Cowboy Action Shooting in Silver City, NM

Cowboy Action Shooting:

Have you ever heard of Cowboy Action Shooting? Or the Single Action Shooting Society www.sassnet.com ? Well if you want to play cowboy / cowgirl, you'll want to check this sport out.

Using 3 different types of guns (2 pistols, 1 shot gun and 1 rifle), you ‘get' the bad guys by following a scenario. You may shoot 10 pistols, 9 rifle and 4 shot gun, being timed and misses counted along the way. The fun begins before hand when you choose an alias, get dressed in 1890's garb and build a gun cart.

My husband belongs to the local club, www.gilarangers.com . What a nice, fun bunch of people! They shoot out in the Mimbres on John Fowler's ranch. They have permanent stages set up for variety. Imagine shooting your pistol from the bar doors, then moving to the train ticket counter and shooting your rifle and then to the jail house and shooting your shot gun.

And it's fun to watch too! I'm not a shooting kind of a girl - - - but I am the best darn score keeper in these parts!

This is a photo from Border Dispute in July 2009.

We've met people from all over the country (and Germany too). It seems that with this organization, people aren't strangers; they're just friends you haven't met yet. It's a national organization so there's a good chance there's one in your area. There are folks who enjoy getting in their RV and travelling to all the different clubs around the country. And the National Headquarters are in NM! I encourage any of you who are SASS members reading this, to add a comment and photo so people can see what it's all about.

Until then, shoot straight and be safe!

Today's Saying: One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.