Fun Friday Videos

One of my all time favorite commercials. Leave it to those Canadians to make some of the funniest commercials.

WILD BUNCH HANDBOOK - UPDATED

Just posted the Third Revision of the Wild Bunch Handbook. It is under the rules tab of the Wild Bunch Web Site and also under Handbooks on the SASS Web Page.
Or download it here http://www.sassnet.com/Downloads/RO/SASSWBHandbook_OCTOBER_2010_final.pdf

MANY MANY thanks to the Wild Bunch Committee that help put this together.
Enjoy

Wild Bunch Forum Now Open For Business

Welcome to the "Hottest Game" around, SASS Wild Bunch Action Shooting. It is a combination of SASS Cowboy Action Shooting and Action Shooting with with 1911 Pistols. The sport uses 1911 Pistols, Lever Action Rifles, and 1897 Pump Shotguns. Range set-up is comparable to a normal Cowboy Action Shooting Match but a bit more challenging.

The Wild Bunch Web Site has now expanded to include a Wild Bunch Forum. This Forum is dedicated to all things Wild Bunch. From Rules to Reloading and where to go for the next match in your area. So drop by and say hello.

2010 ELECTION ALERT

2010 ELECTION ALERT . . . Next week's elections at both the state and federal levels will have an impact on the firearms industry and law-abiding gun owners. NSSF urges voters to make every effort possible to cast their ballot on Tuesday, Nov. 2, for candidates that support firearms and hunting freedoms, especially since many races are extremely close. Get up to speed on the elections through NSSF's Voter Education webpage, which will offer daily updates all the way up to Election Day. Don't forget, if you are traveling on business, be sure to obtain an absentee ballot or take advantage of early voting if it is offered in your state.

Reprint from NSFS Bullet Points

Fun Friday Videos

Although, this is a fun video it takes a poke at a very serious subject, Breast Cancer. Please support Breast Cancer Awareness and the Susan G. Komen Fund For The Cure not only in October but all year long.

True Grit - Continued

Sometimes you just can't get enough. Here is a better trailer of True Grit due to be released on Christmas Day this year, also with a few more stills. Enjoy

TRUE GRIT - 2010

In case you have not heard True Grit will be released Christmas Day 2010. It will be our Christmas present from Joel and Ethan Coen, the film makers that gave us Fargo, and No Country for Old Men.

The movie stars Academy Award winning actor Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn and Hailee Steinfield as Mattie Ross and also includes Mat Damon as La Boeuf and Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney. The movie is said to be closer to the original novel by Charles Portis than the John Wayne move.

Although there is no replacing the Duke,I for one think Jeff Bridges will do a great job. It will be interesting to see what the Coen brother will give us as they seem to never disappoint.

Here are the movie trailers form the original 1969 version and the 2010 version.

2nd Annual Cops and Cowboy Match at Founders Ranch

Fun was had by all at the Second Annual Cops and Cowboy Match at Founders Ranch, hosted by the Buffalo Range Riders.

Click Here For Over All Scores - Click Here For Scores By Category

Below: The Winners: From L to R: 1st Place Cowboy: Mica McGuire, 1st Place Cop: Jared Milinazzo (APD Junior Rangers), 2nd Place Cowboy: English Lyn, 2nd Place Cop: Fermin Ortega (DOE), 3rd Place Cowboy: Crazy Kurt, 3rd Place Cop: Doug Day (DOE)



Posse 1



Posse 2



Sorry we did not get a picture of Posse 3

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Holiday Gift Baskets - New in Mercantile

SASS has a new line of Holiday Gift Baskets just in time for the Holiday Season. You will find these baskets just the think for that special person that is hard to shop for.

“Rotgut Renegade” Retail: $39.99

Description
If you’re looking for a fun and unusual gift, this is it! Includes the book Rotgut Rustlers- Whiskey, Women and Wild Times of the Old West with a beautiful SASS Hip Flask companion. Nicely arranged in a western style basket with décor, this basket makes a perfect gift for Cowboys and Cowgirls alike!





“Treats for the Trail” Retail: $19.99

Description
Regardless of the Trail that lies ahead, this basket has great sweet treats for the ride! Including Wild West Cookies, Wild West Taffy, and Wild West Peanut Brittle, all nicely arranged in a western style basket with décor, this basket makes a perfect gift for Cowboys and Cowgirls alike!



“Deluxe Gift Membership” Retail: $79.99

Description
All of the goodies and benefits of a one year Basic Membership paired with a beautiful Leather badge holder in your choice of Natural, Black, or Brown. Beautifully arranged in a western style basket with décor, this is truly a GIFT of Membership!*Not available for Junior Gift Memberships.




“Cowgirl Care Basket” Retail: $39.99

Description
Designed especially for the Cowgirls. Includes a beautifully embroidered SASS Hand towel along with fabulously scented custom body products made especially for SASS® by Body Bueno®.
Includes: (1) 8 oz. Bottle of Cactus Rose Shimmer Body Lotion-To help you keep that campfire glow all the way down the trail. (1) 8 oz. Bottle of Trail Dust-B-Gone Bubble Bath, and 1 bar of Rustlin’ Rose bar Soap- just what you need to sweeten that Saturday night bath!
All these great items arranged in a beautiful keepsake tin make this basket a perfect gift for all the Cowgirls in your life.


“Cowboy Care Basket” Retail: $39.99

Description
Cowboys like Bubbles TOO! Designed especially for the Cowboys in your life, this basket includes a beautifully embroidered SASS Hand towel along with cowboy friendly scented custom body products made especially for SASS® Cowboys by Body Bueno®.
Includes: (1) 8 oz. Bottle of Cowboy Carousin’ Body Wash-Experience Cowboy Cleansing Action and 1 bar of Cowboy Carousin’ Shave Soap-no proper Carousin’ can be had, after all, without a proper shave!
All these great items arranged in a beautiful keepsake tin make this basket a perfect gift for all the Cowboys in your life.


“Carousin’ Accoutrements” Retail: $39.99

Description
This great gift basket has everything needed for a night of Carousin’ done proper. Including 2 Belle Union Saloon or Gem Saloon glass beer mugs, Belle Union or End of Trail Playing Cards, a set of 4 collectible SASS Poker Chips, and Wild West Peanut Brittle. These fun items make a great gift and are carefully arranged in a western style gift basket with décor.

Fun Friday Video

Here are a couple of videos I found on the web. You have to watch the first, which is the live interview with a person that witnessed a robbery and the second is what creative people can do with video. Enjoy

New Books Added to SASS Mercantile

For all you book lovers out there we have a new lineup of books in the SASS mercantile. Below is a description. I am sure you will find on that you will enjoy.

The Young Duke, The early life of John Wayne
by Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss, Hardcover, SKU# B00067-TYD, $22.95

By the time Stagecoach made John Wayne a silver-screen star in 1939, the thirty one year old was already a veteran of more than sixty films, having twirled six guns, tossed rope, busted broncos, and foiled cattle rustlers in B westerns for five different studios over the course of a dozen years. By the 1950s he was Hollywood’s most popular male actor-an Academy Award nominee destined to become an American Icon.
Through previously unpublished photographs and revealing family anecdotes, THE YOUNG DUKE tells how Marion Morrison became the legend known as John Wayne-from his boyhood in Winterset, Iowa, to his days as a college football star, to his stunning box-office success in Westerns and war movies in the 1930s and 1940s. Shedding new light on Wayne’s formative years and early Hollywood roles and influences, this biography reveals the true stories behind the screen legend’s public and private lives.


Rotgut Rustlers, Whiskey, Women, and Wild Times In The West
Edited by Erin Turner, Softcover, SKU# B00066-ROT, $16.95

Twenty-five true tales of a still-wild West from the late 1800’s to the mid 20th Century.
Rotgut Rustlers takes us on a fascinating tour of an often overlooked era of the West, a span of more than half a century from the late 1800s to the 1940s-from a period when vast reaches of the frontier were still lawless, into and beyond the Prohibition years, which were a boon not only to Chicago mobsters but to bootleggers from the Mississippi to the Pacific. IT brings together twenty-five true stories about the wild outlaws and wild towns of the West during these years-stories about bank and stagecoach robbers, cattle rustlers, smugglers, counterfeiters, gamblers, racketeers, bootleggers, and crooked politicians.


Wild Women & Tricky Ladies, Rodeo Cowgirls, Trick Riders, and Other Performing Women Who Made the West Wilder
By Jill Charlotte Stanford, Soft cover, SKU#B00065-TRK, $12.95

A richly illustrated, sassy look at rodeo cowgirls of the past and present.
Wild Women and Tricky Ladies celebrates the female trick riders and other performers who have been a part of Wild West shows, races, rodeos, and fairs since the 1800s right up to the present day. On the heels of her successful The Cowgirl’s Cookbook, cowgirl author Jill Charlotte Stanford showcases the lives and philosophies of the women of the rodeo arena.


Cowgirls, Stories of Trick riders, sharp shooters, and untamed Women
Edited by Erin Turner, SKU# B00064-CWG, $12.95

True Tales of a dozen women who helped tame the Wild West- and helped make America what it is today.
The fiercely independent, untamed women of the old West-the cowgirl-seems to most people a topic more of fiction than real fact. But the West was indeed populated with strong-willed women who worked and played as men did in the saddles of their favorite bucking broncos-women whose sacrifices, hard work, and can-do attitude helped build a nation. Cowgirls celebrates this previously overlooked aspect of the Western experience by bringing together their stories, including their own thoughts about being cowgirls.



Myths and Mysteries of the Old West
By Michael Rutter, softcover, SKU# B00063-MMW, $10.95

Fact versus Fiction in the Old West. In an age before twenty-four-hour news coverage, before law and order came into vogue, dime novels and casually written newspaper stories fueled the legends of the Old West. The real people who filled the vast Western landscape became the romantic folk heroes-or villains-of the era, among them Billy the Kid, George Armstrong Custer, and Sitting Bull. Myths and Mysteries of the Old West retells their tales with a witty brand of honesty about “truths” as elusive as vapors.
Were Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid truly shot down in South America, or did they live to a ripe old age, with or without wild woman Etta Place? Did the Gold Rush really start with a fortuitous accident? Did Calamity Jane in fact marry and have a baby with Wild Bill Hickok, and did he really kill one hundred men? Did buffalo hunter Billy Dixon shoot a man dead from a mile away?
“We love a good story more than a slavish adherence to facts,”writes author Michael Rutter. “The sin, apparently, isn’t stretching the truth, but telling a bad story.”


Jesse James, The best writings on the Notorious Outlaw and His Gang
Edited by Harold Dellinger, Softcover, SKU# B000-62-JJB, $16.95

Jesse James. Hero or Villian? Robin Hood or Coldblooded Killer?
From his early days as a Civil War guerilla to his untimely death at the hands of “that dirty little coward” Robert Ford, few figures in American folklore have captured the imagination quite like Jesse James. In these pages, noted James authority Harold Dellinger sifts through the hundreds of published articles and book about James to painstakingly create a compelling collage of character, and extraordinary, multifaceted portrait fo one of history’s most infamous outlaws.


Billy the Kid, The Best Writings on the Infamous Outlaw
By Harold Dellinger, Softcover, SKU# B00061-BTK, $16.95

An essential compilation of the most captivating and historically important writings about one of American history’s most notorious badmen.
Since his death in 1881, Henry McCarty- aka William Bonney, alias Billy the Kid-has been the subject of thousands of published volumes, most of them unavailable to the general public. In movies, stage plays, short stories, novels, newspaper articles, poems, and songs, literally hundreds of authors have been drawn to explore his near mythical persona.
This collection makes the best of this work accessible. An artfully arranged anthology, Billy the Kid: The Best Writings on the Infamous Outlaw includes rare excerpts from the Kid’s canon. Together, these pieces of fiction, biography, and personal essay yield a compelling collage of character-and are an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in the myths and the realities of one of America’s most fascinating historical figures.


The Pony Express, An Illustrated History
By C.W. Guthrie with photographs by Bart Smith, softcover, SKU# B000-60-PE1, $19.95

A Celebration of the Sesquicentennial of the Short-lived, but Much Celebrated Pony Express.
“Orphans preferred” was the call that went out to the daring of heart when the Pony Express was organized in April 1860. Called “The Greatest Enterprise of Modern Times,” the endeavor recruited young men willing to risk life and limb in a relay race that crossed the frontier, speeding the delivery of mail to an astonishing ten days. For a brief time in American History- the nineteen months between April 1860 and November 1861-intrepid souls crossed nearly 2,000 miles of plains, deserts, and mountains on fast horses in less than half the time ever recorded for such a feat.
The Pony Express combines the legends and lore of this remarkable mail service with contemporary photography, archival images, and documents from the past, celebrating the 150th anniversary of those daring rides that ended with the completion of the transcontinental railroad.

COSTUME CONTESTS AT THE 9TH ANNUAL SASS CONVENTION

If you are planning on coming to the SASS Convention the costume contest may be just up your alley. Here is what it is all about.

By Cat Ballou, SASS #55

SASS costuming creates both the environment and shared attitude that sets the tone for camaraderie unequaled in other shooting events. In fact, costuming has evolved into an art form of its own. Some SASS members enjoy the costuming aspect of our sport as much or even more than the shooting! 

 The Tombstone Ball provides SASS the opportunity to conduct an outstanding Formal Wear Contest. This formal Ball sets the standards for costuming. And, the Saloon Night Costume Contest creates an atmosphere of fun and frivolity for participants attired as Classic Cowboys and Cowgirls, Saloon Girls, and B-Western/Silver Screen heroes and heroines. 



This year’s costume events will be organized and managed by Fannie Kikinshoot, Lady LaSalle, Green Eyed Gypsy and Shotglass. We are excited about their taking charge of the responsibilities of the contests. 



The Convention’s Costume Contests are sponsored for the 9th year by our good friends—Wild West Mercantile of Mesa, Arizona—C. S. Fly and Claudia Feather, Proprietors. We thank them again for their continuing sponsorship.


THE RULES

All costume contest
entrants MUST be registered as Conventioneers. However, there are no entry forms to be turned in to SASS Registration in order to participate. All costume contest entrants will sign in at the appropriate times and dates and present their attire to a panel of judges.


SALOON NIGHT CONTEST

Saloon Night contestants do not have to pre-register. Just show up Thursday, December 9th by 7:30 PM at the Top of the Riv Ballroom, sign in, and present your duds to the judges. Awards from first to
third will be given that evening during a break in the music. Categories are Classic Cowboy, Classic Cowgirl, Saloon Girl, B-Western/Silver Screen Male, and B-Western/Silver Screen Female.


BEST DRESSED CONTEST

You do not have to pre-register to enter the Best Dressed Costume Contest held on Saturday night, December 11th. Just show up in your finest at 5:00 PM at the Capri Range (site of the indoor wax bullet match), sign in, and
present your finery to our panel of judges. Best Dressed categories are Men, Ladies, Couples, and Military. A special themed Tombstone category will also be judged. Contestants will be judged on the following criterion—Authenticity, Originality, and Detail (including hats, gloves, jewelry, and other appropriate accessories). Presentation
is no longer a requirement – it is now an option. Original or “off the rack” clothing is acceptable as long as it is “period correct” and relates to SASS Cowboy Action Shooting™. Please, no Velcro and no
zippers.


At 8:00 PM in the Top of The Riv Ballroom, there will be a promenade of all contestants around the dance floor, either solo or in tandem with their lady/gentlemen (for Couples division). Awards, from
first to third place in each category, will be presented immediately following the promenade.

Be sure to check out and sign up for all the
exciting costume seminars available this year for Ladies and Gents.
Viva Las Vegas!

NRA President, Ron Schmeits, to give Keynote Speech at the SASS Convention.

The Single Action Shooting Society is proud to announce NRA President, Ron Schmeits, will give the opening Keynote Speech at the 9th Annual SASS Convention and Wild West Christmas. Ron Schmeits Keynote Speech will be during Opening Ceremonies of the Convention, on Thursday morning at 8:30 at the Top of the Riv Ballroom.
A New Mexico resident, Schmeits is a NRA Life Member and a Benefactor Member since 2005. In addition, he serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees for the NRA Whittington Center, a 33,300-acre premiere shooting and hunting facility in Raton, New Mexico.

Schmeits is a long time member of the Single Action Shooting Society and is known by SASS members as “Judge Banks”, SASS #40000. He also is a member of the NRA Heritage Society, a committed supporter and sponsor of Friends of NRA, and an active member of a variety of civic groups and community service organizations including Elks and Rotary. A recreational shooter, an advocate of all competitive shooting disciplines and a avid hunter of all species, he is a Life Member of the Whittington Center Gun Club; a Founding Member of the New Mexico Wildlife Foundation, the Amateur Trapshooting Association, Ducks Unlimited, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, MVACA and the Boy Scouts of America’s Philmont Inspection Team.

Long active in politics, Schmeits worked closely with New Mexico’s governor and legislature to pass the Concealed Handgun Carry Act of 2003. He has served on the Governor’s Business Advisory Committee under four different administrations – both Republican and Democrat – and he continues to maintain a personal and professional relationship with Governor Richardson on various issues relating to Second Amendment rights, water distribution, investments and business. He was appointed by the governor to serve as director of the U.S.-Canadian River Compact Commission, which controls water flowage from northeastern New Mexico within the state and into Oklahoma and Texas. From 1976 to 1980, he served as mayor of Jordan, Minnesota.

Schmeits now serves as president, CEO and director of International Bank in Raton, New Mexico; CEO and chairman of the board of International Bank, Trinidad, Colorado; chairman of the board and director of Farmers and Stockmens Bank in Clayton, New Mexico; and vice president and director of Raton Capital Corporation in Raton, New Mexico. He is a past president and current member of the New Mexico Bankers Association, a past president and member of the Raton Chamber of Commerce and director of the University of New Mexico Foundation Finance Committee.

The SASS Convention and Wild West Christmas is a the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas from December 9th to December 12th 2010. Reservations for the Convention and the Riviera by clicking here.

SASS Reaches 90,000 Members!

SASS Reaches 90,000 Members!

The Single Action Shooting Society (SASS), long heralded as “the fastest growing” shooting sport in the world” has reached 90,000 members! This fantasy shooting sport places its members squarely back in the 1880s where Old West costumes are the rule, and its members can strap on their six-guns and help Roy, Gene, and Hoppy make the West safe for God-fearin’ families!

This shooting sport started in Southern California in 1982 with the first END of TRAIL, the World Championship of Cowboy Action Shooting™, and SASS membership has steadily grown ever since. “Today there are over 600 clubs across the country and around the world holding annual and monthly shooting competitions,” said Coyote Calhoun, SASS #201, SASS Marketing Director. “Our competitions are meant to be fun … they’re competitions, of course, we keep score, but we want our competitors coming off the shooting line with a smile on their face—we’re actually in the entertainment business!” he continued.

“We have 10-year-old Buckaroos, 90-year-old Elder Statesmen, moms, wives, and girl friends, as well as cowboys of all ages and shooting styles competing,” said SASS President U.S. Grant, SASS #2. There are over 30 different shooting categories so everyone is competing against their peers … and our members like that!” he said

SASS shooting competitions are reminiscent of scenes right out of the old B-Western movies where one protected the water hole, rescued the rancher’s daughter from the bad guys, or protected the town from the outlaws—and sometimes, the cowboys get to play the bad guys as well! The game requires the use of a pair of six-guns, a lever-action rifle (in pistol caliber), and an old time shotgun. A competitor’s score is determined by how long it takes to finish the scenario with five seconds added for each missed shot … and the targets are big and close!

Contact Misty Moonshine at SASS’ World Headquarters in Edgewood, NM. Telephone: 505-843-1320. Web site: www.sassnet.com.

The Old West in the 21st Century

As SASS members we embrace the “Old West” or at least what we think the Old West was. We wear clothing and use firearms that depict that era. We write stages that tell stories of the romantic “Old West” and watch movies of our silver screen heroes, it was a time when a man’s word was his bond and times were quite simple. Some members are more deeply imbedded in the “Old West” ways more than others but it is their fantasy and that is OK.

But the conveniences of modern life are hard to beat in some cases. Most of us don’t use out-houses any more. You know, they quit printing the Sears and Roebuck’s Catalog so what is the point. We no longer have to ride 40 miles into town to get the news or the latest copy of the “Cowboy Chronicle” it is now delivered right to our door. But even that is not fast enough for some in this day and age, and so an electronic version was created so it would be available on-line or through e-mail. Email? Why, email is almost faster than a lighting bolt but even that is not fast enough now for some folks and so here comes Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and other social networks. Now, I know I am about to loose some of you but Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and other social networks are how the next generation is communicating. It is important for SASS and most SASS members that we bring in younger members. Not only to survive as an organization but we need strong backs to help set stages and move targets.

So, SASS has embraced these forms of communicating. I know this is not for everyone but don’t go “pooh poohing” them unless you have tried them. You can get a message out to all the people you have liked (they have tio like you back) quicker than a sidewinder can strike. SASS began its Facebook Page in March of this year and by and by the end of September we have over 5000 fans or “Likes” as they are now called. That is pretty amazing to me. We have kept members up to date on END of TRAIL, the Buffalo Stampede and the Outlaw Trail. We have even had special offers just for Facebook fans and our numbers are growing. Facebook now has more than 500 million active users as of July 2010, which is about one person for every fourteen in the world. It is not just for kids any more.

We, also, have a Twitter page that is linked to our Facebook page for those folks that prefer sending tweets. If you don’t know, tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page. Twitter now has over 100 million users. The next social network we are embracing is Tube Channel. I think the You Tube Channel will be the most fun. If you are not familiar with You Tube Channels they are somewhat like TV Channels. The page or channel will have videos only pertaining to Cowboy Action Shooting. WHAT FUN! So if you have videos of Cowboy match or top gun shoot-offs contact me about getting them on our channel.

So pull out your iPod, iPad, iPhone, iMac or what ever you own and get connected. If you don’t on a PC then check out the library I am sure they can show you the way. You may even get an Internet ready 48 inch flat screen for the out-house. There are a lot of different ways to connect, but the main thing is to connect.

Links to SASS networks:

Facebook

Twitter

YouTube

SASS Convention - Victorian Tea

In keeping with such fine Victorian offerings at the SASS Convention such as our Yesteryear Ball on Saturday Night we have added to the Convention Schedule a Victorian Tea. Victorian Teas are an elegant and forgotten pastime that will afford you the opportunity to renew your spirit and refresh you mind. It is an opportunity for introductions in to society and or for business arrangements to be made. Please join us at the Top of The Riv and enjoy some light refreshments with a look at the history, the fashions and the pastime of Victorian Teas.

Lady LaSalle, Greeneyed Gypsy, and Shotglass will be you hostesses for this new and exciting event. It will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Tickets can be purchased through the SASS® Convention website or by calling the SASS® Office. Tickets are only $15! This will be the social event of the year and you will want to get your tickets early.

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GUN-OWNER VOTE COULD DECIDE RACES . .

With less than a month to go, many congressional and governor's races are neck and neck. As they have in previous elections, the votes of shooters, hunters and gun owners could make a huge impact at the polls on Nov. 2. Some candidates are publicly seeking support from gun owners, as was the case in Connecticut last week. Republican Tom Foley, who is in a virtual dead heat in the race for governor, issued a letter to sportsmen, promising to "protect the individual's right to legally purchase, own, carry and use firearms." NSSF encourages all gun owners to educate themselves on where their candidates stand on the issues and determine who best will stand up for their rights. To help, NSSF has set up a voter-education webpage with news, polls, profiles of local races and other information related to the upcoming elections. Visit www.nssf.org/VoterEducation.

Thanks to NSSF Bullet Points - On line news service.

10 Love Lessons Learned from Wild West Women

The SASS Convention is proud to have Chris Enss as a seminar presenter this year. Chris Enss is an American author and screenwriter. Enss has written more than 20 books on the subject of women in the Old West, and has collaborated with producer Howard Kazanjian on four books, including two about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

Join Chris for a special seminar entitled “10 Love Lessons Learned from Wild West Women.” Many adventurous frontier women arrived on the other side of romances with words of wisdom on the subject. Others let their lives serve as an example of what to do, or not to do, to win the hearts of that special someone. You won’t want to miss this special seminar with the foremost authority on women in the Old West.

Chris will also be signing her books at the SASS Mercantile on the convention floor Friday evening.

SASS Flag Available In SASS Mercantile

Just a reminder that we have SASS Flags in stock and ready to ship. The flag is a 3’ x 5’ nylon flag with a white background and the SASS Logo in full color.

This is a high quality flag and will hold up to years of flying. The flag is double stitched on 3 sides and stitched 4 times on the waving end for strength. This is the same flag that flew at END of TRAIL this year and it is priced at $14.95.

So buy one for your club and one for yourself. Show every one you are a SASS Cowboy Action Shooter. Click here to order.

SASS Convention - Tombstone Seminars - Jim Dunham

One of our favorite historians, Jim Dunham, will once again be at the SASS Convention presenting seminars. Jim Dunham has spent most of his life pursuing his love of the American West. Although born in Illinois, Dunham grew up influenced by the art of Charles M. Russel, Frederick Remington, and the books of Will James.

Jim was a boy when the Westerns dominated both TV and the movies. As a teenager he was active in the sport of Fast Draw and became accomplished at gun spinning and fancy gun handling. He studied acting and Fine Arts at the University of Colorado and began performing a show about the Gunfighters of the Old West for service clubs and church groups. Jim is employed as the Director of Special Projects.

The theme for the SASS Convention this year is Tombstone, and Jim Dunham is one of the foremost authorities on Tombstone. Jim will be presenting three seminars bases on Tombstone. They are:

“Tombstone—Too Tough to Die,” a riveting presentation on the history of the West’s most famous town from the discovery of silver to the Earps and Clantons.

“The Street Fight Near the OK Corral,” a fun and informative presentation on the origins of the fight, the trial, and The Vendetta Ride.

“The Movies about Tombstone,” an historical cinematic journey through the movies about Tombstone, from the 1931 Law and Order through the 1993 Tombstone and the 1994 Wyatt Earp.

For a complete listing od the SASS Convention Seminars pleas visit our web site:
http://sassnet.com/Convention/seminars.php