Private Side Matches

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

 

Some things would just not make for a practical side match at a Cowboy Shoot.  But I am sure that many of us have thought of ideas that would be a great idea for a "side match" that we could put on for three of four of our friends, if we but had a shooting range we could use.   Since most of us don't, we don't get to do these things, but we still speculate about them.  Or at least I do.

 

For example, I think it would be fun to set up a Henry, 66. 73, 76, 86, 87, 92, 93, 94, 95 and a 97 and call it "The Winchesters" and let some friends go down the line and try them all.   Or perhaps the history of the US Service Revolver from the Walker to the Colt 1909.  Or perhaps some other creative thing using a few of our guns to let our friends try them in a for fun format without the pressure of a formal match.   

Again, the problem is that since I don't own my own shooting range, it is not practical to actually DO these things.   You usually can't take more than one friend to a club at a time for informal shooting, and even then the space you can use is probably limited do to many other shooters being there at that time.  You more than likely can't set up any special targets either.   So this remains a purely speculative idea.  But if you had the space, the ammo, and the guns, what kind of a creative "side match" would you like to stage for a couple of your friends as a way to get them interested in shooting, expose them at least peripherally to our game, and so on and so forth?

[Krazy Kajun]

Brings to mind the "scoot and shoot" at Comin AtCha.

 

Kajun

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

2 minutes ago, Krazy Kajun said:

Brings to mind the "scoot and shoot" at Comin AtCha.

 

Kajun

 

What is that?

 

[Diamond Jake]

I'm lucky in that my son and a good buddy of mine each own over 40 acres in rural TN, and we can shoot pretty much anytime we want.  You could set up novelty targets instead of different guns.  On we did at a mountain man rendezvous years ago had small paper discs as targets.  On the disc was a fly painted somewhere, but not in the center.  The fly was in a different place on each disc. You usually couldn't see it from the firing line, so you had to either guess where it was, or look at it up close then remember.  Anyone actually hitting their fly won.

 

This is more fitting to accuracy shooting than timed, but it might be interesting side match with rifles.