CONTENTS 3 FROM THE EDIITOR — GUEST EDITORIAL How Do We Stop The Loss of Members and Expand Our Membership? 5-11 COVER FEATURES Tri-State Championship 2017—Massachusetts–Connecticut–Rhode Island Wild Bunch on The Brazos—Texas State Championship 2017 13-23 ANNUAL REPORTS Single Action Shooting Society® Sixth Annual Central Canadian Regional 215 Cowboy Way, Shooting With The Canadians Edgewood, NM 87015 505-843-1320 • Fax 877-770-8687 Heluva Rukus 2017—New York State Championship © 2018 Western Canadian Regional 2017 All rights reserved The Cowboy Chronicle Magazine is Shootout on The Little River 2018 Designed and Printed by The Single Action Shooting Society® 24-26 COSTUMING CORNER Visit the SASS web site at: The World of Steampunk—A New Costume Contest Category for END of TRAIL www.sassnet.com 27-31 FICTION Small Creek: Kid Galena Rides—Continued From the January Issue EDITORIAL STAFF 32 CLUB REPORTS Wartrace Regulators Celebrate Their 20th 1997-2017 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Skinny 33-38 GUNS & GEAR Shooting The Springfield Rifle MANAGING EDITOR Dispatches From Camp Baylor—Project 1860 Part 2 Misty Moonshine 39-41 HEALTH & FITNESS Fitness For Cowboy Action ShootersTM EDITORS EMERITUS Stretching For Cowboy Action ShootersTM Tex & Cat Ballou 42 NEWS ADVERTISING MANAGER Two Hundred of the Best and Fastest Are Gonna Be There! 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The up to the next class. These classes would question is how. I don’t think local not be official SASS categories, but just clubs do a good job promoting SASS. a starting point. These categories could I think at least once a year we should be used at a local club match or maybe invite the public to our clubs to show included at an annual club match. I was GUEST and describe what SASS is all about. just looking at the Gila Rangers website Clubs in large cities may actually have and noticed they have a similar catego- EDITORIAL to limit the number of visitors. This ry, so my idea turns out to be a tested year my club, the Rio Grande Rene- strategy. gades, had a ladies-only shoot with the Who should we invite into SASS? HOW DO WE STOP THE men fixing lunch. When we see new- Well everybody, of course, but the bies in the crowd, we encourage them 50-plus age group will have grown kids LOSS OF MEMBERS to try a stage. I think we could go one and may have the extra time and money AND EXPAND OUR step further. When we get new mem- for the hobby. I joined SASS late in life bers, we should have someone in the so I would have retirement hobby. Let’s MEMBERSHIP? club mentor them. How many of us face it, we, the 65-plus age group, grew By Fire Eater, SASS have run out and bought our guns and up with all the cowboy heroes. Mine #74495 leather because the get-up looked neat was Sundance starring Earl Holliman. or because it was cheap, to find out later Unfortunately, there are few western e can’t stop the loss. All clubs they weren’t the best choices.