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SAFETY & PROCEDURES

All firearms are to be handled ONLY in the following designated

areas:

- Safety Area.

- Load and unload tables.

- At the firing line with the RO present.

If you need to work on an EMPTY gun, do it in a safety area only.

- Note that no ammunition is permitted in a safety area.

All SASS rules apply to this match.

All long guns must be carried with the muzzles up.

Pay careful attention to your muzzle direction at all times.

Dry firing your guns at the load and unload tables is prohibited.

Do not pick up a dropped live round. Someone will retrieve it for

you.

A round fired over the berm is an automatic match disqualification.

The shooter is responsible for the staging of their guns. A staged

gun that falls is a dropped gun and is subject to a penalty.

Wait for the timer beep to start your stage. Moving before the beep

can earn you a ‘spirit of the game’ penalty.

Knockdown targets must fall and swinger targets must swing to

count.

Do not chamber a round until the gun is pointed safely down range.

Once a pistol is cocked it must be emptied at the line.

This is a ‘no alibi match. Once you chamber the first round you are

committed to completing the stage.

IMPORTANT MATCH NOTES

‘Cowboy port arms’ is defined as “standing fully upright, the butt

of the rifle or shotgun at or below the gun-belt and the muzzle at

shoulder level or higher, both hands on the gun and the finger is out

of the trigger guard.

Everyone should get involved in the flow of the match, be a spotter,

pick up brass, monitor a table or keep score.

Make sure to get to the loading table before your turn. Next 3 in line

only.

At Cowboy Action Shooting matches we do not shoot and scoot. Please

stay after the match to help, in any way you can, with putting away

the targets and props. The range area must be cleaned up. We take

pride in being good range users.

Remember that safety is always our first priority. We are all safety

officers.

John Moses Browning Oliver Winchester

Samuel Colt

Daniel B. Wesson Eliphalet Remington

FN M1899/M1900 (.32 ACP)

Colt Model 1900 (.38 ACP)

Colt Model 1902 (.38 ACP)

Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammer (.38 ACP)

FN Model 1903 (.32 ACP, 9mm Browning Long)

Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless (.32 ACP)

FN Model 1906 Vest Pocket (.25 ACP)

Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket (.25 ACP)

Colt Model 1908 Pocket Hammerless (.380 ACP)

FN Model 1910 (.32 ACP, .380 ACP)

U.S. M1911 pistol (.45 ACP)

Browning Hi-Power (9mm Parabellum)

Colt Woodsman pistol (.22 LR)

Stevens Model 720 long-recoil semi-automatic shotgun

Stevens Model 520/620 pump-action repeating shotgun

Winchester Model 1885 falling-block single-shot rifle

Winchester Model 1886 lever-action repeating rifle

Winchester Model 1887 lever-action repeating shotgun

Winchester Model 1890 slide-action repeating rifle (.22 LR)


Winchester Model 1893 pump-action repeating shotgun



Winchester Model 1897 pump-action repeating shotgun

Winchester Model 1900 bolt-action single-shot (.22 LR)

Browning Auto-5 long-recoil semi-automatic shotgun

Browning Superposed over/under shotgun

Remington Model 8 semi-auto rifle

Remington Model 17 pump-action repeating shotgun

Browning 22 Semi-Auto rifle (.22 LR)

Remington Model 24 semi-auto rifle (.22 LR)

FN Trombone pump-action rifle (.22 LR)

U.S. M1895 air-cooled gas-operated machine gun

U.S. M1917 water-cooled recoil-operated machine gun

U.S. M1919 air-cooled recoil-operated machine gun

U.S. M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR)

U.S. M2 .50-caliber heavy machine gun

U.S. M4 37mm Automatic Gun

John Moses Browning, a Firearms Genius

Here is a small sampling of notable Browning designs

STAGE 1

SAMUEL COLT

4 Shotgun, 10 Rifle, 10 Pistol

Shotgun staged on the horse, rifle on the table.

START POSITION: Standing at X, hands on hat.

START LINE: "God made men and Sam Colt made them equal!“

PROCEDURE: At the beep…

With the shotgun alternate 4 shots on the “S” targets from the left.

Re-stage the shotgun on the horse with the muzzle pointing to 10 o’clock.

Move to the rope-box and grab your rifle along the way.

From the rope-box use your rifle to engage the targets in this order,

using double taps… 11, 22, 33, 44, 55.

Move to the forward hay-bale with your open and empty rifle and re-stage

it on the bale. With the pistols repeat the rifle sweep.

Muzzles up and go to the unload table.

Samuel Colt was born on July 19, 1814, in Hartford, Connecticut.

One of eight children of textile manufacturer Christopher Colt, young

Samuel always had an interest in mechanics, and would often

disassemble items to see how they worked. At the age of 16, he attended,

but was eventually expelled from, Amherst Academy in Massachusetts,

where he studied navigation. In 1830, Colt sailed on the Corvo as a

seaman, where he first became fascinated with the way the ship's wheel

worked. From that idea, he carved out a wooden prototype that would

lead to his invention of a rotation-type firearm with a six-barrel cylinder.

Colt's first two business ventures, producing firearms in Paterson New

Jersey and making underwater mines, ended in disappointment. But his

business expanded rapidly after 1847, when the Texas Rangers ordered

1,000 revolvers during the American war with Mexico. His firearms were

prominent during the settling of the western frontier.

STAGE 1

Colt 1860 Army

Colt 1873 New Army

Colt Walker

Colt Paterson

2

1

4 5

3

S S

Rifle Shotgun

STAGE 2

OLIVER WINCHESTER

10 Rifle, 10 Pistol, 4 Shotgun

Rifle and shotgun staged on the table.

START POSITION: Standing at X, one hand on your rifle.

START LINE: "You load this rifle on Sunday and shoot it all week!"


With the rifle, shoot the “R” targets with 1 shot on R1, 2 shots on R2, 4

shots on R3, 2 shots on R2 and 1 shot on R1. Place the open and empty

rifle on the table. R1, 22, 3333, 22, 1

With the pistols, shoot the “P” targets using the rifle instructions.

P1, 22, 33 - 33, 22, 1. Holster.

With the shotgun, alternate the “S” targets for 4 shots starting from

either direction.


Oliver Fisher Winchester was born in Boston, Massachusetts on

November 30, 1810. As a young man, Winchester operated a men’s

furnishing store in Baltimore until 1848, when he set up a factory in New

Haven to manufacture dress shirts. Financial success enabled him to

purchase the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company of New Haven in 1857,

soon reorganized as the New Haven Arms Company and, in 1867, as the

Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Benjamin Tyler Henry,

Winchester’s factory superintendent, designed and patented the

lever-action Henry repeating rifle and its self-contained metallic cartridge

in 1860. That was the direct forerunner of a long line of Winchester arms,

including the famous Models 1866 and 1873, favourite weapons of the

settlers in the American West.

P1 P2 P3

S S

STAGE 2

Rifle & Shotgun

1860 Henry Rifle

Winchester 1866 Yellow Boy

Winchester 1873 Carbine

R2 R1 R3

STAGE 3

DANIEL B. WESSON

10 Pistol, 10 Rifle, 4 Shotgun

Rifle and shotgun staged on the table.

START POSITION: Standing at X, hands on pistol grips.

START LINE: "Horace, I ’m not selling this breach loading revolver

patent to Sam Colt!"


With the pistols, shoot the targets with a Progressive Sweep from the left.

P- 1, 12, 123, 1234. Holster.

With the rifle, repeat the pistol sweep on the rifle targets. Re-stage the

rifle on the table.

With the shotgun, shoot the “S” targets once each in order from the left.


Daniel Baird Wesson was born May 18, 1825. Daniel's father was a

farmer and manufacturer of wooden plows and Daniel worked on his

father's farm and attended public school until the age of eighteen, when

he apprenticed himself to his brother Edwin Wesson (a leading maker of

target rifles and pistols in the 1840s) in Northborough, Massachusetts. In

1854, Daniel B. Wesson partnered with Horace Smith and Courtlandt

Palmer to develop the Smith & Wesson Lever pistol and the first repeating

rifle, the Volcanic. Production was in the shop of Horace Smith in Norwich,

CT. Originally using the name "Smith & Wesson Company", the name was

changed to "Volcanic Repeating Arms Company" in 1855, with the

addition of new investors, one of whom was Oliver Winchester. In 1856

Smith & Wesson began to produce a small revolver designed to fire the

Rimfire cartridge they had patented in August 1854. This revolver was the

first successful fully self-contained cartridge revolver available in the

world.

P1 P2 P3 S

S S S

R1 R2 R3 R4

P4

STAGE 3

Rifle & Shotgun

S&W Model 3

Volcanic Pistol

S&W 1880

Double Action Revolver

S&W Model 2 Rimfire

STAGE 4

ELIPHALET REMINGTON

4 Shotgun, 10 Rifle, 10 Pistol

Shotgun staged on the horse, rifle on the table.

START POSITION: Standing at X, both hands on the table.

START LINE: "You know , I forged my first rifle barrel in 1816. "


With the shotgun alternate 4 shots on the “S” targets from either

direction. Re-stage the shotgun on the horse with the muzzle pointing to

10 o’clock. Move to the rope-box and grab your rifle along the way.

From the rope-box, with your rifle shoot 111,2,33,4,555. Move to the

forward hay-bale with your open and empty rifle and re-stage it on the

bale. With the pistols repeat the rifle sweep. 111,2,3 - 3,4,555. Holster.


Eliphalet Remington was born October 28, 1793 in Suffield,

Connecticut. Founded as a rifle-barrel manufacturing firm in 1816 by

Eliphalet Remington, whose father operated a forge at Illion Gultch New

York, the company that would become E. Remington & Sons in 1865. The

Remington Arms Company in 1934 became one of leading commercial

and military arms makers in the United States. In 1828 Remington built a

factory beside the Erie Canal at the present site of Ilion New York, where

he and his son Philo pioneered many improvements in arms manufacture,

including the first successful cast-steel drilled rifle barrel manufactured in

the United States. Though Remington died at the outbreak of the

American Civil War (1861–65), the company he founded made thousands

of arms for the Union, notably the “Zouave” percussion rifle and the New

Model Army and Navy revolvers. E. Remington & Sons was famous for its

single-shot “rolling-block” breech-loading action, which was incorporated

in more than 1.5 million rifles, carbines, shotguns, and pistols.

STAGE 4

Remington Rolling Block Carbine

Remington Zig Zag Derringer

Remington 1858 Army

2

3

1 5

4

Rifle Shotgun

S S

STAGE 5

JOHN MOSES BROWNING

10 Rifle, 6 Shotgun, 10 Pistol

Rifle & shotgun staged on the table.

START POSITION: Standing at X, hands by your side.

START LINE: " Having 128 gun patents, I ’d say I’m done! “

PROCEDURE: At the beep,

With the rifle engage the rifle targets in this order, triple tap the 2 outside

targets then double tap the 2 inside targets, all from either direction.

Re-stage the rifle on the table.

With the shotgun shoot the outside targets once each then repeat with

the inside targets the repeat again with the outside targets all from either

direction. Re-stage the shotgun on the table.

With the pistols repeat the rifle sweep on the pistol targets.


John Moses Browning was born January 23, 1855 in Ogden Utah.

Inventive as a child, Browning made his first gun at the age of 13 in his

father’s gun shop. In 1879 he patented a self-cocking single-shot rifle,

which he and his brother Matthew sold to the Winchester Repeating Arms

Company. His later patented designs were acquired by the Colt,

Remington, Stevens, and Winchester arms companies, contributing

directly to their prosperity, though Browning gained little recognition for

their success. Of his 128 individual firearm-mechanism patents, many

proved successful. Browning’s most famous designs were the Winchester

Model 1886 lever-action rifle, the Remington Model 1905 semiautomatic

shotgun, and the Colt Model 1911 semiautomatic pistol. Among

foreign-made sporting arms, Browning’s most popular was the

superposed (two barrels aligned vertically, colloquially referred to as an

“over-under” design) shotgun.

P P P S

S S S

P

STAGE 5

Rifle & Shotgun

Winchester 1892 Carbine

Winchester 1897 Pump Action Shotgun

1918 BAR

Colt 1911

Browning Hi-Power

R R R R

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