M E S Get The Latest In How To Videos At The SASS Members OnNolvyem bPer a 20g01 e CCoowwbbooyy ( CChhrroonneiiiiccllllee X Paege 1 NNSoeovpveteemmmbbbeeerrr 22 200000111 0 CCoowwCbbooywy CbCiohthyrr ooCnnhiiiicrcllollee nicle PPPaaaggegeee 111 ’s c C o a I u o n T r n t I p il N a e g s G ~ e e s c t 8 io The Cowboy Chronicle 0 n -8 3 ) The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Sh ooting Society ® Vol. 23 No. 9 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. September 2010 END of TRAIL 2010 By Captain George Baylor, SASS Life #24287 Photos by Black Jack McGinnis, SASS Life/Regulator #2041 and Mr. Quigley Photography Team And when you get the choice HIGHLIGHTS starting on page 63 to sit it out or dance ing™. This is the event put on by the I hope you dance people who invented and perfected I hope you dance the sport. Twenty-eight END of (© written by Mark D. Sanders and TRAIL’s have come and gone before Tia Sillers, and recorded by this one. All of the champions have country singer Lee Ann Womack) walked at END of TRAIL, the people you read about or watched on TV, ounders Ranch, Edge - from China Camp to T-Bone Dooley wood, New Mexico, to Holy Terror. Without END of June 21-27 – When you TRAIL, there would be no SASS, no F drive to END of TRAIL Cowboy Action Shooting™. the first time it finally hits you—this There are Cowboy Action Shoot - is not like any other SASS match. It ers who never make it to END of might be when you see the billboard TRAIL. Some regret it. Some don’t on Interstate 40. You probably never know what they’re missing. Some saw a billboard for a Cowboy Action don’t like the location, or the timing, Shooting™ match before. It might or the entry fee, or the fact it’s a lost be when you turn off Interstate 40 brass match, or fill in your excuse of near Edgewood, New Mexico, onto choice. Some watch life on television, what was old Route 66, The Mother just nibbling at life instead of living Road. But it’s probably when you it. The people who come to END of turn into the gate and see the big TRAIL are living. They’re biting off “END of TRAIL” sign and get big chunks of life. They’re dancing. greeted warmly by waddie Yul Lose Some of them have fought their way or one of the other friendly waddies out of their office prisons, defeating working traffic. If it isn’t there, it’s a END of TRAIL turned another corner this year. For the first since moving the forces that keep them in their little later when you’re at the top of to New Mexico the Old West Festival portion of the event is again alive ruts. Some are showing their chil - the hill looking down on a sea of RVs and well. Dr. Buck arranged for the crowd pleasing Old West entertain - dren or grandchildren a world where and tent campers, and below them is ment, and the Mounted folks provided continuous public entertainment champions call penalties on them - a nineteenth century town, part with exciting arena competitions and parades through town. Oh, selves or loan their guns to competi - and the Action Shooting and Wild Bunch competitions were terrific as well! “Hell on Wheels” tent city, part Old tors who broke theirs, where there is West town with freshly painted This is The Mother Lode. This is honor and camaraderie, a world buildings taken right out of Silver - 480 acres devoted entirely to Cowboy where the term “straight shooter” SASS C owboy Chronicle ado or Dodge City. It might be at the Action Shooting™, the only place in means a lot more than the ability to opening ceremonies, when the flags the world where the winners become shoot straight. Some are living their of all of the competitor nations are World Champions. The losers, well, dreams playing cowboy again in In This Issue marched in to their national anthem, there are no losers except the shoot - their old age. Some are fighting dis - and when Sundown leads the crowd ers who never go. This is the event ease, injury, or disabilities, refusing 16 END of TRAIL in a stirring rendition of The Star you dreamed about when you first to “go quietly into the night.” The CosTuME CoNTEsTs Spangled Banner . thought of Cowboy Action Shoot - (Continued on page 61 ) by Cat Ballou m o c . t e n s s a s . w w 44 GuNs of ThE CoWboys w 5 1 0 7 8 M N , d o o w e g d - P T.3 E y a W y o b w o C 5 1 by Tuolumne Lawman 2 46 buRGEss REvIEW C by Capt. 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