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It's a sport for the whole family!
How to Get Started in Cowboy Action!
It’s a lot easier than you think! You don’t need a horse!
Guys do it! Girls and ladies do it! Kids do it! It’s a sport for the whole family!
Just get in the car and drive over to:
The Brookfield Conservation Club
1953 Sharon Hogue Rd
Masury, Ohio 44438 Trumbull County
This is the home club of the Shenango River Rats CAS club.
CAS stands for Cowboy Action Shooting. SASS stands for the Single Action Shooting Society.
We shoot 2 matches a month: The second Saturday and the last Thursday.
The doors open at 9:00 am. The match will start at 10:00 am.
Shooting season starts in May and ends in October at Brookfield. In November, we start shooting in Niles, Ohio for the winter season.
Let’s go to the match!
Park the car out front and come into the clubhouse and introduce yourself, explain you’d like to watch a Cowboy Action Match (CAS match), and the good folks will tell you where to go.
We always welcome most visitors and spectators. Most likely you’ll be told to walk down to the cowboy range. Remember to bring safety glasses or shooting glasses and ear plugs or ear muffs. Always wear eye protection when shooters are shooting at steel targets. Bring some water if you think you’ll get thirsty.
If you have come to shoot, stay at the club house and be signed in. Sign in, pay the match fee, pay for lunch, grab a coffee and donut, get your gear and go to the range.
You can walk down or you can take the shuttle. The shuttle is the Ford N tractor with a trailer. It takes the carts and shooters down to the little cowboy town known as Yankee Flats, that’s our range.
We start by saying the Pledge of Allegiance, have a brief safety meeting at 10:00 am, and decide if there should be one posse or two. Then the match starts!
We usually shoot 5 or 6 stages or scenarios and usually wrap up by early afternoon. If it’s Saturday, lunch is served at the clubhouse after the match.
You can get a good idea of what goes on at a CAS match. Door prizes and ribbons are awarded after lunch. Ribbons are given to the shooters with the highest scores, the best shooters in their class, clean shooters, and any other category that needs a ribbon. It’s fun!
Brookfield Conservation Club is a very easy, low pressure club to get you started cowboy shooting. The stages are fun and never overly exerting or too hard to comprehend or execute.
There are plenty of folks to help and coach new shooters through the various movements, rules, and procedures needed to shoot a stage correctly and safely.
If you would like to compete or shoot a match, you need 2 single action pistols, a lever action rifle chambered for pistol rounds, and either a side-by-side, 1897 model, or 1887 reproduction shotgun.
All the rule and equipment handbooks can be found on the website of The Single Action Shooting Society. The handbooks are called Shooter’s Handbooks and you will find the answers to all your questions in there! Always ask someone at the match if there’s something you would like explained.
It’s a lot easier than you think! If you like to shoot steel targets that fall over, targets that fly, move, or go “CLANG!” Come out and give this a try! You have to start somewhere and the Brookfield Conservation Club is a nice, friendly place to start. Hope to see you soon!
All my best,
Slow Mo Dern
Cowboy Action Shooting is a wonderful sport and these activities promote honesty, moral correctness, a love of history, and it’s a heck of a lot of fun!”
- David Chicoine
“Think about it, where else could you go and dress up like a cowboy or western movie actor, talk like you were from Wyoming, even though you grew up in Akron, enjoy your favorite sport (shooting!) and play the ham all at the same time without the slightest chance of being ridiculed?”
Go out there and try it, you’ll be glad you did!