Charlie MacNeil, SASS #48580

I know, it's kind of short notice, but the Virtue Flat Shootist Society is holding our first match of the new year this Saturday, April 11th. Setup 8ish Pacific Time, shoot 9ish Pacific Time. Come on out and play in our back yard, and let's ring some steel!

I want to thank all of you fine folks who took the time to reply to a thread that I started mainly because I thought it would be an interesting interlude in a game that I totally agree has too many rules and too many categories. It was started in fun, but also because I wanted to get some perspectives from more than the usual suspects, and it did, Thank you again. And just to clarify, I don't plan to propose that facial hair be included in the requirements for any category whatsoever. And if I have offended anyone with this thread, I apologize profusely.

My point exactly!

I didn't say anything about looking good, just that it had to be there! 😁

Seriously! People are constantly using old photos of cowboys, etc. as examples of how costuming should be. It's kind of been my impression that in the vast majority of those photos the subjects are wearing some style of facial hair, whether it be mustache, beard, whatever. So why not require it in Classic Cowboy? Except for one year when I was having worse than normal wrist issues, I've been shooting CC for almost twenty years, so I'm not bringing this up because I ain't "been there, done that". I have. So why not?

Thanks, Slim. I'll probably do that in the near future.

Howdy! The title kind of says it all, but a little background info is probably in order, so here goes: my son, who is a big ol' boy, shoots a pair of EAA Longhorns that were our original pistols from when we first started shooting CAS many moons ago. He later acquired a Cimmaron Model P as a backup. He's been shooting two-handed from the get go, but this spring he decided that he wanted to move to double duelist with the idea of eventually transitioning to gunfighter. He has big hands so it's fairly easy for him to reach the hammer spurs on his guns, but lowered hammers would make it a skosh easier. Does anybody make lowered hammers for his guns? He and his wife just bought their first house, so new guns are a distant dream at this point... Thanks!

I shot a pair of 45 Colt '75 Remmies in Classic Cowboy for a number of years. They pointed naturally for me. I moved on to a pair of Old Model Vaquero Bisleys and those same Remmies are on their second owner after me. They've been rebuilt twice that I know of since I had them but it took a lot of rounds to make them need rebuilding.

I noticed that Oregon is conspicuously absent from your map. You need to find your way to Baker City, Oregon the second weekend of July, 2025, for our annual, Violence at Virtue Flat. If nothing else, the food is fantastic!