Matthew Duncan Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 Seems just like yesterday I started shooting as a Forty-niner and now as Elder Statesman.
Randy Saint Eagle, SASS # 64903 Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 10 minutes ago, Matthew Duncan said: Seems just like yesterday I started shooting as a Forty-niner and now as Elder Statesman. Agreed, I started 3 weeks before I turned 52 (49r) and now I’m an Elder Statesman Duelist. Randy
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 I started when I was 49 as a duelist now I’m a Cattle Baron ( with no cattle)
Reverend P. Babcock Chase Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 Howdy Old Timers, Since I started years ago I've always shot Classic Cowboy. It's not an age-based category, but after all these years I'm starting a new category: Jurassic Cowboy. Rev. Chase
Eyesa Horg Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 44 minutes ago, Matthew Duncan said: Seems just like yesterday I started shooting as a Forty-niner and now as Elder Statesman. Me too! Elder Statesman this May! Feels like I just blew right thru 49r and the Seniors.
Choctaw Jack Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 I'll make the change to Elder Statesman at the end of this month. The problem is that all those guys I couldn't outrun before will be moving up also. Choctaw
Hells Comin Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 50 minutes ago, Choctaw Jack said: I'll make the change to Elder Statesman at the end of this month. The problem is that all those guys I couldn't outrun before will be moving up also. Choctaw Welcome to the Elder statesmen category.
Captain Bill Burt Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 I started as a Wrangler and am already a Senior, which is hard to believe.
Wrangler Bob Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 I started as a Cattle Baron, moved to El Patron and now I'm an El Rey. My how time flies!
Cypress Sun Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 I started as Modern, now I'm a Senior...talk about time flying!.
Santa Fe River Stan,36999L Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 Started as Traditional and I have just a few years left in 49r.
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 53 minutes ago, Wrangler Bob said: I started as a Cattle Baron, moved to El Patron and now I'm an El Rey. My how time flies! Good for you! I have all the respect in the world for you sir ! Keep shootin’
Zeb Gray, #36839 Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 Started as a 49'r & now a Cattle Baron. Funny thing is I'm still competing in category with the same fast shooters.
Blackwater 53393 Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 I originally shot in the “Modern” category back when you had to mail in your application and wait for return mail to receive your SASS number and approved alias!! I switched to 49er when Modern was eliminated and shortly afterward, I went Frontier Cartridge and then Frontiersman. Nowadays, I just shoot whatever suits me on that day and Elder Statesman crept up on me last year!!
Marauder SASS #13056 Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 When I started I was traditional & Duelist. That was before the 49ner category and before Gunfighter, as I think of it. There was only a couple seniors shooting with a group of 50! Now I'm Cattle Baron and remember shooting with a young whipper-snapper named Santa Fe River Stan.
largo casey #19191 Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 Hey CHOCTAW I'm waiting for ya. Largo
Ben Scalped Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 Started as a Senior and in just a flash I’m an El Patron
Reverend P. Babcock Chase Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 Howdy (again) Old Timers, The hell of this game is that about the time all those years of shooting should be paying off in better times we start losing our eye sight, start getting bound up with arthritis, get a little shaky, the boots start hurting our feet, our transitions become somewhat glacial and our memory fails to retain the stage instructions. About the only thing I find I have gotten better at is cussing. Rev. Chase.
watab kid Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 cant agree more with that sentiment , i also started as a 49er and im now an elder statesman , ive always shot age based because i didnt have time to learn any others back then , i just wanted to participate , never regretted it and wont probably change at this age
Cheatin Charlie Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 18 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: I started when I was 49 as a duelist now I’m a Cattle Baron ( with no cattle) Hay Rye me too this year I can shoot Cattle Baron Duelist-Frontiersman-Frontier Cartridge duelist. What a smorgasbord of categories! I cannot shoot 2 handed my hands do not play well together.
Captain Bill Burt Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 16 hours ago, Santa Fe River Stan,36999L said: Started as Traditional and I have just a few years left in 49r. You feel free to stay in 49er as long as you like Stan. Senior is much too slow and boring for you. I’m sure you wouldn’t like it nearly as much as 49er…
Silver Creek Jack Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 Started as a senior and now in my second year as an elder statesmen and lovin’ every minute of it!
Flat Top Okie Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 Jack, What are doing up this early? Flat Top
Choctaw Jack Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 15 hours ago, largo casey #19191 said: Hey CHOCTAW I'm waiting for ya. Largo I'm comin' Largo! Slowly but surely!
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 12, 2024 Posted January 12, 2024 On 1/11/2024 at 7:02 AM, Cheatin Charlie said: Hay Rye me too this year I can shoot Cattle Baron Duelist-Frontiersman-Frontier Cartridge duelist. What a smorgasbord of categories! I cannot shoot 2 handed my hands do not play well together. Welcome to the almighty Cattle Baron category. I keep a gun around with snap caps and practice two handed. It works ! I’m now pretty comfortable shooting squaw gripper I’m not sure about that CBDFFCD though!
Waimea Posted January 13, 2024 Posted January 13, 2024 I'd have to go into the vaults but I could bring out the picture I have of Lucky Jake holding Santa Fe River Stan as a baby.
Jackrabbit Joe #414 Posted January 13, 2024 Posted January 13, 2024 On 1/10/2024 at 12:51 PM, Wrangler Bob said: I started as a Cattle Baron, moved to El Patron and now I'm an El Rey. My how time flies! Yep Ron we have made it over the years my friend. Started SASS in February 1988 as a modern category and now I'm in the El Rey category. Time flies fast yep, when you're having fun.
Jackrabbit Joe #414 Posted January 13, 2024 Posted January 13, 2024 I remember one year signing up when I shot the Elder Statesman category there was 86 of us that year. There was one year that I got a DQ in that category but don't recall what occurred. lots of fun over the years. Gotta love being a cowboy. Waaaa, Haa.
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted January 28, 2024 Posted January 28, 2024 I started as a Classic Cowboy, hot weather (For me) meant a move to Duelist, so I could wear a lighter straw hat, then Senior Duelist and now El Patron. Don't like that. I think in this age of Wokeness, I'm going to declare myself a Buckarette and see how that goes!
John Kloehr Posted January 28, 2024 Posted January 28, 2024 43 minutes ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: I think in this age of Wokeness, I'm going to declare myself a Buckarette and see how that goes! As long as you are OK sitting down to pee.
Brandon A Bovine SASS 27688 Posted January 28, 2024 Posted January 28, 2024 I'll be turning Elder Statesman after August the ninth, just hope to keep going. Still as much fun as it ever has been.
Hells Comin Posted January 29, 2024 Posted January 29, 2024 6 hours ago, John Kloehr said: As long as you are OK sitting down to pee. I looked high and low, but I couldn't find that rule in the shooters hand book what page is it on and will there be someone doing an inspection to made sure Cold like kid adheres to this rule.
watab kid Posted January 29, 2024 Posted January 29, 2024 7 hours ago, John Kloehr said: As long as you are OK sitting down to pee. some might need to - ive escaped that so far , but who knows what life might deal us , i got your point tho , and i agree , have thought to start counting backwards on birthdays tho , wonder how far id get ? seems it creeps up when your not looking yet we all get the pleasure , or not ,
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