Slow Mo Dern

Thursday weather report for Niles, Ohio! This just in! It might rain! I know it's hard to believe; it usually rains on Friday.....but It won't be raining indoors! Come on over to Niles! It's the Thursday Work-Shirker Open Class CAS Match! Shoot any style you want! Have some fun and leave the lawn mowing for another day! You and your hardware can stay high and dry inside the Clubhouse Shootin' Shack! See you Thursday!

Hi Double Pipe, That's a good price on the Cimarron. Where I live in Northeastern Ohio, local gun merchants want over $500. You should buy it 'cause it's an inexpensive fun gun and when you get tired of it; sell it to a cowboy shooter at a reasonable price! I use one all the time in the winter. It's good to use a different gun once in a while! Buy it as a starter gun for CAS; the price is right! Mo

Hello, Shifty Bob! Welcome to SASS and welcome to Cowboy Action! If you have an 1873, use a lead 125 grain Truncated Cone (TC) bullet. It will feed really well. I get mine from Bullets by Scarlett. Use .357 Starline brass cases in your rifle and use 4.2 grains of Trail Boss. The same load of Trail Boss will work with 158 grain RNFP or 125 grain TC bullets. The same load of Trail Boss will work in .357 cases or 38 Special cases. .357 cases work well in my Uberti 1873 I bought from Cody at the Cowboy Shop. Use your 158 grain RNFP in your pistols and try some lighter truncated cone bullets for your rifle. I hope this helps. All the best, Slow Mo Dern

It’s the end of the Indoor Cowboy Action season and we have one more match indoors on Thursday April 25, 2019! It’s the Thursday Work-Shirker Open Class CAS Match with the Lake Park Raiders! Thursday April 25, 2019! Indoors at Niles, Ohio! Doors open at 9:00 am! Lead down range at about 10:00 am. after the Pledge of Allegiance, Shooter’s Welcome, and a brief safety meeting! If you would like to come early to help set up tables; you would be welcome! Five fun-filled indoor stages to put us all in a “goodly state of merriment!” Fresh Coffee and Donuts in the morning! No lunch will be available but there are vending machines for sodas and snacks! Bring all your Cowboy guns! 12 gauge and 20 gauge shotgun ammo will be provided by the club! This is our last match of the Indoor CAS season in Niles, Ohio. We will start our Outdoor CAS season at Brookfield in May. Visitors and spectators are always welcome! Wear your safety glasses and hearing protection! I hope to see you there! Slow Mo Dern Visit us at: http://shenangoriverrats.wixsite.com/sass

Hi Rube, I like Bullets by Scarlett. Cowboy Action bullets are her thing and she is a shooter. I like her. I hope this helps. All the best, Mo

Prayers and thoughts up for Hungry Holler, from all of us River Rats and Raiders!

J-Bar is right! Copy the best and learn the good habits! After that; stay flexible so you can handle any situation that comes up! Gunfighter is one of the most fun and fastest way to shoot! You will amaze all your friends! All the best, Mo

Indoor CAS in Niles, Ohio! Saturday April 13, 2019! Thank you for your support! A good time was had by all! Thanks to everyone who came out to Niles for some indoor cowboy shooting fun! First place went to Swiftwater Jack! Congratulations, Jack! Second place went to Fast Mo Dern and Low Plains Drifter came in third! Hagen, our fourth place winner, won both the Colt Gold Inlay pocket knife and the super-snazzy wooden treasure box! Congratulations to everyone! Our next match is our Thursday Work-Shirker Open Class Match on April 25, 2019! It’s the last indoor match of the winter season! Thursday April 25, 2019! I hope to see you there! Visit us at: http://shenangoriverrats.wixsite.com/sass All the best and Happy Easter, Slow Mo Dern

Weather report for Niles, Ohio! High of 64! Mostly cloudy all day... Black Powder aficionado Jocko might drop by to go smokeless! That's the rumor! This means there won't be any clouds in the building! Willy says you can finish in first place with no clouds to obstruct yer vision!

Howdy, Gray Drifter, Welcome to Cowboy Action and SASS! Three things: Buy good stuff from the start, hats, holsters, and rifles etc. You can buy cheap stuff but you'll end up buying the good stuff eventually anyway. Learn to reload your own ammunition as soon as possible. You have to or you'll go broke. 38 special is a good place to start. Read the handbooks and ask questions. There is a ton of stuff in the handbooks that will always come up at a match when you least expect it. I hope this helps. All the best, Mo

Hi T.J., Sorry to hear you and Mrs. Lawdog are sick! We hope you get well real soon! We'll see you at the Work-Shirker April 25th! Take care, Mo

Thanks for the kind wishes, Jack! If you don't come shoot this match, I might get a shot at first place! Be safe out there! All the best, Mo

Indoor CAS in Niles, Ohio! Saturday April 13, 2019! Come out to the Western Reserve Fish and Game Club in Niles, Ohio! Saturday April 13, 2019! Indoor Cowboy Action with the Lake Park Raiders! Doors open at 9:00 am and the match will start at 10:00 am after the Pledge of Allegiance, shooter’s welcome, and safety meeting. Coffee and Donuts will be available! Five fun-filled stages and scenarios of fast and furious paper punching! We’ll shoot 3 stages, take a brief intermission, and shoot the last 2 stages! No lunch will be available but there will be vending machines for snacks or you can bring your own snacks. Bring all the Cowboy Guns! Rifles, pistols, and shotguns! 12 gauge and 20 gauge shotgun ammo will be provided by the club! This is our second-to-last indoor match in Niles before we move back to Yankee Flats, the outdoor cowboy range at the Brookfield Conservation Club. Shenango Joe will give away a Colt Gold Inlay Knife at the end of the match. You must be there to win! “Are you feelin’ lucky, pard?” We hope to see you there! Visitors and spectators are always welcome. Any cowboys who would come early to help set up tables and such would be welcome too! See you soon, Slow Mo Dern Visit us at: http://shenangoriverrats.wixsite.com/sass

Hi MG, We use the SASS Wire as soon as we know of the cancellation. We encourage everyone to read "the wire" on a regular basis so they will know if there is a cancellation. We also send a message to everyone on the mailing list ASAP. There are still folks that don't get the message no matter how hard you try to reach them. What Bubba said sounds like a pretty good idea. Mo

Congratulations! Two of the finest people I know! All the best, Mo