Gun Sports Most Enjoyable Hobby-Sport — Cowboy Action Shooting

The Excit­ing Ben­e­fits You Can Derive from Cow­boy Action Shooting

 

 

Cow­boy Action Shoot­ing, or CAS for short, is an excit­ing and fast-growing sport that’s gain­ing a lot of mem­bers and fol­low­ing in the United States as well as other coun­tries. It can be enjoyed by young and old alike. Its mem­bers are affil­i­ated to the Sin­gle Action Shoot­ing Soci­ety® and other related organizations.

 

You Can Relive the Spirit of the Old West

Cow­boy Action Shoot­ing cel­e­brates the spirit of the Old West and re-establishes a way of life that’s all but gone in today’s mod­ern soci­ety. Some peo­ple refer to it as The Cow­boy Way.

Many cow­boy heroes of the Old West, whether in fic­tion or real life, showed us shin­ing exam­ples of how to be account­able for our own deeds, to be fair and hon­est, to treat oth­ers well, par­tic­u­larly women and old folks, and to do the right thing. They also showed us the proper and respon­si­ble way to han­dle firearms. This is what CAS is all about.

 

Cow­boy Action Shoot­ing is Fun and Exciting

Here are some of the rea­sons why so many peo­ple find CAS a fun and enjoy­able sport.

• You actu­ally get to dress up in cow­boy clothes. This is one of the major attrac­tions of the sport, like play­ing a grownup ver­sion of Cow­boys and Indi­ans, with impres­sive cos­tumes straight right out of a Hol­ly­wood west­ern movie set.

• You get to choose your char­ac­ter and alias. You are required to reg­is­ter a char­ac­ter name or alias when you become an active mem­ber of a Cow­boy Action Shoot­ing orga­ni­za­tion. You can be a west­ern movie hero, a sher­iff, a gam­bler, or a female gun­slinger if you so choose. Be sure to dress up accord­ing to your choice of character.

• You get to play out the part and shoot tar­gets in a sim­u­lated west­ern town. The shoot­ing range or stage, as it is termed in CAS, appears more like a movie set of a 19th cen­tury west­ern town than a typ­i­cal gun range. There are build­ing facades that resem­ble sheriff’s offices, saloons, sta­bles, banks, and other struc­tures. There are also steel tar­gets that stand for vil­lains as well as ply­wood out­lines of hostages which could be mov­ing or fixed.

Run Through Var­i­ous Shoot­ing Scenarios

Cow­boy Action Shoot­ing sce­nar­ios are pro­vided for a par­tic­u­lar target-shooting sequence. The time starts when the par­tic­i­pant shouts out his or her bat­tle cry. They then have to hit 10 tar­gets with a pis­tol, 5 tar­gets with a rifle, and dif­fer­ent tar­gets using a shot­gun. In other scripts, one or more firearms can be located in dif­fer­ent areas of the “stage”, so the par­tic­i­pant may need to fire a pis­tol from a bank win­dow, run over to the saloon to find and fire a sec­ond pis­tol, head to the sta­ble to pick up a rifle, and to another loca­tion to grab a shot­gun. Plac­ing ammo in another loca­tion can add to the excitement.

Apart from target-shooting, CAS also pro­vides other fun oppor­tu­ni­ties for the entire fam­ily. You’ll find food, refresh­ments, cook­ing, enter­tain­ment, and an occa­sional sales­per­son sell­ing inter­est­ing items.

So if you want to get involved in a new type of fam­ily fun, and learn more about respon­si­ble gun use and own­er­ship, con­sider Cow­boy Action Shoot­ing as a sport.