MercantileEXCITINGSee section our NovemberNovember 2001 2001 CowboyCowboy ChronicleChronicle(starting on pagePagePage 90) 11 The Cowboy Chronicle~. The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Shooting Society ® Vol. 19 No. 11 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. November 2006 GUNS OF AUGUST 2006 By Col. Fletch O’Dubois III, SASS #14224 Photos by Black Jack McGinnis, SASS #2041 iddletown, Ohio – How See HIGHLIGHTS starting on 72 can you improve on perfec- M tion? Like most shooters, excellent meals provided at the I had been anticipating this year’s Manchester Inn, and the Guns of event for a long time. To say last August stage designs. They plan to summer’s Guns of August was a spread the word to have even more roaring success would be an under- of the Canadians come next year. statement … so, how were they Local news media and shows going to do it again? Well, to start about SASS on ESPN have managed with, the Big Irons Board of to draw a lot of attention to our Directors met regularly during the sport. We had lots of folks check out off months planning each detail of the shooting and visit the vendors. the match. From berm marshals to During lunch I ran into a gentleman tractor drivers, from hospitality and his wife who had driven that night to door prizes, every detail was morning all the way from Northern considered. They even invited Evil Michigan to see what all the clang Roy (2000 SASS Overall National and clamor was about. I had a Champion, 2001 Overall World chance to introduce them to club offi- Champion, and winner of over 30 cials, and Coyote Calhoun from State and Regional Championships) SASS was able to provide additional to travel all the way to Middletown, Much of Guns of August was shot with overcast skies and under a thick guidance about name selection, an Ohio to put on a shooting clinic as a canopy of trees. Shooting into the arroyo with occasional rays of sunlight application for membership, and a warm-up to the main event. “You casting strange shadow patterns was exciting enough, but the blackpowder copy of The Cowboy Chronicle. You have to practice and practice correct- competitors put on an awesome display! Fire and brimstone belched would have thought we had given ly,” he advised and the students in from the muzzles of rifles, revolvers, and shotguns … them a poke of gold! attendance walked away with sometimes all the way to the targets! Day one broke with a wisp of enhanced abilities in their overall shooting venue from trap and skeet To show you how this has grown clouds and the promise of cooler shooting skills and enjoyment. to a pistol and 200-meter range for in not only national flavor, (there weather, a welcome respite from last The Guns of August SASS those who love to shoot those big cal- were shooters from 18 different year’s brutal heat ... This was the Midwest Regional Championship iber long-range smokepoles. Chuck states), but has grown in interna- day to participate in all the side continues to be one of the most pres- and his staff had everything under tional flavor as well, I was fortunate matches. Events ranged from the tigious and largest events in SASS. control. Motor homes, trailers, and to have breakfast at the Manchester pocket pistol and speed shotgun, as Nestled in the foothills between campers were housed close to the Inn with part of the Canadian con- well as speed pistol and speed shot- Dayton and Cincinnati, the Middle- modern clubhouse with full bath- tingent (over 28 of our brothers and gun on the tree covered hill, to the town Sportsman’s Club offers a full rooms and showers. The vendors sisters from the North endured the long-range rifle and long-range sin- were set up close to the shooting intricacies of bringing all their guns gle shot on the flats near the vendor owboy hronicle venue, and the coffee shop was open and gear across the international area. Wolf Paw managed to “pick SASS C C early every morning for a quick jolt border to be in attendance) and off” 10 quick shots to walk away of Joe and a scrumptious donut or asked what brought them back in with the long range Quigley Pail more filling plate of breakfast fare. ever-larger numbers every year. event in 86.96 seconds flat. Hoss In This Issue They also provided the dinner before And to a person, they all agreed it Lytle managed to get off all 10 shots the Friday evening skeet and trap was the hospitality of the in the speed rifle in 4.14 seconds 64 UBERTI USA’S MILLENNIUM by Tuolumne Lawman event … always a favorite of the Middletown Sportsman’s Club and and, not to be upstaged, Deuce scatter gunners. Big Irons staff, the comfort and (Continued on page 71) 66 IAC’S WINCHESTER 1887 SHOTGUN by Capt. George Baylor 76 15TH ANNUAL HEADQUARTERS MATCH C by Grey Fox h C r o 78 KENTUCKY STATE o w CHAMPIONSHIP n b by Hoss Lytle i o c 23255 La Palma Avenue y ESTERN TATES 80 W S l Yorba Linda, California 92887 HAMPIONSHIP C e by Madd Mike www.sassnet.com 7302 E. 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