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Smokehouse Dan (518) 885-3758 The Cir K ulator Annabelle Bransford (518) 877-7834

Kayaderosseras Fish and Game Club 706 Geyser Rd. Ballston Spa, New York 12020

Published by the Circle K Regulators for Cowboy Action Shooting in the Capital District APRIL 2018

DATES TO REMEMBER Men’s Traditional – Wheels These practice sessions will be Cartwright held from 5-7 PM down at the 4/27/18 – Setup for Muster, Ladies Modern – Renegade line shack (berm 4) each Tues. 9:00 AM Roper from now until late Aug., so 4/28-29/18 – Muster at Ft. mark your calendars and plan to Misery, SASS NYS Wild come on out and throw some Bunch Championship APRIL CKR CAS MATCH lead with your fellow CAS 5/15/18– CKR Monthly pards. All CKR members and Meeting, 7:30 PM As it turns out, there is no April new/prospective CAS/WB 5/18/18 – CKR Setup, 9:30 AM CKR CAS match to write shooters are invited to attend. 5/19/18 - Monthly Rough about!! Yup, for only the 2nd This is a great opportunity to Riders Match, 10:00 AM time in the club’s 20+ year ask questions, hone your 5/20/18 – CKR Monthly CAS history, we failed to have CAS/WB skills, get familiar Match anyone shoot the monthly CAS with new firearms, or test your match. Although nine die-hard ammo. CKR members showed up at the APRIL CKR ROUGH clubhouse on the bitterly cold RIDERS MATCH and blustery morning of April CKR SASS RO TRAINING 15th, none of them was crazy Many thanks to the folks who enough to actually shoot in the Annabelle Bransford and gave up part of their Friday to horrible weather. Wind chills in Rowdy Bill conducted their set up for this season’s first the teens, ice everywhere - no annual SASS RO I and II weekend of shooting at the thanks! training in the KF&G clubhouse Circle K. A total of 26 folks on Sat., April 21st. Attendance (our biggest monthly RR shoot Thanks so much to those who was somewhat lacking with ever) showed up on a chilly hung out ‘til the end of official only five people taking RO I April 14th to take advantage of registration time and then (including one CKR member their first and only chance to cleaned up all the stages in the taking it as a refresher) and six shoot a RR match at the CKR rotten weather. That’s true people taking RO II (again prior to the upcoming “big cowboy spirit and dedication, including one CKR member event”, Muster at Ft. Misery guys! Hats off to you! Let’s taking it as a refresher). Both (see separate article). Dude keep our fingers crossed that classes were presented as Bandit’s five RR stages were winter finally let’s go in time Powerpoint slide presentations action-packed as usual and a for our May CAS match! as required by SASS, with great warmup for the Muster. Rowdy and Annabelle throwing in lots of extra info and Congrats to this month’s CKR PRACTICE NIGHTS examples as usual. winners: The CKR weekly CAS/WB TOP GUN – Rowdy Bill Practice Nights officially started Men’s Modern – Rowdy Bill up again on Tues., 4/17/18. MUSTER AT FT MISERY to a little “liquid sunshine”, so (You may sign up at a CKR they hung in there and came meeting or CAS shoot.) It’s hard to believe that this back to NY with 2nd place wins coming weekend the Circle K in their respective categories. A Then do whatever you can to Rough Riders will host their 5th big congrats to Renegade help us obtain stage/side event annual SASS NYS Wild Bunch Roper (2nd Ladies Wrangler) sponsors, vendors and door Championship (April 28-29). and Sixgun Schwaby (2nd prizes. Updated sponsor/vendor The match is “sold out” with 61 Duelist)! Way to go, folks! registration forms are available shooters registered. Setup for Roper and Schwaby report that on our CKR website’s Heluva the match will be on Friday, Land Run was a great match, Rukus page. 4/27, beginning at 9 AM. Any with some awesome help would be appreciated! buildings/props, good scenarios, and great people. Now if they can just do something about the CKR WINNERS AT OTHER weather… MAJOR MATCHES

Not too many CKR folks attend HELUVA RUKUS 2018 major CAS matches over the winter months, but we did have The annual email/USPS mailing a few who deserve a “Yeehaa” of HR registration forms went for their shooting prowess: out about 10 days ago, and 41 completed forms have already The SASS National CAS come in, including registrations Championship, Winter Range, from a couple coming from was held in Phoenix, AZ, in New Zealand who have never Feb. A whopping 728 shooters shot CAS in the United States participated in this year’s event, before. How cool is that!? quite an impressive turnout! Hopefully, HR ’18, our 18th Congrats to Sixgun Schwaby anniversary of hosting the who took 3rd place in the SASS NY State CAS Duelist category and Renegade Championship, will prove to be Roper who finished 2nd in a record-breaker, and we will be Ladies Wrangler. Talk about able to make it to our goal of impressive! That’s some fine 300 shooters. shootin’, folks! With so many registered Land Run, the SASS Southwest shooters expected, we’ll need Regional, was held at the lots of help, so please do your Oklahoma City Gun Club north part. First, sign up for a of Arcadia, Oklahoma, on April committee (or 2 or 3). 19-21. A total of 404 shooters Committees include: started the match; however, • Main Stage ROs only 350 finished. Apparently, • Side Event ROs there were a lot of fair-weather • Setup shooters who just couldn’t deal • Tear-down with the steady downpour the • nd Registration Table 2 day of the match. Ugh! The • Door Prize Table two CKR members present • Range Maintenance figured they hadn’t traveled all • Props the way to OK to wimp out due • Scoring (non-shooters).