Tully Mars

Congratulations FJT! This is a Great addition to the sport of Wild Bunch Shooting in California!

Hello fellow WB shooters! Gold Country Wild Bunch is proud to announce the 2022 California State Wild Bunch Championship to be held on May 19-22, 2022 in Sloughhouse, California at the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center. Free dry camping, water is available to fill you tanks. Tully Wild_Bunch_Application_2022__Final.pdf

C. N. Double, That's my question as well. Thanks for stating it more clearly. Tully

Having a split long gun scenario is just asking for troubles. However writing a stage where the long gun is shot until empty, staged and used again would eliminate many issues. What is the call for an open action with a round on the carrier, but not in the chamber? Pretty sure it's a miss for and un-fired round or a P for illegal round if it was an overload. I know the rule for re-staging a long gun is hammer down on an empty, but it if the action was opened, then that long gun is safe to leave the shooters hands as per my understanding of the rules had this not be a re-staging scenario, the shooter would have only received a miss or a P. It's my opinion the rules should be consistent regarding guns being discarded and or re-staged. Tully In retrospect, there's no "P", the illegal ammo was not used.

Although it's been several years since I've stayed in hotels for WR, the Deer Valley Days Inn was always clean and reasonably priced. As GJ says hotel parking lots have been know to attract undesirables though. Everyone I know that has stayed at the Anthem Hampton Inn has been happy. It would be wise to bring your guns into your room where ever you stay or leave them with a buddy that's camping. You're welcome to leave your guns with me. I'm camping at the Clays center at Ben Avery. Tully

Thank you.

Back 40, do you have a link or name we can look under? Thanks, Tully

Wild Bunch is a separate shooting game than CAS. WB is not a category, but it's own sport with different rules. In my opinion had we left it 5 rounds using only 1911 and 1911A1's shooting CAS sweeps, within a CAS match, it would never have grown past a side match.

The Nevada crew put on a great match! Wylie Fox Esquire and J. J. and the Nevada crew really did an awesome job! The shoot was fun and challenging, lunches were provided, all shooters received a magazine supplied by Kingsnake with "2021 Nevada State WB Championship" engraved on it, potlucks, good company! As match directors they have decided it's time to move on and let someone else take over next years Nevada State WB championship, this will be a tough act to follow. Many thanks for all you two have done for the sport! Tully

Thanks FJT, It was a fun match! The whole weekend was a great! Sorry I didn't give you more of a challenge in the shoot off. Tully

I would like to see a WB only shooting events list with, monthly, State and larger events. Schedule of each clubs shooting days would be nice without having to sort through the cowboy dates on the SASS wire. Tully

Keep the two separate, but add a link that directs folks here. On the top of the SASS home page is a directory, the last tab is "SASS wire forum", when you click that tab, SASS wire, SASS saloon, SASS merchants, SASS classified all appear. Could the WB wire be added to the list? Many people don't know it exists. There's a current post on the SASS wire about how difficult it is to join the WB wire as well. If there's truth to that, then it should be addressed. Tully

125, I believe

Congratulations to all the winners! Great job She'll stuffed!

Sounds like a great match! I wish I could have made it. Tully

Wedged, just suites me and my hand better. Provides a great grip, sucks it right into my palm. Tully

Doc, We too have a few folks asking to shoot TR or DB, I hasn't been a priority for me while the State match was approaching. We'll get it going. I just received some targets that would be perfect for both. TM

Straight from the horse's mouth! Thank you Mr Ed!

DB and EJ, Our bays are 25-30 yards deep at the most. We are moving towards smaller rifle targets instead of distance. I wish we could shoot 50+ yards. We will be incorporating TR and Doughboy in the near future, we have a few shooters asking for both. DB and JFN, I agree about shotgun, we're trying to move them around so they aren't just in a row. We are also trying some different SG targets that are more easily moved than our current targets. We have a few that throw fliers, those folks like. Tully

Hi Doc Holloman, I don't see that happening at bigger matches. Monthly's have a bit more leeway. Personally I wouldn't have a problem moving in that direction. However I don't see it happening in the future of WB. Why? It opens the door for moving towards using the 1911 on all targets and avoiding using the shotgun and rifle. There's a concern about WB not being a 3 gun match anymore. GCWB is pushing the limit with rifle optional. Tully

JFN, That's my feeling with the rifle as well, it's capable of good accuracy, yet we don't take advantage of it. GCWB has started using smaller targets set back further or a Texas Star or dueling tree on a few stages. For the adventurous they may shoot those targets with their pistol, most will use the rifle. Given all that I missed 2 rifle targets on my last stage of the Ca State WB match that were easy rifle targets, no target is to big or to close to be missed. We do have a stage that doesn't conform to WB rules, we haven't shot it in awhile due to the high round count and lack of components. It's called Muchos Federales and is based on the last scene of the movie Wild Bunch. 40-70 targets, move appropriately within SASS WB rules, use as many guns as you like or just the 1911, shoot all KD's until down, may reengage targets. This is great fun, especially using only the 1911. We had a side match called a Turkey shoot. There were 5, 24" x 24" no shoot targets spaced close together and set at 25 yards with the Turkeys behind them. The Turkeys were 6" to 8" KD's, some of which only a portion of the targets was visible, 2 had another KD behind them, the front one had to be knocked down to engage the one behind it. 10 targets, 10 rounds, must engage targets from all 3 windows, move appropriately with the rifle within SASS WB rules. It was a challenge and people really enjoyed it. It showed folks that a rifle is capable of hitting what it's aiming at if it's sighted in. Tully

That's great news Serenity!

Hi Trooper, It takes some getting use to. You might have to do it for a little while before folks see the it for what it is. Some folks have a difficult time not being told just how to do something, but once it dawns on them that they are now in the drivers seat it helps. Tully

You bet. When I get home from work, most likely tomorrow.

FJT, Thank you for the kind words! It was great shooting with Ms Penny Ante and yourself as well as getting to know you both better. Tully