Cheap Cowboy Action Practice

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I'm thinking Cowboy Action might be my sport. I don't need to win but I won't allow myself to suck either. I want to try a few thousand rounds of practice without spending a few thousand bucks. Has anyone ever seen a CO2 SAA type pistol that is not an antique? All I can find on the web is ebay collectors items. Also, is there a lever action repeating .177 or even a bb gun that is the same size and close in form to the Winchester? Not something child sized? Never mind the cost of the rounds, if I can shot air guns it will save me a bundle on gas money, because I can shoot on my own property safely.
I hope I won't have to try airsoft, the accuracy, as far as I've seen of those things, is miserabe even at 20 feet. Next step for cheap practice is .22, with better options. Anybody want to talk about that?

Edit: Maybe this should be in the airgun forum also, or instead?
 
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But if you do not practice with the real guns and the ammo that you will be using you will not know how well you are really doing. Even 22s are not going to react how 38s or 45LC will. If you want an idea if CAS is your sport find a club that has it and go to their practices and they will let you try it out. Now no one is going to want to fund your practice so tell them what you are doing and offer to pay for the ammo. But when it comes to practice I really think that you need to practice with the guns you will use at matches. Even when you are dry firing.
 
Do enough live fire to KNOW exactly where your guns shoot, and then wear them out in dry fire practise. In a standard 10 round pistol, 10 round rifle, 4 round shotgun stage, you will be firing your guns for about 10-15 seconds. The rest is loading the shotgun, and transitions (changing from one gun to the other, reholstering, etc). So practise those things, and then think BEFORE the timer goes off. Plan your stage and it'll shave big time from your stages. But you still have to be accurate enough to hit all your targets. (They are big and close usually). And don't forget to have fun.
 
paulie031 said:
I'm thinking Cowboy Action might be my sport. I don't need to win but I won't allow myself to suck either. I want to try a few thousand rounds of practice without spending a few thousand bucks. Has anyone ever seen a CO2 SAA type pistol that is not an antique? All I can find on the web is ebay collectors items. Also, is there a lever action repeating .177 or even a bb gun that is the same size and close in form to the Winchester? Not something child sized? Never mind the cost of the rounds, if I can shot air guns it will save me a bundle on gas money, because I can shoot on my own property safely.
I hope I won't have to try airsoft, the accuracy, as far as I've seen of those things, is miserabe even at 20 feet. Next step for cheap practice is .22, with better options. Anybody want to talk about that?

Edit: Maybe this should be in the airgun forum also, or instead?
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If you really want cheap practice perhaps you should be looking at getting into reloading??? Shooting .22's can be good practice -and the ammo is cheap-but the cost for an entire extra set of firearms is considerable.

You may be farther ahead to spend that money on a Dillon setup -which you are going to need anyhow if you want to shoot enough to be competitive- and go for it with your match guns.

Don't get me wrong:I am a big fan of practicing with .22's - but it isn't always the least expensive way to go initially.

John
 
Look around there are Companies that sell reloaded .38 Special. My wife wanted some practice last year and with everything happening in my life I didn't have enough time to make up a spare 1,000 rds. So I bought a 1,000 reloads for $225.00. It is not that expensive.
 
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