TUSCO TIMES OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE TUSCO LONG RIDERS The Shooting Makes It Fun, the People Make It Special JUNE 2015 Writer/Editor: Buckaroo Bubba June 6 th 76 shooters joined us for our June shoot at Tusco! Wow, can t thank you all enough for all the support. Congrats to the 24 Clean Shooters! Special Thank you to MetalXWorks, and LouAnn s Sewing Shoppe for the donations to the prize table. It s greatly appreciated. Welcome to Tusco, Bill Thomas, Black Jack Marston, and Brunswick Kid. Hope you all enjoyed yourselves and will be back. Top 20 1 Billy Badazz 2 Rowdy Bishop 3 Stone Creek Drifter 4 Cheyenne Culpepper 5 I.M. Crossdraw 6 Dewey Shootem 7 Black Run Butcher 8 Gray Hare 9 Honey B. Quick 10 Sixgun Seamus 11 Cheatin Charlie 12 Split Rail 13 Buckaroo Bubba 14 Johnny Shiloh 15 John Barleycorn 16 Life-R 17 N.A. Custer 18 Maverick 19 Mad Dog Max 20 Shotgun Chavezz Billy Badazz Bill Thomas Black Run Butcher Buckaroo Bubba Cheatin Charlie Cheyenne Culpepper Colorado Coffinmaker Flat Iron Mike Fowl Lady Hungry Hollar Kit Colleen Krazy Thom Clean Shooters In this Issue NA Custer Old Iron Hip Phil M. Withlead R.S. Dancer Rowdy Bishop Short Gun Shorty Shotgun Chavezz Six Gun Seamus Smokin Iron Split Rail Stone Creek Drifter Uneasy Rider Ohio and PA State Championships Good Luck at End of Trail Next Shoot: July 4th, 2015 Rain, or Shine 1 P a g e
Lady Crossdraw BobTown Cooter De Ja Vue Johnny Shiloh Meet a Cowboy/Cowgirl Alias/SASS # - Bobtown Cooter #94037 How did you pick your Alias Back in the late 70's and 80's I used to do a lot of 4- wheeling. The Dukes of Hazard was a popular TV show back then among our group. One weekend I was 4-wheelin' in WVA and helping pull my pards out of a nasty mudhole. As I stuck my worn-out ballcap clad head out my pick-up truck window, Six Gun Seamus (yes, we hung out together back then, too) commented (mouthed off) that I looked like Cooter, the tow truck driver on the Dukes show. The nick-name stuck. Since Cooter was already taken as an alias and having grown up in Robertsville, OH, where our school baseball team was the Bobtown Bobcats, I added Bobtown to my alias. Most still just call me Cooter. Name Jeff Lotze Location Louisville, OH Category Senior, though I have shot Double Duelist occasionally Caliber 45 Colt Occupation Copier Technician Hobbies CAS, Photography, Camping and Traveling Goal in SASS Shoot a clean match and have my wife start competing Where do you shoot Brown Township, Tusco, Firelands, & Shenango How long have you been a Cowboy Action Shooter Since 2012 - Charter member of Brown Township Regulators Favorite Thing about Cowboy Action Shooting The people!!! Anything else you d like to add My wife and I will be celebrating our 40 th Wedding Anniversary by taking a trip to Alaska this summer. 2 P a g e
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. 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. June Cowboy Chronicle Check out pages 34-37 of the June Edition. High Noon at Tusco 2014 is featured! High Noon at Tusco 2015 I am very proud to announce the 20th Anniversary of High Noon at Tusco 2015. Our annual 3-day event will take place on October 2nd thru 4th, 2015. 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 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.) New Features We now have a Tusco Long Riders YouTube Channel and Google+ Page. Go to our website and follow the links. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel and Follow our Google+ Page. Website New Features If you haven t looked at our website lately check it out. New pages have been added, including the Wallpaper and Other Clubs pages. On the Wallpaper page you can set our official logo as your computer wallpaper. The Other Clubs Page has a link to our supporting clubs. Our News & Events Page stay updated as well. If you have any ideas for our webpage please let me know. 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, new this year, a Black Powder Plainsman Side Match! 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 the last 5 stages and the awards. Please see the flyer for more information. The first 100 registered shooters will receive shooters bags that will include some goodies! 3 P a g e
Prairie Dawg's Little-Known Western Facts Cowboy Boots I -- Design Cowboy boots refer to a specific style of riding boot, historically worn by cowboys. They have a Cuban heel, rounded to pointed toe, high shaft, and, traditionally, no lacing. Cowboy boots are normally made from cowhide leather but are also sometimes made from "exotic" skins such as alligator, snake, ostrich, lizard, eel, elephant, stingray, elk, buffalo, and the like. There are two basic styles of cowboy boots, western and roper. The western style is distinguished by a tall boot shaft, going to at least mid-calf, with an angled "cowboy" heel, usually over one inch high. A slightly lower, still angled, "walking" heel is also common. Although western boots can be customized with a wide variety of toe shapes, the classic design is a narrowed, usually pointed, toe. A newer design, the "roper" style, has a short boot shaft that stops above the ankle but before the middle of the calf, with a very low and squared-off "roper" heel, shaped to the sole of the boot, usually less than one inch high. Roper boots are usually made with rounded toes. The roper style is also manufactured in a lace-up design which often fits better around the ankle and is less likely to slip off, but these two features also create safety issues for riding. When mounting and, especially, dismounting, the slick, treadless leather sole of the boot allowed easy insertion and removal of the foot into the stirrup of the Western saddle. The original toe was rounded and a bit narrowed at the toe to make it easier to insert. While an extremely pointed toe is a modern stylization appearing in the 1940s, it adds no practical benefit, and can be uncomfortable in a working boot. While in the saddle, the tall heel minimized the risk of the foot sliding forward through the stirrup, which could be life-threatening if it happened and the rider were to be unseated. There was often considerable risk that a cowboy would fall from a horse, both because he often had to ride young, unpredictable horses, but also because he had to do challenging ranch work in difficult terrain, that often meant that he could accidentally become unseated by a quickmoving horse. If a rider fell from a horse but had a boot get caught in the stirrup, there arose a very great risk that the horse could panic and run off, dragging the cowboy, causing severe injury and possible death. 4 P a g e
The tall leather shaft of the boot helped to hold the boot in place in the absence of lacing. The tall shaft, comfortably loose fit, and lack of lacing all were additional features that helped prevent a cowboy from being dragged since his body weight could pull his foot out of the boot if he fell off while the boot remained stuck in the stirrup. While mounted, the shaft also protected the lower leg and ankle from rubbing on the stirrup leathers, as well as fending off brush and thorns, particularly if also worn with chaps or chinks. While dismounted, the shaft helped protect the leg and foot from rocks, brush, thorns, and rattlesnakes. In wet weather or creek crossings, the high tops helped prevent the boot from filling with mud and water. The modern roper style boot with a low heel and shorter shaft emerged from the traditional design in response to the needs of modern rodeo, particularly calf roping, where the cowboy had to run to tie the calf as well as to ride. The lower shaft resulted in a less expensive boot, but also allowed the boot to be more easily removed. A laceup design for roper boots became popular as it prevented the boot from falling off too easily and provided more ankle support when on foot, though the lacer also has safety issues because it will not fall off if a rider is hung up in a stirrup, and, lacking a smooth upper, the lacings themselves may make it easier for the boot to become caught in the stirrup in the first place. Decoration varied widely. Early boots were cowhide leather pieced together with single rows of top stitching, but as custom boots were made, cowboys asked for decorative stitching, cutouts in the high tops (early on, often Texas stars), and different materials. The interaction of wild west shows and, later, western movies influenced styles that working cowboys at times adopted. Modern cowboy boots are available in all colors and can be made from just about every animal whose skin can be made into leather, including exotic materials such as alligator and ostrich. One accessory used with cowboy boots are spurs, which are sometimes attached to the heel of each boot for the purpose of cueing a horse while riding. Next month, we'll explore this topic a bit further. See you at the range. -- Dawg 5 P a g e
Ohio and PA State Championships Congrats to everyone who competed at the Ohio and Pa SASS State Championships. Here are some of the results. Two Bit Drifter 2 nd 49er, State Champ and Overall Men s State Champ Maverick 3 rd B-Western Running Iron Rudy 2 nd Buckaroo Darby 1 st Cattlebaron, State Champ Billy Badazz 3 rd Cowboy, State Champ Dewey Shootem 5 th Cowboy Blastin Brad 6 th Cowboy Loco Leadslinger 1 st Classic Cowboy, State Champ Six Gun Scotsman 2 nd Classic Cowboy Sage Chick 1 st Cowgirl, State Champ and Overall Women s State Champ Rimfire Randi 3 rd Cowgirl Fowl Lady 6 th Cowgirl Moosetracks 5 th Duelist Krazy Thom 7 th Duelist Chigger 3 rd Elderstatesman Ohio Cheatin Charlie 1 st Frontiersman, State Champ Mad Dog Max 3 rd Frontier Cartridge Stone Creek Drifter 3 rd Frontier Cartridge Duelist Doc Eells 1 st Gunfighter, State Champ Cheyenne Culpepper 2 nd Gunfighter Captain Henry 4 th FC Gunfighter Buckaroo Bubba 4 th Gunfighter Lady Lopez 1 st Lady 49er Blue Hare 2 nd Lady Duelist, State Champ Honey B. Quick 1 st Lady Senior, State Champ Ani Two Feathers 2 nd Lady Senior Luscious Liza 6 th Lady Wrangler Rowdy Bishop 2 nd Senior Six Gun Seamus 9 th Senior Smokin Iron 1 st Senior Duelist, State Champ Ole Rattlesnake 5 th Senior Duelist Cripple Creek Kid 3 rd Senior Gunfighter RS Dancer 9 th Senior Gunfighter Ole Saddlebags 5 th Silver Senior Gray Hare 3 rd Wrangler, State Champ Longshot Seth 1 st Young Gun, State Champ BDOC 1 st Lady Gunfighter, State Champ and Overall Women s State Champ (PA) John Barleycorn 1 st Gunfighter, State Champ (PA) Gray Squirrel 3 rd Wrangler (PA) Good Luck Good Luck to everyone who is headed down to compete at the SASS World Championships, End of Trail! Do Tusco Proud!! Happy 4 th of July Have a very Happy and Safe 4 th of July! Remember the reason we have our freedom! 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.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 7 P a g e
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