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International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), [17] formerly known as UTI from French: L’Union Internationale des Fédérations et Associations nationals de Tir (UTI), or in English: International Union of National Shooting Federations and Associations. International T-Class Confederation (ITCC) [18] Single Action Shooting Society (SASS) [19]
Cowboy action shooting (CAS, also known as Western action shooting, single action shooting, cowboy 3-gun, and Western 3-gun) is a competitive shooting sport that originated in 1981 [1] at the Coto de Caza Shooting Range in Orange County, California. Cowboy action shooting is now practiced in many places with several sanctioning organizations ...
The early days of the sport can be traced back to the 1950s and the quick draw "leather slap" competitions that grew out of America's love affair with the TV westerns of that era. In 1984 USPSA was incorporated as the US Region of IPSC. Practical Shooting challenged the then accepted standards of technique, training practices and equipment.
Cowboy Action Shooting is quite similar to IPSC-shooting, but with an Old West theme. There are multiple international sanctioning bodies, with Single Action Shooting Society being the oldest and largest. [4] Firearms must be either original or reproduction designs correct for the 19th century, such as Colt single-action pistols and Winchester ...
Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, [1] rifles [2] and shotguns [3]) and bows/crossbows.
Don Carlton, under his alias 'Buck D. Law,' shows his marksmanship skills with a pistol, rifle and shotgun in Old West-themed competitions.
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1 C, 50 P) Native plant societies based in the United States (14 P) Nonprofit hobbyist organizations based in the United States (16 P)
Shooting Star didn't share its current membership price with Business Insider, but when the club opened in 2009, it had 189 members and a $100,000 membership fee.