The OKC Gun Club hosted the national championships for cowboy action shooting. More than 700 shooters from 40 states and four countries attended.

On top of everything, being a shooting sport, cowboy action shooting also has a lot of safety rules, which include regulations on holsters, strict penalties for "sweeping" (when a shooter briefly ...

Elstonville holds cowboy action shoots on the fourth Sunday of every month from April through October. Since August has five Sundays, the club will be shooting again today.

He decided to give cowboy action shooting a try, and had a great time. Straniere, whose firearms experience includes Air Force training, faced big learning curve.

Cowboy action shooting is for lovers of Old West history. They learn to shoot Western-style firearms. But it ain’t just about shootin’.

Cowboy action shooting -- also known as Western action shooting, single-action shooting, cowboy 3-gun, and Western 3-gun -- is a competitive shooting sport that originated in 1981.

Contestants in Cowboy Action Shooting must use firearms typical of those used in the taming of the Old West, pre-1899 single-action revolvers, lever-action rifles, and side-by-side double barreled ...

Bill 'Smokewagon Bill' Hoover prepares for his turn at shooting during a cowboy action shoot at Stuckenhoff's Sport Shooting complex last Sunday in Casper. Photo by DAN CEPEDA, Star-Tribune.

But he likes the relaxed atmosphere at cowboy action matches. "We can rag each other while someone is shooting and play little practical jokes on each other," Moreman said.

In cowboy action shooting, contestants compete with single action revolvers, pistol caliber lever action rifles, and 19th century-style shotguns.