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Cowboy
mounted shooting is a combination of a historical reenactment and Saturday
afternoon Westerns. Participants may take on the persona of the cowboys,
lawmen, gunslingers, saloon girls, US Cavalrymen, mountain men, Canadian
Mountie, Wild West show girls, American Indians, silver screen heroes and
sidekicks, desperadoes and outlaws.
Targets
Targets
are latex balloons filled with air measuring five to nine inches in diameter.
Care is taken to make sure all targets are uniform.
The targets are deflated by the action of the burning black powder.
Ammunition
All ammunition
is supplied by us and is manufactured by a certified ammunition provider.
The ammunition are blanks filled with only black powder or a substitute
such as Clearshot.
Guns
Guns are
fixed sight single action revolvers of .45 Long Colt caliber designed prior
to 1898 or reproductions of the same. Examples of these guns include
Colt SA Army or Bisely model, Smith and Wesson Schofield or Russian or
Remington models 1875 and 1890, their reproductions and Ruger Vaquers.
Horses
CMSA competition
is open to any horse or mule, register or grade.
Saddles
and Tack
Contestants
are encouraged to use "period" saddles of early western design such as
slickforks, Hope, Mother Hubbard, or McClellan. However, one may
compete with any saddle as long as it is of leather construction and is
in safe condition.
Headstalls,
tiedowns, reins, and breastcollars must be made of leather. The idea
is to look like a picture of the nineteenth century as a horse and rider.
Contestants
may use any bit or hackamore required to reasonably control their mount
as long as they are not too severe. Tack or clothes may not display
any visible advertisements or endorsements. All holsters must be
constructed of leather in the Old West design. They should retain
the contestants firearms throughout the strenuous range of motion required
in mounted competition. A holster is defined as a leather pouch in
the shape of a gun. The "dump" style holster is strongly discouraged
as not being "in the spirit of the Old West".
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