TUSCO TIMES OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE TUSCO LONG RIDERS The Shooting Makes It Fun, the People Make It Special August 2014 Writer/Editor: Buckaroo Bubba August 2nd The threat of rain couldn t put a damper on our August shoot at Tusco and the 50 shooters who joined us. Welcome to Tusco, Kit Lewis and Cow Chip, hope you fellas had a great time and join us again. Welcome back Joe Walker, Shotgun Slade, Soot Princess, Tusco Phil, and Graveyard Gus. Congrats to Billy Badazz our Top Overall Shooter and the 9 Clean Shooters on the day, Great Job. Top 20 1 Billy Badazz 2 Cheyenne Culpepper 3 Cheatin Charlie 4 Buckaroo Bubba 5 Maverick 6 Dewey Shootem 7 Rimfire Randi 8 Stone Creek Drifter 9 Captain Henry 10 Swiftwater Jack 11 Bdoc 12 John Barleycorn 13 Mad Dog Max 14 Split Rail Frontiersman 15 Black Run Butcher 16 Kcid 17 R.S. Dancer 18 Muleskinner 19 Gray Squirrel 20 Loquacious Loner Clean Shooters Billy Badazz CampCreek Skinner Cheatin Charlie Colorado Coffin Maker Troyer Valley Shootist Rimfire Randi Short Gun Shorty Swiftwater Jack John Reid In this Issue MidWest Regional Guns of August High Noon at Tusco 2014 Next Shoot: September 6th, 2014 Rain or Shine 1 P a g e
Loquacious Loner Kant By Kilt Kit Lewis Shotgun Slade Tusco News & Notes: Cowboy Swap 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 $10.50. Contact Buckaroo Bubba at pittfandwr@aol.com or 330-348-5637 if you would like to purchase them. Tusco Long Riders on Facebook Check out the Official Tusco Long Riders Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/tuscolongriders Like the page to stay up to date with the Tusco Long Riders. 2 P a g e
Feedback We would like to hear from you What do you like or dislike about Tusco? What kind of stages do you like? What kind of door prizes do you like? What do you want to see more of/less of? Any complaints? You are a part of the Tusco Long Riders, we want to hear from you. If you have any suggestions, comments, or complaints, let us know. We can t fix things if we don t know about them. Our goal is to provide a safe day of fun enjoying the sport we all love. Send us an email at: pittfandwr@aol.com for Buckaroo Bubba or lpolsi@yahoo.com for Prairie Dawg. Thank you! 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. 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 Inspired by the generous gesture of free shoots from Barleycorn Outfitters, 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. So, if you know of a shooters who hasn t been to Tusco bring them out, their first shoot is on us. (*this is only for monthly matches, excluding High Noon 3-day Shoot in October, and the Charity Shoot in November.) High Noon at Tusco 2014 Announcing High Noon at Tusco 2014 sponsored by Kame s Sports and State Farm George Dadas Agency! October 3 rd -5 th, 2014 at the Tusco Rifle Club. Information Flyer and Registration form are up on the website. Please refresh your web browser and confirm that the forms say 2014. Side Matches are on Friday from Noon 4pm, Main Match (5 stages) and Banquet on Saturday, and Main Match (5 stages) and Awards on Sunday. Please send in your registration forms early. They are to be mailed to Prairie Dawg, and checks made out to Lou Polsinelli (That s Prairie Dawg). MidWest Regional Championship - Guns of August Congratulations to everyone who competed at SASS MidWest Regional Championships, Guns of August. Happy Anniversary Happy Anniversary to Moosetracks and Arizona Spirit and to Troyer Valley Shootist and his wife Norma! 3 P a g e
Tusco Gear Partnership with LouAnn s Sewing Shoppe We are proud to announce our new partnership with LouAnn s Sewing Shoppe. They will be our source for new Tusco Hats, Shirts, and other items. Tusco Long Riders Members One-Shot Al, and his wife Needle-Eye Annie own LouAnn s Sewing Shoppe located in Cambridge, Ohio. You now can get your Tusco gear directly from One-Shot Al. He will have various items available for purchase. If you would like to purchase new Tusco Gear, please contact One-Shot Al at hutch2@firewireinternet.com, give him a call at 740-432-3454 or see him at our monthly shoot. Hats - $20 T-Shirts - $20 Brass Bags - $10 Corn Hole Bags - $35 Patch - Ask for Details *Add your alias to any item for an additional $3* *Items can be shipped for an additional charge* *All items are embroidered* 4 P a g e
Meet a Cowboy/Cowgirl Alias/SASS # - Billy Badazz #98024 How did you pick your Alias I wanted a catchy name. Name Dienez Wollet Location lovely NewWaterford, Ohio Category Cowboy Caliber - 38 Special Occupation Im proud to be a member of Ironworkers local 207 Youngstown, Ohio. Hobbies CAS, billiards Goal in SASS To become more consistent shooter and someday be a champion and if that never happens I still have my family I will always be their champion. Where do you shoot I currently shoot at Brookfield, Brown, Salem and Tusco. How long have you been a Cowboy Action Shooter I Shot my first match February of 2013 at Lake Park indoor CAS in Niles, Ohio. Favorite Thing about Cowboy Action Shooting I Love everything about it. The people, compitition, and the attire. WINNING! Anything else you d like to add I would like to thank everyone that has helped me. I would especially like to thank my SASS dad Shenango Joe for all of his help. 5 P a g e Prairie Dawg's Little-Known Facts of Western History Spring Round Up Cowboy Chaps II Last month, we introduced chaps and talked a little about their history and use. Historically, chaps were intended to protect the legs of cowboys from contact with daily environmental hazards seen in working with cattle, horses and other livestock. They help to protect riders' legs from scraping on brush, injury from thorns of cacti, sagebrush, mesquite and other thorny vegetation. Cowboy Action Shooters also wear chaps as part of their dress because of their historical use by cowboys and because of their use in western films. This article focuses on the various types of chaps you might see at matches and in films or photographs. Shotgun Chaps Shotgun chaps, sometimes called "stovepipes", were so named because the legs are straight and narrow. They were the earliest design used by Texas cowboys, in wide use by the late 1870s. Each leg is cut from a single piece of leather. Their fit is snug, wrapping completely around the leg. They have full-length fasteners running along the outside of the leg from the thigh to just above the ankle. The edge of each legging is sometimes fringed and the bottom is sometimes cut with an arch or flare that allows a smooth fit over the arch of a boot. Shotguns do not flap around the way the batwing design can, and they are also better at trapping body heat, an advantage in windy, snowy or cold conditions, though unpleasant in very hot or humid weather. Shotgun chaps are more common on ranches in the northwest, Rocky Mountains and northern plains states, as well as Canada. Batwing chaps Batwing chaps are cut wide with a flare at the bottom. Generally made of smooth leather, they have only two or three fasteners around the thigh, thus allowing great freedom of movement for the lower leg. This is helpful when
riding very actively, and makes it easier to mount the horse. This design also provides more air circulation and is thus somewhat cooler for hot-weather wear. Batwing chaps are often seen on working ranches, particularly in Texas. They were a later design, developed after the end of the open range. Batwing chaps are often seen in rodeos. There are a few differences in design between working ranch batwing chaps and rodeo chaps. Rodeo chaps are usually more colorful and decorated, whereas ranch cowboys need toughness over style. Rodeo chaps have long flowing fringe which can be the same or a different color as the main body. Ranch chaps may be customized with a brand or initials and some floral tooling, but rarely have fringe. Chinks Chinks are half-length chaps that stop two to four inches below the knee, with very long fringe at the bottom and along the sides. They are usually fringed along the outside edge and bottom, making their apparent length appear about 4 inches (10 cm) longer. The leg shape is cut somewhere between batwings and shotguns, and each leg usually has only two fasteners, high on the thigh. They are cooler to wear and hence a design that is suitable for very warm climates. They are occasionally called "half-chaps". Chinks are most often seen on cowboys in the Southwestern and Pacific states, most notably on those who follow the California vaquero or "buckaroo" tradition. Armitas Armitas are an early style of chaps, developed by the Spanish in colonial Mexico and became associated with the "buckaroos" or vaqueros of the Great Basin area of what is now the United States. They are a short legging with completely closed legs that have to be put on in a manner similar to pants. They are sometimes a bit longer than chinks, but still stopping above the top of the boot, fringed on the sides and on the bottom to reach the boot tops, attached by a fringed belt. Woolies Woolies are a variation on shotgun chaps, made with a fleece or with hair-on cowhide. They are the warmest chaps, associated with the northern plains and Rocky Mountains. They appeared on the Great Plains somewhere around 1887. 6 P a g e
Contact Information Tusco Long Riders 2132 Midvale Mine Rd SE Dennison, OH 44621-9019 http://www.tuscolongriders.com Tusco Long Riders on Facebook www.facebook.com/tuscolongriders President Buckaroo Bubba Dan Ranker 330-348-5637 pittfandwr@aol.com Vice President Prairie Dawg Lou Polsinelli 216-932-7630 lpolsi@yahoo.com Treasurer Split Rail Tim Watson 330-364-6185 vandtwranch@roadrunner.com Secretary T.J. Reese Steve Utter 330-401-9822 coachutter@yahoo.com Match Director Muleskinner Mike Legg 740-922-1290 pamlegg@wildblue.net Territorial Governor D.J. McDraw Dan Westfall 740-767-2326 danankat@yahoo.com Supporting Clubs Blackhand Raiders Nashpost, Ohio www.blackhandraiders.com/home.html Brown Township Regulators Malvern, Ohio www.browntwpsportsmanclub.com Firelands Peacemakers Rochester, Ohio www.firelandspeacemakers.com Greene County Cowboys Xenia, Ohio www.gcfng.com/gccowboys/index.html Logan s Ferry Regulators Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania www.logansferrysportsmens.com Miami Valley Cowboys Piqua, Ohio www.miamivalleycowboys.org/ Ohio Valley Vigilantes Mount Vernon, Ohio www.ohiovv.com/ River Junction Shootist Society Donegal, Pennsylvania www.riverjunctionshootistsociety.com/ Sandusky County Regulators Gibsonburg, Ohio http://scsclub.org/events/cowboy-action/ Scioto Territory Desperados Chillicothe, Ohio www.sciotodesperados.com Shenango River Rats Masury, Ohio www.brookfieldconservation.com/cowboy.html Wild West Point West Point, Ohio www.affox.com/casscores/westpoint.html 7 P a g e
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