Cowboy Chronicle March 2017 Page 1 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle March 2017 Page 2 VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle The Cowboy March 2017 Page 3 Chronicle CONTENTS 4-9 COVER FEATURE Editorial Staff Fall Fandango 2016 SASS NM State Championship Skinny 10, 11 FROM THE EDITOR Editor-in-Chief Skinny’s Soapbox 12, 13 NEWS Misty Moonshine Uberti Adopts New Name Introduces New Firearms Managing Editor 14 LETTERS & OPINIONS Tex and Cat Ballou 16-19 COSTUMING CORNER Editors Emeritus Mail Order Brides And Grooms 20-29 ANNUAL REPORTS Adobe Illustrator The Shootout at Pawnee Station ... Battle at Black Horse Layout & Design 30-35 GUNS & GEAR Dispatches From Camp Baylor Mac Daddy 36-43 HISTORY Graphic Design A Botched Decade (pt 2) ... Little Known Famous People 44-53 PROFILES Square Deal Jim The Contraption Master ... 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George Baylor, SASS #, SASS #24287 Life Regulator Photos Katie Lee Photography, [email protected] unless noted Captain George Baylor, SASS Life / Regulator #24287 Cat Ballou with one of her birthday presents Clean Match winners (photo by Ether Dreams Photogrphy). lbuquerque, New Mexico, huge shooting complex. Police have posses can shoot six stages with - October 13-16, 2016 . Rio a large training area. The public out using the same shooting posi - AGrande Renegades, founded in range has everything from shotgun tion or targets for more than one 1993, hosts three to five SASS ® to long range, multiple class - stage. The city has made several matches a month. That is not a mis - rooms/meeting rooms, and a bunch improvements to aid the Rene - print. They have a match every sec - of bays suitable for CCW classes, gades, such as sturdy, well-con - ond Wednesday, third Saturday, USPSA matches, etcetera, with RV structed shade over the loading fourth Sunday, and fifth Saturday parking for several hundred RVs and unloading tables. and Sunday. Their home is “Hayes and of course, SASS matches. They have put on an annual City,” which is two bays at the Al - The Renegades have built per - event for three years, the Fall Fan - buquerque Shooting Range Park. manent sets, storage buildings, dango. This year it was also the Those of you in some of the anti- and registration rooms on each New Mexico State Championship. gun states should note that. The city bay. The bays are wide enough For the Fall Fandango they got to of Albuquerque owns and runs a that, at monthly matches, two use four additional bays for the VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle March 2017 Page 5 — BEST DRESSED LADY — Shirley Shooter (SASS #33848) — BEST DRESSED COUPLE — Crazy Clara Bell (SASS #67518) — BEST DRESSED GENTLEMAN — wearing a fabulous handmade B-Western JW Calendar (SASS #54524) ensemble embellished with embroidered and Dawson Dugan (SASS #6751) as 1880s stock Cowboy and Cowgirl as a savvy business opportunist in Buffalo Bill Show motif, long white gray wool suit and town hat, fringes on shirt and skirt, and more than Ranchers riding off into the sunset, hand in hand, hell bent for (and in) leather. burgundy cravat, diamond scarf, tie and 2,000 rhinestones, which were placed one grandmother’s picture in watch locket. at time. Her outfit is offset by a beautiful handmade blue leather rig and matching boots. One could see the buffalo that once Class on Thursday that attracted 12 and Revolver, run by Lawless Lori roamed the plains and prairies in the students, including buckaroo Sue. (Okay, just kidding about the exquisite stitching. A one-of-a-kind creation made by the mistress of CaTazTrophy. Instructors were Jack Gatling Gun). Fastest Revolver, sewing and crafts, Shirley Shooter! Diamond and Capt. George Baylor. Rifle, and Shotguns were run by (Costume descriptions by EzGz.) Side Matches Arkansas Hatchet, Speed Der - Fall Fandango . Side matches started Friday ringer by Deputy Dangit and morning with a four-stage Wild Whiplash Whitey, and a three- main match and the long range and Bunch mini-match, run by Texas stage Plainsman mini-match by shotgun venues for side matches, Tiger and Jim Miller. It was no - Capt. George Baylor, followed including a night skeet match! table for “unusual” starting posi - with Evening under the lights The planning team, Rooster B. tions, such as one foot in a tub Cowboy Skeet Field Shoot that McCabe, Mrs. McCabe, Sweet with six inches of water in it and evening, run by Mica McGuire. Becky Sue, Peg O’ My Heart, Prairie walls that were about 2-3 feet high. Painting Every Target Mary, Pepper Jack, and Sweet Lo - Long Range Rifle included After Every Shooter! ralei worked long and hard to get Single Shot, Lever Action, Pistol Saturday morning the main things arranged, and it showed. Caliber Lever Action, Bolt Action match started. With six bays and Things started off with a RO1 Military, Quigley, Gatling Gun, (Continued on page 6) VISIT US AT SASSNET .COM Cowboy Chronicle Page 6 March 2017 — FIRST PLACE BUCKAROO — FOUR-TIME CaTazTrophy (SASS #97878), NEW MEXICO LADIES’ CHAMPION accompanied by EzGz— Texas Tiger and six-time New Mexico a whirling dervish in red, with cuffs, Overall and Men’s Champion vest, and bowler hat. Mica McGuire. was declared cold, they went sider doing this at your next down and sprayed the 20 cartridge match. Really. It works. Your pay - hits and they were done. Not once ing customers will love it. [I’ve — BEST MILITARY CAPTAIN— did they take as long as the thor - seen this done at a couple other George Baylor in an 1872 formal dress ough and efficient brass pickers annual matches around the coun - uniform with horsehair tassel helmet and 1860 Cavalry sword. took picking up brass (NM Scout try. My experience was similar. It Venture Crew). It went so well I was efficient and everyone loved wondered why I had never seen it it—Skinny] done before at matches with indi - The stages, written by Tango vidual bays. On one stage, I was Tom and Lawless Lil, were Fall Fandango . taking pictures and it sounded like straightforward and the targets the shooter missed one pistol shot. were fairly close. To have close (Continued from page 5) All three counters held up one fin - targets, the target stands must be five posses, the committee tried ger. Then someone pointed at the angled forward. Then lead goes something I had not seen in 17 clear edger and the score changed down instead of up range. At the years of SASS in several states. to clean. There were no arguments end of a match there will be a Targets were painted after each among spotters and every shooter trough in front of the targets. This shooter. “OH, NO! THAT’LL could see how many misses he had required some bending and weld - TAKE ALL DAY!” Not really. before they were called out. If ing to get the stands up to par.