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Hay Derrick, SASS #90860, Utah, since 2011.

SASS Alias: G. W. Ryder SASS #: 50690 Where you are from: Colorado How long you’ve been Cowboy Action Shooting: 14 years

SASS Alias: Rusty Hammer SASS #: 105027 Where you are from: SW Missouri How long you’ve been Cowboy Action Shooting: 16 months

SASS Alias: Long John Beard SASS #: 50378 Life Where you are from: Natalia, Texas How long you’ve been Cowboy Action Shooting 15 years

SASS Alias: Manassas Jack SASS #: 62087 Where you are from: TEXAS How long you’ve been Cowboy Action Shooting: 14 years

Rooster Ron Wayne #86029 From Michigan Cowboy shooting 7 years in SASS

End of Trail, 1989: "Early Friday morning, Jim Dunham, famed western entertainer from Arizona, captured the crowd's attention with his stories and fancy fun handling." Cowtown 1988: Jim Dunham saving his "partner" from the hangman's noose.

Top Guns at the January, 1989 Margarita match: Standing: Greybeard, Lucky Smucky, and McCloud Kneeling: Midway and Yosemite Diamond Annie, McCloud, Sierra and Greybeard won the Team Event at the Jan. 1989 Margarita match.

Left to Right: Limitless Layne #91695 has been shooting for 8 years. Gracious Stac #91693 momma moral support. Penn E Les #91692 has been shooting for 6 years. Despicable B #91694 has been shooting for 9 years. Fire Tuck #91696 has been shooting for 8 years. We have been lovingly dubbed the Penn E Les gang by our home club Fireland Peacemakers in Rochester, Ohio

Hey, how about getting together with some of us for dinner? Give me a call.

(l to r) Heath Hare (Top Junior), Max McQueen (Top Gun), City Slicker (2nd) and Rough Shot (3rd) at the Oct. 1988 Cowtown match Gail Snow, Calamity Lil and Sassy Kassy, Top Lady Shooters at Cowtown, Oct. 1988 match

The Wild Bunch, 1989 (picture is damaged by a crease across the top.) Back Row (L to R) Leadville Lloyd, Tex, Red Ryder, Judge Roy Bean, Hipshot and U.S. Grant. Front Row (L to R) R.J. Poteet, Bruce Williams, and The Durango Kid. The Wild Bunch is the Board of Directors of the Single Action Shooting Society and the sponsors or End of Trail. The board now (1989), consists of nine members, three of whom are new since the last End of Trail. The new members for 1989 are The Durango Kid, Leadville Lloyd and Tex.

The Top Gun at EoT '89 was Paydirt and the Top Lady was Kid Sticks... Christopher Colt (the local Colt representative), presented Paydirt with a Custom Shop Colt Pistol. Kid Sticks received a beautifully hand-engraved Dakota.

Top Ladies, EoT 1989 were: Kid Sticks (1st), Snake Bait Kate (2nd), Cholla (3rd), Cottontail (4th), and Diamond Lil (5th). The Top Juniors 1989 EoT were: Calico (1st), Nomad (2nd), Waco Kid (3rd), Pecos (4th) and Kid Strut (5th). These Junior shooters from the 1989 EoT are probably parents or grandparents now... The international competition was dominated again that year by the "Fritzes" from Germany: Red Fritz (4th), Small Glassed Fritz (3rd), Six-Gun Fritz (2nd), Big Fritz (Günter Schoeneberger, 1st) and Fireman Fritz (7th) The Michael Shelton Memorial Award each year went to the shooter who finished in 69th position. 1989's lucky winner was Bucolic Buffalo. The award was presented by "Half Fast", Lynn Shelton.

The Top Traditional Shooters at EoT '89 were (r. to l.), 1st - The Durango Kid, 2nd - Doc Holliday, 3rd - China Camp, 4th - Lucky Smucky, and 5th - Tex Top Modern Shooters, EoT '89 were: 1st - Paydirt, 2nd - Greybeard, 3rd - Hanfire Hank, 4th - Brazos, and 5th - Billy the Kid The Top Black Powder shooters were: Avenger (3rd), Shotgun Red (2nd) and winner was Big Jim (aka The Butcher)

Colonel Sir Harry Paget Flashman, EoT 1989. "The two young ladies came prepared to shoot, and shoot they did! They had loads for all their guns that would make even the biggest men flinch!" Jake the Snake and Snake Bait Kate tied the knot at EoT 1989. Jake had been the regional SASS director for Arizona and Kate was a past Top Lady at EoT. "SASS sent Jake and Kate back East to help establish SASS as more than just a Southern California/Arizona shooting sport. They took up residence in Virginia shortly after." Red Ryder and Judge Roy Bean, manned the SASS Information Booth at EoT, and stood guard over the John Dwayne figure painted by Kate Elder.

Flint Westwood, SASS #94, an early EoT Winner, shooting through one of the stages at EoT 1989 (interesting side note: Flint won the first ever SASS match, shooting a .30 carbine Blackhawk) Lucky Smucky, McCloud (Top Senior) and Alias on the site of the "Bustin' Loose" stage at EoT, 1989 Hash Knife, (Gene Henry), was one of the behind the scene contributors and responsible for most of the steel targets used in the 1989 EoT

Calamity Joan and The Kid

Tex, Hangfire Hank, Montana Dan (winner of the Sept. '88 match at Straight Shooter) and Yosemite The Preacher (Ron Brault), 1988

The Showdown '88. The top two Black Powder shooters were Shotgun Red and Griff. The top lady shooters were Calamity Joan and Kid Sticks The Top Gun again this year was Lucky Smucky. The runners up were (l to r) Great Dane, Brazos, William Bruce and Doc Holiday.

Big Jake 1001

So, you USED to be able to do that? Reckon why they changed the rule. Seems harmless enough to me.

"As always, there are lots of ways to shoot a stage. If you look closely, you will also see there are lots of ways to carry ammunition as well." Grey Beard is pictured on Stage 5, at The Showdown '88. It "was a classic buffalo shoot, from a wagon seat. A herd of ten buffalo is located some seventy yards down range. Whoever shoots the most buffalo the fastest wins!" Saturday night, The Showdown sponsored a barbecue dinner and square dancing. Pecos Pop and Pecos Pullet were the lead dancers.

Alias, pictured at Stage 1 of Rail Head, 1988 The Top Gun at Rail Head 1988 was Grey Beard (r) followed by Lucky Smucky, Big Jim (aka The Butcher), The Durango Kid and Tex The Top Lady was Snake Bait Kate (r.) followed by Fanny Saddlebriar, Sierra and Sassy Kassy

William Bruce and Jake the Snake, at the first annual Rail Head match, July 1988 In Williams, Arizona. Sponsored by the Los Vaqueros Cowboy Club from Tucson. "The range at Buckskinner Park consists of piney woods surrounding a small lake at 7,000 feet elevation. There was plenty of camping area in the park, although the downtown hotels were only a five minute drive away." The Judge and R.J. Poteet, up early to check out the range. Rail Head, 1988 The lake and some long range targets are behind them.