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Cowboy mounted shooting (also called western mounted shooting and mounted shooting) is a competitive equestrian sport involving the riding of a horse to negotiate a shooting pattern. Depending on sponsoring organizations, it can be based on the historical reenactment of historic shooting events held at Wild West shows in the late 19th century.
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
The Saturday Afternoon Matinee on the radio were a pre-television phenomenon in the US which often featured Western series. Film Westerns turned John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix, and Johnny Mack Brown into major idols of a young audience, plus "singing cowboys" such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Dick Foran, Rex Allen, Tex Ritter, Ken Curtis, and Bob Steele.
The OKC Gun Club hosted the national championships for cowboy action shooting. More than 700 shooters from 40 states and four countries attended.
Denny Chapman won the Men's All-Around World Championships (Cowboy Action Shooting + Mounted Shooting) at the SASS "End of Trail" Finals in 2011. Blake Miguez is running his father's company, which is helping cleaning up the Gulf oil spill. Adam Benson is looking forward to the start of hunting season. Kelly Bachand has taken up pistol shooting ...
First responders tried to perform CPR to save the UnitedHealthcare CEO who was fatally shot outside a Midtown hotel on Wednesday morning, harrowing video shows.. NYPD officers were seen in front ...
Two Hennepin County Sheriff deputies sustained non-life-threatening injuries and a 28-year-old man is dead after an exchange of gunfire in a Minnetonka neighborhood late Wednesday morning. The ...
Tom Oar, a former rodeo cowboy, resides near the Yaak River in northwestern Montana with his wife Nancy and their dog Ellie. Facing a seven-month winter season, the pair work hard, with the help of their neighbors, to prepare.