S For Updates, Information and GREAT Offers on the fly-Text SASS to 772937! A S NNoovveemmbbeerr 22000011 CCCooowwwbbboooyyy CCChhhrrrooonnniiiiicccllllleee e PPaaggee 11 NNSSoeeopvpvetteeemmmmbbbbeeeerrr r 2 2 220000001111 00 CCoowwbbooyy CCShhrroonniicecllee PPPaaagggeee 1 11 S o u (o M r n New Y p e N py e a r E p a g a c W r e ! a H 7 0 n ) ti The Cowboy Chronicle ~ le The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Shooting Society ® Vol. 26 No. 1 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. January 2013 .U.S. Open , The Match of Champions! By Sugah, SASS #80446 Photos by Sugah & Tex, SASS #4 Diamond Jim Chisholm, SASS #27 aka Gordon Davis By Tex, SASS #4 There were plenty of categories at this year’s US Open— the usual standard categories as well as Outlaw, Senior Gunfighter, ucson, AZ – As most maker … in fact, he had been Frontier Cartridge Gunfighter, and others … a little something for long-time SASS mem - making leather products since he everyone … and, the categories all had enough folks in them to bers know, in the be - was 12 years old. His products in - provide true competition. Three days of main match competition T ginning there where cluded all sorts of “cowboy” items in changing weather conditions tested everyone and allowed three “Founding Fathers”—Bill and many found their way into the real champions to emerge. It was loads of fun! Hahn, Gordon Davis, and Harper western movies such as Tomb - parta, IL – The Illinois De - State, Regional, and above cham - Creigh, Judge Roy Bean, SASS stone and Unforgiven . His prod - partment of Natural Re - pions a FREE match at the U.S. #1. These three gentlemen were ucts were also instrumental in Ssources offered ALL current Open held at the World Shooting the sparkplugs and inspiration influencing designs for Safariland and Recreation Complex in behind what has become known and John Bianchi’s fledging busi - Sparta, Illinois September 4 as Cowboy Action Shooting™. All ness. Celebrities the likes of Clint SASS C owboy Chronicle through September 9, 2012. What three were Action Pistol competi - Eastwood, Roy and Dusty Rogers, an opportunity! Top shooters tors, but when it was questioned and Randy Travis also proudly from across our great nation con - if that game could be played with strapped on his cowboy rigs. In This Issue vened and most of them brought “cowboy guns,” these were the At the first END of TRAIL their “A” game! BUT, the best guys who put their heads to - Gordon took the role of thing about the U. S. Open (and gether and made it happen. We spokesman for the event. China 22 Shotgun Boogie ANY match headed up by Mose lost Bill a few years ago, we still Camp’s video of the match promi - Short Stroke and Bella Spencer) was EVERY have the Judge, but Gordon nently features Gordon explain - by Larsen E. Pettifogger shooter in attendance was made Davis, Diamond Jim Chisholm, ing the stages for the camera. He to feel like a CHAMPION! lost his battle with Parkinsons was associated with the produc - Disease and Lewy Body Demen - tion of END of TRAIL for the next 44 Delaware State The warm-up Matches began (Continued on page 36 ) tia just after Thanksgiving 2012. several years until business and ChampionShip Gordon Davis was a leather (Continued on page 8) by Deacon Will m o c . t e n s s a s . w w w 5 1 0 7 8 m n , d o o w e g d 46 texaS State e y a w y o b w o C 5 1 ChampionShip 2 by Billy Bob Evans C h C heaDquarterS r o 52 o w & n b he anaDian t C i o nationalS c y by Grey Fox & l Miss Mary Spencer e Page 2 Cowboy Chronicle January 2013 ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm January 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 3 ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm Page 4 Cowboy Chronicle January 2013 ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm January 2013 Cowboy Chronicle Page 5 The Cowboy CONTENTS Chronicle 6 FROM THE EDITOR Editorial Staff SASS Plans For The Future . Tex 8-12 NEWS Editor-in-Chief Chapel Auction Draws To A Close (Winners Announced!) . GOEX Cat Ballou 10 CAT’S CORNER Editor Reviving The Costume Contest At END of TRAIL . Miss Tabitha Asst. Editor 14, 15 LETTERS Comments From SASS Members . Evil Roy Wild Bunch Editor 16-20 ARTICLES Dead Man’s Gun . Prescott, Arizona (A Bonanza of History) . Adobe Illustrator Layout & Design 22-30 GUNS & GEAR Scoring: Rank vs. Time . Labor Of Love . Mac Daddy 32, 33 PROFILES 2012 SASS Scholarship Recipient (Miss Mandy, Morning Dove) . Graphic Design Lilly Mae 34 MOUNTED Mounted Shooting Long Gun SCABBARD . Advertising Manager (505) 843-1320 • Fax: (877) 770-8687 [email protected] 35 TRAIL MARKER Always To Be Remembered . Contributing Writers Billy Bob Evans & Diamond Lizzie, 40, 41 HISTORY Little Known Famous People . Women In The Old West . Blue 64, Capt. George Baylor, Chilkoot, Col. Dan, Col. Richard Dodge, Cree Vicar Dave, Deacon Will, Four Feathers, 42 REVIEWS BOOKS Raid In Lincoln County . Grey Fox & Miss Mary Spencer, Joe Fasthorse, Justice B. Dunn, Larsen E. Pettifogger, Miss Mandy, Morning Dove, Palaver Pete, 43-52 ON THE RANGE What’s Goin’ On In Your Town? . Rio Drifter & Tennesse Tall, Riverboat Gambler, Sgt. Shuster, Sugah, Sutter Lawman, T-Bone Dooley, 56, 57 CLUB REPORTS Shootin’ Across The USA . Two Shoots For One Good Cause Texas Ghost, Turquoise Bill, Utah Scout, Wolverine Wrangler 58-60 THE WILD BUNCH CORNER The Cowboy Chronicle is published by The Wild Bunch, Board of Directors of The Single Action Shooting Society. 61, 62 GENERAL STORE /CLASSIFIED For advertising information and rates, ad - ministrative, and edi to rial offices contact: Chronicle Administrator 63-69 SASS AFFILIATED CLUBS (MONTHLY, ANNUA L) 215 Cowboy Way Edgewood, NM 87015 (505) 843-1320 70 SASS MERCANTILE (Nice Collectables) . FAX (505) 843-1333 email: [email protected] POLITICAL http://www.sassnet.com 71 A Fundamentally Changed America . 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State and local laws rocking horse Design must be investigated by the purchaser prior SASS is a member of the Edgewood Chamber of Commerce and are all trademarks of to purchase or use or products/services. actively participates in local community events. Edgewood the Single action Shooting Society, inc. WARNING: Neither the author nor The inaugurated its annual “Hunt-n-Glow” holiday festival designed Any use or reproduction of these marks Cowboy Chronicle can accept any responsi - to entice folks to spend the day visiting Edgewood businesses. without the express written permission bility for accidents or diffe ring results In the evening there was a lights parade, featuring, among others, obtained using reloading data. Variation of SASS is strictly prohibited. in handloading tech niques, compo nents, a SASS cowboy float. Local SASS members are seen here beside and fire arms will make results vary. Have the “gussied up” SASS freight wagon. It was a fun time—but COLD! a competent gunsmith check your firearms before firing. ViSit US at SaSSnet .cOm Page 6 Cowboy Chronicle January 2013 SASS Plans For The Future By Tex, SASS #4 to be positive! It’s impossible to think about the The Regional match future without at least spending some schedules and contact time pondering what’s happening in points once again have our society where folks feel somehow their own page on the empowered to march into public areas SASS website. and start shooting. No one, gun own - < http://www. sassnet.com/ ers included, care to see such behavior Regionals.php > Tex, SASS #4 or endorse it in any way. There is sim - ply no rational reason or justification Make plans now for such actions. And, sadly, there is to attend the ar and away our cowboys always the “public knee-jerk reaction” Regional for YOUR area. are “traditionalists”—con - for more restrictive gun laws and reg - servative and slow to ulations. Most of our members would F change. That’s not too agree it’s not the guns, but the people onship program. The Western Re - vide a quality product. surprising, after all, we spend our handling the guns that are to blame gional has been moved from Southern Hell on Wheels lost their range, weekends recreating the 1880s, a … but still there’s the question, how California to Chorro Valley on the Cen - which offered SASS an opportunity to mythical place frozen in time where do we prevent these tragedies from tral California coast. This makes the reorganize the Regionals in that part everything was simpler, folks were occurring in the future? There have event a bit more convenient for more of the country.