Mercantile section (starting onEXCITING pageSee 90) our NovemberNovember 20012001 CowboyCowboy ChronicleChronicle PagePage 11 The Cowboy Chronicle~. The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Shooting Society ® Vol. 19 No. 4 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. April 2006 SHOWDOWN at BUCK CREEK 2005 The SASS SOUTHWESTERN REGIONAL By Nubbins Colt © 2006, SASS Life #7802 YEEEHHHAAAAAHHHH!!!!!! See HIGHLIGHTS on page 73 PAARRRRRTEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! hard and the Spirit of the Game leburne, TX Wow! When Award they received was well The Comanche Valley Vigi- deserved by these fine cowboys. C lantes (CVV) throw a party, If you’ve ever been to a major it’s a doozie! When they team up match, you know how spectacular with The Lone Star Frontier Shoo- everything looks, hundreds of people ting Club to do it, it’s even bigger in Old West guns and gear, sutler’s and bolder than before! Two hun- tents, food vendors, the stages all set dred competitors, more than two- up and ready to go and, if you’re as dozen sponsors, a wonderful lucky as we were at Showdown 2005, Sutler’s Row … yessirree, this gorgeous weather to accompany the match had it all. event. Another nice thing about a This match was unique in any relay event is your roving reporter number of ways, not the least of gets to wander around, interview which being the fact it was a five-day people, take pictures, and watch affair – that’s right, five days! It folks shoot. Bad Image took all the began on Wednesday, October 12th, banquet pictures and he’s a far bet- and concluded on Sunday, October ter photographer than I am, but 16th. On Wednesday there were RO- believe me, we both took some great 1 and -II classes, on Thursday there T-Bone Dooley covers a lot of ground in a hurry when he has to! photos. This brings me, as I wan- were side matches and various meet- And so do the rest of his pards from the Bar-20. You can always tell dered, to Stage 8, the Lone Star ings (including a Territorial when they’re around … they’re laughing and joking … and on the range Corral, and T. Bone Dooley (more Governor’s meeting), and on Friday they’re shooting fast and straight! The Dooley Gang has made itself felt about his gang later). wherever they go … certainly at last year’s END of TRAIL and again the Main Match began. I was more than impressed with this year at Winter Range where they won way more than their fair share Showdown was run in relays, of first place trophies. Good job! both T. Bone Dooley’s handling of the with half the shooters shooting in stage and the stage itself. T. Bone the morning and the other half in shop! I got the opportunity to buy right, they have a knack for great whipped though it like a hot knife the afternoon and reversed on another vest, and then I won anoth- stage design. Every stage I describe through butter, but this stage was as Saturday. It ran as smooth as silk er as a door prize, and if you know owes its uniqueness to their ingenu- complex as it was long – “long” as in that way and gave everyone plenty me and you’re thinking, “Nubbins, ity, and it was my pleasure to posse distance – the corral is easily 30 feet of time to rest, eat and, of course, did you need another vest?” the with them both this year. It was from end to end, and you had to tra- answer is no, but I wanted them! intimidating, too, but then I don’t verse most of that distance, first Someday maybe I’ll win a prize for pretend to be in their speed class shooting a series of rifle targets, SASS Cowboy Chronicle the largest vest collection (35 and (and boy, did they get a chuckle out then shotgun targets, moving to counting as of today!), but I have a of my last stage, which I shot very more shotgun targets (these two ways to go I’ll wager. deliberately and as slow as winter being on separate sides of the corral, In This Issue Let’s talk stage design. Two spe- molasses. But they knew what I was not just standing together), moving cial members have to be noted here: doing, because in the end, I cleaned to more shotgun targets, and then CIMMARON’S RICHARDS- 60 Shadrach and Black Barth. Both the match, my personal goal accom- finally getting to your pistol targets, MASON CONVENSION by Tuolumne Lawman champion shooters in their own plished!). They worked extremely (Continued on page 51) 62 UBERT’S TOP BREAK REVOLVERS-PART I by Tuolumne Lawman 76 HOOSIER AMBUSH II C by Doc Molar h C r o 78 1ST OKLAHOMA STATE o w CHAMPIONSHIP n b by Jezabel Starr i o c 23255 La Palma Avenue y HE AST TAND 80 T L S - l Yorba Linda, California 92887 THE SHOOTERS SHOOT e www.sassnet.com by Colonel Dan April 2006 Cowboy Chronicle Page 5 The Cowboy CCONTENTSONTENTS Chronicle 1 ON THE COVER Showdown at Buck Creek 2005 . 6 FROM THE EDITOR When Is “Up Close And Personal” Too Close? . Editorial Staff 8-12 NEWS Trauma Shooting Kit For SASS Clubs . Huck Finn Jubilee-30 yrs. Tradition . Tex Editor-in-Chief Comments From SASS Members . Cat Ballou 14-28 LETTERS Editor The SASS Scarlet Ball - The History Behind The Theme . Chiz 16 CAT’S CORNER Managing Editor Advertising Director 18 CHIZ BIZ What’s Goin’ On . Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 30-41 ARTICLES Wyatt And Me . How To Recognize A “GAMER” . Choosing An Alias . Mac Daddy Graphic Design 44-58 GUNS & GEAR Women, Guns, And Gear . STROKE: The Long And Shot Of It! Donna Oakley Advertising Administrator 59 Woman Hollering Creek . Contributing Writers REVIEWS-BOOKS Capt. George Baylor, Col. Dan, Cree Vicar Dave, Ellsworth T. Kincaid, 60, 62 REVIEWS-PRODUCTS Cimarron Brings Back Early West . A Uberti . Grizzly Adams, Holy Terror, Ima Darlin’, Ioway, Joe Fasthorse Harrill, Juaquin Malone, Madd Mike, 64 HISTORY This Month In History . Little Known Famous People . Mr. Quigley, Nubbins Colt, Palaver Pete, Purdy Gear, Quick Cal, Future Cowgirl . Future Cowboy . Swift Montana Smith, 65 PROFILES Tuolumne Lawman 66 POLITICAL Taxes And Fools . 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By Tex, SASS #4 “action” game rather than a bullseye up the emphasis to have larger, clos- has already been done. As things game, and cowboy gunfights were er targets … and several match stand today, it is virtually impossible generally up close and personal directors took us at our word! Huge to compete at the highest levels with affairs rather than long-range duels. targets at point-blank range became only a simple action job. When there Most Cowboy Action clubs got it their norm … and nearly everyone, are two competitors of equal skill, Tex, SASS #4 right, and many clearly understood including me, smiled and said, “This the one with the fastest firearms will ~SASS Hall of Fame Inductee~ they were in the entertainment is good!” Before long, the majority of win.