Why shoot CAS? Well, I'm 51 and a couple of times a month I get to pretend to be a 10 year old playin at my favorite pastime. COWBOYS!. By the time it comes to get ready for a match I'm excited enough that I lay out all my guns, clothes, fixins, cart, and anything else I can think of that I might want the night before. Break down the cart and have it in the car. Try to choose which guns to shoot, and which guns to take in case someone new might be there and want to give it a try, and get them packed in the gun cases. If we're planning some long range side matches. I'll pack another case. I make sure I've got enough of the right ammo for each gun plus some extras and pack the saddle bags. All the extra lubes and tools, just in case someone might need them. Into the saddle bag. Shooting glasses, hearing protection, extras into the saddle bags. Everything lined up by the door ready to go. Do ya remember what it was like when you were a kid on Christmas Eve? I get that feeling two or three (four on a good month) times a month. On the morning of the shoot and I've got my dud's on and after I get my boots on I'll make a couple of practice passes through the kitchen so I can get the right cadence on the jingle of the spurs. Grab my hat, and everything by the door in the car and I'm off!! When you get there, you realize that this shoot must be the social event of the season, or at least till the next shoot. The friendliest, most amiable group of people you'll ever meet. Everyone of them trying to live up to the Cowboy Code! The shooting is fun, ya get to be the hero, save the Damsel in Destress from a pack of crazed attack sheep, or the town's savings after a band of desparodos rob the Mississippi River Bank. You're the hero! Ya know at 51, I'm not big on hero's, I've met real ones and they are just people in the wrong place at the wrong time and did what had to be done, but when I was 10, real heros were bigger than life. Now a couple of times a month, my friends and I all get to be bigger than life. It is a game, it's a fun game, it's one of the few fun games that an entire family can enjoy together. If serious competition is what you consider fun, most clubs have one or two shooters that will give you some serious competition, but most of them will gladly hand you their guns and a box of ammunition and offer you the challenge. Some people will compete with a friend or a family member, some just want to do better than they did last time. Whatever the level of competition you enjoy, there will probably be someone there that will enjoy a similar competitive level. Something for everyone isn't just a cliche'. Cowboy hat, boots, spurs, tin star and guns while riding a hobby horse it's pretty hard for me to take myself seriously. I got wordy, sorry.
Cause its fun
