Howdy Folks!

Welcome to the Cowboy Action Shooting page of the Minot Rifle & Pistol Club.

Two fellers that go by the names of Doc Hell and Yellowstone Vic are planning, on starting, a Ingle Action Shooting Society or SASS, affiliated shooting group in the Minot Rifle & Pistol Club membership.

Cowboy Action Shooting is not only a shooting competition, but also an atmosphere where shooters can re-live their favorite TV Westerns or portray a persona from the actual West.  About a hundred years after that famous gunfight at the OK Corral, SASS (Single Action Shooting Society) introduced Cowboy Action Shooting. It began in 1981 as an idea and blossomed to what we have today. Men and women are dressed in 1880's costumes as cowboys, native americans, soldiers, gamblers, saloon girls, and many other characters from the old west. 

Each shooter adopts an alias that is registered and protected by SASS. This alias allows you to build or rebuild the character that you would like to portray.

In cowboy action shooting all guns must be SASS approved and pre-1899 in design.  You will need two single action revolver handguns; a rifle or carbine, usually a lever action, in a pistol caliber. It's a good idea to have it in the same caliber as your revolvers. Shotguns may be a double barrel or a pump with an external hammer. Keep in mind, if the double barrel has automatic ejectors, they must be disabled.

A match consists of a series of stages which are timed separately. Each missed target is a five second penalty. There are also additional penalties if you fail to follow instructions or do something which may be unsafe.  Safety is always the most important item in Cowboy Action Shooting.

At some competitions your times are simply added at the end and the fastest time wins.  At most SASS recognized events; a system called Rank Scoring is used. In each stage you are given rank points for your place of finish. The first shooter gets one rank point; the second gets two and so on. The rank points are totaled at the end of the match and the shooter with the least rank points wins. Rank points can, and often do have a different outcome that total time.

We’ll keep you all posted on when we plan to get things started.  If’n your interested in learnin’ more about this fun sport or would like to consider participating in a match at the other clubs in North Dakota area, drop Doc or Vic an emule at the addresses below for more information.

Doc Hell's Emule

Yellowstone Vic's Emule 

Minot 2010 SASS Matches

(Registration: High Noon    Safety Meeting: 12:45    Shootin' Starts: 1:00pm)

January 23rd - Introduction to SASS - 11:00am - ID Range

February 13th - Indoor Range

March 13th - Indoor Range

April 10th - Indoor/Outdoor TBD

May 8th - Outdoor Range

June 12th - Outdoor Range

July 10th - Outdoor Range

August 14th - Outdoor Range

September 11th - Outdoor Range

October 9th - Indoor/Outdoor TBD

Area SASS Clubs

East Grand Forks Rod & Gun Club

Bismarck Rifle & Pistol Club / Dakota Rough Riders

Sheyenne Valley Peacekeepers - Enderlin, ND

Trestle Valley Rangers - Minot, ND

Badland Bandits - Belfield, ND