Educate me on Cowboy action shooting

[walesdave]

I'd like to give it a go just to shoot a coach gun!

Short barelled 12 bore side-by-side - got to be a giggle

[breacher]

I'd like to give it a go just to shoot a coach gun!

Short barelled 12 bore side-by-side - got to be a giggle

I managed to get one years ago without any western stuff.

A 16" side by side hammer gun by baikal.

I regret selling it.

It was great fun.

[David Nimrod]

There will always be people who enjoy 'dressing up games' (and not just kids either)...

Middle aged men tend to do it quite a lot, to counterbalance the banality of their lives.

Just think of those middle class accountants, with their brand new 'badass' Harley D's.

My motto: 'Whatever gets you through the day...'

Dressing up as a Cowboy... About as daft as this:

[bradaz11]

So you need two revolvers an underlever and a shot gun. Yes.

No. You don't need to. But that is what the course is designed around.
If you have one pistol you loaf 5. And have 10 in rifle. You then (depending on the order of guns for the course) engage with pistol then rifle on the 10 pistol targets. You then engage the rifle targets. This requires you to top up the rifle. It's up to you if at start of rifle targets of half-way thru them.
If you don't have pistol at all. You engage pistol targets with rifle. Then fully reload rifle with 10 and take out the 10 rifle targets

[Kungfugerbil]

There will always be people who enjoy 'dressing up games' (and not just kids either)...

Exactly. Any range day you'll spot plenty of geriatrics sporting 5XL DPM and bilateral knee replacements whose only experience of serving is on the tennis court - it's no different.

You can wear a tutu and shoot next to me if you want - as long as you're safe I don't care.

I can't wait for the next Village People team challenge personally...

[breacher]

Well - not quite.

Unless you are a mind reader - you dont know whether the person wearing that clothing is - 1 - Wearing it to emulate some sort of military personnel.
2 - Wearing it because it was cheap and hardwearing but camo / military style were not even on their list of requirements.

Please dont stereotype - the antis do enough of that already !

[Kungfugerbil]

Well - not quite

Dressing up is dressing up. As above, I have no issue with Jabba the arthritic sniper but by the same token I have no issue with Woody the Sheriff - it seems many however dismiss the latter with derision.

[David Nimrod]

Wearing it because it was cheap and hardwearing but camo / military style were not even on their list of requirements.

That seems highly unlikely to me... there's lots of cheap & hardwearing NON military/tactical clothing out there...

People that dress up like rejects from a Special Forces operation do so for a reason, well several reasons probably

[DaveB]

So you need two revolvers an underlever and a shot gun. Yes.

Over here there's a new genre of Western Action Shooting growing in popularity - came across from the US. The Wild Bunch - supposed to represent the turn of the 19th - 20th century west. Shot the same as cowboy action shooting, but using Colt 1911 pistols, Winchester Model 1897 pump-action shotguns and a lever-action rifle chambered for a calibre over .40 - preferably a Model 1892. Costumes are in accordance with the classic 1969 Sam Peckinpaw movie.

http://www.sassnet.com/wildbunch/

[DaveB]

Wearing it because it was cheap and hardwearing but camo / military style were not even on their list of requirements.

That seems highly unlikely to me... there's lots of cheap & hardwearing NON military/tactical clothing out there...

People that dress up like rejects from a Special Forces operation do so for a reason, well several reasons probably

Well some. like me, wear it because it is comfortable, hard-wearing and loose fitting to allow movement, and because after 40+ years of military service I have a closet full of the stuff gathering dust. If I have a choice between crawling in the mud in my expensive Levi's or my old DPMs, I know which way I'll go every time. Most ranges here have a 1-item camo policy. You can wear camo trousers, or shirt, or jacket, but not all 3. Some refuse to allow any.