June 2008 WILD WEST MERCANTILE’S WINTER RANGE 2008

MercantileEXCITINGSee section our NovemberNovemberNovember 2001 2001 2001 CowboyCowboyCowboy ChronicleChronicleChronicle(starting on PagepagePagePage 94)111 The Cowboy Chronicle~ The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Shooting Society ® Vol. 21 No. 6 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. June 2008 WILD WEST MERCANTILE’S WINTER RANGE 2008 . SASS National Championship of Cowboy Action Shooting™ . By Parson Swede, SASS #32104 Photographs by Mr. Quigley Photography

hoenix, AZ – What takes HIGHLIGHTS on pages 76, 77 372 donuts, 192 slices of pizza, 148 pieces of fried Cowboy Trap, Skeet, and Sporting P chicken, 18 feet of subway Clays, Plainsman, and the Long sandwiches, 537 bales of hay, 49 Boy Range competition where this year Scouts, 19 porta-johns, a train, a 300 shooters matched their skills fort, a river boat, and five teepees? over some VERY long distances. Oh, and add in 33 cutout animals, On Thursday morning opening 200 steel targets, 37 Arizona ceremonies were held promptly at Territorial Rangers, 2000 man hours 7:00AM. The formalities included a over 4 days, and 14.5 stages. The very moving tribute to those cow- answer is that is what it took to set- boys and cowgirls who are no longer up Wild West Mercantile’s Winter with us capped off with a bagpiper Range 2008. The 17th annual edi- who marched in playing Amazing tion of Winter Range took place Grace. Glad there were plenty of March 5-9 at the Ben Avery Range bandanas around. The normally in Phoenix, Arizona. Oh wow, what mundane recitation of important a time we had!! safety rules was, once again, taken This year the 648 actual main over by a truly unique video piece match shooters hailed from 42 dif- based on the movie The 3 Amigos. ferent states and 4 foreign countries Our Amigos, Trusty Dog, SASS (Australia, Canada, Norway, and The brain-trust behind this successful endeavor is the Arizona Rough Riders, #17263, Blackjack Zak, and Lt. Col. a Board of Directors of hard-working folks dedicated to producing an Sweden). The award for the shooter absolutely top-notch SASS National Championship. Job well done! Scratch answered the heartfelt pleas traveling the furthest went to of some beautiful senoritas in dis- Constable Nelson, SASS #11784, tition shooting stages you have ever Indian encampments, ranches, tress to help them after their village who came all the way from Australia seen. They were fun and challeng- stores, and Cantinas—everything had been taken over by a rather by the most round about and night- ing, and they made you move and you would have encountered in the slovenly and dastardly looking marish route any of us could imag- think, which was one of my personal Ol’ West. These stages moved along group of unsafe baddies led by the ine. I actually think one of his lay- problems, but they were not tricky smartly, and there were very few notorious El Guapo. Hilariously overs was in Beijing where he picked or cutsie. These were the real deal, delays to any posse. written and directed by Brighton up some tickets to the Olympics! all 200 steel targets worth. The action actually began on Belle, SASS #33858, and filmed and There were 12 of the best compe- Blackjack Zak, SASS #26828, Wednesday when approximately 325 edited by EZ Shot, SASS #7567, the designed an outstanding match that shooters took part in four great video captured everyone’s attention had everyone talking. The props warm-up stages utilizing every and left no doubt that safety was SASS Cowboy Chronicle were terrific, including an absolute- opportunity to sharpen their skills, indeed the gospel of the day. ly gorgeous replica of a paddle wheel limber up them smoke wagons and At 8AM the main match began steamer designed and built by the long guns, to say nothing about get- under virtually perfect weather with In This Issue very talented Swiss Kid, SASS ting the kinks out of some long-dis- fast and furious shooting up and #54030, and a near full sized train tance travel. There was a full corral down the line as three different 52 GREAT WESTERN II designed by Lt. Col. Scratch, SASS of side match events including speed waves of shooters began to compete by Capt. George Baylor #23839. There were forts and mines, events, pocket pistol, derringer, and (Continued on page 74)

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6 FROM THE EDITOR Cowboys Need To Stick Together! . . . Editorial Staff 8-21 NEWS New Organization For SASS Members . . . Wild West Arts . . . Tex Editor-in-Chief 16 CAT’S CORNER Costumes Shine At Winter Range ‘08 . . . Cat Ballou Editor 18 COYOTE DROPPINGS Too Many Matches, Too Little Time . . . Coyote Calhoun Managing Editor & Marketing Director 22-25 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . . . Adobe Illustrator 26 POLITICAL Political Victory vs. America’s Future . . . Layout & Design Mac Daddy 28-36 ARTICLES The Roar Of A .45 . . . The Other Bullet . . . Graphic Design Donna Oakley 38-50 GUNS & GEAR What’s The Call? . . . The Wheelwright . . . Advertising Administrator Contributing Writers 52 REVIEWS-PRODUCTS Match Ready Guns (Pt. I) ... Bob Boze Bell, Capt. George Baylor, Col. Dan, Cree Vicar Dave, High Doom In The Andes . . . Little Known Famous People . . . Holy Terror, Inspector, 54, 55 HISTORY Jersey Kid, Joe Fasthorse Harrill, Larsen E. Pettifogger, 56, 57 OUTLAW TRAIL / SASS CONVENTION Sign Up Today! . . . Lucky Bill Thorington, M. Lou Findley, Miss Tabitha, Nubbins Colt, Oracle, Purdy Gear, Seven Ladders, 58-60 MOUNTED The Buffalo Range Riders, Ride Again! . . . Before Gunfight At Tombstone Three Fingers Tequila, Tuolumne Lawman, Whooper Crane, 62, 63 TRAIL MARKER To Be Remembered . . . Wildcat Kate and Johnnie Concho The Cowboy Chronicle is published by The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The 64 PROFILES William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody . . . Single Action Shooting Society. For advertising information and rates, administrative and editorial offices contact: 66-80 ON THE RANGE What’s Goin’ On In Your Town? . . . Chronicle Administrator 23255 La Palma Avenue Bunkhouse Bidness . . . Yorba Linda, California 92887 88, 90 CLUB REPORTS 714-694-1800 FAX: 714-694-1813 94- MERCANTILE Nice SASS Collectibles . . . email: [email protected] http://www.sassnet.com The Cowboy Chronicle (ISSN 15399877) is 101- CLASSIFIED published Monthly by the Single Action Shooting Society, 23255 La Palma Avenue, Yorba Linda, California 92887. Periodicals 104 ADVERTISERS INDEX Postage is Paid at ANAHEIM, CA and addi- tional mailing offices (USPS #020-591). POSTMASTER: Send address changes to 105 SHOOTING SCHEDULES (MONTHLY)-(ANNUAL) The Cowboy Chronicle, 23255 La Palma Avenue, Yorba Linda, California 92887.

107 SASS NEW MEMBER APPLICATION DISCLAIMER - The Single Action Shooting Society does not guarantee, warranty or SASS® Trademarks endorse any product or service advertised in this newspaper. The publisher also does SASS®, Single Action Shooting Society®, “High Ho, Silver!” not guarantee the safety or effectiveness END of TRAIL®, EOT®, of any product or service illustrated. The Future Mounted Shooter, The Cowboy ChronicleTM, distribution of some products/services may Patina, SASS #76840, be illegal in some areas, and we do not Cowboy Action ShootingTM, displays her riding assume responsibility thereof. State and CASTM, talents upon her first local laws must be investigated by the pur- The World Championship of chaser prior to purchase or use or prod- horse. She has been a Cowboy Action ShootingTM, ucts/services. SASS member since she Bow-legged Cowboy Design, and the WARNING: Neither the author nor The was four months old. Rocking Horse Design Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi- Photo submitted by bility for accidents or differing results are all trademarks of grandmother, obtained using reloading data. Variation The Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. Canyon Cowgirl, in handloading techniques, compo- Any use or reproduction of these marks nents, and firearms will make results SASS #31074. without the express written permission vary. Have a competent gunsmith check your firearms before firing. of SASS is strictly prohibited. Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

COWBOYSNEEDTOSTICKTOGETHER!

By Tex, SASS #4

Some areas have few local clubs. has their own ideas, opinions, and ships and bring more people into To participate in a Cowboy Action ways of doing things. worthwhile projects. If your cowboy Shooting™ match, one must drive So, I have my own club, why club chooses to participate in a com- for a few hours in each direction … should I care about the other clubs in munity activity, it’s always wonderful for those folks, playing cowboy takes my area? Well, for lots of reasons. when members of adjacent clubs opt lots of determination and drive (pun By shooting with other clubs, you to “help out” and participate as well! intended!) to play the game. In other learn. You discover there are many Match Schedules areas, there are multiple clubs in ways to host a match. There are Many of our clubs offer annual Tex, SASS #4 close proximity … and yet, often cow- many kinds of stages and props. matches … in fact today, there are so ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~ boys won’t travel to the other clubs Nearly every club has something to many annual matches around the in their area … and that’s not good. offer that’s worth taking back to country, it’s impossible for anyone to owboys are an independent Broad Participation your home club and making it your attend them all. Clubs should take a lot! They don’t want to be Each club is unique. Each club own. It’s a wonderful opportunity to long, hard look at the necessity for C told what to do, where to go, does things differently, and their meet new friends! even doing an annual match. If or how to get the job done. Cowboys matches have their own characteris- It’s also an opportunity to shoot there are several clubs in a single are loyal … they understand “riding tics. Some of these differences are more than once or twice a month … area, is there really a need for half a for the brand” and taking care of the neat and appealing … others are and it’s an opportunity to not having dozen local annual matches? It outfit’s gear, cattle, and pride. And, simply not fun and are unappealing. be “the man” at every match. While would be far better if the clubs coop- our SASS cowboys are no different! Politics sometimes becomes an you may be responsible for running erate and jointly host an annual We have some 500+ Cowboy impediment as well … someone your own club’s match, you can match. There’s less strain on the Action clubs across the country and doesn’t like someone else, and by afford to be “one of the boys” at some- sponsors, there is more help for the around the world. If our cowboys do golly, “I’ll NEVER shoot with those one else’s match … and not get match organizers, and there is the nothing else, they will regularly guys!” Politics nearly always has a burnt-out having to always make likelihood of more cowboys attend- shoot with and support activities of bad connotation, but it doesn’t have sure the shooters are having a fresh, ing! And, the right thing for the their home club. And, that’s good. to be … politics is simply people entertaining time. other clubs in the local area to do is But, it’s not enough. dealing with people … and everyone It’s also a way to build relation- (Continued on page 84) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 7

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NEW ORGANIZATION FOR SASS MEMBERS

By Seven Ladders, SASS #75152

ne thing SASS members have Association and the Western ers, authors, and researchers you ship is a chance to go to the annual Oin common is an interest in the Outlaw-Lawmen Association— have come to respect, but anyone Wild West History Roundup, held lawmen and gunfighters of the Old merged on January 1, 2008 to bet- interested in the Wild West is each July in a historically signifi- West—the people who actually ter study, research, present, and encouraged to be a member of the cant town or city. This year’s used the pistols, rifles, and shot- interest those who want to know WWHA. In fact, the majority of the Roundup—featuring presentations guns of the era on an everyday more about the Old West. The new, WWHA’s members, both inside and by 14 great speakers—will be held basis. One way to learn more about larger organization is called the outside the United States, are Wild at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Tulsa, the Old West has been to read what Wild West History Association, West buffs that enjoy learning how Oklahoma July 16-19, 2008. Every books there are. Another is to WWHA. This merger creates what it really was in the Wild West. Roundup will include presentations research on your own—a difficult, is now the premier Wild West histo- Benefits of membership include by prominent historians, a day-long expensive, and time-consuming ry organization in the world. six WWHA Journals annually (pub- field trip, and a full-dress Old West project, believe me. A third way is The Wild West History Asso- lished bimonthly) containing the costume banquet and award cere- less well known—you could join a ciation is a dynamic new organiza- latest research, informative arti- mony. The 2009 Roundup will be small, select group of historians, tion, shaped by members who love cles, authentic photographs, and held in San Antonio, Texas. writers, researchers, and enthusi- the history and lore of the Wild book reviews—as well as a For more information on this asts like yourself, attend confer- West. Dedicated to the truth be- Newsletter devoted to ongoing exciting new group, check out its ences, meet and talk with the best hind the legends, the organization’s events and news. In addition, website: historians around, go on field trips goal is to give you an opportunity to members receive six Saddlebag http://www.wildwesthistory.org to interesting historical places, and learn, share what you know, and newsletters annually updating you Or, for information on member- keep abreast of the latest research enjoy the fellowship of others with on WWHA activities, its members, ship, write membership c/o, Ms. and writing with newsletters and similar interests. When WWHA and other Old West related events. Karen Holliday Tanner, 2308 journals. members get together, there is no These publications are designed to Willow Glen Road, Fallbrook, CA Two of the best known groups, lull in the conversation! showcase the latest research on the 92028, AZ 85743. Be sure to men- NOLA and WOLA—the National Members include many of the frontier West. tion SASS. Outlaw and Lawmen Historical renowned historians, screenwrit- Another advantage to member- June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 9 Page 10 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

LIVING HISTORY COMES ALIVE AT THE OLD WEST FESTIVAL First festival of its kind in Ohio will be located near Cincinnati

INCINNATI, OH – Long gone tainment Awards such as Mack “Little Annie Oakley Sure Shot Trick • Old West games, pony and cov- Care the days of Wyatt Earp, West, Dan Varner Band, Comet Shooting Show” twice daily, featur- ered wagon rides, and an old time when shootouts were a daily occur- Bluegrass All Stars, and the ing whip cracking, roping, and gun photo parlor and candy shop. rence and covered wagons headed Rumpke Mountain Boys. spinning. • Sancho, an enormous longhorn west in search of fortune. Those For a unique entertainment The finest grub around will also steer, will be available for photos. days will return this spring at the experience, Madam Gigi’s Outra- be available at the Old West The Old West Festival runs Old West Festival, Saturdays and geous Can Can Dancers can be found Festival, including many unique food every Saturday and Sunday from Sundays from May 24th through in the Long Branch Saloon. Madam offerings you won’t see at other area May 24th through June 15th, 2008 June 15th, 2008. The festival, the Gigi’s troupe was formed in Dayton festivals. Chandler Warner, of from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission first of its kind in Ohio, will be set in and is one of only a handful of Can Chandler’s Restaurant in Maysville, is $10 for adults, $6 for children (5- a permanent “town” just 30 miles Can troupes in the country. They KY, will be on-hand to create steak 12), and kids under 5 are free. east of downtown Cincinnati. It will will perform four times daily at this sandwiches, pork chop sandwiches, Parking is free. Visit www.oldwest- be built to look like Dodge City, circa year’s Old West Festival. fish dinners, secret recipe pulled festival.com for more information. 1878, to celebrate the Old West. Starting at high noon, the fun pork, chicken and beef brisket, and The eight-day festival will fea- and authentic cowboys of the Big much more. ture period and contemporary Irons Rangers, part of the Single Other attractions during the fes- VISIT THE SASS music, including some of the area’s Action Shooting Society, will stage tival include: best bluegrass and country artists. gunfight reenactments four times • Local artisans, who will be avail- WEB SITE AT This includes both nominees and daily. Annie Oakley and Company, able to make and sell their period WWW.SASSNET.COM winners of the Cincinnati Enter- starring Juanita Daley, performs the and themed wares to patrons. June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 11 Page 12 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

. WILD WEST ARTS . By Jersey Kid, SASS #287

Arts. This is just the beginning of gun handling, rope spinning, and the activities be conducted in an our wish to encourage the safe prac- like taught at any of the venues – extremely safe environment. tice of preserving and competing in especially at the Las Vegas SASS While the initial thoughts were those skills as seen in “Bronco Billy” Convention. The Cowboy Chronicle will around the Wild West and competi- or such Wild West Shows as Buffalo welcome articles and provide a tive western events, this forum Bill, the 101 Ranch, or Pawnee Bill’s monthly column dedicated to the arts. lends itself to all Western related of yesteryear. Some of our thoughts We continue our staunch sup- arts, including cowboy art, leather are as follows: port of safety, and as we branch out and saddle making, horsehair hitch- We will either establish a into these new areas, it will be our ing, and so forth … so have fun with Territorial Governor for each disci- utmost priority to ensure all these it! More to follow soon. pline (fancy gun handling, ropes, knife throwing, etc.) to provide guidance and counsel, or we will MICHIGAN RATTLER CORRECTION create an advisory board similar to what we have in place for SASS I was the lucky recipient of an article in the April issue (“Michigan Jersey Kid, Mounted Shooting. Rattler”) by our own Territorial Governor, Cree Vicar Dave, a con- SASS #287 The rules under which competi- tributing writer. I cannot thank him enough for the surprise bestowed tions will be held will be vetted and upon me, and do not have the heart to tell him he got my phone num- am very pleased to announce established. END of TRAIL or The ber wrong, but listed my fax instead. My correct phone number is ISASS has wholeheartedly em- SASS Convention could be set up to (616) 452- 8727. Thank you for being what you are - the link to cow- braced the inclusion of the Wild West “co-host” an annual Wild West Arts boys all over the globe. Arts as part of our wonderful organ- competition, and it is possible the ization, and we have already estab- SASS Regionals will offer them as well. lished a new forum on the SASS Additionally, we anticipate an / Wire dedicated to the Wild West opportunity to have classes on fancy June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 13 Page 14 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

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COSTUMES SHINE AT WINTER RANGE ‘08

By Pea Patch, SASS #23840 . Photography by Mr. Quigley Photography . Cat Ballou, SASS #55 ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~

ll of the sunshine and Saturday evening brought out Best Dressed B-Western Male: Best Dressed Lady Sutler: warm weather at Winter the shooters in their best attire. We 1st Clearwater Kid, SASS #8886 1st Cactus Concha, SASS #5549 A Range 2008 brought out had fancy dressed ladies, military 2nd Copperhead Joe Black, 2nd Hummingbird Teri, all the best dressed cow- heroes, B-western cowboys and cow- SASS #39162 SASS #51160 boys and cowgirls. Competition was girls, and even some soiled doves. 3rd Solomon Star, SASS #208 high, not only in shooting, but in also There were feathers, bustles, hoop Thanks again to all our great in costuming. As the judges walked skirts, fancy hats, tall hats, spurs, Best Dressed B-Western Lady: judges: Border Agent; Mama Quigley, the shooting line everyday, they were and even a jangle or two. It was 1st Pegge Lu, SASS #22577 SASS #40760; Skinny, SASS #7361; amazed at the different costumes another difficult task for the judges, Emma Starr, SASS #3517; and Rye seen, from leather coats trimmed but they managed to choose the fol- Best Dressed Military: Creek Roberts, SASS #18503; and with fringe and conchos to polka dot lowing winners: 1st Capt. George Baylor, Pea Patch. swimsuits and fancy dresses. The Best Dressed Lady: SASS #24287 (Continued on next page) judges had a difficult task choosing 1st Texas Flower, SASS #43753 2nd Tenna, SASS #35922 the winners. After much delibera- 2nd Miss Chif Laura, tion, the following contestants placed SASS #63384 in the working costume categories: 3rd Mrs. Allthetime, Best Working Lady: SASS #79243 Working Costume Winners 1st Darn It Darr, SASS #2799 2nd Pinto Annie, SASS #27966 Best Dressed Gentleman: 3rd Gale Force, SASS #50124 1st Slackjaw Jack, SASS #76378

Best Working Male: Best Dressed Couple: 1st Quicksilver Slim, 1st Brazoria John, SASS #32871 SASS #39254, and 2nd Sundown, SASS #285 Green Eyed Gal, 3rd Dusty Coyote, SASS #19923 SASS #52442 2nd High Steppin, SASS #23821, Best Working Junior Girl: and I. P. Lant Em, SASS #9637 1st Dancing Jo, SASS #58682 3rd Edward R.S. Canby, 2nd Dancin Spurs, SASS #68115 SASS #59971, and 3rd Itty Bitty, SASS #10180 Doc Barium, SASS #59972

Best Working Junior Boy: Best Dressed Saloon Girl: 1st Dead Shot Dylan, 1st Daisy Desperado, SASS #76005 SASS #74869 2nd Tigg, SASS #71653 2nd Sarah Donlan 3rd Dust Devil Wyatt, 3rd Dancing Jo, SASS #58682 SASS #72483 Best Dressed Junior Girl: 1st Smokey Sam, SASS #79426 2nd Mucho Trouble, SASS #56350 3rd Sugar Cookie, SASS #71327

Best Dressed Junior Boy: 1st Dead Shot Dylan, SASS #76005 2nd Augustus Briscoe, SASS #62101 June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 17 Best Dressed Costume Winners Page 18 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 Coyote With Coyote Calhoun Droppings TOO MANY MATCHES, TOOLITTLETIME… By Coyote Calhoun, SASS #201

the cost of matches? Maybe it is time lower cost match. The potential stage Wild Bunch Match. Then to take a hard look at how we run answers are still mere speculation, beginning Thursday, the 14th, and matches and make some changes. but we have decided to “think out- going through Saturday, the 16th, All SASS matches use volunteer side the box.” I hate that cliché. I there will be an 18-stage main match. Coyote Calhoun, SASS #201 labor. If match directors had to pay don’t think there is a box. But, nev- Yep, 18 stages, shot six per day! The for their labor force, the cost of ertheless, we have decided to make a SASS Shooting Gallery and .22 cal- matches would be so high most could change in the format of the SASS iber range will be open for “just plink- oday you can go to an annual not afford to attend. Another big Four Corners Regional, Outlaw ing.” On the mounted side, beginning match just about every week- cost is the cost of awards. If a match Trail. In some ways we are doing on Friday, the 15th, there will be a T end, if you are willing to director offers all the thirty or so new things, and in other ways we are two-stage warm-up match. Then, on drive a little. But, also in this day SASS categories and goes five to ten going back to basics. Will these Saturday and Sunday there will be a and time driving has become more deep, the cost can be exorbitant. So changes be the cure-all? I’m not six-stage triple points main match. and more expensive. What’s a shoot- what is the answer? Do we cut sure, but I think they’re worth a try. Each day the activities will end er to do? What’s a Match Director to awards? Do we cut entertainment? Here’s what we’re going to do. with a potluck and a community grill do? We are hearing more and more The Wild Bunch has considered The Wah-Makers Outlaw Trail is followed by one of the following: 1) from match directors whose atten- these questions and others as to the scheduled for August 13th – 15th at Coyote Calhoun’s Trivia Contest, back dance is down, and most are con- causes of low attendance and the Founders Ranch. Beginning by popular demand. (You need to tributing it to the rising price of fuel. escalating prices. Cutting entertain- Wednesday, August 13th on the know your western movie trivia.) 2) So, how do you get attendance up ment cost, cutting awards cost, and Action Shooting side, there will be a Popcorn and a Movie, we will let the amid rising gas prices? Can we lower cutting some overhead can lead to a six-stage warm-up match and a six- (Continued on page 25) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 19 Page 20 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 21

SKINNY, work for Gemstone Publications in Pennsylvania, and one of my sister Icompanies is Hake’s Americana and Collectibles auction house. Hake’s just recently acquired an SASS 7361, original Roy Rogers outfit (slacks, # coat, hat, boots) to auction off, and they asked if I would model it for them for their catalog. Of course, I said I would, and I thought you might like to see a photo. I’m pleased to MODELS AN say Roy was almost exactly my size. We even have the same hat size! The shirt and bolo tie are mine. The rifle is a Daisy official Roy Rogers BB gun, also in the auction. ORIGINAL This fabulous original Roy Rogers outfit is going to be in Hake’s June catalog, which readers can get free by calling 866-404-9800, ext. 1635 (Sarah Snyder). The outfit is expected to go for about ROY ROGERS $20,000. OUTFIT

2 Holsters and Belt $395 Holster Only $150 Belt only $125 Page 22 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

MY RESPONSE TO ing. People around the world are Don’t matter to me; I ain’t that fast THANKS, interested in Cowboy Action anyway. “WHERE IS OUR Shooting™ and the American West. I shoot four calibers: .32, .38 COLONEL DAN! GAME HEADING?” The proliferation of guns and spl., .44-40, and .45 Colt, and it just Thank you Colonel Dan for your clothes is almost mind-boggling. depends on how I feel on whatever great articles in The Cowboy Chronicle. Tex, I hafta agree with you con- Businesses are thriving, dealing in day it is that determines which one Your views really do reflect my out- cerning your thoughts on Cowboy nothing but cowboy and Old West I shoot – usually .45 and full power. look on things. I’m grateful to you Action Shooting™ and where is the stuff. Many of the big gun manufac- Also, I have a pair of Cimarron 1872 for sounding off on the issues that game heading. I think the game turers are producing all manner of open top .44 Russians. Personally, I are important to Americans today. has gone way too far what with all cowboy guns – unheard of ten years don’t load any wimp loads. It’s nice to know there is a voice out the available categories and the ago. Several dealers here in Fort A few shooters have gotten real- there that reflects my concerns, my stuff available to shooters nowa- Worth and Tarrant County have ly good at Cowboy Action attitude, and my values. days. When I started in 1995, a lot been in business for over ten years Shooting™ and are now selling Paniolo Cowboy, SASS #75875 of equipment and guns were avail- and going strong. I don’t how many their own line of guns and equip- Glencoe, CA. able, but not to the extent they are clubs are within a hundred mile ment, offering shootin’ schools and now. You either bought a Ruger, radius, but it is a bunch of ‘em. And training, or lending their names to EMF, Cimarron, or Colt along with that’s good. various products. And that’s good, GIVE TO THE an 1873 of some sort or a Rossi, and But … I agree if a body has to too. I have shot with several of a Stoeger side by side or an old ‘97, ask is “this and such legal,” it likely them in the past, and every one of SASS SCHOLARSHIP and that was about it. I don’t think ain’t. If it don’t look cowboy, maybe ‘em was a really nice person. Good the Winchester ‘94’s were suitable it ain’t right. But, we have to for them. FOUNDATION then, although ‘92’s were available remember not everyone in the Old Nevertheless, I think a shooter (A non-profit, tax-deductable charity) at a more or less reasonable cost, West was a cowboy. I shoot with a just has to think about what is but no more. You could slick up yer trainman, a bartender, a banker, a called the “cowboy way.” I don’t MAKE own guns or get someone close to do couple preachers, a store keeper, hear that much anymore, but that’s it for you, but most of ‘em were fair- what looks like a buffalo hunter, what I go by. We have a little skin- ly OK out of the box, except the some soldiers, and yeah, some cow- ny rulebook, and I’d like to keep it THE Colts. Their trigger pull was like boys. Also, lotsa ladies. Some shoot that way. rubbin’ rocks together. black; most shoot smokeless. I don’t Sgt. Salt, Now we have nearly 80,000 know many who shoot those wimp SASS Life #20976 DIFFERENCE! members and evidently still grow- loads, but we have a few who do. Bedford, TX June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 23 SASS SHOOTERS“SPECIALS” LIMITED QUANTITIES WHILE THEY LAST

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THANKS, SASS, I SHOOT A couple of situations are having an adverse effect on our sport – the FOR THE GREAT COWBOY ACTION high cost of gasoline and the high WESTERN! TO HAVE FUN! cost of ammo, especially the high By Lagrimos, SASS #72187 I enjoyed the thoughts in the cost of lead. I’m on a fixed income, so I try to stick to the matches closer to March ‘08 The Cowboy Chronicle, home to keep down the cost of gas. I am the recipient of the random “Where Is Our Game Heading?” I In early 2007, I could get good cast drawing held at the SASS Con- don’t really care how much someone bullets for my .357 for $30 a thou- vention in Las Vegas on December spends on mods or what mods they sand. Today, if I can find them, these 9, 2007. Because of the drawing, I make. I shoot Cowboy Action to have same bullets are about $50-$55 a am now the proud owner of one fun and enjoy the outdoors. thousand. I could get a box of 12 EMF Great Western .45 revolver, “a If my pard wants to spend $2500 gauge #8’s for $3.48, but now these damn fine firearm.” This letter, on a hot-rod Winchester ‘73, so be it. shells are $5.48. I can’t afford to though a little late, is to thank I’m happy with my Marlin because the practice or shoot! SASS for this honor. only person I’m shooting against is – My shooting partner is usually ME! Shooting clean is the best prize I Johnny Jump Up, SASS #10725 my fifteen-year-old grandson, Che- can receive because I don’t do it often. Macon, GA rokee Chance, SASS #72189. We shoot with the Dry Gulch Despe- radoes in Milton Freewater, Oregon. For AD Rates Cherokee Chance is a good shot, and I am a miserable shot, but we have a ~ DONNA ~ (EXT. 118) bunch of fun. When Chance thought about going along with me, he, like most kids, looked up SASS on the GIVE TO THE Internet. He told my wife, I appreciate the gun, appreciate SASS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION SASS, appreciate “Gramma, I found this on the com- The Cowboy (A non-profit, tax-deductable charity) puter, and you should see the clothes Chronicle, and appreciate the fun they wear. They all dress like we’re having shooting as a family. MAKE THE DIFFERENCE! Grampa does every day!” Thank you again. June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 25

TEX HITS IT PAYS TO RENEW THE TARGET YOUR SASS Tex’s editorial “Categories – MEMBERSHIP EARLY! Time for A Change” in the April 2008 In reading my much-anticipated hit the target dead Cowboy Chronicle Cowboy Chronicle several months ago, I center. I agree whole-heartedly with saw an ad that proclaimed by renew- what he is talking about. Many who ing my membership in advance of its are active in our sport didn’t get due date I would be entered in a involved with Cowboy Action until drawing for a chance to win a after retirement – some because of firearm. I sent in my renewal with- work or family situations or, in my out any real hope of winning (I’m case, I was over 60 years old before generally not that lucky). Recently, I even hearing about SASS. came home from work, and my wife I like the idea of having age cate- told me there was a message on my gories in all the basic categories right answering machine to call SASS. to the top, including Silver Senior Enough time had elapsed since I and Elder Statesman. If there is not sent my renewal that I wondered enough in a certain category, they can why SASS was calling my home … I combine them as Tex suggests. imagined a solicitation of some sort. The trophies also need to be I was very pleasantly surprised to addressed. In the State matches find my name was pulled in the there is the redundancy of having drawing for a firearm! the category winners and then the I want everyone to know how State Champ of each category. The proud I am to be a member of such a cost has also gotten out of hand. great organization like SASS, and Wood or plastic awards tell the story my nickel plated Stoeger coach gun just as well as bronze. looks pretty darn good hanging over Thanks again for the article. I the desk in my Pennsylvania home. hope the idea doesn’t sit in a commit- I’m well armed in case any highway- tee ‘till it can vote. men show up unannounced with bad Cree Vicar Dave, SASS #49907 intentions. I was recently introduced Sterling, MI to my first “meet and greet” by Oracle Jones and the many fine folks GRAMMAR AND THE at the Jefferson Rifle Club, Inc. in Jefferson, PA. COWBOY CHRONICLE Thank you so much for being a I recently received my first edition “class” organization. I’m proud to be of The Cowboy Chronicle, and I’m flabber- a member! gasted! Never have I seen a shooting Wyatt Shane McCall, publication so devoid of grammatical SASS #74673 infractions. I’ve just about digested York, PA everything in the April issue, and for a spankin’ new SASS member, it’s just the ticket: helpful tips, good graphics, TOO MANY MATCHES, clear and readable type, and – thank TOO LITTLE TIME . . . heaven – a real sense of humor. (Continued from page 18) Recent retirement from 45 years crowd choose between some classics as a newspaper reporter and editor such as Silverado, Tombstone, and hasn’t dimmed my interest in good, more. 3) Our very own version of “Are grammatical, properly punctuated you smarter than a 5th grade writing. Oh shucks, I’d have tossed in Cowboy?” I am not sure how smart a a hyphen here and there, or moved the fifth grade cowboy is, but we’re going occasional comma, but the paper is to find out! Also, we may even have a clearly well edited. campfire if the weather and law Over the years I’ve read tons of allows. The awards for the Action gun/shooting books and magazines, Shooters will be on Saturday night and some even written by Cowboy Action the awards for the Mounted Shooters luminaries, and about 90 percent of ‘em will be after the match on Sunday. are so poorly written and edited it’s I did forget to mention one thing, tough to figure out why a publishing the price. For Action Shooters and company would have anything to do spouses the price is $50, and the with them. Grammar, spelling, and mounted price is $75. The difference punctuation are the algebra, calculus, is the cost of blanks for the Mounted and trigonometry of language. If it Shooters. The cost of warm-up ain’t right, it ain’t right, and if it ain’t matches is reduced, and there is no right, it don’t communicate; it misleads. cost to camp. There is an ad in this Good work folks. I’m impressed. month’s Cowboy Chronicle or you can go The Poacher, SASS #79548 online and register on the web site at Salt Lake City, UT www.sassnet.com. Page 26 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

POLITICAL VICTORY VS. AMERICA’S FUTURE

By Colonel Dan, SASS Life #24025

band wagon when he has virtually dangerously inferior leadership, so the traditional conservative line is no credible substance to back up his be it. Just don’t think the best what attracts many of those who slick rhetoric of “change” and choice for political victory also really can’t stand the thought of Colonel Dan, “hope?” It can be summed up in one means the best choice for America. either Obama or Clinton in the oval SASS Life #24025 word—Victory. In the category of who would be best office. Hillary had the highest nega- McCain, for all his counter-con- for our country, the only selection tives of any candidate in memory ave you noticed how victory is servative maneuvers over the years that now makes sense to me is that going into a presidential election, Hfar more important in today’s has unfortunately been voted ‘most unelectable guy—none of the above. and Obama had the highest level of political arena than real concern for likely to succeed’ in the class of 2008 Why do you say McCain’s the dangerously liberal naivety and selecting candidates that will best if what you’re interested in is a GOP best chance for the GOP Colonel? down right deceit I’ve ever seen in serve America’s future? Did you see victory. Obama, despite his many Strange as it seems, those charac- any candidate … and for all how many within the Republican radical, America hating associates teristics that alienated him to patri- Barack’s campaign compost about establishment quickly fell in line for and lack of solid credentials leads otic conservatives, many of whom being the candidate of change, John McCain even after he strayed an emotional tidal wave within his are now threatening to stay home McCain’s prospects with independ- so often from their ranks by aligning “following.” The Democrats are this year, are the same qualities ents are better than Obama’s! himself with the likes of Ted choosing phony form over solid sub- that attract so many needed inde- Bottom line—neither Democrat Kennedy and Russ Feingold? And stance for the same reason—Victory. pendents and cross-over Democrats, swells folks with confidence, so vot- have you seen how many leading If winning politically for these bozos giving the GOP their best shot in ers may turn to McCain as has sadly Democrats jumped on the Barack means America suffers as a result of November. McCain’s straying from (Continued on next page) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 27

(Continued from previous page) young and exciting, while Hillary is cal victory, then holding your nose they want to shovel on us. become routine in presidential elec- old and passé. As of this writing, do and voting for the least dangerous Two closing thoughts—I realize tions—the lesser of the evils. I count her out? Not by a long shot. candidate gives you the best shot to conservative prospects seem dismal As for Obama, he’s simply play- She’s known to do most anything in achieve that goal even though you this election, but our Forefathers’ ing the role of pied piper to millions satisfying her ambitions. I’m sure may feel dirty in the morning for prospects also looked mighty dim of disillusioned and deluded, but the Clintons feel certain they can having prostituted yourself. If, how- years before that final victory at “enlightened,” voters that say they clean up the mess later … after she ever, you’re interested in what’s best Yorktown. Secondly, I fully expect to want to see “change” in Washington. has that brass ring of power firmly for America’s future, concentrate on receive a ton of heat-mail from die- The desire for this undefined change in hand. electing the most traditionally con- hard McCain, Obama, and Hillary among Obama’s throng is apparent- It’s clear to me none of the three servative Congress possible at this fans over this raucous rambling, but ly preferable to a radically liberal leading candidates and neither of point so as to politically rein in the so be it. I’ll happily answer ‘em all! executive branch that will come the two major parties gives a tin- new President as best we can over Take heart and soldier on my friends with his victory, but so be it. ker’s damn about the Constitution the next four years. Finally, be … Just the view from my saddle. What about Hillary? We know to which they’ve all sworn an oath to ready and willing to apply unrelent- Contact Colonel Dan: Hillary’s history far too well, start- uphold. From the squelching of free ing and extreme heat to their politi- [email protected] ing with her birth in 1947 when she speech via McCain-Feingold, failure cal backsides so they don’t see this Article Archives: was “named after Sir Edmond to provide for the common defense election as a free pass for anything http://mddall.com/sbss/SBSShome.htm Hillary” [her claim] … strangely by leaving our borders totally unse- enough, 1947 was long before any- cured, and then proposing amnesty one ever even heard of Sir Edmond for the invaders, exceeding their … and it’s been a hill of smoke and enumerated powers as defined by deception ever since, but so be it. the Constitution with programs And, why you may ask are so many both existing and promised, as well Clinton supporters abandoning her as departments not outlined there- during what was to be “the grand in, to surrendering American sover- coronation?” I think it’s seen as pay eignty to Mexico and the United back for those times Bill and Hillary Nations in many ways, to undermin- stepped on people climbing the polit- ing our soldiers in combat and down ical ladder. When you lead by fear right hatred for America in some and intimidation, sooner or later cases, none of the three come close to your followers will rebel. The passing the common sense test. Clintons are now seeing that hard So what IS a voter to do? Well, reality unfold. Besides, Obama is if you’re interested ONLY in politi- VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT WWW.SASSNET.COM Page 28 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

CHINESE IMMIGRANTS HELPED BUILD RAILROAD IN EL PASO

By Three Fingers Tequila, SASS #61260

road, the Chinese started settling in were accused of raising prices and giv- applications for residency. El Paso in larger numbers. Chinese ing mediocre service, and local newspa- In 1894, The Gresham-Yang women were scarce in Chinatown, pers went as far as to ask for reforms Treaty softened the exclusion laws a however. Only two Chinese women against the Chinese laundry owners. bit by allowing laborers to return to were living in El Paso in 1883. Like their counterparts in the United States if they left for a Three Fingers Tequila, The laborers who remained in El California, El Pasos Chinese realized visit, providing they had wives, chil- SASS #61260 Paso formed the basis of the El Paso their community did not accept them dren, or parents living in America, or Chinese colony. All over the U.S. either. The immigration of Chinese property or debts owed them of at n the 1880’s, El Paso was known as Chinatowns developed wherever a into the United States was a highly least $1,000. And when China Ithe Chinese Mecca of the Southwest. large number of Chinese congregated. contested issue. With the people of El denounced this treaty in 1904, Today, only about 2,000 people of Asian El Paso’s Chinatown was located Paso and the rest of the country grow- Congress extended exclusion indefi- descent live here. Historians have long downtown from St. Louis Street (later ing tired of this problem, the govern- nitely. Not until 1943, when China known Chinese labor built much of the Mills Street) south of Fourth Street, ment decided to act. became an American ally during intercontinental railroad in America, Stanton to El Paso and south of On May 6, 1882, Congress forbade World War II did Congress finally including the links in El Paso. Overland Street. In her 1972 study of further immigration of Chinese labor- repeal the exclusion law, and the The discovery of gold in California El Paso’s Chinese population, Nancy ers for 10 years. The Chinese Ex- Chinese came under general immigra- was more than likely the biggest fac- Farrar says Chinatown served as a clusion Act ended America’s “open tion laws. tor that led the Chinese to come to the place of spiritual refuge, for it was door” policy and began discriminatory The Chinese Exclusion Act en- United States. Because hard labor there the Chinese could hear their distinctions based on race and nation- couraged the smuggling of Chinese was needed for mining, young men native language and practice their al origin. Those Chinese caught enter- aliens across the border between were the ones who usually migrated. native customs. ing the country illegally were quickly Juárez and El Paso. An “underground They wanted to make a fortune and The Chinese operated laundries deported. The law exempted those railroad” began, a well-organized sys- take it back to their families. and restaurants, worked as house ser- Chinese laborers already living in the tem that allowed illegal entry into El But, the Chinese were to suffer vants, cooks, waiters, gardeners, and country and Chinese who were not Paso. After their arrival in Juárez, difficulties unknown to the Americans vegetable growers. A few kept work- laborers, but the law forbade their Chinese aliens hid in homes there and who were also looking for gold. They ing for Southern Pacific, cleaning naturalization. waited patiently. Language schools were subjected to hatred, prejudice, trains. Some Chinese became proper- On October 1, 1888, the Scott Act were organized in Juárez to teach the and violence in California, and leaving ty owners, exceeding their earlier prohibited the return of any Chinese Chinese English. Once smuggled into the state was one way to escape their goals of simply making enough money laborer who left the U.S., punishing as El Paso, they could speak as if they harsh environment. They would next to get by and send home. They did many as 20,000 Chinese who had gone had lived here for some time. find work on the railroads in the West, this not only by taking jobs that other back to visit their families. The Geary According to Farrar, immigration especially Texas. men did not want, but also by taking Act, passed in 1892, added ten more officials even believed tunnels with More than 1,200 Chinese laborers positions formerly held by women, years to the Exclusion Act of 1882 and walls two feet thick and ceilings made helped build the Southern Pacific especially Mexican women, such as required those Chinese laborers of railroad iron actually extended Railroad from Los Angeles to El Paso, laundry. already in the country to acquire a under the Rio Grande to serve as completed in May 1881. When the job Farrar says all 18 laundries in El certificate of residence within one entryways for illegal Chinese. When was done, about 300 Chinese decided Paso in 1889 were owned and operated year. A September 1895 Herald-Post the right time came, they crossed the to stay in El Paso. Most were married by the Chinese. This monopoly created article entitled “Notice to Chinamen” border into El Paso. with families to support back home. tension between the Chinese and advised the city’s Chinese that an Specially designed houses with With the completion of the early rail- Mexican populations. The Chinese immigration officer would receive (Continued on next page) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 29

(Continued from previous page) a certain “Chinese den of iniquity” operation. The U.S. Immigration Ser- and silver coins for good luck to each attic rooms and underground passages than Chinese. And, an unknown num- vice increased its surveillance along person at the funeral. The ceremony were built. Farrar says even floors ber of illegal migrants were brought the border, making it more difficult for lasted only about 15 minutes, and the contained secret compartments where through what was called an “under- Chinese to cross into El Paso. Although coffin was then banked with food. a man could lie down and hide. She ground railway”—but one that led to historians debate the exact date of the Martinello notes one of the many men writes in her study that some build- only limited freedom. demise of El Paso’s Chinatown, they buried in Concordia is Sam Hing, ings located on South Oregon Street Much easier to observe, living con- agree it disappeared in the first half of father of the first Chinese child born were linked with underground tunnels ditions were poor. In 1893, a traveler the twentieth century. in Texas. in order for the Chinese to move observed that “surrounding the The Chinese in Mexico eventually Today, El Paso’s multicultural pop- around from one place to another. American city are hundreds—yes, I helped the United States after smug- ulation is responsible for much of the Historian W. H. Timmons writes it should say thousands of adobe houses gling activities had stopped. General city’s uniqueness. The Chinese make was believed all the Chinese who lived with just one, or at the outside—two, John J. “Black Jack” Pershing had up a small but notable percentage of El in El Paso supported this illegal activ- rooms, all of them one story high, been sent to Mexico to capture Pancho Paso’s business and professional ity. Mar Chen, owner of the Eastern inhabited by Mexicans, Negroes, and Villa after his raid on Colombus, New groups. Their customs and food remain Grill, was accused of supporting Chinamen.” Mexico on March 9, 1916. While the part of a culture representing the smuggling. Another businessman Prejudice, especially against ille- Mexicans refused to help Pershing, many peoples who helped develop El named Lo Kay, who owned and ran gal immigrants, was high. Certainly many Chinese living in Mexico did so. Paso in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Kay, Doc Sing, and Company, helped on the West Coast, small numbers of They supplied his troops with ciga- Works Cited: smuggle 18 Chinese aliens before Chinese diplomats, businessmen, stu- rettes and candy and cooking and John A. Peterson and Mark D. Willis, being caught. dents, and the occasional visitor were laundry services. The Union Plaza Downtown El Paso A New Mexico State University admitted, but the stereotype Marian Martinello writes that the Development Archaeological Project: study states that for protection as well remained. In 1917, T. K. Fong, Consul Chinese even helped fight one battle Overview, Inventory, and Recom- as social and economic support, tradi- General of China (based in San against members of the Villistas. Villa mendations (El Paso, TX, 1998) tional Chinese associations called Francisco) came to El Paso, where he swore to hang every “Chino” in north- Nancy Farrar, The Chinese in El Paso “tongs” formed and confined them- met and spoke to many Chinese. Also ern Mexico. When General Pershing (El Paso, TX, 1972) selves to Chinatown. The overseas visiting often in Juárez, Fong made returned to El Paso, he brought 537 Edward Staski, Beneath the Border branch of the revolutionary Triad one unfortunate border crossing— Chinese with him, even though the City: Urban Archaeology in Down- Society (the Chee Kung Tong) became walking because of a delay in street- Exclusion Act was still in effect. town El Paso (Las Cruces, NM, the main institution of the El Paso car service—and without his usual Congress granted a special exception 1984) Chinese community, with almost half translator. In spite of his formal busi- for these Chinese to enter the country. Edward Staski, Beneath the Border of its population belonging to the ness suit, and probably because of his Many things led the Chinese to City: The Overseas Chinese in El brotherhood. Faced with racial hostil- reply in Chinese to a border guard, leave El Paso. The laws that were Paso (Las Cruces, NM, 1985) ity, the Chinese became more and Consul Fong was hustled to the police passed against immigration altered W.H. Timmons, El Paso: A more independent. By the end of the station as an illegal immigrant. Fong the flow of Chinese into El Paso. Borderlands History (El Paso, TX, 19th century, Mar Wing Kee, a café was quickly identified and eventually Steam laundries replaced the Chinese 1990) owner was the unofficial, but recog- pacified. The United States State hand laundries. Gambling finally Institute of Texan Culture. The nized “mayor” of Chinatown. Department forgave the arresting offi- became outlawed. But the lack of University of Texas at San Antonio, While most El Pasoans saw the cers, and two weeks later Fong had as Chinese women was the biggest rea- 1998 Chinese monopoly of the laundry busi- his dinner guest Police Chief B. J. son that led to the decrease in El (Three Fingers Tequila is the Chief of ness as a nuisance, they saw other Zabriskie of El Paso. Paso’s Chinese population. Police at the Federal Reserve Bank of El Chinese-run businesses as immoral. El Paso always blamed the The only Chinese cemetery in the Paso. He has been in law enforcement By 1893, El Paso had more opium dens Chinese for outbreaks of disease that state of Texas exists in El Paso. since 1974. An El Paso native, he joined than any other city in Texas because of occurred in the city. Chinatown’s Located in the middle of Concordia the El Paso branch in 2002, after a brief its high Chinese population. Religious buildings were close, overcrowded, Cemetery, it is surrounded by a rock (27 year) stop with the El Paso Police groups constantly protested against and the living conditions of most of its wall with large iron gates and the Department. He continues to research the opium dens and gambling halls, people were poor. Farrar says the words “Chinese Cemetery” in both the early law enforcement years in El and crime and violence seemed to rise dirty water left over from laundry English and Chinese. Farrar points Paso. [email protected]) near these hot spots. businesses was dumped on the streets, out that even in death, the Chinese Laws were passed providing fines leaving bad odors. Chinese who had remained apart from their fellow for anyone who bought, sold, or pigpens and other dirty areas were townsmen. Today there are fewer than smoked opium, but because many El ordered to clean up their filth. But as 100 visible graves. Chinese funerals VISIT THE Pasoans of all ethnic backgrounds fre- much as the El Pasoans resented the contrasted with the solemn cere- quented the opium dens, they contin- Chinese, they were tolerant of them. monies of Anglo El Pasoans. Laughter SASS ued to be run openly without fear of Other Americans had driven the and music accompanied the procession prosecution. Chinese out of their towns. to Concordia, with a long dragon WEB SITE AT Problems did exist. Opium “dens” The Mexican Revolution of 1910 snaking its way through the streets. were obvious in El Paso until just interrupted service on the Mexican A close friend or relative of the WWW.SASSNET.COM after 1885—although apparently National Railroad, forcing a number of deceased gave amber squares of candy more “white men and women entered” Juárez smuggling companies to cease representing the spirit of the deceased Page 30 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

THE ROAR OF A .45

By Seven Ladders, SASS #75152

named Jim Miller. Gibson, a well- Gibson. The shooting is significant Saloon, a few miles north of Phenix in known drunk, told his brother, Reeves as part of the larger story on the August 1893. Jim Nichols, the bar- County Clerk J. B. Gibson, he knew of Miller-Frazer Feud, a feud that tender, was amusing himself by shoot- a plot hatched by Miller to kill Frazer. resulted in Miller shotgunning ing a .45 as close to his target’s head In November 1892, a rowdy cow- Frazer in Toyah, Texas, on as possible when he accidentally shot boy by the name of William Earhart September 14, 1896, and Barney the luckless victim in the mouth, the had moved to Phenix from Las Riggs, Frazer’s brother-in-law, out- bullet stopped by his teeth. Cruces. His friend, John Denson, a gunning Denson and Earhart in Tarantula, who jovially declared the Seven Ladders, SASS #75152 cousin of Jim Miller’s wife, apparent- Pecos, Texas, on October 3, 1896. shooting accidental, apparently suf- ly followed him a little over a year The shooting of Con Gibson and fered nerve damage. He lingered on Gibson and John Denson took later. It wasn’t long before Denson other, lesser-known shootings until October, and then he died. Ca last drink together at the bar of and Gibson met at the Silver King. throughout the West have long fasci- Such shootings as these relate to the Silver King Saloon in Phenix, Words were exchanged and a shot nated the author. Take the killing of three phrases often encountered in New Mexico in June 1894. Both men fired. Saloon owner Ed Lyell and Eli Chevallier, a former employee of studying the Old West: were recent arrivals in Phenix, Constable William H. Smith immedi- Con Gibson’s, by Deputy Sheriff He “shot out the lights.” Gibson having moved there just the ately disarmed Denson and exam- McDaniels, also in Phenix. Both He “came out smoking.” year before, and Denson a couple ined Gibson’s body. Gibson’s pistol men stood at the bar and emptied And, they “emptied their pistols weeks earlier, in May ‘94. Even had hung up in his suspenders, so their pistols at each other. After- at each other.” though new to the area, the men rep- the shooting was ruled self-defense. wards, Chevallier placed his pistol The author had an opportunity resented two feuding factions. Con The wounded man lingered for three on the bar and expired, hit just once. to test these three time-honored Gibson was an ally of Sheriff Bud days before expiring. Denson, con- Were they bad shots? expressions. No novice at extreme Frazer of Pecos, Texas, who was trary to most historians’ accounts, Or, the shooting of W. T. shooting, the author is “down on involved in a feud with an ex-deputy was never charged with killing “Tarantula” Dawson at the Lone Wolf (Continued on next page) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 31

(Continued from previous page) canvas and aluminum. In the corner Then the firing commenced. the shed, smoke was so dense as to Hollywood” for its inaccurate por- was a paper feed sack filled with I’m proud to say the target, a make any target invisible. The author’s trayals of violence. Even a thrilling pecans perhaps ten years old. mere ten feet away, was hit at least ears rang for three days afterward. gunfight like that in the film Open I borrowed a kerosene lamp from four times. On shot number three or The experiment has bearing on Range borders on the surreal. For my mother-in-law, plus a Ruger four, the glass chimney in the many shootings in the Old West. example, run the final gunfight on Vaquero revolver with a 7.5" barrel. I kerosene lamp on the “bar” was shat- Take “Uncle” John Selman, Sr.’s slow motion and watch Kevin also used my own Vaquero with a 5.5" tered. Perhaps a tense minute passed shooting of John Wesley Hardin in a Costner fire a six-shooter seventeen barrel. To this mix, I brought a box of as the author felt for the door, then crowded Acme Saloon in El Paso the times without reloading! Other real “cowboy” ammunition, fifty .45 tried to recall how to use a doorknob. night of August 19, 1895. Smoke, the examples abound in Hollywood films. LC caliber cartridges loaded with Witnesses saw him stumble from the concussion, the movements of the In the Old West, only hapless blackpowder, which generated muzzle shed, gasping for air. A great billow- crowd at the bar, the falling of the fools loaded a revolver with six bul- velocities very similar to real 1880s ing cloud of noxious blackpowder body, and the emotion that hot, hot lets. Accidents were quite common. cowboy loads. To add realism, the smoke rolled from the open doorway night in August can now be imagined Take for instance, the buildup to the scheduled experiment happened at as the author fell to his hands and with much more clarity than histori- trial of Sheriff Bud Frazer for shoot- night on December 16, 2006, after I knees, retching. cal accounts suggest. The relevance ing (but not killing) Jim Miller in had finished my deer hunt and ranch Witnesses peeked inside. The also extends to Jesse James getting it Pecos. Attorney John Wesley Hardin work. In attendance were the owner paper target was ablaze; the awning in an enclosed dining room, or Wild tried to gather support, but in the of the 7.5" Ruger, the landowner, who on the floor was smoldering; the feed Bill in a saloon, or Dave Allison in a weeks prior to the trial, both Mart didn’t want any fires, and a passerby. sack in the corner was covered in hotel, or any one of the hundreds of Hardin, a very distant relative, and The kerosene lamp was lite and embers. The kerosene lamp was still other shootings we research. Mannie Clements, Hardin’s first set upon the makeshift bar, the old burning, though only its wick glowed. The violence of such a shooting is cousin once removed, shot themselves kitchen counter, beside the intrepid The shed was mostly dark. After 45 far more intense than Hollywood por- by carelessly handling revolvers with author. A target, in this case the out- minutes, the author stopped shaking trays, yet it is nastier and much dirt- a live cartridge under the hammer. line of a cowboy, was spray-painted on and coughing. The shed was saved for ier too. The concussion, smoke, and Scratch two supporters ...! newspaper pinned on the far wall. destruction later, and valuable les- confusion are far more than the One of my father-in-law’s neigh- The witnesses expressed skepticism sons were learned. author ever hopes to repeat. Besides bors was going to pull down an old and various other remarks at the “The cowboy shot out the lights?” which, he owes his mother-in-law a board-and-batten tool shed. I asked author, who entered the room, loaded Yeah, right. The concussion of a lamp with a glass chimney that is permission to use the shed for a scien- five chambers in each gun, lighted the loaded .45 in a small enclosed space is proving very hard to replace. tific experiment. The shed was old, lantern, and stared down the target enough to cause a miscarriage, and (Second-serial rights belong to the mostly watertight, with a secure door. on the wall. the author is, trust me, not pregnant. author. Previously published in the Along one wall to the left of the door- A long minute passed. To be truly Lamps in a saloon or other enclosed Quarterly of the National Association way was an old kitchen cabinet per- appropriate, I should have had a few space probably were blown out, but for Outlaw and Lawman History, haps ten feet long. Scattered around shots of whiskey or a mug or two of not necessarily from having been shot. Volume XXXI, No.2, April-June 2007, the concrete floor was an assortment beer. Witnesses outside finally heard “Came out smoking?” Cough, pp. 16, 17. Seven Ladders, Dennis of plastic buckets and rusted tools. uttered that famous line from Owen cough. You bet! McCown of Austin, Texas is one of the On the floor opposite the doorway Wister’s The Virginian, “Smile when “The cowboys emptied their pistols main researchers of the life of John was an old awning-like contraption of you call me that.” at each other.” After the second shot in Wesley Hardin). Page 32 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 Dear Billy. . .

By Lucky Bill Thorington, SASS Life #765

avail, receiving catcalls and ues. This will allow you to perform teach you how to carry yourself as a hoots from the posse members. various moves and steps that those Lady Duelist by having you balance Any suggestions? in the posse will not recognize as a bowl of cartridges on your head Shadow Shooter in Oregon shadow shooting. There could be a and the like. Good luck in all this. Dear Shadow Shooter, drawback to this, however. This is Let me know how it turns out. This is a touchy situation, and I due to the fact that those watching ———————————- hesitate to answer due to “Spirit of may recognize the steps as tap or Dear Billy, the Game” issues. First, I suggest ballet, and thus the hoots and Is there anything wrong Lucky Bill Thorington, you devise another way of “gaming” hollers may continue for a different with me shooting in the SASS Life #765 since shadow shooting is, as you reason. But, it is worth a try. The Frontiersman category? Oh, said, frowned upon. But since you upside is with your new talent you almost forgot, I’m a lady. asked, I will not take it upon myself will be able to explain yourself by Patience in Pittsburg Dear Billy, to judge. Lucky Bill answers all sin- tap-dancing around the issue! Dear Patience, I have a unique problem. cere questions. My suggestion will ———————————- I see absolutely no reason why Because I am a gamer and like have an added benefit in that you Dear Billy, you can’t shoot in the Frontiersman to win when I shoot, I have will obtain a new talent. This First let me say I am a category. You do realize, of course, taken to shadow shooting. The should be considered if you are not healthy male who has been this is a blackpowder category, so it problem is this. I know the shooting up to your expectations. Cowboy Action Shooting™ for will be quite dirty? A pitfall is the other shooters frown upon this My suggestion is simply this: find a six years now. Lately I am guys may take umbrage, especially so I try to do it with as little fan- reputable ballet school nearby. Take becoming in touch with my if you are a good, fast shot. (At least fare as possible. But lately my ballet and tap-dancing lessons. You inner self. Being honest, I real- you won't have to do what “Lady secret attempts have been to no will learn unique steps in both ven- ize I have gender issues. I find Duelist in Waiting” will be doing.) when I go to a shoot I have this insatiable desire to shoot in Lady Duelist instead of my usual Duelist category. I can’t explain it. I want to go ahead and do it, but am afraid that someone will notice. What do I do now? Lady Duelist in Waiting in Utah Dear Lady, My suggestion may be obvious, but will require some intestinal for- titude on your part. I’ll get to that in a minute. You did not mention what type of guns you are shooting. You should initially obtain a pair of Lightening revolvers in .38 Special caliber. Become as proficient with these as you want to be, depending upon your attitude in this matter. That’s the first step. The most important thing is the transforma- tion, so I suggest you find a female Cowboy Action shooter that is either retiring from the sport, or one that is selling off some of her outfits. Obviously (again) find a gal who approximates your size. Obtain some of her outfits and start shooting. No one will be the wiser. A couple of suggestions: First, you must alter your voice to speak in a higher pitch. Second, you’ll need to shave any facial hair you may have. A little make up will help avoid any shadow. Other suggestions that could help sell yourself is to take some modeling lessons. They’ll June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 33 Page 34 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

WHAT A NOVEL COMBINATION – A VICTORIAN DANCE CRUISE!

By Miss Tabitha, SASS Regulator #26972

his past January, lovers of tumes and dancing shoes! TVictorian dance embarked (liter- On Monday afternoon, to kick ally!) on a unique adventure into the everything off, Mike and I began by warm, turquoise waters of the hosting a Calico and Cowboys Old- Caribbean. The Gold Camp Time Dance, which took place on the Victorian Society of Cripple Creek, main entertainment stage on board Colorado, teamed up with David Van the ship. The dancers took this Buskirk, aka South Dakota opportunity to try out their “ship Dutchman, SASS #80138, of SE legs,” and I kept them hopping with Unlimited Travel, to plan a cruise two hours of lively fun. The ship was with a twist. Calling on the talents making good time, and was swaying of Bill Donaldson, aka Long Bill a bit as we danced. This provided Short, SASS #79470, and the more than a few laughs, as the Shadow Mountain String Band, of dancers had to learn to adapt to the Colorado Springs, and graciously The Carnival Conquest went out of its way to accommodate the troop moving floor. Bandleader Bill inviting Mad Mountain Mike and of Victorian dancers. This kind of service is the very best inducement Donaldson had to constantly adjust to comeback and cruise with them again! myself to give instruction and lead the length of his stroke, as the dul- the balls, they line. But on top of all this, four events cimer wasn’t always the same dis- cooked up an itiner- were planned where the Victorian tance from his body as the boat ary that both kept dancers could break out their cos- (Continued on next page) everyone busy and still left plenty of time for relaxed fun in the sun! Carnival Cruise Lines’ newest ship, the Carnival Con- quest, set sail from Galveston, Texas on January 13. This amazing ship had live entertainment, clubs and casinos, multiple swimming pools—all that The Calico and Cowboys Old-Time Dance was the initial, informal The Friday evening Victorian Masked Ball had to be you’d expect from a icebreaker dance on board ship. It gave everyone a chance to get their moved inside due to windy conditions on the high seas. wonderful cruise “sea legs” as the ship gently rolled while they danced the evening away. June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 35 would let us interact with and feed the stingrays. Believe me—that was wonderful enough, but Mike enjoyed the trip to and from the site the best. Each couple was given their own inflatable boat, like the kind the Coast Guard uses, and we were encouraged to “keep up” with our guide. And boy, did we keep up! Mike and the other two “captains” opened their boats way up, and we sped across the water, flying past the slow- moving pontoon boats that carried many of the other tourists. This was possibly the high point of our trip! Every cruise deserves a group shot of those stalwart cowboys and girls Friday brought us to our final who bring their costumes, dance to the old tunes, and provide Victorian There’s always one (or two!) in every port call at Cozumel, Mexico. While ambiance for themselves and the enjoyment of the rest of the passengers. crowd with no taste what so ever! many of our party departed to tour You, too, can join the fun next January! You collect cowboys from around the the Mayan ruins, Mike and I opted world, dressed in their finest instead to visit Xcaret, a lovely park “downtown” outfits … and who do devoted to promoting nature and they run into on their way to an Mexico’s cultural heritage. What a elegant dinner? Two folks who can- beautiful place, full of lush greenery, not even find their own stateroom! gorgeous inlets and a unique collec- Thank goodness, no one takes any of tion of wild animals. We thoroughly this “dress up” stuff too seriously! enjoyed ourselves and wished we had more time. We did take the time to (Continued from previous page) strap on buoyancy vests and float cruised through the waves! down their underground river, which Monday evening, everyone assem- meandered gently in and out of caves bled in the Grand Lobby of the ship for a surprisingly long distance. dressed in their Victorian finery for a Everyone returned to the ship group photo. We gathered in front of and prepared for the final dance, our the grand piano, and the professional Victorian Masked Ball. However, the photographer climbed partway up the wind had picked up, and the outdoor beautiful staircase to get all of us in deck where we were scheduled to the picture. What a sight for the other have our dance was being sprayed attendees of the cruise! After the pho- with a gentle mist, so the decision was tos were taken, we promenaded to the made to relocate the affair. David Van elegant dining room for the Captain’s Buskirk had arranged an alternate Dinner, where we had tables together plan, so everyone quickly made their for our whole group. way into one of the clubs reserved for On Wednesday, we had our first us. The stage consisted of two low lev- port call at Montego Bay, Jamaica. els, but the dancers quickly adapted, Miss Tabitha and Mad Mountain Mike prepare for an adventure Most folks opted to go on shore for and we had a lovely, successful in the forest canopy! sightseeing and shopping. Mike and I evening. As the last waltz came to an decided to “live it up” and go for the end, we all said our good-nights and ence, with the cruise line going above Which it looks like I’ll get to do! most adventure we could find, so we strolled back to our rooms, some to get and beyond the call of duty to accom- A new Victorian Dance Cruise has booked ourselves for what was billed a bit of sleep, and some to change and modate our needs. David of SE been booked for January 2009, this as the “Canopy Tour.” What that hit the pizza bar again! Unlimited Travel spoiled us too, with time hosted by River Crossing Inc. translates to is a 20-minute drive into Saturday was a fun day at sea, a plate of sugar goodies and a bottle (that’s me and Mike!), and once the jungle, where we were strapped and Sunday brought us back to port of champagne in every room. I would again arranged by SE Unlimited into hard hats and body harnesses. at Galveston. What a great experi- happily do it all again. Travel. This time the cruise will be After getting all prepped, we followed bigger and better, since David has our guides up a dirt path, where we booked us on Royal Caribbean’s were clipped onto a high wire, took a Voyager of the Seas, an even larger running leap, and zipped our way cruise ship. This ship has its own ice through the canopy of gorgeous green- skating arena, which converts into a ery. There were six zip lines in all, dance floor where we can hold our with the last one extending around dances, keeping us from being at the 1200 feet long, which was longer than mercy of the weather. the cruise ship! At its highest point, If you missed out on the last we were some 250 feet above the cruise, and want to have more infor- riverbed down below. What a rush! mation on this next one, please give us Wednesday evening, we got our- a call at 970-221-2992, or contact us selves all cleaned up and met on deck online at www.rivercrossinginc.com. for an 1860’s Ball, dancing Quadrilles You can also contact David or Dita at and the Spanish Waltz under the SE Unlimited Travel at 1-800-552- stars. The night was mild and 9798, or by email at VICTORIAN@ smooth, and I think the onlookers seunlimitedtravel.com. The prices are enjoyed the dance as much as we did! a good bargain for all that’s included, Thursday morning brought the and there’s an “early bird” incentive of ship to Georgetown, Grand Cayman. a drawing for a free gift for anyone Of course, Mike and I had to find who books by July 1, 2008. excitement and adventure, so we The Colorado Springs Shadow Mountain String Band provided What a great time! I hope you’ll booked ourselves for a shore tour that the period correct music for the enjoyment of not only the dancers, consider joining us on our next would teach me how to snorkel and but the other ship’s passengers as well! Victorian Dance Cruise! Page 36 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

THE OTHER BULLET: Re-enactors Review By M. Lou Findley, SASS Life #25192 From interviews with Mad Dog Dicksa, SASS #48704 (Some photos supplied courtesy of the Dallas Historical Society.)

he ladies are conversing as they walk down the street on a Tmild spring Saturday morning. There is a lot to catch up on given they have not seen each other since Saturday week. Southern Star is excitingly sharing her man’s promise to take her on the stage away from this town. She would be happy if it were only for a few days. About that time her man, Dusty Shell, comes up to let her know a poker game has changed his plans. Southern Star is not pleased and lets him know, while following him all the way into the saloon. About the time required for two hands of poker, a loud ruckus can be heard in the streets, indicating a fight in the saloon between Dusty and a man he has called a card cheat. While exchanging words of insult and degradation, they back out into the street and the hog-legs are pulled. Dusty, not the hero type, kills the “cheater,” takes his watch, and yells out “ ya’ll better not tell anyone what you seed!” While Doc Jo bends over the man to declare “Welcome to the Dallas Heritage him dead, Shotgun Frank, Dusty’s Village and this performance by the brother, pats Dusty on the back and Trinity River Desperados.” Dallas offers to buy him a drink. Heritage Village, located at Old City Arriving a bit later in town, the Park, is a nationally accredited his- dead man’s brothers and widow find tory museum, depicting life in Dallas their brother and husband lying in from 1840-1910. The grounds show- the street. Questioning all they can case 38 historic structures, including find, they learn it was Dusty that did log cabins, the pre-Civil War their brother in, and he is now in the Millermore home, a Victorian Main saloon celebratin’. The brothers Street, a railroad complex, an 1861 angrily call him out and a sizeable farmstead with livestock, a 19th cen- gunfight ensues with one avenging tury church, school, and more. It is brother surviving after killing Dusty. located at 1515 South Harwood, one As he takes the watch from Dusty’s block south of Farmers Market in dead body and turns back to his fall- downtown Dallas. What a perfect en brothers, Southern Star comes setting for a premier re-enactment runnin’ to discover her man is dead, group, the Trinity River Desperados. Peacock feud. (You know, the one and she loudly disparages the broth- “So, Mad Dog, how did this re- where Bob Lee, a Confederate, and er for his actions. He argues, “A man enactment group ever get formed in Lewis Peacock of the Union League has to do what a man has to do.” As the middle of Texas?” “Well, a call fought a second “Civil War” in north- he walks away from her, Star picks went out from Deacon Justice (Daryl east Texas from 1867 through June Dusty’s gun from his hand and Congos) among some of the local 1869, with an estimated 50 men los- shoots the lone brother. As he lays SASS clubs looking for members to ing their lives.) We really smoked dying, she utters “and a woman has perform at the 2006 spring festival the town up and loved every minute to do what a woman has to do.” and raise money for the Leonard, TX doing so. About mid-summer anoth- The audience applauds and schools. About 20 cowboys and gals er call went out to the cowboys and whistles as the MC announces, showed to perform the famous Lee- (Continued on next page) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 37 (Continued from previous page) members more freedom to dress and 1893. They like to represent the change between skits, if we are going gals to do another festival for the develop their characters the way “feel” of the Old West more so than to portray a different character in city of Roanoke. This call came from they please. It actually allows the a specific time frame. For the last the second skit.” Deacon’s son, Chad Congos, and five audience to better identify with year, they exclusively provide the “The great thing about working of our current members answered what they think cowboys might have reenactments for Dallas Heritage in the Dallas Heritage Village is we the call. After Roanoke, we talked looked like. It simply raises the ‘fun Village (www.dallasheritagevil really enjoy staying in character about continuing these two gigs and factor’ for everyone.” lage.org), now considered their throughout the whole day.” This the idea of forming a loose knit club, The Trinity River Desperados home base. Dallas Heritage Village allows them to perform all day and so we could at least call ourselves have strict minimum distances and is a living history park, based on gives the patrons a chance to feel something. We each put in five sug- rehearse their positions and firing representing 1893. All of their skits what it was like to be a cowboy. They gested names and then voted on sequence until everyone is confident and historic references are based on all grew up loving cowboys and idol- them. The Trinity River Desperados in each skit. They have a secured that year. They also use historic fig- ized them, so this is their chance to was formed that day. We are most loading and unloading area, which is ures in their skits, assuming they give a new generation a look back at definitely a performing group and do very familiar to all SASS members. fit into the correct time period. what inspired them as children. have very reasonable charges for our All firearms are cleared upon Other city events might be built They like to build a “cowboy camp” at services, but sometimes the fee may arrival, and all rounds are checked around a different time period or a larger events that also allows the only cover ‘gas and brass.’” to be blanks or dummies. They rope specific outlaw that had terrorized patrons to come to them and sit on a “Almost all of our members are off their performance area and post their city back in the days. They bedroll, play some cards, and hang SASS shooters and all are NRA signs instructing ‘do not cross a perform at special events at the out with some “cowboys.” members. To become a member, one shooting line.’ Always aware of their Dallas Heritage Village as well; for “The most memorable moment must be sponsored by a current muzzle direction to never shoot example, a Texas outlaw book sign- for me was at Dallas Heritage member and mentored on the safety towards spectators, they usually ing and Blue Bell ice cream’s 100th Village. There was a group of about rules. SASS shooters have a huge even have the local police help with year celebration. They also provide 10-15 little girls there for a birthday advantage for reenactment, since crowd control at large events.” All entertainment for many city his- party. Dusty and a few others played they already are used to loading members not only practice gun safe- toric annual events, such as cards with three of them in the tables and own western attire and ty throughout every event, but also Roanoke and McKinney. Most of saloon for a long while, just having a period firearms. Reenactments dif- take every opportunity to discuss it the events they participate in are great time. After the girls had their fer from a Cowboy Action Shooting™ with the public. For example, their well advertised, and the public is party, and the skits were over, they match—they require acting, inter- firearms never clear leather for pho- invited to all of them. all came to us to say goodbye. Dusty acting with others, and multiple tos, and they are asked, “Why not?” They hold many rehearsals and was standing on the walkway and shooters firing at each other (at least all the time. Their safety officer runs walk-troughs before larger events. felt this little girl hugging his leg. in the general direction). Our attire all events like a major SASS event. Since the performing roster varies We all looked down, and it was one of is that of eclectic cowboys. That is, Safety for the group and the patrons based on who is available, the the little girls with whom he had we try to be somewhat period cor- always comes first. rehearsals give everyone a chance to played cards. We were all so touched rect, but allow our members to wear The three SASS clubs whose explore different roles within the by this. That’s why we like to dress non-period rigs, boots, and hats. We members are involved are Fort skit. They have specific skits that up and play cowboy, to give a memo- have found that most patrons do not Parker, Comanche Valley Vigilantes, include the sequence of shooting, ry to someone, which in turns gives know the difference between authen- and Greenville. lines delivered, and characters to be us one as well.” tic and Hollywood versions of attire. Most often the Trinity River portrayed. The writer of a given Mad Dog also relates a time As long as it looks cowboy, it’s okay Desperados reenact the 1870’s to script is the general director, helping when things didn’t quite go as with us. We feel this allows our the other members fulfill his/her planned. Dusty Shell almost always vision of how it should play out. They dies in the skits he participates in, encourage all our members to bring especially the one related at the new scripts and/or an idea, making beginning of this article. On one one of the head characters their own. Saturday they decided to use James “Mad Dog, does performing in a in the part that Dusty normally does “real town” make things a bit easier and let Dusty play a part where he for you and the other Desperados, would live. Dusty was so excited especially getting ready for a per- about finally living that he was danc- formance?” “When we perform at ing around in practice, celebrating Dallas Heritage Village, we like to his good fortune. The skit was going make a day of it. We start a few well, and as planned, Dusty knelt hours before opening, to rehearse down to tend his dead brother whom that day’s skits and allow new skits James had just shot. He slowly rose to be presented. Once the park up to gun down James for killing his opens, we step into our character for brothers, and he pulled his gun from that day and “work the crowd,” walk- the holster, cocked the hammer, ing about town and main street. pulled the trigger, and click. He Staying in character before and after cocked the hammer three more times, the skits is as much fun as the per- click, click, click. He had forgotten to formance itself. Our ladies are a key load more than his usual one round, element to our performances. They needed for his usual character that not only provide all the “town’s folk ALWAYS died. Dusty looked at color” and interact with the audi- James with sad eyes knowing what ence, but they allow our performanc- he had to do to finish the skit. James es to show how women were treated fired, and once again, Dusty died. and/or interacted with the men of For more information on the the Old West. We have young and Trinity River Desperados, visit their older members. This allows us a web site at or contact their skits. All 14 members have chosen a President, [email protected] or character and written a “bio” (all his cell 972 375-3393. available on our web site). All of our If you are involved in an Old skits are written to include all 14 West re-enactment group and would characters and can be scaled down like to share information with SASS for any given performance if a few members, please contact M. Lou can not attend. We try to wardrobe Findley at [email protected]. Page 38 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

TUNING THE PIETTA CAP & BALL FOR COMPETITION Part 1. Diagnosing the Problem Areas

By Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS Life #32933

ap and ball handguns are fun to needs when working on guns is a Enco.com and type in #380-0840. more like an original Colt. The front Cshoot, and if tuned properly, can quality set of hollow ground screw- This should take you to a simple de- strap is pretty close to an original be very reliable. However, many drivers. Hollow ground screwdrivers burr/scraper tool.) You will also need and is fine as is. pards buy a pair, go to a match, have are machined so the sides of the tip a variety of needle files, preferably Cock the action and look for any- problems, quickly become disillu- that enter the screw slot are parallel. fine diamond needle files (since some thing that causes friction or binding. sioned with them, and write them off A regular screwdriver simply has parts are hardened and difficult to Raise and lower the hammer a few as difficult and unreliable. We are tapered sides that taper all the way file with a regular file), and some times and put SLIGHT pressure going to go through the steps neces- to the tip. Photo 2 shows a hollow honing stones. Lastly, you will need a side-to-side on the hammer. On our sary to tune a Pietta cap and ball for ground and a standard screwdriver. drill press and drill press vice. gun, the hammer was hitting on the competition. Like many things, a pic- The first step in any tune-up is to left side of the frame and had already ture is worth a thousand words. So, I inspect the exterior of the gun and turned up a burr even though the will try to illustrate as much as pos- test the action to identify problem gun has never been fired. Photo 6. sible what needs to be done, and try areas that will need fixing. The first to suggest tools and ways of doing the thing, which isn’t exactly a “prob- job a good home gun “tinkerer” can lem,” but is an issue for many, is the use to tune his/her Pietta. grip shape. Photo 5 shows an origi- The revolver chosen for our tun- nal 1861 Navy (same grip as a ‘51 ing exercise is shown in Photo 1.I The parallel sides of a hollow ground screwdriver fit the screw slot tightly from the top to the bottom of the screw slot. A standard screwdriver fits in the slot like a wedge and only engages the top part of the screw Something else that seems to be slot. The quickest way to bugger a a problem on many new cap and balls gun screw is to use the wrong type of is the wedge is pounded in so tight, it screwdriver. is difficult to remove. On our gun, picked up a pair of these from EMF We are going to be doing a lot of the wedge didn’t stick out of the right at END of TRAIL 2007. They were internal work, and it’s hard to get side of the barrel and had been ham- under $200 each, and it is amazing light down inside the gun to see what mered in so hard it had puckered the these guns can be produced, shipped is going on. Photo 3 shows an LED metal. Photo 7. On a Single Action halfway around the world, and still light that has a twistable neck and a Army the frame is flat under the sold for such an amazingly low price. They are described in the EMF catalog as the “1851 Navy Sheriff Model in .44 caliber with a 5-1/2" barrel.” Navy) on top with our Pietta below. As an historical note, there is no such Colt spent a lot of time developing thing as a .44 Navy. Whenever Colt what many believe is the best grip advertised a revolver as being of magnet on the end of the base. I ever put on a handgun. The 1851 “Navy” caliber, by definition it meant picked this thing up in the checkout Navy grip was so popular it was car- a .36. A revolver of “Army” caliber line at Walgreen’s Drug Store. It is ried over into the Single Action Army. was a .44. Uberti tends to offer only an amazing little tool that costs less The original back strap has a com- guns that copy original Colts. Pietta than $5 and can be found at many pound curve (Photo 5, A) that starts mixes and matches parts to come up drug and hardware stores. No mat- at the top of the back strap and runs cylinder, and you can visually check with a wide variety of interesting, ter what kind of light you have, your almost to the bottom of the grip the timing of the bolt. On a Colt cap but historically incorrect models. head or something always seems in frame and then curves slightly out- and ball the frame is curved, the Our revolver is actually an 1860 the way, and you can’t see down in ward at the bottom (Photo 5, B). cylinder is much closer to the frame, Army frame and cylinder mated to a small holes. This little gizmo solves The Pietta grip is narrower front and you cannot see the bolt. About set of “Navy” grips with an octagon that problem. to back at “A” and the back strap is all you can do is slowly cock the ham- barrel bored out to .44. Although list- Photo 4 shows a burr remover/ absolutely flat before turning out at mer and listen for the bolt drop, and ed as a 5 1/2" barrel, it is actually metal scraper. If your Pietta is like “B.” The Pietta grip looks more like a then watch the cylinder to see how closer to 4 3/4". It will be a great most, you will need one of these for trumpet bell. The wooden grip itself far it moves before the bolt locks up. shooter when we are done with it, the tune-up. (As an example, go to on the Colt is also thinner than the The bolt drop will be the second and the shorter barrel will be quick- Pietta. For some, because of the “click” while cocking (make sure you er out of the holster than a 7-1/2" or angle of the back strap, the Pietta keep your finger off the trigger or you 8" model. grip tends to cause the gun to point won’t hear that first click), and you Before we get started, we need to high (much like a Colt 1911 with a can look at the top locking slot in discuss some of the tools needed for flat or arched mainspring housing). front of the hammer as a reference to our tune-up. The first thing anyone We will modify the grip to be slightly (Continued on next page) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 39 (Continued from previous page) obvious internal problems. Remove see how far the cylinder is turning the rear grip frame. On our project after the bolt drops. It should only Pietta, as soon as the upper grip move about the width of the lead-in frame screws were removed, the groove. Our gun is new, so timing frame sprang down and back. Photo was fairly good. 14. I could not get the screws restart- Next, put some MODERATE ed in the upper grip frame. The bot- back pressure on the cylinder. Photo 8. Do this for each chamber. On this gun, its mate, and several

ly miscast. The left side of the frame is over 1/16" higher than the right side. This is cosmetic and won’t affect gun function. Next, we need to test the fit of the arbor. With the cylinder out of the tom screw also had quite a bit of gun, place the barrel on the arbor at resistance coming out. (Be particu- out, be careful not to rub off the black a 90-degree angle to the frame and larly careful with any screw that is color until we get around to fitting make sure the arbor is bottomed in threaded into brass, as they are easi- the bolt. Photo 17 shows the bolt the arbor hole. Photo 11. (Make ly stripped.) This will be corrected and the area in black that is ABOVE sure you stick the arbor in the arbor when we re-contour the back strap. the bolt window in the frame. We do other Piettas I handled at END of Before removing the trigger not want to remove material below TRAIL, most of them would unlock guard and internals, the bolt head the marked area. Photo 18 (A) on at least one chamber. So, even should be carefully inspected. In shows the burr we identified when though most Piettas (we are talking order to get our gun to lock properly, about the newer Colt style Piettas we are going to modify the bolt head. made in the last five years or so) feel However, we need to be slightly cau- like they are locked up “bank-vault” tious with the bolt. In order to lock tight, they are not, and that is the up properly, there are three things primary problem we will address in hole and not the bore!) Now, rotate involved. First, there is the width of our tune-up. the bottom of the barrel down until it the bolt window (the little rectangu- Next, remove the barrel and contacts the frame. The barrel lar opening the bolt sticks up cylinder. If the wedge is hammered should set flush with the frame or through) in the frame. Next, there is in tight like our project gun, it will just a few thousands up or down from the fit of the bolt in the bolt window have to be hammered out with an the frame. Photo 12 shows our and, finally, the fit of the bolt to the aluminum or brass punch. Don’t use cylinder notches. a steel punch or you will almost cer- On our project gun, the bolt does tainly mar the barrel. Correct wedge not fit the cylinder correctly. cycling the hammer. With everything fitting is an issue we will address in Widening the bolt slots in the cylin- apart, it was also noticed that the our tune-up. If the barrel won’t come der is beyond the capacity of most arbor staking pin was sticking out off, put the hammer on half cock, home gun tuners, so the only alterna- and hitting the hammer. Photo 18 rotate the cylinder so one of the tive is to narrow the bolt head. (B) and Photo 19. chamber walls is below the rammer, HOWEVER, we only want to narrow and use the rammer to push the bar- that part of the bolt sticking out rel off the frame. With a magnifying above the bolt window in the frame. glass or magnifying visor, carefully Photo 15. If we narrow the entire inspect all the cylinder notches. Our project gun has never been fired and has only been cycled a dozen or so times. Yet, all of the cylinder notches are already beginning to show wear. Photo 9 shows a notch with a little damage on the solid side (A) and a

head of the bolt, it will fit the cylinder notches, but it will fit too loosely in Before ending this month’s Pietta barrel mates perfectly with the frame window, and the cylinder installment, we’ll look at the rela- the frame. Photo 13 shows an will have excessive side-to-side play. tionship of the internal parts and Uberti. The Uberti arbor is far too Just to make sure what area needs to explain how they operate, so we will short, and the barrel sets well behind be narrowed, take a Sharpie and know what is needed when we refit the front of the frame. There are color the side of the bolt as shown in the parts during our tune up. Photo definite ridge already showing on the exceptions to all rules, but in general Photo 16. (Only color the side 20 shows the hammer, and it has a lead-in groove side (B). What is hap- Piettas have poorly fitted bolts and shown, we will not take material very nicely made and smooth ham- pening is that rather than locking good arbor fit. Ubertis have properly from the other side.) mer cam. Photo 21 shows the bolt. bank vault tight, our cylinder is sim- fitted bolts and poor arbor fit. (We Now, remove the main spring, the Although the Pietta bolt head is typ- ply getting a wedgie from the bolt. will tune an Uberti in a future article trigger guard, the bolt/sear spring, ically too wide, the bolt body is very Fitting the bolt is the main part and fix a poorly fitted arbor.) the trigger, the bolt, and finally, the nicely made and very smooth com- of our tune up. With the cylinder off, Now, we will begin final disas- hammer and hand (some people refer pared to many other Colt clones. It Photo 10 shows the frame is slight- sembly of our Pietta and look for to it as a pawl). Now that the bolt is (Continued on page 40) Page 40 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 TUNING THE PIETTA CAP & BALL FOR COMPETITION . . . (Continued from page 39) When the hammer is all the way down, the leg of the bolt snaps back over the top of the hammer cam and the process begins again for the next shot. (In Photo 22, the bent leg is riding over the hammer cam and will snap back to the left when it reaches the top of the cam.) That’s why we need the little light described in the beginning of this article. We are going to modify the bolt and need to be able to see that it is working correctly. Finally, Photo 23 shows the rela- tionship of the hammer and trigger.

has a very nice bevel on the end of the bolt leg that rides on the hammer cam. Photo 21(B). Many bolts are fitted with virtually no bevel or a very roughly ground one. Essentially, how the bolt operates The True West Preservation Society will be a dedicated group is at rest, the bottom curve on the bolt is sitting just above the top of the of members and volunteers whose mission is to preserve hammer cam. Photos 20 and 21 (A). and protect America’s Old West heritage. This private, As the hammer is cocked, the top of The top of the trigger above the trig- non-profit organization will identify and revitalize historic the hammer cam pushes up on the ger screw hole slides along the front monuments and icons of this significant cultural era. bottom of the bolt and the front of the of the hammer until the trigger tip Join other dedicated individuals who are doing their part to bolt tips down (like a teeter totter) drops into the half cock or full cock save our heritage. Benefits will include a subscription to True and unlocks the cylinder. As the notches. On many guns, the back of West Magazine, a TWPS lapel pin as well as a special invitation hammer travels further to the rear, the trigger or front of the hammer is to a member’s only cocktail reception during the the bolt leg slips off the top of the very roughly ground, and you can feel Annual True West Preservation Society Gala. hammer cam and the bolt rises to grittiness while cocking the hammer lock the cylinder. as the trigger drags over the front of The bottom of the hammer cam is the hammer. On our project gun, the JOIN TODAY! shaped like a hatchet head pointing front of the hammer and back of the Together we can help preserve down. The bolt bevel is shaped like a trigger is smooth and needs little, if America’s historic West. hatchet head pointing up. Photos 20 any, polishing. and 21 (B). When the trigger is Next month we will correct all of Visit PreserveTheWest.com or call pulled, the hammer drops down and the problems we have identified and 888-575-1BY1 the two hatchet heads pass each reassemble and test our Pietta. Make to learn more about the other. Since the hammer is station- sure you keep this issue of The Cowboy True West Preservation Society. ary vis-à-vis side-to-side movement Chronicle, as we may need to refer to and is stronger than the leg on the some of the photos when correcting bolt, the hammer cam pushes the leg problems or reassembling our gun.

of the bolt inward. Photo 22. /

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WHAT’S THE CALL?

By Oracle, SASS #4854, Regulator RO-II, TG (Un Retired)

ately I have noticed Timer where the answers can be found in Official responsibility! LOperators and sometimes Certi- the Handbook or RO course material. These questions are NOT on any fied RO’s making procedural calls Read the questions and decide RO Test. that are not in accordance with the upon an answer. NOW, LOOK IT Question 1 – Is it okay for the shoot- Shooters Handbook or RO course UP! Were you correct? Was it better er to travel from shooting position materials. Therefore, this is the to look up the correct answer? “A” to shooting position “B” with a beginning of a series of questions Congratulations, and welcome to shotgun round on the carrier of a regarding range operations and Cowboy Action Shooting™ Range 1897 pump with the action open? Answer: SASS Handbook, page 15, item 11 Oracle, SASS #4854, Regulator VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT Question 2 – A Timer Operator or RO-II, TG (Un Retired) spotter observes the shooter doing WWW.SASSNET.COM something contrary to the stage next shooting position. The infrac- instructions and the Posse Mar- tion is brought to the attention of shal’s demonstration prior to the the Timer Operator, and they ADVERTISING INFORMATION first shooter. Example: “Pick up the choose to declare a “no call.” Is this strong box with the rope handles an appropriate ruling? ASK FOR and move it to the next shooting Answer: SASS Handbook, page 13, position.” The shooter picks up the APPENDIX A – RANGE SAFETY ~ DONNA ~ strong box with the rope handle as RULES, third paragraph from the (EXT. 118) well as the wooden sides of the box top. and moves the strongbox to the What’s the call? Page 42 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 WHAT’S IN YOUR WA R B A G ?

By Purdy Gear, SASS Life #33315

war sack and in the Northwest, occasionally, a “poke.” On the trail or in the Purdy Gear, SASS Life #33315 bunkhouse, the warbag provided storage and prevented stuff from ecently, at a knife makers’ meet, straying. Its place was in the bot- Ra bunch of us cursed with the tom of the soogans (cowboy bedroll), leatherworking persuasion got to though sometimes it traveled jawin’, swapping lies, and comparing “northward” for use as a pillow. In techniques and tools. All of us had the bunkhouse, it was often kicked our warbags out and there was con- under a bed or hung up for safekeep- siderable trading going on. ing. Those “boiled shirts” and “low- Warbag. Now there’s a great old necked” items were removed and cowboy word. Ramon F. Adams placed between the boards or mat- describes it this way in “Western tress of the bunk and soogans so Words”: they’d get “ironed.” There’s many a “A cowboy’s sack or bag for per- puncher who slept mighty careful sonal belongings, in which he kept all those nights before a hot date, a fine the useless ditties and dofunnies he shindig, or some other doin’s so as had gathered through the years. not to wrinkle his finest duds! Here he kept his supply of makin’s While the warbag was a place to and cigarette papers, an extra spur, carry personal possessions, it wasn’t some whang leather, an extra cinch or the only thing a puncher used to bit, and perhaps a carefully wrapped pack his stuff around in. (Cowboys This bag is patterned after one built by JC Johnson of old California. picture of a girl, or some tattered let- never carried anything. They It is interesting as, with its narrow connector, it can serve as either a ters that had brought him news from always packed it. Hence, packin’ pommel bag (tied in front of the horn over the forks of the saddle) the outside. Among this plunder, too, iron and so on.) or as a saddlebag (tied with saddle strings behind the rider). there would likely be a box of car- The most useful things a cowboy tridges, a greasy deck of playing had were his pockets and his boots. Not always, but a good many had even pistols found refuge in the tall cards, a bill of sale for his private There was a time when there were ‘em. Most times there was only tops. It was also a convenient place horse, and his “low-necked” clothes.” no pockets in britches or shirts. It one—on the leg that was opposite for both cowboys and soldiers to (For those of you with evil minds, was the vest, the sack coat, and your roping hand, so it wouldn’t stash a twist of tobacco or jerky the term “whang” in cowboy lingo other types pocket-bearing attire interfere with dragging animals (yum!) or an important document. means a piece of buckskin lace. The that were used to pack about any- while branding and so on. Some- The cowboy’s saddle was not ill- term “low-necked” clothes pertains thing that would fit in ‘em. times it had two. Most of the pock- equipped either. Pommel bags were to a cowboy’s best set of clothes, Cigarette makin’s, a watch, a folding ets were “patched” on, basically just often the choice for traveling as, posi- them that he wears when he’s (and pocketknife, and often a tally book a couple of chunks of leather tioned over the horn of a saddle, they again I quote Adams) lookin’ as mis- and the stub of a pencil. Many cow- stitched on the leg to form a pocket placed items (often including a pis- erable as a razorback hog stroppin’ boys who could write kept a daily log and flap. These are still added on to tol!) within easy reach. Furthermore, hisself on a fencepost.”) of what they did through the day. chaps to this day. they placed weight over the horse’s Beyond what Adams describes, They kept track of how many cattle After the turn of the century, shoulders, which take weight bearing the warbag was a place to keep extra they encountered through the day chaps were often made with “built- better than the kidneys, creating less socks and underwear (if you owned and what brands they were a- in” pockets. These were constructed fatigue over greater distances. any). It was hide-away for a dose of sportin’. They might note doctoring like a deep jeans pocket and were Pommel bags, unfortunately, medicine for days where you were a critter, as well as conditions of accessed from the side of the leg interfered with work, specifically feeling “puny” or a pint of tonsil var- grass, water, or weather. near where a britches pocket would with roping. Hence, the saddlebag or nish for them when you weren’t. It There are many instances of normally be. This style of pocket saddle pocket. This was a thorough- would likely have contained some military men, law dogs, and others has mostly fallen out of favor. ly useful piece of equipment. It was form of “housewife,” a small sewing carrying small telescopes in these Chaps sometimes even had a a repository for victuals and cooking kit with some thread and needles, pockets. And let’s not forget a place special pocket built into them to gear enough for a day or two of rid- and maybe a spare button or two for for guns. Whether your pockets had pack a pistol! You don’t see it often, ing. It carried medicines for doctor- repairing clothing. It might also con- specially-built heavy canvas or but it was sure nuff done! ing animals, and maybe a spare tain an awl and some heavy thread leather holsters fitted in ‘em, they Boots also had potential for horseshoe and some nails – just in to keep your leather gear in good certainly could hold “hide-outs.” packin’ things other than sweaty case in rough country. It was a place shape. Sometimes it was called a Chaps also came with pockets. feet and nasty socks. Knives and (Continued on next page) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 43 (Continued from previous page) saddlebags were simply tied over the to carry a small roll of wire and some saddle with the saddle strings. of the other necessities for fixing Others were more permanently fence. (Fence staples were often car- attached by threading the strings ried in a small pouch built into the through the connector panel and back of the saddle seat. This is often then tying them off with a bleed knot. thought to be a lawman’s handcuff Compadres, when you think of case. It is NOT. Similarly, fence pli- it, there were all sorts of ways to ers often had their own pouches that “pack” in the old days. A puncher hung off the rear cinch.) generally didn’t own a lot of proper- Most cowboy saddlebags were ty. Most all he had could be tucked small out of consideration for their into his warbag and a couple of sad- horses’ backs (hence the term “saddle pockets. With his soogan and dle pocket”). They averaged eight or some “kitchen equipment” strapped nine inches square or thereabouts. to a packhorse, he was free to go It was the cavalry with their exten- anywhere his heart and his horse sive campaigning that used much carried him. We’ve lost that, but larger bags. With them, the mission gained somethin’ else. Maybe good, was paramount. Man and beast maybe bad. Maybe just different. were expendable. Cavalry bags As usual, if you have comments were plain, while cowboy bags could or crabbin’s, gimme a holler. I’m at be anywhere from dead plain to 706-692-5536 or at purdygear@ heavily tooled or fancied up with windstream.net. Or get me through spots and angora or bear hair. the link on my website at www.pur- Sometimes saddlebags matched dygear.com. Meantime, I’ll see you the saddle; sometimes not. Some on down the trail!

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WOMEN, GUNS, AND GEAR Myra Manes the Knife Maker By Holy Terror, SASS #15362

Myra Manes, SASS #74463, aka minute of both the knife making and firearm. After five years of knife Karen Hewitt, of Kimball, Nebras- the shooting. making and working in the “real” ka, is a knife maker, only one of a Part of Redwing’s business is world, she retired from the “real” few female knife makers in the making and selling knives. After world so she could make knives full country, and the only female knife many years watching Redwing time, as well as continue to help Holy Terror, SASS #15362 maker I know. Myra Manes started make the knives, and helping him Redwing in the store. Before END her knife-making career working sell the knives at shows and shoot- of TRAIL 2007, she made 10 knives with her husband, Redwing, SASS ing events, Myra Manes decided she a day for five days, a total of 50 lthough I hope everyone reads #43324, in 1994. Redwing is the wanted to do more than just watch. knives! She produced 50 of the 54 Athe articles I write, I write this owner and operator of Redwing She finally convinced her husband Screwknives Redwing Trading column specifically for women. I do Trading Post, a vendor present at she could help make knives as well brought to END of TRAIL that year. this because, although this sport is many Cowboy Action Shooting™ as sell them. At first Redwing didn’t There are many steps involved in male dominated, I believe it’s the events. Winter Range 1994 was think she could, but she proved him making a knife. Myra starts each involvement of women that makes it Myra Manes first experience at a wrong, and she continues to make new knife by choosing a blade from really special and unique. We Cowboy Action match. For the first knives today. the stock of blades she and Redwing women bring a certain touch to several years, she just helped her Currently, Myra Manes makes order from blade makers. Myra and Cowboy Action Shooting™ not pres- husband in the store vending while 90% of the Screwknives Redwing Redwing choose to buy their blades ent in other sports. For a while I Redwing was on the range shooting. sells. The Screwknife is a specially from another source to keep the qual- have known a very talented special After a few years, Myra started designed knife used to clear jams, ity high and to have a variety of mate- woman whom I am writing about building knives as well as learning specifically in the 1873, and tighten rials from which to choose. Myra’s this month. to shoot. She now loves every screws in every different type of (Continued on next page) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 45 COWBOY ACTION SHOOTING SPECIAL SHOOTERS PACKAGE

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(Continued from previous page) presses, dremels, and good old elbow When each knife is finished, the SASS she enjoys and in which she favorite blade material is damask. grease. Not only does the process last step after sharpening and pol- excels. Also, like most Cowboy After choosing a blade, Myra take many tools, but there is also a ishing is to number each knife Action Shooters, Myra says the rea- must then choose the right type of variety of safety equipment used. before it is sold. By END of TRAIL son she comes back is because she handle material. Both Myra and For safety, Myra wears a respirator, 2007 Myra had made a total of 864 loves the people she meets. Redwing can make knives to order a heavy-duty apron, a welder’s knives during her career. When I have never met a SASS shooter or knives of their own design. When mask, and gloves. Myra sets out to make a knife, she that didn’t have a wonderful story. If she first began, Myra found it hard When Myra first began, she said says her personal goal is to put out a you are looking for a great story, find to design a knife on her own, but the hardest part of learning to make quality piece of work, making it the Myra Manes, and let her tell you now she finds the creative part easy. knives was learning how to use all best it can be. She says the three about being a female knife maker. I Myra’s choices of handle material the different tools. In the beginning, secrets to making this happen is to guarantee it will be worth your time. include deer and elk antler, leg Myra was down right afraid of the first be safe, next be creative, and If you have questions about this bones, ebony wood, pearly maple, belt sander. But, Myra knew she finally, be inventive. After that article, or if you have an idea or and ivory. Myra’s favorite choice of wanted to make knives, so she con- Myra just tries to have fun. product you think should be brought handle material is leg bone because quered her fears and discovered she Like most Cowboy Action to the attention of women shooters, of the way it looks when she finish- could handle the tools as well as any- Shooters, Myra Manes has found or anyone else, then please email me es the knife. one. Myra says it was a long process something special in the world of at [email protected]. After choosing a blade and han- learning to operate the tools, taking dle material, next the hard part her about 20 knives and three s. begins. In order to fit the blade and months to feel fully comfortable. gun TOP OF THE LINE ur y handle together, each piece has to be Today,Myra doesn’t think twice about yo pla n is SINCE 1957 o r d ground, drilled, and sanded. The using the tools; however, wearing the ng ge e vi u ad whole process takes many different respirator is still her least favorite a R Tr gr & r n lt o power tools from belt sanders, drill part of the fabrication process. E o le C a m S o ed r t v fo s a s u r n C g u n g VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT E WWW.SASSNET.COM

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By Inspector, SASS #41400 me the stability of a wide footprint I needed. With the cart wider than my is a just fact of life. Is there a way up lifting the cart vertically and drag- wheelbase, this made the cart top around this? Let’s investigate. ging it across these obstacles, instead heavy in rough terrain. While it never First, let’s look at what works and of rolling over them. This is rather tipped over on its side, it almost hap- what doesn’t work. I remember years frustrating. pened several times. At these times I ago when I built my first cart I used Very soon after trying the small would have to stop and keep the cart 7" lawn mower wheels. There is only wheels, I graduated to a rear axel from rocking back and forth from one y now we have something that one place this type of wheel will do assembly from a Radio Flyer little red wheel to the other. I have since cor- Blooks like a gun cart, but it is sit- you any good—on your lawn! wagon. This assembly was mounted rected this problem with larger wheels ting on blocks and is looking like an old Small diameter wheels just don’t to the back of my cart vertically. and a wider wheelbase. It is my opin- car that has been sitting in a redneck’s work. They do not have the footprint These wheels were about 11" in diam- ion that solid wheels should be at yard too long. We need some wheels. If to give your cart ground clearance and eter and didn’t do too badly, but since least 14" in outside diameter and at you refer back to the first segment of stability. A small diameter wheel pro- I bolted the entire axel assembly to least have a 16" wheelbase. this article, you will notice in the price duces an angle of approach to an the back of my cart, my wheelbase It is my observation spoke metal list the wheels and axel comprise over obstacle that will catch it and stop the was only about 12". This did give me garden cartwheels, like the ones we half the cost of this project. Sadly, this cart from rolling over it. So, you wind ground clearance, but it did not give (Continued on next page)

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Priced at $360.00 Page 48 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 The Wheelwright

By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life #49907 TG Sucker Creek, Michigan

Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life #49907 Territorial Governor Sucker Creek Michigan

’m a millwright by trade, and I Ienjoy building props for Cowboy Action Shooting™. So when I spy something with Old West appeal, I consider what it would take to man- ufacture it. Wood spoke wheels have just that allure to me, especially those made out of red oak. It says in Ecclesiastes 9:10, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning, nor knowledge, nor wisdom.” At my age I find myself planning more projects than my allotted time may allow. In the old days there were skilled tradesmen known as wheelwrights. They made wood-spoke wheels in all sizes to be used on wagons to wheelbarrows. With the Industrial Revolution, the wood wheels evolved into steel spoke wheels. Today there are a few wheelwrights around. The Amish have helped keep the trade alive I had thought about building wood spoke wheels for some time, so I decided to move the plans to make them to the front burner. I looked at there has come in handy old wagon wheels and at new gun several times. You only cart wheels and asked a few ques- need to layout half the tions. Then, I put my hands to work wheel’s profile in the diam- using the knowledge learned stored eter of your choice. You can up in the old noggin. use a large compass, tram- First thing on the list was to mels, or a string with a pen- check my supply of rough sawn red cil tied to the end. I used oak. (Air dried oak should be three the string and pencil or more years old.) Mostly 2"x10" because I could not remem- wood was used for this project. The ber where I had hid the wood was planed to a little over 1- trammel points. Next 1/2" thick. Then I took a piece of comes the choice of the size paper and laid out the wheel. I am and number of segments in sure glad I stayed awake in drafting the felly. (Felly = “the exte- class. The knowledge I learned (Continued on next page) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 49 ments were sawn where they join to receive a 3/16" by 3/4" piece of wood the height of the Handlebar Doc segment. But, you could just Shooting Schools as well use biscuits. Then, the segments were dry fit. I glued them together using exterior wood glue and “Dap” Acrylic Silicone Clear Caulk. This was all clamped together with a ratchet strap. The center hub was cut around 5-5/8" diameter and the same thickness as the felly, 1-1/2". Then, using a NEW SHOTGUN KNOCK-DOWN TARGET!!! 30°/60° triangle, the hub was laid out with 12 flat sides on Shot at EOT, NE Regional, the outer diameter (or tan- SW Regional and gent) to accommodate the Mule Camp spokes. Pocket screw holes were placed in each 1-1/2" flat to hold spokes in place. After surmising the spoke size, I taper cut them 1-1/2" square Shooting Schools to 1" square. Private Lessons Then the felly was laid out to receive the spokes and drilled. Group Schools The spokes were then turned on One on One Via Video the small end to fit in the felly holes, and each spoke was fitted to Focusing on your a square to round appearance. individual needs The felly, hub, and spokes were dry fitted, then glued, and pocket screw assembled. You can build out the outer hub sides as wide as www.handlebardoc.com wanted using round cut wood. I Handlebar Doc 903-732-5245 - [email protected] used a 6-1/2" x 3/4" thick wood piece on the backside, and on the front I used a piece 1-1/2" thick cut 6-1/2" diameter tapered down to 4- 1/2" diameter. When sanded and installed, it gives the appearance of the real thing. Make sure you think about the hole size of the hub and whether you drill the holes before or after the wheel is assembled. The best way I could figure was to use a drill press, and drill the holes in all the three hub parts, and place the copper pipe into them, then, glue and screw together. I drilled the hub holes 7/8" and used a 3/4" copper pipe as a (Continued from previous page) bushing and 3/4" threaded rod as an rior rim or a segment of the rim of a axle. Bushing and axle size can be wheel supported by spokes.” larger. A strip of sheet metal was Webster’s) Felly segments were made used for the tire, held on with count- 1-1/2" thick and around 2-1/4" for er sunk deck screws. The original height. If your wood is pine or other type tire works better, but requires a finished lumber from a lumberyard, lot more resources. Stain and you may have to cut the felly a little polyurethane varnish finished it off, less than 2-1/4" high if you want to cut or you could paint them. three segments at a time out of a cross The first set of wheels were 40" section. The hub and the number and in diameter, with 8 felly segments size of the spokes are then considered. and 12 spokes. The second set I The type and size of tire will also have made were 36" diameter with six to be thought out. Depending on the felly segments, two spokes per seg- grade of the wood, it takes two to three ment, so I could use the same type 2"x10"x8' boards to get two wheels. hub. I made templates for the felly I divided the felly into 8 segments segments and hub. The wheels look and used 12 spokes because it seemed great, as they are for decorations or more expedient. But I’ve seen wheels can be used as prop wheels. Be sure with 7 segments with two spokes per to adhere to all safety rules when segment and 8 with 2 respectively. I working on projects. rough cut the spokes with a band saw, Hope to see you on the trail - and then used a table saw to finish God bless. taper cut. The ends of the felly seg- [email protected] Page 50 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

DISPATCHES FROM CAMP BAYLOR Winter Range Or The Revenge of the Shotgun Gods

By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life #24287

irst I must mention the fact Gun done by Coyote Cap several Omaha John offered me the loan of Range. Generally when a Stoeger FWinter Range might just be the years ago. It started being unreli- his slicked up Stoeger Coach Gun for breaks at the lugs, it’s history, but best-organized SASS event I’ve ever able a few weeks before Winter the match, I took him up on it. It Cap fixed it. The fact he could fix it attended. I can understand why it Range. No problem, I thought. I’ll worked perfectly once I figured out says a lot for his gunsmithing abili- won the Wooly Award twice. If it just give it to Cap at the match and where the heck it was shooting, ties, which are legend. The fact he doesn’t win this year’s, I certainly shoot backup #1, another Stoeger which took three stages, all of which had to instead of getting another want to attend the match that does. Coach Gun done by Coyote Cap sev- were very ugly. barrel from Stoeger and just fitting Additionally, God cooperated this eral years ago and acquired in a I haven’t figured out what the it says a lot about Stoeger service. time—no floods, no bad weather at trade in 2006. It was working fine heck I’ve done to anger the Shotgun Ruger and Dillon spoil us all. The all. Temperatures went from cold in during my many practice sessions. Gods, but if any of you know what stories of Rugers sent to the factory the morning to warm in the after- Perhaps it was all of the practice ses- offerings I need to make, please let after thousands of competition noon. The sky was blue and clear. sions that wore it out. It broke at the me know, as long as it doesn’t involve rounds and other abuse coming back I have five Cowboy Action front lug during the Plainsman burning an SKB on the top of Mount a few weeks later back to new facto- Shooting™ shotguns. This doesn’t match at Winter Range. I got my Ararat at midnight during a full ry specs are legion. Equally legion make me a candidate for Shotguns second backup; an old Baikal Bounty moon or something like that. are Dillon stories. I have enough to Anonymous, though The Redhead Hunter Cap did several years ago As a follow up, as I’m writing fill this column for a while, such as might disagree. So why did I use a (seeing a trend, are you?), from the this in late March, the first, most their rebuilding my RF100 (primer borrowed shotgun at Winter Range? car and continued. It was hard to badly damaged Stoeger returned tube filler) after Winter Range and My primary is a Stoeger Coach open a couple of times, so when only three weeks after Winter (Continued on next page) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 51

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(Continued from previous page) probably the best Cowboy Action the back of the carrier, behind the past “need.” We’re into “wants” here.) putting a new motor in my CV500 Shooting™ hammer gun ever. But I offending case, and pushed it for- I ordered another ‘73 Codymatic at (vibratory brass cleaner), both at no hadn’t been practicing with a ham- ward, allowing the carrier to rise as the SHOT Show. It was at the charge. Thanks to Randy Shelly for mer gun. Shotgun #5 is a Winchester she closed the lever. Then, she used Taylor’s booth at Winter Range, and his invitation to bring both to the ’97 that Coyote Cap did for me years the tip of the Screw Knife to push in Cody was there to check out my pri- factory after Winter Range. Both are ago. I can’t shoot it in the the loading gate and eject the bad mary ‘73 early Wednesday morning. nine-year-old units. This kind of Frontiersman category. round. If that had been during a He had even sighted the new one in treatment makes us all (a) buy more The Screw Knife match, and the choice was to get 7 or for me, knowing I might be shooting from them, and (b) recommend them I had seen Screw Knives worn by 9 misses or a few seconds to fix the it at Winter Range. to our friends. But Stoeger won’t most of the top guns in SASS. When problem, then the knife would have Cody had told me an interesting work (for pay) on a gun sold before I took Evil Roy’s course, I remember been worthwhile. story at the SHOT Show. A while the current importer, and their war- he made a pitch for them, which So I went to Redwing Trading back he started getting complaints ranty is void if you use the gun in apparently, I dozed through. I could- and bought one. The blade is about Codymatics that weren’t work- competition or have a gunsmith slick n’t quite figure out why everyone Damascus steel and will take a lot of ing right. When he got them in the it up. Additionally, they won’t sell was wearing a knife/screwdriver torque, if you use it as a screwdriver. shop, he could quickly tell he had not parts to qualified gunsmiths like that cost $100 or more. Then I saw Each is hand made, all different. built these guns. Someone was sell- Coyote Cap. Penny Wrangler practicing, and a Redwing attached the only left-handing counterfeit Codymatics! He fixed And to answer the question, “If short round became next up in the ed scabbard in stock to my holster, them all at no charge. Now each you have five shotguns, and three ’73 she was shooting. The bullet had offering to make me a scabbard that Codymatic is signed inside. broke, why did you have to borrow retracted into the split case, allowing matches the color of my Lone Rider Cowtown one?” Shotgun #4 is an excellent the next round to slip partly into the Leather rig. In fact, he bent over I spent the month before Winter hammer double, a Coyote Cap carrier. This locked the gun up. She backwards to insure my satisfaction. Range parked near Ben Avery Commemorative 1887 Coach gun, pulled her Screw Knife, slid it down I was impressed. Shooting Center and Cowtown. Codymatics Cowtown is a very old Cowboy Action I should also mention my satis- Shooting™ venue, 25 years or so. It’s faction with Taylor’s and Cody under the excellent stewardship of VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT Conagher. A basic rule of any compe- the Cowtown Cowboy Shooters WWW.SASSNET.COM tition equipment is if you don’t have Association. The targets are up all a spare, your primary equipment will week, and club members can shoot break. Mr. Murphy (or, as we called any day for free. I don’t know of any him in Vietnam, General Murphy) other place you can go shoot cowboy ADVERTISING INFORMATION rules in all things. My Codymatic any day of the week without hassles ‘73, bought from Taylor’s at the ‘06 or bringing your own targets. I’ve ASK FOR END of TRAIL, had been a fantastic gotten a lot out of putting a few thou- rifle, but the extractor broke at the sand rounds downrange there, often ~ DONNA ~ Texas Regional in ‘07. Thus, I “need- in the company of such champions as (EXT. 118) ed” a spare ‘73. (As I used to tell Hell’s Comin’, Smackwater Jack, and Mercedes’ buyers, we’ve gotten way Larsen E. Pettifogger. Page 52 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

MATCH READY GUNS, PART 1: The Great Western II Custom By Captain George Baylor, SASS #24287 Life

Inside were tuned springs, a coil that will pop all primers. handspring and a smooth action The Evil Roy SAAs are, because done by U.S. gunsmiths, resulting in they were there first, the “baseline” a light, no-creep trigger and light by which new “match ready” SAA hammer pull. I bought a pair in clones are compared. Capt. George Baylor, .38/.357, 4-3/4" at the 2006 SASS The Great Western II Custom SASS #24287 Life Convention. These proved to be Buffalo Sam Peed (Don good buys. Since then I’ve retired Davenport), of EMF, offered me their Baseline and started shooting a lot more. “match ready” gun, the Pietta-made trend to “match ready” Cowboy During the winter my usual routine Great Western II (GWII) Custom. AAction Shooting™ pistols from was to take 300-400 rounds of Fittingly he gave it to me at importers or manufacturers started rifle/pistol ammo and 75-100 rounds The Great Western II Custom, 4-3/4", Tombstone, AZ. Wyatt Earp would’ve blue, real color case hardening, with the Cimarron “Evil Roy,” the oiled checkered walnut grips, good approved. This was a 4-3/4" blued first to hit the market directly from sights, good action and trigger. .38/.357. The real Doug Turnbull an importer. This was an Uberti bone color case hardening just jumps Model P with a big, wide front sight Problems? Virtually none. After out. I pulled out my “Gold Standard” and a wide rear sight notch and 2,000 rounds or so had gone through for judging SAAs, a SASS Colt with well-fitted thin, checkered grips. each gun I noticed a problem popping (Continued on next page) Winchester primers. I knew there was a pad between the mainspring and the mounting screw to lighten the trigger pull. Putting a pad of some sort like this has long been a 1st Generation Colt sights method of lightening the trigger pull. (in this case a Cimarron Model P), The trigger had gotten down below a narrow, tapered front sight, V-notch rear, accurate but hard pound on my old trigger pull gauge. to use quickly. With the pad removed, the trigger pull, as measured on my new Lyman of shotgun ammunition to Cowtown Electronic Trigger Pull Gauge, aver- and return a few hours later with a aged 1 lb., 8.6 oz. It pops all primers lot of brass and hulls. This was now. If you like 1 lb. triggers, then repeated 4-6 times a week, with a you wouldn’t see the trigger of the match or two nearly every weekend. Evil Roys a problem. But then you’d The rounds fired are all blackpow- be limited to Federal primers. For der substitutes. Normally I clean those of you new to the sport, Federal the pistols and rifles every other primers take less pressure to go bang day. I’ll also clean a gun when it than other brands. Gunsmiths light- Groups were made using gets hard to operate. You might call en trigger and hammer pulls. Really Wide, easy to see front sight, a Ransom Rest. this a torture test. I call it practice. good gunsmiths make light triggers wide rear sight notch. June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 53 (Continued from previous page) me). Correctly used, the groups it the gunsmith cut off the base pin to action work and ivory grips by gives are the capabilities of the gun the length to prevent an inadvertent Peacemaker Specialists. The color and ammunition, not the writer, and “safe” condition. The GWII’s base pin case hardening on the GWII looked not the writer’s M1 Pencil. has two notches on one side for the every bit as good. The GWII has a Short answer: latch, not grooves. It fits very tightly case hardened hammer, too. List on Is it accurate enough for in the frame and in the Colt-style this one is $690 in .45 Colt, .44-40, or Cowboy Action Shooting™? removable bushing in the cylinder. .357 mag. in 4-3/4", 5-1/2", and 7-1/2" Yes. It gave good groups with The base pin insertion and removal barrels. It’s also available with ultra several different loads, different bul- was much facilitated by judiciously ivory grips or ultra stag and in bright let weights, and powders, both applied white lithium grease. It got nickel finish. Additionally, without smokeless and smoky, hand loaded easier to remove and reinsert with the case hardening it’s available in .45 and factory. All in all I tested 21 dif- use, but harder than the Uberti. Colt and .357 mag. for $560 list. I ferent loads (the comparison of bul- During one shooting session I tried several fancy GWII Customs at a lets, powders, and loads is the subject thought I’d broken the gun. It wouldn’t vendor’s store. They all have good of its own article). cock reliably. The base pin had slipped hammers and triggers and the good Best six-round group: 0.98 in. cen- out of its notch. Easily fixed. No phone sights of the test gun. Many skeptics ter-to-center (measured with digital call to Buffalo Sam Peed required. assume guns sent to gun writers are calipers), Ten-X 130 gr. (Truncated Pietta apparently does not have hand selected and tuned. While this Cone) .38 Special factory ammunition. on staff the equivalent of Uberti’s 350 might happen, it hasn’t happened to 542 ft./sec., power factor 70. lb. retired weight lifter who tightens me in 20+ years. On the other hand, Other factory ammunition scores: all of the (soft) screws to 400 lb./ft. in I’ve gotten four guns that didn’t work Ten-X 105 gr. TC. – 1.14 in. 393 Red Loctite. I presume he’s getting a right out of the box. Where possible, ft./sec. PF 41(!) little extra in his pay envelope from though, I do go look at similar guns at Great Basin 125 gr. RNFP – 1.56 in. the importers of spare screws for gun stores to eliminate “ringers.” 670 ft./sec. PF 84. Ubertis. In fact, some screws on the Otherwise, externally this one Black Hills 158 gr. SWC – 2.22 in. GWII were a bit loose after the looks a lot like the Evil Roy. It has a 798 ft./sec. PF 126 Ransom Rest session. wide front sight and wide rear sight Ten-X 130 gr. BPS – 2.22 in. 671 When I took Long Hunter’s notch. It has thinned, checkered oiled- ft./sec. PF 87 Shooting School at Buffalo Stampede, I walnut grips. Great Basin 125 gr. RNFP BPS – handed the gun to him and asked his Why thinned grips? They provide 2.15 in. 525 ft./sec. PF 66. opinion. He couldn’t find anything a better grip. Why checkering? We Observations wrong with it and pronounced it a good don’t shoot them like the shooters of I do six-round groups because gun. As a SASS-renowned gunsmith, the Old West. Their grips were occasionally (more often than we’d he can find more things wrong than I designed for the gun to ride up in like to admit), you get fliers with a can. It turns out he had spent some recoil to help absorb the recoil of 250 revolver. If that happens I redo the time with Allesandro Pietta (Alche- gr. bullets at 850 ft./sec. We’re trying test and try to find out if it’s the same mista) and made some suggestions for to shoot really fast using light, wimpy chamber giving the flier. If it is, some- improving Pietta SAAs. Obviously his loads I still wouldn’t want coming at thing’s wrong with that chamber. If suggestions were acted on. me. So checkered grips that are thin it’s just a hair off line, it’ll shave lead Shooting enough for us to really get a good hold off the edge of the bullet going into the When I practice, I now take one are desired. barrel, and that bullet will wobble in Evil Roy and the GWII. I’m using This is bad for the aftermarket flight, causing it to deviate from the them in regular practice, and I’m quiet- grips industry. Even worse, they are others, thus adding to the legend of ly looking for weak points, to see if they very well fitted. the stealth bullet. I was happy to note break in normal use. The Evil Roy has I got out the Lyman Electronic I didn’t have this situation with any of a serious head start. So far nothing’s Trigger Pull Gauge. An average of 10 the loads tested. This told me those broken, and so far it’s really hard to tell equaled 1 lb., 14.6 oz. For comparison little holes in that round thingie were the guns apart when shooting them. I pulled out an untuned Cimarron pretty accurately drilled. The gun Picking nits, the only complaint I have Model P—3 lb., 13.4 oz. locks up solidly. The timing is perfect. is it’s often hard to get empties out of It looks gorgeous, The trigger is crisp. The hammer the GWII. If it were my pistol, I’d flex but how does it shoot? doesn’t have rub marks or scratches hone the cylinders to solve it. Not a I took the gun to the range at from hitting the frame. When I disas- biggie. My plan is to keep shooting Cowtown, north of Phoenix, Arizona. sembled the grip frame to remove the them and report on how they hold up Cowtown is open to members during one-piece grips for mounting the gun in a future “Dispatches from Camp the week, so I could set up the Ransom in the Ransom Rest, I discovered a coil Baylor.” Future tests include the Rest and Oehler 35P chronograph handspring. This, as Martha Stewart Taylor’s Smoke Wagon and a USFA (provided by Brownells) without inter- says, “is a good thing.” It’s consider- Rodeo prepped by Long Hunter (okay, ference. Cowtown’s stages face a ably harder to break a coil spring than it’s not sold directly by the manufactur- steep hill, and I could only set the tar- a leaf spring. er, but Long Hunter is the outlet for get up 15 yards away instead of my The Italian SAA clones’ base pins tuned Rodeos). Then the plan is to top usual 25. I put up a target stand have a double groove or notch “safety.” the comparison off with what might be designed to hold IPSC targets firmly Pushed in to the first groove, the gun the most accurate, well built SAA clone but allow quick target replacement. works. Pushed into the second groove, to date, the (understandably more The targets don’t move. The gun, the gun is “safe.” More accurately, it is expensive) STI Texican. mounted on a Ransom Rest returned incapable of being fired. The base pin Conclusions to zero after each shot. This means is preventing the hammer from falling The Great Western II Custom is groups listed here (a) actually existed, completely. This is crude, but effective “match ready” out of the box. It looks and (b) are repeatable. Any gun at meeting the letter of the law. good, feels good, and shoots great. writer who uses hand held groups is Whether this is safe or not depends on SASS matches and championships fudging. Better writers than I have what happens if you are unable to are won every day with guns no more pointed out that, while you might be make the gun go bang when the boo- modified than this. You don’t have to able to shoot good groups for a while, gieman is charging you waving a find a gunsmith you trust and wait you probably can’t do repeatable machete over his head. But, it does nine months for the gun’s return. groups all day. keep the federal bureaucrats occu- Buyers of this gun just need to get one The Ransom Rest doesn’t care pied. (Evil Roy told me the only mod- from their local six-gun purveyor. how well you shoot (a good thing for ification made to his guns was to have Heck of a deal. Page 54 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

High Doom in the Andes By Bob Boze Bell, SASS #50,000

NOVEMBER 6, 1908

Two heavily armed “Americanos, on Last known photograph jaded mules” ride into the high mountain of Butch and Sundance Goertz village of San Vicente, Bolivia. As the sun (above) in the Bolivian binoculars Andes, c. 1907. Butch is Gray, narrow, is setting, Butch and Sundance rein in at astride his mule and soft-brimmed, the home of Bonifacio Casasola. A Sundance is tending his. felt hats village official, Cleto Bellot, approaches Notice they are wearing the same style outfits the strangers and asks what they want. shown in the Cholila “An inn,” they tell him. ranch photo taken four Bellot informs the strangers there are years earlier (right, Sundance Kid, Ethel no inns in San Vicente, but that Casasola Place and Butch can put them up and sell them fodder for Cassidy). This 1903 photo was sent to a family member and their mules. remained in the family for many years until it was published in 1992. After tending to their animals and –CHOLILA RANCH PHOTO: COPYRIGHTED BY PAUL D. ERNST – unloading their gear, Butch and Sundance join Bellot in their room, which opens onto Casasola’s walled patio. The Americans ask Bellot about the road to Santa Catalina, an Argentine town just south of the border (this was probably a ruse to throw off any pursuing posses) and the road to Uyuni (their real path), located about 75 miles north of During the Aramayo holdup, Peró said the bandits were carrying San Vicente. They also ask where they “Goertz trihedral binoculars” can get sardines and beer, and Bellot (above). The inventory taken after sends Casasola to buy some with money the outlaws’ deaths noted only one The Last Supper: Sardines & Beer. saddle (an English saddle at that). provided by Sundance. Perhaps Butch used a makeshift After more small talk, Bellot leaves saddle, or maybe someone purloined and goes to the home of Manuel Barran, Torres in the neck. Torres gets off a shot The next morning, Bellot and others enter his saddle before the inventory. where a four-man posse from Uyuni is with his rifle, then runs out the patio door the room and see Butch’s lifeless form staying. The posse rode in that and collapses at a nearby house. He dies stretched out on the floor, one bullet wound afternoon, warning Bellot and other within minutes. in the temple and another in the arm. locals to be on the lookout for two The other soldier and Inspector Rios also Sundance’s corpse sits on a bench behind the Yankees with a mule belonging to the return fire, before they scurry out with door, hugging a large ceramic jar. He has Aramayo mining company, whose Bellot. After retrieving more ammunition, been shot once in the forehead and several payroll was recently robbed. the two return and fire into the house through times in the arm. According to one report, The posse consists of Capt. Justo P. the patio door. the bullet removed from Sundance’s Concha, two soldiers from the Abaroa By now, it’s dark. Captain Concha runs up forehead came from Butch’s Colt. From the Regiment and Inspector Timoteo Rios and commands Bellot to find some locals positions of the bodies and the locations of from the Uyuni police department. who can watch the roof and the back of the the fatal wounds, the witnesses conclude that Captain Concha is unavailable when adobe house so the bandits don’t punch a Butch put his partner out of his misery, then Butch and Sundance, high in the Andes. Bellot arrives. When Bellot tells his news hole and escape. As Bellot rushes to comply, turned his gun on himself. to Inspector Rios and the two soldiers, he hears “three screams of desperation” The bodies of Butch and Sundance were they immediately load their rifles. coming from the bandits’ room. buried in the local cemetery that afternoon. Bob Boze Bell is the Accompanied by Bellot, the three The San Vicenteños are finally at their The Aramayo payroll was found intact in their executive editor of True West magazine posse members march to Casasola’s posts, but the firing has ceased and all saddlebags. Once the outlaws’ possessions and the author of six home and enter the patio. As the is quiet. Minutes turn into hours, had been inventoried, Capt. Concha illustrated books Bolivians approach the bandits’ room, and there’s no response from the fugitives. absconded to Uyuni with the lot, leaving the about the Old West. Butch appears in the doorway, draws his The guards remain at their stations Aramayo company to battle for months in He writes a daily Colt and fires, hitting lead soldier Victor throughout the bitterly cold and windy night. court to recover its money and mule. blog at twmag.com June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 55

LITTLE KNOWN FAMOUS PEOPLE WAY OUT WEST – PHIL GILBERT By Joe Fasthorse Harrill, SASS #48769 Joe Fasthorse Harrill, SASS #48769

HIL GILBERT owned a shoe store Pin Vicksburg, Mis- sissippi in 1884. He was the first person to offer boots in pairs for sale in boxes, one for the left foot and one for the right foot. Before Gilbert, boots were made to fit either foot and sold separately. Page 56 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 57 Page 58 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

THEBUFFALORANGERIDERS… RIDE AGAIN! By Sierrita Slim, SASS #4054 Regulator, Territorial Governor, MRO Instructor

ew Mexico’s weather proved too with Deadwood Danny about the horses Nmuch for our scheduled March and carts. Mike is a world champion Mounted Shooting match, so it was Pioneer Cart shooter and made a spe- rescheduled. Then, it snowed a week cial trip to help explain our game to before, and we put it off again. Danny and answer any questions she Doggone, we were anxious to get into had. Thanks Mike. It was nice of you to that nice arena! We rescheduled it once break loose long enough to come visit! more for the 30th of March, the last day Cimarron Lou is the “promoter” for we could have it before it would be an SASS’ Founders Ranch and has agreed April match! Well, the weather held, to run the monthly activities of the and Jack Diamond worked the arena Buffalo Range Riders Mounted this like a pro! The new tilling equipment year. Not only does she own and ride a hadn’t arrived yet, so Jack used the old couple of horses with her husband, but gear, but he sure made the arena pretty she’s local and has access to the ranch. for us. The wind kicked up a little bit, That way she can check on the condi- but we kept the cones up and the bal- tion of the arena and all the other horse loons flopping in the breeze (except for facilities at the ranch. We’re all pitch- during one BIG gust!). ing in to help, and Cheyanne Pink has My daughter, Morning Dove, and I the experience to be the head timer. arrived the afternoon before, and after Cheyanne is the wife of Mounted dropping off the horses, headed into Shooter Ted E. Lee, one of our Mounted town for a visit with Rio Paolini. He’s Range Officers. We’ve got a few family a Mounted Shooting pard of ours and and friends to inflate the balloons for owns , a mercantile representing the us, and we all set the balloons from best in the west, cowboy, and western horseback. It’s great calming exercises gear of all types. He’d ordered a couple for the horses, and it keeps us all busy. of new custom hats for Morning Dove, We warmed up a while, taking a and they were “in.” Boy, are they some- little extra time to stretch out, and by thing too, fit great, and really set off about 1:00 o’clock we were burning my little girl’s outfits! Then, we head- powder. We took turns picking a num- ed to the “County Line” for a juicy beef- ber “between 10 and 30” or “31 and 45” steak and good company. After finish- each time we had to set a stage, and ing the meal, we drove back to ended up with some challenging cours- Founders Ranch and a peaceful night’s es that took skill to maneuver sleep under clear New Mexico skies. through. It was great fun, and we only As we slept, a blanket of bright twin- had one rodeo look like it was going to kling stars signaled a bright sunny day Suzy Q is about to shoot a balloon! start up, but the horse settled down and continued through the course lay ahead of us for the match. without incident. At first light the horses were fed You could sure tell some folks have and watered in plenty of time to digest been practicing since last year because a little hay before carrying us around a few of our members have gotten the arena. Then, we went through the more comfortable and have sped up routine of breakfast, and getting into quite a bit! Stuttering Wayne on his our Old West outfits for the day’s activ- Icelandic mount has really stepped up ities. Others started to arrive before his pace. The big surprise for some of too long, the first truck held Canonero the members was Morning Dove, our and Six Gun Cynner. It was good to see Junior rider. She chose not to play vol- old friends again after the winter’s leyball, basketball, or run track at chill has passed. We had 12 riders in school this year so she’d have appro- all, making the cut for an official points priate time to ride her new horse, Roy. earning match. Also, winning a full Then, in January she went to see Dan Division would count toward a move- Byrd and Outlaw Annie for training. up and the points toward year-end What a difference the combination of prizes! Division 2 and Ladies Division expert coaching and time in the saddle 1 each totaled five shooters. Division 1 made! Just the week before our and Juniors were also represented. match, Morning Dove was the Ladies Deadwood Danny, a new member, Overall Champion at the SASS came along to expose her cart pulling Western National Championship in ponies to gunfire and watch all the fun. Tombstone, Arizona! Most of the mem- She brought along her daughter and bers hadn’t seen her ride that well, granddaughter since they’re all into the and she gave us all a good dusting horses and carts. Nuevo Mike and before the day was through! Cinnamon Lucy came after a while. The overall winner for the Buffalo Personal business made them unavail- Range Riders monthly Mounted able for the entire day, but they came for Shooting match was our Junior rider, Stuttering Wayne mid-way through the run-down. a visit so Mike could spend time talking (Continued on next page) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 59

Rio Paolini of www.crazyhorsewest.com starts the run-down with a “hit!”

(Continued from previous page) We pitched in with the work to close Morning Dove. Stuttering Wayne took up the arena and put all the gear away, Division 1. Sierrita Slim won Division 2 everyone feeling fulfilled by our mounted with Chili Cowboy, Canonero, Rio activities for the day. After hanging Paolini, and Gundog Bob filling out the around for awhile visiting with good Division. Ladies Division 1 competition friends, we headed up and moved ‘em ended with Six Gun Cynner earning a out, starting the trek home for another win towards a move-up. It was a hard week of work, school, and remembering fought victory over Kat Knik, Sun fondly the time we had at SASS’ Willow, Sassy Susie Q, and Ice Lady. Founders Ranch, reliving the Old West! Page 60 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

BEFORE THE “GUNFIGHT AT TOMBSTONE”

By Sierrita Slim, SASS #4054 Regulator, Territorial Governor MRO Instructor

e rode up to the Tombstone the hillside the Livery sets on sure- WLivery just before dark on a ly makes you appreciate the open Wednesday. It had been a long and country. Makes you wonder how the nearly uneventful ride from south- old timers got along during the fron- east New Mexico. The only hitch in tier days without all the conven- our giddy-up was when I did a iences we had like the RV hookups perimeter check on the horse trailer at the Livery. First things first, our while we stopped in Deming for horses got fed and watered before lunch. That’s when I discovered doing the same for myself! some varmint had put a couple of Once the sun was up far enough nails on the trail we used. They laid for the town Marshal’s office to open an ambush for my right rear tire up, our daughter, Morning Dove, and their aim was true. Just 30 SASS #7889, and I drove three miles pounds of air made me change to the into town to get permits. Yep, now a spare. Somebody was sure watching days you need a permit to ride out for me because just a mile or so horseback into Tombstone! Didn’t down the road and that tire would use to, but times sure change! I have blown somewhere along the heard tell the event responsible for highway instead of in a big flat initiating the permits occurred Royal Bandit rides through parking lot! After getting a new when some local horseback cowboys Tombstone. spare tire and talking my wife, (the inebriated kind) chased tourists Sweetface, SASS #7888, out of the along the boardwalks! Well, per- a dirt street, we crossed pavement, Wal-Mart, we headed west again. haps times haven’t changed all that an open field, and a couple of city In the “wash,” Morning Dove Next stop … Tombstone! in the foreground. much after all! The folks at the blocks before hitting the dirt covered Arriving just after the Hugin- Marshal’s office were right nice streets where we rode along waving kiss wagons from the four corners Arizona desert, and Max was right folks, as the permit didn’t cost noth- at tourists who scrambled to get pic- area of Colorado, we weren’t the handy with a spare set of straight in’, and we were on our way in two tures of this band of Mounted only ones setting up camp. iron stakes that held against the shakes of a coyote’s tail! Shooters. We rode tall in the saddle, Renewing old friendships and meet- wind just fine! Back to the Livery and six of us smiled, waved, and stopped for some ing some new folks too, we were Thursday was the last day saddled up for the ride to ready for a great weekend in no time before the Gunfight At Tombstone, town, Morning Dove, at all! Panama Max was our neigh- SASS’ Western National Champion- Andy Shotwell, Canyon bor, and durn lucky it was too. My ship of Mounted Shooting, and we Cowgirl, Royal Bandit, screw-type anchor stakes for the had plans! Starting the day with a Helza Poppin, and yours awning wouldn’t penetrate the beautiful view toward Mexico from truly, Slim! We headed through a break in the east fence and followed the wash for a spell before cutting southward along a telegraph line. We crossed hills and dry riverbeds walking, can- tering, and galloping our way toward the same Palace Saloon frequented Helza Poppin with the horses. by Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and so small kids who got real excited at many others who left sweat and this scene right out of a movie. We blood on the streets of Tombstone. rode past the same Palace Saloon As we neared the town, it and Bird Cage Theater where so seemed our path was taking us past many legends were made! Turning the town, so we cut our own trail back we stopped at the Palace and across an ocotillo-covered hillside, tied up to the hitch rail out front. ducking and weaving through the Leaving Helza Poppin with the hors- sharp spines. Helza Poppin manes and curious tourists, the rest of us aged to get her arm stuck a few went inside to a sit-down lunch. The OK Corral with (L-R) Slim, Morning Dove, Canyon Cowgirl, times and shed some of her own Why the young-uns even had sass- Royal Bandit, Andy Shotwell, and Helza Poppin. blood just getting to town! Riding up (Continued on next page) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 61

Livery, I spied some metal sticking City, a fine restaurant as well as one out of the small stones and gravel in of the match sponsors. Then, back to the bottom of the wash. Curious as camp again for a nice visit by the to what it would be, I halted Buddy campfire before bed. Some of the and hopped to the ground. Bending Huginkiss group went to town for the over I carefully removed the rusted late “spirit tour” of Tombstone. I’d remains of a small miner’s shovel tell you about it, but that’s another that would have fit in saddlebags or whole (ghost) story! Our weekend in a pack quite easily. I reckon there’s Tombstone sure was off to a great still treasure in them thar hills, and start! Pleasant dreams and tomor- I found me some for sure! row we’ll be burning powder and Once back at camp, we unsaddled busting balloons at the Tombstone and brushed our trusty steeds before Livery! Fine people and a truly won- turning them loose in their pens. derful facility, it still looked like a Next, we cleaned up a mite and drove fight was coming. I heard the to town for some shopping before a Clantons and McLaurys are gunning tender and delicious steak at Six Gun for us and they’re wearing guns!

Slim and Morning Dove with horses. Palace Saloon in the background.

The ocotillo covered hill.

(Continued from previous page) camera. The friendly man agreed, parillas! If you took away the mod- and with all six of us side by side in ern dressed tourists, the view of us the streets of Tombstone, we record- sitting there in the Palace set a scene ed the scene. Heading back the way that could have been mistaken for a we came, our horses moved eagerly, different time period, indeed. knowing we were headed back for After giving Helza Poppin a the trailers. My little mustang, break or two for her drink, we Buddy, has a ground-covering walk mounted up and rode out of town. that took us far ahead of the others, Stopping once more for a friendly so we turned and galloped back to tourist’s camera, I asked for the check on them a few times. Making favor of taking a picture with my the turn which would take us to the Page 62 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

e e TOO DANG FRANK, POPPA JOE, SASS #610 SASS LIFE # 31985 By Hannibal Von Stormer, SASS #22538

February 20, 1939 ~ March 24, 2008 After many prayers from his shooting pointers and not have it amigos, and the faithful attention of sound like advice! By Slash 8, SASS #51146 his son Gary, our good friend Poppa Joe (Joseph Smith) passed away Words from Marty Robbins’ August 15th, 2006 after a long ill- Gunfighter Ballad, “Utah Carol,” come ness at age of 76. to mind when I think of my friend, Too As a lifelong and retired police- Dang Frank (aka T. Frank Pinder, II): man from Southern California, “And now my friends you ask me, Poppa Joe spent the fun time in his What makes me sad and still, life as an avid competitor in all of And why my brow is darkened, the shooting sports. He shot trap, Like the clouds upon the hill. pistol, and was a well known cham- “Run in your pony closer, pion at high powered rifle. I believe, And I’ll tell to you my tale, for obvious reasons, his number one Of ‘Too Dang Frank’ my partner, favorite shooting sport was Cowboy And his last ride on the trail. Action Shooting™. “We rode the range together, My cowboy pals and I first met An rode it side by side; was known by Cowboys and Cowgirls Poppa Joe at “The Great Northern” I loved him like a brother, all over this part of the East Coast. during Joe’s first year shooting as an An I wept when ‘Too Dang’ died.” During the week, as owner and opera- Elder Statesman. Those of us that Frank grew up on the Eastern tor of Kentech Marine, he would haul were lucky enough to be in his posse Shore of Maryland, in the county of boats from Maine to Florida. enjoyed watching him take high Kent, the state’s smallest. Everything “Finances my Cowboy shooting,” he honors in the Top Gun he loved was within easy reach. He would say—but the weekends were competition. had a pony as a kid and never lost his Cowboy Action Shooting™!! Poppa Joe was It is a fine thing when once in a love of horses. Surrounded by water on At all of the matches, he arrived funny as hell great while an extraordinary indi- three sides, boats were both passion early to ‘set steel’ or do whatever last and was such vidual shares in your fun and and business. Driving over the minute things needed to be done. And, a gentleman extends the hand of friendship. Chesapeake Bay Bridge going to or he stayed late to help with the tear- he could give Poppa Joe Smith was a living coming from a Cowboy Shoot, he would down and put-away. During the us dumb embodiment of the “Spirit of the point out half a dozen boats on the Bay match, he was constantly in motion. greenhorns Game,” a classic gentleman in every and tell me their make, model, cost, As an RO-II he would run the clock or various, sense, and a true Elder Statesman. current speed in knots, and how much serve as Posse Leader, if asked. helpful Via con Dios, Amigo! fuel they consumed at that speed, and Always a willing spotter, he also picked having sold, surveyed, and hauled up brass and reset targets, worked them all at one time or another, it was either table, coached and encouraged a no BS; he really knew! new or young shooter … whatever! I But, our conversation to and from used to get tired just watching him!! November of 2005. In 2006 we shot the readily took as much as he gave. matches was mainly ‘war stories’ from Frank and I belonged to the same first Saturday of every other month— Please don’t misunderstand me … Too our respective military careers. He local gun club, the Delmarva Sports- averaging 25 shooters per match. By Dang Frank was serious about his began as a United States Marine and man’s Association (DSA). Coming 2007 we were officially recognized as a shooting as evidenced by his perform- never lost his love for the Corps, even home from a Cowboy Match one SASS affiliated club, shot every month ance at the Maryland State Cowboy though most of his time was as a sol- Saturday in 2005, we hatched the idea that year, and averaged 36 shooters a Action Shooting™ matches in 2006 dier in the Maryland Army National of starting a new Cowboy Posse at month with a growing reputation for and 2007. He was the Maryland State Guard. In the Guard he rose to the top DSA. We found a ton of steel targets providing great lunches as part of the Senior Duelist Champion two years in of the enlisted ranks, Sergeant Major. (literally) at a gun club on the other shoot! The first quarter of 2008 we a row, buckles he wore and displayed If ever there was an American patriot, side of the Bay for sale cheap because have averaged 38 shooters and con- with pride. Frank was it! And as such, he always they could no longer shoot steel out- ducted an RO-I & -II Course that In spite of all of the time he spent made sure the Stars and Stripes were side, hemmed in by a housing develop- trained 29 Cowboys/girls in the fine in work and play, family was still his flying and our Cowboy Shoots began ment and golf course. We bought it, points of a SASS match. Our instruc- top priority. Too Dang Frank was a with the Pledge of Allegiance—always! and Frank hauled it back to DSA on tor was Tennessee Slim, hosted for the good and faithful husband to his wife, And, he would question the Match one of his big boat hauling trailers. It weekend by Too Dang Frank. I men- Kay; a good father to his sons, Frank, Director of other Posses if this was not was the first of several hundred dollars tion all of this, because if it were not for III and Jeff (aka J.P. Hawke) and his done at their range! he donated to our cause. Frank, there would be no Cowboy Posse daughter, Lori; and a good grandfather On a good month Too Dang Frank Frank was generous to a fault. on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. to his six grandchildren. would shoot eight different Cowboy With the help of Nanticoke, SASS In our matches, Frank made it a I started with some lines from Matches at eight different #16530, we built stands and were in crusade to be safe … and have fun! He Marty Robbins Ballad, “Utah Carol.” locations: in Maryland, business. With what name? We both had little tolerance for anyone who I’ll close with some other lines from Delaware, Pennsylvania, liked “Renegades,” and since we were brought a heavy, must win attitude to that same song, again taking the liber- New Jersey, Virginia, or the only Cowboy Action Shooting™ the match. “It’s a game,” he would say. ty of substituting “Too Dang” Frank West Virginia. Club on the Eastern Shore of “We do this because we enjoy the Old for the name “Utah,” who dies in a cat- Saturday and Maryland that seemed a shoo-in ~ West, and shooting firearms from that tle stampede: Sunday, if there Eastern Shore Renegades ~ but it was era, it’s a way to have fun!” And have “And on his funeral mornin’, was a match Frank alone who made it “Eas’dern fun he did. In local level shoots, he I heard the preacher say, within a three- Shore Renegades.” He had a great was merciless in ragging those he ‘I hope we’ll all meet Too Dang, hour drive, he sense of humor, which he injected into knew could take it when they missed a at the roundup far away.’” was there. every match he shot. shot or got nailed for a procedural. Yeh, Pard, I hope so, too. We sure He knew and We started with nine Shooters in And, in the best Spirit of the Game, he miss you. June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 63

e e SINGLE DECK, SASS #61134 Silver City Bill, June 18, 1940 - March 19 2008 By Dollar Bill, SASS #57784 SASS #48276 December 24, 1924 – March 31, 2008 Single Deck, aka Anthony Lee “Papa” Jensen, passed away peacefully and was called to his heavenly home A REAL COWBOY AND March 19, 2008. Lee, as he was called by everyone who knew him, fought a TRUE GENTLEMAN courageous battle against congestive heart failure and pulmonary fibrosis. By Trinity River Red, SASS #73216 Single Deck was one of those hand- fuls of people that entered my life, Silver City Bill, aka Bill Cutter making my life better for it. Born in passed away March 31, 2008 at his Montpelier, Idaho, he graduated from home in Belmont North, NSW, Idaho State University with a degree Australia. Born in Dallas, Texas, he in design engineering. In 1965 he grew up in Texas and New Mexico. moved to Albuquerque, NM, where he After a stint in the Navy in WWII, he attended the University of New Mexico attended medical school at the majoring in Astrophysics. He retired University of Washington. He prac- from Sandia National Laboratories anything else he had accomplished in ticed general surgery in California where he was a member of the techni- his life. Many times when he and I until 1980 when he decided to make cal staff. Prior to moving to Albu- would leave a practice session at the his home in Australia. He lived his querque, he worked in the aerospace range, he would comment on how life to the full and enjoyed such industry designing rocket boosters for much pleasure he got from his involve- activities as skiing, sailing, and the Minute Man missile systems and ment with Cowboy Action Shooting™. mountain climbing. the Saturn V rocket booster. Single Deck was a member of the Rio It was in Australia that Silver Single Deck was an avid fly fisher- Grande Renegades and the Magdalena City Bill found his passion for “the man and loved to fish the streams of Trail Drivers. Game.” He joined the Newtec Northern New Mexico and Idaho. He Last September 2007 was really Teralba Club and competed in accomplished many things in his life. the last time Lee was able to partici- matches as an Elder Statesman. L. For example, he was an instrument pate in a SASS match. He was on oxy- D., SASS #10342, shares this story rated private pilot amassing about gen 24/7 and in a great deal of pain about Silver City Bill. 3,000 hours flight time. He rebuilt a with a hip that needed to be replaced. When my husband, Mister Skye, “basket case” Piper Pacer airplane that He couldn’t walk very far because of SASS #5123, was taken ill on the he and his beloved wife, Sharon, flew his breathing problems and failing Range, Silver City Bill had it all in to the hospital. I was telling him from one end of the country to the heart. But, he had a fighting spirit and control. If it wasn’t for him, Mister about Silver City Bill, and the para- other. He was an accomplished silver was the scorekeeper for the Magdalena Skye might not be with me now. How medic said to me, “Well in all my smith, and he enjoyed woodworking, Trail Drivers three-day match, can you thank someone enough for years as an Ambulance Paramedic, I making clocks, dulcimers, harps, and “Shootout in Old Magdalena.” that? When the ambulance came, I have never met a Doctor standing telescopes. When his health He is survived by is loving wife introduced the driver to Silver City there in Cowboy Clothes and with a began to fail, he flew radio- Red River Rose, SASS #77413, his Bill and said he was the doc- PAIR of SIX GUNS on his hips; it controlled airplanes. He was daughter Cynthia, and his grand- tor. The driver shook Bill’s was beautiful.” Then I replied to also an excellent cook. daughters Norah and Samantha. hand and asked a few him, “You have just met a REAL In 2004 he joined Single Deck will be missed by questions (his face a COWBOY.” the Single Action many people who knew him. He was little in disbelief.) I Silver City Bill is survived by his Shooting Society, the brother I never had. He was my was in the front seat partner, Wendy Church, and his four which he truly friend and I will miss him. ‘Till we with the driver children, Randy, Valerie, Greg, and enjoyed as much meet again, Amigo, may God hold you while on the way Trinity River Red, aka Jillian. or more than in the palm of His hand. Page 64 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

WILLIAM F. “BUFFALO BILL” CODY SHOWING THE WEST AS HE SAW IT TO THE WORLD By Tuolumne Lawman, SASS Life #6127

the nineteenth century,America a base, he scouted for Tuolumne Lawman, was healing from a bloody civil George Armstrong Custer SASS #6127 war. The railroads had just for several years. spanned the continent. The This is the time when he ground trembled from the cities of the East were overflow- America began to expand Tthundering hooves of the six ing with burgeoning masses. westward almost exponen- frantically galloping draft horses. America was undergoing an tially. The Union Pacific Atop the driver’s box, the bearded, industrial revolution. Immi- Railroad pushed westward dusty teamster furiously whipped grants flowed into the melting from Saint Louis to join the the team pulling the Deadwood pot of North America. The tide Central Pacific Railroad Stage. Next to him, the lanky “shot- of humanity was spreading growing eastward from gun guard” faced to the rear. He west from the Mississippi River. Sacramento, California. In aimed down the gleaming barrel of Cody knew the West would soon 1869, the two railroads met his trusty 1873 Winchester, from disappear forever. Let us first at Promontory Point, Utah. under the brim of a ten-gallon som- take a brief look at the man and The transcontinental rail- brero. “Boom, boom, boom,” the his own role in the West. way was a reality. Rail- Winchester belched smoke again and Buffalo Bill was born roads were beginning to again, at the pursuing party of fierce, William Frederick Cody on crisscross the West. The whooping Indians. Just as it seemed February 26, 1845 in Scott huge construction crews the painted braves would overtake County, Iowa. Bill was the required large amounts of the hapless coach, a loud bugle call fourth born of five girls and fresh meat as they worked pierced the din. A squad of blue-coat- three boys in the family of Issac their way across the plains. ed troopers on powerful chestnut and Mary Cody. Following the In 1867, Cody went to work horses had appeared at a full-on gal- death of Bill’s older brother, as a meat hunter for the lop. The cavalry had arrived, just in Samuel, in a horseback riding Kansas Pacific Railroad, the nick of time. At the head of this accident while showing off to earning the princely sum of relief column was a tall figure with a the girls at the local school yard William F. Cody later in life. $500 a month. During this goatee and steely eyes. He wearing in 1852, Cody’s father Issac period Cody earned the white buckskins and riding a magnif- decided to sell the farm and head for In the fall of 1857, Bill took a job nickname “Buffalo Bill Cody.” It icent white stallion with a flowing the Gold Rush in California. After on a supply wagon train taking beef stemmed from a bet with Billy mane and long tail. The feathered encountering broke, disheartened to the army units that were forming Comstock where Cody killed 69 warriors that weren’t gunned down ex-miners returning east on the up to go to Utah and fight the Buffalo in one day, as opposed to in the army’s fusillade turned and trail, however, Issac moved the fami- Mormons. It was during this trip Comstock’s 43. In that one year, Cody fled. As one, the audience rose cheer- ly to Kansas instead. Bill reportedly killed his first man, is said to have killed 4,280 buffalo. ing, stamping their feet, and clapping By the mid-1850’s, Kansas and an Indian, in a party attacking the In 1869 Cody was again scouting with a thunderous applause. Buffalo Missouri were hotbeds of pro- and group. At twelve years old, Cody was for the Army. During this time, Cody Bill Cody, last of the frontier scouts, anti-slavery conflict. Bill spent his developing a taste for adventure. In first attained fame when Ed Judson Prince of the Plains, had arrived to formative years in this cauldron of 1860, Cody joined the fledgling Pony (writing under the pen name of “Ned save the day. violence and intrigue. In 1854, Bill’s Express as a rider taking mail to Buntline”) published a dime novel “Buffalo Bill” Cody was a gen- father was stabbed while giving an California. Almost every trip was an about Cody called Buffalo Bill, King uine hero of the American West. anti-slavery speech. He was secretly adventure or a close scrape of some of the Border Men. This started a Early on, however, he knew the West moved to his brother’s house in Ohio kind. At his mother’s insistence, deluge of legends and stories about was changing. Cody loved the West, to convalesce and to hide from the Cody finally quit and returned home. Cody. Cody continued his adven- and wanted others to be able to expe- pro-slavery faction that was looking In 1861, Cody joined the Union tures with periods of scouting and rience it before it was all gone. He to finish him off. During this period Army as a scout. In 1863, he was hunting buffalo. In1872, he took the attempted to preserve and share his Bill had to step in and become a man assigned as a spy behind Confe- Russian Grand Duke Alexis on a buf- “Wild West” with the entire country before his time. Bill carried mes- derate lines. In 1865 when Cody falo hunt. Alexis tried to kill a buffa- and even the world. He did this sages between Kansas and Ohio for demobilized, he became a stagecoach lo with a pistol, and it was only through his “Wild West Shows.” the family, and even had to use a driver. By 1866, he saved some Cody’s intervention of handing the Buffalo Bill did more to propagate double-barreled pistol to stand off a money, married Louisa Frederici, Duke Cody’s own rifle, and getting the image of the West than any other drunken man looking to kill his and opened a boarding house with him within ten feet of the buffalo, person of the times. invalid father. His father never fully her in St. Louis, Missouri. Cody that got Alexis the kill. To understand Buffalo Bill and recovered, and finally died in 1857. tired of the inactivity, and rejoined In 1872, Cody experienced the his wild west shows, you must con- Only 12 years old, Bill had to take the army as a scout on the frontier. stage for the first time. He accompa- sider the times. In the later part of the part of the man in the family. While he used the boarding house as (Continued on next page) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 65

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(Continued from previous page) ing from the East. The railroads had Plains and Rocky Mountains num- cavalry pursued the Sioux in the nied Judson (Buntline) to a theatri- acquired 130 million acres of public bered about 250,000 at this time. area of War Bonnet Creek. On July cal adaptation of a Judson Buffalo land from the government as they The Indians resented the displace- 17th, 1876 Cody engaged in one-on- Bill story in New York. Cody was built the transcontinental railroad ment by the white tide. They had one combat with the Sioux Chief captivated and soon began his own system. This was sold to settlers to been warring with the encroaching Yellow Hand. When Cody Killed presentations of “Scouts of the make towns and raise revenues for white settlers all along. Yellow Hand, he scalped the chief Plains” with fellow legends such as the railroads. In the last 30 years of Probably the most publicized and is said to have shouted, “The Wild Bill Hickok and Texas Jack the nineteenth century, Americans battles of the era was the massacre first scalp for Custer!” Omohundro. It was thoroughly ama- had spread over 430 million acres. of George Armstrong Custer and 264 After the expedition, Cody teur and silly, but was well received. In the short time between 1870 and men of his 7th Cavalry by Sioux and returned to the stage. Cody was now They traveled with “Scouts of the 1900, agriculture had spread from 89 Cheyenne warriors at The Little Big 31 years old. On his last expedition Plains” for several years, playing million acres to 225 million acres cul- Horn in May of 1876. Shortly after with the cavalry, he found the West towns such as Saint Louis, Missouri tivated. Gold strikes like the one in the Custer Battle Cody would tem- was changing. Considering the suc- and Rochester, New York. The play Dakota’s Black Hills region in porarily leave his show, and begin his cess of dime novels about the West made incredible amounts of money. 1874/1875 would cause even more last scouting expedition for the and Cody’s stage play, people seemed In the 1870’s, the West began to people to go west. The Native Army. During this expedition with to be hungry for the West. With the swell with the flow of humanity com- American population of the Great Colonel Westly Merrit, Cody and the (Continued on page 86) Page 66 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

BLACK THUNDER 2008 SASS Florida State Blackpowder Shootout

By Doc J. H. Hucklebury, SASS #14373

ndiantown, FL – A beautiful January 24, 1838, were fought IMarch day in sunny Florida wel- near the Jupiter Inlet. comed the cowboys and cowgirls to Half the stages were the Okeechobee Marshals range in engaged from the Indians’ Indiantown. Everybody was anxious point of view, and the other to get started and smoke up the place. half engaged from the sol- The story line was taken from the diers’ point of view. The book, “Guns Across the Loxahatchee”, smoke and smell of burning a documented account of battles dur- gunpowder gave credence to ing the Second Seminole War. The six the feeling of the battles. stages were written about three When the smoke settled, major battles between 380 Seminole the provided lunch was ready Indians and the US military during a for consumption. Hambur- thirty-day period. gers, baked beans, coleslaw, The Battle of Okeechobee on and other side dishes hit the Christmas day, 1837, northeast of spot! There was also a Lake Okeechobee, was the first. Soon “Blackpowder Shootout” cake after, Powell’s Battle, January 16, Mustang Relle, SASS #76191, along with brownies and cook- Sterling Gentry, SASS #46289, 1838, and the Battle of Loxahatchee, blasting away. (Continued on next page) showing them how it’s done.

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SUPER DELUXE FINISH Doc Hucklebury at the Assay Office. AVAILABLE: 44/40, 45 LC CALIBER Winners (Continued from previous page) 20”, 24”, 26” BARREL Frontiersman Buffalo Brady, ies. The cake was dark chocolate with SASS #24830 black frosting. All who ate the cake COWBOY GUN ORDER DESK F Cartridge El Sid, SASS #16817 were turned to the “dark side”—their $ 00 F Cowboy Doc J. H. Hucklebury, 5 tongues had turned black from the CATALOG (800) 430-1310 SASS #14373 frosting! By the time everyone was F C Duelist Texas Jack McCoy, finished eating, the awards were Fax: 949-756-0133 SASS #23899 ready to be distributed. E.M.F.Co.,Inc. www.emf-company.com L F Cartridge Mustang Relle, 1900 E. Warner Ave., Suite 1-D, Santa Ana, California 92705 SASS #76191 Page 68 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

SHOOTOUT AT GIVHANS FERRY Ya Just Gotta Go! By Colonel Dan, SASS Life #24025

idgeville, SC – Miss Mary annual match, which also happened Kid, Whiskey Mac, Carolina Gray began. THANK YOU! RChristmas and I attended The to be the South Carolina State Dog, and Three Diamond Dennis. The Friday BBQ and Saturday Shootout at Givhans Ferry in South Championship sponsored by US What a great crew, and I thank them Gala were catered by Sticky Fingers Carolina for the first time this Firearms and Jackson’s Western for their stellar work. who put out some of the best food November and found it to be every- Wear. The organization, design, lay- One aspect of planning I particu- I’ve ever had at one of these big thing my good friends Edisto Ike and out, food, and program were so pro- larly appreciated was the fact they matches. The two evenings’ pro- Lorenzo Kid promised it would be— fessionally done you would have had a fine arrangement with a near- grams included costume contests, a real shooter’s match. Talk about sworn they had honchoed this kind by hotel that provided nice rooms at judged by none other than Fannie something that was shooter friend- of thing for years. It’s one thing to a special rate, and all the evening Kickinshoot, raffles, and drawings ly—this was it. The Geechee attend these large matches and pas- events were held there. How con- for some super prizes, including Gunfighters designed a 10 stage, 2- sively observe the event unfold like venient is that?! They also had the things we all need … like nice guns. day event that would appeal to all it was all done by magic, but it’s day orchestrated in such a way that They even auctioned off a large cowpokes whether they were focused quite another to put it together and the shooting was done by 2:00 PM, so poster of Justice Lily Kate that on speed, accuracy, or both! Pistol pull it off yourself. There are a thou- we had several hours to clean up and raised $735 for the SASS Scholar- targets at 5-7 yards, rifle targets no sand little details that must be prop- relax before the evening programs (Continued on next page) further than 10 yards and scenarios erly planned and addressed; other- that were SSF … simple and wise, they’ll pop up and bite you WINNERS Gunfighter & SC straightforward i.e., No “P” Traps! I every time. I’m here to say, the (SC = State Champion) Dun Gamblin, love it. Shootout team had it wired. A sin- Overall SASS #44219 Ike and Lorenzo assumed lead- cere salute of respect and admiration Man Red River Ray, Juniors The Linden Kid, SASS #33254 SASS #57332 ership of the club relatively recently, from my saddle goes out to the entire Lady KillEmAllKate, L 49er Kid Nama, and the Shootout was their very first Shootout gang—Edisto Ike, Lorenzo SASS #45804 SASS #55944 South Carolina SC L 49er SC Gracie Pearl, Man Edisto Ike, SASS #53149 SASS #42437 L B-Western & SC Lady New Englander, Fannie Kikinshoot, SASS #29812 SASS #33693 49er Ozark Azz, L Duelist Night Train Kate, SASS #18273 SASS #22855 49er SC Bulls Head Bill, L Duelist SC Klearwater Kate, SASS #33692 SASS #11519 Buckeroos & SC L F Cartridge & SC Sgt. Scattergun Ray, Cheeki Girl, SASS #59658 SASS #63813 Buckerette Shiny B Quick L Modem Kill-em-all-Kate, B-Western Dirt Merchant, SASS #45804 SASS #61422 L Senior Ms Jewel, SASS #62566 B-Western SC Lorenzo Kid, L Silver Sr Two Ponies Gal, SASS #30214 SASS #39710 C Cowboy Saddle Burr Jack, L Traditional Maggie Darlin, SASS #51757 SASS #18274 C Cowgirl Wicked Wanda, L Traditional SC SASS #28122 New Englander, Duelist J. M. Brown, SASS #29812 SASS #27309 Modern Punch, SASS #4368 Duelist SC Risin’ Outlaw, Modern SC Calhoun County BA, SASS #64767 SASS #68640 E Statesman Weewahootee, Senior Pecos Pete, SASS #13169 SASS #16437 E Statesman SC Senior SC Edisto Ike, Glimmer Man, SASS #42437 SASS #33080 Senior Duelist Bear Lee Tallable, Frontiersman Duc McCandless SASS #23670 Frontiersman SC S Duelist SC Palo Duro Trailboss, Cliff Mesa Coyote, SASS #29582 SASS #68412 Silver Senior Red Cent, SASS #29170 F Cartridge Turkey Creek Red, S Senior SC Trail Bandit, SASS #22854 SASS #52426 F Cartridge SC Doc Pathfinder, Traditional Red River Ray, SASS #41388 SASS #33254 F C Duelist Kidd Thunder, Traditional SC Chopper Dog, SASS #25814 SASS #58241 F C Duelist SC Gilbob Kid, SASS #49699 June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 69

(Continued from previous page) ship Fund. Good job folks! The kids and their parents will love you for that generosity. Saturday’s shooting concluded with a cake cutting ceremony in celebration of the U.S. Marines’ Birthday. This traditional event was hosted by Ghost Dancer, Wil D Bunch, and Henry McKenna—proud leathernecks all. I was thrilled to participate and wouldn’t have missed it for the world. Ghost Dancer provided everyone with a summary of the significance this event holds (Continued on page 83) WORLD 2007 CHAMPS 8 YEARS TWIN Jeffrey Willis IN A ROW! Burlington, West Virginia SASS 3553 World Champion SASS Shooter – Derringer – “To compete with the best, you must shoot the best! Bond, the Rolls Royce of derringers.”

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2007 SASS IOWA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP Ambush on the Prairie By Kingdom Kid, SASS #46970

vansdale, IA – Iowa’s 2007 SASS EState Championship, Ambush on the Prairie, is in the books. It was indeed an Ambush ... we were ambushed by the weather! Side matches were intended for Friday and Saturday afternoons with the main stages being shot on Saturday and Sunday Mornings. But nature had a different schedule in mind. Friday was a pretty typical August day. It was sunny, a bit warm, but tolerable. Folks were arriving, shooting side matches, and Lt. Gatewood, SASS #4356, did a great job teaching the RO-I and RO-II Courses to about two-dozen eager students. But Saturday was more like April or May! The shooting had barely started when the rain did too. August showers are generally One of the few good things from the rainy weather localized and blow over in a half was the fire and brimstone display provided by Overall and Iowa State Champions – hour or so; but not this one. The the blackpowder shooters! Joe MeGlue and Hurdy Gurdy Hel. Congratulations! rain came down steady all day long ... until of course, we finished shoot- more side matches, so ing. Then the rain promptly quit. we decided to make By that time, we were all soaked some time on Sunday and no one was in the mood for afternoon for more side match action. Winners Folks got dried off Overall and Iowa State Champions and made their way to Man Joe McGlue, the Saturday Night SASS #37429 banquet. Though we Woman Hurdy Gurdy Hel, couldn’t yet give side SASS #19610 match awards, we gave Category Champions out some costume 49er Lingle Creek Marshal, SASS #40110 awards and had good Duelist Cole Starrherst, food and good enter- SASS #21275 tainment provided by a E Statesman High Plains Sodbuster, cowboy trio, The Sons SASS #52722 of the Cedar Valley. F Cartridge Tater Jim, They did a great job! SASS #17554 We started the day F C Duelist Cowboy Rick, Sunday with a chapel SASS #49739 service and then com- Gunfighter Blaze O’ Glory, SASS #33128 menced to shootin’. L Duelist Granny Annie, Though it wasn’t rain- SASS #37063 ing, we got just as L Traditional Honky Tonk Harlot, soaked as the day SASS #30748 before—with sweat! It L 49er Kiamichi Queen, was hot, and the SASS #26033 humidity had to be L B-Western Hurdy Gurdy Hel 100%! But, by noon the Modern Too Tall LaNoose, humidity had let up a SASS #16659 Senior Mosey West, bit, and after lunch a SASS #57221 few more folks shot the S Senior Sandburr, SASS #5117 side matches. By 3:30 Traditional Joe McGlue pm, we were ready to A steady Saturday rain kept everyone wet and soggy. (Continued on next page) When the main match shooting was done for the day, so were the shooters! June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 71

(Continued from previous page) By the way, the dark clouds on give out awards and head for home. Saturday had a hidden blessing too. Though the weather was some- They made for some great pictures what miserable, it couldn’t dampen of the blackpowder competitors. The the shooters’ spirits. I honestly smoke and fire showed up great in think the Lord must have put a spe- some of the photos! Take a look at cial blessing on this event! Even the great pictures on our website at with the miserable conditions, there www.turkeyfoot.org was no complaining, and everyone Thanks to our sponsors and was a pure joy to be around. I felt everyone who helped make this a like I was leaving a family reunion really fun shoot! Hope you all can when it was over. make it next year! Page 72 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

RECKONING AT BLACK’S CREEK The Idaho State Championship By Grubstake, SASS #36658

una, ID – My Great Grandpa Did’ya ever think what the start of a other clubs that have also stepped in Khomesteaded the cattle ranch on large state shoot looks like? Seems to lend a hand. There are also the which I lived most of my life. I to me the stories of the towns in the Squaw Butte Regulators from remember hearing stories from my old days reflect pretty accurately on Emmett, Idaho, and the Snake River grandparents about the all-day trip it exactly what a modern Cowboy Sportsman from Vale, Oregon, who would take to go into town. They Action shoot looks like today. lend time and energy to make this would rise early in the morning, have The Idaho State Cowboy Action into the shoot it has become. some breakfast, hitch up the team, Championship Shoot, lovingly I want to reflect back to my little and take the journey into town. This known as the Reckoning at Black’s town in the 1890’s. We start this undertaking would take the entire Creek, takes on all the sounds and match on Wednesday with registra- day, and they always spoke of how smells of a little burg in Idaho in the tion and an RO-I and an RO-II class. hectic and busy the town was. They late 1890’s. This is the third year for With not a lot of scheduled activity hurried about as they bought sup- this little shindig, and I have had the that day, the whole range is still a plies, had a bite to eat, and most pleasure of being involved in a small beehive of energy. There are lots of importantly, visited with old friends part in all the state shoots we have folks at the signup tables sitting and often made new friends. Idaho State champions (l-r) – hosted. The home club is the Oregon around swapping stories with folks Just like all those old TV shows Wogg, SASS #28699, Wildcat Clark, Trail Rough Riders, and this is our they haven’t seen in a long time. The SASS #54797, and Missy Mable, and old western movies, the town range. All the members have vendors are setting up their booths, SASS #35458. Congratulations! was a busy place. It was full of noise stepped up to the plate and helped in and the food vendors are preparing with lots of people running around, the smell of food coming from the one way of another to bring this pro- for the inevitable crowds that will and shops set up to serve every need. various eateries, and, of course, the duction to fulfillment. We are very descend upon them soon. The range There were gunshots in the distance, drummers announcing their wares. lucky to live in this valley as we have (Continued on next page) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 73 this shoot into one of the Northwest’s premier shoots. This year the Match Director was LTC Nathan, SASS #31555. LTC not only did a superb job in his directorial début, but also did double duty as the Master of Ceremonies at the awards banquet. LTC had assistance with the range duties, as he enlisted one of the top shooters in our sport, Wogg, SASS #28699. Wogg put together and designed the twelve stages shot on Friday and Saturday. Wogg took cues from the classic movies of Clint Eastwood to make 12 stages that were fun and fast, but, most of all, safe to shoot. Wogg is kind of a speed demon, so the targets were big and close. Wogg tells me people seem to have more fun at a match where they can actually hit the targets. After all, this is Cowboy Action Shooting™, not Cowboy Bull’s-eye Shooting! 134 shooters joined us for four days of fun. Wednesday featured (Continued from previous page) early registration and RO classes. crew is running hither and On Thursday we had a VIP shoot. We yon to put on the finishing invited the sponsors, to whom we are touches so everyone will have indebted, to shoot as they provide the a great shoot. Folks, I’m funds to produce this match. We also telling you, this sure seems invited many of our local elected offi- like a town in the Old West. cials to join us for a little informal Our head honcho for this shoot. We have done this every year, year and last has been John and it has been very good for us. In Bear, SASS #45620. John fact, we have a Mayor of a local city Bear has worked tirelessly for who is now a club member. On the past two years to put all Thursday, we also have a warm-up the pieces together to make (Continued on page 82) Page 74 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 . WILD WEST MERCANTILE’S .

The Tres Amigos not only starred in the Winter Range Safety Video, but performed “live” for a giggling audience! Winter Range has led the way in starting a dialog regarding changes to the existing SASS categories. The SASS National Match allowed (Continued from page 1) Senior Gunfighters to compete for the first time. for those gorgeous bronze trophies Thursday night ended with high- the dark, but quickly proved useless. energy karaoke presented by the Lt. Burden was able to get a Sheriff’s Dooley Gang. These guys and gals Dept. helicopter dispatched at first really know how to have a good time light to help in the search. I can tell and kept the singing goin’ ‘til the last you exactly when it arrived, as I was cowboy and cowgirl was literally asleep next to the improvised land- “sung out.” ing zone, but only for a very short Winter Range 2008 almost came while! After taking on a couple of to a premature halt in the wee hours observers, the chopper took off to try of Friday morning. Range Master and locate the horses. In the mean- Black Jack Zak was awakened with time, a rancher on the other side of The despicable El Guapo was clearly a call that announced “we have a the mountain contacted Game and simply a misunderstood individual problem.” Around 2AM the with an unfortunate childhood! It was Fish informing them the horses had Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies, his men who caused all the trouble … been located on his property and who provide security for Winter what’s a poor leader to do? were safely contained. Winter Range Murder Inc provided an interactive Range, under the leadership of Lt. was allowed to continue under per- “Who Done It?” mystery play follow- Rich Burden got a call from the This meant Winter Range would fect weather, much to the collective ing dinner Friday evening again Arizona Game and Fish Dept. who have to halt all shooting activities relief of many a cowboy and cowgirl. this year. Audience participation control the Ben Avery Shooting until the horses were located and On Friday night they served up and a “twisty” script kept the fun Facility where Winter Range takes returned to their appropriate con- some of the best chuck wagon cook- going right up to the very end! place. Apparently several horses finement. The concern was they ing we have ever tasted provided by that had been taking part in a might have wandered ‘down range’ Barbara Wendt of Cow Girls Forever. mounted event adjacent to our por- and be in considerable danger once The grub was prepared in the old tion of the range got spooked by the shooting commenced. trail fashion of cast iron pots on some wind and escaped their area. A ground search was started in white coals. Man was that some cooking—biscuits and all! Dinner was followed by a live presentation of a great western murder mystery called “Who Shot The Sheriff?” The actors from Murder Ink did a fantastic job of keeping everyone guessing and involved until the very end. Believe me, there was no shortage of suspects, deceitful characters, or alluring women. Saturday mornin’ dawned a little calmer, but no less brighter, that is until the match began again, and Prairie Mary from the then all the commotion cut loose! At New Mexico SASS office 5PM the range was closed and the ran SASS’ Winter Range booth feverish main match competition of this year, freeing Coyote Calhoun, Winter Range 2008 was finally com- Tex, and Hipshot to visit with the Great props graced each and every one of the 12 main match stages (again!). (Continued on next page) membership and shoot the match. June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 75 . WINTER RANGE 2008 .

(Continued from previous page) want to think twice when complain- pleted. Saturday night was topped ing ‘bout the size or distance of those off with yet another great Chuck pesky targets. Wagon meal followed by the awards An event of this magnitude for all of the side matches as well as would simply not be possible without the costume contest winners. Back the incredible support of sponsors again by popular demand this year like our Main Match Sponsor, Wild were the Cow Dudes who kept the West Mercantile, Philthy Phil and Jo dancin’ and partyin’ going for hours. Doornbos (main tent sponsor), and Sunday morning dawned cool Cimarron Firearms (badge sponsor). and clear and following the Top 16 Also thanks to all our stage sponsors: competition, the final awards cere- Action Target, Black Hills Ammo, mony began at 11AM. At the start of Brownells, Buffalo Brothers, The Winter Range Prize Table. the awards ceremony a very impor- Competition Electronics, Dillon Bronzes, statues, and buckles were tant announcement was made. Precision Products, EMF, Legendary available for distribution ten-deep in every category. Coyote Calhoun, representing SASS, Guns, Mernickle Custom Holsters announced a contract between SASS and Skyline Steel. Flash Targets, Winners and the Arizona Territorial Com- Ten X Ammunition, LJ Sawtooth Hat Overall pany of Rough Riders would leave Co., Sportsman’s Warehouse, Taylor’s Male J.T. Wild, SASS #20399 & Co. Inc. US Firearms Mfg., and Female Sage Chick, Side Match Winners Vihta Vouri/Lapua sponsored the SASS #48454 Plainsman Reverend Trinity, side matches. Smokey & Sierra Villa Category SASS #53501 sponsored the very important ranger Buckaroo Dust Devil Wyatt, Long Range tent, True West Magazine was our SASS #72483 Pistol Blue Ridge Ranger, Constable Nelson received the (Continued on page 76) Junior Girls Sage Chick SASS #31232 “Long Distance” award for traveling Juniors Holster Holliday, Rifle from Australia via a route that took SASS #70365 Pistol Cal Goatneck Clem, his completely around Grand Dame Bonnie Dee, SASS #16787 the Pacific Rim. SASS #28413 Rifle Cal Deadeye Dick, E Statesmen Ed Sieker – Texas SASS #702 Winter Range and the SASS Ranger, SASS #15960 S Shot Mad Dog Too, National Championship of Cowboy C Cowgirl Wicked Wanda, SASS #2814 Action Shooting™ firmly embedded SASS #28122 Quigley Gila Bob, SASS #5154 in the Arizona soil for the next five C Cowboy T-Bone Dooley, Cowboy Sporting Clays SASS #36388 Blackpowder Ol’ #4, SASS #41004 years. Yahooo! L Duelist Pepper Shot, Smokeless Diamond Dick, Over the next couple of hours SASS #34370 SASS #1842 there were quite a number of folks Duelist Nuttin’Graceful, Shotgun Skeet honored with 250 Top Ten belt buck- SASS #39117 Blackpowder R.C. Hammer, les, 28 Remington Bronze statues, L B-Western Silver Heart, SASS #42253 139 Michael Garman statues and SASS #48482 Smokeless Jackalope Jasper, busts, 71 plaques, and numerous B-Western Copperhead Joe Black, SASS #54049 pins, clocks, frames, and statues. SASS #39162 Shotgun Trap Included in this illustrious bunch L F Cartridge Honey B. Graceful, Blackpowder R.C. Hammer SASS #51369 Smokeless Quicksilver Slim, were three of our International attendees. Wild Bull from Sweden The winners for the Men’s and F Cartridge Ol’ #4, SASS #41004 SASS #32871 Ladies’ Top 16 Shoot-offs were L Gunfighter Half-A-Hand Henri, Cowboy Speed placed third in Frontiersman, Montana husband and wife team, SASS #9727 Shotgun Hells Comin’, Nashville Frank from Norway placed Shootswith Avengence and Gunfighter Max Montana, SASS #56436 10th in Frontier Cartridge and Chisler Wood. Great Shooting! SASS #23907 Rifle Deuce Stevens, Constable Nelson, the wandering S Gunfighter Tex, SASS #4 SASS #55996 Australian, placed 5th in the B- L S Senior Running Bare, Pistol Deuce Stevens Western category. A total of 39 SASS #2323 Cowgirl Speed shooters had a clean match score- S Senior Evil Roy, SASS #2883 Shotgun Sweetwater, L Senior Claudia Feather, SASS #1122 card, and that was saying something SASS #2816 Rifle Sweetwater for a match of this caliber. Senior China Camp, Pistol Sage Chick, There were also victories of a dif- SASS #649 SASS #48454 ferent kind. Texas Lizard, SASS S Duelist J.M. Brown, Derringer Texas Ghost, #69656, came to Winter Range 2008 SASS #27309 SASS #50125 having shot only three matches in F C Duelist Lefty Eastman, Pocket Pistol Big Iron Patnode, his life. Now that’s not too unusual SASS #20645 SASS #60632 you say, but try doing it from a Frontiersman Four Bucks, Shotgun Blast wheelchair. Texas has all his guns SASS #36386 Cowboy Constable Nelson, L 49er Etta Mae, SASS #12478 SASS #11784 and supplies in a wagon that he pulls 49er J.T. Wild Cowgirl Sweetwater along behind his wheelchair. He only L Modern Echo Meadows, All Around Cowboy asks for help when he really needs it; SASS #50735 Cowboy Hoss Lytle, otherwise, he does it on his own. Modern Stormy Reinz, SASS #30285 Personally, I refuse to look up his SASS #41707 Cowgirl Sage Chick score, as whatever it was, Texas L Traditional Shootswith Avengence, Sweet Sixteen Shootswith Avengence, Match Winners and new Lizard won—not only the Spirit of SASS National Champions are SASS #48516 SASS #48516 the Game award during our closing Traditional Deuce Stevens, Top Sixteen Chisler Wood, Junior Girl, Sage Chick, from Ohio ceremonies, but also the admiration SASS #55996 SASS #42859 and 49er, J.T. Wild of Utah. of many a shooter. Makes you kinda’ Congratulations! Page 76 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 . WILD WEST MERCANTILE’S .

(Continued from page 75) advertising sponsor, and Desperado Cowboy Bullets sponsored the Poker Tournament. Also contributing to the success of Winter Range 2008 were our many terrific vendors who plied their wares and tempted us all in very classy fashion. Thanks to all of you. Hats off as well to the truly incredible job done by the Arizona Territorial Company of Rough Riders, there are only 18 of them, and the various volunteers they mobilized in planning and executing a match of this size and quality. An extra tip of the hat goes to the Arizona Territorial Rangers who went way beyond the call of duty to help build and maintain this match. You guys were outstanding. Yahooo! It was an incredible match of challenging, fair stages in near perfect weather surrounded by good ol’ and new friends, lots of shootin’ and good food, along with great entertainment. Friends and neighbors, it just don’t get any better than this. Full match results and stage descrip- tions are posted at www.winterrange.com. Wild West Mercantile’s Winter Range 2009 will take place February 25 – March 1. Ya really need to be there! June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 77 . WINTER RANGE 2008 . Page 78 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

. 2007 BUZZARD BOIL .

By Appaloosa Amy, SASS # 63949 Photos by One-Eyed Black Jack, SASS #66068, and Turquoise Bill, SASS #39118

ast Granby, CT – The CT EValley Bushwackers set the bar pretty high when they put on their 7th annual “Buzzard Boil” at the Hartford Gun Club in East Granby, CT. If you cowboy shoot in New England and didn’t attend this special one-day match, you missed out on a real good time. This year there were a whopping 89 shooters that came from as far away as Maine and as close as just over the hill. So, what made this shoot one of the best? Where to begin ... Was it the six shotgun-heavy stages designed by Jimmy Spurs of Cowboy Gun Works our Territorial Governor, Cayuse, from Derry, NH and Appaloosa Amy SASS #14412? The Bushwackers are of Quaker Hill, CT took top honors known for having lots of shotgun. No as this year’s Top Guns of the match. stages with only four puny knockdowns here. We had flyers and at Range Officers Cayuse and Turquoise Bill, with their posse, show off Winners one of the two new DS Welding Cowboy Racks. Pistol/Rifle knockdowns always add something special to a match, and these racks worked out OVERALL TOP GUN great for the Team Shoot Off. Cowboy Jimmy Spurs, SASS #65014 after they had shot a round or two, I Cowgirl Appaloosa Amy, SASS #63949 heard a very excited, “I’ve never had CATEGORY WINNERS the opportunity to do something like 49er Punxsutawney Phil, that!” It was just plain fun to see who SASS #53450 got teamed up with whom. B-Western Lone Star Jake, We had a mother/son team, Calico SASS #13019 Jan, SASS #61842, and Quaker Hill C Cowboy Turquoise Bill, Bill, SASS #61021. And, we had SASS #39118 The Plinko Kid, SASS #45625, shooters like Sedalia Cowpoke, SASS Duelist Hawkeye Kid, enjoying a cigar with his #62082, from MA and Hawkeye Kid, SASS #24196 lovely bride, Sassafras Lil. SASS #24196, of CT who until then E Statesman Ike Shotgun McCoy, Plinko is the industrious man SASS #4982 Gunny B, SASS #38603, our retired (Continued on next page) behind the scenes building fun props Marine Drill Instructor and F Cartridge Yankee, SASS #266 and ingenious swinging targets. Gunfighter Brett Cantrell, Pittsburg Mac & Barrister Bill, And, his generous donation provided SASS #5230, our Massachusetts SASS #33868 the 45+ trophies for this year’s Boil! Modern R.D. Buck, Lawyers, at the loading table SASS #15421 getting ready to shoot Stage 3. Senior Pittsburg Mac, least six knockdowns per stage that SASS #20796 had you running and gunning. You Silver Senior Rowdy Bill, SASS #9628 shot at the bar, from the Assayer’s Traditional Jimmy Spurs, Office, and even up on the Fort. And, SASS #65014 did I mention the two brand spank- Buckarette Snazzy McGee, ing new DS Welding cowboy plate SASS #66689 racks? They were first class all the L 49er Wild Sage, way! But maybe it wasn’t the stages SASS #40879 or the targets that made this shoot L B-Western Birdie Cage, different from others. SASS #32773 Maybe, it was the Top Gun Team L Duelist Nantucket Dawn, SASS #15681 Shoot-off where the top 24 men and L S Duelist Eula Nissen, Our first annual Cowboy Gun Works the top 8 women were paired up into SASS #42355 Top Gun Team Shoot-Off Winners – 16 teams that shot against each other L Senior Calico Jan, Rootin Tootin Tim of Maine and (Yes, we also had some fast people in SASS #61842 Eastern Tenderfoot of the scoring shack because it took only Massachusetts. They won four L Traditional Appaloosa Amy, about 25 minutes to hear who made SASS #63949 rounds against some pretty stiff competition with Eastern Tenderfoot the shoot-off!). I heard from many a Hawley McCoy, SASS #59588, TOP GUN TEAM shoot-off participant, “No ... me? In a Rootin’ Tootin’ Tim, SASS #57091 shooting the rifle and one pistol and of Massachusetts attempts Shoot-Off?” And my reply was, “Get Eastern Tenderfoot, SASS #15682 Rootin Tootin Tim banging away to ward off the chilly start with a pistol and his ‘97. those guns back out!” Then later with her wrap and a big smile. June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 79 Shooting Sports Foundation came through with a gun to give away). That’s right, we had a couple of first class cowboy guns to give away (Marlin rifle & Colt Cowboy pistol in .45) and a couple more to raffle off (Colt Army & USFA SA in .45) ... the money, of course, going to buy new targets. Congratulations to those four winners – Tucson Tess, SASS #27624; Midnight Angel, SASS #71258; R.D. Buck, SASS #15421; and Pennsyltucky Slim, SASS #61135. We also gave away hundreds of dollars in merchandise and gift cer- tificates from local gun shops, and from she held her own. But in the end, it others like Brownells, Cowboy Gun was her husband, Rootin’ Tootin’ Tim, Works, Moulton Lead Bullets, and SASS #57091, that took the final Kirkpatrick leather, to name just a few. round with his teammate Eastern And, we had a beautiful custom-made Tenderfoot, SASS #15682, the reigning knife (by our very own Cowan Muncie, Massachusetts State Men’s Champ. SASS #41609) in a finely tooled leather Or, come to think of it, it could sheath and plush carrying case to give have been the great food at the ban- away to our “middle of the road” shoot- quet that made this shoot so special. er, which turned out to be Doc Red Cowboys (and girls) love to eat, and Thumb, SASS #13718. Turquoise Bill, SASS #39118, a Did I forget to mention the 45 member of the Buzzard Boil’s com- plus trophies handed out? They had mittee (who did a lion’s share of the colorful plaques (donated by our very work) procured the caterer, and a own The Plinko Kid, SASS #45625) (Continued from previous page) good caterer it was. There was plen- set on very old barn-board from didn’t really know each other, but soon found out ty of food, and it was served hot and Pennsylvania (hauled here by resi- they made a pretty good team going a couple on time to over 100 guests. dent blackpowder gunfighter, Jocko, rounds and barely losing in the third one. Also, Perhaps it was the giveaways? SASS #24595, another member of our the New Hampshire State Men’s Champ, Jimmy They don’t call CT, Gun Valley for committee), and they also had Spurs SASS, #65014, was teamed with No nothing. Colt Firearms, Marlin Fire- authentic barbed wire tacked on, rust Nonsense Nancy, SASS #57092, from Maine, and arms, and USFA all CT based compa- and all! It took Cayuse and they went some rounds. Nancy claimed to be nies generously donated firearms to Turquoise Bill an entire evening of really nervous, but when the shooting started, the Buzzard Boil (also, the United (Continued on page 93) Page 80 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

2007 OHIO STATE SHO O T AT PIQUA, OHIO Home of the Miami Valley Cowboys

By Corbin Dallas, SASS #41040

iqua, OH – The sky was clear and early on Sunday afternoon. Pand the sun was yellow as the And now for the shoot: They Winners cowpokes moseyed into town. A hun- started at the mine, “Little Precious Match Winners dred and more came to Piqua, Ohio metals in this mine, Lots of hard work Man Doc Molar, to finally settle the score. The SASS all the time. This was a gun and run SASS #18470 2007 Ohio State Shoot was the rea- stage as were many, or as Black Tom Lady Two Sons, son, and October was the season for and Short Fuse Rudy put it, the run SASS #12636 hot lead and cool weather. and gun stages were as good as the Ohio State Champions Our Regulator Badge recipient Indiana State shoot. Guess the Indy Man Doc Molar and head cowboy of the Miami Valley shoot musta been pretty good! Lady Honey B. Quick, SASS #47009 Cowboys, Buckshot Jones, wrote a Then on to the Cantina: Category Winners poem to start each stage scenario “Tequila’s the drink of choice for me, 46er Mustache Kid, and everyone liked it so much I car- One Tequila, two Tequila, then SASS #39293 ried it over to this article. three.” You moved between the door B-Western Cheyenne Culpepper, The Ohio State Shoot was moved and the windows, shooting both the SASS #32827 to October for cooler weather, which we rifle and pistols in the same C Cowboy Buffalo Balu, got, better attendance, ditto and, sequence and blowing away the bad Corbin Dallas and K.C. Kitty watch- SASS #614 because we thought it was a great idea. guys with the shotgun. And then on ing the action at “Hard Times.” Buckaroo Wrangler Kid Al, SASS #66206 C Cowgirl Dusty Boots Marge, and rifle. Might say this was also a SASS #41903 Gunfighter Stage. Duelist Smokin’ Iron, These stages and the others SASS #22149 were well planned by The Jingle Bob E Statesman Whitey Quik, Cheyenne Culpepper Kid with just enough run and gun to SASS #18584 readies a shooter at please most everyone, or as Doc Frontiersman Marcus Allen, Chihuanna’s Molar said, were balanced for both SASS #4357 Cantina. right and left handled shooters. F Cartridge Flat Iron Fred, New/rebuilt stages included a SASS #64907 F C Duelist Stone Creek Drifter, “Led Miad” (lead mine), Pony SASS #58853 Express corral, upgraded Cantina, Gunfighter Lassiter, SASS #2080 Jail, Boot Hill, and El Dorado. L Traditional Lucrezia Violet, As you can see from the comple- SASS #31795 ments on the SASS Wire, The Ohio L 49’er Honey B. Quick State Shoot was a rousing success! L Duelist Miss Lead Lisa, Everyone came away a winner, but a SASS #51615 Any cowpokes that had not been to the Bank, “Depositing money in chosen few, those who shoot faster, L F Cartridge Ruthless McDraw, to Hard Times in a while were in for this bank is no big deal, withdrawing also came away with plaques. SASS #37556 L Gunfighter Clementine Valentine, a pleasant surprise. The Town was cash is hard, so lets just steal.” As Deadwood Stan said, “Piqua, SASS #66179 completely upgraded with new false Again, another run and gun with a you done yourself proud, had a great L Modern Short Fuse Ruby, fronts, new stages, new signage, and diminishing sweep on both pistol time, and I’ll be back!” SASS #47939 higher soil berms. Not to mention L Senior Two Sons the targets were big and close. L Silver Sr Mary Von Hosted by the Piqua Fish & Modern Black Jack Beeson, Game Protective Association in con- SASS #11523 junction with The Miami Valley Buckarette Shana Sureshot, Cowboys, the match was ably spon- SASS #67122 L Young Gun Sage Chick, sored by “Recollections,” Starline SASS #48454 Brass, and Kirkpatrick Leather. We Senior Ol Short Tom, thank them for their support. SASS #12635 In starting new traditions, Senior Duelist Dusty Feller, besides having the shoot in October, SASS #20010 the shooting schedule was changed Silver Senior J. R. Hammer, as well. Starting with the side SASS #45907 matches being held on Friday, then Traditional Doc Molar shooting six stages on Saturday, and Young Gun Terrible Tyler, SASS #28937 finishing up with four stages on Sunday sent everyone home happy Smokin’ it up at the Blacksmith Shop. June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 81 Page 82 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 RECKONING AT BLACK’S CREEK . . . (Continued from page 73) the scenes do all the work, but get shoot and side matches. none of the credit. Well, not this Friday is when things really time! John Bear’s El Segundo was start to happen. We shoot six stages, Broken Flats Mike, SASS #31576. In either 1-6 or 7-12, as we divide the the two weeks before the match it shooters into two main groups. Then was rumored Broken Flats Mike on Saturday, we switch and shoot the slept out at the range. Broken Flats stages we didn’t shoot on Friday. Mike did everything for everyone, After the range closes down in the and at the awards banquet was given afternoon, we have side matches, and the award as the Top Hand for this then in the evening we have an Ice year’s shoot along with the True Grit Cream Social along with games and award. The True Grit award is given giveaways. Saturday is the last day to the person who most closely per- of the main match, and upon its con- sonifies the qualities of our heroes of clusion, we move to the costume con- yesteryear; he who lives, breathes, tests and the awards banquet. These eats, and sleeps the Code of the West: events are held in a building con- “The Spirit of the Game.” structed in the 1800’s, the historic As the bustling little town Shrine Temple in downtown Boise. winds down for this year, you could Sunday offers one of the most hear the folks talking about when fun events for spectators. The Man- this fracas will start again next on-Man shoot-off wraps up the year. Well, all is quiet now at the weekend. What a display of raw ath- 2007 Reckoning at Black’s Creek, leticism from competitors both but come the first full week in young and old! August, this sleepy little burg will As we all know, the folks behind be jumping again!

Winners L Junior Pellett, SASS #66329 Match Overall L Modern Ruby Q Hammer, Man Soncho Ponza, SASS #48838 SASS #39826 L Senior Granny Jan, Lady Pinto Annie, SASS #34431 SASS #27966 L Traditional Pinto Annie, Junior Wildcat Clark, SASS #27966 SASS #54797 Modern Theyl Perish, Idaho State Overall Champions SASS #49004 Man Wogg, SASS #28699 Senior Texas Jack Morales, Lady Missy Mable, SASS #5026 SASS #35458 S Duelist Omache Kid, Junior Wildcat Clark SASS #5282 Top Gun Shoot Off Silver Senior Lost Creek Jasper, For AD Rates Man Idaho Mustang, SASS #52976 ~ DONNA ~ SASS #51164 Traditional Soncho Ponza (EXT. 118) Lady Belinda Bell, Side Matches SASS #42966 Speed Shotgun Wogg Junior Last Chance Morales, Speed Pistol Ignatius Guns, SASS #67180 SASS #16097 True Grit Award VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT Broken Flats Mike, Speed Rifle Wogg SASS #31576 Derringer Rascal Rick, WWW.SASSNET.COM Category Winners SASS #51258 49’er DeShoots Kid, Pocket Pistol Idaho Grizz, SASS #50225 SASS #29234 GIVE TO THE Buckerette Mini Bullett, Lever Action SASS #66330 R Caliber Lost Creek Jasper SASS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION Buckaroo Idaho Diamondback P Caliber Fernley, SASS #19663 (A non-profit, tax-deductable charity) Kid, SASS #72413 S Shot Rifle Kuna, SASS #39361 C Cowboy Grubslinger, Wild Bunch Kuna MAKE THE DIFFERENCE! SASS #36658 Plainsmen Runamuck Duelist Barrowed Eye, Cowboy Trap Evan William, SASS #30526 SASS #49276 E Statesman Cowiche Kid, Team Shoot Wogg Working Gunfighter Idaho Bad Company SASS #28457 Texas Jack Morales Cowboy Haole, SASS #49825 Modern Idaho Shady Lane, Leggs Balou, Cowgirl Daisy, SASS #41795 SASS #48837 Frontiersman Bad Gene Poole, SASS #10400 Jr Cowboy Kid Scheline Senior Salinian, SASS #39817 SASS #43838 Wildcat Clark Jr Cowgirl Kissable Kim S Duelist Diamondfield Jack, F Cartridge Runamuck, Posse Shoot Posse 1 State Category Champions SASS #24361 SASS #49216 Costume Contest Buckerette Alley Cat Clark, S Senior Lost Creek Jasper F C Duelist Denio, SASS #51564 Best Dressed SASS #79305 L Duelist Sister Shotgun, Gunfighter Idaho Bad Company, Jr. Girl Kissable Kim, Buckaroo Idaho Diamondback Kid SASS #65678 SASS #28943 SASS #58173 Junior Wildcat Clark L Gunfighter Belmont Junior Last Chance Morales, Jr. Boy Idaho Diamondback Kid C Cowboy Grubslinger, L Modern Ruby Q Hammer SASS #67180 Military Barrowed Eye SASS #36658 L Senior Wrong Eye Geri, L 49’r Missy Mable, Couple Slivers Hawkins, Duelist Barrowed Eye SASS #57863 SASS #35458 SASS #3633, and E Statesman Cornflakes, L Traditional Six Gun Sam, L Duelist Sister Shotgun, Katie Hawkins, SASS #44666 SASS #28944 SASS #65678 Lady Dusty Dawn, F Cartridge Pinkeye Pinkerton, L 49’r Missy Mable Gr Dames Ladyfinger, SASS #71899 SASS #46513 49’r Bam Bam, SASS #63925 SASS #11528 Soiled Dove Cactus Cat, Frontiersman Red Desperado, Traditional Wogg L Gunfighter Belmont, SASS #39768 SASS #38730 SASS #8204 June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 83

the sign up list for next year!!!!” straight forward match. It was all up SHOOTOUT AT GIVHANS FERRY . . . Next, from Kill ‘em all Kate, “I to the shooter! I’ll be back next year.” (Continued from page 69) much appreciated Ike asking me to tell ya it was fun, big, close, and, Black Diamond Doug, a main- for Marines throughout the world, be part of it. WOW, we had a ball. Great Match!! stay at Last Stand pitched in, “It was while Wil D Bunch stood proud as After the presentation of awards, We’ll be back.” Dirt Merchant a great match and a real shooting his honor guard. Henry McKenna, a we headed over to the shoot-off. chimed in with, “This was the contest, no NON-shooting stuff to do reserve Marine Lieutenant Colonel What a hoot! The targets were smoothest match you could imagine. on the clock. Stages were fun and read the Commandant’s Birthday knockdowns requiring all four guns, Everything went off without a hitch, fair. Things moved along smoothly. message, as is part of the ceremony and it was fast and exciting. As Bulls as far as the shooters could tell any- These folks worked well together to every year. The event ended with the Head Bill said, “The Top 16 Shootout way. I will definitely be back next put on a very fine match. Great Gunfighters’ large haul of toys for … was the most thrilling event I’ve year and will bring some more of the hosts; felt very welcomed up there.” the Marines’ annual Toys for Tots yet seen on the SASS circuit.” Georgia folks with me. Great job, Ike From the gunfighter Jefro, “A big program. Well done guys! When Ike asked me to write the and Lorenzo.” thank you to Lorenzo, Ike, and all the The awards on Sunday recognized article for their match, he requested The Top Gun and Shoot-off hard working folks that put together a some mighty fine shooters with beau- I write it from a shooter’s point of Champ, Red River Ray, added, “By great match. The stages were fun with tifully engraved wooden plaques and view. I told him I’d be happy to, but traveling and asking questions these alot of options and Gunfighter friend- the induction into the Palmetto Posse since I was just one of 166 shooters, I guys set up one of the best matches ly. Plenty of vendors and good food.” by Ghost Dancer of two very deserv- wanted to include the thoughts of I’ve been able to attend this year. Lastly, from Doc Cherokee, who ing people—Linden Kid, a fine young others. I decided a take off on the Lorenzo and Ike, you guys pulled it likes to move and shoot his way to man who represents the future of our “Man in the Street” would be a good off with flying colors.” glory, “I LOVED the movement that sport and displays all the great attrib- approach. In our case however, it From a Berm Marshal’s saddle, was built into the stages … nothing utes of the American cowboy, and would be “Cowpokes of the Wire” Wil D Bunch had this to add “… it too complicated, but still challenging!” Fannie Kickinshoot for her infinite from those who also had a hellava was a great weekend meeting and There you have it, testimony energy, enthusiasm, and dedication to time at the Shootout! watching a great group of folks hav- straight from our own Cowpokes of Cowboy Action Shooting™. Congra- Gun Dawg, the SBSS Badge- ing fun and exercising their God the Wire. I think we can pick up on tulations to both Linden and Fannie. meister, described it very well. “I given rights as American citizens.” several common themes here. It was Sunday was also Veterans Day, enjoyed the target set up and move- Slowhand Bob agreed the folks as fun as it gets; it was well planned, so the Gunfighters honored Ame- ment, the weather, the food, and the made it for him, “As much as I well organized, and exceptionally rica’s veterans with a Marine Color arrangements at the hotel. I couldn’t enjoyed the shooting, it must take a well run; folks are making plans now Guard as part of their program. I have had a better time. The range back seat to the shooters themselves. to come back; and finally, everyone was highly honored to be the guest was impeccably set up, and it was It was great seeing old friends again, very much appreciates the outstand- speaker at that event, and as I’ve just an exceedingly fun shoot.” and I met some of the finest pards ing work the Geechee Gunfighters seen everywhere throughout our What did Bulls Head Bill think? ever for the first time.” did this year—a salute to you all. If great sport, the gang there were “THE SHOOTOUT AT GIVHANS High Ransom, a champion shoot- you missed The Shootout of some of the finest American patriots FERRY is a CLASS ACT!!!!! Fannie er from Georgia said, “the whole crew November 2007, make plans now for you could ever hope to meet. I very and I want to be the FIRST ONES on did an outstanding job of giving us a November 2008 … Ya Just Gotta go! Page 84 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

COWBOYS NEED TO STICK TOGETHER! . . . New Clubs champion we could ever hope to Additionally, new clubs are con- have. All cowboys should be mem- (Continued from page 6) the top is the World Championship stantly being formed, and univer- bers of both! CANCEL any monthly matches that of Cowboy Action Shooting™, END sally, they can use some help get- Conclusion conflict with the annual match of a of TRAIL, closely followed by the ting established. Older clubs can As can be seen, we’re a big fam- nearby club! It is always appropriate SASS National Championship, often offer advice as well as man- ily with lots of activities across the to encourage one’s members to Winter Range. No one should power to help create new ranges country. Even though it may some- attend annual matches in your area. schedule an annual match that and cowboy organizations. Dona- times seem so, none of us are ever Most clubs do a good job of not conflicts with these matches; ting targets no longer being used by playing this game alone. Monthly, scheduling their monthly matches rather, one should encourage all the older clubs can also offset nec- annual, state, regional, national, in conflict with other local clubs, your members to attend these essary new club expenses. Helping and world championship schedules but this is not the case when it major matches … it’s a fantastic another club become self-sustain- dictate which matches we each can comes to scheduling annual match- experience, one not to be missed … ing is the “cowboy way,” and creat- attend. A little thought and consid- es. All too often, clubs within driv- and you can’t support these pro- ing more shooting venues is benefi- eration can provide more entertaining distance of one another will grams if you are running your own cial for everyone. ment and opportunities to compete schedule their annual matches for in competition. Other Shooting Disciplines if we would simply stop stepping on the same weekend. How clever is The Regionals come next. The Not only should cowboys sup- each other’s toes! that? The objective should not be Regionals, the National, and the port one another, it’s vitally impor- to drive the other club to its knees, World Championship have negoti- tant to support other shooting dis- but to find a way for each to sup- ated their schedules so there are no ciplines as well. Who knows what port the other. Even if the clubs conflicts. All State Championships the next administration will be are at opposite ends of the state should honor these shooting dates like, but all shooters will need to (none of our guys would go all the … especially the states within each stick together if any of us are going way up there anyway), considera- of the Regionals. It’s not an appro- to keep our firearms. Organi- tion for other annual matches priate practice to make your state zations like NSSF are a huge help should still be high on the agenda. cowboys have to make a choice in establishing and keeping shoot- Remember, there are those who live between their State Championship ing ranges and, of course, the NRA in between these two clubs that match and their Regional. is the best Second Amendment could attend both, but now must It’s also appropriate for all annual make a choice. Once again, that’s matches within each state to respect not a good practice … we all want the date of their State Championship. the opportunity to attend as many Once again, don’t make your local “away” matches as possible. cowboys have to make a decision ADVERTISING When it comes to annual which to attend. Arrange your sched- matches, there is a hierarchy. At ule so they can do both! INFORMATION ASK FOR

Donna Oakley SASS #13013 ~ DONNA ~ (EXT. 118) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 85 Page 86 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 the last twenty years of the steam and electricity.” Nineteenth Century, America was William Frederick Cody died on undergoing an industrial revolution. January 10th, 1917. The headlines Immigration was swelling the east- of his death wiped away the usual ern and mid-western cities to over- headlines of the war in Europe. flowing, overtaxing their infrastruc- Buffalo Bill Cody was buried in tures. Settlement houses like Jane Lookout Mountain, Colorado under a Addams “Hull House” sought to bronze statue of himself atop his improve the plight of the masses. horse Buckskin Charlie, depicting The West probably seemed to be a him in the prime of his life. He had magic place with clean air, bountiful now faded into the mists of history game, huge mountains, and wild just as his beloved Wild West had. Indians. People by the tens of thou- There is no way to measure how sands would flock to see the Wild many hundreds of thousands, or West Show. This experience was the even how many millions of people closest most would ever get to the Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show West. This experience was “The Wild touched. For the last fifty years of West” to most people. his life he was a legend, synonymous In March, 1886, Buffalo Bill with the Wild West. Still today, there Cody’s Wild West Show made its first is probably not a school age child trip to Europe. Cody took the entire that doesn’t at least know something show—cowboys, Indians, horses, buf- about Buffalo Bill Cody. Even falo, longhorns, and stagecoaches all though the legend of his life grew on the chartered steamer, “State of beyond its reality, the real deeds of Nebraska,” to England. The show his life are still truly amazing. He was a tremendous success and ran achieved his goal to spread the continuously in England for almost a image of the West, at least as he saw year, closing on May 1, 1887. It had it, to the entire country, and even the entertained Queen Victoria and many entire world. It is likely he reached of the crown heads of Europe. Cody more people with this image in his and the Wild West show returned tri- 50 years of showmanship, than any umphantly to the United States. other single person. While it may The show once again toured the not have been historically objective major cities of the United States. It by today’s standards, it offered a was a small village of about 600 hun- glimpse of a life and times the spec- dred cowboys, Indians, and showmen tators would never know first hand. moved by train and wagon from town In my mind’s eye, Buffalo Bill to town. In subsequent years, the still rides across the vast, rolling, show took several more trips to grassy plains on Charlie. His goatee WILLIAM F. “BUFFALO Europe. The crowds at the perform- is protruding from his leathery sun- ances were huge. Buffalo Bill Cody tanned chin, a broad-brimmed felt Flexor, Elen and Ellen Fitzpatrick, BILL” CODY . . . and his Wild West Show entertained sombrero is perched jauntily atop his Century of Struggle. Cambridge, (Continued from page 65) under varying names until 1913. head of long blonde hair, his fringed Mass: Belknap Press, 1996. financial success of Cody’s play, he After about 1903, the show’s business buckskins are stained and dusty, and McLoughlin, Denis. Wild and now had money to buy a palatial did, however, start to decline. Even his favorite .50 caliber buffalo rifle Woolly. New York, NY: Barnes & estate in Rochester, New York. after it closed down, Cody decided to “Lucretia Borgia” is cradled in the Noble, 1975. Cody, however, wanted more. He use the new media of motion pictures crook of his arm. Adios, Buffalo Bill! Turner, Frederick Jackson The missed the “old days” and filled up to reach people. He formed the “Cody Frontier in American History. his house with his partners from the Historical Pictures Company” in SOURCES Florida: Robert E. Krieger past. He knew the West would soon 1913, but it was not a success. Cody, William F. The Life of Buffalo Publishing. 1985. be gone; it was an era drawing to a Finally, Cody toured with the Sells- Bill. Hartford, Conn.: F.E. Bliss, Wetmore, Helen Cody, Buffalo Bill, close. Cody loved the West. He want- Floto Circus as a headline attraction. 1879. Last of the Great Scouts. ed to share that era with everyone In the end, however, Cody knew the DeSantis, Vincent. The Shaping of (Stamford, Conn: Longmeadow, through an expanded Wild West time, his time, had past. Modern America. Wheeling, Ill: 1899. Show. He wanted it to create a grand America was a changing place. Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2000. pageant that would bring it alive. The census of 1890 officially stated Cody’s sister, Helen Cody Wetmore there was no longer a “frontier line.” said it best. She said Cody wanted to As historian Frederick Jackson present the public “the actual history Turner maintained in his “Frontier of the West as it was lived for, fought Thesis” in 1893, there was no more for, and died for by Indians, pioneers, frontier, no more safety valve. The and soldiers.” West was gone. Labor and big busi- His first “Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild ness were battling each other with West Show” would debut in Omaha, heated strikes such as the Pullman Nebraska in 1883. It was an extrav- and Homestead Steel strikes. aganza of “real” cowboys, Indians, Women were fighting the continuing horses, buffalo, stagecoaches, wag- battle for the vote. America was ons, teepees, and US Cavalry. The expanding overseas into the Pacific parade of the grand entrance was a and Asia. Teddy Roosevelt was spectacle. There were stagecoach attacking big business and big robberies, trick riders, Indian battles, trusts. It was a different world. and herds of cattle and buffalo pur- Cody’s sister, Helen Cody Wetmore, sued around the arena. Between said it all, “The story of the frontier 1883 and 1886, Buffalo Bill’s Wild is a tale that is told. The Wild West West Show traveled most major cities has vanished like a mist in the sun in the United States. before the touch of two great magi- The timing was perfect. During cians of the nineteenth century— June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 87 Page 88 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

TORONTO AREA COWBOY SHOOTERS STAFF A SASS INFORMATION BOOTH AT THE TORONTO SPORTSMEN’S SHOW

By Blind Eagle, SASS #9657

his annual event, March 12-16, We divided our designated area T2008, is “Canada’s Biggest (about 12 ft X 30 ft.) provided by Fishing and Outdoor Show” and ”Canadian Shooting Sports” into two draws close to 200,000 visitors with separate scenarios. In one area we over 450 exhibitors and is held in the utilized props drawn from some of huge “Direct Energy” Building com- those built by members of the plex on the site of Toronto’s Islington Sportsmen’s Club for vari- Exhibition Place. ous matches. In this “hot” area, we SASS Life #5908, Rude Dude, did some blank shotgun, rifle, and, acted as head Wrangler bringing (Continued on next page) Toronto Sports Show Staff. together waddies from a number of area ranges to erect and staff a booth

Kitten Kaboodle and Gail Fernandes showing style of photo with costumes. devoted to the promotion of “Cowboy Action Shooting™.” With the motto, “The most fun you can have with a Gun,” up to fifteen costumed cowboys and cowgirls staffed the booth over the five-day period, talking to hundreds of interested persons. Under stiff “Canadian Gun Rules,” it takes precise planning and input from many club members to design and execute this public relations activity. With safety as the foremost concern (which means no live rounds and not stepping out of the booth confines with firearms), we have been able to provide the public with Blind Eagle, Bob Rudi, and information regarding our sport, Rude Dude strike at pose at the while also creating a multi-faceted Kitten Kaboodle and Vaquero Kid, SASS Life #28716, Toronto Sportsmen Show. exciting venue. utilizing the wanted poster cut outs. www.sweetshooter.com

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(Continued from previous page) firearm to have their photo taken. naturally, single action revolver fir- Alternatively, they could stand behind ing events using cartridges with a cutout of “Nasty Ned Nettles” or primers only! Whenever we under- “Patty Cowpie” for a photo. We suc- took this live firing, we drew a crowd cessfully utilized a digital camera and and were able to talk to them about suitable printer. For a $5 donation the fastest growing gun sport in the those who chose could have a photo world. In the past we have used wax taken and receive a print while they bullets, but with no suitable wall or waited, and one of the waddies talked solid backdrop provided this year, for to them or drew their attention to a safety reasons we refrained from SASS video or DVD playing right on that practice this year. the same table. This section proved to In the “safe” area, we set up a be quite successful, and we were able photo gallery in which we had many to not only cover our expenses, but set replica firearms and costumes. We aside limited funds for improvements were able to draw from these replicas to next year’s booth to make it even to outfit show participants with a more vibrant, attractive, and exciting The Holahan Booth. range of cowboy outfits and a suitable to the public. Page 90 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

BUNKHOUSE BIDNESS A Spotlight on SASS Clubs Around the Country By Whooper Crane, SASS #52745 Photos by Deadeye Al, SASS #26454

Clubs are up to. Maybe your Club will be featured some time soon. DETAILS Contact: Sunshine Kay, President Whooper Crane, [email protected] SASS #52745 Monthly Match: 2nd Saturday at Ben Avery in north Phoenix his is the first of a monthly col- Annual Match: Arizona Territorial Tumn spotlighting one of our over Roundup in April 500 SASS Clubs. Through the WEB site: www.acsainc.com months we’ll try to tell you about different Clubs … what their roots HISTORY are and how they work. Sometimes ACSA was started in 1981 by a it’ll be bigger clubs like ACSA, and group of 15 shooters, many from the sometimes smaller Clubs. We hope Fast Draw discipline, who had heard you’ll enjoy reading what other about Cowboy Action Shooting™ and decided to give it a try. They already had cowboy guns and liked the con- cept of shooting them in the style of Roy and Hoppy … as well as the outlaws and law dogs of the Old West. Their first range was in the desert on State Trust Land behind the ranch house of one of their members, Jim Martin, who lived off Carefree Highway, not far from the Ben Avery Shooting Facility. Ready access to sheet steel made the job of building reactive targets a lot easier, and a lot cheaper, than finding and buying targets from the few steel target makers in those early days. In 1985 the Club moved its Here is one of ACSA’s favorite Stages, “Rock Around the Clock.” shooting range to a more “cowboy- Lots of movement and lots of new sight acquisitions. (Continued on next page) For a good time, give it a try with your Club. June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 91

site for its matches today. In the 27 years since its founding, ACSA has grown to be one of the larger SASS Clubs in the country with nearly 200 members. It has also been an important con- (Continued from previous page) visiting tourists. The Club used the tributor to the general oriented” site … the western town facilities at Cowtown until 1995 growth of our game. movie set of Cowtown. This setting when it moved to Ben Avery, the site was constructed by cowboy movie of Winter Range, SASS’ National INTERESTING STUFF boy “goods” like Wild West Mer- stuntman, Ron Nix, who built it as a Championship Match. At that time a ACSA shooters are lucky to have cantile, Legendary Guns, Dillon Pre- venue for shooting movies and TV group of members spun off the access to, and great support from, cision, Buffalo Brothers, and Ruger. commercials, and for live action Cowtown Cowboy Shooters Assn., several local (but national in scope) Many ACSA shooters are mem- western reenactments and rodeos for which continues to use the Cowtown retailers and manufacturers of cow- (Continued on page 92) Page 92 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

BUNKHOUSE BIDNESS . . . ticipants, including Arizona from last year’s ATR accompany Thumber and Barbwire, SASS Life this article. Look for one of ACSA’s (Continued from page 91) #10179, are still active. favorite stages somewhere else in bers of The Arizona Territorial ACSA puts on its own 10-Main this issue of The Cowboy Chronicle. Company of Rough Riders, the Stage Annual Match, called the Hope you liked this month’s Territorial Rangers, and the Arizona Territorial Roundup. This Bunkhouse Bidness. Next month Wednesday Volunteers who together event attracts about 150 shooters we’ll spotlight a smaller, but very put on Winter Range each March. each year for a great fun weekend active Club from the Great With all its activities, it’s not that includes Long Range events, Northwest, The Oregon Trail surprising that ACSA has devel- side matches, speed shoots, and a Regulators. Until then, Ride Hard oped some fine shooters through the couple mini-matches. Some photos and Shoot Straight! years. Several World Category Champs have come from the Club, among them current World Overall Champ, Chuckwalla Kid, SASS VISIT THE SASS WEB SITE AT #56565. A flock of National Category Champs call ACSA home. WWW.SASSNET.COM A serious chunk of these shooters’ successes can be claimed by several name brand Action Job Specialists in the Club, including Bob James (Arizona Thumber, SASS #319), Palo Verde, SASS #56522, Sheriff Bill Murphy, SASS Life #43990, and Johnny Meadows, ADVERTISING SASS #28485. And, a lot of Club members get their shooting skills honed at fellow member Rattler INFORMATION John’s, SASS #5290, Shooting School. ASK FOR As noted in the January 1988 Cowboy Chronicle (Volume 1), ACSA hosted the very first SASS-sanc- ~ DONNA ~ tioned Cowboy Action Shooting™ (EXT. 118) match. It was the Southwestern Donna Oakley Cowboy Shooting Championships SASS #13013 held at the Cowtown Range in September 1987. Some of the par- June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 93

Island Pond Paul, SASS #65015, that 2007 BUZZARD BOIL . . . drove down from VT; Peddler Jack, (Continued from page 79) SASS #18828, Lone Star Jake, SASS Rolling Rocks to make all those tro- #13019, and Rowdy Bill, SASS #9628, phies ... it was a tough job but some- that made the haul from NY, and Milo one had to cowboy up! Sierra, SASS #22947, from just down So, if it wasn’t the stages, the the trail, and Grazer, SASS #38845, shoot off, the food, the giveaways, or from neighboring MA. And, not to be the trophies, what was it that made forgotten, all those cowgirls like Birdie this the best biggest little shoot in Cage, SASS #32773, Nantucket Dawn, New England? Maybe it was a combi- SASS #15681, and Boston Lady, SASS nation of all those things ... or maybe #3662, from MA; Wild Sage, SASS it was those record setting 89 shooters #40879, from RI, and Alma Garrett, from all over New England that made SASS #63413, and Lou Graham, SASS up the six fun posses. No MAYBES #26112, from the host state of CT. Yes, about it when you have cowboys like the people make the shoot, and they Ike Shotgun McCoy, SASS #4982, and made this one a real gem! Page 94 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 95 Page 96 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008

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Leach(wanted c/c) ...... 104 Sweet Shooter Gun Cleaner ...... 103 American Cowboy ...... 59 Dillon Precision ...... 66 Kirkpatrick Leather ...... 12 River Junction Trade Co ...... 4 Tatonka Dan ...... 103 Amigo Guncarts-Driscoll Studios ...... 84 Dixie Gun Works ...... 71 Klamath River Woodworks ...... 101 Rodney Yates Insurance ...... 104 Taylors & Company ...... 112 Ammo Direct ...... 47 Double R Bar Regulators ...... 81 Kowboyboots.com ...... 103 Rose D’zynes ...... 103 Tecumseh Trdg Post(cowboy) ...... 104 Anne Carol Hayes ...... 104 Durango Heritage Celebration ...... 84 Laughing Moon Mercantile ...... 101 Rossi 92’ Specialists ...... 102 Ted Blocker Holsters ...... 102 Arntzen Steel Target ...... 91 El Paso Saddleblanket ...... 68 Leather Crafters & Saddlery Journal . . . . 84 Running Buffalo ...... 101 Ten-Ring Precision, Inc...... 88 Atrisco Spur, Concho & Jewelry ...... 101 El Paso Saddlery ...... 21 Legendary Guns ...... 102 Rustedfables ...... 101 Ten-X Ammunition ...... 8 Australian Stock Saddle Co...... 26 El Paso Saddlery ...... 65 Leo Rechner ...... 104 Rusty Musket Enterprises ...... 103 Texas Jacks Wild West ...... 14 Back Pocket Guncart ...... 47 Electronic Shooters Protection ...... 43 Liberty Leather ...... 103 Ruxton’s Trading Post ...... 103 Thunder Ridge ...... 104 Ballistol USA ...... 101 Elite Sports Express ...... 55 Lindhom Bros. Spurs ...... 32 S E Unlimited ...... 34 Tonto Rim Trader Company ...... 13 Bar S Grips ...... 50 Elk Horn Grips ...... 102 Long Hunter Shooting Supply ...... 10 SASS - Bobblehead ...... 55 Top Brass - Scharch Mfg. Inc...... 41 Bear Bones Knives ...... 101 EMF Company ...... 23 M. Shelhart ...... 44 SASS - Casting Call ...... 59 True West Magazine ...... 40 Bianchi International ...... 17 EMF Company ...... 45 Magma Engineering ...... 25 SASS - Convention 2008 ...... 57 Turkey Foot Cowboys ...... 92 Big 45 Frontier Gun Shop ...... 101 EMF Company ...... 46 Maui Marshalls ...... 92 SASS - Corporal Dow Book ...... 91 Twin Butte Bunch (Sixgun Justice) . . . . . 93 Bill Johns Master Engraver ...... 45 EMF Company ...... 67 Mernickle Custom Holsters ...... 24 SASS - End of Trail 2006 DVD ...... 18 U.S. Firearms ...... 90 Black Hills Leather ...... 49 EMF Company ...... 102 Merrimack Valley Marauders ...... 85 SASS - Evil Roy DVD Series ...... 20 UniqueTek ...... 86 Bond Arms ...... 69 Enck’s Gun Barn ...... 103 Mike’s Custom Hatters ...... 41 SASS - Match Management ...... 72 W.A.Murphy ...... 102 Bozeman Trail Arms ...... 104 Espinoza Bootmaker ...... 102 Moore Ranch ...... 104 SASS - Membership app ...... 111 Walker 47 ...... 103 Buffalo Arms Company ...... 101 Evil Roy Shooting School ...... 31 Mounted Shooters of America ...... 61 SASS - MERCANTILE ...... 94 Western And Wildlife Wonders ...... 7 Buffalo Runner Boots ...... 86 Folkwear ...... 103 Munden Enterprises ...... 6 SASS - MERCANTILE ...... 95 Western Stage Props ...... 104 Buffalo Western Wear ...... 103 Golden Gate Western Wear ...... 53 Mustang Woodcrafters ...... 93 SASS - MERCANTILE ...... 96 Western Star Leather ...... 102 Cal Graph ...... 101 Great American West Co...... 61 NRA ...... 63 SASS - MERCANTILE ...... 97 Whispering Spirit Ranch ...... 101 Cart-Right Carts ...... 102 Great Basin Cartridge ...... 46 Numrich Gun Parts Corp...... 65 SASS - MERCANTILE ...... 98 Wild West Mercantile ...... 2 Champion Attitude Boots ...... 63 Griner Gunworks ...... 104 Nutmeg Sports ...... 102 SASS - MERCANTILE ...... 99 William Gilmore ...... 104 Chey - Cast Bullets ...... 52 Grip Maker ...... 102 Oak Tree ...... 69 SASS - MERCANTILE ...... 100 Wisconsin Old West Shootist Society . . . 89 Circle Fly Wads ...... 83 Grizzly Saloon ...... 101 Off The Wall ...... 41 SASS - Mounted Mercantile ...... 33 Wooden Works West ...... 32 Circle KB Leatherworks ...... 50 Gunfighter 928 ...... 83 Oklahoma Leather Products ...... 103 SASS - Museum Raffle ...... 20 Working Cowboy Gun Leather Shop . . 101 Coal Creek Cowboys ...... 93 Guns Of The Old West ...... 71 Old River Saddlery ...... 102 SASS - Outlaw Trail ...... 56 XCalibers ...... 51 Cochise Leather Company ...... 66 Hamilton Dry Goods ...... 102 Old West Gallery ...... 22 SASS - Schoarship Raffle ...... 20 XCalibers ...... 103 Colorado Mountain Hat Co...... 83 Heart Diamond Ranch ...... 101 Olde Tyme Mercantile ...... 103 SASS - Wanted Dead or Alive ...... 73 XS Sight Systems ...... 30 Competition Electronics ...... 9 Helluva Ruckus ...... 89 Oregon Trail Bullet Co...... 27 SASS - Winners Buckle ...... 79 Cook’s Bison Ranch ...... 51 I.A.R...... 102 Oregon Trail Rough Riders ...... 89 Shasta Leatherworks ...... 104 Cowboy Corral ...... 19 James & Guns ...... 84 Perfect Shot, The ...... 104 Shoot Magazine ...... 33 / Cowboy Fast Draw Association ...... 92 Jaxonbilt Hat Co ...... 90 Pioneer Arms Corp ...... 86 Star Packer Badges ...... 103 June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 105

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Alaska 49er’s 1st Sat & 3rd Sun Tripod 907-373-0140 Birchwood AK Big River Rangers 1st Sat Nimrod Long 850-592-5665 Grand Ridge FL Golden Heart Shootist Society 2nd Sat & Last Sun Ruby Lil 907-488-0792 Chatanika AK Gold Coast Gunslingers 1st Sat L. Topay 305-233-5756 Fort Lauderdale FL Juneau Gold Miners Posse 3rd Sun Jack “The Farmer” Colton 907-321-5845 Juneau AK Howey In the Hills Cowboys 1st Sat Lady Robin 352-429-2587 Howey in the Hills FL North Alabama Regulators 1st Sun Six String 256-582-3621 Woodville AL Hernando County Regulators 1st Sun Shady Brady 352-686-1055 Brooksville FL Alabama Rangers 2nd Sun RC Moon 205-410-5707 Brierfield AL The Hatbill Gang 1st Sun Santa Fe River Stan 386-423-2495 Titusville FL Gallant Gunfighters 3rd & 5th Sun Buck D. Law 256-504-4366 Birmingham AL Fort White Cowboy Cavalry 2nd Sat Kid Hawkins 386-454-2067 Fort White FL Vulcan Long Rifles 3rd Sat Havana Jim 205-822-1799 Hoover AL Resurrection Rangers 2nd Sat Tennessee Tonto 813-920-4280 Brooksville FL Cahaba Cowboys 3rd Sun Duke Slade 205-854-0483 Argo AL Okeechobee Marshals 2nd Sat & 4th Sun Buffalo Brady 772-344-6119 Indiantown FL Old York Shootists 4th Sun Derringer Di 205-647-6925 Hoover AL Panhandle Cowboys 2nd Sun Panhandle B. Kid 850-432-1968 Pensacola FL Mountain Valley Vigilantes 1st Sat & Sun Christmas Kid 501-625-3554 Hot Springs AR Tater Hill Gunfighters 2nd Sun Judge JD Justice 941-743-4043 Arcadia FL Critter Creek Citizens Vigilance 1st Sun Evil Bob 903-838-3897 Fouke AR Weewahootee Vigilance Outlaw Camp 2nd & 5th Sat Ozark Outlaw 501-362-2963 Heber Springs AR Committee 2nd Sun Weewahootee 407-857-1107 Orlando FL Judge Parker’s Marshals 2nd Sat Reno Sparks 918-647-9704 Fort Smith AR Five County Regulators 3rd Sat Dead Shot Scott 239-261-2892 Punta Gorda FL Arkansas Lead Slingers 2nd Sat & 4th Sun Dirty Dan Paladin 479-633-2107 Bentonville AR Lake County Pistoleros 3rd Sat Brocky Jack Norton 352-409-3693 Tavares FL South Fork River Regulators 3rd Sat Kid Thorn 870-488-5447 Salem AR Martin County Marshals 3rd Sat Jasper Jim 561-747-4487 Stuart FL True Grit SASS 4th Sun Sister Sundance 479-968-7129 Belleville AR Southwest Florida Gunslingers 3rd Sat Denver Darlin 239-404-0724 Punta Gorda FL Cochise Gunfighters 1st Sat I.B. Good 520-366-5401 Sierra Vista AZ Miakka Misfits 3rd Sun Cracker Jake 941-748-0741 Myakka City FL Rio Salado Cowboy Action Indian River Regulators 4th Sat Turkey Creek Red 321-728-7928 Palm Bay FL Shooting Society 1st Sat AZ Lightning Jack 480-820-7372 Mesa AZ Panhandle Cattle Company 4th Sat Tac Hammer 850-785-6535 Port St. Joe FL Cowtown Cowboy Cowford Regulators 4th Sun Cowford Kid 904-219-3795 Jacksonville FL Shooters, LLC 1st Sun & 3rd Sat Barbwire 480-488-3064 Phoenix AZ Doodle Hill Regulators 4th Sun Dave Smith 813-645-3828 Ruskin FL Colorado River Regulators 2nd & 4th Sun Crowheart 928-855-2893 Lake Havasu AZ Antelope Junction Rangers Fridays Mayeye Rider 727-736-3977 Pineallas Park FL Arizona Cowboy Shooters Withlacoochee Renegades, The Last Sat Hungry Bear 850-929-2406 Pinetta FL Association, Inc 2nd Sat Sunshine Kay 602-973-3434 Phoenix AZ American Old West Cowboys 1st Sat Josey Buckhorn 423-236-5281 Flintstone GA Pima Pistoleros Cowboy River Bend Rough Riders 1st Sat Hardbark Harry 404-373-8088 Dawsonville GA Action Shooter 2nd Sat Wander N. Star 520-744-3869 Tucson AZ Valdosta Vigilance Committee 1st Sat Big Boyd 229-244-3161 Valdosta GA Tombstone Ghost Riders Lonesome Valley Regulators 1st Sun Wishbone Hooper 478-922-9384 Warner Robins GA Action Club 2nd Sat Wily Yankee 520-400-8962 Tombstone AZ Doc Holliday’s Immortals 2nd Sat Easy Rider 770-954-9696 Griffin GA Dusty Bunch Old Western Pale Riders 2nd Sat Will Killigan 706-568-0869 Mauk GA Shooters 3rd Sat Squibber 520-568-2852 Casa Grande AZ Mule Camp Cowboys 3rd Sat San Quinton 706-540-0400 Covington GA Los Vaqueros 3rd Sat Ole Deadeye 520-749-1186 Tucson AZ Tennessee Mountain Marauders 3rd Sat Trail Bones 423-842-6116 Ringgold GA White Mountain Old West Cherokee Cowboys 4th Sat H. B. 404-634-3151 Gainesville GA Shootists 3rd Sat Fred Sharps 928-532-7820 Taylor AZ Maui Marshals 1st & 3rd Sat Bad Burt 808-875-9085 Maui HI Tonto Rim Marauders 3rd Sun Silverado Cid 928-474-8649 Payson AZ Turkeyfoot Cowboys 1st Sat (Mar-Nov) Kingdom Kid 319-351-7572 Evandale IA Altar Valley Pistoleros 3rd Sun & 5th Sun Dirty Dave Rudabaugh 520-889-9231 Tucson AZ Zen Shootists 4th Sat (Mar-Oct) Cap Horn 515-999-2089 Nevada IA Mohave Marshalls 3rd Sun & 5th Sun Mizkiz 928-753-4266 Kingman AZ Southeast Idaho Practical Arizona Yavapai Rangers 4th Sat Johnny Meadows 928-567-9227 Camp Verde AZ Shooters 1st Sat Idaho Packer 208-589-5941 Idaho Falls ID Tombstone Buscaderos 4th Sat Diamond Pak 520-743-0179 Tombstone AZ Squaw Butte Regulators 1st Sun & 2nd Sat Acequia Kidd 208-365-4551 Emmett ID Colorado River Shootists 4th Sun ClueLass 928-726-7727 Yuma AZ Boundary Maurauders 1st Sun & 4th Sat Mud Marine 208-597-6191 Bonners Ferry ID YRL-High Country Cowboys 4th Sun J. P. Trouble 928-445-2468 Prescott AZ El Buscaderos 2nd & 4th Sun Cap’N Crump 509-447-7956 Spirit Lake ID Sunnyvale Regulators 1st & 3rd Mon Shaniko Jack 650-347-5625 Cupertino CA Northwest Shadow Riders 2nd Sat Silverado Belle 208-743-5765 Lewiston ID West End Outlaws 1st & 3rd Sat Rob Banks 714-206-6893 Lytle Creek CA Southern Idaho Rangers 2nd Sat Black Jack Kid 208-238-8235 Pocatello ID Silver Queen Mine Regulators 1st & 3rd Sun Walks Fletcher 310-539-8202 Azusa CA Oregon Trail Rough Riders 2nd Sun & 3rd Sat John Bear 208-288-4251 Boise ID Escondido Bandidos 1st Sat Devil Jack 760-741-3229 Escondido CA Hell’s Canyon Ghost Riders 3rd Sat J.P. Sloe 208-798-0826 Moscow ID Lassen Regulators 1st Sat Earl 530-253-3868 Susanville CA Twin Butte Bunch 3rd Sat Idaho Packer 208-589-5941 Rexburg ID The Outlaws 1st Sat Jackalope Jasper 530-344-8121 Sacramento CA Panhandle Regulators 3rd Sun Headshot 208-245-4743 Plummer ID Two Rivers Posse 1st Sat & 4th Sun Dragon 209-836-4042 Manteca CA Snake River Western Hole In The Wall Gang 1st Sun K. C., U. S. Marshal 310-640-3653 Piru CA Shooting Society 4th Sat Missy Mable 208-731-6387 Jerome ID Mother Lode Shootist Society 1st Sun Dusty Webster 209-795-7430 Jamestown CA Shady Creek Shootists 1st & 4th Sun Dapper Dan Porter 309-734-2324 Little York IL River City Regulators 1st Sun Baldy Green 707-425-8569 Davis CA Rangeless Riders 1st Sat The Inspector 618-345-5048 Highland IL 5 Dogs Creek 1st Wknd Almost Dangerous 760-376-4493 Bakersfield CA The Lakewood Marshal’s 1st Sat Pine Ridge Jack 618-838-9410 Cisne IL Cajon Cowboys 2nd & 4th Sat Bojack 760-956-8852 Devore CA Boneyard Creek Regulators 1st Sun Wild Pike 217-356-5136 Newman IL Chorro Valley Regulators 2nd & 5th Sun Gunsmoke Slim 805-238-9567 San Luis Obispo CA Kishwaukee Valley Regulators 1st Sun MT Mnt Man Mike 815-899-0046 Sycamore IL California Rangers 2nd Sat Melvin P. Thorpe 916-984-9770 Ione CA Kaskaskia Cowboys 2nd Sat Beaucoup Joe 618-426-3072 Sparta IL Dulzura Desperados 2nd Sat Hashknife Willie 619-271-1481 San Diego CA The Free Grazers 2nd Sat Fossil Creeek Bob 618-238-4222 Effingham IL Guns in the Sun 2nd Sat Deacon Dick 760-340-0828 Palm Springs CA Tri County Cowboys 2nd Sat Sierra Hombre 815-967-6333 Hazelhurst IL Shasta Regulators Of Hat Creek 2nd Sat Cayenne Pepper 530-275-3158 Burney CA Illinois River City Regulators 2nd Sun Chillicothe Outlaw 309-579-2443 East Peoria IL Brimstone Pistoleros 2nd Sun Rowdy Yates 714-532-2922 Lucerne Valley CA Vermilion River Long Riders 2nd Sun Lead Poison Lar 815-875-3674 Leonore IL Double R Bar Regulators 2nd Sun Kentucky Gal 760-956-6921 Lucerne Valley CA Nason Mining Company High Sierra Drifters 2nd Sun Peaceful 209-293-4456 Railroad Flat CA Regulators 3rd & 5th Sat Lowdown Highwall 618-279-3500 West Frankfort IL Richmond Roughriders 2nd Sun Buffy 650-994-9412 Richmond CA Macoupin County Regulators 3rd Sat One Good Eye 618-585-3956 Bunker Hill IL The Over The Hill Gang 2nd Sun Kooskia Kid 818-566-7900 Sylmar CA McLean County Peacemakers 3rd Sat Marshall RD 309-379-4331 Bloomington IL Bridgeport Vigilantes 3rd Sat Bee Blest 760-932-1139 Bridgeport CA Fort Beggs Defenders 3rd Sun Torandado 815-302-8305 Plainfield IL Burro Canyon Gunslingers 3rd Sat Don Trader 714-827-7360 Chino CA Illowa Irregulars 3rd Sun (Apr-Oct) Shamrock Sis 309-798-2635 Milan IL North County Shootist Assoc. 3rd Sat Graybeard 760-727-9160 Pala CA Marion County Renegades 4th Sat Shell Stuffer 618-822-6952 Sandoval IL Plunge Creek Cowboys 3rd Sat Horace Fallon 951-845-4827 Highland CA Good Guys Posse 4th Sun Longtooth 847-395-0664 Rockford IL Robbers Roost Vigilantes 3rd Sat Nasty Newt 760-375-7618 Ridgecrest CA Long Nine Cowboys, Inc. 4th Sun Postman 217-415-1118 Loami IL Shasta Regulators 3rd Sat Modoc 530-365-1839 Redding CA Dewmaine Drifters As Sched Wounded Knees 618-997-4261 Carterville IL High Desert Cowboys 3rd Sun Doc Silverhawks 661-948-2543 Acton CA Salt River Renegades As Sched Newsome Porter 217-985-4915 Quincy IL Kings River Regulators 3rd Sun Slick Rock Rooster 559-299-8669 Clovis CA Cutter’s Raiders 1st Sat all year, Murieta Posse 3rd Sun Black Jack Traven 530-677-0368 Rancho Murieta CA & 4th Sat (Apr-Aug) Midnite Desperado 574-893-7214 Warsaw IN Panorama Sportsman Club 3rd Sun Desperado 818-341-7255 Sylmar CA Big Rock SASS 2nd & 4th Sat Southpaw Too 812-866-2406 Lexington IN South Coast Rangers - Perry Adams Daleville Desperados 2nd & 4th Sat Jennifer Jericho 765-378-5122 Daleville IN Cowboy Match 3rd Sun Swifty Schofield 805-968-7138 Santa Barbara CA Red Brush Raiders 2nd Sat As Sched. Chinaman 812-426-0793 Newburgh IN Ukiah Gun Club 3rd Sun Will Bonner 707-462-1466 Ukiah CA Schuster’s Rangers 2nd Sun Coal Car Kid 219-759-3498 Chesterton IN California Shady Ladies 4th Sat Lady Gambler 916-447-2040 Sloughhouse CA Pleasant Valley Renegades 2nd Wknd Nomore Slim 812-839-3052 Canaan IN Coyote Valley Sharp Shooters 4th Sat Wif 408-448-3256 San Jose CA Circle R Cowboys 3rd Sat Mustang Bill 219-279-2781 Brooksten IN Deadwood Drifters 4th Sat Lusty Lil 323-353-3898 Piru CA Stark County Desert 3rd Sat Whip Mccord 219-942-5859 Knox IN Hawkinsville Claim Jumpers 4th Sat Deacon Doug 530-926-4538 Yreka CA Thunder Valley 3rd Sat Redneck Rebel 812-755-4237 Campbellsburg IN Mad River Rangers 4th Sat Kid Kneestone 707-445-1981 Blue Lake CA High Ground Regulators 3rd Sat Apr. - Nov. Blackjack Max 765-832-3324 Putnamville IN Pozo River Vigilance Committee 4th Sat Dirty Sally 805-438-4817 Santa Margarita CA Deer Creek Regulators 4th Sun Doc Molar 765-948-3844 Jonesboro IN FaultLine Shootist Society 4th Sun Querida 831-636-3348 Gonzales CA Wildwood Wranglers 4th Sun VOODOOMAN 219-872-2721 Michigan City IN The Cowboys 4th Sun Captain Jake 714-536-2635 Norco CA Indiana Black Powder Guild 5th Sat Manatee 317-640-0172 Paradise Pass IN The Range 4th Sun Grass V.Federally 530-273-4440 Grass Valley CA Indiana Black Powder Guild As Sched CC Filson 574-551-7693 Etna Green IN Sloughhouse Irregulators 5th Sat & Sun Badlands Bud 530-677-0368 Sloughhouse CA Butterfield Gulch Gang 1st Sun Polecat Ron 785-827-8149 Chapman KS Colorado Cowboys 1st Sat El Gato Gordo 719-683-6713 Lake George CO Powder Creek Cowboys 2nd Sat & 4th Wed Shawnee Shamus 913-236-8812 Lenexa KS Colorado Shaketails 1st Sun Yaro 303-646-3777 Ramah CO Mill Brook Wranglers 2nd Sun Grandpa B. Millbrook 785-421-2537 Hill City KS San Juan Rangers 1st Sun Kodiak Kid 970-252-1841 Montrose CO Free State Rangers 3rd Buffalo Phil 913-898-4911 Parker KS Windygap Regulators 1st Wknd Piedra Kidd 970-565-9228 Cortez CO Sand Hill Regulators 3rd Sat Goat Roper 620-345-3151 Hutchinson KS Four Corners Rifle Capital City Cowboys 4th Sun Newton 785-925-0281 Topeka KS and Pistol Club 2nd Sun Capt. W. K. Kelso 970-565-3840 Cortez CO Kentucky Regulators 1st Sat Kentucky Dover 270-658-3247 Boaz KY Montrose Marshals 2nd Sun Big Hat 970-249-7701 Montrose CO Hooten Old Town Regulators 1st Sat (Mar - Dec) Bullfork Shotgun Red 606-776-6719 Mckee KY Pawnee Station 3rd Sat Red River Wrangler 970-225-0545 Wellington CO Knob Creek Gunfighters Guild 1st Sun Cumberland Drifter 502-548-3860 Shepardsville KY Rockvale Bunch 3rd Sat Nevada Steel 719-784-6683 Rockvale CO Crab Orchard Cowboy Shootist 2 nd Sat R.C. Lakota 270-322-3014 Clay KY Castle Peak Wildshots 3rd Sun Old Squinteye 970-524-9348 Gypsum CO Green River Gunslingers 2nd Sat Yak 270-792-9001 Bowling Green KY Four Corners Gunslingers 3rd Sun Cerveza Slim 970-247-0745 Durango CO Kentucky Longrifles Cowboys 2nd Sat Bullfork Shotgun Red 606-784-0067 Morehead KY Thunder Mountain Shootists 3rd Wknd Pinto Being 970-464-7118 Grand Junction CO Ohio River Rangers 2nd Sat Jim Spears 270-443-5216 Paducah KY Northwest Colorado Rangers 4th Sat Sagebrush Burns 970-824-8407 Craig CO Lonesome Pine Pistoleros 2nd Sun Isom Kid 606-633-4465 Jeremiah KY Pawnee Sportsmens Center 4th Sat Governor General 970-656-3851 Briggsdale CO Fox Bend Peacemakers 4th Sun Tioga Kid 859-277-9693 Wilmore KY Black Canyon Ghost Riders 4th Sun Double Bit 970-874-8745 Hotchkiss CO Devil Swamp Gang 1st Sat Cooper York 504-722-8988 Thibodaux LA Sand Creek Raiders 4th Sun Sweet Water Bill 303-366-8827 Byers CO Up The Creek Gang 2nd & 4th Sat Sure Shot Sue 337-582-4420 Lake Charles LA Ledyard Sidewinders 1st Sat Yosemite Gene 860-536-0887 Ledyard CT Bayou Bounty Hunters 2nd Sat Soiled Dove 985-796-9698 Amite LA Congress of Rough Riders 1st Sun Snake Eyes F. Tanner 203-612-8855 Naugatuck CT Cajun Cowboy Shooters Society 2nd Sun Durango Dan 225-752-2288 Baton Rouge LA CT Valley Bushwackers 2nd Sun Johnny Pecos 413-572-2820 East Granby CT Cypress Creek Cowboys 2nd Wknd Mav Dutchman 318-396-6320 Downsville LA Padens Posse 3rd Sun Hazel Pepper 302-422-6534 Seaford DE Grand Ecore Vigilantes 3rd Sat Ouachita Kid 318-932-6637 Natchitoches LA

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Contact Phone City State Deadwood Marshals 4th Sat Barkeeps 225-715-8711 Sorrento LA High Plains Drifters 1st Sun Fernley 775-575-3131 Fernley NV Danvers Desperados As Sched Cyrus Cy Klopps 781-667-2857 Middleton MA Eldorado Cowboys 1st Wknd Charming 702-565-3736 Boulder City NV Harvard Ghost Riders As Sched Yosemite Kid 781-373-2411 Harvard MA Nevada Rangers Cowboy Action Mansfield Marauders As Sched Mohawk Mac 508-369-5093 Mansfield MA Shooting Society 2nd Sun Joe Gill 702-565-3276 Jean NV Shawsheen River Rangers As Sched Yukon Willie 978-663-3342 Bedford MA Pahrump Cowboy Shooters Gunnysackers Sat Nantucket Dawn781-749-6951 Scituate MA Association 2nd Sun Iona Vaquero 775-764-0257 Amargosa Valley NV Eas’dern Shore Renegades 1st Sat Slash Eight 410-648-6829 Sudlersville MD Roop County Cowboy Thurmont Rangers 1st Sun Cody Conagher 304-258-1419 Thurmont MD Shooters Assn. 2nd Sun Russ T. Chambers 775-747-1426 Sparks NV St. Charles Sportsman’s Club Desert Desperados 3rd Sun Buffalo Sam 702-459-6454 Las Vegas NV Cowboy Action 2nd Sat Rufus Lupus 301-499-7879 Waldorf MD Silver State Shootists Club 3rd Sun Tahoe Bill 775-586-9178 Carson City NV Monocacy Irregulars 3rd Tues Church Key 304-229-8266 Frederick MD Silver City Shooters Society 4th Sun Daisy Mayhem 702-896-1174 Indian Springs NV Damascus Wildlife Rangers 4th Sat (Mar-Nov) Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Damascus MD Tioga County Cowboys 1st Sat Empty Cases 607-699-3307 Owego NY Beaver Creek Desperados As Sched Jimmy Reb 207-698-4436 Sanford ME Crumhorn Mountain Cowboys 1st Sun Lefty Cooper 607-547-6008 Maryland NY Big Pine Bounty Hunters As Sched Ripley Scrounger 207-876-3541 Willmantic ME Pathfinder Pistoleros 1st Sun Sonny 315-695-7032 Fulton NY Blue Hill Regulators As Sched Dangerous D. Dalton 207-667-3586 Blue Hill ME Bar-20, Inc. 2nd Sat Renegade Ralph 315-363-5342 West Eaton NY Capitol City Vigilance Panorama Trail Regulators 2nd Sat Twelve Bore 585-613-8046 Penfield NY Committee As Sched Mark Lake 207-622-9400 Augusta ME Boot Hill Regulators 2nd Sun Judge Zaney Grey 845-352-7921 Chester NY Hurricane Valley Rangers As Sched Leo 207-829-3092 Falmouth ME Hole In The Wall Gang 2nd Sun Rowdy Rube 631-474-0002 Calverton NY Rockford Regulators 1st Sat No Cattle 616-363-2827 Rockford MI Border Rangers 2nd Sun (Apr-Oct) Badlands Buzz 607-898-3581 Greene NY River Bend Rangers 2nd Sat Jonathan Slim Chance 574-277-9712 Buckanan MI Diamond Four 3rd Sat Kayutah Kid 607-796-0573 Odessa NY Double Barrel Gang 2th Sat Slippery Pete 269-838-6944 Hastings MI Circle K Regulators 3rd Sun Smokehouse Dan 518-885-3758 Ballston Spa NY Chippewa Regulators 3rd Sat Lazy Eye Ben 906-632-2720 Sault Ste. Marie MI D Bar D Wranglers 4th Sat Captain Maf 845-226-8611 Wappingers Fall NY Sucker Creek Saddle The Long Riders 4th Sun Loco Poco Lobo 585-467-4429 Shortsville NY & Gun Club 3rd Sat Cree Vicar Dave 989-654-3636 Breckenridge MI Rockdale Renegades As Sched Scheriff Richie 607-783-2752 Rockdale NY Hidden Valley Cowbays 3rd. Sun Triple Creek Shorty 269-273-8334 Sturgis MI The Shadow Riders As Sched Snake River Cowboy 631-477-1090 Westhampton NY Eagleville Cowboys 4th Sat Thummper John 231-377-7232 Central Lake MI East End Regulators Last Sun Diamond Rio 631-585-1936 Westhampton NY Johnson Creek Regulators 4th Sat Rainmaker Ray 248-991-9073 Plymouth MI Sackets Harbor Vigilantes Last Sun Bobby Hats 1-315-782-3536 Sackets Harbor NY Rocky River Regulators As Sch Terrebonne Bud 248-709-5254 Utica MI Big Irons 1st Sat Deadwood Stan 513-894-3500 Middletown OH Saginaw Field & Stream Club As Sched Katie Callahan 989-585-3292 Saginaw MI Middletown Sportsmens West Walker Rangers As Sched Two Rig A Tony 616-891-6917 Grand Rapids MI Club, Inc. 1st Sat Deadwood Stan 513-894-3500 Middletown OH Lapeer County Sportsmans Tusco Long Riders 1st Sat Split Rail 330-364-6185 Midvale OH Club Wranglers Sun Ricochet Bill 810-441-2438 Attica MI West Jeff Ghostriders 1st Sun Col. Cord McNalley 614-536-6070 West Jefferson OH Cedar Valley Vigilantes 1st & 3rd Sat Kaycee McCaylum 507-455-1101 Morristown MN Firelands Peacemakers 1st Wed, 3rd Sat Crow River Rangers 1st Sun Cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 Howard Lake MN & 5th Sun Johnny Shiloh 440-984-4551 Rochester OH Lookout Mountain Gunsmoke Sandusky County Regulators 2nd Sat Kenny Vaquero 419-874-6929 Gibsonburg OH Society 2nd Sat Wagonmaster 218-744-4694 Virginia MN Shenango River Rats 2nd Sat & 4th Sun East Grand Forks Rod (May-Oct) Shenango Joe 330-782-0958 Yankee Lake OH & Gun Club 3rd Sun BB Gunner 218-779-8555 East Grand Forks MN Miami Valley Cowboys 2nd Sun Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 Piqua OH Ike’s Clantons 4th Sun (Apr-Sep) Dawgnapper 320-275-2052 New Ulm MN Scioto Territory Desperados Inc. 3rd & 5th Sun Lucky Levi Loving 740-380-6190 Chillicothe OH The Ozark Posse 1st Sat Tightwade Swede 417-847-0018 Cassville MO Wilmington Rough Riders 3rd Sat Paragon Pete 740-626-7667 Wilmington OH Rocky Branch Rangers 1st Sun Iza Littleoff 816-524-1462 Higginsville MO AuGlaize Rough Riders 3rd Sun Doc Carson 419-782-7837 Defiance OH Moniteau Creek River Raiders 2nd Sun Doolin Riggs 573-687-3103 Fayette MO Briar Rabbit Rangers 4th Sat Grizzly Killer 330-204-4606 Zanesville OH Central Ozarks Western Shooters 3rd Sun X S Chance 573-765-5483 St. Robert MO Ohio Valley Vigilantes 4th Sat Rowdy K 419-529-0887 Mt. Vernon OH Gateway Shootist Society 3rd Sun Bounty Seeker 636-464-6569 St. Louis MO Central Ohio Cowboys 4th Sun Buffalo Balu 740-569-3206 Circleville OH Southern Missouri Rangers 4th Wknd Smokie 417-759-9114 Willard MO Jackson Six Shooters Last Sat (Mar-Oct) Flat Iron Fred 330-538-2690 North Jackson OH Natchez Six Gunners 1st Sat Winchester 601-445-5223 Natchez MS Rattlesnake Mountain Rangers 1st Sat Black River Jack 918-908-0016 Checotah OK Mississippi Peacemakers 3rd Sat Squinter 601-825-8640 Mendenhall MS Shortgrass Rangers 1st Sat & 3rd Sun Captain Allyn Capron580-357-5870 Grandfield OK Mississippi River Rangers 4th & 5th Sat Easy Lee 662-838-7451 Byhalia MS Cherokee Strip Shootists 1st Sun Querida Kate 405-372-0208 Stillwater OK Honorable Road Agents Oklahoma City Gun Club 2nd Sat & 4th Sun Stonewall 405-739-0545 Oklahoma Cty OK Shooting Society 1st Sat Diamond Red 406-685-3618 Ennis MT Indian Territory Single Action 2nd Sun, 3rd Sat, Sun River Rangers Shooting Society 4th Wed, & 5th Sun Montana Dan 918-313-0249 Coweta OK Shooting Society 1st Sun & 4th Sat Jeb Stuart 406-727-7625 Simms MT Flying W Outlaws 3rd & 5th Sat Papa Don 580-225-5515 Elk City OK Gallatin Valley Regulators 2nd Wknd Missouri River Kid 408-587-2072 Logan MT Tater Hill Regulators 3rd Sun Taos Willie 918-355-2849 Tulsa OK Rocky Mountain Rangers 2nd Wknd Jocko 406-847-0745 Noxon MT Horse Ridge Pistoleros 1st & 3rd Sun Big Casinos 541-389-2342 Bend OR Bigfork Buscaderos 3rd Sat Bodie Camp 406-883-6797 Bigfork MT Orygun Cowboys & Cowgirls 1st Mon, 2nd Sun Last Chance Handgunners 3rd Sat Bocephus Bandito 406-439-4476 Boulder MT & 3rd Sat Poke Along 360-896-5410 Sherwood OR Montana Territory Peacemakers 4th Sat Backstrap Bill 406-652-6158 Billings MT Dry Gulch Desperados 1st Sat Runamuck 509-525-2984 Milton Freewater OR Yellowstone Regulators 4th Sat Chisler Wood 307-690-2676 West Yellowstone MT Merlin Marauders 1st Sat Rogue Rascal 541-472-8585 Grants Pass OR Flatwood’s Cowboys 1st Sat Seth Hawkins 910-346-3612 Hubert NC Molalla River Rangers 1st Sat Gold Dust Bill 503-705-1211 Canby OR North Carolina Cowboys, Inc. 1st Sat J. M. Brown 919-266-3751 Creedmore NC Siuslaw River Rangers 1st Sun Johnny Jingos 541-997-6313 Florence OR Old Hickory Regulators 1st Sat Father Time 252-291-3184 Rocky Mount NC Table Rock Rangers 1st Sun & 2nd Sat Jed I. Knight 541-944-2281 White City OR Old North State Posse 1st Sat Tracker Mike 336-595-8853 Salisbury NC Klamath Cowboys 2nd Sun Rambling Dave 541-273-1055 Keno OR Walnut Grove Rangers 1st Sat Hiem 828-245-5563 Rutherfordton NC Jefferson State Regulators 3rd Sat Jed I. Knight 541-944-2281 Ashland OR Carolina Rough Riders 1st Sun Pecos Pete 704-996-0756 Charlotte NC Oregon Trail Regulators 3rd Sat Road Agent 541-963-2237 La Grande OR Buccaneer Range Regulators 2nd Sat Dodge City Dude 910-270-3351 Wilmington NC Oregon Old West Carolina Cattlemen’s Shooting Shooting Society 3rd Sun & 4th Sat Mid Valley Drifter 541-259-2774 Albany OR and Social Society 2nd Sat Wicken Wanda 919-266-1678 Creedmore NC Fort Dalles Defenders 4th Sun Frisco Nell 360-835-5630 The Dalles OR High Country Cowboys 2nd Sat Wild Otter 828-423-7796 Asheville NC Umpqua Regulators 4th Sun Big Lou 541-484-5900 Roseburg OR Carolina Single Action Shooting Lewis River Rangers As Sch Johnny Colt 503-289-1280 St. Helens OR Society 2nd Sun Carolina Longarm 910-627-7615 Eden NC Columbia County Cowboys As Sched Kitty Colt 503-642-4120 St. Helens OR Bostic Vigilantes 2th Sat Bostic Kid 704-434-2174 Bostic NC Dry Gulch Rangers 1st Sat Pepc Holic 724-263-1461 Midway PA Cross Creek Cowboys 3rd Sat Huckleberry Mike 910-980-0572 Wagram NC Perry County Regulators 1st Sat Tuscarora Slim 717-789-3004 Ickesburg PA Gunpowder Creek Regulators 3rd Sat Fannie Kikinshoot 828-754-1884 Lenoir NC Boot Hill Gang of Topton 1st Sun Lester Moore 610-704-6792 Topton PA Piedmont Gunslingers 3rd Sun Sam Carp 704-596-7120 Churchland NC Chimney Rocks Regulators 1st Sun Hattie Hubbs 814-696-5669 Hollidaysburg PA Iredell Regulators 4th Sat Stump Water 704-630-9527 Statesville NC Whispering Pines Cowboy Badlands Bandits (The) As Schd Roughrider Ray 701-260-0347 Belfield ND Committee 1st Sun Mac Traven 570-723-8885 Wellsboro PA Dakota Rough Riders As Sched RoughRider Jim Bob 701-673-3122 Moffit ND Logans Ferry Regulators 2nd Sat Mariah Kid 412-793-1496 Pittsburgh PA Sheyenne Valley Peacekeepers Last Sat (Apr-Sep) Wild River Rose 701-588-4331 Kindred ND Lost Dutchmen 2nd Sat Basket Lady 717-949-3970 Schaefferstown PA Platte Valley Gunslingers 1st Sun Col. Horace C. Rider 308-380-9511 Grand Island NE Mainville Marauders 2nd Sun Gettysburg 570-387-1795 Mainville PA Oregon Trail Regulators, NE 2nd Sat Pvt. J. Southwick 307-837-2919 Scottsbluff NE The Dakota Badlanders 2nd Sun Barley Pop Bill 610-770-1189 Orefield PA Alliance Cowboy Club 2nd Sun Panhandle Slim Miles 308-760-0568 Alliance NE Westshore Posse 2nd Sun Doc Hornaday 717-432-1352 New Cumberland PA Eastern Nebraska Gun Club 2nd Sun Flint Valdez 712-323-8996 Louisville NE River Junction Shootist Society 3rd Sat Mattie Hays 724-593-6602 Donegal PA Flat Water Shootists of the Jefferson Rifle Club, Inc. 3rd Sat (Mar-Nov) Oracle Jones 410-239-6795 Jefferson PA Grand Island Rifle Club 3rd Sun Scorpion Blaine 308-226-2567 Grand Island NE Easton Greenhorns 3rd Sat As Sched Ragweed 610-847-2798 Lower Saucon PA High Plains Renegades 5th Sun Scruffy Skippy 402-276-1391 Columbus NE Blue Mountain Rangers 3rd Sun The Mad Tanner 610-562-8161 Hamburg PA The Dalton Gang Shooting Silver Lake Bounty Hunters 3rd Sun Marshal T. J. Buckshot 570-663-3045 Montrose PA Club, of NH LLC 3rd Wknd Purgatory Regulators 3rd Wknd Dry Gulch Geezer 814-827-2120 Titusville PA (Apr-Oct) Littleton S. Dalton 603-444-6876 Dalton NH Elstonville Hombres 4th Sun Basket Lady 717-949-3970 Manheim PA Merrimack Valley Marauders As Sched Sheriff R. P. Bucket 603-345-6876 Pelham NH Stewart’s Regulators 4th Sun Sodbuster Burt 724-479-8838 Shelocta PA Pemi Valley Peacemakers As Sched Laconia 603-524-2240 Holderness NH El Posse Grande 4th Sun (Mar-Oct) Black Hills Barb 570-538-9163 Muncy Valley PA White Mountain Regulators As Sched Dead Head 603-772-2358 Candia NH Conestoga Wagoneers As Sched No Change 215-431-2302 Southampton PA Thumbusters 2nd Sun Doc Fanizzo 732-892-7272 Minmouth NJ Lincoln County Lawmen 4th Sun Eula Nissen 401-647-3049 Manville RI Jackson Hole Gang 4th Sun (Mar-Nov) Emberado 609-466-2277 Jackson NJ Palmetto Posse 1st Sat Dun Gamblin 803-422-5587 Columbia SC Magdalena Trail Drivers 1st & 3rd Sat P.S. Cutter 575-854-2657 Magdalena NM Piedmont Regulators 2nd Sat Chase Randall 864-843-6154 Anderson SC Rio Rancho Regulators 1st & 4th Sat Sam Brannan 505-400-2468 Rio Rancho NM Hurricane Riders 3rd Sat Saloon Keeper 843-361-2277 Aynor SC Otero Practical Shooting Savannah River Rangers 3rd Sat Surly Dave 803-892-2812 Jackson SC Association 1st Sat Saguaro Sam 505-437-3663 La Luz NM Geechee Gunfighters 4th Sat Edisto Ike 843-869-2429 Ridgeville SC Buffalo Range Riders 1st Sun Coyote Calhoun 404-580-5985 Founders Ranch NM Cottonwood Cowboy Bighorn Vigilantes 2nd Sat Falcon Kid 505-286-8449 Edgewood NM Association 2nd Sun Dakota Nailbender 605-520-5212 Clark SD High Desert Drifters 2nd Sun Howlin Henry 505-286-4411 Edgewood NM Black Hills Shootist Association 3rd Sun Hawkbill Smith 605-342-8946 Pringle SD Lost River Cowboys 2nd Sun Whiskey R. Dave 505-623-9201 Roswell NM Bald Mountain Renegades 4th Sun Grease Cup 605-598-6744 Faulkton SD Rio Grande Renegades 2nd Wed, 3rd Sat, Wartrace Regulators 1st Sat Will Reily 615-325-9585 Wartrace TN 4th Sun, & Greene County Regulators 1st Sat Mort Dooley 423-357-8464 Rogersville TN 5th Sat/ Sun J. W. Calendar 505-856-4046 Albuquerque NM Bitter Creek Rangers, The 1st. Sat Sunset Evans 931-484-2036 Crossville TN Gila Rangers 2nd Wknd Chico Cheech 575-388-2531 Silver City NM Memphis Gunslingers 2nd Sat Mountaineer Lefty 901-388-6420 Arlington TN Lost Almost Posse 3rd Sat Beau Legg 505-662-4757 Los Alamos NM Smoky Mountain Shootist Seven Rivers Regulators 3rd Sat Neches Jack 505-628-0028 Carlsbad NM Society 2nd Sat Hombre Sin Nombre 865-740-3801 Oak Ridge TN Rio Vaqueros 3rd Sun J. W. Brockey 505-744-4488 T or C NM North West Tennessee Monument Springs Longriders 3rd Sat Can’t Shoot Dillon 731-885-8102 Union City TN Bushwhackers 4th Sat Twobits Jim 575-631-7075 Hobbs NM Tennessee Mountain Marauders 3rd Sat Double Barrell 423-5933767 Chattanooga TN Picacho Posse 4th Sat Fast Hammer 505-647-3434 Las Cruces NM Highland Regulators, Inc 3rd, 4th & 5th Wknd Tennessee Triple B 423-539-8538 Winfield TN Tres Rios Bandidos 4th Sun Old West Cowboy 505-325-4493 Farmington NM Ocoee Rangers 4th Sat Ocoee Red 423-476-5303 Cleveland TN Lone Wolf Shooters, LLC 1st & 2nd Sun Penny Pepperbox 775-727-4600 Pahrump NV El Vaqueros 1st & Last Sun Tom Doniphan 254-559-9896 Breckenridge TX (Continued on page 107) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 107 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) (Continued from page 106) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City State South Texas Pistolaros 1st Sat Long John Beard 210-414-7786 San Antonio TX CANADIAN MONTHLY MATCHES Texas Riviera Pistoleros 1st Sat Long Star 361-334-1978 Corpus Christi TX Alberta Frontier Shootists As Sched Mustang Heart 780-464-4600 Kelsey ALB CANADA Texas Troublemakers 1st Sat Lefty Tex Larue 903-539-7234 Brownsboro TX Orange County Regulators 1st Sat Pineknot Luther Hayes 409-963-2721 Orange TX Rocky Mountain House Buckcreek Bandaleros 1st Sat & 3rd Wknd Hoofprint Prine 254-897-7328 Nemo TX Old West Shootists As Sched Luke A. 403-845-4347 Rocky Mnt House ALB CANADA Plum Creek Carriage & Red Mountain Renegades 1st Sun Forty One Colt 604-929-0178 Mission BC CANADA Shooting Society 1st Sat Sun Delta Raider 512-376-2602 Lockhart TX Valley Regulators 3rd Sat High Country 250-334-3479 Courtenay BC CANADA Comanche Trail Shootists 1st Sat, 3rd Sun Palmer’s Gulch Cowboys As Sched Caribou Lefty 250-372-0416 Heffley Creek BC CANADA & 5th Sat Dee Horne 432-556-8446 Midland TX Victoria Frontier Shootists As Sched Teacher C. 250-592-4311 Victoria BC CANADA Badlands Bar 3 1st Wknd T-Bone Dooley 903-628-5512 English TX Nova Scotia Cowboy Action Old Fort Parker Patriots 1st Wknd Slowaz Molasses 254-412-0904 Groesbeck TX Shooting Club 3rd Sun Wounded Belly 902-890-2310 Truro, NS NS CANADA Texas Peacemakers 1st Wknd Pecos Red 903-984-1951 Tyler TX Waterloo County Revolver Thunder River Renegades 1st wknd Double Down Dan 281-259-5202 Magnolia TX Association 1st Sat Ranger Pappy 519-536-9184 Kitchener ON CANADA Tin Star Texans 1st. Sat Amber Darlin 830-685-3464 Fredericksburg TX Barrie Gun Club 2nd & 4th Sat Northern Crow 705-435-2807 Barrie ON CANADA Concho Valley Shooters 2nd Sat The Atoka Kid 325-723-2035 San Angelo TX Lambton Sportsman’s Club 2nd Sat Payton 519-337-9058 St. Clair ON CANADA Bounty Hunters 2nd Sat Cable Lockhart 806-299-1192 Levelland TX Wentworth Shooting Canadian River Regulators 2nd Sat Capshaw 806-335-1660 Clarendon TX Sports Club 2nd Sun Stoney Creek 1-905-664-3217 Hamilton ON CANADA Travis County Regulators 2nd Sat Chainfire Tom 210-860-5276 Smithville TX Ottawa Valley Marauders As Sched Button 514-792-0063 Ottawa ON CANADA Texican Rangers 2nd Sat & Sun Dusty Chambers 830-896-7856 Fredericksburg TX Aurora Desperados 1st Fri Destry 905-727-8987 Aurora ONT CANADA Texas Tenhorns Shooting Club 2nd Sun & Last Sat Hoss Jack 903-546-6291 Greenville TX The Badlands of H. A. H. A. As Sched Arty Ways 905-627-4123 Ancaster ONT CANADA Lone Star Frontier Shooting Club 2nd Wknd Texas Banker 972-641-8585 Cleburne TX Champ de tir Oakwood Outlaws 2nd Wknd Texas Alline 903-545-2252 Oakwood TX Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur As Sched Richelieu Mike 450-658-8130 Napierville QC CANADA Big Thicket Outlaws 3rd Sat Shynee Graves 409-860-5526 Beaumont TX Cottonwood Creek Cowboys 3rd Sat Tracks 325-207-1094 Snyder TX Quebec Mounted Shooting Gruesome Gulch Gang 3rd Sat Eli Blue 806-293-2909 Plainview TX San Antonio Rough Riders 3rd Sat Tombstone Mary 210-493-9320 San Antonio TX Association Varies Dirty Owl Bert 819-424-7842 Joliette QC CANADA Tejas Caballeros 3rd Sat Judge Menday 512-261-9955 Driftwood TX Red River Regulators 3rd Sun El Rio Rojo Ray 903-838-0964 Texarkana TX Texas Historical Shootist Society 3rd Sun Charles Goodnight 281-342-1210 Columbus TX Alamo Area Moderators 4th Sat Tombstone Mary 210-493-9320 San Antonio TX EUROPE MONTHLY MATCHES Butterfield Trail Regulators 4th Sat Cob-Eye Zack 325-660-3048 Abilene TX Sweetwater Gunslingers Austria As Sched Fra Diabolo [email protected] Vienna AT Purgatory Ridge Rough Riders 4th Sat Terror of Texas 806-893-7199 Slaton TX Old West Shooting Comanche Valley Vigilantes 4th Wknd Denton Dancer 214-384-3975 Cleburne TX Society Switzerland As Sched Hondo Janssen 044-271-99 47 Zurich CH Green Mountain Regulators 4th Wknd Singin’ Zeke 830-693-4215 Marble Falls TX Association of Western Shooters As Sched Thunderman 420-603-222-400 Prelouc CZ Tejas Pistoleros, Inc. 4th Wknd Texas Paladin 713-690-5313 Eagle Lake TX Czech Cowboy Action Texas Regulators 4th Wknd Shotglass 281-259-0284 Tomball/Cypress TX Shooting Society As Sched George Roscoe 420-777-220248 Oparany Coal Creek Cowboys 1st & 3rd Sat Lineas A. Puffbuster 435-680-9275 Cedar City UT (South Bohemia) CZ Big Hollow Bandits 1st Sat P.J. McCarthy 435-671-1929 Heber UT Cowboy Action Shooting- Copenhagen Valley Regulators 1st Sat Lance Vigil 435-723-5115 Mantua UT Germany Last Sat Kid O Folliard 49 170 382 9406 Edderitz DE Crow Seeps Cattle SASS-Europe Monday Niers River Kid 0049-2823-98080 Wegberg DE Company L.L.C. 1st Sat Buffalo Juan 435-528-7432 Mayfield UT SASS-Finland As Sched Quincannon 358-41-5794962 Finland FI North Rim Regulators 1st Sat Autum Rose 435-644-5053 Kanab UT Kells County Regulators 1st Sat Indepenence Carroll 028 9336 8004 Varies IE Dixie Desperados 2nd & 4th Sat William Waddy 435-632-9695 Hurricane UT Honky Tonk Rebels As sched Kaboom Andy 39 335 7378551 Vigevano IT Hobble Creek Wranglers 2nd Sat Hobble Creek Marshall 801-489-7681 Springville UT Old West Shooting Society Italy As Sched Alchimista 39-3342068337 Italy IT Rio Verde Rangers 2nd Sat Doc Nelson 435-564-8210 Green River UT SASS Germany As Sched Rhine River Joe 0049-2823-5807 Varies NE Cache Valley Vaqueros 2nd. Sat Wasatch Ranger 435-723-1651 Logan UT Utah War 3rd & 5th Sat Jubal O. Sackett 801-944-3444 Salt Lake City UT Dutch Western Shooting Deseret Historical Shootist Association 1st Sun Fat Bob 31-40-242-4076 Varies NL Society 3rd Sat Shorty Lamoore 435-723-8614 Kaysville UT Scherpschutters Veghel 2nd Sun Cloggie Joe 31-4120-652694 Veghel NL Diamond Mountain Rustlers 3rd Sat Cinch 435-724-2575 Vernal UT SASS Netherlands As Sched Lightning Anja 0031-517-592120 Leeuwarden NL Mesa Marauders Gun Club 3rd Sat Copper Queen 435-979-4664 Lake Powell UT Western Shooting Club Roller Mill Hill Gunslingers 3rd Sat Widtsoe Kid 435-676-8382 Panquitch UT Stone Valley As Sched Pete Cody 31-4-6433-1075 Stein (LB) NL Wasatch Summit Regulators 3rd Sun Boots Rob 435-649-3625 Park City UT Quantrill Raiders As Sch Charles Quantrill 4793259669 Romedal NO Balanced Rock Regultors, LLC 3rd. Sat Ernie Bentley 435-637-7188 Price UT SASS Norway As Sched Charles Quantrill 47-932-59-669 Loten NO Castle Gate Posse 4th Sat Cowboy M. Maude 435-637-8209 Price UT Schedsmoe County Rough Riders Thurs Jailbird 47-6399-4279 Lillestrom NO Wahsatch Desperados 4th Sat Sly Steadyhand 801-546-4843 Fruit Heights UT Cas-Europe Wed Hurricane Irmi 0049-2823-5807 Bocholt NRW Dixie Desperados 5th Sat William Waddy 435-673-0285 Hurrican UT SASS Sweden 1st Sat Wild Bull 4658612045 Lesjofors SE Cavalier Cowboys 1st Sun (Mar-Dec) Kuba Kid 804-270-9054 Hanover County VA British Western Shooting Society As Sched Badas Bob 16-422-53-3333 Redcar UR Virginia City Marshals 1st Tues Humphrey Hook 703-801-3507 Fairfax VA Blue Ridge Regulators 2nd Sun Bad Company 540-886-3374 Lexington VA Pungo Posse 2nd wknd V. B. Southpaw 757-471-6190 Wakefield VA SOUTH AFRICA MONTHLY MATCHES K.C.’s Corral 3rd Sat Cousin Wilfred 804-932-9952 Mechanicsville VA Western Shooters of Mattaponi Sundowners 3rd Sun & 4th Sat Flatboat Bob 804-785-2575 West Point VA South Africa 3rd Sat Richmond P. Hobson 027-21-797-5054 Cape Town SA Bend of Trail 4th Sun Trapper Dan 540-890-5162 Roanoke VA Pepper Mill Creek Gang 4th Sun Slip Hammer Spiv 540-775-4561 King George VA Stovall Creek Regulators Alt. 1st Sat & Sun Brizco-Z 434-929-1063 Madison Heights VA Rivanna Ranger Company See Sched Virginia Ranger 434-973-8759 Charlottesville VA DOWN UNDER MONTHLY MATCHES Verdant Mountain Vigilantes 2nd Sun Snake-Eye Alger 802-476-6247 St. Johnsbury VT Gold Coast Gamblers 1st & 3rd Sat Dagger Jack 61-7-5537-5857 Gold Coast QLD AU Mica Peak Marshals 1st & 3rd Sat Old Timer Gus 509-325-9253 Mica WA Cowboy Action Shooters North East Washington of Australia 3rd Wknd Mister Skye 02-9975-7983 Teralba NSW AU Regulators 1st Wknd Armstong Rosie 509-684-2325 Colville WA Mount Rowan Rangers 4th Sat Arizona Sheriff 0408 561 286 Ballart VIC AU Renton United Cowboy Action Fort Bridger Shooting Shooters 1st Wknd Jess Ducky 425-271-9286 Renton WA Colville Guns and Roses 2nd Sun Snapshot Sal 509-684-6787 Colville WA Club Inc. 4th Sun Duke York 61-3-9551-2902 Drouin VIC AU Smokey Point Desperados 2nd Sun Mudflat Mike 425-335-5176 Arlington WA Wiski Mountain Rangers As Sched The Caretaker Hare414383845 Mount Martha VIC AU Apple Valley Marshals 3rd Sat Silent Sam 509-884-3875 East Wenatchee WA SSAA Single Action Shooting- Wolverton Mountain Peace Australia Sat/Sun Virgil Earp 61-7-4695-2050 Millmerran QLD AU Keepers 3rd Sat Hellfire 360-513-9081 Ariel WA Adelaide Pistol & Ghost Riders 3rd Sun Sidewinder Sam 425-836-8053 Fall City WA Shooting Club 1st Sat & 3rd Sun Lobo Malo 61-8-2890606 Korunye SA AU Black River Regulators 4th Sat Montana Slim 360-754-4328 Littlerock WA Trail Blazers Gun Club 1st Sun Ernie Southpaw 64-3-755-7654 Mill Town NZ Custer Renegades 4th Sun Slingshot Sam 360-410-6869 Custer WA Bullet Spittin Sons O’ Thunder 2nd Sat Billy Deadwood 64-6-3564720 Palmerston N. NZ Pataha Rustlers 4th Sun Doc Day 509-382-4898 Dayton WA Wairarapa Pistol and Pouslbo Pistoleros 4th Sun Sourdough George 360-830-0100 Poulsbo WA Shooting Club, Inc. 2nd Sun Doc Hayes 06 379 6692 Carterton NZ Rattlesnake Gulch Rangers Last Sat Ricochet Robbie 509-628-0889 Benton City WA Tararua Rangers 3rd Sun J.E.B. Stuart (64) 6 3796436 Carterton NZ Beazley Gulch Rangers Last Sun An E. Di 509-787-1782 Quincy WA Western Renegades 4th Sat Slim Chance Ever 027 249 6270 Wanganui NZ Rock River Regulators 1st & 3rd Sat Stoney Mike 608-868-5167 Beloit WI Western Wisconsin Wild Bunch 2nd Sat Sierra Jack Cassidy 608-792-1494 Holmen WI Bristol Plains Pistoleros 2nd Sun Tex Hewitt 847-956-0947 Bristol WI SASS MOUNTED MONTHLY MATCHES Crystal River Gunslingers 2nd Sun Ghost Chaser 715-281-7823 Waupaca WI Tombstone Ghost Riders Wisconsin Old West 2nd Sun & 4th Sat Mounted Club 2nd Sun Cowboy Doug 520-457-3559 Tombstone AZ Shootist, Inc. (Apr-Oct) Tracker Jack Daniels 715-643-2011 Boyceville WI Ghost Town Riders 1st Sun Steely Eyes Earp 951-737-6596 Norco CA Liberty Prairie Regulators 3rd Sat Dirty Deeds 920-748-4833 Ripon WI Roy Rogers Rangers 2nd Wknd Wildcat Kate 951-928-4601 Winchester CA Blue Hills Bandits 3rd Sun Lone Lady 715-458-4841 Rice Lake WI California Range Riders As Sched Old Buckaroo 408-710-1616 Varies CA Oconomowoc Cattlemen’s Revengers of Montezuma 1st Sat Aneeda Huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortez CO Association 4th Sat Marvin the Moyle 414-254-5592 Concord WI Sand Creek Shadow Riders As Sched Wildkat Mike 303-644-5802 Byers CO The Bad Guys Posse As Sched Speedy Dan 262-728-6577 Elkhorn WI Florida Outlaws Cowboy Dawn Ghost Riders 1st Sun Coffee Bean 304-327-9884 Hinton WV Mounted Shooting As Sched Lone Wolf McCrary 321-263-5239 DeLeon Springs FL Frontier Regulators 2nd Sat Captain Tay Grafton WV Broken Spoke Mounted Posse As Sched El Paisano 217-964-2433 Mendon IL The Railtown Rowdys 2nd Sun Miss Print 304-589-6162 Bluefield WV Midwest Rangers, Inc. As Sched J. B. Hume 309-219-2198 Rochelle IL Kanawha Valley Regulators 3rd Wknd Pike Marshall 304-925-9342 Eleanor WV Thurmont Mounted Rangers 3rd Sun Timber Smoke 410-997-9370 Thurmont MD Cowboy Action Shooting New Hampshire Mounted Shooters As Sched Army Saddler 603-487-3379 New Boston NH Sports, Inc. 4th Sun (Feb-Nov) Cody Conagher 304-258-1419 Largent WV Cheyenne Regulators, Inc. 1st Sat Dr. Frank Powell 307-637-0350 Cheyenne WY Cowboy Legends Mounted Colter’s Hell Justice Committee Shooting Ass. As Sched Crown Royal Cowboy 973-296-6283 Pompton Plains NJ WSAS 1st Sat Lucky B. Thorington 307-202-1113 Varies WY Buffalo Range Riders Mounted 1st Sun Cimarron Lou 505-286-4566 Founders Ranch NM Bessemer Vigilance Committee 1st Sun Smokewagon Bill 307-472-1926 Casper WY Rio Grande Rustlers 2nd Sat Buckskin Doc 505-440-0257 Belen NM High Lonesome Drifters 2nd Sat Kari Lynn 307-587-2946 Cody WY Oklahoma Gunslingers As Sched Ima Sandy Storm 918-244-8060 Claremore OK Sybille Creek Shooters 2nd Sat Wyoming Roy 307-322-3515 Wheatland WY Lone Pine Rangers 3rd Sat Hawkeye Scout 541-447-7012 Prineville OR Southfork Vigilance Committee WSAS 2nd sun Wennoff Halfcock 307-332-5035 Lander WY Donkey Creek Shootists 3rd Sat Poker Jim 307-660-0221 Gillette WY Powder River Justice Committee If your Listing is incorrect, please notify Prairie Mary (505) 286-4566. WSAS 3rd Sun Doc Fehr 307-683-3320 Buffalo WY (Continued on page 108) Page 108 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Match Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Utah Summer Games Jun 05 - 07, 08 Penny Wrangler 435-680-0909 Cedar City UT Roop County Days Sep 12 - 14, 08 Toni 2 Bits 775-783-8387 Sparks NV SASS Nebraska State Championship Standoff at Smokey Point Sep 12 - 14, 08 Mudflat Mike 425-335-5176 Arlington WA Midwest Roundup Jun 05 - 08, 08 Governor Asa Payne 308-390-1309 Grand Island NE Shootout at Hoss Creek Ranch Sep 12 - 14, 08 Kenny Vaquero 419-874-6929 Gibsonbong OH Showdown Jun 06 - 08, 08 Rob Banks 714-206-6893 Lytle Creek CA SASS FOUR CORNERS TERRITORIAL BLACKPOWDER SHOOTOUT SASS Idaho State Black Powder Shootout Beaver Dick Black Smoke Iron 2008 Sep 12 - 13, 08 Penny Wrangler 435-680-0909 Cedar City UT Powder Blowout Jun 06 - 07, 08 Idaho Packer 208-589-5941 Rexburg ID Dakota Territory Gold Rush Sep 13 - 14, 08 Hawkbill Smith 605-342-8946 Pringle SD Paradise Pass Ambush Jun 07 - 08, 08 Midnite Desperado 574-893-7214 Warsaw IN The Final Showdown Sep 13 - 14, 08 Rowdy K 419-529-0887 Mt. Vernon OH SASS Southwest Territorial Black Powder Shootout Street Fight in Tombstone Sep 13 - 14, 08 Cowboy Doug 520-457-3559 Tombstone AZ Battle of Plum Creek Jun 07 - 08, 08 Delta Raider 512-376-2602 Lockhart TX SASS Minnesota State Championship SASS Wyoming State Championship Cody’s Gunsmoke ‘08 Sep 18 - 21, 08 Kaycee McCaylum 507-455-1101 Morristown MN Wild West Shootout Jun 12 - 14, 08 Joe Cross 307-587-2946 Cody WY SASS Oklahoma State Championship The Plainfield Incident Jun 13 - 15, 08 Baldy Green 707-425-8569 Davis CA Ruckus in the Nation Sep 18 - 21, 08 Montana Dan 918-313-0249 Coweta OK Revenge of Montezuma Jun 13 - 15, 08 Stumble Lenna 970-565-9228 Cortez CO Bridgeport Vigilantes Eastern Smokey City Shootout Jun 13 - 05, 08 Mariah Kid 412-793-1496 Pittsburgh PA High Sierra Shootout Sep 18 - 21, 08 Bodie Kid 760-932-1139 Bridgeport CA Two Day Shoot Jun 14 - 15, 08 Basket Lady 717-9493970 Schaefferstown PA SASS New York State Championship SASS High Plains Mounted Regional Jun 14 - 15, 08 Aneeda Huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortz CO Heluva Rukus Sep 19 - 21, 08 Homer Suggs 518-274-8505 Ballston Spa NY Thunder In The Valley Jun 20 - 22, 08 Johnny Shiloh 440-984-4551 Amherst OH A Gunfight in Dixie Sep 19 - 21, 08 Cherokee Sargent 901-867-5100 Arlington TN Ambush at Hat Creek Jun 20 - 22, 08 David Boddy 530-275-3158 Burney CA Gateway To The West Sep 19 - 21, 08 Bounty Seeker 636-464-6569 St. Louis MO SASS North Dakota and South Dakota State Championship Shootout at the Happy Jack Mine Sep 19 - 20, 08 Happy Jack 435-979-4665 Lake Powell UT Peace in the Valley Jun 20 - 22, 08 Wild River Rose 701-588-4331 Kindred ND Shootout at Old Magdalena Sep 19 - 21, 08 P.S. Cutter 575-854-2657 Magdalena NM SASS HIGH PLAINS TERRITORIAL BLACK POWDER SHOOTOUT Rocky Mountain Six Gun Justice Sep 19 - 20, 08 Teton County Jr. 208-709-1708 Rexburg ID Regional Raid Jun 26 - 29, 08 Sweet Water Bill 303-366-8827 Byers CO TMS Bar-B-Q Shoot Sep 20 - 20, 08 Pinto Being 970-464-7118 Whitewater CO SASS Maryland State Championship Stagetrail Shootout Sep 20 - 20, 08 Slip Hammer Yates 309-359-8699 Bloomington IL Thunder Valley Days Jun 26 - 28, 08 Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Damascus MD Chippewa Regulators Sep 20 - 21, 08 Lazy Eye Ben 906-632-2720 Sault Ste. Marie MI Yellowstone Valley Buffalo Stampede Jun 27 - 28, 08 Backstrap Bill 406-245-2854 Billings MT Wolverton Mtn. Peace Keepers Sep 20 - 21, 08 Hellfire 360-513-9081 Ariel WA Resurrection Jun 27 - 29, 08 Dusty Lone Star 210-273-5517 Fredericksburg TX Shootout at Kamrath Corral Sep 20 - 21, 08 Scruffy Skippy 402-273-1391 Columbus NE Mica Peak Marshals Jun 28 - 29, 08 Missoura Mary 509-926-3665 Mica WA SASS NORTHWEST REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Rattlesnake SASS Wisconsin State Blackpowder Shootout Gulch Roundup Sep 25 - 28, 08 Ricochet Robbie 509-628-0889 Benton City WA Smoke in the Hills Jun 29 - 29, 08 Tracker Jack Daniels 715-643-2011 Boyceville WI Legends of The West Sep 26 - 28, 08 Bojack 760-956-8852 Devore CA SASS HIGH PLAINS REGIONAL Adobe Walls Sep 26 - 28, 08 Querida 831-636-3348 Gonzales CA Hell on Wheels Jul 03 - 06, 08 Deputy Cuny 307-634-2449 Cheyenne WY T-Town Shootout Sep 26 - 28, 08 Newton 785-925-0281 Topeka KS SASS Alaska Territorial Championship Shootout SASS West Virginia State Championship Appalachian Under The Midnight Sun Jul 04 - 06, 08 Tripod 907-373-0140 Anchorage AK Showdown XVII Sep 26 - 28, 08 Cody Conagher 304-258-1419 Largent WV SASS Montana State Championship Shootout Fall Roundup Sep 26 - 28, 08 Shamrock Sis 309-798-2635 Milan IL On the Sun River Jul 11 - 13, 08 Jeb’s Lady 406-727-7625 Simms MT Purgatory Rush Sep 26 - 28, 08 Dry Gulch Geezer 814-827-2120 Titusville PA Blue Mountain Shootout Jul 11 - 13, 08 Lester Moore 610-704-6792 Topton PA SASS Indiana State Championship Sep 26 - 28, 08 Thorny Rose 574-893-7214 Warsaw IN SASS West Virginia Blackpowder State Championship Rampage Sep 27 - 27, 08 Sly Steadyhand 801-546-4843 Fruit Heights UT Smoke over Buffalo Flats Jul 11 - 13, 08 Oatsville Slim 304-757-3384 Eleanor WV Do-over Shoot Sep 27 - 28, 08 Basket Lady 717-949-3970 Manheim PA SASS New Hampshire & Vermont State Championship Verde Valley Ranch Wars Sep 27 - 28, 08 Johnny Meadows 928-567-9227 Camp Verde AZ Fracas at Pemi Gulch Jul 13 - 13, 08 Laconia 603-661-8522 Holderness NH Eagleville Cowboys Annual Shoot Sep 27 - 28, 08 One Son of A Gun 231-544-2461 Central Lake MI Redemtion at Plummer Butte Jul 18 - 20, 08 Governor Dillon 509-238-6290 Plummer ID Wild West Extravaganza Shootout Sep 27 - 27, 08 Penny Pepperbox 775-727-4600 Pahrump NV SASS Pennsylvania State Black Powder Shootout Smoke N Fire Willimantic Smoke Sep 28 - 28, 08 Ripley Scounger 207-876-4928 Willimantic ME at Indian Creek Jul 18 - 18, 08 Mattie Hays 724-593-6602 Donegal PA SASS Western Regional Mounted Championship Cowboy Christmas Shoot Jul 18 - 20, 08 Texas Slim 325-668-4884 Abilene TX Shootout at Ingall’s Park Sep 29 - 29, 08 Wildcat Kate 951-928-4601 Norco CA SASS New Mexico State Championship SASS Nevada State Championship Border Dispute Jul 18 - 20, 08 Chico Cheech 575-388-2531 Silver City NM Eldorado Oct 02 - 05, 08 Charming 702-565-3736 Boulder City NV Cornhusker State Games- CAS Jul 19 - 20, 08 Flint Valdez 712-323-8996 Louisville NE SASS NORTHEAST REGIONAL Ambush at Indian Creek Jul 19 - 20, 08 Durango Dave Hickok 724-228-8999 Donegal PA Mason Dixon Stampede Oct 02 - 05, 08 Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Thurmont MD SASS Alaska State Blackpowder Shootout SASS NORTHEAST REGIONAL MOUNTED SHOOTING Smoke in the Greatland Jul 20 - 20, 08 David Cook 907-243-0781 Anchorage AK Mason Dixon Stampede Oct 02 - 05, 08 Timber Smoke 410-997-9370 Thurmont MD Guns Of The Timberlands Jul 24 - 26, 08 Kid Kneestone 707-445-1981 Eureka/Arcata CA SASS Alabama State Championship SASS NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL Ambush At Cavern Cove Oct 03 - 05, 08 Drake Robey 256-233-6350 Cavern Cove AL The Great Nor’easter Jul 24 - 27, 08 Capt. Morgan Rum 603-772-5041 Pelhan NH High Noon at Tusco Oct 03 - 05, 08 Split Rail 330-364-6185 Midvale OH Shootout at Horse Ridge Jul 25 - 27, 08 Texas Jack Morales 541-923-3000 Bend OR Defend Old Fort Parker Charity Match Oct 03 - 05, 08 Slowaz Molasses 254-412-0904 Groesbeck TX Bessemer Jail Break Jul 25 - 27, 08 Smokewagon Bill 307-472-1926 Casper WY Comanche Moon Shootout Oct 04 - 05, 08 Dee Horne 432-557-6598 Midland TX SASS Alaska State Championship Shootout on the Cimarron Oct 04 - 05, 08 Querida Kate 405-372-0208 Stillwater OK 12th Annual Aug 01 - 03, 08 Montana Kid Hammer 907-451-4540 Chatanika AK Guns In The Grove Oct 04 - 04, 08 Ross Rutherford 828-287-4519 Rutherfordton NC Sagebrush Rebellion Aug 01 - 03, 08 Earl 530-253-3868 Susanville CA Huntsman World Senior Games Oct 07 - 11, 08 Buzzard’s Brat 435-668-1904 Hurricane UT Shaketails XIIII Annual Aug 01 - 03, 08 Yaro 303-646-3777 Ramah CO SASS Tennessee State Championship SASS Washington State Championship Regulator’s Reckoning Oct 09 - 11, 08 Sassy Lora 615-896-8450 Wartrace TN Westmatch XVII Aug 01 - 03, 08 The Elder Katie 253-946-1438 Renton WA SASS WESTERN REGIONAL Last Stand Ambush at Hickory Ridge Aug 01 - 03, 08 Mac Traven 570-723-8885 Wellsboro PA at Chimney Rock Oct 09 - 12, 08 Five Jacks 760-949-3198 Lucerne Valley CA SASS Iowa State Championship Mississippi Fandango Oct 10 - 12, 08 Sierra Jack Cassidy 608-792-1494 Holmen WI Ambush on the Prairie Aug 01 - 03, 08 Kingdom Kid 319-351-7572 Evansdale IA SASS Ohio State Championship Shootout Black Butte Blowout Aug 01 - 02, 08 Idaho Shady Layne 208-524-1597 Idaho Falls ID at Hard Times Oct 10 - 12, 08 Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 Piqua OH SASS State Blackpowder Shootout The Castle Gate SASS Louisiana State Championship Shootout Smudge Match Aug 02 - 02, 08 Cowboy Murd’n Maude 435-637-8209 Price UT at Cypress Creek Oct 10 - 12, 08 Matt Masterson 318-396-5870 Downsville LA SASS Idaho State Championship Shootout at Moniteau Creek & Reckoning at Black Creek Aug 06 - 10, 08 L. T. C Nathan 208-887-9224 Kuna ID Missouri Boat Ride Oct 11 - 12, 08 Doolin Riggs 573-687-3103 Fayette MO SASS MIDWEST REGIONAL Buzzard Boil Oct 12 - 12, 08 Cayuse 203-457-1031 East Granby CT Guns of August Aug 07 - 10, 08 Deadwood Stan 513-894-3500 Middletown OH Border Wars ‘08 Oct 17 - 19, 08 Buffalo Phil 913-898-4911 Parker KS Richmond Roundup Aug 11 - 13, 08 Buffy 415-640-7810 Richmond CA Great Pumkin Massacre Oct 17 - 19, 08 Torandado 815-302-8305 Plainfield IL SASS FOUR CORNERS REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SASS New Jersey State Championship Outlaw Trail Aug 13 - 17, 08 SASS Office 714-694-1800 Founders Ranch NM Purgatory in the Pines Oct 17 - 19, 08 Peacemaker Reb 908-359-8794 Hillsbotough NJ Shootout at Pawnee Station Aug 15 - 17, 08 Red River Wrangler 970-225-0545 Wellington CO Diamond Four Roundup Oct 18 - 19, 08 Kayutah Kid 607-796-0573 Odessa NY Squinty Eye Western Shoot Aug 15 - 17, 08 Wagonmaster 218-744-4694 Virginia MN Night Shoot Oct 18 - 18, 08 Loden B. Kwik 503-318-8192 Portland OR SASS Oregon State Championship The Dalton Gangs October Shootout Oct 18 - 19, 08 Littleton Sidecar Dalton 603-444-6876 Dalton NH Shootout at Saddle Butte Aug 15 - 17, 08 Mid Valley Drifter 541-259-2774 Albany OR The Whoopin’ Oct 18 - 18, 08 Cerveza Grande 512-990-0504 Driftwood TX Border War Aug 15 - 17, 08 Mud Marine 208-597-6191 Eastport ID Ambush at Rocky River Oct 18 - 19, 08 Terrebonne Bud 248-709-5254 Utica MI SASS New Hampshire State Black Powder Shootout Hanging Tree Shootout Oct 19 - 19, 08 X S Chance 573-765-5483 St. Robert MO The Great Buffalo Hunt Aug 17 - 17, 08 Capt. Morgan Rum 603-772-5041 Candia NH The Gunfight Behind SASS Maryland State Blackpowder Shootout The Jersey Lilly Oct 23 - 26, 08 Captain Jake 714-536-2635 Norco CA Free State Blackpowder Aug 17 - 17, 08 Cash Caldwell 301-898-3149 Thurmont MD SASS Arizona State Championship Dry Gulch at Arroyo Cantua Aug 21 - 24, 08 Diamond Dick 916-483-9198 Sacramento CA Bordertown Oct 23 - 26, 08 Billy B. Jiggered 520-591-3180 Tucson AZ 3 Day Shoot Aug 22 - 24, 08 Loco Poco Lobo 585-467-4429 Shortsville NY SASS Missouri State Championship SASS Wisconsin State Championship 2008 Show-Me Shootout Oct 23 - 26, 08 Smokie 417-759-9114 Branson MO Fire In The Hills Aug 22 - 24, 08 Tracker Jack Daniels 715-643-2011 Boyceville WI High Sierra “End of Track” Oct 23 - 26, 08 Peaceful 209-293-4456 Railroad Flat CA Shootout at Three Rivers Aug 22 - 24, 08 O Bar Freddie 505-325-2167 Farmington NM Gunfight Behind the Jersey Lilly Oct 24 - 26, 08 Walks Fletcher 310-539-8202 Norco CA Last Blast of Summer Aug 23 - 23, 08 Yankee 781-383-9799 Scituate MA Guns of Autumn Oct 24 - 25, 08 Southern Breeze 770-889-2434 Gainesville GA Monument Springs Bushwhacker SASS Virginia State Championship Annual Fandago Aug 23 - 24, 08 Twobits Jim 505-392-8219 Hobbs NM Star City Shootout Oct 24 - 26, 08 Beer Slinger 540-776-0057 Roanoke VA SASS Michigan State Championship Wolverine SASS Kentucky & Tennessee State Black Powder Shootout Ranger Range War Aug 29 - 01, 08 Deuce Stevens 616-890-6657 Port Huron MI Smokeout In the Hills Oct 24 - 26, 08 Iron Maiden 423-628-2715 Winfield TN MN BorderTown Shootout Aug 29 - 31, 08 BB Gunner 218-779-8555 East Grand ForksMN The Rustlers Rendezvous Oct 25 - 25, 08 Buckskin Doc 505-440-0257 Belen NM Lead Daze at Linkville Aug 29 - 31, 08 Rambling Dave 541-273-1055 Klamath Falls OR Shoot Out at Oak Ridge Oct 25 - 25, 08 Pittsburg Mac 781-599-1930 Middleton MA True Grit Aug 29 - 31, 08 Dapper Dan Porter 309-734-2324 Little York IL SASS Southeast Regional 11th Annual Labor Day Shoot Comin’At’Cha Oct 30 - 02, 08 T-Bone Dooley 903-628-5512 English TX Out at Flat Water Aug 30 - 01, 08 Scorpion Blaine 308-226-2567 Grande Island NE SASS North Carolina State Championship Showdown at Ormsby Ranch Aug 30 - 31, 08 Eli Hawk 817-441-8356 Cleburne TX Uprising at Swering Creek Oct 30 - 02, 08 J. M. Brown 919-266-3751 Salisbury NC Colorado Cowboys Annual Aug 30 - 31, 08 El Gato Gordo 719-683-6713 Lake Geoarge CO Siege at Clark Station Nov 01 - 02, 08 Polecat Ron 785-827-8149 Chapman KS Shoot’n in the Shade Aug 30 - 31, 08 Christmas Kid 501-625-3554 Hot Springs AR Vengeance Trail Nov 02 - 02, 08 Shady Brady 352-686-1055 Brooksville FL Underwear Day Aug 30 - 31, 08 Runamuck 509-525-2984 Milton Freewater OR Nevada Senior Olympics Nov 02 - 02, 08 Penny Pepperbox 775-772-4600 Pahrump NV Ambush at Durham Ferry Sep 04 - 07, 08 Dragon 209-836-4042 Manteca CA SASS South Carolina State Championship Shootout SASS Colorado State Mounted Championship Gunfight at at Givhans Ferry Nov 06 - 09, 08 Edisto Ike 843-869-2429 Ridgeville SC Battle Rock Mounted Sep 05 - 07, 08 Aneeda Huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortez CO SASS Louisiana State Blackpowder Shootout Hanging SASS Colorado State Championship at Coyote Creek Nov 07 - 09, 08 Soiled Dove 985-796-9698 Amite LA Gunfight at Battle Rock Sep 05 - 07, 08 Stumble Leena 970-565-9228 Cortez CO Kaskaskia Cowboys Fight Shootout ‘07 Sep 06 - 07, 08 Cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 Howard Lake MN Against Cancer Nov 08 - 09, 08 Beaucoup Joe 618-426-3072 Sparta IL John Wayne Shoot-out Sep 11 - 14, 08 Gunsmoke Slim 805-238-9567 San Luis Obispo CA (Continued on page 109) June 2008 Cowboy Chronicle Page 109 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Match Name Sched. Contact Phone City State Montrose Marshals Turkey Shoot Nov 09 - 09, 08 Big Hat 970-249-7701 Montrose CO EUROPE ANNUAL MATCHES The Great Northfield Raid Nov 14 - 16, 08 Desperado 818-341-7255 Sylmar CA Defend the Roost Nov 14 - 16, 08 Just George 760-677-9109 Ridgecrest CA Showdown in the Camp Jun 06 - 08, 08 Fra Diabolo [email protected] Haringsee AT Bill & Dorothy Hahn Memorial Czech National Championship Jul 03 - 05, 08 Thunderman +420 603222400 Ludvikovice CZ Benefit Match Nov 15 - 16, 08 Bounty Hunter 619-224-8480 Pala CA SASS-Germany Thunder Valley Nov 16 - 16, 08 Rowdy Yates 714-532-2922 Lucerne Valley CA Championship Nov 01 - 01, 09 Rhine River Joe 0049-2823-5807 Bocholt DE Cowford Stampede Nov 21 - 23, 08 Cowford Kid 904-219-3795 Jacksonville FL 1st Summer Shooting Party Jun 06 - 08, 08 Schinderhannes 0031-620-139445 Leeuwarden NL Shootout at Purgatory Flats Nov 26 - 28, 08 Early Dawn 775-209-4708 Amargosa NV Six Feet Under Jun 06 - 08, 08 Nashville Frank [email protected] Loten NO 25th Annual Arizona Territorial Championship Shootout SASS NEW ZEALAND REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP in the Saguaros Dec 05 - 07, 08 Barbwire 480-488-3064 Phoenix AZ Highnoon 2008 Nov 06 - 09, 08 Sudden Lee Hokitika NZ Cowboy Christmas Shoot Dec 06 - 06, 08 Dunn Gamblin 803-422-5587 Columbia SC Top Gun Dec 13 - 14, 08 Buffalo Brady 772-344-6119 Indiantown FL Cowboy Christmas Ball Dec 13 - 13, 08 An E. Di 509-787-1782 Quincy WA DOWN UNDER ANNUAL MATCHES Holiday Shoot Dec 27 - 29, 08 William Waddy 435-652-7887 St. George UT SASA - Southeast SASS Hawaii State Championship Heartland Territorial Jul 05 - 06, 08 Dagger Jack 61-7-5537-5857 Gold Coast QL AU Great Pineapple Shoot Dec 28 - 31, 08 Bad Burt 808-875-9085 Lahaima HI SASS AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP New Year Showdown Jan 01 - 01, 09 Yukon Willie 978-663-3342 Bedford MA Chisholm Trail 2008 Sep 30 - 05, 08 Virgil Earp 61-7-4695-2050 Millmerran QL AU Yuma Territorial Prison Breakout Jan 16 - 18, 09 ClueLass 928-726-7727 Yuma AZ Gunfight at the Ok Corral Oct 25 - 26, 08 Duke York 61-3-9551-2902 Drouin VI AU Ambush at Butterfield Trail Jan 23 - 25, 09 Fast Hammer 505-647-3434 Las Cruses NM Pan Pacific Master Games Nov 01 - 02, 08 Dagger Jack 61 7 55375857 Ashmore QLD AU Trailhead ‘09 Mar 19 - 22, 09 Charles Goodnight 281-342-1210 Columbus TX Australian International Black Powder LandRun Apr 23 - 26, 09 Stonewall 405-739-0545 Oklahoma City OK Championship Nov 03 - 05, 08 Mister Skye 02-9975-7983 Teralba NS AU

CANADIAN ANNUAL MATCHES SASS ANNUAL MOUNTED Canadian Championship SASS High Plains of CAS Aug 01 - 04, 08 Mustang Heart 780-464-4600 Rocky Mtn House AL CANADA Mounted Regional Jun 14-15, ‘08 Aneeda Huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortz CO Headquarters Aug 23 - 24, 08 Teacher C 250-592-4311 Victoria BC CANADA SASS Colorado State Mounted Championship Gunfight at SASS Canadian Regional Bustup at Battle Rock Mounted Sep 5-7, ‘08 Aneeda Huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortez CO Boomtown 2008 Aug 28 - 31, 08 High Amigo 250-897-3643 Courtenay BC CANADA Street Fight in Tombstone Sep 13-14, ‘08 Cowboy Doug 520-457-3559 Tombstone AZ Palmer’s Gulch Jul 04 - 07, 08 Turkey Will 250-579-5819 Heffley Creek BC CANADA SASS Western Regional Mounted Championship Palmer’s Gulch Jul 04 - 07, 08 Gunfighter Jim 250-573-2885 Kamloops BC CANADA Shootout at Ingall’s Park Sep 29, ‘08 Wildcat Kate 951-928-4601 Norco CA Bunkhouse Nov 02 - 02, 08 Teacher C. 250-592-4311 Victoria BC CANADA SASS NORTHEAST REGIONAL MOUNTED SHOOTING Prairie Dog Aug 09 - 09, 08 Hawkfeather 905-936-2129 Caledon ON CANADA Mason Dixon Stampede Oct 2-5, ‘08 Timber Smoke 410-997-9370 Thurmont MD South Western Ontario The Rustlers Rendezvous Oct 25-25, ‘08 Buckskin Doc 505-440-0257 Belen NM Roundup Jul 12 - 13, 08 Payton 519-337-9058 Sombra Ontario ON CANADA Bar-E 2nd Annual Match Jul 19 - 19, 08 Canadian Crow 705-435-2807 Barrie ON CANADA Dry Gulch Jun 14 - 14, 08 Hawk Feathers 905-936-2129 Caledon ON CANADA To make any changes or affiliate your store, please contact Buffalo Shoot Jun 28 - 28, 08 Hawk Feathers 905-936-2129 Caledon ON CANADA The Badlands of H.A.H.A. Sep 20 - 20, 08 Rob Challe 905-627-4123 Ancaster ON CANADA Prairie Mary (505) 286-4566. Rim Rock Sep 14 - 14, 08 Hawkfeather 905-936-2129 Caledon ON CANADA

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M. Nobody 650-589-0505 Committee FL Black Diamond Doug 407-977-3839 Schuster’s Rangers IN Sassie Sue 219-872-7957 Arizona Cowboy Shooters River City Regulators CA Diamond Dick 916-483-9198 American Old West Cowboys GA Cherokee Maddog 269-429-0124 Stark County Desert IN Sassie Sue 219-872-7957 Association, Inc AZ Johnny Meadows 928-567-9227 Robbers Roost Vigilantes CA M. C. Ryder 760-384-2321 Cherokee Cowboys GA Harman Hammer 864-882-2077 Thunder Valley IN Vaquero Hayes 812-662-7799 Arizona Yavapai Rangers AZ Lobo Blanco 928-567-7291 Roy Rogers Rangers CA Johnnie Concho 951-928-4601 Doc Holliday’s Immortals GA Man From Little River Wildwood Wranglers IN Sassie Sue 219-872-7957 Bordertown, Inc. AZ Take A. 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Earp 785-743-2409 Cowtown Cowboy Sloughhouse Irregulators CA Black Jack Traven 530-677-0368 River Bend Rough Riders GA Hardbark Harry 770-393-8088 Powder Creek Cowboys KS Fall City Sam 816-741-8219 Shooters, LLC AZ Two Dot 623-931-4889 Sunnyvale Regulators CA Billy Two Bears 408-739-4436 Tennessee Mountain Crab Orchard Cowboy Dusty Bunch Old Western The Cowboys CA Ivory Jack McCloud 714-739-2721 Marauders GA Double Barrel 706-375-6711 Shootist KY Hoss Lytle 606-776-6719 Shooters AZ Rattler John 602-803-5646 The Outlaws CA Diamond Dick 916-483-9198 Valdosta Vigilance Fox Bend Peacemakers KY Tiny Texarkana 859-885-3058 Los Vaqueros AZ Old Deadeye 520-749-1186 The Over The Hill Gang CA Hyatt Earp 818-982-2092 Committee GA Hi Seas Cowboy 229-468-3175 Green River Gunslingers KY Shaddai Vaquero 270-651-3301 Mohave Marshalls AZ Kizmet 928-753-4266 The Range CA Second Creek Dick 530-292-3429 Maui Marshals HI Lobo Negro 808-242-6024 Hooten Old Town RegulatorsKY Hoss Lytle 606-776-6719 Pima Pistoleros Cowboy Two Rivers Posse CA Shenandoah 209-477-1117 Turkeyfoot Cowboys IA Cedar Falls Kid 319-266-5259 Kentucky Longrifles Action Shooter AZ Dirty Bob 520-825-2863 Ukiah Gun Club CA Hoot 707-829-2731 Zen Shootists IA Dusty Tagalon 319-351-1885 Cowboys KY Hoss Lytle 606-776-6719 Rio Salado Cowboy Action West End Outlaws CA Chickamauga Charlie 951-549-9304 Boundary Maurauders ID Mud Marine 208-597-6191 Kentucky Regulators KY Luck Hatcher 270-488-3592 Shooting Society AZ Gold Canyon Kid 425-255-7612 Black Canyon Ghost Riders CO Fandango Dave 970-835-8871 El Buscaderos ID Capt. 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Fast 520-682-7343 Four Corners Rifle and Snake River Western Society LA Logan Sackett 225-936-0125 Tonto Rim Marauders AZ Rye Creek Roberts 928-472-9136 Pistol Club CO Piedra Kidd 970-565-9228 Shooting Society ID Idaho Bad Company 208-736-8143 Cypress Creek Cowboys LA Matt Masterson 318-397-2035 White Mountain Old West Montrose Marshals CO Big Hat 970-249-7701 Southeast Idaho Practical Deadwood Marshals LA Barkeeps 225-751-8552 Shootists AZ Stands Alone 928-537-8401 Northwest Colorado Rangers CO Powder Wash Kid 970-826-0150 Shooters ID Hardtwist Trader 307-883-3675 Devil Swamp Gang LA Cooper York 504-467-9077 Winter Range Pawnee Sportsmens Center CO Governor General 970-484-3789 Southern Idaho Rangers ID El Jefe Hombre 208-406-3854 Grand Ecore Vigilantes LA Needmore Gunz 318-256-2550 Marksman, Inc. AZ Justice B. Dunn 928-636-4911 Pawnee Station CO Rawah 970-568-3378 Squaw Butte Regulators ID Wogg 208-869-2362 Up The Creek Gang LA Navasota Kid 337-734-2281 YRL-High Country Revengers of Montezuma CO Piedra Kidd 970-565-9228 Twin Butte Bunch ID Hardtwist Trader 307-883-3675 Danvers Desperados MA Pittsburg Mac 781-599-1930 Cowboys AZ Star Packer 520-632-5463 Rockvale Bunch CO Owen 719-564-2999 Fort Beggs Defenders IL Shotgun Bandit 847-669-1787 Gunnysackers MA Yankee 781-383-9799 5 Dogs Creek CA Snakebite 559-787-2943 San Juan Rangers CO San Juan 970-249-4227 Good Guys Posse IL Dangerous Denny 815-459-4570 Harvard Ghost Riders MA Barrister Bill 978-667-2219 Bridgeport Vigilantes CA Bodie Kid 760-937-5463 Sand Creek Raiders CO Gingles 303-781-2609 Illinois River City Shawsheen River Rangers MA Barrister Bill 978-667-2219 Brimstone Pistoleros CA Rowdy Yates 714-532-2922 Sand Creek Shadow Riders CO Sweetwater Bill 303-366-8827 Regulators IL Fourty Five .45 Kid ‘The’ 309-694-7100 Damascus Wildlife Rangers MD Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 Burro Canyon Gunslingers CA Tramp 714-921-8668 Thunder Mountain Shootists CO Curly Clark 970-464-7780 Illowa Irregulars IL Trader Dave 309-787-2244 Eas’dern Shore Renegades MD Jingles Jerr 410-833-3430 Cajon Cowboys CA Asphalt Cowboy 951-679-8662 Windygap Regulators CO Piedra Kidd 970-565-9228 Kaskaskia Cowboys IL Colonel Darlin 618-628-3028 Monocacy Irregulars MD Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 California Range Riders CA Old Buckaroo 408-710-1616 Congress of Rough Riders CT Cayuse 203-457-1031 Kishwaukee Valley St. Charles Sportsman’s California Rangers CA Peaceful 209-293-4456 CT Valley Bushwackers CT Cayuse 203-457-1031 Regulators IL Six Fingered Shootist 815-895-4051 Club Cowboy Action MD Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 California Shady Ladies CA Maggie Hunter 530-677-0368 Ledyard Sidewinders CT Cayuse 203-457-1031 Long Nine Cowboys, Inc. IL Citizen Kane 217-793-2330 Thurmont Mounted Rangers MD Timber Smoke 410-997-9370 Chorro Valley Regulators CA El Lazo 805-441-4242 Padens Posse DE Deacon Will 302-422-6534 Macoupin County Regulators IL Railroad Bill 314-994-0367 Thurmont Rangers MD Cody Conagher 304-258-1419 Deadwood Drifters CA Johnny Mack Brown818-884-1846 Antelope Junction Rangers FL Hombre Paul 727-492-6113 Marion County Renegades IL Railroad Bill 314-994-0367 Thurmont Rangers MD Cody Conagher 304-258-1419 Double R Bar Regulators CA Desert Dawg 760-949-3597 Big River Rangers FL Mad Dane 251-943-3341 McLean County Peacemakers IL Boot Hill Bones 309-244-8214 Beaver Creek Desperados ME Capt. Morgan Rum 603-772-5041 Dulzura Desperados CA Tecolote Jack 619-987-9096 Cowford Regulators FL Doc Monday 904-221-5151 Midwest Rangers, Inc. IL Thunderbird Kid 815-509-6375 Big Pine Bounty Hunters ME No Nonsense Nancy 207-897-3820 Escondido Bandidos CA J. W. Bass 760-789-5828 Doodle Hill Regulators FL Doc Dalton 812-684-4778 Nason Mining Company Capitol City Vigilance FaultLine Shootist Society CA Tres Pinos 831-636-3348 Five County Regulators FL B. S. Buhley 941-354-2919 Regulators IL Wolftracks 618-982-2976 Committee ME Rootin Tootin Tim 207-897-3820 (Continued on page 110) Page 110 Cowboy Chronicle June 2008 B SASS TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS LIST b CLUB NAME St. Governor Phone CLUB NAME St. Governor Phone CLUB NAME St. Governor Phone CLUB NAME St. Governor Phone Hurricane Valley Rangers ME Capt. Morgan Rum 603-772-5041 The Shadow Riders NY Lady Lassiter 631-360-7490 Texas Regulators TX Texas Jack Daniels 281-259-0284 Powder River Justice Chippewa Regulators MI Jack Bantam 906-635-6947 Tioga County Cowboys NY Pete Gabriel 607-734-7993 Texas Riviera Pistoleros TX Brushy Creek Bill 361-215-4484 Committee WSAS WY Wyoming Drummer 307-587-9222 Double Barrel Gang MI Slippery Pete 269-838-6944 AuGlaize Rough Riders OH Temple 419-438-5497 Texas Tenhorns Shooting Southfork Vigilance Eagleville Cowboys MI One Son Of A Gun 231-676-0922 Big Irons OH Highweeds 937-746-1426 Club TX Cole Bluesteele 817-577-1854 Committee WSAS WY Wyoming Drummer 307-587-9222 Johnson Creek Regulators MI Smiling Bear 248-437-6755 Briar Rabbit Rangers OH Slowrider 740-747-3030 Texas Troublemakers TX Knife Maker 817-498-4527 Australia Lapeer County Sportsmans Central Ohio Cowboys OH Loose Lucy 740-569-3206 Texican Rangers TX Dusty Lone Star 210-680-8840 Cowboy Action Shooters of Club Wranglers MI Wall-Man 248-628-7424 Firelands Peacemakers OH Cheyenne Culpepper 440-324-7611 Tin Star Texans TX Dusty Lone Star 210-680-8840 Australia NSW Mister Skye 029-975-7983 Rockford Regulators MI Tuscon Stu 616-887-9917 Jackson Six Shooters OH Krazy Thom 330-792-0450 Balanced Rock Gold Coast Gamblers QLD Virgil Earp +61 7 4695 2050 Rocky River Regulators MI Nevada Gambler 248-625-0814 Miami Valley Cowboys OH Jinglebob Kidd 437-667-2868 Regultors, LLC UT Dingoman 435-637-7188 SSAA Single Action Saginaw Field & Middletown Sportsmens Big Hollow Bandits UT J. T. Wild 801-829-8989 Shooting-Australia QLD Virgil Earp +61 7 4695 2050 Stream Club MI Bad River Marty 989-585-3292 Club, Inc. OH 7 Mile Tom 937-885-5043 Cache Valley Vaqueros UT Lefty Slack 435-730-0880 Adelaide Pistol & Sucker Creek Saddle & Ohio Valley Vigilantes OH Marcus Allen 330-225-5625 Castle Gate Posse UT Fargo Kid 435-613-0449 Shooting Club SA Virgil Earp +61 7 4695 2050 Gun Club MI Cree Vicar Dave 989-654-3636 Sandusky County Regulators OH Bad Creek Kid 419-875-6577 Coal Creek Cowboys UT Puffbuster 435-680-9275 Fort Bridger Shooting West Walker Rangers MI Lucky Lennie 616-340-9197 Scioto Territory Copenhagen Valley Club Inc. VIC Virgil Earp +61 7 4695 2050 Wolverine Rangers MI R. J. Law 248-828-7714 Desperados Inc. OH Smokin Iron 740-385-6692 Regulators UT Wind River Ranger 801-782-8393 Mount Rowan Rangers VIC Squizzy 03 5342 8400 Cedar Valley Vigilantes MN Mogollon Drifter 507-838-7334 Shenango River Rats OH Marshall Flagg 814-724-7192 Crow Seeps Cattle Wiski Mountain Rangers, The VIC Virgil Earp +61 7 4695 2050 Crow River Rangers MN Boulder Canyon Bob 763-753-4820 Tusco Long Riders OH D. J. McDraw 740-767-2326 Company L.L.C. UT Brazos Cain 435-529-2172 Canada East Grand Forks Rod & West Jeff Ghostriders OH Col. Cord McNally 614-563-6070 Deseret Historical Shootist Islington Sportsmen’s Club Big Jim Dandy 905-936-6746 Gun Club MN Robber Robert 701-746-5131 Cherokee Strip Shootists OK Querida Kate 405-372-0208 Society UT Gunlock 801-544-4451 Alberta Frontier Shootists ALB Cariboo Lefty 250-372-0416 Ike’s Clantons MN H. B. Lovett 507-354-1270 Flying W Outlaws OK Aberdeen 806-256-3047 Diamond Mountain Rustlers UT Ace High Bill 801-971-8555 Palmer’s Gulch Cowboys BC Cariboo Lefty 250-372-0416 Lookout Mountain Indian Territory Single Dixie Desperados UT Alaska Bill Hillis 435-673-7111 Red Mountain Renegades BC Cariboo Lefty 250-372-0416 Gunsmoke Society MN Wagonmaster 218-744-4694 Action Shooting Society OK Bone Arranger 918-275-8067 Hobble Creek Wranglers UT Utah Rifleman 801-489-5267 Valley Regulators BC Haweater Hal 250-656-2520 Central Ozarks Western Oklahoma Gunslingers OK Bone Arranger 918-275-8067 Mesa Marauders Gun Club UT Happy Jack 435-979-4665 Victoria Frontier Shootists Shooters MO Fingers McGee 573 687 3103 Shortgrass Rangers OK Goose Terwilligher 580-248-7260 North Rim Regulators UT Oh Well 435-644-5053 Committee BC Haweater Hal 250-656-2520 Gateway Shootist Society MO Missouri Bull 314-776-6885 Tater Hill Regulators OK Eight Bit Bob 918-437-1474 Rio Verde Rangers UT Fargo Kid 435-613-0449 Western Canadian Frontier Moniteau Creek River Columbia County Cowboys OR Johnny Colt 503-642-4120 Roller Mill Hill Gunslingers UT Rockwell 435-676-2403 Shootists Society BC Cariboo Lefty 250-372-0416 Raiders MO Fingers McGee 573 687 3103 Dry Gulch Desperados OR Run Amuck 509-525-2984 Utah War UT Jubal O. 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