo 6 – Rifle ammunition can be a ’97. His weak hand slides over haven’t had your navel surgically doleer, and it will resist, allowing pulled out with the strong hand. three rounds, thumb inside, and fingers outside. moved to your sternum (which the ammo to pop out. But you need

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Dispatches From Camp Baylor (Tombstone Leather: Tupelo Flash Rig) . . . (Continued from page 27 ) 12 13 slides his hand up toward the shotgun shells. In Photo 11 he grabs three shells with his left (weak) hand, his thumb parallel to his fingers. In Photo 12 he Photo 14 – The ’97 is staged. He 11 grabs two rounds with strong hand, pulling them straight out, and rolls three out of the top with his weak hand.

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Photo 12 – He rolls the shells out - Photo 13 – The rounds pop out ward. easily.

rolls the shells out. In Photo 13 with his left (weak) hand. In now he has three in his left hand. Photo 15 now he can throw one That’s all he can grab with one into the ejection port as he hand. Your mileage may vary. In reaches the ‘97; then feed four Photo 15 – When he reaches the Photo 14 imagine the ‘97 is more in as fast as he can shoot. shotgun he puts one in the ejec - Photo 11 – He gets a good grip on staged. He grabs two with his First Class tion port as he picks up the gun three rounds. then shoots five as fast as he can. right (strong) hand and three The gunbelt and holsters are

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7 9 in the name for search engine pur - poses, even if it’s just a redirect to Knight’s site. The big questions “Okay, does the bandoleer work?” Yes, if you use the tech - niques shown. You will have to practice. They make one that works without practice, but it is very ex - pensive. “Is it faster than a navel level shotgun belt?” Yes, if you Photo 7 – A front view of the Tombstone practice enough. “Are you going to Leather gunbelt and holster. switch to the bandoleer?” No. I’ve been grabbing for shotgun and rifle 8 ammo from the navel/waist level lo - cation for 13 years, falling deeply into the “old dog=no new tricks” cat - egory, and that’s a lot of muscle memory to undo. And there’s the fact I like wearing a sombrero occa - sionally, but not all of the time. Photo 9 – Rear view Conventional Shotgun Belts, Too carry. The guns shown are Ruger If you like the “Tupelo Old Armies. I just told them to Bando,” Tombstone Leather is the make the rig to photograph well, only source. If you don’t, they and the two-tone finish, border make conventional shotgun belts stamping, and Conchos and spots and an entire line of belts and hol - certainly fills that bill. It’s a sters. The quality, design, and de - great looking rig. I couldn’t find tail are all first class. an exact match on their online catalog, so if you want one match - ing it, you’ll need to talk to the folks at Tombstone, a really good idea anyway when ordering Photo 8 – Muzzle forward holster with leather gear. considerable roll at the top lip makes Hard To Find Website drawing and re-holstering easy. When I finally got the photos taken, I went online searching for first class construction ( Photo 7 ). Tombstone Leather using Google, The holsters are well-designed Yahoo, and Bing with no luck. I (Photo 8 ), with a generous roll of was afraid they had gone out of the top lip so you don’t catch the business. Finally a call for my cylinder on the edge, and the hol - help on my website resulted in an ster acts as a funnel for speed re- email from Reuben J. Cogburn, a holstering, a requirement unique happy customer of theirs, with a among shooting sports to SASS glowing review and the contact in - shooting. The rear view ( Photo formation: www.knightsleather - 9) shows the bandoleer is am - products.com, Knights Leather bidextrous. The construction, fin - Products, 7868 Silverton Ave ish, and attention to detail are all Suite #E, San Diego, CA 92126, excellent. I ordered the holsters Phone: 858-695-8100, Fax: 858- for muzzle forward carry, but, of 695-8184, email sales@knight - course, Tombstone Leather has a sleatherproducts.com. Tombstone variety of holster designs and will is a division of Knights Leather make them to fit your specific Products Inc. I might suggest a guns and preferred method of website with “Tombstone Leather”

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thE CapguN KiD riDEs Fill Yore Hands ... By The Capgun Kid, SASS #31398

at Judge Parker’s convenience.” my eye because they stood out in Now, I’ve known Tom Payne for terms of quality and availability ... about twelve years. You can’t tempt but you should not stop there. him like that. Behind me I could Searches through bibliographies of hear his fingers squeezing the timer books and websites on the net are as it begged for its life. I could feel fun in and of themselves. When you his eyes turn into cat-like predator find the vendors whose pictures I slits, and I knew what was coming stole here, you will see what I mean. The Capgun Kid, without his thinking about it … There is an enormous amount of SASS #31398 “I call that bold talk from a one- range and forum chatter about his eyed fat man!” sixgun (he actually had several) or he line was … “I aim to his distinctive two-tone gunbelt (he kill you Ned” … on a stage wore that one to a frazzle). tracing itself to the True What most people don’t realize T Grit movie with John is some of his stuff were duplicates Wayne’s Rooster rig photo is Wayne. It should have been simple, probably public domain because that stunt doubles wore. This really and I should have just recited it and there are so many prints of it. muddies up the water when trying started banging away. to sort through who-made-what for Nope. Not when I had my Pard, the which-of-why for adoring Roy The Duke and who-made-what for Tom Payne, on the timer, and I had Rogers Stuff when we were kids the prop shacks. If there is any re - my True Grit pot belly, soiled and and abandoning all of it for John deeming quality to this, it is in the wrinkled Searchers Hat on my nog - Wayne Stuff when we advanced fact a body can wear any replica of gin, and sixgun in my handcrafted into the second childhood of Cowboy his stuff and shoot a match with it. John Wayne Holster on my fanny Action Shooting™? Why are there It was not just camera fodder. the way he wore it. When rooming so many guys running around with So, when you approach your together at a Regional match, Tom replicas of guns and holsters of John Wayne Stuff, here are a few and I will invariably devote a lot of John Wayne’s outfit ? pointers that folks shared with me conversation to the Duke’s movies, Not exactly a Holy Grail of writ - or I picked up on my own. and Tom is the walking library I ing pursuits. Nevertheless, a lot of The DVDs – They are all over need when referencing some minu - articles and a passel of vendors fea - the place. Look for Directors cuts, tiae of John Wayne’s legacy. … and another of spitefully plain ture The Duke’s singular guns and put up with AMC’s pattern of an Being singularly immature oil tan leather with a thicker liner. holsters. I’m sure somebody will hour of commercials for a 90- with an everlasting eye to class - someday think of a way to prod the minute movie, check out TCM, room humor that got me in so much As all the line workers chuckled government into another useless Warner, and the Western Channel. trouble in school, I belted out the behind us, I probably should have grant to make a study of this that One vendor, Legend Films/Genius line (incidentally repeated in BOTH said something witty like … “who in turn yields a lot of information Entertainment, colorized and digi - movie versions …). you calling one-eyed?” but the mo - we already knew so Washington can tized a lot of his old B Westerns. “I aim to kill you in one minute, ment got the best of me. I hope all continue squandering our tax dol - You don’t have to watch the col - Ned, or see you hang in Fort Smith of you know, by heart, the response lars, but it ain’t gonna be me. This orized version because they also John Wayne gave from article is the best I can do. clarified the original Black and aboard Beau in that scene. This is for the coyote who wants Whites. Another Vendor put to - So what is it about to go shopping and may never make John Wayne’s hardware it to Winter Range or END of TRAIl. and gun leather, anyway? This is for the monthly match ro - At the low key my mantics who are not going to forget leather working charity John Wayne over time. All those sales remain, I simply folks need to do to get the point is go don’t have the time to con - to Gunbroker.com or … (yucchhh) vert the craft into anything .… Ebay ... and paste “John Wayne” other than a part time onto any noun describing cowboy charity. If you put all the gear and see what happens. saddles, boots, shoes, cap - Indeed, some of the pictures here gun rigs, and Cowboy Ac - are from various searches, and the tion Shooting™ rigs I have fine vendors and craftsmen who ever made into one big offer products will get their credit if Bob Brown gave me patterns Getting ready to spot for Tom Payne as he ball, several questions are you get to their website or trounce for both the holster John Wayne sets up to RO at one of the many great bays likely to go to the grave you way through Gunbroker or some and Montgomery Clift of the Circle K Club in Ballston Spa, NY. wore in Red River. with me ... such as, what is such. The ones I cited here caught Visit us at sassNEt .Com December 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 31 marketplace that a lot of other John Wayne had grips made goods have that blatantly John from denture material with finger Wayne character. Nobody calls grooves that are illegal in SASS. them anything else. Gone were the John Wayne used .38-40s, .45s, ten gallon hats and fancy shirts, .38s, and .44’s, with a .45-70 round and eventually his simple leather in the middle of his bullet loops vest and Red River Belt Buckle Cimarron makes a model called started to take over. The Hondo hat a “Rooster Shooter” and several became a hallmark and was worn grip companies such as Ajax make My own B Western Rigs feature the white trim, floral carving with out in several films. his ivory and Catalin clone grips. the contrasting dark background, His more distinctive eye catch - Great Western made the clones and white bullet loops that I view ingly gripped sixguns became part of he used in The Shootist … it just as a neighborhood play. his standard because of the era I like goes on and on and is always inter - to think of as between True Grit in esting. gether a special version of Hondo 1969 and his final flick, The Shootist . I don’t wanna talk about his ri - that features a tour of the Wayne These are also the most frequently fles because I am too short to flip the Family Vault … and so on. If you marketed and shown of his movies. rifle without killing myself, and my are ever in Arizona, try to make it The vest, gunbelts, Red River hands are too small to worry about to Old Tucson Studios. Buckle, scarfs, and sixguns had kluging a large trigger guard on my Gary Hess of CASCity.com By and large, most John Wayne enough variety to keep us occupied. Winchester. Dunno about you, but I shows a rig so close to Wayne’s Fans segment his movie career as So How Does A Body Outfit am NOT gonna get thrown off a that it could be his for all I know. follows: With John Wayne Stuff? range for twirling my gun out of the The 1930s, where he filmed Here are a bunch of pictures I holster nor any rifle stunts. Packer” Rig from his website and movies in the Trem Carr Ranch tripped over just be searching with The Gunleather you wanna go out and make a under Monogram and Lone Star la - The Duke’s name. Regarding the If you are doing B Western, movie. He is precise in his carving bels. The Trem Carr ranch had to gunleather I made for myself and and detailed in his lacing and what close down because of crude oil several customers, making the pat - you buy could become an heirloom. seepage on the grounds. He was terns was so easy because of the Almost all of us, though, rally to also part of a series of movies with availability of samples. Even Tandy The Dukes rigs of the sixties and The Three Mesquiteers. For the has one. seventies. Bob Brown gave me pat - love of me I cannot figure out why Just do a Yahoo search (any en - terns for both the holster John more B Western Personnae are not gine will do) and type in any of the Wayne and Montgomery Clift wore portraying him in this period. It is following … in Red River . Wayne’s holster is the a broad hat, jeans with big cuffs, the “John Wayne original holster” early version of what he evolved to, sissy scarf dangling from the right … “John Wayne Original Hat” … and you can almost feel him stand - “John Wayne original vest” … “John ing there, spec-ing out what he Wayne sixgun” … you get the idea. wanted. Right up through True Take a look at Jim Star Packer Rig Of equal value, raid Ebay or Grit he favored a simple holster, from his website, and you wanna Gunbroker. go out and make a movie. tight on the gun, with a choking Get your wallet out. sort of keep, no back skirt, and a The Sixguns then you gotta visit Jim Lockwood’s variation of a Texas cut where the His first sixgun is rumored to website at Legends In Leather. top of the pouch starts up behind have been a .38 and his character When I make replicas, I will always the trigger guard, dips down by the actually talks about it in one of his vary some from the pattern of the frame, and comes up again by the earliest B-Westerns (big win for the old Master out of respect for their hammer. The gun won’t stay in gamers). It had pearl grips, and I work. Jim expresses his respect by something like that during hard actually saw it at a capgun show in his rare combination of artistry (it’s riding, so there is a keep that loops I always felt slighted because Wayne never wore any decorations, so I made Virginia with its worn finish and not just craftsmanship anymore) over the hammer. one with some border stamping. discolored grips. I didn’t snap a and attention to detail, and he does - I always felt slighted because picture and never tried to docu - n’t steal anybody’s name. My own Wayne never wore any decorations, side of the neck, and a floral carved ment it. Sorry. B Western Rigs feature the white so I made one with some border rig with pearl handled sixgun. He This was the gun Yakima trim, floral carving with the con - stamping (where the rim of the actually used a .38 or .38-40. You Canutt taught him to whip out of trasting dark background, and pouch does not come up high can watch George Hayes become the holster and spin on its way out. white bullet loops that I view as a enough by the hammer) and an - Gabby, see a big white horse named A good trivia question might be how neighborhood play. other of spitefully plain oil tan Duke, and hear some guy dubbing many times in his movies did he do Take a look at Jims “ Star (Continued on page 34 ) in the worst cowboy songs ever that spin. sung by a hero. He had his share of plain guns Then there was the John Wayne later on with dark wood grips, but explosion during the forties and the really famous ones were from fifties after he starred in Stage - the True Grit years in the sixties coach . Many people (including my - and seventies. One article, repro - self) reckon Red River, Hondo, The duced several times in gun maga - Searchers, Rio Bravo, and the Cav - zines, shows a sixgun that was alry Trilogy his finest films. Some kluged from a Bisley for its larger even feel his first Academy Award trigger guard and mated with a con - should have come with The ventional Colt. The arrangement Searchers . And, oh yes, John Wayne did not quite fit right and there was became the only cowboy hero in a little bitty gap between the top of town to feature suspenders as a the back strap and the frame on ei - routine accessory. ther side of the hammer. Here his gunleather was a lot John Wayne dyed a set of ivories simpler. The gunbelts were always by soaking them in tea. worn with the sixgun on the fanny John Wayne had a set of grips and down on his hips. That image that looked orange on the screen spread so thoroughly about the that were made of Catalin. Visit us at sassNEt .Com Page 32 Cowboy Chronicle December 2012

removing Dark smudges from fired Brass Cases By Blackthorne Billy, SASS #74914

forth, I’ve heard a few dozen com - becoming used to what the revolver case walls to tightly fit the cylinder ments about how hard it is to re - would do when it went BANG! chambers to seal them. The second Blackthorne Billy, move the dark black smudges from After several months, I progressed problem was the crimp, which was SASS #74914 fired brass cases. Huh? Wonder to Max loads, and became proficient just barely against the first driving why that is? Sumpin causin’ dat ol’ with the heavier recoil. Then I de - band of the wadcutter bullet. He black “stuff” on dem cases! Every - cided it might be better to go back to explained that when powder ASS general rules for re - one asks me what I do to clean them somewhat lighter loads instead. “burns” rather than exploding, as volver and rifle restrict up nice and bright shiny. Well, the I went to the lowest loads shown some believe, it gradually develops velocities to fairly low answer is, my cases DON’T get that in my original Lyman manual, and pressure that forces the bullet to S loads. Where most of the black smudge on them! Period! gee, it was more like I was shooting begin moving forward. The problem Top-Gun “Gamers” shoot small cal - I began reloading waaaaaay a .22 Long Rifle instead of the .38 occurs when the bullet begins mov - iber, light weight bullets at low ve - back in the early 1970s. My first Special. BUT! But, the cases had ing prior to maximum pres - locities to greatly reduce recoil and target pistol was a Colt “Diamond - this nasty black deposit of carbon on sure being achieved, and the case muzzle-flip, a lot of Cowboys shoot back” in .38 Special. (Wish I didn’t them, and looked like they were 100 walls do not expand sufficiently to .44s and .45s with 200 grain and sell it …) My reloading Guru in - years old! Dang. I showed them to prevent the hot gases from flowing heavier bullets at very low veloci - structed me to load 148-grain full my reloading Guru, Tom, and he back along the case! ties for the same reason. wadcutters with the very lowest laughed, telling me I had TWO Most Cowboys use semi-wad - Over several years talking with “Starting” loads for “Unique,” as I problems that created the smudge. cutter bullets with a rounded nose my Cowboy buddies about loading remember it at the time. This One was the powder charge was to facilitate feeding in rifles. These techniques, the myriad powders caveat was to facilitate my learning so light, the powder didn’t develop bullets generally have one or available, bullet weights, and so curve in developing accuracy while sufficient pressure to expand the (Continued on page 51 )

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oLD brass By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life/Regulator #49907

Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life Regulator, #49907 Brass trimmed in lathe and man - drel. The mandrel was made out of a bolt. A center drill was used to on’t know about you, but counter sink the bolt head. when I clean my brass, I sort it—not just by caliber, buying new shorter brass that I can - D but also by structural not use in my rifle. soundness. I have heard several peo - Caution: When using shorter ple say, “Use new brass in your rifle at brass in the revolver cylinder cham - a major shoot.” “Why?” you may be bers, it does lead up some so as to hin - asking. Like mother used to say, der using .38 Special or .357 “Why?” “Just because, that’s why!” cartridges. Make sure chambers are First because is some old brass cleaned appropriately after each use. may not feed into a rifle correctly. Disclaimer: This is not a “how to” Second because is old brass article. This is how I do it. You may used several times tends to split when Small metal lathe set up for trimming brass. not get the same results or you may fired, causing a problem extracting it The rimmed end of the .38 Special brass is centered in a 1/2 " nut not get positive results. Make sure to from the rifle chamber. that is held in place by a short length of 1/2 " threaded rod clamped follow all manufacturers’ instructions. Third because and maybe the in the chuck. The mandrel, a few thousands under the diameter [email protected] most deadly, is old stressed brass be - of the case, is inserted into the brass case and holds the case inside www.suckercreek.org comes fatigued and can break in two. the nut and against threaded rod. The cross feed moves in to trim the Photos by: When this happens, and I’ve been at case. It is then filed and deburred. Because the cross slide is locked Cree Vicar Dave in place, the brass can be trimmed to couple thousands. a shoot where it did happen, the rifle Indian Paintbrush clears the rim plus a small amount of cartridge case leaving the remaining $1.50 a pound for scrap brass.) part of the case in the chamber. This Second, the very good looking leads to a fair amount of time lost try - brass I know is only a couple times ing to chamber the next round, ever fired goes in a container by itself. so unsuccessfully, plus all the misses When I find myself needing rifle for the remaining ammo left in the brass, I use new ones or maybe these. rifle. Then, unless someone on your Third, all the brass that seems posse has a tool especially designed to okay, but has signs of wear and/or remove this errant brass capsule, you stress ends up in the “revolver only” may be reduced to hurling stones at container. The way I see it is it’s a the rifle targets for the rest of the whole lot easier removing an errant match. It says in Proverbs 3:21 RSV, brass case from a revolver cylinder “My child, do not let these escape from than it is from a rifle chamber. your sight, keep sound wisdom and Now this revolver brass stock can prudence.” Make sure your rifle brass also be called upon to produce alter - is up to snuff. native brass cases. I’ve noticed more So what is to be done with old and more cowpokes are using .38 brass? Well, three things come to Short Colt brass in their revolvers. mind. Also, .38 Long Colt or any variation in First, when I’m inspecting my between can be had by trimming to cleaned brass and find dents in the the size of one’s choosing. A little rim or case, it ends up in the scrap metal lathe or a trimmer would work. brass box along with any split/cracked I just trim to length on my 18 " metal ones. (Side note: the last time I lathe, file a little, and use the debur - checked, they were offering around ring tool. This way I get revolver brass to the length I want, a little shorter than Long Colt, and the sus - pect brass doesn’t end up in my rifle. You may be thinking, “That would take a very long time cutting, filing, and deburring the revolver brass.” And, you would be correct. Fine mill file in foreground. But at my age I have a lot more time Background L to R, mandrel, .38 than money anyway. This way I get Special brass case, trimmed case, the full use out of the brass, I have deburring tool, and right two are revolver brass the length I want it, trimmed and finished brass. and I don’t have ta waste my money

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Checkin’ The Trap line By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life #49907

way south when we ran across and to the point, it worked. in one of the trailer cupboards, she fresh signs of wild life in our trailer. A few weeks later when the ran across a little brown fur ball too Cree Vicar Dave, Don’t ask me how the critter gained Vicar’s Wife was rearranging items small ta set off a trap. According to SASS Life Regulator, #49907 access. To my knowledge all the an unscientific autopsy, it seems nooks and crannies were plugged the little bugger had reached room when we restored our vintage temperature around a month ear - while back I mentioned Airstream some time back. The lit - lier. There were no signs of punc - in an article that the de - tle bugger could have gained en - ture wounds or blunt trauma. One parture time for a trance while setting up or breaking of my ole shootin’ buddies told me A planned Cowboy Action camp on our summer shootin’ where he lives there are these little Shooting™ circuit was delayed due spree. All we knew was we had an critters about half the size of a to circumstances beyond our con - unwanted four-footed guest with mouse that are hard ta keep out of trol, and I would fill ya all in at a little time to serve eviction papers. the house. It says in Proverbs later date. Well, here’s the scoop. The age-old remedies were used 30:28 NIV, “a lizard can be caught The Vicar’s Wife and I were happily to no avail. Traps, sticky pads, and with the hand, yet it is found in packin’ the “Aluminum Can” ta such turned up empty on the trap kings’ palaces.” Well I’d just as take in some shootin’ venues on our line. Our starting date came and soon not try ta catch a lizard or a the problem persisted. The only mouse with my hand, and I would thing we knew was it liked M & M prefer that all such critters avoid candy and was of a small stature. entering any of our domiciles. After praying about our fix, I I recall being on a shooting trip thought of using a fumigator/fogger. to another state with a SASS pard. So off we went to the ACE Hard - While at the match a Brown Re - ware in town. They had two or cluse spider was spotted hiding three types of fumigators. We got under the sofa of his trailer. The the best RAID brand had to offer. It spider managed to flee from us. So comes in a three-pack box and each the moral of this story is, “Spend unit is activated with a small the $15 on a fumigator before you amount of water supposed to leave set out on a trip with your trailer.” no residue. It’ll save ya a lot of frettin’ in the We rushed home, opened all the long run. Be sure to follow instruc - cupboard doors and storage areas tions on the package and all other in the trailer. All the windows and safety rules. vents were closed that afternoon. When I spotted this four footed [email protected] According to the directions, one can critter I thought, “Yaaah!!! www.suckercreek.org should have done the job, but three It’s the same color as the one Photos by worked just fine! I did not spot any we saw, but a little bit bigger!” The Vicar’s Wife residue. Ta make the story short Indian Paintbrush

Capgun Kid Rides . . . Gary Hess of CASCity.com, shows a that shot, but it is a great study of rig so close to Wayne’s that it could his famous stuff. (Continued from page 31 ) be his for all I know. Galerie-cre - You will also trip over the great leather with a thicker liner. I have ation.com is cited in the Yahoo pho - work of John Bianchi, see a rig fea - shot safely with both of them and tos with one of the many cropped tured as an El Dorado Rig, and find kept my tradition of one minute per photos of John Wayne addressing a countless commemoratives if you stage, so I don’t feel like I lost out bunch of tourist students. It is are into such. If you get that urge on shooting time. probably public domain because to have one made for yourself, all When I did my Yahoo search on there are so many prints of it. It is you need for a spec is to let your “John Wayne’s Holster,” I got one taken from behind him and elimi - craftsman know you want a John result that was a compilation of pic - nates everything else besides his Wayne Holster. Chances are great tures from all over the place. One fanny and his rig. I always felt he will take it from there. of them, in this case credited to somebody ought to apologize for Don’t shoot yore eye out, kid. Visit us at sassNEt .Com December 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 35

“wiL D” amwEriCaN iNDiaN Col. Richard Dodge, An Intimate Study of the Beliefs and SASS #1750 Dodge’s career began in Texas Behavior of America’s First People in the frustrating, ineffective bat - tles with the marauding, highly mo - By Col. Richard Dodge, SASS Life #1750 bile and ruthless Comanches, and ended as the respected Chief Adju - tant to General of the Army, merican history, as in the motives guiding their behavior? William T. Sherman. His last and any other country, is full Why did they do what they did? most important assignment was to of stories of conflicts, ad - One such man was U.S. Army Col. write a book portraying the “wild” A ventures, and deeds— Richard Irving Dodge, whose expe - American Indian as he really was both admirable and shameful. It’s rience with the Indians began as a in an ethnological study to per - clear most Cowboy Action Shoot - lad in North Carolina and extended suade Congress to remove the gov - ing™ shooters have more than a throughout a thirty-three year mil - ernment’s “Indian policy” from the passing interest in what happened itary career on the frontier. Dodge Bureau of Indian Affairs and turn in our country, especially in what was a keen observer and avid it over to the army. Dodge was a we refer to as the “Old West” and writer; he took copious notes and strong advocate for the Indians’ the American frontier. There was kept diaries of his many assign - rights and welfare and a dedicated conflict aplenty as hard men and ments that became field journals, foe of the corrupt and inefficient women met adversity from both the which have been carefully studied Bureau of Indian Affairs. His book, country and their fellow man, a col - by historians for over a hundred Our Wild Indians; Thirty-three orful montage of characters that years. I have taken his story as my Years’ Personal Experience Among forged the Old West story that still SASS alias, and I am proud to bring the Red Men of the Great West, was fascinates folks around the world. his story to life. published in 1890. A copy was The longest running conflict years ago, with plenty of guilt to go given to every member of Congress (which still is not finished for some) around on both sides—even with and select government officials. was the one between white man the Pilgrims. Several American The book was only to be found in and red. It’s been going on now folk heroes are considered heroes rare library collections until re - since before the Pilgrims, some 400 for their actions in this conflict, cently when it was published in pa - many of which are appalling and perback form. It is now in my own shameful to us today. Indians have library. Here is what Col. Dodge their folk heroes for the same rea - and others have to say about the sons. The hero of one was almost “real” wild American Indian. always the arch villain to the other. He freely admits to an expert - Neither understood (nor wanted to ise limited to the Indians of the understand) the other. Great Plains and to the roles of It was rare for anyone, white or their warriors and leaders. He red, to take an interest in actually makes little reference to the roles learning what the other was really of women in his writings. like. What were their beliefs and (Continued on page 38 )

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LITTLE KNOWN FAMOUS PEOPLE Being a , Way Out West – successful By Joe Fasthorse, SASS #48769

Joe Fasthorse, Killer Miller SASS #48769 shooter AMES MILLER was born in hen a person thinks about 1866 in Arkansas. Miller’s shooting guns, the goal of Jparents died when he was shooting is generally to hit four, and he was sent to live with W the target; however, it is not his grandparents in Texas. He was always the most important thing. One orphaned again at age eight when needs to enjoy the time he or she spends his grandparents were murdered in shooting. Although shooting is a sport their bed. The boy was suspected of to some, the hobby of shooting provides the crime, but not prosecuted. His an outlet for other citizens. To be a suc - sister and her husband, John, took cessful shooter can mean being accu - Jim into their home and raised rate, being safe, or having fun while him. In 1884 Jim killed John and shooting, yet achieving all three would was sentenced to life in prison, but be the ultimate accomplishment. the conviction was overturned. As a member of the Single Action Bennet Shootin, SASS #69939, Next, Jim then went to work for Shooting Society, I am fully aware of the Huntsville, Alabama Mannen Clements, a cousin of Texas importance of accuracy. Hitting a tar - gunman Wes Hardin. In 1887, Clements get is important in shooting as well as in life. If a person is not capable was killed by Marshal Joe Townsend. The of aiming and achieving a target in life, he or she will struggle with Marshal was later shot by an assassin wielding a shotgun. In 1891 Jim mar - daily tasks on several occasions. When one hits the target, the noise ried Mannen Clements’ daughter and became Town Marshal of Pecos. A symbolizes a round of applause from the surrounding members. It is a running feud with Pecos Sheriff Bud Frazer led to a 1894 shootout. Guns good feeling to hit a target and move to the next knowing you achieved blazed and Jim’s life was saved by a steel plate he wore under his coat. your goal for that shot. Frazer lost reelection and moved to New Mexico, but returned later to visit Safety is another good example of being a successful shooter. I have his sister. Miller found Frazer gambling in the saloon, sneaked in, and shot always been reminded of safety rules before shooting. The reminder to off half his head with a shotgun. Miller was arrested. Joe Earp testified be safe is a policy that should be implemented before any shooter aims against him at the trial. Miller was acquitted. Later, Earp was killed by a down range. If an individual is not aware of the correct procedures, one shotgun blast and the prosecuting D A died of food poisoning. could be in danger because of another individual’s actions. The acci - In 1900 Killer Miller billed himself as a professional assassin. He killed dents of other shooters around the world should provide enough inspi - two men that year. In 1902 he killed two more men. In 1904 he killed Frank ration for all shooters to be safe while participating in shooting Fore,and he murdered Jim Jarott for a $500 fee. Miller was paid $1200 to kill activities. Ben Collins in 1906. Two years later, he supposedly shot ex-lawman Pat Gar - Although shooting is competitive, the most important aspect for rett from ambush. Wayne Brazel was tried for the murder, but was acquitted. shooting is having fun. It is uncommon to find a shooter laughing while For $1700 in 1909, Miller murdered Gus Bobbitt. He was arrested and aiming; however, it is a regular sight to see members of my club sharing charged with murder, but before his trial a mob stormed the jail and lynched laughter in between stages. The joy achieved while shooting is unlike him. “Let ‘er rip!” Jim said, and stepped off the box on which he stood. any other. I think the rush of shooting a gun can put a person in a bet - ter mood. The enjoyment that a person can receive from being on the range is different from any other activity. Because shooting is being regulated heavily in society, people need to enjoy the places where shooting a gun is perfectly acceptable. I think that being a successful shooter has no age requirement. The sport is one that can be enjoyed and perfected for many years. Shooting a gun is a successful accomplishment for which any person can aim!

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2012 SASS Scholarship Recipient flaming star, sass #71391 anvers, IL – Most five-year-old even ride a bike. Not me, though. aka Caitlin Darnall Dkids would spend their summer No, instead I learned how to shoot a learning how to swim or maybe gun. Even almost fourteen years after the fact, I still remember my grandpa putting his arms around my small five-year-old self to sup - port that 20-gauge shotgun as I What The broke my first clay pigeon. One shot, and I was hooked! But, it was - 2nd Amendment n’t until a couple of weeks before my eleventh birthday I found my Means To Me true shooting passion. In September of 2004, my By Flaming Star, SASS #71391 grandpa, Marshal RD, SASS #20337, took me to my first Cow - was five years old when I shot apprentice NRA pistol instructor, boy Action Shooting™ match. Imy first gun, and ever since with my qualifications in shot - After my first scenario (my time then I have been addicted to gun and rifle soon following. was in the seventies I think) I fin - shooting sports. I started getting Shooting is one of my great - ished shooting to the most hootin’ involved slowly at first, but by est passions, and through it I and hollerin’ I had ever heard from the time I was ten years old, I have discovered teaching people a group of adults. I knew then that was on a bullseye pistol team, about the shooting sports is just THIS was my sport and THESE and I had started Cowboy Action as fulfilling. To me, the Second were the people with whom I Shooting™ with my grandfather, Amendment is not about those wanted to be shooting. Marshal RD, SASS #20337. To that take advantage of it now; in - Now, every month I go out to me, the Second Amendment has stead, it is about those in the fu - Darnall Gun Works and Ranges (a always been a lifestyle. When ture who will want to follow in family-run gun business started by neering degree at Missouri Uni - you are raised in a family that our footsteps and do the same. my great, great grandpa in 1923) in versity of Science and Technology, owns and runs its own gun busi - That is why I have devoted much Bloomington, IL, to shoot with I intend to keep shooting, not only ness, that really goes without of my time and effort in an at - some of my closest friends: the to become a better shooter, but a saying. tempt to spread my love for the McLean County Peacemakers. better citizen as well. The most important aspect of shooting sports among the next After almost eight years of shooting In closing, I would like to give this lifestyle has always been generation through instruction. I SASS, I have earned numerous thanks to my family first and fore - safe gun handling. In fact, it is so know personally that shooting awards, and my passion for the most for introducing me, encourag - important to my family, that my has been one of the major factors sport continues to grow. ing me, and supporting me through grandmother, Sweet Sassy Sue, that has shaped me into the per - Cowboy Action Shooting™ has all of my endeavors. To my parents, SASS #78346, wouldn’t allow any son I am today, and to deny that been a huge part of my life for so Gunnar and Alison Darnall: you of her children or grandchildren same experience to future gener - long I really don’t know how to de - raised me well and remember, even to own any type of water gun, BB ations is not only unacceptable, scribe what it has given me. In the though I am in college now and live gun, or toy gun because she but unimaginable. simplest terms, Cowboy Action five hours away from home, I will didn’t want us to learn unsafe In Illinois my family and I, Shooting™ has given me confi - always be your baby. To my grand - gun habits by pointing them at among many others, fight very dence, provided me with the oppor - parents Marshal RD, Sweet Sassy each other. Without these substi - hard to maintain our right to tunity to forge lifelong friendships, Sue, SASS #78346, and Camille tutes, my cousins and I were all bear arms. Being the only state and, most importantly, it has al - Bradley: I will continue to strive to introduced to the shooting sports without some form of concealed lowed me to develop my shooting make you proud in all I do. And fi - at a younger than average age. carry, Illinois has some of the skills alongside people who feel nally, thank you to Sheriff Boo Boo Because of this exposure at such strictest gun laws. My family just as passionately about the Bottom, SASS #63016, and Mis - a young age, by the time I was and I spend time volunteering, sport as I do. All the time and ef - souri Sunshine, SASS #73960, Sil - twelve years old I was already lobbying, and teaching in an ef - fort I have put into SASS continues versides, SASS #87281, and teaching people how to shoot and fort to build the ranks of Illinois to pay off and makes me feel I am Deadeye Farmboy, SASS #70431, how to handle a gun safely. gun owners to such a point our doing something truly extraordi - for being instrumental in helping I really have to give credit to cries cannot be ignored. We fight, nary with myself. I will never for - me win the SASS Scholarship. You my grandmother for planting and will continue to fight, the un - get the tears in my grandpa’s eyes all are some of the finest people I and culturing in me my love for sympathetic, ignorant politicians when I won Overall Woman at the know, and I love you all. teaching safety and shooting that plague our state. Illinois State Championships in Cowboy Action Shooting™ has skills. Most of the knowledge I So what does the Second 2009. Not only has SASS allowed captured my heart and has taken my have gathered over the years Amendment mean to me? The me to make new friends, but it has life in a direction I never could have about gun safety and teaching Second Amendment is about also given me the opportunity to dreamed of. I thank God every day I has been through watching her. fighting for the right to leave a spend more time with my family. am lucky enough to be part of an or - It is because of support from her legacy for future generations to Even as I move on to college, ganization like SASS: an organiza - and the rest of my family that, at cherish and uphold, and to have Cowboy Action Shooting™ will al - tion that puts fellowship ahead of fourteen years old, I became an a blast doing it! ways remain close to my heart. competitiveness and accepts every Indeed, while pursuing my engi - newcomer with open arms. 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The “Wild” American Indian . . . were tribal differences in their roles Two “gods” ruled the Indian’s (Continued from page 35 ) haps, but Dodge adds his own de - in the tribe, many were simply world, according to Dodge—the The Indian lived until very re - scriptions such as the following: vain, dressed in feminine-like apparel and “good” god and the “bad” god. The cently (Dodge’s time) in the Stone crafty, deceitful, ungrateful, treach - performed women’s tasks, free to de - good god was anything that helped Age. Their system of beliefs and be - erous, grasping, utterly selfish, lech - termine their own path within the him get what he wanted; the bad havior was formed to meet the neces - erous, without compassion or mercy, tribe without a sense of guilt, embar - god was anything that denied him. sities of a life shaped by nature and filthy in speech, and dirty in person rassment, or ridicule. Many did in - Every man developed his own per - by those individuals with the vision and manners. In a more positive deed become respected warriors. sonal “medicine,” a very private col - and cunning to assume leadership vein, he stated the Indian is affec - The horse’s elevation of the In - lection of spiritual symbols born of roles over the thousands of years. tionate, patient, self-reliant, endur - dian from a desperate, foot-bound his own dreams and imagination. Their world was at once an intimate, ing, vivacious, and chatty. There is a hunter-gatherer into a fierce, free- To his medicine, he owed complete terrifying, generous, and mysterious great love of song and dance and a moving warrior meant the horse be - and total devotion and reliance for place. Unseen spirits solved and ex - willingness to engage in either at came the symbol of wealth, just as an his own fortune and success in war plained all the mysteries; absolute any opportunity. Indeed, their per - exotic car collection might today. The or love. Dreams told him of his belief in those spirits occupied every manent camps at night were a very horse, in addition to providing rapid medicine’s power—or lack of it. If a moment of the Indian’s waking noisy place, with people passing transportation, was currency, bar - dream were to lead him to believe hours. Their religious dedication through here and there, visiting, gaining material, retirement income, his medicine was not good before a probably surpassed the most devout courting, joking, singing, gambling— and status symbol, and the only ex - battle, he would withdraw from the worshiper of Christian or any other living. In his own camp, the Indian pedient way to obtain such wealth battle without shame or derision. If religious faith. was a noisy, jolly, rollicking lover of was to steal it. Catching a wild mus - in battle, he was defeated or unsuc - Most observers of the Indians mischief, practical jokes, and rough tang and training it to become a reli - cessful, it was because his medicine have been guilty of less than objec - fun of any kind, full of braggadocio, able steed was a time and was bad, not because he had made tive curiosity about them, seeing the “excitable as a Frenchman and as labor-consuming task, and the adren - a strategic error in judgment. Indian as a species of either the “red fond of pleasure as a Sybarite.” To aline rush was nothing compared to So what the invading wave of devil” or the “noble savage.” The for - the stranger, he was impassive, dig - the excitement of applying all the white settlers faced was a cunning mer could do no right; the latter nified, somber—inscrutable. stealth taught from childhood to and skilled warrior superbly could do no wrong. Dodge refers to Thus the Indian is seen as a very enter into an enemy’s camp and take mounted, with the ego of a spoiled George Catlin’s work as more or less complex character with a bewilder - theirs. So, horse stealing became a child and the agility of a panther, crude depictions glorifying the “noble ing array of tribal differences in lan - passion as much as seeking gold has seeking to enhance his reputation savage” concept without a single guage, attire, beliefs, mores, and arts, been for centuries in other cultures. by hair-raising acts of bravery and peek into the motives and beliefs but with some traits running almost The prowess required for suc - brutality. Similar to the Samurai of that drove their fascinating, incom - universally through all. cessful horse thievery (and retalia - Japan, war was an individual affair, prehensible behavior. Dodge’s main point was, though tion for it) required a range of skills each man seeking personal glory, In Catlin’s words, the American the Indian was intensely religious, his and aptitudes—stealth, strength, rather than a unified, disciplined Indian was honest, hospitable, brave, religion did not contain an iota of the agility, courage, endurance, and a action. Each man sought reasons to warlike, cruel, revengeful, restless, concept of “right and wrong.” We all fine sense of how to catch the horse’s strut and brag of his brave deeds honorable, and contemplative. Per - know a child lives in an egocentric owner off guard and unaware. These before his elders and his peers in world, consumed only with his or her skills became so developed over the the tribal council, and he had been own interests and desires until par - generations it was said the Indian psyched up for the confrontation by ents, adults, and society, gently or oth - could steal your horse while you any means available to him. erwise, teach them some things are were riding it. To the Indian, the American settlers were con - “right” and some things are “wrong,” theft was not “wrong;” it was simply stantly confounded by the Indian’s and consideration for others is at his career and livelihood. often-unimaginable cruelty and least as important as one’s own inter - Horse-stealing skills translated total lack of guilt or remorse when ests. At least, it used to be that way. directly into war-faring skills, and he sought the good graces of his Consider what happens when war became the Indians’ passion. white enemies. He really did not this egocentric child is not only not One’s entire life became devoted to feel any guilt or remorse; it was not moved to a more worldly view, but is the war with all the ramifications of within his comprehension. Geron - actually encouraged to continue his being a warrior. A boy trained from imo, Quanah Parker, and Sitting egocentricity by the examples of early childhood to track game and Bull were only three of the most those whom he perceives as role fellow man, to use his weapons, well-known of those whose score of models. There was never a sense of move with the stealth of a shadow, white killings may never be known, responsibility or conscience or duty. hunt with the wolf’s cunning. Afoot, but who walked unrepentant into The male Indian was free from such the Indian was usually small, un - the “white man’s road.” To this day, things; the women of the tribe took washed, and almost pitiful. Astride, the mind of the Native American care of almost all the tasks of prepar - he was a magnificent, effective, and Indian, in the days when he held ing food, manufacturing clothing, fearsome warrior. He learned to be - the power on the American frontier, even moving the village. A man was come one with his horse and was is a deep and evil mystery to those free to do as he pleased, to hunt or widely acknowledged as one of the who defeated him after almost 400 fish as he pleased, to go to war as he most accomplished horsemen in years of continuous conflict. pleased—or not. No one passed judg - history. To fight a mounted Indian Dodge, Col. Richard I.; Our Wild In - ment. The only motive was for gain while afoot was certain death. dians: Thirty-three Years of Per - of social status and wealth in ponies. A significant part of the war - sonal Experience Among the Every man was expected to be his rior’s mindset was the indifference Red Men of the Great West; A.D. own advocate, his own newspaper. to pain and discomfort. It was to be Worthington & Co.; Hartford; Social status and aspirations of lead - displayed publicly in self-torture as 1890 ership were wholly dependent on a demonstration of bravery and ——-; The Hunting Grounds of the one’s reputation for bravery, skill in courage, adding to one’s reputation Great West; Chatto and Windus; battle, eloquence in speech, and his and status. Privately, it added to London; 1878 ability to inspire others to follow. the torment of fasting and sleep ——-: The Plains of the Great West Interestingly enough, there were deprivation in seeking the illusion - and their Inhabitants; G.P. Put - a number of “gay” Indian men (there ary world of the spirits. He saw the nam; New York, 1877 appears to be little if any record of infliction of torture on the enemy Gwynne, S.C.; Empire of the Sum - “gay” women). There was no social not as cruel, but as a natural exten - mer Moon; Scribner; New York, stigma applied to them; though there sion of his own bravery. 2010

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ova Scotia, Canada – By Wounded Belly, SASS Life #67078 Friday, September 7, 2012, the cowboys and reach the City of Deadwood. An - to stuff their rifles from the muzzle N cowgirls started arriving other similarity is the fact Dead - end with black substances that at the range known by the locals as wood City was established in 1876 when ignited, belch black foul Deadwood Gulch. The name hails and the range known as Deadwood smelling clouds and projects round from Wounded Belly’s love of the Gulch, was establish in 1976. lead balls somewhere through that Wounded Belly, HBO series “Deadwood” and the Now the correct name for this cloud. I must admit I wouldn’t want SASS Life #67078 similar pathway to the range floor range is the Nova Scotia Muzzle to be down range anywhere within as it descends from the upper level Loading Association (NSMLA) a couple hundred yards if’n they into the clubhouse and giving us campground, a minor depiction of Range. NSMLA has a contingent of were shooting my way. Anyway, good money to stay and put up with the Black Hills in South Dakota, to Mountain Men shooters that prefer that being said, folks started filing us local folk for the whole weekend. Now let’s step back in time a lit - tle. My name is Wounded Belly, SASS life #67078. I’m President of the Nova Scotia Cowboy Action Shooting Club (NSCAS) and Mar - shal by the name of “Seth Bullock” of our Deadwood Gulch City, and along with the help of several other good people, it has been my pleas - ure to host the Atlantic Canada Cowboy Action Championships for the 4 th year running. Our produc - tion is just slightly smaller than the smallest shoot you have ever been to, but we sure do have a lot of fun. Friday started off with Range Gypsy’s three stages of Wild Bunch, (Continued on page 40 )

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Atlantic Canada Cowboy Action Championship . . . score. Then as a side match, we (Continued from page 39 ) the miss factor here). After we got take that stage and figure the top and kept growing in shooters as folk all our main stages in, we took to five best times, then average them, arrived and signed up. Noontime gun slinging. and that is our “Postal Score” to came and Mrs Belly, aka, “Little We have always done a side-by- send off to anyone you want to Jennie” put on a feed for us all. side match called the “Last Man challenge. This year it was be - After lunch, we ventured back Standing.” Two shooters line up tween Nova Scotia Cowboy Action out onto the range and suited up shoulder to shoulder each having Shooting™ Cowboys and Winnipeg with some of that black foul three knockdown targets ahead of Revolver and Pistol Association smelling weaponry and shot two them. The middle two of the six are Cowboys. I would suggest anyone stages of “Blackpowder Frontiers - tipped to over lap when they go wishing a little more fun for a side men.” That was fun and really down. On the beep, each match do a postal match with any gives you a lesson on how it was ac - cowboy/cowgirl draws in their nor - club anywhere … of course, it is tually done. No wonder two cow - mal fashion … not cocking their re - strictly on your honour, so we boys could go toe to toe and never volver until that 45 degrees is passed WILL win! touch one another; jezz, ya couldn’t and proceed on each outside target After the end of our final stages, see a thing! Later, we all tried our working into the centre. The target I hit the computer for number hand at Long Range Cowboy Rifle on the bottom is the winner … this crunching (remember this part) and Long Range Cowboy Pistol. I will continue on until each cowboy while Range Gypsy, along with want you to know, any opponents of but one has been eliminated, now many helping hands sets up a new, mine would have been very safe if known as the “Last Man Standing.” for us, side match. We just called it they stayed out beyond my normal After all the smoke cleared, it “Ultimate Cowboy.” Two shooters 20 yards. was time for some Cowboy Clays. start together, one on the left, one Saturday started off with our Now here is a fun sport. Everyone on the right. There were eight mandatory safety briefing, followed has purposefully chopped their ‘97s knockdowns each. On the beep all by rounding up the posses, of which So after “little Jennie” fattened us and Granddad’s old SxS to give H@## breaks loose! Each shooter there were two. Today was to be a up once again with a beef stew to them full advantage on the cowboy only uses one revolver loaded with four-stage day, but as the day went die for … and a piece of pie, back shotgun knockdowns, and now they five, rifle loaded with five, and shot - on, we realized that if we shot onto the range we went to hasten show up to shoot a little orange clay gun at the ready just in case it’s faster, not to worry about misses, our time so as to get the 5 th stage in. that has been propelled from a needed. This was fun … I was we could squeeze in another stage. No problem (we just won’t mention spring-arm doing roughly just under mach speed … well, it ain’t pretty. But when all is said and done, Mr. “Zeke” came out on top. As the range closes for the day, plans are made to gather at a local watering hole for our gala. Here we had a table of prizes, and tickets were handed out for all in attendance. There was a great buf - Winners fet set out, and all took advantage Main Match st of it. A bartender was in atten - 1 Place Wounded Belly, dance, so everyone was happy—if SASS #67078 NS 2nd Place Range Gypsy, not in the early stages, they were by SASS #81433 NS the time to leave! Draws were 3rd Place Capt. Henry Cutter, made, Side Stage Certificates from SASS #85380 NB the day were handed out, and everyone enjoyed themselves. Side Match Winners Sunday started off a little slow, Friday weather was dark and cloudy, but Wild Bunch Wounded Belly NS everyone was in good spirits. It Long Range rained on and off, but fortunately Rifle Range Gypsy NS Pistol Sunny Jo, Deadwood Gulch has a covered fir - SASS #94627 ON ing range so no one got wet. By noon Frontiersman Wounded Belly NS we had our two stages in. Then again “Little Jennie” fattened us up Saturday with a couple different recipes of Last Man Standing homemade beans and brown bread. Wounded Belly NS After lunch was out of the way, C Clays Zeke, we proceed to our final stage. Here SASS #89367 NS we used a Postal Match setup with Sunday target placement measured to the Ultimate Cowboy inch. What we do is everyone Canadian Easy Rider shoots it and that is their stage Visit us at sassNEt .Com December 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 41

called out when my turn came around to go against that just nasty cowgirl, Sunny Jo, from Upper Canada. Well let me tell you, she was finished before I emptied my revolver … that was some fancy shooting, Jo! And if I had to go down, I’m glad it was to you. After the range was cleared for the day, we ventured to the club - house for our final farewells, con - gratulations, certificates, trophies, and prizes. A big Thank You to all who came from far and wide, and for those who helped make this another successful “Atlantic Canada Cowboy Action Championships” match.

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thE 2012 sass orEgoN statE .ChampioNship matCh , The 8 th Annual Merlin Marauders “Battle of rogue rive r” By Molly B’ Dam, SASS Life/Regulator #7861, and Britt Ponsett, SASS #85576 ah … oregon! sweeT oregon! compass to find out about ALL those things. Thursday, the 7 th of June saw vendors’ tents and booths popping up on the green grass of Vendors’ Row, while over on the Police Range bays, the “Famous Mid-Valley Contrary to its name, Ft. Swampy looked absolutely pristine this year! Drifter Shooting School” was in full flower. Campers, RVs, trailers, and erlin, OR - The gentle And of course, there were the tents, started arriving as early as misty rains, bringing ver - Bank Robberies, the Train Hold- Sunday afternoon and evening. dant green life to the soil! ups, the Crooked Sheriff and his Sites with full hookups were re - M The bloom of the myriad Minions, famed bandit Black Bart, served and claimed very quickly colors of flowers in the springtime. Vigilantes, Claim-Jumped Gold this year. Oregon … the destination of so Mines, Range Wars … Wait a Side Match Friday began way many folks heading out of the dusty minute, wait a minute … wasn’t all too early (for me) at 9 AM with the Midwest to the paradise of the tree- that stuff in Tombstone, Virginia Plainsman Match shooters pepper - carpeted lands of the Pacific North - City, Dodge City, Lincoln County— ing the targets with abandon. The west following the famed OREGON lawless places like that? Surely, not Match Director Mountain Grizz traditional side matches—speed TRAIL, from Missouri to Portland. our sweet, gentle OREGON? and HIS director, Bobbin’ Along pistol, rifle, and shotgun, as well as The lesser-known Applegate Trail The Merlin Marauders theme Daisy, take time out Saturday the usual long-range matches ran directly through the Merlin Ma - for the 2012 Battle of Rogue River, night to pose in their finery. began an hour later and continued rauders’ Fort Swampy and the the SASS Oregon State Champi - through 3 PM. Josephine County Sportsman’s Park onship Match, was the “History of Miner? What was Black Bart’s real This year a Couples/Pairs (Honest!). Yes, the beauty and tran - Oregon;” both the shiny AND the name, and how was he caught? Match was added and was a lot of quility of our beloved Oregon pre - dark side. What happened to the Vigilantes? Where? 210 Cowboy fun for both shooters as well as vailed throughout three full days of Southern Pacific train in Cow Action Shooters, SASS Members spectators. (Granted there were a Action Shooting. Creek Canyon? Who was Bill all, arrived from all points of the few moments of tension between

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place category winners were pre - sented with MEDALLIONS (made by C. Johnson Laser, Calamity and JJ Johnson). Gold and Silver medals strung on patriotic red- white and blue ribbons for First and Clean Shooters! Second places, with Third through Yep, there were a BUNCH! Fifth taking Bronze Medallions home. Wooden Plaques, featuring spouses that COULD have ended in the covered wagon historical theme divorce, but they were rare and I were presented to the Oregon State guess smoothed over, later and in Match Winners in each category. private). The plaques were made by Wales What else could be found on this Holiday, SASS #66069, and beauti - “midway of fun?” Well, you could fully engraved by I’m Grumpy, Oregon State Champs take your pick between Cowboy SASS #40135. Arctic Annie and Lead Ringer. Trap and Skeet, Pocket Pistol/Der - It was especially heart-warming Congratulations! ringer “Poker”, or the VERY popu - to see SASS approved and encour - lar four-stage Wild Bunch Match. aged our Wounded Warrior Cate - Actually, the way they were sched - gory and the Oregon State uled, you could have shot them Champion in this category for 2012 ALL, as some did. For the ladies was Bart Star, SASS #5885, who is who wished to indulge in a more recovering from a debilitating “refined” afternoon, a Ladies Tea stroke and who shot the match in was arranged for the hours of 3-5 full US Cavalry Uniform! PM in the quiet splendor of the in - One indicator of a match’s “bal - door range. ance” between “too easy” and “too After an evening “potluck” din - difficult or confusing” is, in addition ner, the indoor range was converted to the number of “procedurals” that to a rollicking SALOON NIGHT! are awarded, is the number of shoot - As it was “Think Pink” Friday, there ers who manage to shoot the match In addition to honoring all was a plethora of rose-hued gowns Friday evening was “Think Pink” “clean” with no misses or penalties. the regular SASS shooting and even the gents sported pink evening. Powder River Rose was This year we gave away Merlin Ma - categories for which there are duds and accouterments. What’s a one of many with outstanding rauder shotglasses along with spe - contestants, Match Directors “Saloon Night” without a SOILED pink-themed outfits. cial certificates as a “clean match are free to offer “experimental” DOVE CONTEST, gambler, “B” award.” We went through THIRTY- categories to see if there is sufficient interest to add them Western, Cowboy and Cowgirl Cos - played for our dancing pleasure. TWO of those little glasses, and to the SASS Shooters Handbook. tume Contests, and a rousing game Sunday morning brought Cow - with 210 shooters competing, that is One such category offered at the or two of POKER? Sidekick Rick, boy Church at 7AM, with first shots always indicative of a good match. Oregon State Championship SASS #57410 provided additional of the final six main stages going A SPECIAL “hat’s off” to Match Di - was the Wounded Warrior musical entertainment by strum - downrange at 8AM. The traditional rector Mountain Grizz who designed category, which was won by ming his guitar and singing some “Mad Minute” was held by each every one of the stages used in the Bart Star and Hellfire. cowboy tunes. posse as soon as their final shots of match, including the Plainsman and Way to go! On Saturday, after the official the match had been fired. The re - Wild Bunch side matches. flag presentation and salute by the sulting ROAR of gunfire could be This year’s Trivia Contest, de - bit devious. Hints were included in Young Marines (also our brass pick - heard as far away as Washington signed by Britt Ponsett, SASS the Shooter’s Handbook and uncov - ers), President Molly b’Dam, SASS D.C. (I Hope!) Sunday lunch was #85576, was based on events of Ore - ered as one shot the stages. Three #7861 (and Operations Mgr.), once again a full, hot meal provided gon History to go along with this prizewinners were announced dur - Match Director Mountain Grizz, by Melissa’s Country Kitchen with year’s theme. Some questions were ing the awards presentation. SASS #56669, and Bear Bone (my favorite part) choices of cobbler, very straightforward, and others a (Continued on page 44 ) Smith, Assistant Match Director ice cream, and/or a huge sheet cake and TG, SASS #10719, opened the baked by our own amazing Delta 2012 Oregon SASS Championship Queen, SASS #39203. Match. The first six stages of the Top Gun Shoot-offs saw some main match were shot, with a won - fast and fancy shootin’, and when derful HOT lunch being served by the smoke cleared, Royal Flush, the caterer after the last stage. SASS #78333, and Camp Hag, This was just a foretaste of what SASS #84031, were the Top Man was to come that night at the ban - and Woman (father and daughter quet. 275 shooters and team) at that event. Final Match family/friends gathered in the huge scoring was completed by Molly indoor range in Saturday Night b’Dam and Fairweather Kate to the Finery for a lip-smacking BBQ tune of some very fast gunfire. pulled pork and tri-tip supper. Finally, it was time for all to re - After supper, we were treated to a turn to the indoor range to relax Grand Promenade of costumed fin - and scoop up the last of the ice ery, and a lively Bluegrass/Western cream and cake and start collecting Band called Cross Purposes, led by the “GOLD.” This year, as a change Deacon Doug, SASS #66170, who from the past, first through fifth

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The 2012 SASS Oregon State Championship Match . . . (Continued from page 43 ) Awards went to Britt Pon - with just ONE revolver, so Every shooter received a T- sett, Imnaha Chuck, and he got a second one. Then, as shirt featuring our historical Barbarosa Mike. The Mer - he was on the way back to theme of a covered wagon with the lin Marauder Regulator his seat, AGAIN, it came to SASS logo on the front, and a bag Award was awarded to light that he didn’t have a of bullets. We also gave away some Mountain Grizz. Congratu - .38-40 RIFLE, either, so … great shooters’ prizes, most of lations to all. He now also has a brand new which were donated by our very Feeling even luckier was Winchester Limited Edition generous national and local spon - High Road, SASS #75137 … ‘92 with a Pioneer Gun sors and MM members, and five Sweetwater Jack, who do - Works action job—not ex - lucky shooters received a Lee pro - nated all FIVE of the guns actly what he expected. gressive reloading press. raffled or given away, called Sweetwater kinda’ chuckled First Overall and top Oregon out HIS token for a special all the way out the door … Male Shooter, Lead Ringer had a “tribute” prize in honor of So, if you find yourself pretty good day—skill got him his that iconic cowboy, “Marion needin’ to scratch that itch match win, and LUCK got him a Morrison” as Marion’s fa - to put down some bad guys brand new Winchester 1886 “but - vorite caliber (other than of the steel persuasion at ton magazine” lever rifle in .45-70, Hollywood 5-in-1 blanks) next year’s Oregon State as his shooter’s number was drawn was the .38-40 or .38 WCF. Match scheduled for June of by Sweetwater Jack from the can Sweetwater Jack gave him a 2013, at one of the prettiest containing all 210 tokens! Con - set of reloading dies in that ranges you’ll ever see, mark gratulations also go to Top Lady caliber. Then, as High Road your calendars and mosey Shooter Belinda Belle, SASS didn’t seem to have a six-gun on over to Southern Oregon #42966 from Idaho, and our own in that caliber, Sweetwater and join us. Stay tuned by Oregon Top Lady Shooter Arctic Jack gave him a new Uberti checking the Merlin Ma - Annie, SASS #37265. The Merlin Hartford so that he would. rauder website www.merlin Marauder President’s Ranger But, you can’t play our game maraudercowboys.com .;

Winners 49’er Royal Flush, L S Senior Marsha Dillon, SASS #78333 CA SASS #9634 CA Overall Match Big Casino, Molly b’Dam, Man Lead Ringer, SASS #4306 OR SASS #7861R OR SASS #87957 OR F Cartridge Col. Cornelius Gilliam, L Wrangler Arctic Annie, Lady Belinda Belle, SASS #5875 OR SASS #37265 OR SASS #42966 ID F C Duelist Big Iron Buster, L Young Gun Destiny Hawk, Overall State Champions SASS #9361 WA SASS #56820 OR Man Lead Ringer, Lefty Lem, Merlin Cowboy Riverdog, SASS #87957 OR SASS #50056 OR SASS #88745 OR Lady Arctic Annie, Frontiersman Kidd Thunder, Merlin Cowgirl Ima Horsinaround, SASS #37265 OR SASS #25814 CA SASS #55138 OR Top Gun Shootoff Winners Ol’ #4, Senior Rick O’Shea, Man Royal Flush, SASS #41004 OR SASS #2221 WA SASS #78333 CA Gunfighter Purgatory Smith, Kansan, Lady Camp Hag, SASS #26284L OR SASS #85363 OR SASS #84031 CA G Dame Fairweather Kate, S Duelist Freddie Sykes, Categories SASS #68305 OR SASS #81634 WA Buckaroo Kid Gunslinger, L B-Western Queen of Bling, Grizzly Wulff, SASS #75084 OR SASS #94718 CA SASS #22887L OR B-Western Stumptown Kid, Brassy Shell, S F Cartridge Snakebite, SASS #89859 OR SASS #16096 OR SASS #4767 CA C Baron Line Century, L Duelist Nellie Belle, Tex Dover, SASS #5180 OR SASS #24695 WA SASS #46312 OR C Cowboy Boothill Bandid, Hoodoo, S Gunfighter Will Shootem, SASS #48598 OR SASS #7819 OR SASS #29892 OR Cowboy Fast Enuff, L 49’er Belinda Belle, S Senior Bear Bone Smith, SASS#85412 OR SASS #42966 ID SASS #10719 OR Cowgirl Camp Hag, Lady Jade, Veteran Smitty Wesson, SASS #85031 CA SASS #27915 OR SASS #9756 CA Esther Jen Overload, L F Cartridge Pocket Change, Merlin Maverick, SASS #79800 OR SASS #58694 CA SASS #7860 OR Duelist Buffalo Wings, Cascades Annie, Wounded Warrior SASS #56856 OR SASS #70533 OR Hellfire, E Statesman Bloody Bill Anderson, L F C Duelist Diamond “H”, SASS #35333 WA SASS #61673 CA SASS #7047 WA Bart Star, Shevlin Kid, L Gunfighter Buckshot Shell-E, SASS #5885 OR SASS #72550 OR SASS #37335 OR Wrangler Lead Ringer, F C Gunfighter Lady Senior Bullseye Miss, SASS #87957 OR Speedy McDraw, SASS #56827 OR Young Gun Renegade Riley, SASS #60016 CA L S Duelist Cinona Hawk, SASS #79445 OR Jed I. Knight, SASS #35304 OR L Junior Destiny Hawk, SASS #36423 OR SASS #56820 OR

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Wild Bunch Match Pocket Pistol LA Rifle PC BP Junior Cowboy Alamo Bam, L Modern Redwood Rose, Lady Cascades Annie, Clyde Henry, SASS #91556 WA SASS #60017 CA SASS #70533 OR SASS #7046 WA Junior Cowgirl Destiny Hawk, L Traditional Lacy D’Oyle, Man (tie) Tie - Rick O’Shea. LA Rifle PC Smokeless SASS #56820 OR SASS #89955 AZ SASS #2221 WA Smitty Wesson, Victorian Modern Speedy McDraw, & Territorial Rider, SASS #9756 CA Couple Mountain Grizz, SASS #60016 CA SASS #31939 OR LA Rifle RC BP SASS #56669 OR Traditional Big Casino, Derringer Kota Tang, Bobbin’ Along Daisy, SASS #4306 OR Lady Cascades Annie, SASS #91476 OR SASS #61452 OR Plainsman Match SASS #70533 OR LA Rifle RC Smokeless Male Checotah, L Modern Queen of Bling, Man Trueno Del Diablo, Rick O’Shay, SASS #57965 OR SASS #94718 CA SASS #22364 OR SASS #2221 WA Lady Allie Mo, L Traditional Redwood Rose, Trap Smokeless BP Gong Single Shot (tie) SASS #25217 CA SASS #60017 CA Lady Lacy D’Oyle, Man Willy Hitum, Junior Boy Young Doc McLain, Modern El Lazo, SASS #89955 AZ SASS #64179 WA SASS #6302 OR SASS #13116 CA Man (tie) Lefty Lem, Isaac Scrambler Day, Junior Girl Destiny Hawk, Traditional Speedy McDeaw, SASS #50056 OR SASS #19637 OR SASS #56820 OR SASS #60016 CA Bobcat Tyler, Lady Diamond H, Buckarette A Little Too Wild OR Side Matches SASS #10767 CA SASS #7047 WA Military Bart Star, Speed Shotgun John Cameron, Costume Contests SASS #5885 OR L Doubles Camp Hag, SASS #9735 OR Think Pink Friday Working Costume SASS #84031 CA Yuma Colorady, Man Runnin’ Wild, B-Western Mal e Street Howitzer, L ‘97/Lever Arctic Annie, SASS # 5139L OR SASS #55137 OR SASS #79888 OR SASS #37265 OR Harley Ryder, Lady Evergreen Rose, L B-Western Evergreen Rose, Doubles Royal Flush, SASS $46915 WA SASS #37972 OR SASS #37972 OR SASS #78333 CA Trap BP Boy Alamo Bam, Old West Lady Lacy D’Oyle, ‘97/Lever Renegade Riley, Lady Cascade Annie, SASS #91556 WA SASS #89955 AZ SASS #78445 OR SASS # 70533 OR Girl A Little Too Wild OR L Junior Destiny Haw, Speed Rifle Man Big Iron Buster, Soiled Dove Queen SASS #56820 OR Lady Belinda Belle, SASS #9361 WA Paddy Wack, Junior Young Doc McLain, SASS $42966 ID Long Range SASS #89632 CA SASS #6302 OR Man Rebegade Riley, SS Rifle BP Gambler Line Century, Victorian Paso Tom, SASS #78445 OR Varmit, SASS #5180 OR SASS #68808 WA Speed Pistol SASS #75087 OR B-Western Sidekick Rick, L Victorian Velvet Glove, Lady Camp Hag, SS Rifle Smok eless SASS #57410 OR SASS #50276 AR SASS #84031 CA Rick O’Shay, L B-Western Brassy Shell, Military Lefty Lem, Man Renegade Riley, SASS #2221 WA SASS #16096 OR SASS #50056 OR SASS #78445 OR SS Rifle Buffalo (tie) L Junior Kookanadude, Swimsuit Couples Match Royal Flush, Isaac Scrambler Day, SASS #53933 OR Lady Arctic Annie, SASS #78333 and SASS #19637 OR Cowboy Pugilist, SASS #37265 OR Camp Hag, Willy Hitum, SASS #1006 OR Male Mountain Grizz, SASS #84031 CA SASS #64179 WA Cowgirl Driftin Daisy, SASS #56669 OR SASS #84662

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erkeley Springs, WV – East of the Singing Hills Ranch is a historic town B also known as the Town of Bath. Located in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, the community was surveyed in the 1700s by none other than a 16-year- old boy named George Washington. In the heart of town, you will find Overall Match winners: shops, fine dining, spas, and George Kiddo Caldwell and Walker Colt Washington’s bathtub. Warm springs remain a temperature of 74 degrees Fahrenheit year round. On a cool day you can see the steam rolling off the water. The springs were believed to have special heal - ing powers. Back in the day, George Category Winners Washington and other city folk came to relax, socialize, and wash This castle overlooks the Town of pull off beside the road with a away the stresses of everyday life. Bath. Then the road will lead you panoramic view (Prospect Peak). As you travel on scenic Route 9, through the hills of West Virginia. You can see for miles! Four states the first thing you notice is the Nature at its best! Approximately, from one location: West Virginia, Berkeley Castle built in the 1870s. four miles outside of town there is a Virginia, Maryland across the river, and Pennsylvania in the far dis - Top Gun Shoot-Out: tance. On a foggy morning you feel Walker Colt and Rimfire Randi like you are on top of the world! Look down and see the clouds with is like descending in an airplane be - mountaintops protruding through fore you’re ready to land. Just the clouds in the distance. Travel - watch out for the curves in the road ing down the mountain into the fog through the mountains and into the

Winners Duelist Bull Shoals, Overall SASS #25400 Man Walker Colt, E Statesman Flatboat Bob, SASS #3035 SASS #32310 Lady Kiddo Caldwell, F Cartridge Mad Dog Max, SASS #55504 SASS #92788 West Virginia State Champions F C Duelist Dirt Slider, Man Cody Conagher, SASS #65857 SASS #6986 F C Gunfighter Lady SunShine Marcie, John Barleycorn, SASS #64900 SASS #76982 Top Gun Shootout Gunfighter Walker Colt Man Walker Colt L Gunfighter Bdoc, Lady Rimfire Randi, SASS #76983 SASS #87690 Senior Cash Caldwell, Category SASS #5505 49’er Cody Conagher L Senior Miss Shir Dar, L 49’er Kiddo Caldwell SASS #52388L Buckaroo Quickdraw Joey, Wrangler Twin, SASS #93031 SASS #9953 L Young Gun Rimfire Randi L Wrangler Side Saddle Sue, Young Gun Maverick, SASS #73023 SASS #92789 S Senior Rowe A Noc, B-Western Rawhide Ron, SASS #64745L SASS #70866 L S Senior Cactus Kay, L B-Western Honey Hold This, SASS #15157 SASS #49514 S Duelist Chilliwack Buck, Cowboy Wild Mustang, SASS #57645 SASS #45561 G Dame Tango Rose, Cowgirl SunShine Marcie SASS #51321 C Cowboy Dutch Coroner, SASS #82128

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2nd. The same stage was shot cow - boy style with Punch, SASS #4368, and Sunshine Marcie, SASS #64900, as the winners. Other side matches consisted of the usual ven - ues: speed pistol, speed rifle, speed shotgun, pocket pistol, derringer, and all the long-range events. To begin Saturday’s cere - monies, Texas Tommy accepted an award to be the 4th Life Member of C.A.S.S. Main stages were writ - ten by Walker Colt, Twin, and Buz - zard Breath, SASS #1926. Walker Colt wrote the stage stories with a

Queen of Hearts, SASS #9938, presented Clean Match Awards 2012 West Virginia State Champions: woods to the Singing Hills Ranch! Sunshine Marcie and The 2012 SASS West Virginia Cody Conagher State Championship, Appalachian Showdown XXI, was hosted by little help from Twin. The stories Lady Benson and C.A.S.S., Inc. The were about a man that goes from weather was beautiful this year soldiering, to cowboy, to mining with trees beginning to change col - and gets shot at no matter what he ors, leaves starting to fall, and the does. The Turkey Track Outfit is sun shining for most of the week - whom he worked for and Ladder 5 end. Maybe there was just a little Memorial Award Winners: is the gang that shoots at him. cloud cover and temperatures in John Barleycorn, Lucky, This year’s match was like a the low 70s. Couldn’t have re - and Cicerone puzzle. You had to put the pieces quested better weather. (Continued on page 51 ) This year, Friday side matches started with Showdown’s first ever Wild Bunch Stage at the fort, “Pikes Last Stand.” Last Word, SASS #22225, and Walker Colt, Costume Contest: SASS #3035, proved to be victori - Coroner and Honey Hold This ous with Twin, SASS #9553 being

Memorial Awards Speed Shotgun Three Barb Benson Memorial Man Double Barrel- Award-64 th place overall finish Dutch Coroner Cicerone, Young Gun Dbl-Barrel Maverick SASS #90958 Model ‘97 Hardrode Memorial Award Man Punch, 34 th place overall finish SASS #4368 John Barleycorn Lady Sunshine Marcie Dusty D. Weems Memorial Award L Young Gun Rimfire Randi 27 th place overall finish Long Range Rifle – Single Shot Lucky, Man Railtown Kid, SASS #70337 SASS #49513 Side Match Winners Young Gun Maverick Derringer Long Range Rifle Man Twin Lever Action, R if le Caliber Lady Miss Shir Dar Man Frontier Lone Rider, Young Gun Maverick SASS #73063 Pocket Pistol Lever Action, P is tol Caliber Man Twin Man Cicerone Lady Side Saddle Sue Lady Side Saddle Sue Young Gun Maverick Pike’s Last Stand Speed Rifle Man Punch, Man Dutch Coroner SASS #4368 Lady SunShine Marcie Lady Sunshine Marcie L Young Gun Rimfire Randi L Young Gun Rimfire Randi Young Gun Maverick Wild Bunch at Fork Speed Pistol Pike’s Last Stand Man Gray Squirrel, Man Walker Colt SASS #46705 Lady Last Word, Lady Sunshine Marcie SASS #22225 L Young Gun Rimfire Randi Young Gun Maverick

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By Grey Fox, SASS #223 Life, Regulator & Miss Mary Spencer, SASS #55147 Life, Regulator

amloops, BC – In the they say, is history. spring of 1993 a Kam - The competition heralded a loopsian named Kerry new era—Cowboy Action Shoot - K Sim had a vision. The ing™ in the interior of British Co - vision was to organize a Cowboy lumbia, the high desert cow Action Shooting™ match in Kam - country! As the quote goes, “if you loops, British Columbia, Canada. build it, they will come,” and the Grey Fox with a Member of the Cowboy Action Shooting™ was shootists did appear. Thirty-eight British Columbia Legislature who only 11 years old, and SASS was in competitors were anxious to com - is about to fire the inaugural shot. its infancy. pete in the first ever “Palmers Kerry had secured a venue and Gulch.” The event was inaugu - the first two Palmer Gulch’s was began the groundwork for the rated by a member of the British the Rocky Mountain Rangers Rifle event. He then contacted Grey Fox Columbia Legislature (how times and Handgun Association range. and Miss Mary Spencer to organ - have changed). The competition In 1995 the venue changed to the ize props and targets. Cowboy Ac - was won by an individual who no Two of the original participants Hefley Creek facility, which has tion matches had been held in longer competes. Second place was at Palmers Gulch 1993. since seen a grand transformation. Victoria since 1986, organized by Grey Fox, SASS #223, third and Both are expert horsemen. It’s a range with permanent fa - Grey Fox and Miss Mary Spencer. fourth no longer compete, and fifth cades and a covered awards and Then, a cadre of Victoria shootists was Tax Ridder, SASS #4234. Fast forward twenty years banquet area. Lefty and his dedi - with match experience in ROing Other long time competitors who later. The Palmer’s Gulch event cated committee members have and prop and target management appeared were Cariboo Lefty, SASS has endured and prospered under fielded quality matches that now were seconded. A trailer was #5391, Gunfighter Jim, SASS the guardianship and guidance of attracted shootists from across loaded with appropriate items and #31412, Porqupine Quill, SASS several Kamloops folk, the most Canada, the U.S., and Europe. off they travelled by ferry and #78510, Pauncho, SASS #5511, Doc prominent being Cariboo Lefty, The 20th annual was an event highway to Kamloops—the rest, as Morgun Smith, SASS #45889. SASS #5391. The initial venue for to remember—the match itself, the

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fielded by Porqupine Quill, SASS #78510, and Sassy 6 Shooter, SASS #72687. The wonderful costumes were most evident among the shootists. There was a large contingent of horsemen, which was evident by their attire. The worn boots, the hats showing the effects of the

The Best Dressed at Palmers Gulch 1993.

to participate in the 20th Annual extravaganza. The festivities and competition were of the highest order—from the fast moving stages to the evening events, including such things as Saturday night’s Dance Hall Darlings Race with In memory of Art Greenwall’s drinks—the Darling who com - enthusiastic contribution to pleted the race course with the Cowboy Action Shooting™— most liquid in the glass was de - Art is being RO’d here by Al Page. clared the winner. Many had never witnessed such an exciting specta - range—their outfits had that cle. Miss BeaDazzled, SASS patina of wear. This adds so much #72424, won the event. There were seven lady participants to the competition—there are mo - Sunday (Day Two) was Canada in the initial match. All seemed ments when one actually is in the Day, July 1st. The day’s events to have a great time … Old Frontier West. were initiated with a firework even when kneeling behind The evening’s festivities were a bale of hay for protection! (that means one!) set by Bad Bobby (Continued on page 50 ) Blue Eyes, SASS #73397. Even then the notion of head to head shoot-offs were in full bloom. There were two spectators who live at the range and were not dis - tressed by our activities in any socializing, and reminiscing about way—a fox and a chipmunk. They the Palmer Gulches that have hung around and watched the ac - passed into history. On a more tion, but refused to wear eye and somber note, three of the original ear protection! attendees have passed away. Some After the main match on Sun - others have encountered serious day there was a long-range compe - health issues and no longer shoot. tition. Results have not been On a happier note, ten of the orig - forwarded. inal thirty-eight competitors in the Another spectacular event was first Palmers Gulch were on hand the Mounted Shooting exhibition

Winners Categories Top Gun B-Western High Country Amigo, Man Territorial Ryder, SASS #49198 BC SASS #31939 OR S Duelist Little Edgy, Lady Senorita Itchy Finger, SASS #64366 BC SASS #80037 BC Duelist Sam Whiskey, Categories SASS #87289 AB Wrangler Rusty Wood, C Cowboy Gunfighter Jim, SASS #50427 WA SASS #31412 BC Senior Captain Copps, Cowboy Wobbly Threebeer, SASS #57513 BC SASS #11670 AB Gunfighter Too Dusty, E Statesman Minto Kid, SASS #5444 AB SASS #56175 BC L B-Western Cheryl McIntosh Frontiersman R. G. Teed L Duelist Goldie Stone, F Cartridge Powder Paw, SASS #18860 WA SASS #9246 AB L 49’er Kanada Girl, S Senior Joe Cannuck, SASS #26178 AB SASS #58702 WA L Senior Dallas Dancer, G Dame Miss Mary Spencer, SASS #43265 WA SASS #55147 BC L Wrangler Debora Donly Spirit of the Game Cowgirl Senorita Itchy Beltloop , Finger BC SASS #51499 BC Junior Baxter Bailey & Titus Bass, Buckaroo Whistlin Will, SASS #12165 AB SASS #88382 BC

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Tale Of Two Palmer’s Gulch Shooting Matches . . . Palmer’s gulch 2012 (Continued from page 49 ) Not only has the shooting improved … Photos by: equally highlighted by well- Crotchety Old Grouch, but the costumes as well! dressed dancehall darlings, formal SASS #51188 couples, cowboys, and cowgirls Grey Fox, SASS #223 turned out in their frontier best. Dallas Dancer, SASS #43265 Best Dressed Formal Couple Barkin Knot, SASS #95766 was Slim Delgado, SASS #85279, Miss BeaDazzled, SASS #72424 and Helena Hand Basket, SASS #85280, and Best Dressed Family was the Wayne Bailey family. The match saw some of the finest competitors separated by seconds only. The front-runners went for the gold where every move and shot makes the differ - ence between first and second. And, second is not a bad place to be when it is a competition of the finest shootists extant! Everyone was so pleased to see so many of our compadres from the U.S.A. even though Territorial Ryder won. Competitors from the U.S. have discovered it is not daunting to attend events in Canada. We expect even more American attendees at Headquar - ters and the Canadian Nationals.

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Appalachian Showdown XXI . . . (Continued from page 47 ) Eyed Rooster, SASS #12109, all the together one gun at a time. For five pieces fit together in perfect har - lucky shooters—Kiddo Caldwell, mony. They all shot clean! Con - SASS #55504, Walker Colt, Cody gratulations! Challenging, but fun! Conagher, SASS #6986, John Bar - Saturday ended with an old fash - leycorn SASS #76982, and One ioned BBQ and the presentation of the side match awards. On Sunday, the last four main stages were shot followed by the Awards Ceremony and the Top Gun Shootoff. During the Awards Cere - cie are the 2012 West Virginia State mony, the memorial award winners Champions. Walker Colt was the were given a free entry into next Overall winner and Kiddo Caldwell tition, the top six men and top six year’s Showdown. Honey Hold was the overall Ladies winner. Con - ladies went head to head. It con - This, SASS #49514, was named gratulations!! sisted of five-plus rifle rounds, five Best Dressed Working Cowgirl and During the man on man compe - revolver rounds, and two shotgun Coroner, SASS #76318, was named rounds dealing with a Texas star Best Dressed Working Cowboy. and a clay bird popper target. All Cody Conagher and Sunshine Mar - makeups were made by reloading the rifle. Rimfire Randi, SASS #87690, was the ladies champ and Walker Colt was the top man! If you missed this year’s Show - down you missed a good one! We hope to see you next year for Ap - palachian Showdown XXII—same time; same place—September 20- 22, 2013!

Removing Dark Smudges From Fired Brass Cases . . . (Continued from page 32 ) seat, then crimp correctly into the two grease grooves and a crimping crimp groove, and I don’t experience groove . The case mouth should be any black smudging of my cases. tightly crimped into the crimping They clean up quickly in the vibra - groove to prevent premature move - tory tumbler with coarse-ground ment before maximum pressure is corncob. That crimping groove is achieved. This ensures the case there for two good reasons. One is walls expand under pressure, theo - to prevent too-early bullet release, retical velocity is correct, and and the other is to ensure the there’s no escaping hot gases to next bullet doesn’t move forward blow back along the chamber! You under recoil and jam itself between should not be able to feel the edge the cylinder mouth and barrel of the case mouth after correctly breech! (Never had THAT happen crimping in this manner. to me … Ooops!) I use two separate dies, one to Blackthorne4440 @aol.com

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T ii Par Smoke in the Badlands oregon’s Second Blackpowder Championship Shoot! By Palaver Pete, SASS Life/Regulator #4375 Photos by Lucky Dodger, SASS#62981

PROLOGUE : Bend of the River, with the new Winchester Model ‘73 Oregon Territory, September, 1873. Rifle, while others have the older ‘66. We also note regardless of year, nce again we turn the both rifles are in large calibers, pages of history back to thus meaning when fired they will 1873. We find ourselves belch-out a great deal of acrid grey O deep in the heart of Cen - smoke. No one cares. There is no tral Oregon’s high desert country Environmental Protection Agency, where Chief Paulina and his band and Air Quality is not an issue. Ac - of renegade Paiute Indians could cordingly, the scene is set, and there pounce upon us at any time! Gov - is no doubt amongst the Pioneers ernment surveyor’s and Cavalry that soon there will be “Smoke in Blue Coats refer to this part of Ore - the Badlands!” gon as “The Badlands.” We note WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT THE some of the Pioneers are armed SHOO T: Most of Oregon’s Black -

The Kingrey family organized the Saturday night “Thunder & Lightning” Shoot. On the left is Oregon State Buckaroo Champion, Kid Curly, and to his left is Sweet Shots, who managed to get the Olive Garden restaurant to donate lunch on Sunday. Next in line is Huckleberry Hickok, who placed second in the Young Guns category, and lastly is the father of the clan, Buttermilk Biscuit, who does the reloading.

powder Shooters, herein and here - after referred to as DARTH VADER’S, were present at the shoot. These Vaders are strange people who seem to have a great deal of fun while gumming up their firearms with nasty GOEX, or sub - stitutes thereof, while causing a great deal of coughing and discom - fort amongst the time keepers, spectators, and blinded spotters. Some of the visiting shooters, with less courage than the Vaders, de - cided to shoot the same stages with smokeless powder, not the dark stuff. Their decision was okay with the Match Director, Cascades Annie, SASS #70533, who figured regardless of what powder they used, they had to breathe in the same acrid air as all the shooters Winner of the Spirit of the had to do, and furthermore, they Game Award, Bart Star, who has would not be eligible to qualify for worked his way back into any Oregon State blackpowder Cowboy Action Shooting™ awards—so be it. after suffering a severe stroke. Your reporter was one of those Welcome back Bart!

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who decided to shoot smokeless. Surprisingly, I was treated with a great deal of respect—not the jeers I expected to receive. Essentially then, we shooters wound up shoot - ing for two different scores: one in blackpowder, and the other in smokeless powder. The various cat - egory winners within each propel - lant would be so identified—no problemo! It didn’t matter how we lined-up at the loading table—we were all going to shoot the same tar - gets, following the same scenario, only with different powders. Again, so be it, let the mayhem begin! Our Match Director wore a skirt, which is not uncommon in today’s world of Cowboy Action Shooting™, and her hair was long and blonde. She spoke with an au - thoritative voice causing all the shooters, including the notorious trickster of the Northwest, Jed I. Knight, SASS #36423, to pay close attention and not to mess-around with the obvious authority. We all Huckleberry Hickok shucks two shotgun shells before moving on Paniolo Annie copes with the knew Cascades Annie went to the blackpowder smoke by providing to the next shotgun target. Timer Hoss Reese notes the shotgun hulls dark side some years ago, but we her own breathing apparatus. exiting the shotgun—great timing! (Continued on page 56 )

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Fractured Frontier Fairy Tales Bugler initiated the festivities by announcing the flag raising during opening ceremonies. By Lilly Blossom, SASS #26517 lunch at Granny’s Saloon on stage illings, MT – Fairy two, only to discover a ravenous tales will never be the wolf in Granny’s bed that had to be same for the folks who contended with, forthwith. B participated in “Frac - On stage three, the shooters tured Frontier Fairy Tales” in each discovered they’d been trans - Billings, MT this past June. Great formed into an extremely large, stories, terrific props, and a whole ugly duckling that when hatched lot of fun is the aim of each year’s was wearing a 10 gallon hat, Yellowstone Valley Buffalo Stam - spurs, and a brace of pistols. Said pede hosted by the Montana Terri - duck had to defend its tiny little tory Peacemakers. This year’s siblings from a pack of skunks match hit the bull’s eye! In fact, raiding the nest. the Brothers Grimm are convers - Stage four brought the shoot - ing with their attorney as this mis - ers to their sweetheart’s favorite pet goose at the butcher shop. sive is being penned. Retired Lt. Colonels, The activities started on Fri - This was no ordinary goose. This Gooch Hill Drifter and Little Gooph, goose laid really gigantic golden day morning with a dozen side handled flag raising honors matches offered for one’s shooting to initiate Yellowstone Valley eggs and had to be saved from the pleasure. The main match, au - Buffalo Stampede. It’s not braggin’ if you can do it! butcher’s axe. Tangle Foot shows the correct thored by Backstrap Bill, SASS The now wealthy posse mem - attitude when you finish with bers moved on to stage five and #26516, started in grand style on Gooch Hill Drifter, SASS #19090, a clean stage! Friday afternoon when Bugler, and Little Gooph, SASS #96287, (Continued on page 59 ) SASS #62920, announced the flag raising the flag. Once the day’s Winners Categories raising ceremony and safety meet - shooting was completed, everyone Overall 49’er MT Jughead, ing by playing his bugle followed gathered for a potluck supper and Man & Overall Noah Regrets, SASS #76906 by retired Lieutenant Colonels the great music of the band Cimar - SASS #51706 Cowgirl Buckskin Lily ron—Buckskin Lily, SASS #51707, Lady Buckskin Lily, Cowboy Dusty Barrells, and Absaroka Sam, SASS #94626. SASS #51707 SASS #88186 Saturday morning everyone recon - Categories Clean Match Marshall Cotton, vened for the completion of the Young Gun Mustang Maddie, SASS #3283 main match stages. SASS #89066 Side Matches Buckarette Sug Wild Bunch MT Jughead The saga of the fractured fairy Buckaroos Big Gooph, Speed Pistol A. E. Irons, tales began on stage one when a SASS #96288 SASS #76364 genie, in long red underwear, of - E Statesman Grizzly Bill, Speed Rifle MT Jughead fered each shooter a magical spit - SASS #72345 Long Range toon and three wishes. Every L Senior Miss Pepper, Rifle Dusty Barrells shooter proved to be very wise, SASS #3284 Pistol MT Jughead rubbed the spittoon, and wished for Senior Joes Cross, Speed Shotgun Noah Regrets their rifle, their pistols, and their SASS #13848 Texas Star MT Jughead shotgun. The wishes were magi - F Cartridge Marshal Cotton, .22 Rim Fire Noah Regrets SASS #3283 Pocket Pistol Sawed Off Shotgun cally granted, and the firearms ma - Frontiersman Hatchet Jack, Hawken, terialized before the shooters’ eyes SASS #2136 SASS #95411 so the dastardly villains could be Gunfighter Gooch Hill, Derringer Buckskin Lily “Five with one shot” became dispatched in a timely fashion. SASS #49090 Sodbuster Joe Cross, “Five with one swat!” And, Having worked up an appetite Duelist Noah Regrets SASS #13848 the “flies” had to be conversing with the magical genie, L 49’er Lil Skeeter, Cowboy Skeet Dusty Barrells flicked off the barrel! the posse members went to have SASS #87502 Visit us at sassNEt .Com December 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 55

Buckskin Lilly and Absaroka entertained Friday evening after the first day’s shooting.

Match Director Backstrap Bill, SASS #26516, and Lilly Blossom, SASS #26517, performed a very forgettable rendition of “Blood on the Saddle” Friday evening on the Veranda.

Noah Regrets, SASS #51706, and Buckskin Lily, SASS #517 — Match Winners — Congratulations!

Horrors! The goose that lays the golden egg is at the butchers!! Once saved, the shooters are wealthy beyond compare!

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Smoke in the Badlands-Part II . . . (Continued from page 53 ) Scenarios were straightforward had no idea she took it upon her - and clearly understandable. The self to coordinate with SASS targets were set-up close so missing Headquarters for permission to was an embarrassment one had to host last year’s first SASS ap - live with, and there were some, like proved Oregon State Blackpowder this reporter, who were embar - Championship match. Organizing rassed. The most difficult target this year’s shoot was by now “old was an individual by the name hat,” to Annie. Stage Scenarios “Pruney Bill” (PB for short). PB is and target placement were de - a metal figure consisting of head, signed by one of the hardest work - body, arms, and legs, and a disposi - ing members of the Pine Mountain tion for avoiding lead hits. Because Posse, The Stonewood Kid, SASS of PB, there were no clean shooters #62875. Stonewood did a com - at this particular match! In re - mendable job as always. Saturday sponse to threats of lynching, stage night featured a rousing two-stage designer Stonewood Kid was forced “Thunder & Lightning” shoot or - to exile PB to the garbage heap. He ganized by The Kingrey Family. will no longer be part of the ensem - After witnessing this night shoot, ble that made this shoot another one could understand why we great one … Goodbye and good rid - Americans like fireworks—it was dance, Pruney Bill! actually quite beautiful, and The Range where this shoot everyone involved seemed to have was conducted, has a “Hell Town” a big smile on their face. that seems to invite knockdown One of the major events at the shotgun targets in-between build - shoot was the return of Bart Star, ings. Over the years an “authen - SASS Life #5885. Bart suffered a tic” look has developed on the crippling stroke several months buildings caused by a few errant ago, and has been in rehabilitation shotgun rounds. There are also ever since. His Cowboy friends some larger holes caused by the have helped him in his recovery aforementioned large caliber rifles. and return to shooting. His stroke For some reason left to conjecture, was severe, limiting arm and body The Saloon (ACS) seems to draw movements. The Coho Kid and lead like a magnet—must be some - Brassy Shell of Ted Blocker thing in the shooter’s DNA. Leather made a sling for him (no Blackpowder shooters are a Winners Blackpowder charge) to assist in his handling of special breed—reminiscent in a Blackpowder B-Western Paso Tom, L F Cartridge Tuffy Tumbleweed, SASS #66808 WA long guns. This type of help, along way of what we know about Pio - SASS #68204 OR Brazos Bucky Smith, with the assistance of all his good neer Mountain Men. They are set L Duelist Arctic Annie, SASS #59058 OR friends, has enabled Bart to get in their ways, and by golly no SASS #37265 OR Gunfighter Jess Ducky, back to shooting and winning tro - smart aleck wimp loading smoke - L Gunfighter Kookanadude, SASS #4275 WA phies again. His courage and our less runt is going to tell them dif - SASS #53933 OR Whisperin’ Wade, admiration are beyond description. ferent. Understanding this is very L Senior Meadow Patty, SASS #36209 OR Welcome back, Bart Star! important, especially during a SASS #72250 OR S Gunfighter Haole, The Shoot was a two-day match state match. The Vaders invited Cowgirl Sweet Shots, SASS #49825 HI consisting of five stages on each this reporter to take part in the SASS #92782 OR Buckaroo Kid Curly, L B-Western Harley Davidson, SASS #92409 OR day, plus the night shoot mentioned night shoot, but I was wheezing SASS #43709 OR Young Gun Renegade Riley, above. No “P” traps were set. The badly, and breathing with some L 49’er Cascades Annie, SASS #79445 OR SASS #70533 OR Frontiersman I’m Grumpy, F Cartridge Stonewood Kid, SASS #40135 OR SASS #62875 OR F Duelist Appy Dan, E Statesman Brownie Nash, SASS #67998 OR SASS #3656 OR F Senior Barbarosa Mike, S Senior Juniper Butch, SASS #16837 OR SASS #20029 OR F C Cowboy Festis Thayer, Senior Lil Italy, SASS #13149 WA SASS #86063 OR F Gunfighter Jed I. Knight, Cowboy Darn Tootin’, SASS #36423 OR SASS #42854 OR Smokeless Winners C Cowboy Silver Sage Outlaw, Wrangler Hoss Reese, SASS #70532 OR SASS #88815 OR S Duelist Will Sackett, Gunfighter The Legend, SASS #59872 WA SASS #36069 OR Bart Star, E Statesman Palaver Pete, SASS #5885 OR SASS #4375 OR Duelist Mid Valley Drifter, Senior Rifleman Daniel, SASS #35724 OR SASS #87919 OR 49’er Bullett, S Senior Deschutes Bodey, SASS #19707 OR SASS #72606 OR

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Smokeless Winners difficulty, so I decided to go to a Duelist Sunrise Bill, friend’s tent and drink some moon - SASS #64301 OR S Duelist Ballarat Slow Lee, shine instead. Those that lit up SASS #65231 OR the night sky over Central Oregon L Wrangler Sandy Charm, that evening reported it was the SASS #79785 OR most fun they have had since hit - L B-Western Paniolo Annie, ting buffalo’s at 1,000 yards. There SASS #71269 HI they go again, see what I mean? L 49’er Pepper G, Everything they talk about is re - SASS #89336 OR lated to the dark stuff—leading me Cowgirl Awful E. Nice, to believe that “The Vaders” truly SASS #92849 AZ Side Match Winners believe the Force is with them! Long Range EPILOGUE : Lever Action The Legend, Registration fee for this shoot SASS #36069 OR was a mere $40, and that included S Shot Brownie Nash, lunch provided by The Olive Gar - SASS #3656 OR den restaurant. Sweet Shots, Pocket Pistol SASS #92782, mother of the Lady Powder River Rose, Kingrey clan, is employed by the SASS #77227 OR restaurant chain, and managed to Man Tetherow Tex LaRue, SASS #90999 OR arrange for the lunch donation— Derringer thank you Sweet Shots! For next Lady Paniolo Annie, year’s shoot, Cascades Annie said SASS #71269 HI she will make every effort to keep Man Jed I. Knight, the price in the same ball park as SASS #36423 OR this year. Be looking for next Spirit of the Gam e year’s Oregon State Blackpowder Bart Star, Championship Shoot, and other SASS #5885 OR shoot announcements on the Pine Mountain Posse Website at: www.pinemountainposse.com . You’re a Daisy if ya do!

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shootiN ’aCross thE ouTlaw ’s run usa By Rio Drifter, SASS #49244 and Tennessee Tall, SASS #49245

After his death, the club survived for several years and then closed. This begins the history of Out - Rio Drifter, SASS #49244 and law’s Run club. We received a Tennesse Tall, SASS #49245 phone call asking if we would like to have the targets and such from Will’s club. With the help of sev - ed Oak, IA – We love eral friends, we moved stages, tar - Iowa—so much pretty gets, and everything else to SASS country and so many #32438, James Norris’s, farm west R nice folks, its hard to of Red Oak, Iowa, and had an al - stay away long. Discovered an - most instant shooting range. other of the great places and nice We began to look for a name. folks hanging out at Outlaw’s Run We hit upon the fact there are sev - near Red Oak, Iowa. eral local legends about this par - Their story is best told by ticular area. In the 1890s a small Tejas, SASS #15133, aka Dave Mc - town southeast of us suffered a Farland. “It’s hard to believe when bank robbery. The story varies I think back that Outlaw’s Run in and it’s hard to pin down details, Southwest Iowa has been here for but several bandits robbed the six years. Let’s start at the begin - bank making off with mostly gold ning though: and silver coinage. They headed Over ten years ago some of our north and west on horseback to members were shooting at Butt’s the next town but were caught be - Tejas, SASS #15133, provided the historical background on Butte, a SASS club some thirty fore they completed their getaway. Outlaw’s Run. Many areas have interesting history, if only someone is interested enough to seek it out! miles west of here. That club was They were captured within a short started by Will Williams, who had distance of our range. They did always wanted to start a Cowboy not have the money on them and robbed. I have spoken to a couple fancy, but we have ten stages and Action Club. Will was diagnosed are supposed to have buried the of people who remembered the in - good food for lunch.” with cancer, and that diagnosis money nearby. And no, you can - cident. One part of the story that Our thanks to Tejas for shar - gave him the resolve to go for his not come and dig up our range! has been confirmed is the bank ing his story with us. Thank you dream of building a club. Sadly Details are hard to come by— bought several guns for future pro - to his lovely wife, Roxie, and Tejas Will’s cancer came back, and this seems the bankers did not want to tection, including two 1886 Win - for our tour of County Museum time he did not win the match. publicize the fact their bank was chester rifles. I have handled and and to Lisa Sallach for the photo - shot one of those guns and have graphs in this article. seen several other firearms associ - David McFarland is the Direc - ated with the incident. tor of the Montgomery County In 1900, there was another at - History Center located just north tempted bank robbery nearby, but of US Highway 34 on 4 th Street in in a different town. This time the Red Oak. The Montgomery bandits placed a large quantity of County Historical Society was in - dynamite around the bank’s safe in corporated in 1945. In 2006 they order to open it. They used an ex - held the Grand Opening of a cessive amount, and the walls of the 14,000 square foot building that bank were weaker than the safe. now houses a Military Exhibit, The results were a dented, but un - Masonic Lodge, Children’s Center, opened, safe, a hole in the side of and enough other significant items the bank, and three very stunned and displays to hold your attention would-be robbers. They were cap - for days. Check them out on their tured a short distance to the north website at: and, you guessed it, very near http:www.freewebs.com/mont where our range is now located. gomerycountyhistorycenter So if you ever come to Outlaw’s Rio Drifter and I camped on Run you will understand the the range Saturday and Sunday name, and you will be on hallowed nights in the quietest most peace - When shooting at Outlaw’s Run, it’s hard to forget numerous outlaws ground—well at least larcenous ful of locales with nary a sign of an have passed this way, and many had their careers cut shot nearby! dirt! We are a small club, not too outlaw … and no gold coins! Visit us at sassNEt .Com December 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 59

e e moDEL ‘12 shotguN noTiCe f we wish to grow Wild Bunch™ Action Shooting into a larger pulled, so that visual method is unreliable as an indicator of hammer shooting sport, guns must be available for new shooters coming down condition. It has been determined the most reliable time to verify into the game. There are very few good operating ‘97s available the hammer is down on an empty chamber is on the firing line PRIOR I with functioning magazines. There were over 1.9 million Model to starting the course of fire. Accordingly, the following new rule 12s produced. There are tens of thousands of them in good operating will be introduced into the Wild Bunch Shooters Handbook, ef - condition available on the used market for reasonable prices. For this fective January 1, 2013: reason the Model 12 has been approved for Wild Bunch™ Action Shoot - “Under the direct supervision of the TO/CRO on the firing line the ing sanctioned match use effective January 1, 2013. shooter must point the muzzle in a safe direction and pull the trigger. If A major safety issue with the Model 12 is the internal hammer. It the hammer falls—SDQ. Failure to follow this procedure—SDQ. It is is vitally important to ensure the hammer is down on an empty chamber the shooter’s responsibility to ensure this procedure is followed before be - before the course of fire begins. There have been many documented fail - ginning the course of fire.” ures to ensure firearms are in a safe condition when leaving the loading This procedure has already been used at several non-sanctioned table, so the loading table is NOT the place to perform the safety check. matches where Model 12s were allowed and has been well received by Also, the slide lock release does not always retract when the trigger is the shooters.

Yellowstone Valley Buffalo Stampede . . . (Continued from page 54 ) wood, and brick on stage seven. discovered Jack, the giant kill’n Instead of three little pigs, the cowpoke, had met his match when shooters encountered three Jack was appointed sheriff and Pinkertons and Bart Blowhard’s had to defend the town against a Gang. The shootout went down ‘gigantic’ gang of midgets. the street, building to building, Celebrating with Jack his ending in the brick bank. great victory, each shooter decided Suddenly, on stage eight, the to do a bit of boasting and men - town of Hysham is swarming with tioned they got “five with one rats—lots and lots of rats! The shot.” The shooter doesn’t men - lead dispensers needed to rid the tion it was five flies and not five town of this terrible infestation bad guys that met their demise and hired the Pied Piper of with one “swat,” not shot. To start Hysham at 50 cents a rat, thus fin - stage six, five raisins posing as ishing off the rats and finishing off flies had to be squashed with a the eight-stage main match. pancake turner and flicked off the The Montana Territory Peace - head of a whiskey barrel. makers extend a huge thank you On the last bend of the trail to all who helped out and all who leading through fairy tale country, attended this year’s match for the participants approached an making it so much fun and such a odd looking town called Hysham success. We hope to see you all with its buildings made of straw, again next year, if not sooner!

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By Goatneck Clem, SASS Life #16787 On The Brazos Photos by Leggs Brazos, SASS #24876 Texas state Wild Bunch ™ Championships leburne, TX – The Co - manche Valley Vigi - C lantes (CVV) hosted the Wild Bunch™ on the Brazos, State Championships for 2012. CVV is located on the Ormsby Ranch. We have a well laid out shooting range with plenty of room for 12 stages, permanent props and buildings, and ample room for all the campers and RVers cape of the rifles. Rifles and pistols that arrived for a major SASS shot in the match had to have the event. CVV shares the Ormsby tape on the gun. Ranch range with Lone Star Fron - Target presentation for the tier Shooting Club. Lone Star match were set at prescribed dis - hosted the 2012 Cowboy Action tances according to SASS Wild Texas State Championships in Bunch™ recommendations. Club May. As one can see, we are not President Billy Bob Evans did the strangers to big SASS matches in opening ceremonies, and the cham - Cleburne, Texas. ternoon was, “I’m shocked, my loads then we are in the top two. Among pionship was off and running. Stage Lets start at the beginning. didn’t make the PF, so I’ve got to in - the champions at the match were one started at Kat’s House requiring CVV holds a monthly Wild Bunch crease my powder charge.” The Crooked Bullet, reigning Oklahoma 15 pistol, 10 rifle, and 5 shotgun match on the 4th Saturday of each Chronograph was set up again at Traditional Champ, and his lovely rounds. We had 16 knockdown tar - month. Lone Star took it one step the Wild Bunch™ match the week - wife, Green Eyed Brazos Belle, gets on this stage. Odessa lead off, further in September and held a end before the State. To no sur - reigning Oklahoma Traditional starting as the first shooter and set - Wild Bunch match on their week - prise, most everyone passed the PF Ladies Champ, both from Texas. ting the pace with a fast and posi - end before the state matches. We test. By match weekend club mem - Dusty Bottoms also from Texas, tive start for the match. We shot six decided in August to set up a bers had the range in tip-top shape. reigning Louisiana overall Wild stages Saturday and six on Sunday. Chronograph after the monthly A 12-stage match was set and Bunch™ State Champion and 2011 The stage writer gave the shooters match to let everyone check their ready for the taking. Oklahoma Overall State Champion. lots of movement and plenty of close loads for Power Factors (PF). Boy, If Texas doesn’t have the To round out the field of top shoot - targets and a fair share of targets did that open some eyes! So the biggest collection of State, National, ers, Captain Sam Evans is the where you really had to look at your buzz-phrase at the awards that af - and World Champions of any state, reigning Texas overall Wild Bunch™ State Champion and was Winners Top Overall in the top seven of both the Na - Man Evil Roy, tional Championships and World SASS #2883 CO Championships at END of TRAIL Lady Green Eyed Brazos this year. To add to this list of Belle, Champs is the reigning National SASS #82399 TX Champion, Evil Roy, who by the Texas State Champions way is a member of the Wild Man Captain Sam Bunch™ Committee. The match Evans, was set for a rip-roaring weekend of SASS #16788 TX Lady Green Eyed Brazos Wild Bunch™ on the Brazos. Belle TX On Saturday morning bright Categories and early all the ammo was tested Modern Evil Roy CO for Power Factor and the 1911s L Modern Green Eyed Brazos were certified for functioning Belle TX safeties. Both 1911s and rifles Traditional Crooked Bullet, were certified and marked with SASS #70870 TX Red Tape on the pistol trigger L Traditional Miss Cubbie, guard and blue tape on the forearm SASS #84627 TX Visit us at sassNEt .Com December 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 61

front sight to stay in the hunt. Lunch was prepared by our own tion. After lunch Billy Bob The Hot Tamale Factory was Sidewinder Sid and his wife. Sid was ready for the awards Stage Two. You needed 20 pistol, 10 smoked beef briskets and pork butts ceremony. This writer no - rifle, and 5 shotgun rounds and had all day Friday in his cooker. As you ticed not one shooter left to deal with a quartering clay bird would expect, we ate award winning early before the awards. to the right at 2 o’clock. The shooter Bar-B-Q both days. It is, after all, in All the sponsors were rec - had four options to engage the bird the Texas Constitution—at least one ognized, and there were presentation. Evil Roy showed the meal at any Big Shindig in Texas is nice door prizes for every crowd why he is a world-class a Bar-B-Q! shooter. After the awards, shooter. He figured out the correct Sunday, after the last stage was the last door prize given and fastest way to execute the bird. shot, scores were quickly tabulated, away, a Winchester Model He won the stage by seven seconds and everyone sat back and relaxed 12 Shotgun, and that’s over the second place shooter! to the Texas Constitutional tradi - why no one left early. Captain Jarrett was the lucky winner! All in all, it was an impressive event and a fun-filled weekend. I can’t wait for next year. One last note, this was an e-mail sent to our Club President about a week after everyone on our posse. Really en - the match: And I quote … joyed the 30-shot pistol only stage. “I want to extend my thanks for It’s creative stage writing like that the great match and warm reception that makes a match fun. Best by all the hard working folks at wishes to everyone at CVV. In this CVV. That was by far the best run writer’s opinion that makes it all and most fun Wild Bunch™ match worthwhile.” I’ve attended. I really like the pistol The Ormsby Ranch, is 12 miles safety and power factor check. That southwest of Cleburne, TX just 40 keeps the match honest and safe for miles southwest of Fort Worth, TX.

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wiLD buNC h For DUMMIES 4 Loading .45 ACP & .45 Colt

By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life/Regulator #24287

2. Load them so the “edge” you see is exactly at the end of the 3 case mouth. Most mistakes are loading them too long. The .45 ACP case headspaces on the case mouth. In Photo 2 , the round in Photo 4—EGW Case Gauge for the center is correctly seated and .45 ACP. Second round on the top crimped. On the round on the has a bulged case Captain George Baylor, right, the bullet is seated very SASS Life / Rugulator #24287 slightly too long. 5 3. Use a Lee Factory Crimp Die. It will, properly adjusted, .45 ACP Ammunition make a slight taper crimp and Reliability will re-size the case of the com - f you’re winning with pleted round to the base. The case your ammo, don’t change headspaces on the case mouth, so anything. When a 1911 you don’t want excessive crimp I fails during a match, gen - erally ammunition is the problem. 2 Photo 3—.45 ACP round with bulged case, caught by case gauge If you’re having reliability prob - lems, some suggestions: 1. Most of the winners are of the way in due to a bulge. using 230 gr. Lead Round Nose 5. Chronograph every lot of (LRN) bullets. There are good match ammunition. Every part of and bad bullet molds for 230 gr. that cartridge affects the Power LRN bullets. Ones with a big, Factor (PF)—bullet design, shape broad nose can be problematic and weight, the length they’re with non-throated barrels. Photo Photo 2—left to right: A 230 gr. seated, amount of crimp, primers, 1 shows the correct dimensions LRN bullet, a round with the bullet and powder. Change one, and the correctly seated and crimped, a for a perfect .45 ACP round using PF changes. If you’re loading to round with the bullet seated too long a 230 gr. FMJ bullet. For a 230 gr. and the brass crimped into the lead. 170± and something lowers it by LRN the overall length (OAL) 10%, which is a lot, you’re still legal. should be 1.23 – 1.24 inches. Note where the brass digs into the there is a slight taper crimp, to lead. Otherwise, the round will .45 Colt Wild Bunch Ammo 0.473 inches. headspace on the extractor. Most Reliability Photo 5—.45 Colt with 200 gr. ammo problems cause a failure to Three common ammunition LRNFP bullet correctly loaded, 1 go into battery. A bulge in the problems will “lock up” a ‘66 – ‘73 note roll crimp into the crimp groove case will do that. Photo 3 shows action: a bulged case. 1. Split cases. When a round taken out, and the round will not 4. Run all match ammunition with a split case gets into the chamber. Trapped by the extrac - through a chamber checker. rifle, spring tension from the mag tor, it won’t eject, either. .45 Colt Photo 4 shows an EGW Chamber spring will often push the bullet needs a good roll crimp ( Photo 5 ). Checker from Dillon Precision. deep into the case, causing it to be 3. A round that is slightly too Each round should go in all the too short, locking up the gun. long will stick in the shell lifter of Photo 1—dimensions of a standard way and fall out when the checker 2. Uncrimped rounds will not a ‘66 or ‘73. .45 ACP round using a 230 gr. FMJ is turned upside down. While the go into the chamber and won’t All of these can be avoided by bullet. We use lead bullets with a ammo is in the case checker, you eject. Normally the case mouth is rigid quality checking. It takes slightly different profile. OAL with can catch high or upside down belled slightly in order to facili - longer to QC the ammunition a 230 gr. LRN should be 1.23 – 1.24 primers and bent or gnarled rims. tate seating the bullet. If the than to load it on a good progres - inches. Note the slight taper crimp Note the second round from the round doesn’t go through the sive reloading machine. If you from .476 to .473 inches. left on the top row will not go all crimping stage, the belling isn’t practice a lot, you’ll probably just Visit us at sassNEt .Com December 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 63

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Photo 8 shows a failed round. A 8 split or bulged case or a gnarled rim can all cause the round to stick out like this. Checking the rounds visu - ally as you put them into the loading strip at the match and then into the rifle helps, too. Murphy is relentless. All of Wild Bunch For Dum - mies is online at: http://www.curtrich.com/01wild bunchfordummies.html

Photo 6— I’ve locked the caliper at 1.58. Any round that passes through Photo 8—Chamber checker will fit in my Uberti ‘73 made in the 1990s. / with rejected round want to QC your match ammuni - tion. The best cure for the split cases is using new brass for big matches. If you can’t do that, then you’ll need to check every round of brass for splits before putting it into the case feeder. I use bright light, close-up glasses, and thumbnails. Then I put the survivors into one palm 5-6 at a time and shake them. You can hear split cases you can’t see. If in doubt, don’t put that case in the case feeder. Run every round of match am - munition through calipers set to your maximum allowable OAL (Photo 6 ). Some Ubertis require an overall length of 1.59 inches or less. So I run completed rounds through a caliper pre-set to 1.58 to make sure. If you crimp into the leading edge of the crimp groove, it will be 1.56 – 1.57 with most 200 or 250 gr. bullet designs. Then put every round of match ammunition into a cham - ber checker/case gauge. Photo 7 shows a round that passed. 7

Photo 7—.45 Colt Chamber checke r/case gauge with a round that passed inspection.

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e e Tres Rios Bandidos Shoot wiLD buNC htm Matches armington, NM – Tres Rios Bandidos of Farmington, New Bunch™ club of Evil Roy and Wicked Felina. We shoot Wild Bunch™ Mexico is located in the Northwest corner of our state. We the second Sunday each month. Come on out and shoot with us! have been shooting monthly Wild Bunch™ matches for over Visit our website at: F two years now. http://www.trbcas.org/ The range is set in the lower canyon of the San Juan Wildlife Contact El Mulo Vacquero @ Federation Shooting Range. Following Wild Bunch™ rules, our [email protected] stages are challenging and fun! Of course, we have been a long es - or Largo Casey @ tablished Cowboy Action Shooting™ club, as well as being popular [email protected] for our extreme Long Range matches. We are the hometown Wild for info. /

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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 Shasta regulators Of 2nd Sat Cayenne pepper 530-275-3158 Burney 3rd Sun hat Creek golden heart Shootist 2nd Sat & wind drifter 907-457-2113 Fairbanks Coyote Valley Cowboys 2nd Sat Bad eye Bobolu 408-722-0583 morgan hill Society last Sun guns in the Sun 2nd Sat Johnny 2moons 760-346-0972 palm Springs Juneau gold miners posse 3rd Sun Five Card tanna 907-789-7498 Juneau Buffalo runners 2nd Sat grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 rescue AL dulzura desperados 2nd Sat hashknife willie 619-271-1481 San diego russell County regulators 1st Sat will killigan 706-568-0869 phoenix City California rangers 2nd Sat Jimmy Frisco 209-296-4146 Sloughhouse north alabama regulators 1st Sun drake robey 256-313-0421 woodville double r Bar regulators 2nd Sun Five Jacks 760-949-3198 lucerne Vulcan long rifles 2nd Sat parson henry 205-541-2207 hoover Valley Brown high Sierra drifters 2nd Sun grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 railroad Flat alabama rangers 2nd Sun dead horse phil 205-531-7055 Brierfield richmond roughriders 2nd Sun Buffy 650-994-9412 richmond Cahaba Cowboys 3rd Sun duke Slade 205-854-0843 Birmingham Over the hill gang (the) 2nd Sun kooskia kid 818-566-7900 Sylmar gallant gunfighters 3rd Sun Buck d. law 256-504-4366 hoover Bridgeport Vigilantes 3rd Sat Bee Blest 760-932-1139 Bridgeport Old York Shootists 4th Sun derringer di 205-647-6925 hoover Burro Canyon gunslingers 3rd Sat don trader 714-827-7360 meyers AR Canyon white river gang 1st Sat arkansas tom 870-656-8431 mountain nevada City peacemakers 3rd Sat marlin Schofield 530-265-9213 nevada City home north County Shootist assoc. 3rd Sat graybeard 760-727-9160 pala Critter Creek Citizens 1st Sun evil Bob 903-701-3970 Fourke Shasta regulators 3rd Sat modoc 530-365-1839 redding Vigilance robbers roost Vigilantes 3rd Sat nasty newt 760-375-7618 ridgecrest mountain Valley Vigilantes 1st wkd Christmas kid 501-625-3554 hot Springs gold Country wild Bunch 3rd Sat Sutter lawman 530-713-4194 Sloughouse Outlaw Camp 2nd & 5th Ozark Outlaw 501-362-2963 heber high desert Cowboys 3rd Sun doc Silverhawks 661-948-2543 acton Sat Springs kings river regulators 3rd Sun Sierra rider 559-268-1115 Clovis arkansas lead Slingers 2nd Sat & dirty dan 479-633-2107 garfield panorama northfield 3rd Sun gun hawk 818-761-0512 north 4th Sun paladin raiders hollywood South Fork river regulators 3rd Sat arkansas harper 870-994-7227 Salem South Coast rangers 3rd Sun Swifty Schofield 805-886-3360 Santa Barbara Judge parker’s marshals 3rd Sat & naildriver 479-651-2475 Fort Smith murieta posse 3rd Sun grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 Sloughhouse Sun helldorado rangers 3rd Sun will Bonner 707-462-1466 ukiah true grit SaSS 4th Sun Sister Sundance 479-970-7042 Belleville hawkinsville Claim 4th & 5th lethal les 530-842-4506 Yreka AZ Jumpers Sat l’amour white mountain Old west 1st & 3rd mustang lady 928-243-3457 Snowflake mad river rangers 4th Sat kid kneestone 707-445-1981 Blue lake Shootists Sat Sue Coyote Valley 4th Sat wif 408-448-3256 San Jose rio Salado Cowboy action 1st Sat a. J. Bob 480-982-7336 mesa Sharpshooters Shooting Society pozo river Vigilance 4th Sat dirty Sally 805-438-4817 Santa Cowtown wild Bunch 1st Sun wild Bodie tom 602-721-3175 Carefree Committee margarita Shooters California Shady ladies 4th Sat lady gambler 916-447-2040 Sloughhouse Old pueblo Shootist 1st Sun gilly Boy 520-249-2831 tombstone Faultline Shootist Society 4th Sun Querida 831-635-9147 gonzales association the range 4th Sun grass V.Federally 530-273-4440 grass Valley Cowtown Cowboy Shooters 1st Sun & Barbwire 480-773-2753 peoria the Cowboys 4th Sun Captain Jake 714-318-6948 norco 3rd Sat deadwood drifters 4th Sun lusty lil 661-775-3802 piru arizona Cowboy Shooters 2nd Sat deputy Curly 602-487-9728 phoenix Sloughhouse irregulators 5th Sat & Badlands Bud 530-677-0368 Sloughhouse association Sun whiskey row gunslingers 2nd Sun turquoise Bill 928-925-7323 prescott CO Colorado river regulators 2nd Sun & Crowheart 928-505-2200 lake havasu Colorado Cowboys 1st Sat painted Filly 719-439-6502 lake george 4th Sat Colorado Shaketails 1st Sun midnite Slim 719-660-2742 Fontain northern arizona Cowboy 3rd Sat robber Baron 928-607-5640 Flagstaff San Juan rangers 1st Sun kodiak kid 970-252-1841 montrose Shooter association windygap regulators 1st wkd piedra kidd 970-799-1133 Cortez lake powell gunslingers 3rd Sat Bare Fist Jack 928-660-2104 page Vigilantes 2nd Sat grizz Bear 719-545-9463 pueblo los Vaqueros 3rd Sat Buckeye pete 520-548-8298 tucson Four Corners rifle and 2nd Sun Capt. w. k. 970-565-3840 Cortez tonto rim marauders 3rd Sun Silverado Cid 928-595-1230 payson pistol Club kelso mohave marshalls 3rd Sun & d B Chester 928-231-9013 kingman montrose marshals 2nd Sun Big hat 970-249-7701 montrose 5th Sat Ben lomond high plains 2nd Sun Sand river 303-771-1920 ramah altar Valley pistoleros 3rd Sun & mean raylean 520-235-0394 tucson drifters Slim 5th Sun Castle peak wildshots 2nd wkd Old Squinteye 970-524-9348 gypsum arizona Yavapai rangers 4th Sat whisperin 928-567-9227 Camp Verde pawnee Station 3rd Sat red Creek dick 303-857-0520 nunn meadows martin dusty Bunch Old western 4th Sat Squibber 520-568-2852 Casa grande rockvale Bunch 3rd Sat mister 719-784-1342 rockvale Shooters Four Corners gunslingers 3rd Sun Cereza Slim 970-247-0745 durango Colorado river Shootists 4th Sun Boston 928-502-1298 Yuma thunder mountain 3rd wkd pinto Being 970-464-7118 grand anniebelle Shootists Junction CA Briggsdale County Shootist 4th Sat kid Bucklin 970-493-1813 Briggsdale Sunnyvale regulators 1st & 3rd Shaniko Jack 650-464-3764 Cupertino northwest Colorado rangers 4th Sat Sagebrush Burns 970-824-8407 Craig mon night Sand Creek raiders 4th Sun Sweet water Bill 303-366-8827 Byers west end Outlaws 1st & 3rd Chickamauga 951-549-9304 lytle Creek Black Canyon ghost riders 4th Sun double Bit 970-874-8745 hotchkiss Sat Charlie CT Silver Queen mine 1st & 3rd t. e. kidd 562-598-7771 azusa ledyard Sidewinders 1st Sat Yosemite gene 860-536-0887 ledyard regulators Sun Ct Valley Bushwackers 2nd Sun milo Sierra 860-508-2686 east granby escondido Bandidos 1st Sat devil Jack 760-741-3229 escondido DE the Outlaws 1st Sat terrell Sackett 916-363-1648 Sacramento padens posse 3rd Sun hazel pepper 302-422-6534 Bridgeville lassen regulators 1st Sat Chief wages 530-257-3402 Susanville FL two rivers posse 1st Sat & dragon 209-836-4042 manteca gold Coast gunslingers 1st Sat george washington 786-256-9542 Fort lauder- 4th Sun mclintock dale river City regulators 1st Sun point of Orgin 530-304-5616 davis ghost town gunslingers 1st Sat Copenhagen 904-808-8559 St. augustine mother lode Shootist 1st Sun Sioux City kid 209-795-4175 Jamestown hernando County regulators 1st Sun Shady Brady 352-686-1055 Brooksville Society 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 of 661-589-7472 Bakersfield Sharpshoot 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 Okeechobee Outlaws 2nd Sat & dead wait 863-357-3006 Okeechobee Chorro Valley regulators 2nd & 5th mad dog 805-440-7847 San luis 4th Sun Sun mcCoy Obispo tater hill gunfighters 2nd Sun Judge Jd Justice 941-629-4440 arcadia

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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) IN weewahootee Vigilance 2nd Sun 407-273-9763 407-273-9763 Orlando daleville desperados 1st Sat Flat water Bob 765-284-0405 daleville Committee Cutter’s raiders 1st Sat midnite desperado 574-893-7214 warsaw panhandle Cowboys 2nd Sun high Card 850-492-5162 pensacola atlanta Cattle Company 2nd Sat Bear Creek 765-652-1525 atlanta Southwest Florida 3rd Sat Jed lewis 239-455-4788 punta gorda reverend gunslingers pleasant Valley renegades 2nd Sat nomore Slim 812-839-3052 Canaan Big Bend Bushwhackers 3rd Sat Sixpence kid 850-459-1107 tallahassee Schuster’s rangers 2nd Sun Coal Car kid 219-759-3498 Chesterton lake County pistoleros 3rd Sat arcadia Outlaw 352-208-2788 tavares pine ridge regulators 3rd Sat riverboat gambler 765-832-7253 Brazil panhandle Cattle Company 4th Sat desperado dale 850-260-5507 Chipley wolff’s rowdy rangers 3rd Sat Justice d. Spencer 574-264-2012 Bristol Cowford regulators 4th Sat general lee 904-803-2930 Jacksonville Circle r Cowboys 3rd Sat mustang Bill 219-279-2781 Brookston Smokey wabash rangers 4th Sat henry remington 217-267-2820 Cayuga indian river regulators 4th Sat Belligerent Orney 321-403-2940 palm Bay Starke County desert 4th Sat whip mccord 219-942-5859 knox Bob Big rock SaSS 4th Sat Southpaw too 812-866-2406 lexington Ok Corral Outlaws 4th Sun kokomo kid 863-357-2226 Okeechobee red Brush raiders 4th Sat doc goodluck 812-721-1188 newburgh Five County regulators 4th Sun Jed lewis 239-455-4788 punta gorda deer Creek regulators 4th Sun doc molar 765-506-0344 Jonesboro doodle hill regulators 4th Sun dave Smith 813-645-3828 ruskin wildwood wranglers 4th Sun Voodooman 219-872-2721 michigan City antelope Junction rangers Fri nite & mayeye rider 727-736-3977 pineallas park westside renegades as Sch Johnny Banjo 812-430-6421 evansville 2nd Sat indiana Black powder guild as Sch C. C. top 574-354-7186 etna green GA KS river Bend rough riders 1st Sat done gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville Butterfield gulch gang 1st Sun kanasa Flatlander 785-493-5682 Chapman american Old west Cowboys 1st Sat Josey Buckhorn 423-236-5281 Flintstone powder Creek Cowboys 2nd & el dorado wayne 913-686-5314 lenexa Valdosta Vigilance Committee 1st Sat Big Boyd 229-244-3161 Valdosta 4th Sat & 4th wed lonesome Valley regulators 1st Sun wishbone hooper 478-922-9384 warner mill Brook wranglers 2nd Sun grandpa Buckten 785-421-2537 hill City robins millbrook providence Springs rangers 2nd Sat Buckshot Bob 229-924-0997 anderson Free State rangers 3rd & 5th Buffalo phil 913-904-8733 parker piedmont regulators 2nd Sat Chase randall 864-637-8873 eastanollee Sun doc holliday’s immortals 2nd Sat easy rider 770-954-9696 griffin Sandhill regulators 3rd Sat moundridge 620-345-3151 hutchinson Camden County Cowboys 2nd Sat Christian mortician 912-227-5683 kingsland goat roper South river Shootists 3rd Sat man From little 678-428-4240 Covington Capital City Cowboys 4th Sun top 785-313-0894 topeka river Chisholm trail rowdies 4th Sun Cody wyatt 316-204-1784 wichita tennessee mountain 3rd Sat trail Bones 423-842-6116 ringgold KY marauders kentucky regulators 1st Sat derby 270-489-2089 Boaz Cherokee Cowboys 4th Sat Bad lands Bob 706-654-0828 gainesville hooten Old town regulators 1st Sat double eagle dave 423-309-4146 mckee HI knob Creek gunfighters guild 1st Sun Buck Shot Jock 502-543-8439 west point maui marshals 1st & 3rd Bad Burt 808-875-9085 maui green river gunslingers 2nd Sat Yak 270-792-9001 Bowling Sat green Big island paniolos 3rd Sat paniolo annie 808-640-3949 Ocean View ponderosa pines posse 3rd Sat Copperhead Joe 606-599-5263 manchester Single action Shootist of 4th Sun Brandebuck 808-351-9260 honolulu Ohio river rangers 3rd Sat george rogers 270-554-1501 paducah hawaii Breathitt Bandits 4th Sat Slowly But Surely 606-666-4663 Jackson IA rockcastle rangers 4th Sat perfecto Vaquera 406-231-2359 park City turkeyfoot Cowboys 1st Sat ranger mathias 319-234-1550 elk run levisa Fork lead Slingers 4th Sun escopeta Jake 606-631-4613 pikeville Fischels heights Fox Bend peacemakers 4th Sun tocala Sam 859-552-9000 wilmore Fort des moines rangers 1st Sun pit mule 515-205-0557 indianola LA Zen Shootists 2nd Sat renegade Slim 515-987-0721 nevada deadwood marshals 1st & doc Spudley 504-467-6062 Sorrento Outlaw’s run 2nd Sun Capt. Jim midnight 712-623-5726 red Oak 3rd Sat ID up the Creek gang 2nd & 4th hardly able 337-474-5058 lake Charles gunslingers of Flaming 1st Sat Jughandle Jack 208-634-3121 Council Sat heart ranch Cypress Creek Cowboys 2nd Sat Smokey Shane 318-381-4840 downsville Squaw Butte regulators 1st Sun acequia kidd 208-365-4551 emmett Bayou Bounty hunters 2nd Sat Soiled dove 985-796-9698 Folsom Border marauders 1st Sun & mud marine 208-627-8377 east port guns of Sabine pass 3rd Sat hobbel-a-long 337-463-5690 hineston 4th Sat grand ecore Vigilantes 3rd Sat Ouachita kid 318-932-6637 natchitoches el Buscaderos 2nd & 4th Oddman 208-437-0496 Spirit lake Jackson hole regulators 4th Sat Slick mcClade 318-395-2224 Quitman Sun MA northwest Shadow riders 2nd Sat Silverado Belle 208-743-5765 lewiston Cape Cod Cowboys 4th Sat Curly Jay Brooks 508-477-9771 mashpee Southern idaho rangers 2nd Sat lone thumper 208-251-4959 pocatello Shawsheen river rangers as Sch Yukon willie 978-663-3342 Bedford Oregon trail rough riders 2nd Sun & John Bear 208-562-1914 Boise harvard ghost riders as Sch double r Bar kid 978-771-9190 harvard 3rd Sat danvers desperados as Sch Cyrus Cy klopps 781-667-2857 middleton hells Canyon ghost riders 3rd Sat J.p. Sloe 208-798-0826 moscow gunnysackers Sat nantucket dawn 781-749-6951 Scituate twin Butte Bunch 3rd Sat idaho packer 208-589-5941 rexburg MD panhandle regulators 3rd Sun halfcocked Otis 509-991-5842 Otis Orchards eas’dern Shore renegades 1st Sat teton tracy 302-378-7854 Sudlersville Snake river western Shooting 4th Sat white eyes 208-734-8440 Jerome thurmont rangers 1st Sun Cash Caldwell 240-285-7673 thurmont Society monocacy irregulars 2nd Sat Church key 304-229-8266 Frederick IL damascus wildlife rangers 4th Sat Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 damascus Shady Creek Shootists 1st & 4th dapper dan 309-734-2324 little York ME Sun porter Big pine Bounty hunters as Sch ripley Scrounger 207-876-4928 willmantic lakewood marshal’s 1st Sat pine ridge Jack 618-838-9410 Cisne Capitol City Vigilance as Sch mark lake 207-622-9400 augusta rangeless riders 1st Sat the inspector 618-345-5048 highland Committee kishwaukee Valley regulators 1st Sun Snakes morgan 815-751-3716 Sycamore Beaver Creek desperados as Sch Jimmy reb 207-698-4436 Berwick Free grazers 2nd Sat Fossil Creeek Bob 217-821-3134 effingham hurricane Valley rangers as Sch leo 207-829-3092 Falmouth tri County Cowboys 2nd Sat Sierra hombre 815-967-6333 hazelhurst MI kaskaskia Cowboys 2nd Sat wagonmaster ward 618-443-3538 Sparta rockford regulators 1st Sat no Cattle 616-363-2827 rockford illinois river City regulators 2nd Sun granville Stuart 309-243-7236 Chillicothe Blue water gunslingers 1st Sun Buggyman 810-434-9597 kimball Vermilion river long riders 2nd Sun lead poison lar 815-875-3674 leonore river Bend rangers 2nd Sat pitmaster 574-276-8805 niles nason mining Company 3rd & 5th diggins dave 618-927-0594 Benton double Barrel gang 2nd Sat. dakota Fats 269-721-8190 hastings regulators Sat Butcher Butte Bunch 2nd Sun grubby hardrock 810-750-0655 Fenton mclean County 3rd Sat marshall rd 309-379-4331 Bloomington Sucker Creek Saddle & 3rd Sat kid al Fred 989-832-8426 Breckenridge peacemakers gun Club litchfield Sportsman’s Club 3rd Sat ross haney 618-667-9819 litchfield Chippewa regulators 3rd Sat no name Justice 906-632-1254 Sault Ste. illowa irregulars 3rd Sun Shamrock Sis 309-798-2635 milan marie Fort Beggs defenders 3rd Sun toranado 815-302-8305 plainfield hidden Valley Cowboys 3rd Sun Saulk Valley Stubby 269-651-5197 Sturgis long nine Cowboys 4th & 5th Sun lemon drop kid 217-787-4877 loami rocky river regulators 3rd Sun terrebonne Bud 248-709-5254 utica good guys posse 4th Sun dangerous denny 815-245-7264 rockford eagleville Cowboys 4th Sat One Son of a gun 231-676-0922 Central lake Salt river renegades as Sch lily mae 217-985-4915 Barry Johnson Creek regulators 4th Sat rainmaker ray 313-618-2577 plymouth 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 December 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 69

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City MI (continued) NH mason County marshals 4th Sat two gun troll 231-343-2580 Scottsville the dalton gang Shooting 3rd wkd littleton S. dalton 603-444-6876 dalton wolverine rangers as Sch r.J. law 248-828-0440 port huron Club of nh Saginaw Field & Stream Club as Sch Bad river marty 989-585-3292 Saginaw pemi Valley peacemakers as Sch Bear lee tallable 603-667-0104 holderness lapeer County Sportsmans Sun Flat water 314-378-5689 attica white mountain regulators as Sch dead head 603-772-2358 Candia Club wranglers Johnny merrimack Valley as Sch Sheriff r. p. 603-345-6876 pelham MN marauders Bucket Cedar Valley Vigilantes 1st & 3rd d m Yankee 612-701-9719 morristown NJ Sat monmouth County rangers 2nd Sun utah tom 732-803-2430 monmouth Crow river rangers 1st Sun Cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 howard lake Jackson hole gang 4th Sun papa grey 732-961-6834 Jackson granite City gunslingers 2nd & 5th amen Straight 612-723-2313 Saint Cloud NM Sat magdalena trail drivers 1st & 3rd grizzly adams 575-854-2488 magdalena lone rock rangers 2nd Sat red dutchman 651-402-0368 Farmingtion Sat lookout mountain gunsmoke 2nd Sat wagonmaster 218-744-4694 Virginia rio rancho regulators 1st & 4th Sam Brannan 505-400-2468 rio rancho Society Sat Fort Belmont regulators 2nd Sun mule town Jack 507-840-0883 Jackson Bighorn Vigilantes 1st Sat Catamount 505-281-4402 Founders east grand Forks rod & 3rd Sun BB gunner 218-779-8555 east grand ranch gun Club Forks Otero practical Shooting 1st Sat Saguaro Sam 505-437-3663 la luz MO association Ozark posse (the) 1st Sat tightwad Swede 417-846-5142 Cassville Buffalo range riders 1st Sun Shanley Shooter 505-252-0589 Founders west plaines waddies 2nd & 5th Buckshot Baby 417-284-1432 tecumseh ranch Sat Chisum Cowboy gun Club 1st Sun two Bit tammy 575-626-9201 roswell moniteau Creek river 2nd Sun doolin riggs 573-687-3103 Fayette high desert drifters 2nd Sat Shakey Shooter 505-294-3233 Founders raiders ranch Shoal Creek Shootists 3rd Sat Chaos Jumbles 417-451-9959 Joplin lincoln County regulators 2nd Sat Frank Coe 575-808-1329 ruidoso gateway Shootist Society 3rd Sun Bounty Seeker 314-740-4665 St. louis Buffalo range riders 2nd Sun tijeras pete 505-227-1449 Founders Central Ozarks western 3rd Sun X. S. Chance 573-765-5483 St. robert wild Bunch ranch Shooters rio grande renegades 2nd wed, mica mcguire 505-263-1181 albuquerque Butterfield trail Cowboys 4th wkd Smokie 417-759-9114 walnut 3rd Sat, 4th Sun, Shade 5th Sat & Sun Southern missouri rangers 4th wkd pecos Steve 417-770-7516 willard gila rangers 2nd wkd Chico Cheech 575-388-2531 Silver City MS monticello range riders 3rd & 5th J. w. Brockey 575-744-4484 elephant natchez Sixgunners 1st Sat winchester 601-445-5223 natchez Sun Butte mississippi peacemakers 3rd Sat macon a. 601-214-4009 mendenhall Seven rivers regulators 3rd Sat Stink Creek Jones 575-885-9879 Carlsbad longshot monument Springs 4th Sat Val darrant 575-396-5303 hobbs mississippi river rangers 4th & 5th easy lee 901-413-5615 Byhalia Bushwhackers 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 Consequences Shooting Society NV gallatin Valley regulators 1st Sat gooch hill drifter 406-763-4268 logan Fort halleck Volunteers 1st & 3rd green Springs 775-753-8203 elko Sun river rangers Shooting 1st Sun & montana lil’ 406-761-0896 Simms Sat thomsen Society 4th Sat Skeeter high plains drifters 1st Sun irish ike 775-424-2336 Fernley makoshika gunslingers 2nd Sat doc wells 406-345-8901 glendive eldorado Cowboys 1st wkd Charming 702-565-3736 Boulder City rocky mountain rangers 2nd wkd Jocko 406-847-0745 noxon lone wolf Shooters, llC 2nd & 5th penny 775-727-4600 pahrump Bigfork Buscaderos 3rd Sat Bodie Camp 406-883-6797 Bigfork Sun pepperbox 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 two gun 406-655-8166 Billings roop County Cowboy 2nd Sun Jasper agate 775-849-7679 Sparks peacemakers montana Shooters assn. 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 rutherford- Boot hill regulators 1st Sun Judge Zaney grey 845-352-7921 Chester ton pathfinder pistoleros 1st Sun Sonny 315-695-7032 Fulton Old north State posse 1st Sat tracker mike 336-558-9032 Salisbury Crumhorn mountain 1st Sun lefty Cooper 607-287-9261 maryland Carolina rough riders 1st Sun pecos pete 704-394-1859 Charlotte Cowboys Carolina Single action 2nd & 5th Carolina’s 919-383-7567 eden Salt port Vigilance 2nd Sat twelve Bore 585-613-8046 holley Shooting Society Sun longarm Committee high Country Cowboys 2nd Sat wild Otter 828-423-7796 asheville Bar-20 inc. 2nd Sat Badlands Buck 315-637-3492 west eaton Carolina Cattlemen’s Shooting 2nd Sat wicked wanda 919-266-1678 Creedmore Border rangers 2nd Sun dammit dick 607-724-6216 greene and Social Society hole in the wall gang 3rd Sat el Fusilero 631-864-1035 Calverton Buccaneer range regulators 2nd Sat Jefro 910-327-2197 wilmington diamond Four 3rd Sat kayutah kid 607-796-0573 Odessa Bostic Vigilantes 2th Sat Bostic kid 704-434-2174 Bostic Circle k regulators 3rd Sun Smokehouse dan 518-885-3758 Ballston Spa gunpowder Creek 3rd Sat Fannie 828-754-1884 lenoir Sackets harbor Vigilantes 4th Sun ranger Clayton 315-465-6543 Sackets regulators kikinshoot Conagher harbor Cross Creek Cowboys 3rd Sat huckleberry mike 910-980-0572 wagram the long riders 4th Sun loco poco lobo 585-467-4429 Shortsville piedmont gunslingers 3rd Sun a. r. Stoner 336-922-1900 Churchland d Bar d wranglers 4th Sun Captain m.a.F 845-226-8611 wappingers Flat Branch ranch 4th Sat twelve mile Bluff 910-480-9609 Fayetteville Fall iredell regulators 4th Sat Charlotte 704-902-1796 Statesville mythical rough riders 5th Sun rev dave Clayton 716-838-4286 hamburg ND the Shadow riders as Sch dusty levis 646-284-4010 westhamp- trestle Valley rangers 2nd Sat doc hell 701-852-1697 minot ton Beach Badlands Bandits 2nd Sun roughrider ray 701-260-0347 Belfield east end regulators last Sun diamond rio 631-585-1936 westhamp- dakota rough riders as Sch Blake Stone 701-250-0673 moffit ton Sheyenne Valley last Sat wild river 701-588-4331 kindred OH peacekeepers rose Big irons 1st Sat deadwood Stan 513-894-3500 middletown NE middletown Sportsmens 1st Sat deadwood Stan 513-894-3500 middletown platte Valley gunslingers 1st Sun Firewater 308-226-2255 grand island Club eastern nebraska gun Club 2nd Sun Flint Valdez 712-323-8996 louisville tusco long riders 1st Sat prairie dawg 216-932-7630 midvale Flat water Shootists of the 3rd Sun Fortyfour 308-383-4605 grand island greene County Cowboys 1st Sun ruger ray 937-352-6420 Xenia grand island rifle Club maggie granger hill regulators 1st Sun Barbwire pete 740-450-8650 Zanesville 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 70 Cowboy Chronicle December 2012

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City OH (continued) SC (continued) Firelands peacemakers 1st wed, 3rd Sat angry angus 440-647-5909 rochester Savannah river rangers 3rd Sun kid ray 803-960-3907 gaston & 5th Sun geechee gunfighters 4th Sat doc kemm 843-737-3501 ridgeville Sandusky County regulators 2nd Sat Curtice Clay 419-836-8760 gibsonburg 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 pickaway 740-477-1881 Chillicothe Black hills Shootist 3rd Sun hawkbill Smith 605-342-8946 pringle Sun tracker association wilmington rough riders 3rd Sat paragon pete 740-626-7667 wilmington Bald mountain as Sch Cottonwood 605-280-1413 Faulkton auglaize rough riders 3rd Sun deputy diamond 419-722-6345 defiance renegades Cooter desperado TN Ohio Valley Vigilantes 4th Sat Ole Saddlebags 614-323-4500 mt. Vernon Bitter Creek rangers 1st 2nd & Oracle 423-334-4053 Crossville Central Ohio Cowboys 4th Sun Stagecoach 614-868-9821 Circleville 3rd Sun hannah greene County regulators 1st Sat mort dooley 423-335-0847 rogersville Stonelick regulators as Sch Carson 513-753-6462 milford wartrace regulators 1st Sat & whiskey hayes 931-684-2709 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 2nd Sat hombre Sin 865-257-7747 Oak ridge 3rd Sun Capron Outlaws 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 dry gulch desperados 1st Sat runamuck 509-520-3241 milton Shooting Society 1st Sat long Juan 512-750-3923 lockhart 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 & tuffy 541-919-7381 albany Concho Valley Shooters 2nd Sat roamin Shields 325-656-1281 San angelo Society 4th Sat tumbleweed texas riviera pistoleros 2nd Sat Stinkng Badger 361-9374845 george west umpqua regulators 4th Sun Oregun gustaf 541-430-1021 roseburg Bounty hunters 2nd Sat Cable lockhart 806-299-1192 levelland Columbia County Cowboys as Sch kitty Colt 503-642-4120 St. helens travis County regulators 2nd Sat Cherokee granny 979-561-6202 Smithville PA texas tenhorns Shooting 2nd Sat & mustang Sherry 903-815-8162 greenville perry County regulators 1st Sat tuscarora Slim 717-789-3004 ickesburg Club last Full wkd dry gulch rangers 1st Sat pep C. holic 724-263-1461 midway rio grande Valley Vaqueros 2nd Sun dream Chaser 956-648-7364 pharr Factoryville Freebooters 1st Sun tad Sloe 570-489-0652 Factoryville lone Star Frontier Shooting 2nd wkd long range 817-980-7206 Cleburne Chimney rocks regulators 1st Sun hattie hubbs 814-696-5669 hollidays- Club rick burg texican rangers 2nd wkd red Scott 210-316-0199 Fredericks- Conestoga wagoneers 1st Sun no Change 215-431-2302 Southampton burg Boot hill gang of topton 1st Sun lester moore 610-704-6792 topton Oakwood Outlaws 2nd wkd texas alline 903-545-2252 Oakwood whispering pines Cowboy 1st Sun Buck Johnson 814-945-6922 wellsboro Canadian river regulators 2nd, 3rd & adobe walls 806-679-5824 Clarendon Committee 5th Sat Shooter logans Ferry regulators 2nd Sat mariah kid 412-607-5313 plum Borough Old Fort parker patriots 3rd wkd Colt Faro 832-472-3278 groesbeck heidelberg lost dutchmen 2nd Sat ivory rose 717-627-0694 Schaeffers- Big thicket Outlaws 3rd Sat Shynee graves 409-860-5526 Beaumont town tejas Caballeros 3rd Sat Judge menday 512-964-9955 dripping westshore posse 2nd Sun hud mcCoy 717-683-2632 new Cumber- Coming Springs land gruesome gulch gang 3rd Sat eli Blue 806-293-2909 plainview dakota Badlanders (the) 2nd Sun timberland 610-434-1923 Orefield San antonio rough riders 3rd Sat tombstone mary 210-493-9320 San antonio renegade Cottonwood Creek Cowboys 3rd Sat pecos Cahill 325-575-5039 Snyder river Junction Shootist 3rd Sat Chuckwagon 724-626-2001 donegal willow hole Cowboys 3rd Sat & Baba looey 979-571-5614 north Zulch Society Sam Sun Jefferson Outlaws 3rd Sat Oracle Jones 410-239-6795 Jefferson texas historical Shootist 3rd Sun Charles 281-342-1210 Columbus Blue mountain rangers 3rd Sun Cathy Fisher 610-488-0619 hamburg Society goodnight matamoras mavericks 3rd Sun hammerin Steel 570-296-5853 milford trinity Valley regulators 3rd Sun grumpy grandpa 972-206-2624 mansfield Silver lake Bounty 3rd Sun marshal t. J. 570-663-3045 montrose red river regulators 3rd Sun el rio rojo ray 903-838-0964 texarkana hunters Buckshot Badlands Bar 3 3rd wkd t-Bone dooley 903-272-9283 Clarksville purgatory regulators 3rd wkd dry gulch geezer 814-827-2120 titusville Butterfield trail regulators 4th Sat texas Slim 325-668-4884 anson elstonville hombres 4th Sun trusty Sidekick 610-939-9947 manheim huaco rangers 4th Sat Blueeyed Bear 254-715-0746 China Spring el posse grande 4th Sun Black hills Barb 570-538-9163 muncy Valley Comanche Valley Vigilantes 4th Sat Billy Bob evans 972-393-2882 Cleburne Stewart’s regulators 4th Sun Sodbuster Burt 724-479-8838 Shelocta (wild Bunch) RI green mountain regulators 4th Sat Singin’ Zeke 830-693-4215 marble Falls lincoln County lawmen 4th Sun wyoming Blink 401-385-9907 Foster purgatory ridge rough 4th Sat armed to the 806-777-6182 Slaton SC riders teeth palmetto posse 1st Sat dun gamblin 803-422-5587 Columbia tejas pistoleros 4th Sat & texas paladin 713-690-5313 eagle lake hurricane riders 3rd Sat Saloon keeper 843-361-2277 aynor 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 December 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 71

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 Fredericks- rock river regulators 1st & 3rd Stoney mike 608-868-5167 Beloit burg Sat magnolia misfits 4th Sun attoyac kid 281-448-8127 magnolia western wisconsin 2nd Sat Sierra Jack 608-792-1494 holmen UT wild Bunch Cassidy three peaks rangers 1st & 3rd Curly Jim 435-590-9873 Cedar City Bristol plains pistoleros 2nd Sun huckleberry 815-675-2566 Bristol Sat whiskus Crystal river gunslingers 2nd Sun James 920-722-4105 waupaca Big hollow Bandits 1st Sat Cinch 435-724-2575 heber rosewood north rim regulators 1st Sat autum rose 435-644-5053 kanab wisconsin Old west 2nd Sun & Blackjack 715-949-1621 Boyceville Copenhagen Valley 1st Sat m.t. pockets 801-920-4047 mantua Shootist, inc 4th Sat martin regulators liberty prairie regulators 3rd Sat dirty deeds 920-229-5833 ripon utah territory gunslingers 1st Sat lefty pete 801-554-9436 Salt lake City Oconomowoc Cattlemen’s 4th Sat marvin the 414-254-5592 Concord musinia Buscaderos 1st. Sat Buffalo Juan 435-528-7432 mayfield association moyle wasatch Summit regulators 2nd & 4th Old Fashioned 435-224-2321 Salt lake City WV Sun dawn ghost riders 1st Sun Coffee Bean 304-327-9884 hinton dixie desperados 2nd & 4th the alaskan 435-635-3134 St. george Frontier regulators 2nd Sat Captain tay 304-265-5748 thorton Sat the railtown rowdys 2nd Sun miss print 304-589-6162 Bluefield rio Verde rangers 2nd Sat doc nelson 435-564-8210 green river rocky holler regulators 3rd Sun Jessee earp 304-425-2023 princeton desert historical Shootist 2nd Sat pronghorn pete 801-498-7654 kaysville kanawha Valley 3rd wkd eddie rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor Society regulators hobble Creek wranglers 2nd Sat hobble Creek 801-489-7681 Springville Cowboy action Shooting 4th Sun Jackson 540-678-0735 largent marshall Sports Cache Valley Vaqueros 2nd Sat. logan law 435-787-8131 logan peacemaker national as Sch Cole mcCulloch 703-789-3346 gerrards- utah war 3rd & 5th Jubal O. Sackett 801-944-3444 Sandy town Sat WY mesa marauders gun Club 3rd Sat Copper Queen 435-979-4665 lake powell Cheyenne regulators 1st Sat deputy Cuny 307-634-2449 Cheyenne diamond mountain rustlers 3rd Sat Cinch 435-724-2575 Vernal Colter’s hell Justice 1st Sat Yakima red 307-254-2090 Various wahsatch desperados 4th Sat highland drifter 801-860-9504 Fruit heights Committee wSaS Castle gate posse 4th Sat rowdy hand 435-637-8209 price Bessemer Vigilance 1st Sun & Smokewagon 307-472-1926 Casper VA Committee 3rd Sat Bill pungo posse Cowboy action 1st & 2nd missouri marshal 757-471-3396 waverly high lonesome drifters 2nd Sat kari lynn 307-587-2946 Cody Club Sat Sybille Creek Shooters 2nd Sat wyoming roy 307-322-3515 wheatland liberty long riders 1st Sun thunder Colt 540-296-0772 Bedford Southfork Vigilance 2nd wkd wennoff 507-332-5035 lander Cavalier Cowboys 1st Sun kuba kid 804-270-9054 hanover Committee wSaS halfcock County powder river Justice 3rd Sun doc Fehr 307-683-3320 Buffalo Virginia City marshals 1st tues humphrey hook 703-801-3507 Fairfax Committee wSaS Blue ridge regulators 2nd Sun Bad Company 540-886-3374 lexington great divide Outlaws 4th Sat Slingn lead 307-324-6955 rawlins k.C.’s Corral 3rd Sat Virginia 804-550-2242 mechanics- donkey Creek Shootists 4th Sun poker Jim 307-660-0221 gillette rifleman ville Snake river rowdies as Sch Sheriff J. r. 307-733-4559 Jackson mattaponi Sundowners 3rd Sun & Flatboat Bob 804-785-2575 west point Quigley 4th Sat pepper mill Creek gang 4th Sun Slip hammer Spiv 540-775-4561 king george International Bend of trail 4th Sun rowe - a - noc 540-890-6375 roanoke rivanna ranger as Sch Virginia ranger 434-973-8759 Charlottes- DOWN UNDER Company ville AUSTRALIA Stovall Creek regulators as Sch Brizco-Z 434-929-1063 lynchburg gold Coast gamblers 1st & 3rd dagger Jack 61 75 537 5857 gold Coast VT Sat Verdant mountain 2nd Sun doc mcCoy 802-363-7162 St. Johnsbury adelaide pistol & Shooting Club 1st Sat & lobo malo 61 08 284 8459 korunye Vigilantes 3rd Sun WA Flint hill prospectors 2nd Sat Judge ruger 61 41 838 3299 glenlogie northeast washington 1st wkd Crazy knife al 509-684-8057 Colville westgate marauders 2nd Sun Stampede pete 61 393 695 939 port regulators melbourne mica peak marshals 1st & 3rd tensleep kid 509-284-2461 mica little river raiders 3rd Sun lazy dave 61 40 377 7926 little river Sat SaSa little river raiders Single 3rd Sun tiresome 61 25 978 0190 melbourne panhandle regulators 1st & 3rd halfcocked Otis 509-991-5842 Otis Orchards action Club Sun Cowboy action Shooters of 3rd wkd i.d. 61 29 975 7983 teralba renton united Cowboy 1st wkd Jess ducky 425-271-9286 renton australia action Shooters Fort Bridger Shooting Club 4th Sun duke York 61 418 632 366 drouin windy plains drifters 2nd & 4th hopalong hoot 509-220-9611 medical lake SaSa Single action Shooting Sat & Sun Virgil earp 61 74 695 2050 millmerran Sat australia wolverton mountain peace 2nd Sat hellfire 360-513-9081 ariel NEW ZEALAND keepers trail Blazers gun Club 1st Sun ernie Southpaw 64 37 557 654 mill town pataha rustlers 2nd Sat pinto annie 509-520-2789 dayton Bullet Spittin Sons O’ thunder 2nd Sat Billy deadwood 64 63 564 720 palmerston n. mima marauders 2nd Sat Okie Sawbones 360-705-3601 Olympia wairarapa pistol and Shooting Club 2nd Sun doc hayes 64 63 796 692 gladstone Smokey point desperados 2nd Sun mudflat mike 425-335-5176 arlington Frontier & western Shooting Sports 2nd Sun doc hayes 64 63 796 692 gladstone Colville guns and roses 2nd Sun Cheyence Sadie 509-684-3632 Colville association apple Valley marshals 3rd Sat Silent Sam 509-884-3875 east tararua rangers 3rd Sun J.e.B. Stuart 64 63 796 436 Carterton wenatchee western renegades 4th Sat Black Bart Bolton 64 27 249 6270 wanganui Olympic peninsula Strait 3rd Sun doc neeley 360-417-0230 port angeles SaSS pistol new Zealand as Sch tuscon the terrible 64 32 042 089 Varies Shooters EUROPE Black river regulators 4th Sat wil Sackett 360-786-0199 littlerock AUSTRIA Custer renegades 4th Sun Joe Cannuck 360-676-2587 Custer Sweetwater gunslingers austria as Sch Fra diabolo 43 664 490 8032 Vienna poulsbo pistoleros 4th Sun Sourdough george 360-830-0100 poulsbo CZECH REPUBLIC Beazley gulch rangers last Sun an e. di 509-787-1782 Quincy association of western Shooters as Sch thunderman 42 060 322 2400 prelouc WI DENMARK hodag Country Cowboys 1st & 3rd hodag Bob 715-550-8337 rhinelander danish Black powder Federation as Sch Slim dane 45 20 655 887 Copenhagen Sat association of danish western as Sch mrs. Stowaway 45 602 013 65 greve Shooters FINLAND SASS Finland as Sch woodbury kane 35 850 517 4659 Various Classic Old western Society as Sch woodbury kane 35 850 517 4659 loppi ! of Finland 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 72 Cowboy Chronicle December 2012

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City FRANCE SWITZERLAND SaSS France golden triggers 1st Sun Cheyenne little 33 67 570 3678 Villefrache de Black mountain gunfighters as Sch Blacksmith pete 417 9449 5800 romainm- of Freetown Colibris rouergue a’tier l’arquebuse d’antony 2nd Sun Jeppesen 33 1 4661 1798 antony Old west Shooting Society as Sch hondo Janssen 44 271 9947 Zurich SaSS France greenwood Creek 4th Sat handy hook 33 68 809 1360 Bormes les Switzerland mimosas INTERNATIONAL Buffalo Valley as Sch Slye Buffalo 02 37 63 65 83 Château-neufen- CANADA thymerais aurora desperados 1st Fri destry 905-551-0703 aurora On high plains Shooters as Sch Jack Cooper 336 1384 5580 Clermont de robbers roost hamilton 1st Sat Bear Butte 905-891-8627 ancaster On l’oise South mountain regulators 1st Sat dutch Charlie 902-538-9797 Berwick nS association mazauguaise de tir as Sch redneck mike 33 494 280 145 mazaugues red mountain renegades 1st Sun preacher Flynn t. 604-820-1564 mission BC SaSS France alba Serena as Sch marshall 09 62 53 83 32 moriani locke tir Club tombstone Barrie gun Club 2nd & 4th northern Crow 705-435-2807 Barrie On Old pards Shooting Society as Sch Charles allan 33 1 4661 1798 Versailler Sat laSalle anthony Beau Bassin range riders 2nd Sat Frenchy Cannuck 506-312-0455 riverview nB Club de tir Beaujolais as Sch woodrow the 33 047 838 0374 Villefranche lambton Sportsman’s Club 2nd Sat Clay Creek 519-542-4644 St. Clair On wild Frenchie sur Saone wentworth Shooting Sports Club 2nd Sun Stoney Creek 905-664-3217 hamilton On Old west French Shooters as Sch Curly red ryder 33 3 8582 0203 Caromb Victoria Frontier Shootists 2nd Sun Black ashley 250-744-4705 Victoria BC BeraC as Sch reverend Oakley 33 3 8020 3551 premeaux Valley regulators 3rd Sat kananaskis kid 250-923-6358 Courtenay BC prissey prairie dog rebels 3rd Sat Valley Boy 519-673-5648 london On Club de tir Brennou as Sch French Bob 33 2 4767 5888 Varies Valley regulators 3rd Sat & high Country 250-334-3479 Courtenay BC reverend Oakley’s Cowboy klan as Sch reverend Oakley 33 3 8020 3551 Varies Sun amigo les tireurs de l’uzege every Sun marshal dundee 33 04 66 759 529 uzes Otter Valley rod & gun 4th Sun Colt mcCloud 519-685-9439 Strafford- On (Old west gunfighters) ville Black rivers last Sun kid of neckwhite 33 3 8526 3029 roanne robbers roost wild Bunch as Sch legendary lawman 905-393-4299 ancaster On Club de tir de Bernay Sat Chriswood 33 2 3245 5900 Bernay islington Sportmen’s Club as Sch hawk Feathers 905-936-2129 Caledon On SaSS France Yellow rock Sat little Shooting 336 7555 8063 eCOt Blueridge Sportsmen’s Club as Sch rebel dale 519-599-2558 Clarksburg On missie waterloo County revolver as Sch ranger pappy 519-536-9184 kitchener On Societe de tir Bedoin Ventoux Sat-Sun Sheriff Ch. 33 490 351 973 Bedoin association Cooper Southpaw mundy’s Bay regulators as Sch indiana magnum 705-534-2814 penetan- On tir Olympique lyonnais Sun Barth 33 6 1324 6128 lyon guishene Club de tri de nuits Saint georges as Sch reverend 33 38 020 3551 nuits Saint nova Scotia Cowboy action as Sch wounded Belly 902-890-2310 truro nS delano l. Oakley georges Shooting Club Club de tir Sportif de touraine as Sch major John brisset37@ tours palmer’s gulch Cowboys as Sch Caribou lefty 250-372-0416 heffley BC lawson hotmail.fr Creek CaS/SaSS France as Sch Frenchie Boy 336 169 32 076 Varies Ottawa Valley marauders as Sch Button 514-792-0063 Ottawa QC GERMANY alberta Frontier Shootists Society as Sch powder paw 403-318-4463 rocky mtn germany territory regulators as Sch rephil 49 29 216 71814 Varies house aB CaS europe Fri hurricane irmi 49 28 23 5807 Bocholt Chasseurs et pecheurs as Sch richelieu mike 450-658-8130 St-Jean QC Cowboy action Shooting last Sat marshal heck 49 345 120 0581 edderitz levisiens inc Chrysostom e/ lavis germany long harbour lead Slingers tues preacher man John 250-537-0083 Salt BC SaSS europe mon niers river kid 49-282-39-8080 wegberg Spring island Jail Bird’s Company mon Orlando a Brick 49 21 317 42 3065 wegberg SOUTH AFRICA Bond western Shooters of South africa 3rd Sat richmond p. 27 21 797 5054 Cape town SaSS germany wed rhine river Joe 49 28 235 807 Spork hobson HUNGARY pioneer Creek rangers 4th Sat Slow wilson 27 83 667 5066 pretoria westwood rebels as Sch el heckito 362 0460 1739 galgamacsa ITALY Monthly Mounted USA Old gunners Shooting Club as Sch renato anese 33 51 24 5391 toppo di AZ western Shootist posse travesio tombstone ghost riders 2nd Sun dan nabbit 520-456-0423 tombstone green hearts regulator 1st Sun marshal Steven 39 338 920 7989 trevi mounted Club gardiner 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 as Sch alchimista 39 33 420 68337 Varies Connecticut renegades as Sch Cowboy Cobbler 860-558-7484 granby Society italy FL Canne roventi last Sun Valdez 39 07 1286 1395 Filottrano Bay area Bandits 3rd Sat Slow poke’s darlin 813-924-0156 tampa honky tonk rebels last Sun kaboom andy 39 33 5737 8551 Vigevano ID Border marauders mounted as Sch Bad Buffalo Bob 208-610-8229 eastport wild west rebels Sun Bill masterson alberto@ malegno-BS IN frontisrl.it heartland peacemakers as Sch rawhidenlace 765-561-2521 Fountaintown LUXEMBOURG ME SaSS luxembourg as Sch Smiley miles 35 26 2128 0606 Varies maine Cowboy mounted Shooters as Sch Cowboy Bill 207-282-2821 Biddeford NETHERLANDS NM SaSS netherlands as Sch lightning anja 31 51 759 2120 leeuwarden Buffalo range riders mounted 3rd Sat icelady 505-263-5619 Founders NORTHERN IRELAND ranch kells County regulators 1st Sat independence 28 93 368 004 Varies NY Carroll island long riders as Sch mecate kid 516-610-8166 Farmingdale NORWAY upstate new York Smokin’ guns as ash renegade roper 518-883-5981 galway Black rivers as Sch Charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 loten OH Quantrill raiders Sun Charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 loten Big irons mounted rangers as Sch Stoneburner 513-829-4099 middletown Schedsmoe County rough riders thurs Jailbird 47 63 994 279 lillestrom WI POLAND renegade rangers as Sch ace montana 920-960-1714 ripon SaSS polish western Shooting as Sch trigger hawkeye trigger-hawkeye lodz association @hot.pl Monthly Mounted International SERBIA LEBANON union of western Shooters as Sch hombre des 63 721 6934 humska SASS Lebanon - El Rancho as Sch packin Jesse 96 1138 5982 Varies of Serbia nudos Sporting Club SWEDEN CANADA SaSS Sweden northern rangers as Sch northern S. t. 46 72 206 7005 Varies Quebec mounted Shooting as Sch dirty Owl Bert 819-424-7842 Joliette ranger association 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 December 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 73

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Dates Contact Phone City State Match Dates Contact Phone City State USA 2012 JUNE DECEMBER 2012 SASS Oregon State Wild Bunch 01 - 02 hoss reese 503-907-6522 Bend Or Shootout in the Saguaros 03 - 04 Barbwire 480-773-2753 peoria aZ Championship Cowboy Christmas Ball 08 - 08 an e. di 509-787-1782 Quincy wa SASS Alaska State Blackpowder 02 - 02 marshal Stone 907-232-1080 anchorage ak JANUARY 2013 Shootout Smoke new Years day Shoot 01 - 01 humphrey hook 703-801-3507 Fairfax Va in the Greatland SASS Florida State 09 - 13 Copenhagen 904-808-8559 St. augustine Fl SASS Colorado State 06 - 09 pinto Being 970-464-7118 whitewater CO Championship Championship Siege at St. Augustine SASS Wyoming State 06 - 08 Joe Cross 307-587-2946 Cody wY Yuma territorial prison 18 - 20 Boston 928-502-1298 Yuma aZ Championship Breakout anniebelle Cody’s Wild West Shootout SASS New Mexico State 24 - 25 Fast hammer 575-647-3434 las Cruces nm ride of the immortals 07 - 09 easy rider 770-954-9696 griffin ga Wild Bunch SASS Kansas State Championship 07 - 09 el dorado 913-686-5314 lenexa kS Championship wayne Shootout at Butterfield Trail SASS Oregon State 07 - 09 molly b’dam 541-479-2928 grants pass Or FEBRUARY Championship the reckoning annual Cowboy 02 - 03 407-273-9763 407-273-9763 Orlando Fl Battle of Rogue River action Shoot SASS Utah State Championship – 12 - 15 Jubal O. 801-518-3374 Salt lake ut SASS NATIONAL 18 - 24 pea patch 623-465-8683 phoenix aZ Utah War Sackett City CHAMPIONSHIP Winter Range SASS High Plains Territorial 13 - 15 Jubal O. 801-944-3444 Sandy ut winter range warm-up 22 - 22 wild Bodie tom 602-721-3175 phoenix aZ Blackpowder Championship Sackett MARCH Thunder at Big Salty the plainfield incident 04 - 07 point of Origin 530-304-5616 davis Ca ambush at hat Creek 14 - 16 modoc 530-365-1839 Burney Ca Bayou Blast 08 - 10 possum Skinner 337-372-0586 lake Charles la revenge of montezuma 14 - 16 Stumble leena 970-739-9705 Cortez CO SASS South Carolina State 21 - 24 Cowboy Junky 864-414-5578 greenville SC SASS Illinois State 14 - 16 Beaucoup Joe 618-521-3619 Sparta il Championship Manse’s Revenge Championship – trailhead 21 - 24 Charles 281-342-1210 Columbus tX Spring Roundup at the Gulch goodnight SASS Northwest Territorial 17 - 19 pinto annie 509-520-2789 milton- Or Butterfield range war law 26 - 27 Fast hammer 575-647-3434 las Cruces nm Blackpowder Championship Freewater enforcement vs Cowboys Smoke in the Gorge more Fun less run SASS Maryland State 20 - 22 Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 damascus md APRIL Championship Comancheria days 04 - 07 red Scott 210-316-0199 Fredericks- tX Thunder Valley Days burg Yellowstone Valley Buffalo 21 - 22 grizzly Bill 406-252-4157 laurel mt land run 11 - 14 Flat top Okie 405-373-1472 Oklahoma Ok Stampede City SASS WORLD 22 - 30 SaSS Office 505-843-1320 edgewood nm Shootout at Fort miller 18 - 21 pocket Change 559-683-2204 Clovis Ca CHAMPIONSHIP SASS Mississippi State 19 - 21 macon a. 601-214-4009 mendenhall mS END of TRAIL Championship longshot SASS Wisconsin State 23 - 23 Captain Cook 715-248-3727 Station range wi Showdown at Purgatory Blackpowder Shootout Smoke in the Hills dry gulch at arroyo Cantua 25 - 28 Sutter lawman 530-713-4194 Sloughhouse Ca JULY MAY SASS HIGH PLAINS 04 - 04 Capt. Jack 970-443-3539 Cheyenne wY SASS California State 02 - 05 mad trapper 661-589-7472 Bakersfield Ca REGIONAL Hell on Wheels Storm Championship of rat river SASS Alaska Territorial 05 - 07 Four Bucks 907-350-4422 anchorage ak Shootout at 5 Dogs Creek Championship – SASS Georgia State 02 - 05 done gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville ga Shootout Under The Midnight Sun Championship SASS Alaska State Championship 12 - 14 ruby lil 907-488-0792 Chatanika ak Round Up at River Bend SASS Montana State 12 - 14 montana lil’ 406-761-0896 Simms mt SASS Georgia State Blackpowder 02 - 05 done gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville ga Championship Skeeter Championship Shootout On the Sun River SASS Texas State Championship 02 - 05 long Juan 512-750-3923 lockhart tX SASS Pennsylvania State Black 21 - 21 Slowpoke John 717-676-3198 ickesburg pa Ride with Pancho Villa Powder Shootout Smoke on the Ridge SASS Delaware State 03 - 05 teton tracy 302-378-7854 Sudlersville md SASS Colorado State Wild Bunch 25 - 27 Colorado 970-260-5432 whitewater CO Championship Championship Blackjack Eas’dern Shore Round-up Buffalo Stampede: 07 - 11 SaSS Office 505-843-1320 edgewood nm Annual International Matches Founders Ranch Championship THE Preview to END of TRAIL AUSTRALIA SASS Virginia Blackpowder 11 - 11 missouri 757-471-3396 west point Va SASS AUSTRALIAN Sep 30 - 06 Virgil earp 61 74 695 2050 millmerran Shootout Smoke on the Mattponi VI marshal REGIONAL SASS West Virginia State 17 - 19 eddie rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor wV CHAMPIONSHIP Chisholm Trail Blackpowder Championship CZECH REPUBLIC Smoke over Buffalo Flats SASS European aug 07 - 10 thunder man 42 060 322 2400 tabor SASS Utah State Blackpowder 18 - 18 rowdy hand 435-637-8209 price ut Championship Days of Truth Shootout The Castle Gate FRANCE Smudge Match Buffalo Valley Jun 14 - 16 Slye Buffalo 02 37 63 65 83 Châteauneuf- SASS Mississippi State 23 - 26 easy lee 901-413-5615 Byhalia mS Championship – en-thymerais Smokin’ Guns at Rabbit Ridge last Shot on the trail Jul 17 - 21 marshal dundee 33 04 66 759 529 uzes Shootout at three Fingers Saloon 24 - 26 dirty Sally 805-438-4817 Santa Ca GERMANY margarita Shootoff Championship dec 08 - 09 rhine river Joe 49 2823 3426 wegberg James gang rides again 3rd annual 24 - 26 Shaddai Vaquero 406-231-2329 park City kY german territorial regional Sep 26 - 29 rephil 49 292 167 1814 Soest SASS Ohio State Championship 24 - 26 Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 piqua Oh SOUTH AFRICA Shootout at Hard Times end of Year Shoot-Off dec 15 - 15 richmond p. 27 21 797 5054 Cape town SASS Pennsylvania State 24 - 26 Black hills 570-538-9163 muncy pa hobson Championship – Barb Valley North Mountain Shoot Out XI SASS Vermont State 24 - 26 doc mcCoy 802-363-7162 St. Johnsbury Vt Mounted Annual Matches Championship FEBRUARY 2013 Green Mountain Mayhem SASS NATIONAL MOUNTED 22 - 24 dan nabbit 520-456-0423 tombstone aZ duel in the desert 25 - 26 Silverado h. d. 520-390-2263 tombstone aZ SHOOTING CHAMPIONSHIP little Big match 25 - 26 william Sackett 360-786-0199 little rock wa WINTER RANGE SASS Iowa State Championship 30 - 01 pit mule 515-205-0557 indianola ia JUNE Shoot out at Coyote Gulch SASS North Carolina State 30 - 02 J. m. Brown 919-266-3751 Salisbury nC SASS WORLD MOUNTED 27 - 30 SaSS Office 505-843-1320 edgewood nm Championship CHAMPIONSHIP Uprising at Swearing Creek END OF TRAIL SASS MA, CT, and RI State 31 - 02 Barrister Bill 978-667-2219 harvard ma AUGUST Championship SASS FOUR CORNERS 21 - 25 icelady 505-263-5619 edgewood nm Shootout at Sawyer Flats REGIONAL – reckoning on the rock 31 - 02 Stoney mike 608-868-5167 Beloit wi Outlaw Trail Mounted

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froM unalienaBle righTs To regulaTeD PriVileges ? By Colonel Dan, SASS Life/Regulator #24025

essence, we would be granting the buy, carry, or shoot our gun under them to find you when their “com - Colonel Dan, government veto power over God. the Second, why shouldn’t we re - mon sense” gun confiscation pro - SASS Life #24025 Any license granted by man quire a permit of you before you gram is enacted. Predictably, can be revoked by man, but a right shoot off your mouth under the history is replete with examples “We hold these truths to be self-ev - endowed by God can never be re - First? After all, don’t you agree where confiscation inevitably re - ident, that all Men are created equal, voked by any man. To do so creates that the “pen” is mightier than the sulted in the victimization and that they are endowed by their Cre - something more characteristic of “sword?” If “the pen is mightier tragic slaughter of the unarmed! ator with certain unalienable Rights, serfdom than freedom—the “consti - than the sword”, why is it the If there was ever any cause that among these are Life, Liberty tutionally guaranteed right” be - “sword” has 20,000 laws regulating worthy enough to prompt pro-con - and the Pursuit of Happiness.” comes the equivalent of a car it and the “pen” doesn’t?” stitutionalists into action, this is it. – Declaration of Independence, license—the very analogy used by Big government activists incre - If there was ever any more reveal - Thomas Jefferson the left to sell their idea of licensing mentally set the stage for freedom ing behavior on the part of Amer - guns. “If we license cars, why not erosion as they have throughout ica’s anti-gunners as well as within n last month’s column, guns?” Last time I looked, trans - history. After all, effective incre - the corrupted halls of the UN re - Hollywood, Parents or portation wasn’t mentioned in the mentalism is how we arrived at garding their true intentions and Guns , I touched on the Bill of Rights. The right to keep where we are in the year 2012 from where this eventually leads, this is I most recent push by the and bear arms is however, and as where we started in the year 1776. most definitely it. Laws requiring United Nations, with the initial one of the primary guarantors of This incremental weaselism is the licensing and registration are not support of the Obama administra - our unalienable rights to Life, Lib - reason I refuse to support “bar - just one more yard down that slip - tion, to enact an international erty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. gaining or compromising” with any pery slope of eroded freedom; it’s small arms treaty. As a logical ex - Without such guarantors, the abil - liberal freedom thief on anything— more like a mile. tension of that essay, I’d like to ask ity to exercise our unalienable they’re simply not to be trusted. If we truly believe that you a fundamental question. rights is placed in jeopardy of ex - As a prime example of their mankind is endowed with unalien - When do our unalienable rights tinction at the hand of unscrupu - weaselism, the call of several years able rights granted by our Creator turn into regulated privileges? An - lous governments. Consequently, ago for a “common sense” ballistic and articulated by our Founders, swer: When “We the People” allow you can never separate the sanctity fingerprinting program was noth - then any attempt on the part of expansive government, national or of the unalienable right from the ing more than a backdoor method government to deny or totally con - international, to require a license guarantor of that right without in - of instituting a national gun reg - trol those rights must be recog - or a permit in order to exercise curring the certain loss of both. istry. In reality, consistently reli - nized as counter to God and His those rights! What the left ultimately wants, able ballistic fingerprinting is sacred will for mankind’s unalien - Turning our right to keep and and openly advocates, sets govern - nothing but a snake oil sales pitch. able freedom. bear arms into a government con - ment in judgment over our Creator The doubtful success of ballistic It simply comes down to what trolled privilege, however, is exactly and flies in the face of the Consti - fingerprinting aside, why else “We the People” will demand or are what will happen if peaceable tution. This doesn’t deter avid left- would government want the ability willing to accept. It’s up to each of Americans are ever required to reg - wingers in the least, however. to trace a particular bullet to a par - us to decide if we will reaffirm our ister their firearms and gun owners They simply ignore that and press ticular gun if they didn’t ultimately claim to God given rights or pas - are strictly licensed as anti-gunners on with their crusade to fundamen - require every gun to be registered sively accept government issued call for after each highly publicized tally transform America into a big and therefore linked to every gun privileges. If the choice is for priv - mass shooting. government “ Utopia .” owner? It would do them ab - ileges, then all we need do is noth - Now either you believe and ac - The idea of licensing a consti - solutely no good whatsoever to ing and the government will cept the words of our Declaration of tutional right is abhorrent to me merely know what gun a bullet incrementally take control as a Independence or you reject them. If just as the idea of “carry permits” came from if they didn’t have a matter of course. If the choice is for you accept the words as I do, that has always been—a government is - method of then knowing who rights, however, then we must our rights are unalienable and en - sued permit to carry something owned the gun that fired the bul - stand strongly united and con - dowed by the Creator, then no un - that is a constitutionally guaran - let. How stupid do the advocates of stantly send government the un - alienable right can EVER justifiably teed right?!? Who slipped that this idiocy think we are? It’s sim - mistakably clear message of our be granted or denied by any govern - “common sense” law by us? Some - ply and clearly a government reg - Founders— DONT TREAD ON ME. ment, because those rights were en - how America has seen fit to roll istration program, and history has No registration, No license, and NO dowed by God, not bestowed by over on that one though and down clearly exposed where that leads. UN control … not now, not ever! government—Federal, State, UN, or the slippery slope of freedoms lost The ONLY thing such licensing Just the view from my saddle … otherwise. Conversely, to reject we went yet another yard or more. or registration, national or interna - * * * * * * * * * * * * * those words, would be to reject the To illustrate the level of liberal tional, will ever accomplish, and Contact Colonel Dan: very foundation of America’s free - hypocrisy here, ask a left-winger which it’s actually designed to do, is [email protected] dom, nullify the concept of the word this question … provide government with a database Article Archives: unalienable , and turn our rights into “If you liberals think it’s OK to of every gun owner in the country. It http://mddall.com/sbss/SBSShom government licensed privileges. In require a permit of us before we will then be that much easier for e.htm Visit us at sassNEt .Com December 2012 Cowboy Chronicle Page 75

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