Cowboy Chronicle August 2017 Page 1 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle Page 2 August 2017 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle The Cowboy August 2017 Page 3 Chronicle CONTENTS 4 FROM THE EDITOR Editorial Staff Skinny’s Soapbox Skinny 6-17 COVER FEATURE Editor-in-Chief SASS Texas State Championship 2017 18, 19 COSTUMING CORNER Misty Moonshine SASS Texas State Championship 2017 Managing Editor 20-29 ANNUAL REPORTS Western Territorial Wild Bunch Championship Tex and Cat Ballou 30-39 GUNS & GEAR Editors Emeritus Dispatches ... Holster Formers 40-49 HISTORY Adobe Illustrator Los Vaqueros ... Little Known Famous People Layout & Design 50-61 REVIEWS - PRODUCTS Uberti Henry ... Steel Target Paint Mac Daddy 62-64 PROFILES Graphic Design How I Got My Alias 65-69 TRAIL MARKER Square Deal Jim Always To Be Remembered ... Advertising Manager 70-75 ARTICLES (410) 531-5456 • Cell: (703) 728-0404 Saddle Gun Cart ... RO Corner [email protected] 76-84 COMIC BOOK CORNER The Lone Rider Staff Writers Big Dave, Capgun Kid, 86, 87 SASS MERCANTILE Capt. George Baylor, Col. Dan, Col. Richard Dodge, 88, 89 GENERAL STORE - ADVERTISERS INDEX Joe Fasthorse, Justice Lily Kate, Larsen E. Pettifogger, 90, 91 SASS NEW MEMBERS Tennessee Tall and Rio Drifter, Texas Flower, Tuolumne Lawman, Yuma Jack 92 SASS AFFILIATED CLUB LISTINGS The Cowboy Chronicle (Annual / Monthly) is published by The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. For advertising information and rates, administrative, and edi to rial offices contact: Chronicle Administrator 7 215 Cowboy Way • Edgewood, NM 87015 (505) 843-1320 • FAX (505) 843-1333 email: [email protected] Visit our Website at http://www.sassnet.com view of the The Cowboy Chronicle SASSNET.COM (ISSN 15399877) is published ® downrange monthly by the Single Action Shooting Society, 215 SASS Trademarks ® ® Atargets at Co - Cowboy Way, Edgewood, NM 87015. 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Bolt his year’s World Champi - Action Military (or BAM) side matches have since become Skinny, SASS #7361 onship of Cowboy Action popular at many Cowboy clubs in the Southwest that have TShooting™ is now part of his - 100-yard or greater capabilities. The one held at my local tory. Congratulations to everyone who distinguished them - club (the Texican Rangers near Fredericksburg, Texas) typ - selves in their respective disciplines and categories, and ically consists of two or three stages shot after the main especial congratulations to every participant and attendee match and consisting of 10 to 15 rounds per stage, shot at for taking part in one of the most pleasant venues around. different targets of varying distances. It sort of puts the “ac - Thunder Valley Days 2017 tion” into long range and is a lot of fun. he Maryland State Championship was also held the One of the nicest aspects of BAM, however, is it’s prob - same weekend as EOT. This year, I chose to attend ably the only side event for which you don’t necessarily have Tthat match instead, as it was the final Thunder Valley to spend a fortune on equipment. Even though rifles like 1903 Days to be administered by Chuckaroo (SASS #13080). Springfields and 30-40 Krags—which can set you back $1000 After serving as Match Director for the event for the past or more—are popular, more economical rifles available for 18 years, in addition to putting on countless monthly as little as $200, like Mosin-Nagants and Yugoslav Mausers, matches at Damascus, Maryland and helping with and are perfectly acceptable alternatives. All bullets must be lead, eventually overseeing Mason-Dixon Stampede, the of course. So if you have an itch to try out something new Southeast Regional and now Eastern Divisional, Chucka - and you’re in an area with a club that offers it, give BAM a roo has finally decided to hang up his spurs for a much- “shot.” You may just get hooked on something new. deserved rest and possibly enjoy just shooting for awhile. Comic Book Corner Chuckaroo’s second-in-command for many years past, eatured this issue is the fourth comic book adventure of Dogmeat Dad (SASS #48563), has stepped up to take the Lone Ranger wannabe, the Lone Rider, from Lone reins of all the aforementioned matches, however, and we FRider #4 (October 1951) and was published by Ajax-Far - wish him all the success Chuckaroo has enjoyed. rell. As always, material for Comic Book Corner comes to Bolt Action Military Matches us through Comic Book Plus. Visit their website at number of issues ago, I mentioned the beginnings of www.comicbookplus.com to enjoy more vintage Western a Cowboy Action Shooting™ and Wild Bunch long and other genre comic books. Arange side event that utilizes mil-spec bolt action rifles —Skinny Dear Valued SASS Members, fter careful consideration and evaluation of the countless requests and movements regarding scoring methods for Cowboy Action Shoot - Aing™, the SASS Board of Directors do hereby decree that effective imme - diately, all SASS Sanctioned Cowboy Action Shooting™ matches are to be scored using Total Time. A direct email has been sent to all Club con - tacts, SASS Sanctioned match directors, and event organizers giving notice to this effect and requiring immediate changes to match planning to ac - commodate the change. SASS Sanctioned matches will no longer be al - lowed to use any other scoring method. We feel strongly that this monumental change will garner great support Misty Moonshine, and appreciation from you—our valued members. SASS #83232 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle August 2017 Page 5 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle Page 6 CAugust 2o017 mancheria Days Yuma Jack, SASS #11261 SASS Texas State Ch2am0p1io7nship “TeBxy Yuama s Jacko, SASuS #1r126 1T Patreon Lxife as” q Photos by Dutch Van Horn SASSq #51153 four times that I recall, but I think the 2017 Comancheria Days The article in the Dallas Morning Herald on June 6, 1885 read: Championship was one of the largest. This match was attended The morning of June 5, 1885 two men, both murderers and robbers, by 305 shooters who made the escaped from the San Antonio County Jail. One was captured but it journey from all over Texas as is believed Jim McDaniels will make for his old haunts near well as 14 other states and Canada Leon Springs, going probably by the Bandera Road. to the Texas Hill Country to join in the fun. The tradition of this q q “Old West” shootin’ match has en - nd so, embracing this bit of “It’s a jail break boys!” dured for 22 years. Texas history, the SASS The annual Comancheria Days I wasn’t around these parts ATexas State Championship began match has been the venue for the back in ’95 (1995 that is), when on Stage 1 with the shouted alarm, SASS Texas State Championship the Texican Rangers held the first “Comancheria Days” Cowboy Ac - tion Shooting TM match, but I have been attending this event almost every year since 1999 and report - The Cowboy Chronicle ing on it in at least since 2007. That first match was the inspiration of Texas Jack, SASS #5148 (AKA Mike Harvey, owner of Cimarron F.A.C o and Texas Jack Wild West Outfit - ter). They called the match “Co - mancheria Days” to commemorate those days when the area was known as the Comancheria or “the VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM land of the Comanche.” In the Things got downright busy on the Long Range firing line. spirit of a celebration, that first Cowboy Chronicle August 2017 Page 7 Judge Roy Bean (SASS #1) and Justice Lily Kate (SASS #1000) were in attendance. Comancheria Days 2017 Match Director Judge Gee Pee. match, held in March, was at - lasted for more than six hours, and tended by less than 100 shooters attracted 68 competitors. Targets but it included an Indian ( i.e. Na - Comancheria Days hostess and owner were 24-inch squares and 16-inch tive American) encampment, of the Stieler Ranch, Becky Patterson.