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Read MoreGun Safety Rules You Might Be Overlooking
The basic gun safety rules every cowboy action shooting member should observe include: Always assume that a gun is loaded Always point the gun in safe direction Keep your finger off the trigger unless you’re ready to fire Identify what you are shooting and what may be behind it These rules are usually posted in shooting ranges and gun stores for a reason – to keep you and your family safe. However, common...
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Read MoreWinning Tips for SASS Cowboy Action Shooting Competitions
A lot of new members ask SASS cowboy action shooting long timers for tips and advice. Most of their concerns include how to shoot faster, miss less, and move up to the next level. Here are some freely given tips from long time Single Action Shooting Society members to new shooters. Don’t forget to warm up To get ahead of the competition in CAS fast shooting, your mind and body...
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Read MoreWorking Cowboy: Life On The Cattle Drive
After the Civil War, food supply, particularly beef, was in great demand in the North. Ranchers saw this as a lucrative opportunity. They bought calves at about $4 a head which they could raise and sell up North for $40, even more. This re-energized the cattle industry and provided new job opportunities for the working cowboy. While the sale of their livestock can make ranchers a fortune, their problem is...
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Read MoreColt SAA and Other Six-Gun Replicas Used in Cowboy Action Shooting
The wholesome family sport of cowboy action shooting (CAS) has got its members wearing period costumes, and shooting at metal targets using original six-guns of the period or replicas. CAS has not only introduced the Cowboy Culture to all its members, it also revived the love and respect for the Colt SAA and other period six-shooters. While there are many 19th century cowboy revolvers in the hands of...
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Read MoreAmerican Cowboy: Seldom Known Facts About Them Revealed
The glory days of the American cowboy actually begun in 1866, after the end of the Civil War. War had depleted the food supply, beef in particular, up North. Texan ranchers saw this as an opportunity to market their steer at a great profit. Their cattle, worth $4 each, can be sold in the North for $40 a head. Since millions of steer run wild in Texas at that time, ranchers hired cowboys to round up and...
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Read MoreModern Cowboy: Are American Cowboys a Vanishing Breed?
The modern cowboy has come a long way since the first vaqueros (Mexican cowboys) rode into what is today New Mexico and Texas over two centuries ago. Now considered as a national symbol of America’s frontier days, cowboys were key players during the Westward Expansion period of the United States. In 1866, after the end of the Civil War, cowboys drove herds of cattle to places where cattle meat was in...
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Read MoreFemale Shooter: Celebrated Lady Shooters and Gunslingers of the Old West
Many Americans are quite familiar with legendary Wild West characters like Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickock, and Jesse James? However, ask them to name a female shooter or two and most will hold back due to uncertainty. Many women have carved their niche as notorious shooters and gunslingers of the Old West. Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, and other famous lady shooters broke through the barriers of a class...
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Read MoreCowboy History: Were the Vaqueros America’s First Cowboys?
The cowboy is the iconic representation of America, an enduring symbol of the nation’s frontier and Westward expansion days. While it had been portrayed and often distorted in the movies and modern culture, cowboy history will always be an indelible part of America’s early days. However, one of the most fundamental aspects of Wild West history seems to have been deliberately torn from the pages....
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Read MoreWild West: Incorrect Impressions About Wild West Guns
For many, many years, a boatload of wrong ideas have cropped up regarding Wild West guns. Books, magazines, and films have helped brand these western firearms as a symbol of disgrace and infamy. One-shot kills, high noon duels, and desperadoes shooting up every town they visit – most of these incidents are incorrect. You’ll be surprised that what you’ve accepted as true and historical about guns of the...
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Read MoreSASS Shooting: Why You Should Participate in CAS Competitions
While the recreational sport of SASS shooting is only a few decades old, it has become one of the fastest growing shooting sports in the world. More often referred to as cowboy action shooting (CAS), this fun and exciting sport is governed and promoted by the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS) which is headquartered in New Mexico, USA. Due to its popularity, various CAS clubs have been established in...
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Read MoreWestern Wear: The Enduring Popularity of the Cowboy Boot
Due to the rugged nature of their jobs, 19th century cowboys and lawmen needed sturdy western wear. This included their boots which they liked to wear with higher heels. Today’s cowboy boots have evolved from different boot styles that spanned many, many years. In the early part of the 19th century, Britain’s Duke of Wellington wore a unique boot that came to be known today as the Wellington...
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Read MoreSASS Cowboy Shooting: Learn to Shoot Like a Western Gunslinger
SASS Cowboy Action Shooting could be for you! Have you ever thought about what it’s like to be a cowboy or cowgirl in the 19th century Old West? If you’ve fantasized about it, then dream no more because somewhere in your locality is a Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS) association that you can join. This exciting and fun sport has been featured in a Fox News article entitled Shoot Like a Real Cowboy....
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Read MoreCowboy Shooting Competition: What Happens in a Cowboy Action Shooting Match
Tales of the American cowboys in films, books, and magazines have fascinated many shooters and cowboy shooting competition aficionados for years, long after the West was won. It was for this reason that cowboy action shooting (CAS) and the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS) was born. A few decades after its establishment as a family recreational sport, CAS has spread not only throughout the...
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Read MoreSingle Action Shooting: Recreational Sport and Stress Reliever
Single action shooting, more popularly known as cowboy action shooting (CAS), has become very popular due to its fun yet competitive sport aspect for the entire family. It is done in a near authentic lifestyle and atmosphere of the Old West. People you meet there will be wearing 19th century cowboy outfit and even have their own western names or aliases. The hobby sport relives an old way of life that’s...
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Read MoreCowboy Shooting: How to be a Registered Member of SASS
There was a time when you were a kid (or perhaps until now) when you would be transported back in time with classic westerns like “Have Gun, Will Travel,” “Bonanza,” and “Rawhide.” You might even wonder what it would be like to be the good guy, or even the bad guy, back in the Old West’s cowboy shooting days. What if we told you that you don’t need a time machine to travel back to the 1800’s? What...
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Read MoreSingle Action Shooting Society (SASS) Overview
Single Action Shooting Society (SASS) is the administrative body behind Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS), a fun and exciting combination of costume event and shooting sport. SASS is also an international governing corporation for the promotion and preservation of the Cowboy Action Shooting sport. Its other functions include: Standing up for the protection of the 2nd Amendment rights of its members...
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