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By Annabelle Bransford, SASS Regulator #11916

allston Spa, NY – SASS Wild Bunch member Tex, Heluva Rukus 2013 – SASS #4, and his lovely wife, Cat what a shoot! Over and Ballou, SASS #55, fly in from New B over again, you heard Mexico to take part in this year’s cowpokes say, “If I could only go to match just added icing to the cake. one Cowboy Action Shooting™ The stage layouts that greeted event a year, this would be the one.” the shooters this year were truly The Circle K Regulators couldn’t awesome. It never ceases to amaze help but feel proud hearing com - returning competitors that the Cir - ments like this as they played host cle K Regulators can continue to to the SASS New York State Cham - raise the bar year after year, and the pionship in Ballston Spa, New York, newbies are simply blown away by for the 13th year in a row. With a the whole thing. When folks arrive total of 247 shooters from 19 differ - at the Circle K for Heluva Rukus, ent states (including Alaska!) com - they can count on feeling like they peting in 27 different categories, have just walked onto a movie set. Heluva Rukus (HR) 2013 proved The range boasts ten good-sized once again to be one of SASS’ pre - individual berms – each one depict - miere events of the year. Having ing a totally different Western scene down to the smallest detail. This year’s stages consisted of Ft. Misery SASS C owboy Chronicle on Stage 1 (with a wooden fort and Competitors from all over the country again convened in New York guard towers, flag pole with period for the SASS Cowboy Action Shooting™ State Championship. flag, limber, cannon, and oh-so-real - Wonderful props, wonderful organization, and wonderful stages istic Gatling gun), the Treasure provided an exciting and enjoyable experience for everyone. In This Issue Trove mine on Stage 2 (with a mine This is what keeps folks coming back! entrance, sluice, assorted mining 13 Biggest LittLe shoot equipment, and two new ore carts), tub, washboard, and articles of 1880 tender added to the scene), the awe- by Jasper Agate the all-new “homestead” scene on clothing on the line), the new “aban - inspiring 3-story, 34 ' long paddle - Stage 3 (with a small-scale “house,” doned ranch” scene on Stage 5 (with wheeler returning on Stage 7 (with 16 tri -s tate 2-story barn, various outbuildings, privy, outbuilding, working wind - a moving target and a new “hang - buckboard, well, and a rotating mill, and knockdown rifle targets), ing tree” on the far bank of the hampionship C mover target), the log cabin on the train on Stage 6 (with a new “river”), the incredibly extensive 2-

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6 FROM THE EDITOR Planning For 2014. . . Editorial Staff Tex 8, 9 NEWS Thanks To The Waddies At END of TRAIL 2013 . . . Editor-in-Chief 10 CAT’S CORNER Cat Ballou Cathy A. Smith (Artist, Costume Designer and Historian) . . . Editor

12 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . . . Miss Tabitha Asst. Editor

13-22 ON THE RANGE The Biggest Little Shoot In Nevada . . . Adobe Illustrator 24-28 CLUB REPORTS Layout & Design The New Bristol Plains Pistoleros . . . Mac Daddy Graphic Design 29-32 WILD BUNCH CORNER Raid On Conestee (South Carolina Wild Bunch) . . . Buttercup Advertising Manager 34-44 GUNS & GEAR Dispatches From Camp Baylor . . . One Pot Chuck . . . (505) 843-1320 • Cell: (505) 459-0390 SAS S- END OF TRAIL 2014 [email protected] 36, 37 (( SIGN-UP TODA Y!! ! )) Contributing Writers Annabelle Bransford, Appaloosa Amy, 50, 51 HISTORY Buckaroo Bubba, Capt. George Baylor, General George Crook . . . Little Known Famous People . . . Col. Dan, Col. Richard Dodge, Chuck Waggoner, Cree Vicar Dave, 52 PROFILES Deacon Will, English Lyn, Fancy Free, 2013 Scholarship Recipients . . . Happy Jack, Inspector, Jasper Agate, Jess Plain Onery, Joe Fasthorse, ARTICLES Johnny McRae, Justice Lily Kate, 53-59 Two Roads West . . . Dance Or Shoot? . . . 1st Encounter Blackpowder Knot Werkin, Major Pain, Monticello Marshal, Palaver Pete, Pujo the Kid, Ranger Law, Slippery Stew, 60, 61 GENERAL STORE /CLASSIFIED Smokin Dave, Snazzy McGee, Tennessee Tall & Rio Drifter, The Jersey Kid, White Smoke Steve, 62-69 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS (MONTHLY) (ANNUA L) Whooper Crane & The Missus The Cowboy Chronicle is published by 70 SASS MERCANTILE (Nice Collectables) . . . The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. For advertising information and rates, ad - 71 POLITICAL Team SASS Year End Review . . . ministrative, and edi to rial offices contact: Chronicle Administrator 215 Cowboy Way Edgewood, NM 87015 Visit our Website at SASSNET.COM (505) 843-1320 FAX (505) 843-1333 email: [email protected] http://www.sassnet.com 62-69 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 - ® SASS Trademarks wood, NM and additional mailing offices sass ®, single action shooting society ®, (USPS #032). POSTMASTER: Send ad- enD of traiL ®, eot ®, dress changes to The Cowboy Chronicle , 215 The Cowboy Chro nicle tm , Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. Cowboy action shooting tm , DISCLAIMER - The Single Action Shooting Cas tm , wild Bunch tm , Society does not guarantee, warranty or en - wild Bunch action shooting tm , dorse any product or service advertised in this newspaper. The publisher also does not the world Championship of guarantee the safety or effectiveness of any Cowboy action shooting tm , product or service illustrated. The distri - Bow-legged Cowboy Design, and the bution of some products/services may be il - legal in some areas, and we do not assume rocking horse Design responsibility thereof. State and local laws are all trademarks of must be investigated by the purchaser prior the single action shooting society, inc. to purchase or use or products/services. Any use or reproduction of these marks WARNING: Neither the author nor The without the express written permission Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi - of SASS is strictly prohibited. bility for accidents or diffe ring results Heluva Rukus Match Director Homer Suggs presents a obtained using reloading data. Variation $1500 check for the SASS Scholarship Fund to in handloading tech niques, compo nents, Cat Ballou at the New York State Championship. 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 February 2014

. Planning For 2014 , By Tex, SASS #4

find the components! And, it’s a friends” … if you don’t insist on club’s activities and history. Pho - time to plan your shooting activi - shooting with half a dozen folks tographs also add immensely to ties for the coming year. from your home club. the readability and enjoyment of Traveling By the way … Wild Bunch The Cowboy Chronicle . Some clubs In case you haven’t noticed … travel is self-financed. While the and events are blessed with tal - travel anymore is expensive. Wild Bunch endeavors to attend as ented photographers who take Transportation, accommodations, many matches as possible, there is wonderful photographs … these Tex, SASS #4 and food easily exceed $100/day just not enough time or money to at - folks are treasures and should be when going to matches away from tend them all … or even all the valued and treated with care and home. There are many quality SASS-sanctioned matches. If, as a affection! However, regular SASS intertime is a slow time SASS shooting events around the Match Director, you would like to members contribute by far the for Cowboy Action country that are well worth the ex - have a member of the Wild Bunch most photographs, and many Shooting™ … at least pense. And, I encourage everyone attend your match, start with an in - could be much better quality with W in most parts of the to attend as many of these matches vitation and then find a way to only a little additional effort. country. There are, of course, a as possible. Not only are most en - make it easy for them—comp the Cowboys wear big hats to few hearty souls who brave the tertaining and fun, they can be ed - match expenses, provide local trans - keep the sun off their face … and cold north wind and blinding snow ucational as well. It’s always nice portation (if needed), and perhaps often stand in the shade of a load - to hold their monthly matches … to see how someone else conducts provide a place to stay. And, make ing bench at matches … in both but not many! their match, and it’s instructive to the offer as far ahead of time as pos - cases simply snapping a photo of Winter time can be a time for understand how they make every - sible so the trip can be planned. the individual produces a picture making repairs, shopping for and thing appear to happen effortlessly Photographs of a dark image (or at least a dark acquiring new shootin’ irons, and (or not!). It’s also a time to meet Photographs offer an attrac - face) and a wonderfully exposed for reloading ammo—if you can new folks who may become “best tive way of documenting your background! The solution is to

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“force the flash” on your camera their mid-forties that are the real so it puts light on the subject’s recruiting targets. face. The automatic exposure fea - When you notice a stranger ture available on nearly all cam - has just walked up near the shoot - eras is not appropriate for taking ing area and is quietly watching pictures of cowboys … it needs a the activities, don’t hesitate to little help. Use the flash and get walk over and engage them in con - up close. versation. Never wait for a match Also, when taking pictures for or club official to recognize a po - The Cowboy Chronicle , include tential new member is in the area, enough information about the pic - this is the job of every one of us. ture so it’s obvious why it should Recently we were having a local be interesting to a large number Wild Bunch monthly match … and of people. “Sonny Making Smoke” there were only a hand-full of com - is the oracle of the obvious if it petitors at this January outing. A shows a cowboy shooting black - stranger, who happened to be a powder. Give the reader more in - shooter, had recently received his formation … “Sonny has been concealed carry permit and was shooting Frontier Cartridge for interested in finding a way to only two years, and he’s already practice his new skills. He visited winning matches overall here in a shooting group on the next bay Ohio” is a nice caption. And … a … and nobody would even ac - disc with 100 photographs of knowledge him. He attempted to crowds of people and their dogs so start a conversation but, while not the editors can “take their pick” is unfriendly, it ended quickly. He not an attractive option either, then strolled next door to our Wild unless the editor was at the match Bunch match. I spotted him and and knows what was going on. immediately engaged him in a Pick the photos you’d like the edi - conversation. As soon as I real - tors to use in The Cowboy Chronicle . ized he had at least a passing in - Membership terest in what we were doing, I SASS is a greying sport—by invited him up near the firing line, far, most of our members are older. and began explaining the range The Senior through Elder States - etiquette we learn in RO-I. After men categories are the largest at introducing him to the club presi - all the larger matches. SASS can dent … and to a visiting club pres - expect a significant percentage of ident, we began integrating him folks to leave our ranks in the next into our activities. Within a short ten years—due to death and de - time he was picking brass and clining health. If you love the helping count misses! Of course, game and want to play for the one of the guys had enough extra foreseeable future, it is incumbent ammo to loan him his 1911, rifle, on all of us to continue recruiting and shotgun to shoot one of the new members. Yes, we need stages. You guessed it … his smile youngsters … but understand, was from ear to ear! Will he come most youngsters leave the compet - back … who knows … but at least itive shooting ranks when they there is the likelihood that he will. reach their late teens. They be - He knows how to get to the SASS come interested in girl and boy web page and from there to the friends, they leave for collage, they club contacts. graduate and get jobs, they get Club members who bring married, and they have kids. For friends and relatives to a local most, from age 20 until roughly match, who talk to strangers on 45, folks are fully engaged in earn - the sidelines, and who bring their ing a living, raising a family, and kids (or grandkids) to matches are finding their place in the world. It by far the best recruiters for new isn’t until they are well situated in members. It’s a fun game (same whatever profession they have game most of us played as kids … chosen and the kids have started the only difference is in the price leaving home that they have the of our toys!), it’s the friendliest set time and money to devote to Cow - of honest, caring, law-abiding boy Action Shooting™. Did you folks you’ll ever meet, and it’s the ever wonder why so often it’s the clubs that provide a place in grandparents that bring the which to play that are all vital to youngsters to our matches? recruiting new members and The point is it’s the folks in keeping them for the long term. ! Visit us at sassnet .com Page 8 Cowboy Chronicle February 2014

Dirty Girl Mud Run / OBSTACLE COURSE By Ranger Law, SASS #12801, Regulator, TG Geechee Gunfighters

Eager participants (l-r), Carolina Girl, Sue Render, and Mt Zion Gypsie are ready to run for the cure in their pristine pink-toped outfits.

The event was an untimed event featuring optional obsta - cles such as PMS (Pretty Mud Stuff) Mud Pit and “Utopian Tubes,” a crawl through a tunnel After the race, the girls of water and mud. Mt Zion Gyp - are not so pristine any more! sie of the Geechee Gunfighters, One of the obstacles in the run was the Utopian Tubes— Sue Render, of the Savannah a crawl through a mud and water tube—ugh! n Saturday, September River Rangers, and Carolina Girl, 14, 2013, three South of the Greenville Gunfighters Carolina Cowgirls par - were pleased to be able to run in O ticipated in a unique such a different type of event for 5K charity event. Mt Zion Gyp - a great cause. Sue Render is a sie, SASS #4407 , Carolina Girl, breast cancer survivor! SASS #79564, and Sue Render, As seen in the pictures, all SASS #89725, ran in a Dirty Girl started out with clean PINK shirts, Mud Run/Obstacle Course. This but that did not last long. Approx - event was for “Bright Pink,” a na - imately 500 women went through tional nonprofit organization ded - the course, including one 77-year icated to the prevention and early old cancer survivor. The ladies all detection of breast and ovarian agreed they will start recruiting cancers in young women. more Cowgirls for next year! Little Known Fact George Barnhart Zimpleman of the Texas Rangers, fought in more than 400 battles, led in the number of horses shot out from under him, and suffered two major wounds.

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our tea tent, and our Tram crew Thanks to the WADDIES at was manned by Buckshot Jr, and South Pacific. Our great nurse, Dusty Garnet, assisted by Kate Stearly, patched up any that needed patching, and my ramrod enD of tRaiL posse handled anything that 2013 needed doing: Saddle Sore Sandy, Boothill Bill, Elijah Craig, Snap - By Fancy Free, SASS Regulator #23612 shot Katie, Flirtin Critter, Kizmet, Lester Moore, Montana gain in 2013, people wrecker. Now THAT was a first! Our security team was led by Star, Riverside Ruger, Sheriff from all over the coun - We had a great bunch that Hank Dodge, our Waddie Spirit Tumbleweed, Chuckar Creek try cowboyed up to help worked really hard to make it the winner this year, assisted by ILB Charlie, Twinkie Bodin, and last A put on the SASS World greatest shoot in the world, such Driftin, Willamette Kid, Capt. but not least, Brushy Briggs who Championship, END of TRAIL. as Yul Lose at the top gate, High Stephan D. Hill, and Knotso Slick, ran the shooting gallery. They came from Florida, Illinois, Steppin and Pencil Push N Ann in who also helped Footloose with I hope I haven’t left anyone North Dakota, Texas, Oregon, Ari - scoring, Ten High manning the the water on the range. out, but if I did, please don’t take zona, California, and New Mexico. bar in the Belle, with Verda Ve - Our great parking crew was it personally. I really appreciate We even had one that came by laria running the cash register. headed by Capt. Cooper, with his EVERONE of you that helped out grandson, Drummer Boy, Hipshot as waddies. Percussion, and N.T. Booth. Sun - Thanks, and hope to see many CORRECTION shine Belle and Ante Up Ante ran of you back in 2014! Outlaw Trail Winner he Speed 1911 winner at this year’s Outlaw Trail was TTrigger Happy Ted of Colorado, not Garrison Joe, as printed in the December issue of The Cowboy Chronicle . Sorry for any confusion!

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.Cathy a. S Mith , Artist, Costume Designer and Historian

By The Jersey Kid, SASS Life/Regulator #287

ter of a traditional Lakota medi - cine man and Sun Dance leader on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. Cat Ballou, SASS #55 As a costume designer for Western Period films, Cathy’s knowledge of Native American n my recent trip to design is unmatched in the in - END of TRAIL in New dustry. Authentically detailed Mexico I was lucky and correct to the time period, O enough to spend some her stunning costumes comple - time with my friend, Cathy Smith. ment the character and enrich Cathy is a costume designer, the story immensely. As a result artist, historian, and scholar of of Cathy’s expertise and contri - the American West and is proba - butions, she told me she had just bly best known for her authentic received a call that morning costumes in films such as Dances telling her she was to be inducted with Wolves, Comanche Moon, into the National Cowgirl Mu - Geronimo, The Missing, Wild Bill , seum and Hall of Fame in Octo - and Son of the Morning Star —for ber in Fort Worth Texas—what which she won the Emmy for Ex - an honor! The National Cowgirl As a costume designer for Western Period films, Cathy’s knowledge cellence in Costume Design. Museum and Hall of Fame hon - of Native American design is unmatched in the industry. Cathy is also the “adopted” daugh - ors and documents the lives of Authentically detailed and correct to the time period, her stunning women of the American costumes complement the character and enrich the story immensely. West. The museum was started in 1975 in much sought after article of trade Indian is Smith’s specialty. Hav - the basement of the for everyone from museum cura - ing learned quillwork in the sa - Deaf Smith County Li - tors to Hollywood producers. cred way of the Cheyenne River brary in Hereford, but Cathy has spent her lifetime par - Sioux, Smith earned the right to moved to its 33,000 ticipating in the ceremonies and practice the Art. Apprenticeship square-foot permanent cultural life-ways of relatives on with one of the last of the Holy location in the Cultural the Cheyenne River Reservation Women Quill workers fulfilled District of Fort Worth and refining her skills in the sa - her passion to learn the “Old on June 9, 2002. cred art of porcupine quillwork. ways” before they disappeared. Cathy grew up on a Cathy told me, Maintaining these Cathy lectures on the art and ranch in western South traditional arts is imperative as culture of the Western Plains at Dakota, bordering two they are a part of our American museums and events, from the Sioux reservations, and heritage in danger of being lost. Smithsonian to Christy’s in New “Hanskaska” is the Lakota word it led to her relentless Not only are they beautiful and York City. She has consulted on describing a society of head-men pursuit of authentic, useable, but when made with in - a majority of the Western genre or chiefs who earned the privilege traditional Native tegrity, they are imbued with films of the past 20 years and ex - to wear a sacredly ornamented shirt. American art forms, de - power and spiritual meaning.” hibited at the National Cowgirl This is Kicking Bear’s shirt restored by Cathy Smith. sign, and techniques— Beadwork and Porcupine Quill - Museum and Hall of Fame, the which have become a work of the 19th century Plains Charlie Russell Show, and The

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Smithsonian, among others. She The work was done by Smith and restores original artifacts for mu - the artisans under her guidance seums and collectors and creates and required over four years to ex - custom clothing and accou - ecute. According to Smith, “Han - trements not only for film and skaska” is the Lakota word museums, but also for clients describing a society of head-men worldwide. Currently Cathy is or chiefs who had earned the priv - painting the Plains Indians she ilege to wear a sacredly orna - loves and knows so well, trading mented shirt. Each of the men buckskin and sinew for oil and represented in the collection had canvas, capturing the soul and this right. essence of her Tiospaye (a Lakota Back to my original intro word which approximately trans - about spending some time with lates to “extended family.”) Cathy, my brother Dave (The Jer - Cathy has just set up a display sey Kid Brother), John Schaffer for the National Cowgirl Hall of (Town Mayor), and I were lucky Fame and Museum entitled “Han - enough to visit old friend Bill skaska: The Shirtwearers – Plains Manns on his ranch where he is Indian Art of Cathy A. Smith.” restoring an old stagecoach stop This is the first public exhibition now known as The Black Dog of a collection of the recreations of Cantina. Bill may be familiar to the regalia of 12 historically im - many of you as he coauthored portant Plains Indian leaders. Cowboys & The Trappings of the Representing 10 Native American Old West along with my friend nations, the collection includes Elizabeth Clair Flood and was re - ceremonial headdresses, shirts, sponsible for the photography for On a visit to END of TRAIL in New Mexico Cathy Smith, leggings, moc casins, weapons, and Packing Iron and Cowgirls , The Jersey Kid Brother, Town Mayor, and I were able to visit other accoutrements on loan from Women of the Wild West . old friend, Bill Manns, on his ranch where he is restoring a the estate of R. Michael Kam - Cathy Smith has studios in historic stagecoach stop now known as The Black Dog Cantina. merer, Jr, the late founder of Inde - Nambe, New Mexico (a pueblo in pendent Television Network (now Santa Fe County (located about 15 South Dakota, and her work can day, April 27, 2014, at the National ITN Networks), who had an avid miles north of Santa Fe at the be viewed on her website at Cowgirl Museum and Hall of interest in the West and collected base of the Sangre de Cristo www.cathyasmith.com . The “Han - Fame, 1720 Gendy Street in the Western and Native American art. Mountains) and the Black Hills of skaska” exhibit runs through Sun - Fort Worth Cultural District.

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e e a new Run of appropriate SaSS Costumes Ruger Old armies? have waited too long to say clothes, and the women talk Iwhat I think about appropri - about their guns.” Clothing/cos - By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life/Regulator #24287 ate dress for Single Action Shoot - tuming is what makes SASS ing Society events. Fortunately what it is and without it we t the SASS Convention I MADE the Frontiersman cate - I started out shooting with the would be just another shooting Atalked to Lefty-Gunz-Ales at gory, and there is no alternative Seven Rivers Regulators club in discipline. We should take pride the Ruger booth. Lefty is a Ruger that is as good. They don’t need Carlsbad, New Mexico who in - in our ability to accomplish VP and shoots Ruger Old Armies to make all six models, just the 5- stilled in me the importance of speed, accuracy, and endurance in competition. I asked him when 1/2 " barrel fixed sight stainless dressing the Cowboy way and as - while dressed in the old time they were going to make another model. I have four, but I’ll buy sured me the shooting would clothing and using vintage type run of them. I was surprised more if they do. come with it. I hold to the impor - guns unique to the shooting when he said he was trying, but Go to ruger.com. There is a tance of dress because that is world. Remember it is called needed help convincing the board drop down menu for “News and what makes SASS different from Cowboy Action Shooting™ not there is a market for them. On Resources.” One of the choices is all the other shooting disciplines. Shooting With Old Guns. Show the Ruger website there is a “Tell “Tell the CEO.” Go there and Costuming gives everyone the your pride in what makes Cow - the CEO” page, and he asked me send an email to the CEO telling opportunity to excel and be a boy Action Shooting™ the best to write to the CEO and suggest him you want more Ruger Old part of the sport, whether you shooting sport in the world— it. I did. Now I’m asking you to Armies. http://www.ruger.com ... are a fast shooter or not. dress the part and enjoy your do the same. Ruger Old Armies tellTheCEO.html I have a good friend in North sport! Carolina, Ross Rutherford, who Rio Drifter, says: “This is the only sport SASS Life #49244 where the men talk about their Hartford, TN When Will Enough Be Enough? olonel Dan’s Political page in without some kind of revolt? (I CThe Cowboy Chronicle is the first don’t believe the present condition thing I read when I receive my can be reversed with votes.) issue of the publication. I believe Now we are being watched he is 1000% “right on” with his continuously with tiny aircraft we “Nullification” article. How much don’t even know are there and longer will we permit the obama which are capable of killing us if (I refuse to capitalize his name) the people controlling them deem administration to totally disre - it necessary. They are doing it in gard the Constitution and run Afghanistan, and I’ll bet many roughshod over it and the states’ other places, so why couldn’t they rights under it? Another totally do it in North Carolina, Illinois, illegal move he is making is the Iowa, California, Montana, or any - “quantitative easing” (allowing where else? What have we al - the FED to print $87 billion each lowed our government to month) and then essentially giv - become???? Thanks for listening ing it to the big banks to loan out, Left Hand Thunder, but they seldom do. Instead, the SASS #1093 banks invest it in the stock mar - APO, Germany ket or just let it sit and draw in - Thunder, thank you very much terest at 3%, for which we tax for that most thoughtful note and payers have to pay. Bank officials very kind words of support for my skim off what they can and pocket column. I obviously share your it, making them rich. concerns. At the same time my Obama care is being shoved faith in America’s authentic patri - down our throats with threats of ots remains strong. America’s re - fines or jail time if we don’t join in turn to our constitutional republic and buy trash we don’t want or will require resolve and determi - can’t afford. How much longer nation on all our parts. will the American people put up Steel your nerve and soldier on … with such Constitutional abuse Colonel Dan

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The B i g g E S t Little Shoot in ROOP COUNTY nEvada

By Jasper Agate, SASS #11697 Pictures by Viscous Vicki, SASS #18028

Fargo, SASS #772, and Slow Eddy, SASS Life #3222 came out to play DAYS as well. We had Kougarok George, SASS #49562, who came all the way from Alaska to shoot our Tom ernley, NV, Septem - Horn Category; more on that later. ber 2013 – Our 17 th an - Our side matches started nual ROOP COUNTY early on Thursday morning with a F DAYS was a great time Plainsmen Match and Long for all involved. We had seventy Range. We’re planning on mixing shooters join us for our best match Bad, SASS #25307 (my dear wife), up long range for next year. All I ever!! The weather was pleasant Miss Claudia, and Desert Rose, can tell you now is that it will be with no HUGE winds to put a SASS Life #52312; their help was more challenging than it has been damper on the festivities for us in totally indispensable!!!! Their in the past. the high desert. CC Dollar, SASS biggest job was to keep me focused We have a few side matches #62609, was the Match Director and in line!! All the club members you don’t see very often. We with Deni, SASS #51564, writing jumped in to help and the match moved our BB Gun Shoot under the wonderful stages and taking went off like a well oiled machine! the pavilion, and you could shoot on the duties of Range Master. We had some new friends join us it as much as you wanted day or Yours truly spent the week mak - from Utah for the first time and a night. That was definitely the hit ing sure all the little things be - couple of our founding fathers, of the weekend. We even used it hind the scenes got done, and I to settle a couple of ties in our also had the duties of camp cook. side matches. Speaking of behind the scenes, Our Lucas McCain side match — Overall Match Winners — things would not as gone as well consisted of two lever rifles, one Bobcat Tyler and Sterling Star as they did with out the help of rifle caliber and one pistol caliber Congratulations! these three wonderful ladies Bee - with three shots each as fast as you can. We had everything from 30-30’s to a 50/100 participating. There was a 22 challenge and the winner went home with a Cadil - lac. The speed matches are just what you would expect with the addition of a rifle caliber speed match, and pocket pistol broken down into single and double ac - tion revolvers. Wild Bunch™ was heavily participated in and was shot in the afternoon. We had a Shotgun Frenzy set up that you could shoot it any time during the side match day - 25 targets ranging from a potato tree to pipes and cowboy poppers with a bird. We had a wonderful Potluck under the pavilion that evening with the hit being BBQed oysters (we had 2 cases!!) followed by our BP night shoot. We have the abil - — Spirit of the Game Recipient — Drifter John (Continued on page 14 ) Visit us at sassnet .com Page 14 Cowboy Chronicle February 2014

The Biggest Little Shoot In Nevada • Roop County Days ...

(Continued from page 13 ) ity to shoot big bore on our range and the night was filled with the resounding BOOM of big bore ri - fles and impressive shotgun loads. Rexx T Dog, SASS #25598, had some loads that showered the tar - gets with sparks when hit. Friday morning brought the first 6 stages of our 12 stage main match with 27 categories shoot - ing. The biggest category was our very own Tom Horn. What’s Tom Horn? Glad you asked! Roop

County has always had a big bore Cream Social. We get ice cream category for as long as I can re - from a local handmade business member and we have 8 of the 12 and it’s good!!! If you didn’t get stages set up for just that. If you enough shooting, the Shotgun are interested in seeing how we do Frenzy and BB Gun match were this, go to our website and look for open all afternoon. Our potluck them under INFO for the full set that evening brought out the sec - of rules at: http://www.northern ond case of oysters along with dif - nevadacas.com/rccsa/index.htm. ferent sausages and all kinds of After the main match, the goodies from the participants.. club cooked lunch for all the There was more than one potluck shooters and guests. Lunch was going around the camp, and I followed by Miss Claudia’s Ice heard all the food and friendship was outstanding. Saturday we shot the last 6 stages and then settled into the pavilion for lunch, again provided by the club. The shooting was over and the steel was put away in record time. Before we knew it, it was time to fire up the BBQ’s for our world famous potluck din - ner. The club supplied the roasted tri tip, smoked chicken finished with a peach BBQ sauce, and hanks of homemade chicken Ital - ian sausage. Irish Ike, SASS #43615 lead the team of BBQers - Wil Cooner, SASS #59489, Sand Dab Sam, SASS #9632 and Wild Bill Berry, SASS #75142 to an - other great job!!. Thanks again

Visit us at sassnet .com February 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 15 for all your help!! Our guests rounded out the dinner with sumptuous treats from their own kitchens. It was a feast to be re - membered. After dinner we started Bee - Bad’s Raffle and the awards. CC Dollar had awards for just about anything you could think of and the raffle had everything from once fired brass to a couple of handmade knives. But the star of the raffle was a quilt made by the ladies of the club. They called themselves the “Quilt Babes.” You could purchase tickets all during the match and put them into jars for the items you wanted to win. We made almost $1400 from your generous donations. The overall man and woman for the match were Bobcat Tyler, SASS #10767, and Sterling Star, SASS #34158. Both gunfighters, imagine that! Every year we like to recognize the club member who steps up above and beyond with a SPIRT OF THE GAME AWARD. This year it went to Drifter John, SASS #85254. He definitely de - served the award!!!! Sunday brought the team shoot lead by Drifter John. I had the devious job of acquiring the posts to be cut in half by the teams. Let ’s just say that next year we ’ll try to find something different than dried up Douglas fir 4x6s. After the team shoot, all that was left to do was to say goodbye until next year. I would like to acknowledge all the hard working Roop County Cowboy Shooters. This match wouldn’t have been the fantastic match it is was without all your hard work. I’m busting with pride to be associated with such a fine group of cowboys and cowgirls!

Winners L F Cartridge hot Babe, Tom Horn Smokeless Repeater Main Match sass #L77857 Ca sand Dab sam, B-Western gil t.azell , L Gunfighter sterling starr, sass #9632 Ca sass #62569 nV sass #34158 Ca Tom Horn BP Single Shot Cowboy ogalala Kid, L Senior napa Belle, Big Dave, sass #89421 nV sass #89185 Ca sass #55632 Co Cowgirl Dusty garnet, L S Senior ruby Lamoille, Tom Horn Smokeless Single Shot sass #95327 ut sass #47449 nV tumbleweed ed, Cattle Baron De sabla Don, L Tom Horn Smokeless Repeater sass #65484 nV sass #76121 Ca hicks mountain Plainsman C Cowboy rusty ravine, honey, Eastern reno slim nV sass #L5919 nV sass #66334 Ca Western Big Dave Co Duelist sheriff winchester, 49’er C. C. Dollar, Lady Juanette de’ hornier sass #85902 nV sass #62609 nV Ca E Statesman pyrite, Senior Jeremiah Jonathan, Wild Bunch sass #6769 Ca sass #50325 nV Modern reno slim nV F Cartridge Bangor Brink, Pale Rider Dutch Dalton, L Modern hicks mountain sass #70707 Ca sass #L44089 nV honey Ca F C Duelist hellfire preacher, S Gunfighter Fanner Fifty, Traditional Fiddletown Flash, sass #60655 nV sass #59504 nV sass#19380 Ca F C Gunfighter washoe Zephyr, S Senior reno slim, L Traditional sterling star Ca sass #85133 nV sass #L5460 nV Other F C Duelist 49’er preacher, Tom Horn Lite hell-er high water, Night Shoot reno slim nV sass #L5790 nV sass #L32527 Ca BB Gun Match gil t.azell nV Gunfighter Bobcat tyler. Tom Horn BP Repeater Shotgun Frenzy gil t.azell nV sass #L10767 Ca wil Cooner, 22 Challenge reno slim nV L 49’er Juanette de’ hornier, sass # 59484 Ca sass #42113 Ca

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2013 M A–CT–RI STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS SHOOT OUT AT SAWYER FLATS

By Appaloosa Amy, SASS #63949 Pictures courtesy of Dead Head, SASS #29768, and Annabelle Bransford, SASS #11916

arvard, MA – On May 31 – June 2, 2013 the Tri-State SASS Cham - H pionships took place in Harvard, Massachusetts … Yes, I said Massachusetts, which may not seem like a hotbed for Cowboy Action Shooting™, but in reality, it is. Some of the icons of early Cow - boy Action Shooting™ run this match ... you know the guys and gals with the three or four digit memberships like Barrister Bill, SASS #5230, Yankee, SASS #266, – 2013 Top Gun Team and his lovely bride Boston Lady, Shoot Off Winners – SASS #3662. Their match running Snazzy McGee – CT and Sixgun Schwaby – NY. experience combined with a core The shoot off is a fun-filled event group of helpers and a great ten where 32 shooters participated bay shooting facility at the Har - and every year there are new faces … vard Sportmen’s Club makes for they all have smiles on them! an awesome match, which is ex - actly what the 2013 MA-CT-RI lore, including this year for the State championship was. first time a separate three stage Wild Bunch™ match, which was This year’s theme was Side - — 2013 SASS State Champions — kicks of the Big and Little Screen, All Husband and Wife Teams — from left to right well received, so we will running which made for some great stages Rhode Island’s Brett Cantrell & Wild Sage, the event again at the 2014 match. and also for some interesting read - Massachusetts’ Grazer & Hawley McCoy, and The main match had some new ing in the shooter’s book because Connecticut’s Quaker Hill Bill & Appaloosa Amy. targets including a tombstone there were some fascinating facts rack, a swinging clay target, and a One Ear Pete, SASS #34800, goes into the writing of these giving you your money’s worth, soda can launcher (and we always shared about these cowboy actors stages along with lots of debating, and we make it a point to write a have a makeup target, so any that many folks didn’t know (in - but in the end, there is always a lot fun match for the shooter that misses on these types of targets cluding myself). of shotgun knockdowns, a lot of comes in first, the one that comes won’t ruin a clean match). The 26 It is safe to say the Tri-State is movement, and a lot of props. The in last, and all the ones in between. clean shooters (18% of the com - a shooter’s match. Lots of thought Harvard Ghost Riders believe in On Friday, we had side events ga - petitors) were evidence the targets

Winners Categories Categories Categories CT L B-Western Birdie Cage, F C Gunfighter Dead head, L S Duelist nantucket Dawn, Man & Top Gun sass #32773 ma sass #29768 nh sass #15681 ma Quaker hill Bill, Cowboy silas highland, Gunfighter preacher Ben pray’n, S Senior Dealin Justice, sass #61021 Ct sass #81983 mD sass #85919 ri sass #62653 Ct Lady appaloosa amy, Cowgirl snazzy mcgee, 49’r rootin’ tootin’ tim, L S Senior Yukon Deb, Our shooting facility has 10 separate bays, so there is sass #63949 Ct sass #66689 Ct sass #57091 me sass #86992 aK plenty of downrange movement. MA C Cowboy tom payne, L 49’r Crystal Creek Chris, E Statesman rowdy Bill, Man grazer, sass #13115 nY sass #64500 nh sass #9628 nY sass #38845 ma Duelist grazer, Wrangler Quaker hill Bill, Grande Dame miss tate, Lady hawley mcCoy, sass #38845 ma sass #61021 Ct sass #21986 ma sass #59588 ma L Duelist nanny oakley, L Wrangler renegade roper, Cattle Baron Beaver trapper, RI sass #85920 ri sass #86367 nY sass #15684 ma Man Brett Cantrell, Frontiersman patchogue mike, Senior oneshot willtravel, C Baroness Bonnie Dee, sass #33868 ri sass #8626 nY sass #75183 ma sass #28413 ma Lady wild sage, F Cartridge smokin Joe, L Senior wild sage, Wild Bunch™ sass #40879 ri sass #93453 Ca sass #40879 ri Modern pittsburg mac, Categories L F Cartridge miss Delaney Belle, S Duelist Bear Lee tallable, sass #20796 ma Young Gun al B. Crazy, sass #6860 nh sass #23670 nh Traditional theodore pucket sass #66690 Ct F C Duelist Callous Clyde, S Gunfighter stogie Ferris, sass #63709 ma B-Western six shot steve, sass #4677 nh sass #44263 ma sass #66105 nh Stage 6 with large targets, lots of movement, and some really cool props!

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were at very hittable distances. cowboys (#1 lady & #16 man, #2 Folks like Ziggady Zag, SASS lady & #15 man, etc.) was another #67251, Mayor of Dubois, SASS fun exhibition on Sunday. It’s al - #73628, Buck Bozeman, SASS ways neat hearing the partici - #13113, and Spirit Warrior, SASS pants introducing themselves to #57526, battled through the high each other and figuring out who is temperatures and hit them all. shooting which guns: Rifle/Re - Speaking of the weather … on volver or Revolver/Shotgun. It re - the sunshine scale of 1 to 10, it ally is a good way for shooters to was a 15. It was an unusual heat get to know each other. wave with all three days in the Once again there were some high 90s, so I can’t say enough new faces in the event: Raven Ma - about all the workers on the niac, SASS #92943, from NH, Lazy posses, particularly the timer op - Ace Bob, SASS #38620, from CT, erators that worked through the Rhode Island’s Nanny Oakley, heat and kept the match running SASS #85920, and Black Jack Ed, smoothly. And, if it weren’t for SASS #46574, of NY to name just Grunt refilling the water coolers so a few. However, not a new face to often, things would have been un - this entertaining finale was our bearable. We went through over defending Team Shoot Off winner 400 lbs of ice making sure the — Spirit of the Game Winner — Snazzy McGee, SASS #66689, who Grazer water stayed cold. Also, the shoot - was once again paired up with a ing orders were different without New Yorker … this time it was Six - being difficult, and New Hamp - gun Schwaby, SASS #87405, and shire’s Iron Pony, SASS #36769, let they cut through the six rounds of us know he thought all the stages / competition to win (Schwaby with were super gunfighter friendly. his ‘73 and shooting his one re - Saturday night’s banquet volver duelist-style, and Snazzy brought together folks for some so - with her Ruger Vaquero and fin - cializing, some good food, and a ishing with her Stoeger) … beating few extras like the Carrabasset teams like Crystal Creek Chris, Girl’s, SASS #76483, costume con - SASS #64500, and Brett Cantrell, test and Boston Lady’s reading of SASS #33868, and her Dad’s team the side event winners. Also, the of Quaker Hill Bill, SASS #61021, Top Gun Teams were announced and Penny Candy, SASS #89708. for Sunday afternoon’s final event. And, this year the shoot off was in The Top Gun Team Shoot Off, a Bay 2, which is right across from Tri-State favorite where the top 16 the main tent, so it was a short Elder Statesman Rowdy Bill ladies are paired with the top 16 walk to the awards ceremony. It was a relief to get out of the sun and into the big tent for the awards, and after raffling off a cou - ple of guns and a gun cart, it was time to read some names. One name to mention was that of our 2013 Starpacker Spirit of the Game recipient, Grazer, SASS #38845, who received a beautiful badge and our thanks for all his hard work year in and year out on this match. If it weren’t for Grazer (and his tractor), it would be impossible to put on this kind of event. The Our shooting facility has 10 separate bays, so there is Ghost Riders are very lucky to have plenty of downrange movement. such a dedicated worker, and it’s an added bonus that he only lives around the corner. The 2013 MA-CT-RI Champi - onships was another great match. If you are interested in fun scenar - ios, generous targets, lots of shot - gun, an entertaining shoot off, and a whole lot more … you just have to come to the 2014 match … that is all there is to it! Visit har - vardghostriders.com for more in - formation and get your 2014 applications in early for a chance Stage 6 with large targets, lots of movement, and some really cool props! to win a free match!

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By Buckaroo Bubba SASS #66861 Photos by Ed Michaels tusco

Buckaroo Bubba, SASS #66861

ctober 4 – 6, 2013, Mid - vale, OH – In the quiet little town of Midvale, CampCreek Skinner, SASS #92880, and Shotgun Shavezz, SASS #11219, O Ohio the Old West is shooting the Long Range Side Match alive and well. Tucked into the hills and woods in Tuscarawas County, theme for the weekend. Each of the you wanted to get some practice in Ohio, the Tusco Long Riders are ten stages represented a Sam Peck - before the main match. preserving the spirit of the Old inpah western. All the starting Saturday at High Noon fea - West at the Tusco Rifle Club. The lines were from his westerns. tured the first half of the Main first weekend in October always The shooters for High Noon Match with five courses of fire. brings High Noon at Tusco. The an - began arriving Friday. Every regis - After we welcomed the eighty reg - nual three-day event for the SASS tered shooter received their istered shooters, the Pledge of Alle - Affiliated Tusco Long Riders tends shooter’s bags, which included a giance started things off followed by to be the season’s grand finale for Tusco Long Riders water bottle, Crowbar’s prayer. A moment of si - the area shooters. The Main Match cooler, and pen, along with the lence was observed for our fallen Sponsors for this year’s edition of shooter’s booklet and name badge. friends, Gaslight and Tommy New - High Noon were Kame’s Sports lo - Friday at the range provided some ton, as well as keeping in our cated in North Canton, Ohio and fun side matches, which included, thoughts and prayers our friends Ani Two Feathers, SASS #88727, the George Dadas Agency, State Speed Rifle, Revolver, and Shotgun Fighting Mad Mongo and Cash and R. S. Dancer, SASS #53825, Farm in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The showed up in style for the banquet. along with Long Range Matches. A Munny. The safety meeting fol - Westerns of Sam Peckinpah was the warm up stage was also available if lowed going over the do’s and don’ts

Winners F C Gunfighter stone Creek Drifter, Wrangler gray hare, Men Overall Winners sass #58853 oh sass #20821 oh Speed Rifle Boss outlaw, Lady Clementine Valentine, F C Senior Life-r, Young Gun Longshot seth, sass #71947 in sass #66179 oh sass #44051 oh sass #98770 oh Speed Rifle .22 Boss outlaw in Man two Bit Drifter, F C Traditional i. m. Crossdraw, Side Matches Speed Pistol sass #32800 oh sass #8321 oh Ladies Traditional Dirty Dale, Categories Frontiersman ohio Cheatin Charlie, Speed Rifle Fancy Free spiritoh sass #61545 pa L 49’er Fancy Free spirit, sass #84621 oh Speed Rifle .22 Kit Colleen, Duelist Boss outlaw in sass #73738 oh L Gunfighter Clementine Valentine oh sass #50543 oh Gunfighter woody shootem oh 49’er two Bit Drifter oh Josey Wales stagecoach hannah, Speed Pistol Speed Shotgun 49’er D Duelist sass #38251 oh Traditional Fancy Free spirit oh ‘87 stone Creek Drifter oh Crowbar, L Wrangler Josie marcus, Duelist gemstone Janet, ‘97 Boss outlaw in sass #97862 oh sass #77142 oh sass #74014 pa SXS Hammer 49’er Duelist Longshot ace, Pale Rider ruger ray, Gunfighter Little mama swiss, sass #75961 oh sass #59234 oh Speed Shotgun sass #13622 oh Buckaroo pieces parts, P Rider Gunfighter ‘87 Fancy Free spirit oh SXS Hammerless sass #94500 oh woody shootem, ‘97 Cayenne Kay, Dirty Dale pa Cattle Baron Darby, sass #24816 oh sass #96415 Long Range sass #41290 oh Senior sixgun seamus, SXS Hammer Pistol Cal. Buckaroo Bubba, C Cowboy Loco Leadslinger, sass #94002 oh Fancy Free spirit oh sass #66861 oh sass #66868 oh S Gunfighter r. s. Dancer, sXs hammerless Rifle Caliber Life-r oh Cowboy Brass picker Jones, sass #53825 oh gemstone Janet pa Single Shot Life-r oh sass #50374 oh S Senior pickaway tracker, Long Range Rifle Young Guns D Duelist missouri muleskinner, sass #52070 oh Pistol Cal. Little mama mi Speed Pistol Traditional sass #38729 oh S S D Duelist montana smoke, Long Range Chaplin Boaz L Duelist gemstone Janet, sass #27053 oh Single Shot angie oakley, Speed Shotgun sass #74014 pa L S Senior Cookie sewgoode, sass #21878 tn ‘97 Kid irish Lighting, Duelist Boss outlaw, sass #85292 oh Long Range Pistol sass #97585 in sass #71947 in L S S Duelist Little mama, Little mama mi SXS Hammer E Statesman shotgun shavezz, sass #25350 mi Chaplin Boaz sass #11219 oh Long Range Pistol Chaplin Boaz

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and new this year, T.J. Reese as Sec - catered our dinner, which consisted retary. The Appointed positions of at Tusco. Then it was off to shoot - of BBQ pulled pork sandwiches, Match Director and Territorial Gov - ing. Everyone divided up in his or BBQ chicken, green beans, cheesy ernor will remain Muleskinner and her respective posses. potatoes, and a salad. Six Gun Sea - D.J. McDraw respectively. At 6pm Saturday evening every - mus provided us with a video show - The Tusco Long Riders’ Spirit of one gathered at the banquet hall for ing some of our Cowboys and the Game Award was next in line to our evening festivities. Marshal Cowgirls in action. The BIG prize be presented. Our annual award is Dan Dillon started things off with table was back again this year with named the “Ruthless McDraw the blessing then it was time to eat. well over two hundred prizes on it. Spirit of the Game Award.” For Local restaurant chain, Hog Heaven, All registered shooters in attendance those of you who knew Ruthless McDraw, having her name on our Spirit of the Game Award is more than fitting. She was the definition of the Cowboy Spirit. This is what our award says: “Ruthless McDraw epitomized the Cowboy Way in everything she did. Catlow, SASS #4697, Ruthless was a true ambassador donned a very stylish top hat for the sport of Cowboy Action for the banquet. Shooting™. Her enthusiasm to our game and to walked away with three prizes each. those who compete with us made Some of the prizes were donated by each shoot better and more fun. our various sponsors and supporting It is in this spirit that we honor Cowboy Action Shooting™ clubs. the following cowboy/cowgirl After dinner we took care of busi - for their dedicated service to the ness, holding our Club Officer Elec - Tusco Long Riders during the tions. Buckaroo Bubba will remain 2013 shooting season.” Our Saturday night banquet included our BIG prize table. Most everyone took THREE prizes home! Club President, Prairie Dawg as Vice It was with great honor to pres - President, Split Rail as Treasurer, (Continued on page 20 )

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High Noon at Tusco 2013 ...

(Continued from page 19 ) shows and also our Tusco Long Rid - ent this award to this year’s recipi - ers’ Day at Kame’s Sports. Stone ents. This year’s winners were: Six Creek Drifter, who has been there Gun Seamus, who helped us in var - for us no matter what we needed. ious ways during the year, includ - He has put in years of service to the ing working our tables at two gun Tusco Long Riders’ and was a very

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At 9am Sunday morning the shooting started again with all the shooters appearing at their respec - tive starting stages. The last day of High Noon at Tusco always pro - vides some fun things to shoot. This year on Stage 8, water bottles were the victims, shooting them with the shotgun making it rain water and plastic. On Stage 10 you had to shoot our pumpkin-headed cardboard cowboy. Rye Miles and his blackpowder flame set this poor fellow on fire! After the final five stages and the clean up that followed, it was time for the awards. Ten of our shooters shot the whole match CLEAN. At the top of rankings Stage 5 features our Tusco sign were our Top Overall and Top Male Shooter, Two Bit Drifter, and Our overdue, well-deserved recipient. easy chore, but every time he was Top Ladies Shooter, Clementine Moosetracks—This year at Tusco at Tusco he volunteered to run a Valentine. Congratulations on we had many new and exciting posse and did a great job doing it. shooting a great match! stage props with which to play. Thank you for your service to the Herzog’s Jewelers graciously Blue Hare loves to wear blue throughout her shooting costumes – This was due to the hard work Tusco Long Riders. donated a “Middle of the Pack” even her shotgun shells are blue! Moosetracks put in. We now have We took time during our ban - badge, to be given away to the mid - new stage props for all five of our quet to thank the numerous people dle shooter on the weekend. That shooting bays thanks to Moose - and sponsors who have made the shooter was R.S. Dancer. one enjoyed themselves and will tracks. Last but not least, Rye Tusco Long Riders a great club and With that, High Noon at Tusco join us again in 2014. The plan - Miles—Running a posse is not an successful three-day shoot. 2013 came to a close. I hope every - ning has already started!

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The SaSS DELAWARE State Championship Eas’dern Shore Round-Up

udlersville, MD – 2013 When you hear the By Deacon Will, SASS #24170 William Tell Overture, S do you think of the great opera William Tell whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini ? William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini’s 39 operas. There have been repeated use of parts of this overture in both classical music and popular media, most fa - mously as the theme music for The Lone Ranger in radio and tel - evision shows. It was a great time in the 40s and 50s when you could turn on the radio or TV and be Cody Conagher and the sure you would find a terrific Cowboy Shop donated Western themed half hour of en - an original, tuned 1897 shotgun. tertainment. When the commit - Lucky winner was Corkscrew Tom! tee decided on a theme for this year’s match, it was decided to

— Match Winners (l – r) — Top Delaware Lady ~ Hazel Pepper, Top Lady Competitor ~ Dancin Angel, Top Overall Shooter ~ Cody Conagher, Top Delaware Cowboy ~ Cool Hand Lee

pay homage to the early epics that to a cowboy/cowgirl that exempli - fostered the imagination of young fies service, SASS, the Cowboy children throughout the North Way, and fostering our constitu - American Continent. tional rights … dubbed the Too- OLD TIME RADIO (OTR) was Dang-Frank award after the main called upon as a resource to actually organizer of the Easdern’ Shore listen to and gain historical knowl - Renegades, Too-Dang Frank – edge of this “Golden Age of Radio.” Regulator, deceased (Frank Pin - OTR http://www.otrcat.com/index.php der). The award was given to offers a library of vintage radio pro - Teton Tracy – Regulator who is gramming that is both entertaining and educational. It then became a project for the prop masters to come up with appropriate props to match the stages. Sky King was one of the scenarios, and an airplane was part of the staging. Large targets paired with well-written scenarios made for an energetic, but well paced match. the sparkplug for Cowboy Action This match has always been Shooting™, Match Director, and a known for it’s BBQ, and again, it Top Hand in organizing the SASS outdid itself. Door prizes for State Match. every competitor, side matches for The Delaware State Match is warming up to the main match, one of the first State Matches in and vendors to service the cloth - Baby Bella Hawk ~ 1st Buckarette. the region and affords shooters a ing, equipment, and food needs of Coming to the match chance to get back into form for the participants were all a part of was her birthday present! the upcoming season. Mark your the scene. Weather was perfect. Happy Birthday, Bella! calendars for next year’s match ~ Each year an award is given And Congratulations! May 2 – 4, 2014!

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Winners Overall Winners Man Cody Conagher, sass #6986 wV Lady Dancin angel, sass #53686 nJ Delaware Champions Man Cool hand Lee, sass #81764 De Lady hazel pepper, sass #49662 De Categories 49’er Cody Conagher wV Wrangler silas highland, sass #81983 mD Senior Vaquero Dan, sass #31330 De E Statesman Lefty Bob, sass #83048 pa Duelist red Cavanaugh, sass #68971 Va S Senior Bigfoot Jim, sass #51847 De Cowboy ralphie parker, sass #89214 pa L 49’er Dancin angel nJ S Duelist pecos pav, sass #36327 nJ L Senior hazel pepper De F Cartridge slowpoke John, sass #45304 pa L Wrangler tomahawk teri, sass #52808 mD F C Duelist Doc argyle, sass #12847 Va Cattle Baron Jingles Jerr, sass #5463 mD Gunfighter Deadeye Dutch, sass #62266 nJ C Cowboy sundown Charlie, sass #61859 De L B-Western wyoming schoolmarm, sass #32070 De L Duelist Jersey sue, sass #46447 nJ L S Senior Bonnie B good, sass #27711 mD Buckarette Baby Bella hawk, sass #92817 nJ

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. The NEW BRISTOL PLAINS , PISTOLEROS

By Johnny McRae, SASS #70670

ristol, WI – While re - fle system consists of three baffles ally not entirely new, over 200 feet long placed along the the Bristol Plains Pis - firing line. The baffles essentially B toleros has taken on a are containers six feet high and six new appearance in recent years. inches thick inside. They are con - The Bristol Plains Pistoleros is a structed of 2 " x 6 " pressure treated Cowboy Action Shooting™ club op - lumber boards and are filled with erating under the auspices of Surlite, which is a lightweight pea SASS and is sponsored by the Con - gravel substitute. The baffles are servation Club of Kenosha County supported by 6 " x 6 " posts spaced (CCKC). Our range is located in every 12 feet. Construction com - southeastern Wisconsin just south menced around the middle of Sep - of Milwaukee and west of Kenosha tember, and a final match of the in the town of Bristol on the Wis - season was held in November. consin/Illinois border. The Bristol There was concern the uprights Plains Pistoleros have been associ - would make it seem like one was ated with SASS since 1996. shooting in a forest. This was not What is new about the Bristol the case. Shooters have indicated Huckleberry and the surly bartender. Plains Pistoleros is our new baffle the uprights are not an issue at We all know we don’t need no surly system. In September of 2011 dur - all. When you are on the firing bartenders! That’s Huckleberry with the fake Walker in his hands … ing an afternoon practice session, line, all you see are the targets. a shooter (from a shooting disci - We were surprised at an unex - pline other than Cowboy Action pected benefit of the baffles. The We hold our monthly matches Shooting™) put a 9mm round over baffle system has allowed us to on the second Saturday and Sun - our berm. The round traveled 850 hang signs, build props, and begin day of each month. Weather per - yards and landed on a neighbor’s to decorate the baffles similar to mitting, matches are held April back porch. As a result of this in - an Old West town. We added a through November. On Saturdays cident, the cowboy range was shut permanent sheriff’s office to serve we have a special posse just for down until a suitable baffle system as a sign-in area and for storage of new shooters. This allows us to could be installed. The parent or - equipment, records, and such. A give a new shooter closer and more ganization (CKCC) furnished the fine gravel path was added along individualized attention. It also materials, and the Bristol Plains the firing line. So far we have re - takes some of the pressure off of a Pistoleros, along with some mem - ceived nothing but positive com - new shooter. It is very rewarding bers of the parent club, furnished ments, and the attendance at our to see a new shooter complete their the labor. This NRA approved baf - monthly matches has increased. first match or shoot a clean stage. An adverse event helped to revital - This season we held a Wild ize our cowboy range. Bunch match in June and in Sep - We have three people who serve tember. A safe and fun time was as Match Co-Directors. One of our had by everyone. Prior to the June Match Directors is Huckleberry, match, Huckleberry held a seminar SASS Regulator #43860. Since on Wild Bunch rules. This really 1999 Huckleberry has been helping helped to move the matches along to put on SASS matches and help - safely and smoothly. We plan on ing new shooters. He is our “go to” having at least two Wild Bunch guy. Another of our Match Direc - matches during the 2014 season. tors, Rusty Brec, SASS #74729, has (Continued on next page) many years of shooting and re-en - acting under his belt. Rusty is a board member of the parent club and our ramrod. The other Match Director, Johnny McCrae, SASS #70670, writes our stages and is the public relations man. This setup works out great and does not put all the burden on one person. Visit us at sassnet .com February 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 25

When writing our stages, we BEFORE and AFTER always try to include a brief story centering on a historical event, western movies, or situation a cow - boy might encounter. Our May 2013 matches were based on famil - iar scenes from western movies. We try to add props wherever pos - sible, such as a surly bartender. To start that stage, you push him down with a wooden Walker Colt prop. This season one of our stages is an “all shotgun” stage, and it has been well received. All of our stages are posted on our In the old days, the range was “nice.” However, the baffles have added an unexpected dimension website for shooters to download. to the range, and encouraged the addition of many great “western” props and facades. We have a great cadre of experi - enced and dedicated ROs who are safety conscious and help make our matches go smoothly. One per - son cannot do it alone. Having a safe and successful club is a team effort. If you ever wanted to see an example of teamwork, watch our ROs in action. We have one of the best teams around! When you are in southeastern Wisconsin, we invite you to come out and shoot with us. Please take a look at our website for the latest informa - tion www.bristolcowboys.com.

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shooting indiana and the Pleasant valley Renegades uSa By Tennessee Tall, SASS Life/Regulator #49245, Rio Drifter, SASS #49244 and and Rio Drifter, SASS Life/Regulator #49244 Tennesse Tall, SASS #49245 and turned our Conestoga wagon in that direction. With 133 blocks adison, IN – Since we on the National Register of His - had no real knowledge toric Places and boasting three of Indiana, we turned National Historic Landmarks, M to our trusty “1,000 Charles Kuralt called Madison: Places to See Before You Die” “The most beautiful river town in book. We found an interesting America.” That said, go visit write up about Madison, which Madison. I think you will agree was in the neighborhood of the with Kuralt. We loved the town, Pleasant Valley Renegades shoot but the highlight of the trip was our visit with the Pleasant Valley Randy Archer – some days Renegades, we’ll go back to both. are just too much fun! Nomore Slim, SASS Life #20418, and his wife, Brenda, camping at the range. Club mem - began working on the range in bers pay nothing to set up a cabin, 2006, “Simply for the love of the no rental fees to be there, and are sport,” as he put it. That love is free to sell their cabins to other still shining today, readily seen as club members. A bit of a twist in you view the Pleasant Valley town running the club as all fee monies and their shooting range. In 2006 go directly back into the club. they began with six stages and a Trade Days, the Pleasant Val - mission style Mexican church (the ley Renegades’ October annual church blew away in a freak match, is $15 per day. During storm—folks say not even a piece Trade Days a 200 pound pig will of it has been found). The first be roasting on the fire with all the year there were 50 members; trimmings waiting for it. Twice a today there are 80 – 90 active year the club hosts a Dutch shooters/members. Nomore Slim oven/cast iron pot cook-off. Shoot - owns the property where there ers begin coming in on Wednesday Graver, Lizzie of the Valley, are six cabins, a clubhouse, a for the monthly Saturday shoot. and Marshal Spencer Owen. teepee, and loads of free dry

Brenda and Lizzie of the Valley cleaning fresh green beans for supper.

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said, “Shootin’ is secondary to the socializing,” not much doubt that Graver and Turkeyfoot agreed with that. The morning of the monthly match a long range .22 side match, .22 pistol and rifle, der - ringer, and pocket pistol match is held. We were delighted with Johnathan, Toby, Elton and Ben, local Amish children who set up their vegetable stand early, and then picked up brass and enter - tained us. Buffalo Bud Hardin led our posse through six stages set down We could be wrong, but we’re by the creek that meanders thinking food may have some - through the range. We had the thing to do with that. Wednesday pleasure of shooting with White - night was drunken chicken and hawk, Blackjack Dolan DuPree, fresh blackberry cobbler; pork Clear Creek Slim, Windy Ridge chops were due for Thursday Renegade, Knot Werkin’, Buffalo night (but the raccoons found the Fats, Don’t Know Diddly, and cooler). Friday night was steaks Graver, to name a few fellows, and courtesy of Marshal Spencer as usual, I forget SOMEBODY! Owen, SASS #62190. Lunch dur - Club President Randy Archer was ing the shoot was BIG hot dogs on on hand making sure we had the grill, and Saturday night scores ready to present awards al - sadly enough was leftovers … most as soon as we shed our guns. right … drunken chicken, steak, Nomore Slim credits Randy hot dogs, and fresh picked green Archer with much work and con - beans, corn on the cob, sliced tributing to the success of the tomatoes and SASS #58875, Lizzy Pleasant Valley Renegades club. of the Valley’s, hummingbird Appeared to us they all work, and cake. Marshal Spencer Owen they all have a great time. Visit us at sassnet .com Page 28 Cowboy Chronicle February 2014

i ocoee Rangers

leveland, TN – This By Smokin’ Dave, SASS #94325 given out for thei previous month’s story begins in January shoot and Tennessee Mongo reads 2012. I was looking day of each month. Not having The following week I contacted T- the safety procedures to all. C through a magazine anything planned for that Satur - Bone Angus, and he set me up with Posses are called out for the day one day when I came upon an ad - day, my wife and I drove to the a pair of Rugers, a shotgun, a rifle, and then all heck breaks loose. vertisement for SASS. The ad had Cleveland Gun Club to watch a and some leather. The air is filled with banging and a picture of young kids dressed in match in action. We no sooner got Our monthly shoots begin at 8 clanging, smoke and dust. Among cowboy attire. With my interest out the car when we were wel - AM for those who wish to partici - the noise one can still hear laugh - sparked I went to the SASS web - comed by the bang and clang of a pate in the Buffalo Shoot. Mar - ter or words of encouragement and site and there began to research match in process. Cowboys and shal Too Tall is the head ramrod praise as they are being shouted to what SASS was about. This in Cowgirls were everywhere. We of this portion of the day. Too Tall fellow cowboys and cowgirls. turn took me to YouTube where I walked up to one stage where we is always there early to set up tar - To those wanting to try Cow - discovered Cowboy Action Shoot - were greeted by Hoss Carpenter. gets and see that everything is in boy Action Shooting™, there is no ing™. Boy, did I want to learn He explained to me exactly what order for those who wish to try better club than the Ocoee more! In my area I found a club was taking place, as my ears tried some long distance shooting. Rangers. I just wanted to say my called the Ocoee Rangers. I de - to listen and my eyes tried to take At 10 AM the main match of vote for the SASS club of the year cided to contact the president, in all the sights and the excite - the day begins. Ocoee Red sum - goes to the Ocoee Rangers located Ocoee Red, and ask if it would be ment. The highlight of my day was mons everyone to cowboy up and to in Tennessee. I cannot even begin okay to come watch a match. The during the lunch break when remove our hats. Each and every to list the help and friendship I answer, of course, was “yes.” Lightning McCoy let me shoot match begins with the Pledge of have experienced from this group. The Ocoee Rangers hold their both his pistols and rifle. Needless Allegiance and then a prayer. I am They offered comfort when my dad monthly matches on the 4 th Satur - to say the hook was set and hard. proud to say this club will not be passed away, prayed for my wife influenced by “political correct - during her illness, and mentored ness.” We still believe in our coun - me in a sport I love so dear. Ocoee try and stand to defend her on a Rangers … I tip my hat to you. moment’s notice. Awards are Thank you each and every one.

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Dixie Desperados , gO Wil d!!! utah State Championship t. George, UT – In the By Major Pain, SASS #86012 1969 Wild Bunch film, the movie opens with a They never got caught. However, rounds were fired during the Mex - 2013 S group of aging outlaw’s for them the vacation, the fantasy, ican Revolution of 1916, around final score, a bank robbery. The was bound to end and they knew which the film is loosely based. In event concludes with a violent it. But not for us! total, 90,000 rounds were fired, shootout that would generally It is said more blank rounds all blanks. mark the finale of a movie. This is were discharged during the pro - Fortunately for us, the fantasy correct in that it marks the finale duction of that movie than live lives and the fun continues as it of an era, for the characters and the world they live in. They sim - ply can no longer keep up, the times are changing, technology ad - vancing, and their style of life is getting left behind in the dust they spent so long galloping through. They abandon their careers for the simpler life of retirement. They enjoy this time; they live their fan - tasies. The West was only wild be - cause the “Wild Bunch” was there. They influenced their surround - ings, not the other way around.

— Best Military Costume — Dead Lee, SASS #43870

did recently at the Utah Wild Bunch™ Action Shooting champi - onship, hosted by the Dixie Des - perados at the Southern Utah Shooting Sports Park in Hurri - cane, Utah. The match was fast and furious as the guns used in the movie of the same name con - tinued the love affair of the early 20 th century west. Rifles (.40 cal - iber or larger), shotguns, and the infamous 1911 .45 ACP pistols boomed across the valley as friends participated in a terrific match. The match at the Dixie Desperados range was attended Happy Jack, Chairman by one of the founders and experts of the Wild Bunch™ Committee, in Wild Bunch™ competitions, the shoots his way out of jail. — Utah State Wild Bunch™ Champions — inimitable Happy Jack. A high - He not only strives for (l – r back row) Molasses Kid, Modern; and Alaskan, Traditional; light of the event was the celebra - a clean match, he is also (l – r front row) Lilly Long, Lady Modern; tion of Happy Jack’s birthday, very accurate. He won the and Dixie Bell, Lady Traditional. including a birthday cake and a Precision Pistol Side Match. Congratulations! (Continued on page 30 ) Visit us at sassnet .com Page 30 Cowboy Chronicle February 2014

Dixie Desperados Go Wild (Utah State Championship 2013) ...

(Continued from page 29 ) gift—Cracker Jacks of course! As Gabby Hayes (movie sidekick to many stars of westerns past), used to say, “I can practical guar - antee” Happy Jack is a shooter and is one of the greats of Wild test of accuracy and speed with Bunch™ and Cowboy Action. It the .45 ACP pistol. One pistol tar - was great fun to have him visit get was a steel rotating arm that the Dixie Desperados and partici - had double rotating wheels with pate in the match. four steel plates each. On any The match had some very in - stage, you have to plan your teresting stages designed by Dixie movements, transitions, and Bell, T.L., and Mokaac Kid. A cou - shots. This one took a little extra ple of unique targets provided a planning while rewarding good shooting! Another was a “hostage” pistol target with a rec - tangular red steel plate on a black background approximately 3 x 5 inches in size, again a challenge for the shooter to be quick, but ac - curate. Add to those poppers, a Utah is replete with history, and plate rack, knockdowns, and a du - the costumes reflected on the eling tree, and you have the mak - great western heritage in this ings of a really great match! part of the state Although 90,000 shots weren’t Over the past few years, the fired by participants in the Utah Dixie Desperados range has de - State Wild Bunch™ match, veloped into one of the premier enough were fired to determine Cowboy Action Shooting™ venues the best-of-the-best of entrants. in the U.S. There are 12 perma - Costume events are always nently built bays, several being fun to see and many were im - new and covered, which comes in pressed with the effort and work handy on hot or rainy days. Bays that went into costuming for this include a sheriff’s office/jail, rail - year’s event. Of course, Southern road/telegraph office, homestead,

Winners Side Matches L Traditional Dixie Bell, Speed Rifle SASS #5366L UT Man Alaskan UT Traditional Maddog Mark, Lady Lilly Long UT SASS #77911 CA Precision rifle Alaskan, Man Elk Ridge Sheriff, SASS #79504 UT SASS #33087 UT L Modern Lilly Long, Lady Whirlwind Wendy, SASS #81344 UT SASS #79889 CA Modern Molasses Kid, Costume Contest SASS #78721 UT Best Military Costume Side Matches Dead Lee, Speed pistol SASS #43870 NV Man J.T. Wild, Best Wild Bunch™ Movie Costume SASS #20399 UT Maddog Mark CA Lady Lilly Long UT Best Female Costume Precision pistol Whirlwind Wendy CA Man Happy Jack, Best Soldadera SASS #20451 UT Dixie Bell UT Lady Lilly Long UT

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Holden), and the other members of mine, livery stable, a beautiful the Wild Bunch , are notoriously un - Mission, and the Bank of No reliable when firing blanks, Span - Trust, among others. All built on ish made Star Model B, 9mm flat ground with RV/trailer park - pistols were substituted for all of ing, handicap accessible rest - the firing scenes. Aside from being rooms, and the venue will, in the chambered for the smaller 9mm near future, have water and elec - round, the Star Model B is exter - tricity as well. All-in-all, a great nally almost identical to the Colt place to shoot Cowboy Action 1911. Cast members also carried Shooting™ and Wild Bunch™ Ac - Winchester M1897 pump-action tion Shooting matches! shotguns. U.S. and Mexican sol - If you’re too young to remember diers in the film used M1903 the Wild Bunch movie, the modern Springfield rifles. All of the afore - side arms (the film’s setting is mentioned firearms were used in 1916) the Bishop gang carried are World War I by the US Army. Colt M1911 semi-auto matic pistols. Note: 2014 “Dixie Desperados (Although it should be noted that Go Wild” will be held April 22 – 26 because the Colt 1911 .45 ACP pis - look for applications at: Dixiedes tols carried by Pike (William perados.com

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Page 32 Cowboy Chronicle February 2014 i RAID on CONESTEE i SOuth CaROlina WiLD Bunc h™ By Slippery Stew, SASS Life #82437 STATE CHAMPIONSHIP reenville, SC – Forty- one 1911-toting, shot - gun-pumping cowboys G and cowgirls swaggered into the Greenville Gun Cub in Greenville, SC to compete in the first ever South Carolina Wild Bunch™ State Championship. Held on September 28 – 30, the Raid On Conestee was three days of shooting, laughing, and telling lies. Plate racks, stars, and tons of knockdowns are great fun, but they are also a lot of work. Hondo Jack - son, SASS #83365, Match Director, you to all those who worked so hard! and his crew worked many hours to Of course, we could not have make sure all the competitors had a pulled it off without the help of our challenging, fun match. A big thank match sponsor, Clark’s Bullets (River Rat Randy, SASS #52574). Besides providing sponsorship, many Carolina boys have ammo be - cause Randy has bullets! Check it out at: http://www.clarksbullets.com/ On Friday, Raid On Conestee kicked off with a Wild Bunch™ RO class put on by Deadwood Woody, SASS #22184, and Sassy Teton Lady, SASS #47525, SASS’ Wild Bunch™ Ambassadors for the sure everyone got enough to eat. Southeast Region. They did a great The competitors then shot job with the class and stuck around three more stages and side matches to compete in the match! Safety is of Speed Shotgun, Speed Pistol, and central to everything we do in Cow - Speed Pistol Rack. boy Action Shooting™ and Wild Those first six stages included a Bunch™ is no different. Trained star, a plate rack, a shotgun two- ROs are critical to running success - round reload, and more knock - ful, safe matches. downs than I can count. Saturday Saturday started with our safety meeting, covering some of Winners the rules specific to Wild Bunch™ Modern Kid Ray, and the range. Then all the com - SASS #87062 petitors submitted both rifle and L Modern Sue Render, pistol ammunition for testing to SASS #87925 Traditional Sgt. Dork verify power factor requirements. Performed efficiently and accu - Side Matches rately by two volunteers, the test - Speed Shotgun ing was done on the range using Man Knot Hardly Dunn, match-supplied guns. This allowed SASS #43113 Lady Sue Render the competitors to continue shoot - Speed Pistol ing stages while the ammo testing Man Cardboard Cowboy, was done, and prevented any de - SASS #74358 lays in the match. Lady Shamrock Lady, After shooting three stages, the SASS #78511 three posses broke for lunch. Once Speed Pistol Rack again Hondo and team were hard at Man Knot Hardly Dunn work manning the grill and making Lady Shamrock Lady

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Champions: Kid Ray and Sue Render for the Modern Category, and Sgt. Dork for the Traditional Category. Everyone had a good experience, and we certainly all learned a lot about hosting this size Wild Bunch™ event! We owe a big thank you to the Posse Marshals and workers who made the whole thing possible. We hope everyone has enjoyed group got together and laughed our coming out to shoot with us … and, way through the awards. of course, if you find yourself in the Congratulations to our 2013 upstate of South Carolina, look us up South Carolina Wild Bunch State at www.greenvillegunfighters.com .

finished with a barbeque dinner at knockdowns. Sue Render and Car - the range, and much discussion olina Girl, SASS #79564, went to over what the next day would bring. work on the scores while the shoot - On Sunday, we shot the last ers packed up and commiserated four stages featuring a boatload of with each other. Then, the entire

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Dispatches fRom . camp BayLoR , Captain George Baylor, SASS Life / Rugulator #24287 Mernickle Quick Cal Cross-draw Rig ost SASS competitors Shooting Duelist with a Cross-draw Rig start with cross-draw holsters. The logic is, M “always draw with the By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life/Regulator #24287 strong hand, no shifting from weak to strong.” The logic is good, but the execution isn’t, unless the beginner has an expert mentor. Doin’ the Dance First, there’s the “cross-draw dance.” If your cross draw holster points to the rear, you need to twist your body enough so when it comes out of the holster, it’s point - ing down range, not at the timer operator’s knees. That pesky 170° rule gets in the way. This takes Mernickle Quick Cal rig time and is another thing to re - (Mernickle ammo pouch and Mernickle screwknife sheath not included) member. So, unlucky beginners get match DQs for sweeping with 100° “authentic Old West.” Nei - a loaded gun. ther are Wranglers, which came Once you’re past that, when out after WWII, Ruger Vaqueros, you finish shooting the cross-draw gun carts, and smokeless powder, revolver, you don’t do the dance in etc. This is a fantasy sport. My reverse and sweep the spotter on fantasy is that I can still shoot your weak side. This is a real competitively. The guys who beat Starting position hands on hat. problem if you re-holster using me have competitive leather gear. Feet shoulder width apart, your strong hand on the cross There are vendors who make 100% weak side foot about half a foot in front of the strong sid e— draw revolver. Stage DQ. authentic 1865 Slim Jim holsters. just like Jeff Cooper taught it. The cross draw holster Feel free to use them. If you shoot Look down. If the muzzle is locked into position. Frontiersman, PLEASE use them.) of the cross-draw revolver breaks Changing Sides the 170º safety rule, adjust stance Even if you don’t do that, In July 2013 I had surgery on or holster location or both many beginners exceed the 30° my left (strong side) arm and was until it doesn’t. from vertical rule. It’s “AS grounded for 90 days. I had been (These photos were taken by The Redhead. I was using unloaded WORN.” So a guy with a belly (Continued on next page) percussion revolvers.) larger than his waist will put on a rig that appears legal when lying on the table, but the belt will droop in front, and the gun is pointed at the timer operator’s testicles. Most timer operators don’t like that. But some of the fastest shoot - ers shoot cross-draw, such as Lead Dispencer and Badlands Bud. How do they do it? It starts with well-designed leather gear de - signed for our sport. Cowboys in The cross draw holster sits the Old West didn’t have any 170° at about 17° from vertical. The holsters have rules, and they weren’t speed-re- The SASS legal limit is 30° a pronounced lip curl The cross draw holster is angled holstering. (This is where some from vertical as worn, to keep the cylinder out from the belt, and the people stop reading and start the meaning if your belt is drooping from hanging up belt tail tucks into the space letter to the editor bemoaning the in the front, your 30° holster on the lip and make between the holster and the belt. fact the leather gear shown is not may be illegal as worn. re-holstering easier. Visit us at sassnet .com February 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 35

Reholster using the weak hand. Firing position. The weak hand grip Weak hand stays there on the revolver is during firing so you clearly shown here. don’t have to wait for Your thumb comes Firm grasp on the pistol it to grab the revolver under the hammer with the strong hand. with it after firing. spur, and the Firing position with If you need Thumb is on recoil This guarantees fingers wrap the strong side pistol. your strong hand shield to help locate during a major match over the frame. If you don’t need to to pick up the the correct grip and to someone is going to ask Rotate the revolver Simultaneously use the strong hand next gun, transfer keep me from cocking why your weak hand to the weak side the strong hand to pick up the the revolver to the pistol until 45° and is up there. Tell him and grasp with is drawing the next gun, holster with the weak hand. pointed down range it has to go somewhere! the weak hand. strong side revolver. the strong hand, but …

(Continued from previous page) is more consistent. Shooting dou - the switch. I had a Mernickle Evil tionist about his products. He’s a thinking of switching to cross- ble duelist is faster—if you can Roy Slim Jim cross-draw rig, so I brilliant engineer and artist in draw for several years since Long shoot equally fast with both switched to cross-draw and prac - leather with boundless energy. His Hunter told me if you shoot du - hands. But making the switch ticed drawing and re-holstering for competition rigs are the result of elist, but not double duelist, you takes a lot of dry practice. a few weeks. My 90-day grounding working with guys like Quick Cal should shoot cross-draw. There is At one point the doctor expired in time for me to shoot Bor - and Evil Roy and sweating the de - less room for fumbling that way, cleared me to do exercises with dertown. Bob Mernickle saw me tails until everything works like it and there is less arm movement. light weights, but not to shoot, so with the rig and told me I needed a should. He explained why I needed Distance equals time. Getting a I had time to dry practice without better rig, specifically the Quick a Quick Cal rig (see below) and good firing grip on both revolvers shooting matches before I made Cal. Bob is a passionate perfec - (Continued on page 38 )

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(Continued from page 35 ) measured me and delivered one at the SASS Convention that matched my Mernickle shotgun belt. I wore it out of his booth, and I was stopped and questioned about it about 10 times between there and the elevator. It looked really good. Features The strong side holster “is se - Over 11,000 i tems cured to the belt via a pinch sys - tem that allows you to position the holster exactly where you want it. Once that is done, you snug the two screws located on the backside of the skirt, and the holster stays put. If you need to relocate the holster, simply back off the screws, move the holster, and cinch the screws back down. This system does not damage the Keep the barrel within the leather or leave any marks. The 170° “Cone” until the barrel is reason we do it this way is so you “inside” the holster. are in control of holster position 100%.” ( Mernickle website ) The cross-draw is a fixed holster set as far as possible on the belt. A roller buckle with keeper is used for a solid cinch up. This is important. You want your gun belt to be tight so it doesn’t move. The tail on the belt has a spe - cial tuck placement behind the holster to ensure it is out of the way of the gun for an unob - structed re-holster. Holsters are metal lined to prevent collapsing when the gun is drawn. Both holsters have a lip curl to insure the cylinder does not hang up on gun re-entry. Using the rig You place the cross-draw hol - ster where you want it—in front of your appendix if you’re left- handed, and you adjust the strong side holster to be in front of the point of the hip. (Empty your front pants pockets. A wallet will get in the way.) Now you can re-holster Re-holster the strong side either gun with either hand. Nor - revolver with your weak hand mally you re-holster the weak side while reaching for your rifle gun with your weak hand and with your strong hand. your strong side with your strong hand, but what happens when you at about 17° from vertical, which need that hand to pick up your gives you considerable margin rifle? Remember the secret of fast against exceeding 30°. Addition - stage times is to eliminate time ally, since the holster is in front of spent in transitions. So, in this you instead of over to the side, the case, your weak hand is holstering gun “drops” in easily if the holster your empty strong side revolvers is almost vertical. The barrel of while your strong hand is picking the revolver points down range up your rifle. until just before it goes in the hol - The cross-draw holster hangs (Continued on next page) Visit us at sassnet .com February 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 39

e e Dispatches From Camp Baylor ...

(Continued from previous page) leases quickly. There are hammer understanding ster. Once the barrel is touching thongs for retention if desired, or inside the holster, the 170° rule and the strong side holster has a no longer applies. tie down if you want to use it. Stage Point Scoring The cross-draw holster is Bob disapproved of my transi - tilted with the top further away tion from strong hand to weak. Part 2 of 4 from the belt, making it easier to He instructed me to rotate the re - see in your peripheral vision volver toward my weak hand 90° Happy Jack, SASS Life/ Regulator #20451 when re-holstering and easier to as soon as the last round is fired. access. You may have the two Then the weak hand grabs the re - he first article of this series explained in Stage Point guns as close together as two volver with the palm on the top Scoring the total point value of each stage is determined fists, with one on each side of cen - strap, the thumb under the ham - by the number of hits required in the stage. In this arti - ter. In this case, if they’re both “in mer, and the fingers wrapped over T cle I will explain how those points are awarded to each front,” they’re easier to use. the frame. T-Bone Dooley had shooter based on their stage time. It is critically important to un - The belt is a 2-1/2 " belt with told me to keep my weak hand up derstand in Stage Point Scoring shooters are only scored against suede lining to secure the belt to next to the revolver while shoot - other shooters IN THEIR CATEGORY. All other shooters at the the body. It has a hard taper on ing and cup my hand over the re - match have NO bearing on their score. So shooters in Duelist are each end. The holsters go on the volver, making a peep sight of only scored against other shooters in Duelist. Shooters in Cowboy, wide portion. This means the belt sorts and having it ready for the Grand Dame, Wrangler, and so forth have NO bearing on the num - must FIT. If it’s too short, and transition. Then you don’t waste ber of points they receive. Unlike many scoring systems where all you’re using an outer hole, then it time moving your hand from your shooters at a match are grouped together and scores are determined positions the strong side holster waist after you shoot. Distance based on overall finish within the whole, in Stage Point Scoring only further from the front, making it equals time. shooters within a given category are scored against each other. harder to reholster with the weak One beauty of having me do To further explain the “Within Category” scoring, at a small hand. You don’t want to put the the photos of how to do this is I local match there may be only six categories represented. There holster on the skinny portion of the shoot in slow motion, so if you will be six shooters (one per category) that will win all the points belt because of the loss of stability. watch me, you see the details of available on each stage. If you have a very large match there may The quality of the rig, like the technique. The photos are be 30 categories represented. There will be 30 shooters who will everything Mernickle puts out, is sharp. If you’re watching Lead win all the points available on each stage. Other shooters will get superb. The leather has really Dispencer, you see a blur. a straight percentage of the stage points based on their time as a nice looking border tooling and I’m sure I’ve demonstrated or percent of the winning time of the best shooter in their category on actual silver diamonds on each described something wrong. If that stage. For example: two shooters are in the same category—a holster. The edges are smooth someone better than I at Cowboy 240-point stage. The shooter with the lowest total time shoots the and black. The natural tan Action Shooting™ says, “don’t do it stage in 20 seconds. He gets 240 points. Another competitor shoots leather is gorgeous. The holsters like that. Do it like this,” he’s right. the stage in 40 seconds. He gets 120 points. It doesn’t matter are very stiff, as is the belt. No I’m wrong. I’m just a student trying whether there are 2 or 200 shooters in the same category. The “breaking in” of the holsters was to pass on techniques taught me by points awarded are a straight line percentage of the available stage required. The Ruger Old Armies faster shooters. Mernickle Custom points based on their total time as a percent of the winning time fit perfectly. Push down hard Holsters, 1875 View Court, Fernley, within their category. when holstering and you can do Nevada USA 89408. EXAMPLES: the “Winter Range 10 Yard Phone: 1-800-497-3166, Dashes With Guns” safely, but www.mernickleholsters.com, Stage is 10 revolver, 10 rifle, 4 shotgun. when you yank the gun, it re - email: [email protected] Total hits required is 24, so stage is worth 240 points. Fastest time for a Gunfighter on the stage is 20.4 seconds so that shooter gets 240 points. Another shooter in Gunfighter shoots the stage in 22.7 seconds: 20.4 / 22.7 = .9897. .9897 X 240 = 215.6827 points for the stage. Fastest time for a Senior on that stage is 23.6 seconds, so that shooter gets 240 points. Another shooter in Senior shoots the stage in 26.4 seconds: 23.6 / 26.4 = .8939 .8939 X 240 = 214.5454 points for the stage. Fastest time for a Grand Dame on that stage is 37.2 seconds, so that shooter gets 240 points. Another shooter in Grand Dame shoots the stage in 41.8 seconds: 37.2/41.8 = .8899 .8899 X 240 = 213.5884 points for the stage. As one can see from the examples, the stage points each shooter receives is based on their time vs. the best time by a shooter in the SAME category. In Part 3 of this Series I will explain how stage points are ap - plied using various scoring systems such as ACES and the SASS Premier Match Management and Scoring System.

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ACES Scoring Stand with Velcro. It was made from By Knot Werkin, SASS #82307 several layers of ripstop and, as such, would withstand rain, dust, the errant shrapnel we all have been hit with, or even F force winds (the bag is fastened to the holder flap side down so it would be almost impossible for rain to enter or wind to open it). I sta - pled one edge from the inside of the bag to the frame and instantly Knot Werkin, SASS #82307 jumped that wooden stand from the 19 th to the 21 st century. In use, the remodeled holders seem ome of you may remem - to have worked out pretty well ber a few months ago I during mildly inclement weather. wrote a piece on how to To get an idea of what I’ve S build scorekeeping been talking about, Photo 1 is the stands, wooden contrivances that original version of the score pad would keep your paper score holder. Photo 2 is the modified sheets from ending up all over the Original version of the score pad holder version, and all it takes is a piece range in the event of windy condi - or two of thin plywood or other tions, percussions from an over- needed to be modified to accommo - material to fill the gaps. This zealous blackpowder aficionado, or date these devices; otherwise, the setup provides a base for the iPad, just plain scorekeeper clumsiness. iPad would just slip right through a binder, or other type scoring ANYWAY, the Pleasant Valley the open structure of the stand, and pad. Photo 3 shows the bag at - Renegades jest got these score - then we’d be right back to keeping tached (stapled from the inside of keeping stands into use when gall - score the ‘old-fashion’ way after the bag). The flap side is down. durn if the boys that be don’t go sweeping up the pieces and waiting Photo 4 gives a better idea of the up and change the way things for Apple to send a new one. ‘envelope’ configuration. have been done since Wyatt was a Now, having a second iteration young’un by going to some kind of of the stand completed and think - ‘lectric contrapshun!! No pencil, ing the project was finally over, Modified version. no paper, no binder. Scorin’ will be my much better half asked, “What A piece or two of thin plywood done on what? Why, what the will the posse do in the event of covers the frame heck? They’re carryin’ these black rain?” “Why, head for cover,” was plastic things around like little my enlightened response to what quiry was directed at what would dogs in a purse at a New York tea I thought was the obvious answer the posse do about the iPads sit - party. Gollee!! Why, Gabby would and why did she ask that in the ting in a downpour. Since any re - have been more flabbergasted first place? With the look that sponse from me at that point than he usually was. only a well-adjusted spouse can would have stupidity echoing off SOOO, the scoring stands give, she pointed out that her in - the walls, I just blankly stared at her as I so often do. “What if we put them in some type of covering, something akin to a modern day saddle bag, she asked. Sounded like a good idea to me, and off she Ripstop bag attached went to design a modern day sad - with flap side down dlebag that was not made out of leather, not made to fit over the sides of a horse’s rump, nor made to carry mail, gold, jerky, hardtack, Ariosa coffee beans, or other things cowboy. After only a few hours, she produced a square bag a tad larger than an iPad with a closure (much like an enve - Underside of bag showing lope) that stayed put envelope configuration Visit us at sassnet .com February 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 41

one pot chuck Cooking Up Some Tasty Grub Like Cookie Did Out On The Trail By Whooper Crane, SASS #52745, and The Missus

ents in our recipe. Why? Because after trial and error, we found these specific ingredients to be the tasti - As you can see, this is est. No, we don’t get any kickbacks a great knife-and-fork from these companies. We’re just entrée. partial to their stuff. It’s The Right Stuff! You can substitute if you choose, but you’ll miss out some - where along the way if you do. Whooper and The Missus Then dig in … your mouth will Ingredients make a big smile! — Olive Oil or other vegetable oil Thanks to Slick, we’re eatin’ e got the idea for today’s 2 Big, SWEET Onions (some good tonight!!! recipe from our good places call ‘em Vadalia Onions Note: This recipe serves four shootin’ buddy, Slick Mc - or Walla-Walla Onions) hungry cowboys … and goes great W Clade, SASS #69490, one 4 Johnsonville Grillers brand Cut your Onions into nice thick with a tossed salad with ranch of SASS’ better shooters and one of Bratwurst Patties (defrosted) “coins” … quarter inch thick is per - dressing. our better backyard chefs. 4 Toasted Texas Toasts fect … and lay the coins carefully in ~Photos by Deadeye Al, It’s an outstandingly flavorful — Kraft Sandwich Shop Chipotle the hot oil. SASS #26454 ~ treat for your hungry cowboys … flavor Mayo Slice the Bell Peppers in half, and one you’ll want to put on your 2 Green (or Red) Bell Peppers top to bottom, and lay the slices on trail menu every chance you get. 2 Cans Hormel brand No Beans top of the Onion coins. We call it: Chili Once the Onions and Peppers Slick’s Chili-smothered 4 Whole pickled Peperoncini are soft and slightly browned, care - Blackened Bratwurst Peppers fully remove them from the skillet Patty Bullseye Directions and lay them on a flat plate, main - Once you try it you’ll agree it Now, like so many of our other taining the coin shape of the Onions deserves the long name. recipes, you can prepare this tasty in the process. Back in the last Century meal over coals in your cast iron or If needed, add more oil to your (around 1980 as I recall) author in your pots and pans on your skillet and lay your defrosted Tom Wolfe wrote a best-seller and kitchen range. (By the way, this Bratwurst Patties in there to sauté Hollywood made a flick of it titled One Pot Chuck requires a second (blackening to some degree). The Right Stuff , dealing with the pot to heat up your chili, so it’s re - In the meantime, open up your selection, training, and accomplish - ally a Two Pot Chuck). cans of No Beans Chili and heat up ments of NASA’s first Astronauts. Start by heating a third cup of in a medium saucepan. We’re using that same phrase to oil over medium heat in your 12- Once the patties are cooked (6 – describe the name-brand ingredi - inch skillet. 7 minutes per side is about right) and the Chili’s nicely heated up, do the following: Toast the Texas Toast in your toaster, or propped up with a stick next to your hot coals. Then put the toasted Texas Toast on a plate and slather on a hefty coat of the chipotle flavored Mayo. Then carefully put one of the Onion coins on top of the Toast. Then put one Bratwurst Patty on top of the Onion. Then put a half a Green Pepper on top of the patty, Then ladle a goodly portion of your Chili on top of the whole thing. Then place one of your pickled Peperoncinis on top to make it look Be sure to start by using The Right Stuff. real purty.

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For The Love Of The Game

Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life/Regulator #49907 O Notice the club’s great r looking “Bank Stage” SMilE , you’re in an action Photo! in the background. A unique feature at the Rock - ford Regulators Club is they have By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life/Regulator #49907 ast Saturday The a Resident Photographer. So it Vicar’s Wife and I along could be said, “While you are with our faithful dog, shooting the targets, someone is L “Sterling Meg,” headed taking “Action Shots” of you.” This west toward Rockford, Michigan Cowboy Camera Snapper produc - to take in one of their monthly ing all the fancy photos is none matches. The “Rockford Regula - other than “Tintype Charlie.” tors” host a monthly shoot the 1 st Tintype attended a local Art Saturday of the month held at the School for three years before join - “Rockford Sportsman’s Club” at ing the Navy in 1967 for a three- 11115 Northland Drive, Rockford, year hitch. A couple years into his Michigan 49341. It’s quite a hike enlistment he became a “Photogra - over there, but I try to make it to phers Mate,” practicing and per - their shoots when I get the fecting his trade at El Centro, chance. They have one of the California out in the middle of the nicest clubs in Michigan. desert. There, he developed a pas -

The JAIL with SALOON in the background. The windows and doorways were well thought out as to height and width, allowing more then adequate room to maneuver through the scenarios.

sion for photography. After being discharged, he married the love of his life and settled down in western Michigan. Photography was put on the back burner for awhile until the more affordable “Digital Age” came into being. Then his passion for shootin’ photos was rekindled. In 2000 Tintype became a mem - ber of the Rockford Sportsman’s Club and shortly afterward Cowboy Action Shooting™ became one of their shooting venues. He liked the idea of shooters dressing up in Cowboy duds from the late 1800s and using firearms from this era. Tintype Charlie on the porch He jumped in with both feet and of the Rockford Regulator’s volunteered to take action pictures Telegraph Office. He has of the shoots. Starting with a “Sony been volunteering his time Point and Shoot” camera, he then taking pictures for Rockford graduated to a Cannon DSLR to Sportsman’s Club events since cut the lag time. It took a while for early 2000. The photos are posted the Cowboys and Cowgirls to get on: www.rockfordsc.zenfolio.com used to the “Cowpoke totin’ the CANNON.” But now-a-days he is a In 2006 then Rockford Regula - regular fixture on the “Range.” tor’s Ramrod, No Cattle, pre - Tintype Charlie is also the club’s sented a SASS membership to Chaplain, offering the invocation Tintype Charlie, SASS #64685, as before Cowboy Shoots. It says in a thank you gift for all his volun - Hebrews 13:18 NIV a, “Pray for us.” teer services. He renewed it the Don’t know about you, but I can use next year, but then found himself all the prayer I can get, especially retired prematurely and could not when I’m on the “Range.” justify the membership fee being Visit us at sassnet .com February 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 43

To view their website Google: Rockford Regulators, Rockford, MI * * * * * * * * * * * * For further information contact: • Card Shark Charlie, Match Director 616-874-3406 [email protected]

• Ketchum Quick 616-862-3702 [email protected]

• hOOt Hamilton, A view of the MINE STAGE. Mayor of Liberty in Rockford They have covered loading and unloading tables as well as 616-822-0668 wood deck walkways and flooring in most of their fronts. [email protected]

• Rockford Sportsman’s Club 616-866-4273 Mike Reeb faithful photo sidekick 11115 Northland Drive of Tintype Charlie. Mike volunteers Rockford, Michigan 49341 at the Rockford Club, assisting Tintype in cataloging the * * * * * * * * * * * * thousands of pictures that have Photos by: been compiled over the years. Tintype Charlie Shelby Shannon The Vicar’s Wife Cree Vicar Dave !

Tintype Charlie and Cree Vicar Dave on the Rockford Range. Tintype and Cree Vicar are both Chaplains at their respective clubs. Almost every club at which I’ve shot has the Pledge to our Flag and a Prayer to our God before the shoot. a non-shooter. Tintype has never Mike Reeb. Mike, too, is a RSC participated in Cowboy Action. member and volunteer. He collects He says, “Whatever skills I might the posse sheets before each match have should be used to take pic - and helps keep track of each of the tures of action.” Cowboys/Cowgirls that have their Armed with his “Digital Can - picture taken. This gives Tintype non” he has bagged 24,327 pic - a list of all the shooters he has tures, 37 videos, and a total of 228 taken photos of and gives them galleries of as many shoots as he both, as RSC members, a discount can attend. The photos are posted on their dues with 20 hours or on Zenfolio, paid for by RSC. Be - more of club service. sides Cowboy Shoots Tintype has To view pictures of the covered everything from charity Rockford Regulators go to: shoots, skeet shoots, and the an - www.rockfordsc.zenfolio.com nual “Fly” Shoot. Tintype says, “I have been told Most of the famous Cowboys of there are Cowboy Action Shooters yore had a sidekick. There was in other parts of the world that The Cisco Kid and Pancho, The check out our pictures whenever I Lone Ranger and Tonto, and Gene put a new gallery up. I know there Autry and Smiley Burnette. So have been Cowboys in Germany; also there is Tintype Charlie and other than that, I am not sure.”

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cardiovascular wadvantage , You practice, practice, practice with dry fire and live fire exercises, but By Inspector, SASS #41400 you’ve hit a plateau and just can’t seem to move up to the next level of toughest and the stiffest competi - will sharpen the wit, among other your game. What’s worse is maybe tion category. This is simple biol - physical benefits, but this should be Inspector, SASS #41400 signs of age are starting to creep ogy; 18 to 35 year old shooters have done from the inside by increasing into your performance. quicker reflexes, mental acuity, and the oxygen level in your blood. ou’ve studied the game, Let’s face it, try as we can, the faster cognitive skills. So what can Now if I just have lost your in - and you’ve taken tips demographic of our game is one we do to combat the natural effects terest because you think this is an - from the top shooters that is aging. While we try to en - of the aging process to show these other lecture about how 21 st century Y you’ve met at the compe - courage and introduce this game to youngins’ the older guys still have a Americans are not watching their titions you have attended. You the next generation, the vast major - trick or two up their sleeve? diet or getting enough exercise, bought the guns you wanted, your ity of us are seeing many Wranglers In the movie, “My Name is No - well, I will continue to leave that gunsmith has tricked them out and move into 49’er, 49’ers move into body” there is a scene where Henry topic to our First Lady. Seems she tuned them to your shooting style. Senior, Seniors move into Silver Fonda starts shooting holes in Ter - took on that job without anyone You purchased the gun leather that Senior, and so on. rence Hill’s hat while Terrance Hill asking her to do so, and I wouldn’t makes your transitions smooth and Like it or not, when it comes to holds it on his head and starts want to be accused of trying to take easy. You’ve worked up the loads age based categories, Cowboy is in walking toward Mr. Fonda. Im - it away from her. Besides, if I were with which you are comfortable. the center. It is, by design, the pressed with the fact that Mr. Hill to wag my finger in your face, I was not intimidated by this danger - would have three more fingers ous act, Mr. Fonda places his own pointing back at me. What I am hat on Mr. Hill’s head. At the end trying to do is put things in perspec - of the scene, Mr. Hill returns the tive of trying to improve your Cow - hat to Mr. Fonda and says, “I prefer boy Action Shooting™ game. mine. Lets the air through; sharp - I have been a runner for most of ens the wits.” my life, and I can tell you from expe - There is a pearl of wisdom from rience that my mood and coping this line from an otherwise corny skills are directly related to my ac - movie, and, no, I am not suggesting tivity level. Recently, my son, Bear you go out and shoot holes in your Cub Josh, SASS #82458, went off to hat, unless you are really so inclined college. When I visit him on cam - to do so. However, air to the brain pus, we play racquetball together.

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Now racquetball causes my brain to Now I am not, by any stretch of concentrate, anticipate, and use ex - the imagination, a personal plosive bursts of energy. When I left trainer. Nor am I in the medical the court after my first game in six field. So, if you are not accustomed years, I had a sense of awareness to physical exercise, check with and euphoria I had not experienced your physician first. in a long time. I felt like a com - Try starting by taking a friend, pletely different person walking off four legged or two, for a walk. Start the court than when I stepped on pushing a little farther and more the court. Why? Well according to a often week by week. See if your study from the Department of Exer - shooting performance improves. cise Science at the University of See if your mood and attitude im - Georgia, by using different cognitive proves. I would suggest trying a functions during exercise, the body dancing class, or perhaps the mar - continues to stimulate those areas of tial arts. Aikido and Tai Chi are the brain after exercise. Cardiovas - low impact forms of the martial cular exercise has shown to release arts. By the time this article is hormones that connect new neu - printed, we will most likely be in ronal connections. These new con - the middle of winter. I can tell you nections can increase information from experience, exercise is my best processing and memory function. defense against winter depression. My formula of running and rac - Now if after reading thus far quetball works for me, but it may and I have not sparked in you an not for you. Physical ailments, age, idea in this article and you still lifestyle, athletic ability, and per - think I am just another pious sonal schedule issues may limit health nut trying to push my prior - your ability to perform strenuous ities off onto others, I challenge you activity. What I am suggesting, if it to prove me wrong. All I ask is that is not already part of your lifestyle, you give it an honest try, and I will is to frequently raise your heart rate be happy to discuss your results for 20 minutes or more per session. with you in about six months.

Visit us at sassnet .com Page 46 Cowboy Chronicle i February 2014 HELUVA RUKUS 2013 i (Continued from page 1) departed registration and headed story 3D “Town of Rukus Flats” on out to the range to participate in Stage 8 (with its beloved kickdown the numerous side events or wan - door and a pistol knockdown plate der down sutlers’ row. rack), the lovely Spanish mission This year’s side matches in - on Stage 9 (with a fountain and cluded the addition of a Rough bell tower, along with a hearse and Rider Speed Pistol event, along Boot Hill Cemetery, complete with with the usual speed open grave, wooden coffin, and nu - shotgun/rifle/pistol/pocket merous period tombstones), and pistol/derringer events, two mini- the Skinner & Wells Freight Office stages (shot with either regular on Stage 10 (with two antique wag - Cowboy Action Shooting™ fire- ons, various trunks and barrels, arms or as Rough Rider stages and Doc Skin’em’s medicine cart). using a 1911 pistol), the long Yup, the Circle K Regulators sure range event, .22 caliber rifle and knows how to bring the Old West pistol accuracy events, and an Iron to life! Man stage (requiring both rifle Although the shoot itself and pistol reloads). didn’t officially start until Friday, “Gathering of Eagle s” As it turned out, HR had Rukus has turned into an almost nearly twice as many vendors as (l – r) Barrister Bill of the Nor’ Easter New England Regional, weeklong event. The 45 or so Tex from SASS, any other major Cowboy Action RVers started arriving as early as Circle K Regulators Territorial Governor, Feany Valentine, Shooting™ event in the Northeast Tuesday, choosing their favorite and Circle K Regulators Trail Boss, Smokehouse Dan this year, providing the shooters spot and circling their ‘wagons’. take time to renew old friendships before with plenty of opportunities to The handful of tenters had a des - the match activities get “hot and heavy!” spend their hard-earned cash on ignated area where they could all manner of goods and services. ing a very professional Shooters Offerings included firearms Handbook, wooden name badge, (Match Sponsor Sturm, Ruger’s and other goodies), drawing for a first year at HR), Cowboy Action door prize (valued at $25 or more), Shooting™ clothing and acces - and purchasing all-day side sories, laser engraving, steel tar - events, charity raffle tickets, Cir - gets, both action and portrait cle K Regulators badges, and/or photography, gun engraving, HR lapel pins. Each shooter (and leather goods, custom knives, and vendor) was also presented with a various other cowboy and Indian nice customized HR water bottle, items. Despite the downturn in complements of returning Match the economy and the less-than- Sponsor, Klassic Laser Works. stellar weather, several vendors Although the local weather - reported record sales on Friday – men were way off base with their go figure! prediction of “a slight chance of Shortly after the conclusion of AM showers,” the all-day off-and- side events, 75 hungry cowboys and on rain failed to dampen the spir - cowgirls gathered at the pavilion to its of the excited shooters as they heap their plates high with deli -

— Heluva Rukus Champions — (l – r) James Samuel Pike, Top Gun Man Overall; Spinning Sally, Top Gun Lady Overall and Lady New York State Champion; and Illustrated Man, New York State Champion Man. Outstanding effort! Congratulations!

pitch their tents and enjoy an shack for exactly what its name evening get-together with their implies. By late Thursday after - pards around a roaring campfire. noon, the transformation of the Some vendors also arrived onsite range was complete, all the ad - early on, while others waited ‘til ministrative concerns were taken later in the week to set up shop. care of, and it was finally time for While the aforementioned folks the REAL excitement to begin! got settled in, the Circle K Regu - Friday morning found many lators scurried around all day cowpokes posted outside the club - Wednesday (in 94 degree heat and house doors bright and early, anx - humidity) and Thursday (in after - iously awaiting the opening of noon rain), setting up the stages registration at 9 AM. By late af - on the range and preparing the ternoon, the vast majority of clubhouse for registration/door shooters had checked in, picking prize pickup, and the scoring up their shooters packets (contain -

Visit us at sassnet .com February 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 47 cious Te x/ Mex items from a taco/fa - flight schedule. This shooting jita bar catered by Moe’s Southwest schedule allowed the competitors Grill, along with several homemade more time to eat, shop, sightsee, desserts generously donated by Cir - relax, or just hang out with their cle K Regulators club members. By pards each day. Local Boy Scout shortly after 7 PM, having slung all Troop #54 returned this year to do a the lead and eaten all the grub they presentation of the flag at the safety could handle for one day, the gun - meeting, with several of the boys slingers headed off to rest up for the sticking around to serve as brass next day’s main event. pickers or to help man a Boy Scout The main competition took booth selling various snack items. place Saturday and Sunday with a Meanwhile, Christina’s Cantina total of 16 posses completing five handled breakfast and lunch for the stages each day, shooting straight cowpokes throughout the weekend. through and utilizing an A M/ PM Range Master, Rowdy Bill, SASS

#9628, once again provided the attack, saved the railroad work - stages for the match, and as usual, ers’ payroll from thieves, and they were action-packed, creative, gunned down notorious outlaws safe, and fair for one and all. With and n’er-do-wells, while shouting plenty of movement and shooting out starting lines such as “This is options, varied target shapes, the law. Throw out your guns,” heights, distances, and sizes (in - and “Prepare to meet your cluding some new 24 " squares!), maker.” At times, you’d swear you the previously mentioned moving were in the middle of an episode of and knockdown targets, and differ - “Gunsmoke” or “The Rifleman.” ent target sequences on every What a blast! stage, the shooters’ brain cells and By late Saturday afternoon, trigger fingers were always fully everyone had completed their five engaged. Nothing boring or hum - stages for the day, and it was time drum about this shoot! to gather once again at the pavil - This year the shooters got to ion for another sumptuous meal, play good guys on all ten stages as this one being a cowboy chicken they defended the fort from Indian (Continued on page 48 )

Visit us at sassnet .com Page 48 Cowboy Chronicle i February 2014 HELUVA RUKUS 2013 i (Continued from page 47 ) holding an impromptu rope twirling dry. By mid-afternoon, the posses eagerly await the awards cere - and ribs BBQ buffet catered by class with some entertaining re - had finished their five remaining mony. At 4:30 PM, Trail Boss, Shane’s Rib Shack. While most of sults, to say the least. By 8 PM, the main match stages, and the shoot - Smokehouse Dan, SASS #12524, the cowpokes enjoyed their meal at fun-filled day came to an end as the ers had taken a final walk down took the stage, assisted by Match the outdoor pavilion, Territorial shooters dispersed, leaving the vendor row to make any last Director, Homer Suggs, SASS Governors from several states ad - range eerily quiet in anticipation of minute purchases. Several cow - #29505. First on the agenda was a journed to the clubhouse for a pri - the next day’s culmination of the pokes who were facing a long trip big “thank you” to all the sponsors, vate dinner meeting with Tex. “big event.” home took the opportunity to head vendors, shooters, and Circle K Following dinner, Jersey Kid Sunday dawned much like Sat - out early, while the majority Regulators members for their help Brother, SASS #48826, ended up urday, cool, crisp, and thankfully grabbed a seat in the pavilion to and support in making Heluva

The stage layouts that greeted the shooters this year were ~ ProPs ~ truly awesome. It never ceases to amaze returning competitors that the Circle K Regulators can continue to raise the bar year after year, and the newbies are simply blown away by the whole thing. When folks arrive at the Circle K for Heluva Rukus, they can count on feeling like they have just walked onto a movie set.

Winners Categories Categories Categories SASS New York State Champions E Statesman rowdy Bill, S Duelist John Derringer, L F Cartridge Boston Lady, Man illustrated man, sass #9628 nY sass #31360 nY sass #3662 ma sass #77202 nY 49’er punch, S Senior one eyed Black Jack, Kate Cartwright, Lady spinning sally, sass #4368 wV sass #66068 ma sass #49112 nY sass #89526 nY scheriff richie, Black Jack ed, L Gunfighter emma goodcook, High Overall sass #61731 nY sass #46574 nY sass #49743 Vt Man James samuel pike, Frontiersman Kidd thunder, Wrangler James samuel pike L Senior savvy Cindy, sass #53331 Ct sass #28814 wa Ct sass #79947 Ct Lady spinning sally nY patchogue mike, illustrated man nY sassy southpaw, Categories sass #8626 nY Young Gun spaghetti gunslinger, sass #65612 nY B-Western Capt. morgan rum, F Cartridge Yankee, sass #98400 nY L S Duelist nantucket Dawn, sass #6859 nh sass #266 ma Cowgirl sunshine marcie, sass #15681 ma wyatt hurts, tommy sharps, sass #64900 Va L S Senior Yukon Deb, sass #72737 nY sass #62735 nY G Dame Bonnie Dee, sass #86992 aK C Cowboy travis spencer, F C Duelist gun e Bear, sass #28413 ma ida shotwell, sass #59583 nY sass #5557 Vt L B-Western Birdie Cage, sass #56815 nY Cowboy Jesse Younger, Deputy short stack, sass #32773 ma L Wrangler spinning sally nY sass #77670 Ct sass #81578 nY L Duelist nanny oakley, L Young Gun maddy sinclaire, the eastwood Kid, Gunfighter tex, sass #85920 ri sass #55163 nJ sass #92380 nY sass #4 nm L 49’er Crystal Creek Chris, Duelist grazer, Dutch Cassidy, sass #64500 nh sass #38845 ma sass #5252 nY annabelle Bransford, sixgun schwaby, Senior Lefty Cooper, sass #11916 nY sass #87405 nY sass #76501 nY

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Rukus 2013 such a huge success. serving as a vendor at every handmade quilt (pieced by Calico with presentations to overall Top Then, Tex spoke briefly, com - Heluva Rukus to date, and to The Sue, SASS #75360, a custom knife Gun Male, James Samuel Pike, plimenting the Circle K Regula - Dude Bandit, SASS #20930, and with hand-beaded sheath (donated SASS #53331, and Top Gun Fe - tors on a great event and noting Redwing Trading Co. for serving as by Lupare Chenz, SASS #40013, a male, Spinning Sally, SASS that its Cowboy Action Shooting™ HR stage sponsors for five years. steel target (donated by Reaction #89526, and the “crowning” of the props were second to none. Cat Ballou proudly accepted a Targets), a Marlin 336 .30-30 rifle New York State Man and Lady Smokehouse Dan thanked the Boy $1500 check as a donation to the (donated by Marlin Co.), and a Champions, Illustrated Man, SASS Scouts for their help and an - SASS Scholarship Fund, and the blackpowder Colt Navy pistol (do - #77202, and Spinning Sally, re - nounced during the course of the local volunteer fire department was nated by EMF). Needless to say, spectively. And with that, Heluva weekend they had managed to presented with a matching check winners of these wonderful raffle Rukus 2013 came to a close. raise $2155 for their troop through for $1500 in appreciation for pro - items were ecstatic! Gunpowder If you missed this year’s their efforts. Costume contest viding emergency services on site Creek Trading Co. awarded gift cer - match, you missed one heluva winners in seven different cate - throughout the weekend (including tificates good for a complete Fron - shoot. Don’t let it happen to you in gories were given framed awards opening locks on a couple of gun tier Classics outfit to both the male 2014! Make sure to get your name and gift certificates from contest cases when keys mysteriously dis - and female shooter who finished on the mailing list now. sponsor, Wild West Mercantile. appeared!). The money to cover closest to the “middle of the pack.” For more information on the Male and female winners in both of these checks was raised by Stage winners, clean shooters Circle K Regulators and the SASS each of Friday’s numerous side a Chinese auction/charity raffle, (26), and category winners (overall New York State Championship or events were then presented with which included a pair of SASS and New York State) were then to see more photos from Heluva their awards, followed by special Ruger Vaqueros (generously do - presented with their well-deserved Rukus, visit their website at presentations to P.T. Litewell for nated by Sturm, Ruger & Co.), a awards. The ceremony concluded www.circlekregulators.com.

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GeneRal GeoRGe cRook

ONE OF THE GREAT White Smoke Steve, INDIAN FIGHTERS SASS #91779 unteer Infantry and, due to the ap - petite of the volunteer regiments By White Smoke Steve, SASS #91779 for “Regular” officers, was in - stalled as a Colonel. Crook devel - person in 1880 would have known Geronimo through the mountains oped a lifelong friendship with a dozen or more Indian fighters of Arizona he was already known another Colonel, and later Con - and, most likely, George Crook as the Army’s premier Indian gressman, Ohio Governor and US would have been the most famous. fighter and the very picture of President, Rutherford B. Hayes. George Crook is probably best what the American public thought During the opening days of the remembered today for his dogged a “hard frontiersman” should be. Civil War, Crook led guerilla ac - four-year-pursuit of the Apache He was described as being over six tions in western Virginia. Later in bands that followed Geronimo. Al - feet tall, somewhat spare, athletic, the War, Crook fought in the bat - hances are very good though Crook defeated Geronimo and sinewy. He had blue-gray tles of Second Bull Run, Chicka - the average person often and forced the Apache leader eyes, wore his fair hair close- mauga, and Antietam. today can name only a to surrender repeatedly, Crook cropped, and his beard parted at Crook led his forces in the C couple of “Indian fight - never captured Geronimo, seeing the point of his chin. He dressed in 1864 campaign through the ers,” but a hundred and twenty the man retreat into the moun - an old canvas hunting outfit and a Shenandoah Valley as General years ago the situation would have tains time and time again. pith helmet. He carried a rifle Phillip Sheridan laid waste to the been much different: the average Long before Crook chased across the pommel of his saddle. valley. Crook learned important George Crook spent the first tactical lessons from Sheridan’s part of his military career in North - campaign he would later employ ern California and Oregon fighting against the Indians. several Indian tribes and learning Crook was promoted to Major how to operate under frontier con - General of volunteers in October ditions, often short of supplies. 1864. He was captured by Confed - The outbreak of the Civil War erate raiders in February 1865 and in 1861 brought him back east, spent a month as a prisoner of war where he joined the 36th Ohio Vol - (Continued on next page)

References Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_ Civil War High Commands, Stanford Crook University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047- http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/peo - 3641-3. ple/a_c/crook.htm Magid, Paul, “George Crook: From the http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/gcroo Redwoods to Appomattox,” University k.htm of Oklahoma Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0- 8061-4207-4. http://www.civilwar.org/education/his - tory/biographies/george-crook.html Robinson, Charles M., III. “General Crook and the Western Frontier”, Nor - http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/may/p man: University of Oklahoma Press, apr/crook.html 2001. http://www.historynet.com/george-crook- Schmitt, Martin F., General George indian-fighter.htm Crook, His Autobiography, University http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/au - of Oklahoma Press, 1986, ISBN 0- thors/g/george_crook.html 8061-1982-9. http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/chron/civ Warner, Ezra J., Generals in Blue: Lives ilwarnotes/crook.html of the Union Commanders, Louisiana http://www.nps.gov/resources/person.ht State University Press, 1960-4, ISBN m?id=73 0-8071-0822-7. http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/ Arlington National Cemetery webpage xv29760 for George Crook Leshire, Peter, The Fox and the Whirl - Guide to the George Crook papers at wind: General George Crook and the University of Oregon Geronimo, Castle Books, 2000, ISBN Advance to the Rosebud 0-7858-1837-5. Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. Bourke, John Gregory (1892). On the (1900). “Crook, George.” Appletons’ Border with Crook. New York: Charles Cyclopædia of American Biography. Scribner’s Sons. Retrieved 2007-07-08. New York: D. Appleton.

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

Haskay-Bay-Nayntayl Joe Fasthorse, SASS #48769

ASKAY-BAY-NAY-NTAYL (The Apache Kid) was born in 1860. He was captured by the Yuma Indians in 1866, rescued H by the Army in 1876, and enlisted as a scout in the US Cavalry in 1881. In 1887, the Kid was in charge of scouts at the San Carlos post when a drinking party fight broke out in which the Kid’s fa - Illustration by Frederic Remington, from ther, Togo-de-Chuz, was killed The Century Magazine by a scout named Gon-Zizzie. The Kid’s friends killed Gon- (Continued from previous page) mand of the Army’s War against Zizzie, and the Kid killed before being released in a prisoner the Sioux Indians in and around Gon-Zizzie’s brother. The exchange. Crook ended the war as the Montana Territory. The scouts involved were confronted the commander of a cavalry divi - Lakota Sioux, and their Cheyenne and ordered to surrender. A crowd sion in the Army of the Potomac allies, surprised Crook June 17, gathered, shots rang out, and the during the Appomattox Campaign. 1876, along the south fork of Rose - Apache Kid and several others lit out. Before being ordered to the bud Creek. Crook’s soldiers drove The Kid was captured, was tried, and East to lead men in the Civil War, off the attacking Indians, but used sentenced to death by firing squad. Crook was a second lieutenant as - up much of their ammunition and Two months later the death sentence signed to the 4th U.S. infantry in suffered numerous casualties, so was remanded to ten years in Alca - Northern California. He led the Crook ordered a retreat to his post traz. The next year, the Apache Kid was Army’s expedition against the Pitt at Fort Fetterman in northeast set free. This enraged the public. New River Indians in northeastern Cal - Wyoming Territory. warrants were issued, and the Kid was on ifornia in 1857. Crook was pro - Crook commanded the Depart - the lam again. He was caught, tried, and moted to First Lieutenant in 1856, ment of the Platte from 1875 to given seven years in Yuma Prison. Shortly af - and to Captain in 1860. 1882 from his headquarters just terward, he and four others overpowered three After the War, Crook was outside Omaha, Nebraska. guards, killed two, and escaped. A monster snow - again assigned to the Pacific By 1882, Crook had returned storm prevented pursuit. After that, there were many unconfirmed sight - Northwest where he led the fight to command in Arizona where the ings and reports that linked the Apache Kid to numerous crimes, against the Snake Indians in the Apache Indians, under the leader - including murder, rape, and robbery. But for all practical purposes, he 1864 – 1868 campaign. ship of Geronimo, had taken up had vanished. No one knows what happened to “Haskay-bay-nay-ntayl,” In 1866 Crook arrived in Boise arms against the U.S. Army. a name that means brave and tall and will come to a mysterious end. City to take command of the war Crook repeatedly forced the sur - against Northern Paiute and or - render of the Apache, but saw dered wintertime attacks to deny Geronimo escape each time. the Indians any opportunity to In 1886 Nelson Miles replaced gather food or prepare for a tradi - Crook in the Arizona Territory. It tional summer campaign against was Miles who finally captured the Army. Geronimo and had Geronimo and After the defeat of the North - his Chiricahua Apaches transported ern Paiute, President Grant to Florida as prisoners of war. placed Crook in command of the President Grover Cleveland Arizona Territory where Crook placed Crook in command of the was successful in forcing the Yava - Military Division of the Missouri pai and Tonto Apache onto reser - in 1888. vations. In 1872 Crook was George Crook died of a heart appointed Brigadier General in attack in 1890 at the age of 62. At the regular army. The hallmarks the time of Crook’s death, Red of this campaign, as of his broader Cloud, a war chief of the Sioux general career, were his extensive and a longstanding adversary of use of Indian scouts, his relentless General Crook and the U.S. Army, pursuit of Indians on their own was among those who praised territory, and his readiness to ne - Crook. “He never lied to us,” Red gotiate rather than force conflict. Cloud said. “His words gave the After Arizona, Crook took com - people hope.”

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e e 2013 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT 2013 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT Pujo the Kid, SaSS #84148 Adapted and Edited by Jess Plain Onery, SaSS #45250 Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000 Edited by Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000 ents, Dean and Cathy Burns. I also consider my fellow SASS ontrose, MN – Howdy, my members in these clubs as my ex - Mname is Jess Plain Ornery, tended family. These club mem - SASS #45250, aka Korinne T. bers have given me valuable Wrobbel. I am very honored advice on shooting, as well as ad - and proud to be a 2013 SASS vice on life. I know if I ever do Scholarship Recipient. This something wrong, not only would I scholarship will be applied to have to answer to my parents, but St. Cloud State University also to the members of my home where I will major in biomed - club. Believe me when I say you ical sciences. After four years do not want to cross Cajun Queen, at SCSU, I will attend three to SASS #75177, because even four more years in Duluth or though she is half my height, she Rochester, MN for a doctorate would still box my ears if needed. in physical therapy. The SASS I appreciate the support of some of scholarship will help me the members like Crosscut Hardy, achieve my goal and provide a SASS #54701, coming to watch me good start in my first year of play football both in high school college at SCSU. and college. Additionally, Possum This is a very exciting chap - Skinner, SASS #60697, Chatta - ter in my life! I was inspired to hoochee, SASS #39557, and the pursue physical therapy from Jess Plain Ornery, rest of the members always have my former physical therapist, SASS #45250 tips for improving my shooting. A Pujo the Kid, SASS #84148 Stacy. As a freshman in high good time is guaranteed when school, I severely injured my with ease. I absolutely enjoy shooting with these folks, and it is knee and Stacy helped me re - shooting with my mom, Kather - y name is Cody Dean Eaves, fun to fellowship with them after cover. She stood by me the ine Boulette SASS #45255, and Maka Pujo the Kid, SASS the shoots as we turn heads walk - whole way and really became my older brother, Isaac Moses #84148, and I have been honored ing into a restaurant dressed in my role modela. Ornery, SASS #45244. to receive a SASS Scholarship for full cowboy regalia. I have been participating in SASS/Cowboy Action Shoot - 2011, 2012, and 2013. My intro - The SASS Scholarships I have Cowboy Action Shooting™ for ing™ has also impacted my life duction into Cowboy Action Shoot - received have helped tremen - about ten years and counting. by making me a responsible per - ing™ actually started with acting dously with attending college. I SASS/Cowboy Action Shoot - son, safe shooter, and introduc - in Old West cowboy skits with my recently completed my second year ing™ has impacted my life by ing me to a bunch of awesome father, Graybow Slim, SASS of college at McNeese State Uni - giving my family a sport we can people. Every summer I always #58739, and sister, Ashley Eaves, versity located in Lake Charles, enjoy together. My dad, Can - look forward to the matches at as part of the No Man’s Land Gang Louisiana, where I am pursuing a tankerous Jeb, SASS #12164, the Crow River Rangers in from Merryville, Louisiana. We Bachelor of Science degree in started shooting Cowboy Action Howard Lake, MN, and Squinty performed for the Merryville Mu - chemical engineering. After earn - first and roped the rest of us in Eye at Virginia, MN. seum, local festivals, and events. ing my degree, I plan to work in Our skits showed how things were the research and development of done in the Old West and brought alternative fuels. The funds from cowboy legends to life, such as the SASS Scholarships have been Merryville’s very own legend of applied to my college tuition and ! Leather Britches Smith. Later on, books. Books alone cost several it was easy to transition into SASS hundred dollars per semester, even and Cowboy Action Shooting™ when bought used. For instance, President’s Honor List. I was also fight against cancer. since I knew how to shoot and had my used calculus book was $205. selected as a member of Alpha I wish to thank SASS for pro - the cowboy clothes and gear. The SASS Scholarships have Lambda Delta, which is a national viding these scholarships and for My home SASS club is Up the helped me to keep a GPA of 3.53 college honor society. Another of supporting my pursuit of a college Creek Gang located in Lake because they have relieved some of my accomplishments was making education. Throughout my school Charles, Louisiana, and I also the financial burden of attending the McNeese Cowboy football team years, Cowboy Action Shooting™ shoot with the Orange County college, allowing me to concentrate my freshman year and lettering my has been a part of my life, and I Regulators located in Orange, more on academics. sophomore year. “Colleges against look forward to continuing this ac - Texas. The rest of my family, who My academic accomplishments Cancer” is an organization I am a tivity through my college years have supported me through the in college so far include making the member of and is special to me and beyond. I truly appreciate years, includes my mother, Sharon McNeese Honor Roll every semes - since some of my relatives have this award and know that it will Eaves, my paternal grandparents, ter, the Southland Conference Com - cancer. With this organization, I be a great help to me in the con - James M. Eaves, Sr., the late Max - missioner’s Academic Honor Roll helped organize a Relay for Life on tinuation of my academic success ine Eaves, and maternal grandpar - for two years, and the McNeese our campus to raise funds for the at McNeese State University.

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ohn Henry Holliday died War’s “western theater,” including was promoted to brigadier general in the Hotel Glenwood, Stones River, Perryville, Chicka - during this time. However, no of - Glenwood Springs, Col - mauga, Resaca, Kennesaw Moun - ficial record of that promotion has J orado on November 8, tain, and Atlanta. He also fought been found. 1887. Six days later another native in innumerable smaller actions, After the War, Crews returned Georgian, Charles Constantine such as Murfreesboro, Lookout to his native Cuthbert, Georgia Crews, died in Hillsboro, New Mex - Mountain, Knoxville, Farmington, where he practiced pharmacy and ico. Doc Holliday, of course, is a Waynesboro, and Sunshine invested in the development of a western legend. Charles Crews is Church. He repeatedly distin - railroad. It was apparently the virtually unknown. guished himself, first as a captain failure of the railroad that inspired Both Holliday and Crews left in command of a company, and his move west. Although Crews their southern Georgia homes a later as a regimental and then a apparently lived quietly in New few years after the end of the brigade commander. Mexico, he lived in interesting Civil War. Both went first to In 1864 at Sunshine Church times—there were Apache raids in Texas, but moved on from there, near Macon, Georgia, Colonel southwestern New Mexico, the Crews settling down in southwest Crews accepted the sword of Lincoln County war raged nearby, New Mexico while Holliday con - Union General George Stoneman and the western frontier began its tinued to roam. Holliday and after he surrendered to the out - transformation. His medical prac - Wyatt Earp spent some time in numbered Confederates following tice probably contributed to that the Silver City/Hillsboro/Deming a long and bloody battle. In this transformation from frontier terri - area of New Mexico after their fa - action and a similar fight near tory to eventual statehood. mous shootout with the Cowboys Newnan, Crews and his Georgia The irony here is that Ameri - at the OK Corral. It is possible Brigade helped destroy about two- cans tend to forget real heroes, Holliday crossed paths with Colonel Charles Crews thirds of Sherman’s cavalry and while glorifying the less deserving. Crews, who was a pharmacist, put an end to “Stoneman’s Raid.” Thus a real hero like Sgt. Darrell and reportedly a physician. Cer - and the Kid was rumored to have Among the Union officers cap - “Shifty” Powers of the 101st air - tainly Holliday’s tuberculosis killed one man for each of his 21 tured at Sunshine Church was borne dies in virtual anonymity could have required him to see years. Crews, on the other hand, Major Miles Keogh, who would die while the nation mourns the pass - doctors and pharmacists from lived a quiet life in Hillsboro, with Custer at the Little Big Horn ing of Michael Jackson. time-to-time. healing the sick and injured, but twelve years later, and whose Sources During the late 1870s and inspiring no books, no movies. horse “Comanche” would be the Doc Holliday – The Life and early 1880s, Henry McCarty, alias However, in his lifetime, Crews al - only survivor of Custer’s com - Legend . Gary L Roberts William Bonney and better known most certainly spent more time on mand in that battle. Billy the Kid – The Endless Ride . as Billy the Kid, was also often in horseback, carried more bullet Crews was wounded for a sec - Michael Wallis this area of New Mexico. Billy, wounds, and was involved in more ond time and temporarily dis - Cracker Cavaliers – The 2 nd the cowboy turned killer, and Hol - deadly violence than either Billy abled in the closing weeks of the Georgia Cavalry Under Wheeler liday, the dentist turned gambler the Kid or Doc Holliday. War, and some sources indicate he and Forrest . John R. Poole and gunman, were famous in Colonel Charles Crews com - their own times, and their lives manded the 2 nd Georgia Cavalry inspired books and movies that Regiment, and later a cavalry made them legendary. It has been brigade in the Confederate Army estimated that Holliday killed at of Tennessee. He fought in most least 16 men during his 36 years, of the major battles of the Civil

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.ONE cowboy’s , EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

Col. Richard Dodge, SASS Life #1750

though Coronado makes no men - the pit, carrying a kerosene lantern. tion of them. His ladder was barely long enough, But on to our story: but he finally managed to stand on When one travels through the the level bottom of the pit. Before Col. Richard Dodge, dry, desolate, seemingly inhos - him was an opening so black it ap - SASS #1750 pitable land of the Southwest, one peared to be solid. wonders how anyone could possi - His lantern cast a meek glow arely fifty years after bly raise cattle on it. But raise cat - into that dark void as he carefully Columbus’ New World tle they did, even if it took forty moved into the very bowels of the voyages, Spanish ex - acres to feed a cow. In the early Guadalupe Mountains. To his B plorers were already years of Texas’ settlement, the amazement, the tunnel quickly probing far into the mainland of land was grassland from the Gulf opened up and divided into two North America’s huge Southwest. of Mexico all the way up beyond tunnels, the one on the left more Coronado’s 1541 expedition was the Canadian border. Decades of level, while the right fork seemed one of the first, and he ran into one overgrazing changed much of the to slope sharply downward. He of the most featureless areas to be land to a scene of cactus and took the left fork first, but quickly found anywhere—the notorious mesquite, now unfit for cattle or retreated; it was the bats’ nesting “llano estacado.” Reaching 250 anything else. cave and was filled with piles of miles north to south and 150 miles One the western edge of the bat guano. east to west in western Texas and “llano estacado” near the Pecos The right fork descended eastern New Mexico, even today River, the Guadalupe Mountains sharply at first, then opened into crossing the region by car can be a interrupt the flat land in a pictur - an immense room. His light re - bit unnerving, its vast emptiness esque sandstone uplift gouged with flected off spectacular towering Jim White was a courageous, appearing like a brown ocean to a deep, winding canyons and rugged rock sculptures, glittering with uneducated cowboy with a flat horizon. water, which filled the young man vertical cliffs. From its heights one keen sense of curiosity and Historians now question the can truly appreciate the vast ex - wonder and a tireless with wonder. Curtains of stalac - translation of “estacado” as panse of the “llano estacado” dedication to preserving tites hung from the ceiling far “staked plain;” presumably it was stretching unbroken to the horizon. what would be called above; huge mounds of limestone due to those explorers placing Jim White, like many young Carlsbad Caverns. rose to meet them. Dark pits sur - stakes as landmarks to retrace boys of the late 19 th century, pre - rounded him, and stones cast into their path. It is believed the word ferred broncs to books, saddles to depths, but were not willing to them took a long time to send their would have been “estecando,” school desks, and the open out - venture into the darkness. echoes back to him. Wondrous meaning “stagnant,” for the many doors to a schoolroom. But, he was “I thought it was a volcano,” forms glowed at the range of his small, stagnant water holes that endowed with a natural keen cu - Jim noted years later. He had ap - feeble light. Jim knew he was in dotted the plain in those days, riosity and powers of observation. proached the cave near evening the presence of one of the Great “I just want to be a cowboy,” he and peered into the opening to Architect’s finest works. insisted to his parents. There watch countless millions of the tiny Suddenly his lantern went out. were cattle ranches on the “llano flying creatures swarm upward in Never was there such darkness. estacado” in the 1880s and 1890s. an endless cloud for over an hour. In all Creation, light had never en - Either in frustration or possibly to He realized there must be a larger tered the cavern, and it was sud - teach the youngster a lesson, his cave than anyone thought to con - denly as it had been undisturbed father took him to the XXX Ranch tain that many bats, and his cu - for millions of years. Jim would on the south side of the Guadalu - riosity drove him to investigate. have died there, unable to find his pes, owned by John and Dan Jim tied together a clump of way out, but for his foresight in Lucas. Jim never looked back and dead cactus, ignited it and tossed it bringing extra fuel for his lantern, settled into the cowboy life he so into the hole. Down, down it went, which he managed with great dif - much wanted. burning out before it reached the ficulty in the blackness. It’s likely that Jim was not the bottom. When the burning embers As he struggled to recover his first to observe the swarm of bats finally landed, Jim estimated it light, the sounds of the cave rising from the Guadalupes, cer - was down over 200 feet. stopped him. The beauty of the tainly no one had been curious A couple of days later, Jim re - concert enchanted him. Dripping enough to look into the swirling turned when the sun was best posi - water everywhere, leaving a gentle mass against the evening sky. tioned to cast light into the opening. note as it departed from above and Some, including Jim, had ap - He fashioned a ladder of rope and creating another as it met the sur - Jim White’s Story of proached the huge opening in the wire, tied it off to a sturdy bush, and face below and splashed a melody Carlsbad Caverns cliff face and peered into its carefully lowered himself down into older than time.

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Not one person he knew would Plans are underway to replace believe his story, much less return the lights with LED lights to re - with him to the underground won - duce the effects of the current derland. Finally, five days later a lights, which negatively effect the young Mexican lad agreed to go caverns’ features, which were after with him. The boy spoke almost all, formed in total darkness. The no English, but he was a plucky caverns are experiencing changes young man, and Jim agreed to from the presence of the thousands take him. Prepared with torches, of visitors changing the composi - canteens, and food, the pair en - tion of the air and leaving hair and tered the cave and spent three lint everywhere. The drought of days exploring its magnificent for - the past years is causing the cave mations. Though the young Mexi - to dry up and much of the “living can was frightened stiff, he stayed cave” is stilled until the rains with it, even when they discovered bring water once more. a couple of skeletons. Someone Carlsbad Caverns is one of the had been there before them and natural wonders of the world. It is must have died a frightening, lone - certain someone would have even - some death. tually discovered and explored it, Again, there were no takers or and they would have been honored. believers when he tried to con - It just happened that person was a vince others of the cave’s exis - courageous, uneducated cowboy tence. Sadly, the Mexican boy with a keen sense of curiosity and could not tell his tale; no one could wonder and a tireless dedication to understand his Spanish. The first preserving that wonderful place. person who took him seriously did References The Rock of Ages is but one of hundreds of beautiful and so for strictly commercial rea - Nicholson, Frank E.; Jim White’s awe-inspiring formations in Carlsbad Caverns. sons—the huge deposits of bat Own Story; Carlsbad Caverns guano, which was superb fertilizer. Guadalupe Mountain Associa - Realizing he could end his life and drawing blood. The impact at So the first serious exploration of tion; Carlsbad, NM; 1998 inside the cave unknown to any - first stunned him, then brought the caverns was not an exploration one, he finally managed to restart him to his senses. He carefully at all, but a commercial exploita - his lantern and started to retrace traced his way back to the cavern’s tion of fertilizer for farms in Cali - his path. He had left small piles of entrance. It was with great relief fornia. A shaft was driven down to stones as he moved into the cave that he finally saw the glow of sun - the cavern and a huge bucket, and began to fear he could not find light; fortunately, it was still day - powered by a gasoline engine, them. Panic seized him, and he light outside. He scrambled up his raised the guano to the surface. started to run, only to ram his rope ladder to the world he knew. Jim White would spend the head into an overhead group of Standing once more at the cave’s next twenty years of his life pro - stalactites that broke off in a opening, he stared back into it, moting the caverns as a tourist at - shower of needle-sharp points, marveling at what he’d seen and traction. He named many of the some of them even piercing his hat determined to return. caverns’ rooms and formations and even used the guano bucket to lower and raise visitors down that same shaft. Eventually, he at - tracted the attention of the U. S. Park Service. Jim White became a Park Ranger for Carlsbad Cav - erns, and the rest is history. Today, Carlsbad Caverns is visited by thousands of tourists each year, descending into the caverns either by a 700’ elevator shaft or braving the natural entrance from the original opening. A carefully con - structed walkway leads visitors through a wonderland of fantastic limestone formations, much of it accessible even by wheelchair. There is even a small café at the bottom of the elevator shaft! Care - fully placed lights illuminate the rock formations throughout the caverns to illustrate their natural colors. Interestingly, discoveries are still being made as exploration of the caverns continues; many The Llano Estacado as seen from the entrance to Carlsbad Caverns. have been made only recently.

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By English Lyn, SASS #74828

are not only a hard day’s work, they are also a social occasion where ranchers get together to help each other and catch up on news and events. In many ways this reflects a tradition that has not changed since the start of the cattle business in New Mexico. Since moving to New Mexico I English Lyn, SASS #74828 have had to change my perspective of size and distance. The drive to apitan, NM – Have you Capitan from Tijeras is an easy ever thought about the three plus hours, two hundred mile line we often say before drive, even with roads so straight to Riding out to the roundup … C the buzzer goes off and the horizon and a 55 mph speed what could happen if it became re - limit. Try doing that in England! standing at the chuck wagon! ality? Now for the difficult bit. Gun - Following breakfast, it was time Let me tell you a story. smoke’s ranch covers 11,000 acres, to prepare the horses and get ready Like all good cowboys I have a 7,000 of which are useable pasture for the round up. To ease matters, sidekick; not only a sidekick, but my land. What the cattle can’t use, the Gunsmoke had in previous days soul mate, my playmate, and my wildlife, such as deer, elk, and ante - brought the cattle closer to the wife, Texas Tiger, SASS #74829. lope make use of. From the ranch ranch. He manages his cattle in We have been shooting with house, except for one direction, all four herds, as this allows better Gunsmoke Cowboy, SASS #84261, you could see and as far as you management of the cattle and also his son, Capitan Regulator, SASS could see was his land. I tried to of the grazing pastures. Dirty Earl #84262, Dirty Earl, SASS #94084, put this in perspective, but just had generously lent his horse, Roos - and his wonderful wife, Dixie Wran - gave up and accepted it. ter, to Tiger and was very particular gler, SASS #97035, for some while, Some young heifers had been in preparing Rooster for her to ride. and as you get to know good friends, brought in the previous day and “He is a good horse, but he will Returning with the herd … you get to know a little of their were in the stock pens ready to be test you, he will crow hop, ” Dirty background. We knew Dirty Earl is inspected and given their shots to Earl told Tiger. “Crow hop?” I With all the horses and riders in construction, Dixie Wrangler protect them against various dis - asked. Dirty Earl explained Roos - ready, it was round up time, and the loves her horses, Gunsmoke raises eases. These would then join and riders headed off into the south - cattle, and Capitan Regulator was enhance the breeding stock. western pastures to round up the growing up fast. Breakfast was announced and a first herd under the direction of the Out of the blue we received an short walk to the ranch house with Range Boss, Gunsmoke Cowboy. It invitation to join Gunsmoke on his the sun rising over the mountains truly was a memorable sight watch - spring round up, working cattle and saw us tucking into a very hearty ing the riders head off to round up branding, and you can bunk with meal. If you could have put wheels the cattle. Dirty Earl. on the ranch house, with a little The first herd was driven back A call to Dirty Earl soon got imagination you could have been to the corrals, and the task of sepa - some understanding of what was rating the calves from the herd ahead. The first question Dirty began. With the experience of the Earl asked was, “Can you ride?” cowboys, this was fairly simple, but Well I grew up in England and rode as you can imagine, some of the a bicycle, and Tiger grew up in West calves did not want to be separated Texas riding mustangs. That set - from mom, and several games of tled that; Tiger got a horse and I hide and seek took place. With the could help on two feet. calves separated, the real business Breakfast was scheduled for of the day could start. The Range Boss, 6am, but we had to get to the ranch The only concession to the pres - Gunsmoke Cowboy, SASS #84261, ent day was a propane-fired heater and work some cattle first. So in with Dan order to get the horses ready and for the branding irons. Three sets get to the ranch, we would be up at ter likes to test his riders and will of irons were used and rotated so as 04:30. See what I mean about burn - mildly buck with all four feet off the to keep up with the rate at which ing daylight?!! ground. “I had a Mustang called the calves were brought to the Thankfully the ranch was only Missy who would do that” was flankers. The flankers are the a short drive away, but we were not Tiger’s reply. I thought I would ground crew who get the calf on its the first to arrive. Spring roundups Getting Joker ready to ride! keep both my feet on the ground. side and hold it steady while the

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as to share the different tasks. The rotation of the ropers was interest - ing, as I noticed that those who went first and then the subsequent ropers seemed to bring back the biggest calves. Could it be that when it was their turn to flank, there were only small ones left? Eventually I was called off the fence to take part in the flanking. The back end of the calves seemed quite manageable, and I soon got the hang of holding tight and work - ing with the cowboy holding the Just before it all went wrong! front end. It was during this activ - ity I witnessed the true cowboy Dirty Earl then handed me a sy - way. The cowboy holding the front ringe and said, “Here, try this, it’s leg also restrains the calf’s head safer,” and he was right. I took with his knee, allowing the cowboy every care when grabbing a fold in injecting the calf in the neck to hold the neck skin to make sure the in - a fold of skin, which allows the nee - jection was in the calf and not the The branding irons dle to penetrate into the fold to ad - knee of the front flanking cowboy! minister the injection. Well This seeming rough and tumble Bobby Smith describing calves are branded, injected, and for somehow in the melee, the needle takes place with the practiced skills the branding process the bull calves have certain bits of went through the folded skin and learned through generations, even their anatomy removed. into the cowboy’s knee. He did not down to the branding. We were back at Dirty Earls by All of this well ordered routine flinch or utter a sound. The cowboy Before attempting to brand a mid afternoon, and as Dixie and took some taking in, so I did a fair with the needle thought something calf, Tiger was given careful in - Tiger took care of the horses, I took bit of fence sitting (not something I was awry and asked, “Did I get structions as to how to apply the a nap, as we were going to Ruidoso, was known for in my professional you?” “Yes,” came the reply; “sorry” irons so that a good brand was ap - home of the Lincoln County Regu - career!) at first, just so I could un - was uttered and the work contin - plied in the quickest and simplest lators, to set up for a cops and cow - derstand what was going on and ued. Now I know why old cowboys way. Gunsmoke’s brand is a Lazy B boys charity shoot the next day. why. I had always marveled at how walk funny; it has nothing to do with a Mill Iron, as his ranch is This had been an experience of ropers could catch the hind legs of with a life on horseback!!! called the Brewer Ranch. a lifetime for me, and one that I cattle when they were running. Now you have to remember that With a little imagination the would readily repeat. I have in the Well, close study of the process re - when a calf is brought to the flankers brand can seem like a smiley face, cowboy clothes closet a set of chaps vealed the answer. The cowboy with both back legs tied, it is far eas - but I am not sure the calves saw the won in a match raffle that Tiger throws a loop, called a trap, in front ier to lay it on its side by pulling the funny side of their experience! said not to wear, as she did not want of the calf’s back feet and allows the lariat one way and the calf’s tail the Thankfully, with the skill of the me looking like a “drug store cow - calf to step into the loop; then a other at the rear end, while the front boy.” Well, seeing how those calves quick pull on the rope catches the flanker takes a firm hold on the front can kick, should we be invited back back legs. left leg as it goes down. next year, I may just wear them!! I also learnt it is considered Having quitted myself at the I cannot end without thanking good etiquette to only bring back a rear end of the calf, Gunsmoke sug - all who took part for their great calf with both back legs roped, as gested I try flanking the front end company, their tolerance in passing this makes the job of the flankers of one. This was not as easy as it on their knowledge, and their good much easier. As the day wore on looks, especially as the calf that humor when this tenderfoot didn’t and the day got hotter, some calves was next in line had only been get it quite right. These were: were brought back with only one leg roped by one back leg and was stub - The Brewer Ranch Brand Bobby Smith from the Escudilla roped, but always with a smile and bornly refusing to be put on its side Ranch an apology from the roper. The jobs from both ends. While the rear cowboys doing the branding, only John Sisk, Bill Herring, and Kay - of roping, flanking, branding, and flankers struggled, I tried to hold the calves were branded, although den from the Bonita Canyon treating the calves were rotated so the calf as tight as possible and when flanking, you could feel the Ranch take a firm grip on the front left heat and certainly smell the singed Jet Tucker from Lincoln leg. As I had seen how hard a calf hair and hide. Tanner Daniel, Sara, and Patrick will kick, I decided not to give it With the last of the calves Perkins from Hobbs. any room, and so it got up close and branded, the herd was taken back personal. It was at this time that to the pastures and the horses led the rear flankers got the rear end back to their trailers. It was then where it should be and we all went time for a well-earned lunch. The down in the dirt. I went one way, chuck wagon still had its wheels on my hat another, but with the help and a hearty meal was provided for of some laughing cowboys, the calf all the cowboys and cowgirls who was eventually flanked on its side. had been there to help. Lisa, the Picking myself up, I dusted myself chuck wagon cook and wife of Gun - down, picked up my hat, and was smoke, sure knows how to satisfy greeted by a smiling Dirty Earl hunger. It makes you wonder if the who asked if I had eaten dirt? No, cowboys and cowgirls turn up just Flanking the rear-end I replied, but I sure bit the dust! for the food!! Texas Tiger applying the brand

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Dance Or shoo t? What’s a COWGIRL to do? , By Appaloosa Amy, SASS #63949, and Snazzy McGee, SASS #66689

enior Prom or State Match?” I asked my Sdaughter Snazzy McGee. Her reply, “Why is that even a ques - t“ion?” Well, I thought it was a good question, but what does a mother know? Both Snazzy’s Senior Prom and our SASS MA-CT-RI State Championship were on the same weekend, and they were a 90- minute drive apart (one being in CT and the other being in MA). How was that going to work? I was informed, like only a teenager can do (with attitude), there was “NO WAY” she was miss - ing either. “Mom, how can I miss shooting with all my boys?” pleaded Snazzy and her very tall prom date. Snazzy. Her “Boys” were World Champion Wrangler, James Samuel have to get creative, and as the date Pike; Classic Cowboy and harmon - got closer, I knew it would be diffi - Snazzy (right) and friends strike a “shootin’” pose at her prom. ica connoisseur, Tom Payne; Rowdy cult to pull off. Bill (Cowboy Action Shooting™ The week of the State match I stages, and since I was driving her, And thank the Good Lord for Guru & team shoot partner extra - normally make the three hour it meant I had to shoot through on good friends. My best friend and ordinaire); Smokey Sue (confidante round trip multiple times for match at least one stage which is exactly Snazzy’s Godmother called me Sat - and hero); and Milo Sierra (like an set up, so I wasn’t looking forward what we did. urday evening and told me she was older brother that gives as good as to adding a couple more excursions going to a horse show only 30 min - he gets); and the list goes on. along Route 495. Senior Prom was utes from the match on Sunday “And Mom, there is no way I’m the Saturday night of the match, morning. So, I put her in charge of passing up my Senior Prom with all and Miss Snazzy had a hair ap - dragging Snazzy out of bed in the my school friends.” We didn’t have pointment at 2:30 that afternoon, so morning and getting her to me at a vehicle Snazzy could take back that meant she had to leave the our rendezvous point. We ended up and forth so that meant we would match by 12:30 or so. And, of back at the match in time to shoot course, she wanted to come back to the remaining four stages Sunday shoot on Sunday. I asked her, “So morning. you are willing to get up early after So, as with many teenagers, prom night so you can get back up Snazzy got to have her cake and eat here? Really?” Snazzy launched it, too. She had an awesome time at into her best Law & Order Defense her prom, and she was teamed up Lawyer with closing remarks of “I with New York’s Sixgun Schwaby in have to get back to finish the match the shoot off and ended up winning and to shoot in the Top Gun Team it all! Shoot Off.” She had won the shoot The cost of one prom dress? off with partner Rowdy Bill last Well, Snazzy LOVED it, and that’s year and she really wanted to de - what credit cards are for. The cost fend her title. of running a match … running As plans unfolded, we were very around … and stressing that your lucky to have Snazzy’s grand - baby is going to her Senior Prom? A mother willing to meet us on Satur - few more gray hairs, but that is day afternoon about 40 minutes what hair salons are for. Snazzy shooting her coach gun from the match. Snazzy would still Snazzy McGee … Getting to hang out with your in the Team Shoot Off. have to shoot through on some from cowgirl to classy girl! cowboy family? “PRICELESS!”

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e e My FiRSt EnCOuntER With BlaCKPOWdER

By Monticello Marshal, SASS #31597

t was back in the mid- five cents. Of course, a cardboard movie cowboys were loaded with open, the blackpowder placed in a 1940s long before my six-bottle carrier in good condition black-powder cartridges to create pile, and a neat trail of the same present status as an Elder brought another five cents in de - the smoke clouds emitted when was laid out as a fuse. My lesson I Statesman. The back - posit refund at the local grocery. they fired their six-guns. Therein in the explosive properties of ground to this story begins with Therefore, a good week put lies the difference between real blackpowder was now eminent. the ongoing effort to obtain the enough money in the pocket for life and movie magic as it still ex - The fire from a “handy strike any - nine cents needed to attend the the movie and a five-cent bottle of ists to this day. where” wood kitchen match re - Saturday cowboy double feature Coca Cola and a nickel candy bar, On a visit to my grand - sulted in the instantaneous and the accompanying weekly which back in those days was the mother’s house, I found a metal ignition of the trail of powder and cliffhanger serial. Those of us in size of a present day one dollar bar. cigar box containing some 10 the small pile of powder. The re - my SASS category well remember The local Grand Theater be - gauge shot cartridges, which had sult was a resounding bang, flash, the cowboy hero being left in a pre - comes the main player in my en - belonged to my deceased grandfa - and cloud of white smoke. Within carious situation—only to be con - counter with blackpowder as a ther. Now in my eight- year-old seconds a screaming mother exited tinued the following week. result of the Saturday matinees. eyes an opportunity had just pre - the house demanding an explana - Anyway back to the needed funds. One need only remember the cow - sented itself. A few minutes later tion. My injuries from the explo - Back in the WW-II years, both dur - boy hero pulling the bullet from a with the help of my aluminum sion were minor; i.e., singed ing and post, there was a two cents cartridge and dumping the pow - handled Boy Scout knife (in my eyebrows and slightly reddened deposit on glass bottles, soda pop, der in a trail, which was lit and youth a pocket knife was as impor - skin. However, I can still recall the and beer. The grand find was a burned in a slow and deliberate tant as a pair of pants) about six sting of the lilac bush switch quart bottle valued at the sum of fashion. Surely the guns of the or so of these shells had been cut across the back of my legs.

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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 richmond roughriders 2nd sun Buffy 650-994-9412 richmond 3rd sun over the hill gang (the) 2nd sun Kooskia Kid 818-566-7900 sylmar golden heart shootist society 2nd sat & poco Loco 907-488-7660 Fairbanks Bridgeport Vigilantes 3rd sat Ben maverick 909-496-3137 Bridgeport Last sun Louie Burro Canyon gunslingers 3rd sat Don trader 714-827-7360 meyers Juneau gold miners posse 3rd sun Five Card 907-789-7498 Juneau Canyon tanna nevada City peacemakers 3rd sat marlin schofield 530-265-9213 nevada City AL robbers roost Vigilantes 3rd sat nast newt 760-375-7618 ridgecrest russell County regulators 1st sat will Killigan 706-568-0869 phoenix gold Country wild Bunch 3rd sat sutter Lawman 530-713-4194 sloughouse City high Desert Cowboys 3rd sun Doc silverhawks 661-948-2543 acton north alabama regulators 1st sun Drake robey 256-313-0421 woodville Kings river regulators 3rd sun sierra rider 559-268-1115 Clovis Vulcan Long rifles 2nd sat sugah 256-504-0820 hoover murieta posse 3rd sun grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 sloughouse alabama rangers 2nd sun Dead horse phil 205-531-7055 Brierfield helldorado rangers 3rd sun will Bonner 707-462-1466 ukiah gallant gunfighters 3rd sun Buckboard Jim 205-991-5823 hoover mad river rangers 4th sat Kid Kneestone 707-445-1981 Blue Lake old York shootists 4th sun Derringer Di 205-647-6925 hoover Coyote Valley sharpshooters 4th sat nasty hag 408-859-4300 san Jose AR pozo river Vigilance 4th sat Dirty sally 805-438-4817 santa white river gang 1st sat arkansas tom 870-656-8431 mountain Committee margarita home California shady Ladies 4th sat Lady gambler 916-447-2040 sloughhouse Critter Creek Citizens 1st sun evil Bob 903-701-3970 Fourke FaultLine shootist society 4th sun Querida 831-635-9147 gonzales Vigilance the Cowboys 4th sun Captain Jake 714-318-6948 norco mountain Valley Vigilantes 1st wkd Christmas Kid 501-625-3554 hot springs Deadwood Drifters 4th sun Lusty Lil 661-775-3802 piru outlaw Camp 2nd & 5th ozark red 501-362-2963 heber CO sat springs Colorado Cowboys 1st sat painted Filly 719-439-6502 Lake george arkansas Lead slingers 2nd sat & Dirty Dan 479-633-2107 garfield Colorado shaketails 1st sun midnite slim 719-660-2742 Fountain 4th sun paladin san Juan rangers 1st sun Kodiak Kid 970-252-1841 montrose south Fork river regulators 3rd sat arkansas 870-994-7227 salem windygap regulators 1st wkd piedra Kidd 970-799-1133 Cortez harper Briggsdale County shootists 2nd & 4th Kid Bucklin 970-493-1813 Briggsdale Judge parker’s marshals 3rd sat & naildriver 479-651-2475 Fort smith sat sun Vigilantes 2nd sat grizz Bear 719-545-9463 pueblo true grit sass 4th sat & tombstone 501-786-4440 Belleville thunder mountain shootists 2nd sat Colorado 970-260-5432 white water sun shadow wild Bunch Blackjack AZ montrose marshals 2nd sun Big hat 970-249-7701 montrose white mountain old west 1st & 3rd Fred sharps 928-245-6276 show Low Castle peak wildshots 2nd wkd old squinteye 970-524-9348 gypsum shootists sat pawnee station 3rd sat red Creek Dick 303-857-0520 nunn rio salado Cowboy action 1st sat a. 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Bob 480-982-7336 mesa martin shooting society rockvale Bunch 3rd sat Cherokee 719-371-0172 rockvale old pueblo shootist 1st sun gilly Boy 520-249-2831 tombstone Diable association Four Corners gunslingers 3rd sun Cereza slim 970-247-0745 Durango Cowtown Cowboy shooters 1st sun & Barbwire 480-773-2753 peoria thunder mountain shootist 3rd wkd pinto annie 970-464-7118 whitewater 3rd sat northwest Colorado rangers 4th sat sagebrush Burns 970-824-8407 Craig arizona Cowboy shooters 2nd sat gawd awful 503-528-6423 phoenix sand Creek raiders 4th sun sweet water Bill 303-366-8827 Byers association Black Canyon ghost riders 4th sun Double Bit 970-874-8745 hotchkiss tombstone shootist society 2nd sat Cowboy Doug 520-457-3559 tombstone CT whiskey row gunslingers 2nd sun turquoise Bill 928-925-7323 prescott Ledyard sidewinders 1st sat Yosemite gene 860-536-0887 Ledyard Colorado river regulators 2nd sun & Crowheart 928-505-2200 Lake Ct Valley Bushwackers 2nd sun milo sierra 860-508-2686 east granby 4th sat havasu DE naZtY Bunch 3rd sat tumbleweed 928-899-8788 Flagstaff padens posse 3rd sun hazel pepper 302-422-6534 Bridgeville rose FL Lake powell gunslingers 3rd sat Bare Fist Jack 928-660-2104 page ghost town gunslingers 1st sat Copenhagen 904-808-8559 st. augustine Los Vaqueros 3rd sat Buckeye pete 520-548-8298 tucson gold Coast gunslingers 1st sat & george washington 786-256-9542 Fort payson Cowboys 3rd sun rowdy Lane 575-937-9297 payson 3rd sun mcLintock Lauderdale mohave marshalls 3rd sun & D B Chester 928-231-9013 Kingman hernando County regulators 1st sun shady Brady 352-686-1055 Brooksville 5th sat miakka misfits 1st sun serving Justice 914-219-7007 myakka City altar Valley pistoleros 3rd sun & mean raylean 520-235-0394 tucson Fort white Cowboy Cavalry 2nd sat Deadly sharpshoot 352-317-6284 Fort white 5th sun okeechobee marshals 2nd sat & Kid Celero 561-312-9075 okeechobee arizona Yavapai rangers 4th sat whisperin 928-567-9227 Camp 4th sun meadows Verde okeechobee outlaws 2nd sat & Dead wait 863-357-3006 okeechobee Dusty Bunch old western 4th sat squibber 602-309-4198 Casa 4th sun shooters grande tater hill gunfighters 2nd sun Judge JD Justice 941-629-4440 arcadia Colorado river shootists 4th sun Boston 928-502-1298 Yuma weewahootee Vigilance 2nd sun Conway Kid 407-273-9763 orlando anniebelle Committee Bordertown, inc. as sch swift water 520-883-1217 tucson panhandle Cowboys 2nd sun high Card 850-492-5162 pensacola CA southwest Florida 3rd sat Jed Lewis 239-455-4788 punta sierra sportsmen Club 1st sat Bugtown Dusty 530-260-0806 susanville gunslingers gorda 5 Dogs Creek 1st sat utah Blaine 661-203-4238 Bakersfield Big Bend Bushwhackers 3rd sat sixpence Kid 850-459-1107 tallahassee & sun Lake County pistoleros 3rd sat arcadia outlaw 352-208-2788 tavares river City regulators 1st sun Bangor Brink 530-679-2321 Davis panhandle Cattle Company 4th sat Desperado Dale 850-260-5507 Chipley hole in the wall gang 1st sun Frito Bandito 661-406-6001 piru Cowford regulators 4th sat general Lee 904-803-2930 Jacksonville Cajon Cowboys 2nd & 4th pasture patti 760-956-8852 Devore smokey sat indian river regulators 4th sat Belligerent 321-403-2940 palm Bay Chorro Valley regulators 2nd & 5th mad Dog 805-440-7847 san Luis orney Bob sun mcCoy obispo oK Corral outlaws 4th sun Kokomo Kid 863-357-2226 okeechobee shasta regulators of 2nd sat Cayenne 530-275-3158 Burney Five County regulators 4th sun Jed Lewis 239-455-4788 punta gorda hat Creek pepper Doodle hill regulators 4th sun Dave smith 813-645-3828 ruskin mother Lode shootist 2nd sat sioux City Kid 209-795-4175 Jamestown antelope Junction rangers Fri nite & mayeye rider 727-736-3977 pineallas society 2nd sat park Coyote Valley Cowboys 2nd sat Bad eye Bobolu 408-722-0583 morgan hill GA Buffalo runners 2nd sat grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 rescue river Bend rough riders 1st sat Done gone 770-361-6966 Dawsonville California rangers 2nd sat Jimmy Frisco 209-296-4146 sloughhouse american old west Cowboys 1st sat Josey Buckhorn 423-236-5281 Flintstone Double r Bar regulators 2nd sun Five Jacks 760-949-3198 Lucerne Valdosta Vigilance Committee 1st sat Big Boyd 229-244-3161 Valdosta Valley Lonesome Valley regulators 1st sun wishbone hooper 478-922-9384 warner high sierra Drifters 2nd sun grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 railroad robins Flat providence springs rangers 2nd sat Buckshot Bob 229-924-0997 anderson 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 February 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 63

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City GA (continued) KS (continued) Doc holliday’s immortals 2nd sat easy rider 770-954-9696 griffin powder Creek Cowboys 2nd & 4th sat el Dorado 913-686-5314 Lenexa Camden County Cowboys 2nd sat Christian mortician 912-227-5683 Kingsland & 4th wed wayne piedmont regulators 2nd sat hunter sam 706-391-4630 toccoa mill Brook wranglers 2nd sun grandpa Buckten 785-421-2537 hill City south river shootists 3rd sat man From 678-428-4240 Covington millbrook Little river sandhill regulators 3rd sat moundridge 620-345-3151 hutchinson tennessee mountain 3rd sat trail Bones 423-842-6116 ringgold goat roper marauders Capital City Cowboys 4th sun top 785-313-0894 topeka Cherokee Cowboys 4th sat Bad Lands Bob 706-654-0828 gainesville Chisholm trail rowdies Last sun Cody wyatt 316-204-1784 wichita HI KY maui marshals 1st & 3rd Bad Burt 808-875-9085 maui Kentucky regulators 1st sat shenandoah slim 270-354-5040 Boaz sat hooten old town 1st sat Double eagle 423-309-4146 mckee Big island paniolos 3rd sat paniolo annie 808-640-3949 ocean View regulators Dave single action shootist of 4th sun Branded Buck 808-351-9260 honolulu Knob Creek gunfighters 1st sun Drew First 502-644-3453 west point hawaii guild IA green river gunslingers 2nd sat Yak 270-792-9001 Bowling turkeyfoot Cowboys 1st sat ranger mathias 319-234-1550 elk run green Fischels heights Levisa Fork Lead slingers 2nd sat escopeta Jake 606-631-4613 pikeville Fort Des moines rangers 1st sun pit mule 515-205-0557 indianola ponderosa pines posse 3rd sat Copperhead Joe 606-599-5263 manchester Zen shootists 2nd sat sergeant Duroc 515-783-4833 nevada ohio river rangers 3rd sat george rogers 270-554-1501 paducah outlaw’s run 2nd sun Capt. Jim 712-621-5726 red oak Breathitt Bandits 4th sat slowly But surely 606-666-4663 Jackson midnight rockcastle rangers 4th sat grinnin Barrett 270-792-3196 park City ID Fox Bend peacemakers 4th sun tocala sam 859-552-9000 wilmore panhandle regulators 1st & 3rd halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis LA sun orchards Deadwood marshals 1st & 3rd Doc spudley 504-467-6062 sorrento gunslingers of Flaming 1st sat Jughandle Jack 208-634-3121 Council sat heart ranch grand Cane gunslingers 1st sat Blackjack Charlie 318-925-9851 grand Cane southeast idaho practical 1st sat hell’s Belle 208-529-3594 idaho Falls up the Creek gang 2nd & 4th hardly able 337-474-5058 Lake shooters sat Charles squaw Butte regulators 1st sun acequia Kidd 208-365-4551 emmett Bayou Bounty hunters 2nd sat soiled Dove 985-796-9698 Folsom el Buscaderos 2nd & 4th oddman 208-437-0496 spirit Lake grand ecore Vigilantes 3rd sat ouachita Kid 318-932-6637 natchitoches sun Jackson hole regulators 4th sat slick mcClade 318-278-9071 Quitman northwest shadow riders 2nd sat silverado Belle 208-743-5765 Lewiston MA southern idaho rangers 2nd sat Lone thumper 208-251-4959 pocatello Cape Cod Cowboys 2nd sat Curly Jay Brooks 508-477-9771 mashpee hells Canyon ghost riders 3rd sat J.p. sloe 208-798-0826 moscow shawsheen river rangers as sch Yukon willie 978-663-3342 Bedford twin Butte Bunch 3rd sat idaho rusty 208-745-6150 rexburg harvard ghost riders as sch Double r Bar Kid 978-771-9190 harvard Bucket Danvers Desperados as sch Cyrus Cy Klopps 781-667-2857 middleton Border marauders 3rd wkd mud marine 208-627-8377 east port gunnysackers sat nantucket Dawn 781-749-6951 scituate snake river western shooting 4th sat missy mable 208-731-6387 Jerome MD society eas’dern shore renegades 1st sat teton tracy 302-378-7854 sudlersville IL thurmont rangers 1st sun Cash Caldwell 240-285-7673 thurmont shady Creek shootists 1st & 4th Dapper Dan 309-734-2324 Little York monocacy irregulars 2nd tues Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Frederick sun porter Damascus wildlife rangers 4th sat Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Damascus Lakewood marshal’s 1st sat pine ridge Jack 618-838-9410 Cisne ME rangeless riders (the) 1st sat the inspector 618-972-7825 highland Big pine Bounty hunters as sch ripley scrounger 207-876-4928 willmantic Kishwaukee Valley 1st sun snakes morgan 815-751-3716 sycamore Capitol City Vigilance as sch mark Lake 207-622-9400 augusta regulators Committee Free grazers 2nd sat Fossil Creek Bob 217-821-3134 effingham Beaver Creek Desperados as sch Jimmy reb 207-698-4436 Berwick Kaskaskia Cowboys 2nd sat wagonmaster 618-443-3538 sparta hurricane Valley rangers as sch Leo 207-829-3092 Falmouth ward MI illinois river City regulators 2nd sun granville stuart 309-243-7236 Chillicothe rockford regulators 1st sat no Cattle 616-363-2827 rockford nason mining Company 3rd & 5th Diggins Dave 618-927-0594 Benton river Bend rangers 2nd sat pitmaster 574-276-8805 niles regulators sat Double Barrel gang 2nd sat. Dakota Fats 269-721-8190 hastings mcLean County peacemakers 3rd sat marshall rD 309-379-4331 Bloomington Butcher Butte Bunch 2nd sun grubby 810-750-0655 Fenton Litchfield sportsman’s Club 3rd sat ross haney 618-667-9819 Litchfield hardrock Fort Beggs Defenders 3rd sun toranado 815-302-8305 plainfield sucker Creek saddle and 3rd sat Kid al Fred 989-832-8426 Brecken- Long nine Cowboys 4th & 5th Lemon Drop Kid 217-787-4877 Loami gun Club ridge sun Chippewa regulators 3rd sat no name 906-632-1254 sault ste. good guys posse 4th sun Dangerous Denny 815-245-7264 rockford Justice marie IN hidden Valley Cowboys 3rd sun saulk Valley 269-651-5197 sturgis paradise pass regulators 1st sat C. C. top 574-354-7186 etna green stubby (formly Cutter’s raiders) rocky river regulators 3rd sun terrebonne Bud 248-709-5254 utica pleasant Valley renegades 2nd sat nomore slim 812-839-3052 Canaan Blue water gunslingers 4st sun Buggyman 810-434-9597 Kimball schuster’s rangers 2nd sun Coal Car Kid 219-759-3498 Chesterton eagleville Cowboys 4th sat one son of 231-676-0922 Central pine ridge regulators 3rd sat riverboat 765-832-7253 Brazil a gun Lake gambler Johnson Creek regulators 4th sat rainmaker ray 313-618-2577 plymouth wolff’s rowdy rangers 3rd sat Justice D. 574-536-4010 Bristol mason County marshals 4th sat two gun troll 231-343-2580 scottsville spencer wolverine rangers as sch r.J. Law 248-828-0440 port huron Circle r Cowboys 3rd sat mustang Bill 219-208-2793 Brookston saginaw Field & stream Club as sch Bad river marty 989-585-3292 saginaw westside renegades 3rd sat Johnny Banjo 812-430-6421 evansville Lapeer County sportsmans sun as ash Flat water 314-378-5689 attica wabash rangers 4th sat henry 217-267-2820 Cayuga Club wranglers Johnny remington MN starke County Desert 4th sat whip mccord 219-942-5859 Knox Cedar Valley Vigilantes 1st & 3rd D m Yankee 612-701-9719 morristown Big rock sass 4th sat southpaw too 812-866-2406 Lexington sat red Brush raiders 4th sat Doc goodluck 812-721-1188 newburgh Crow river rangers 1st sun Cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 howard Lake Deer Creek regulators 4th sun Doc molar 765-506-0344 Jonesboro granite City gunslingers 2nd & 5th amen straight 612-723-2313 saint Cloud wildwood wranglers 4th sun Voodooman 219-872-2721 michigan sat City Lone rock rangers 2nd sat red Dutchman 651-402-0368 Farmingtion indiana Black powder guild as sch C. C. top 574-354-7186 etna green Lookout mountain gunsmoke 2nd sat wagonmaster 218-780-6797 Virginia KS society Butterfield gulch gang 1st sun Flinthills Dawg 785-479-0416 Chapman Fort Belmont regulators 2nd sun mule town Jack 507-840-0883 Jackson Free state rangers 1st sun & Buffalo phil 913-898-4911 parker east grand Forks rod & 3rd sun BB gunner 218-779-8555 east grand 3rd sat gun Club Forks 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 64 Cowboy Chronicle February 2014

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City MO NM (continued) ozark posse (the) 1st sat tightwad swede 417-846-5142 Cassville Bighorn Vigilantes 1st sat german george 505-286-0830 Founders mountain oyster gang 1st sun siegfried 660-909-6519 higginsville ranch (Formerly rocky Branch rangers) otero practical shooting 1st sat saguaro sam 505-437-3663 La Luz west plaines waddies 2nd & 5th major missalot 417-284-1432 tecumseh association sat Chisum Cowboys gun Club 1st sat two Bit tammy 575-626-9201 roswell moniteau Creek river raiders 2nd sun Doolin riggs 573-687-3103 Fayette Buffalo range riders 1st sun garrison Joe 505-323-8487 Founders shoal Creek shootists 3rd sat Chaos Jumbles 417-451-9959 Joplin ranch gateway shootist society 3rd sun Bounty seeker 314-740-4665 st. Louis Chisum Cowboy gun Club 1st sun two Bit tammy 575-626-9201 roswell Central ozarks western 3rd sun X. s. Chance 573-765-5483 st. robert high Desert Drifters 2nd sat el Vaquero malo 505-688-7937 Founders shooters ranch southern missouri rangers 4th wkd s. m. all 471-461-0033 marshfield Lincoln County regulators 2nd sat gunsmoke Cowboy 575-808-0459 ruidoso MS rio grande renegades 2nd wed, mica mcguire 505-263-1181 albuquerque natchez sixgunners 1st sat silky 601-807-1513 natchez 3rd sat, 4th sun, gulf Coast gunslingers 1st sun old rebel 228-860-0054 Biloxi 5th sat & sun mississippi peacemakers 3rd sat macon a. 601-954-3720 mendenhall gila rangers 2nd wkd Chico Cheech 575-388-2531 silver City Longshot monticello range riders 3rd & 5th J. w. Brockey 575-744-4484 elephant mississippi river rangers 4th & 5th sat taska Jim 901-490-2600 Byhalia sun Butte MT seven rivers regulators 3rd sat stink Creek Jones 575-885-9879 Carlsbad honorable road agents 1st sat Diamond red 406-685-3618 ennis monument springs 4th sat Val Darrant 575-396-5303 hobbs shooting society Bushwhackers sun river rangers shooting 1st sun & montana Lil’ 406-761-0896 simms picacho posse 4th sat Fast hammer 575-522-6118 Las Cruces society 4th sat skeeter tres rios Bandidos 4th sun Largo Casey 505-330-2489 Farmington makoshika gunslingers 2nd sat Doc wells 406-345-8901 glendive rio Vaqueros 4th sun anna sassin 575-744-5793 truth or gallatin Valley regulators 2nd sat el hombre de 406-388-2902 Logan Consequences montana NV Black horse shootists 2nd wkd J. e. B. stuart 406-727-7625 great Falls Fort halleck Volunteers 1st & 3rd green springs 775-753-8203 elko montana sat thomsen Custer County stranglers 3rd sat hartshot 406-232-0727 miles City high plains Drifters 1st sun washoe Zephyr 775-721-6619 Fernley montana territory 4th sat two gun 406-655-8166 Billings eldorado Cowboys 1st wkd Charming 702-565-3736 Boulder City peacemakers montana nevada rangers Cowboy 2nd sun mt Fargo 702-460-6393 Las Vegas Lincoln County regulators 4th sat anita nuttergun 406-297-7667 eureka action shooting society NC roop County Cowboy 2nd sun Jasper agate 775-849-7679 sparks neuse river regulators 1st & 3rd sat paddi macgarrett 910-330-1998 new Burn shooters association old hickory regulators 1st sat wendover Kid 252-908-0098 rocky silver state shootists 3rd sun shotgun marshall 775-265-0267 Carson City mount Desert Desperados 3rd sun Buffalo sam 702-459-6454 Las Vegas walnut grove rangers 1st sat hiem 828-245-5563 rutherford- Lone wolf shooters, LLC 4th & 5th penny pepperbox 775-727-4600 pahrump ton sun old north state posse 1st sat tracker mike 336-558-9032 salisbury NY Carolina rough riders 1st sun pecos pete 704-394-1859 Charlotte Crumhorn mountain 1st & 4th Lefty Cooper 607-287-9261 maryland neuse river regulators 2nd & 4th sat paddi macgarrett 910-330-1998 havelock Cowboys sun Carolina single action 2nd & 5th Carolina’s 919-383-7567 eden alabama gunslingers 1st sat Bum thumb 585-343-3906 alabama shooting society sun Longarm tioga County Cowboys 1st sat Dusty Drifter 607-659-3819 owego high Country Cowboys 2nd sat wild otter 828-423-7796 asheville Boot hill regulators 1st sun Judge Zaney grey 845-352-7921 Chester Carolina Cattlemen’s shooting 2nd sat J. m. Brown 919-291-1726 Creedmore pathfinder pistoleros 1st sun sonny 315-695-7032 Fulton and social society salt port Vigilance Committee 2nd sat twelve Bore 585-613-8046 holley Buccaneer range regulators 2nd sat Jefro 910-330-7179 wilmington Bar-20 inc. 2nd sat Badlands Buck 315-637-3492 west eaton gunpowder Creek regulators 3rd sat herdzman 828-493-1679 Lenoir hole in the wall gang 3rd sat el Fusilero 631-864-1035 Calverton Cross Creek Cowboys 3rd sat huckleberry 910-980-0572 wagram Diamond Four 3rd sat Kayutah Kid 607-796-0573 odessa mike Circle K regulators 3rd sun smokehouse Dan 518-885-3758 Ballston spa iredell regulators 4th sat Charlotte 704-902-1796 statesville sackets harbor Vigilantes 4th sun ranger Clayton 315-465-6543 sackets ND Conagher harbor trestle Valley rangers 2nd sat Doc hell 701-852-1697 minot the Long riders 4th sun Loco poco Lobo 585-467-4429 shortsville Badlands Bandits 2nd sun roughrider 701-260-0347 Belfield D Bar D wranglers 4th sun Captain m.a.F 845-226-8611 wappingers ray Fall Dakota rough riders as sch heck Catcher 701-220-8131 moffit mythical rough riders 5th sun rev Dave Clayton 716-838-4286 hamburg sheyenne Valley Last sat wild river rose 701-588-4331 Kindred the shadow riders as sch Dusty Levis 646-284-4010 westhampton peacekeepers Beach NE east end regulators Last sun Diamond rio 631-585-1936 westhampton eastern nebraska gun Club 2nd sun Flint Valdez 712-323-8996 Louisville OH Flat water shootists of the 3rd sun Forty Four 308-383-4605 grand Big irons 1st sat Deadwood stan 513-894-3500 middletown grand island rifle Club maggie island tusco Long riders 1st sat prairie Dawg 216-932-7630 midvale platte Valley gunslingers as sch skunk stomper 402-461-3442 grand greene County Cowboys 1st sun ruger ray 937-352-6420 Xenia island Firelands peacemakers 1st wed, angry angus 440-647-5909 rochester NH 3rd sat & 5th sun the Dalton gang shooting 3rd wkd Littleton s. 603-444-6876 Dalton sandusky County regulators 2nd sat Curtice Clay 419-836-8760 gibsonburg Club of nh Dalton shenango river rats 2nd sat & shenango Joe 330-782-0958 Yankee Lake pemi Valley peacemakers as sch Bear Lee 603-667-0104 holderness Last thurs tallable miami Valley Cowboys 2nd sun Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 piqua white mountain regulators as sch Dead head 603-957-0377 Candia Blackhand raiders 2nd sun Duke City Kid 614-556-0245 Zanesville merrimack Valley marauders as sch sheriff r. p. 603-345-6876 pelham scioto territory Desperados 3rd & 5th sun pickaway tracker 740-477-1881 Chillicothe Bucket wilmington rough riders 3rd sat paragon pete 740-626-7667 wilmington NJ auglaize rough riders 3rd sun Bear river smith 419-506-0999 Defiance monmouth County rangers 2nd sun utah tom 732-803-2430 monmouth Brown township regulators 4th sat sandy Creek Jake 330-863-1139 malvern Delaware Blues 2nd sun Yellow mike 302-750-2381 Quinton ohio Valley Vigilantes 4th sat slow movin ron 614-599-0721 mt. Vernon Jackson hole gang 4th sun papa grey 732-961-6834 Jackson stonelick regulators as sch Carson 513-753-6462 milford NM OK magdalena trail Drivers 1st & 3rd grizzly adams 575-854-2488 magdalena rattlesnake mountain rangers 1st & 2nd sat Black river Jack 918-908-0016 Checotah sat shortgrass rangers 1st sat & oklahoma spuds 405-640-5650 grandfield Del norte Diablos 1st & 4th nevada ranger 505-220-0892 rio rancho 3rd sun sat Cherokee strip shootists 1st sun scott wayne 405-377-0610 stillwater Founders ranch shotgun 1st sat mrs. slick shot 505-934-2533 edgewood tulsey town Cattlemens 2nd & 4th Dry gulch 918-697-7396 tulsa sports Club association sat Deryl 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 February 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 65

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Contact Phone City OK (continued) TN (continued) indian territory single action 2nd & 5th sun, Little Fat Buddy 918-437-4562 sand tennessee mountain 3rd sat Double Barrel 423-593-3767 Chattanooga shooting society 3rd sat, 4th wed springs marauders oklahoma City gun Club - 2nd sat & Flat top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma north west tennessee 3rd sat Can’t shoot 731-885-8102 union City territorial marshals 4th sun City Longriders Dillion OR ocoee rangers 4th sat ocoee red 423-476-5303 Cleveland horse ridge pistoleros 1st & 3rd sun Big Casino 541-389-2342 Bend TX molalla river rangers 1st sat gold Dust Bill 503-705-1211 Canby orange County regulators 1st & 3rd sat texas gator 409-243-3477 orange merlin marauders 1st sat mountain grizz 253-208-1105 merlin Comanche trail shootists 1st & 5th sat Dee horne 432-557-0860 midland Dry gulch Desperados 1st sat runamuck 509-520-3241 milton texas tumbleweeds 1st sat Cayenne 806-355-7158 amarillo Freewater texas troublemakers 1st sat Lefty tex Larue 903-539-7234 Brownsboro siuslaw river rangers 1st sun Johnny Jingos 541-997-6313 Florence plum Creek Carriage Cowboy 1st sat Long Juan 512-750-3923 Lockhart table rock rangers 1st sun & Jed i. Knight 541-944-2281 white City shooting society 2nd sat south texas pistolaros 1st sat saukValley sam 210-379-3711 san antonio pine mountain posse 2nd & 4th wkd whisperin’ wade 541-318-8199 Bend texas peacemakers 1st sat tennesse star 214-334-8627 tyler Klamath Cowboys 2nd sun & Jasper wayne 541-884-2611 Keno thunder river renegades 1st wkd texas rooster 936-588-6849 magnolia 4th sat Concho Valley shooters 2nd sat roamin’ shields 325-656-1281 san angelo Jefferson state regulators 3rd sat Jed i. Knight 541-944-2281 ashland texas riviera pistoleros 2nd sat stinkng Badger 361-9374845 george west horse ridge pistoleros 3rd sat Big Casino 541-389-2342 Bend Lajitas rangers and rogues 2nd sat texas trouble 915-603-1366 Lajitas oregon trail regulators 3rd sat willie Killem 541-443-6591 La grande travis County regulators 2nd sat Cherokee granny 979-561-6202 smithville orygun Cowboys 3rd sat Kansan 503-539-6335 sherwood texas tenhorns shooting Club 2nd sat & mustang sherry 903-815-8162 greenville oregon old west shooting 3rd sun & tuffy 541-619-7381 albany Last Full wkd society 4th sat tumbleweed rio grande Valley Vaqueros 2nd sun Dream Chaser 956-648-7364 pharr umpqua regulators 4th sun oregun gustaf 541-430-1021 roseburg Lone star Frontier shooting 2nd wkd rock rotten 817-905-3122 Cleburne Columbia County Cowboys as sch Kitty Colt 503-642-4120 st. helens Club PA texican rangers 2nd wkd Yuma Jack 210-240-8284 Fredericks- perry County regulators 1st sat tuscarora slim 717-789-3004 ickesburg burg Dry gulch rangers 1st sat pep C. holic 724-263-1461 midway oakwood outlaws 2nd wkd texas alline 903-545-2252 oakwood Boot hill gang of topton 1st sun Lester moore 610-704-6792 topton Canadian river regulators 2nd, 3rd & adobe walls 806-679-5824 Clarendon whispering pines Cowboy 1st sun panama red 570-724-7214 wellsboro 5th sat shooter Committee old Fort parker patriots 3rd wkd Colt Faro 832-472-3278 groesbeck Chimney rocks regulators 2nd sat hattie hubbs 814-515-2166 hollidays- Big thicket outlaws 3rd sat shynee graves 409-860-5526 Beaumont burg tejas Caballeros 3rd sat Judge menday 512-964-9955 Dripping Logans Ferry regulators 2nd sat mariah Kid 412-607-5313 plum Coming springs Borough gruesome gulch gang 3rd sat eli Blue 806-729-5887 Kress heidelberg Lost Dutchmen 2nd sat ivory rose 717-627-0694 schaeffers- alamo area moderators 3rd sat tombstone mary 210-493-9320 san antonio town Cottonwood Creek Cowboys 3rd sat pecos Cahill 325-575-5039 snyder mainville marauders 2nd sun Dodge Bill 570-477-5667 mainville texas historical shootist 3rd sun Charles 281-342-1210 Columbus westshore posse 2nd sun hud mcCoy 717-683-2632 new society goodnight Cumberland trinity Valley regulators 3rd sun grumpy grandpa 972-206-2624 mansfield Dakota Badlanders (the) 2nd sun timberland 610-434-1923 orefield Badlands Bar 3 3rd wkd t-Bone Dooley 903-272-9283 Clarksville renegade Butterfield trail regulators 4th sat texas slim 325-668-4884 anson river Junction shootist 3rd sat mattie hays 724-593-6602 Donegal Comanche Valley Vigilantes 4th sat Billy Bob evans 972-393-2882 Cleburne society green mountain regulators 4th sat Bar Diamond rider 512-638-7376 marble Falls Jefferson outlaws 3rd sat red-eyed Kid 443-392-1615 Jefferson tejas pistoleros 4th sat & sun texas paladin 713-690-5313 eagle Lake Blue mountain rangers 3rd sun Cathy Fisher 610-488-0619 hamburg tin star texans 4th sat. mickey 830-685-3464 Fredericks- matamoras mavericks 3rd sun hammerin steel 570-296-5853 milford burg silver Lake Bounty 3rd sun marshal t. J. 570-663-3045 montrose magnolia misfits 4th sun attoyac Kid 281-448-8127 magnolia hunters Buckshot UT purgatory regulators 3rd wkd Dry gulch geezer 814-827-2120 titusville three peaks rangers 1st & 3rd Curly Jim 435-590-9873 Cedar City elstonville hombres 4th sun trusty sidekick 610-939-9947 manheim sat whiskus el posse grande 4th sun Black hills Barb 570-538-9163 muncy Big hollow Bandits 1st sat marshal Dillon 435-724-2575 heber Valley north rim regulators 1st sat autum rose 435-644-5053 Kanab stewart’s regulators 4th sun sodbuster Burt 724-479-8838 shelocta Copenhagen Valley regulators 1st sat m.t. pockets 801-920-4047 mantua RI utah territory gunslingers 1st sat Lefty pete 801-554-9436 salt Lake City Lincoln County Lawmen 4th sun wyoming Blink 401-385-9907 Foster musinia Buscaderos 1st. sat Buffalo Juan 435-528-7432 mayfield SC Dixie Desperados 2nd &4th sat the alaskan 435-635-3134 st. george palmetto posse 1st sat Dun gamblin 803-422-5587 Columbia Deseret historical shootist 2nd sat old Fashioned 435-224-2321 Fruit heights Belton Bushwhackers 2nd sat pants a’Fire 864-760-9366 Belton society meyer rio Verde rangers 2nd sat Doc nelson 435-564-8210 green river hurricane riders 3rd sat saloon Keeper 843-361-2277 aynor Cache Valley Vaqueros 2nd sat Logan Law 435-787-8131 Logan savannah river rangers 3rd sun Kid ray 803-960-3907 gaston hobble Creek wranglers 2nd sat hobble Creek 801-489-7681 springville geechee gunfighters 4th sat Doc Kemm 843-863-0649 ridgeville marshall greenville gunfighters 4th sun Cowboy Junky 864-414-5578 greenville wasatch summit 2nd sun old Fashioned 435-224-2321 salt Lake SD regulators City Camp sturgis regulators 1st sat Brother King 970-481-7569 sturgis utah war 3rd & 5th sat Jubal o. sackett 801-944-3444 sandy medicine Creek road agents 1st sun iron mender 605-222-5145 onida mesa marauders gun Club 3rd sat Copper Queen 435-979-4665 Lake powell Cottonwood Cowboy 2nd sun Dakota 605-520-5212 Clark Diamond mountain rustlers 3rd sat Cinch 435-724-2575 Vernal association nailbender wahsatch Desperados 4th sat sly steadyhand 801-546-4843 Fruit heights Black hills shootist 3rd sun hawkbill smith 605-342-8946 pringle Castle gate posse 4th sat rowdy hand 435-637-8209 price association VA Bald mountain as sch Cottonwood 605-280-1413 Faulkton pungo posse Cowboy 1st & 2nd sat missouri marshal 757-471-3396 waverly renegades Cooter action Club TN Liberty Long riders 1st sun thunder Colt 540-296-0772 Bedford Bitter Creek rangers 1st & 3rd sun oracle 423-334-4053 Crossville Cavalier Cowboys 1st sun & striker 804-339-8442 hanover greene County regulators 1st sat Boozy Creek 423-279-0316 rogersville 2nd wed County wartrace regulators 1st sat & whiskey hayes 931-684-2709 wartrace Virginia City marshals 1st tues humphrey hook 703-801-3507 Fairfax 3rd sat Blue ridge regulators 2nd sun Bad Company 540-886-3374 Lexington memphis gunslingers 2nd sat Cherokee sargent 901-674-8220 arlington K.C.’s Corral 3rd sat Virginia rifleman 804-550-2242 mechanics- smoky mountain shootist 2nd sat Jim mayo 865-300-4666 Lenoir City ville society mattaponi sundowners 3rd sun & Flatboat Bob 804-785-2575 west point orsa’s oak ridge 2nd sat hombre sin 865-257-7747 oak ridge 4th sat outlaws nombre pepper mill Creek gang 4th sun slip hammer spiv 540-775-4561 King george 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 66 Cowboy Chronicle February 2014

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City VA (continued) WI (continued) Bend of trail 4th sun rowe - a - noc 540-890-6375 roanoke western wisconsin wild Bunch 2nd sat Flyen Doc Koyote 608-790-3260 holmen rivanna ranger Company as sch Virginia ranger 434-973-8759 Charlottes- Bristol plains pistoleros 2nd sun huckleberry 815-675-2566 Bristol ville Crystal river gunslingers 2nd sun polish pistoleros 920-913-1615 waupaca stovall Creek regulators as sch Brizco-Z 434-929-1063 Lynchburg wisconsin old west 2nd sun & Blackjack martin 715-949-1621 Boyceville VT shootist, inc 4th sat Verdant mountain Vigilantes 2nd sun Doc mcCoy 802-363-7162 st. hodag Country Cowboys 3rd sat hodag Bob 715-550-8337 rhinelander Johnsbury Liberty prairie regulators 3rd sat Dirty Deeds 920-229-5833 ripon WA oconomowoc Cattlemen’s 4th sat marvin the 414-254-5592 Concord northeast washington 1st wkd Crazy Knife al 509-684-8057 Colville association moyle regulators WV mica peak marshals 1st & 3rd sat tensleep Kid 509-284-2461 mica Dawn ghost riders 1st sun Coffee Bean 304-327-9884 hinton panhandle regulators 1st & 3rd sun halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis Frontier regulators 2nd sat Captain tay 304-265-5748 thorton orchards the railtown rowdys 2nd sun miss print 304-589-6162 Bluefield renton united Cowboy 1st wkd Jess Ducky 425-271-9286 renton Kanawha Valley regulators 2nd wkd eddie rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor action shooters rocky holler regulators 3rd sun Jessee earp 304-425-2023 princeton windy plains Drifters 2nd & 4th sat hopalong hoot 509-220-9611 medical Cowboy action shooting sports 4th sun Last word 304-289-6098 Largent Lake peacemaker national as sch Cole mcCulloch 703-789-3346 gerrardstown wolverton mountain peace 2nd sat hellfire 360-513-9081 ariel WY Keepers Cheyenne regulators 1st sat Dr. Frank powell 307-637-0350 Cheyenne pataha rustlers 2nd sat pinto annie 509-520-2789 Dayton Colter’s hell Justice 1st sat Yakima red 307-254-2090 Various mima marauders 2nd sat okie sawbones 360-705-3601 olympia Committee wsas smokey point Desperados 2nd sun mudflat mike 425-335-5176 arlington Bessemer Vigilance 1st sun & smokewagon Bill 307-472-1926 Casper Colville guns and roses 2nd sun Cheyence sadie 509-684-3632 Colville Committee 3rd sat apple Valley marshals 3rd sat wiley Bob 509-884-3827 east high Lonesome Drifters 2nd sat Kari Lynn 307-587-2946 Cody wenatchee sybille Creek shooters 2nd sat wyoming roy 307-322-3515 wheatland olympic peninsula strait 3rd sat Doc neeley 360-417-0230 port angeles southfork Vigilance 2nd wkd wennoff 507-332-5035 Lander shooters Committee wsas halfcock Black river regulators 4th sat pop-a Cork 360-878-8911 Littlerock Border Vigilantes 3rd sat assassin 307-287-6733 Cheyenne Custer renegades 4th sun Joe Cannuck 360-676-2587 Custer powder river Justice 3rd sun Doc Fehr 307-683-3320 Buffalo poulsbo pistoleros 4th sun sourdough george 360-830-0100 poulsbo Committee wsas rattlesnake gulch rangers Last sat ricochet robbie 509-628-0889 Benton City great Divide outlaws 4th sat slingn Lead 307-324-6955 rawlins Beazley gulch rangers Last sun an e. Di 509-787-1782 Quincy Donkey Creek shootists 4th sun poker Jim 307-660-0221 gillette WI snake river rowdies as sch sheriff John r. 307-733-4559 Jackson rock river regulators 1st & 3rd sat stoney mike 608-868-5167 Beloit Quigley To update your SASS Affiliated Club Listing or Annual Match please contact Slipnoose at the SASS Office ph: (877) 411-7277 or [email protected]

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WV INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL DOWN UNDER FRANCE (continued) AUSTRALIA sass France alba serena tir as sch marshall 09 62 53 83 32 moriani gold Coast gamblers 1st & 3rd Virgil earp 041 876 5839 gold Coast Club tombstone sat old pards shooting society as sch Charles allan 33 1 4661 1798 Versailler adelaide pistol & shooting Club 1st sat & Lobo malo 61 08 284 8459 Korunye Jeppesen Lasalle anthony 3rd sun Club de tir Beaujolais as sch wild Frenchie 33 047 838 0374 Villefranche westgate marauders 2nd sun stampede pete 61 39 369 5939 port melbourne sur saone Little river raiders 3rd sun Lazy Dave 61 40 377 7926 Little river old west French shooters as sch Curly red ryder 33 3 8582 0203 Caromb sasa Little river raiders 3rd sun tiresome 61 25 978 0190 melbourne BeraC as sch Delano L. oakley 33 3 8020 3551 premeaux single action Club prissey Cowboy action shooters of 3rd wkd i.D. 61 29 975 7983 teralba Club de tir Brennou as sch French Bob 00 33 024 767 5888 Varies australia reverend oakley’s Cowboy as sch Delano L. oakley 333 802 03 551 Varies Fort Bridger shooting Club 4th sun Duke York 61 41 863 2366 Drouin Klan sasa single action shooting sat & sun Virgil earp 61 74 695 2050 millmerran Les tireurs de l’uzege every sun marshal Dundee 33 04 66 759 529 uzes australia (old west gunfighters) NEW ZEALAND Black rivers Last sun Kid of neckwhite 33 3 8526 3029 roanne trail Blazers gun Club 1st sun sudden Lee sudden@farmside mill town Club de tir de Bernay sat Chriswood 33 2 3245 5900 Bernay .co.nz sass France Yellow rock sat Little shooting 336 7555 8063 eCot Bullet spittin sons o’ thunder 2nd sat Billy Deadwood 64 63 564 720 palmerston n. missie wairarapa pistol and shooting 2nd sun Doc hayes 64 63 796 692 gladstone societe de tir Bedoin Ventoux sat-sun sheriff Ch. 33 490 351 973 Bedoin Club (windy mountain Vigilantes) southpaw Frontier & western shooting 2nd sun Doc hayes 64 63 796 692 gladstone tir olympique Lyonnais sun Barth 33 6 1324 6128 Lyon sports assoc Club de tri de nuits saint as sch Delano L. oakley 33 38 020 3551 nuits saint tararua rangers 3rd sun J.e.B. stuart 64 63 796 436 Carterton georges georges ashburton pistol Club 3rd sun am shellie Jector 643 304 8401 ashburton Club de tir sportif de as sch major John brisset37@ tours ashburton pistol Club wild 3rd sun pm shellie Jector 643 304 8401 ashburton touraine Lawson hotmail.fr Bunch shooting Cas/sass France as sch Frenchie Boy 336 169 32 076 Varies western renegades 4th sat Black Bart Bolton 64 27 249 6270 wanganui GERMANY sass pistol new Zealand as sch tuscon the 64 32 042 089 Varies german territory regulators as sch rephiL 49 29 216 71814 Varies terrible Cowboy action shooting Last sat marshal heck 49 345 120 0581 edderitz EUROPE germany AUSTRIA Jail Bird’s Company mon orlando a Brick 49 21 317 42 3065 wegberg sweetwater gunslingers austria as sch Fra Diabolo 43 664 490 8032 Vienna Bond CZECH REPUBLIC Cas europe we hurricane irmi 49 28 23 3426 Bocholt association of western shooters as sch thunderman 42 060 322 2400 prelouc sass germany wed il Calabrese 49 28 239 8080 pfalzdorf DENMARK sass germany wed rhine river Joe 49 28 235 807 spork Danish Blackpowder as sch slim Dane 45 20 655 887 Copenhagen HUNGARY Federation westwood rebels as sch el heckito 362 0460 1739 galgamacsa association of Danish as sch mrs. stowaway 45 602 013 65 greve ITALY western shooters old gunners shooting Club as sch renato anese 33 51 24 5391 toppo di FINLAND western shootist posse travesio sass Finland as sch woodbury Kane 35 850 517 4659 Various green hearts regulator 1st sun steven gardiner 39 338 920 7989 trevi Classic old western society of as sch woodbury Kane 35 850 517 4659 Loppi Fratelli Della Costa onlus 3rd sat oversize 35 05 642 4677 Livorno Finland Lassiter Fan shooting Club 3rd sun ivan Bandito 39 34 7043 0400 mazzano FRANCE maremma Bad Land’s riders as sch alameda slim alamedaslim@ siena sass France greenwood 1st & 3rd handy hook 33 68 809 1360 Bormes les owss.it Creek wkd mimosas old west shooting society italy as sch alchimista 39 33 420 68337 Varies sass France golden triggers 1st sun Cheyenne Little 33 67 570 3678 Villefrache de Canne roventi Last sun Valdez 39 07 1286 1395 Filottrano of Freetown Colibris rouergue honky tonk rebels Last sun Kaboom andy 39 33 5737 8551 Vigevano L’arquebuse d’antony 2nd sun Jeppesen 33 14 661 1798 antony wild west rebels sun Bill masterson [email protected] malegno-Bs Buffalo Valley as sch slye Buffalo 02 37 63 65 83 Châteauneuf LUXEMBOURG -en-thymerais sass Luxembourg as sch smiley miles 35 26 2128 0606 Varies high plains shooters as sch Jack Cooper 336 1384 5580 Clermont De NETHERLANDS L’oise sass netherlands as sch Dutch Bear 31 619 430 223 Leeuwarden association mazauguaise de tir as sch redneck mike 33 494 280 145 mazaugues Dutch western shooting as sch Dutch Bear 31 619 430 223 oss, association noord Brabant NORTHERN IRELAND Kells County regulators 1st sat independence 28 93 368 004 Varies Carroll NORWAY Black rivers as sch Charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 Loten Quantrill raiders sun Charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 Loten schedsmoe County rough thurs Jailbird 47 6399 4279 Lillestrom riders POLAND sass polish western shooting as sch trigger hawkeye trigger-hawkeye@ Lodz association hot.pl SERBIA union of western shooters of as sch hombre des 63 721 6934 humska serbia nudos SWEDEN sass sweden northern as sch northern s. t. 46 72 206 7005 Varies rangers ranger SWITZERLAND Black mountain gunfighters as sch Blacksmith pete 417 9449 5800 romain-ma’tier old west shooting society as sch hondo Janssen 44 271 9947 Zurich switzerland INTERNATIONAL CANADA aurora Desperados 1st Fri Destry 905-551-0703 aurora on robbers roost hamilton 1st sat Bear Butte 905-891-8627 ancaster on

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INTERNATIONAL WILD BUNCH USA CANADA (continued) red mountain renegades 1st sun Flynn t. Locke 604-820-1564 mission BC AK Bar e ranch 2nd & 4th northern Crow 705-435-2807 Barrie on alaska 49ers 3rd sat marshal stone 907-232-1080 Birchwood sat AZ Cowtown wild Bunch™ 1st sat wild Bodie tom 602-721-3175 Carefree Beau Bassin range riders 2nd sat Frenchy 506-312-0455 riverview nB shooters Cannuck natZY Bunch 3rd sun tumbleweed rose 928-899-8788 Flagstaff Lambton sportsman’s Club 2nd sat Clay Creek 519-542-4644 st. Clair on Bordertown inc. as sch pecos Clyde 480-266-1096 tucson wentworth shooting sports 2nd sun stoney Creek 905-664-3217 hamilton on CA Club hole in the wall gang 1st sat Frederick Jackson 818-640-0945 piru Victoria Frontier shootists 2nd sun Black ashley 250-744-4705 Victoria BC turner Valley regulators 3rd sat Kananaskis 250-923-6358 Courtenay BC gold Country wild Bunch™ 3rd sat sutter Lawman 530-713-4194 sloughouse Kid CO prairie Dog rebels 3rd sat Valley Boy 519-673-5648 London on Castle peak wildshots 1st sat old squinteye 970-524-9348 gypsum Valley regulators 3rd sat & high Country 250-334-3479 Courtenay BC pawnee station 1st sun red Creek Dick 303-857-0520 Fort Collins sun amigo martin otter Valley rod & gun 4th sun Colt mcCloud 519-685-9439 strafford- on thunder mountain shootists 2nd sat Colorado 970-260-5432 white water ville Blackjack robbers roost wild Bunch as sch Legendary 905-393-4299 ancaster on FL Lawman ghost town gunslingers 1st sat Copenhagen 904-808-8559 st. islington sportmen’s Club as sch hawk Feathers 905-936-2129 Caledon on wild Bunch™ augustine Blueridge sportsmen’s Club as sch rebel Dale 519-599-2558 Clarksburg on ID squaw Butte regulators 4th sun acequia Kidd 208-365-4551 emmett waterloo County revolver as sch ranger pappy 519-536-9184 Kitchener on IL association Cooper Kaskaskia Cowboys as sch Boben weev 618-632-0712 sparta mundy’s Bay regulators as sch indiana 705-534-2814 penetan- on IN magnum guishene pine ridge regulators 1st wkd riverboat 765-832-7253 Brazil nova scotia Cowboy action as sch wounded Belly 902-890-2310 truro ns gambler shooting Club LA palmer’s gulch Cowboys as sch Caribou Lefty 250-372-0416 heffley BC Jackson hole regulators 4th sat slick mcClade 318-278-9071 Quitman Creek MO ottawa Valley marauders as sch Button 514-792-0063 ottawa on Butterfield trail Cowboys 4th wkd smokie 417-759-9114 walnut alberta Frontier shootists as sch powder paw 403-318-4463 rocky mtn aB shade society house NC Club de tir Beausejour as sch richelieu mike 450-658-8130 st-Jean QC Carolina Cattlemen’s shooting 4th sat J. m. Brown 919-291-1726 Creedmore Chrysos- and social society tome/Lavis NM Long harbour Lead tues preacher man 250-537-0083 salt spring BC tres rios Bandidos 2nd sun el mulo 505-632-9712 Farmingtion slingers John island Vacquero SOUTH AFRICA rio grande renegades 3rd sun mica mcguire 505-263-1181 albuquerque pioneer Creek rangers 2nd & 4th slow wilson 27 83 677 5066 pretoria sa Los pistoleros 4th sat J. Frank 575-648-2530 Founders norfleet ranch sat picacho posse 4th sat Fast hammer 575-647-3434 Las Cruces western shooters of 3rd sat richmond p. 27 21 797 5054 Cape town sa NV south africa hobson Lone wolf shooters LLC 4th & 5th penny pepperbox 775-727-4600 pahrump wkd OH Monthly Mounted International Big irons as sch Deadwood stan 513-894-3500 middletown LEBANON OK SASS Lebanon - El Rancho as sch packin Jesse 96 1138 5982 Varies Cherokee strip shootists 1st sat scott wayne 405-377-0610 stillwater Sporting Club wild Bunch™ CANADA oklahoma City gun Club - 2nd sun Flat top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma Quebec mounted shooting as sch Dirty owl Bert 819-424-7842 Joliette territorial marshals City association OR horse ridge pistoleros 3rd sat Big Casino 541-389-2342 Bend PA Logans Ferry regulators 2nd sat mariah Kid 412-607-5313 plum Borough SC greenville gunfighters 5th sun hondo Jackson 864-414-1968 greenville TN wartrace regulators 3rd sat papa Dave 931-723-7896 wartrace TX Comanche Valley Vigilantes 4th sat Billy Bob 972-393-2882 Cleburne evans UT wasatch summit regulators 4th sun old Fashioned 435-224-2324 salt Lake City WI western wisconsin 2nd sat Flyen Doc Koyote 608-790-3260 holmen wild Bunch™ WV Kanawha Valley regulators 2nd wkd eddie rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor

Monthly Mounted USA AZ tombstone ghost riders 2nd sun Dan nabbit 520-456-0423 tombstone mounted Club CO revengers of montezuma 1st sun aneeda huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortez NM Buffalo range riders mounted 3rd sat Chili Cowboy 505-379-8957 Founders ranch OH Big irons mounted rangers as sch stoneburner 513-829-4099 middletown 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 February 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 69

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Dates Contact Phone City State Match Dates Contact Phone City State USA 2014 JUNE (continued) FEBRUARY 2014 SASS WORLD 19 - 29 sass office 505-843-1320 edgewood nm SASS NATIONAL CHAMP 24 - 02 sunshine Kay 623-465-8683 phoenix aZ CHAMPIONSHIP Winter Range END of TRAIL Last stand at thunder river 28 - 02 Johnny morris 713-703-1915 magnolia tX Bush whack & Beazley gulch 19 - 22 an e. Di 509-787-1782 Quincy wa MARCH SASS Wisconsin State 21 - 22 Captain Cook 715-248-3727 station wi SASS Florida State Blackpowder 01 - 01 Deadly 352-317-6284 Fort white FL Blackpowder Shootout range Championship Dark Day on the Santa Fe sharpshooter Smoke in the Hills Bayou Blast 07 - 09 possum skinner 337-372-0586 Lake Charles La SASS Maryland State 26 - 28 Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Damascus mD the ides of march 14 - 16 arcadia outlaw 352-208-2788 tavares FL Championship trailhead ‘14 20 - 23 Charles goodnight 281-342-1210 Columbus tX Thunder Valley Days gathering of the posses 21 - 23 squibber 602-309-4198 Casa grande aZ SASS Annual Scholarship 29 - 29 Dangerous 815-245-7284 Dry gulch iL SASS Illinois State Blackpowder 24 - 24 mose spencer 270-349-4392 sparta iL Shootout Denny ranch Championship JULY SASS Texas State Championship - 26 - 29 texas alline 903-545-2252 oakwood tX railhead 03 - 06 sly puppy 623-776-5724 williams aZ Jail Break SASS Colorado State 03 - 06 red river 970-225-0545 nunn Co SASS South Carolina State 27 - 30 Dun gamblin 803-422-5587 greenville sC Championship wrangler Championship Manse’s Revenge Shootout at Pawnee Station APRIL SASS Alaska Territorial 04 - 06 tripod 907-373-0140 anchorage aK Dry gulch at arroyo Cantua 03 - 06 sutter Lawman 530-713-4194 sloughhouse Ca Championship - shootout on the Little river 05 - 05 Big Boyd 229-244-3161 Valdosta ga Shootout Under The Midnight Sun Comancheria Days 10 - 13 Yuma Jack 210-240-8284 Fredericks- tX SASS Oregon State Blackpowder 11 - 13 whisperin’ 541-318-8199 Bend or burg Championship wade Chimney rock Crap shoot 11 - 13 Five Jacks 951-347-0862 Lucerne Ca Smokin’ Gunfight in the Badlands Valley Black gold shootout 17 - 19 Copperhead Joe 606-599-5263 manchester KY SASS Louisiana State Champ 11 - 13 slick mcClade 318-278-9071 Quitman La SASS Oregon State 18 - 20 tuffy 541-619-7381 albany or Duel in the Sun Championship tumbleweed shootout at Fort miller 17 - 19 pocket Change 559-683-2204 Clovis Ca Shootout at Saddle Butte Land run 24 - 27 Flat top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma oK oregon trail shootout 18 - 20 t. J. maverick 541-910-4244 La grande or City SASS Pennsylvania State 20 - 20 slowpoke John 717-676-3198 ickesburg pa SASS Utah State Champ Ruckus 24 - 26 J.t. wild 801-829-8989 st. george ut Blackpowder Shootout at Red Rock Smoke on the Ridge Cowford stampede 25 - 27 willy whiskers 904-683-5624 Jacksonville FL monument springs Bushwhacker 25 - 27 Val Darrant 575-396-5303 hobbs nm Annual USA Mounted Matches annual Fandango FEBRUARY 2014 Butterfield range war Law 26 - 26 Fast hammer 575-522-6118 Las Cruces nm SASS National Winter Range 28 - 02 Dan nabbit 520-456-0423 tombstone aZ enforcement vs Cowboys Mounted Shooting Champ more Fun Less run JUNE SASS Territorial Blackpowder 26 - 27 Deadwood stan 513-304-3505 middletown oh SASS End of Trail Mounted 27 - 29 Chili Cowboy 505-379-8957 Founders nm Championship Smoke in the Woods Championship ranch SASS Washington State 26 - 27 ricochet 509-628-0889 Benton City wa Blackpowder Champ - robbie Annual USA Wild Bunch Matches Dark Day at Rattlesnake Gulch MARCH 2014 MAY SASS California State 01 - 04 utah Blaine 661-203-4238 Bakersfield Ca SASS Arkansas State Wild 14 - 16 naildriver 479-651-2475 Fort smith ar Championship Bunch™ Championship Shootout at 5 Dogs Creek Hell on the Border SASS Kansas State Blackpowder 02 - 04 shady willie 785-556-2547 Chapman Ks SASS California State Wild 31 - 02 sutter Lawman 530-713-4194 sloughhouse Ca Championship Siege at Clark’s Creek Brown Bunch™ Championship SASS Delaware State 02 - 04 teton tracy 302-378-7854 sudlersville mD APRIL Championship SASS Utah State Wild Bunch™ 22 - 23 second Fiddle sue 435-668-3299 washington ut Eas’dern Shore Round-up Championship - mo-Kan Border skirmish 02 - 04 siegfried 660-909-6519 higginsville mo Hell of a Ruckus at Red Rock showdown at purgatory 02 - 04 Diamond Lilly 601-608-7956 mendenhall ms MAY the Best shoot by a Damn site 03 - 04 Charming 702-565-3736 Boulder City nV SASS Alaska State Wild Bunch™ 17 - 18 marshal stone 907-232-1080 Birchwood aK Defend the roost 15 - 17 Just george 760-677-9109 ridgecrest Ca Championship - SASS Georgia State 15 - 18 Fast eddie 404-405-8266 Covington ga Shootout at Moose Nugget Flats Championship SASS New York State Wild 24 - 25 roy Cassidy 518-584-9869 Ballston spa nY Stampede at South River Bunch™ Championship Koruption in paradise 15 - 18 Korupt Karl 260-438-1044 etna green in Muster At Fort Misery John wayne JUNE shootout at Leadville 16 - 18 red-eyed Kid 443-392-1615 Jefferson pa SASS Oklahoma State Wild 14 - 15 Flat top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma oK pursuit in the osage hills 17 - 18 Burly Bill 918-830-2936 Bartlesville oK Bunch™ Championship City Castle gate smudge match 17 - 17 rowdy hand 435-637-8209 price ut October siege at san Juan City 22 - 25 san Juan 970-249-4227 montrose Co SASS Missouri State Wild 22 - 23 smokie 417-759-9114 walnut mo shootout at three Fingers saloon 22 - 25 Dirty sally 805-438-4817 santa Ca Bunch™ Championship shade margarita end of road 23 - 25 missy mable 208-731-6387 twin Falls iD Annual International Matches SASS Ohio State Championship 23 - 24 Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 piqua oh AUSTRALIA Shootout at Hard Times SASS AUSTRALIAN sep 29 - 05 Virgil earp 61 74 695 2050 millmerran Little Big match 24 - 25 william sackett 360-786-0199 Little rock wa REGIONAL CHAMP the plainfield incident 29 - 01 Bangor Brink 530-679-2321 Davis Ca Chisholm Trail SASS NORTHWEST REGIONAL 29 - 01 Big Casino 541-389-2342 Bend or gunfight at the oK Corral 20th oct 25 - 26 Duke York 61 418 632 366 Drouin CHAMPIONSHIP annual Shootout at Horse Ridge FRANCE JUNE Buffalo Valley Jun 13 - 15 slye Buffalo 02 37 63 65 83 Châteauneuf- SASS North Carolina State 05 - 08 J. m. Brown 919-266-3751 salisbury nC en-thymerais Championship ambush at greenwood Creek sep 12 - 14 handy hook 33 68 809 1360 Bormes les Uprising at Swearing Creek mimosas SASS Wyoming State 12 - 15 assassin 307-287-6733 Cheyenne wY GERMANY Championship SASS European Regional may 14 - 18 rephiL 49 170 231 9708 phipippsburg Hell on Wheels German Territorial Roundup

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TEAM SASS YEAR END REVIEW our National Strategy. The funda - By Colonel Dan, SASS Life/Regulator #24025 mental approach of Phase II is to ex - pand our efforts, making (2) Our greatest chances for ex - of information and calls for action unmistakably clear the level of our ecuting a successful fight to pre - pertaining to Second Amendment resolve by urging and organizing Colonel Dan, SASS Lif e/ serve, protect, and defend for all of issues exclusively. As a result of Team SASS members throughout Regulator #24025 America is at the state level. this information exchange and America to organize and form By focusing on the state level, alert medium, the awareness of groups of any size taken from their we will have greater influence on anti-gun actions and personalities local clubs that actually confront eam SASS has now been impacting our “close in targets;” i.e., at both the state and national level local, state, and national politicians in operation for one full our liberty focused lives within our within our membership has been face to face at town hall meetings, year and given that mile - immediate environment so to speak. elevated significantly. rallies, and one on ones. Politicians T stone, I think it’s fair to Additionally, it’s by increased influ - • Additionally, awareness of the MUST know the level of our resolve, review the trail we’ve ridden to - ence within our home states that we critical importance of state level pol - and such very personal actions as gether in defense of America’s Sec - can better direct the pressure the itics has been raised considerably. those described above are highly ef - ond Amendment rights. states can and will place on the fed - Action taken to help fight/thwart fective and serve to reinforce the The Wild Bunch displayed in - eral. In other words, we must use anti-gun legislation at the state level multitude of emails, letters, faxes, sight and courage by elevating the the vast power of a combined and co - has been on-going by dedicated and phone calls. The timing how - Second Amendment struggle with a ordinated force that can only come Team SASS members and continues ever must be right for such action to “full-steam ahead” approach. I was from a majority of the states push - via our Team SASS forum. be most effective; i.e., important honored when they asked me to lead ing the federal in the right direction. • SASS now has a coordinated election years wherein politicians in their desire to become more in - Since the initiation of Team and focused ability to place signifi - have the most to gain … or lose … in volved in a formal, organized, and SASS, the Wild Bunch has given us cant political pressure in greater their response to We the People! coordinated way. their unqualified support in all our numbers on politicians at all levels Let there be no doubt that none As I saw it, in order to be most ef - proposed initiatives. To date, the via our Team SASS Calls for Action of the above could have been accom - fective, we needed to focus and coor - bullet points below are a few of the program. plished were it not for the demon - dinate our efforts exclusively on major Team SASS accomplishments •A methodology and source of strable dedication, resolve, tireless Second Amendment issues while ex - as viewed from my foxhole. fund raising in support of Second efforts, and initiative of every active panding our ability to cover a broad •A formal structure has been Amendment efforts via the sales of member of Team SASS. They are front within that designated area of created in which SASS can con - Team SASS Patriot Badges has been the ones who deserve the accolades interest. We must simultaneously tribute in an exceptionally meaning - established and is in full operation. and admiration of every pro-gun, help to inform, educate, focus, and act ful way at both the state and Substantial and regular monthly pro-constitution patriot in America. by resolutely putting effective pres - national levels in the struggle to pre - contributions are flowing to the The dedicated enthusiasm among sure on those areas, organizations, serve our ability to exercise, protect, major pro-gun organizations to as - SASS members for joining in the agencies, and personalities that have and defend America’s Second sist in funding our fight. fight has been raised even further as the most impact on America’s gun Amendment rights. •Additionally, the proposal for a formal, organized structure is now rights. Those areas consist of na - •SASS is now solidly and for - SASS Clubs throughout the United in place around which we can rally tional, state, and local politicians as mally recognized as a full partner by States has been posted in that those and focus our considerable influence well as individual, organizational, the NRA, GOA, SAF, NSSF, and willing clubs conduct SASS Second in support of pro-gun efforts. private, public, and com mercial en - Ruger in support of this fight. As a Amendment Support Matches with Members of Team SASS at all terprises. Consequently, the organi - result of this partnering initiative, a portion of the match fees being do - levels from the Wild Bunch to the zations chosen with which we have SASS is viewed nationally as a val - nated to the pro-gun organization of newest members have indeed earned aligned ourselves have programs and ued and significantly contributing their choice. a respectful salute for their actions. ongoing, full time efforts that cover member of the pro-gun movement •A very successful room-filling, As we all know, however, the struggle all those areas. by these national organizations. openly interactive Team SASS Sem - is a long-term effort if we are to pre - To accomplish our stated mis - •Team SASS has pioneered new inar was held at the 2013 SASS Con - serve, protect, and defend our un - sion, a subordinate yet separate or - ground by constantly advocating a vention. Distinguished guests were alienable right to life and liberty ganization whose objective was to combined, coordinated, and coopera - Mr. Tom King, NRA Board of Direc - sustainable only through the right to focus and synchronize this effort tive effort among these national or - tors and President of the New York keep and bear arms without infringe - along the lines of a decentralized or - ganizations across the spectrum of State Rifle and Pistol Association, ment for us as well as our posterity. ganization was created. We’ve inten - legislative, lobbying, informative, ed - US Grant, SASS #2, and Wild Shot, As I assess our overall situation, tionally structured Team SASS to be ucational, and legal actions. SASS #51. We reviewed accomplish - we have the systems in place and op - decentralized by design. Why? I •A coordinated force of 60,000+ ments, Rules to Remember, and our erational as described above that firmly believe in two driving factors: SASS Members has reinforced the Phase II “Organize and Confront” will enable SASS to make an ex - (1) The people of the several efforts of the NRA, GOA, SAF, NSSF, initiative as outlined below. Mr. tremely effective contribution to this states know their situation and gun and Ruger throughout the United King described the Team SASS ap - fight—a fight as I’m sure we can all climate best … unlike Washington States. An extremely valued force as proach as being the “wave of the fu - agree is most worthy of our efforts, DC who thinks they know what’s viewed by the leadership of those na - ture!” US Grant said he was but it depends on YOU to undertake best for everyone. Gun owners tional organizations to whom I’ve “thrilled” by what the Team has the task ahead. We must remain within the individual states know spoken and/or corresponded. done and what we’re going to do! resolutely persistent—this is a where to apply the heat and overall • The Team SASS Forum was •As we approached the 2014 marathon; not a sprint. effort in order to achieve the most launched and has been in constant election year, Team SASS expanded Steel your nerve, remain faith - promising and effective outcome. operation to facilitate the exchange its efforts by kicking off Phase II of fully resolute, and soldier on …

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