"Real Cowboys Shoot Duelist"

[Fox Creek Kid]

Looks like the Gamers are up in arms about an article in the SASS Chronicle bashing them!! I think SASS is a little too late & the horse is out of the barn, i.e., they'll have to kill the patient to save it!! 

http://sassnet.com/forums/index.php?s=c9bc6791230204f4b7470b983791d3ae&showtopic=161306

[Shotgun Franklin]

SASS has been a Gamer Sport for some time now. The vast majority of shooters could care less about looking like a Cowboy, or any other Western character, much less using guns and ammo that might have been used back then.
SASS is a money making business not an historical organization trying to portray the way things really were.

[Books OToole]

I'm going to have to find a copy of the article and determine if the author was making a historical point or just poking the (SASS) bear with a stick.

Books

[Dutch Limbach]

A picture is worth 1000 words.

[Fox Creek Kid]

Look at the great length Books went to to color coordinate a duster with his hair!! 

[Johnny McCrae]

A video is also worth a 1000 words

http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk81/jvsaffran/Dr%20bob/?action=view&current=DrBob.flv

Dr. Bob at the 2008 NCOWS Nationals

[Blackpowder Burn]

That just reminds me why I rarely use the SASS wire.  What a ridiculous bunch of whining because someone has a different opinion on a topic and dares to express it!  Definitely not in the "spirit of the game".

Makes me really appreciate the folks on this forum.

[Shotgun Franklin]

Man I know that. I've never been talked down to or berated on any site like I was on the 'Wire'. Gave it up long ago.

[River City John]

I usually shoot Duelist but if it's cold and fingers are kinda numb, or my thumbs ache (touch of arthritis), or that front sight insists on jumping around a bit, then I'll support my hand.
That's one of the reasons I like Working Cowboy, or Range Detective. No hold stipulated.


I have found that, for me, I'm more consistently accurate shooting Duelist with a 7 1/2" barrel.


RCJ

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Howdy Pards ,
I was a $a$$ member for a long time my # 2452 . The sport started changing and was never the same fun loving sport . We were all about shooting and laughing and enjoying ourselves . I have shot with Tex and found HIM to be OK . And yes he enjoys shooting Duelist and shoots percussion revolvers a lot . The GAMERS have Destroyed sass shoots , closer faster and lighter loads . The term Cowboy loads ,now mean powder puff loads . Would you want to Defend your families life with those loads , I know they will say it's just a game ? Then bring back the 650 fps rule , that we all started with back in the 90's .
Keep NCOWS on the right track and don't let this happen to us . ROCK STEADY !!!

[Dr. Bob]

Thanks Johnny!  If I could only shoot fast and look that good!  Oooooops, I mean shoot that accurately!         

[Tascosa Joe]

I think I have been on the SASS Wire twice, the 2nd time I found that someone had been using my alias and was being a real a**.  I have never been on since.

The real Tascosa Joe

[Texas John Ringo]

I gotta say, whatever they are selling, a lot of folks are buying. (more than NCOWS)
I've shot CAS/SASS since 1994. Still do, started NCOWS last year. Like them both, BUT SASS is still my go to game.
So cut 'em some slack, it's still a shooting game, same as NCOWS. NCOWS shooters try to belittle SASS and SASS shooters try to belittle NCOWS. Both need to tone it down,....... a lot.

Have Merry Christmas

Ringo

[John Smith]

I find very little  "belittling" of SASS on the NCOWS site.  As to the article in the CC. why are we even discussing it, it doesn't apply or affect NCOWS.

[ira scott]

I don't think there's a very large percentage of "real cowboys" in either NCOWS or SASS! It's sure fun to PRETEND to be a cowboy! And if you're into puttin on a show more than being fast, shootin one-handed,(like the "real" hollywood cowboys), makin big BOOMS and alot of smoke, sure looks cooler than shootin two-handed slippen the hammer makin the targets say ping, ping ping.

[Fox Creek Kid]

I find very little  "belittling" of SASS on the NCOWS site.  As to the article in the CC. why are we even discussing it, it doesn't apply or affect NCOWS.

Oh yes it did, however you weren't around then. 

[Koyote]

I'm going to have to find a copy of the article and determine if the author was making a historical point or just poking the (SASS) bear with a stick.

Books

Howdy Pard;
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KK~!~