What is Cowboy Shooting?

Cowboy Action Shooting relives the Old West, or as close as we can get to it. Competitors dress in period clothing and choose an alias appropriate to the era. We shoot timed stages using a total of four pre-1900 design firearms or replicas. Two single action revolvers, which may include; Ruger Blackhawks, Ruger Vaqueros, Colt Single Action Armies/copies, or Single Action Cap and Ball revolvers.

Also needed is a lever or pump action rifle, chambered in a pistol caliber; as well as a side-by-side, lever action or Winchester 1897 shotgun. Younger competitors are allowed to use revolvers and rifles in 22 caliber, and shotguns in 410 caliber. Using all lead bullets on steel targets, each stage is shot for speed and accuracy, with penalties for missing targets, incorrect engagement order, or safety violations.

While this brief explanation may seem complicated, it really isn't. The best way to understand the Cowboy Shooting Club is to make time and come down to one of the Cowboy Shooting events on the calendar and give it a try.
The Lapeer County Sportsmen's Wranglers are proud members of both the SASS and the Wolverine Rangers

Cowboy .22 Silhouette Shooting

The cowboy .22 cal. Silhouette shoot consists of forty steel targets.
We set up ten targets shaped like:

  • Ten ram targets at fifty yards
  • Ten turkey targets at forty yards
  • Ten pig targets at thirty-five yards
  • Ten chicken targets at twenty five yards.
If you are shooting cowboy style you will use a lever action or pump action rifle with an exposed hammer and iron sights. If you want to shoot modern style any .22 cal rifle will do and any sights are allowed.

You have two minutes in which to shoot your ten targets at the yardage you are shooting at. You will move from one yardage to the next till you have shot at all four yardages.

Great Lakes Annual Match

Please join us at the 12th Annual Great Lakes Cowboy Match on the 29th and 30th of May 2010. There events planned for both Saturday and Sunday from dusk to dawn.

Main stages will be shot both Saturday and Sunday, starting at 8:45 a.m. Side matches will be held on Saturday, a few of which are .22 Pistol and Rifle, Derringer, Pocket Pistol, and many, many more...

If you are interested please visit our Special Events page to see schedules and amenities offered.