END
of TRAIL, the World Championship of Cowboy Action
Shooting & Wild West Jubilee will celebrate its 31st Anniversary when the "granddaddy of
them all" returns to Founders Ranch, New Mexico, June 16-24, 2012. The theme this year will be celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of New Mexico Statehood and all of the rich Old West History New Mexico boasts.
END of TRAIL 2012 will open with World Championship Wild Bunch Action Shooting being contested on Sunday June 18th and Monday June 19th. It is a twelve stage match using rules very similar to SASS Cowboy Action Shooting, Wild Bunch Action Shooting will employ the use of 1911 pistol rather than single action revolvers, SASS legal pump shotguns, and lever action rifles. The idea for the equipment and dress used in the sport is based on the 1969 movie “The Wild Bunch”. Wild Bunch awards will be on Tuesday night.
Also, on Monday and Tuesday, June 18th and 19th there will be a 6 stage action shooting
warm up matches for competitors wishing to become acclimated to the
higher elevations of New Mexico. The Warm-up matches are open to only to registered
shooters and Conventioneers.
 This is followed by Side Matches for all
shooters on Wednesday, June 20th. The official END of TRAIL World Championship Opening ceremonies for all participants
will take place on Wednesday evening.
The
END of TRAIL Main Match will take place Thursday,
June 21st through Saturday, June 23rd. The competitors participate in twelve individual stages
shooting four stages per day Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. END of TRAIL is a four gun event. That is,
the shootist is required to perform using two six-guns,
rifle and shotgun in each of the main match stages. Shooters can expect to fire ten pistol, up to ten
rifle and up to six shotgun rounds for each stage
and should be prepared to bring enough ammunition
for the warm up and main matches.
The Awards ceremony on Sunday afternoon, June 24th will be just for Action
Shooters. In addition, awards for costume contests
and side matches will be given during the week-long
event in an effort to shorten the ceremony and allow
participants to better utilize their final day of
the END of TRAIL.
RANGE ACCESS
As the spectator and guest crowds at END of
TRAIL have grown, we have seen more and more
potential for accidents grow with them. The
Wild Bunch, and our liability carrier have
all shared concern about uncontrolled access
to the immediate vicinity of the shooting. Only registered shooters, match officials, and
registered media representatives have access
to the range area (that is, inside the bays).
This means your family and friends must watch
from behind the safety fence.
SHOOTER SCORING
INFORMATION
Each evening our staff of ace scorers will
be working diligently to keep up with the competitor
scores. In process score sheets will be printed
and posted Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings.
Please check your scores and make sure they
are correct. If your scores appear to be in error, please
report the matter to the SASS Admin.
The Admin personnel will communicate
directly with the scoring staff.
Every effort will be made to correct the error
as quickly as possible. Any shooter attempting
to communicate directly with the scoring staff,
either about the scores, or the time of day,
is in dire jeopardy of being disqualified from
the match. Leave them alone!
BRASS PICKUP
Our restrictive schedule
does not allow time between individual shooters
and posses for brass pick-up. END of TRAIL is a lost brass match. Cadets are onsite to pick up and collect brass. The brass will be sorted, cleaned, and bagged for purchase by the volunteer group for fundraising.
FUNCTION FIRE RANGE
A special warm-up range has been set aside as function
fire areas. Also, END of TRAIL is not the place
to come and practice, sight in your firearms
or hold private side matches. If you need to
function fire your firearms to verify safe,
reliable operation, approach any range officer
supervising an operating range. When there
are no lines of waiting shooters, you will
be given permission to send a few rounds down
range.
SQUADDING
When
registration for END of TRAIL closes, all shooters’
names and numbers are entered into our computerized
scoring program.
To the extent possible all requested pairings
will be accommodated by placing individuals
on adjacent squads. Once these squadding assignments
are completed, the program randomly scrambles
the remaining shooters’ numbers and groups
them be tens. Presto! We’ll have our
computer selected teams.
Please notify the END of TRAIL officials
of your departure if you withdraw prior to
the end of the match.
We squad two posses into each shooting slot at
each stage. This amounts to approximately 2
minutes for each shooter, beep-to-beep. It
is very important everyone make every possible
effort to help keep us on schedule.
IT IS IMPERATIVE you find your scheduled shooting
times on the shooting schedule. You must be
at the designated individual and team events
by your scheduled times. We recommend writing
the times on the Match at a Glance table included
in the Shooter's Program.
IMPORTANT: Range officers will not
allow any posse to shoot out of squadded order. If
you miss your assigned shooting time you will be DNF'd
on that stage.
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