The Wild Bunch Wire

We had a Great Wild Bunch Match Sunday. Shell Stuffer was First overall and First Men's Modern. Mean Mary, for the second year in a row, was First Lady Overall, and First Lady's Modern. Other category winners include: Stomper,"Junior Boy;" Don Jorge, Senior Modern; Buffalo Dick, Senior Traditional; and Blastin Brad, Men's Traditional. State Champions include Stomper, Mean Mary, Shell Stuffer, Don Jorge, Comstock Charlie (Senior Traditional). Top Ten: Shell Stuffer, Billy the Avenger, Don Jorge, Jean Duke, Coop Dog, Burn Through, Blastin Brad, Hairless, Mackinaw Jack, and Buffalo Dick. Full results are on the Long Nine Cowboys Facebook page. Some calle…

Just wanted to tip my hat to Tully Mars, for his great performance, winning the SASS Western Regional Wild Bunch Side Match. A shout out to Molly Magoo for writing fun and interesting stages, especially within the constraints of someone else's range and targets! It was a blast! Cheers, FJT P.S. And, I got a new verse for my song, "Wreck of the Ol' '97"... :o

Received a Email from Sunshine Kay this AM and there are 30 more openings for Wild Bunch at 2022 EOT. So, please pass the word if you know of someone that wants to sign up

In my opinion it would not take very long for the BS that goes on on the SASS wire to permeate the WB forum if it were made a part of the same web site. kR

On behalf of the Wild Bunch Range Operations Committee, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Holy Terror to our committee. Holy Terror not only brings a wealth of Cowboy and Wild Bunch experience but also beneficial knowledge of multiple other shooting disciplines. This past weekend she was the ESP Division High Lady at the Truglo Texas State IDPA Championship using an SR 1911 custom. We welcome Holy Terror and look forward to her support of the sport of Wild Bunch Action Shooting. Legendary Lawman WB ROC Chair

Just as a heads up, Kay Brand for EoT with the Arizona territorial rough riders is saying that the Wild Bunch match is currently taking applications for the wait list only. I see this as an exciting thing. I do not like the idea of people being excluded, just the level of interest!

Just to make things a little more interesting, this year at the Missouri State Wild Bunch match we will be awarding an engraved '97 shotgun to the top Clean shooter! Join us Sept 17-19th, Friday starts with sidematches, including a new 3 stage Doughboy/Teddy Roosevelt match, then 10 wild main match stages across Saturday and Sunday. Saturday will feature a banquet with costume and side match awards. For more details check out the website. For up to date info and more details check out https://bearcreekvolunteers.com/StateWB.html 2021_BCV_MO_State_Wild_Bunch_Application.pdf

I’m sure there are others out there who enjoy tinkering and building. I’ve looked at buying a second 1911 as a backup, or just because. Then it occurred to me that I could get some of the changes I would like by changing the slide. Probably get a new barrel as well. Anyone have a recommendation of brands? Places to buy? Complete uppers for AR pattern rifles are very common but I don’t see 1911 “complete uppers” offered for sale, other than .22 conversions. Probably because they will require fitting. If no complete uppers, same question about purchasing slides and barrels.

The SASS headquarters has sent out an Email survey of EOT. ALL of the questions must be answered before the survey can be submitted. For those of you that attended the EOT Wild Bunch match ONLY, just mark the #3 box in the cowboy match questions and indicate that you did NOT shoot the cowboy match.

Yep, Not only does he take on Match Director position, he wins overall Championship. Congrats !!!!! And Half a Hand Henri, Ladies overall champion

WOW, what a match!! Twelve stages of some hot and heavy wild bunch shooting. One stage: 42 pistol. Man, was it fun. Yes, it was HOT and HUMID but HEY, Wild Bunch shooter are tough. Day one, Friday, was 3 stages of warm up, didn't take long to get warmed up. We done speed pistol, rifle and shotgun, each after you shot the warm up stage. Elwood James did an awesome job on a Teddy Rosevelt and Doughboy stages. They were really popular and everyone had a blast shooting them. To cap things off, Artemus Von Schutze organized the long range BAMM match and a Sgt York match, both were very well organized and a blast to shoot. Saturday started with a welcome f…

A little survey on which type ( flat or ached) of mainspring housing that is on your WB 1911 's and your reason for your choice? Nawlins

On behalf of Serenity, I am posting a request for volunteers to help out at the WB EOT side matches on Friday, June 18 from 2 pm to 5 pm. If anyone can see their way clear to spare one hour or even a half hour during this time, we would appreciate you volunteering either for the long range or the Teddy Roosevelt/Doughboy match. With a handful of volunteers, everyone can have enough time to shoot everything they want while supporting EOT and lightening the load for the organizers. If you can find the time to volunteer to help out, please PM me and I will get back to you or you can just post on this thread that you are willing to help and we will contact you directly…

Bought a couple of M12s in the last couple years. The first was rebuilt into a trench gun and runs like a top. But the second that I rebuilt into a riot gun has an issue. It cycles, feeds, ejects, fires, inertia lock releases, action slide lock releases the slide and it looks great. BUT, if I pull back on the action slide handle to cycle the gun but have not fired it or hit the slide lock button it jams up and takes some wrestling to get the handle forward again. It feel like it’s slipping by something and then jamming. But once I get it unstuck I then can push in the slide lock while pushing forward on the handle and everything works fine. Doesn’t do it every time. I don…

Hello, I have a Norinco (IAC) '97 with 2 symptoms: (1) Sometimes it will not feed a round into the chamber. This will occur regardless of how fast or slow I work the slide. 2) Sometimes while feeding a round into the chamber the following round will drop out of the bottom of the gun. Thank you for any assistance. Deputy Dan

I just picked up a NOS Pedersoli Lightning in .45 Colt. YES, I have heard all the horror stories regarding Lightning clones, but, hey, I like a challenge and if I can get it to run right, it could be a game changer for me. I took it to the range this morning, out of the box, for a function check. First issue, difficult to load. The flat nose Hormady Cowboy rounds hung up in the loading gate and had to be jiggled around to get them to feed into the magazine. OK , maybe that is the ammo, and that should be a loading table issue, not a time killer. Moving on, second issue: racked the slide for the first round. Pull the trigger. Nothing. Hammer doesn't drop. Tu…

Here are the target distances for the EOT WB Side matches: BAMM 2 targets at 75 yards and 2 targets at 150 yards Round count 10 rifle SGT YORK 2 rifle targets at 75 yards and 6 pistol targets from 30 to 60 yards Round count 5 rifle and 6 pistol TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND DOUGHBOY STAGE rifle targets at 60 yards, pistol and shotgun at normal WB distance Round count for TR 21 pistol, 7 rifle, 5 shotgun Round count for DB 21 pistol, 10 rifle, 5 shotgun Any questions?

WOW, this is why I love Wild Bunch: Main Match Pistol 322 Rifle 68 Shotgun 76 Also, you will need ammo for the 3 stage warmup. side match speed pistol, speed rifle, speed shotgun. PLUS, if you haven't had enough, The new Teddy Roosevelt long range, (Damn, gonna have to buy a another gun) the Doughboy stage, the Sgt. York stage and the BAMM long range. Side note: Things to practice, shotgun reloads and rifle, (Yes, rifle) reloads. As far as I know, there is still open slots for EOT Wild Bunch. UPDATE ON ROUND COUNT FOR EOT WILD BUNCH !!!!!!!!!!! PISTOL 336 RIFLE 61 SHOTGUN 70

ROUND COUNT FOR WB SIDE MATCH DAY, FRIDAY JUNE 18, 2021 WARM UP STAGES – 3: 70 Pistol, 14 Rifle, 18 Shotgun Teddy Roosevelt Stage: 21 Pistol, 7 Rifle, 5 Shotgun Doughboy Stage: 21 Pistol, 10 Rifle, 5 Shotgun BAMM Match: 10 Rifle Sgt York: 5 BAMM Rifle, 6 Pistol Speed Matches: Pistol: 14, Rifle: 10, Shotgun: 6

Two years ago I took the reins from Sutter Lawman at Gold Country Wild Bunch in Sloughhouse, California. Sutter Lawman started what I believe to be the first stand alone SASS WB club when he founded GCWB in 2009. Sutter believes in giving the shooter the utmost opportunity to capitalize on their strengths as a shooter. He began the shoot it your way style of stage design. In other words, it's the shooter that decides if they start with the pistol, rifle or shotgun, gun order is shooters choice. Shooter may start at any of the 3 positions. For example the shooting and gun order would be like this: Must use 3 positions. Round Count, 6 shotgun, 21 pistol, 7 rifle: If wi…

UPDATED 5/20/21 PISTOL 336 RIFLE 61 SHOTGUN 70

Loco Poco Lobo and I would like to congratulate Renegade Roper and her crew for putting a very good NY State Match. The match had 60 + shooters. The stages where fast and challenging. Looking forward to next year's match!!!!! Nawlins Kid

G'day folks! I am searching for a gun to shoot Traditional with (finally) and its been hard. I need something with sights I can SEE....and was looking for a Remington R1... but that proved fruitless.. I HAVE found a Colt down here in Australia (at only a moderately eye watering price... ;D) BUT I'm thinking its being misidentified..or at least poorly described. It is advertised as a "Colt 1911 Government National Match" with a serial GV210XXX... I THINK it is just their basic "1911 Classic" (which comes with a "National match" barrel according to the catalogue) and would appreciate any help with confirming what it is based on that GV prefix??? Thanke…

I'm currently using a Kimber Classic Custom for WB, with a RIA Rock Standard as my backup. I was wondering whether there was a Favored Modern 1911 model out there, the way the Ruger Vaquero seems to be the favorite in CAS. At my club the Traditional shooteres seem to favor Springfields, but there seems to be no clear consensus on Modern. DOC sends.

There are still slots for WB at EOT! We will have enough shooting to make up for any desire to shoot cowboy!