Pistol Shooting Tips for Cowboy Action Shooting

Video Transcript

"Wolf Wind-Walker, Expert Village, Cowboy Action Shooting. We're going to do a little bit on tips and techniques right now. If you ask any shooting sport, they have different ways of doing things. Cowboy Action Shooting, if you ask somebody what do you do when you aim at that target, almost everybody to the man will tell you front sight. There's different ways of handling your guns while they are in your holsters too, depending on your style. I shoot traditional; of course we have William Watty and Dixie Avenger, that shoot a different style than I do. What we're going to do is have them demo their style too. I'm going to go first. If you're shooting traditional and you have a pistol on each side and for this example, I'm going to turn my pistol around, like double-strong side. Whichever pistol I draw first, I'm going to draw the left one first, so if I'm shooting I'm going to draw the left one and transfer it into my hand and shoot, put it away. While I'm going back, for my other pistol, bringing it out and shooting again and then I would bring that out. Now, my style is cross-draw, so I'm shooting cross-draw, I always pull with my right hand first, meet it front-side, bang, bang, bang, I'm holstering while I'm drawing out my other one, bang, bang, bang. That's traditional style, double-strong side and cross-draw. Now I'm going to do a little demo, so this time watch my hands, watch my draw, and watch my gun. Shooters ready, standby. (5 shots) (5 shots) Traditional, cross-draw, ten hits, ten targets, it doesn't get any better than that. The only thing that I can do is go faster. Now people ask this about speed, how do you get your speed up? I've been doing this for about 8 years, so there's a lot of matches in those 8 years, a lot of practice. Fortunately, we live in an area where we shoot with the Dixie Desperadoes twice a month. Cedar City has Coal Creek Cowboys up there twice a month, so I can shoot four Saturdays a month and have a lot of fun. One thing about a single action pistol, as opposed to a semi-automatic, the semi-automatic is a mechanical mechanism, so it can only go as fast as the mechanics are set up to go. If you shoot cowboy shooting, you can practice and your hands can get faster and faster than, as fast as you want to go. The only limitation is you and most of that is up here. That's the biggest challenge for a lot of us; it's not so much beating the other people around us, but doing better each time we go out. Beating ourselves and getting better and better at what we do. The transitions, the smoothness of your transitions, the style you shoot your gun, how you're set when you shoot, your shooting stance, your transition from gun to gun, your movement from gun to gun, and all those things come into play when you're doing Cowboy Action Shooting."