Just completed my first Cowboy Action Shooting match - I see the appeal

[GimpyPaw]

OK, that's actually a lot of fun! It's not a contest of equipment, or at least not as much as PRS or 3 gun. 5 rounds in each of 2 single action revolvers, 10 rounds in a lever gun, and a 12 gauge coach gun. You can tune the guns, but all the tuning in the world won't help you if you fumble jamming 2 more shells in the shotgun. Plus you get to dress up like John Wayne while you shoot guns!

I took 2nd in my division (classic), which sounds impressive until you know that there were only 4 people in the classic division. 39 people in all, and my overall put me right about in the middle. Considering that classic division is the slowest (single hand shooting the revolver, no 2 hand grip, 1 gun at a time, and the shotgun must have exposed and functional hammers) and it was my first time, I'm happy.

[4thIDvet]

Good man Gimpy good for you taking 2nd place. I watch that cowboy shooting when I am up late like now. Recent was Vegas matches so it must have been the big boys? Holy freaking sheet like the fast draw? I'm talkin splitting one second and hitting the target and then the pistol back in the freaking holster. They all had cool names and 'Zorro' won the match I watched. They lean way back so the pistol is already pointing downrange. Even slow motion its tough to see clearing the holster and the shot. Sammy Davis Jr. was one of the fastest of the Hollyweird crew I believe?


Fastest gun in the world Bob Munden

Bob Munden R.I.P. draw shoot hit return to holster in less than 2 one hundreds of a second. That is hundredths of a second not one second.

Fastest gun in the world Bob Munden

As Munden says the westerns we watch with the shoot out in the streets? Almost never ever happened. Guys shot each other in the back or just had a bar fight busting rounds till someone went down.