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Just got this from my daughter. It is from my 9 yr old grandson Zeke Moregunz SASS #114923. The "beats me with one finger" is when I go after him with one finger to tickle him and he goes down like a sack of rocks.

Howdy, Our daughter, son-in-law and grandkids are moving to Vicksburg, MS area the end of May. They want my wife and me to follow them there. After a lot of thought, we have decided to go for it. We need time to prepare for this life changing move so I’m not accepting any gun work at this time. All guns here or on the way will be finish and returned within two weeks. After we get moved, I’ll see about setting up as an FFL in MS. “The parts business will continue to run uninterrupted as before. This includes during and after the move.” We have plans to expand it once we’re settled in. To all my loyal customers and friends, all I can say is, Thank You!! Long Hunter

Hello everyone, This certainly isn't a post I want(ed) to make, but, alas- here we are. The situation surrounding Matt Black's 2025 EOT Overall title being rescinded was never intended to be put on blast to a jury of SASS member opinions. We shall not engage in the debate on this topic being staged on Facebook, but will post the facts here, on SASS' own forum. It is truly disheartening that it has come to this. For the record, Matt called the office once after receiving the official notification letter. He did not want to be transferred to my voicemail. I was out of the office at a match in Southern Indiana through that weekend. When I returned to the office, Ruby told me he had called. I called him back and left a voicemail. At that point, a week had past since he'd received the notification and I'd had no further attempt to reach me/SASS regarding this. No email, no follow up phone call. I felt I had done my due diligence. Prior to sending out the notification, I spent weeks losing sleep over it. I hated to do it. I had my accounting team triple check that there was no payment made. I checked his Dads account in case it was posted there in error- no record of him having renewed his membership. As you will see in the official notification, this was a recurrence. It had happened once before and I called him and let him renew immediately and retain his title... A second occurrence forced my hand. With tens of thousands of memberships to manage, we simply cannot be held accountable if a member does not renew. We have a multi-step renewal notice and reminder process in place for everyone. This is what we know. - Matt's renewal notice was mailed to him in December. - In January, he registered for EOT (through EOT/AZTCRR - NOT SASS) and paid his registration fee. EOT Registration Admin sent in the list of shooters for membership verification in January. He was on the list. He passed this membership check because his membership was active at the time it was run through the flag system. - On February 1st, he received the email reminder to renew his membership. In the screenshots of his engagement detail, we know he opened that email reminding him to renew at 11:06AM on Feb. 1. (and opened again on May 5 after receiving the official letter) -His membership expired on February 9, 2025. - END of TRAIL was held Feb. 24 - March 2, 2025. - On March 19, he was sent another email - "Oops - you forgot to renew!". He opened that email on March 21 at 7:31pm. He still did not renew his membership. - Late April arrives. Ruby Ruthless is writing the article for The Cowboy Chronicle on END of TRAIL 2025. She pulls up his membership to get his SASS # for the article and discovers his membership is inactive. She brings it to my attention and we immediately begin digging to try and find the renewal- to no avail. - I spend weeks wrecking myself over what to do. I'd given him a pass on this once before already. I consulted my advisory board. I didn't want to do this, it was not a vendetta. This is not about "haters". And then I imagined how I could look any other SASS member in the eye and hang anything on the validity of "SASS rules" (I was recreating the RO Courses at the time) if I made exceptions to the most basic of rules for play- not once, but twice. The ultimate responsibility is with the shooter- like all rules. The answer seemed clear to me- I couldn't make exceptions, play favorites, or look the other way. I had to do the unimaginable thing. So, I composed the letter and sent it to him, certified mail. It was delivered on May 5. Since Matt's "defense" on Facebook, I've re-enlisted our accounting team to search the last 4 # of the CC he claims to have used. We have no record of any payment - in any form. His SASS membership remains inactive today, May 27, 2025. No one at SASS HQ has heard from Matt directly. I've included the letter sent to him (PDF attachment), have pasted its contents below, and have attached other documentation supporting my facts above. I sincerely hope that we can all move on from this together. I've posted this thread locked for comment, we don't need to debate this publicly. If Matt has proof he paid SASS for his membership (not his EOT entry), I will gladly eat that plate full of crow. He knows where to reach me. *Note: We have reconfigured our shooter list flagging system that checks membership status prior to a sanctioned match to ensure this never happens again. Misty MoonshineMattBlackNotification2025.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ May 2, 2025 Dylan Holsey aka Matt Black, SASS #54580 Dear Mr. Holsey, Re: 2025 END of TRAIL Overall World Championship Title It is with regret that we must formally address an important matter concerning your participation in the 2025 END of TRAIL - the World Championship of Cowboy Action Shooting. As you are aware, eligibility to compete in END of TRAIL-and to hold any title awarded therein-requires an active membership in the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS) at the time of the event. At the time of the 2025 END of TRAIL match, your membership was not active, rendering you ineligible to participate under SASS rules. Our records show that you received multiple communications regarding the status of your membership and the need to renew it prior to, and during the event. Despite these notifications, your membership remained lapsed at the time of the competition and continues to be inactive as of today. This is not the first time such a situation has occurred. As you may recall, during a previous incident in which your membership had also lapsed, SASS leadership extended you the courtesy of a post-event renewal and allowed you to retain your title-a discretionary exception made in good faith. Unfortunately, the recurrence of this issue leaves the organization no choice but to act in accordance with its rules and responsibilities. Therefore, effective immediately, the 2025 END of TRAIL Overall World Championship title is hereby rescinded. You were not qualified to compete, and as such, cannot be recognized as the champion of this year's event. We understand that this decision is disappointing, but SASS must uphold the integrity of its rules and the fairness of competition for all participants. We encourage you to renew your membership should you wish to continue participating in SASS-sanctioned events in the future. If you have any questions regarding this matter or wish to discuss further, please feel free to contact us directly. Sincerely, Misty D. Ebersole aka Misty Moonshine, SASS #83232 Chief Executive Officer

Our family gun shop is located in a small town about 50 miles from Las Vegas. Within that small town there are around five actual brick and mortar gun shops - four of them are decently located in high traffic areas on main roads... And then there is ours; well off the beaten path built on the back portion of my Mom's residence property. No one finds us "by accident". Had a 94 year old gentleman come to our shop yesterday to consign some firearms with us. No big deal - we get a fair number of consignments. But this gentleman was consigning his life long collection with us - including a fairly large collection of new in box unfired Colts. He had never been to our shop before - didn't live in Pahrump. We asked him, "Why us? Why not a shop in Las Vegas or one of the other shops he had to pass to come to us?" He responded that he was 94 years old and wanted to ensure he was treated fairly and if he happened to pass before his collection was liquidated - he wanted to know his wife would not be cheated. He had asked around and apparently our name kept coming up as a good choice. So a man we had never met - traveled an hour to a little shop in nowhere Nevada to entrust us with well over $20,000 of firearms in the first batch - simply because of we are known for doing people right. It is nice to have a good reputation.

I know! How about we all go back to taking care of our own business and let SASS headquarters and the individual involved work it out.

This is NOT a commercial post. I did not ask Moderator permission however, since it was granted for the request, I hope it’s ok that I’ve posted a Thank You. 🥰 When I posted asking for help during End of Trail, @Boggus Deal #64218 and @Cpt Dan Blodgett, SASS #75655 responded! Many others stopped by to see if they could help - many of the Arizona Rangers and Match Officials did as well. ! Thank you all, too! Boggus Deal and Captain Dan’s son, Dan, who we named “Lt. Dan”, were so very helpful. I have known Boggus Deal for a long time. Boggus Deal’s help was priceless - securing/opening the tent with the winds howling as well as with projects I didn’t have time for and for which Tommy didn’t have the eyes… We met “Lt Dan” on Sunday before the match started when he came by with his Dad to meet us and figure out a schedule. He was a wee bit shy and said he didn’t know the cowboy game but that he’d do his best to help everyone who stopped by. OMG! By the end of the week, “Lt Dan” was gunning for “Employee of Week”. He learned all about the products, spoke to customers - “we offer a lot of products but bullets and powder are our bread and butter”. 🤣🥰. There were times I sat back and watched! Boggus and I were laughing with each other saying, “I thought he said he was shy”! Thank you guys so much! You made the week SUCH FUN, gave me the chance to shoot the match, not fret over Tommy, and enjoy ourselves. Thank you to this community for the outpouring of concern, prayers, love and kindness for Tommy. You announced yourselves since he can’t recognize faces and didn’t make it awkward. We all have battles that we are facing - and ours is fully public now…Tommy is more private than I and was a little unsure how things would go…it was a busy week, we were tired but boy, we felt some love. With all the hugs and love I possess! Scarlett Tommy Boggus Deal, Lt Dan (in FULL cowboy gear) and me Oh, 2200 lbs of lead came on a pallet. Lt Dan was moving so fast Boggus had to ask him to slow down! 😂 Boggus Deal and Tommy securing the tent for the night with the desert winds was no small feat.

Okay, these are just too pretty, I have to share. I picked up today an almost new Cimarron 7th Cavalry to go with the one I've had for 5 years. Cimarron's black powder frames are still 4-clickers. Both are Company I. Sgt. Drydock gave me a price I couldn't refuse! The rig was made by my friend Drew of Lone Star Leather - he was the keyboard player in my band in the 80's and got me started in CAS in the late 90's. I usually carry the longer barrels butt forward. I've said it before, but I do so love charcoal blue.

Cowboy stage writing brevity came into widespread use about 10 - 15 years ago. It started out with, "Stop writing stories - no one cares and it takes too long." And while I think the loss of this part of the game has diminished the experience - perhaps there was some credence to the criticism. But then it became, we already have stage conventions; we don't need to direct the shooter to do (or not do) certain things - it's understood. And today we find ourselves taking shortcuts, using shorthand and terms, "At the ready", "In hand(s)" that have zero meaning to a new or casual shooter and are meaningless to anyone outside our game. Online electrons are free and ink is cheap. How about a return to simply telling the shooter what we want them to do? Communication is a two way process that requires not only a conveyance of information; but a corresponding understanding by the recipient. When terms are so ambiguous that a group of experienced shooters cannot agree on their meaning - nothing is gained in brevity and there is an extreme likelihood of inconsistent application posse to posse. Stage writers are not saving any time writing incomplete and unclear stages that must be then explained and walked thru. The average American reads about 200 words a minute. Adding 20 words to the stage description to ensure clarity and CONSISTENCY shooter to shooter and posse to posse only adds SIX seconds to the stage read through; but provides a much better experience to your shooters. Here's a simple one. What does this sentence mean? "Shooter starts with Rifle, at the ready" A. SASS Default? Because no explicit hand, body or posture instruction was provided? B. Hovering over rifle on table? Because it's understood, in the absence of instruction otherwise, that we are not touching gun or ammo? C. Rifle shouldered and aimed? Because if I'm "at the ready" - Shouldn't I be ready? Bonus follow up - if the line is "Shooter starts with pistols, at the ready" Is your above answer the same? We had THREE very experienced, knowledgeable, long term club officers and match directors discussing this very thing - and we did NOT all agree. So you have to wonder what the OTHER posse settled on. But if the stage writer had written out their specific desire for the starting position - added perhaps, 10, 20 words (3-6 seconds of reading) - no questions - no debate. It is time for the pendulum to swing back a little - use your words, fully communicate your intentions and let your shooters know your expectations. It will make for a better, more consistent and ultimately a more enjoyable match. And it might actually make your posses flow faster as there will be less time spent on what ifs and legal wrangling. And if we can avoid all the debate - we might even decide there's opportunity for a story from time to time.

Just got these in today. Excellent workmanship. Very fair price. Fast service (about a month! Thanks Dan!

Hello all. There will be a stage sponsored in memory of Major Art Tillery at Comancheria Days 2025. We’ve been given permission to leave flowers at the base of his sign for anyone who is wishing to. I know many of us weren’t able to make his memorial service when he passed. Hope to see y’all out there. - Medicine Creek Kid

IMHO, the guns to "buy once, cry once" are - Rifle: Uberti 1873 - Revolvers: Ruger Vaquero's or Bisley's - Shotgun: CZ Sharptail or a non-worn out SKB or Browning BSS. All with action work and modifications. 'Buy Once, Cry Once Equipment". Holsters: Mernickle HP1 Starter kit which includes everything you'll need. Cart: Rugged Gear - easy to push around. Or a quality wood cart. Reloading: Dillon Precision Press or Hornady Lock-N-Load Progressive Costume: Jeans, button up long sleeve shirt and SASS approved boots. You'll want a hat with a brim to keep the hot brass from the 1873 going down your shirt. Many here can testify to that. Build you costume after you spent a little time in the game and build your own persona. Minimal or maximum costuming is purely a personal choice. Hope this helps.

Some of you may have seen this thread about my retirement posted in the SASS Saloon back in May of this year. I am now Retired !!! - SASS Wire Saloon - SASS Wire Forum (sassnet.com) There I mention that I was going to shoot the Wisconsin and Mississippi State Championships and they would be my 22nd and 23rd different States to shoot CAS. Well I also shot the Missouri State and it was my 24th state to shoot CAS. I went to update my map in the Tread How Many States Have You Shot COWBOY In? - SASS Wire - SASS Wire Forum (sassnet.com) and found it has been achieved, so I decided to make a new thread about my CAS travels. Here is a map showing the States I have now shot Cowboy Action. I finished 4th Senior Classic Cowboy at Mississippi and here is a photo showing the SCCs and the lone Classic Cowgirl. I finished 2nd Classic Cowboy at Wisconsin but no CC group photo. I finished 3rd Classic Cowboy at Missouri and here is a photo showing the CCs (except for one) and the lone Classic Cowgirl. My traveling to shooting matches across the country started long before I started Cowboy Action Shooting in 2003. I started shooting NRA Rifle Metallic Silhouette in 1983 and Pistol Metallic Silhouette in 1989, disciplines included Smallbore Rifle (2 types), Highpower Rifle (2 types), Air rifle (3 types), Cowboy Lever Action Rifle (3 types), Hunter Pistol (4 types), and Air Pistol (2 types). I shot Silhouette National Championships of some kind every year from 1985 – 2008. By the time CAS took over most of my shooting by 2008 I had shot in 11 different States. I first saw something about Cowboy Action Shooting around 2000/2001 when the NRA put a photo of Holly Terror on the front cover of the Competitions Magazine they were publishing at the time and it had an article inside about SASS. In October 2001 I shot the NRA High Power Rifle National Championships at the Ben Avery Range in Arizona and after it was over I went over and watched my first SASS/CAS match. Then in 2002 as a Silhouette Director I was working a Texas State Rifle Association booth at an event and started talking about Cowboy Action with Brazos Ace one of our new CAS Directors. (I ran Texas State Silhouette Championships from 2001-2006) He invited me out to a ranch in Glen Rose Texas he managed and I shot my first cowboy guns off a table at his range. The hook was set. When we finished he asked me if I was going to sell all my silhouette guns and buy cowboy guns and I told him no, but I was going to buy some cowboy guns. I visited some CAS matches in 2002/2003 at the Lone Star Frontier Shooting Club near Cleburne TX and the Comanche Valley Vigilantes near Glen Rose TX. I joined both clubs in 2003 and also joined SASS as a Life Member and then attended the Southwest Regional “Showdown at Buck Creek” as a spectator that same year in the fall. Over two days there I purchased from vendors 2 Ruger Vaqueros in .38, a Marlin 1894 in .38 and a 12 gauge Norinco 1897, a Kirkpatrick Long Hunter Rig and an Evil Roy shotgun belt, two shirts, and a gun cart. (I have since sold the two .38 vaqueros and the ER belt but still have all the rest) I shot a new shooter match at LSFSC shortly thereafter and then l looked on the SASS Wire for places to shoot - for the next 6 weekends in a row I shot a Cowboy Action match. My first away match was at the Bar 3, Saturday was a Cops and Cowboy match and Sunday was a Cowboy match. Guess you could say I was definitely HOOKED! Oh, how many of you remember when the SASS Rule Book looked like this? In September 2004 I shot my first big match, The Southwest Regional “Showdown at Buck Creek”, (by then I had purchased all new guns and was shooting Classic Cowboy) then in 2005 shot the Louisiana State Match and End of Trail at Founders Ranch New Mexico (the first after moving to that location). Here is a copy of my Posse photo from the SW Regional that has the correct month and days but the previous wrong year listed. I started working at Texas Woman’s University in 2004 (remember I started this thread referring to my retirement from there after 20 years) and whenever I traveled for work I tried to see where I could shoot a cowboy match on the trip. I posted the following threads about some of those trips (sorry the photo bucket links no longer work): August 2014 Texan shoots steel in California - SASS Wire - SASS Wire Forum (sassnet.com) November 2014 Texan shoots steel in Florida - SASS Wire - SASS Wire Forum (sassnet.com) July 2016 Texan Shoots Steel in Tennessee - SASS Wire - SASS Wire Forum (sassnet.com) I never posted the thread on Black Gold as referenced in the Tennessee thread and it appears I lost those photos along with a bunch of older ones some time ago due to a computer virus. So now back to my future travels – I will be headed to the Northeast August/September and have entered the upcoming State Championships for Michigan, Maine and New York. They will be my 25th, 26th and 27th different States to shoot CAS. Match confirmations have been received, ammo is loaded, accommodation reservations are made and my sight-seeing places between matches are picked out. I am looking forward to shooting at these matches and meeting some new folks. If you will be at any of these matches please seek me out and introduce yourself. I will update this thread after this next trip and post a new map and some photos. Still have quite a few more States I have not shot CAS in yet, so if you have any suggestions after looking at the map please post those suggestions. While I was at the Wisconsin State Championship someone there suggested that I make the North Dakota/South Dakota combined State Championship. I will plan to do that but it will only get me the one state it is held in, so it would be nice if I could shoot in the other state the weekend before or after that championship. Here is a list of the states I have shot Cowboy Action along with the clubs and dates: (I will update this list as I add states and post new maps) States & Clubs I have Shot Cowboy Action - Cowtown Scout 7/28/2024 Club Name – underlined and Italic indicates no longer a club at that location Arkansas Mountain Valley Vigilantes (Hot Springs) Annual/Shooting in the Shade, 2007, 2008 & 2009 Judge Parkers Marshals (Fort Smith) Arkansas State, 2021 Arizona Tombstone Ghost Riders (Tombstone) Dammit Gang Dooley Gang Showdown, 2008 Los Vaqueros (Tombstone) Monthly on way to Winter Range, Multiple Years Arizona Territory Company of Rough Riders (Ben Avery/Peoria) National Championship/Winter Range, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Arizona Territory Company of Rough Riders (Ben Avery/Peoria) World Championship/End of Trail, 2022 California Cajon Cowboys (San Bernardino) Monthly 2014 The Cowboys (Norco) Monthly 2014 Colorado Windy Gap Regulators (Cortez) Annual/Revenge, 2017, 2018 Florida Okeechobee Marshals (Sebastian) Monthly, 2014 Weewahootee Vigilance Committee (Orlando) Monthly, 2014 Illinois Illowa Irregulars (Milan) Monthly on way to EOT in Indiana, 2021 Indiana Paradise Pass Regulators (Etna Green) World Championship/End of Trail, 2021 Iowa Fort Des Moines Rangers (Indianola) Iowa State/Classic Cowboy Showdown, 2021 Kansas Free State Rangers (Parker) Annual/Classic Cowboy Showdown, 2020 Butterfield Gulch Gang (Chapman) Annual/Classic Cowboy Showdown, 2019, 2022 (Kansas State), 2024 Kentucky Ponderosa Pines Posse (Manchester) Annual / Black Gold, 2016 Louisiana Cypress Creek Cowboys (Calhoun) Louisiana State, 2005, 2006 Maryland Thurmont Rangers (Manchester) Monthly, 2023 Minnesota Cedar Valley Vigilantes (Morristown) Gunsmoke/Minnesota State, 2010 Mississippi Mississippi River Rangers (Byhalia) Mississippi State, 2024 Missouri Butterfield Trail Cowboys (Walnut Shade) Missouri State, 2024 Montana Montana Territory Peacemakers (Billings) Monthly, 2023 New Mexico Lincoln County Regulators (Ruidoso) on way to EOT NM, Once Lost River Cowboys (Roswell) on way to EOT NM, Once Seven River Regulators (Carlsbad) on way to EOT NM, Once SASS Founders Ranch (Edgewood) World Championship/End of Trail, 2005, 06, 07, 08, 09, 2018 SASS Founders Ranch (Edgewood) 4 Corners Regional, 2007 Nevada Eldorado Cowboys (Bolder City) Nevada State, 2009 North Carolina Gunpowder Creek Regulators (Lenoir) Monthly, 2010 Old North State Posse (Salisbury) Monthly, 2009 Oklahoma Indian Territory (Sand Springs) Oklahoma State, 2007 Shortgrass Rangers (Grandfield) New Year’s Day Shoot, Twice Oklahoma Territory Marshals (Arcadia) Land Run, several times pre-2015 Oklahoma Territory Marshals (Arcadia) Southwest Regional/Red Dirt Rampage, 2015, 2016, 2017 Oklahoma Territory Marshals (Arcadia) National Championship/Land Run, 2022 Red River Valley Cowpokes (Albany) New Year’s Day Shoot, Once Tennessee Memphis Gunslingers (Lakeland) Monthly, 2016 West Virginia Cowboy Action Shooting Sports (Great Cacapon) West Virginia State, 2023 Wisconsin Rock River Regulators (Beloit) Wisconsin State, 2024 Texas Alamo Area Moderators (San Antonio) Monthly, Once Badlands Bar 3 (English) Monthly, Southwest Regional, Annual/Comin At Cha, 2003 - 2014 Butterfield Trail Regulators (Abilene) Monthly, Annual 2003 - 2007 Buck Creek Bandoleros (Nemo) Monthly, 2007 Canadian River Regulators (Clarendon) Monthly, on way to EOT NM, Twice Comanche Valley Vigilantes (Nemo/Glen Rose) Monthly, Southwest Regional, 2003 - 2006 Comanche Valley Vigilantes (Cleburne) Monthly, Southwest Regional, Texas State, 2007 - 2023 Cottonwood Creek Cowboys (Snyder) Monthly on way to EOT NM, Once El Vaqueros (Breckenridge) Monthly 2003 - 2005 Gruesome Gulch Gang (Plainview) Monthly on way to EOT NM, Once Highplains Highwaymen (Pampa) Annual/Battle of Adobe Walls - Classic Cowboy Showdown, 2023 Lone Star Frontier Shooting Club, Monthly, Annual/Round Up, BP State, Texas State, 2003 - 2024 Oakwood Outlaws (Oakwood) Monthly, Annual/Jail Break, Texas State, TSRA State, 2003 - 2014 Old Fort Parker Patriots (Groesbeck) Monthly, Annual/Defend the Fort, TSRA & BP State, 2007 - 2024 Plumb Creek Carriage & Shooting Society (Lockhart) Annual, 2010 Plumb Creek Shooting Society (Lockhart) Texas State, 2013, 2015 San Antonio Rough Riders (San Antonio) TSRA State, 2005 Tejas Caballeros (Austin) Monthly, Once Tejas Caballeros (Blanco) Annual/Whoopin, 2021 Tejas Pistoleros (Eagle Lake) Monthly, Once Texican Rangers (Fredericksburg) Annual/Comancheria Days, Texas State, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2018 Texas Historical Shootist Society (Columbus) TSRA State, Once Texas Peacemaker (Tyler) Monthly, Once Texas Troublemakers (Brownsboro) Monthly, Twice Texas Ten Horns (Greenville) Monthly, Three Times Texas Ten Horns (Leonard) Monthly, Annual/The Great Spaghetti Western, 2016 - 2023 Tin Star Texans (Fredericksburg) Annual/Resurrection, 2007 If you made it through the listing here are a some photos of buckles, badges, pins and programs I have amassed over my time shooting CAS 2003-2024.

Let's address this as simply as possible: I can't wear cowboy boots because I have limited movement in my ankle and it also swells so if I do get them on I can't get them off. I've been wearing normal leather steel toed lace up work boots all my life. The wearing of boots is ONLY a required component within the costume requirement categories. B-Western & Classic Cowboy. The "Old West" was filled with many, many people who wore other types of footwear all the way to some that did not wear shoes at all. Shooters at todays matches emulate the attire and look of all the various factions. Your "work boots" are perfectly legal within ALL categories excepting the aforementioned costuming required categories. The Match Director also has the ability to modify requirements for medical exceptions. Are overalls legal? Yes, again, not every person rode a horse or wore a badge. Unless a category specifically denies overalls - they are legal. (and I don't believe any categories do - tho I could see the B-Western crowd raising their eyebrows 😌) It also looks to shoot gunfighter you can only have a 50s Hollywood western buscadero rig? Any SASS legal holster and belt set up is legal within Gunfighter (shooters cannot draw simultaneously if they are utilizing a dual crossdraw rig). Buscadero rigs are legal within every category excepting Classic Cowboy (a costuming requirement category). B-Western (a costuming requirement category - which "may" shoot Gunfighter Style) is required to wear a rig which places the butt of the pistol below belt level. My second revolver would be a borrowed Ruger with sights because of stupid Canadian gun laws. Kind of looks like I can't shoot gunfighter because of the sights. Just to clarify sights - "Adjustable Sights" are illegal in Gunfighter. So, assuming the borrowed Ruger is a Blackhawk - then yes, that firearm (unless modified) would not be legal in Gunfighter. Again, a Match Director can make equipment exceptions as well. If you were just getting started and told me you wanted to shoot Gunfighter (at local monthly level matches) but were limited to Blackhawks, "I" would likely allow it with the caveat that you could not win Gunfighter and that you were planning on acquiring the legal firearms when possible. I would not allow it at any match level above a monthly.

“Let’s slow down the fast shooters” slows down everyone else exponentially.

Shooter already has the "P" for engaging shotgun targets "out of order". No need for the TO to compound the penalty by directing "... the shooter to stop and at the center table and fire a shotgun round downrange." IMO...grounds for reshoot based on RO "impeding the progress of the shooter". (REF: SHB p.21 / RO1 p.10)

8 days after surgery i was cleared with no restrictions. I shot Fire and ice the next day with good results except for a trifecta. 4 days later At EOT I was 1 of 35 shooters with a clean match. It's been awhile since I shot a clean match and now I know why! I had the left eye today and hopefully with the same results. Matt black was lucky I only had 1 good eye. Lol Hells Comin

A very good mate made me a custom holster, took out Wild Bunch yesterday (I think I was lucky that none of the young guns turned up for the match )

1) turn on TV 2) open a beer 3) find a western show 4) drink beer & watch 5) convince myself I'm faster now

We ask for the SASS # to verify active SASS membership, not gender. The vote is restricted to active SASS members only. Misty

As I’m sure you know there are different types of difficulty. Small and far targets put a premium on accuracy. Big and close put a premium on running guns at speed with consistency. Track meets put a premium on fitness and youth, etc. etc. Different folks prefer different challenges. I like a mix, but if I’m going to get a steady diet of only one kind I’ll take big and close over small and far every time. The only type I’m not particularly patient with are the ‘let’s try something new’ folks who come up with bizarre stages because they think that will make middle of the pack shooters more competitive with top shooters when it actually only widens the gap.

"As written" in th OP: Shooter's apparent awareness of the "safe conditions for movement" and immediate action to remedy the situation = a NO CALL (as noted by some of the replies above).

I think it's fair to say that people want some degree of predictability in the matches they sign up for. I also think it's fair to say that you can't please everybody and Match Directors are well advised to remember that they're in the entertainment business and if matches are not entertaining attendance will decline. I've seen it more than once. Someone takes over a match and starts writing stages and placing targets the way they want them, but NOT the way the majority of their shooters prefer. Then a few years later they're scratching their heads and wondering why their attendance is in single digits. I don't think the idea that championship matches should be harder than typical matches is valid. The difficulty comes from who else is signed up since everyone is shooting the same match. I'll be shooting six state matches this spring and I already have a pretty good idea which ones will be difficult to place in the top ten and which ones will be difficult to place in the top twenty and it has pretty much ZERO to do with target size, distance or shooting sequences and everything to do with who else will be there. So intentionally making a match 'difficult' through really long distances or really tough sequences is only going to irritate a segment of the middle of the pack and lower shooters who are denied the chance to get in personal best times or to walk away with a clean match. Mix it up folks. Give the shooter some speed runs, give them some 'challenge' stages, give them some that are in the middle of those two extremes. If matches are built that way there ends up being at least some stages that will appeal to pretty much every shooter there. Unless you prefer the Henry Ford attitude of folks can have any color car they want as long as it's black. *Matches like Bordertown are an exception to that. Everyone knows what they're going to get there, so if you don't like big and close you shouldn't have signed up.

Costumes aren’t just about dressy dresses…Sallon Girls Matter Too

During the shooting of "To Have and Have Not" in 1944, a tragedy struck the set that most never even heard about. One of the lighting crew members received a phone call during a break that shattered his world. His wife had been killed in a car crash back home. The man collapsed onto the floor of the Warner Bros. lot, cradled by colleagues who tried to comfort him in silence. In the midst of the chaos of filming and production schedules, very few paused to think about what would happen to his two young children now suddenly without a mother. Humphrey Bogart, the film's lead actor, quietly stepped away from the set later that day. Without drawing any attention, he called his personal assistant and gave instructions. The funeral arrangements were to be handled discreetly and covered in full, including casket, transportation, burial, and service. He told his assistant to never mention his name to the family. A few hours later, he spoke privately to a friend in casting, asking for help arranging temporary child care for the grieving crewman’s kids until more permanent arrangements could be found. What stood out was not that he helped, but how he did it. No producer, no fellow actor, not even the director Howard Hawks ever learned about it at the time. Bogart returned to set the next morning as though nothing had happened, performing his scenes opposite Lauren Bacall with his usual calm precision. He never asked if anyone noticed, and no one realized what he had done. Over the next several years, long after the shoot had wrapped and the crew had scattered across different studios, something extraordinary happened behind closed doors. Every month, a check arrived at the lighting technician’s home, enough to cover food, clothing, schoolbooks, and later, college application fees. The envelopes had no return address, and the bank routing was impossible to trace back to any personal account. Only after the technician passed away in the early 1970s did his children, now adults, open a locked box in his study and find a letter with Humphrey Bogart’s name signed at the bottom. In it, he had written, “What you gave to the film helped me shine on screen. What I can give your family will never repay that, but I hope it eases your days a little.” This was not a one-time act. According to a former Warner Bros. accountant who spoke anonymously decades later, Bogart often gave private financial support to the families of set builders, assistants, and drivers who faced hardships. He preferred working-class people who never made the front page but made the movies possible. Lauren Bacall once hinted at this side of him in a rare quote: “People saw Bogie as tough, maybe a little cold. But he carried burdens no one saw, gave love where no one looked. He’d take care of a man’s family, pay the doctor bills for a sick mother, and never ask for thanks. He did it because he believed that was what decent people did, even if the world didn’t care.” During the filming of "The Big Sleep" in 1946, a grip whose wife had tuberculosis received a quiet visit from a nurse who offered home care, completely paid for. She never said who sent her. The crew guessed, but no one said anything aloud. It was understood that Bogart was doing something again, and speaking it aloud felt like disrespecting the silence he chose. Humphrey Bogart’s image was built on hard edges, dry wit, and trench coat cool. But the real man, the one who watched over the quietest workers on set, carried a heart so heavy with loyalty that it spoke most loudly when it said nothing at all. He never wanted his name attached to those acts. But the families remember. And the lives that moved forward because of those silent kindnesses carry his signature far more meaningfully than any role ever could. In a world built on credits and headlines, his finest roles unfolded in shadows where no applause could reach.

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I hope Fannie and Green Eyed Gypsy come on here and post some pictures of their phenomenal costumes Here’s my favorite. It was made by Aspen Filly.

Leave the instructions alone. That DQ had nothing to do with the instructions.

THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT TO DO ANY KIND OF “DANCE” WHEN SHOOTING FROM A CROSSDRAW!! If you wear your rig correctly and position yourself properly, you can safely shoot crossdraw without any sort of gyration!!

By the time I got my stuff together, Sportsmans Warehouse was out of stock. They had the 30" version, but I couldn't see cutting off the barrel and losing the perfectly good choke tubes. Didn't want to do online order and pay shipping and pay an FFL transfer fee, so I waited patiently. Then, the most unlikely store in my area, Modern Warriors, (which deals in high end AR's and 1911's and such) had one, and only one, in stock. I went there and found it was still in the box, they never put it on display. now it's mine.

Just found out that my oldest son got promoted to Colonel in the Marine Corps in November 2024. Line them up Bottles.

My cousin is playing with family pictures in an AI editing program. This is my paternal grandfather and grandmother, the original J-Bar and his wife Annie, on their wedding day in Decatur, Texas, in 1896. He died 9 years before I was born, and I remember her as an old bedridden woman. I prefer remembering them like this. Whatever else AI does, I think this is nice. vu3cixzeckdvvuh.MP4

Evil Roy Named Emeritus Member of Team Vihtavuori | Shooting Wire

Jace the Ace is now two time Buckaroo World Champion! It has been my great pleasure to watch him growing from a boy into a young man. He will be an influence for good in whatever he chooses to do with his life. Congratulations from your biggest admirer!

Other fans as well as the players should not have to listen to such extreme rudeness. Lifetime bans should be imposed not only on this jerk but on those who use continuously use foul language and/or drink themselves into a stupor. I would like to take kids and grandkids to a ball park without having them listen to such trash. Want to curse and get drunk? Do it at home while watching a game on TV. Manners are important when in public.

I think lines are part of the fun of the game and this is supposed to be fun. That being said, whatever the shooter does to indicate ready is fine with me. Whenever someone asks what the line is, I always respond, "Seamus is my hero". I've had quite a few say it.

Out of the clear blue sky I got an email from an LGS that the Henry .327/.32 Mag was available. I had not seen any for quite a while. We have all read the opinions on the wire of the Henry for SASS competition so I decided what the heck I will see if they are true. I had just completed a complete tune-up on a new Ruger Marlin so I could do a direct comparison. Not enough space here or probably enough interest for a full Chronicle article so here is a BRIEF summary. The overall fit and finish is very good. It functioned OK stock but like all new untuned guns was very stiff and clunky and something I would not shoot in competition. I noticed there were at least two big differences from the older Henry's to the current production models. The firing pin (the old was two piece, the new one piece) and the extractor. The Henry also has a firing pin block and a transfer bar. The Marlin does not. The new Henry looks like a miniature Marlin 336. The trigger pull was odd. It broke at six pounds but felt much heavier. It was like pulling against a solid wall. The trigger did not cleanly break. Just after a while of pulling the trigger the hammer would unexpectedly fall. The trigger felt dead. I have boxes of springs and parts so I replaced or removed the following parts. (These are not great photos. I did not set up any lights and just shot them freehand.) I took an old Uberti firing pin extension and turned it down to the OD of the firing pin. Bored a hole in it and then cut off and pressed a section on the back of the firing pin to convert it from transfer bar (which is now gone) to direct impact by the hammer. As noted the trigger felt odd. When you pull the trigger it is pressing up on the sear. However on the other side of the trigger there is a link that is pushing up on the transfer bar. This makes the opposite end of the transfer bar rocker push down on the sear spring so you are pushing and pulling at the same time. Finding a replacement for this spring was somewhat of a challenge since it is curved in its movement and fits tightly on a stud on the sear to keep it in place. After a bit of searching I finally hit the proper combination of spring tension and ID. This trigger mechanism is completely different than the Marlin. After looking at it I decided to make no changes that would keep me from reinstalling the original parts and returning the gun to stock. Videos of disasembly and reassembly of the receiver show a simple process of simply shoving the hammer screw through the receiver. I do not know if they have changed between the older and newer versions but it was a PITA trying to get that scew back in place. A regular screw has the thread diamenter the same as the shank diameter as shown on the screw on the right. The screw in the gun is a shoulder screw like the one on the left. That shoulder kept hanging up on the transfer bar rocker. It took me quite a while to figure out how to reach a probe up into the receiver to align the rocker. (You can't use a slave pin because of the step in the shoulder screw.) One other big difference between the Marlin and the Henry is the trigger guard and trigger placement. With the Marlin I have impaled or bitten my finger a few times. I have had no contact with the Henry trigger. Henry on the bottom. Also notice the new style extractor. The older Henry .327s had a completely different extractor. OK so how does it work? Quite frankly I am astonished. The trigger pull is now down to three pounds with a clean break. It levers smoothly and lightly. I have fired ten matches with it and it has not had a jam and can be run as fast as the Marlin. The only bobbles I have had have been a couple of ejected live rounds. Shooter error as the gun levers different from the 73s I am use to. I am switching over to .32s as I am having a harder time with gun weight. These steel Henry's seem to be in short supply as they dried up locally shortly after I bought this one. There are brass framed ones still listed at different distributors. BUT, the steel frame weights 6 3/4 pounds. The brass model weighs two pounds MORE so that one is not a consideration. I only want to carry one type of ammo so I use the same ammo in the pistol and this rifle. I will see how its long term durability is but right now I am very satisfied with the rifle after the tune-up. There are parts I removed that I would not remove on a hunting rifle and I made sure I did not make any changes that cannot be reversed and the original parts reinstalled. Can YOU do this? I don't know.

I married my Ellie (Candy) Please excuse the picture of a picture our neighbor took! "Happy Anniversary my Horg"

I bought these black and silver Ruger Bisley grips from Beartrap here in the classifieds and today I got around to customizing them for my 44-40 Bisleys with octagon barrels. I use buttons similar to these as hole covers on the gun carts that I built. The ones on the gun carts are 21mm and these are 15 mm. I use Forstner bits to drill the holes. A 16mm is a bit to large and the 15 a bit to snug but a little sanding or whetstoning gives a very good fit without much work. The epoxy is not quite dry so in the morning I’ll mount them on the guns and post another picture. These grip panels had the Ruger bird medallions and the hole that they were in was way too small for these buffalo buttons to fit. I built a small clamping jig to hold the grip panels in the proper location because without anything to guide the center tip of the Forstner bit it tended to dance around. Anyway I think they turned out pretty good and not that hard to do.

I just received my Birdseye maple box from Yul Lose. All I can say is "AMAZING." The new Nighthawk Custom 38 Super fits perfectly. He said he used a new dovetail joint and she is never coming apart. Perfect addition to my nightstand. JB

I couldn't resist this. It's a 2' outside diameter with an 8" bullseye and 4" rings. The plates are all 3/8" AR500 and move independently. Found it at the gun show in Ft. Worth for $575, they knocked off $50 for cash. Was able to wedge it into the back seat of a Honda Accord for the trip home to Minnesota. Probably weighs 75 - 100 pounds.

cowboy ( ACTION ) shooting! Not gotcha or bullseye shooting.

If both revolvers are SHOT LAST on a stage,the shooting string and the stage end with the last shot fired. Tabling one revolver before drawing the other in the middle of the shooting string is NOT a procedural. REF: SECTION 9 – GLOSSARY OF TERMS pp.43-44 BOTH revolvers will eventually be HOLSTERED by the shooter in order to take them to the unloading table. NO.

Howdy JEDI Creeker. I don't have a comment on match difficulty vs simplicity, but I do agree with Capt BB. But personally speaking, it ain't the match that is befitting a Championship but rather the competition that makes it a worthy event. And as we know, the big matches usually brings out some of the top shooters from everywhere. ...........Widder