Cowboy Action shooting
A Shooting Sport for the "Cowboy" in Everyone!
Howdy Folks!
Welcome to the Cowboy Action Shooting page of the Minot Rifle & Pistol Club.
Two fellers that go by the names of Doc Hell and Yellowstone Vic are planning, on starting, a Ingle Action Shooting Society or SASS, affiliated shooting group in the Minot Rifle & Pistol Club membership. In 2008, MRPC will be hosting, the Cowboy Action Shooting event for the Prairie Rose State Games on July 13th.
A lot of folks ask what is Cowboy Action Shooting and what do I need to participate?
Cowboy Action Shooting is not only a shooting competition, but also an atmosphere where shooters can re-live their favorite TV Westerns or portray a persona from the actual West. About a hundred years after that famous gunfight at the OK Corral, SASS (Single Action Shooting Society) introduced Cowboy Action Shooting. It began in 1981 as an idea and blossomed to what we have today. Men and women are dressed in 1880's costumes as cowboys, native americans, soldiers, gamblers, saloon girls, and many other characters from the old west.
Each shooter adopts an alias that is registered and protected by SASS. This alias allows you to build or rebuild the character that you would like to portray.
In cowboy action shooting all guns must be SASS approved and pre-1899 in design. You will need two single action revolver handguns; a rifle or carbine, usually a lever action, in a pistol caliber. It's a good idea to have it in the same caliber as your revolvers. Shotguns may be a double barrel or a pump with an external hammer. Keep in mind, if the double barrel has automatic ejectors, they must be disabled.
A match consists of a series of stages which are timed separately. Each missed target is a five second penalty. There are also additional penalties if you fail to follow instructions or do something which may be unsafe. Safety is always the most important item in Cowboy Action Shooting.
At some competitions your times are simply added at the end and the fastest time wins. At most SASS recognized events; a system called Rank Scoring is used. In each stage you are given rank points for your place of finish. The first shooter gets one rank point; the second gets two and so on. The rank points are totaled at the end of the match and the shooter with the least rank points wins. Rank points can, and often do have a different outcome that total time.
We’ll keep you all posted on when we plan to get things started. If’n your interested in learnin’ more about this fun sport or would like to consider participating in a match at the other clubs in North Dakota area, drop Doc or Vic an emule at the addresses below for more information.
You would also do well to visit the Single Action Shooting Society Website @ www.sassnet.com
2008 North Dakota Area Cowboy Action Shooting Schedule
East Grand Forks Rod & Gun Club
April 20th - May 25th - June 15th - September 29th & 30th
Bismarck Rifle & Pistol Club / Dakota Rough Riders
April 26th - May 18th - June 8th - June28th - August 3rd - September 7th - October 4th
Sheyenne Valley Peacekeepers - Enderlin, ND
April 6th - May 31st - June 20th to 22nd - July 26th - August 3rd
July 13th
Badland Bandits - Belfield, ND
May 10th - June 14th - July 13th - August 10th - September 13th & 14th - October 12th - December 7th
