Get The Latest In How To Videos At The SASS Members Only Page M E S NNNooovvveeemmmbbbeeerrr 222000000111 CCCooowwwbbboooyyy CCC(hhhrrrooonnniiiiicccllllleee PPPaaagggeee 111 November 2001 Cowboy Chironicele XPagee 1 t r e ’s c C o o a I u n n T r ti I p le N ~ a g s G e e s c t The Cowboy Chronicle 8 io 1 n -8 4 The Monthly Journal of the Single Action Sh ooting Society ® ) Vol. 23 No. 8 © Single Action Shooting Society, Inc. August 2010 Buffalo Stampede 2010 The Four Corners Regional By Capt. George Baylor, SASS Life #24287 ounders Ranch, Edge - See HIGHLIGHTS on pages 62, 63 wood, New Mexico, April 22-25, 2010 – “We standings with each of those changes F have a cold range here,” in the weather, as sensible people said Coyote Calhoun at the Buffalo put their guns up and went off to Stampede shooters’ meeting, “a their RVs or hotel rooms for hot tod - dayum cold range.” That was dies. But I hung on. When I dragged Friday morning. He was right. It back into the bus, people were was COLD! already drinking Margaritas. They A Little Background didn’t shoot the Wild Bunch match. Buffalo Stampede, annually I’m not sure what the lesson is there. held in April, has been the END of Actually I know; I’m just ignoring it. TRAIL Preview match where the Shooting Wild Bunch is a lot of targets and some ideas for scenar - fun. Each stage had 20-25 rounds of ios are tested out before a live 1911, 4-6 rounds from a stoked ‘97, and audience, so to speak. It has been 6-10 rounds from a rifle that actually the New Mexico State Cham - “It’s a cold range … a daym cold range!” So said Coyote Calhoun experiences a phenomenon forgotten pionship on alternate years. The as he opened the Buffalo Stampede shooters meeting. The unstable in modern SASS. It’s called recoil . Four Corners Regional has been weather turned on the cowboys during the earlier Wild Bunch match, Thursday Night Outlaw Trail at Founders Ranch in but warmed up as the event went on. Always bring long johns Chili Cook-off August. This year Outlaw Trail when shooting in the New Mexico mountains in April! This is New Mexico. Every dish will be the SASS Wild Bunch World is served with your choice of red or Cham pionship. So, Buffalo Stam - Wednesday Thursday green chili. Green chili is akin to pede became the Four Corners Long Hunter taught a one-day Thursday morning. It was cold swallowing a lit cigarette. Red chili Regional. With that it inherited SASS University class. If you’re ever and clear, beautiful shooting weath - is more like swallowing an acetylene the spirit of the Four Corners at an event where Long Hunter is er if you brought your long johns and torch. Pancakes come with red or Regional, which lately has been teaching, take his class. You will no hand warmers. green chili. Ice cream comes with designed as a shooters match with doubt find it’s money and time well The morning started with a six- red or green chili. (Four words every emphasis on shooting. spent. The Long Range match was stage warm up match. We soon fig - visitor to New Mexico should know: late in the afternoon. Both got excel - ured out the stages were simple and “Green on the side.”) We had a chili lent weather. After that we had 17 easy to understand, more like gun - cook-off. Awards were given for best SASS C owboy Chronicle people in Camp Baylor having cake fights than memory tests. Then, next red and best green chili. Rumor has and Margaritas celebrating our came a six-stage Wild Bunch match. it some of the cooks used some of the anniversary, The Redhead’s birthday, That’s when it started raining. fine chilis for which New Mexico is In This Issue Weaver Gal’s birthday, our cat’s Then the rain turned to sleet. famous. Others found chili peppers birthday, and six or seven holidays Then the sleet turned to snow. that are normally reserved for crowd 40 GuNs of thE CoWboys I’d never heard of, but didn’t care Then the snow became horizontal. control sprays. First aid was provid - part 3 after a few Margaritas. I believe I moved up in the (Continued on page 62 ) by Tuolumne Lawman 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 47 buffalo staMpEdE E y a W y o b w o C 5 1 MouNtEd ChaMpioNship 2 by Ice Lady C h C r o North CaroliNa 68 o w ChaMpioNship n b by Pearl i o c y 70 laNdruN l by Cal Cogburn e Page 2 Cowboy Chronicle August 2010 ViSit uS at SaSSnet .com August 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 3 ViSit uS at SaSSnet .com Page 4 Cowboy Chronicle August 2010 ViSit uS at SaSSnet .com August 2010 Cowboy Chronicle Page 5 The Cowboy CONTENTS Chronicle 6 FROM THE EDITOR Regulators (What Does It Mean To Have The Right Stuff?) 8 NEWS Memorial Chapel Fund Picking Up Speed! . 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