S A S For Updates, Information and GREAT Offers on the fly-Text SASS toNo7ve7m2be9r 230701 ! CCoowwbbooyy CChhrrooSnniiicclllee ig Page 1 NNSNSoeeoopvpvvetteeeemmmmmbbbbbeeeeerrrr r 2 2 22200000001111 00 CCoowwCCbbooywyw CbbCoohhyyrr oCoCnnhhSiiircrclolloeenniiccnllee PPPaaagggeee 111 B - U u (S F p e F e A T p L o a O d g S a ~ e T y 3 A ! 9 M ) P The Cowboy Chronicle E D E The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Sh ooting Society ® Vol. 26 No. 3 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. March 2013 SASS CoNveNtioN European wZ f & WILD WEST 201 f END of 2 fChristmas Z By John Bohemia, SASS Life/ Has a New Home for 201 3! Regulator #73504 TRAIL By Misty Moonshine, SASS Life #24262 Range Master Headshot Jack was responsible for constructing the European END of TRAIL stages to replicate those from END of TRAIL 2012. He did a masterful job! All who attended END of TRAIL will instantly recognize the “Jail Stage” The Chateau on the Lake, a AAA Four Diamond Branson Resort, shown here … and several others in the collage photos. is the home for this year’s SASS Convention! An “all new” program parany, CZ – Let me TRAIL. Like this, the European is planned for this “all new” venue, making the SASS Convention the social highlight of the year. start this with a little cowboys have a chance to shoot It’s not to be missed! bit of history. It was al - END of TRAIL without having to O ways rather difficult for travel too far. Of course, the Wild fter months of site visits, the European shooters to travel Bunch backed this. negotiations, and prelim - to the US for END of TRAIL. One Since 2008 this match has SASS C owboy Chronicle inary plans, SASS is has to admit that time and been organized every year; A proud to announce the mainly money plays its role in de - France being the last organizer in 11th installment of the SASS Con - ciding whether or not to make 2011. It was expected French In This Issue vention and Wild West Christmas such a trip. cowboys would organize also 2012 will take place December 4-8, 2013 This was the reason why in EUROPEAN END of TRAIL. 26 Tom HirT HaTs in Branson, Missouri! 2008 Italian cowboys started the However, due to some issues on by The Jersey Kid The 2013 SASS Convention tradition of bringing END of the organization side, they an - will boast a brand new and exciting TRAIL to Europe. The idea was nounced in May they would not 40 Border Wars - format, in a great new location! simple—organize a 3 – 4 day be able to do that, and it was at Ks s TaTe cHampionsHip SASS has negotiated a “run of the match in which the Main Match this point our association, AWS by Cree Vicar Dave house” agreement with the beauti - would be the exact copy of END of (Continued on page 36 ) (Continued on page 7) m o c . t e n s s a s . w w 42 rucKus in w 5 1 0 7 8 m n , d o o w e g d THe naTions e y a W y o b w o c 5 1 by Catoosa Red 2 C 44 amBusH aT h C cavern cove r o o w by Sugah n b i o 52 sHooTouT aT c y 5 d ogs creeK l by Kate Barlow e Page 2 Cowboy Chronicle March 2013 VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com March 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 3 VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com Page 4 Cowboy Chronicle March 2013 VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com March 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 5 The Cowboy CONTENTS Chronicle 6 FROM THE EDITOR Editorial Staff Colonel Dan Is Commander of Team SASS! . Tex Editor-in-Chief 7 DESK OF THE GENERAL The Chapel Still Needs Help! . Cat Ballou Editor 8, 9 NEWS Ruckus At Red Rock! . Waddies Needed For 32nd Annual END of TRAIL . Miss Tabitha Asst. Editor 10-12 CAT’S CORNER Fashionable Hair Dressing (Part II) . Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 14, 15 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . Mac Daddy 16-21 ARTICLES Capt. Gimp And The 1904 Olds . Being A Waddie . Graphic Design Lilly Mae 22-26 GUNS & GEAR Dispatches From Camp Baylor . Springs & Things . Advertising Manager (505) 843-1320 • Fax: (877) 770-8687 [email protected] 28 MOUNTED The Durango And Silverton Narrow-Gauge “Victorian Train” Robbery Contributing Writers HISTORY Alamo Annie Jett, Aneeda Huginkiss, 30, 31 Skeleton Canyon . Little Known Famous People . Birdshot, Brother King,Captain Cooper, Capt. George Baylor, Catoosa Red, 32 PROFILES Chico Cheech, Col. Dan, 2012 SASS Scholarship Recipient (Miss Mandy) . Col. Richard Dodge, Cree Vicar Dave, Dastardly Dave, Joe Fasthorse, 33 REVIEWS BOOKS John Bohemia, Justice Lily Kate, Ambush On The Rio Puerco . Kate Barlow, Larsen E. Pettifogger, Major Payne, Miss Mandy, Miss Tabitha, 35 TRAIL MARKER Always To Be Remembered . Misty Moonshine, Palaver Pete, Rio Drifter & Tennesse Tall, Sugah, Tennessee Tombstone, 39 BUFFALO STAMPEDE SIGN-UP TODAY!!! The Jersey Kid, White Smoke Steve, Wolverine Wrangler 40-56 ON THE RANGE The Cowboy Chronicle is published by What’s Goin’ On In Your Town? . The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. 59, 60 CLUB REPORTS For advertising information and rates, ad - Italian Shooter Honorary . 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Variation of SASS is strictly prohibited. in handloading tech niques, compo nents, best in Branson entertainment. Plan for an elegant time promenading and fire arms will make results vary. Have the decks and enjoying views of the lush Ozark Mountains. a competent gunsmith check your firearms before firing. VISIT uS AT SASSNET .com Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle March 2013 Colonel Dan is commANDER of TEAm SASS ! By Tex, SASS #4 ing organization, firearms re - ence and impassion our general Amendment goes, so go those tailer/distributor, and gun manu - membership to immediately pres - rights. Therefore, you cannot sep - facturer be actively involved in sure politicians and then promote a arate the guarantor of the right preserving our Second Amendment more effective combined and coordi - from the right itself without incur - rights. Colonel Dan’s Cowboy Chron - nated effort in the fight to retain ring the real risk of losing both.” icle political column over the years those Second Amendment rights. If you have not done so al - has demonstrated his insight into In his words, “I know this is not ready, it is important you turn to the significance of the Constitution going to be an easy victory or the back pages of The Cowboy Chron - and its Amendments, and he has quickly completed task, but I icle and read Colonel Dan’s recent Tex, SASS #4 the energy necessary to craft and wholeheartedly believe it is one we essays dealing with today’s na - sustain an appropriate plan to pro - must engage, or we risk losing too tional politics. The Cowboy Chronicle tect those Amendments, including much to contemplate. and the Team SASS Bulleting e are in a Second the Second Amendment. SASS Obviously, we won’t have agree - Board on the SASS website will Amend ment fight that has turned to Colonel Dan to be ment by everyone or every group on continue to publish pertinent pro- has significant conse - our leader and spokesman in everything, but I’ll do my best to gun information and calls for W quences. Shooting tra - this fight for firearms freedom. encourage all with whom I come in SASS membership involvement. ge dies around the country are His Mission Statement : In contact to keep their eye focused on When an initiative is announced, hor rible, no one is happy about close coordination with the Wild the ultimate goal of retaining our PLEASE follow through … SASS them, and because of a few unstable Bunch, lead the SASS effort in our right to keep and bear arms.