Cowboy Action Shooting

[Big Fred]

Noah, Thinking back I do remember a time when some match directors took their own interpetition of some rules that may not have been exactly black and white. Things have changed. SASS, in their wise wisdon, created RO1 and RO2, Range Operations, and have pretty much got all the rules spelled out for those that like to interpet them their own way. Leather soles are only required for certain classes now. If you still have your cowboy stuff I'd love to meet up with you someday at a CAS match and lets see if it has any appeal to you now.

Evil Dog, There is a winter league that shoots 50' indoor pistol and if it wasn't an hours drive and on a work night I would take my MKll and try it out. Who knows I might like it and then I would have to find a mdl.
41. Yeah, another excuse to buy more guns !!

 

[BarbC]

Fortunately for me, this is a small club and it seems to be more about socializing and having fun than cut-throat competition. I was admittedly surprised at how much is involved, though - the clothing, the guns, remembering the stage sequence, etc.

Far different from the "show up & shoot" I've been doing. It's almost as involved as horse showing and I can't even imagine what mounted cowboy action must entail.

 

[m657]

some cowboy clubs are a lot more uptight about costuming. Sometimes the sass.net site is pretty lively with animated discussion of minutia of theory....things I've never actually seen make much difference on the range.

There is a group dedicated to 'historically accurate' details....and there's SASS, which is more in the realm of "Grade B western movie" accuracy.

Mostly it's easy to avoid the few that are just too obsessive with things you don't care about.

The biggest trouble I have with Cowboy Action matches, is not based on the alias, the hat, or the guns.

I've ~always~ had trouble with any kind of shooting that involved 1) having 'spotters' paying attention to how many hits (AND misses) I made; 2) someone running a TIMER to tell me how long it took to do such!!! har!!!

After the first few times it gets pretty easy to keep track of, and the changes in the stages keeps it fresh to do. Mostly it remains a wonder of how big & how close those targets can REALLY be and still miss!

It's way more fun than it sounds you were exposed to.

Get a cowboy hat; pick out yer alias before someone else does; go shoot.

PM me if you need more encouragement.

 

[Engineer1911]

Barbara Ella or Barbara Evil or Barbed Lace or Miss Forty-Four

 

[BarbC]

Miss Forty-Four

They're only thirty-eights. I wouldn't want to raise false expectations.

 

[Wheelgunner840]

Welcome to CAS Barb. I have been doing the cowboy thing for over 10 years now. I have met some of the finest folks imaginable, and have made some lifelong friends.

Admittedly, the game has started going down a "gamey" slope in the past few years, but that is mostly at the big regional matches, State championships and such. The local matches are much more relaxed. We are the only CAS / SASS club in RI, and we are called "The Lincoln County Lawmen". We have only two rules. 1. Be safe, and 2. Have fun. We are located in Foster RI at the Pine Tree Gun Club. If you are ever in the area, please join us.

www.lincolncountylawmen.com


WG840 (aka, Grizz)