Legalese of CAS

[drache]

Can anyone explain the legalese of Cowboy Action Shooting to me? Here in BC (and with the rest of Canada) you can only get an ATT for the restricted "six shooters" to a certified range, yet there is something my step mother is trying to get into which is Mounted CAS on a horse. This of course has to be done within a riding arena.

So how do you get an ATT to move a restricted firearm to one of these riding arenas when they aren't classified as a range?

Target Shooting Practice and Competition

To be authorized to have restricted firearms for target shooting purposes, you must provide proof that you practice or compete at an approved shooting club or range.

 

['Boo]

They don't use "real" 6-guns. Usually aluminum barreled guns shooting wax bullets.

 

[vagrantviking]

The shoot organizers can apply to have an area designated as a range just for a weekend shoot. Not sure about the whole process but I have been to a number of shoots on ranches and other places that did this.

Most of the modified guns that I have heard of were aluminum barrelled but still used real recievers that had serial numbers and everything functioning so they would still have to be registered. They do shoot wax or even dust of some sort at ballons as they ride. Just a hot primer might be enough.

 

[drache]

They don't use "real" 6-guns. Usually aluminum barreled guns shooting wax bullets.

The Mounted Shooting all uses real 6-guns firing special blank rounds.

 

[BCWILL]

Back when I was into the CAS thing here we had many Mounted shooting events...alot were held on the Gunrange property so no worries there.

I do know that several members take thier sixguns down to the Railyard and do mock "hold ups" of the Rocky Mountain train for tourists and such, yes with Real sixguns !

The folks that give out ATT's are very accomodating for these "events" and will give out specially worded att's accordingly......one only need ask

 

[gwagen]

typically they shoot real rifled full steel guns using cartridges with dried corn in them. A friends of ours has her riding ring approved as a range. Perhaps her husband being a retired NHLer had some influence?

 

[enefgee]

typically they shoot real rifled full steel guns using cartridges with dried corn in them. A friends of ours has her riding ring approved as a range. Perhaps her husband being a retired NHLer had some influence?

Does that mean you can shoot at their 'range' or is it restricted in time or scope? Not being funny - I'm seriously interested in this type of range designation.

 

[gwagen]

they have year round approval. And they do shoot wether they are allowed to or not normal lead rounds. Not on the horse at balloons though. But they don't have any berms since when they are shooting corn it doesn't go terribly far.

 

[BCRider]

I'm guessing that when you're saying corn that you mean corn meal? A single kernal or three of popping corn would go quite a ways and from the consistency of hits I've seen in the You Tube vids I don't think they are shooting single projectiles to pop them. I suspect it's more of a shot style load such as corn meal.

 

[drache]

I'm guessing that when you're saying corn that you mean corn meal? A single kernal or three of popping corn would go quite a ways and from the consistency of hits I've seen in the You Tube vids I don't think they are shooting single projectiles to pop them. I suspect it's more of a shot style load such as corn meal.

Yes it's mostly corn meal although I have heard of people using corn kernals off a cob of corn as well

These mounted shooting competitions though uses just straight blanks. Seems the shockwave or something from the muzzles pops the balloons.

http://www.oldwestguns.ca/index.php?page=products&object=53

 

[gwagen]

You have to be real close if you want to pop a ballon with a blank. They typically use dry cracked corn not quite as fine as corn meal. Our friend used to do shows at the fair an indoor hockey arena that had the ice out of it and sand put in. She was shooting her corn loads indoors and people we in the stands watching. But you are shooting downwards from the horse and the corn maybe able to travel a fair distance but by 25-30 feet out it wouldn't break skin. They don't load these things very hot.