UTAH WAR 1857-2007

We have been preparing for this shoot for 150 year! Our first SASS state championship was organized just 5 years ago. We host 16 clubs in Utah and shooters from a dozen other states.

In the winter of 1857 Utah’s famous winter snows became known to the Army of the West as they tried to reach the Salt Lake Valley, they looked forward to our cool, green summers as much as we do now. We will gather in the Rocky Mountains just outside of Park City, in the small, historical town of Wanship. We meeting at the Smith Place, where we greet shootists from Utah, Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming … Idaho and Oregon … California, Texas, New Mexico, Montana, Arizona, Nebraska, Alaska and other foreign parts.

Utah War then as now was a “local” event with folks coming in from other parts to get in on the fun. We have plenty of room for shooting, camping, Dutch Oven cooking and just hanging out having a good time.

Beehive Bushwhacker, Utah Rifleman, Ace High Bill, Brazos Cain and Buffalo Juan have been stalwarts in organizing this posse, along with Sanpitch Kid, Paleface, Matador Cowboy and JT Wild. The support of Jackalope Roper, Chaos Kelly, Cinch, Colt Heart, Uncle Billy and all the other members of this band of “pioneers and outlaws” has been great. We even have our own judges and professionals such as the infamous John Henry Giles, Judge Ebenezer, Doc Nelson, Doc Warner, Dog Woman, Old Sheriff, Dally and Dos Equis!

There are great times and great fun happening in Utah in 2007.

Last year we replayed "Hell to Pay," this year we will replay “Buchanan’s Blunder”, Utah War, the Western Insurrection. Our shooting bays are lined out across the high mountain meadow and snuggled up against the hillside for 250 yards, which gives us plenty of room to roam. Backed up by supportive vendors and sponsors such as SASS, Navy Arms, Sportsman’s Warehouse, SHOOT! Magazine, Redwing Knives, Cobra Derringers, High Desert Leather, the Ear Shop, Smoker and many others, we are indeed ready to ride!

We’ll have a couple of days for a Shooter’s Clinic, which will help us get this cowboy action shooting thing down, whether new shooter or “experienced, with each student shooting 500+ rounds apiece in two days .

The stages are set by Porter Rockwell, Lot Smith, General Albert Sidney Johnston, the Army of the West and others.

With the likes of Madd Mike and El Jefe Hombre comin' into town we worry some but not much since we have Cowboy Murderin' Maude, Sugar Cain, Li’l Bit Younger, Sweet Jenny Lynn, Carrie Ann Ace, Dirty Alice, Two Gun Dana, Cactus Dixie Rose, Bodacious Moonbeam and Nellie Blue to show us all we need to know about handlin' those Army boys and the riff raff they bring with them in the fastest game in town.

Surrounded by deep rock miners, We’re just a stone’s throw from old Highway 89 which routes from Park City to Coalville to Evanston Wyoming—Fort Bridger.

All of us are lookin' forward to seein' ya on August 4th for the Third Annual Utah SASS State Black Powder Shoot Out and then on the 9th -11th of August for UTAH WAR 2007!