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Diamond Jim Chisholm, SASS #27 aka Gordon Davis
By Tex, SASS #4 There were plenty of categories at this year’s US Open— the usual standard categories as well as Outlaw, Senior Gunfighter, ucson, AZ – As most maker … in fact, he had been Frontier Cartridge Gunfighter, and others … a little something for long-time SASS mem - making leather products since he everyone … and, the categories all had enough folks in them to bers know, in the be - was 12 years old. His products in - provide true competition. Three days of main match competition T ginning there where cluded all sorts of “cowboy” items in changing weather conditions tested everyone and allowed three “Founding Fathers”—Bill and many found their way into the real champions to emerge. It was loads of fun! Hahn, Gordon Davis, and Harper western movies such as Tomb - parta, IL – The Illinois De - State, Regional, and above cham - Creigh, Judge Roy Bean, SASS stone and Unforgiven . His prod - partment of Natural Re - pions a FREE match at the U.S. #1. These three gentlemen were ucts were also instrumental in Ssources offered ALL current Open held at the World Shooting the sparkplugs and inspiration influencing designs for Safariland and Recreation Complex in behind what has become known and John Bianchi’s fledging busi - Sparta, Illinois September 4 as Cowboy Action Shooting™. All ness. Celebrities the likes of Clint SASS C owboy Chronicle through September 9, 2012. What three were Action Pistol competi - Eastwood, Roy and Dusty Rogers, an opportunity! Top shooters tors, but when it was questioned and Randy Travis also proudly from across our great nation con - if that game could be played with strapped on his cowboy rigs. In This Issue vened and most of them brought “cowboy guns,” these were the At the first END of TRAIL their “A” game! BUT, the best guys who put their heads to - Gordon took the role of thing about the U. S. Open (and gether and made it happen. We spokesman for the event. China 22 Shotgun Boogie ANY match headed up by Mose lost Bill a few years ago, we still Camp’s video of the match promi - Short Stroke and Bella Spencer) was EVERY have the Judge, but Gordon nently features Gordon explain - by Larsen E. Pettifogger shooter in attendance was made Davis, Diamond Jim Chisholm, ing the stages for the camera. He to feel like a CHAMPION! lost his battle with Parkinsons was associated with the produc - Disease and Lewy Body Demen - tion of END of TRAIL for the next 44 Delaware State The warm-up Matches began (Continued on page 36 ) tia just after Thanksgiving 2012. several years until business and
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6 FROM THE EDITOR Editorial Staff SASS Plans For The Future . . . Tex 8-12 NEWS Editor-in-Chief Chapel Auction Draws To A Close (Winners Announced!) . . . GOEX Cat Ballou 10 CAT’S CORNER Editor Reviving The Costume Contest At END of TRAIL . . . Miss Tabitha Asst. Editor 14, 15 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . . . Evil Roy Wild Bunch Editor 16-20 ARTICLES Dead Man’s Gun . . . Prescott, Arizona (A Bonanza of History) . . . Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 22-30 GUNS & GEAR Scoring: Rank vs. Time . . . Labor Of Love . . . Mac Daddy 32, 33 PROFILES 2012 SASS Scholarship Recipient (Miss Mandy, Morning Dove) . . . Graphic Design Lilly Mae 34 MOUNTED Mounted Shooting Long Gun SCABBARD . . . Advertising Manager (505) 843-1320 • Fax: (877) 770-8687 [email protected] 35 TRAIL MARKER Always To Be Remembered . . . Contributing Writers Billy Bob Evans & Diamond Lizzie, 40, 41 HISTORY Little Known Famous People . . . Women In The Old West . . . Blue 64, Capt. George Baylor, Chilkoot, Col. Dan, Col. Richard Dodge, Cree Vicar Dave, Deacon Will, Four Feathers, 42 REVIEWS BOOKS Raid In Lincoln County . . . Grey Fox & Miss Mary Spencer, Joe Fasthorse, Justice B. Dunn, Larsen E. Pettifogger, Miss Mandy, Morning Dove, Palaver Pete, 43-52 ON THE RANGE What’s Goin’ On In Your Town? . . . Rio Drifter & Tennesse Tall, Riverboat Gambler, Sgt. Shuster, Sugah, Sutter Lawman, T-Bone Dooley, 56, 57 CLUB REPORTS Shootin’ Across The USA . . . Two Shoots For One Good Cause Texas Ghost, Turquoise Bill, Utah Scout, Wolverine Wrangler 58-60 THE WILD BUNCH CORNER The Cowboy Chronicle is published by The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. 61, 62 GENERAL STORE /CLASSIFIED For advertising information and rates, ad - ministrative, and edi to rial offices contact: Chronicle Administrator 63-69 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS (MONTHLY, ANNUA L) 215 Cowboy Way Edgewood, NM 87015 (505) 843-1320 70 SASS MERCANTILE (Nice Collectables) . . . FAX (505) 843-1333 email: [email protected] POLITICAL http://www.sassnet.com 71 A Fundamentally Changed America . . . The Cowboy Chronicle (ISSN 15399877) is pub - lished monthly by the Single Action Shooting Society, 215 Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. Periodicals Postage is Paid at Edge - wood, NM and additional mailing offices SASS ® Trademarks (USPS #032). POSTMASTER: Send ad- SaSS ®, Single action Shooting Society ®, dress changes to The Cowboy Chronicle , 215 enD of trail ®, eot ®, Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. The Cowboy Chro nicle tm , DISCLAIMER - The Single Action Shooting Cowboy action Shooting tm , Society does not guarantee, warranty or en - dorse any product or service advertised in tm tm CaS , wild Bunch , this newspaper. The publisher also does not wild Bunch action Shooting tm , guarantee the safety or effectiveness of any the world Championship of product or service illustrated. The distri - Cowboy action Shooting tm , bution of some products/services may be il - legal in some areas, and we do not assume Bow-legged Cowboy Design, and the responsibility thereof. State and local laws rocking horse Design must be investigated by the purchaser prior SASS is a member of the Edgewood Chamber of Commerce and are all trademarks of to purchase or use or products/services. actively participates in local community events. Edgewood the Single action Shooting Society, inc. WARNING: Neither the author nor The inaugurated its annual “Hunt-n-Glow” holiday festival designed Any use or reproduction of these marks Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi - to entice folks to spend the day visiting Edgewood businesses. without the express written permission bility for accidents or diffe ring results In the evening there was a lights parade, featuring, among others, obtained using reloading data. Variation of SASS is strictly prohibited. in handloading tech niques, compo nents, a SASS cowboy float. Local SASS members are seen here beside and fire arms will make results vary. Have the “gussied up” SASS freight wagon. It was a fun time—but COLD! a competent gunsmith check your firearms before firing. ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle January 2013
SASS Plans For The Future By Tex, SASS #4
to be positive! It’s impossible to think about the The Regional match future without at least spending some schedules and contact time pondering what’s happening in points once again have our society where folks feel somehow their own page on the empowered to march into public areas SASS website. and start shooting. No one, gun own - < http://www. sassnet.com/ ers included, care to see such behavior Regionals.php > Tex, SASS #4 or endorse it in any way. There is sim - ply no rational reason or justification Make plans now for such actions. And, sadly, there is to attend the ar and away our cowboys always the “public knee-jerk reaction” Regional for YOUR area. are “traditionalists”—con - for more restrictive gun laws and reg - servative and slow to ulations. Most of our members would F change. That’s not too agree it’s not the guns, but the people onship program. The Western Re - vide a quality product. surprising, after all, we spend our handling the guns that are to blame gional has been moved from Southern Hell on Wheels lost their range, weekends recreating the 1880s, a … but still there’s the question, how California to Chorro Valley on the Cen - which offered SASS an opportunity to mythical place frozen in time where do we prevent these tragedies from tral California coast. This makes the reorganize the Regionals in that part everything was simpler, folks were occurring in the future? There have event a bit more convenient for more of the country. The Four Corners Re - mostly honest and polite, and times to be answers … shooters in California and Nevada, and gional at Founders Ranch now con - were exciting! Most would have On a much lighter note—what is yes, the Los Angeles cowboys will have sists of the four corners states—Utah, things stay just as they are … but, SASS planning for the future? to travel a bit further than they’re used Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. alas, that’s just not possible … nor is Regionals to travelling. SASS has high hopes for Utah and Colorado were “unique” it even desirable. 2013 will bring As many now know, there have this new Regional; hopes many will at - swing states where shooters could changes—hopefully most will turnout been changes to the Regional Champi - tend, and expects the organizers pro - pick their Regional, but no more.
ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm January 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 7 The third change was to anoint a viewing public. brand new Regional in a part of the With this change, for the first country that has never had one—the time in its history, the Wild Bunch will north-central part of the country. This have no role in the planning and man - Regional is centered near Minneapolis. agement of END of TRAIL. This is a Make plans now to attend the Re - first step in ensuring the continuing gional for YOUR area. These champi - longevity of the event. Come and see onship matches are supported by the how the new managers handle the as - major SASS sponsors and allow you to signment! win a “free ticket” to the national Four Corners Regional championship, Winter Range, in Nowhere else in the world does Phoenix, AZ! SASS itself host a Regional champi - Discussions are still on-going re - onship … except for the Four Corners garding introducing a new level of Regional. This year, SASS will embark championships between the Regionals on yet another grand experiment to re - and the National Championships. As cruit New Mexico clubs to be the host - these discussions begin to bear fruit, ing organization(s). New Mexico is you’ll be the first to know! home to the tenth largest community Convention of Cowboy Action Shooters in the Are we going to have a Conven - United States and many of these com - tion in 2013? The answer is YES! petitors are very talented, indeed. The location has been selected but And, not just in the shooting venue, negotiations are still in process, so it’s but in the ability to design stages and difficult to say too much right now. I matches, construct supporting props, can say the venue is NOT Las Vegas, and manage the conduct of a match. If NV. The new site for the 2013 Con - successful, this will be the final major vention is centrally located. Exciting match to be relinquished by SASS into new plans for the Convention are un - the capable hands of organizing clubs. derway—including a possible River - Founders Ranch boat evening, a Victorian pool The Ranch is home to SASS. It’s party/pajama party, banquet and ball, the whole reason our Headquarters is exciting new seminars lead by area in New Mexico. It is home to END of historians, select vendor displays, and TRAIL and the Four Corners Re - on and on. It’ll likely be about the gional. It needs all the revenue it can same time (early December) as it’s generate to pay the mortgage. Accord - been in the past. Begin making plans ingly, SASS has established a shotgun (and saving your money) now for this facility (Sporting Clays and 5-Stand) outing … you don’t want to miss it—it on the Ranch and for a while earlier will likely be somewhere else in 2014! this year opened a couple of the shoot - More information will be provided ing bays as a public shooting range. once the negotiations are finalized. The Ranch itself has been used for END of TRAIL weddings, civic events, and law en - Plans for a “brand new” END of forcement (including mounted) train - TRAIL are in the works. T.A. Chance ing/qualifications. As other will take the reins as the END of opportunities began to present them - TRAIL Action Shooting Match Direc - selves, it became clear Founders tor, and Pecos Clyde will be the Match Ranch was going to have to go back to Director for the Wild Bunch Champi - the county for additional use permits, onships. These gentlemen will be re - which is being done. If the new per - sponsible for designing the match mits are issued and additional Ranch stages and ensuring they run revenue is realized, SASS should be smoothly. Misty will continue to mas - able to expedite the development of termind the many other details re - the “town” area and build additional quired to provide a memorable and stage props. 2013 appears to be a busy enjoyable experience for all our time for both SASS and the Ranch! guests. Make plans now to attend the The Cowboy Chronicle “Granddaddy of Them All” in June. As with every other publication END of TRAIL in the world, publication costs con - Mounted Championship tinue to rise and advertising revenue Last year SASS embarked on a continues to shrink. The Cowboy great experiment and asked CMSA to Chronicle has recently lowered its host our World Championship of page count from around 100 pages to SASS Mounted Shooting. They did a something closer to 72. One of the fine job, provided much needed enter - major cost drivers for the paper is tainment for the public, and SASS the printing and mailing costs. was very happy with the results. While everything possible is being However, as a matter of policy, SASS done to keep costs under control, the would very much like to keep this day may well come when the decision championship an all SASS affair, if at is made to forgo paper and go “all all possible. For 2013 the Buffalo digital.” Certainly, there will be is - Range Riders Mounted Club has ac - sues—not everyone owns a computer cepted responsibility for planning and … and many of us old codgers grew executing this championship. Icelady up with newspapers and are not and Stuttering Wayne will be the comfortable getting our “news” from Match Directors. Look for the stan - the computer screen. dard six-stage championship, Extreme As can be seen, 2013 is shaping Stages, rides through town, and up to be a watershed year with “extra” events to provide not only many new changes. We’ll see what ample opportunity for competition, the future holds—it’s going to be in - but an enjoyable exhibition for the teresting! ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm Page 8 Cowboy Chronicle January 2013
Initial Chapel Auction Draws To A Close Winners Announced! By Palaver Pete, SASS Life/Regulator #4375
Another milestone reached as Plaques are installed on the Chapel walls
ad Mountain Mike’s neatly inside. By the way, the Leather Jacket was pneumatic wheels can handle the won by Okie Sawbones, roughest terrain. And, incredibly, M SASS #77381. Again, the folded size of the cart is an Mad Mountain Mike comes unbelievable: 9 " x 18 " x 28 ". To through! Despite losing their view more Wooden Works West home to a wildfire, Mike and his products, visit: lovely wife, Miss Tabitha, con - http://www.woodenworkswest.com tinue to support fund raising ef - /index.html forts for the chapel—we are most grateful, Mike! For more of Mad AND A RAFFLE STILL Mountain Mike’s Leather Cloth - AWAITS US! A COYOTE CAP ing & Historic Programs, visit: MASTERPIECE FOR SOME www.rivercrossinginc.com LUCKY INDIVIDUAL. Rick O’Shay print from Stan Coyote Cap E Model 1901 70- Lynde, was won by Harvey Mush - 150 Prototype Rifle/Shotgun still man, SASS #83526. Yes, Rick up for raffle. O’Shay, that iconic character that Purchase tickets at: won our young hearts along with http://www.sassnet.com/chape Gene, Roy, and Hoppy. I can still l/index.php see Rick trying to bag that Elk. Hallelujah Pards, we SASSers For more of Stan’s work, visit: are something else! Approximately http://stanlynde.net/ three years in the making from idea to approval to construction, our WE AIN’T DONE YET … AND Chapel stands tall and is being fur - Gun Cart from Wooden Works nished and commemorative plaques West, was won by Tejano, SASS installed on the walls as we speak— #96111. Tejano has won a full- a united effort demonstrates the size gun cart that can fit in the unity and brotherhood that exists trunk of a compact car and meets in our SASS Society. But, as stated FAA size requirements for above, we still need your help and checked baggage! The Carried the help of all SASS affiliated clubs. Away™ gun cart will serve Tejano We still need to complete the fur - well as he travels to shoots nishing of the Chapel, and money around the country. It holds up to will always be needed for ongoing six long guns and has a built-in maintenance, so speak to your clubs locking ammo box. When folded, about continuing donations—you’re the full axle and 16 " wheels store a Daisy if Ya do!
Diamond Jim Chisholm, SASS #27 aka Gordon Davis . . . (Continued from page 1) 2006. Although his health had personal issues took their toll and been deteriorating for the past prevented him from spending as several years, he was able to at - much time on the range as he tend the High Noon at the Tomb - would have liked. stone Livery match in Tombstone, Gordon managed to attend AZ this past February, giving him END of TRAIL a few times in the an opportunity to meet new cow - ensuing years, including the 20 th boys and visit old friends from the END of TRAIL anniversary. He early days. was also inducted into the SASS He’ll be missed by family and Cowboy Action Hall of Fame in friends … ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm January 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 9
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.Reviving The , Costume Contest At enD Of tRaiL By Captain Baylor, SASS Lif e/ Regulator #24287 Cat Ballou, SASS #55
ostuming has always Bud that he can’t shoot the guns doing it all again with another Somewhere along the way been what separated us he won END of TRAIL ever costume next year. What hap - the silver belt buckles were re - from the other shooting again. The rule was dropped pens is, former winners often placed by scarf slides, but second C sports. SASS would not in 2005 with so little fanfare just never enter again. The mar - and third were the same buckles exist if we were shooting the that it was still being observed velous costumes sit in closets, the top ten shooters in category same guns dressed in t-shirts, at the costume contest this year. and fields grow smaller. got. Then, those went away. ball caps, and tennis shoes. It is I was a judge at another major This year the scarf slide was important. Encouraging costum - match a couple of years ago, and So my first suggestion is: first place, and a medal was sec - ing in SASS is important. If cos - a couple showed up with what 1. Welcome back past win - ond and third. tumes devolve to “the minimum,” would have been winning cos - ners What this told the contest - the sport will be lessened. But tumes, but one of the judges re - For END of TRAIL 2013 ad - ants was that costuming was no participation in costume contests membered they had won before vertise its a “Champion of Cham - longer important. has been waning at END of in the same costumes. Thus, pions” Costume Contest, and So I suggest for END of TRAIL. This applies to “Best they didn’t place. The event did - encourage former winners to re - TRAIL 2013 give the same belt Shooting Costume,” judged dur - n’t have the rule in their written turn with their winning costume buckle for first that category ing the match, and “Best costume contest rules, but were and let the judges sort it out. winners get. Yes, the words Dressed,” traditionally at the going on either the rule that Encourage new costumes, too, of “COSTUME CONTEST” are on Saturday night party, but moved once upon a time was in the course. What’s the worst thing the buckle so no one believes to Thursday night for 2012. I be - Costume Contest Handbook or that can happen? The line for that someone of, say, my lieve the reasons are a combina - just tradition. Sorry, Bud, but judging gets long? Spectacular mediocre shooting skills, actu - tion of items. since you won last year, we’re costumes from the past win ally won a first place shooting Over the years we have seen moving you out of the trophies. again? People who haven’t come award. Second and third might some spectacular costumes, such I didn’t know the rule was back to END of TRAIL come to be scarf slides, buckles, or as Tornado Ali’s Scarlet O’Hara removed. Cat Ballou didn’t re - show off their costumes? That’s plaques. dress at the first SASS Conven - member it until I mentioned a bad thing? If category winners get free tion, Calvin N. Hobbs and Bar - that I couldn’t find it. Then she Note to Costume Contest entry to the next END of TRAIL, bary Coast’s “Tom Mix and one of remembered it had been re - Judges at other events: then so should the costume win - my many wives” at END of moved in 2005. I have talked Do the same thing. Encour - ners. My original suggestion TRAIL, Robber Baron’s museum with several costume contest age previous winners to bring was to give the costume winners quality morning suit, Bat Mas - judges, and none of them knew their costumes back. When you the same thing the poker tourna - terson’s, well, Bat Masterson, that the rule doesn’t exist any - disqualify contestants for wear - ment winner got this year, a Colt and way too many perfect ladies more. I’ve never understood that ing the same costume again, you SAA, but for some reason that costumes to mention here lest I rule. I suppose it is so someone are running them away from fu - was rejected. On the other hand, leave someone out. But we only with a really good costume does - ture costume contests. If the I bet we’d have a lot of entries. see them once. n’t dominate year after year. same costume wins two or three Why? We USE TO have a First of all, if it did, so what? times, so what? Wasn’t it the 3. Remove “Presentation” rule, first place winners of END How many times has Holy Terror best costume in the room? from scoring of TRAIL can’t enter again. This been World Champion? Has that In years of interviewing peo - applied at the SASS Convention, hurt the sport? I’m assuming if 2. Give Awards Worthy of ple who didn’t enter, but were and some Regionals barred END you enter a costume contest, you Winning END of TRAIL wearing costumes that would of TRAIL or Convention winners. want to win. If you win a shoot - In 2003 I won Best Dressed have been competitive, I’ve dis - Think about that. Costumes ing category at END of TRAIL, Military and received the same covered one thread. They are cost sometimes thousands of dol - you’ve usually competed against silver belt buckle that first place afraid of public speaking, and lars and hours and hours of former World Champions. Why category winners received, and the “presentation” is scaring work, sometimes months of re - should the costume contest be the same free entry to the next them off. search. If you are successful and any different? END of TRAIL (which in this The first convention didn’t win END of TRAIL in the cos - Then there’s the sheer im - case cost SASS nothing because have presentations. Contestants tume that you just spent all of practicality of expecting someone I was unable to attend). In 2007 weren’t allowed to speak. This that effort, sweat, and money, to spend thousands of dollars I received the same belt buckle rightfully bothered some contest - you can’t enter it again. This is and months or years of effort, re - as first place category winners, ants who wanted to explain their equivalent to telling Badlands search, and production and then but no free entry. costumes. A lady might want to
ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm January 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 11 explain that she was wearing a presentation to get it perfect for Have someone at the door invite about cleaning guns or shooting new outfit in 1876, but she could - the 60 seconds or so allotted, but contestants to have a seat. Then first thing in the morning. The n’t afford the latest shoes, so they after fear of presentations let the judges find the contest - promenade and awards presenta - were of an older style. started running people off, I ants. This was tried at El Dorado tion take about 15 minutes out of But the presentations grew. stopped. Instead I gave a brief this year. El Dorado is much the party. But costuming is im - Despite time restrictions, some description of what the costume smaller than END of TRAIL, and portant. Without costuming, people gave performances worthy was supposed to be and said, the contestants were spread there would be no SASS. The of Broadway. At one convention I “Any questions?” There always about the dining room. The only time a lot of contestants do watched such an impressive per - were. This seemed to work just judges interviewed every prospec - dress up is on Saturday night. If formance, and a lady sitting near fine. It is a costume contest, not tive contestant, including some there’s a costume contest, a lot of me while waiting her turn said, “I an acting contest. who didn’t intend to enter. On non-entrants will dress up. If can’t do that,” and left the room. We have excellent judges at the other hand, they had more there’s not, they’re likely to be in I doubt the judges ever gave major matches, some with years Costume Contest contestants their shooting clothes. Addition - someone an award based on their of experience. They ask good than END of TRAIL in some cat - ally the party is the only time presentation. A good presentation questions, and they treat the con - egories. The pressure was much most contestants will see what wouldn’t help a bad costume, and testants quite well, putting them lower on the contestants and the the costume contest winners are a bad presentation was overlooked at ease. They can sort out the judges. At END of TRAIL you wearing. They might be inspired if the costume was good. One year contestants quite well. Some - might need a friendly lady at the to dress up next year, maybe even at the convention the Best times it’s by the slimmest of mar - door giving numbers to contest - enter the contest. Dressed Military winner froze up, gins. But they aren’t allowed to ants as they came in. Then at The Colt SAAs for first is still stuttered, and shook during his leave ties. They have to pick win - closing time the judges know they a good idea, too. presentation. But the uniform ners. It’s virtually always by con - haven’t missed anyone if they (Captain - your observations on was spectacular, and he won. sensus. If you don’t win, it’s not have all of the numbers back. On costuming, especially at END of So why are scaring contest - worth worrying about. The next the other hand, they could just TRAIL, are most thought provok - ants away with the presentation? set of judges will see things dif - announce, “have we missed any ing. Costuming is an integral We’ve told people “it’s just for tie ferently. Anything using judges costume contest contestants?” part of the whole SASS experi - breaking.” But that isn’t enough. instead of a finite scoring system, ence, and perhaps, we have let its Take it out of the scoring alto - such as a shot timer, is going to 5. Move the contest back to importance “slide.” Your sugges - gether. People are afraid of pub - be imperfect. Just come back Saturday night tions will certainly be taken lic speaking. Instead, when the next year. The costume contest is tradi - under much consideration, and judges are ready, the chief judge tionally Saturday night because hopefully, changes in the right di - should smile and say, “Would you 4. Instead of making contest - that’s when people can relax, rection will be made. Don’t count like to tell us about your cos - ants come to the judges change out of their shooting on Colt SAAs for first place tume?” I used to practice the Bring the judges to them. clothes, and not have to worry awards, however…Cat)
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Y’All Come to The Senior Games in May 17-19, 2013
Texas! By T-Bone Dooley, SASS #36388
ar 3 Ranch, English, campground. Then, as fast as house). We will meet up with the under. It is called the Australian TX – It’s winter in Badland Bud, SASS #15821, or wildest group of cowboys and cow - Pat Garrett Match. Competitors Texas, and we’re chilled Prestidigitator, SASS #52251, it’s girls known to SASS—Outlaws will use five guns during this B to the bone! We’re look - over again, and we see, yet again, from Possum Trot, VIPs from match. It will be a four-stage ing forward to springtime and all another empty range. It is a lot of Sparta, scorekeepers from the event and replace the Plainsman the cowboys and cowgirls getting work getting things ready for a Black Gold region, and range and Wild Bunch for the weekend. ready for the 2013 SASS shooting match, but in the end, it’s all owners from Texas. Then, like We have changed a few rules re - season. It’s the greatest shooting worth it. sands through the hourglass, I garding caliber requirement. sport known to over 100,000 Now, the problems set in— say to myself, “Let’s go to Texas,” Also, there will gender splits in members and going strong since with everyone gone, we start as we have the Senior Games to the Pat Garrett Plainsman and 1982. As we pards get a little long planning OUR shooting season put on. Yep, the Second Annual Pat Garrett Smokeless. So, get in the tooth, we need to support and what needs to get done Senior Games will commence on out those Long Range rifles, two the folks who raised us up now for around the ranch—or not … With May 17, 2013. blazing pistols, and your ol’ over 30 years. Christmas near and the Sunshine We have to start out the shotie, and let’s play at the Senior Let me start out by saying State looking pretty darn good, games with the non -invitational Games! The entry form can be that living on a shooting range let’s head to Florida for the Siege Extreme Putt-putt Golf Tourna - downloaded from the website, ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. at St. Augustine in January and ment. This will lead us right up www.badlandsbar3.com . Ellie and I get so excited when Steinhatchee Retirement Center to the side matches and a very * * * * * * * * the campers start to roll into the (Tennessee Tall and Rio Drifter’s popular event in the land down See ya in the Badlands!
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e e More On The Chapel Stained Glass Windows Let’s Get the Lead Out!
By Palaver Pete, SASS Life/Regulator #4375
he Chapel Committee is To enter, email a drawing, looking for ten unique picture, or depiction and de - Stained Glass Win - scription of your entry to The T dows—all 10 winning Cowboy Memorial Chapel Com - entrees will be commissioned for mittee, in care of longjimhan placement in the chapel. You [email protected] Entrees al - heard right: 10 will be used. The ready submitted will be for - winning “Best of Show,” gets a warded to Long Jim Hancock by special plaque in the altar area of SASS Staff. the chapel, which may be desig - THE THEME nated “In Memoriam” if so de - The theme is easy—God, sired, otherwise an expression of Country, and the West. Tie it their choice. Best of Show also all together as only an artist wins a luncheon with Judge Roy with your skills can do! Your Bean, a complimentary shoot of drawing can be sketched to their choice at any match hosted scale, but your final rendering at Founders Ranch, and a spe - must fit a Chapel Window. cially engraved thank you from Eight of the windows are ap - the Wild Bunch “in recognition of proximately 36 " by 60 " and the your artistic contribution.” two by the altar are 24 " by 60 ". Hold on, that’s not all! Win - Entrees must be received no ner also receives an engraved later than March 31 st , 2013. Chapel Memorial Belt Buckle The committee will judge the and a Scarf Slide by Jackson. entrees and notify the winners All runner-ups will have by mid-April, 2013 . Winners their window hangings placed will be expected to have their prominently in the chapel with a windows completed and deliv - plaque recognizing the con - ered to Founders Ranch by the tributing artist’s name, which week of END of TRAIL 2013, so may also include “in memoriam,” they can be installed for the of - if so desired. Additionally, run - ficial dedication of the Cowboy ner-ups will receive a specially Memorial Chapel at that time. engraved Memorial Chapel Belt Needless to say, your artistic ef - Buckle OR Scarf Slide (the forts will be appreciated for Buckle or Slide will be engraved years to come by all members of “with special thanks,” from the the SASS family. Time to get Wild Bunch, and recognition by the lead out and get your entry name in The Cowboy Chronicle ). in—you’re a daisy if ya do!
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Another “Hollywood Field Stripping The 1911 enjoyed the article by Cree (not drop in) parts and the ability and Guns” Letter IVicar Dave on the M1911 strip - and tools at hand to detail strip ping stand. However, not having the entire gun down completely. If ol. Dan, I read your “Holly - etc. Over simplification, maybe, but a wood shop to build such a handy not, save a lot of headache and go Cwood and Guns” column (Nov. the family has disappeared for a lot thing, I would offer my country with the spare gun. ‘12) with great interest, as I have of kids in favor of video games and boy substitute. Now if you have one of those wondered what causes these aber - electronics as surrogates. Thanks My simple substitute for the super-duper sexy looking full- rations with firearms. I grew up in for letting me bend your ear. I al - stripping stand is a bushing length spring guide rods, either a the 40s and 50s in a farming are ways enjoy your viewpoint. wrench from Brownell’s (part one piece or two piece, then also where guns were commonplace Chilkoot, SASS #58803 number 080-045-300) and a 2-1/2 order part numbers 087-881-001, tools. We often hunted on the way Denver, NC gallon clear plastic storage bag. 087-882-001, the plug and spring to and from school and, in fact Stick the gun in the bag, and use guide when you order the bushing would leave our shotguns on the Chilkoot, thank you for that most the bushing wrench that has a wrench. Then take that rod and school bus with our driver, a local thoughtful note. I’m glad you enjoy bulge on the side that holds the use it for a fish weight. If John farmer. Never was any problem. my column. I appreciate your sup - plug down while turning the bush - Moses wanted one there, he would In the mid-50s, Korea happened. port. I think you’re on target with ing. The bag’s function is to catch have designed it that way. As far as Boys were left without a father’s your assessment regarding the the plug and spring if you fumble I can see the only function of that guidance again and mothers went to family, and I can relate to your the thing. Use the same method rod is to make the gun harder to work. My parents split for other rea - story about taking guns to school. to put the gun back together. break down for cleaning, and while sons, but I felt the absence of my fa - I did the same and went hunting Even though “Old Slab Sides” it looks neat, it is best to keep ther’s approval. Today, absentee as soon as the final bell sounded! is a rugged gun, you better believe things simple. Another one of those fathers leave no one for boys to pat - Nobody thought anything about it! Murphy’s Law of “anything that neat but useless items is one of tern their development after, and the Soldier on Chilkoot! can go wrong will go wrong”, and those “blue thingy’s” that suppos - default falls to peers using iPads, Colonel Dan the addendum to that law “at the edly protects the frame from “bat - worst possible moment with no tering.” Perhaps if you shoot over gunsmith in this time zone” still 5 thousand rounds of P+ ammo a prevails. Since that is the law, just year for four or five years, you be on the safe side go on the might see a just a shiny spot on the thought that “one is none, two is frame; otherwise, save your money one, and three is better,” so carry and use it to buy practice ammo. at least one gun as a spare. Either Bunk Stagner, SASS #85926 that or a shoe box of spare fitted West Point, TX
Great “How To” Articles! ree Vicar Dave – I always ing. They are a great service to Cenjoy the articles you provide our game! to The Cowboy Chronicle . All of them are interesting … some are really Bob B. Bodacious, great projects and I save those. SASS Life #53402 Please keep the articles com - Arp, TX
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It’s Time To Say Goodbye Bragging or eckon you wonder what hap - 91 years of my life. Rpened to me. Well, I done got I want to thank all cowpokes too old to do much of nuttin’. My for puttin’ up with me and printin’ Just Shooting Clean? “Peepers” got weak, can’t see real the few articles I sent in. belong to a Utah club called Wasatch Desperados. good, and my “Ticker” needs help. Y’all keep on having fun and IWasatch Desperados, the oldest Like I said before, I’m not the Stopped a-shootin’ with Padens I hope Y’all are around forever. club in Utah. Wasatch Despera - fastest Duelist ever, but I hold my Posse, and I was the founder of it, I’m droppin’ my subscription to dos does an annual shoot each own. In 2012 I was the top Du - so that kinder upset me. the Chronicle after it runs out – September called Rampage. It’s elist at the monthly shoots, I also Y’all got some new cowpokes can’t see good enuf to read it. an all-day shoot with six stages, took first place at the Utah State in there I don’t know, so old Den - Denver Doc, SASS #1500 lunch, awards, and giveaways. shoot, and at Rampage this year ver Doc is put out to pasture. But Salisbury, MD It’s a fun time. I have shot Ram - my average time was 29 seconds. it is the most fun I’ve done in the page clean the last four years. As Tex has said, we need to I have also been shooting always be looking for something Cowboy Action Shooting™ for 18 new. After Rampage last year I years. I shoot monthly matches, went from September 2011 to state shoots, Regional shoots, and September 2012 “clean.” That have taken first in every Duelist was 52 stages and 1240 shots class here in SASS. I have always down range without a miss or had the goal to shoot clean. any Ps! We have a saying in Utah, “If Porter Rockwell, you ain’t missing, you ain’t shoot - The Destroying Angel, ing fast enough.” Well, I’m trying SASS #7756 anyway. After shooting clean for Harrisville, UT Rampage in 2011, I made it a goal (It ain’t bragging if you can do it! to shoot one whole year clean at … Editor in Chief)
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By Texas Ghost, SASS #50125
his is the story of my During a bloody fight one night, derringer—a .41 rim - George took this gun off a dead T fire blackpowder single man, a combatant who lost. It shot Colt. This der - had one round in it. George was ringer dates back to the 1860s, later captured by the authorities, just after the Civil War. It was but before he could be identified, taken from a dead man, saved my he used the one round to escape great grandfather, and has been and made his way up north to passed down through four gener - Shreveport.
ations. George, my great grandfather,
My great grandfather, George laid low and finally got a job at a Golden, was silversmith in Eng - sawmill and married my great F land. He stole some gold and set grandmother. My grandfather, sail for the U.S.A. He made it off Trayton, was born. When my the boat, but the gold did not. grandfather turned 14, he moved Finding himself dead broke, to East Texas near Huntington This derringer dates back to the 1860s, just after the Civil War. he fell in with the pirate Jean and worked as a blacksmith’s It was taken from a dead man, saved my great grandfather, Lafitte while in New Orleans. helper. Trayton later married my and has been passed down through four generations.
grandmother, Roxie. tion and Trayton inherited the The derringer has been used derringer. My dad, Trayton, Jr. in - one other time. My dad told me he herited the gun from Trayton. I shot a “mad dog” one stormy night inherited it from my dad. This is coming home from town, but the the story of my Dead Man’s Gun. dog turned out to be the neigh - (Great story! If any other cowboys bor’s. He was about 12 and had or cowgirls have an interesting taken the gun unbeknownst to my story about a historical gun in grandfather. Of course, granddad their possession, please send it in. and the neighbor were none too We would like to feature these old happy about this. gun stories as a monthly item in George died of the consump - The Cowboy Chronicle … Cat) Little Known Fact Many people believe that Robert E. Lee commanded the Southern troops for the entire Civil War. It was actually Adjutant General Samual Cooper until nearer the end of the conflict.
ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm January 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 17 F cOwbOy THe RAnGe RIDeR By Wolverine Wrangler, SASS #22963 TV team pursues wild mustang rustlers and is frequently seen wearing a mask of the Range Rider he cut from a cereal box. Many episodes of The Range Rider series are available on DVDs and for viewing on the Internet. I’ll be turning the rotary TV channel selector dial now. Stay tuned. [email protected] Wolverine Wrangler, References: Wikipedia, Internet SASS #22963 Movie Database (IMDb).
he Range Rider TV Autry’s Flying A Productions and show aired in syndica - was executive produced by Autry. tion from 1951 – 1953. Jock Mahoney (1919 – 1989) T The series starred Jock was an American actor and stunt - Mahoney along with Dickie Jones. man of Irish, French, and Cherokee There were 79 black-and-white 30- ancestry. He played the title char - minute episodes. acter The Range Rider along with This early Western featured the partner Dic West, played by Dickie exploits of the honest, principled, Jones, later star of the syndicated and tough Range Rider and his boy - series Buffalo Bill Jr. The charac - ish sidekick, Dick West. Dressed in ter had no name other than Range a fringed buckskin shirt and a Rider and his reputation for fair - white Stetson, The Range Rider ness, fighting ability, and accuracy wore no boots, only moccasins. His with his guns was known far and horse was called Rawhide. Dick, wide, even by Indians. sporting a dark, military-style shirt It is interesting to note that in and a black hat, rode a steed called The A-Team episode When you Lucky. The theme song was called Comin’ Back, Range Rider? Mur - “Home on the Range” although in dock is seen watching an episode of later episodes it was played at a The Range Rider in his room at the fast tempo without the lyrics. The psychiatric hospital. He adopts the show was a production of Gene persona of the Range Rider as the ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm Page 18 Cowboy Chronicle January 2013
medics recommended he go to the emergency room for a look at his Listen To The ribs and back. Rio gra - ciously declined. Ten days later after much suffering, sleeping in a chair, and insisting on doing the two-day eMTS! drive from Texas to Ten - nessee, we arrived home. By Tennessee Tall, SASS #49245 At three in the morning Tennessee Tall, SASS #49245 Rio’s lung collapsed. He the University of Tennessee Med - Pressure on the heart due to went into shock, his ical Center Trauma Center. It accumulated blood in the a want to know what we blood pressure dropped to a dan - was a nail- biting run following lung. learned? NEVER listen gerous level, and he could not the ambulance in the dark in the All of which could have been to a cowboy when he breathe. An ambulance run took rain to an unknown area, just avoided had I/we ignored his “I’m Y says (through gritted us to the ER where they started praying he would be okay. fine; I’m okay” and carried his teeth), “I’m fine”; “I’m okay.” Rio an IV and did an MRI, which The trauma doctors stabilized sorry butt to the emergency room Drifter and I learned the hard showed seven broken ribs and a him and scheduled an operating WHEN IT HAPPENED instead of way that may not be true! On the right lung filling with blood. The room. Due to the old blood that him collapsing ten days later. (By Saturday before Halloween 2012, MRI showed Rio had lost 90% use had accumulated over the past the way, Rio Drifter shot the match Rio fell about eight feet while of his lung, the pleural cavity was ten days, they had to open up the and placed sixth and 104 overall!) doing one of those things that we filling with blood, and his oxygen rib cage to remove over a liter of Many of you manage shooting know better, like climbing on a level was extremely low. They blood. He had bruised/punctured events large and small where step ladder onto the step that called for a helicopter transport his right lung, and it continued to shooters sign waivers. My sug - says “This is not a step,” or using and were told that due to the ooze blood into the cavity from the gestion is each shooter sign a a step ladder when he should’ve heavy rainfall at the time, they time of the fall. Rio spent two waiver stating if an ambulance is used an extension ladder. An am - couldn’t fly. Another ambulance days in the ICU following the sur - called and it is the recommenda - bulance was called, and the para - was called, and they took him to gery due to the fear of infection. tion the shooter be transported to We celebrated when he was fi - an emergency room, the TRANS - nally sent to a room. Five days in PORT is mandatory. No declining the hospital and several weeks of the ride. If you shoot, you accept recovery later let us share our les - the terms, which include seeing son with you. an ER physician. No shame in Some of the things the being smart enough to find out if Trauma Specialist, PA Mark you have unknown injuries. As Howard, (University of Tennessee managers of shoots and/or owners Medical Center-Trauma Center) of ranges, your liability is greatly shared with us that COULD EAS - lessened. ILY have happened as a result of Our sincere thanks go to the the fall and the damage done to Trauma Surgeons, the Nurse his body included: Practitioners, Physicians Assis - Loss of lung capacity, tants, and staff at the University Bronchial tree cut, which re - of Tennessee Medical Center; the quires invasive surgery, only Level I Trauma Center serv - Damage to his kidneys due to ing Knoxville and the surround - loss of oxygen supply, ing area. Our sincere thanks go to A stroke or heart attack due our cowboy family who came to a blood clot, through with prayers, calls, Infection due to the blood col - emails, the Wire, and offers of lecting in the lung and pleu - help from all corners. We love you ral cavity, and thank you for the kind words. Risk of pulmonary embolism, Been there, got the T-shirt, and Blood clots. Period, don’t want this to happen to any - Acute blood loss, one else. Tension pneumothorax/hemo - Cowboy up ... take care of thorax (Big words that are yourself and do what the EMT’s no fun and are life threat - recommend. Your life could de - ening!), and pend on it.
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.Prescott, Arizona , A Bonanza of History By Justice B. Dunn, SASS Regulator #3519
fter living in the heat FORT WHIPPLE : Commis - of the Elks decided to build a and ever-expanding sioned by the Federal Govern - lodge, $15,000 was raised by the populace of Phoenix for ment, Lt. Amiel W. Whipple Prescott community to add a per - A over 50 years, Ms Emma directed the survey of the 35 th par - forming arts theater. and I decided to look for a new allel route in 1853 – 1854, which The theater was completed in place to hang our hats. We had vis - roughly lies along today’s I-40 1905 with an opening-night per - ited much of the north country of through Northern Arizona. Whip - formance of Marta of the Low - Arizona in search of a smaller and ple died 9 years latter at the bat - lands featuring Florence “ZaZa” cooler place to retire or rather pre- tle of Chancellorsville, Virginia Roberts. The orchestra was com - retire. We bought a few acres in with the rank of Major General. posed of musicians from Prescott, Yavapai County 25 miles north of The Arizona Territory became nearby Jerome, and Phoenix. The Prescott and finally built a little a reality with President Lincoln’s grandeur of the Elks rivaled any ranch in 2003. This was my pre-re - signing of the Territorial Act of Ft. Whipple performing arts theater from St. tirement home as I continued to 1863. Ft. Whipple, named in his Louis to San Francisco, featuring Hassayampa Inn commute to Phoenix until 2010. honor, provided an operational in one of the 1909 military offi - two lobbies, a grand staircase to During those “pre-retirement” center and military support for cer’s quarters. The Museum the balcony, and sixteen luxurious years we had little time to appreci - Arizona’s first Territorial Gover - traces the history and develop - opera box seats. ate the role Prescott played in nor John Goodwin (Lincoln named ment of Fort Whipple, including Since that grand opening, the bringing statehood to Arizona in John Gurley as the first Governor the contribution of a troop of Buf - Elks has never suffered a pro - 1912. However, in retirement we of the AZ Territory, but he died be - falo Soldiers. longed closure, playing host to have had the opportunity to im - fore assuming office and was re - http://www.sharlot.org/fort-whipple plays, concerts, vaudeville, and merse ourselves in the rich history placed by Goodwin). Admission is by donation. movies, but also everything from of the development of Arizona dur - While Tucson was established Hours are 10 am to 4 pm Thurs - weddings to wrestling matches. ing the Territorial days and long before, Prescott was named days, Fridays, and Saturdays and As vaudeville faded, the Elks be - through Statehood in 1912. as the first Territorial Capitol of closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christ - came almost exclusively a film Prescott (pronounced Arizona because Tucson had a few mas Day, and New Year’s Day) house. Much of “her” charm was “Preskit” by the locals) is only a drawbacks. The Civil War would painted over, covered, or removed, short 75-minute drive north of not be ended for two more years ELKS OPERA HOUSE : As such as the opera box seats to op - Phoenix. At 5300 feet Prescott is and for a time a garrison of Con - you proceed down Prescott’s timize movie showings. However known as the “Mile High City” federate soldiers called Tucson “main drag,” Gurley Street at the in 2010 with the help of a private with temperatures that are usu - home. Further, the Prescott area intersection of Marina, to your left ally 15 to 20 degrees cooler than was proving to be rich in mineral you will find the Elks Opera the city to the south aptly named resources and the Federal troops House. It is amazing to think how for a bird that bursts into flame. at Ft. Whipple ensured these quickly Prescott evolved from a While Prescott is full of histor - riches would remain in Union con - frontier mining settlement in ical opportunities, I want to whet trol. Centrally located in the Ter - 1864 to city with a culture equal your appetite with four of the ritory, Ft. Whipple also protected to St. Louis. “The Elks,” as it is “must see” stops—Ft. Whipple the citizens from various Indian affectionately known by Prescot - (aka Bob Stump Veterans Hospi - tribes hostile to the encroachment tonians, was the result of citizen tal), Elks Opera House, Has - by settlers and miners. interest in building a venue for sayampa Inn, and Sharlot Hall Fort Whipple Museum, located the arts and entertainment. In Museum, all within two miles as on the grounds of the VA Hospital 1904 when the local chapter of the Opera House you enter the city. on Hwy. 89 in Prescott is housed Benevolent and Protective Order
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grant of $1.25 million, the Elks Garbo, Tom Mix, and Will Rogers. went through a major renovation http://www.hassayampainn.com/ to return it to its 1905 majesty. Continuing westward on Gur - http://www.elksoperahouse.com/ ley and past the courthouse Tours available Tuesday square and Montezuma Street through Friday 10:00 am to 2:00 aka historic “Whiskey Row,” (you pm; Admission by donation. can come back here after you’ve finished your tour) at the SE cor - HASSAYAMPA INN : Across ner of the intersection of Mc - the street from the Elks Opera Cormick and Gurley you will find House you will find The Has - Sharlot Hall Museum. Named after territorial historian Sharlot M. Hall (1870 – 1943), the complex rests on nearly four-acres and is home to multiple ex - hibits providing wonder - ful insights to the early development of Prescott and Arizona in general.
The Governor’s Man- sion is considered the “Crown Jewel” of the many historic buildings within the museum grounds. It is Hassayampa Inn the oldest building associ - Stage Coach ated with Arizona Terri - sayampa Inn. Named for a river tory still standing on its original Exhibits on the Museum Touring Car. New galleries will north of Prescott by the Apache, location. Undoubtedly the Mansion grounds include the Sharlot Hall open in late 2012 featuring the Hassaympa or “the river that loses escaped demolition because Sharlot Building, a 1936 Civil Works Ad - region’s prehistory, and are part itself” invites its guests to lose Hall opened this Museum begin - ministration project containing of major exhibit expansion efforts themselves from the troubles of ning with the Governor’s Mansion dioramas depicting various as - that will continue over the next the world and recharge. Has - in 1928. The rustic “Mansion” is pects of the development in Ari - several years. sayampa Inn has played host to filled with smaller exhibits that zona such as mining, ranching, http://www.sharlot.org Mu - many celebrities since it’s opening give visitors a true feeling of what and conflicts with Indians of the seum Admission $5/adult, chil - in 1927 such as Georgia O’Keefe, it would be like to live in the Ari - area. Others include the restored dren under age 18 free. Hours – D.H. Lawrence, Clark Gable, Greta zona Territory in those early days. Frémont House moved to the Mu - May – September: Monday – Sat - seum grounds in 1971 to avoid urday, 10 am to 5 pm; Sunday, demolition, the restored home of Noon to 4 pm. October – April: William Bashford in 1973 one of Monday – Saturday, 10 am to 4 Prescott’s merchants again to pm; Sunday, Noon to 4 pm save this treasure from the bull - If you will invest those initial dozer, a Transportation Ex - 75 minutes to travel from Phoenix hibit containing a stagecoach to the cool pines of Prescott, you used in Tombstone, a Conestoga will be rewarded with the op - Wagon, and other period modes of porunity to revisit Arizona in those transportation including Sharlot early days before it became the Hall’s personal 1927 Durant Star 48 th State of this great nation.
Governor’s Mansion
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ShOtgUn bOOgie Short Stroke By Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS Life/ Regulator #32933
the first Ruger drop-in short stroke moves up because it is on the oppo - kit!!! I happened to have a brand site side of the center pivot. When new Ruger 50 th Anniversary Black - you lengthen the pawl, it pushes the hawk with me, so Boogie looked it bottom of the hammer back and that over and began showing how this makes the top of the hammer go for - Larsen E. Pettifogger, kit is installed. Photos 2 and 3 . ward. Now with the pawl length - SASS Life #32933 He finished the first gun and I took ened, when you start cocking the a second set of parts home to photo - hammer, the cylinder starts rotating faster. So, that means the bolt has to hotgun Boogie, SASS 3 go down quicker. This typically Life #67879, AKA Uwe means welding material on the back Bartsch, is a German of the bolt so the hammer plunger S gunsmith and SASS hits it quicker. Then you need to competitor. Photo 1 . He makes weld the bottom of the hammer and frequent trips to the U.S. and al - cut half-cock and full-cock notches. (Some smiths also add a safety 1 notch.) Then you need to modify the trigger to fit the new notches. Once 6 you’ve done that, you don’t need the transfer bar anymore, so you can spring. On the two guns in this arti - weld up the hammer face, etc., etc. cle modified stock trigger springs ALL of these things are designed were used.) Finally, to reduce the graph their installation into a sec - into the new kit. pounding all these nice new parts ond 50 th Anniversary Blackhawk. The kit comes in three parts. will receive in a competition gun, The first gun is on the left. On the First, there is the fully heat-treated there is a hammer over travel stop. right is the 2 nd Blackhawk with a and brand new hammer, trigger, and Photo 7. So, let’s see how we con - Super Blackhawk hammer in - pawl. Photo 5. (Since it is the most vert that second revolver. stalled so both guns would have the popular style, the new hammer is First, completely disassemble same hammers in order to make a shaped like the Super Black- the entire gun so we have a bare comparison. Photo 4 . The distance hawk/Montado hammer.) Next, the frame . Photo 8. Photo 8 also from the frame to the tip of the parts are so precise that if you want shows the stock transfer bar, ham - hammer on the gun on the left is an action job, you merely add part mer, pawl, and trigger. We will no ways has some unique and interest - one inch! On the stock gun, the two. Photo 6. Part two consists of longer need these. Next there is ing gun modifications and parts to measurement is 1.5 inches. Also, a complete set of tuned springs. some minor preparation of the show me whenever I get a chance to compare the distance from the Starting at the top, and shown in frame that needs to be done in order sit down with him. This year at hammer spurs to the top of the back their approximate locations in the to get it ready to accept the new Bordertown (2012) he had some strap. The difference is astounding. gun, there is a reduced power firing parts. On the upper left side of the Ruger parts he had just picked up To appreciate the ingenuity of pin spring, the hammer plunger hammer channel is the cylinder de - from a heat-treating facility on his this kit, we need to look at what is spring, then the pawl spring, the bolt tent pin. This pin locates the cylin - way to the airport to head to the involved in short stroking a Ruger. spring and the mainspring. (The der on New Vaqueros and U.S. These were the first batch of What determines how far the ham - final kit will also have a new trigger parts that will ultimately make up mer travels to the rear when you cock it is the length of the hand, or 5 2 in Ruger parlance, the pawl. On all cowboy style revolvers the pawl pivot hole is below the hammer screw. Think of a teeter-totter. As you push the seat down on one end, the other 4
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Blackhawks to make loading and 16 unloading easier. Our new short 10 stroke will have a half-cock posi - tion, so we don’t need this detent.
The hardest step in the whole on the firing pin and drive it and its installation is replacing the firing bushing and spring out of the frame. 8 pin spring. The firing pin bushing Photo 16. (Caution. The photo is TIGHT! First, scribe a fine line on shows the frame in a vice. However, the face of the bushing and recoil this vice has smooth jawed alu - Use an Allen wrench and remove it. shield. Photo 14. This will help Photos 9 and 10. Next, on the bot - align the bushing when you rein - tom left side of the hammer channel stall it. Next, look in the loading in almost all Rugers is a burr. In gate recess and there is a hole. This Photo 3 Boogie is showing the loca - hole contains the firing pin bushing 17 tion of this burr. Photo 11 shows a retention pin. Drive it out with a close-up of the burr. Remove this punch. Photo 15. Put the frame in burr with a diamond needle file or a secure fixture and place a punch other small file. Finally, the kit uses the stock bolt, but it needs a 11 minor mod. The rear corner of the 14 stock bolt is square. Photo 12. A small 45-degree cut has to be made bushing retention pin. at the rear of the bolt to aid the Things get much easier and hammer plunger in resetting. faster now. The next thing to do is Photo 13 . Now we can start put in the new hammer plunger adding the kit parts. spring. This spring is really inter - esting. One end is surface ground 9 so it is perfectly flat. Photo 18. The flat end goes on top of the plunger. Photo 19. The flat end keeps the coils from tipping when the spring is compressed and makes the hammer plunger move - 15 ment in the hammer very smooth. Next, install the new pawl in the minum jaws. If you use a shop vice, hammer and put the hammer in the make sure to pad the jaws.) Photo frame and install the hammer pin. 17 shows the firing pin bushing, fir - On gun one (the new one) the pin ing pin spring, firing pin, and reten - would not initially go into the ham - 12 tion pin. Above the stock firing pin mer. The hammer pivot hole is spring is the new kit spring. It has much tighter than the stock hole. fewer coils made of smaller wire and When the hammer pin was formed, 13 makes a big difference in getting re - the ends were just the tiniest bit liable ignition. Insert everything bigger than the middle. A LITTLE back in the frame and start the light POLISHING was all it took for bushing. Use your scribed lines to the pin to slide into place. The in - line it up and drive it into place with stalled hammer has virtually no a brass rod inserted into the barrel. side-to-side slop in it. On many cus - Finally, look through the hole in the tom short stroke modifications a loading gate recess and if every - small washer is slipped between the thing looks lined up, drive in the (Continued on page 24 )
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Shotgun Boogie Short Stroke . . . 20 (Continued from page 23 ) gate, gate spring, bolt, and trigger trigger and bolt to eliminate side- into the frame and install their to-side slop in those parts. The kit pivot pin. Photo 22. Put one fin - has this washer built into the trig - ger on the bolt, pushing it down and ger. Photo 21. Put the loading one finger on the trigger, pulling it forward (so the sear will engage) and cycle the action to make sure 18 everything is fitting correctly. Now install the new trigger spring in the grip frame along with the new bolt spring and plunger. Put the new pawl spring and plunger in the back of the main frame and assemble the gun. The
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remarkably light, especially when you consider it still has to reliably ignite primers with a much shorter hammer fall. It is also much easier on the old thumb joint. One other thing that is no - ticeable is there is no over travel in the trigger. You pull it, the ham - mer falls, and that’s it. Boogie is planning on being at Winter Range in Jimmy Spurs tent to demo and install these kits. The basic kit is $349. The spring kit is $39. And, the hammer over travel kit is $39. Stop by and visit with him. His English is a heck of a lot better than my German! You can also try contacting him at his website. www.shotgunboogie.de
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DiSpatcheS fROm . , Captain Baylor modeling the amp ayLOR Mernickle Evil Roy Slim Jim rig c b with matching shotgun belt. (Photo by Lorrie Lott, Mr. Quigley Photography) Blackpowder Velocity
eople have been asking me questions about black P powder that I couldn’t an - and Accuracy Test swer without testing them. Which is hottest? Which is most accurate? Are “Wholly Black” By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life/Regulator #24287 powders more accurate than the heathen substitutes? What’s the difference between Triple Seven FFg and FFFg? What’s the differ - ence between Jim Shockey’s Gold and American Pioneer Powder? Can I shoot Frontier Cartridge using Unique? Should Justin Bieber star in a remake of Shane? In order to get an overview of current powders, I took every blackpowder and substitute I had on hand and set up my Ransom Rest and Oehler 35P Chronograph at Cowtown near Phoenix. One of Cowtown’s stage buildings is built very strong, and I can clamp the Ransom Rest on a shelf and expect it to be stable. Using a Ransom Rest eliminates human errors. To test powders, eliminate other vari - ables. I used one gun, a Ruger Old Army with 5-1/2 " barrel prepared by Rowdy Yates of Lee’s Gun - smithing. Speer .457 round balls The Ransom Rest is clamped to a shelf at Cowtown in Firing the Ruger Old Army in the Ransom Rest. (143 gr.) and Remington #10 caps Phoenix. In front of it are the three screens of the The rest allows the gun to recoil and has to be were used, leaving only the powder Oehler 35P Printing Chronograph, then a target. pushed back to its stop for the next shot. as a variable. I’m emphasizing that the results are the result of in the testing. My input was lim - Oehler 35P Chronograph machine testing and not my input ited to trying to load each cylinder The Oehler 35P Chronograph is because of some surprising results exactly the same with exactly the considered to be extremely accu - same amount of powder and con - rate. It has 3 screens and a proof sistent seating of the balls. channel that catches and elimi - Because of battles with envi - nates glitches. The primary chan - ronmentalists, Cowtown’s targets nel screens are 4 feet apart, about can’t be placed between about 10 twice what other consumer chrono - and 25 yards. The 25-yard targets graphs use. The third screen is in require climbing a steep hill to ac - the middle. If the velocity reading cess. Deciding I was too old for of the proof channel is more than a Ranger school, I wimped out. I set small percentage away from the the target at 10 yards. The varia - main, it gives an error reading. It tions get larger and easier to dif - prints each test velocity, proof veloc - ferentiate with range. I was ity, and the high, low, and average Equally surprising, the three afraid that wouldn’t be far enough velocity, the Extreme Spread (dif - smallest groups were by away to differentiate between ference between high and low) and Swiss FFFg shot the biggest American Pioneer Powder powders. As The Redhead often Standard Deviation of the string. I group at 5.25 ", a real surprise products, with the best in the tells me, I was wrong. The small - added power factor and group size for what is considered the test, 0.75” group, by American est group was ¾ ", while the to the results. The black powder Gold Standard of blackpowder. Pioneer Powder FFFg. largest was 5-1/4. " categories do not have a power fac - ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm January 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 27
tor 111, group size 2.75. " and Triple Seven, all of American Triple Seven FFg —Triple Pioneer Powders are safe to use in Seven is a black powder substitute progressive reloading machines. designed for hunters to get as much FFFg—High 826, low 540, average velocity as possible for big hunting 703, ES 185, SD 71, power factor muzzleloaders. It also has more re - 101, group size 1.375. strictions in the loading instruc - Jim Shockey’s Gold FFG was tions than all of the other powders marginally more accurate. Velocity tested, with limitations on wads high was 772, low 618, average 667, and fillers, making light loads diffi - ES 154, SD 61, power factor 95, cult to achieve without violating the group size 1.25. The power factor is restrictions. 30 gr. of FFg gave a reasonable for Cowboy Action A .45 ACP case was used to cover the … resulting in a spout filled to the high of 902, low of 768, average 833, Shooting, and the group size is good. powder spout for filling … same level every time for consistency. ES 144, SD 55, Power Factor 119, And The Winner Is: group 2.25. " And the winner, to my sur - tor requirement, but it is a good in - powder on the market. It is more Triple Seven FFFg is even prise, was American Pioneer dication of suitability. If your power powerful than most. High velocity hotter, resulting in velocities that Powder FFFg . High 693, low 461, factor is too high, you’ll be slowed was 923 ft./sec., low 885. Average ve - exceeded the SASS maximum of average 555, ES 232 (!), SD 85, by recoil. If it’s too low, knockdowns locity was 905. Extreme spread (ES) 1,000 ft./sec. for pistols. The high power factor 79, group size 0.75. will stay up. Instead, we have a was a low 38 ft./sec. Standard Devi - was 1042, low 992, average 1015, With that velocity spread, I would smoke standard. Needless to say ation (SD) was a low 14. In the last ES 50, and SD 17. Power factor expect less accuracy, but the tar - all of the loads tested far exceeded two, lower is better. Power factor 145, group size 1.75. Hodgdon says gets don’t lie. the minimum standard. was 129. I was extremely surprised FFFg is for muzzleloaders only, not This surprised me enough that Test Loads to see a 5.25 " (center-to-center) for metallic cartridges. I shot another group after shooting The test procedure was, except group. If I hadn’t just gotten a ¾ " Sadly Goex Cowboy has been the others. High was 541, low 445, for Pyrodex Pellets, to use the same group from another powder, I would discontinued. This is a shame as average 507, ES 96, SD 36. Power 30 gr. spout for all of the powders. have looked for a problem in the this is a good powder for all main factor 73, group 0.875. It throws 30 gr. of Goex 3F by Ransom Rest. The next powder match guns. High 739, low 631, av - I’m sure at this point a certain weight. 30 gr. is the lowest charge tested scored a 1-3/4 " group. erage 707, ES 108, SD 43, power percentage of “soot lords” will have that the Ruger Old Army rammer Pyrodex Pellets —I get ques - factor 101, group size 1.75. thrown the paper across the room. will seat the ball without air space. tions about these occasionally. They Pyrodex P—Pyrodex was the I hope you’re not reading the elec - Longer rammers and cylinder load - are .44 caliber 30 gr. pellets. original blackpowder substitute. It tronic version on your laptop if you ers allow lighter charges. Tex uses They’re very tempting because has a reputation for being dirty, and did. You won’t be able to send the 40 gr. and considers 30 grains a cap - they’re easy to load. My experience cartridges need blackpowder lubed obligatory angry email to The Cow - gun load. 5 round groups were with them has been unsatisfactory bullets. “P” is equivalent to 3F. It boy Chronicle . “Conventional Wis - fired, always from the same 5 cham - due to delayed ignition (hang-fire, is a good, all around powder for our dom” is that “Wholly” black is more bers. I used no wads or lubes in the pop…bang). This was no exception. main match guns. It has the addi - accurate than substitutes. Their test. I ran a bore brush through the 3 rounds experienced audible de - tional advantage of being widely consistency gives low Standard De - bore after every cylinder to get rid layed ignition out of five. High ve - available. Some of the others are viation, and this almost guaran - of excess fouling. No malfunctions locity 928, low 710, average 782, ES hard to find in some areas. High tees pinpoint accuracy, at least in of any kind occurred. The first and 218, SD 88. Power factor 112. 783, low 697, ES 86, SD 34, power theory. Perhaps conventional wis - last cylinders fired produced the Group size 2.75. " factor 106, group size 1.75. 4 dom only applies at conventions. I smallest groups, indicating no dete - Goex 3F —This is a good all rounds fit in ¾ " with one flyer, so it did a test like this in 2005. APP rioration in the gun or mounting. around powder. It works well in all may be more accurate than the test FFFg gave 1.75 " groups vs. Cow - Results in DECREASING of our main match guns including results show. boy’s 2 " groups—at 25 yards. APP group size order: shotgun. High was 817, low 707, Goex Express has been dis - has long given me good accuracy, so Swiss 3f —Swiss is considered average 778, extreme spread 110, continued, but I still have some I wasn’t surprised at the decent the gold standard long-range black Standard Deviation 46, power fac - FFg, so I tested it. It is an excellent group. What surprised me was powder. High 768, low 702, average that none of the other powders 723, ES 46, SD 17, power factor 89, were able to match it. group 1.625. " Sadly the Goex pow - Conclusions: Jim Shockey’s ders that performed the best in this Gold isn’t markedly different from test have been discontinued. American Pioneer Powder for per - Jim Shockey’s Gold FFFg— cussion pistols. The hottest pow - This is American Pioneer Powder’s der tested, as expected, was Triple powder intended for hunters. I get Seven FFFg. The hottest wholly a lot of questions about it because it black was Swiss FFFg, again ex - is easier to find than the less expen - pected. The mildest was American sive American Pioneer Powder. Jim Pioneer Powder FFFg. As for ac - Shockey has a popular show on the curacy, American Pioneer Powder Outdoor Channel. It’s a good pow - products finished 1, 2, and 3. De - der. All of American Pioneer Pow - fying all kinds of odds, the mildest der products have been improved powder was most accurate. I continuously. I find they dust less think with experimentation and than they used to, and they’re not tuning all of the powders tested as hygroscopic. (Look for the black would work well for percussion bottles). Jim Shockey’s Gold seems pistols. I’ve used them all at one most improved since my last test of time or another. Justin Bieber as Test Results Chart it several years ago. Like Pyrodex Shane? Really?
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A Mostly Non-Functional Article . On A Non-Functional Article
say, “Tell me all you know about hatbands.” You reply, “Well, they go on a hat, … Dick I had a really tight one … Newt Chilkoot, (Lonesome Dove ) didn’t have one … SASS #58803 plain or fancy ... that’s about it.” HATBAnDS Dictionaryaly speaking (is that I love to digress, so for another me), a hat band is a right handy place a word?) a hatband is “a strip of paragraph at least, indulge me. I By Chilkoot, SASS #58803 to keep a supply of toothpicks … ” cord or leather that goes around the shot with some pretty fine shootists “You use a lot of toothpicks, do you, crown of a hat, just above the brim.” over the years, but their hatbands course, there was the “Great Cowboy Kid (that’s what I call him)? “Well, no, Not a word about its function …? never really stood out as a hallmark Hat Revival” of the seventies when I don’t. But I’ve seen some that do.” The Duke seemed to favor a nar - of their talent. One gentleman car - certain states had their populations Johnny Concho paid his bar tab, row band of silver with a small ried half a dozen barn burner of pheasants decimated to provide in at least one film from the thirties, buckle. Down around Sweetwater, matches in his hatband. “Whatcha the plummage displayed on thou - with a concho pulled from his hat - Texas, you see cowboys and cowgirls carry them matches for?” He: “Never sands of cowboy hats worn by folks band when funds ran low, but his with whole rattlesnakes, complete know when ya’ll ‘ll need a far!” ... I that had no inkling of the West or thirst was unabated. “Barkeep, that with heads made into hatbands … didn’t point out those matches had cowboys, “they just looked sooo there’s Mexican silver. Reckon it’ll Saw a feller at a shoot once with golf been rained on so many times his hat pretty!” NASCAR great Richard buy a round.” The Bartender bit on tees in his hatband and a putter and was stained blue from them … Petty still wears his. (Duh!) the concho and nodded in the affir - six iron in his guncart … blending Crocodile Dundee had gator I was discussing with my shoot - mative and set up the drinks. I don’t two hobbies, you might say … Can no teeth in his, and one yokel I observed ing pal, The West Virginia Kid, SASS know the significance of biting the other function be made of a nearly a had a hatband made from a car - #31461, the fact I’d been unable to concho, but it seems bartenders were universal accutrement, than as a tridge belt … and it was loaded with come up with a real function for this always biting the payment offered. repository for small “nit noys” not en - cartridges! How he got by without a ubiquitious part of western attire. Might be the subject for another in - trusted to vest or trouser pockets? neck brace is a mystery … Then, of ‘You know, Chil, (that’s what he calls vestigative article …
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SCoRInG -RAN kvs .TIM E As a Cowboy Scientist Views It
n this article I will ana - stage should stand alone. All stages lyze the use of rank By Four Feathers, SASS #58356 don’t necessarily have to be “equal.” points versus time for One’s score should not depend on I scoring. It is written tol, rifle, and shotgun. A match is a things just because they exist. I how many other folks have a similar from the viewpoint of a scientist. For bunch of those sequences strung to - hope the analysis was useful. score. The “Stage Points” scoring sys - those that assert cowboys were not gether. For the sake of this discus - (Not really. There are literally tem introduced for Wild Bunch™ sat - scientists, I refer you to Hec Ramsey. sion, assume at stage 2 the timer is dozens of ways to score a match … isfies these criteria … and will likely The principles of each method preset with the time from stage 1. and each is “correct” and “fair” be used at END of TRAIL. Scores are are applied at all levels taken to Stage 2 is just added to stage one. when it is declared before hand and computed on a category basis for each their logical conclusion. The discus - The same with the following stages used rigorously. We’re playing a stage. One competes only against sion will not compromise the logical until the end of stage 6. Then, the game … and the rules of the game those in their category. Each stage is correctness of the analysis with the final time is recorded. dictate what is correct. Matches assigned a number of points that are realities of what is physically possi - If instead of a match having six where the rules say one can “buy a “won” based upon how well one ble. The analysis is based on a six- stages of revolver, rifle, and shotgun miss” are correct and fair … but the shoots the stage. The points are de - stage match and varies from there. and assigning a time for each stage, results will differ significantly from termined by the number of logical Rank scoring assigns a rank we now have a match with effectively anything described above. targets in the stage—if all the stages based on time (and penalties) for 1 stage having 6 revolver pairs, 6 ri - Rank points have a number of are 10, 10, and 4+, each of the stages each stage making each stage equal fles, and 6 shotguns. Is the sum of the benefits and shortcomings. So does would be worth 240 points. It’s fair, in importance to another. Rank is time for each of the 6 stages, which “total time” scoring. Neither is per - it’s reasonable, and it’s correct. Just not based on the match, but a happens to be the same as the time of fect. As a matter of philosophy, each another view … Editor in Chief) smaller part of the match, a stage. If the match if it were one big stage, the we assign a place based on a smaller best indication of who won the match? part of the match, why not base it Consider both methods for the upon an even smaller part, the following match. The match has smallest part possible? Assign a three longer stages each consisting of rank for the time shooting pistols, revolver, rifle, and shotgun and nine another for the rifle, and a third for other shorter stages; three revolver the shotgun at each stage. For the only, three rifle only, and three shot - sake of this discussion, assume the gun only. Using the rank point scor - timer can record the time to the last ing, the nine shorter stages have a pistol shot, and start a new time for weight three times the value of the the rifle, and another for the shot - three longer stages, when the nine gun. Transitions are included. Total shorter stages have the same num - time for the stage equals the sum of ber of shots as the three longer the time for each firearm. A timer stages. Using time scoring, each shot like that doesn’t exist (yet), but we counts the same. Which is the best are examining the logic of scoring, indication of score for the match? not the realities of getting it done. Considering only the logic of the The mythical timer also sums scoring and not the practically of the up both pistols whether or not the stages or record keeping, your an - stage calls for them to be shot one swers to these questions indicate after another or with another whether you believe rank or time firearm in between. scoring is the logically correct My analysis respects our gun - method. While it is convenient to fighters, since they will alternate keep time for each stage, that should between revolvers when the stage not impact the logical correctness of calls for one after the other. how to determine the overall score. Instead of the match having six I find it convenient to check my stages of revolver, rifle, and shotgun, time for a stage because I can re - and assigning a rank for each stage, flect on how well I did on that stage. the match now effectively has 18 But for me, a second on one stage stages; 6 revolver only, 6 rifle only, has the same weight as a second on and 6 shotgun only. Is the sum of the another. To know how I did for the rank for each of the 18 stages the best match, I check the total time. I will indication of who won the match? never come close to winning a Time scoring assigns a score match, so the scoring method has based on the total time for the no effect on me personally. But I match. A stage is a sequence of pis - am a scientist, and we analyze
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Laborof By Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life/Regulator #49907 Love Wheels assembled to the frame. Cree Vicar Dave, SASS Life Regulator, #49907
ast fall the Vicar’s Wife and I traveled to “Outlaw Camp” near Heber Springs, Arkansas to attend “Mayhem on the Moun - L tain.” I really enjoy Black Powder Shoots. The missus sometimes asks me, “Why do you shoot Black Powder? It costs more for reloading supplies, takes longer to reload ammo, and you spend two hours cleaning your guns after the match is over.” I just smile and say, “Because it’s soooo much FUN.” Stump Man sent me a photo Stump Man, SASS #89993, and Mustang Toni, Well I’m sure glad we attended this particular BP of an original Gatling Gun SASS #93341, with their Gatling Gun. They travel shoot because Stump Man, SASS #89993, and his lovely still in working condition. to Big Shoots with their six-barreled crank gun wife Mustang Toni, SASS #93341, brought their 1860’s It sold at auction for $155,250! and hold “Turkey Shoots,” giving away nice prizes. reproduction six barrel Gatling Gun to the shoot. Ozark Outlaw, SASS #19847, (the outlaw of outlaws of “Out - sight it in the next day. None of law Camp”) managed to have an article published in the his shooting pards could make it to “Sun-Times” newspaper in Heber Springs about this six the short notice ribbon cutting cer - barrel crank gun being at the Match. It was mentioned emony, so he managed ta hoist the in said article that the gun would be on display at the 310-pound gun up onto its tri-pod shoot Saturday afternoon, AND, that anyone who by himself. Excitement + adrena - wanted to could turn the crank on this “Cowboy Era lin = results. After several hours Gun” for a buck a round. I could not believe the number and a few hundred rounds of of people from the area who lined up ta shoot this multi- ammo, it was time to put the new barreled beauty. Later a “Turkey Shoot” was offered to toy away. But some of the excite - the Cowboy Action crew. ment and adrenalin had waned. I asked Stump Man, aka Kenny Stump, to tell me Thankfully his son showed up a little about his prize position. He said he started from a college break just in time to working on the gun about a year ago. The first big job help. That’s when he came to the Sitting in the drivers seat is Stump Man. was “making the payments.” When the gun arrived on realization he needed an original Everyone enjoys turning the crank! a Friday, he opened up the shipping box and set out ta type carriage. Armed with a photo and an artist sketch of an 1865 Gatling Gun Carriage, Stump Man set out ta fabricate a set of wheels for his new “Cowboy Gun.” After deter - mining the diameter of the wheels, the other dimensions were scaled from there. He found most of what he needed at “Home Depot.” They helped him find the wood and many of the metal parts. The steel parts that were not readily avail - able were made from scrap pieces he and his father, Short Tree, SASS #90329, had accumulated over the years. The wood was formed and as - sembled using hand tools. Not the least of them was a two handed flat plane. With hand tools you can get a good workout, and when Axle and tongue frame. Frame with Gatling Gun hardware attached. you’re finished ya got something First step in building the carriage. ta show for it. Then they were ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm January 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 31
soaked in a mixture of Thomp - ting started, our plan is to take it to Regulars Camp” in Fort Parker, son’s Water Seal and British Big shooting events and do a Texas, and most recently at “Comin Walnut stain. When dry, 2 “Turkey Shoot” as a side match and ’At Cha” at T-Bone Dooley’s place in coats of Spar Varnish were ap - give away guns to the winners. So English, Texas for the “Southwest plied. All the metal parts were far we have had the gun at the Regional Championship.” sand blasted for uniformity, Arkansas State Championship If you would like ta have this epoxy primed, and finished “Shoot-n-the-Shade” in Hot very unique crowd pleaser come to with aircraft quality Black Poly Springs, Arkansas, at the “Moun - a shoot in your area, you can con - – Urethane. tain Valley Vigilantes Camp,” the tact Stump Man at: stumpworks@ There are a few more things Arkansas State Black Powder State yahoo.com Wheels assembled to the frame. he would like to install on the Championship, “Mayhem on the Give him a holler, and see if he carriage such as ammo boxes, Mountain” at the “Outlaw Camp” can come ta your shoot. etc. In all he spent 60 hours in Heber Springs, Arkansas, “Raid [email protected] over 33 days on the carriage on Fort Parker” at the “Fort Parker www.suckercreek.org in 90° F temperatures. It was truly a “Labor of Love.” It says in Ecclesiastes 1:3 NIV , “What does a man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?” With a work of art like this, for one thing, there is the good feel - ing of a job well done. Stump Man expressed to me the plans they have for their Gatling Gun ; “I am The crank is in the foreground truly a gun nut like most of us Close up of Gatling Gun mounted and the elevation screw in the back. Cowboy Action shooters are. I on carriage. Stump Man plans After the adjustments are made, The finished carriage with on mounting ammo boxes wanted something Big to take the gun can be moved a little Gatling Gun installed. and such in the future. when it is fired. to shoots. As we are just get -
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2012 SASS Scholarship Recipient
he Second Amendment states “A well-regulated militia, being necessary T to the security of a free What The Second state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” To me this means that Amendment Means To Me as a citizen of the United States of America, I have the right to keep and bear arms. To me this also means safety, independence and Miss Mandy, SASS #89466 protection. There is a lot of controversy over the meaning of “a well-regu - AKA Amanda Cordes lated militia.” Some believe this means the general public should Edited by Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000 not be able to own guns as they are not part of the militia. I believe the armed, thus no one group could Safety and independence are Founding Fathers didn’t mean that overpower another with the threat very important to me. I want to be at all. Having just escaped from or use of guns or similar weapons. able to be an independent young the control of a professional army, I The armed citizenry could also be woman and not have to rely on oth - believe the Founding Fathers handy if the country were ever at - ers to protect me. I am currently wanted to establish an armed citi - tacked on the home front. The gen - going to school in a big city near Los zenry instead of a controlling army. eral public would have the ability Angeles, California. Although I live With an armed citizenry, it would to protect themselves instead of re - on campus and am not able to keep how to handle a gun safely even if level the playing field. The citizens, lying solely on our military to try a gun with me, I feel safer knowing they aren’t avid shooters. If the as well as the militia, would be and protect everyone. that if a situation presented itself, I time ever came, I would much would know how to safely handle rather be able to have and safely one. If the Second Amendment was handle my gun than wait fifteen to not in place and my family was not thirty minutes for the police to ar - allowed to keep guns in the house, I rive. The Second Amendment al - wouldn’t know how to use one, and lows me the option of owning a gun I wouldn’t feel as confident in my and protecting myself rather than own self-protection. having to wait for someone to arrive In the future when I do move off and help me. campus, I would feel safer about To me, The Second Amendment myself, my property, and my friends means independence, safety and knowing there is a gun in my apart - protection. I can live on my own in ment. The Second Amendment has the city and feel safer about myself given me the means to rightly de - and my roommates. The Second fend myself. This, in my opinion, is Amendment gives and protects my the most important thing the Sec - right to own a gun and thus keep ond Amendment can do. I have the myself safer from robbery or as - right to be an independent woman sault. I have the independence to and I don’t have to rely on others to protect myself and my loved ones, protect me. and in my opinion, the safety of my I believe the defense of our lives family is more important than any - and our property is given to us by thing else. The Second Amendment The Second Amendment of the Con - protects my right to protect myself, stitution. Everyone should know my country, and my family.
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2012 SASS Scholarship Recipient , Morning Dove, SASS #7889 AKA Kathy Hollmann Edited and Adapted by Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000
y name is Kathy Riding horses and shooting “Morning Dove” Holl - guns is what I love, but being part mann, SASS #7889 and of the camaraderie of the cowboy M my parents are Jim life with my shooting family is re - Hollmann, Sierrita Slim, SASS ally a wonderful aspect of our #4054, and Chaleeporn, Sweet - sport too. Whether or not I win face, Hollmann, SASS #7888. Wyo isn’t what keeps me coming back, Bob, SASS #64979, is my grandfa - it’s the great people, for they are ther and I have two brothers most truly like family to me. Being in - of you don’t know, Tombstone Tim volved with action and mounted Hollmann, SASS #6820, and shooting has had a great impact Pawnee Pete Hollmann, SASS on my life. It has made me the #6851. Since I first joined SASS person I am today, not only be - at two years of age, you can tell cause of the competition, but be - that my family has been involved cause of the great people in the with SASS for many years. At age sport too, my role models. seven I started competing in Cow - At age nineteen, I am cur - boy Action Shooting and switched rently a full-time student at East - to Cowboy Mounted Shooting at ern New Mexico University age ten, for a total of twelve years; working towards my Bachelor’s however, my dad and I still shoot Degree in Business Administra - Cowboy Action when we have the tion with an emphasis in Market - opportunity to break loose. My ing. I took some college courses action shooting home clubs, where during high school and graduated people still remember when my with twenty seven college credit dad had to hold up my rifle for hours. I’m now a sophomore and me, are the Seven Rivers Regula - am only a few hours away from tors in Carlsbad, NM and the being a junior. My specific future Rocky Flats Rangers in Alam - plans are still undecided, but I ogordo. The Buffalo Range Riders know two things for sure: I will – Mounted in Edgewood, NM at earn my degree in 2015 and have Founders Ranch is my current a career that involves both horses home club. and guns.
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Mounted Shooting Long Gun SCABBARD
By Blue 64, SASS #9262
his is an article to help Spearfish, South Dakota. After a competitors decide on hard day of competition I decided what type of scabbard to relax and take a short trip to T to use for mounted Deadwood to visit my saddle shotgun or rifle shooting. maker. Jerry and Duffy Croft have Guns depicted: been making cowboy saddles for al - • Stoeger .410 coach gun ( nickel most thirty years. Jerry made my plated and a dark birchwood saddle and one for my wife for her stock) wedding gift some 20 years ago. • Marlin 1894 Carbine As I drove up to the Croft • 16 gauge hammered shotgun place and got out of my truck, • Cimarron 45 L.C. revolving car - Duffy saw me and instantly her me up before I left South Dakota. gun to a different angle. Problem bine eyes teared up in sympathy for She fed me lots of buffalo steaks solved - one scabbard for both A few years ago I was compet - my condition. She thought I and gravy and a lot of coffee to guns. The scabbard has a wide ing in the Will Lantis Classic in was too thin and wanted to plump achieve her goal. round mouth that stays open. After dinner Jerry and I sat There is a buckle loop that will go down to discuss an idea I had through the saddle gullet and about mounted cowboy shooting. snug up to the swell. There are Being a relatively poor college two strings to secure the scabbard professor, I needed a scabbard for to the “D” ring of the saddle and mounted shooting that I could use the “D’ ring of the girth. for both the shotgun and carbine By placing the shotgun so the events. Everyone knows that one toe of the butt stock faces out size does not fit all. and is perpendicular to the saddle But Jerry and I discovered horn, and putting the carbine so something unique about the the toe of the rifle butt stock faces firearms I was using. The dis - the head of the horse, the scab - tance across the barrels of the bard works for both guns. Stoeger .410 shotgun and the dis - I have since used the same tance across the barrel and the scabbard for a hammered 16- tube magazine of the 1894 Marlin gauge shotgun and a Cimarron re - was the same. Jerry suggested he volving pistol. Everything works build a scabbard that would hold great and it is cheap - one scab - either one, but just turn the shot - bard for all four guns.
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HoPALonG CASSID y SASS Life #777 aka Michael Delvin e e March 17, 1944 - October 25, 2011 By Turquoise Bill, SASS #39118 DIAMonD DICk am sad to report the passing of a Igreat cowboy, shooter, and friend, SASS Regulator & Life Member #1842 Michael Devlin, known to his friends as “Hoppy.” Hoppy joined SASS Hall of Fame Inductee SASS early on as he attended the By Tex, SASS #4 first END of TRAIL. As he tells the story, when he joined SASS they acramento, CA – Diamond were issuing two-digit badge num - SDick began playing Cowboy bers. Mike insisted on the three- Action in Castro Valley, Califor - digit number of 777. nia in 1989. In 1990, he co- Hoppy enjoyed his retirement founded River City Regulators years in Prescott, AZ being active in where he was initially the range the Buscaderos, Victorian Society, master and later became the Ter - and the Corvette Club. Hoppy rel - ritorial Governor. Max Sand, ished the Old Western flavor of SASS #1674, and Diamond Dick Prescott and enjoyed all the cowboy started the Plainfield Raid an - activities, breakfast on Thursday nual in 1996, and it ran for nine mornings, monthly shoots in the and grandchildren, his Corvette, years. It was one of the most suc - area, and Winter Range. He was and the Corvette Club. cessful shoots in Northern Cali - proudest of his “clean shoots” at the Hoppy will always be remem - fornia. They introduced a cowboy matches. bered for his sharp whit and handicap system that worked Hoppy attended the 2011 END proverbial smile. very well and made an additional of TRAIL for the 30 th Anniversary. Hoppy is survived by his wife of 30 shooters very happy! His last cowboy match was in Cot - 41 years, Gaudalupe; his daughter, In 1999, Diamond Dick and tonwood, AZ at the Verde Valley Ellen Tighe; his granddaughters— others started the California Range Wars. His other interests Danielle, Kristen, Jenna, and Hal - Rangers on a private cattle were his wife, Lupe, his daughter ley; and his sisters. ranch. At the same time, he be - came the president of the Murri - eta Posse. During this time, he was also certified as a RO-II in - structor. Soon after, he and Max tional the following year. Sand hosted the Pan Pacific Sen - Diamond Dick was inducted ior Games at River City Regula - into the SASS Hall of Fame in tors. It was the hottest match, 2011, although health problems weather-wise, in which he had did not allow him to attend the ever shot! ceremony at the SASS Conven - At River City Regulators in tion. Territorial Governor, Sutter 2003, Diamond Dick hosted the Lawman, SASS #24333, person - first Cowboy Action Shooting™ ally presented Diamond Dick match in the California Police with his bronze induction statue and Fire Games. A couple of and proclamation at a private years later the presidents of the gathering in his Sacramento California Rangers and Murrieta home. Posse asked Diamond Dick to be Diamond Dick really appreci - in charge of setting up the Cow - ated being a part of SASS since boy Town Range at its early days, and especially en - the Sacramento Val - joyed the people and friends he ley Shooting Center made. He is survived by his wife, and get it Paniolo Lady, SASS #28694, and going. It be - son, Diamond Dick, Jr., SASS came opera - #17476.
Little Known Fact Kady Brownell followed her husband to the battlefield near Manassas. She stayed on the field to take care of the wounded soldiers and when the flag bearer was wounded, she carried the flag across the field until she was wounded.
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(Continued from page 1) on Tuesday with more being held on Wednesday. Wednesday also held the Wild Bunch Match and The Saturday night Beer and Side Matches with the Posse Mar - Chicken party was a huge success! shal walk-through completing the There was plenty to drink, and no business for the day; then everyone one went away hungry! headed to the “Party on the Patio!” The majority of us enjoyed meeting AND World champion in atten - and greeting old friends and new dance. Spirit of the Game winners on the inside due to high, high, were announced from each posse. high temps! What an honor to The list of folks who “shot it clean” have the Sparta VFW presenting was 28 shooters long! Congratula - our colors. We salute you! It was tions to overall winners, Prestidig - our privilege to have SASS royalty itator and Shamrock Sadie, who with us! SASS #1 Judge Roy Bean, were also awarded a free entry to SASS #4 Tex, SASS #55 Cat Bal - 2013 END of TRAIL by SASS, com - lou, SASS #1000 Justice Lily Kate, pliments of the Wild Bunch, along and SASS #1522 Big Horn wan - with their overall buckles. dered among us throughout the Buck D. Law tells me on a reg - match and were just as friendly ular basis not to wrap my smile up and approachable as those sweet in how well I shoot or how well I little girls of Duke Skywalker! SASS Headquarters Officials, Judge Roy Bean, Justice Lilly Kate, DON’T shoot! Consider the Tex, and Cat Ballou, were in attendance this year. The first wave of the 302 shoot - amount of time you spend at a All but the Judge even shot the match! ers met at 7:30 Thursday morning match. The actual time spent for their safety meeting and EVERYONE involved in Cowboy shooting all 12 stages (or however shortly thereafter, the first shot Action Shooting™. many are set up for that particular was fired downrange. Let the com - Day Two, Friday, thankfully match) is a very small amount … petition begin! Can’t say enough began with a bit cooler weather. only minutes. The pleasure in our about the scenarios – Mose figured We did dodge a short rain shower, sport comes from the camaraderie out a way to be fair to every but everyone seemed prepared and we all enjoy from being able to shooter! If you were a righty or a the lead kept flying! We had an - spend time with our friends at var - lefty, if you were a gunfighter or other day of Indoor World Champi - ious locations. We interact on the not … talk about options! With the onships as well as the Shotgun SASS wire with folks we have yet three time slots over three days, Show Down! Poker and Bingo to meet, but have built somewhat the 12 stages were very organized Tournaments were held in the Ven - of a bond with through posts and with no waiting, no over-lapping of dor Mall. A few folks left smiling! messaging. What a treat when we posses. Yet another example of Saturday was the final day of actually encounter one another! Mose’s skills! Thursday also in - shooting. Temps were much cooler, Buck and I have been fortunate to cluded day one of the Indoor World which was great for most cowboys be able to shoot in fifteen different Yes, there was an awards ceremony … Championships as well as the and cowgirls! The Indoor World states over the past several years. and yes, it was done well! Dooley Gang Shotgun Games. Vendor row was Championship Shoot Off was held We can honestly say we have true representative, Ringo Fire (left), busy throughout the match. The Saturday afternoon. Everyone’s friends in each of those states honchoed the efficient distribution day ended with a Pot Luck Cook favorite cowgirl, Frisco Kim, was of awards and was ably assisted by Out. I can honestly say the 2012 celebrating her 21 st birthday! The Match Director Mose. U. S. Open held something for Chicken ‘N Beer Bash was held at Vendor Mall while we all enjoyed the music from The Turnpike Cruisers at the Outlaw Entertain - ment party. Various guns were raf - fled, and I hear Barkeep Casey had to find another way home to Ala - bama after he refused to share his brand new ‘73 he won with his traveling companions! Costume Awards were announced and door prizes were handed out on the Once again Big Horn (left) took dance floor. Now THAT was enter - to the road in support of a major tainment! Dance for your prize! SASS competition, bringing the Cowboy Church was held Sun - indoor wax bullet guns, ammo, and day morning followed by an ab - targets as well as SASS Mercantile solute feast at the Pig Out merchandise and Tex’s hats to Breakfast Buffet. Everyone con - the match. With him is travelling gregated in the Main Event Center companion, Crotchety Ol’ Bart (right), without whom Big Horn couldn’t for awards. The World Shooting manage the task. These two Complex presented Splitrail a free have made many trips for SASS— There were plenty of “first-class” awards for the Sunday awards ceremony. entry to the 2013 U. S. Open for working hard and enjoying The colorful buckles filled a table just behind the main match trophies. being the only State, Regional, the shooting!
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through Cowboy Action Shoot - an unbelievable number of man - this. Hats off to ALL involved! See ing™. You will never meet a hours to put on an event such as you next year! friendlier group of folks! Everyone in attendance walked away a winner! Mose came up with a way to make everyone happy while still remaining fair, Bella’s smile is endless, Ringo Fire and Honey B. Graceful were right beside them always smiling, al - ways saying “yes” if at all possible! Their aim is to keep’em happy ‘cause, as any good match director knows, that’s what keeps’em com - US Open Champions— ing back! The Kaskaskia Cowboys Prestidigitator and were gracious hosts. The list of Shamrock Sadie folks to thank is endless. It takes
Each of the twelve Cowboy bays features excellent “cowboy” facades— The World Shooting Complex is a world-class shotgun facility, capable all different and all attractive. of accommodating several thousand shotgun competitors at one time. It also features 12 bermed “cowboy” bays and a range building that serves as headquarters for the Range Staff. (More HIGHLIGHTS continued on page 38)
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The World Shooting Complex features large Mose and Bella Spencer are the multi-purpose buildings. The vendors were all sparkplugs behind the US Open, able to set up inside—very civilized! and both assured all the bases Tex is seen here explaining away his last editorial were covered for this to an interested SASS member. smooth-running event. CD Tom, the purveyor of the SASS Scoring Bella is seen here in the Range Program and chief scorekeeper for Headquarters ready to handle END of TRAIL, was in attendance any little issues that might develop … with his lovely bride, Silver Fern. And, they BOTH shoot—well … who would have thought?
Winners Categories Main Match Gunfighter Sgt. Eli, Overall SASS #35882 IL Man Prestidigitator, Junior Olin Winchester, SASS #52251 TN SASS #83099 GA Lady Shamrock Sadie L Junior Slick’s Sharp Shooter, SASS #78511 SC SASS #77967 GA Categories L 49’er Sixgun Sallie, 49’er Shell Stuffer, SASS #38989 NC SASS #33146 IL L B-Western Shamrock Sadie, Buckaroo Missouri Lefty, SASS #785011 SC SASS #91721 MO L Duelist Iron Maiden, B-Western Copperhead Joe, SASS #67188 TN SASS #39162 KY L F Cartridge Honey B. Quick, C Cowboy Ben T. Iron, SASS #47009 OH SASS #47179 AL L F C Duelist Gemstone Janet, Cowboy Prestidigitator TN SASS #74014 PA Cowgirl Velvet Sheath, L Gunfighter Bdoc, SASS #21321 FL SASS #76983 PA Duelist Doc Roy L. Pain, L Outlaw Yazoo City Gal, SASS #28321 MI SASS #68552 GA E Statesman Rowdy Bill, L Senior Lefty Jo, SASS #9628 NY SASS #18830 CO Frontiersman Split Rail, L S Senior Two Sons, S ASS #24707 OH SASS #12636 IN F Cartridge Lead Ringer, Wrangler Bent Barrel Betty, SASS #87957 OR SASS #33237 TX F C Duelist Confederate Colt, Outlaw Tennessee Tombstone, SASS #31216 FL SASS #34723 TN F C Gunfighter Stone Creek Drifter, Range Boss Papa Dave, SASS #58853 OH SASS #17266 TN G Dame Green Eyed Indian, Senior Fast Eddie, SASS #51116 NC SASS #76308 GA
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The Alamo Kid was at it yet again! You never know where you’ll next find one of his “rocks!”
There were plenty of side matches at this year’s event. Wild Bunch was a hotly contested “mini-match” shot just before the main match.
Categories Speed Pocket P istol S Duelist Ambush, Lady Rusty Dove, SASS #31337 WI SASS #71200 KS S Gunfighter Lassiter, Speed Rifle SASS #2080 OH Man Rattlesnake Wrangler, S Senior Ol Short Tom, SASS #54580 TX SASS #12635 IN Lady Shamrock Sadie SC Wrangler Duke Skywalker, L Junior Sweet Sister Kit, SASS #26871 IN SASS #79916 AR Wild Bunch Speed Pistol Overall Traditional Rattlesnake Man Shell Stuffer IL Wrangler TX Lady Honey B Quick OH L Traditional Shamrock Sadie SC Categories Duelist Unpleasant, L Modern Honey B Quick OH SASS #47592 TN L Traditional Screamin Squaw, L Duelist Last Kiss, SASS #82479 IL SASS #34954 TN Modern Shell Stuffer IL Gunfighter Lassiter OH Traditional Tex, SASS #4 NM L Gunfighter Last Kiss TN Side Matches L Junior Sweet Sister Kit AR Bucky’s Moun ted Challenge Speed Shotgun Man Darby, ‘97 Roy’s Creek Dan, SASS #41290 OH SASS #73697 OK Lady LuLu McGoo, L ‘97 Sixgun Sallie NC SASS #74077 GA Hammered Double Speed Derringer Rubicon Ryder, Man Fast Harley, SASS #69415 NC SASS #34953 TN Double Colt Faro, Lady Sour Kraut, SASS #545798 TX SASS #82459 NV L Double Shamrock Sadie SC Speed Pocket P istol L ‘87 Shamrock Sadie SC Man Trapper, ‘87 Lassiter OH SASS #259 LA L Junior Sweet Sister Kit AR
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LITTLE KNOWN t would be best to dis - card the images and FAMOUS PEOPLE perceptions we have I about women as they were during the “Old West.” Way Out West – Why? Because those images By Joe Fasthorse, SASS #48769 came to us by way of Victorian writers with Victorian ideas of Col. Richard Dodge, women’s roles or more recently SASS #1750 Joe Fasthorse, Chris Madsen by militant feminist writers SASS #48769 seeking rationale for modern feminist agendas. Extensive re - Clara Shortridge Foltz HRIS MADSEN search by more objective investi - One of Los Angeles’s most was born in Den - gators reveals a much different imposing and important build - Cmark in 1851. He and reassuring story about the ings stands at 210 W. Temple joined the Danish Army, women who came west and be - Street. Formerly known as the served in the French For - came an integral part of the leg - Criminal Courts Building, this eign Legion and fought end of the Great American West. imposing structure now bears with Garibaldi in Italy. He Three major stereotypes the name “Clara Shortridge Foltz came to America in 1876, have colored our image of the Criminal Courts Building.” This joined the U.S. Cavalry Western woman. She was an un - building appears on the nightly and for the next 15 years willing but faithful partner to news perhaps more than almost waged war against hostile her adventurous husband, fol - any building in America as even plains Indians. lowing him dutifully into the today it hosts trials for some of In 1891 Chris became vast wilderness and beaten into America’s most self-centered a U.S. Deputy Marshal in premature old age by the unend - Hollywood celebrities, self-en - the Oklahoma Territory. ing hardship and toil. riching executives, self -empo wer - He worked with Bill Tilgh - She was the “Madonna of the ing politicians, and vile criminals man and Heck Thomas. Plains,” holding in herself all the of every stripe. Clara Shortridge virtues of Heaven, though proba - Foltz must have been an impor - They became famous as bly inferior to men in intelli - tant woman to have such a build - the “Three Guardsmen.” gence, but superior to them in ing named for her. The Guardsmen arrested piety, honesty, and all the quali - And she was. Her story is a or killed more than 300 ties that must counterbalance remarkable tale of vision, bril - outlaws and brought down the coarseness of the men whose liance, and determination in the the Doolin-Dalton gang. business it was to conquer the face of hard-line Victorian atti - Madsen personally killed gang members Dynamite Dick Clifton and wild country. They were home - tudes on women’s place in soci - Little Dick West. makers, schoolteachers, and the ety. Eloping at the age of 15 with In 1896, Chris heard that the bandit Red Wreit was hiding out like. a habitually unsuccessful farmer in Oklahoma. Madsen’s posse found Wreit and ordered him to throw Or she was the “bad girl,” in Illinois, she birthed five chil - up his hands. The outlaw came out shooting. Madsen fired once and who refused to be either of these dren during the years they Red fell dead. and adopted the ways of the moved first to Portland, Oregon In 1898 Madsen joined the Rough Riders and fought shoulder- male, coarse in language, skilled in 1872, then to San Jose, Cali - to-shoulder with Teddy Roosevelt in Cuba. After the War, Chris re - with six-gun and horse, ready to fornia where her husband aban - turned to Oklahoma and in 1911 was appointed U.S. Deputy Marshal compete with men at every doned her and the children. for the entire state. Chris Madsen died in 1944 at the age of 93. turn—and did so successfully. Faced with this new chal - Here we have Pearl Hart, lenge, she began teaching and Calamity Jane, Belle Starr, and turned her attention to the long “Charlie” Parkhurst. dreamed of study of law with a While these stereotypes did local judge, the commonly ac - exist, they did not represent the cepted manner of passing the bar hundreds, thousands of women at the time. When she applied to who willingly joined the national take the bar exam, she was urge to “go West” to create a new stymied by a California law that life with new opportunities, away limited the bar to “white males.” from the stifling confines of east - Undaunted, she wrote a legal ern cities and traditional limita - statute changing “white male” to tions. Indeed, the 1890 census “person” and lobbied the legisla - provides information that indi - ture—and the governor—into cates as much as 13% of the passing the change into law. The more than 900,000 women living governor signed it in 1878 under west of the Mississippi were in - her watchful eye, having forced volved in the professions. her way into his office. She im - The women made a fine ac - mediately passed the bar exam count of themselves. These are and became California’s first their stories. woman attorney. Her law prac -
ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm January 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 41 Women frage and civil rights. Profitable and a true pioneering spirit, ren - investments in business and ders it entirely appropriate that In The publishing made her modestly a major legal establishment in wealthy. During all this, she one of America’s largest cites continued to raise her five chil - now proudly bears her name. dren as a single mother and en - Avey, Sharon; The Lady Lawyer: couraged women not to totally Clara Shortridge Foltz , 2001, AV cast away their domestic roles. Publishers One wonders what kind of child - Babcock, Barbara Allen; Woman hood her children must have had Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz , LD eSt and what kind of inspiration she Stanford University Press, 2011 O w must have been for them. Myres, Sandra L.; Westering Women By Col. Richard Dodge, SASS Life #1750 Her 56-year career, with her and the Frontier Experience, 1800- example of independence, bril - 1915 ; University of New Mexico tice in San Jose quickly became a cause of her gender, she sued, ar - liance, determination, courage, Press, 2004 successful divorce and probate gued, and won her own case and law firm. was finally admitted, and imme - Desiring a more formal legal diately encountered outlandish education, Foltz enrolled in the ridicule and boorish behavior Hastings College of Law in San from her male classmates. She Francisco. Denied admission be - later wrote: “They must have been an inferior lot, for certain it is that I have never seen nor heard tell of any of them from that day to this.” She could turn a phrase. Interestingly, Foltz never re - ceived her law degree. Her law practice had become so successful she was forced to withdraw from Hastings. She gained an enor - mous reputation as a wise and compassionate counselor, gener - ous to a fault with destitute clients. Perhaps her greatest legacy was her realization of the inequity in the justice system for the indigent. She set about the reformation of the justice system. At the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, she introduced the con - cept of legislation to form the of - fice of Public Defender—a radical concept that is now universal to every state in the union. In 1910, she was appointed to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office and became the first woman District Attorney in the United States. Moving on to politics and Clara Shortridge Foltz business, Foltz spoke forcefully and effectively for women’s suf -
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Reviewed by Sgt. Schuster, SASS Regulator #60835
incoln County, New Mexico would become fa - mous in the late 1870s for the Lincoln County War and “Raid in Lincoln County” takes the L Sgt. Shuster, reader to a ranching family in that area just a F SASS #60835 short time before history was made. Raid in Lincoln County is a novel about family and what it took to pro - tect a family in those times. Written by James Holl - trouble comes to a peace-loving family, a man, a Cowboy Action and Mounted Shooting man just has to stand up and do what needs competitor who goes by the alias Sierrita Slim, “Raid to be done. And, as the reader would antici - in Lincoln County” reflects Hollman’s over thirty pate in most Western novels, Slim gets to fall years in law enforcement and his love for open in love, too. Now, as much as I’d like to tell you spaces. He has a small horse ranch in rural New the whole story, you just have to get this West - Mexico and works cattle the old way. ern novel and live the adventure with Slim. Our hero, who also goes by the handle of Slim, James Hollman has done great research on is a former Civil War Confederate cavalry officer the Old West characters in Lincoln County and who left Georgia to become a lawman in Sierrita, environs and ranch life in general in the 1870s. Arizona. Slim comes running when needed to pro - Hollman’s knowledge of the mountains, passes, tect the family spread in Lincoln County. When springs, and creeks has certainly earned the envy of this amateur cartographer. Hollman just puts the reader in the middle of the action. This re - viewer lives not far from where the story takes place and has “jeeped” over much of the area with book in hand. “Raid in Lincoln County” is written in an easy, conversational style that makes it hard to put down. “Raid in Lincoln County,” by James Hollman, a must-read for every Western story fan, is available through Amazon.com E books and can be found in the SASS Mercantile.
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ZOMBIE ATTACK LoGAnS
By Utah Scout, SASS #92575 FeRRy active! The Wild Bunch™ paused ittsburgh, PA – The Oc - at only long enough to conduct a tober sun was low on the through safety brief and information horizon, the sky glowing a meeting, and then headed out to con - P deep amber streaked front the zombies. with blue, when the set up posse fin - Some of the more savvy zombies ished. They were finished position - had learned from the previous day. ing and painting the last of the props One or two attempted to hide and and targets for the Cowboy Action ambush from unlikely and unex - Shooting™ match the following day. pected places. Some lurked behind a Some of the trees were changing covered window and another from in - from summer green to autumn yel - side the local “privy.” Undaunted, low, orange and red; in all, a beautiful and never ones to shrink from a chal - Western Pennsylvania autumn day. lenge, the Wild Bunch™, led by Sgt. With Halloween only a few weeks John Campbell and Gray Squirrel, away, the target colors had likewise brought their heavy fire power to shifted from the traditional black to bear on zombies and steel alike. .45 greens accented with some red and ACP rounds from the 1911s and even blue. The Logans Ferry regulators, a “Tommy Gun,” accompanied with with scenarios written and bays set, large caliber 1866, 1873, plus an oc - were now ready for penultimate casional Marlin lever action rifle and match of the season. All were ready soon, or else the entire area is going to going down range, and the steel and 1897 shotguns finally carried the day. to head for their individual home - be overrun by these pests .” Logan’s the zombies were dropping in rapid The high round count; 110 pistol, 60 steads for a quiet dinner, prepara - Ferry Saloon, September 12, 2012 order. The crisp morning was fol - rifle, and 34+ shotgun made up the tion, and checking the guns and gear But on this Friday evening, with lowed by the warm afternoon difference for the smaller Wild for tomorrow’s Cowboy Action Shoot - the fall tinted leaves bight in the late weather that lent a helping hand by Bunch™ posse. Every shooter scored ing™ match. This was to be a special afternoon sun, and the weather a keeping the posses comfortable and hit after hit on steel and zombies weekend with Cowboys shooting on balmy 70 degrees, all was well— zombies squinting their bloodshot alike on every stage. Not wanting to Saturday, directed by Bdoc, SASS there were no zombies in sight, the eyes in the autumn sun. slow the pace to rid the range of #76983, and John Barleycorn, SASS stages were set, and all were looking After four stages, the zombies these undead critters, the Wild #76982. The Wild Bunch™ match forward to the weekend of Cowboy were temporarily at bay. It was the Bunch™ posse “shot through” and fi - would follow on Sunday, directed by Action Shooting™ and Wild Bunch™ right time for both posses to break for nally triumphed over the invaders. Sgt. John Campbell, SASS #58165, matches. Imagine the shock and sur - some lunch and conversation. Fol - With the final .45 caliber rounds and Gray Squirrel, SASS #46705. prise the next morning when the set lowing the break, however, both now down range, the posse put Territorial Governor Mariah Kid, up posse returned to open the range, posses were refreshed and eagerly away their guns, then reassembled SASS #43037, was on hand to tour only to find the reported zombies had returned to the action. In the true to help take down and store the the stages and offer suggestions here returned! They were infesting the spirit of the game, both steel and steel. Each agreed this had been a and there, but by and large the stages and lurking unseen in the zombies were swiftly put down on challenging match and exciting fi - stages were set for the weekend. wooded hillsides. The only explana - the remaining two stages. The job nale to the weekend and were look - Everything appeared normal and tion: a fast acting zombie virus must now well done, both posses joined up ing forward to the season’s closing ready to go! At least that is what the have swept through the area over where they had started that morn - match in November. Regulators thought. night. The dreaded virus had turned ing, this time for scores and some Since that action packed week - There was, however, a report on healthy humans into the creatures bunkhouse conversation. Finally, end, most of the trees have shed their the Logan’s Ferry Saloon a few weeks now skulking about the range in with the sun low in the afternoon sky, fall finery, and the ranges are quieter earlier, in September, that some zom - search of food! cowboy and cowgirl alike packed up now. The winter season is fast ap - bies had been seen in the area. The In the true spirit of the Cowboy and headed down the trail for home. proaching—time for cleaning the reported stated: Action Shooter, the key word being The next morning, another near gear, perhaps doing some amateur “I really hate to have to report “action,” match directors Bdoc and perfect Western Pennsylvania fall gunsmithing, and probably some re - this, but there is a big problem at the Barleycorn rounded up the posses day, the Wild Bunch™ arrived only to loading. April is not that far off, and Logan’s Ferry ranges that really and got rolling with the match and find more zombies were lurking on the excitement will start anew! needs to be fixed, and fixed soon. I the zombie elimination. Following the range. This second wave, which No more zombies have been was down there, just minding my the safety briefing and information must have been in hiding from the seen at Logan’s Ferry or in the West - own business, and what do I see ... meeting, two posses totaling 20 cow - Cowboy Action Shooting™ posses the ern Pennsylvania area. But know - Zombies!!! Not just one or two, but a boys and cowgirls spread out to com - previous day, confronted the now ing the zombie producing virus herd of Zombies, wandering around pete stage by stage, and smaller Wild Bunch™ posse on all could strike again at any time, the aimlessly, acting like they owned the simultaneously rid the range of the six stages. The weather had warmed Logan’s Ferry Regulators remain on place or something. Something’s undead invaders. The sun had risen up somewhat, and this seemed to guard and ready to spring into ac - going to have to happen, and happen to well above tree tops, rounds were make the pesky undead even more tion should the need arise … ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm Page 44 Cowboy Chronicle January 2013
SASS 2012 Del aw are
May 4th – . . Friday, ay 6, 2012 Sunday, M State Championship EAS ’DERN SHORE ROUNDUP
By Deacon Will, SASS #24170 TG/Regulator
udlersville, MD – 2012 saw the fourth Champi - onship Match for the S State of Delaware. This year’s event was hosted by the Eas’dern Shore Renegades, the Delware Sportsman Association, and main match sponsor, The Cowboy Shop/Cody Conagher. Match Director, Teton Tracy and the event committee worked tire - lessly to build stages, ingenious props, and acquire new targets. One of the keynote attributes of shooting with this bunch of cow - boys is their grub. On site ven - dors prepared delicious food from breakfast to dinner, allowing the Eas’dern Shore Round-Up Committee that brought you this match — Side Saddle Sue, Hand Cannon, Hazel Pepper and Deacon Will, Wyoming competitors to be comfortably sus - Deacon Will was presented with Schoolmarm and Vaquero Dan, Bonnie B Good and Jingles Jerr, and tained. The BEST BBQ of any the Spirit of the Game Award. Southpaw Sadie and Teton Tracy. Not pictured is Delaware Coop. match was served for the evening meal with more meals being EAS’DERN SHORE Winners F C Duelist Quaker Kid, served than there were shooters. ROUND-UP Overall Match Winner SASS #61691 Large targets, interesting sce - May 3 - 5, 2013 Man Cody Conagher, Frontiersman Cemetery, narios, and fast paced action were The 2013 Delaware State SASS #6986 SASS #72287 the themes of the match. Weather SASS Championship is just Lady Sidesaddle Sue, Gunfighter Doc in the Box, was as near perfect as anyone around the corner and the com - SASS #73023 SASS #40647 Delaware Champions Duelist Marshlan, could have ordered for such an mittee is busy working on all of Man Hand Cannon, SASS #22743 outdoor event. the details. Questions? Contact SASS #60485 L 49’er Lena Okley, Teton Tracy at (302) 378-7854 or Lady Side Saddle Sue SASS #6987 [email protected] Categories 49’er Cody Conagher Registration questions ~ Young Gun Jarrod B Right, Wrangler Silas Highland, Contact Southpaw Sadie SASS #95052 SASS #81983 (302) 378-7854 or E Statesman Jingles Jerr, L Wrangler Tomahawk Teri, [email protected] SASS #5463 SASS #52808 L Senior South Paw Sadie, Cowgirl Sidesaddle Sue SASS #49471 Cowboy Hand Cannon Senior Flat-Iron-Frank, SASS #23826 COSTUME CONTEST L S Senior Bonnie B Good, Town Wear SASS #27711 Lady Tomahawk Teri S Senior Bigfoot Jim, Man Cemetery SASS #51847 Working L B-Western Cuss’n Kate, Cowboy Emberado, SASS #88392 SASS #2218 B-Western Red-Eyed Kid, Cowgirl Side Saddle Sue SASS #37263 L B-Western Cuss’n Kate S Duelist T-Bone Pickins, Best Dressed Couple Hazel Pepper gives her SxS Cemetery makin’ some serious smoke. SASS #81022 Ruby Blast, a run during the Side Matches. No one has ever doubted he doesn’t F Cartridge Ornery Ike, SASS #74331 & Note the new berms the host club make enough smoke! SASS #93832 Yankee Hoot, recently constructed. Cough, cough ….. gasp! SASS #74330
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The first annual Too Dang Frank Award was presented to Slash 8 in recognition for all that he has done to develop this Club and all he continues to do.
Yankee Hoot and Ruby Blast, from Connecticut, won the Big Whiskey was gettin’ pretty serious Best Dressed Couple. as he gamed that side match.
Match Winners were Cody Conagher (c) and Sidesaddle Sue (left rear). Teton Tracy presented Cody Conagher Delaware Champions were an envelope of cash raised through Sidesaddle Sue and raffles to be used for the Hand Cannon (back row). Mason Dixon Scholarship Fund. Congratulations!
COSTUME CONTEST Side Matches Judge’s Choice Doom’s Darlin’, Pump SASS #92853 Man Big Whiskey, Best Cart The Dynamite Wagon SASS #73829 Irishman Jim, Lady Side Saddle Sue SASS #68928 Speed Rifle & Sweetheart Sherry, Lady Southpaw Sadie SASS #68929 Man Jesamy Kid, Side Matches SASS #34841 Long Range Rifle Speed Pistol Jesamy Kid Big Bore Lever Speed Derringer Man Crooked Shot Deale, Man Hand Cannon SASS #69587 Lady Dancin’ Angel, Lady Tomahawk Terri SASS #53686 Pistol Caliper Speed Pocket Pistol Man T-Bone Pickins Man Doctor Doom, Lady Ruby Blast SASS #69253 Big Bore Lady Doom’s Darlin’ Man Big Foot Jim Most Powder Burned in Lady Tomahawk Terri Long Range Side Match Long Range Pistol (tie) Sundown Charlie, Lady Tomahawk Terri SASS #61859 Man T-Bone Pickins & Sgt. Hochbauer, Speed Shotgun SASS #64409 S x S Clean Match Man Cool Hand Lee, Cool Hand Lee SASS #81764 Quaker Kid Lady Ruby Blast Red-Eyed Kid Levered Peacemaker Reb, T-Bone Pickins SASS #36806 Yankee Hoot SxS Hammered Emberado
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2012 texaS State leburne, TX – The 2012 Texas State SASS Championship was C held at the Ormsby Championship Ranch in Cleburne, Texas on May 3, 4, and 5. Some of our distin - By Billy Bob Evans, SASS #53658 and Diamond Lizzie, SASS #53659 guished guests were Tex with Cat Photos by Billy Bob Evans Ballou and The Judge with Jus -
The Wobble Trap and Bob Munden Card-Splitting Side matches generated donation funds for the SASS Scholarship.
The Judge and Justice Lily Kate were in attendance … Kate did her best with her firearms It’s Texas— what would expect? There are great props for the range … while the Judge held court but certainly, one would have to be The Alamo! in the SASS booth. tice Lily Kate. We were glad to Shooting club and Billy Bob It was great having them both see them join our groups. The Evans from Comanche Valley Vig - at the match! event was hosted by Comanche ilantes. Two Gun Johnnie – side Outlaw is not (yet) a recognized SASS category … but it’s fun, safe, and very Valley Vigilantes and Lone Star matches, Goatneck Clem – Wild “showy.” Outlaws are showing up Frontier Shooting Club. The Bunch, Plainsman – Two Gun in more and more matches. Match Directors were Ranger Johnnie, Costume – Cowtown Rick from Lone Star Frontier Winners Junior Preacher Kid, Overall SASS #92046 TX A “cross-over shooter”—Tex, an Man Rattlesnake Wrangler, L 49’er Yankee Texan, “Elder Statesman Frontier SASS #54580 TX SASS #56796 TX Cartridge Gunfighter” shoots Lady Hey You, L B-Western Louisiana Lady, Traditional Plainsman dressed SASS #64946 TX SASS #34986 LA for Wild Bunch™. Anyone who Categories L Duelist Kansas City Sneed, limits themselves to just one 49’er Phantom, SASS #71319 TX discipline is missing lots of fun! SASS #54973 TX L F Cartridge Honey B. Graceful, Buckaroo Rattlesnake SASS #51369 TX Wrangler TX L Gunfighter Buffy Logal, Buckarette Diamond Kate, SASS #46039 TX SASS #95104 TX L Wrangler Bent Barrel Betty, Cowboy Texas Rick O’Shay, SASS #33237 TX SASS #70305 TX L Young gun Ellie Mae Maverick, C Cowboy T-Bone Dooley, SASS #90614 TX SASS #36388 TX B-Western Slick McClade, C Cowgirl Bella Spencer, SASS #69490 LA SASS #63491 KY Duelist Nuttin’ Graceful, Cowgirl Hey You TX SASS #39117 TX Chipmunk Hammerrock, F Cartridge Spur Roberts, SASS #86679 LA SASS #14625 TX E Statesman Pineywoods Jim, Outlaw Doc Prairie, SASS #56822 TX SASS #71556 TX F C Duelist Billy Boots, Range Boss Hemlock, SASS #20282 TX SASS #384 TX Frontiersman The Brisco Kid, S Duelist Tumbleweed Dan, SASS #26032 OK SASS #48676 TX Grand Dame Cat Ballou, S Gunfighter Eli Hawk, SASS #55 NM SASS #39161 TX Gunfighter Rusty Remington, L Senior Kow Katcher, SASS #61821 TX SASS #58134 TX
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Friday started off with a boom! What folks will do for … charity! Scouts from the Longhorn Council from the Ft. Worth Shotglass holds on tight while her next victim … customer, (sorry!) High Adventure Program opened the festivities with a BIG BOOM selects his “stretch raffle tickets” Saturday evening. from their 12-pound mountain howitzer cannon! Friday we started the match Scout, Parking, vendors and range set with a boom. Scouts from the up – Cowtown Jack, and Stages writ - Longhorn Council out of Ft. ten by Bent Star. Worth (High Adventure program) Thursday participants arrived to started the morning off with a big register and participate in the side boom from their 12 pound moun - matches. The side matches were tain howitzer cannon. There were kicked off with a three-stage Plains - 250 shooters in 10 posses shooting man side match followed by the nor - 5 stages. The shooters were pro - mal assortment of side matches. We vided with pulled pork sand - ended the day with a four-stage Wild wiches served with homemade Bunch™ match. Approximately 110 BBQ sauce for lunch. Two Gun shooters participating in 32 side Johnnie and Texas Rick O’Shay matches. This year side matches cooked 18 pork butts that were were shot for free except for two side (Continued on page 48 ) matches – Wobble trap shotgun side match and the Bob Munden stage, splitting a playing card. After the Cowtown Scout organized and ran match the cards were laminated and the costume contest. With a little presented at the banquet to the par - forethought and a great panel ticipants. The proceeds from these What’s a cowboy party of judges, it all looks easy. two matches were donated to the without Saloon Girls? The judges did a great job! SASS Scholarship Fund. These gals were ‘best of show!”
L S Duelist Krazy Legs Kay, Duelist Big Bore SASS #87857 TX Lady Kansas City Sneed TX Lady Green Eyed Brazos Senior Goatneck Clem, Man T-Bone Dooley TX Belle TX SASS #16787 TX Gunfighter Big Bore Le ver S Senior Gunslinger, Lady Rocky Meadows, Man Little Doc, SASS #3335 UT SASS #18501 TX SASS #21939 OK L S Senior Rosie Rash Man Buckshot Buffalo (Bla ckpowder) Wrangler Cowtown, Percussion, Man Little Doc OK SASS #29167 TX SASS #70304 TX Long Range Revolver Young Gun Commanche Tom, Traditional Man Naildriver, SASS #77925 TX Lady Hey You TX SASS #59139 AR Wild Bunch™ Man Justin Parker, Lady Bent Barrel Betty TX Overall SASS #55217 TX Speed Shotgun Man Evil Roy, .22 Rifle & Revolver Double SASS #2883 CO Lady Bent Barrel Betty TX Buckaroo Kid Ghost TX Lady Miss Cubbie, Man Rusty Remington TX Lady Bent Barrel Betty TX SASS #84627 TX Buckaroo Little Rebel, Man Spur Roberts TX Categories SASS #93300 OK ‘87 / ‘97 Modern Evil Roy CO Derringer Lady Rocky Meadows TX L Modern Louisiana Lady LA Lady Rosie Rash Man Slowaz Molasses, Traditional Tex, SASS #4 NM Man Waterloo, SASS #41444 TX L Traditional Miss Cubbie TX SASS #46072 TX Speed Rifle Plainsman Long Range Rifle Buckaroo Kid Ghost TX Modern Two Gun Johnnie, Pistol Calibe r Lady Hey You TX SASS #59477 TX Lady Hey You TX Man Waterloo TX Traditional Wyandot Jim, Man Jake Cutter, Pocket Pistol SASS #66953 TX SASS #41344 TX Lady Rosie Rash Side Matches Single Shot Man Big Iron Patnode, Speed Pistol Lady Green Eyed Brazos SASS #60632 TX Traditional Belle, Buckaroo Kid Ghost, SASS #82399 TX SASS #81656 TX Man Little Dog
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(Continued from page 47 ) non! It is a great program that served over two days of meals. allows the kids to experience his - Not a lot was left, and everyone tory with a hands on experience raved about how good the food using the historical weapon. was this year. Friday evening a The banquet was held at the
Hey You and Rattlesnake Wrangler were the Texas State Champions and the match winners! Congratulations!
The event was hosted by Comanche Valley Vigilantes and Lone Star Frontier Shooting Club. Match Directors were Ranger Rick (l) from Lone Star Frontier Shooting Club and Billy Bob Evans from Comanche Valley Vigilantes. potluck dinner was held at the Cleburne Convention Center Sat - range for those wishing to stay. urday evening. There was a silent Everyone had a great time. auction and a stretch raffle. Din - Saturday opening ceremonies ner was catered by Babe’s were started with a big boom Chicken Dinner House from from the cannon. The remaining Burleson. Fried chicken or five stages were shot. After all chicken fried steak with all the the shooting was completed, par - fixin’s was served. During the ticipants were treated to an op - dinner Match Director Ranger portunity to crew the cannon. Rick announced the scores, and With directions from the scout buckles were presented to the participants one could learn all winners. Stretch raffle winners the positions of the firing crew received their prizes. Many of the and were even allowed to fire the raffle prizes were donated by club cannon. A big thanks to the Fort members, sponsors, and vendors. Worth Longhorn Council for com - 33 Clean Match winners received ing out and bringing their can - a white goat pin.
— Wild Bunch™ Winners — Tex, Traditional, and Evil Roy, Modern. Wild Bunch™ is a new SASS discipline, and is quickly gaining in popularity. One can now find Wild Bunch™ events all across the country, and indeed, around the world!
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Warlocks and Witches of wEastwick STRIke AGAIn ! of a great ice age lake—actually “A Halloween Massacre was barely avoided” part of the great Missoula flood that created the lake now referred By Palaver Pete, SASS Life/Regulator #4375 to as the Great Salt Lake, located much to our southeast. It is spec - ulated amongst local historians this ghostly part of Oregon has been a favorite target of the W&W since before the white man came west. These historians receive no argument from PMP members Palaver Pete, who have experienced the wrath SASS Lif e/ Regulator #4375
of these creatures for the past several years. Enough is enough—we need to take a stand and shoot their lights out! This is commonly referred to as a group of Pumpkin Seeds! On Saturday we practiced our marksmanship in order to best end, OR – Latitude 44 º Oregon’s high desert country—it’s cope with the inevitable Sunday 03 ’ North — 121 º 18 ’ one of their favorite target areas. attack. Based on a great deal of West — a very danger - The outcome was not pretty and defensive shooting experience B ous place to be on Hal - much needs to be repaired before during previous W&W attacks, loween—day or night. This the brave souls of the Pine Moun - match director Whisperin’ Wade, latitude and longitude have long tain Posse (PMP) can resume SASS #36209, ordered we do some been compromised: the Warlocks their normal shooting schedules. nighttime shotgun shooting. His and Witches (W&W) of Eastwick A Halloween Massacre was barely Swashbuckling Cowboss idea was rather brilliant: he have discovered our location and avoided. is comforted by asked those who were accustomed once again descended on the defi - This part of Central Oregon is Honey Bee Sweetwater Pearl to fully stoking their shotguns for ant humans gathered at the Cen - notorious for Headless Oarsmen after both distinguished Wild Bunch™ Shooting events to tral Oregon Shooting Sports rowing long canoes on the misty themselves during do so for the Saturday night prac - Association Range on the edge of valley bottom that was once part the Witches attack. (Continued on page 50 )
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The Warlocks and Witches of Eastwick Strike Again! . . . (Continued from page 49 ) tice, and for those more accus - Zombie Shoot tomed to loading from the belt, he Pistol Key Hay Makena ordered them to continue that Long Gun practice for the Saturday night Man Whisperin’ Wade event. He further directed, for Lady Calgary Kate, purposes of recognition, that two SASS #33287 categories be established: “tradi - tional” and “fully stoked.” The practice paid-off on Sunday, as the W&W casualty rate skyrock - eted from the well aimed shotgun rounds. Category Winners during the practice were: Rowdy Rex joins the victory celebration and is crowned Traditional Shotgun “King Rex.” Man Whisperin’ Wade Lady Bullseye Miss, Satisfied that Saturday’s prac - SASS#56827 tice was sufficient, posse members The Pine Mountain Posse welcomed Stoked Shotgun a new shooter, whose handle is did all they could to rest-up and sleep Man Key Hay Makena, Web Masterson, a clever twist in preparation for Sunday’s on - SASS #93747 on what the man does for a living. slaught—they did not wait long— Lady Bullseye Miss Welcome to SASS, Web! Sunday morning at O-Dark Thirty, the forces of evil struck! The sky But that was not all. Wade conventional cowboy loads were turned black as the Warlocks and also ordered we practice Zombie depleted during the attack. 22 Witches launched their attack! Shooting with various assort - caliber pistols and long guns were Thanks to the prior night’s practice, ments of calibers in the event our used and categories established: we were ready to greet their attack with a volley of lead. Let the may - Hoss Reese in the form of hem begin! Superman helped stem the Battles ensued on five Stages Warlock attack as did his throughout the day. The cowardly Devilish partner and number Warlocks sent the Witches to fight in one female competitor, Pepper G. the first stage, and then the War -
Winners Pumpkin Carvers Top Guns Lady Pepper G, SASS #89366 Man Whisperin’ Wade Categories L Senior Bullseye Miss L 49’er Pepper G L Wrangler Sandy Charm, SASS #79785 L F Cartridge Cascades Annie L Gunfighter Arctic Annie, SASS #37265 Cowgirl Sweetwater Pearl, Traditional Pumpkin SASS #56026 Sandy Charm C Baron Palaver Pete Silliest Pumpkin S Senior Celilo, Rough Cut Ruby, SASS #56826 SASS #71003, Senior Cowboss, and Rowdy Rex SASS #49066 Scariest Pumpkin S Duelist Buxton Lookout, Brassy Shell, SASS #40999 SASS #16096 S Gunfighter The Legend, Costume Contest SASS #36069 Cowgirl Pepper G 49’er Rowdy Rex, Cowboy Cherokee Sam, SASS #71002 SASS #89009 Wrangler Hoss Reese, (Dressed as Ch er okee Samantha) SASS #88815 Couple Celilo and C Ccowboy Silver Sage Outlaw, Bullseye Miss SASS #70532 Clean and Smooth Duelist Gordon Lightfoot, Sandy Charm SASS #90179 Buxton Lookout F C Duelist Tetherow Tex LaRue, Whisperin’ Wade SASS #90999 Gunfighter Whisperin’ Wade
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Rough Cut Ruby and The Legend smile after fighting hard Sandy Charm wears one of the Witches outfits captured during to drive off the attacking Warlocks and Witches. the hectic battle. Another of her victims is pinned to the wall.
locks hoping our ammo would be de - pleted, followed in the next four stages. The Posse held firm, and be - fore we knew it, the obnoxious, smelly, and offending invaders had been successfully driven off. The Match Director asked for a casualty report, and fortunately only one per - son, Cascades Annie, SASS #70533, had received a serious wound to the neck (see accompanying photo). For - tunately, due to our prior medical training, Annie was brought back to the living after receiving a refresh - ing blood transfusion. Now it was time to celebrate, carve pumpkins, eat tacos, and pres - ent our awards. The Good Guys won, but the knowledge that next year would present a similar attack made the Posse aware one must always be prepared to fight evil. The maxim is always keep your firearms clean and functioning, your basic load of pow - der and ammo at the maximum, and your SASS friends close at hand— you’re a daisy if ya do!
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Roller Coaster of Emotion Accompanies Incredible SASS Double Feature Headquarters and SASS Canadian Nationals 2012 ictoria, BC – The 21 st By Grey Fox, SASS Life/Regulator #223, Annual oldest SASS af - and Miss Mary Spencer, SASS Life/Regulator #55147 filiated match in V Canada, HEADQUAR - performance. (you can take that any way you whose allegiance falls in both TERS 2012, unfolded on August The Pig War (a slight distor - choose) led by ex-military man, camps did not fire a shot. 24 – 27, inaugurating eight days tion of a historic event) erupts Crochety Old Grouch, SASS The narrowly contested con - of fabulous competition that due to an incident where Ameri - #55188, vow to defend their posi - frontation began on Friday with would be marked by joy, sorrow, can miners assassinate a Hud - tion with hot lead. The Canadian side matches. The main event and jubilation. son’s Bay Co. pig; hence, the irregulars (likely suffering from opened on Saturday culminating The double feature began with pulled pork for Saturday night’s the same malady) are led by ex- in the consumption of pulled pork the “Pig War at Salmonella dinner. In retaliation, the Cana - military officer, Haweater Hal, and the drawing of prizes. The Gulch.” A stellar international dians demand restitution for the SASS #55287, who vowed not to delight of Saturday’s event was group of shootists from Canada, pig at ten times its true value. give any quarter. The American the celebration of Jingle Bob’s, the USA, and Europe were on The only solution is a call to mountain howitzer manned by SASS #51499, 85 th birthday. The hand to provide an award winning arms. The American Irregulars Miss Mary Spencer and Grey Fox Victoria Frontier Shootists organ -
Headquarters
— Territorial Ryder — 2012 Overall Male Champion. Senorita Itchy Finger on prome - He is the second Oregonian to win Montany May accompanying nade with brother, Low Country The delight of Saturday’s event the title. Territorial Ryder was Black Ashley in his far-east Amigo. Both are Champions, and was the celebration of also the “Triple Crown” 2012 cowboy suit acquired during Itchy Finger received a SASS Jingle Bob’s, SASS #51499, Canadian Championships winner! a spring trip to Mongolia. Scholarship Award this year. 85 th birthday.
Sunday afternoon was the mid-range and coveted The American mountain howitzer Schutzen Target match organized annually by a manned by Miss Mary Spencer and SASS member from Germany, Cornelius O’Keefe, Grey Fox, whose allegiance falls in Cornelius O’Keef (left) and Teacher C (right) SASS #60577 (on the left) . Chinook Kid, SASS #96226, both camps, did not fire a single shot presenting Neut Reno with the a newly minted SASS member, won the Schutzen Target. during the Salmonella Gulch Pig War. WCFSS Legacy Award for 2012.
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ized a cake and awarded Jingle played during the costume prom - mid-range was Low Country Headquarters and were ready for Bob an “85” medal. Another mo - enade. Then, the stunning public Amigo, SASS #80038, (younger the crowning performance. mentous event was the awarding announcement of the first Cana - brother of Senorita Itchy Finger). Boomtown’s safety meeting of the Western Canadian Frontier dian SASS Scholarship awardee, Chinook Kid, SASS #96226, a opened on a very sorrowful note, Shootists Society Legacy Award to Senorita Itchy Finger, SASS newly minted SASS member won the announcement of the passing Neut Reno, SASS #51654, for his #80037, a very deserving young the Schutzen Target. of Pauncho, SASS #5511, long contribution to Cowboy Action woman, champion shooter, Top Monday opened with a Cow - time competitor and a pivotal Shooting™ on Vancouver’s Island. Cowgirl, honours student, and tal - boy Practice for those who were member of the “Three Amigos,” Sunday dawned with Cowboy ented musician. She is a credit to enrolled for “Bust up at Boom - Cariboo Lefty, SASS #5391, Paun - Church presided over by Preacher her family and to the SASS family town, the Canadian Nationals.” cho, and Too Dusty, SASS #5477. Man John, SASS #87098, then on of Cowboy Action Shooters. Tuesday and Wednesday were The opening was a heartfelt ode to the remainder of the main The main match winners were devoted to touring beautiful and to Pauncho’s father, Al Pearce, match to determine who prevails separated by a mere 7.39 seconds historic Vancouver’s Island. who was the mentor to High at Salmonella Gulch. between the top three competi - Country Amigo, SASS #49198. Sunday afternoon was the tors. Flush with victory from Part two of the High Country’s tearful delivery mid-range and coveted Schutzen Palmers Gulch, Territorial Ryder, Double Feature began on was heart rending. Then, Cariboo Target match organized annually SASS #31939, emerged as Top Thursday August 30, 2012. Lefty continued with a eulogy for by a SASS member from Ger - Gun. This is the second time an THE SASS CANADIAN Pauncho. Cariboo Lefty could not many, Cornelius O’Keefe, SASS Oregonian has won Headquar - NATIONALS BUST UP continue without breaking down #60577. ters; the first was in 1996. Run - AT BOOMTOWN. before he completed his character - The joy at Sunday’s dinner ner up and Canadian Champion ization of the loss of a champion was contagious. Goldstream was Haweater Hal, also Top Sen - ourtenay, BC – An incredible competitor, fun loving individual, Catering as always catered the ior. And third overall was Victoria Cprogramme awaited an even and a true gentleman who treated sumptuous banquet. A wonderful Diamond, SASS #60592, also Top larger assemblage of competitors everyone with respect. The huge display of frontier finery was dis - Ladies 49’er. Top rifle shot in the for the SASS Canadian Nationals. gallery of hardened pistoleros was The adrenalin was running at moved to display their emotions, full speed and emotions were and there was not a dry eye in the tighter than a G-string at a bur - gallery. To lighten the balance of lesque hall. Many of the atten - the opening, Territorial Ryder dees had honed their gun work at (Continued on page 54 )
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Headquarters and SASS Canadian Nationals 2012 . . .
(Continued from page 53 ) suspect he tickles more than Sunday, Cowboy Church presented Cariboo Lefty with his wood). We have no idea what their began the day; then on to com - own personal timer—an Hour - criteria for adjudication is; how - plete the main event and in the glass timer! ever, a willing winner is always afternoon, the Top Gun shootoff. The event may have had a around. The Dancehall Darling Sunday evening’s dinner was somber start; however, due to the award went to Montana May, a gala affair catered by members thrilling schedule, everyone was SASS #95820, chosen from a stun - caught up in the action. SASS RO ning array of ladies. courses, ladies clinic, warm up The main match was off and matches, the Wild Bunch™ (Bad running Saturday, a Tribute to Bobby Blue Eyes shot the Wild John Wayne, and an unbelievable Bunch™ with blackpowder in .97, contest it would be. At Saturday’s rifle, and 1911). Boomtown Ladies conclusion of the main stages, the Brunch, side matches, swap meet, possibility of a Triple Crown Win - Friday’s steak dinner, and the ner was emerging. Saturday much awaited Dancehall Darling evening’s costume promenade, judging, adjudicated over once dinner, side match awards, cos - more by the Judges—the Caycuse tume awards, and Wild Bunch™ Kid, SASS #67090, and his cohort winners only proved to enhance Ticklewood Kid, SASS #55938, (we the adrenalin rush.
Boomtown’s safety meeting anadian opened on a very sorrowful note, C the announcement of the passing of Pauncho, SASS #5511, long time competitor and a pivotal member of the “Three Amigos”—Cariboo Lefty, SASS #5391, Pauncho, and Too Dusty, SASS #5477. Cariboo Lefty provided a eulogy for Pauncho. He could not continue without breaking down before he completed his The opening ceremony included characterization of the loss a heartfelt ode to Pauncho’s of a champion competitor, father, Al Pearce, who was fun loving individual, and a the mentor to High Country true gentleman who treated Amigo, SASS #49198. everyone with respect.
Winners Categories The Dancehall Darling judging Headquarters ‘12 L Wrangler Montana May, was adjudicated over once more Top Gun Territorial Ryder, SASS #95820 by the “Judges”—the Caycuse Kid, SASS #31939 Senior Haweater Hal, SASS #67090, and his cohort, Categories SASS #55287 Ticklewood Kid, SASS #55938. Buckarette Sassy Gal Kayla, S Senior Tax Ridder, Two newly appointed (long over - The Dancehall Darling award went SASS #96123 SASS #4234 due!) Regulators, Miss Mary to Montana May, SASS #95820, cho - Buckeroo Royal Banker, Wrangler Rusty Wood, Spencer and Cariboo Lefty. sen from a stunning array of ladies. SASS #96227 SASS #50427 Cattle Baron Jingle Bob, SIDE MATCHES SASS #51499 Speed Pistol Victoria Diamond, C Cowboy Southwest Trapper, SASS # 60952 SASS #82702 Speed Rifle Captain Copps, Cowboy Low Country Amigo, SASS #57513 SASS #80038 L Speed Rifle Victoria Diamond Cowgirl Senorita Itchy Finger, Speed Shotgun Crotchety Old SASS #80037 Grouch, Dualist Parson Pick Axe, SASS #51188 SASS #62011 L Speed Shotgun E Statesman Ol’ Muleskinner Jack, Victoria Diamond SASS #71249 F Cartridge Aspen Sam, Canadian Nationals ‘12 SASS #96108 THERE WAS INDEED A TRIPLE Gunfighter Crotchety Old Grouch, CROWN WINNER! SASS #51188 Top Gun of Palmers Gulch, L 49’er Victoria Diamond, Headquarters, and the Canadian SASS #60952 Nationals Territorial Ryder, L Senior Gitn’ the Lead Out, SASS #31939 SASS #96109 Categories L Dualist Saucie Sadie, Buckarette Sassy Gal Kayla, SASS #89135 SASS #96123
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Match Winner and Triple Crown Winner, Territorial Ryder, with Canadian Lady National Champion, Victoria Diamond, and Canadian Male National Champion, Haweater Hal. Territorial Ryder is not only a gentleman competitor, he is also a very nice individual who gets up and acts as bus boy at mealtime!
of the Courtenay Fish & Game, dedicated volunteers who prepare fantastic meals. The jubilation of the evening’s events were punctuated by the awarding of two new Regulators for their long term contributions to SASS - Cariboo Lefty, SASS #5391, and Miss Mary Spencer, SASS #55147. The roar of ap - plause was an audible acceptance of the SASS committee’s choice. High Country Amigo and his incredible committee organized a reputation of Headquarters and fabulous, exciting event at a Boomtown. The rave reviews world-class facility. Boomtown from attendees will attract many looks like a genuine Old West more shootists. town situated in a little valley * * * * * with buildings lining the two Photo Credits streets. The bays are on the out - Teacher C, SASS #72703 side sides oriented to east and Grey Fox, SASS #223 west. It is a Cowboy Action Shoot - Crotchety Old Grouch, ers dream. There is ample dry SASS #51188 camping and lots of room for RVs. Montana May, SASS #95820 The American contingent has Cornelius O’Keefe, grown tremendously due to the SASS #60577
Categories L Senior Dallas Dancer, Buckaroo Whistlin Will, SASS #42365 SASS #88382 L S Senior Lady Shuswap, B Western High Country Amigo, SASS #53492 SASS #49198 L Wrangler Montana May, Cattle Baron Jingle Bob, SASS #95820 SASS #51499 Senior Haweater Hal, C Cowboy Southwestern Trapper, SASS #55287 SASS #82702 S Dualist Little Edgy, Cowboy Low Country, SASS #64336 SASS #80038 S Gunfighter Crotchety Old Grouch, Cowgirl Senorita Itchy Finger, SASS #51188 SASS #80037 S Senior Joe Cannuck, Dualist Doc Blondie, SASS #58702 SASS #46708 Wrangler Rusty Wood, E Statesman Minto, SASS #50427 SASS #56175 Young Gun Captain Will Turner, F Cartridge Aspen Sam, SASS #92899 SASS #96108 Wild Bunch F C Dualist Porcupine Quill, Modern Crotchety Old Grouch, SASS #78510 SASS #51188 Frontiersman Bad Bobby Blue Eyes, Traditional BlackAshley, SASS #73397 SASS #89886 Gunfighter Too Dusty, L Traditional Hit N Miss, SASS #5477 SASS #83681 L 49’er Victoria diamond, Wild Bunch Black Powder S ASS #60952 Bad Bobby Blue Eyes, C Cowgirl Goldie Stone, SASS #73397 SASS #18860 (There is no such category, L Dualist Saucy Sadie, however, we felt it was SASS #89135 worthy of note).
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wiLD bUnc h™ Action Shooting In The Southeast Sassy Teton Lady, SASS #47525, By Sassy Teton Lady, SASS #47525, and Deadwood Woody, SASS #22184 and WBAS Southeast Ambassadors Deadwood Woody, SASS #22184
ild Bunch™ Action Shooting is growing in the Southeast. The W number of matches held and number of clubs holding matches has increased. To date we have held five Wild Bunch™ Range Officer classes in the Southeast with 59 attendees. These new range officers have come from South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Al - abama representing many various clubs that either hold Wild Bunch™ Action Shooting matches or those trying to start matches. Each monthly article will high - light a different club. This month’s club is the Greenville Gun Club and the Greenville Gunfighters. We had ™ the pleasure of holding a Wild wiLD bUnc h Bunch™ RO Class there in May 2012 and had 12 in attendance from in Greenville, SC Georgia, SC, and NC. Match Direc - By Hondo Jackson, SASS Life #83365, Territorial Governor tor Hondo Jackson grilled ham - Wild Bunch™ Action Shooting Match Director and RO burgers for lunch. After the class, a berm was set up, and we shot four ild Bunch™ Action yards with both speed and accu - scenarios, giving everyone a chance Shoot ing was started at racy required, and we shoot six to run the timer and put the class W the Greenville Gun Club stages at all monthly matches. Finally, it’s my turn to shoot! information to practical use. in Greenville, SC in July 2011. In 2012 the SC State SASS All the matches have been in the Championship was held at “True Spirit of Wild Bunch™.” Greenville Gun Club. We had a The matches are built around four-stage Wild Bunch™ side the 1911 .45 ACP, then shotgun, match with 21 shooters. and least emphasis on the rifle. Greenville Gun Club is also host - The number of shooters at our ing the 2013 SC State SASS last match was 15 and was miss - Championship and will again ing several of our regulars. We have a four-stage side match. We now have a sufficient number of are expecting 30 to 40 Wild qualified ROs. The stages in - Bunch™ shooters at the side clude lots of reactive targets. match next March. Presently, Greenville Gun Club also has a the monthly matches are held strong IDPA organization. The each 5 th Sunday. If our numbers experience of IDPA made imple - continue to increase, we may menting reactive targets easier. hold matches more often. The targets were already avail - The main drawback to Wild able at the Greenville Gun Club Bunch is the equipment. Our club with no additional expense. All is good at sharing guns and equip - shooters enjoy a target that falls ment with new shooters to get or reacts when hit! them hooked on Wild Bunch™. We try to make the stages The main concern is the .40 or fun, challenging, and exciting. above caliber rifle. Most SASS Ready to have some Wild Bunch™ fun! Distances are usually 8 to 15 (Continued on page 58 )
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By comes to the Tombstone Kenny, SASS #76195 and Little Nelchina, SASS #68078 Great Land
Action Target was the match sponsor— and made available a generous supply of targets!
nchorage, AK – On Alaskans love a good May 19, 2012 the first shootout Wild Bunch™ Alaska With several dozen shooters A State Championship in attendance, the Alaska 49’ers was held at Moose Nuggets Flats, put on a “rooten-tooten” match just outside of Anchorage, Alaska by Sam Peckinpah himself would the Alaska 49’ers Cowboy Action have loved. Fast action and a Shooting™ Club. For those of you great sense of friendship, cama - who’ve never discovered the beauty raderie, and fun action filled the of a moose nugget, it’s moose poop— air along with volumes of spent dried and hardened for easy trans - .45 ACP shells. port. (It makes good kindling.) Action Target No great match can happen without the generous support of the shooting industry, and Action Target of Provo, UT, was the event sponsor. Action Target was instru - mental in providing us a raft of Action Targets made especially for Wild Bunch™ Shooting; many thanks to Action Targets for the sweet deal they gave us and to our own Marshal Stone who hauled back a ton of new targets. We — Match Winners — hear the rear end of his truck and Taino and Bear Claw Becky trailer were dragging tail all the Congratulations! way through the Yukon just to make it home, here in Alaska! Winners Congrats to everyone who came out for this fun event. Check Overall our website for future events: Man Taino, www.alaska49ers.pistolshoot SASS #33670 AK ing.com Lady Bear Claw Becky, SASS #76196 AK !
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e e pecOS cLyDe wiLD bUnc h™ Chronicle Material f you club holds Wild boy Chronicle Schedule Section. New Bunch™ matches on a The Cowboy Chronicle is also in - monthly basis, please let terested in printing your Wild END of TRAIL I Slipnoose ( Slipnoose@ Bunch™ related articles and sassnet.com ) at SASS Headquar - match results. Articles can deal WILD BUNCH ™ ters know so she can get your with almost anything Wild schedule into The Cowboy Chronicle Bunch™ related—why it’s a fun Match Director each month. And of course, if you discipline, equipment and loads, have an annual Wild Bunch™ competition techniques … almost match, please make sure that in - anything. Articles should be sub - formation is included as well. mitted to The Cowboy Chronicle Wild We’ll see if we can’t develop a Bunch™ Editor, Evil Roy at evil e finally wore Hipshot out after 25 years of devoted service! Wild Bunch™ section of monthly [email protected]. He has been the END of TRAIL Match Director for both Cow - and annual matches for The Cow - boy Action Shooting™ as well as Wild Bunch™ Action Shoot - W ing. Thanks to him for all the hard work! Pecos Clyde has designed stages for Wild Bunch™ matches since the sport started a few years ago. He will bring these years of experience and knowledge to Wild Bunch TM Action Shooting In The Southeast . . . the Wild Bunch™ World Championship starting this year. This should (Continued from page 56 ) Wild Bunch™ is pure fun! Once help make an already great match even better. shooters in our area shoot a .38 and you get them to shoot it, they usu - do not want to buy another rifle. One ally come back for more! recent rule change I believe will help ======the sport is the addition of the Model If you are in the Southeast (GA, 12 shotgun. AL, TN, VA, FL, SC, NC) and your Wild Bunch™ is a fun shooting club has a Wild Bunch™ match, sport. Our numbers continue to please let us know so we can put grow slowly, but surely. Our success your club on our schedule. If you has been through club members en - would like to hold Wild Bunch™ couraging and helping new shooters. matches but are hesitant to do so, We also help them with loads and get with us. We will do our best to advice to keep the 1911 running support you and your efforts to get smooth. We also try very hard to Wild Bunch™ Action Shooting up have good stage design. It is a lot of and running. You can contact us at: work putting out the steel and nu - [email protected] merous reactive targets, but it’s what keeps the shooters coming back. You cannot make the stages so difficult that marksman level shoot - ers have no chance to hit the targets. You cannot make them overly easy so that expert shooters cannot also enjoy the match. That is the chal - lenge of good stage design.
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Men’s Costuming for wiLD bUnc h™ ACTION SHOOTING Clothing and Accouterments
By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life/Regulator #24287 and etcetera. Captain George Baylor, “ALL clothing and equipment SASS Life / Rugulator #24287 MUST be worn appropriately, how it was intended, and how it would have been worn in the OLD zations. If you’re thinking of get - WEST or as seen on B-Western ting started in Wild Bunch™ Ac - movies and television.”—SASS tion Shooting, and you are Wild Bunch™ Action Shooting currently a Cowboy Action Shoo - Handbook, Version 4.3 April 2012. ter, then basic costuming is simple. Costuming is what sets SASS What you’re wearing in Cowboy apart from other shooting organi - (Continued on page 60 )