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Cowboy action shooting is a type of multigun match using a combination of handguns, rifles, and shotguns in a variety of "Old West-themed" courses of fire for time and accuracy. Participants must dress in appropriate themes or era costumes, as well as use gear and accessories as mandated by the respective sanctioning group rules.
The OKC Gun Club hosted the national championships for cowboy action shooting. More than 700 shooters from 40 states and four countries attended.
A Uberti-made Cimarron Model P in 32-20/32 WCF. The company's most popular offering is the Model P based on the Colt Peacemaker.One of the first supporters of SASS and Cowboy Action Shooting, Cimarron makes exclusive versions for competitors such as the "Evil Roy" model built to the specs of Gene Pearcey.
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 ...
A number of gun companies have tried to produce Model 1887/1901 shotguns that could chamber modern, smokeless shotgun shells—largely for the cowboy action shooting discipline—but with little commercial success. Three firearm companies have managed to produce viable models for the commercial firearms market by utilising the easier to produce ...
A coach gun is a modern term, coined by gun collectors, for a double-barreled shotgun, generally with barrels from 18 to 24 inches (460 to 610 mm) in length, placed side-by-side. These weapons were known as "cut-down shotguns" or "messenger's guns" from the use of such shotguns on stagecoaches by shotgun messengers in the American Wild West .
The firearms used are models produced before 1900, as well as replicas of those, [4] and all competitors compete using cowboy nicknames and dressed up in cowboy themed clothing. Cowboy action shooting in Norway emerged towards the end of the 1990s [ 5 ] with the first CAS club being founded in 1997 under the name "1873-klubben Western Lawdogs".
A cowboy action shooter brandishing his revolver. People relive the Wild West both historically and in popular culture by participating in cowboy action shooting events, [61] where each gunslinger adopts his or her own look representing a character from Western life in the late 1800s, and as part of that character, chooses an alias to go by ...