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By Col. (Ret) Fletch O’Dubois III, SASS #14224

Day 1 – Thursday this event, and after all the smoke iddletown, OH – 0830 was cleared and the dust settled, they Man early start if you wanted were looking forward to doing it to compete in the Wild Bunch™, again next year. the Blackpowder Mini Match, or A couple of stages downhill the morning Warm-up Match. I got from the Wild Bunch™, shooters a chance to shoot the four-stage competed in the Blackpowder Mini Wild Bunch™. Blackjack Beeson Match. Because of the humidity in did a super job setting up the the tree lined hill, you could really course of fire. What a hoot! On one see the fire and brimstone shooting of the stages we had to use the rifle out of those old smoke poles. to shoot ram and turkey steel sil - The other half of the day was houettes placed across the creek in earmarked for the other side match the woods. I was lucky and got events. The hillside gave a much- them all! All the stages allowed welcomed respite for the pocket pis - the shooter options on how to best tol, speed shotgun, Plainsman, use the rifle, pistol, and shotgun. Lawman, as well as the “Ladies Stone Creek Drifter is seen here shooting the “signature” category Over 50 shooters showed up for Only” Side Match. The long-range for Guns of August—Pale Rider. This category is very similar to the Gentleman Category found in Europe. Everything is “big bore” and full rifle, long-range single shot, loads—manly stuff! When shot on the moist, shady hillside, the fire and Quigley Pail, speed rifle, and speed brimstone are awesome … and the smoke makes all the targets a challenge! SASS C owboy Chronicle pistol all took place on the flats near the vendor area. Holy cow … ‘97/‘93 shotguns. The other half detail of the match, as well as the lead was a-flyin’!!! Everyone had was earmarked for putting the les - numerous side events. From berm In This Issue fun with the morning and after - sons into practice; shooting drills marshals to tractor drivers, from noon Warm-up Mini Matches. with one on one evaluations mak - Friday’s hospitality night to door 14 RetuRn of There was also a ladies shoot - ing them personal. prizes, every detail was reevalu - the Buffalo ing clinic put on by the Doiley The Guns of August board, with ated. According to SASS, “The by Hawkeye Sam & Pawnee Drifter Gang. The first half of the session a lot of help from last year’s feed - Guns of August SASS MidEast Re - was devoted to mental prepara - back, started the planning as the gional Championship is one of the 18 amBush at tion, equipment, tactics, and tech - dust was still settling from the his - more prestigious events in SASS.” niques for better use of the rifle, toric 15 th anniversary of Guns of We had a constant stream of aveRn ove

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6 FROM THE EDITOR SASS Rules – Explained . . . Editorial Staff Tex 8 NEWS SASS Announces Hall of Fame Inductees for 2014 . . . Editor-in-Chief 8, 9 LETTERS Cat Ballou Comments From SASS Members . . . Editor

12 CAT’S CORNER Cat’s Corner . . . Miss Tabitha Asst. Editor

13 SAS S- CONVENTION 2014 (( SIGN-UP TODA Y!! ! )) Adobe Illustrator 14-22 ON THE RANGE Layout & Design 17th Annual Ambush at Cavern Cove . . . Bayou Blast . . . Mac Daddy Graphic Design 23 SAS S- OUTLAW TRAIL 2014 (( HURRY SIGN-UP TODA Y!! ! )) Prairie Mary Advertising Manager 24, 25 SAS S- END OF TRAIL 2014 (( HURRY SIGN-UP TODA Y!! ! )) (505) 843-1320 • Cell: (505) 249-3573 [email protected] 26 CLUB REPORTS SASS at the Lehigh Valley Sportsman Show . . . Contributing Writers BT Blade & Lucky Wheeler, 28 WILD BUNCH CORNER Ambush On The Butterfield Trail . . . Capt. George Baylor, Chattahoochee, Chilkoot, Col. Dan, Col. Richard Dodge, 32-38 GUNS & GEAR Dispatches From Camp Baylor . . . Guncarts 101 (Pt. I) . . . English Lyn, Fletch O'Dubois III, Hawkeye Sam & Pawnee Drifter, 40, 41 HISTORY Joe Fasthorse, Justice Lily Kate, Women Of The West . . . Little Known Famous People . . . Knot Werkin, Miss Grizzelda, Nota John, Palaver Pete, Panhandle Cowgirl, 42, 43 PROFILES 2013 Scholarship Recipients . . . Punxsutawney Pete, Sugah, Swallowfork, The Capgun Kid, Tornado Red, 46-60 ARTICLES The Capgun Kid Rides . . . Stand By Your Friends . . . Wolverine Wrangler, Yiddle Joe The Cowboy Chronicle is published by 64, 65 GENERAL STORE /CLASSIFIED The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. For advertising information and rates, ad - 66-73 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS (MONTHLY) (ANNUA L) ministrative, and edi to rial offices contact: Chronicle Administrator POLITICAL 215 Cowboy Way 75 Common Sense Trumps Statistics . . . Edgewood, NM 87015 (505) 843-1320 FAX (505) 843-1333 Visit our Website at email: [email protected] SASSNET.COM http://www.sassnet.com This Guns & Ammo The Cowboy Chronicle (ISSN 15399877) is pub - magazine cover lished monthly by the Single Action Shooting Society, 215 Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM arrived from one 87015. Periodicals Postage is Paid at Edge - of our readers. wood, NM and additional mailing offices The Cowboy Chronicle SASS ® Trademarks (USPS #032). POSTMASTER: Send ad- editors didn’t know sass ®, single action shooting society ®, dress changes to The Cowboy Chronicle , 215 it existed! It may ® ® Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. have actually been end of tRail , eot , tm DISCLAIMER - The Single Action Shooting the cover back in The Cowboy Chro nicle , Cowboy action shooting tm , Society does not guarantee, warranty or en - the very early ‘80s dorse any product or service advertised in tm tm … and if so, was a Cas , wild Bunch , this newspaper. The publisher also does not huge boon to our wild Bunch action shooting tm , guarantee the safety or effectiveness of any sport. This maga - the world Championship of product or service illustrated. The distri - zine would have tm bution of some products/services may be il - Cowboy action shooting , legal in some areas, and we do not assume reached more Bow-legged Cowboy design, and the potential shooters responsibility thereof. State and local laws Rocking horse design must be investigated by the purchaser prior than The Cowboy to purchase or use or products/services. Chronicle would hope are all trademarks of to do for another the single action shooting society, inc. WARNING: Neither the author nor The Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi - dozen years! Any use or reproduction of these marks bility for accidents or diffe ring results without the express written permission obtained using reloading data. Variation of SASS is strictly prohibited. in handloading tech niques, compo nents, and fire arms will make results vary. Have a competent gunsmith check your firearms before firing. Visit us at sassnet .com Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle June 2014

where a long gun is, indeed, opened and cleared only to accidentally close when it gets tossed back into SASS RULES – a trough or on a table, or to have the lever slowly close when a rifle is restaged vertically. The Territo - rial Governors have voted to allow EXPLAINED some “forgiveness” when this hap - pens. In the case of an “accidental” Tex, SASS #4 closing, the shooter is allowed to By Tex, SASS #4 proceed and is not called back. If the long gun turns out to be closed ASS policy, practices, and pro - the issue resolution and what was the Territorial Governors becomes at the end of the stage, only the Scedures are the purview of the right or wrong were particularly one of “interpreting” the rules. shooter may touch the firearm, and Wild Bunch, while the “SASS difficult to determine. The Wild What has come to light recently in the firearm must be demonstrated Rules” are determined by the Ter - Bunch has been reticent to inter - several cases is the realization on the line to, indeed, be clear. If ritorial Governors. The Range Op - vene in the discussions, but it’s fi - when the current rules are parsed the shooter makes no effort to open erations Committee works as a nally time to do so. into very fine parts, deviant behav - the action at the completion of that guiding group to keep the Territo - As a matter of policy, the Wild ior is, indeed, “legal” … but is at gun’s shooting string, it is appro - rial Governors focused on the is - Bunch has articulated from time to odds with the original intent of the priate for the RO to call the shooter sues and to offer suggestions time what kinds of activities we’d rule put in place in the past. It’s back to open the action (as often regarding which path the Territo - like to see … how we wish to see time to step back, see where we’re happens with newer, inexperienced rial Governors should take. It’s the membership operate. The apparently heading, and put the competitors). If the shooter opens one thing to vote “yea” or “nay” on Range Operations Committee and ship back on the desired course. and clears the long gun and then any particular issue, but the really the Territorial Governors would Open and Empty. The “rule” closes it before discarding it, the hard part of the job is to determine then take up the challenge to draft is all long guns must be discarded shooter should be called back to “want’s really best for the game we rules that achieve those goals. “open and empty.” That rule has open the action. If the action is not play.” More than once, the Range However, as time goes by, ques - not changed. In Cowboy Action, “open and empty” when discarded, Operations Committee and the tions and suggestions inevitably one has until the next firearm is the shooter is wrong, and left un - Territorial Governors have asked come up, and then the job of the discharged to correct the situation. opened, earns the appropriate the Wild Bunch for guidance when Range Operations Committee and However, we’ve all seen instances (Continued on next page)

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SASS Rules – older, and we all want to shoot elist, old Gunfighters, etc. The are at least three techniques for Explained (cont.) . . . against our peers. Aged-based cat - “rules” for the specialty categories shooting gunfighter-style … one of egories for all the specialty cate - govern in all cases. The aged- the techniques is called “double (Continued from previous page) gories should be recognized … and based additions simply provide cock/double shoot.” In this tech - penalty. It makes a difference how for those wanting these categories, protected categories for the older nique, both revolvers are cocked at the gun ends up closed at the end ask for them every time you regis - practitioners of these categories. the same time and fired in rapid of the stage. ter for any match … whether the Remember, only a Gunfighter may succession. The Territorial Gover - Moving while Shooting. category is offered or not. have two loaded revolvers out of nors imposed a rule long ago disal - SASS has had a longstanding rule Age based categories are not their holsters at the same time. If lowing both revolvers to be shot at (the Basketball Travelling Rule) universally understood. … some - there is a Senior Gunfighter Cate - the same time because it is very that was put in place to disallow where along the way, there was a gory offered, the shooter MUST be difficult to judge hits and misses. folks from moving while shooting . misguided Territorial Governor a Gunfighter and be over 60 years Once again, when the rule is This is a perceived safety issue … vote that allowed Senior Duelist to old. It is never permissible for a parsed to the finest degree, it may, a practice some of our inexperi - do deviant things … and that’s un - senior shooting the Senior Cate - indeed, be impossible to actually enced and unpracticed SASS mem - fortunate. The intent was never to gory to “decide” to shoot the next pull both triggers at exactly the bers cannot safely accomplish. allow old folks to do whatever they stage “gunfighter-style.” same time … and therefore violate When closely examined, the Bas - wanted … rather it was to provide Double Cock/Double Shoot. the stated rule. However, IF it ketball Travelling Rule would protected categories for old Du - Speaking of Gunfighter … there (Continued on page 9) allow a shooter, for example, to “bunny hop” from one foot to an - other slam-firing their ’97 while they have one foot planted. Tech - nically, this would be legal … how - ever, it clearly violates the intent of the rule … and it is forbidden. If we have folks who insist on invok - ing the technicality of the rule, the Range Operations Committee and the Territorial Governors will be asked to discard the Basketball Travelling Rule and formulate a new rule that does outlaw moving while shooting. Cut-off Stocks. According to the rules it’s OK to modify the stock on long guns so they correctly fit the shooter. Clearly the intent is to allow the length of the stock and height of the comb be adjusted to turn what can be an uncomfort - able rifle or shotgun into a firearm that is easy and convenient to use. But, where to draw the line? Folks have modified their stocks to the point where they are actually no more than glorified pistol grips … great for shooting Outlaw (which is not yet recognized as a legitimate shooting category). The intent is for long guns to be “shoulder” guns … not handguns. While perhaps not adequately defined or re - stricted in the Shooters Handbook, these stocks are illegal. Age-based Categories. There was a breach of trust when Modern and Traditional were abandoned for age-based cate - gories accommodating the “two handed” smokeless competitors. The “promise” was to vigorously pursue aged-based categories for the entire suite of specialty shoot - ing disciplines within SASS. This promise has been broken. What’s good for the two-handed smokeless folks is good for the rest of our shooting community (Duelist, Gun - fighter, Frontiersman, Frontier Cartridge, etc.). We’re all getting Visit us at sassnet .com Back to ToC >> Page 8 Cowboy Chronicle June 2014

e e SASS Announces Colonel Dan’s Belief Hall of Fame Inductees In The Essential for 2014 Truth Of Individual Liberty olonel Dan – I have a profound I have the most profound con - he SASS Board of Directors SASS #4775, Proprietor, of Csympathy with your belief in tempt for virtually all the elected Tis proud to announce the Santa Ana, California. An arti - the essential truth of Individual representatives in the federal gov - SASS Hall of Fame inductees for cle containing their biographies, Liberty AND the fact our mar - ernment, as they do NOT protect 2014. They are Chuckaroo, contributions to SASS, and pho - velous Constitution was crafted to and defend the Constitution. The SASS #13080, of Ijamsville, tos will appear in the July issue. protect that fundamental law of same contempt is earned by Maryland; Half a Hand Henri, Their induction ceremony will mankind. I believe once we get the elected officials in state govern - SASS #9727, of Magdalena, New take place at the 12 th annual past the dual purpose of all living ments and the larger cities. I re - Mexico; Pale Wolf Brunelle, SASS Convention in San Anto - things, survival and procreation, spect those in elected office in our SASS #2495, of Slayton, Oregon; nio, Texas, January 7 – 11, 2015. we accede to the need for tribal smaller towns and villages. They Two Sons, SASS #12636, of Cov - **** safety and there fore must accept are very close to the voters and ington, Indiana, and Cowboys Congratulations to these the basic tenant of the Golden Rule. most do the job as a perceived duty and Indian Store, Jim Bowie, well deserved inductees! I believe in Individual Liberty to their community; also where because no one is born to be a slave most of those jobs are unpaid. or a subject. (At least I have not You have earned my respect found that tribe in my 84 years.) and admiration for your hard work To me there are just three forms and many hours devoted to the de - of government: Individual Liberty, fense of our Constitution. I applaud Socialism, and Dictatorship. your integrity, courage, responsibil - To live under Individual Lib - ity, and, yes, your intelligence. I can erty (libertarianism, if you will) see why you were a Colonel, and I’ll one MUST afford his neighbors wager, a good one. I would have with the SAME degree of toler - liked to have served under you. ance that one wants. It seems I enlisted in April 1950 before that damn few people will accord there was a “Police Action” and that to others these days. One was still in basic on June 25th. I must think rationally and work to finally got to Korea in ‘52 and find truth, again in short supply. served in the 7th Infantry until One must live under uncompro - my Truman year was cut. I liked mising integrity, exceedingly diffi - the army life, but chafed under cult to learn and then submit to. the bureaucracy and, to be honest, The courage to live under these the contract, although I under - demands is beyond many. Indi - stood the reason for it—ROI. I vidual sacrifice to care for those in came out a SFC and was proud to true need is a foreign thought to have served to protect freedom for most “progressives;” that is the the folks in South Korea and the job of the ruling class in govern - USA. The nighttime picture of ment. Personal responsibility and North and South Korea taken acceptance of the daily risks of from space proves the rightness living are an anathema to a vast as nothing else does . number of citizens. (Continued on next page)

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I Enjoy The Digital Chronicle really enjoy the digital copy of about a $1000 every time, plus the A Response From The IThe Cowboy Chronicle . The color man-hours. Now every thing is copy is such a great improvement. done through the website and Freedom Library’s Director For me it’s a win-win for SASS— through email. We felt the money Colonel Dan: do in fact share many positions less paper so we can save a few could be used better to improve ust wanted to let you know I with Libertarians, but hesitate trees, less cost in the publication of the ranges and purchase more enjoy the articles you write in using labels to describe myself … the paper copy, less paper in the targets for other matches, and of J The Cowboy Chronicle . A friend of I’m just who I am I suppose. county landfills; therefore, it’s bet - course, our second Sunday Cow - mine cuts them out and drops I hope that friend of yours told ter for the environment, and best of boy Match and Wild Bunch™ them off for me to read. I think you The Cowboy Chronicle went digi - all, it comes through in my inbox. Match. you are more a libertarian than tal as of the April issue, so it will At my gun club we used to Great job. Keep up the good any other belief perspective that I be somewhat difficult for him to send out monthly newsletters; work. know of. Welcome to the club!! “cut out” my articles and bring then we went to once a quarter; Arcadia Ranger, SASS #77125 And keep those writings coming. them to you! ust one suggestion … then once per year. The cost was Arcadia, FL Good stuff. you may want to consider joining Howard Blitz the Single Action Shooting Society You do me far more honor than I de - Colonel Dan’s Belief In Founder/Director yourself and the entire Cowboy serve. But more than that, I want to The Essential Truth Of The Freedom Library, Inc. Chronicle would then be delivered express my great appreciation for right to your computer every Individual Liberty ... your most honorable service to our * * * Mr. Blitz, Thank you for those month … and much earlier than (Continued from previous page) country and your dedicated patriot - most kind words and your interest what your friend could deliver. Cal Brennan, ism that still burns very strong in in my monthly musings for The Thanks again for those kind SASS Life #7692 your heart. Cowboy Chronicle . I very much ap - words and soldier on with the Plattsburg, MO Your assessment of the political preciate you taking the time to great work you do at The Freedom NRA Benefactor environment shows a thoughtful write and express your thoughts. I Library. Heritage Foundation – 1982 and exemplary level of analysis ... I * * * salute you sir! Cal – thank you so very much Remain resolute and soldier on ... for those exceptionally kind words. Colonel Dan !

Bunch™, costumes are the re - pertise for the enjoyment of all … SASS Rules – Explained (cont.) . . . quirement and one of the salient and, of course, they want to com - (Continued from page 7) of Brothers going through boot features that sets us apart from all pete in their own match. While sounds like one shot, it is one camp … they become motivated to the other shooting sports (actually, there are no rules against such a shot! It’s up to the shooter to not “take care” of each other … and for they ALL have their own version practice, there is a dark side that create a “judgment call” situation the most part, that’s fine. It sel - of shooting costumes, they simply should be recognized. At a mini - for the spotters. There’s not a dom degenerates to the level of don’t generally recognize it!). mum, every one of these Match Di - Gunfighter alive who hasn’t at cheating and not calling misses, Match Directors and top shooters rectors can be and has been one time or another fired both re - procedurals, and safeties on fellow who constantly shoot in blue jeans accused (by some) to have designed volvers at basically the same time posse members. However, if the (we are not talking B-western a match that plays to their … and when it happens once in a posse members are all members of here) set a very unfortunate exam - strengths. No Match Director Blue Moon, it’s normally handled the same club, they’ve already ple for new members coming in needs that kind of second-guessing. as a “no call.” However, if the bonded … and chances for abuse and for their own club members. There have, indeed, been Match Di - Gunfighter consistently (or nearly are much more likely. Also, these Match Directors who habitually rectors who have designed matches so) shoots both revolvers at once groups are missing a wonderful dress in blue jeans promote follow - and then practiced on the match … they earn a penalty for “shoot - opportunity to meet folks from ers who also dress in blue jeans. set up! One’s time is reduced sub - ing out of category!” other areas and developing brand Just as our educational system stantially after running through a Large Posse Requests. new “best friends.” The most seems to be “running/dumbing stage a dozen times (try it!). This When we go to the “big matches,” onerous of all, however, are when down,” so does our adherence to is cheating … and no honest Match most of us like to shoot with a few folks request an entire posse of good costuming. It’s one thing to Director needs this kind of nitpick - friends we haven’t seen since the posse members! Especially when occasionally wear jeans to a local ing. Badlands Bill, SASS #82, (Bill last “big shoot.” Maintaining rela - the members are all excellent club match … but when the folks Oglesby – entertainer for END of tionships and having fun with our shooters. Any scheduled posse on stage at a “big match” dress TRAIL) found a wonderful solution friends is part of the charm of shoots are no longer “fair,” and the like they’re shopping at Wal-Mart, to this Match Director’s dilemma these “big shoots.” Submitting other match guests don’t have the it’s an embarrassment and sends many years ago. He won his own posse requests is a longstanding opportunity to shoot with these the wrong message to the newer “big match” … and at the awards tradition and happily accommo - better competitors. Shooting with and younger SASS members. ceremony announced, “I had the dated. However, there is a dark folks with whom you normally Winning Match Directors . top score, but the match winner is side. For the posse system to shoot or requesting overly large Unfortunately many times the only … ” His desire to compete and do work, the members must be “hon - numbers of posse members are folks willing to step up and plan, well was satisfied … and there was est” … and 99.99% of our competi - both “bad form” … don’t do it. organize, and run a match are the no grousing regarding who took tors are. But, most posses “bond” Costumes. In Mounted, Ac - better shooters. These folks are home the “match winner” trophy. during a match … it’s like a Band tion Shooting, and in Wild willing to give of their time and ex - Class act!

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(Continued from page 1) end of the jail, getting the shot - Day 3 – Saturday spectators who came to see cow - gun, and engaging four knock - We played hard, the targets boys and cowgirls in action. Many down shotgun targets in any were big and close, the props were local gun enthusiasts dropped in order. It was quick, fun, and gave humorous, (we even got to shoot a to see what all the clang and fuss the shooter options on the order dummy at stage 12 with the re - was about. I had a chance to they preferred to complete the volver), and the scenarios were speak with several of them and in - rifle and revolver sweeps. Mean challenging. Our vendors spon - troduce them to club officials. Gun Mark managed to do this sored each of the twelve stages, And, of course, special thanks to stage in 23.47 seconds. WOW! So and our berm marshals did a su - all our vendors, particularly J. D. fast despite moving from one end perb job of outlining the course of Milton’s Shredded Roast Beef café of the jail to the other! fire while also paying homage to that served breakfast and lunch That evening was hospitality the sponsoring vendor. Miss Bon - everyday throughout the shooting and Texas Hold’em poker night at nie had scores posted daily at the competition. the clubhouse. Adjoining clubs entrance to the competition area Day 2 – Friday got together to host a cookout. for every one to peruse. And, The rains were sporadic, Burgers, brats, hotdogs, and fresh after three fun filled, action dumping water over the shooting picked sweet corn were the order packed days of competition, the Overall Guns of August Champions— area Thursday night … It was a of the day. Along with this hearty winners emerged. Buckaroo Mis - Cowgirl Sage Chick from OH little like “Camp Swampy” when and Buckaroo Missouri Lefty meal were brownies and ice souri Lefty, was the Top Shooter we arrived for the start of the from Missouri. These young cream for dessert. And, what a with only one stage over 20 sec - main match. Deadwood Stan champions are hard to beat! sight the cools were, standing onds, all this while shooting a must have done his anti-rain there dressed in Sponge Bob clean match! Sage Chick shoot - dance, as our weather-gal pre - pletely revamped and spacious Square Pants shorts and cowboy ing Cowgirl was declared the top dicted highs in the low 80s with jail. Here, with both revolvers boots! Overall Lady. Over 40 competi - sunshine for the rest of the week - holstered, the shooter strategi - The Charity Poker Tourna - tors shot the entire match clean. end ... perfect shooting weather. cally placed his shotgun on either ment was held later in the What really continues to as - This year’s theme honored end shelf, and the rifle was placed evening to raise money for the tound me is the number of one of the best Wyatt Earp pic - on the opposite end shelf. Stand - SASS Scholarship Fund. And, younger shooters we see entering tures, Tombstone . Seven Mile ing with one hand on each side of speaking of charity, the brass raf - and leading the sport. I was im - Tom did a superb job developing the jail doorway, ready to move, fle at the end of the match raised pressed with the doting grandpar - the shooters handbook to meld the shooter calls out …”You got a money for the local Boy Scout ents like Darby who had his two this western cowboy flick with the fight comin’ and it’s comin’ Troop, who acted not only as our granddaughters, Darby Belle and stage designs. today!” At the beep, the shooter traffic control, but also did all the J. K. Tadpole, as well as patient We dedicated this Regional to started by moving to the rifle and range clean up throughout the parents guiding these youngsters two fellow shooters who were engaging four targets in a dimin - week. For a small donation, these along. Eleven young ladies and called from us to the Big ishing sweep from either end. hearty young men provided addi - gentlemen were there, including Roundup—Mary Von and B.B. Then using revolvers as needed, tional assistance for us “Old Buckaroo Possum Slayer, who Hayner. They would have been engaging four revolver targets in Timers” by acting as mules to shot the match clean for the third pleased with all the changes, from a diminishing sweep from either help pull the gun carts up the hill. consecutive year!!! being able to recover spent brass end. Then moving to the opposite What a relief. (Continued on next page) without holding up the posse to revamped stages, improved awards, meals, and door prizes. Each stage was designed around Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, and that movie’s trivia. For ex - ample, stage six was the com -

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beautiful setting, and central loca - tion. Guns of August is so easy to get to from anywhere in the coun - (Continued from previous page) clean, but his humorous songs, try. The Middletown Sportsman’s The highlight of the weekend particularly his love for the Club is located in Middletown, was the banquet at the Disabled Model ‘97, made us all laugh. Ohio halfway between Dayton and American Veterans hall. Sexy Several guns, including a Cincinnati, and both of these Sadie and Artie Fly from Major matched pair of Ruger pistols, cities have a major airport. It is Photography not only did all the were raffled off for the SASS also a great area for a vacation posse pictures throughout the Scholarship, and guns from with numerous places to go and week, but also were on hand for Uberti and Taylor’s were given things to see within an hour’s more formal portraits in the rear of away as door prizes as well. In drive. Come see us again for the the hall. Rose Louise Reasoner addition to all these events, Coy - 17 th Guns of August in 2014. headed the judging of the costume ote Kid Mike received his contest and there were some very Regulator Badge for his out - creative costumes. And, as ex - standing support of SASS. pected, the Disabled American Vet - Day 4 – Sunday erans staff outdid themselves. Two This was the culmination buffet lines moved quickly, provid - with Cowboy Chapel in the ing a gourmet meal of BBQ chicken upper arena. Congratula - and BBQ ribs, coleslaw, rolls, and tions to all who competed in cherry cobbler for desert … no com - the Mideast Regional SASS plaints from any hungry cowpokes! Championship. The grand finale was musi - The Guns of August con - cian Frederick Jackson Turner. tinues to be such a popular He not only finished third in the event because of its reputa - 49’er category and shot the match tion for fun, friendliness,

Winners Categories Blackpowder Mini-Match Side Matches Guns of August C Cowboy Ethan Callahan, Traditional Slowpoke John, Speed Shotgun Hammered SXS Overall Champions SASS #41005 MI SASS #45304 PA Man SixGun Scotsman MI Man Missouri Lefty, L B-Western Dodge City Dixie, L Traditional Fancy Free Spirit OH Lady Fancy Free Spirit OH SASS #91721 MO SASS #90920 TN Duelist Stone Creek Drifter OH Speed Shotgun – ‘87 Lady Sage Chick, B-Western Cheyenne Culpepper, Gunfighter Woody Shootem, Man Slater, SASS #48454 OH SASS #32827 OH SASS #24816 OH SASS #66959 TN Overall Regional Champions S Duelist Smokin Iron, Warm-up Mini-Match Pocket Pistol – Single Action Man Duke Skywalker, SASS #22149 OH Traditional Duke Skywalker IN Man Black Jack Beeson OH SASS #26871 IN L Duelist Katie Scarlett, L Traditional Turkey Legs IL Pocket Pistol – Double Action Lady Sage Chick OH SASS #73126 MO Duelist Doc Roy L. Pain MI Man Three Gun Cole Categories Duelist Doc Roy L. Pain, L Duelist Katie Scarlett MO SASS #50738 MI Buckaroo Missouri Lefty MO SASS #28321 MI Gunfighter Cheyenne Culpepper Lady Honey B. Quick OH Buckarette Darby Belle, S Gunfighter Lassiter, OH Derringer SASS #83060 MD SASS #2080 OH Plainsman Black Jack Beeson, Man SixGun Scotsman MI Young Gun Vaquero Jake, L Gunfighter Clementine Valentine, SASS #11523 OH Lady Honey B. Quick OH SASS #69781 KY SASS #66179 OH Ladies Only Shamrock Sadie SC Long Range L Young Gun J. K. Tadpole, Gunfighter Boaz Longhorn, Side Matches Quigley Pail Swiss OH SASS #83059 CA SASS #88829 OH Speed Rifle Rifle Caliber Grand Dame Cimarron Lil, L F Cartridge Fancy Free Spirit, Man Doc Roy L. Pain MI Man Smokin Iron OH SASS #25823 KY SASS #73738 OH Lady Short Fuse Ruby, Lady Shamrock Sadie SC E Statesman J. R. Hammer, F Cartridge Mean Gun Mark, SASS #47939 KY Pistol Caliber SASS #45907 MI SASS #78668 OH Speed Rifle All Around Man Woody Shootem OH Cattle Barron Dakota Doc, F C Duelist Billy the Avenger, Missouri Lefty MO Lady Sage Chick OH SASS #9695 MI SASS #92117 IL Speed Pistol Single Shot L S Senior Two Sons, Frontiersman Ohio Cheatin Charlie, Man Two Gun Tuco, Man Ruger Ray, SASS #12636 IN SASS #83621 OH SASS #78297 MD SASS #59234 OH S Senior Ol Short Tom, Pale Rider Stone Creek Drifter, Lady Sage Chick OH Lady Fancy Free Spirit OH SASS #12635 IN SASS #58853 OH Speed Pistol Duelist SASS Challenge L Senior Honey B. Quick, P R Gunfighter Swiss, Man Sixgun Scotsman, Man Black Tom, SASS #47009 OH SASS #13622 OH SASS #68879 MI SASS #43775 KY Senior Don Jorge, Wild Bunch™ Lady Canadian Two Feathers, Lady Fancy Free Spirit OH SASS #37131 IL Overall SASS #71784 CAN Lawman Black Jack Beeson OH L Wrangler Shamrock Sadie, Man Shell Stuffer, Speed Pistol Gunfighter Poker Tournament SASS #78511 SC SASS #33146 IL Man Widowmaker Hill Big Six Henderson, Wrangler Duke Skywalker, Lady Honey B. Quick, SASS #59054 TN SASS #16594 KY SASS #26871 IN SASS #47009 OH Lady Turkey Legs IL L 49’er Turkey Legs, Categories Speed Shotgun – ‘97 SASS #48384 IL Modern Shell Stuffer IL Man Frisco Red, 49’er Two Bit Drifter, L Modern Honey B. Quick OH SASS #60175 MO SASS #32899 OH Traditional Loco Leadslinger, Lady Sage Chick OH Cowgirl Sage Chick OH SASS #66868 OH Speed Shotgun – SXS Cowboy Dusty Walker, Man Missouri Lefty MO / SASS #81930 IN Lady Shamrock Sadie SC

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. CAT ’S CORNER . By Cat Ballou, SASS #55

Recipe for “Warshing” Clothes Build fire in the backyard to heat a kettle of rain water. Set tubs so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is pert. Shave one hole cake of lie soap in Cat Ballou, SASS #55 boilin water. Sort things, make 3 piles – 1 pile or years I’ve heard several white, 1 pile colored, 1 pile work Fmen lament they were britches and rags. (born a hundred years too late. To make starch, stir flour in cool Never heard a woman say that. water to smooth, then thin down The recipe below probably ex - with boiling water. plains why. It is a list of direc - Take white things, rub dirty spots tions for properly “doin the on board, scrub hard, and boil, warshin’” given to a young bride then rub colored. Don’t boil just by her Alabama grandmother wrench and starch. and discovered in a scrapbook Take things out of kettle with many decades later, reproduced broom stick handle, then wrench, here exactly as written with and starch. Hang old rags on spelling errors and all: Colonel fence.Spread tea towels on Richard I. Dodge, SASS #1750) grass.

Pore wrench water in flower bed. and count yore blessings. Scrub porch with hot soapy In 2014, go to the laundry water. room and pat your washing ma - Turn tubs upside down. Go put chine and dryer on the head! on clean dress, smooth hair (And we haven’t even begun with hair combs. to consider “birthin’ babies!” … Brew cup of tea, sit, rock a spell, Cat)

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BRIggSDALE COunTy SHOOTISTS : “RETURN OF THE BUFFALO TO THE PLAINS ” riggsdale, CO – Dark, angry, By Hawkeye Sam SASS Life/Regulator #20180, Bmoisture-laden clouds hung and Pawnee Drifter, SASS #68380 low over the short prairie grass of northeastern Colorado as they thought they saw a large wooden had for the last three days. The ship filled with animals float by Rocky Mountain peaks to the in the steady downpour. west had also disappeared several The last year had been a busy days earlier in a blanket of grey one for the Briggsdale County and black. Small mountain Shootists in planning for their 1 st creeks turned into raging rivers multiday annual shoot. Previous and had emptied their muddy annual shoots had been called contents into the South Platte “Almost Annual Shoots” and were and Cache La Poudre Rivers, one day in length. September 13 th causing flooding on a massive – 15 th , 2013 were going to be the dates for their 1 st annual “Return of the Buffalo to the Plains” Cow - Blazen Vaquero, SASS #69509, and Avery Wade, SASS #97444, This match featured several boy Action shoot. Stages were pitch in to help get the range ready “novelty” side matches … which written, ranges and targets were to shoot for the next day. were delayed until Saturday set, camping areas were Cowboys are a resilient lot … afternoon because of the rain. arranged, trophies and nametags and this IS an outdoor sport! The “Annie Oakley” match were made, the caterer was con - required competitors to shoot their rifle over their shoulder tracted, and extra toilets were or - began to fall. This didn’t stop using a mirror for the sights. dered. A cowboy preacher was shooter registrations and the RO- Many did quite well! found for Sunday’s service, entry I class from being given indoors, forms printed and distributed, but all activities outside the shel - scale. Roads, bridges, and even and all the other hundreds of lit - ter came to a halt. The decision whole towns were closed or cut off tle things that must be done to was made to cancel the warm-up due to the flooding and continual put on a great SASS Annual shoot and move the novelty rain. Standing under the shelter Shoot were accomplished. Every - events to Saturday afternoon at the Briggsdale County Cowboy thing and everyone was ready to after the first six stages of the It was a beautiful sight to see— range, Kid Bucklin, Territorial go except for the weather! main match were over. some blue sky—after days of Governor and SASS Life/Regula - Standing under the range Adapt and overcome seemed to pouring rain! Both main match tor #78261, and Sixty-nine Cent shelter out of the relentless rain, be the theme of this year’s shoot. shooting events were wonderful … Wizard, SASS Regulator #72259, Kid and Wizard said a few Cowboy Action Shooters are an the rest of the time was a bit the organizers of the shoot, along prayers, hoping the rain would let amazing group of folks, as they of a challenge. with other early arrivals even up and our Cowboy friends could just roll with the punches and deal join us for a great shooting expe - with the circumstances with no rience. The rain began to lessen (Continued on next page) and finally stopped just as some of the early arrivals began to ar - rive in their motorhomes and campers. Even though the muddy ground was saturated with water, they got the campers parked and set up, and old friends began to gather and discuss the weather and the upcoming shoot. Friday morning started out clearer than it had been for days, so club members and shooters alike pitched in to drain out the puddles of water all over the Once the sun came out each day, range and help out where they the small puddles disappeared, could. Later that morning the leaving ample dry ground clouds rolled back in and rain for the competitors.

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(Continued from previous page) the bird with only one more shot. whining or complaining. They just Many shooters take multiple shots asked what they could do to make to down the Medusa clay bird. things better, including praying for Other novelty shoots included sunshine for the next two days of the derringer and pocket pistol tar - main match shooting. gets and a timed tombstone and As evening approached, many bottle rack knockdown stage. An of the shooters gathered under old time moving .22 shooting the range shelter for the sched - gallery was enjoyed by many shoot - uled potluck dinner and some en - ers. The most popular novelty, thusiastic conversations. The judging by the hoots and hollers, evening was topped off with some was the “Annie Oakley” shoot. great music provided by Ric-A-D- Shooters faced away from the tar - Split, SASS #62071, with his get with their rifle over their magic guitar. And yes, it rained shoulder and used a mirror to align all night long. the sights just like the famous Saturday morning our prayers trick shooter from Buffalo Bill’s were answered as the rain finally Wild West Show used to do. The stopped. The clouds began to lift shooters had a hard enough time and a strange yellow light ap - Kid Bucklin, SASS Life/Regulator using the mirror to see their sights, peared in the eastern sky. The sun /TG #78261, (left) and Sixty-nine Cent but then they had to stay perfectly began to track higher in the sky, Wizard, SASS Regulator #72259, still while using their thumb to and with it came warmth that felt worked hard to provide an pull the trigger. Amazingly, many so good after days of cold rain. Mud exemplary match for their guests … of the shooters did very well hit - puddles began to disappear, dry everything was in place and ready ting the target, and several shot carpets and rugs were laid down to go … except the weather. the bull’s-eye. Two shots were so They were most appreciative over wet tables, and cowboy shoot - close that the distance between the for everyone’s willingness to pitch in and work around Mother Nature. shots and the dead center of the target had to be measured to deter - by Hog Wild caterers, was served. mine the winner. Since the good weather continued, At 5:00 o’clock the range was the novelty events were manned closed so the targets could be and ready to begin. reset and painted. At the same The first novelty event was a time the clouds moved back in chance to shoot the all shotgun and the thunder, lightning, and Medusa poppers and flying clay rain began in earnest. All of the birds course. What’s a Medusa shooters headed for the shelter of you might be wondering? It is an their vehicles or campers to avoid evil device that has a large metal the storm. If you have ever tried plate on one end and a garage to paint metal targets in a thun - door spring with an attached clay derstorm, you will know just how bird holder mounted on the other. dangerous and foolish a task it It is attached in the middle to a Nothing was going to stop Bydoggie, was for several of the workers SASS #7533, who donned his XXXXL stand and acts as a pendulum who remained. sombrero and was ready to repel rain after the first shot knocks the The rain continued on and off and sunshine equally! steel plate off its base. The all the rest of Saturday night cre - Medusa arm begins to swing on its ating several lakes and huge mud ers began to flock onto the range to pendulum arc while the garage puddles in the camping and shoot - register and get ready to shoot. door spring wildly moves the clay ing areas. Yet, come Sunday morn - At the opening ceremonies, pigeon back and forth. You have ing, the clouds had lifted some, and Kid Bucklin and Sixty-nine Cent to be really lucky or good to get the range was made ready to shoot Wizard couldn’t thank the shoot - again. Cowboys and Cowgirls ers enough for braving the began arriving, and even several weather and road conditions to folks who had been unable to make it out to the shoot. So many reach us on Saturday figured out roads and bridges had been ways to join us on Sunday. closed, flooded, or washed out that After the Cowboy church serv - planning and executing the trip ice concluded, the range and made it a very difficult task. safety talk began. The Kid and Many of the folks in attendance Wizard profusely thanked all of had to drive many extra miles out the shooters for again braving the of their way to make it to the poor weather conditions. They range. There were some folks promised us the rain would stay they knew who couldn’t even away while we finished the last leave their homes due to flooding. Ric-A-D-Split, SASS #62071, provided six stages of the day, and they Saturday morning’s six main Friday evening entertainment under were right. The shooters had a match stages went off without a the shelter, and everyone enjoyed great time shooting while staying hitch and were enjoyed by all. A the BBQ lunches provided by out of the few water and mud pud - scrumptious BBQ lunch, prepared Hog Wild Caterers. (Continued on page 16 )

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BCS Annual Match ... these unique trophies. The top three shooters in each category (Continued from page 15 ) and top overall shooters, male and dles that dotted the range. female, got to actually take one of Thankfully, the actually shooting these trophies home. Buffalos areas remained in good condition. were also awarded to the winners After all of the lead had been of the novelty shoots as well. The sent downrange and the guns put “regular” Briggsdale County Shoo - away, another great BBQ lunch tists clean match pins are a cov - was served and devoured by the eted reward for monthly matches hungry guests. And you guessed however, Special Golden Buffalo it; the rain began to fall once pins were awarded to the four again. Everyone crowded under skillful shooters that managed to the range shelter for the award make every bullet hit steel and ceremonies and door prizes. All steered clear of any other mishaps were impressed by the beautiful for the 12 annual match stages. buffalo silhouette shooting tro - Kid Bucklin and the Wizard phies. It was only fitting the thanked everyone for coming and name of the shoot and the trophies promised all a bigger and better paid homage to the American shoot next year and said the rain bison that had roamed the very would not be a factor like it was ground on which we stood for hun - this year. Cowboys and Cowgirls dreds of years. All shooters anx - loaded up in their vehicles, said iously hoped to take home one of (Continued on next page)

Winners Categories Overall Wrangler Knight Creek Man Cobra Cat, Ranger, SASS #19275 CO SASS #64668 WY Lady Kitty Carbine, Cowboy Cobra Cat CO SASS #9625 CO Cowgirl Lady Justice, Categories SASS #5310 CO L Young Gun Diamond Blaze, L Wrangler Scarlet Rebel, SASS #97568 CO SASS #38694 CO E Statesman Granpu, Clean Match SASS #95167 CO Amarillo Slim, SASS #19182 CO Senior Cat Tracker, Pawnee Drifter CO SASS #9624 CO Sheriff Leming CO L S Senior Black Mountain Cat, Suffolk Punch, SASS #93547 WY SASS #4609 CO SIDE MATCHES S Senior Sheriff Leming, Medusa SASS #51641 CO Man Onray CO L B-Western Sonora Blaze, Lady Riverboat Annie, SASS #69510 CO SASS #60914 CO B-Western Pawnee Drifter, Pocket Pistol SASS #68380 CO Man Sixty Nine Cent S Duelist Dutch Dave Holland, Wizard, SASS #13585 WY SASS #72259 CO L F Cartridge Burgandy Ballou, Lady Sonora Blaze CO SASS #62072 CO Shooting Gallery F Cartridge Onray, Man Onray CO SASS #66217 CO Lady Turquoise Queen, F C Duelist Bydoggie, SASS #64719 CO SASS #7533 WY Speed Pistol Frontiersman Amarillo Slim, Man Cat Tracker CO SASS #19182 CO Lady Turquoise Queen CO C Cowboy Spades, Speed Rifle SASS #31383 CO Man Cat Tracker CO L Gunfighter Miss BJ, Lady Lady Justice CO SASS #43260 CO Speed Shotgun ‘87/‘97 Gunfighter Shalako Wray, Man Cool Hand Cos, SASS #44625 CO SASS #43259 CO S Gunfighter Marshal Jack Lady Miss B. J., Murphy, SASS #43260 CO SASS #32018 CO Speed Shotgun SxS F C Gunfighter Nolan Sackett, Man Onray CO SASS #65051 WY Derringer L Duelist Ciss Me Cat, Man Slippery Rock Bass, SASS #9824 CO SASS #59833 CO Duelist Scary Indian Dude, Lady Riverboat Annie, SASS #79500 CO SASS #60914 CO L 49’er Kitty Carbine, CO Annie Oakley 49’er Assassin, Man Cool Hand Cos CO SASS #9836 WY Lady Miss B. J. CO

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(Continued from previous page) their goodbyes, and scattered in all directions to find their way home. Thanks to the 65 hardy cowpokes who overcame all the obstacles to join us for our Annual Shoot. The Briggsdale County Shoo - tists range is located at the Pawnee Sportsman’s Center near Briggsdale, Colorado in the north - eastern part of the state. The range is surrounded by working cattle ranches and was home to

Buffalo trophies were a fitting design, honoring the buffalo that roamed this area for hundreds of years and were so critical for the survival of the Indians that hunted them.

buffalo, Indians, and cowboys and still maintains that Old West feel. Regular SASS matches are held every 2 nd and 4 th Saturdays of each month. Kid Bucklin and Sixty-nine Cent Wizard have worked very hard on the ranges and props and provide close, clean, fast, and fun stages for every shoot. The second annual “Return of the Buffalo to the Plains” shoot will be held September 12 – 14, 2014. Plan on joining us for an even better and dryer shoot this year. This is an Annual not to be missed! These guys “Do It Right” for their shooters. Check out the Briggsdale County Shootists’ web - site at BriggsdaleCountyShoo - tists.com for more information.

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17 TH A MBUSH AT ,

Articlen & Pnhotuos bay l Sugah, SASS #80446 CAVERN COVE ALABAmA State Championship Last Round of the

Shez Lethal and other cowgirls on horseback presented the Stars and Bars, Alabama’s State Flag, the SASS Flag, and the Stars and Stripes Triple Crown in an impressive opening ceremony.

oodville, AL – Whatever Whappened to Randolph Scott? He recently appeared in the tiny but robust area of Cavern Cove in Woodville, Alabama for the 17 th An - nual Ambush at Cavern Cove. On October 3 – 6, 2013, 226 shooters representing 15 of our great states ascended upon the area with guns blazing! And what a treat they were in for—THREE matches in ONE! Mose and Bella Spencer were winding up the Triple Crown, it was Alabama’s State Champi - onship, and also the Ambush at It’s good to be the Judge! Cavern Cove! The Triple Crown began earlier in the year in April in unteers on their toes. Vendor Row Sparta, Illinois at the World’s saw lots of activity as well! Al - Shooting Complex followed by abama’s own Black Pin Buck D. Law Round Two at Shootout at Hard conducted an RO-I Class with five Times in Piqua, Ohio. The North cowboys earning their yellow pin. Fund! R C Moon dealt the cards for Alabama Regulators would like to With Andrew Quigley and El the annual Bobcat Sparks Memo - express our gratitude to Mose and Camino at the helm, side matches rial Poker Tournament and Arizona Bella for selecting Ambush at Cav - and the Blackpowder Match enter - Ranger left with the top prize! ern Cove for the Triple Crown finale tained shooters throughout the day. Graver Bill once again had some site. Several shooting pards visited The Wild Bunch™ Match, as well as surprises in store for us with his our area for the first time, and it Sidekick and Sgt. Eli’s Gunfighter now infamous Night Shoot. Just was our honor to be their host! Class, filled the afternoon. Ben T. when you think you can predict Mose and Bella are to be com - Iron led the Posse Marshal walk- what to expect … you can’t! Slick’s mended for their tireless efforts in — Ambush Champions — through, ensuring all shooters were Sharp Shooter once again took this endeavor and countless other Slick’s Sharp Shooter understanding of his creative stages. home the Tango Kid award. events in SASS. and Lead Ringer After sunset, Barkeep Casey Saturday’s competition began On Thursday, Uncle Frank and Congratulations! was found tending bar while Parlor with a welcome from Lawman Barkeep Casey kicked off the festiv - House Pearl had her girls gathered Mark and the North Alabama Reg - ities with a six-stage Rimfire one in attendance went to bed hun - up under the pavilion … and what ulators. SASS #1, Judge Roy Bean, Match. Our match sponsor, Woody gry that night! a night! Some even ended up … and his lovely bride SASS #1000, Anderson Ford, treated everyone to A steady stream of competitors (gulp) in jail! Not to worry as it was Justice Lily Kate, were welcomed to a delicious complimentary dinner of continued to arrive throughout the all in good fun, and the event raised Alabama. Shez Lethal and other BBQ and ribs. Suffice it to say, no day Friday keeping registration vol - funds for the SASS Scholarship (Continued on next page)

<< Back to ToC Visit us at sassnet .com June 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 19 (Continued from previous page) lovely wife, Miss Amy, introduced us cowgirls on horseback presented all to their new addition, baby the Stars and Bars, Alabama’s daughter Emma Brooke whom we State Flag, and the SASS Flag in an have lovingly nicknamed “Side impressive opening ceremony. At Chicklet.” It’s easy to see that 8:45 the first rounds were fired Canoe Creek Kid, grandpa to “Side downrange, and the 17 th annual Chicklet,” is already wrapped Ambush at Cavern Cove was offi - around her little finger! So much cially underway! fun to see the youth continuing in Goose Pond Colony was once our sport! again the locality for the banquet So folks, mark your wall calen - that found everyone dressed in takes us next year! dars, your shooting calendars, up - their finery. It was a welcome sur - Drake Robey and Granna pre - date the notes on your refrigerator, prise to have Alabama’s Ole Cow - sented the Alabama State Champi - set your reminders on your comput - poke (aka May Lillie) join us this ons with State Champion belt ers as well as on your phones … the year. Rimfire, side match, Wild buckles. Sidekick and Sugah were 18 th annual Ambush at Cavern Cove Bunch™, blackpowder, night shoot, announced as the Top Male and Fe - will be held October 2 – 5, 2014! and costume awards were pre - male overall State winners. The North Alabama Regula - sented. Door prizes, dancing, and Ambush at Cavern Cove awards tors thank you for your participa - karaoke continued after the deli - were then presented with Lead tion. 226 shooters did it for cious meal. Ringer and Slick’s Sharp Shooter Randolph Scott! Sunday morning Cowboy making new friends … as we all do going home with top honors. We all Church was greeted with a brief in this Cowboy world of ours. smiled as Georgia Slick beamed thunderstorm lasting just long Utilizing the ACES scoring sys - with pride when his granddaugh - enough to cool us off a bit. The ten tem for the first time, shooters ter’s name was called as the top posses were seen throughout the didn’t have long to wait to hear their overall female shooter. Many of us match interacting, laughing, sharing name called. We all appreciate have enjoyed watching Slick’s Sharp stories, jokes … greeting old friends, Drake Robey for the many, many Shooter grow from a little girl shoot - hours he puts into this event, many ing with her grandpa to the charm - of them behind the scenes. Drake ing young lady with a warm smile Robey makes things happen! The and expert shooter she is today … ten Posse Marshals presented Spirit with a World Champion buckle also! of the Game winners with a trophy Lead Ringer and Miss Behavin’ were as well as a Walmart gift card. with us in Alabama for the first Mose Spencer took center time, and we do hope they have al - stage presenting awards to the ready put us on their shooting calen - Triple Crown Winners. We all can dar for many, many years to come! hardly wait to see where this event Our own Sidekick and his

Winners Duelist Dead Lee Shooter, L Senior Sweet Sarah Jane, Triple Crown Overall Ambush Champions SASS #94239 AL SASS #12067 AL Frontiersman Fire N. Fallback KY Man Lead Ringer, D Duelist Kontankerous Tee, L S Duelist Justice Lily Kate, F Cartridge Barkeep Casey AL SASS #87957 KY SASS #30208 AL SASS #1000 TX F C Duelist Branchwater Jack, Lady Slick’s Sharp Shooter, E Statesman Trail Bandit, L Gunfighter Miss Weev, SASS #88854 AL SASS #77967 GA SASS #52426 SC SASS #76367 IL B-Western Copperhead Joe KY Overall State Champions Sky Roamer, L S Senior May Lillie, C Cowboy Irish Dan OShootem Man Sidekick, SASS #92638 AL SASS #4316 AL IN SASS #40914 AL E S Duelist Cornbread Willie L Wrangler Dew R Dye, C Cowgirl Bella Spencer, Lady Sugah, Brown, SASS #59089 TN SASS #63491 KY SASS #80446 AL SASS #18248 AL Iva Gun, Cowgirl Alchemist Belle, Categories F C Gunfighter SASS #80874 AL SASS #93666 AL Buckaroo Coyote McNeely, Justice D. Spencer, Outlaw Tennessee Tombstone, Duelist Doc Eells, SASS #89183 AL SASS #43954 IN SASS #34723 TN SASS #40531 OH Frontiersman Fire N Fallback, Lawman Mark, Range Boss Papa Dave, E Statesman Boben Weev, SASS #60185 KY SASS #57095 AL SASS #17266 TN SASS #63840 IL Andrew Quigley, 49’er T-Bone Dooley, Two Ponies, 49’er Reno Mustang, SASS #32802 AL SASS #36388 TX SASS #18032 AL SASS #90919 TN F Cartridge Barkeep Casey, Double Nickel, Rimfire Uncle Frank, Gunfighter Sgt. Eli, SASS #86366 AL SASS #97556 AL SASS #40403 AL SASS #35882 IL F C Duelist Bill Carson, Grand Dame Parlor House Pearl, Senior Tuff Stuff, L B-Western Dodge City Dixie TN SASS #52250 TN SASS #24630 AL SASS #55835 AL L Duelist Iron Maiden, Cheatin Chamberlin, Gunfighter Hikes Point Hank, Se Duelist Randy Saint Eagle, SASS #67188 TN SASS #74288 AL SASS #93071 GA SASS #64903 TN L Senior Posey’s Lefty’s Lady B-Western Copperhead Joe, Buck D. Law, Hammerstone, L Gunfighter Miss Weev IL SASS #39162 KY SASS #62183 AL SASS #64753 AL L Wrangler Miss Behavin’, Bama Kid, Junior Red Wolf Swain, S D Duelist Dirt Road Dude, SASS #88511 KY SASS #8688 AL SASS #89258 AL SASS #19816 AL Outlaw Tennessee Tombstone Cowboy Prestidigitator, L Junior Slick’s Sharp Shooter S Gunfighter Ugly, SASS #18106 IL TN SASS #52251 TN GA S Senior Jeremiah Longknife, Range Boss Papa Dave TN Sidekick, AL L B-Western Dodge City Dixie, SASS #21326 FL Senior Knob Creek Drover, C Cowboy Irish Dan OShootem, SASS #90920 TN Waco Jim, SASS #29843 KY SASS #61974 IN Shawnee Dakota Di, SASS #93979 AL S Duelist Randy Saint Eagle Badger McNeely, SASS #48706 AL S S Duelist Cherokee Sargent, TN SASS #85898 AL L Duelist L Banderas, SASS #38868 TN S Gunfighter Ugly IL Cowgirl Ima Darlin, SASS #51765 AL S S F Cartridge S Senior Persimmon Dan, SASS #56196 GA L 49’er Anna Belle Leigh, Gabby Ron, SASS #42428 IN Daisy Rose, SASS #83163 NE SASS #83467 AL Wrangler Lead Ringer KY SASS #85117 AL Sugah AL Wrangler Lead Ringer KY Duelist Potshot Parker, L Senior Posey’s Lefty’s Lady, Lone Wolf Swain, SASS #35906 GA SASS #66826 IN SASS #40689 AL

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The D I x I E D E S p E R A D O S Host The 11 TH Annual Huntsman World Senior Games Cowboy Action Shooting™

By B. T. Blade, SASS Life #35685, and Overall Wild Bunch™ Winners — Dixie Bell and J. T. Wild Lucky Wheeler, SASS Life #35686 and older to compete in a profes - t. George, UT – We lined up in ceremonies, celebrations, enter - sional atmosphere involving 27 Sa staggered column of twos be - tainment, and fireworks. At sev - sports ranging from Tennis, Trap, hind our American Flag. The eral points, it was hard to see and Track events … and yes, … to Archery athletes were in front of through pairs of emotional eyes. A Cowboy Action Shooting™! us with the Bicyclists to our rear. total of two weeks of overall com - More than 10,000 athletes from They and all the other competitors petition would begin tomorrow — Cowboy Action Match all 50 states and Washington D.C., were wearing the red event polo morning—with new friendships Overall Winners — along with 21 other countries, par - shirts all entrants were given—but being made along the way. J. T. Wild and Belinda Belle ticipated in the 2013 Games. not us. At the request of the event We were at the Huntsman The events were held all over organizers, we were dressed in our World Senior Games in St. George, over the PA system, the music the St. George, Washington, and best “working cowboy/cowgirl” Utah and our hearts were thun - began, and we proceeded to march Hurricane areas with free health duds … boots shined, spurs and dering as if the shot timer were into the stadium at Dixie State Col - screenings (on a voluntary basis) badges polished … standing tall. about to go off on the first stage of lege. Cameras flashed and our ears and exhibits at the Dixie Center in The sun would be setting shortly, a main match! were filled with the cheers and ap - St. George. and the night would be filled with An announcement was made plause of thousands as the “Grand The opening ceremonies in - Parade of Athletes” entered the sta - cluded a great motivational presen - dium. Let the Senior Games Begin! tation by Olympic Gold Medalist 2013 marked the 27 th year of Jason Lezak (U.S. Swim Team) and — Lady Top Gun Shootoff the Huntsman World Senior Games concluded with the lighting of the Medal Winners — and the 11 th that has been hosted by Senior Games Torch. (Gold, Silver, and Bronze; the Dixie Desperados. It was the The Cowboy Action Shooting™ center, left, and right ) first year we attended, and it will venue consisted of side matches (in - Belinda Belle, certainly not be the last. cluding Long Range Lever and Aspen Filly, The Senior Games seek to fos - Shotgun Challenge), a five-stage and Lefty Jo ter worldwide peace, health, and Wild Bunch™ match, three-stage friendship and they do all that. The Plainsman Event, and a twelve- Games allow people 50 years of age (Continued on next page)

Winners Gunfighter B-Western/Classic Cowboy L B-Western/Classic Cowgirl Overall 65 – 69 Navajo Kelly, 60 – 64 Elk Ridge Sheriff, 55 – 59 Aspen Filly, Man J. T. Wild, SASS #85246 UT SASS #33087 UT SASS #50535 CO SASS #20399 UT Duelist 65 – 69 Holy Rider, 60 – 64 Lady Reb, Lady Belinda Belle, 50 – 54 Sunrise Bill, SASS #53115 OR SASS #31959 CA SASS #42966 ID SASS #64301 OR 70 – 74 Outlaw Exterminator, 65 – 69 Tu Luce La Threads, Top Gun Shoot-off 55 – 59 Sixgun Louie, SASS #20135 SD SASS #3005 UT Man Hobble Creek Marshal, SASS #65467 CO 75 – 79 Clearwater Kid, Wild Bunch SASS #15632 UT 60 – 64 Sly Steadyhand, SASS #8886 AZ Overall Lady Belinda Belle ID SASS #76971 UT L Traditional Man J. T. Wild UT Categories 65 – 69 Jerry Potts, 50 – 54 Jo D. Fender, Lady Dixie Bell UT Traditional SASS #78838 CAN SASS #92846 UT Categories 50 – 54 Colorado Blackjack, 70 – 74 Double Dollar, 55 – 59 Belinda Belle ID Modern J. T. Wild UT SASS #58441 CO SASS #28621 CA 60 – 64 Second Fiddle Sue, L Modern Belinda Belle ID 55 – 59 J. T. Wild UT 75 – 79 Hellfire, SASS #55872 Ut Traditional Sunrise Bill OR 60 – 64 Hobble Creek Marshal SASS #35333 UT 65 – 69 Dixie Bell, L Traditional Dixie Bell UT UT 80 – 84 Poncho Prof CA SASS #5366 UT Plainsman 65 – 69 Twelve Mile Reb, Blackpowder 70 – 74 Lil’ Bit Younger, Man Hank A. Chief, SASS #30634 UT 60 – 64 Carlsbad Kid, SASS #37957 UT SASS #43655 AZ 70 – 74 Ruff Cobb, SASS #25682 WA 75 – 79 Purdy Pearl, Lady Autum Rose, SASS #7548 CO 65 – 69 Sparks, SASS #28148 CO SASS #21869 UT 75 – 79 Rosita Gambler, SASS #1412 Ut L Duelist Side Matches SASS #41377 CO 70 – 74 Rattlebury, 55 – 59 Gracie Three Dogs, Long Range 80 – 84 Wrangler Ron, SASS #27366 NV SASS #83140 CO Single Shot SASS #7122 CO 75 – 79 Slick Rock Bob, 60 – 64 Naughty Nancy, Man Oh Well UT Gunfighter SASS #49982 UT SASS #49165 UT Lady Gracie Three Dogs CO 50 – 54 Col. Butch Simons, B-Western/Classic Cowboy 65 – 69 Bitterroot Beaver, Blackpowder SASS #77845 UT 55 – 59 Juan Bad Hombre, SASS #50432 UT Man Capt. Le Phew, 60 – 64 Oh Well, SASS #73487 UT SASS #37210 UT SASS #2364 UT

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— Top Gun Shootoff Medal Winners — (Gold, Silver, and Bronze; center, left, and right ) Hobble Creek Marshal, Territorial Ryder, and Sparks

(Continued from previous page) from the basin and fire away! stage Main Match. Mokaac Kid As in the Olympic Games, there was the Match Director. Dixie Bell were three winners in each cate - kept things running smoothly and gory; Gold, Silver, and Bronze. efficiently each day with the help of The overall match winners T.L., Dead Eye Davidson, Tressie were JT Wild and Belinda Belle. Larson, and others. They also took the Gold in Wild Shooting was conducted on the Bunch™ Modern, with Sunrise Bill Dixie Desperados home range at the and Dixie Bell taking the Gold in Utah Shooting Sports Park. Our Wild Bunch™ Traditional. club has 12 bays with a wide range To cap off a great week, there of wonderful facades, many of which was also a terrific Western theme are “adopted” and maintained by dinner/dance, as well as our own different club members. There is Awards Banquet on Saturday also a long-range area with targets evening. It doesn’t get much better going out to 490 yards. For this than this! event, dry camping was available at So, will we be back next year? the range, and there were lots of You bet! Years ago, B. T. coined the vendors! The Senior Games stages, phrase “SASS … join for the while challenging, were straightfor - shootin’, but STAY because of the ward and fun with 8 posses of 118 people!” We think the folks at the total shooters moving right along. Huntsman Senior Games just may While all stages were profes - have been listenin’ in! sional, the SASS tradition of having So … if you’re over 50 and want fun was not forgotten. For example, to experience the thrill of Stage 10 was the Bathhouse & “Olympic” ceremonies and competi - Brothel. The shooter started at a tion coupled with the fun and ex - washtub with shotgun in hands and citement of Cowboy Action shells in the washbasin. After say - Shooting™ – sign up … and we’ll ing the line, “Rub-a-Dub-Dub look forward to seeing you in St. … shells in a Tub”—you load up George, October 8 – 11, 2014!

Wild Bunch Side Matches (cont.) Side Matches Rifle Caliber .22 Rifle Man Alaskan, Man Hobble Creek Marshal SASS #79504 UT UT Lady Aspen Filly CO Lady Bitterroot Beaver UT Pistol Caliber .22 Pistol Man J. T. Wild UT Man Bit Younger, Lady Belinda Belle ID SASS #37956 UT Long Range Pistol Lady Dixie Bell UT Man Sparks UT Pocket Pistol Lady Dixie Bell UT Man Rattlebury NV Speed Shotgun Lady Second Fiddle Sue UT ‘87 Derringer Man Territorial Ryder, Man Clearwater Kid AZ SASS #31939 OR Lady Lefty Jo CO Lady Belinda Belle ID Shotgun Challenge ‘97 SXS Man Twelve Mile Reb UT Man Territorial Ryder OR Lady Belinda Belle ID Lady Lefty Jo, Shotgun Challenge SXS SASS #18830 CO Man Hobble Creek Marshal ‘97 UT Man Hobble Creek Marshal Lady Lefty Jo CO UT Shotgun Challenge ‘87 Lady Belinda Belle ID Man Territorial Ryder OR Speed Rifle Lady Belinda Belle ID Man Colorado Blackjack CO Lady Second Fiddle Sue UT Speed Pistol Man J. T. Wild UT Lady Lefty Jo CO

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Page 22 Cowboy Chronicle June 2014 i Bayou Blast q q i By Chattahoochee, SASS #39557 Photos by Major Photography

ake Charles, LA – Down on change, to be ready to shoot on Lthe Bayou, the Up the Creek Sunday. The forecast rain held off Gang entertained 105 shooters again this year until all the shoot - this year in true Cajun style ing and the awards ceremony was March 7 – 9, 2014. The Gang and completed. guests were honored to have Shooters from Illinois, Mis - Judge Roy Bean, SASS #1, and souri, Mississippi, Alabama, Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000, in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, attendance this year. Louisiana, and even a lost cowboy On Saturday six main match (Mad Dog McCoy) from California stages were followed by a great stopped through on his way home Wild Bunch™ Match directed by from Winter Range. Shooters Possum Skinner. The Saturday chose their categories wisely, as ful awards as were the alligator night dinner and banquet was almost every SASS category was and Bayou Blast Event laser en - short and sweet, giving shooters awarded. Bolo ties with a Bayou graved “jelly jar” mugs presented enough rest, even with the time Blast badge as the slide were use - to side match winners.

Winners Categories Categories Overall L 49’er Dixie Deadeye, S Gunfighter Crosscut Hardy, Man Spur Broke, SASS #88756 LA SASS #54701 LA SASS #94572 TX F Cartridge Wyandot Jim, S Senior Choctaw Slim, Lady Tres Equis, SASS #66953 TX SASS #83930 TX SASS #90863 TX F C Duelist Mad Dog McCoy, L S Senior Sunshine Sally, Categories SASS #17292 CA SASS #78565 LA B-Western Macon A. Longshot, Grand Dame Lady Ghost, Wrangler Bear Gunz, SASS #81327 MS SASS #60899 TX SASS #47477 TX C Cowboy Needmore Gunz, Gunfighter Texas Jack Daniels, Young Gun Stumpy Hardy, SASS #48268 LA SASS #8587 TX SASS #68198 LA C Cowgirl Hot Tamale, Outlaw Texas Mac, Wild Bunch™ SASS #78531 TX SASS #43494 TX Modern Bootstrap Richard, Cowboy Tres Equis TX Range Boss Red River Mac, SASS #79130 TX Cowgirl Spur Broke TX SASS #79649 TX Traditional Texas Gator, Duelist Marshal Big Daddy Senior Czexican Dave, SASS #74485 TX Jenks, SASS #90515 TX Best Dressed SASS #66849 TX L Senior Weezee Anna, Cowboy Mad Dog Mccoy CA E Statesman Ed Sieker Texas SASS #72817 TX Cowgirl Montana Hannah Ranger, S Duelist Handlebar Bob, Calder, SASS #15960 LA SASS #4650 TX SASS #69008 TX 49’er Johnny Morris, L S Duelist Justice Lily Kate, SASS #69007 TX SASS #1000 TX

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SASS at the , ASS had been offered display Sspace at the Lehigh Valley LeHigh Valley Sportsman Show II held at the Al - lentown, PA Fairgrounds Agricul - tural Hall February 28, and March 1 – 2, 2014. Of course, we took advantage of this offer, set - ting up a show display booth built Sportsman Show by J. S. Sooner. A rack for display - ing long arms, as well as target stands, were provided by the Guthsville Rod and Gun Club of By Nota John, SASS #51089 Orefield, PA where the Dakota Badlanders hold matches. A laser II shooting game provided by Tin Ear and Ragweed proved to be a great hit with parents and young ones alike. Cowboy Chronicles and SASS promotional literature pro - vided by SASS Headquarters also generated much interest in Cow - boy Action Shooting™. Attendance at the show was approximately 8,000. Many peo -

Some of the SASS Members who participated in the Lehigh Valley Gun Show (l-r) J. S. Sooner, Feather Moon Dancer, Nota John, Trusty Sidekick, and Calamity Jame.

ple were drawn to the booth by a continuous playing of DVDs of dif - ferent matches and the expert commentary provided by a dozen local cowboys. We thank PBM Productions of Fogelsville, PA for allowing us to have the opportu - Over 11,000 i tems nity to showcase Cowboy Action Shooting™ to the public.

Trusty Sidekick instructing future Buckarettes about the shooting game. Our display generated much Boomer Zak observing. interest from folks attending the Lehigh Valley Gun Show in Allentown, PA.

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AMBUSH ON THE BUTTERFIELD TRAIL New Mexico Wild Bunch™ State Championshi p— 2014

as Cruces, NM. January 23 By English Lyn, SASS #74828 with shotgun first, starting on ei - L– 24, 2014 – Once again the Photos by Tex, English Lyn, and The Dorset Dodger ther end. So it was shogun one- intrepid Wild Bunch™ shooters of way, and pistol the other, New Mexico hitched up their wag - depending upon your disposition. ons, loaded their guns and ammo, This shoot could also be sub-titled: This stage was typical of the and headed south to Las Cruces stages to be encountered for the to take part in their State Cham - The Sands of Las Cruces rest of the day. The targets were pionship. big enough and close enough (by The Picacho Posse led by Fast Wild Bunch™ standards) to hit, Hammer, SASS #60707, is well but misses soon started appear - known for putting on a shooter’s ing, and the gremlin gang rode match, and this year was no ex - into town. Even the “reliable” ception. A trouble free drive down Model 12s refused to be reliable. I-25 saw us there by mid-after - It was interesting to note the cow - noon, just in time to be given boys and cowgirls shooting Model paint rollers and the job of paint - 12s had come up with some clever ing targets! With the help of reminders to demonstrate “ham - Lefty Too Slim, SASS #44564, and mer down” on an empty chamber. Redding Renegade, SASS #19873, These reminders varied from ker - the task was soon accomplished, chiefs tied in the trigger guard to and the range set for the match to very large clothespins blocking start the next morning. Beware, any access to the trigger. By Stage 5 all shooters were suffering from either the cold or gremlins, and although the se - quence for Stage 5 was not diffi - cult, it took some explaining—20 pistol, 10 rifle, and 6 shotgun. Pistol loaded with five rounds and holstered. Rifle loaded with 10 no one is allowed to stand idle be - rounds and staged at position 4. fore the match is ready to start!! Thursday morning started with the safety meeting and posse brief on a cold, breezy range where heavy coats and dusters were the order of the day. Six stages were ahead of us, and with the safety brief com - pleted the posse, led by the inim - itable J T Wild, SASS #20399, headed out to stage one. On the face of it, it was a simple stage to start—20 pistol and 6 shotgun, both shot from three positions Shotgun loaded with six rounds and staged at position one. Start at either position one or four, shooter’s choice. From position one, the shot - gun sequence was a six-shot Ne - vada sweep on three targets—S1, S2, S3, S2, S1, S2, then move to the next window. Pistol—start on P1 and engage the five targets counter-clockwise for five rounds, then engage them clockwise for five rounds starting on P2. Move with pistol and repeat pistol in - structions on rifle targets using (Continued on next page) << Back to ToC Visit us at sassnet .com June 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 29 had everything tied down but her dress, which was a flappin!! This is also where you learned the nice gun socks that keep your guns safe and warm are also very good sand filters. The sand that was blowing in the wind, and we were eating and breathing, was being filtered by the socks. The very fine dust the socks allowed through to our guns certainly slowed the actions. For the Win - chester ‘97s, the sandy “lapping compound” gave a whole new meaning to a free action job!! (Continued from previous page) painting was somewhat of a chal - A special mention must go to RP1 and RP2 respectively. Move lenge in the ever-increasing wind. (Continued on page 30 ) once again and with rifle repeat Thankfully, the paint was water pistol instructions. based and therefore easily re - I’ve got this, thought I. Doubt didn’t creep in until the rifle se - quence when I asked the RO, “Where am I?” and I got the an - moved from clothes and hands. swer, “It doesn’t matter, keep With strong to gusty winds shooting!” That changed the forecast for later in the day, it was thought process to “don’t miss and decided to take the posse picture make it any worse than it already at the start of day two while we appears to be!!” It turned out I were all dust free and smiling. shot the first pistol sequence en - Then, it was off to finish the final tirely to my own satisfaction!! six stages. By Stage 6 there was a good It did not take long for the breeze blowing, and dust was wind to pick up and one to learn everywhere, which led to a lot of to hang onto his hat. gun cleaning both during and For both J T Wild and Bogus after the day’s stages. Thanks to Deal, SASS #64218, it was a case the help of all who shot, it did not of “gone with the wind,” whereas take long to rearrange the targets Ez Gz, SASS #83885, must have for the next day, although the listened to the forecast, as she

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Ambush On The Butterfield Trail . . . (Continued from page 29 ) Second Fiddle Sue, SASS #55872, who shot her first Wild Bunch™ match. She not only shot it, but by the smiles, also enjoyed it. As a way of saying “thank you” for a great match, the

Alaskan, SASS #79504, had us all line up and fire two rounds from our ‘97s. It was a fitting end to a great match! One thing about Fast Ham - mer—he knows how to eat! The match was rounded off by excel - lent Mexican food—Chicken En - chiladas and rice.

— New Mexico Wild Bunch™ Champions — Boggus Deal (Modern), Texas Tiger (Lady Traditional), Lawless Lori Sue (Lady Modern), and Tex (Traditional). Congratulations … and way to persevere!

Winners Overall Man J T Wild, SASS #20399 UT Lady Texas Tiger, SASS #74829 NM

New Mexico State Champions Modern Bogus Deal, SASS #64218 Traditional Tex, SASS #4 L Modern Lawless Lori Sue, SASS #80852 L Traditional Texas Tiger , — Traditional Winners — SASS #7482 Three Amigos (1 st – 3 rd )—Tex, Mica McGuire, and English Lyn. The competitive difference between the three is getting less and less with each match! (Continued on next page)

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Dispatches From . camp Baylor , Captain George Baylor, SASS Life / Rugulator #24287 A Little About Chaps

“I was wondering if when you By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life/Regulator #24287 found time, you would to do an ar - ticle on the different types of chaps actual appearance of the garment and what each was used for.” on American cowboys is uncertain. Quick Draw McPaw SASS #97479 By the late 1870s, however, most Texas cowboys wore them as the e’ll confine the answer to cattle industry moved north. By Wchaps used in the old and 1884, the Dictionary of American new west. “The word chaps is a Regional English notes use of the clip of chaparejos or chaparreras, word in Wyoming, spelled “schaps.” which are Mexican Spanish words (Wikipedia) for this garment, ultimately de - Shotgun chaps: Each leg was rived from Spanish chaparro, one cut from a single piece of leather. sense of which is a low growing Modern ones have full-length zip - thicket—difficult to ride through pers, making them easy to put on without damage to clothing. The correct pronunciation for our pur - poses is “shaps” or [ æps].” (Wikipedia) Like many things cowboy, chaps came from the Vaquero cul - 2 ture. “The earliest form of protec - tive leather garment used by Photo 2 – Chaps in the 1895 mounted riders who herded cattle Montgomery Ward & Co, 4 in Spain and Mexico were called Catalogue and Buyers’ Guide 1895 armas, which meant “shields.” Photo 4 – Side view of shotgun They were essentially two large chaps in the National Cowboy pieces of cowhide that were used as Museum and Hall of Fame Photo 1 – a protective apron of sorts. They Evolution of attached to the horn of the rider’s and take off. But, of course, there Chaps “The stock saddle, and were spread were no zippers in the Old West, ex - Cowboys” across both the horse’s chest and cept, of course, in Blazing Saddles . (Old West the rider’s legs.” (Wikipedia). The legs were sewn, laced, but - Time – Life Chaps were not a popular item toned, or buckled together. Some Series) by during the Civil War. Photographs were permanently connected down William H. Forbis and do show soldiers wearing leggings the side to somewhere below the Editors of from knee to ankle. By the begin - 3 knee and then buttoned or buckled Time Life ning of the cattle drive era, shot - together so they could be put on Photo 3 – Shotgun chaps in the books (1973) gun chaps became almost and taken off with boots on. Other - National Cowboy Museum universal for cowboys bringing cat - wise, putting them on and then 1 and Hall of Fame tle north from Texas. “The time of (Continued on next page)

<< Back to ToC Visit us at sassnet .com June 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 33 in a town without a saddle shop Dispatches From Camp Baylor . . . might be selling Sears chaps, Stet - 8 (Continued from previous page) son hats they got from Sears, etc. putting on boots is extremely diffi - 6 Batwing chaps were a 20 th cen - cult. I have such a pair, and they tury invention. “Batwing chaps are are an exercise in physical dexter - cut wide with a flare at the bottom. ity to put on. I much prefer a pair Generally made of smooth leather, that has rolled leather buttons they have only two or three fasten - starting a few inches below the knee, meaning I can put them on 7 over boots, but not boots and spurs. The 1895 Montgomery Wards and 1897 Sears catalogs have only 5

Photo 6 – Woolie chaps in the National Cowboy Museum and Hall of Fame. These became popular in Montana and Wyoming in the 1880s. Photo 8 – Outla w/ lawman John King Fisher was arrested shotgun chaps. These two publica - by McNelly’s Rangers wearing tions are available in reproduc - chaps made from a tiger skin. This is our version, made by tions and offer a pretty complete Jack Houston about 10 years ago. view of life in their eras. It’s not He said they were the Photo 5 – Chaps by F.A. Menea, that every cowboy bought his ugliest chaps he ever made! Cheyenne, Wyoming in the chaps from Sears, but the chaps Photo 7 – Apache County, Arizona Nelson Museum of the Old West bought from the local saddle shop Sheriff Commodore Perry Owens. ers around the thigh, thus allowing in downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming. probably looked like them. Sears He was wearing fringed shotgun great freedom of movement for the chaps and a buscadero holster The high pockets probably indi - reflected the culture of the time in lower leg.” (Wikipedia) Since one of to clear the big .45 – 70 rounds for cated they were worn by a cowboy its catalogs. Additionally Sears “the items” in Classic Cowboy is who didn’t wear a gun at work. the Springfield he was holding. sold wholesale, so a general store (Continued on page 34 )

Visit us at sassnet .com Back to ToC >> Page 34 Cowboy Chronicle June 2014 Dispatches From Camp Baylor . . . skin, and had a pair of leggings made for his friend.” (Continued from page 33 ) In 1910 – 1915 Buffalo Bill’s chaps, a lot of SASS shooters wear Wild West Show star Buck Taylor, batwing chaps. This is SASS legal, “King of the Cowboys,” did King but costume contest judges are Fisher one better and wore Leop - aware they’re 20 th century, and usu - ard Skin Shotgun chaps with 12” ally the Classic Cowboy costume “spaghetti” fringe, l6 Conchos, and winners will be wearing shotgun a soft leather border embroidered chaps. If you believe your batwing in floral design. chaps are 19 th century style, you “Chinks are half-length chaps might want to bring proof to the that stop two to four inches below costume contest judges. 9 the knee, with very long fringe at While I was working on this, I the bottom and along the sides. was taken to task by a cowboy who Photo 9 – Buffalo Bill Wild West They are usually fringed along the says he read a description of Show star Buck Taylor, outside edge and bottom, making batwing chaps written in the “King of the Cowboys,” their apparent length appear 1880s. Sadly he didn’t send it to wore leopard skin shotgun chaps about four inches longer. The leg me, and I’ve never seen (a) any with 12 – inch spaghetti fringe and shape is cut somewhere between batwing chaps in museums with 16 Conchos. They featured a soft batwings and shotguns, and each pre-1900 dates (b) any photos (c) leather border embroidered in a leg usually has only two fasteners, floral design, 1910 – 15. Cowboys any descriptions of same in 19 th high on the thigh. They are cooler & The Trappings of the Old West century literature. If you have by William Manns, Elizabeth to wear and hence a design that is such, please forward it to me at Clair Flood, and Charlotte Berney. suitable for very warm climates.” [email protected] for use (Wikipedia). These are also very in a future Dispatches. the kind built for a cattle king or popular among Classic Cowboy 11 Around 1887 woolies started ap - contestants. Chaps are designed bandit king … But even this and Photo 11 – Lightweight shotgun pearing in northern climes. These his two pistols, his hand-tooled for riding horses, not doing 10-yard chaps designed for Cowboy are hair-on leather, sometimes with belt, his silk shirt were topped by dashes with guns, which is what Action Shooters by Doc’s Old West. canvas linings. Some were sheep - his leggings. They were made from These are authentic 19 th century skin. The most interesting pair of the pelt of a genuine Bengal tiger design shotgun chaps with fringe, hair-on leather chaps was the pair and given him by his compadre, and the bottom half of the legs made from a tiger skin Texas out - Ben Thompson. The story was that are held together with rolled law/lawman John King Fisher wore Ben took a liking to the skin while leather buttons, enabling them in 1875 when McNelly’s Texas visiting a circus in North Texas. to be put on and off over boots. Rangers came to arrest him. From [email protected], He tried to buy the tiger and the www.docsoldwest.com, Taming the Nueces Strip: man wouldn’t sell. So Ben shot the (719) 850-9029, Andrea Akins, “His hat was a brown beaver— tiger dead in his cage, bought the 0152 Pine Road, Del Norte, CO 81132

never seen 19 th century photos of cowboys wearing cuffs, and they aren’t in the two catalogs men - tioned—BUT the official Arizona State Historian, Marshal Trimble says they originated in the 1880s, as do a few historical publications. It should be noted snaps were, most likely, only in 20 th century cuffs. Studs or straps and buckles would be appropriate for 19 th cen - tury cuffs. 10 Chaps add much atmosphere to a SASS match and make you Photo 10 – At the Texas Rangers stand out. Many shooters wear the Museum at the Buckhorn Saloon minimum, a collarless shirt, and in San Antonio, Texas, “Mexican Chapajelos belonging to Mexican blue jeans. Those who meet Clas - General Miguel H. Monraz of sic Cowboy requirements stand Guadalajara. General Monraz out, as do B-Western shooters. You was a prominent figure in the don’t have to shoot Classic Cowboy Mexican Revolution.” to wear full regalia.

we do. Wearing chinks makes as 12 much sense as using modern, com - petition-designed gun leather. Cuffs Cuffs kind of go with chaps, so I’m throwing this in at no extra charge. Classic Cowboy counts them as one of “THE” items. I’ve

Photo 12 – Vintage cuffs. Cowboys & The Trappings of the Old West by William Manns, Elizabeth Clair Flood, and Charlotte Berney.

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Jack Dalton’s Western Gunleather By Jack Dalton, SASS #69967

ack Dalton, SASS #69967, (aka the holster is curved slightly out - used exclusively, and no stretchy JJim Iverson) is crafting one of a ward, allowing the revolver to basi - or belly leather is used. As a very kind, top quality western gun belts, cally fall back in. serious competitor myself, I un - holsters, and shotgun shell belts I’m a perfectionist, and all of derstand your needs. Even if we with serious SASS shooters specifi - my GUNLEATHER is 100% done aren’t the best shooters, it sure cally in mind. We’ve all changed by hand, including all the stitch - doesn’t hurt to just LOOK COOL! springs, gotten action jobs and short ing. You won’t find doubled I will need a lot of very precise stroke kits, everything we can do to stitches, Chicago screws, or (even measurements, especially for Bus - improve our scores, but what about worse) rivets. Many styles are cadero rigs, so I will need to be in your GUNLEATHER? Are your currently available. I am a fully contact with you via e-mail holsters too tight—hard to draw custom shop, so anything you de - ([email protected] ) or and re-holster easily? Extremely sire can be created for a truly phone 605-769-0226. I will be at loose holsters are even worse. Don’t unique rig. Matching cross draws END of TRAIL and will be donat - risk a match DQ because a loaded are available for all styles. I have ing a set of holsters with match - pistol “fell” out of your holster. designed a matching shotgun ing shotgun shell belt to be raffled My holsters are wet molded to shell belt that is built for speed. with the proceeds going to the fit your specific firearm. The fit is I’m the only one working on SASS Scholarship Fund. firm, yet allows the firearm to be your rig and guarantee 100% sat - I look forward to creating a one easily drawn. The outside edge of isfaction. Herman Oak Leather is of a kind, top quality rig for you!

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cowboy carpentry:

pa By Knot Werkin, guncarts 101 rt I SASS #82307 to tinker and will make their own least twice. For me, it seems like a glasses, earplugs, or other essentials. carts (that’s the ‘101’ part of this gig, never-ending, but enjoyable, process. It all takes up space that needs to be so more on that later). Others, where First, how many long guns are measured (at least roughly) and Knot Werkin, SASS #82307 spare time is a luxury, might order a you going to carry? Is it just you or built in to your plans. cart from any of the folks who adver - you and a partner? The minimum What you now have are the o, you’re now a cowboy. You’re an tise in The Cowboy Chronicle . Still other width of your cart will be dictated by rough dimensions for the basic box Sofficial member of SASS, got your folks will use readily available trans - the number of long guns as width and part of your cart. It can be as simple SASS number, got your badge. You port vehicles and adapt them to cow - length are factors in how you intend as an open rectangular box with have an alias, and a good one it is. boy use. For example, the most to carry your ammo. Do you want to short sides into which you will place You’ve got your guns and associated oft-used ready-made vehicle I have build a box integral to the cart, or will other containers (of ammo and other utensils/chemicals to thoroughly seen is the trusty Radio Flyer wagon. you use a store bought container that cowboy stuff). Or it can be an en - clean, polish, oil, grease, and do all I’m not talking the small version in sits in/on the cart? As an example, closed box with hinged lid into which those other things to maintain a safe which you might wheel-around a Plano makes a number of rugged you will place ammo and other cow - and accurate and good-looking grandkid. I’m talking the heftier polypropylene ammo storage contain - boy stuff in whatever manner you firearm. You’ve got leathers to hold model, the All-Terrain Steel and ers. This type of storage can also be see fit. The manner of construction those irons and their shells. You’ve Wood Wagon, Model 32. It will hold found in metal, either new or military (nails, screws, dovetails, and such) got britches and shirt; suspenders, up to 200 pounds and boasts inflat - surplus. Whatever container you in - I’ll defer to you. This (the “box”) is hat, and boots; and spurs and other able tires. New from the factory, it tend to use, be sure to measure how the only part of the cart on which I accoutrements will follow. If you costs around $150, although I’m sure much space your ammo is going to will use glue (if you use laminated don’t have ammo for your first shoot, less at Amazon and other venues. take up. For example, are you going scrap pieces for axle support, there, you will. Cowboys have a spot in Guns, ammo, and what have you can to carry your metal cartridges in indi - too). For the rest of the cart, think their collective hearts for the newbie be loaded into the cart, and you’re vidual ammo boxes (typically, 50 or back to the days of the Conestoga and are usually more than willing to ready for the first stage. Similar 100 count) or loose in a general-pur - wagon and stagecoach. Any glue offer you ammo your first time or so wagons (sometimes called Garden or pose container? Same with shotshells. thereon? Lack of glue also makes for out of the chute. If you brought your Deck or flatbed wagons) would also Whether using new or reloaded, most much easier disassemble and re - own, it’s probably off-brand, bought work equally well. shotshell boxes hold 25. assemble in the same or a reconfig - from a big box on-line discounter As noted earlier, there are a Now, how much ammo will you ured structure. (and you hate that hazmat charge goodly number of gun carts, made need to account for in determining Now that you’re got all that fig - like the rest of us). You’re most specifically for that purpose, avail - size of the overall container? Let’s ured, what about height? The gun likely not into making your own, yet, able from retailers and individuals. say your club shoots six stages. Typ - rest that you fashion must take into but, of necessity, that day will come. The next time you’re on the Internet, ically, that’s five rounds for each pis - account the length of your long Now that ya got all this stuff, type “ gun carts for cowboy action tol, 10 for the rifle, 4+ for the guns, but with a wrinkle. Since the where’r you gonna put it? A gun shooting ” into your favorite search shotgun. Quick math, that’s 120 shotgun must be carried empty and cart, or a reasonable facsimile engine and see what happens. All metallic (or three 50 round metallic open, that means its vertical height thereof, comes to mind. Now, many make, all manner, all pricey for cartridge containers) and 25 shotgun will be shorter than if it were carry clubs will have an extra cart or so someone who just put out a boatload (at the very least, i.e., one box of shot - closed. Also, the breech end of the parked somewhere for those that for guns, gear, ammo, and such. shells). If you’re somewhat OCD like shotgun is going to ‘jut’ a touch to need it (the new kid on the block, the Good stuff, no doubt, and you do get me, you might want to opt for four the rear, so you need to bear that in shooter who has an equipment what you pay for. boxes of pistol/rifle cartridges (200 mind should you want to build a emergency, the cowboy who’s wait - So, if you’re of a mind to attempt rounds allows for the unlikely event box or anything else on the back of ing for Wells Fargo to deliver his/her building your own, and perhaps, of two re-shoots) and 50 rounds for your cart. Note: the concepts of ‘jut’ new ride). So, having a cart is not save a few bucks in the process, I’d shotgun. I’ll actually carry an addi - and abbreviated vertical height something to panic about at the first like to offer a few tips and/or obser - tional box of metallic and shotshells only apply to side-by-sides. ‘97s and shoot. But, what about those subse - vations. Before I begin the disserta - to help any shooters in need (or me if lever actions should have the same quent months? In a very short tion, though, let me reiterate, as in it’s a really bad day—but can you characteristics as rifles, just a touch amount of time, most new shooters past articles on Cowboy Carpentry, I ever have a bad day shooting Cow - fatter. If you’re also going to carry feel an obligation to fend for them - am not a carpenter, cabinet maker, boy?). If you’re going to attend a Sharps or similar big bore, be selves when it comes to equipment, designer, machinist or any of those state/annual matches where stage aware of extra height. and, from my perspective, that’s a other professions of which you will count is 10 or 12, then you’ll need to One other small note when it reflection of the club to which they need a soupçon of the skill to start account for future needs. comes to gun rests. Unless you want belong and, more important, a reflec - your cart. Of course, you could also The main purpose of all the a wear mark on the upper part of tion of the other members of that go into this completely unawares math is to point out ammo takes up your long gun (where it leans club. You want to do right by them. and still produce a decent looking room for which you need to accom - against the rest), consider covering In return for their generosity, you wagon. Hey, it’s for your use, and modate width, length, and depth that area with leather, fur, or some want to become one of them. Going you can build it however you want. (volume). Also to be considered in man-made material that will not back 150 years, I’m sure that same I’ve cobbled together four gun carts this equation is if you want to trans - cause bluing to be rubbed away. attitude was prevalent in the wild so far and have remodeled, refur - port your pistols in that box (or a To be continued next month … and not-so-wild West. bished, redone, reinvented, re - separate box), create a space for what about wheels, accessories, Many of the cowboys I know like vamped, and repaired each one at spurs, cleaning rags, shooting wood, and finish?

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WOMEN OF THE WEST Jessie Benton Fremont

Col. Richard Dodge, By Col. Richard Dodge, SASS Life #1740 SASS #1750

hen Missouri Senator WThomas Hart Benton de - voted his attentions to his second daughter, Jessie, he made more of a contribution to the nation than he realized. The powerful Senator, architect of the “Manifest Des - tiny” movement, badly wanted a son, but it was not to be until after several daughters came first. Jessie was his favorite, and he be - stowed upon her a childhood and education not typical for a proper young lady of the early 19 th cen - tury. She was well-read and flu - ent in both Spanish and French. Born of a brawling frontier politician and a fifth generation Virginia aristocrat, Jessie grew into famed library, she encountered a his cherished “Manifest Destiny” Louis, Fremont did indeed lead an intelligent, strong-willed, and handsome young army officer and objectives. Fremont, in turn, real - several now-famed expeditions self-confident beauty who knew her immediately knew he was the one ized the opportunities afforded by into the West. He was the first own mind and was not afraid to use for her. She would not be dis - his father-in-law’s support and Anglo-American to see Lake her charms – or her government suaded. John Charles Fremont quickly adopted the Senator’s pas - Tahoe. His expedition members connections. She could be very per - was a very junior officer of un - sion for westward expansion. He were some of the most skilled ex - suasive and gracious at the same known quality and breeding (it was a trained topographical engi - plorers (including Kit Carson), time. Raised in a world of influ - turned out later he was indeed neer – the elite career objective in cartographers, naturalists, and ge - ence, she moved with ease among born out of wedlock – a serious so - the army in America’s formative ologists of the day, and their find - kings and presidents, politicians cial barrier at the time). years. Even so, it is questionable ings were the first real research and professors, scientists and When Jessie was 16, she eloped if Fremont would have ever into the new lands. They mapped artists. Above all, she was a free with her dashing young man (he achieved fame without his power - the Oregon Trail and recorded the thinker, not hesitating to question was 27) to the astonishment and ful father-in-law’s patronage. De - wildlife, flora and fauna, water - and challenge the political and outrage of her parents. The Sena - spite his dashing physical image, sheds, mountain passes and cli - moral attitudes of her time. Like tor threatened to disavow his he was impulsive, contradictory, ir - mate in that immense space. her father, she became an ardent daughter, threatening never to ritating, pompous, and ambitious – On his return, Jessie carefully abolitionist in the smoldering speak to her again. It is not cer - not qualities to endear him to ei - and skillfully elicited the informa - decades before the Civil War. tain what changed his mind. Per - ther his superiors or his fellow of - tion from her husband’s complex While the Senator was occu - haps Jessie was more precious to ficers. They were glad to be rid of and undisciplined mind to create pied with Senate business, Jessie, him than his concern with his son- him when Benton put forth the clear and concise reports and jour - still in her teens, availed herself of in-law’s social standing, but they idea of sending Fremont off into nals. Their reports were widely the nearby Library of Congress, did reconcile, and American history the wilderness to explore and map read, wildly popular, and served to devouring books on history, art, began to take a new course. the western reaches of the young spur the enormous immigration to and literature. At the tender age Perhaps Benton saw in the nation’s proposed new territories. the West which quickly followed. of 15, while browsing in that young Fremont a tool to further Leaving his young bride in St. (Continued on next page)

<< Back to ToC Visit us at sassnet .com June 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 41 Women Of The West (Continued from previous page) and grounds into one of the city’s Copies of the reports were rou - social centers. It was like being tinely included in the supplies of “on the bow of a ship,” in Jessie’s covered wagons threading their words, surrounded by water on way across the continent. three sides. Alcatraz Island and In California, Fremont’s ambi - the Golden Gate (so named by her tious nature got him into trouble. husband) were right outside her In the late 1840s, Anglo-Ameri - front window. LITTLE KNOWN cans were becoming more and Jessie was now in her ele - more numerous, taken with the ment. With her husband fre - FAMOUS PEOPLE obvious riches of the far-away quently absent on one of his many Eden, inhabited only by a few campaigns and business ventures “grim old Spaniards” known as (many of which were abject fail - – Way Out West – the Californios. Fremont took it ures), Jessie held a weekly salon. upon himself to interpret conflict - These were attended by the most By Joe Fasthorse, SASS #48769 ing orders from his superiors to notable of writers, including Her - Joe Fasthorse, proclaim himself Military Gover - man Melville and Bret Harte, SASS #48769 nor of California, an act for which along with the most powerful and ILLIAM “TULSA JACK” BLAKE was an outlaw of the he was later court-martialed for intellectual men of the west, in - Western Frontier and member of the Wild Bunch. Tulsa disobeying orders. cluding Carlton Watkins, famed W Jack was a Kansas cowboy and drifted into Oklahoma Territory in Fremont, when it came to photographer of Yosemite, the or - preparing a comprehensive report ator Reverend Starr King, Freder - the 1880s. In 1892 he met the outlaw, Bill Doolin, and joined the of his explorations, was an abject ick Law Olmstead, Richard Henry Wild Bunch, also called the failure. He seemed unable to com - Dana, Jr., Horace Greeley, and Is - Doolin-Dalton Gang. Blake pose an understandable sentence. rael Ward Raymond. took part in numerous And now Jessie began her en - With this influential group of bank holdups and trance into history as his ghost - admirers and backers, Jessie train robberies, writer. She was to spend the formed what was to become one of and was a key remainder of her life as his publi - the first and most effective conser - figure during cist and advocate, not hesitating vation organizations in the coun - the gang’s to use her family’s influence when try. Following Jessie’s lead, their shootout with it became necessary. lobbying efforts to Congress and US Marshals in Her studies and education President Lincoln resulted in the Ingalls, Oklahoma were not wasted. Jessie wrote Yosemite Land Grant that pre - in September 1893, with a clear and concise hand. She served her beloved Yosemite Val - during which three Deputy quickly realized how important ley and Mariposa Grove of Big Marshals were killed. In she would be to her husband’s ca - Trees from encroachment and de - 1895, a posse led by reer and entered into the role with velopment. Jessie typically took Deputy Marshal Will quiet enthusiasm and skill. Her little credit for this magnificent Banks surrounded Tulsa reports, written from his dictation, accomplishment, content to stay Jack at his hideout in were the ones read in Washington, out of the glare of publicity. Major County, Oklahoma across the country, indeed, around “Jessie’s role was that of a catalyst the world – and Fremont became and muse, prodding and encourag - and a fierce gunfight the famed “Pathfinder.” ing (them) to write and speak,” erupted. During the fire - In 1850, the couple moved from wrote John Henneberger of the fight that lasted over 45 St. Louis to San Jose, California; at National Park Service. minutes, Blake tied to es - least, they had planned for San Husband John Fremont cape, but was shot and killed Jose. However, Fremont’s agent, proved to be a rather inept busi - by Banks. Tulsa Jack Blake’s American consul Thomas Larkin, nessman and managed to lose death marked the beginning of the had mysteriously purchased land their entire fortune, including the end of Doolin’s Wild Bunch. for him near Mariposa, near the wonderfully rich Mariposa mine. southern end of the fabulous Politically ambitious, he dabbled Mother Lode. Any misgivings the in politics and even attempted a Fremonts may have had about the run for President four years before remote location disappeared when Lincoln. Through it all, Jessie ! a fabulously rich vein of gold was supported them with her widely discovered on the property, making popular writings, many of them them instant millionaires. stories of her own life’s adven - Mariposa is the gateway to the tures. Were it not for Jessie, John wonders of Yosemite Valley and the would have faded from history as Mariposa Grove of Big Trees. just another bumbling adventurer, Jessie was spellbound by their but she made him and others, in - beauty and magnificence. She was cluding Kit Carson, famous house - disturbed at the intrusion of farm - hold names in American history. ers and ranchers into the un - She stands as one of the most in - matched beauty of the valley and fluential and remarkable women so began an unrecognized role in in America’s western history. Jessie’s life, that of conservationist. Herr, Pamela; Jessie Benton The Fremonts moved to a fine Fremont: A Biography ; University house on 13 acres on Black Point of Oklahoma Press, 1988 in San Francisco, site of present- Herr, Pamela and Spence, day Fort Mason. They lived there Mary; The Letters of Jessie Benton from 1860 to 1861, and Jessie took Fremont ; University of Illinois delight in remodeling the house Press, 1992 Visit us at sassnet .com Back to ToC >> Page 42 Cowboy Chronicle June 2014

2013 SASS Scholarship Recipient

but SASS has helped me be more comfortable talking to people I miss grizzelda, SASS #71308 don’t know because SASS and Cowboy Action Shooting™ are such welcoming environments. aka Erin Snyder Every person is there for the same reason you are, to have Adapted & Edited By some fun! As a kid and young adult in Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000 SASS, everyone wants to help you succeed so you will continue ellersville, PA – Back in my grandmother called it. When shooting because there aren’t too S2004, at the age of 10, I started we went to the shoot, I saw so many young people to continue on shooting because of my grandfa - many people. Old, young, men, with the sport. Some of the shoot - ther, Boomer Zak, SASS #8198. women, and they were all there to ers also use me and other young Not too long after, my father “play cowboys.” What interested SASS members to get their kids joined SASS and started shooting me the most was when my grand - or grandkids into shooting. When under the alias, J. S. Sooner, SASS father introduced me to this girl, they see people their age shoot - #73526. Before shooting, I had al - who was a little younger than I ing, they want to try it too, just ready been a Girl Scout for four was, who was shooting. After like I did when I started. Re - years and had been playing soft - that, I realized I wanted to be like cently, one of the juniors at ball and soccer. My grandfather her, so that fall I competed in my Guthsville, who was watching the asked that summer if my dad and first shoot. shoot, told me I was really good I would like to watch a shoot at I still remember my first shoot and he was going to compete the Guthsville. Up until then I had in Topton, PA with The Boothill next month. I’m glad I helped Miss Grizzelda, SASS #71308 – PA only known my grandfather would Gang. Everyone was happy to see show him he can compete as well, go “play cowboys,” which is what a new, young face joining them, even though he is the youngest and they all wanted to make my person at the shoot. first shoot successful no matter I am proud of how far I have how slow I was or how many times come as a shooter and my im - I missed. They all encouraged me provement. Each year I continue to keep it up, and with time, I to improve, and I keep working on would get better. My grandfather certain things I think I could do was very proud of me because quicker and more accurately in Cowboy Action Shooting™ was order to become the best shooter I something we could share and do can be. together, as it still is today. It was My father recently told me my a great experience, and I have con - great, great, great, great, great tinued shooting for the nine years uncle was John L. Pennington, the since. We mainly shoot in Topton Territorial Governor of the Dakota and also in Guthsville, PA with Territory from 1874 – 1878. Dur - the Dakota Badlanders. ing his four years as Governor, Through shooting, I have met gold was discovered in the Black so many great people who have Hills and Wild Bill Hickok was helped me with shooting. They killed by Jack McCall, who was are genuinely interested in my tried and hung for the crime. I success and what I have been can’t believe I actually have a rel - doing outside of shooting, espe - ative that was a Governor, and cially asking me how my first year alive during the “cowboy” era. It of school was and about my expe - gives a little more meaning to rience at college. I consider all my being part of this great sport. cowboy friends influential people I am currently continuing my in my life because they all give me education at the University of tips and pointers that will make New Haven in West Haven, CT. I me a better shooter. They give me am working towards a degree in tips on how to speed up my tran - Forensic Science with a concen - sitions and how to make my move - tration in Chemistry and have ments quicker instead of speeding considered double majoring in up my actual shooting. Chemistry. I would like to work SASS has not only made me a in a forensics lab after I finish my successful shooter, it has also schooling. helped me gain confidence. You Thanks to all who support the have to be confident to be a safe Scholarship Fund and please con - shooter. I consider myself a shy tinue to do so. I appreciate the help, person when meeting new people, and I’m sure others will as well.

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2013 Scholarship Recipient

den, NC – My name is EDylan T. Hardy, alias Tor - nado Red, SASS #45811, and I Tornado Red, SASS #45811 am the son of Virginia Sidewinder, SASS #4097, and Hidola Doll, SASS #45810. My aka Dylan T. Hardy home club is the Thornfield Rangers in Eden, NC. Adapted & Edited By I am attending Danville Justice Lily Kate, SASS #1000 Community College and pursu - ing a degree in the Precision Machining Program. I worked Both of my parents have and dedication in order to achieve with CNC machines during my been very influential in my life; my goals. It has also helped me to high school terms and have ma - not just with SASS, but with in - become more responsible and to chined many different items, in - stilling in me the desire to be mature, since the use and owner - cluding decorative signs, successful and to help others. ship of firearms requires these replacement parts for grills, flag They have taught me the value characteristics. My parents com - stands, gun targets, tools, and of “family” time, and I want to pete with me, and we enjoy the ATV repair parts. I enjoy the one day do the same with my friendly competition and working creativity in this field, as well as children. Family activities and together on our goals. It is also seeing a finished product I cre - time spent with your family is fun to be involved with your fam - ated and how it may help others. so important. In addition, my ily and friends when participating Once I graduate from college, parents have encouraged me to in a sport you love. Furthermore, I expect to obtain a career/posi - have plenty of interaction I am very proud to be an Ameri - tion as a precision machinist, with my friends. I have learned can and to have the freedoms that quite a bit by having friends only America offers. I have much which I hope to be profitable for Tornado Red, SASS #45811 – VA my family and will also allow me from all walks in life and all to be proud of, but more than to become an asset to my em - ages. I consider many of my proud, I am thankful! ployer. I want to contribute to friends to be “family,” just like My family and friends fre - who care. Many of these areas the United States economy and my SASS membership has be - quently ride ATV’s (four-wheel - have been hard hit by poverty, growth and still be able to par - come family. ers) at home in Virginia as well loss of jobs, and traumatic ticipate in my chosen activities Being a member of SASS has as West Virginia, Kentucky, and weather conditions. I enjoy such as SASS competitions. taught me the need for practice North Carolina. Many of our working with these families, and rides have taken us to the Ap - it also helps me to appreciate palachian Mountains, which even more the advantages I have have inspired me to work with had growing up. $!#" The Cowboy Chronicle the Appalachian Service Project. One of those advantages is  ## My work with this group has al - the Scholarship Fund that has lowed me to be of assistance to enabled me to pursue my dreams  many families both with the con - of one day being a precision ma - $!#" " struction and repair of homes,
    chinist. Thanks to all who have !% """ #  and almost more importantly, let - contributed to the Fund so I ting them know there are people might achieve my goals.

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BASIN SAM, SASS #65220 Boyd Allen Sherwood October 11, 1933 – April 8, 2014 e e Submitted by Carol A. Clark

HUCKLEBERRY KID, SASS #4646 os Alamos, NM – Basin Sam, Boyd Allen Sher - November 30, 1942 – June 20, 2013 Lwood, age 80, was a flat-land Kansas boy, who found his way to New Mexico in 1959. The love of his life, Mary By Nicky Pearl, SASS #4647 Lou, soon joined him; they married, and made their home and raised their family in Los Alamos. Basin Sam Viet Nam. He was a carpenter worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a me - and general contractor for over chanical/electrical engineer and retired from LANL with 35 years. He met me, Marie over 40 years of dedicated service. He appreciated the (Nicky Pearl), in September of challenges his career afforded him, and always strived 1986 and we married May 8, to have pride in a job well done. 1987. We lived in Aurora, IL Filled with zest for life and adventure, Basin Sam until August, 2008 and moved spent his free time with family and friends hunting, fish - to Antioch, IL when I retired. ing, camping, shooting Cowboy Action, scuba diving, bik - He had already been retired for ing, motorcycle riding, and snow skiing. He was polite about 10 years. Until the time to a fault, true to his sports, and always willing to help. of my retirement, he worked as His presence was well known on Pajarito Mountain, a sales manager at a Corvette as a club member and volunteer ski patroller. Through - dealership in Downers Grove, out his years as a ski patroller at Pajarito Mountain, he IL. He then moved on to sales received two Purple Merit Stars, two Yellow Merit Stars, two Certificates of at Eagle Grips in Carol Stream, Appreciation, a National Appointment, and a Distinguished Service Award. In IL. He always loved guns, espe - March of 2014, in recognition of his 40 years as a volunteer ski patroller, he re - cially the single action Colts ceived a Service Recognition Award for Dedicated and Humanitarian Service. and lever action Winchesters. Basin Sam was a man of deep faith and a charter member of the Huckleberry Kid enjoyed White Rock Baptist Church. He strongly believed in being of service to hunting and fishing as often as his passions—faith, family, friends, and community. he could. Yes, he also got me to While Basin Sam was on this earth, he lived “his Dash” between love hunting and fishing right October 11, 1933 and April 8, 2014 to its fullest potential with love, from the beginning. There were passion, commitment, and a smile. All who had the pleasure and so many things we were in - opportunity to know and love him will deeply miss him. volved in together and Cowboy Action Shooting™ was a big part of that. We started Cowboy e e Action around 1994. After his father passed away, we pretty SILVER SCORPION, SASS #44321 ntioch, IL – Huckleberry much had to stop Cowboy Ac - AKid, SASS #4646 (Charles tion Shooting™, as we took care By Flat Water Bob, SASS #22857 Veselsky), 70, passed away on of his mother from 2001 until June 20, 2013. A tequila toast she passed in 2007. We always uncie, IN – Silver Scorpion, was given to him on June 23, wanted to get back to it, but he MSASS #44321 (Phillip R. Ro - 2014 by friends and neighbors found it very difficult because of denberger), passed away April 14 on the shores of Lake Marie in severe arthritis in his knees, at the age of 74. When Silver Antioch, IL. I have to explain hips, and back, along with heart Scorpion decided he wanted to get the tequila. Every year on Hal - issues. He even found it very into Cowboy Action Shooting™, loween the neighborhood kids difficult to go bird hunting, he got up into his attic and drug would stop for their candy and which was one of his greatest out a large number of collectable the parents would stop for their loves. As a result, we spent a fishing lures. He then sold the tequila shot (Halloween was lot of time on the water fishing lures to pay for his new hobby. usually very damp and chilly). and just riding around the Silver Scorpion was instru - It became a tradition when we Chain O’ Lakes. mental in the development of the moved to Antioch. He is survived by his wife, Cowboy Action Shooting™ range and in straight up cowboy fashion Huckleberry Kid was born Nicky Pearl, and his four-legged in Daleville, Indiana, and actively told us all, “Pards, it just is what in Cicero, IL. He grew up in hunting buddy, Katie, and supported the cowboy range at it is.” Last weekend we were Cicero and spent many sum - many, many friends and family. the Deercreek Conservation Club touched to see two of his firearms, mers with his fam - He will always be my hus - near Jonesboro, Indiana. Thanks engraved with the images of sil - ily in Antioch on band, lover, and best friend, and to him, the Daleville venue fea - ver scorpions, being put to use by Lake Marie. He I will never forget all of the tured a stagecoach as one of its new owners. A part of Silver was a Marine good times and that he always six stages. Scorpion is still riding the range. veteran from made me laugh every day. Silver Scorpion was taken Silver Scorpion is from us following a long and hard survived by his wife of battle with cancer. Though fee - 43 years, Jackie, one ble, he made an appearance at son, Ray, of one of the last matches at Deer - Oceanside, creek last fall, towing a trailer California, with all of his Cowboy Action and one equipment—his firearms, ammo, daughter, carts, leather, clothes, etc. He Roxanne, of said he knew his time was short, Muncie.

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the capGun KiD riDes Old man macho Stuff By The Capgun Kid, SASS #31398

ories of Saturday Morning TV, and Long Island Suburb, there was vir - the growing inability to see a smart tually no chance I’d even see a phone screen let alone integrate horse, let alone have dad buy me a with a cloud that moves faster than sixgun. It was capguns, TV, imagi - a speeding bullet. nation and … of all things … read - Don’t get me started on politi - ing … or nothing. In the New York cally correct. Most of us older folk Area we had a weekly feature in the The Capgun Kid, remember life in pre-1968 Gun early days of television called “Mil - SASS #31398 Control Act America. You hadda lion Dollar Movie.” TV was wide buy originals because there were open for empty air space in those ld Shooters don’t die, and they virtually no replicas until Great days, so the movie ran on WOR-TV Odon’t fade away. Rather, they Western built the plastic stag han - twice nightly and four times each just can’t stand around working the dled gripped sixguns that every - weekend day. This is how I ran into posse waiting to shoot. You name it body from Roy to James Garner a movie named “The Big Sky” with … back problems, feet that sud - wore. The Bi-Centennial brought Dewey Martin, Kirk Douglas, and a denly seem to belong to someone about a resurge in replica muzzle - great character actor named Arthur else, shoulder problems, gotta pee, loaders and companies like Uberti Hunnicut. It was about a Missouri gotta pee again, not enough fanny jumped into the fray. keelboat expedition into Blackfoot to hold the gunbelt up, fading mem - At nine years old, living in a Country. True to Hollywood tradi - tion of screwing up a good book, the flick twisted the plot enough to fit My days of sleeping on the ground are over. the movie into the required ninety minutes. I was sixty two before I found out there was an extra forty minutes of footage chopped out of it, and the only way to get that version is by watching cable. Another great one was “North - west Passage” with Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, and one of the most understated actors of all time, Wal - ter Brennan. Rogers Rangers at - tacked the St. Francis Abenaki I can hit a dime and give you a nickel Village (which they did Canada in change at fifty to a hundred yards. real life), and it again did not mat - ter that Kenneth Roberts’ novel got corrupted … you could not take your eyes off the scenery, whale - boats, canoes, and outfits. The Flintlocks, the buckskins, the First Americans (Sorry, but I can’t bring myself to call them Na - tive Americans. They aren’t Native. They just came here first.), the moc - casins and trappings, and the new wilderness scenery made a deep I call them “Schmoccasins” and lasting impression on me. Long about Wednesday’s showing of Ranger stealth was required to se - “Northwest Passage” at 7:30 after I cure it, superseded only by clipping finished my homework and Cate - a razor knife from dad’s workbench chism Stuff so as not to aggravate After about a half hour, I had Sister Mary Nasty, I got a hold of a trimmed the flaps off the box and shallow cardboard box and two one turned it into a canoe. Then I inch dowels left over from some kluged the dowels, one into an oar project my Dad was working on. and one into a long rifle by wasting Scotch Tape was still a novelty most of the Scotch Tape roll and then, so some mountain man and (Continued on next page)

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Old Man Macho Stuff ... Bread in the afternoon. I packed much more sophisticated. Take a some Crackerjacks into the canoe look at Mary Alice , the rifle I stum - (Continued from previous page) with an apple and my old Davy bled across when I was on my way shaping the cardboard flaps with Crockett canteen. to a cowboy match and stopped in at the razor knife. Now, with the new When Grandma Bea walked Dixon’s Muzzleloading Shop in fangled portable TV mom and dad by the bedroom and poked her eastern Pennsylvania. I can hit a put into brother Chris and my bed - head in, she appeared ready to re - dime and give you a nickel change Rowdy Bovine, SASS #51667, can room, where floor space was re - mind the world of my creative ge - at fifty to a hundred yards. The for - trade shots with the best of them cently made abundant by nius in crafting a canoe and mer routinely; the latter by the conversion to bunk beds, I watched Pennsylvania Long Rifle. Dad grace of God and a good bench rest. the Saturday and Sunday versions wanted to know if I did my home - Anyway, it always baffled me how we could let in M1911 Wild Bunch™ Stuff and leave out Moun - tain Man or Civil War styled matches where they used smoke poles. We Front Stuffers can, after all, compete in long range matches, and there are plenty of us who are refugees from re-enacting and Ren - dezvous, and a team of good Flint - lockers could probably compete with a team of Long Range Car - tridge Cowboys in a match because there is nothing lacking in a good “Northwest Passage” with Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, and one of the most understated actors of all time, Walter Brennan. flintlock or caplock Pennsylvania Rifle when correctly handled. of the movie, coming up for air and work. Thanks, dad. I could never So, here are some virtues to docking my canoe alongside our get him to listen to grandma and this philosophy that a body can bunk bed only long enough for some grandpa, and did not understand readily partake. “The Big Sky” with Dewey Martin Maypo cereal in the morning and a why until I became Grandpa. You can make your own gun. and Kirk Douglas bologna and Swiss on Wonder Now being older, my toys are (Continued on page 48 )

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Old Man Macho Stuff ... (Continued from page 47 ) Yeah … that’s what I said … make your own gun. There are several vendors in the muzzleloading world who offer parts and kits at various stages of skill level. Do a search on John Thomas—a flintlock I started Jim Chambers, Track Of The Wolf, to remake and restore recently. Dixie Gun Works, and Muzzleload - ing Rifle Kits, and you will see what Saratoga in 1777, a rifleman named I mean. They range from complete Timothy Murphy popped a British enough all you have to do is assem - General at about the same distance ble and finish all the way through James Coburn nailed some hapless complex enough you can take your stunt man in “The Magnificent life in your hands. They aren’t even Seven” with his sixgun as Horst regulated yet. Try that with an Buckholtz stood by and watched. 1866 Yellow Boy. Guess which one is real history and Take a look at the photo of which one we all laugh at. John Thomas , a flintlock I started When the rest of old age is to remake and restore recently. It catching up with you, the macho turned out to be a great project in a high you get from mastering the snowy, confining winter. I’m a shoe - muzzleloader makes up for a lot of maker, called a … “Cordwainer” … lost ground as you start to creak and in the 18 th Century, not gunsmith, squeak. On top of this, there are no with only a measure of woodwork - side effects like we get from our pre - ing and metal working skills. If I scriptions. There are probably some can do it, you can do it. definite Freudian implications here, At Long Range Gong Distance, but the real asset for an old man is you can compete with the best of that blackpowder is easier to clean. them. During the Battle of (Continued on next page)

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Old Man Macho Stuff ... my time between the two types of day was during a summer with shooting events, and the fact I prefer some trail walks in it in 2013. (Continued from previous page) making gunbelts over making shoes. We already see an occasional A little soap and water is all you When I returned to a Rendezvous Civil War guy showing up at a Cow - need. Now, several of my pards after a fifteen-year absence, a boy Match, and I’ve heard it said went over to the Dark Side, notably preacher walked up to me, welcomed the re-enactment at Gettysburg has Artic Fox, Lou Graham, Rowdy me back, and right away asked me more soldiers in it than the original Bovine, and Long Tall Texan, and I to make another pair of shoes for battle. Having repeatedly been at have to admit I had a lot of fun at him because his were wearing out. I forts such as Niagara and Ticon - the Pennsylvania State Blackpow - was more than surprised and got deroga with my shoe bench, I can der match in 2012. Them coyotes myself committed to the project. attest to the scope of living history, can shoot as well as anybody. I’d It’s been about that long since I and owning my flintlocks is every love to get ‘em on the range with my engaged in the sport of “Trekking,” bit as satisfying as Cowboy Action. flintlock, and may yet try just to see which is essentially camping out in As I once stated in a previous the looks on their faces. the woods for several days with article, I was astounded at how the Your feet feel better. I’m not nothing invented after 1760, or jack-ass gun control act in Con - kidding here. If you incorporate “Tacticals” where two opposing necticut virtually passed me by be - some mountain man into your out - sides of either French and Indian cause nary a word was said about fit, those boots that want to kill you War or Revolutionary War poop and muzzleloaders and tube mags. I can be replaced. I figured out how snoop in the bushes and fight it out guess there is great appeal at the to make a pair of moccasins a little with blank charges when bouncing thought of donning my outfit and oversized and stuffed some off each other. During the 1980s slipping quietly into the woods with trimmed flip-flops into them. I call and 1990s, I did not know that Cow - my muzzleloader past ignorant au - them “Schmoccasins,” and they boy Action grew east of the Missis - thorities hidden behind billboards have reduced everything from back - sippi. My days of sleeping on the or at the bottom of a hill by the ache to swollen feet during a match. ground are long since over, and bend. Maybe it’s the escape from The thick flip-flop sole is unseen came to a quick close with the ad - society that is so appealing … kind and almost as pleasing as the old vent of my first guncart. I was, of like I did in my cardboard box age four letter “F” word … food. however, more than pleasantly sur - canoe while watching “The Big Sky” The first pair I made, shown in the prised at how much fun being in the and “Northwest Passage” … picture, was constructed like a shoe woods again with my flintlock for a Don’t Shoot Yore Eye Out Kid… with gel heels in it so the stones and gravel on the line did not even come close to hurting my footsies. You can buy more stuff, and the NMLRA has Rendezvous weeklong events where you can do the shop - ping. Shopping … ‘nuff said. It doesn’t take a lot of brain - power to figure out you and your flint/percussion smoke pole and genuine blackpowder (not the syn - thetic stuff that hang fires in a muzzleloader something fierce) can compete in a long-range match. If you win it, you might even get the Republican Nomination for Presi - dent. When you go to the range to sight it in, you make friends fast be - cause the Copper Jacket Charlies out there are in amused awe of your handiwork loading and firing. If you go far enough to shoot some matches with the muzzleload - ing folk, you’ll run into events such as trail walks, where the targets are strung out in the forest and you shoot in the shade, and blanket shoots where the fee is an item you throw on a blanket. When the shooting is over and scoring is done, you pick off the blanket from high - est to lowest score, so everybody gets something. I made a bunch of friends as fast as I did in Cowboy, probably because that’s the way the shooting community is. If I have any problems with the field, they are maybe having to split

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. Gala Premiere Night . with SASS Members for DAY OF THE GUN

By Punxsutawney Pete, SASS Life #1286

actors, many of whom came in character, were able to mingle Punxsutawney Pete, with the public. When the time SASS #1286 for the screening of the film ar - rived, Buck Swede was introduced any cowboy boots were trod - on stage to tumultuous cheers Mding the floor—for a night from the assembled crowd. He the Old West came to western proceeded to tell a story that Maryland to celebrate the pre - shows even the director is not im - miere of the latest feature film mune from having his footage end produced by Buck Swede, SASS up on the cutting room floor! He #61056 (Wayne Shipley). It was a told how he was asked if he made packed house at the venerable an appearance in the film. Buck Weinberg Center in Frederick, MD stated in the initial film footage, that came to see the big screen he was shown bent over cleaning showing of “DAY OF THE GUN.” the hooves of one of the horses. Prior to the screening, there But as often happens, after post- Weinberg Center marquee for premiere was a mixer reception where the (Continued on next page)

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Day of the Gun . . . through the debris find an old the ranch (and possibly Maggie). newspaper with a headline about But his plans are thwarted by an (Continued from previous page) the silver anniversary celebration unknown guardian angel who ap - production work, Buck’s scene of the town, Single Tree, Montana. parently is watching over Maggie. was cut. Buck related in the end, With that begins the flashback to The running time of the movie he didn’t get a name credit, but the festival celebrating 25 years was in excess of two hours, but the the horse did! since the founding of the town. story line and action never let the The movie starts out with a The big event of the celebration film drag. From being part of the rather incongruous beginning for was the baseball game between production, it was easy to see how an Old West setting, showing an the town’s team and a barnstorm - the high-level production values for old time Ford automobile cruising ing baseball team called the Ex - the movie translated into the final into town. The two men in the car celsior Aces. The Aces provide the Director Buck Swede product as an independent film. are the retired editor of the town’s comic relief when one of their and Pat Shipley Since the premiere, “Day of old newspaper and his nephew. players is shown breaking a bat in the Gun” has been playing in a They stop in at a dilapidated two with his bare hands and all order described how her husband number of theaters. Watch for it building, and after some digging the Aces getting into a game-end - was in need of money and put up to play in your neighborhood and ing melee with the hometown the ranch as security for a loan. enjoy a couple hours of imagina - team and the townspeople. He makes no secret of his desire for tion in riding the range! The drama of the movie is set around the conflict between Mar - garet (Maggie) Carter and her neighboring rancher, Cyrus Mc - Call. In the greater scheme of things, they represent the conflict between free ranging and fencing In character as Rachel_McCall off property. Maggie had inherited the ranch from her late husband, and the concept of a woman own - ing and running a cattle ranch did not garner much support from the other ranchers in the area. The conflict between fencing and open range came to a head when Mag - gie has to put down a cut and bleeding calf entangled in the barbed wire fence put up by Cyrus McCall. She confronts McCall and the other ranchers at their meet - ing in the local saloon about the losses of cattle she is experiencing from the barbed wire fence. Mc - Call counters he put up the fence to protect his cattle from rustlers who seem to make their escape through Maggie’s ranch. Maggie encounters further problems in the form of her late Punxsutawney Pete as Indian husband’s brother. He arrived policeman Raymond Bontil from New Orleans and in short

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arry ongabaugH The Sundance Kid H L In CAnADA By Swallowfork, SASS #35326 up with his old friend, Ebb John - ing the ranch “rough strinig” at the son, at the Bar U in the foothills Bar U for some years, remained ol. Richard Dodge’s good arti - made his way north, and by 1891 southwest of High River, Alberta. suspicious of the American. They Ccle, The First Wild Bunch, in was the foreman of the Northwest Longabaugh was one of the apparently had a confrontation the December, 2013 issue of The Cattle Co. Ranch—more widely two Bar U horse breakers who when Millar had seen a hacksaw Cowboy Chronicle prompted me to known as the Bar U—in south - doubled as experienced riders blade hidden between Longa - write this short article about western Alberta. Longabaugh was when required. He was quite baugh’s saddle and his horse blan - Harry Longabaugh. Most folks a friend of Ebb Johnson, as they busy, as there were 800 head of ket. In range country such tools are not aware he spent some time had ridden together on the Pow - breeding horses to look after as were connected with cattle in southwestern Alberta, Canada. der River Ranch. well as the working cow ponies. rustling, since they could be used The story starts with a Virgin - Sundance apparently used For the most part Sundance to modify branding irons. Friction ian named Everett Cyril (Ebb) Canada as a safe haven when was well liked. Fred Ings of the between the two men may have Johnson who at nineteen was one there was a warrant for his arrest Midway Ranch called him “a thor - been exacerbated by differences of of three foremen of the Powder in the United States. After com - oughly likable fellow … a general opinion on how to train horses. In River Cattle Company in Johnson pleting an eighteen-month sen - favourite with everyone, a splen - August 1891, Sundance was ar - County, Wyoming. Here, he acted tence for horse stealing in 1889, did rider, and a top notch cow rested for cruelty to animals. The as a guide and hunting companion he was soon in trouble again for hand.” It is said he was a quiet Calgary Tribune reported: for Owen Wister and it is widely threatening Sheriff James fellow and normally did not join “At the Barracks Police Court believed Ebb’s character and some Swisher in Sundance, Wyoming. the hands on their Saturday night (Northwest Mounted Police) on of his exploits were blended into He fled across the Medicine Line ride to town. He did, however, Friday before Captain Mcllree The Virginian , Wister’s successful and hired on to the H2 Ranch usually pack a pistol. and Inspector Cuthbert, Henry western novel. Ebb eventually (east of Calgary). He later joined Herb Millar, who had been rid - (Continued on page 55 )

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Stand By yOuR FRIEnDS “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights, who does not By Panhandle Cowgirl, SASS #77924 change like shifting shadows.” – James 1:17 thrown parties, supported ganization is not as prosperous as through sickness, stayed at each it once was. SASS is a friend in other’s houses, taken meals to - need and now is the time to stand very good and perfect gift in think it’s just common interests, gether, shopped, and, of course, by your friend! Emy life comes from God and is common values, and history that shot together, and the list goes on What can we all do to help? associated with SASS! I joined binds us together, but it’s so much … In truth, my SASS friends Keep your SASS membership, SASS seven years ago, and my life more; it’s true relationships, of - made me who I am today and promote SASS at local gun shows, has never been the same since, tentimes closer than family. We changed my life for the better, and talk to people about SASS, bring nor will it ever be the same again. have laughed together, cried to - for that I will forever be grateful. in new members, contact your My greatest triumphs and my gether, and prayed together. We They looked deep inside and local newspaper to write an arti - greatest heartaches have all been help each other through the good found this huge, untapped, undis - cle about our sport. Often small because of SASS. The best days in times and the bad. My SASS covered potential in me I didn’t town newspapers don’t have any - my life, the days I laugh the most, friends have supported me even know existed, and from that thing to talk about and would the days I have the most joy, and through some of the worst days of molded me into the competent welcome the story idea. My local the days I feel the most alive are my life and helped me to celebrate shooter I am today. newspaper did: all because of SASS. some of the best. We’ve done it all These are the kinds of friends http://www.thepampanews.com/ne But the absolute greatest gift together: camped, helped each who support me no matter what. ws/article_9803044c-ee5a-11e2- SASS has given me is friendships other move (that’s a true friend!), They would never leave when I no aec3-001a4bcf6878.html? to last a lifetime. One might borrowed guns, fixed guns, longer served their purpose. So do mode=story you think I’m ever going to give up Remember what it was that on my friends or not support the brought you to this sport. organization that brought me to Somewhere behind the shooter them? As John Wayne was so fond you’ve become and the hours of of saying in Big Jake , “Not practice at the range, the dry-firing hardly!” I will support SASS no until your fingers were bruised, the matter what. SASS is like a thousands of miles of travel, the friend in need right now—mem - thousands of dollars spent, and the bership is down, it’s hard to bring broken guns is the little cowboy or in new members, The Cowboy Chron - cowgirl that fell in love with the icle has gone digital, people are cowboy way of life and never looked complaining, members are saying back … shoot for them. (Adapted they will leave SASS, and the or - from a Mia Hamm quote)

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Harry Longabaugh • The Sundance Kid . . . (Continued from page 52 ) vember 29, 1892 Longabaugh Longabaugh was charged on the participated in the robbery of a information of Inspector Snyder train at Malta, Montana. The with cruelty to animals. take was $19.02 in cash and a Longabaugh, while breaking a cheque for $6.05. bronco, was observed by the In - Sundance’s later career spector, who had him sum - proved to be more lucrative! moned. Mr. J. Bang appeared Note: The Bar U ranch, estab - for the accused, who was dis - lished in 1882, was one of charged.” Canada’s earliest, largest, and Sundance spent the winter of most famous ranches. 1891 in Calgary as a partner in References: the Grand Central Hotel. He re - THE BAR U, CANADIAN turned to the United States RANCHING HISTORY, early in 1892 and became in - Simon M. Evans volved with a gang that ran My friend Jim Baker (born and stolen horses from northern raised on the Bar U, son of J. Montana across the border into Allan Baker, last and longest Saskatchewan, Canada. On No - owner of the Bar U)

Little Known Fact In April 1861, the New York Times assured its readers that the rebellion in the South would last less than 30 days.

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DugOuT F By Chilkoot, SASS #58803 F

the fire again and put the pot on. hat cinched down didn’t keep the the thin forest that rimmed the Chilkoot, SASS #58803 It would eat up a good half hour. sleet from stinging his ears and arroyo. “Wolves … starvin’ He decided against it. In the cheeks. “Lord it’s cold!” Tate wolves! Damn ‘em!” Tate t was a real struggle to slide leanto Jasper was in no mood to glanced to the northwest and the reached down and patted the Iout from under the warm be saddled either, but Tate got it ominous dark clouds, a blue stock of his Ballard rifle. “Lot of bedroll blankets, but he had an done in spite of leathers so stiff norther was comin’. He thought, good thet ol’ rifle ‘ll do. My hands urge he could no longer deny. The with cold that it liked to crack. “Maybe I ought to stay put ‘til are so cold and stiff, I couldn’t lineshack was freezing. The stove The cinch was stiff as a board this blows through.” Snow mixed crank the lever!” He’d better try was out. He debated whether it with frozen sweat. with the sleet was already accu - for the dugout a mile or so ahead. was worth taking time to light Slicker collar turned up and mulating to about five inches or He’d used it once, a year or so so, and the ground was slick. The ago. It was small but dry and had wind had Jasper’s tail blown be - a fire pit, wood, and a stout log tween his legs and pushed Tate door. It was dug into the arroyo forward in the saddle. Tate’s bank, a few of the Bar -Y hands opinion of line rider wasn’t very had dug it and fitted it out some high, but it had been high enough years back. to pick it over ridin’ fence. The He almost missed it. Brush only two options he’d been given obscured all but the very top of against ridin’ the grub line. the door. Only about four foot These times were getting hard for high, you near had to crawl in. the ranchers, many had gone Tate cleared the brush and snow under. The price of beef fell and and strained to pull the little foreign conglomerates were buy - door open. He quickly unsaddled ing up acreage, firing cowhands, Jasper, turned him loose, and said and installing “range managers.” he hoped them ‘damn wolves’ did - “Ha! Range manager! What the n’t get him. hell is that?” These thoughts so - Inside he struck a match so he lidified Tate’s decision to push on could see. A candle stub was stuck to the arroyo several miles to the on a rock protruding from the wall. southeast looking for a small Tate lit is just as the match cooked herd of strays. his finger tips as it went out. Jasper slid and slipped along “Sheeeet!” Candle light revealed in the snow, which was now a foot an ancient lantern. Tate shook it. or so deep. His breath was A slosh confirmed at least some snatched away from his nostrils coal oil. A second match lit the by the intensity of a merciless wick when he lifted the glass. The wind. Tate couldn’t feel his ears fire pit held a few bits of burnt any longer and cold tears ran wood and a pair of half burnt down his frozen cheeks. He knew boots. The boots announced the his back was packed with the wet scarcity of wood in this shelter. “A snow, and was filling the gap be - man’d have to be mighty desperate tween his butt and the cantle. ta burn his boots. Mexican ‘prolly, His feet were no longer cold ... he they’ll ride barfooted sometimes just couldn’t feel them! No living anyhow.” Tate grinned. “Hell, I thing had made its presence seen ‘em barfooted an’ wearin’ known … except for a line of dark spurs down Sonora way!” A bro - shapes just inside the tree line of (Continued on next page)

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Dugout . . . through gaps in the logs he could see dark shapes against the snow. (Continued from previous page) He tried, but couldn’t move the ken chair added to the wood sup - door. He tried again. Nope, it ply. Smoky but warm was better’n was going to take some help to freezin’ an numb! open that door! Tate opened his saddle bags Now, horses aren’t the and took stock. Some coffee sharpest beings on God’s green beans, bacon, a tin with more earth, but they do see death com - matches, cartridges for the rifle, ing like people will. When they and a hammer. “Whut th’ hell do do, they’ll give a final scream, as I have a hammer fer?” He dug a the light goes out, that will chill little further and came up with a you to the core. Jasper made his small skillet and a battered tin death rattle, and Tate realized cup. A discarded bean can pro - Jasper was down right in front of vided a way to boil some crushed the dugout door. No wonder it coffee beans and the bacon was wouldn’t budge! Listening to the cut into chunks and starting to wolves tearing at his horse was sizzle in skillet. Things were just heart rending. The lantern went starting to look a little better, out. The fire was just coals. Cold when the candle started gutter - came creeping in, past the wolves ing and went out. It got darker in and past poor Jasper’s carcass, the dugout … and seemed colder! right to Tate’s shivering form. The bacon was greasy and Now, I can see you sitting burnt, but was at least hot. He there, boots to the fire, a cup of burnt the tip of his tongue which hot, sweet coffee, and the lastest provoked a few choice epithets. issue of The Cowboy Chronicle in That bean can must have had your hand, thinking: “Boys ol’ some dried frijoles left in it ‘cause Tate’s got himself in a fix this the coffee had the flavor of beans, time! How’s he ever gonna get and he could chew little bits in it. out of this one?” .... Fact is I ain’t Noises outside the door took his ... Now iffen you can tear yourself attention away from his meal. away from all that luxury, I’d be Snarls, growls, and snapping of obliged iffen you was to get a few jaws mixed with yelps and fear Bar-Y hands and send ‘em this sounds from Jasper made Tate way so’s we can end this tale … reach for the rifle and push at the much obliged … I’ll be right here door. The storm had abated and ... waitin’.”

Little Known Fact In a similar idea to the “Quaker guns,” Admiral David Dixon Porter and his men created a hollow shell of a gunboat, which was unarmed and blew smoke from its smoke stacks. Its purpose was just to distract the enemy from a distance.

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yancy Derringer

Wolverine Wrangler, SASS #22963 DVD of n the 50s, 60s and early 70s “Ya ncy Derringer” IWestern series dominated net - series work television, here is a look at By Wolverine Wrangler, SASS #22963 one of those shows. Yancy Derringer , staring and stylishly dressed gentleman asked by the Federal city admin - many times at the end of the Jock Mahoney ran from 1958 to adventurer who carried the pistol istrator, John Colton, to work as a episode, arrests Yancy for break - 1959 with 34 episodes. The se - for which he was known. He was secret agent at no pay, and only ing the law to do it. Yancy agrees, ries, set in New Orleans after the a former Confederate Army cap - Colton knows of Yancy’s special because the United States is one Civil War, was based on a 1938 tain who has returned to New Or - work for his office. Many times at nation again. short story written by Richard leans, Louisiana in 1868, three the beginning of the episode, Yancy owns a riverboat, Sale, who also was one of the pro - years after the end of the Civil Colton, a former Union Army named the Sultana . His weapons ducers and directors. War. Widely respected by all colonel, asks Yancy to help solve of choice are a four-barrel Sharps Yancy Derringer was a suave parts of New Orleans society, he is New Orleans’ present threat and, (Continued on next page)

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Yancy Derringer cast: X Brands, Frances Bergen, Jock Mahoney

Cowboy TV • Yancy Derringer . . . (Continued from previous page) he was long on action. Beneath a Derringer gun carried in his hat blanket wrapped about his body, and another up his left sleeve and he carried a sawed off double-bar - a knife in his belt. He was an ex - reled shotgun which he used in pert marksman. He also carried emergencies. Most of the time a cane with a hidden sword and however, he used a throwing knife was said to have iron fists. One sheathed on his back. punch and his opponents were un - I’ll be turning the rotary TV conscious for a day. channel selector dial now. Stay tuned. Yancy was known for his easy [email protected] ways. He always traveled with References: the ladies and his mute body - Wikipedia; Internet Movie guard and Indian friend sidekick, Database (IMDb); Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah. Pahoo-Ka-Ta- Alex McNeil, Total Television , Wah was a silent unsmiling Penguin Books, 1996, 4 th ed.; Pawnee Indian who communi - Ronald Jackson, Classic TV cated only by hand gestures. Westerns , Citadel Press, 1994; Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah is Pawnee for Harris Lentz III, Television “Wolf who stands in water.” Al - Westerns Episode Guide , McFar- though Pahoo was short on talk, land, 1997.

Sharps Breechloading Four Shot Pepperbox Pistol – ©NRA National Firearms Museum –

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.YIDDLE JOE , From Vest of Ft. Lauderdale, Oye! (What You Didn’t Know About American Jewish Western History)

ell howdy, to y’all out there, By William Rabinowitz, a.k.a. Yiddle Joe, SASS #98060 with the “what’s so funny look” of Wfellow members of the Tribe resentment and soggily waddled and otherwise. Name’s Yiddle off to dry. That evening, all three Joe . That is the name I chose. You their feelings toward Jews. thinking of Norman, our little of us agreed, we need to find some - have to choose a name. I could Ya see, the Cartwright family Cock-a-Tzu dog. Sort of sounds where Norman can be let off the have used my name William but was a sort of mixed marriage type like a chicken sneezing, don’t it? leash and out to run. We needed a then they would call me Willie, of situation. Paw, Ben Cartwright, He doesn’t get to run very far in doggie park. and I don’t feel like no Willie. It was played by Lorne Greene. our “birdcage” outback over the Markham Park has a doggie sounds like Lilly, and I ain’t no Ben’s oldest son, Adam pool. Lately, Norman has taken to run. It is a wonderful recreational Lilly—the wife will verify that. Cartwright, was played by Pernell being very careful running around area with biking, hiking, a lake, Nope, it was the wife who Roberts. Ben’s middle son, a big our birdcage. picnicking, jet skiing, a place to fly picked out the name while we was strapping guy they called Hoss, One day, awhile back, he spot - model airplanes, and even a rifle trying names on. I said Yiddle was played by Dan Blocker. And ted a grey squirrel perched on the range. We checked out the doggie Jim, and she who must be obeyed ... the baby of the family was outside, high above, on the rafters park first and then the rest of the said, “No, it should be Yiddle Joe .” Joseph. They called him “Little of the birdcage. He took off on one facilities. Way in the back of the Shabbat was not even close, and I Joe,” and he was played by raging, barking jag to frighten the park is the rifle range, so we rode was not worrying about Ketubah Michael Landon. squirrel away from his territory. through. They had trap and skeet rights yet, so on occasion I give The problem, for those who The squirrel took off at a run. ranges. They had a sporting clays heed. She was right, of course. love Bonanza and hate Jews, was Norman followed, barking his course and a large covered 200- Who the heck was Yiddle Jim? that Lorne Greene’s real name head off and looking upward in yard rifle/pistol range. Everybody with gray hair knows was Lymon Chaim Green, a Jew total concentration on the squir - Just stopping by and rolling who Little Joe was. So, I became from Ottawa, Canada. Little Joe rel. But Norman forgot one thing; down the windows, it was unreal. Yiddle Joe. was Eugene Maurice Orowitz, a the swimming pool is not a rectan - Enormous kabooms of shotguns, Yup, if you are above a certain Yid from Queens, New York. gle. It is kidney shaped, with the rattle of rifles, and bangs of decade along the road to geriatric - For most folks, American Jew - curves. Norman dashed down the pistols pounded on the ears. Signs tude, you grew up watching Bo - ish Western history is the West of side of the birdcage next to the warned not to approach without nanza on TV. You watched the Cowboys and Indians, somewhere swimming pool yapping at the eyes and ears. What they meant story of the Cartwright family on west of the Mississippi River. Not squirrel. Before he knew what was you needed eye and ear pro - their ranch, the Ponderosa, near too many people know about Jews happened, he hit the bend in the tection when you got too near Virginia City, Nevada. and the American West, maybe be - pool and over he went—right into where they were shooting. And Bonanza was the second cause the Jews of the East were the pool. Rather humiliating for a there were lots of folks shooting. longest running western series in far more numerous and wanted to ferocious 18-pound Cock-a-Tzu We drove to the far end of the American television history. Gun - be Top Dog in the story. But, yes, pup defending his home against ranges and were about to make smoke was the first. Bonanza there was a real history of Jews in viciously squirrely intruders. the loop back when something ex - first aired September 12, 1959, the West, even if there were not a He doggie paddled to the con - traordinary caught my eye. They and rocketed to popularity and lot of us. crete steps and clambered out. A looked like something from out of fame. In all, NBC aired 430 Here’s my own story … A few hard, hard shake to get the water the Old West. They wore cowboy episodes over fourteen seasons. full months back, the wife and I off and a look of pure sheepish - hats, boots, complete outfits from The last episode ran in 1973. took a ride out to Markham Park ness and humiliation was there. If the 1880s, and even more. They Don’t be too depressed. Bonanza near Sunshine, Florida—way, way a dog has a facial expression to all had holsters strapped to their still airs in syndication worldwide. west, almost into the swamps of tell how he felt, Norman’s read sides with two gun six-shooters I hear it remains very popular in the Everglades in Broward easily. Sheila and I, once we knew bulging out, and lead bullets in Arab countries. That remains a County. We heer’d they had a dog Norman was fine, laughed until the loops in the back. They wore might hard to understand given park there, and, of course, we were we leaked. Norman looked at us (Continued on next page)

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Yiddle Joe . . . yanked two large green shotgun slingers. We are all part of the Columbus needed a translator shells from his belt. He popped Single Action Shooting Society— when he found the great King - (Continued from previous page) open the breech, dropping in two SASS for short,” he grinned at me doms of the Far East. Torres’ belts around their middles with shells in a single smooth motion. with that tooth shy look of his. My choices were convert to Catholi - shotgun shells for the short coach With a snap, the shotgun closed. dreams of being a kid again, being cism and join the voyage or con - shotguns some carried. Others Two blasts filled the air as the cac - a cowboy, returned with instant sider the alternatives. Torres , were carrying lever action rifles. tus target clanged back. He had salivation—I could taste it. converted. The outfits were creative and col - fired 24 rounds off at the bad guys “Sure,” I said, as I took the Torres was the first man orful. Even the women had pistols in the stage—and he did it in 45 brochure and thanked Ferocious Columbus sent ashore when he hanging from their waists. seconds. I found out later 45 sec - Dan. discovered land. After all, Torres, You know I had to stop. Hav - onds was OK but the record was 12 Back in the car Sheila looked he knew, spoke Hebrew, Arabic, ing grown up watching every seconds … and with accuracy! at me. “What a bunch of old Spanish, and a few other lan - Western there was, heck, I even guages that might be useful. So had a Daniel Boone coonskin cap you might say the first European with an imitation raccoon tail in the West was a Jew—sort of. hanging in the back. It was every No one knows what happened to kid’s dream to be a cowboy. These Torres. Some say he married a folks were cowboys. local Indian princess and lived An elderly, friendly man com - happily ever after as a free Jew in plete in Western attire, boots to America. Others say he was aban - ten gallon hat, met me at the gate. doned by Columbus, along with 39 He had a large red bandanna tied of his closest friends, no doubt a about his neck with a jaunty west - number of them Marranos (secret ern knot to the side. Jews) to hold the fort until Colum - “Name’s Ferocious Dan, only bus returned. Bottom line, Torres folks around here, now a days, call vanished from history. me Slow Poke Dan.” He extended Jews were mountain men, the his hand. “Want to come in?” I Jim Bridger type, who lived in the took his hand and said, “My name Rockies, hunted for fur and is William, William Rabinowitz.” melded with the Indians and the He was clearly country in his Land. Jews were pioneers, explor - drawl and demeanor—I mean real ers like Solomon Carvalho, wagon country. He even was missing a train masters, like Dr. Snow who few teeth. I thought of anti-Semi - settled in Placerville, California, tism. I had a whole story appear high up in the Sierras looking for in my head about what might be Everyone wants to be a cowboy—horses, guns, ropes, and an outfit gold. Jews were Indian fighters, appearing in his head, “What is a —what could be better? even Indian Chiefs. Go figure, a Jew doing here?” I imagined his Jewish Indian Chief, Solomon thoughts. What I imagined, if it My eyes widened. I accepted kooks,” she said. Sheila had re - Bibo, a nice yiddisher boychik did, it never came out. Ferocious Ferocious Dan’s offer of earplugs fused to get out of the car. It was from Poland was a Jewish Indian was as friendly as could be. and moved closer. They were hot, and she wanted to keep the Chief in New Mexico. Jews were I stood there gawking for a full using real guns and firing real air-conditioning running. We left frontier soldiers, recipients of the minute at the sight. Dozens of men bullets. After taking their turns Markham Park and drove to Fort Congressional Medal of Honor— and women, all ages, were waiting and following stringent safety pro - Lauderdale to Mel’s Kosher Deli Simon Suhler, David Goodman, their turn to walk up to the firing cedures, they retrieved their guns where I ordered an extra-fatty and Jacob Trautman for bravery lines. Not firing lines, actually, but and put them back in their pull- pastrami on rye, and then added in the Indian Wars. Jews were stages. The stages were Western along golf carts. Everyone had a salt to the pastrami to irritate ranchers—one even had his own sets complete with buildings, jails, war wagon—a little two wheeled Sheila. Sheila had an iceberg cattle brand—a Star of David. banks, steel targets of outlaws, buf - or four wheeled cart they used to wedge of lettuce with Thousand In 1860, San Francisco esti - falo, cactus, and such that continu - drag their guns, ammunition, and Island dressing on the side. She mates place the number of Jews at ally clanged out metallically as the diet coke bottles along with them gossiped about the Cohens getting 5,000, another 500 in Sacramento, guns were being fired at them by from stage to stage. Folks kept a divorce. Mrs. Cohen became and about 100 in the dusty noth - the shooters. their cell phones in the war wagon suspicious when she learned Mrs. ing of a town further south, Los I heard someone cry out, “They as it was not period no matter how Solomon’s dishwasher really did Angeles. Jews were shopkeepers, robbed the bank!” Suddenly there much you tried. Everyone was not break down weekly. She al - bankers, farmers, good guys, and was a bang, bang, clang, clang. having a great time. It did not ways called Mr. Cohen to fix the bad guys. Jim Levy, until he met The shooter had drawn his ivory matter so much if your time was problem. Being the nice guy he his end at the barrel of a gun one handled pistols from his brown low or you hit the targets cor - was, he was more than willing to dark night in Tucson, was a gun - leather holsters, firing at the es - rectly. It mattered if you enjoyed help, regularly. Sheila went on fighter. We had Jews fighting for caping bad guys (targets). He the friendship and camaraderie as and on about the Cohens. I Texas Independence with Sam jumped to the next stage where his part time cowboys or cowgirls. dreamed of being a cowboy. Houston. Adolphus Sterne ran lever action rifle awaited and “Ya interested?” Ferocious The American Jewish story guns to Houston’s little army blasted another ten rounds— Dan said to me. He had to say it began, frankly, with Columbus. through Mexican lines. sometimes hitting the targets twice as I was plainly transfixed Luis de Torres was a former Jew, a There always was something thirty feet away and sometimes by the sight out there in the Wilds translator taken by Columbus on about the West that resonated not. Replacing the rifle on the of Western Broward County, his 1492 mission to the New freedom to the Jewish American. table, he took large strides to an - Florida. Ferocious Dan handed World. He was a former Jew be - Jews did experience anti-Semi - other table where his shotgun lay. me a brochure about the group. cause he was given two choices tism in the West but it was never Swiftly picking up the gun, he “We are the Gold Coast Gun - just before the voyage began. (Continued on page 62 )

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Yiddle Joe . . . Some guys like Sol Starr, the a gun. Presidents Lyndon Johnson those cows anymore. The only mayor the Wild West Gold Town of and Ronald Regan were called cow - good reason to ride them is to (Continued from page 61 ) Deadwood, South Dakota simply boys. American cowboy presidents meet a nurse,” she said. anything like the institutionalized did not marry. Others married the have been the friendliest to Israel “They are not cows, Sheila. anti-Semitism of Europe. local ladies, sometimes Christians, since its creation. They are bulls.” The first Jewish governor came and sometimes even Indians. Last weekend, after Ketubah The one word reply from out of the American West, Moses They waited for the first good Shabbat, I was feeling husbandly Sheila meant I needed to try a dif - Alexander from Idaho. The first rainstorm to go out and find a toward Sheila. “Sheila,” I called to ferent angle, “Bull.” Jewish female Rabbi, Rachel flowing creek for their own self her in my nicest voice. “How “Sheila,” I started. The one Franks, came from the American conversions. To the horror of some would you like to go to a rodeo?” word rebuttal again was empha - West. Jews argue exactly who or of the Orthodox, these self-con - “A what?” came the bodiless sized. I knew it was time to stop. what is a Rabbi, even in the West. verted folks had the nerve to raise answer from the other room. “William,” she who must be Jews argue about if someone’s their kids as Jews. Today, who I tried again, “How would you obeyed called out. “William, why mother wasn’t Jewish or was Jew - knows anymore? In the West like to go to a rodeo down at the don’t you take Mendel?” ish; it all depends on who wants there were all sorts of blends. In world famous Bergeron rodeo Not a bad idea, I thought. I the credit. For that matter, if we the East, we just pretend everyone grounds in Davie?” called Mendel, my Hassidish trace matrilineal descent as being went to a Beit Din and a Mikveh “William, since you saw those friend. We made a date to go to the the sole arbitrator of being Jewish and true Jews are all white. alte cocker meshuganahs playing rodeo the following Sunday. over the generations, Elvis Presley The Palestinians say White Eu - cowboy and shooting metal cactus Mendel generally is up for most was Jewish. His matrilineal line ropean Jews are really the bastard bushes you must have a prickly things. Sunday morning, I picked was clearly Jewish, though Chris - converts of the Khazar Kingdom pear in the head or two. Why Mendel up at his home. We were tian in practice until him. and have no legitimate right to be would I want to go see a rodeo? If going to the rodeo. Whether someone was a half Jew, in Israel. That is another Oye! you said we are going to Rodeo “Good morning, William,” a full Jew, a quarter Jew, a gastro - So where does that put us? Drive in Beverly Hills so I can go Mendel greeted me. “The world is nomic Jew, a Jew by choice, all the Once there was a time in America shopping, O.K., but a rodeo?” new to us every morning—this is meshugas you can imagine, we being a cowboy was stylish. Today Trying once more, I called to God’s gift and every man should fought about it. Is a Jew white, it is politically incorrect. Someone her, “Sheila, did you know bull rid - believe he is reborn each day. – black, red, yellow, or just someone called President George Bush a ing was a Jewish sport—sort of?” Baal Shem Tov.” crazy enough to want to be Jewish? cowboy, and it stuck. Bush’s cow - “Jewish sport my tuchas, Jews “Nobody can go back and start It is true; there were not a lot boyness was made to be a real hated don’t do such dangerous and stu - a new beginning, but anyone can of Jewish girls on the frontier. negative metaphor for a loony with pid things,” the headless voice start today and make a new end - from the other room came back. ing. – Maria Robinson,” I shot back. “Sheila, really, there was a famous “Cowboy boots, William?” champion Jewish rodeo bull rider.” Mendel looked at my new shiny, “Like who?” she quickly an - pointy boots. swered. “Yup,” I said. “Boots, hats, and

Johnny Hochman rode bucking bulls for a living. He is a nice Jewish boy who was bar mitzvahed in Philadelphia. He makes his home in Texas. I doubt if he rides anymore—too many broken this or that’s to count …

“Johnny Hochman rode buck - cowboys. Nothing else matters. – ing bulls for a living. He is a nice American Proverb.” Jewish boy who was bar mitzva - Mendel grinned at me and hed in Philadelphia. He makes tugged on his right Payyah as was his home in Texas. I doubt if he his way. “Don’t squat with your rides anymore, too many broken spurs on. – Anonymous,” he said. this or that’s to count,” I told her. We both laughed. “No wonder he doesn’t ride (Continued on next page) << Back to ToC Visit us at sassnet .com June 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 63

single action revolvers. You need 5. Be brave but never take Here’s a happy one for you. a gun belt with two holsters and a chances. Happy trails to you, keep smilin’ shotgun belt. I need a coach style 6. Study hard and learn all you until then. double-barreled shotgun and a can. Who cares about the clouds when lever action period rifle. 7. Be kind to animals and take we’re together? Sheila confessed to me that as care of them. Just sing a song and bring the a young girl in Jewish summer 8. Eat all your food and never sunny weather. camp they would target shoot with waste any. Happy trails to you, ‘till we meet .22s. “I rather liked the sport,” 9. Love God and go to Sunday again. she said. “It’s very politically out school regularly. * * * Bronco Billy was “the” first of step today.” 10. Always respect our flag and “Sheila,” I said as we lay in bed cowboy on the silver screen. With every word she said, my our country. awake at three in the morning talk - eyes grew wider about this woman Roy is politically incorrect today. ing. “I wonder if we can get those I had lived with all these years * * * days of innocence back? Every - Yiddle Joe . . . and really did not seem to know. Roy Rogers and his wife, Dale thing is so politically incorrect.” (Continued from previous page) Sometimes Sheila would come Evans, closed each show with this “William, you have always “Mendel,” I said. “Bet you to a Gold Coast Gunslinger shoot song: been politically incorrect,” she never knew the first American at Markham. She never got into Happy trails to you, until we meet said as she gently pinched my cowboy movie film star was Bronco the sport. On occasion Mendel again. arm. “Out West they have a say - Billy Anderson. He was the very would come along. He would sit Happy trails to you, keep smilin’ ing, ‘Once you know where you’re first star of the shoot-em-ups that happily in his long, black Hassidic until then. a’goin’, just climb in the saddle graced the silent silver screen. He coat, with the white shirt collar Who cares about the clouds when and stay on the trail ‘til you get was the first cowboy hero to the open, reading from a book on Jew - we’re together? there.’ ” American public. Bronco Billy was ish thought, his hand uncon - Just sing a song and bring the “God,” I thought, “This woman from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, only sciously turning his Keepah when sunny weather. does amaze me sometimes.” there his name was Maxwell he hit upon a particular bit of wis - Happy trails to you, ‘till we meet Henry Aronson. Bronco Billy was dom he relished. He always knew again. Yiddle Joe, lives with his wife, part of the Tribe.” when to look up, smile, and give Some trails are happy ones, Sheila, and their little dog, Nor - “I love Westerns,” Mendel said me the thumbs-up salute, when it Others are blue. man, in Boynton Beach, Florida. excitedly. was my turn to shoot. It’s the way you ride the trail that They can reached at AMZHS@hot “And William,” Mendel picked My first awkward social con - counts, mail.com up, “God took a handful of cerns about Cowboy Action Shoot - southerly wind, blew his breath ing™ were way off. In time, over it, and created the horse.” Jeremiah Long Knife introduced “We are going to see some real me to the Hebrew Kid and Jewish horsemanship today, Mendel,” I Lightning, n shooters from other said. And, we did. clubs. Though my Cowboy Action A few weeks later, I told Sheila name was Yiddle Joe, the guys I was joining with the alta cockers just called me Yiddle. It was eas - cowboys. I want to be a member of ier for them, and it was no offense the Gold Coast Gunslingers Single to me. Action Shooting Society. Some - Mendel had an important times Sheila really surprises me. thought to share with me after he I expected, well, what I expected, came to the first shoot. I told him I don’t know what I expected. Let the guys called me Yiddle. me put it in cowboy terms, “A “William,” Mendel said, “It is stubborn horse walks behind you, not so much what you call your - an impatient horse walks in front self, it is what you call others.” of you, but a noble companion “You are right, Mendel,” I said. walks beside you.” “And judge a man by what he Sheila said to me, “William, if does, not by what he wears. It is that is something you want to do the code of the West.” then do it right—that is the cow - The years have passed and boy way. There is a little cowboy something in America has funda - in all of us, you know. Louis mentally been transformed from L’Amour said that.” when I was a kid. Sheila and I I was astonished. Where did talked about it one night. We both that come from? We began talking had been fans of the Roy Rogers about monikers. That was when and Dale Evans Cowboy Western she said, “Not Yiddle Jim, but Yid - TV Show. I was a member of the dle Joe.” I became Yiddle Joe. Roy Rogers Rangers fan club. To She even went with me when I be a member in good standing, I had to get my rig. She helped me had to recite the following ten pick out my cowboy hat, my shirt, commandments of the Rangers: and pants. She even approved of 1. Be neat and clean. my boots. But the big test was 2. Be courteous and polite. coming. I told her about the guns. 3. Always obey your parents. To be a Cowboy Action Shooter 4. Protect the weak and help you had to have two six shooters— them.

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City AK CA (continued) alaska 49er’s 1st sat & tripod 907-373-0140 Birchwood California Rangers 2nd sat Jimmy frisco 209-296-4146 sloughhouse 3rd sun imperial valley Rangers 2nd sun southern southpaw 760-587-1744 imperial Golden heart shootist society 2nd sat & poco loco 907-488-7660 fairbanks double R Bar 2nd sun five Jacks 760-949-3198 lucerne last sun louie Regulators valley Juneau Gold miners posse 3rd sun five Card tanna 907-789-7498 Juneau high sierra drifters 2nd sun Grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 Railroad AL Richmond Roughriders 2nd sun Buffy 650-994-9412 Richmond Russell County Regulators 1st sat will Killigan 706-568-0869 phenix City over the hill Gang (the) 2nd sun Kooskia Kid 818-566-7900 sylmar north alabama Regulators 1st sun drake Robey 256-313-0421 woodville Bridgeport vigilantes 3rd sat Ben maverick 909-496-3137 Bridgeport vulcan long Rifles 2nd sat sugah 256-504-0820 hoover Burro Canyon Gunslingers 3rd sat don trader 714-827-7360 meyers alabama Rangers 2nd sun dead horse phil 205-531-7055 Brierfield Canyon Gallant Gunfighters 3rd sun Buckboard Jim 205-991-5823 hoover nevada City peacemakers 3rd sat major mal 530-888-1395 nevada old york shootists 4th sun derringer di 205-647-6925 locust fork phunction City AR Robbers Roost vigilantes 3rd sat nast newt 760-375-7618 Ridgecrest white River Gang 1st sat arkansas tom 870-656-8431 mountain Gold Country wild Bunch 3rd sat sutter lawman 530-713-4194 sloughouse home high desert Cowboys 3rd sun doc silverhawks 661-948-2543 acton Critter Creek Citizens 1st sun evil Bob 903-701-3970 fourke Kings River Regulators 3rd sun sierra Rider 559-268-1115 Clovis vigilance murieta posse 3rd sun Grizzly peak Jake 530-676-2997 sloughhouse mountain valley vigilantes 1st wkd Christmas Kid 501-625-3554 hot springs helldorado Rangers 3rd sun will Bonner 707-462-1466 ukiah outlaw Camp 2nd & 5th ozark Red 501-362-2963 heber hawkinsville Claim 4th & 5th lethal les 530-905-1407 yreka sat springs Jumpers sat l’amour arkansas lead slingers 2nd sat & dirty dan 479-633-2107 Garfield mad River Rangers 4th sat Kid Kneestone 707-445-1981 Blue lake 4th sun paladin Coyote valley sharpshooters 4th sat nasty hag 408-859-4300 san Jose south fork River Regulators 3rd sat arkansas 870-994-7227 salem pozo River vigilance 4th sat dirty sally 805-438-4817 santa harper Committee margarita Judge parker’s marshals 3rd sat & sun naildriver 479-651-2475 fort smith California shady ladies 4th sat lady Gambler 916-447-2040 sloughhouse true Grit sass 4th sat & sun tombstone shadow 501-786-4440 Belleville faultline shootist society 4th sun Querida 831-635-9147 Gonzales AZ the Cowboys 4th sun Captain Jake 714-318-6948 norco white mountain old west 1st & 3rd sat fred sharps 928-245-6276 show low deadwood drifters 4th sun lusty lil 661-775-3802 piru shootists sloughhouse irregulators 5th sat & sun Badlands Bud 530-677-0368 sloughhouse Rio salado Cowboy action 1st sat a. J. Bob 480-982-7336 mesa CO shooting society Colorado Cowboys 1st sat painted filly 719-439-6502 lake George old pueblo shootist 1st sun Gilly Boy 520-249-2831 tombstone Colorado shaketails 1st sun midnite slim 719-660-2742 fountain association san Juan Rangers 1st sun Kodiak Kid 970-252-1841 montrose Cowtown Cowboy shooters 1st sun & Barbwire 480-773-2753 peoria windygap Regulators 1st wkd piedra Kidd 970-799-1133 Cortez 3rd sat Briggsdale County 2nd & 4th Kid Bucklin 970-493-1813 Briggsdale arizona Cowboy shooters 2nd sat Gawd awful 503-528-6423 phoenix shootists sat association inc vigilantes 2nd sat Grizz Bear 719-545-9463 pueblo tombstone shootist society 2nd sat Cowboy doug 520-457-3559 tombstone four Corners Rifle and 2nd sun Capt. w. K. 970-565-3840 Cortez whiskey Row Gunslingers 2nd sun turquoise Bill 928-925-7323 prescott pistol Club Kelso Colorado River Regulators 2nd sun & Crowheart 928-505-2200 lake montrose marshals 2nd sun Big hat 970-249-7701 montrose 4th sat havasu Castle peak wildshots 2nd wkd old squinteye 970-524-9348 Gypsum naZty Bunch 3rd sat tumbleweed Rose 928-899-8788 flagstaff pawnee station 3rd sat Red Creek dick 303-857-0520 nunn lake powell Gunslingers 3rd sat Bare fist Jack 928-660-2104 page martin los vaqueros 3rd sat Buckeye pete 520-548-8298 tucson Rockvale Bunch 3rd sat Cherokee diable 719-371-0172 Rockvale payson Cowboys 3rd sun Rowdy lane 575-937-9297 payson four Corners Gunslingers 3rd sun Cereza slim 970-247-0745 durango mohave marshalls 3rd sun & d B Chester 928-231-9013 Kingman thunder mountain shootist 3rd wkd pinto Being 970-464-7118 whitewater 5th sat northwest Colorado Rangers 4th sat Black mountain 970-824-8407 Craig altar valley pistoleros 3rd sun & mean Raylean 520-235-0394 tucson Cat 5th sun sand Creek Raiders 4th sun sweet water Bill 303-366-8827 Byers arizona yavapai Rangers 4th sat whisperin 928-567-9227 Camp verde Black Canyon Ghost Riders 4th sun double Bit 970-874-8745 hotchkiss meadows CT dusty Bunch old western 4th sat squibber 602-309-4198 Casa Grande ledyard sidewinders 1st sat yosemite Gene 860-536-0887 ledyard shooters Ct valley Bushwackers 2nd sun milo sierra 860-508-2686 east Granby Colorado River shootists 4th sun Boston anniebelle 928-502-1298 yuma DE Bordertown, inc. as sch Quicksand 520-290-8599 tombstone padens posse 3rd sun hazel pepper 302-422-6534 Bridgeville CA FL sunnyvale Regulators 1st & 3rd shaniko Jack 650-464-3764 Cupertino Ghost town Gunslingers 1st sat Copenhagen 904-808-8559 st. augustine mon night Gold Coast Gunslingers 1st sat & George washington 786-256-9542 fort escondido Bandidos 1st sat devil Jack 760-741-3229 escondido 3rd sun mclintock lauderdale the outlaws 1st sat terrell (Rondo) 916-363-1648 sloughhouse hernando County Regulators 1st sun shady Brady 352-686-1055 Brooksville sackett miakka misfits 1st sun serving Justice 914-219-7007 myakka City sierra sportsmen Club 1st sat Bugtown dusty 530-260-0806 susanville fort white Cowboy Cavalry 2nd sat deadly sharpshoot 352-317-6284 fort white two Rivers posse 1st sat & dragon 209-836-4042 manteca okeechobee marshals 2nd sat & Kid Celero 561-312-9075 okeechobee 4th sun 4th sun 5 dogs Creek 1st sat & utah Blaine 661-203-4238 Bakersfield okeechobee outlaws 2nd sat & dead wait 863-357-3006 okeechobee sun 4th sun River City Regulators 1st sun Bangor Brink 530-679-2321 davis tater hill Gunfighters 2nd sun Judge Jd Justice 941-629-4440 arcadia hole in the wall Gang 1st sun frito Bandito 661-406-6001 piru weewahootee vigilance 2nd sun Cypress sam 407-847-7285 orlando Cajon Cowboys 2nd & 4th pasture patti 760-956-8852 devore Committee sat panhandle Cowboys 2nd sun high Card 850-492-5162 pensacola Chorro valley Regulators 2nd & mad dog 805-440-7847 san luis southwest florida 3rd sat Jed lewis 239-455-4788 punta Gorda 5th sun mcCoy obispo Gunslingers shasta Regulators of 2nd sat Cayenne 530-275-3158 Burney Big Bend Bushwhackers 3rd sat sixpence Kid 850-459-1107 tallahassee hat Creek pepper lake County pistoleros 3rd sat arcadia outlaw 352-208-2788 tavares mother lode shootist 2nd sat sioux City Kid 209-795-4175 Jamestown panhandle Cattle Company 4th sat desperado dale 850-260-5507 Chipley society Cowford Regulators 4th sat General lee smokey 904-803-2930 Jacksonville Coyote valley Cowboys 2nd sat Bad eye Bobolu 408-722-0583 morgan hill indian River Regulators 4th sat Belligerent orney 321-403-2940 palm Bay Guns in the sun 2nd sat Johnny 2moons 760-346-0972 palm springs Bob Buffalo Runners 2nd sat Grizzly peak 530-676-2997 Rescue Roughshod Raiders 4th sun delta Glen 352-317-2357 Gainsville Jake oK Corral outlaws 4th sun Kokomo Kid 863-357-2226 okeechobee dulzura desperados 2nd sat Reuben J. 619-997-2755 san diego five County Regulators 4th sun Jed lewis 239-455-4788 punta Gorda Cogburn doodle hill Regulators 4th sun dave smith 813-645-3828 Ruskin To update your SASS Affiliated Club Listing or Annual Match please contact Slipnoose at the SASS Office ph: (877) 411-7277 or [email protected] << Back to ToC Visit us at sassnet .com Continued on next page >> June 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 67

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City FL (continued) IN (continued) antelope Junction Rangers fri nite & mayeye Rider 727-736-3977 pineallas westside Renegades 4th sat Johnny Banjo 812-430-6421 evansville 2nd sat park starke County desert 4th sat whip mccord 219-942-5859 Knox GA Big Rock sass 4th sat southpaw too 812-866-2406 lexington River Bend Rough Riders 1st sat done Gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville Red Brush Raiders 4th sat doc Goodluck 812-721-1188 newburgh american old west Cowboys 1st sat Josey Buckhorn 423-236-5281 flintstone deer Creek Regulators 4th sun doc molar 765-506-0344 Jonesboro valdosta vigilance 1st sat Big Boyd 229-244-3161 valdosta wildwood wranglers 4th sun voodooman 219-872-2721 michigan Committee City lonesome valley 1st sun wishbone 478-922-9384 warner indiana Black powder Guild as sch C. C. top 574-354-7186 etna Green Regulators hooper Robins KS providence springs Rangers 2nd sat Buckshot Bob 229-924-0997 anderson Butterfield Gulch Gang 1st sun flinthills dawg 785-479-0416 Chapman doc holliday’s immortals 2nd sat easy Rider 770-954-9696 Griffin free state Rangers 1st sun & Buffalo phil 913-898-4911 parker Camden County Cowboys 2nd sat Christian 912-227-5683 Kingsland 3rd sat mortician powder Creek Cowboys 2nd & 4th sat el dorado wayne 913-686-5314 lenexa piedmont Regulators 2nd sat hunter sam 706-391-4630 toccoa & 4th wed south River shootists 3rd sat man from little 678-428-4240 Covington mill Brook wranglers 2nd sun Grandpa Buckten 785-421-2537 hill City River millbrook Cherokee Cowboys 4th sat Bad lands Bob 706-654-0828 Gainesville sandhill Regulators 3rd sat merimac menace 620-664-7003 hutchinson HI Capital City Cowboys 4th sun top 785-313-0894 topeka maui marshals 1st & 3rd sat Bad Burt 808-875-9085 maui Chisholm trail Rowdies last sun Cody wyatt 316-204-1784 wichita Big island paniolos 3rd sat paniolo annie 808-640-3949 ocean view KY single action shootist of 4th sun Branded Buck 808-351-9260 honolulu Kentucky Regulators 1st sat shenandoah slim 270-354-5040 Boaz hawaii hooten old town Regulators 1st sat double eagle 423-309-4146 mckee IA dave turkeyfoot Cowboys 1st sat Ranger mathias 319-234-1550 elk Run Knob Creek Gunfighters 1st sun drew first 502-644-3453 west point fischels heights Guild hawkeye outlaws 1st sat forgunz 712-251-5550 sioux City Green River Gunslingers 2nd sat yak 270-792-9001 Bowling fort des moines Rangers 1st sun pit mule 515-205-0557 indianola Green Zen shootists 2nd sat sergeant duroc 515-783-4833 nevada levisa fork lead slingers 2nd sat escopeta Jake 606-631-4613 pikeville outlaw’s Run 2nd sun Jim midnight 712-621-5726 Red oak ponderosa pines posse 3rd sat Copperhead Joe 606-599-5263 manchester ID ohio River Rangers 3rd sat George Rogers 270-554-1501 paducah panhandle Regulators 1st & 3rd halfcocked otis 509-991-5842 otis Breathitt Bandits 4th sat slowly But surely 606-666-4663 Jackson sun orchards Rockcastle Rangers 4th sat Grinnin Barrett 270-792-3196 park City Gunslingers of flaming 1st sat Jughandle Jack 208-634-3121 Council fox Bend peacemakers 4th sun tocala sam 859-552-9000 wilmore heart Ranch LA southeast idaho practical 1st sat hell’s Belle 208-529-3594 idaho falls deadwood marshals 1st & 3rd sat doc spudley 504-467-6062 sorrento shooters Grand Cane Gunslingers 1st sat Blackjack Charlie 318-925-9851 Grand Cane desert sky Regulators 1st sat d. f. hart 208-438-8313 Rupert up the Creek Gang 2nd & 4th hardly able 337-474-5058 lake squaw Butte Regulators 1st sun acequia Kidd 208-365-4551 emmett sat Charles el Buscaderos 2nd & 4th sun oddman 208-437-0496 spirit lake Bayou Bounty hunters 2nd sat soiled dove 985-796-9698 folsom northwest shadow Riders 2nd sat silverado Belle 208-743-5765 lewiston Grand ecore vigilantes 3rd sat ouachita Kid 318-932-6637 natchitoches southern idaho Rangers 2nd sat lone thumper 208-251-4959 pocatello Jackson hole Regulators 4th sat slick mcClade 318-278-9071 Quitman oregon trail Rough Riders 2nd sun & Gem hunter 208-466-0061 Kuna MA 3rd sat Cape Cod Cowboys 4th sat Curly Jay Brooks 508-477-9771 mashpee hells Canyon Ghost Riders 3rd sat J.p. sloe 208-798-0826 moscow shawsheen River Rangers as sch yukon willie 978-663-3342 Bedford twin Butte Bunch 3rd sat idaho Rusty 208-745-6150 Rexburg harvard Ghost Riders as sch double R Bar Kid 978-771-9190 harvard Bucket danvers desperados as sch Cyrus Cy Klopps 781-667-2857 middleton Border marauders 3rd wkd mud marine 208-627-8377 east port Gunnysackers sat nantucket dawn 781-749-6951 scituate snake River western shooting 4th sat missy mable 208-731-6387 twin falls MD society eas’dern shore Renegades 1st sat teton tracy 302-378-7854 sudlersville IL thurmont Rangers 1st sun Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 thurmont shady Creek shootists 1st & 4th dapper dan 309-734-2324 little york monocacy irregulars 2nd tues Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 frederick sun porter damascus wildlife Rangers 4th sat Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 damascus lakewood marshal’s 1st sat pine Ridge Jack 618-838-9410 Cisne ME Rangeless Riders (the) 1st sat the inspector 618-972-7825 highland Big pine Bounty hunters as sch Ripley scrounger 207-876-4928 willmantic Kishwaukee valley 1st sun snakes morgan 815-751-3716 sycamore Capitol City vigilance as sch mark lake 207-622-9400 augusta Regulators Committee free Grazers 2nd sat fossil Creek Bob 217-821-3134 effingham Beaver Creek desperados as sch Jimmy Reb 207-698-4436 Berwick tri County Cowboys 2nd sat msgt. sh long 815-967-6333 polo MI Kaskaskia Cowboys 2nd sat wagonmaster ward 618-443-3538 sparta Rockford Regulators 1st sat no Cattle 616-363-2827 Rockford vermilion River long Riders 2nd sun lead poison lar 815-875-3674 leonore River Bend Rangers 2nd sat paul puma 269-684-1782 niles illinois River City Regulators 2nd sun Granville stuart 309-243-7236 milan double Barrel Gang 2nd sat. dakota fats 269-721-8190 hastings nason mining Company 3rd & 5th diggins dave 618-927-0594 Benton Butcher Butte Bunch 2nd sun Grubby hardrock 810-750-0655 fenton Regulators sat sucker Creek saddle and 3rd sat Kid al fred 989-832-8426 Breckenridge mclean County peacemakers 3rd sat marshall Rd 309-379-4331 Bloomington Gun Club litchfield sportsman’s Club 3rd sat Ross haney 618-667-9819 litchfield Chippewa Regulators 3rd sat no name 906-632-1254 sault ste. illowa irregulars 3rd sun shamrock sis 309-798-2635 milan Justice marie fort Beggs defenders 3rd sun toranado 815-302-8305 plainfield hidden valley Cowboys 3rd sun saulk valley 269-651-5197 sturgis long nine Cowboys 4th & 5th lemon drop 217-787-4877 loami stubby sun Kid Rocky River Regulators 3rd sun terrebonne Bud 248-709-5254 utica Good Guys posse 4th sun dangerous denny 815-245-7264 Rockford Blue water Gunslingers 4st sun Buggyman 810-434-9597 Kimball IN eagleville Cowboys 4th sat one son of a Gun 231-676-0922 Central lake paradise pass Regulators 1st sat C. C. top 574-354-7186 etna Green Johnson Creek Regulators 4th sat Rainmaker Ray 313-618-2577 plymouth (formly Cutter’s Raiders) mason County marshals 4th sat two Gun troll 231-343-2580 scottsville atlanta Cattle Company 2nd sat Bear Creek Reverend 765-652-1525 atlanta wolverine Rangers as sch R.J. law 248-828-0440 port huron pleasant valley Renegades 2nd sat nomore slim 812-839-3052 Canaan saginaw field & stream Club as sch Bad River marty 989-585-3292 saginaw schuster’s Rangers 2nd sun Coal Car Kid 219-759-3498 Chesterton lapeer County sportsmans sun as ash flat water 314-378-5689 attica pine Ridge Regulators 3rd sat Riverboat Gambler 765-832-7253 Brazil Club wranglers Johnny wolff’s Rowdy Rangers 3rd sat Justice d. 574-536-4010 Bristol MN spencer Cedar valley vigilantes 1st & 3rd sat d m yankee 612-701-9719 morristown Circle R Cowboys 3rd sat mustang Bill 219-208-2793 Brookston Crow River Rangers 1st sun Cantankerous Jeb 763-682-3710 howard lake wabash Rangers 4th sat henry 217-267-2820 Cayuga Granite City Gunslingers 2nd & 5th amen straight 612-723-2313 saint Cloud Remington sat To update your SASS Affiliated Club Listing or Annual Match please contact Slipnoose at the SASS Office ph: (877) 411-7277 or [email protected] Visit us at sassnet .com Back to ToC >> Continued on next page >> Page 68 Cowboy Chronicle June 2014

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City MN (continued) MT (continued) lone Rock Rangers 2nd sat Red dutchman 651-402-0368 farmingtion Rocky mountain Rangers 2nd wkd Jocko 406-847-0745 noxon lookout mountain Gunsmoke 2nd sat wagonmaster 218-780-6797 virginia last Chance handgunners 3rd sat vinny da Kid 406-439-4476 Boulder society Custer County stranglers 3rd sat hartshot 406-232-0727 miles City fort Belmont Regulators 2nd sun mule town Jack 507-840-0883 Jackson montana territory 4th sat two Gun montana 406-655-8166 Billings east Grand forks Rod & 3rd sun BB Gunner 218-779-8555 east Grand peacemakers Gun Club forks lincoln County Regulators 4th sat anita nuttergun 406-297-7667 eureka MO NC ozark posse (the) 1st sat tightwad swede 417-846-5142 Cassville neuse River Regulators 1st & 3rd paddi macGarrett 910-330-1998 new Burn mountain oyster Gang 1st sun siegfried 660-909-6519 higginsville sat (formerly Rocky Branch Rangers) walnut Grove Rangers 1st sat two Gun terry 828-453-7721 ellenboro west plaines waddies 2nd & 5th sat major missalot 417-284-1432 tecumseh old hickory Regulators 1st sat wendover Kid 252-908-0098 Rocky moniteau Creek River Raiders 2nd sun doolin Riggs 573-687-3103 fayette mount shoal Creek shootists 3rd sat Chaos Jumbles 417-451-9959 Joplin old north state posse 1st sat tracker mike 336-558-9032 salisbury Gateway shootist society 3rd sun Bounty seeker 314-740-4665 st. louis Carolina Rough Riders 1st sun pecos pete 704-394-1859 Charlotte Central ozarks western 3rd sun x. s. Chance 573-765-5483 st. Robert Carolina single action 2nd & 5th Carolina’s 919-383-7567 eden shooters shooting society sun longarm southern missouri Rangers 4th wkd flossie 573-374-8491 marshfield high Country Cowboys 2nd sat wild otter 828-423-7796 asheville MS Carolina Cattlemen’s shooting 2nd sat J. m. Brown 919-291-1726 Creedmore natchez sixgunners 1st sat silky 601-807-1513 natchez and social society Gulf Coast Gunslingers 1st sun old Rebel 228-860-0054 Biloxi Buccaneer Range Regulators 2nd sat Jefro 910-330-7179 wilmington mississippi peacemakers 3rd sat macon a. 601-954-3720 mendenhall Gunpowder Creek Regulators 3rd sat herdzman 828-493-1679 lenoir longshot Cross Creek Cowboys 3rd sat Buffalo slim 910-391-9556 wagram mississippi River Rangers 4th & 5th sat taska Jim 901-490-2600 Byhalia iredell Regulators 4th sat Charlotte 704-902-1796 statesville MT ND honorable Road agents 1st sat diamond Red 406-685-3618 ennis trestle valley Rangers 2nd sat doc hell 701-852-1697 minot shooting society Badlands Bandits 2nd sun Roughrider Ray 701-260-0347 Belfield sun River Rangers shooting 1st sat & Charlie 406-455-1441 simms dakota Rough Riders as sch Blake stone 701-471-2334 Bismark society sun whiskers sheyenne valley last sat wild River Rose 701-588-4331 enderlin makoshika Gunslingers 2nd sat doc wells 406-345-8901 Glendive peacekeepers Bitterroot Buckaroos 2nd sat nine lives 406-381-9376 hamilton NE Gallatin valley Regulators 2nd sat el hombre de 406-388-2902 logan eastern nebraska Gun Club 2nd sun flint valdez 712-323-8996 louisville montana flat water shootists of the 3rd sun forty four 308-383-4605 Grand island Black horse shootists 2nd wkd J. e. B. stuart 406-727-7625 Great Grand island Rifle Club maggie montana falls platte valley Gunslingers as sch skunk stomper 402-461-3442 Grand island

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City NH OH (continued) the dalton Gang shooting Club 3rd wkd littleton s. dalton 603-444-6876 dalton Blackhand Raiders 2nd sun duke City Kid 614-556-0245 Zanesville pemi valley peacemakers as sch Bear lee tallable 603-667-0104 holderness scioto territory desperados 3rd & 5th sun pickaway tracker 740-477-1881 Chillicothe white mountain Regulators as sch dead head 603-957-0377 Candia wilmington Rough Riders 3rd sat paragon pete 740-626-7667 wilmington merrimack valley marauders as sch sheriff R. p. 603-345-6876 pelham auGlaize Rough Riders 3rd sun Bear River smith 419-506-0999 defiance Bucket ohio valley vigilantes 4th sat slow movin Ron 614-599-0721 mt. vernon NJ Central ohio Cowboys 4th sun stagecoach hannah 614-563-6070 whitehall monmouth County Rangers 2nd sun utah tom 732-803-2430 monmouth stonelick Regulators as sch Carson 513-753-6462 Batavia delaware Blues 2nd sun yellow mike 302-750-2381 Quinton Brown township Regulators last sat sandy Creek Jake 330-863-1139 malvern Jackson hole Gang 4th sun papa Grey 732-961-6834 Jackson OK NM Rattlesnake mountain Rangers 1st & 2nd sat Black River Jack 918-908-0016 Checotah magdalena trail drivers 1st & 3rd sat Grizzly adams 575-854-2488 magdalena shortgrass Rangers 1st sat & oklahoma spuds 405-640-5650 Grandfield del norte diablos 1st & 4th sat nevada Ranger 505-220-0892 Rio Rancho 3rd sun Bighorn vigilantes 1st sat German George 505-286-0830 founders Cherokee strip shootists 1st sun scott wayne 405-377-0610 stillwater Ranch tulsey town Cattlemens 2nd & dry Gulch deryl 918-697-7396 tulsa otero practical shooting 1st sat saguaro sam 505-437-3663 la luz association 4th sat association indian territory single action 2nd & 5th sun, little fat Buddy 918-437-4562 sand Chisum Cowboy Gun Club 1st sat two Bit tammy 575-626-9201 Roswell shooting society 3rd sat, 4th wed springs Buffalo Range Riders 1st sun Garrison Joe 505-323-8487 founders oklahoma City Gun Club - 2nd sat & flat top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma Ranch territorial marshals 4th sun City Chisum Cowboy Gun Club 1st sun two Bit tammy 575-626-9201 Roswell OR high desert drifters 2nd sat el vaquero malo 505-688-7937 founders horse Ridge pistoleros 1st & 3rd sun Big Casino 541-389-2342 Bend Ranch merlin marauders 1st sat mountain Grizz 253-208-1105 merlin lincoln County Regulators 2nd sat Gunsmoke 575-808-0459 Ruidoso dry Gulch desperados 1st sat Runamuck 509-520-3241 milton Cowboy freewater Rio Grande Renegades 2nd wed, whiplash whitey 505-401-3064 albuquer- siuslaw River Rangers 1st sun Johnny Jingos 541-997-6313 florence 3rd sat, 4th sun, que table Rock Rangers 1st sun & Jed i. Knight 541-944-2281 white City 5th sat & sun 2nd sat Gila Rangers 2nd wkd Chico Cheech 575-388-2531 silver City pine mountain posse 2nd & 4th wkd whisperin’ wade 541-318-8199 Bend seven Rivers Regulators 3rd sat stink Creek Jones 575-885-9879 Carlsbad Jefferson state Regulators 3rd sat Jed i. Knight 541-944-2281 ashland monument springs 4th sat val darrant 575-396-5303 hobbs oregon trail Regulators 3rd sat willie Killem 541-443-6591 la Grande Bushwhackers oregon old west shooting 3rd sun & tuffy 541-619-7381 albany picacho posse 4th sat fast hammer 575-664-3317 las Cruces society 4th sat tumbleweed tres Rios Bandidos 4th sun largo Casey 505-330-2489 farmington umpqua Regulators 4th sun oregun Gustaf 541-430-1021 Roseburg Rio vaqueros 4th sun anna sassin 575-744-5793 truth or fort dalles defenders 4th sun frisco nell 360-835-5630 the dalles Consequences PA NV perry County Regulators 1st sat tuscarora slim 717-789-3004 ickesburg fort halleck volunteers 1st & 3rd Green springs 775-753-8203 elko dry Gulch Rangers 1st sat pep C. holic 724-263-1461 midway sat thomsen Boot hill Gang of topton 1st sun lester moore 610-704-6792 topton high plains drifters 1st sun washoe Zephyr 775-721-6619 fernley whispering pines Cowboy 1st sun panama Red 570-724-7214 wellsboro eldorado Cowboys 1st wkd Creeker 702-328-4867 Boulder City Committee nevada Rangers Cowboy 2nd sun mt fargo 702-460-6393 las vegas Chimney Rocks Regulators 2nd sat Relentless 814-414-1461 hollidays- action shooting society Renegade burg Roop County Cowboy shooters 2nd sun Jasper agate 775-849-7679 sparks logans ferry Regulators 2nd sat mariah Kid 412-607-5313 plum association Borough silver state shootists 3rd sun shotgun marshall 775-265-0267 Carson City heidelberg lost dutchmen 2nd sat ivory Rose 717-627-0694 schaeffers- desert desperados 3rd sun Buffalo sam 702-459-6454 las vegas town lone wolf shooters, llC 4th & 5th sun penny pepperbox 775-727-4600 pahrump mainville marauders 2nd sun dodge Bill 570-477-5667 mainville NY westshore posse 2nd sun hud mcCoy 410-984-2249 new Crumhorn mountain Cowboys 1st & 4th sun lefty Cooper 607-287-9261 maryland Cumberland alabama Gunslingers 1st sat Bum thumb 585-343-3906 alabama dakota Badlanders (the) 2nd sun timberland 610-434-1923 orefield tioga County Cowboys 1st sat dusty drifter 607-659-3819 owego Renegade Boot hill Regulators 1st sun Judge Zaney Grey 845-352-7921 Chester River Junction shootist society 3rd sat mattie hays 724-593-6602 donegal pathfinder pistoleros 1st sun sonny 315-695-7032 fulton Jefferson outlaws 3rd sat Red-eyed Kid 443-392-1615 Jefferson salt port vigilance 2nd sat twelve Bore 585-613-8046 holley Blue mountain Rangers 3rd sun Cathy fisher 610-488-0619 hamburg Committee matamoras mavericks 3rd sun hammerin steel 570-296-5853 milford Bar-20 inc. 2nd sat Badlands Buck 315-637-3492 west eaton silver lake Bounty hunters 3rd sun marshal t. J. 570-663-3045 montrose oxford Regulators 2nd sun scheriff Richie 607-783-2666 oxford Buckshot hole in the wall Gang 3rd sat el fusilero 631-864-1035 Calverton purgatory Regulators 3rd wkd dry Gulch Geezer 814-827-2120 titusville diamond four 3rd sat Kayutah Kid 607-796-0573 odessa elstonville hombres 4th sun trusty sidekick 610-939-9947 manheim Circle K Regulators 3rd sun smokehouse dan 518-885-3758 Ballston spa el posse Grande 4th sun Black hills Barb 570-538-9163 muncy sackets harbor vigilantes 4th sun Ranger Clayton 315-465-6543 sackets valley Conagher harbor stewart’s Regulators 4th sun sodbuster Burt 724-479-8838 shelocta the long Riders 4th sun loco poco lobo 585-467-4429 shortsville RI d Bar d wranglers 4th sun Captain m.a.f 845-226-8611 wappingers lincoln County lawmen 4th sun wyoming Blink 401-385-9907 foster fall SC mythical Rough Riders 5th sun Rev dave 716-838-4286 hamburg palmetto posse 1st sat dun Gamblin 803-422-5587 Columbia Clayton Belton Bushwhackers 2nd sat pants a’fire meyer 864-760-9366 Belton the shadow Riders as sch dusty levis 646-284-4010 westhampton hurricane Riders 3rd sat saloon Keeper 843-361-2277 aynor Beach savannah River Rangers 3rd sun Kid Ray 803-960-3907 Gaston east end Regulators first sun diamond Rio 631-585-1936 westhampton Geechee Gunfighters 4th sat doc Kemm 843-863-0649 Ridgeville OH Greenville Gunfighters 4th sun Cowboy Junky 864-414-5578 Greenville middletown sportsman Club 1st sat deadwood stan 513-894-3500 middletown SD tusco long Riders 1st sat prairie dawg 216-932-7630 midvale Camp sturgis Regulators 1st sat Brother King 970-481-7569 sturgis Greene County Cowboys 1st sun Ruger Ray 937-352-6420 xenia medicine Creek Road agents 1st sun iron mender 605-222-5145 onida fireland peacemakers 1st wed, old iron hip 440-355-8410 Rochester Cottonwood Cowboy 2nd sun dakota 605-520-5212 Clark 3rd sat & 5th sun association nailbender sandusky County Regulators 2nd sat Curtice Clay 419-836-8760 Gibsonburg Bald mountain Renegades 3rd sun Cottonwood Cooter 605-280-1413 faulkton shenango River Rats 2nd sat & shenango Joe 330-782-0958 yankee lake Black hills shootist association 3rd sun hawkbill smith 605-342-8946 pringle last thurs snake Creek Rustlers 4th sun o’ town Kid 605-252-8403 faulkton miami valley Cowboys 2nd sun Buckshot Jones 937-418-7816 piqua TN wild wild west point Cowboy 2nd sun handy hoss 330-424-9669 west point Bitter Creek Rangers 1st & 3rd sun oracle 423-334-4053 Crossville action shooting Greene County Regulators 1st sat Boozy Creek 423-279-0316 Rogersville To update your SASS Affiliated Club Listing or Annual Match please contact Slipnoose at the SASS Office ph: (877) 411-7277 or [email protected]

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Contact Phone City TN (continued) VA (continued) wartrace Regulators 1st sat & whiskey hayes 931-684-2709 wartrace K.C.’s Corral 3rd sat Buckshot Bob 804-382-3407 mechanics- 3rd sat ville memphis Gunslingers 2nd sat hot lead lefty 901-601-7459 arlington mattaponi sundowners 3rd sun & flatboat Bob 804-785-2575 west point oRsa’s oak Ridge outlaws 2nd sat hombre sin 865-257-7747 oak Ridge 4th sat nombre pepper mill Creek Gang 4th sun slip hammer spiv 540-775-4561 King George tennessee mountain marauders 3rd sat double Barrel 423-593-3767 Chattanooga Bend of trail 4th sun Rowe - a - noc 540-890-6375 Roanoke north west tennessee 3rd sat Can’t shoot 731-885-8102 union City Rivanna Ranger Company as sch virginia Ranger 434-973-8759 Charlottes- longriders dillion ville ocoee Rangers 4th sat ocoee Red 423-476-5303 Cleveland stovall Creek Regulators as sch Brizco-Z 434-929-1063 lynchburg TX VT orange County Regulators 1st & 3rd sat texas Gator 409-243-3477 orange verdant mountain vigilantes 2nd sun doc mcCoy 802-363-7162 st. Johnsbury texas tumbleweeds 1st sat Cayenne 806-355-7158 amarillo WA texas troublemakers 1st sat lefty tex larue 903-539-7234 Brownsboro northeast washington 1st wkd a. t. mcGee 509-684-2325 Colville plum Creek shooting society 1st sat long Juan 512-750-3923 lockhart Regulators Comanche trail shootists 1st sat dee horne 432-557-0860 midland mica peak marshals 1st & 3rd sat tensleep Kid 509-284-2461 mica south texas pistolaros 1st sat saukvalley sam 210-379-3711 san antonio Renton united Cowboy action 1st wkd Jess ducky 425-271-9286 Renton texas peacemakers 1st sat tennesse star 214-334-8627 tyler shooters old fort parker patriots 1st wkd naduah nocona 254-729-5253 Groesbeck windy plains drifters 2nd & 4th sat svenska annie 509-953-1113 medical lake thunder River Renegades 1st wkd Blackpowder Burn 281-826-9240 magnolia wolverton mountain peace 2nd sat ten Gauge 360-772-0716 ariel Concho valley shooters 2nd sat Roamin’ shields 325-656-1281 san angelo Keepers texas Riviera pistoleros 2nd sat stinkng Badger 361-9374845 George west pataha Rustlers 2nd sat pinto annie 509-520-2789 dayton lajitas Rangers and Rogues 2nd sat texas trouble 915-603-1366 lajitas mima marauders 2nd sat okie sawbones 360-705-3601 olympia travis County Regulators 2nd sat Cherokee Granny 979-561-6202 smithville smokey point desperados 2nd sun mudflat mike 425-335-5176 arlington texas tenhorns shooting Club 2nd sat & hairtrigger hayes 972-658-4347 leonard apple valley marshals 3rd sat first Chance 509-884-3827 east last full wkd wenatchee Rio Grande valley vaqueros 2nd sun dream Chaser 956-648-7364 pharr olympic peninsula strait 3rd sat doc neeley 360-417-0230 port angeles lone star frontier shooting 2nd wkd Rock Rotten 817-905-3122 Cleburne shooters Club Black River Regulators 4th sat pop-a Cork 360-878-8911 littlerock texican Rangers 2nd wkd yuma Jack 210-240-8284 fredericks- Custer Renegades 4th sun Joe Cannuck 360-676-2587 Custer burg poulsbo pistoleros 4th sun sourdough George 360-830-0100 poulsbo oakwood outlaws 2nd wkd texas alline 903-545-2252 oakwood Rattlesnake Gulch Rangers last sat Ricochet Robbie 509-628-0889 Benton City Canadian River Regulators 2nd, 3rd & adobe walls 806-679-5824 Clarendon Beazley Gulch Rangers last sun an e. di 509-787-1782 Quincy 5th sat shooter WI Big thicket outlaws 3rd sat shynee Graves 409-860-5526 Beaumont Rock River Regulators 1st & 3rd sat stoney mike 608-868-5167 Beloit tejas Caballeros 3rd sat Judge menday 512-964-9955 dripping western wisconsin wild Bunch 2nd sat flyen doc Koyote 608-790-3260 holmen Coming springs Crystal River Gunslingers 2nd sat polish pistolero 920-913-1615 waupaca Gruesome Gulch Gang 3rd sat eli Blue 806-729-5887 Kress wisconsin old west 2nd sun & Blackjack martin 715-949-1621 Boyceville alamo area moderators 3rd sat tombstone mary 210-493-9320 san antonio shootist, inc 4th sat Cottonwood Creek Cowboys 3rd sat pecos Cahill 325-575-5039 snyder hodag Country Cowboys 3rd sat hodag Bob 715-550-8337 Rhinelander texas historical shootist 3rd sun Charles 281-342-1210 Columbus liberty prairie Regulators 3rd sat dirty deeds 920-229-5833 Ripon society Goodnight oconomowoc Cattlemen’s 4th sat marvin the moyle 414-254-5592 Concord Berger sharpshooters 3rd sun hoss Jack 903-546-6291 Greenville association trinity valley Regulators 3rd sun Grumpy Grandpa 972-206-2624 mansfield WV Badlands Bar 3 3rd wkd t-Bone dooley 903-272-9283 Clarksville frontier Regulators 2nd sat Captain tay 304-265-5748 thorton Butterfield trail Regulators 4th sat texas slim 325-668-4884 anson Kanawha valley Regulators 2nd wkd eddie Rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor Comanche valley vigilantes 4th sat Billy Bob evans 972-393-2882 Cleburne Cowboy action shooting sports 4th sun last word 304-289-6098 largent Green mountain Regulators 4th sat Bar diamond 512-638-7376 marble peacemaker national as sch Cole mcCulloch 703-789-3346 Gerrards- Rider falls town tejas pistoleros 4th sat & sun texas paladin 713-690-5313 eagle lake WV magnolia misfits 4th sat & sun attoyac Kid 281-448-8127 magnolia Cheyenne Regulators 1st sat wild horse John 307-637-6974 Cheyenne tin star texans 4th sat. mickey 830-685-3464 fredericks- Colter’s hell Justice Committee 1st sat yakima Red 307-254-2090 various burg wsas UT Bessemer vigilance Committee 1st sun & smokewagon Bill 307-267-1155 Casper three peaks Rangers 1st & 3rd sat Curly Jim whiskus 435-590-9873 Cedar City 3rd sat Big hollow Bandits 1st sat marshal dillon 435-724-2575 heber high lonesome drifters 2nd sat Kari lynn 307-587-2946 Cody north Rim Regulators 1st sat autum Rose 435-644-5053 Kanab sybille Creek shooters 2nd sat wyoming Roy 307-322-3515 wheatland Copenhagen valley Regulators 1st sat m.t. pockets 801-920-4047 mantua southfork vigilance Committee 2nd wkd wennoff 507-332-5035 lander utah territory Gunslingers 1st sat lefty pete 801-554-9436 salt lake wsas halfcock City Border vigilantes 3rd sat assassin 307-287-6733 Cheyenne musinia Buscaderos 1st. sat Buffalo Juan 435-528-7432 mayfield powder River Justice Committee 3rd sun doc fehr 307-683-3320 Buffalo dixie desperados/senior Games 2nd &4th sat the alaskan 435-635-3134 hurrican wsas deseret historical shootist 2nd sat Ruckus Rick 801-201-0700 fruit heights Great divide outlaws 4th sat slingn lead 307-324-6955 Rawlins society donkey Creek shootists 4th sun poker Jim 307-660-0221 Gillette Rio verde Rangers 2nd sat doc nelson 435-564-8210 Green River snake River Rowdies as sch sheriff John R. 307-733-4559 Jackson Cache valley vaqueros 2nd sat logan law 435-787-8131 logan Quigley hobble Creek wranglers 2nd sat hobble Creek 801-489-7681 springville marshall INTERNATIONAL wasatch summit Regulators 2nd sun old fashioned 435-224-2321 salt lake DOWN UNDER City AUSTRALIA utah war 3rd & 5th sat Jubal o. sackett 801-944-3444 sandy Gold Coast Gamblers 1st & 3rd sat virgil earp 041 876 5839 Gold Coast mesa marauders Gun Club 3rd sat Copper Queen 435-979-4665 lake powell adelaide pistol & shooting Club 1st sat & lobo malo 61 08 284 8459 Korunye diamond mountain Rustlers 3rd sat Cinch 435-724-2575 vernal 3rd sun wahsatch desperados 4th sat Ruckus Rick 801-201-0700 fruit heights westgate marauders 2nd sun stampede 61 39 369 5939 port Castle Gate posse 4th sat Rowdy hand 435-637-8209 price pete melbourne VA little River Raiders 3rd sun lazy dave 61 40 377 7926 little River pungo posse Cowboy action 1st & 2nd missouri 757-471-3396 waverly sasa little River Raiders single 3rd sun tiresome 61 25 978 0190 melbourne Club sat marshal action Club liberty long Riders 1st sun thunder Colt 540-296-0772 Bedford Cowboy action shooters of 3rd wkd i.d. 61 29 975 7983 teralba Cavalier Cowboys 1st sun & striker 804-339-8442 hanover australia 2nd wed County fort Bridger shooting Club 4th sun duke york 61 41 863 2366 drouin virginia City marshals 1st tues humphrey hook 703-801-3507 fairfax sasa single action shooting Blue Ridge Regulators 2nd sun Bad Company 540-886-3374 lexington australia inc. sat & sun virgil earp 61 74 695 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WV INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL NEW ZEALAND HUNGARY trail Blazers Gun Club 1st sun sudden lee sudden@farm mill town westwood Rebels as sch el heckito 362 0460 1739 Galgamacsa side.co.nz ITALY Bullet spittin sons o’ thunder 2nd sat Billy 64 63 564 720 palmerston n. old Gunners shooting Club as sch Renato anese 33 51 24 5391 toppo di deadwood western shootist posse travesio wairarapa pistol and shooting 2nd sun doc hayes 64 63 796 692 Gladstone Green hearts Regulator 1st sun steven Gardiner 39 338 920 7989 trevi Club fratelli della Costa onlus 3rd sat oversize 35 05 642 4677 livorno frontier & western shooting 2nd sun doc hayes 64 63 796 692 Gladstone lassiter fan shooting Club 3rd sun ivan Bandito 39 34 7043 0400 mazzano sports association maremma Bad land’s Riders as sch alameda slim alamedaslim@ siena tararua Rangers 3rd sun J.e.B. stuart 64 63 796 436 Carterton owss.it ashburton pistol Club 3rd sun am shellie Jector 643 304 8401 ashburton old west shooting society italy as sch alchimista 39 33 420 68337 varies ashburton pistol Club wild 3rd sun pm shellie Jector 643 304 8401 ashburton Canne Roventi last sun valdez 39 07 1286 1395 filottrano Bunch™ shooting honky tonk Rebels last sun Kaboom andy 39 33 5737 8551 vigevano western Renegades 4th sat Black Bart 64 27 249 6270 wanganui wild west Rebels sun Bill masterson [email protected] malegno-Bs Bolton LUXEMBOURG sass pistol new Zealand as sch tuscon the 64 32 042 089 varies sass luxembourg as sch smiley miles 35 26 2128 0606 varies terrible NETHERLANDS EUROPE sass netherlands as sch dutch Bear 31 619 430 223 leeuwarden AUSTRIA dutch western shooting association as sch dutch Bear 31 619 430 223 oss, noord sweetwater Gunslingers austria as sch fra diabolo 43 664 490 8032 vienna Brabant CZECH REPUBLIC NORTHERN IRELAND association of western shooters as sch thunderman 42 060 322 2400 prelouc Kells County Regulators 1st sat independence 28 93 368 004 varies DENMARK Carroll danish Black powder federation as sch slim dane 45 20 655 887 Copenhagen NORWAY association of danish western as sch mrs. 45 602 013 65 Greve Black Rivers as sch Charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 loten shooters stowaway Quantrill Raiders sun Charles Quantrill 47 9325 9669 loten FINLAND schedsmoe County Rough Riders thurs Jailbird 47 6399 4279 lillestrom sass finland as sch woodbury Kane 35 850 517 4659 various POLAND Classic old western society of as sch woodbury Kane 35 850 517 4659 loppi sass polish western shooting as sch trigger hawkeye trigger-hawkeye@ lodz finland association hot.pl FRANCE SERBIA sass france Greenwood Creek 1st & 3rd handy hook 33 68 809 1360 Bormes les union of western shooters of as sch hombre des 63 721 6934 humska wkd mimosas serbia nudos sass france Golden triggers of 1st sun Cheyenne little 33 67 570 3678 villefrache de SWEDEN freetown Colibris Rouergue sass sweden northern Rangers as sch northern s. t. 46 72 206 7005 varies l’arquebuse d’antony 2nd sun Jeppesen 33 14 661 1798 antony Ranger Buffalo valley as sch slye Buffalo 02 37 63 65 83 Châteauneuf- SWITZERLAND en-thymerais Black mountain Gunfighters as sch Blacksmith pete 417 9449 5800 Romainm- high plains shooters as sch Jack Cooper 336 1384 5580 Clermont de a’tier l’oise old west shooting society as sch hondo Janssen 44 271 9947 Zurich association mazauguaise de tir as sch Redneck mike 33 494 280 145 mazaugues switzerland sass france alba serena tir as sch marshall 09 62 53 83 32 moriani INTERNATIONAL Club tombstone CANADA old pards shooting society as sch Charles allan 33 1 4661 1798 versailler aurora desperados 1st fri destry 905-551-0703 aurora on lasalle anthony Robbers Roost hamilton angling 1st sun legendary Club de tir Beaujolais as sch woodrow the 33 047 838 0374 villefranche & hunting assoc. lawman 905-393-4299 ancaster on wild sur saone Red mountain Renegades 1st sun flynn t. locke 604-820-1564 mission BC old west french shooters as sch Curly Red 33 3 8582 0203 Caromb Bar e Ranch 2nd & 4th northern Crow 705-435-2807 Barrie on Ryder sat BeRaC as sch delano l. 33 3 8020 3551 premeaux Beau Bassin Range Riders 2nd sat frenchy 506-312-0455 Riverview nB oakley prissey Cannuck Club de tir Brennou as sch french Bob 00 33 024 767 5888 varies lambton sportsman’s Club 2nd sat Clay Creek 519-542-4644 st. Clair on Reverend oakley’s Cowboy as sch delano l. 333 802 03 551 varies wentworth shooting sports Club 2nd sun stoney Creek 905-664-3217 hamilton on Klan oakley victoria frontier shootists 2nd sun haweater hal 250-920-8707 victoria BC les tireurs de l’uzege every sun marshal 33 04 66 759 529 uzes prairie dog Rebels 3rd sat valley Boy 519-673-5648 london on (old west Gunfighters) dundee valley Regulators 3rd sat & high Country 250-334-3479 Courtenay BC Black Rivers last sun Kid of 33 3 8526 3029 Roanne sun amigo neckwhite otter valley Rod & Gun 4th sun Colt mcCloud 519-685-9439 strafford- on Club de tir de Bernay sat Chriswood 33 2 3245 5900 Bernay ville sass france yellow Rock sat shooting missie 336 7555 8063 eCot islington sportmen’s Club as sch hawk feathers 905-936-2129 Caledon on societe de tir Bedoin ventoux sat-sun sheriff Ch. 33 490 351 973 Bedoin Blueridge sportsmen’s Club as sch Rebel dale 519-599-2558 Clarksburg on (windy mountain vigilantes) southpaw Royal City Rangers as sch indian frank 905-878-9440 Guelph on tir olympique lyonnais sun Barth 33 6 1324 6128 lyon waterloo County Revolver as sch pappy Cooper 519-536-9184 Kitchener on Club de tri de nuits saint as sch delano l. 33 38 020 3551 nuits saint association Georges oakley Georges mundy’s Bay Regulators as sch indiana 705-534-2814 penetan- on Club de tir sportif de touraine as sch major John brisset37@ tours magnum guishene lawson hotmail.fr nova scotia Cowboy action as sch wounded 902-890-2310 truro ns Cas/sass france as sch frenchie Boy 336 169 32 076 varies shooting Club Belly GERMANY palmer’s Gulch Cowboys as sch Caribou lefty 250-372-0416 heffley BC German territory Regulators as sch Rephil 49 29 216 71814 varies Creek Cowboy action shooting™ last sat marshal heck 49 345 120 0581 edderitz ottawa valley marauders as sch Button 514-792-0063 ottawa on Germany alberta frontier shootists as sch powder paw 403-318-4463 Rocky mtn aB Jail Bird’s Company mon orlando a 492 1317 42 3065 wegberg society house Brick Bond Club de tir Beausejour as sch Richelieu mike 450-658-8130 st-Jean QC Cas europe wed hurricane irmi 49 28 23 3426 Bocholt Chrysostome/ sass Germany wed il Calabrese 49 28 239 8080 pfalzdorf lavis sass Germany wed Rhine River Joe 49 28 235 807 spork long harbour lead slingers tues preacher man 250-537-0083 salt spring BC John island SOUTH AFRICA pioneer Creek Rangers 2nd & 4th sat slow wilson 27 83 677 5066 pretoria western shooters of south 3rd sat Richmond p. 27 21 797 5054 Cape s.a africa hobson town To update your SASS Affiliated Club Listing or Annual Match please contact Slipnoose at the SASS Office ph: (877) 411-7277 or [email protected]

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SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS MONTHLY SHOOTING SCHEDULE (Cont.) Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City Club Name Sched. Contact Phone City ??????????????????? WILD BUNCH USA WILD BUNCH USA AK OH alaska 49ers 3rd sat marshal stone 907-232-1080 Birchwood Big irons as sch deadwood stan 513-894-3500 middletown AZ OK Cowtown wild Bunch shooters 1st sat wild Bodie tom 602-721-3175 Carefree Cherokee strip shootists 1st sat scott wayne 405-377-0610 stillwater natZy Bunch 3rd sun tumbleweed Rose 928-899-8788 flagstaff wild Bunch Bordertown inc. as sch pecos Clyde 480-266-1096 tucson oklahoma City Gun Club - 2nd sun flat top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma CA territorial marshals City hole in the wall Gang 1st sat frederick Jackson 818-640-0945 piru OR turner horse Ridge pistoleros 3rd sat Big Casino 541-389-2342 Bend Gold Country wild Bunch 3rd sat sutter lawman 530-713-4194 sloughouse PA CO logans ferry Regulators 2nd sat mariah Kid 412-607-5313 plum Castle peak wildshots 1st sat old squinteye 970-524-9348 Gypsum Borough pawnee station 1st sun Red Creek dick 303-857-0520 fort Collins SC martin Greenville Gunfighters 5th sun hondo Jackson 864-414-1968 Greenville thunder mountain shootists 2nd sat Colorado Blackjack 970-260-5432 white water TN FL wartrace Regulators 3rd sat papa dave 931-723-7896 wartrace Ghost town Gunslingers 1st sat Copenhagen 904-808-8559 st. TX wild Bunch™ augustine Comanche valley vigilantes 4th sat Billy Bob evans 972-393-2882 Cleburne ID UT squaw Butte Regulators 4th sun acequia Kidd 208-365-4551 emmett wasatch summit Regulators 4th sun old fashioned 435-224-2324 salt lake IL City Kaskaskia Cowboys as sch Boben weev 618-632-0712 sparta WV IN Kanawha valley Regulators 2nd wkd eddie Rebel 304-397-6188 eleanor pine Ridge Regulators 1st wkd Riverboat Gambler 765-832-7253 Brazil INTERNATIONAL LA CANADA Jackson hole Regulators 4th sat slick mcClade 318-278-9071 Quitman ON MO Robbers Roost hamilton 3rd sun Bear Butte 905-891-8627 ancaster Butterfield trail Cowboys 4th wkd smokie 417-759-9114 walnut (wild Bunch) shade NC Monthly Mounted USA Carolina Cattlemen’s shooting 4th sat J. m. Brown 919-291-1726 Creedmore AZ and social society tombstone Ghost Riders 2nd sun dan nabbit 520-456-0423 tombstone NM mounted Club tres Rios Bandidos 2nd sun el mulo 505-632-9712 farmingtion CA vacquero California Range Riders as sch old Buckaroo 408-710-1616 varies Rio Grande Renegades 3rd sun mica mcGuire 505-263-1181 albuquerque CO los pistoleros 4th sat J. frank norfleet 575-648-2530 founders Revengers of montezuma 1st sun aneeda huginkiss 970-565-8479 Cortez Ranch NM picacho posse 4th sat fast hammer 575-647-3434 las Cruces Buffalo Range Riders 3rd sat Chili Cowboy 505-379-8957 founders NV mounted Ranch lone wolf shooters llC 4th & 5th penny pepperbox 775-727-4600 pahrump OH wkd Big irons mounted Rangers as sch stoneburner 513-829-4099 middletown

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Dates Contact Phone City State Match Dates Contact Phone City State USA 2014 JUNE (continued) JUNE yellowstone valley Buffalo stampede 27 - 29 Grizzly Bill 406-252-4157 Billings mt SASS North Carolina State Champ 05 - 08 J. m. Brown 919-266-3751 salisbury nC sass annual scholarship shootout 29 - 29 dangerous 815-245-7284 dry Gulch il Uprising at Swearing Creek denny Ranch Battle of Rogue River 06 - 08 mountain 253-208-1108 Grants pass oR JULY Grizz SASS Colorado State Champ 03 - 06 Red River 970-225-0545 nunn Co Reckoning on the Rock 06 - 08 stoney mike 608-868-5167 Beloit wi Shootout at Pawnee Station wrangler Round up at River Bend 07 - 07 done Gone 770-361-6966 dawsonville Ga SASS Alaska Territorial Champ 04 - 06 tripod 907-373-0140 anchorage aK ambush at Ricochet Junction 07 - 08 a. t. mcGee 509-684-2325 Colville wa Shootout Under The Midnight Sun shootout on the Comstock 12 - 15 dutch dalton 775-790-0390 fernley nv SASS Alaska State Champ 11 - 13 poco loco louie 907-488-7660 Chatanika aK Revenge of montezuma 13 - 15 stumble leena 970-739-9705 Cortez Co SASS Minnesota State Champ 11 - 13 amen straight 612-723-2313 Kimball mn SASS Illinois State Championship 13 - 15 Beaucoup Joe 618-521-3619 sparta il North Star Showdown – Spring Roundup at the Gulch SASS Montana State Champ 11 - 13 montana lil’ 406-455-1441 simms mt SASS North Dakota and South 13 - 15 wild River 701-588-4331 enderlin nd Shootout On the Sun River skeeter Dakota State Championship Rose the Geronimo trail shootout 11 - 13 Chico Cheech 575-388-2531 silver City / nm Peace in the Valley mimbres SASS Wyoming State Champ 13 - 15 assassin 307-287-6733 Cheyenne wy SASS Oregon State Blackpowder 11 - 13 stonewood Kid 541-678-2566 Bend oR Hell on Wheels Championship Smokin’ Gunfight in the Badlands Breakout at Brocks Gap 14 - 15 Buckboard Jim 205-991-5823 hoover al Renegade shootout 12 - 13 Gem hunter 208-466-0061 Kuna id helldorado Rides again 19 - 22 hoot 707-484-9283 ukiah Ca Black Gold shootout 17 - 19 Copperhead Joe 606-599-5263 manchester Ky SASS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 19 - 29 sass office 505-843-1320 founders nm Castle Gate Robbery 17 - 19 Rowdy hand 435-637-8209 price ut END of TRAIL Ranch SASS Oregon State Champ 18 - 20 tuffy 541-619-7381 albany oR fort halleck days 19 - 21 Green springs 775-753-8203 elko nv Shootout at Saddle Butte tumbleweed thomsen oregon trail shootout 18 - 20 t. J. maverick 541-910-4244 la Grande oR Bush whack & Beazley Gulch 19 - 22 an e. di 509-787-1782 Quincy wa SASS Pennsylvania State 20 - 20 slowpoke 717-676-3198 ickesburg pa the Quick and the dead 20 - 22 lefty Cooper 607-287-9261 Crumhorn ny Blackpowder Shootout John 1st annual women’s wild west 21 - 21 two shot 417-859-2058 marshfield mo Smoke on the Ridge shootout hoss SASS NEW ENGLAND 24 - 27 Capt. morgan 603-772-5041 pelham nh thunder in the valley 21 - 23 angry angus 440-647-5909 amherst oh REGIONAL The Great Nor’easter Rum SASS Wisconsin State Blackpowder 21 - 22 Captain Cook 715-248-3727 station wi SASS FOUR CORNERS 31 - 02 Jubal o. 801-944-3444 sandy ut Shootout Smoke in the Hills Range TERRITORIAL BLACKPOWDER sackett law dawgs vC Cowboy Charity shoot 22 - 22 m. R. fearnot 307-262-2841 Casper wy CHAMP Thunder at Big Salty SASS Maryland State Champ 26 - 28 Chuckaroo 301-831-9666 damascus md SASS Washington State 31 - 03 elder Kate 253-946-1438 Renton wa Thunder Valley Days Championship – Westmatch To update your SASS Affiliated Club Listing or Annual Match please contact Slipnoose at the SASS Office ph: (877) 411-7277 or [email protected] << Back to ToC Visit us at sassnet .com Continued on next page >> June 2014 Cowboy Chronicle Page 73

SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS ANNUAL MATCHES Match Dates Contact Phone City State Match Dates Contact Phone City State USA 2014 SEPTEMBER (continued) AUGUST adobe walls 26 - 28 Querida 831-635-9147 Gonzales Ca SASS Iowa State Champ Ambush 01 - 03 Ranger mathias 319-234-1550 elk Run ia fall Round-up 26 - 28 shamrock sis 309-798-2635 milan il on the Prairie fischels heights SASS New Hampshire State 26 - 28 Capt. morgan 603-772-5041 Candia nh night Raid 01 - 03 d. f. hart 208-438-8313 Rupert id Championship Rum SASS WESTERN REGIONAL 06 - 10 sinful 805-286-1188 san luis Ca Ghost Riders Revenge CHAMPIONSHIP obispo SASS West Virginia State 26 - 28 last word 304-289-6098 Burlington wv Chorro Valley Shootout Championship SASS Idaho State Champ Magic 07 - 10 missy mable 208-731-6387 twin falls id Appalachian Showdown XXI in the Valley Rampage 27 - 27 Ruckus Rick 801-201-0700 fruit heights ut SASS MIDEAST REGIONAL 07 - 09 deadwood 513-894-3500 middletown oh CHAMPIONSHIP stan Annual USA Mounted Matches Guns of August JUNE SASS Vermont State Champ Green 08 - 10 doc mcCoy 802-363-7162 st. Johnsbury vt SASS MOUNTED WORLD 27 - 29 Chili Cowboy 505-379-8957 founders nm Mountain Mayhem CHAMP END of TRAIL Ranch sundown showdown at 09 - 10 Relentless 814-414-1461 hollidaysburg pa AUGUST Chimney Rocks Renegade SASS Four Corners Regional 22 - 24 Chili Cowboy 505-379-8957 founders nm tribute to John wayne shootout 16 - 17 vinny da Kid 406-439-4476 Boulder mt Mounted Champ – Outlaw Trail Ranch SASS FOUR CORNERS 21 - 24 misty 505-843-1320 founders nm REGIONAL CHAMP moonshine Ranch Outlaw Trail Annual USA Wild Bunch Matches SASS Kentucky State Champ 22 - 24 double eagle 423-309-4146 mcKee Ky JUNE Hooten Holler Round-Up dave SASS Illinois State Wild Bunch™ 12 - 13 mose spencer 270-349-4392 sparta il SASS Arkansas State Champ 29 - 31 Bulldog 501-337-9368 hot springs aR Championship Robbers Roost Shoot’n in the Shade mcGraw SASS Oklahoma State Wild Bunch™ 14 - 15 flat top okie 405-373-1472 oklahoma oK SASS SOUTHEAST TERR. 29 - 31 man from 678-428-4240 Covington Ga Championship City BLACKPOWDER CHAMP little River SASS END of TRAIL WILD 19 - 22 sass office 505-843-1320 founders nm Smoke Out at South River BUNCH™ CHAMPIONSHIP Ranch SASS Michigan State Champ 29 - 31 R. J. law 248-828-0440 port huron mi AUGUST – Wolverine Rangers Range War SASS Idaho State Wild Bunch™ 01 - 02 idaho sixgun 208-866-7271 emmett id anbush at Canyon walls - 29 - 31 nine lives 406-381-9376 hamilton mt Championship Squaw Butte Regulators sam shootout in the Bitterroot Wild Bunch II Rough Rider Roundup 29 - 31 Rod-iron-Rip 701-223-3085 Bismark nd SASS WILD BUNCH™ CHAMP 21 - 24 sass office 505-843-1320 founders nm SASS New Mexico State 29 - 31 two Bit 575-626-9201 Roswell nm Outlaw Trail Ranch Shoot Out at High Lonesome tammy SASS Oregon State Wild Bunch™ 29 - 31 hoss Reese 503-907-6522 Bend oR fourth annual Great Basin long 29 - 01 Cascades 541-318-8199 Bend oR Championship Range shootout annie SASS South Carolina State Wild 30 - 31 hondo Jackson 864-414-1968 Greenville sC SASS Virginia State Champ Star 29 - 31 trapper dan 540-890-5162 Roanoke va Bunch™ Championship Raid on Conestee City Shootout OCTOBER ambush at indian Creek xvi 30 - 31 mattie hays 724-593-6602 donegal pa SASS Arizona State Wild Bunch™ 18 - 19 wild Bodie 602-721-3175 peoria aZ SEPTEMBER Championship tom SASS Maine State Champ Thunder 05 - 07 Rhino Jacks 207-324-3117 Berwick me SASS Missouri State Wild Bunch™ 22 - 23 smokie 417-759-9114 walnut mo over Beaver Creek Championship shade whispering pines ambush 05 - 07 panama Red 570-724-7214 wellsboro pa NOVEMBER standoff at smokey point 11 - 14 mudflat mike 425-335-5176 arlington wa first Chisum Cowboy wild Bunch™ 14 - 15 two Bit 575-626-9201 Roswell nm ambush at hat Creek 12 - 14 modoc 530-365-1839 Burney Ca Championship tammy midwest Classic 12 - 14 mose 270-349-4392 sparta il spencer Annual International Matches SASS Indiana State Champ 12 - 14 C. C. top 574-354-7186 etna Green in AUSTRIA Hoosier Ambush showdown in the Camp Jun 19 - 22 fra diabolo 43 664 490 8032 vienna shootout at stoney Bottom 12 - 14 Curtice Clay 419-836-8760 Gibsonburg oh CANADA northwest territorial shootout 13 - 14 diamondfield 208-731-6387 twin falls id Guelph western match may 19 - 19 indian frank 905-878-9440 Guelph on Jack SASS CENTRAL CANADIAN Jul 18 - 20 northern Crow 705-435-2807 Barrie on drifter daze iii 13 - 14 svenska annie 509-953-1113 medical lake wa REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SASS MIDWEST REGIONAL 17 - 20 mogollon 507-838-0026 morristown mn Battle at the Bar E Ranch CHAMP – Gunsmoke drifter headquarters salmonella Gulch Jul 25 - 27 haweater hal 250-920-8707 victoria BC SASS Oklahoma State Champ 18 - 21 Burly Bill 918-830-2936 sand springs oK Gambler of the old west Ruckus in the Nations SASS WESTERN CANADIAN aug 07 - 09 Granny 306-749-2822 saskatoon sK purgatory Rush 18 - 20 dry Gulch 814-827-2120 titusville pa REGIONAL CHAMP oneshot Geezer Shootout at Bounty Gulch SASS Kentucky State Blackpowder 19 - 21 Copperhead 606-599-5263 manchester Ky shootout at the double B Ranch aug 08 - 10 frenchy 506-312-0455 Riverview nB Championship Smokeout in the Hills Joe 2nd annual invitation Cannuck SASS New York State Champ 19 - 21 homer 518-274-8505 Ballston spa ny SASS CANADIAN NAT CHAMP aug 29 - 31 Gunfighter 250-573-2885 Kamloops BC Heluva Rukus suggs – Shootout at Twin Rivers Cowtown Jim wolverton mtn. peace Keepers 20 - 21 ten Gauge 360-772-0716 ariel wa SASS Ontario Wild Bunch™ sep 14 - 14 legendary 443-852-5024 ancaster on 9th anniversary match and Provincial Championship lawman warmup for the nw Regional AUSTRALIA old tv westerns match 21 - 22 Buttermilk 541-382-9798 Bend oR SASS AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL sep 29 - 05 virgil earp 61 74 695 2050 millmerran Biscuit CHAMP Chisholm Trail Gunfight at the oK Corral oct 25 - 26 duke york 61 418 632 366 drouin 20th annual FRANCE old west shootout may 30 - 01 vallom- 330 233 657 690 athis de l’orne breuse Buffalo valley Jun 13 - 15 slye Buffalo 02 37 63 65 83 Château-neuf- en-thymerais last shot on the trail Jul 30 - 02 marshal 33 04 66 759 529 uzes dundee ambush at Greenwood Creek sep 12 - 14 handy hook 33 68 809 1360 Bormes les mimosas GERMANY SASS European Regional may 14 - 18 Rephil 49 170 231 9708 phipipps- German Terr. 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COMMON SENSE TRUMPS STATISTICS By Colonel Dan, SASS Life/Regulator #24025

Colonel Dan, SASS Lif e/ Although verifiable statistics gunners hope America never fully for the assaulted and better for Regulator #24025 are useful facts to have readily realizes. Think about it though the assailants; they serve rather available, you really don’t need from the shoes of Bugsy and to encourage than to prevent numbers to prove this point. The Mugsy. Who would you rather homicides, for an unarmed man while back, I found myself Founders didn’t have any statis - confront; a well-armed citizen or may be attacked with greater Ainitially amused by it all, tics, so all you need is what they a defenseless unarmed one? confidence than an armed man.” then frustrated, and before long, had in abundance—common Where would you rather focus Common Sense Point #3: very angry. However, I’m now un - sense. “What do you mean, your life of crime? In areas where Crime is deviant behavior. A gun compromisingly resolute regard - Colonel?” carrying guns is outlawed, or is an inanimate tool, not deviant ing anti-Second Amendment Here are four common sense where guns are common? And behavior, and crime is deviant be - zealots who persistently pervert points we know to be true, which where is violent crime more havior, not an inanimate tool. its meaning and constantly spout illustrates why “gun control” is a prevalent? Chicago, New York You can’t prevent deviant behav - a never-ending stream of deceit - myth, not a pathway to crime con - City and Washington D.C. for ex - ior by regulating tools because ful statistics here, there, and trol—and not one point uses sta - ample where gun laws are among tools are incapable of behavior everywhere about the dangers of tistics. the nations strictest, or Florida and the number of tools available firearms, “skyrocketing” gun Common Sense Point #1: where gun laws are relatively re - to the world’s deviants is endless. crime, and the effectiveness of Thugs ignore gun laws. To think laxed? Any guesses? But let’s lis - Even if you could legislate gun control. Bullchips! thugs who ignore laws against ten in on Bugsy and Mugsy again. guns out of existence, deviants These tortured arguments are murder, robbery, rape, and as - “OK Mugsy, the bank job was could, would, and have used other then followed by another set of sault will, by some stretch of in - a flop, but we can always pull a tools that gave them a power ad - statistics from the pro-gun side sanity, obey gun control laws is back alley stick-up like in da ol’ vantage over their victims— that completely and truthfully the purest form of lunacy. Does days.” knives, clubs, rocks, or even sharp counter the arguments made by anyone think a gang planning a “Yeah, dats right, Bugsy. We sticks—all of which are very legal the anti-gunners. Unfortunately, bank robbery will trash those can always get a little fast bread and very accessible. these pro-gun statistics will plans because they would first be dat way,” says Mugsy, yearning Common Sense Point #4: The never convince the anti-gunners required to register their guns be - for the good old days of muggings. Trump Card. The strongest point to admit to the truth no matter fore the job went down? “But where do we target da mark, of all consists of a mere 27 plain how obvious the numbers. Why? Let’s listen in on Bugsy and Bugsy?” words, is supreme in its nature, Although anti-gunners do know Mugsy planning … The Big Heist “Well, Mugsy, we sure can’t and not one of those is a number the truth about gun control just “Well, Mugsy, there it is. Our pull stick ups in Florida, too … “A well regulated militia, as well as our side, they can’t plans for robbing the Last Na - many guns there. We might could being necessary to the security of admit it as I wrote in my Septem - tional Bank are absolutely fool- get shot by one of dem ol’ south - a free state, the right of the peo - ber 2013 column, “They Just proof, and dat cool million is just ern boys. A lot of ‘em is packin’ ple to keep and bear arms, shall Don’t Get It.” Such an admission waitin’ on us. It’s just a cryin’ these days since Florida OK’d not be infringed.” #4, my friends, would utterly expose their ulti - shame we can’t pull it off.” concealed carry and those stand is clearly simple, unambiguous, mate objective of people control “Why Bugsy? What do you your ground laws—its a cryin’ with no stated “except for” quali - they unscrupulously conceal be - mean?” asks Mugsy in amaze - shame.” fiers, supersedes all anti-Second hind the unending ruse of gun ment. “You’re right, Bugsy. That Amendment arguments, and control. “Because da law says we can’t could be way too dangerous,” says trumps all statistics. Sam Adams Knowing the real reason anti- carry unregistered guns, or we Mugsy. “I got it!” says Bugsy, had it right when characterizing gunners deny the truth, I’ll confi - could get into real trouble,” says “we’ll hit every schmuck in da’ those who distort the simple dently add they’ll never admit to Bugsy as his dreams evaporate. Big Apple, Washington D.C, and meaning of such words as these accepting pro-gun statistics and “You’re right,” admits Mugsy. Chicago. It’s illegal for dem to to suit their own devious ends in there’s a sound reason for it—sta - We’ll just have to forget about dat carry guns … we’ll be the ones a letter he wrote to John Pitts on tistics are a liar’s best friend—a million smackers. I certainly there what got real heaters!” 21 January 1776, “How strangely valuable tool in the box of aspir - wouldn’t want to break any gun “Great idea!” says Mugsy, “Let’s will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert ing tyrants. laws.” load up and git goin’. Easy pick - the plain Meaning of Words!” I studied statistics in college And, who really thinks re - ins, here we come!” Now resolutely go forward as and found it easy to develop a list quiring a solid citizen to register Thomas Jefferson demon - Team SASS patriots, well armed of impressive numbers to support his guns will prevent crime? He strated a wealth of common sense with the common sense so funda - any argument on either side of an isn’t planning The Big Heist— on this very point, as did Cesare mental to our campaign of pre - issue, creating virtually any im - never has; never will. So the Beccaria whom Jefferson quoted serving the Second Amendment, pression I fancied. Politicians point is? in 1764. “Laws that forbid the relentlessly thwarting those who and the media do it all the time. Common Sense Point #2: carrying of arms … disarm only deceitfully pervert its plain “So what good are statistics, Thugs prefer unarmed victims those who are neither inclined meaning. Colonel, if we can’t use them to prove and avoid potentially armed citi - nor determined to commit crimes Contact Colonel Dan: gun control isn’t crime control?” zens. An amazing insight anti- … Such laws make things worse [email protected]

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