TUSCO TIMES OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE TUSCO LONG RIDERS The Shooting Makes It Fun, the People Make It Special AUGUST 2016 Writer/Editor: Buckaroo Bubba August 6 th Summer hit us hard at Tusco. The Hot and Humid conditions created the need for Cowboy Dress Optional for our 63 shooters. The weather didn t bother Billy Badazz our Top Overall Shooter! Congrats to the 23 Clean Shooters! Special Thanks to Red Morgan with MetalXWorks for his donations to the Prize Table. It is greatly appreciated! Top 20 1 Billy Badazz 2 Mad Dog Max 3 Cripple Creek Kid 4 Dirty Dale 5 Stone Creek Drifter 6 Black Run Butcher 7 Swiss 8 Dewey Shootem 9 John Barleycorn 10 Maverick 11 Gray Squirrel 12 Sixgun Seamus 13 N.A. Custer 14 R.S. Dancer 15 Kcid 16 Buckaroo Bubba 17 Swiftwater Jack 18 Krazy Thom 19 Cheatin Charlie 20 Bullseye Smith Blue Knight Cayenne Kay Colorado Jake Cripple Creek Kid Crooked River Pete Dirty Dale Duelin Diehl Dusty Lady Flat Iron Mike Gray Squirrel JJ Medicine Wind John Barleycorn Tusco s New TG New SASS Regulators Clean Shooters Kcid Krazy Thom Mad Dog Max NA Custer Santa Fe Steve Shenango Joe Short Gun Shorty Stone Creek Drifter Swiftwater Jack Swiss Willie Goodnews In this Issue Next Shoot: September 3 rd, 2016 Rain or Shine 1 P a g e
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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. High Noon at Tusco 2016 I am very proud to announce the 2016 Edition of High Noon at Tusco. Our annual 3-day event will take place on Sept. 30 th thru Oct. 2nd, 2016. Our main match sponsors again this year are Kames Sports and State Farm George Dadas Agency. The informational flyer and registration forms are now available on our website. Check it out, www.tuscolongriders.com Please note, if mailing a check, please make the check out to Lou Polsinelli, that's Prairie Dawg. We have a great time planned for you. Friday will hold our Side Matches including a Modified Black Powder Plainsman Side Match! New this year, Campfire Hot Dog Roast hosted by Angie Oakley and Crazy Cryder. Saturday will hold the first 5 stages and the Saturday Night Banquet, featuring Hog Heaven as the caterer. Our big prize table will be back again this year. Sunday will include Cowboy Church, the last 5 stages and the awards. Please see the flyer for more information. We have a limit of 120 Shooters. Please get those registration forms in early! 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.) Facebook Page When you make a post about Tusco or share pictures on Facebook, include #TuscoLongRiders. Let everyone see what we are all about. New SASS Magazine With the new release of the SASS Quarterly Cowboy Chronicle, I once again would like to start collecting any unwanted issues of the magazine. We will use these for our promotional events, like our Tusco Long Riders Day at Kames Sports. Please either black out or cut off your name and address or I will do it before they are passed out. Thank you! Tusco Friends in the Latest Cowboy Chronicle New Grandpa Congrats to Gray Hare who is a new Grandfather! We can now call him Grandpa Hare!! Sixgun Seamus Congrats to Sixgun Seamus who is now RETIRED! Thank you Cheyenne Culpepper A Special Thanks to Cheyenne Culpepper for teaching our SASS RO classes on July 23 rd. 26 people joined us for the classes! Thank you Culpepper!! IM Crossdraw/Old Iron Hip Page 12 Sage Chick Page 48 3 P a g e
Tusco Long Riders Territorial Governor For years our SASS Territorial Governor has been DJ McDraw. DJ has recently decided to step away from his home club the Ohio Valley Vigilantes and as our TG at Tusco. I would like to express my heartfelt thank you to DJ McDraw for his years of service as our Territorial Governor at Tusco! Best wishes to you! After long discussions with our club officers it became very apparent who our next appointed Territorial Governor should be. It is with the greatest respect that I announce Stone Creek Drifter as the new Territorial Governor of the Tusco Long Riders! Drifter has been a fixture at Tusco for many, many years and rarely misses a match. His knowledge of the rules and his attendance at the "Big" matches were large factors in deciding who our next TG would be. He is also highly respected throughout the country and will represent Tusco very well! Again, please pass along a big Thank You to DJ McDraw and join me in welcoming Stone Creek Drifter as Tusco's TG. 4 P a g e
Wags 4 Warriors Very proud to announce our newest endeavor. We will be working with a group called Wags 4 Warriors! The Mission of WAGS 4 WARRIORS is to unite veterans whom upon returning home from war who suffer with PTSD or TBI with an appropriate rescue dog, and to provide all of the training, equipment and support for the dog to become the veterans service dog at NO COST to the veteran. The ultimate goal is for the service dog to take away the struggle the veterans face every day. Our first project with Wags 4 Warriors is to collect items to donate to their program. Anything that can help these Veterans take care of their new partners. Dog Food, Collars, Leashes, Toys, Treats, Dog Crates, etc. Also money donations are greatly appreciated. If you would like to make a monetary donation please make your check out to Wags 4 Warriors and mail to Dan Ranker 13880 Louisville St. NE Paris, Ohio 44669. This is what we will do. Over the next Three Monthly shoots at Tusco (September, October, and November) we will collect these donations. When you make a donation we will put you into a drawing for the following prizes: A Tusco Long Riders Ultimate Package (Shoot Free in 2017, Golden Ticket, High Noon at Tusco, and Free Membership or $100 Cash) donated by Split Rail and Stone Creek Drifter, a High Noon at Tusco 2017 Free Entry or $40 Cash donated by the Tusco Long Riders, a Box of Primers, and another box of Primers donated by Prairie Dawg. The winners will be drawn at our November shoot. Please support this great program with Wags 4 Warriors and our brave Veterans and their new Partners! New SASS Regulators At our August match two new SASS Regulators were presented. Buckaroo Bubba and Prairie Dawg were presented their Regulator Badges by Six Gun Seamus and Split Rail. SASS REGULATORS DESCRIPTION Regulators are those folks who work above and beyond the call of duty for the benefit of SASS and their affiliated club(s). Their services are worth more than SASS or their club could ever pay. They personify the Cowboy Way and provide an excellent role model for all shooters, young and old alike. 5 Page
Prairie Dawg's "A-List" Movies Famous Sidekicks You've Seen Over And Over -- Part II Last month, I profiled 5 outstanding Western Films Character Actors... Dub Taylor, Slim Pickens, Chill Wills, Walter Brennan, & Jack Elam This month, I'll look at 5 more. We've seen these guys in Western after Western after Western. We've enjoyed the roles they have taken on, and they made their roles so believable, that they melted into the fabric of the film. I could do this for months, as there are so many wonderful character actors. Want to see a Wonderful Web Video about Western Stars & Character Actors??? Go Here: http://objflicks.com/thoseoldwesterns.htm Strother Martin - Born March 26, 1919, in Kokomo, Indiana, Martin became a champion diver at the University of Michigan while he worked toward a theatre arts degree. After Navy service in WWII, he moved to Hollywood in 1948 with his first acting job as a leprechaun on a KTLA-TV children s show. His first film was a bit in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) after which he began to work steadily in films and on TV, however his first western, Drum Beat, wasn t until 1954 and it really wasn t until 1956 that Martin began to appear primarily in westerns. 6 P a g e
Among others, he can be seen in The Black Whip ( 56), Black Patch ( 57), Cowboy ( 58), Wild and the Innocent ( 59), Horse Soldiers ( 59), Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( 62), McLintock ( 63), Sons of Katie Elder ( 65), as well as dozens of TV episodes Zane Grey Theatre, Broken Arrow, Trackdown, Jefferson Drum, Texan, Rebel, Have Gun Will Travel, Rawhide, Legend of Jesse James, Big Valley, Dakotas and many others. In 59-60 he was a regular as Aaron Donager, a townsman friend of Sundance (Earl Holliman) on Hotel de Paree. 1969 was Martin s banner year. He was seen in True Grit", "The Wild Bunch and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, three classic westerns. Strother Martin died of a heart attack on August 1, 1980, in Thousand Oaks, CA. Memorable Quote by Strother Martin as Percy Garris in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: "Morons...I've got morons on my team." Woody Strode - Born in Los Angeles on July 25, 1914. Strode was a top-notch decathlete and a football star at UCLA. He became part of Hollywood lore after meeting director John Ford and becoming a part of the Ford "family," appearing in four Ford motion pictures. Strode also played the powerful gladiator who does battle with Kirk Douglas in Spartacus (1960)." Strode s association with the western began with the John Ford film Stagecoach (1939), in which he was an uncredited extra in a saloon scene. Twenty years later, Ford cast Strode as the title character in Sergeant Rutledge, the story of a black trooper in the legendary 9th Cavalry, whose members were known as the buffalo soldiers. Strode s identification as a western figure derives from his portrayal of this character. Revered by his fellow soldiers and heroic in nature and deed, the character of Sgt. Braxton Rutledge is the epitome of the classic western hero. Later, Strode costarred in secondary roles or small parts in the Ford Western films, Two Rode Together and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. During the 1960s, Strode costarred in westerns by other directors, including The Professionals, alongside Robert Ryan and Lee Marvin, as well as in television series such as Rawhide and Daniel Boone. At the end of the decade, Strode s performance in the famous opening sequence of Sergio Leone s Once Upon a Time in the West, alongside Jack Elam, more than solidified his identity as a western figure. Woody Strode died of lung cancer December 31, 1994 Memorable Quote by Woody Strode as 1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge in Sergeant Rutledge: "A soldier can never think by his heart, ma'am. He got to think by the book." Hank Worden -- Norton Earl "Hank" Worden was born in Iowa on July 23, 1901. Hank was raised on a cattle ranch near Glendive, Montana and was educated at Stanford University and the University of Nevada as an engineer. He enlisted in the U.S. Army hoping to become an Army pilot, but washed out of flight school. An expert horseman, he toured the country in rodeos as a saddle bronc rider. During one ride, his horse landed atop him and broke his neck, but aside from a temporarily sore neck, Worden did not know of the break until x-rayed twenty years later. While appearing in a rodeo at Madison Square Garden in New York, he and fellow cowboy Tex Ritter were chosen to appear in the Broadway play Green Grow the Lilacs, the play from which the musical Oklahoma! was later derived. Tex Ritter soon became a star, and Worden played sidekick roles in a number of Ritter's Westerns. This cowboyturned-character-actor caught the eye of director Howard Hawks, who cast him in some roles and recommended him to director John Ford. 7 P a g e
Worden eventually became a member of the John Ford Stock Company, and was directed by Ford twelve times in films and television. The connection with Ford led to an association with actor John Wayne, and Worden appeared in 17 of Wayne's films. Foremost among his collaborations with Wayne and Ford is The Searchers, the 1956 classic Western in which Worden portrayed his most memorable role, that of "Mose Harper," the Shakespearean fool who only longed for "a roof over his head and a rocking chair by the fire." Worden's best performances were given for demanding directors. He had a striking appearance: tall, thin, bald, his voice and mannerisms unforgettable to anyone who saw him. He worked steadily in television as well as films, long outliving Hawks, Ford and Wayne. In good health through his 91st year, he died peacefully during a nap at his home in Los Angeles on December 6, 1992. Memorable Quote by Hank Worden: "Thank Ya, Thank Ya Kindly." Harry Carey Jr. -- Henry George "Dobe" Carey Jr. was born on May 16, 1921, in Santa Clarita, California, the son of actor Harry Carey (1878 1947) and actress Olive Carey (1896 1988). As a boy, he was nicknamed "Dobe", short for adobe, because of the color of his hair. He grew up on his parent's ranch in Santa Clarita, where they raised horses and cattle. His family ranch was later turned into a historic park by the Los Angeles County and was named Tesoro Adobe Park. He served with the United States Navy during World War II. He was a United States medial corpsman, who was assigned to work with John Ford on films for the U.S. Military. He married Marilyn Fix, who was the daughter of Paul Fix, the actor who was best known for portraying Marshal Micah Torrance in The Rifleman. Carey began acting in the John Ford Stock Company with his father. Carey collaborated frequently with director John Ford, who was a close friend. He became a respected character actor like his father. Carey appeared in many Westerns. He made many Western films with John Ford, Howard Hawks, and John Wayne. He made films, TV shows, and films for TV, like Last Stand At Saber River, with notable modern Western actor Tom Selleck. Carey has an active actor for about 60 years, starting in the 1940s and ending in the late 1990s with the previously mentioned Last Stand At Saber River. You may remember him as George Arthur in the 1980 movie The Long Riders, a film about the exploits of Jesse James. Or as Zeke, a saloon old-timer in the bar scene of the 1990 film Back To The Future, Part III. Carey is memorable as Marshal Fred White the 1993 classic Western Tombstone. Carey wrote an autobiography of his life titled Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company, that was published in 1996. It is a great read for any Western Films fan and contains lots of interesting information about John Ford and John Wayne -- I highly recommend it. Carey died of natural causes on December 27, 2012, in Santa Barbara at the age of 91. At the time of his death, he was the last living member of the John Ford Stock Company. Memorable Quote by Harry Carey Jr.: "I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for. 8 P a g e
Andy Devine -- Andrew Vabre "Andy" Devine was born October 7, 1905. Andy Devine was a well-known character actor and comic cowboy sidekick known for his distinctive, whiny voice. It was first thought that his peculiar, wheezy voice would prevent him from working in modern films, "talkies", it became his trademark. He appeared in more than 400 films and shared, with Walter Brennan, the rare ability to move with ease from "B" Westerns to "A" pictures. Notable roles for him included playing Deputy Marshal Jingles P. Jones in both the radio and TV series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok from 1951-1958, and ten films as sidekick "Cookie" to Roy Rogers. He made several appearances in films with John Wayne, including Stagecoach (1939), and as the frightened marshal Link Appleyard in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). John Ford picked him to play Buck, the stagecoach teamster, in Stagecoach (1939) because he had actual experience driving a six-horse team. Devine died of leukemia at the age of 71 in Orange, California in 1977. Actor Ken Curtis (Festus) sang at the funeral. John Wayne and James Stewart were among those who attended his funeral service. Memorable movie quote by Andy Devine (as Buck, in Stagecoach): "Luke Plummer and the Kid. There would be a lot more peace in this territory if that Luke Plummer had so many holes in him he couldn't hold his liquor." Send in those High Noon at Tusco Registration forms! Only 6 weeks til High Noon! 9 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 Club Deputy Dewey Shootem David Keeler 440-752-9336 deweyshootem@windstream.com Club Deputy Six Gun Seamus Ken Flanagan 330-904-5166 sixgunseamus@gmail.com Match Director Muleskinner Mike Legg 740-922-1290 pamlegg@wildblue.net Territorial Governor Stone Creek Drifter Achim Obernyer 330-339-7561 stonecreekdrifter@gmail.com Supporting Clubs Blackhand Raiders Nashpost, Ohio www.blackhandraiders.com/home.html Brown Township Regulators Malvern, Ohio www.browntownshipregulators.com Firelands Peacemakers Rochester, Ohio www.firelandspeacemakers.com Greene County Cowboys Xenia, Ohio www.gcfng.com/gccowboys/index.html Henderson Wild Justice League Williamstown, WV http://hendersonwilds.com/ 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 10 P a g e
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