Doc Holloman

The Tejas Caballeros will be hosting a Wild Bunch Range Officer Class at the 'Cabs' home range near Blanco, Texas at 9:30 AM on Sunday, April 28. Wild Bunch shooters from any club are welcome. The cost of the class is $25 for initial qualification and $15 for refresher. While refreshers are not required (except every two years for Wild Bunch Territorial Governors), they are encouraged every 2-3 years. (Note: the Wild Bunch Range Officer class that was previously scheduled for April 10 by our sister club, the Texican Rangers, has been cancelled due to the instructor having a family conflict.) Shooters planning to attend are encouraged to register with Doc Holloman, the Cabs Wild Bunch Range Officer at docholloman56@gmail.com so we will know how many student handouts to prepare. The Tejas Caballeros "Determination, Texas" shooting facility is located at 8545 Ranch Road 1623 Blanco, Tx 78606 7.6 miles west of the old Blanco courthouse at (4th Street becomes FM 1623.) The Gate is marked with SASS signs and is on the left if you are coming from Blanco. For more info, contact Doc Holloman at the email above. The Course is several hours so plan to bring your lunch.

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Look on page 12 under Common Parameters: " - Standard length magazine release only- it may not be extended or oversized." This used to be the rule only for Traditional. For Modern, extended (but not Oversized) was OK.

OK. Tried to have it raised in the TG meeting last night but it was reported back to me that because the WB TGs are organized yet, they weren't discussing any rule changes. Our TG could not make it to EOT. I sent the issue through the CAS TG and the WB TG from another club. A number of clubs haven't even selected a WB TG yet. I will have our TG try to raise it. In the meantime I will be shooting a State Match in 3 weeks with illegal pistols. But again, why this change? I do not recall it being mentioned in any of the announcements or discussion of the Wild Bunch changes. I only became aware of it because someone mentioned it on Facebook a couple of days ago, and I run our club's Wild Bunch program.

The recent rule release has the following regarding mag releases under "common parameters" (i.e., applying to both traditional and modern guns) : - Standard length magazine release only- it may not be extended or oversized. This is a change (and a very unwelcome one for "modern" shooters, as extended (but not oversized mag releases had previously been allowed in the Modern category). What gives? Why the change? I thought the idea was to make Wild Bunch more open and inclusive? Do I need to go out and buy new standard length mag releases for my 3 match 1911s ro be legal again (and then not be able to reach the mag release with my short thumbs without completely changing my grip)? Is it possible this was a mistake in the new handbook? Are we going to ban the beavertail safeties next?

Thanks for the update. Doc

Is there an update to the Range Officer Guide coming out soon? Our club is having an RO class the end of April (we desperately need a couple of additional ROs and I need a refresh.) It appears the "old" version of the RO Guide can no longer be accessed on the SASS Website.

Thanks, Misty for the update.

The longstanding rule says slings are not allowed on Main Match rifles. However as Doughboy was not a Main Match before this year, it was a reasonable interpretation that issue slings were allowed on the BAMM-style rifles in the Doughboy side match (as well as in the BAMM match). Now that Doughboy is a main match category, was the intent that issue slings are no longer allowed?

Never mind, the new Rules are out! https://www.sassnet.com/the-shooting/cowboy-action-shooting/handbooks-rules

Anyone know the answer to this: Will the new rules list Teddy Roosevelt and Doughboy as regular Wild Bunch categories? Misty's announcement appears to say that, but a posting about EOT could be read to mean that has been changed.

Tejas Caballeros Next Wild Bunch Match is Sat Feb 3. 5 regular stages plus a Doughboy/Teddy Roosevelt side match.

Yes, but. Open category is only sanctioned for local matches. But within that, commanders and officer models are good, as are 9mms .40s 10mms, and .38 Supers. Within traditional and Modern categories, the 1911 rules appear to be unchanged. Any SASS legal shotgun is OK, so 20 and 16 gauge are allowed (had my eye on a used 20 gauge Model 12 the other day. HMMMM) . Your .32 rifle should be OK. I'm guessing that with the opening up of the rifles allowed, that "rifle not last" will become the rule.

Maybe this will be clarified when the new Wild Bunch rule book comes out. The existing rules are silent on this point: If shooting a match in the Doughboy or Doughboy or TR categories, are both Traditional and Modern 1911s allowed (both in terms of the guns themselves and in terms of shooting style?) I would hope it is shooters choice.

Update on .38 rifles for Wild Bunch. Will it require “Rifle not last?”. I had planned to test my .38 rifle against shot timer after today’s Tejas Caballeros Cowboy match, but circumstances made it unnecessary. I ended up as a TO for our posse and was able to observe whether the timer was picking up .38 Special rifle shots over several stages. In short, the answer is “sometimes.” Interestingly, while the load being used was important, and to a lesser degree, whether the stage was open or enclosed was a factor, perhaps just as important was barrel length. Two shooters back to back on the same semi-enclosed stage, the first shooting 105 grain oner 2.5 gr of Trailboss, the other shooting 158gr over 5gr of Trailboss. Most, but not all of the first shooters shots were picked up. But, counter intuitively, the second shooter’s shots, with the heavier load, were not picked up at all. The big difference appears to be barrel length. The first shooter was using a 73 with a 20 inch barrel, while the second was shooting a Marlin with a 24 inch barrel. As another data point, I was shooting 147 gr over 2.6gr of Titegroup, using my 73 with a 19 inch barrel and the other TO said the timer picked up all of my shots. I was taking care to hold the timer at shoulder height, as close to the shooter as I could without crowding him. Bottom line, the timer would not reliably and consistently pick up the .38 rifle shots, even with heavy loads.