CAS Aliases

John in B.C.

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Are all the aliases registered with SASS or do the 'local' groups run a seperate registry?

The reason I ask is I see some aliases listed on the WCFSS site that I can't find on the SASS Alias search engine.

Anybody know for sure???:confused:
 
John
Some shooters have different aliases for the WCFSS than they have for SASS. this is also true of the AFS and some of the other organizations. The reason this happens is that you while may join the WCFSS or the AFS and not be a member of SASS, the alias you choose will be protected only in that organization. If and when you join SASS your chosen alias may not be available. SASS does not make their alias list available to other organizations so those groups can not tell you what is available through SASS.
Hope this clears up your questions.
 
I have a question.
If you take a name, and register it with SASS, then drop out for a few years, is the name still held, or will it be recycled if you don't keep up your dues?
 
John in B.C. said:
Are all the aliases registered with SASS or do the 'local' groups run a seperate registry?
Arguably, "CAS Alias" is a misconception, as it implies a single name used by any one individual throughout cowboy action shooting as an over-all sport ...

Rather, official SASS aliases are registered with SASS ... WCFSS ones with WCFSS ... NCOWS with NCOWS ....

Don't forget that these are different organizations with different memberships (i.e. with only some overlap), so the lack of alias co-ordination is not at all surprising. In fact, there are individuals who belong to two or more of these organizations under different aliases, if only because the moniker they chose when they joined the first group was unavailable for them to use in the other organization.
 
GrantR said:
Rather, official SASS aliases are registered with SASS ... WCFSS ones with WCFSS ... NCOWS with NCOWS ....
I see that WCFSS is the Canadian version of SASS - NCOWS is in the US like SASS - how does NCOWS differ from SASS?
 
NCOWS (The National Congress of Old West Shootists) is a smaller organization centered in the United States which concentrates significantly more on historical accuracy - and that includes allowing double-action, and even semi-automatic, firearm designs which predate 1900 (in appropriate categories) but disallowing other "non-historic" designs approved by SASS ...

Rather than go into any greater detail, here is a link to the NCOWS website, where you can read up on their philosophy and rules -
http://www.ncows.org/

One thing that you should be aware of: SASS is a privately-owned "for profit" corporation, but it certainly dominates the "Cowboy Action Shooting" field ... to the point that it has even protected that phrase as a registered trademark - which is why you will see other organizations only using it with their permission, or else describing their activity as "Western Action Shooting" (as used by NCOWS, and trademarked by them in "self defence") or some other such phrase, such as "frontier action shooting" or the like.

NCOWS is a non-profit, member-run organization - i.e. truly a "club" in comparison with SASS - but generally seems to get lost in the shadow of SASS.

Another, comparatively tiny, organization I belong to is the Grand Army of the Frontier (GAF) which admirably combines my two main interests of "frontier action shooting" and Victorian-era military history/re-enacting - as summed up in the introduction to its Mission Statement:
Our Goal is to promote and enhance the portrayal of Victorian Era Military Personnel, from all Nations, while actively participating in either of the hobbies of Cowboy Action Shooting and/or reenacting, while always striving to ensure our Attire and our Personas are appropriate to this Era, whether in the 100% percent authentic arena or while portraying a Hollywood version...
In GAF I can really indulge in the "alias" aspect of things - either in my original CAS personna as "John M. 'Rattlesnake Jack' Robson" (a real-life NWMP constable of one year's service, and later a Scout with the Rocky Mountain Rangers during the 1885 North West Rebellion), or his first alter-ego Major John M. Robson, Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch) or in the next alter-ego I am now getting together: Cpl. John "Jack" Robson, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada (uniformed as the QOR were when they were dispatched to the West in 1885.) In case you are interested, here is a link to the GAF website (membership requires only the appropriate interest, by the way ... no fees or dues!) ...
http://www.grandarmyofthefrontier.org/

By the way, if you go to the GAF home page , you'll see an old-time photo depicting some aspect of Victorian-era military life. Whatever photo comes up is only one of a series which "rotate" randomly ... to see the others, you have to wait a couple of seconds, and then refresh the page, then do it again ... and so on. If one comes up which you've already seen that likely doesn't mean you've seen them all, just that the particular image repeated early in the random order ... I supplied all the non-US images shown there, such as this 1885 photograph showing personnel of the Governor-General's Body Guard and the York and Simcoe Rangers, posed with some "locals", during the North West Rebellion ...
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... or this one, of members of the Halifax Provisional Battalion of Infantry during their 1885 garrison duty at Medicine Hat ...
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(Definitely part of Canada's "Wild West" history, and thus positively ideal for choosing an alias!)
 
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As the posts above have said, each organization registers only its own members. For example, when I joined SASS six oe seven years ago, I tried to get "Jerry Potts" as an alias. He was a Canadian 'Character' :canadaFlag: (in more ways than one ;) .) However, some guy in California had registered the name, and it wasn't available, :( so I opted for 'Bear Child Potts', as Bear Child was his Blood name. Picking an alias can be part of the fun of shooting CAS, particularly if you are a history nut like me.

Kindest Regards
 
GrantR said:
Bear Child:

Can't rightly tell for sure from your li'l avatar picture, but I trust you're bit more handsome than your namesake ..... ;)

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Take it from me Grant.
He ain't:D
That's why Irish Gal always kisses him with the lights off:bigHug:
Good thing Matlock Horn and Kan Kan Katie inherited their mother's looks:wave:
 
I think poor Jerry was in a horse wreck or two in his day. Don't look like much for the 'most dangerous man in Western Canada' does he? Or maybe he just got back from Ft Whoop-up?
 
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Most Dangerous Man In Canada?!?

During his warrior years (before the NWMP), Potts was a revered Blood Sub-Chief. On many occasions, he out fought and out witted his enemies. In 1870, when 800 Assiniboine and Cree, led by Piapot, raided into south western Alberta aiming at rubbing out the Bloods, Potts took a leadership role in repulsing them; It is said that the bones of more than half of them remained in Alberta; Piapot himself fled wounded. Potts is reputed to have taken many scalps over the three days.

Now with respect to Cold Lake Kid's comments :rolleyes: It is a good thing his road-kill stew is as good as it is :p

I guess I can't really take umbrage with Cold Lake; As you can see by this picture, I haven't aged as well as some :(

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That's me on the right, with one of my Pards, Russ T. Springs.
 
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Bear Child,
Yes appearances are certainly deceiving in this case.

Every thing I have read about Jerry Potts leads me to conclude the prairies were a dangerous place in the 1800's and you had to be a tough character to survive.
 
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