Picking an Alias & Shooting a Round: Cowboy Action Shooting

Video Transcript

"Hi. Bob Wolf again for Expert Village. One thing about Cowboy Action Shooting is everybody has an alias, so you get to pick out a character that you want to be. You can be Civil War soldier, you can be a gambler, you can be a gunfighter, you can be a Sheriff, you can even be a dance hall girl if you really want to. So what we do is we all have aliases and that's the names we go by and we mostly know all of our friends by their aliases. Mine happens to be Wolf Wind-Walker and right beside me is another cowgirl shooter, named Dixie Avenger and beside her is her long, tall husband, William Watty. That's our aliases and because when you are growing up, living out your childhood fantasy and playing cowboy, it's always fun to make up your own name. Now we're going to bring Dixie Avenger up for you. She's going to demonstrate gunfighter. Now what Dixie's going to do is, she's going to have a pistol in each hand, have them both out at the same time, alternating pistols. (10 shots) Nicely done, did you hear that nice little ricochet? After shooting our pistol, we're going to go over and pick up our rifle which is my Winchester 73. Pretty much all rifles are the same, there's only one style. You put it up to your shoulder, you lever it and you shoot it. Put it down, open and empty again. Then we're going to transition over to the shotgun. I like to pull two shells out of my belt when I get there, load one, load another one. Now I'm loading one and I'm loading one underneath because I've got that popper."