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My major hobby is Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS). The shoot mentioned was the Midwest Regional, a really big deal. The most popular shotgun is a 20" Winchester 97 or a Chinese clone (Norinco). The usual SXS is a Stoger, Bakal or TTN clone of the Colt 1887. The serious SXS shooters use Browning BSS' or SKB's cut to 23" with action jobs that allow the barrels to stay dropped without pushing them down and the auto safety changed to manual. The major reason for the short barrels is to manuever around props like storefronts with windows and doorways. Longer barrels keep getting caught on things (note: it's an action (movement)sport).
There are a bunch of different shooting categories, including several that require hammered SXS's. Also a bunch of black powder categories that require SXS's. Lots of Damascus guns in the latter. These are usually left original.
Apparently the CAS market is large enough to have several companys reintroduce SXS's that have not been made for over a century. I was not a shotgun person, but now have five SXS's and several 97's.
"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit." - PLINY THE YOUNGER
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I think something needs to be said here. I don't agree that it's appropriate for anyone to put down someone elses shooting interests. If you're a trap and/or skeet shooter and that's your interst fine. If someone else chooses cowboy shooting, long range plinking with a Barrett 50 or shooting machines guns they are also part of the shooting community and deserve everyones support.
The anti's have consistently tried to drive wedges between the various shooting groups with the goal to divide and conquor. That's how the original and ridiculous "assault weapons ban" got enacted. Well there's a new assault weapons ban sitting in Congress just waiting the the outcome of the November elections. Among the items in the new expanded ban are Remingtion 1100 shotguns.
There has never been a need for those in the shooting community to pull together more than right now.
Jim
Last edited by italiansxs; 08/12/08 11:26 AM.
The 2nd Amendment IS an unalienable right.
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Sidelock
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Last I looked this wasn't the cOwboy shooting forum.... 
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Sidelock
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Jim has it nailed, that bill is brutal. Some specific actions, such as pumps and lever actions are exempt, but if it feeds from a magazine through the power generated by the previous shot, its getting targeted.
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Sidelock
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Sorry, Joe, but a cowboy shooting forum is EXACTLY what this is. Or what part of Dave's rules didn't you understand when he said, "Doubles, drillings, combination guns, other fine firearms and related material." 
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When I first saw a cowboy shoot advertised, I was really excited and made plans right away to attend. Then I found out you didn't get to shoot a cowboy. Talk about false advertising.
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Sidelock
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You should have asked about that, Greg. A lot of times they use blanks, you know. We had a Boy Scout Troup out here last weekend and they had a time with the cowboys. Just another good way to get kids interested in shooting.
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