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Come on folks I need your input and comments to keep these SASS Family threads going.

Quick Chick works so hard keeping everything going for everyone - it’s a wonder that she is able to find time to shoot at all. She has done a lot of shooting and hunting her entire life so it wasn’t hard to transition to CAS. She shoots in the Lady Duelist category, which is a great match for her long fingers/thumbs (all the kids inherited them too). She has won her category for State once, Regionals 3 times (once in Gunfighter shooting Double Duelist), nationals once, and World twice. She has won the speed events at Nationals 5 times, and World 4 times, mostly for Pump Shotgun, Duelist, and Gunfighter (shooting Double Duelist). Chicken George doesn’t get enough credit. He provides for the family in so many ways. He’s the one that makes the actual shooting part possible for the entire family! He’s the fix-it and do-it-all guy. The one who continually encourages and supports the family. He spends so much time working on, fixing, and cleaning all the guns. He spends countless hours checking ammo, one by one, for any imperfection that could possibly cause a problem. He’s the one that holds everything together at a match. If a problem arises, he’s the first one there to help out. He has a lot of weight on his shoulders, and yet, somehow, he still manages to shoot amazingly well. He almost always shoots a clean match and just won the Wild Bunch pistol speed event at EOT. Without Chicken George, none of this would be possible

D Stroyer is 19 years old and started shooting CAS at age 12. He likes to shoot a variety of guns and events. In addition to the cowboy main match, he also enjoys shooting Wild Bunch, Long Range, and when he can, Cowboy Clays. He is a people person and really loves the social aspect of CAS, seeing old friends and making new ones. He currently shoots in the Duelist category. He has won his category for State once, Regionals 3 times, Nationals twice, and World once.

You should meet them in real life, they really make an impression.

Gut C Gunman is 17 years old and started shooting CAS right after he turned 10. He has usually been able to beat out his two brothers. He quickly became well known for his 97 shotgun speed. Shortly after turning 12, he won the Men’s Pump Shotgun Speed event at Winter Range. He really enjoys the speed events, especially when they allow multiple attempts. He has won speed events at Nationals 10 times and at World 7 times. He has won his category once at State and 3 times each for Regionals, Nationals, and World. He also currently holds a Pistol world record and 3 Shotgun world records. He was also the overall winner at Bordertown this last year.

Skrap P is 14 years old and started shooting CAS at age 7. He really wanted to shoot but his Dad wasn’t sure he was big enough. Will Two-Gun Adams let him try a 97 shotgun with a heavy factory load. It almost knocked him down and the gun almost came completely out of his hands. Everyone was worried about him, but he had the biggest smile on his face and yelled, “I want to do that again”! From then on he has never turned down an opportunity to shoot with any gun. He would shoot all day everyday if he could. A week before Land Run this last year, he cut his left thumb almost completely off. In the emergency room, the main thing on his mind was figuring out how he could still shoot the match. A great surgeon was able to reconnect the tendon and one of the arteries, but told Skrap P that he absolutely couldn’t shoot. He had to skip out on the main match, but he did sneak his sister’s revolvers and holsters and shot the speed duelist event and won. After 3 months of physical therapy, he was allowed to shoot again at this last EOT. He bounced back well and won his category in Wild Bunch, placing 6th overall. He ended up 17th overall in the main match and won 4 speed events. It’s always been tough, usually competing in the same category as his brother, but he usually places well overall. He has been 3rd overall at Bordertown twice and 4th overall at Regionals, all as a buckaroo. He has won his category at State once, Regionals twice, and World with Wild Bunch. He has won 4 National speed events, 8 World speed events, and currently holds the Duelist and Gunfighter world record.

Sweet K Oss is 12 and started shooting CAS at age 7. She loves shooting and dressing up as a cowgirl. She enjoys the cowboy match and has won her category at State once (as a Junior Girl), Regionals 3 times, and World once. She placed in the Ladies top 16 at EOT this year. She has also won 4 National speed events. In addition, she recently started shooting Wild Bunch. At EOT this year, she placed 2nd in the Junior Wild Bunch category (after Skrap P) and ended up 3rd in the Ladies WB top gun shoot off. She also won the Ladies Wild Bunch Shotgun speed event. She is excited to put her new world champion buckle on a new belt that Skrap P promised to make her if she won.

Lil Miss B Haven is 8 and started shooting CAS at 6 years old. She recently had to change her alias by adding the “Lil” due to a mix-up at the SASS office. She is ambidextrous and shoots her left pistol with her left hand and right pistol with her right hand. She enjoys dressing up with her sister and entering the costume contests. She won her category at State this last year and impressed everyone at the Lollipop shoot. She was a crack shot with her Widder Henry 22 and ended up second out of all the ladies.

In early 2017, Chicken George and his 3 boys, D Stroyer (12), Gut C Gunman (10), and Skrap P (7), started trying out CAS with their good friend and seasoned CAS shooter, Will Two-Gun Adams. The boys’ first match was End of Trail, shooting with borrowed guns (45 colts and a 12 g). Later that year they acquired a set of guns and the boys shot the NM state match. Gut C Gunman won his category. Chicken George just supported them and didn’t shoot anything real until Winter Range the following year. Quick Chick joined in late 2018, shooting Bordertown. Sweet K Oss was 7 for her first match, Winter Range 2019. Lil Miss B Haven started with Four Corners Regional 2022, at 6 years old. They usually just shoot for Regional, National, World and Bordertown. They don’t compete on Sundays so they haven’t been able to shoot at their State championship until last year when they were allowed to shoot through. They all won their category there, except Gut C Gunman, who moved up to Cowboy for that match so Skrap P didn’t have to compete with him. As a family of seven they love being able to shoot together, but it definitely doesn’t come without a lot of challenges. They all share guns, mostly three shooters per gun(s). To save costs, they made their own shotgun belts, and they work together to cast and coat all their bullets. Then Skrap P sizes them, D Stroyer loads the pistol and rifle ammo, Gut C Gunman loads the shotgun shells, and Chicken George thoroughly checks everything. Just loading ammo for a major match takes several weeks. At this last EOT, they took over 8000 rounds for 3 Wild Bunch shooters, warm up, speed events and the main match. When Skrap P and Sweet K Oss made it to the Wild Bunch Top Gun Shoot-off, they actually had to borrow ammo because they didn’t have enough.

Shooting Bull did a lot of costuming work to fit the part, even gained some weight to fill out the costume. There were shooters dressed as Toy Story characters too and some that were dressed in Steam Punk garb. I believe Shooting Bull dressed as Sheriff Woody last year and I saw a couple of folks dressed that way this year. Would this costume pass for proper costuming? She’s got the hat and the boots.

Very nice looking family, Buckshot Bear, it looks like you have a great time at matches.

The Dale Gang currently has 7 members with another starting to shoot next year. They shoot with the Woodstock Regulators and the Southern Regulators. The Dale Gang consists of: Buckshot Bear, grandfather Jenorado, grandmother Red Justice, eldest son Lady Mercy, daughter in law Young Maverick, grandson Tommy Two Guns, younger son Gemstone, daughter in law Their shooting irons consist of 8 Ruger New Vaqueros, 2 Ruger Wranglers, 4 Uberti 1873’s, 1 Winchester 9422, 3 Stoeger shotguns, and 2CZ hammered doubles and a Bond Arms derringer all in .38 caliber with the SG’s being 12 gauge. The Wranglers and Winchester in.22 of course. They shoot 3 weekends a month CAS and Wild Bunch and IPSC on occasion. Buckshot Bear is the reloader on a Dillon 650 set up for .38 caliber. With my marginal internet and his marginal internet down there he wasn’t able to send the pictures so he’s going to load them on the thread as replies.

See now that’s the kind of stuff I’m after, layin bare all his faults like that makes you wonder why Shootin Sharyn even puts up with him. These kinda family secrets keep these threads going.

See, Widder, this is why I want folks like you to chime in on these family threads. All you pards that shoot with them need to tell some stories about em, good or bad, true or not so true, TW ought to have a bunch of them in the latter catergory..

Iron Cowboy shot his first match in 2012 at the age of 7 years old! He used the Ruger Single Six .22’s and Youth Henry .22 and no SG, a year later he moved up to the 12 gauge SKB and at his first State match, the Georgia State match he was a shot away from a clean match. Since then he’s won numerous state matches. In 2023 he won Overall at the Alabama State match.

Kid Lizzie started CAS at the same time Kid Flash did using the same guns and not shooting a shotgun. She doesn’t shoot nearly as much as the rest of the family and is instead concentrating on academics, wants to be class Valedictorian, the Captain and his wife ought to be pretty proud of that endeavor.

Kid Flash started shooting in 2018 using Ruger Single Six .22’s and a youth model Henry .22, sans shotgun and just took the misses, a couple of years later he moved up to the 12 gauge SKB shotgun. Now that he’s a Young Gun he’s picked up a few State Titles and is constantly improving.

Captain Bill Burt the leader. Kid Flash.

Shootin Sharyn mother of the Burt 3 with an impressive CAS resume of her own.

The five member Burt family has really made a mark on the Cowboy Action Shooting scene. Captain Bill Burt started CAS in 2011 with the North Alabama Regulators and joined the Mule Camp Cowboys soon after. Shootin Sharyn his wife joined him for a short time and then dropped out for awhile and started CAS again a few years later and has since won several Georgia State titles. Captain Bill Burt has won four Georgia State Championships. In 2022 four out of the five of them won Georgia State Championships. Four of them traveled to EOT in Indiana in 2021 and 2 of them buckled, pretty nice accomplishment. With a family of 5 shooting, prepping for even a monthly match is no small endeavor and state and above matches really become monumental endeavors, look at these numbers for the Tennessee State match: 2 gun carts, one heavily overloaded 2,000 rounds 38/32 2 cases shotgun shells 20 guns, 10 Rugers, 5 Uberti 1873’s, 5 SKB SxS’s 17 loading blocks 5 gunbelt and holster rigs Clothes and cold weather gear for 5 lube and tools for guns And don’t forget the dog He reloads on a Dillon 650 and a Ponsness Warren 800+ shotshell press.

Yep, that was it, thank you.

Half a Hand Henri had shoes on at this years EOT, I’d never seen her wear shoes to a match before. I asked why she was wearing them and I believe it was a category requirement, I can’t remember.

One of the things that I noticed and a lot of EOT attendees noticed this year was the increase in younger participants. There were a bunch of young people there, young from my saddle was 20ish and younger. I’ve heard different numbers and all of them were over 40!!!! I got to visit with some of the families of those kids and I posted pictures and I have to tell you they are a great bunch of kids. So what I want to do is create a thread on each family using information supplied by the parents with their support to tell the stories of these young men and women and how they came to be involved in Cowboy Action Shooting. I’m already getting feedback and some of the numbers are staggering in the number of firearms needed, gun carts, leather, and ammunition and on and on, it’s not a low cost endeavor by any stretch of the imagination, especially now days. To make this work I’d like to have all of you that know these individuals and families and have posseed with them tell about your experiences with them. Share some stories and help celebrate them playing the game that we all love. All you families with kids playing our game who would like to get the story out PM me and we’ll connect and I’ll give you my email address and get things started. I’d like to post action pictures so I’ll need those and I’d like you family members to join in also and keep the threads alive, maybe with current updates and match happenings. If you’ve got a story to tell about your kids or grandkids that have become adults let’s post those stories too. What do you think? Here are a couple of pictures of families that are going to help me get this started. The Chicken George family of shooters and the Mesquite Jenkins family of shooters.

A first morning video that I couldn’t load. IMG_1409.mov

The weather was great. Last year it rained one day and was fairly muddy. I used 2 tanks of propane last year running the fire pit. This year maybe a half tank, we usually shut it off by 8:00 and last year a couple of days we ran it the entire day. The buffalo coat was usually off by 8:00 too, last year I wore it til lots later in the morning or early afternoon. I don’t recall much about the first year but I don’t remember any rain.