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yes, you made out real well on that deal.

nice pair of pistols,

murf

At the gun shop where I bought a lot of guns when I lived in Tennessee one of the counter guys knew what I liked and made it a point to bring out something I had the hots for when ever I came into the shop. He sold a bunch of guns to me that way. Excellent buy on those guns.

Your revolvers are just about ideal for cowboy action shooting. Cowboy Fast Draw requires a revolver in .45 Colt.

Congrats on your pair of ready to go pistols, except for that hand. The cool thing is not only the money you saved, but the the downtime of not having those guns to shoot.

One usually has to wear a ski mask to get that kind of deal. Nice.

@Dustbowl
Nice job. Good deal. Please know that if you send the revolver with the bad hand into Ruger they will fix it but they will swap any aftermarket springs or parts with factory parts. They do not return the parts they remove. At least they didn’t with Wolff springs they removed from my two Vaqueros that I sent in recently.

You will really enjoy those shooters. And Welcome to Cowboy Action Shooting

Dustbowl said:

Well I had the itch recently to get into Sass and Fastdraw

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Howdy

Cowboy Action Shooting (CAS) as promoted by the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS) and Cowboy Fastdraw are very different.

Cowboy Fastdraw uses wax bullets only propelled by a primer.

CAS uses real lead bullets, propelled by real powder.

A wax bullet would probably hurt if it hit you, but it would not kill you.

A lead bullet propelled by gunpowder will kill someone. Even the relatively light loads used by many CAS shooters are still lethal.

Here is a quick video showing Cowboy Fastdraw. Notice the posture most of the shooters assume. Most stand hunched back with their hips thrust forward to help clear leather sooner. And almost all are shooting from the hip. Meaning they don't raise the gun up so they can see the sights. They are shooting by instinct from the hip. Notice the shooters stand in one position and fire one shot when the timer starts.





As far as I know, shooting from the hip is not outlawed in CAS, we even had a few stages that required it a lot of years ago. But pretty much everybody agreed that with real bullets shooting from the hip was a bad idea. No telling when a round might go over the berm. I have not seen anybody shooting from the hip in CAS for many years.

Also, in Cowboy Fastdraw you just need one pistol. You need two in CAS, and you need a rifle and a shot gun too.

There is usually lots of motion in CAS, moving from one position to another and shooting different guns from different positions.

Here is a video of my friend Wild Bill Blackerby shooting a stage in CAS. Wild Bill shoots Black Powder, most CAS shooters do not. And you will notice Wild Bill saunters from position to position. Most serious CAS shooters run, or at least they walk fast.

https://youtu.be/dc2Xtt9zrxg


And oh yeah, you have to use 45s in Cowboy Fastdraw.

Yes, very nice Vaqueros, Dustbowl!

Ya done good!
Have fun ancestry safe.

Even if you never compete with those guns you got a smokin' deal. My bud just sold his Vaquero in 357 for $450. And that was a bone stock gun with no upgrades. I think you did very well.

Dustbowl

That would have been a done deal for me as well! Enjoy them and let us know how things go if you decide to get into CAS and fast draw competitions.

My older Vaquero is one fun shooting single action and very accurate with both factory ammo and handloads.

Congrats pard
You are good to go get a good shotgun, a reliable lever rifle.
Please, post pics of your outfit, go people all around.
Great game, very under rated.

You got too good a deal on them so you should return them, either that or give the dealer more money! yuk, yuk, yuk!