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Any one here have experience with mounted shooting off horse back? I'm here right now at the farm & ranch show in edmonton and they have a big shoot going on right now. Looks like a ton of fun and it's great to see a bunch of guys walking around with six guns in a public place. There's a bunch of school kids watching so it is great to showcase the positive use of guns in an open forum like this.

Not sure how they get the permits to have guns here at northlands but great to see nonetheless.
 
They shoot blanks and I believe that the guns are modified.

It is a pretty fun thing to watch and if nothing else does get people used to seeing more firearms around.
 
I can only imagine that shooting from a moving horse would be a million times harder in real life than it is in cowboy movies.

That said; I would love to try it.
 
The horses were amazing to watch, it would take a great deal of time to train them to run and turn like they were without shying away from the gun fire and smoke. The announcer said they use black powder reduced loads that run out of steam after about 20 feet or so. I didn't stay for the whole competition but they used revolvers, shotguns and rifles with varying patterns they run in. Some of them were amazingly fast and accurate. They even had some little kids running the pattern with cap guns going through the motions just like mom and dad. Cool to watch.
 
My horse took to it right away ,shooting off him in less than an hour. Depends on there temperament, others longer. He was more worried about the balloon disappearing than the gun going off. Just do it for the fun of it , nothing organized in B.C. but have a few friends that do it for demonstrations.
Shoot 45LC with 30gr. of black with a florist foam wad, enough spit to pop a balloon out to 12-15 feet, still have to aim to hit the balloon. It's like barrel racing with guns.
To be able to do this you need an ATT for re-enactment and demonstration, just fax your provincial CFO with your SASS or
other cowboy or historical group to get it, I had no problem. No live ammo allowed but blanks are OK.
 
call2arms said:
They have real big horse sized ear plugs
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They use high density foam balls designed as cat toys.

I wanted to get into this but the practice was to far from my farm at the time near Saskatoon. Decided I'd better learn to shoot pistol off my own two feet and got into IPSC. Sold my pinto and still shoot IPSC four years later.

Horses+guns+travel+ammo=expensive hobby
 
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hawkentom said:
My horse took to it right away ,shooting off him in less than an hour. Depends on there temperament, others longer. He was more worried about the balloon disappearing than the gun going off. Just do it for the fun of it , nothing organized in B.C. but have a few friends that do it for demonstrations.
Shoot 45LC with 30gr. of black with a florist foam wad, enough spit to pop a balloon out to 12-15 feet, still have to aim to hit the balloon. It's like barrel racing with guns.
To be able to do this you need an ATT for re-enactment and demonstration, just fax your provincial CFO with your SASS or
other cowboy or historical group to get it, I had no problem. No live ammo allowed but blanks are OK.
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Thanks for the information, it is something I would like to try some day as I love working with horses and I think the challenge would be a lot of fun. Are you able to practice at home without being designated range? I don't see how you could practice at a regular range anyway, would be frowned upon to be running a horse around within the berms!
 
Most gun ranges are not horse friendly. I practice at home. I explained that to the CFO when he gave The ATT to do the mounted shooting. It doesn't have to be a designated range because there is no live fire, blanks only.
Wife and I had a booth at the rodeo grounds a few years ago, promoting CAS. Had fun walking around with our guns on.
Response was very positive .Had an RCMP in red serge visit our booth and had our picture taken with him he thought it was cool.
We were there by invitation and just to make sure we let the local RCMP know what we were up to .
 
Tom

Get hold of Doug and Audrey Sayewich (Sassy Sixguns and Porcupine). They do Mounted exhibitions at the Williams Lake Stampede. Give Jim Sloper a call as well.

Todd
 
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