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Cowboy Chronicle August 2016 Page 1 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle Page 2 August 2016 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle August 2016 Page 3 Cowboy Chronicle Page 4 August 2016 The Cowboy Chronicle CONTENTS 6 FROM THE EDITOR Skinny’s Soapbox Editorial Staff 8-13 COVER FEATURE Skinny Mason - Dixon Stampede Editor-in-Chief 11 COVER FEATURE Misty Moonshine The Wild Bunch Mini Match 14-18 NEWS Managing Editor The 2nd Cimarron & Pietta Young Guns Program Tex and Cat Ballou 20-24 COSTUMING CORNER Editors Emeritus Party Like A Vanderbilt 26-29 WILD BUNCH Adobe Illustrator The 3rd Annual Pine Mountain Posse’s WB Match Layout & Design 30-41 GUNS & GEAR Mac Daddy Dispatches From Camp Baylor ... The Capgun Kid Rides Graphic Design 42-47 HISTORY The Philippine Insurrection . Little Known Famous People Square Deal Jim 48 PROFILES Advertising Manager Scholarship Recipient 2015 (703) 764-5949 • Cell: (703) 728-0404 50, 51 TRAIL MARKERS [email protected] Always To Be Remembered Staff Writers 52-55 ARTICLES Big Dave, Capgun Kid The Northern Road To Cody, Wyoming Capt. George Baylor 55 SASS AFFILIATED MERCHANTS Col. Richard Dodge 56-68 COMIC BOOK CORNER Jesse Wolf Hardin, Joe Fasthorse “Dusty” Ballew Larsen E. Pettifogger, Palaver Pete 69 SASS MERCANTILE Tennessee Tall and Rio Drifter Nice Collectibles Texas Flower Whooper Crane and the Missus 70, 71 GENERAL STORE The Cowboy Chronicle is published by 71 ADVERTISERS INDEX The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. 72, 73 SASS NEW MEMBERS For advertising information and rates, administrative, and edi to rial offices contact: 74 SASS AFFILIATED CLUB LISTINGS Chronicle Administrator (Annual/Monthly) 215 Cowboy Way • Edgewood, NM 87015 (505) 843-1320 • FAX (505) 843-1333 email: [email protected] Visit our Website at http://www.sassnet.com The Cowboy Chronicle SASSNET.COM (ISSN 15399877) is published ® monthly by the Single Action Shooting Society, 215 SASS Trademarks Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. Periodicals SASS ®, Single Action Shooting Society ®, Postage is paid at Plattsburgh, NY and additional mail - ® ® ing offices (Permit #20591). 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Cowboy Chronicle August 2016 Page 5 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle Page 6 August 2016 From The Editor SKINNY’S SOAPBOX By Skinny, SASS #7361 hile most of the member - ship base of SASS is, I be - Skinny, SASS #7361 Wlieve, comprised of fairly conservative, Republican-min - will have the opportu - ded persons, we are neverthe - nity to change the face of less a diverse group with a good the Supreme Court. Con - proportion of those who lean sider that at the ballot more to the left. As such, we box and please consider will sometimes get in a letter voting for the more con - or two criticizing the views of servative candidate— Colonel Dan, or even my own Donald Trump—even if views, on gun control and you don’t particularly like politics. A recent letter es - that candidate. I don’t par - poused the opinion that cer - ticularly like him but I will tain firearms, such as vote for him. so-called “assault weapons,” Now, as I said at the be - should be kept out of the ginning of this diatribe, I re - hands of the citizenry and alize there are others with the government that would differing viewpoints and if ban them would surely not you would like to have your go on to take away our viewpoint heard, I encourage Cowboy guns. In my view you to send me your guest ed - this is, sadly, a short - itorial. I will print it and I sighted perception and promise I won’t change your flies in the face of the en - meaning, but do keep in mind I tire history of gun control will edit it for size and gram - measures, both worldwide and in cer - mar and you must agree to pub - tain areas of the United States. As far as I can tell, lish your alias along with it. every measure banning one style of firearm has led Guide to Pistol Shooting to the ban of another style of firearm and finally to Moving on to other matters, a new book by Steve a ban on all firearms, until even muzzleloaders, air Sieberts is available from Gun Digest, The Shooter’s guns, and toy guns become regulated. And that’s Guide to Competitive Pistol Shooting, and it is a good why I think it’s important to resist gun control of resource for those interested in many of the shooting any kind, even if it doesn’t affect the guns in which sports, including Cowboy Action Shooting™. For the you’re interested. And that’s why, as I’ve said in a CAS section, the author made use of Tex’s expertise and previous editorial, I think the coming Presidential illustrated the section with a number of photographs that election could be pivotal in our struggles to retain Tex provided. It also covers IPSC, IDPA, three-gun, and our gun rights. Remember, this time around you much more. If you’re interested in reading an introduc - will not be voting for a liberal or a conservative tion to non-Cowboy disciplines or if you just want a President. You will be voting for a President who good book to show to newcomers interested in Cowboy VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle August 2016 Page 7 Skinny’s Soapbox . (Continued from previous page) Action Shooting™, you might consider this book. It’s available at www.amazon.com among others. Comic Book Corner This issue features another adventure of Dusty Ballew from Prize Western #70, April 1945, written by Irving Werstein and drawn by Al Carreno. Both creators produced material for Feature Publications, which published Prize among others and were among those who successfully made the transition from super hero comic books to the Western genre in the late 1940s. As always, material for Comic Book Cor - ner comes to us through Comic Book Plus. Visit their website at www.comicbookplus.com to enjoy more vintage Western and other genre comic books. —Skinny VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle PaJgeo 8 aquin ThAugrusot 20u16 gh The Stampede ASON-DIXON STAMPEDE MASON-DIXON STAMPEDE .October 1 -4 2015 , By Dogmeat Dad, SASS #48563 Dogmeat Dad, SASS #48563 hurmont, Maryland —Home of the Thurmont SASS Championship Match with granddaughter Conservation & Sportsman’s Club and host for schedule. Under the return - Summer Breeze, the Inaugural SASS Eastern Divisional , the ing leadership of Chuckaroo SASS #103640 Mason-Dixon Stampede 2015. Formerly the North - (SASS #13080) as Match Teast Regional, the Mason-Dixon Stampede became Director, it was certainly one for the record books, the Eastern Divisional as part of the expansion of the although maybe not in the way everyone had hoped. After many months of preparation and numerous weekends painting and fixing props, setup officially kicked off on the Saturday prior to match weekend. So many folks deserve recognition for their hard, dedicated efforts, whether it was building props, painting store fronts, hacking weeds, moving gravel, decorating stages, or any of the thousand tasks that needed doing, it’s hard to name them all. But I would be remiss if I didn’t at least thank Mt. Airy Under - taker, Snapshot Sandy, Ruger Rose, Sassy Patty, Misfire Maggie, Huron, Catoctin, Ozark Bob, Waco Wayne, and many, many others whose artistic and carpentry skills kept the props looking good. Finally, I can’t forget to thank the members of the Thurmont The renowned Mason-Dixon Stampede Conservation & Sportsman’s Club for the use of Canopy Centipede at rest. their range and for the numerous other tasks they did VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Patchhogue Mike (SASS #8626) smokin’ it! Cowboy Chronicle August 2016 Page 9 Mason-Dixon Stampede . to help us make this event the best it could be. The stages this year, written by Cash Caldwell (SASS #5505), were challenging but didn’t require a genius level IQ to complete, fortunately for me! In the mix was a brand spanking new moving target, the Thurmont Express! The Thurmont Express is a train engine target that runs downhill on tracks after being triggered by a hit on a trip plate and it worked flawlessly.