January 2006 the THIRD YEAR IS a CHARM! the Mason Dixon Stampede – the SASS Northeast Regional by Chuckaroo, SASS Life #13080 Photos by Mr
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MercantileSee section our NovemberNovember 2001 2001 CowboyCowboy ChronicleChronicle(starting on PagepagePage 90) 11 ew Y NEW Happy N ear! The Cowboy Chronicle~. The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Shooting Society ® Vol. 19 No. 1 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. January 2006 THE THIRD YEAR IS A CHARM! The Mason Dixon Stampede – The SASS Northeast Regional By Chuckaroo, SASS Life #13080 Photos by Mr. Quigley Photography, Deadlee Headlee, Wild Bill Blackerby, McMate, and Mad Dog Maxwell OW! The little town of See HIGHLIGHTS on page 73 Thurmont, Maryland, only W 20 minutes from the Mason Wayne, Buck Jones, Gabby Hayes, Dixon line, came to life in the true Rocky Lane, Rex Allen, Gene Autry, style of the American Old West and Tom Mix, and Charles Starrett. Cowboy Action Shooting™. With the There were so many to choose from, exception of a few very quick show- that maybe a round two should be in ers before the Thursday side match- order for next year. es, the weather was without a doubt, The excellent stages, done by custom made for the fantasy we were Bull Shoals, SASS #25400, provided about to partake. With sunshine and a taste of those early years in our mid-70’s temperatures, it was a pic- childhood. Memories of watching ture perfect weekend. Over 40 on those Saturday morning shows we site campers, were treated to a huge could not live without came to mind. nighttime skyscape. With an occa- Targets were up close and big. sional shooting star streaking across Stages had movement that did not the sky, it was near impossible to require endurance training; they imagine being somewhere else. flowed easily, and they were simple Also the first ever Northeast to understand. The proof in the stew Manatee makes plenty of smoke at the 2005 SASS Northeast Regional. Regional Mounted Shooting Cham- was 42 clean shooters! Posse’s found It was a pleasure shooting under near-ideal conditions … however all the pionship was held on Saturday. The blackpowder competitors had difficulty shooting the high-number stages themselves ahead of schedule, and new Northeast Regional Lady’s early in the morning. Calm conditions with the sun backlighting the smoke they moved quickly without the feel- champion is Montana Long, SASS created complete whiteouts … with “poppers” sometimes coming out the top ing of being processed. #32713, and the men’s champion is of the smoke! (And, these competitors wouldn’t have had it any other way!) (Continued on page 69) Lightning Streak, SASS #58559. The match theme was “Heroes of e e The B-Westerns.” Each stage high- The history of lighted a B-Western movie star. A THE OLD WEST Cheyenne was real life biography of our heroes was COMES ALIVE AT featured this year included on the facing page to each at Hell on Wheels. of the ten stages. Stars included HELL on WHEELS 2005 Each stage high- Wild Bill Elliott, Roy Rogers, John lighted a famous, The SASS High Plains Regional or infamous, By Hawkeye Sam SASS Life #20180 event from the SASS Cowboy Chronicle turbulent late heyenne, WY Cowboys, Indians, Calvary, 1800s. There was old army forts, Buffalo hunters, old time one stage memori- C railroad trains, stagecoaches, ranches, cat- alizing Tom Horn, which ended by a In This Issue tle, horses, range wars, outlaws, lawman, open hanging where prairies, snow covered mountains … all these things THE MAKING even the Sheriff 32 come to mind when you think about the Old West. OF COWBOYS TV would not pull the handle to open the trap door. A special (See HIGHLIGHTS on pages 70, 71) gallows had to be designed to take care of the deed. by Capt. 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By Tex, SASS #4 what the rules or procedures do or do think that’s wrong. changes, but change the way we play not say (Handbook, pg. 4), the We’ve all seen the results of “tech- the game … no more big dump targets, Governors realized we’ve all collective- nology creep.” This continuous “im- no more large, up close targets, no ly sinned over the past several years. provement” of the equipment has more rifle/pistol targets all in a neat The early modifications to our ruined Fast Draw, PPC, IDPA, and row, no more shotgun assault courses firearms were to level the playing field IPSC. It has completely changed the – in other words, design stages where and make the guns as similar as pos- sport of stockcar racing … no longer there is no benefit to having “tricked Tex, SASS #4 sible. The baffles on the recoil shield of are they racing stock cars – they’re up” firearms. ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~ Colt-style percussion pistols were to “race cars!” One might make the argu- 3) Limit the changes, either from make these guns as reliable as ment, this has been good for the auto- today forward or from some other arbi- he vast majority of the Terri- Remingtons, Old Armies, and Rogers motive industry, but this same creep is trary time (e.g., 12 or 24 months ago) torial Governors attending and Spencers. The initial ’73 short not good for our game. We started out and change the way we play the game. T the Summit are shooting strokes were to make those rifles com- playing an 1870’s game with 1870’s 4) Create some sort of “open” cat- modified firearms … and yet, this parable to the Marlins. And so things technology. Today we find we are play- egory where all competitors with mod- same gathering declared it was time to stood for a number of years. But, ing our game using 2005 technology. ified equipment are relegated … and draw a line in the sand regarding con- recently, after market providers have Technology creep has no place in no overall winner declarations. tinuing modifications. Recognizing gone far beyond this level and are now Cowboy Action Shooting™. It is inap- 5) Some combination of the one of our founding policies was to actively installing modifications that propriate to continue searching for a above. shoot firearms right out of the box make certain guns much more com- “better way” to put lead down range. The Governors have agreed to the (after appropriate tuning and honing petitive … they’ve stepped over the From my personal point of view, establishment of a special committee to make them shoot smoothly and eas- line and are damaging not only our we have several options for drawing to sort things out. The committee’s ily … no one wants to struggle with game, but the business and support of this line in the sand: first task is to understand what their hardware during a match), and other firearms suppliers … they’ve 1) Declare all modifications ille- changes are currently being made to knowing it is a “Spirit of the Game” created an environment where only gal and insist all firearms be shot as our firearms. With that information in infraction to do anything to gain a certain firearms are capable of win- they came out of the box. hand, they plan to do a couple of competitive advantage no matter ning “the big match,” and most of us 2) Do nothing. Allow any and all (Continued on page 14) January 2006 Cowboy Chronicle Page 7 The Cowboy CCONTENTSONTENTS Chronicle 1 ON THE COVER The Mason Dixon Stampede 2005 . Hell on Wheels 2005 . 6 EDITORIAL Governors Draw Line In The Sand! . Editorial Staff 8 NEWS Rex Allen Jr. Invited To Perform In The Peoples Republic Of China . Tex Editor-in-Chief 10-14 LETTERS Door Prizes-A Burden . Race Guns Need Their Own Category . Cat Ballou Editor You Gotta Have Hair!! . Chiz 16 CAT’S CORNER Managing Editor Advertising Director 18 CHIZ BIZ What’s Goin’ On . Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 20 POLITICAL SB357: California’s Guns Into Paperweights Act . Mac Daddy Graphic Design 22-32 ARTICLES My First Cowboy Action ShootingTM Match .