TUSCO TIMES OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE TUSCO LONG RIDERS The Shooting Makes It Fun, the People Make It Special OCTOBER 2015 Writer/Editor: Buckaroo Bubba High Noon at Tusco October 2 nd 4 th, 2015 Record High Attendance for High Noon at Tusco 2015! 118 Registered shooters! 6 Different states represented along with Canada! Congrats to Billy Badazz and Lady Lopez our Top Overall Men s and Women s Champions, and our Top Youth Boy and Girl Champions, Maverick and Rimfire Randi. Also congrats to the 13 Clean Shooters we had for the weekend! Great Job! Thank you to all of our very generous sponsors. Welcome to Tusco, Lucky 13, Pale Ale Rider, Rodent, Broke N West, Money Bags Mathias, Michigan Slim, Poco Loco, Twitchy, and Smilin Jeff. Hope you all had a great time and will be back! See Page 7-9 for Details about High Noon 2015 Top 20 1 Billy Badazz 2 Two Bit Drifter 3 Pickaway Tracker 4 Cripple Creek Kid 5 Gray Hare 6 Mad Dog Max 7 Badfinger Bodene 8 Stone Creek Drifter 9 Maverick 10 Boss Outlaw 11 Yee Haw 12 Cheyenne Culpepper 13 Lucky 13 14 Sixgun Seamus 15 Darby 16 Lady Lopez 17 Black Run Butcher 18 Rimfire Randi 19 Long Shot Seth 20 Blastin' Brad Campcreek Skinner Darby Gary Hare Hooligan Howes Kit Lewis Last Gun Michigan Slim Moe Gunns Ol Smokeless Clean Shooters In this Issue Pickaway Tracker Raging Thunder Rodent Shenango Joe 20 th Anniversary High Noon at Tusco Josey Wales/Charity Shoot Next Shoot: Josey Wales/Charity Shoot November 7 th, Rain, Shine or Snow 1 P a g e
Six Gun Seamus NA Custer Cowgirls Mad Hattie Cheatin Charlie Short Wagon Indiana Friends Pale Rider Clean Shooters Meet a Cowboy/Cowgirl Alias/SASS # - Hooligan Howes SASS #88409 How did you pick your Alias All the other clever names I thought of were taken. Hooligan Howes had a nice ring to it and its fitting. Name Jeremy Howes Location Houston, PA Category Gunfighter Caliber.45LC Occupation I work in a machine shop. We make orthopedic implants. Hobbies Cowboy action shooting. Gun smithing. I'm a movie buff and I read a lot. Goal in SASS Just to have a good time. Where do you shoot Dry Gulch Rangers, Logans Ferry, River Junction, Tusco, Shenango, Brown Township How long have you been a Cowboy Action Shooter Going on 6 years. Favorite Thing about Cowboy Action Shooting The people everyone is so nice. I like the fact you can shoot and have a good time. All while giving each other a hard time. 2 Page
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. Josey Wales/Charity Shoot Our next shoot will be on Saturday November 7 th. This is our Charity/Josey Wales Shoot. All proceed from this shoot will go directly to the Midvale/Barnhill Shared Christmas Program. This program helps underprivileged families have a nice Christmas. Last year we donated $900! I would like to have the goal of $1000 this year! We will be setting up the stages for Josey Wales at this shoot. If you want to shoot Josey Wales, you will use 5 pistols instead of 2 pistols, Rifle and Shotgun. You may only holster 2 pistols. The rest of your pistols will be staged. Each Stage will have 5 shotgun knockdowns for this shoot. Also, at this shoot it is a Pot Luck Lunch. Please bring a dish to share. Pam will be providing some soup to share and there will be breakfast available for purchase. It s a fun, laid back day to end our shooting season. Come out and support our great charity and close out our season! 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.) Thoughts and Prayers Please keep our friends, Lash, Blue Knight, and Troyer Valley Shootist in your thoughts and prayers as they deal with their health issues. Facebook Page When you make a post about Tusco or share pictures on Facebook, include #TuscoLongRiders. Let everyone see what we are all about. Lost and Found Colorado Coffinmaker lost his loading tool at our September shoot. It s a brass rod, about 6 long, 3/8 Diameter, if you happened to have found it please let me know. October SASS Cowboy Chronicle The 2015 Ohio State Shoot was covered in the October Issue of the Cowboy Chronicle. Many of our friends at Tusco are featured in this article. 3 P a g e
Prairie Dawg's Little-Known Western Facts Travel in the Old West Stage Lines Part II The Winchester Model 1876, or Centennial Model, was a heavier-framed rifle than the Models 1866 and 1873, chambered for full-powered centerfire rifle cartridges suitable for big-game hunting, rather than the handgunsize rimfire and centerfire rounds of its predecessors. While similar in design to the 1873, the 1876 was actually based on a prototype 1868 lever-action rifle that was never commercially produced by Winchester. The majority of Winchester '76's are in a rifle configuration, but occasionally carbines and muskets are encountered. The 1876 carbine is unique in the Winchester lever action family, as it has a long wood forearm, which gives it the appearance of a short musket. When you see your first '76 carbine, it is easy to mistake it for a musket. Introduced to celebrate the American Centennial Exposition, the Model 1876 earned a reputation as a durable and powerful hunting rifle. Four versions were produced: a 22-inch barrel Carbine, a 26-inch barrel Express Rifle with a half-length magazine, a 28-inch barrel Sporting Rifle, and a 32-inch barrel Musket. Standard rifles had a blued finish while deluxe models were casehardened. Collectors identify a first model with no dust cover, a second model with a dust cover rail fastened by a screw, and a third model with an integral dust cover. Total production was 63,871, including 54 One of One Thousand Model 1876s and only seven of the One of One Hundred grade. 4 P a g e
Originally chambered for the new.45-75 Winchester Centennial cartridge (designed to replicate the.45-70 Government ballistics in a shorter case), versions in.40-60 Winchester,.45-60 Winchester and.50-95 Express followed; the '76 in the latter chambering is the only repeater known to have been used in any numbers by the professional buffalo hunters. The Canadian North-West Mounted Police used the '76 in.45-75 as a standard long arm for many years with 750 rifles purchased for the force in 1883. The Mountie-model '76 carbine was also issued to the Texas Rangers. Theodore Roosevelt used an engraved, pistol-gripped half-magazine '76 during his early hunting expeditions in the West and praised it. A '76 was also found in the possession of Apache warrior Geronimo after his surrender in 1886. The Model 1876 toggle-link action receiver was too short to handle popular big game cartridges including the.45-70; and production ceased in 1897 as big-game hunters preferred the smoother Model 1886 action chambered for longer and more powerful cartridges. The following excerpts are from an Internet article entitled The Winchester Model 1876 by Kirk Durston, published on www.leverguns.com. The entire article can be read here: http://www.leverguns.com/articles/1876.pdf As the eastern Arizona sky paled into dawn on July 17, 1882, Na-tio-tish, and his band of more than fifty Apache warriors waited quietly on the far side of a fork of East Clear Creek. A single troop of cavalry had been following them for days, led by Captain Adna R. Chaffee, and Na-tio-tish intended to ambush the troop as it slowly threaded its way toward them. Unbeknownst to the Apaches, however, Chaffee had with him renowned scout, Al Sieber, who had discovered the ambush. In addition, four more companies had joined Chaffee s US army regulars during the night. Chaffe and his men carefully drew up to the rim, opposite the Apaches who lay below in ambush. As two companies approached from downstream, and two more from upstream, each man holding his military issue Springfield 45-70 carbine at ready, Chaffee s men opened fire on the Apaches below. The smoke of black powder began to form a haze around the US Cavalry, as the 405-grain bullets from the troop s 45-70 s sped to their targets below. Among the military issue carbines was a single, lone Winchester rifle that stood out from the rest, a formidable but graceful looking weapon with a barrel noticeably longer that the Springfield carbines all around. The man using it calmly aimed, fired, and levered in another round, the unique, milk-bottle shaped casings falling one by one into the sand, where they would lay for one hundred and twenty-three years. 5 P a g e
In the summer of 2005, a member of an archeological party investigating the site of the Battle of Big Dry Wash, brushed the sand away from yet another deeply tarnished milk-bottle shaped brass casing, noticeably different from the numerous straight-walled 45-70 empty cartridge casings found at the site. The headstamp read W. R. A. Co. 45-75 W.C.F., and all of the 45-75 casings found at the site appeared to have been fired from the same rifle, a Winchester Model 1876. It is not known with certainty who that rifle belonged to, on the day of the Battle of Big Dry Wash, but it is purported that the famous scout, Al Sieber, was using a Winchester 1876 at that time. Since the US regulars would have been using their military issue 45-70 Springfields, and since Al Sieber was Chaffee s scout that day, there is good reason to believe that those old, tarnished brass casings were once fired by Sieber himself in that final battle between Apaches and US army regulars. A visual comparison between the Winchester Models 1873 and 1876 can easily lead one to believe that the Model 1876 is merely a scaled up version of the Model 1873. In reality, the roots of the Model 1876 go back to about 1865, when Oliver F. Winchester began to design and develop a new type of repeating rifle with removable side plates. The first rifles were shipped to the Swiss Confederation in 1866, and some other governments in 1867 and 1868. These rifles were chambered for several 45 and 50 caliber center-fire cartridges. In 1869 the project was put on hold. An example of a Winchester Model 1868 can be seen today in the Cody Firearms Museum in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. The receiver on the Model 1868 looks almost identical in size and appearance to the receiver of the Model 1876. The development of a large-bore repeating rifle resumed again in 1873 and 1874, using receivers based upon the Model 1868 frame. After some refinements, and testing of a variety of calibers, some prototypes were presented to the public at the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia. Because this public debut occurred on the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the new Winchester Model 1876 was named the Centennial Rifle. Production of the Model 1876 began in June of 1877, chambered for the distinctive, milk bottle-shaped.45-75 that fired a 350 grain bullet with a muzzle velocity in the neighborhood of 1,385 fps. In 1879, two other cartridges were offered, the.45-60 W.C.F. and the.50-95 Express. The.45-60 fired a 300 grain lead bullet at a muzzle velocity of about 1,315 fps and the.50-95 sent a 300 grain bullet down range at about 1,493 fps. In 1884 the final cartridge, the.40-60 was added. It fired a 210 grain bullet with a muzzle velocity of about 1,475 fps. According to the 1896 Winchester catalogue, all bullets were cast from 1 part tin to 16 parts lead, with the exception of the.40-60 W.C.F., which was cast from 1 part tin to 20 parts lead. Why a "Little Known Facts" article about the 1876? Well, at High Noon 2015, our Plainsman side match was a HUGE hit with our shooters. We even had a number of spectators. As many of you know, we actually rolled Tom Horn (cartridge guns) into our Plainsman (Cap guns) event to allow more pards to participate. Well, next year, we will include Renegade, which is cartridge revolvers with a big bore lever rifle. Im going to use my '76...hence the article! Can't wait!!!! 6 P a g e
High Noon at Tusco 2015 A packed camper area greeted everyone as they pulled into the range on Friday. The October weather on Side Match day was a bit cool but right on for Cowboy Action Shooting. All of the side matches were sponsored by our caterer for the banquet, Hog Heaven. As setup was completed and the clock struck High Noon, the side matches began. New to High Noon at Tusco this year was our modified Plainsman Match. Our Club Vice President Prairie Dawg and Ohio Cheatin Charlie lead this shoot. It was a big hit with our shooters who love to shoot Black Powder. 11 shooters tried their hand at this new addition to the High Noon. Needless to say it will be back next year. Next door to the Plainsman Match was the Long Range competition which was ran by Short Wagon and Mad Hattie. It was there you could shoot your Single Shot Rifles, Lever Action Rifle and Pistol Caliber Rifles, and see how good you were with your pistols shooting them at the long range target. The Black Powder folks we able to feel at home with the Long Range Side Match as well, as there were Black Powder Categories as well. Down the hill you would find the Speed Shotgun Event taking place being run by Raging Thunder, Streak Lightning, and Stone Creek Drifter. All SASS legal shotguns had categories to see who the fastest shotgun at Tusco was. Next down the line, TJ Reese and Corbin Dallas welcome shooters to the Speed Rifle,.22 Rifle and Pistols events. This is where the real speed was on display. Finally out on Stage 5 was a warm up stage. Folks who really wanted to knock the rust off went out to get ready for the main match. At 4pm the Side Matches came to a close with everyone putting away their firearms and dispersing to their evening dinners plan. A rainy Saturday Morning greeted everyone to the Main Match, Sponsored by Kames Sports and George Dadas State Farm Agency. Each shooter stopped in the clubhouse to retrieve their bag full of shooters gifts. The gifts this year included a Brass Bag that was made by LouAnn s Sewing Shoppe, a 20 th Anniversary Belt Buckle that was created by Arrow Graphics and Buck D. Law from Alabama, a Tusco Lapel Pin, and Shooters book. Posse Marshal walk thru started things off at 9am. Stone Creek Drifter, Six Gun Seamus, Rye Miles, Prairie Dawg, and Pickaway Tracker were the respective posse marshals thru out the weekend. Once the stages were explained to the posse marshals it was time to gather everyone up for our mandatory safety meeting. The Pledge of Allegiance to Old Glory started things off, followed by a prayer by Crowbar. Buckaroo Bubba welcomed everyone to High Noon and went over the various safety rules and important notes about High Noon. Each posse was read off and the shooters split up to their starting stages for the day. The theme for High Noon this year was Vintage TV Westerns. Each of the stages were represented by some of our favorite Western shows some of us grew up watching, while some others grew up watching the re-runs to these Westerns. The shows, The Rifleman, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Have Gun will Travel, Maverick, Wanted Dead or Alive, The Rifleman, Rawhide, Bonanza, The Big Valley and the Wild Wild West were represented through the ten stages of the Main Match. Shooters fought thru less than ideal weather conditions during the first of five main match stages. After the first half of stages were completed by all of the shooters everyone took a break before the Saturday Night festivities. Hungry, Well-dressed Cowboys and Cowgirls started arriving at our Saturday night banquet a bit before 6pm. Hog Heaven, once again this year, set up their wonderful dinner, which consisted of Pulled Pork sandwiches, Beef Brisket, BBQ Chicken, Cheesey Potatoes, Baked Beans, Coleslaw and Salad. Before we got dinner rolling, we held a moment of silence for two of our favorite Cowboys who we lost earlier in the year, Shotgun Slade and Mad Mongo. Marshal Dan Dillon provided us with the Blessing before we dismissed the tables to get their meals. As the shooters arrived for dinner Prairie Dawg sold playing cards for five different raffles we had available. High Noon Sponsor, Montana Silversmiths, donated a $120 Belt Buckle that we raffled off, along with our Tusco Ultimate Package which consisted of: a Tusco Golden Ticket (which allows you to shoot free all of next year), a High Noon 2016 Certificate and Tusco Membership for next year, another High Noon 2016 as raffled off along with a Well Fargo Pocket Watch and DVD Set donated by Shenango Joe, and a very unique Stage Coach Lamp that was donated by Rye Miles was raffled off. 7 P a g e
High Noon at Tusco 2015 Continued from previous page Officer Elections were held soon after everyone finished their meals. A motion was made to once again carry over all of the Officer Positions. Club President Buckaroo Bubba, Vice President Prairie Dawg, Treasurer Split Rail, Secretary TJ Reese, and appointed positions of Match Director, Muleskinner and Territorial Governor, DJ McDraw will also remain the same. New this year, we added two new club positions. The Tusco Club Deputies were announced. The Club Deputies main function will be to brainstorm new club ideas, be used as a sounding boards for club activities, and to use their creative minds. I was very proud to announce Dewey Shootem and Six Gun Seamus as the new Club Deputies. They will be great assets to the Tusco Long Riders. Side Match Awards and the Plainsman Match Awards were read off next. With each of the winners coming up front to receive their certificates, some even receiving a handful of them. One of the trademarks of High Noon at Tusco is the Huge Prize Table that welcomes everyone at the banquet. Over 200 prizes covered up three 8ft tables. Every registered shooter who attended our evening banquet made at least two trips to the prize table. One of the reason we have such a great prize table is because of the fabulous sponsors we have for High Noon. Next up was the presentation of our Annual Ruthless McDraw Memorial Spirit of the Game Awards. For those of you who knew Ruthless you know what this awards means and what it represents. We present this as a yearlong award to those deserving individuals who represent what the Spirit of the Game is all about and their dedicated service to the Tusco Long Riders. We take the selection of award winners very seriously. Once again this year we recognized four recipients for this award. Raging Thunder and Streak Lightning; every once in a while new shooters join our club that immediately fit right in. They pitch in and provide much needed help with setting up targets, tearing down the shoots, running timers, picking brass, etc. Raging Thunder and Streak Lightning have shown us what the Spirt of the Game is all about. Plus it s not every day that you get a set of twins that show this spirit as well. Angie Oakley; There is a lot of things that go on behind the scenes that people don t see. Angie Oakley has been there for Tusco and has been doing a lot of the little things behind the scenes for the last couple of years. From keeping score during the shoots, to helping tear down shoots, passing out ribbons, putting together score books, etc. One of the other things Angie Oakley has done for Tusco is Volunteering to help out with various promotional events, like our Tusco Long Riders Day at Kames Sports. Six Gun Seamus; Six Gun Seamus has won this award in previous years and really he could win this award every year. Six Gun Seamus is constantly helping out with all of the different promotional events that we do along with brainstorming for new and exciting things for the Tusco Long Riders. A picture perfect day arrived with all the shooters on the last day. Our new tradition of Cowboy Church started at 8am. Our resident Pastor, Crowbar, lead the service. About 25 shooters took the opportunity to enjoy the fellowship at the range. Shooters then enjoyed the day shooting fast straight forward, option filled stages that Prairie Dawg masterfully wrote. Once everyone had finished up shooting the main match it was on to the Awards. In a surprise, Stone Creek Drifter presented Buckaroo Bubba with a gorgeous Spirit of the Game Award. He presented this award to Buckaroo Bubba for his continued service leading the Tusco Long Riders. The Awards continued with the presentation of the Category Awards. Our Youth Boy and Girl Overall Champions were announced with Maverick and Rimfire Randi winning their respective awards. Next the overall Men s and Women s Overall Champions were announced with Billy Badazz and Lady Lopez being crowned champions with Billy Badazz being the Overall Winner. Clean shoots at a 10 stage event are always hard to do. 13 shooters were able to shoot the match without missing or having any procedurals. Thank you all for another successful High Noon! 8 P a g e
Thank you to our very generous 2015 High Noon Sponsors Main Match Sponsors Kames Sports & State Farm George Dadas Agency Side Match Sponsor/Caterer Hog Heaven Stage Sponsors Vaughan s Custom Made Sport Wear - Rowdy Red Tailor Ralph Arnold Custom Gun Leather - Troyer Valley Shootist Prairie Fire Arms - Jesse Duke Barleycorn Outfitters - John Barleycorn Gary s Glock Works - Hungry Hollar Scioto Territory Desperado s - Pickaway Tracker & Crew Shenango River Rats - Shenango Joe & Swiftwater Jack General Sponsors Starline Brass Montana Silversmiths MetalXWorks The Holy Black Trading Company Destination Outdoors Radio Cimarron/Texas Jack s Outfitters Vendors LouAnn s Sewing Shoppe Patriot Casting Appalachian Bullet Co. Supporting Clubs Ohio Valley Vigilantes Firelands Peacemakers Sandusky County Regulators Brown Township Regulators Shenango River Rats Scioto Territory Desperado s Wild West Point Blackhand Raiders Greene County Cowboys Miami Valley Cowboys (Ohio State Championships) Special Thanks Arrow Graphics Buck D. Law Bobtown Cooter Moosetracks **Visit www.tuscolongriders.com for complete category results** 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 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.browntownshipregulators.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 10 P a g e
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