Single Action Mounted Shooting
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Single Action Mounted Shooting (SAMS) is a not-for-profit Charitable Corporation that hosts competitive equestrian mounted shooting events, cowboy action shooting, old west living history, Wild West Shows and participates in parade events. They also work to promote American West values and lifestyles to school children and disabled or disadvantaged children through word and action. Single Action Mounted Shooting Corporation is sometimes known by its abbreviation "S.A.M.S. Cowboys".
Description
Single Action Mounted Shooting hosts Mounted Shooting Competitions, among other Western and Military Style Equestrian Activities. Mounted Shooting is a competitive equestrian sport requiring the use of a horse to negotiate a shooting pattern where targets are engaged with theatrical-stage-blank ammunition that is certified to break a target balloon within twenty feet and not beyond twenty feet. (No bullets are used.)
History
Single Action Mounted Shooting or Cowboy Mounted is a competitive equestrian sport that originated from more than five hundred years of military cavalry training. When firearms reached Europe from Asia, a need for firearms suitable for use on horseback was filled with the creation of a hand-gun as long arms were too heavy and unwieldy for use on horseback. The handgun eventually replaced the bow, the lance, and eventually the sword or saber. When modern cavalry was mechanized or made “airbourne” the horse was regulated to honorary roles such as in for political or ceremonial uses.
In the spirit of the soldier and cowboy a group called the Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association was created in the 1990s so that horse people and cowboy action shooters may enjoy the competitive nature of shooting sports while riding horseback.[1] In 1998 group known as Single Action Mounted Shooting was informally created when competitions and instructional clinics were held in Southern Nevada by Richard Howes. Richard first competed in shooting from horseback as part of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry Co.A civil war historical reenactment|reenacting]] group. Richard Howes and Dan Dalton assisted the Single Action Shooting Society in hosting the Western Nationals and Nevada State championship in 1999 and 2000.
In 2004, after several years of informal clinics and instruction and competitions, Richard Howes drew up Articles of Incorporation for the Las Vegas Mounted Shooting Association.[2] The original LVMSA Logo was designed based on the 1st Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Cavalry's campaign badge that was issued to all troopers returning from the civil war. The name of the LVMSA, under new leadership, was changed to the Sin City Mounted Shooters. With the growth of Mounted Shooting in Las Vegas the not-for-profit Single Action Mounted Shooting organization was formed in 2006 in order to promote instructional clinics and old-west living history and charitable events.
To date, SAMS has been actively involved with the Civil War Society, and the Southern Nevada Living History Association, The National Park Service, Riding for Handicapped Children, Non-Profit Fund Raising, Corporate awareness through parades and hosting athletic competition activities.
See also
- Cowboy Mounted Shooting
- Historical reenactment
- American Old West
- Cowboy Action Shooting
- Mounted archery
- Cowboy
- Rodeo
- Wild West Shows
- Cavalry
- Western wear
Footnotes
- ^ [http://www.cowboymountedshooting.com/history.cfm Rodgers, Jim. "Origins of Cowboy Mounted Shooting
- ^ Single Action Mounted Shooting
Additional references
- Las Vegas Review Journal - SASS Mounted Shooting at Sandy Valley Ranch in 2000
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2000/Nov-03-Fri-2000/weekly/14703781.html
- Las Vegas Sun Newspaper - Old West Event
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/sep/27/old-west-event-comes-henderson/
- Las Vegas Sun - Pat Clark 8th Annual Pony Express Shootout Event
http://www.lasvegassun.com/photos/galleries/2008/sep/29/pony-express-shootout/
- CAS City - the world of Cowboy & Western Action Shooting