Just curious, am I the only...

[Pulp]

....Cowboy Action Shooter on this forum?

.... one who would rather shoot cap and ball revolvers over anything else?

.... one who loves the smell of blackpowder in the morning? or evening? or night?

....one who makes their own blackpowder?

....who still has a sidelock muzzleloader?

....who thinks being well armed is having two Colt Walkers, a good knife, and a '60 Henry rifle?

....who thinks the .44WCF is one of the great cartridges of the world?

....who knows blackpowder fouling is actually easier to clean than smokeless?

I'm beginning to think I'm a dinosaur.

 

[Jefpainthorse]

I often thought about it... but when it became a race gun game and tuning a set of guns started costing a second mortgage...

Running a stock gun... and doing the best one can seems more in the spirit of the old West than what SASS is today...

 

[grwd]

I often thought about it... but when it became a race gun game and tuning a set of guns started costing a second mortgage...

Running a stock gun... and doing the best one can seems more in the spirit of the old West than what SASS is today...

well said..

sass is not as practical to me as ipsc or idpa,

besides, my "roy rogers" was Rambo and Chuck Norris!

 

[yukonjack]

I just wanna load a bullet into the chamber and have it go bang. Thank goodness for modern firearms and ammo.

 

[Pulp]

I just wanna load a bullet into the chamber and have it go bang. Thank goodness for modern firearms and ammo.

It's been 4 years since I've had a problem with my percussion revolvers, and that was while shooting in the remnants of Hurricane Rita, as it moved through NE Texas. And I still got every bullet downrange.
I actually see more people having problems with cartridge revolvers than percussion at matches. A lot of that is due to the downloading that a lot of the cartridge shooters do.

Don't get me wrong. If there's a bump in the night I'd much rather reach for my 1911 or my S&W snubbie.

But I have had a '60 loaded beside my bed for over six months, back when it was the only large caliber gun I had, and when I did take it to the range all six went BOOM. I will never argue my percussions are a better choice for self defense, only saying they have a soul to them that modern guns do not have. To me. Not to most people.

SASS is a game, and it can be played different ways. A few years ago I wrote a new rule book for SASS, but they didn't adopt it.

Pulp's Rules of Cowboy Action Shooting
1. Don't shoot nobody.
2. Have fun.

 

[Jefpainthorse]

There was a brief period in my life that a '51 Italian clone Colt Navy was my "carry gun".

Never felt undergunned that whole 6 months....

I have several suitable pistols and revolvers for CCW-HD... and a Colt SAA clone in 357 magnum gets carried from time to time if the mood strikes. If open carry ever passes here that may be one of my regular carry choices... where tactics dont matter, so much.

HD shotgun... a 1912 vintage Winchester 97...mines a takedown that was cut to 20 inches long ago.

The lever gun end of the safe has more 30-30's than a sane man will ever need. I keep a pistol caliber Marlin on standby.. handy little carbine in 357 Mag...

 

[yukonjack]

Pulp's Rules of Cowboy Action Shooting
1. Don't shoot nobody.
2. Have fun.

That's good stuff. Back in the cowboy outlaw days I imagine they didn't have a whole lot of rules.

 

[technetium-99m]

Without a reasonable minimum power factor and the restrictive rules about moving and shooting it just doesn't interest me.

The cost of admission is rather higher than USPSA/IDPA as well.

I've talked to some of the guys out at the club, full of great people, just not my cup of tea.