TUSCO TIMES OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE TUSCO LONG RIDERS Writer/Editor: Buckaroo Bubba Sponsored By: September 2013
September 7th It was just a great day to enjoy at the range. Special thanks to all of our West Virginia friends who made the trip to shoot with us as well as our PA friends. You folks are always welcome at Tusco, we enjoy having you shoot with us. 64 shooters joined us for our September shoot, led by the Top overall shooter Sage Chick. Way to go Sage Chick. We had 19 Clean Shooters on the day, they were: Artic Fox, BDOC, Buckshot John, Gigabit Cowboy, I.M. Crankin, John Barleycorn, John Reid, Kit Coleen, Marshall Dan Dillon, Ole Rattlesnake, Old Saddlebags, Rimfire Randi, Rowdy Bishop, Sage Chick, Shenango Joe, Short Gun Shorty, Shotgun Shavezz, Straight N. Narrow Bob, and White Hair. Great Job! The rest of the results are as follows: 1-48454 Sage Chick Cowgirl F 85.97 1 Ohio 2-48453 Rowdy Bishop 49er - Men M 117.45 1 Ohio 3-90355 Dewey Shootem Wrangler M 122.13 1 4-87690 Rimfire Randi Young Gun Girl M 123.17 1 5-8321 I.M. Crossdraw FC Traditional - Mens M 126.97 1 Ohio 6-58853 Stone Creek Drifter FC Gunfighter - Mens M 128.13 1 Ohio 7-92788 Mad Dog Max Cowboy M 132.09 1 8-11219 Shotgun Chavezz Elderstatesman M 135.69 1 Ohio 9-76982 John Barleycorn Gunfighter - Mens M 138.05 1 10-19448 Kid Glove 49er - Men M 139.91 2 Ohio 11-83621 Cheatin Charlie Duelist - Mens M 145.10 1 Ohio 12-81129 Kcid Senior - Mens M 145.15 1 13-61688 Hershey Barr 49er - Men M 148.86 3 Ohio 14-76983 Bdoc Gunfighter - Ladies M 151.50 1 15-66861 Buckaroo Bubba Cowboy M 155.33 2 Ohio 16-39883 Artic Fox Silver Senior - Mens M 155.49 1 17-94002 Sixgun Seamus Senior - Mens M 159.65 2 OH 18-98024 Billy Badazz Cowboy M 161.70 3 19-70498 N.A. Custer Senior Duelist - Mens M 164.35 1 20-92789 Maverick Young Gun Boy M 169.98 1 21-53825 R.S. Dancer Senior Gunfighter M 170.23 1 Ohio 22-22900 Old Iron Hip Silver Senior - Mens M 172.66 2 Ohio 23-60049 Marshal Dan Dillon Silver Senior - Mens M 176.92 3 24-80963 Ole Saddlebags FC Traditional - Mens M 182.37 2 25-92880 CampCreek Skinner Senior - Mens M 182.48 3 26-60073 Krazy Thom Senior Duelist - Mens M 182.52 2 27-38729 Muleskinner Double Duelist M 186.67 1 28-27277343 One More Woody Wrangler M 186.97 2 29-10000052 T.J. Reese Cowboy M 187.54 4 30-66841 Moosetracks Duelist - Mens M 189.76 2 Ohio 31-88082 Ole Rattlesnake Duelist - Mens M 201.51 3 32-35865 Jesse Duke Classic Cowboy M 203.69 1 Ohio 33-96444 Phil M. Withlead Senior - Mens M 204.13 4
34-59450 Straight "N" Narrow Bob Cattlebaron M 204.71 1 35-94351 Rusty Slow Poke 49er - Men M 209.29 4 36-50329 Prairie Dawg Gunfighter - Mens M 210.25 2 Ohio 37-10000065 Wells Fargo Slim Wild West M 221.55 1 Ohio 38-7483 John Reid Senior - Mens M 222.80 5 39-72162 Captain Henry FC Gunfighter - Mens M 225.38 2 Ohio 40-88727 Ani Two Featheres 49er - Ladies F 227.17 1 41-59198 Shenango Joe Elderstatesman M 227.93 2 42-86439 Mossy Pops FC Gunfighter - Mens M 234.31 3 43-85358 Short Gun Shorty Elderstatesman M 236.69 3 Ohio 44-71574 One-Shot Al Silver Senior - Mens M 242.74 4 Ohio 45-27277312 Buckshot John FC Duelist - Mens M 245.94 1 46-50543 Kit Coleen Duelist - Ladies F 245.97 1 Ohio 47-49557 Wagon Master Duke FC Duelist - Mens M 246.48 2 Ohio 48-84189 Luscious Liza Lady Wrangler M 248.20 1 49-41605 I.M. Crankin Elderstatesman M 253.62 4 50-84701 Slow Movin Ron Senior Duelist - Mens M 263.55 3 51-14513 Colorado Coffin Maker FC Gunfighter - Mens M 268.57 4 52-27277330 Angie Oakley Cowgirl F 272.11 2 53-27277346 Gigabit Cowboy 49er - Men M 280.16 5 54-40626 WoodCutter Silver Senior - Mens M 283.43 5 55-10000035 White Hair Silver Senior Duelist M 290.89 1 56-91891 Plowboy Wrangler M 311.29 3 57-10740 Troyer Valley Shootist Elderstatesman M 314.68 5 Ohio 58-27277345 I.V. Woody Lady Wrangler M 346.09 2 59-27277338 PicketWire 49er - Men M 361.98 6 60-96415 Cayenne Kay 49er - Ladies M 366.14 2 61-71575 Needle-Eye Annie Senior - Ladies F 457.94 1 Ohio 62-27277347 Brown Eyes Campbell Silver Senior - Mens M 493.24 6 63-27277349 DNF-Lonesome Lahm Silver Senior - Mens M 90000.00 63 63-27277348 DNF-Mysterious Mary Silver Senior Ladies M 90000.00 63 63-27053 DNF-Montana Smoke Silver Senior Double Duelist M 90000.00 63 Until next time! Buckaroo Bubba
Woodcutter Wagon Master Duke One More Woody Muleskinner Next Shoot: October 4 th thru 6 th, High Noon at Tusco 2013 Sponsored by: Kame s Sports and George Dadas Agency, State Farm
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. Tusco Long Riders Gear Our new vendor requires a minimum order on our Tusco Gear. So we will be taking orders through October and filling the orders after High Noon at Tusco. Tusco Long Riders Badges We are taking orders for Tusco Long Riders badges. They are $65. You can sign up for them at our shoots or contact Buckaroo Bubba at pittfandwr@aol.com. You will pay for them when you receive them. We will make the order after High Noon at Tusco. 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! Cowboy Chronicles We would like to reuse your old Cowboy Chronicles for our future events, Gun Shows, Kame's Day's, etc. You may drop them off at any of our shoots. Please cut off your mailing address or I will do so before they are handed out. If you have a large number of them please let me know ahead of time that you are bringing them so I can make sure I can get them home
New Category at Tusco In light of the shortage of reloading supplies we will be offering 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 someone can t find reloading supplies. 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. Tusco Long Riders Website If you haven t visited our website in awhile check it out. I have added some new features, including new photos, a memorial page, lodging information, range release, events page, and feedback page. Also there are some pages that are under construction, like the Club History page, Videos, and F.A.Q. If you know of someone who belongs on the Tusco Memorial page please let Buckaroo Bubba know at pittfandwr@aol.com. Also, I am looking for a photo of Maywood for the page if anyone has one. High Noon at Tusco 2013 Please send in your registration forms ASAP, time is running out 3 weeks left until High Noon. Check out the High Noon page on our website for Updated Information. High Noon at Tusco 2013 The Westerns of Sam Peckinpah Sponsored By: Kame s Sports & George Dadas Agency, State Farm. Information and Registration forms are now on the website. Start making your plans now to join us in October. October 4 th thru 6 th, 2013 at the Tusco Rifle Club. Friday: Noon to 4pm, Side Matches. Saturday Main Match, Saturday Night 6pm Banquet Catered By: Hog Heaven, Sunday Main Match and Awards. Please note: make checks payable to Lou Polsinelli (Prairie Dawg). Lodging information is on the Information Flyer and on the website.
No Alcohol at High Noon Alcohol will not be permitted at High Noon. This includes the banquet on Saturday night, outside of Campers, and on the range. This a Tusco Rifle Club rule. Please obey the rules. Campers at High Noon Please keep your campers down by the Main Banquet Hall. This is the first big building you see when you pull in. Do NOT park them up on the trap range. They have a Trap Shoot on October 6 th, so we can not use that area. Camper parking is first come, first served. Tent Camping is wherever you want to put your tent. Showers at the range for High Noon The shower house on the trap range will be open for the campers at High Noon. Please keep it clean! Prayers needed Mad Mongo and Cash Munny As most of you know our friends Mad Mongo and Cash Munny are battling Cancer. Please keep them and their families in your thoughts and prayers. If you would like to send a card, please email Buckaroo Bubba at pittfandwr@aol.com and I will email you their mailing addresses. Gaslight Gaslight passed away at the end of August. Please keep him, his family and friends in your thoughts and prayers. Tommy Newton Tommy Newton passed away in August as well. He was one of the founding members of the Sandusky County Regulators. Please keep him, his family and friends in your thoughts and prayers. Shotgun Slade s Wife, Sis Sis, underwent quadruple by-pass heart surgery a few weeks ago. She is doing well on the road to recovery. Please keep her and Shotgun Slade in your prayers for a speedy full recovery. Lost If anyone found a terry towel at the range on Saturday it belongs to Colorado Coffinmaker. It s Black, White, Red, and has some yellow on it. Please contact Buckaroo Bubba if you found it. Thanks. September Issue of SASS Cowboy Chronicle A few of our very own are in the September Issue of the Chronicle. Stone Creek Drifter is on the cover, Sage Chick on pages 46-48, and 59, Fowl Lady and Rowdy Bishop on page 47, and Split Rail on page 51.
Meet a Cowboy/Cowgirl Alias/SASS # - Shenango Joe SASS Regulator #59198 Name Joe Sassone Location Boardman, Ohio Category Elder Statesman Caliber - 45 Colt Occupation Retired Maintenance Supervisor, Retired Gun Smith Hobbies Still do friends Smithing and load Ammo for clubs and instructors Goal in SASS Beat Swiftwater Jack in a Match Where do you shoot Shenango River Rats is my home club, Tusco, West Point, White Oaks in Greenville, Brown Township Regulators and any extra time travel around to clubs in Ohio & PA How long have you been a Cowboy Action Shooter 7 years+ How many times a month do you attend a match 4 to 6 times a month Favorite Thing about Cowboy Action Shooting The most FRIENDLY FOLKS on earth. Anything else you d like to add Over the years I have shot many disciplines with long and short guns. Cowboy Action is by far the most fun I ever had with real guns. Of course the early days with many cap guns that were useless because of wear and my broomstick horse was a thrill never to be forgotten.
Prairie Dawg's Little-Known Facts of Western History The Arizona Rangers Tusco shooter Rye Miles picked his alias after Texas-born J. T. "Rye" Miles, who enlisted in the rangers in 1907. Rye Miles was a former cattleman and was 41 years of age when he enlisted. The Arizona Rangers is an Arizona law enforcement agency modeled on the Texas Rangers. The Arizona Rangers were created by the Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1901, disbanded in 1909, and subsequently reformed in 1957. They were created to deal with the infestations of outlaws in the sparsely populated Territory of Arizona, especially along the Mexican border The rangers were an elite, well-trained, and originally a secretive agency mounted on quality horses and well equipped with modern weapons at the state's expense. The rangers were very effective in apprehending members of outlaw bands. In his history of the Arizona Rangers, stretching back to 1861, Arizona State Historian Marshall Trimble revealed "Arizona s first Ranger may have been one of the founders of Phoenix, Jack Swilling." He goes on to discuss the militia groups formed before Gov. Frederick Tritle authorized the first company of Rangers in Tombstone in 1882. Originally, only one company was authorized, consisting of a captain, a sergeant and not more than twelve privates, but, in 1903, the force was increased to twenty-six men. The rangers, many of whom in the early years were veterans of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, were skilled horsemen, trackers and marksmen. Though originally intended to be covert, the group became widely publicized and conspicuous, sported their badges boldly, and were distinctively well-armed. In addition to dealing with rustlers, and other outlaws, the rangers were called on to deal with several large strikes by Mexican workers at mines in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. During the Cananea Riot in 1906, over twenty striking Mexicans were killed along with at least two Americans. In response, Captain Thomas H. Rynning led a posse of nearly 300 men to Cananea and was successful in helping the Mexican authorities restore order. On February 15, 1909, the Arizona legislature repealed the act establishing the Arizona Rangers. During the seven years of its operations, 107 men served with the rangers. The vote to disband was vetoed by Republican Governor Joseph Henry Kibbey, but the Democratic-dominated assembly overrode the veto, backed by political pressure from county sheriffs and district attorneys in northern Arizona.
After the Arizona Rangers disbanded, many of the former Rangers stayed in law enforcement. Harry C. Wheeler was elected sheriff of Cochise County and Thomas Rynning became the prison warden in Yuma, Arizona. Seven former Rangers reunited in 1940 to ride together in the Prescott Rodeo Parade. In 1955, the Arizona legislature authorized a $100 monthly pension for former Rangers who had served at least six months and who still lived in Arizona. Five men qualified for this pension. William MacLeod Raine wrote the following about crime in Arizona Territory and the effectiveness of the Arizona Rangers in a 1905 edition of Pearson's Magazine: The work assigned to these Rangers was arduous and dangerous one. For many years sheriff's officers and vigilantes had found themselves entirely unable to cope with the lawless bands which made their headquarters in the bad lands. But the condition of affairs had grown unendurable. The temerity of the outlaws was not only a scourge to the community, but a menace to the good name of the Territory. No man's sheep or cattle were safe from the raids of the organized bands of outlaws, who would sweep down on a range, drive away the cattle, reach the mountain fastnesses long before the posse could be organized for pursuit. Raids and murders had become so common that they were scarcely noted. There were a dozen bands of the horse and cattle thieves, at the head of which were such man as 'Bill' Smith, the notorious Augustine Chacon, commonly called 'Pelelo', and the train robber, Burt Alvord. Yet within a year of the time of its organization, this little band of rangers, consisting of a captain, a sergeant and twelve privates, had practically cleared the territory of hundreds of bad characters. Many of them had paid for their lawlessness with their lives and the rest had been driven across the line into Mexico... The Rangers are recruited from old cow-boys and from the ranks of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. They have to be able to rope and ride anything on four legs, as their horses may be killed and remounts are at times absolutely necessary. Especially quick work is required in heading fugitives from the border. A crime is reported, the ranger slaps on the saddle and is away. To the credit of the ranger it may be said that nine times out of ten he brings back his man, dead or alive.
Local Cowboy Events August ~ September 2013 ~ October Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 Firelands Peacemakers 9:45am 5 6 7 Tusc Long Riders 10am 8 Wild Wild West Point 10am Blackhand Raiders 10am 9 10 11 12 13 Shootout at Stoney Bottom Sandusky Co. Regulators 14 Shootout at Stoney Bottom Sandusky Co. Regulators Shenango River Rats 10am 15 Shootout at Stoney Bottom Sandusky Co. Regulators Logan s Ferry Regulators(PA) 9:30am 16 17 18 19 20 21 Firelands Peacemakers- 9:45am Kanaw ha Valley Regulators (W.V.) 9:30am 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Ohio Valley Vigilantes 9:45am 29 Firelands Peacemakers - Noon 30 Notes: Brown Township Regulators Day/Night Shoot Starts at 2pm More Calendars: October, Nov ember, December
Tusco Long Riders Contact Information Tusco Long Riders 2132 Midvale Mine Rd SE Dennison, OH 44621-9019 http://www.tuscolongriders.com 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 Soot Princess Connie Kinsey 330-364-1910 ltltoy1@wilkshire.net Match Director Muleskinner Mike Legg 740-922-1290 pamlegg@wildblue.net Territorial Governor D.J. McDraw Dan Westfall 740-767-2326 danankat@yahoo.com Tusco Long Riders on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tuscolongriders
Thank you to our supporting clubs Blackhand Raiders - Nashpost, Ohio http://www.blackhandraiders.com/home.html Brown Township Regulators - Malvern, Ohio http://www.browntwpsportsmanclub.com/ Firelands Peacemakers - Rochester, Ohio http://www.firelandspeacemakers.com Greene County Cowboys - Xenia, Ohio http://www.gcfng.com/gccowboys/index.html Miami Valley Cowboys - Piqua, Ohio http://www.miamivalleycowboys.org/ Ohio Valley Vigilantes - Mount Vernon, Ohio http://www.ohiovv.com/ Sandusky County Regulators - Gibsonburg, Ohio http://scsclub.org/events/cowboy-action/ Scioto Territory Desperados - Chillicothe, Ohio http://www.sciotodesperados.com/index.asp Shenango River Rats - Masury, Ohio http://www.brookfieldconservation.com/cowboy.html Wild West Point - West Point, Ohio http://www.affox.com/casscores/westpoint.html
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