| The West Plains Waddies is a club devoted to Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS). Cowboy Action Shooting provides members the opportunity to dress in cowboy garb, choose an alias, develop a persona, shoot period guns and enjoy competition and camaraderie with other club members. The entire family can take part. |
| The West Plains Waddies is sanctioned by the governing organization, the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS). |
| Here is some general information about CAS and our club. |
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Where and When we get together: Our home range is called "Shadow Ridge" and is located on Missouri Route 14, West of West Plains, MO. It is 600 acres of beautiful Ozark hills. We offer Cowboy Action Shooting and long range shooting. Hopefully we will be able to offer trap and skeet in the future. For directions to Shadow Ridge, click here. We normally shoot the 2nd and 5th Saturday of the month. See the Shooting Schedule for a complete listings of shooting dates. The mandatory safety meeting is at 9:30 AM with the match to start soon thereafter. |
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| Alias: Members are required to have an alias that is registered with SASS to prevent duplication. Some members find their alias in western books and movies while some just make them up. Having a western alias and dressing the part is all part of the persona you can develop. Have fun with it. | |||||||||||||
| Competition: Our club holds a match on the second and fifth Saturday of each month. We shoot at six different positions or “stages”. At each stage the shooters are given a scenario which outlines the target order. It might be something like, “You look out your window and see Bad Bart and his gang heading for the bank. You yell, “You’re not getting our money” and Bad Bart grabs iron. You return fire.” Typically, each stage requires 10 pistol rounds, 10 rifle rounds and 2-4 shotgun rounds. |
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| Dun Vegan explains the stage and target order. | |||||||||||||
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Scoring: Shooters compete one at a time against the clock. An electronic timer measures the time from the starting beep to the final gunshot. Five seconds are added for each miss and 10 seconds are added for a procedural penalty. "Speed is good but accuracy is better." The only prize we offer on regular matches is bragging rights. |
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| Uncle Sam times Schoolmarm Sweetie | |||||||||||||
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| If you think you would like to try CAS, come to one of our matches. We would love to meet you and answer your questions. | |||||||||||||
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This site updated on August 28, 2010