OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE TUSCO LONG RIDERS The Shooting Makes It Fun, the People Make It Special. Writer/Editor: Buckaroo Bubba

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Thank you to our very generous Cowboys and Cowgirls, we raised $900 for our Charity! Special Thank You to Life-R and Patriot Casting, as well as Luscious Liza and Ole Saddlebags.

Top 20 1 Mad Dog Max 2 Maverick 3 Billy Badazz 4 Sixgun Seamus 5 Cheyenne Culpepper 6 Rimfire Randi 7 Black Run Butcher 8 Shotgun Chavezz 9 John Barleycorn 10 Life-R 11 Hershey Barr 12

1 TUSCO TIMES OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE TUSCO LONG RIDERS The Shooting Makes It Fun, the People Make It Special November 2014 Writer/Editor: Buckaroo Bubba November 1 st Josey Wales/Charity Match Our shooters sent the shooting season out with a bang. Our Josey Wales/Charity Shoot drew 40 shooters to the range. Thank you to our very generous Cowboys and Cowgirls, we raised $900 for our Charity! Special Thank You to Life-R and Patriot Casting, as well as Luscious Liza and Ole Saddlebags. Welcome to Tusco, Butcher Man, Red Morgan, Running Iron Rudy and JR Bonner! Top 20 1 Mad Dog Max 2 Maverick 3 Billy Badazz 4 Sixgun Seamus 5 Cheyenne Culpepper 6 Rimfire Randi 7 Black Run Butcher 8 Shotgun Chavezz 9 John Barleycorn 10 Life-R 11 Hershey Barr 12 Cheatin Charlie 13 R.S. Dancer 14 Split Rail 15 Phil M. Withlead 16 Dewey Shootem 17 Bdoc 18 Swiss 19 T.J. Reese 20 Raging Thunder Clean Shooters John Barleycorn Mad Dog Max Prairie Dawg R.S. Dancer Raging Thuner Six Gun Seamus Short Gun Shorty Troyer Valley Shootist Happy Thanksgiving See you Next Year In this Issue Next Shoot: January 10 th, 2015 Weather Permitting 1 P a g e

Split Rail Blue Eyed Ben BDOC Running Iron Rudy Meet a Cowboy/Cowgirl Alias/SASS # - Gray Hare How did you

Name Bret Dennis Location Delaware, OH Category Wrangler Caliber - 38 special Occupation Computer geek

on a fire department for the past 26 years. Goal in SASS Meeting people and having fun.

Where do you shoot Anywhere I can, been all over the county, best times ever!

2 Split Rail Blue Eyed Ben BDOC Running Iron Rudy Meet a Cowboy/Cowgirl Alias/SASS # - Gray Hare How did you pick your Alias It s a play on words, but I do dye my hair gray to match my alias. Name Bret Dennis Location Delaware, OH Category Wrangler Caliber - 38 special Occupation Computer geek Hobbies Shooting, Reloading. I am also and NRA & 4H shooting sports instructor. I have been an EMT/ Lt. on a fire department for the past 26 years. Goal in SASS Meeting people and having fun. Opening up a can of wupp ass every once in awhile. Where do you shoot Anywhere I can, been all over the county, best times ever! How long have you been a Cowboy Action Shooter About 15 years Favorite Thing about Cowboy Action Shooting The people, shoot just adds to it. Anything else you d like to add It s a great sport, some of the nicest people I have met. 2 P a g e

3 Tusco News & Notes: Cow boy Sw ap Meet at Monthly Shoots As a reminder, feel free to bring your old Cowboy Gear, Guns and Equipment to sell at our monthly shoots. It s a good opportunity to sell some of your unwanted stuff to your fellow shooters. Your items are your responsibility. Pre-Paid Shoots Looking for that perfect Gift for your Cowboy Friends and Family? How about a Pre-paid Shoot to a Tusco Monthly Match. They cost $10.00 each at a shoot or they can be mailed for $ Contact Buckaroo Bubba at pittfandwr@aol.com or if you would like to purchase them. Wild West Category at Tusco We offer a Wild West Category at Tusco. This is basically an Open Class. Any Guns, Any Style, Any Age. Any SASS Legal Guns and Ammo can be used, including.22 Caliber. This is being offered as an alternative to not shooting at all if you don t have all the proper equipment to fit into a SASS legal category. Winter Shoots Our next shoot will be the 2 nd Saturday in January. Weather permitting. Our winter shoots, January, February and March will be weather permitting. If we have to cancel a shoot it will be done by Friday night 8pm. An will be sent out, posted on the website, SASS Wire and Facebook. For those few of you who I know don t get the computer messages I will call. Feel Free to shoot your.22 Pistols/Rifles at our winter shoots. Also dress warm, cowboy attire is optional. Six Stages We now shoot six stages at Tusco. A few people have told us that they drive a good distance to shoot at Tusco and would like to shoot as much as possible. Obviously we only have room for five shooting bays. So what we do is shoot the first stage you start on twice. Consider it a warm up stage. Only five stages will be scored. You can take your best time on your first stage. If you don t want to shoot it twice you do not have to. This would provide more shooting for our shooters. New Shooters Shoot for Free at Tusco The Tusco Long Riders will be offering FREE SHOOTS to ALL FIRST TIME SHOOTERS AT TUSCO. This is ONLY for a shooter s first ever shoot at Tusco. (*this is only for monthly matches, excluding High Noon 3-day Shoot in October, and the Charity Shoot in November.) Happy Thanksgiving Over the Thanksgiving and Christmas please take time to be thankful for your blessings. Recently one of my best friends passed away after a battle with Cancer. He was 41, Married with Two Young Boys. This time last year he was fine. You just never know when something like that can happen to you. Take time to see all of your blessings, don t sweat the small stuff, enjoy your life and the people around you. Especially while enjoying our sport of Cowboy Action Shooting. If you don t win your class, so what, no one will remember who won your class but will remember all the fun times that were spent at the range. Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to everyone! 3 P a g e

Wild Bill Hickock in 1869 Prairie Dawg's Little-Known Western Facts Wild Bill Hickok Davis Tutt Shootout, Part 2 Although Tutt had humiliated his rival, Hickok's ultimatum essentially forced his hand.

4 Wild Bill Hickock in 1869 Prairie Dawg's Little-Known Western Facts Wild Bill Hickok Davis Tutt Shootout, Part 2 Although Tutt had humiliated his rival, Hickok's ultimatum essentially forced his hand. To go back on his very public boast would make everyone think he was afraid of Hickok, and so long as he intended to stay in Springfield, he could not afford to show cowardice. The next day, he arrived at the town square around 10 a.m. with Hickok's watch openly hanging from his waist pocket. The word quickly spread that Tutt was making good on his pledge to humiliate Hickok, reaching Hickok's own ears within an hour. According to the testimony of Eli Armstrong, which was supported by two other witnesses, John Orr and Oliver Scott, Hickok met Tutt at the square and discussed the terms of the watch's return. Tutt now demanded $45. Armstrong tried to convince Tutt to accept the original $35 and negotiate for the rest later, but Hickok was still adamant that he only owed $25. Tutt then held the watch in front of Hickok and stated he would accept no less than $45. Both then said they didn't want to fight and they went for a drink together. Tutt soon left, however, returning once again to the square, still wearing the watch. At a few minutes before 6 p.m., Hickok was seen calmly approaching the square from the south, his Colt Navy in hand. His armed presence caused the crowd to immediately scatter to the safety of nearby buildings, leaving Tutt alone in the northwestern corner of the square. At a distance of about 75 yards, Hickok stopped, facing Tutt, and called out, "Dave, here I am." He cocked his pistol, holstered it on his hip, and gave a final warning, "Don't you come across here with that watch." Tutt did not reply, but stood with his hand on his pistol. Both men faced each other sideways in the dueling position and hesitated briefly. Then Tutt reached for his pistol. Hickok drew his gun and steadied it on his opposite forearm. The two men fired a single shot each at essentially the same time, according to the reports. Tutt missed, but Hickok's bullet struck Tutt in the left side between the fifth and seventh ribs. Tutt called out, "Boys, I'm killed," ran onto the porch of the local courthouse and back to the street, where he collapsed and died. The next day, a warrant was issued for Hickok's arrest and two days later he was arrested. Bail was initially denied, as is common in murder cases. Hickok eventually posted a bail of $2,000 on the same day, after the magistrate reduced the charge from murder to manslaughter, based on the circumstances. Hickok was arrested 4 P a g e

5 under the name of William Haycocke (the name he had been using in Springfield) for the manslaughter of David Tutt. During the trial, the names were amended to J. B. Hickok and Davis Tutt/Little Dave, "little" being an equivalent to the present day "Junior" to indicate having the same name as the father. Hickok's manslaughter trial began on August 3, 1865 and lasted three days. Twenty-two witnesses from the square testified at the trial. The trial transcripts have been lost, but newspaper reports indicate that Hickok claimed self-defense. The most disputed fact at the trial was who fired first. Only four witnesses actually watched the fight. Two claimed both men fired, but they could not tell who drew first. One said he was standing behind Hickok so he only saw Hickok draw, as his view of Tutt was blocked. Another said Tutt did not fire, but admitted noticing Tutt's gun had a discharged chamber. The other witnesses all stated that while they did not see the shooting, they heard only one shot. Despite Hickok's claim of self-defense being technically invalid under the state law pertaining to "mutual combat" (since he had come to the square armed and expecting to fight), the jury decided that he was justified in shooting Tutt. As Tutt was the initiator of the fight (by taking Hickok's watch) and the first to display overt aggression, and since two witnesses indicated that Tutt was the first to reach for his pistol, the unwritten law dictated that Hickok was justified and subsequently they absolved him of guilt. In fact, Hickok was seen as being honorable for giving Tutt several chances to avoid the conflict instead of shooting him the moment he felt he was shown disrespect. The trial ended in acquittal on August 6, 1865, after the jury deliberated for "an hour or two" before reaching a verdict of not guilty. The verdict was not popular at the time. A prominent Springfield attorney gave a speech to the crowd from the balcony of the court house, denouncing the verdict as "against the evidence and all decency" and there was talk of lynching Hickok. The verdict was expected and well in keeping with the "trail law" of the day. Historian Richard O'Connor, in his 1959 book, "Wild Bill Hickok" stated, "Nothing better described the times than the fact that dangling a watch held as security for a poker debt was widely regarded as a justifiable provocation for resorting to firearms." While Hickok felt humiliated by Tutt wearing the watch, Tutt could also claim the same humiliation if he failed to wear the watch, essentially bowing to Hickok's warning. Due to its notoriety, the gunfight has since received much research and attention. Several weeks after the gunfight, on September 13, 1865, Colonel George Ward Nichols, a writer for Harper's, sought out Hickok and began the interviews that would eventually turn the then-unknown gunfighter into one of the great legends of the Old West. Davis Tutt's body was initially buried in the Springfield City Cemetery. However in M arch 1883, his halfbrother Lewis Tutt, had his body disinterred and reburied in Maple Park Cemetery. 5 P a g e

6 Contact Information Tusco Long Riders 2132 Midvale Mine Rd SE Dennison, OH Tusco Long Riders on Facebook President Buckaroo Bubba Dan Ranker Vice President Prairie Dawg Lou Polsinelli Treasurer Split Rail Tim Watson Secretary T.J. Reese Steve Utter Match Director Muleskinner Mike Legg Territorial Governor D.J. McDraw Dan Westfall Supporting Clubs Blackhand Raiders Nashpost, Ohio Brown Township Regulators Malvern, Ohio Firelands Peacemakers Rochester, Ohio Greene County Cowboys Xenia, Ohio Logan s Ferry Regulators Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Miami Valley Cowboys Piqua, Ohio Ohio Valley Vigilantes Mount Vernon, Ohio River Junction Shootist Society Donegal, Pennsylvania Sandusky County Regulators Gibsonburg, Ohio Scioto Territory Desperados Chillicothe, Ohio Shenango River Rats Masury, Ohio Wild West Point West Point, Ohio 6 P a g e

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OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE TUSCO LONG RIDERS The Shooting Makes It Fun, the People Make It Special. Writer/Editor: Baby Doll Blue

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