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June 2017 Page 1 Cowboy Chronicle June 2017 Page 1 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle Page 2 June 2017 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle The Cowboy June 2017 Page 3 Chronicle CONTENTS 4-6 COVER FEATURE Editorial Staff A Dark Day on the Santa Fe 2017 Skinny 7 FROM THE EDITOR Editor-in-Chief Skinny’s Soapbox 8-10 NEWS Misty Moonshine Silver Screen Legend XX ... The Dixie Desperados Managing Editor 12-15 COSTUMING CORNER 36th Annual END of TRAIL Costume Contests Tex and Cat Ballou 16-19 ANNUAL MATCHES Editors Emeritus Central Canadian Regional Championship 2016 20-37 GUNS & GEAR Adobe Illustrator Dispatches From Camp Baylor ... European Rifles Layout & Design 38-44 HISTORY Donner Party ... Little Known Famous People Mac Daddy 45 SASS AFFILIATED MERCHANTS LIST Graphic Design 46-49 PROFILES Square Deal Jim Scholarship Recipients 2016 ... How I Got My Alias Advertising Manager 50-60 ARTICLES (410) 531-5456 • Cell: (703) 728-0404 Comic Book Corner (The Lone Rider) [email protected] 61 ADVERTISER’S INDEX Staff Writers 62, 63 POLITICAL Big Dave, Capgun Kid, Traditionalists Solutions Capt. George Baylor, 64, 65 SASS MERCANTILE Joe Fasthorse, Justice Lily Kate, Larsen E. Pettifogger, 66, 67 GENERAL STORE Tennessee Tall and Rio Drifter, Texas Flower, Yuma Jack 68, 69 SASS NEW MEMBERS The Cowboy Chronicle is published by 70 SASS AFFILIATED CLUB LISTINGS The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of (Annual / Monthly) The Single Action Shooting Society. 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A D ARK DAY ON THE SANTA FE By Tennessee Tall, SASS #49245 and Rio Dri2fter, S0ASS #1494274 Tennessee Tall, SASS #49245 and Rio Drifter, SASS #49424 q q n 2014 fifty-five SASS ® shooters and 24 smokeless Alabama, Delaware, Indiana, cowboys and cowgirls came shooters at A Dark Day on the Maryland, Ohio, and Florida. for A Dark Day on the Santa Santa Fe, and they came from The Fort White Cowboy Fe. In 2015, eighty-seven all over! Fifteen states were Calvary, located near Ft. White, Ishowed up. In 2016 there were represented—New Hampshire, Florida, hosted the 2017 South 100 Single Action Shooting So - Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Eastern Territorial Black Pow - ciety competitors. And in 2017 Texas, South Carolina, North der Championship on March there were 104 black powder Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, 17. The eight fun-filled, well- VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM A Dark Day on the Santa Fe Winners. Cowboy Chronicle June 2017 Page 5 Pat McAlhany, High Springs Drifter, Miss Patty, Deadwood Blackie, Monty Drew, J. Bird Blue, Lightload, Shenandoah Star, Yadkins Hawk, Trooper Brown, Little Man, Ennah Tizzy, Purdy Sharp, Deadly Sharpshooter, Kingfish Dave, Jane Deere, Rocky Creek Shooter, General Lee Smokey, and the whole Fort White Gun Club. All the incredible photos you see here were taken by Macinaw (SASS #62872), the official photographer. We are most grateful for our sponsors: Gunzilla, Starline Brass, Tandy Leather, Docsol - dwest, Tego Ear Gear, Red First Place Senior Frontiersman River Bullets, Bullets by Scar - Amarillo Rattler (SASS #68423). lett, Hodgdon Powder, Mer - A Dark Day on the nickle Holsters, Cardboard Cowboy, Foxy Filly, Black Dia - Top Lady and Top Man Santa Fe 2017 . Black Powder shooters mond Nicki, Bullets by Chance, Shamrock Sadie and written stages were based on Midway USA, Dixie Gunworks, Christian Mortician. Blazing Saddles, so even if you Chey Cast Bullets, Klassic didn’t shoot well, you had to Laser Works, Redwing Trading Lake County Pistoleros clubs chuckle. Match Directors Con - Company, Cowboy Guns, Uni - contributed support for the federate Colt (SASS #31216) queTek, and American Pioneer shoot showing “United We and Cheatin Chamberlin (SASS Powder. The South River Shoo - Stand” is still a working theory. #74288) were aided and abetted tists, Old North State Posse, Nothing happens in a vacuum. with a cast of characters: Greta Ambush at Cavern Cove, Rus - Without all these people con - Dee, Oakley Mouse, Iva Gun, sell County Regulators, The tributing A Dark Day wouldn’t Luna Corazon, Major Mishap, Memphis Gunslingers, The (Continued on page 6) VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle Page 6 June 2017 A Dark Day on the Santa Fe 2017 . (Continued from page 5) be the success it has become. Loving, SASS #93761) Chris - THANK YOU. tian Mortician (SASS #83177) Silver Buck Chuck (SASS was top Black Powder Cowboy, #85397) got things off to a Shamrock Sadie (SASS BOOMING BIG START with #78511) was top Black Powder his 10 gauge cannon. (Nobody Cowgirl. Two Step Net (SASS slept through the opening cere - #98311) took top Smokeless monies.) We laughed, we shot, Cowgirl, with Delta Glen we ate lunch, and we found the (SASS #39197) taking top youngest shooter was 10 years Smokeless Cowboy. All the old (Rapid Fire Trouble, SASS scores for A Dark Day on the #105354), while the oldest Santa Fe are available at shooter was 79 years old (Frank http://fwcc.net/2017-scores/. If you missed it, you missed a darn good time. Start planning now for the Fifth Anniversary of A Dark Day on the Santa Fe, March 10, 2018, featuring sce - narios based on Quigley Down Under. Please visit http://fwcc.net/black-powder/ for more information. VIS!IT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle June 2017 Page 7 From The Editor SKINNY’S SOAPBOX By Skinny, SASS #7361 European Rifles ceived only two. A possible This month, Ranger Six (SASS #94237) has pre - reason for this may be many sented us with an interesting overview of Cowboy-era of our regular contributors Skinny, SASS #7361 military and sporting rifles from overseas. One of the (Palaver Pete comes to rifles he touches on is the Vetterli, adopted by the mind), who could be counted upon to supply regular Swiss and then the Italian governments circa 1869. I reports, have gotten older and have decided to “retire” The Cowboy Chronicle found this section of the article particularly interesting from for a much deserved rest. in that I own one of each—a Swiss Vetterli that has While I can understand that part of it, I am distressed been converted to .41 Swiss center fire and an Italian that more members have not stepped forward to supply Vetterli that has been converted to 6.5 Carcano. club and event articles. The vast majority of our readers Recently I discovered a source for new .41 Swiss are very interested in learning what other clubs around ammo, manufactured by resizing and reshaping 8mm the country (and the world) are up to, and one of the The Cowboy Chronicle Lebel brass, so I thought it was time to try out my 150- prime focuses of is to provide year-old jewel at a local Bolt Action Military match. such information. So consider this a call for match re - Though target distances ranged from about 75 to about ports. And not just State level and above… ALL annual 120 yards at the match, I soon discovered these old ri - events—and for that matter monthly events, as Palaver fles were meant to shoot at extreme distances—the Pete proved—are interesting. So I would exhort every lowest setting on the rear sight of my rifle is for 225 club to designate a reporter and a photographer to their meters. After some trial and error with “Kentucky matches to provide articles. If you send them to me, windage,” I found I could hit a target fairly consistently there’s an extremely high chance they’ll get published. by aiming at the ground below the target stand! Once Comic Book Corner that was established, the old warhorse proved itself to Featured this issue is the second comic book adven - be very accurate, as are most Swiss rifles.
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