40 / Sport and Trail Magazine
Mounted Shooting in Nevada
Sin City Mounted Shooters
By Joel Ostrovsky
So, you own a fast horse, you’re an intermediate level rider or better and you enjoy fierce competition but, you’re tired of running the same barrel pattern over and over, or trying to hook up with friends who own cattle. You also love shooting, but standing in front of paper targets on a gun range is not doing it for you, anymore. Or maybe you always wanted to try shooting in a completely safe environment. The solution? Go get yourself a pair of Single Action 45 LC Peacemakers from any number of manufacturers and dealers (Cimarron, Ruger, EMF, Taylor, Colt, Uberti, etc), and join the fastest growing equine sport in North America – Mounted Shooting with a cowboy flare. Guaranteed, there is a mounted shooting club near you that would welcome you with open arms. If you’re worried that your horse might not take to gunfire rest assured most clubs can teach you the right techniques to get started, even hooking you up with a host of professional mounted shooters across the country who specialize in training mounted shooting horses and riders.
The sport began in 1992 in central Arizona (or southern California, depending who you talk to), and has grown nationwide with local clubs in many of our fifty states and Canada.
Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association
Mounted Shooters of America