Western Regional

[Edward R S Canby, SASS#59971]

Kudos to the Eldorado Cowboys for an enjoyable match.  The Wild Bunch, Main and side matches were all great!  The Boulder City Shooting Range is huge with nearly unlimited dry camping available.  Congratulations to my wife Doc Barium for winning Ladies Frontier Cartridge, her fourth win at a major match this year.

 

 

Edited November 10, 2025 by Edward R S Canby, SASS#59971

[Yul Lose]

After my SDQ for letting an empty pistol fall out of my holster on the second stage I finished watching the unload table and then went back to camp and packed up and headed home. I just wasn’t feeling right and wondered all the way home if it’s time to hang up the guns or not. That was the first time in 18 years of shooting CAS that I’d ever dropped a gun.

[Shooting Bull]

3 minutes ago, Yul Lose said:

After my SDQ for letting an empty pistol fall out of my holster on the second stage I finished watching the unload table and then went back to camp and packed up and headed home. I just wasn’t feeling right and wondered all the way home if it’s time to hang up the guns or not. That was the first time in 18 years of shooting CAS that I’d ever dropped a gun.

Bah, you’re just getting started.😉

[Barry Sloe]

1 hour ago, Yul Lose said:

After my SDQ for letting an empty pistol fall out of my holster on the second stage I finished watching the unload table and then went back to camp and packed up and headed home. I just wasn’t feeling right and wondered all the way home if it’s time to hang up the guns or not. That was the first time in 18 years of shooting CAS that I’d ever dropped a gun.

I've missed the holster once with an empty revolver, missed the holster once at the loading table (yep full chambers), and had a loaded revolver go spinning out of my hand on the line during a very hot summer day in Arizona (brain roasted).  Take a deep breath.   Keep shooting If you are still having fun and enjoying the shooting.

 

That's my two cents,

Barry Sloe

[Gray Hare, SASS #20821]

Have scores been posted?

[SouthwestShooter]

8 hours ago, Shooting Bull said:

Bah, you’re just getting started.😉

I dropped my loaded rifle at the loading table before my 2nd stage at Bordertown.   Sell me your guns I'll  shoot  them for you. 

[Buck Garrett]

A loaded revolver jumped out of the holster while running to the next shooting position, and this was at the Western Regional. I missed the holster with a spent revolver at the Territorial Prison Breakout. Stuff happens. Learn from it and keep on shooting. Many of us enjoy shooting with you, and if you quit we won't have as much fun. We need that joke you tell after the match.

 

[Creeker, SASS #43022]

On 11/10/2025 at 9:07 AM, Yul Lose said:

That was the first time in 18 years of shooting CAS that I’d ever dropped a gun.

As the saying goes; there are only two types of motorcycle riders - those that have went down and those who are going to.

 

Same applies to our game:

There are only two kinds of shooters - those who have dropped a gun and those who are going to.

Welcome to team "Dropped Gun".

 

We are a game/ competition/ sport that operates under the pressure of a timer.  Under that pressure (self applied or otherwise), mistakes will happen.

 

That's why we utilize layers of safety (empty chamber under the hammer, keeping non shooters back, etc ) so that a singular mistake is less likely to be harmful.

 

Hopefully, you can analyze your drop and figure out "why" it happened and address the cause. 

 

We don't quit because of an error - we only consider "hanging up our guns", if we can't fix the error.

Hasn't happened before in 18 years - I doubt you have suddenly become careless or unsafe.  

Stuff happened - sometimes it just does.

 

I have "dropped" a pistol twice (well, they ended up on the ground anyways).

Once, moving to another position and somehow a pistol abandoned ship and jumped out of my holster.

I changed the retention on my holsters and I ensure they are seated on re-holstering.

 

The second was while picking up an oddly positioned long gun and I hooked the pistol grip and lifted it clear.

I am very aware, now, of my body position and prop retrievals.

 

I dropped a rifle from a vertical staging prop - and have done the same with the shotgun.

I was pushing the edge, trying for a 100th of a second advantage - I am a little (a teensy little) bit more cautious now.

 

So in our four gun sport - all four of my guns have, at some point, ended up in the dirt, rocks, gravel or laying on a wooden boardwalk. 

(never seemed to drop them anywhere soft).

 

We learn from our errors:

misses because we fail to aim,

forgotten sequences because we weren't listening,

failing to put rounds in our pistols because we are jabbering at the loading table,

getting blisters because we wore the wrong socks,

ears ringing because our earplugs are hanging around our neck instead of pushed into our ears.

 

And we learn from dropping guns; and we just try not to make THAT specific mistake again.

(because there are a thousand other potential mistakes still waiting for us to make them).

 

And lastly, if you were to hang up your guns - who is going to posse with us when Painted Lady and I come to Escondido?

Edited November 11, 2025 by Creeker, SASS #43022

[Flying W Ramrod]

18 hours ago, Gray Hare, SASS #20821 said:

Have scores been posted?

They have but, they're a mess. Data is corrupted. Don't know when it'll be fixed

[Gray Hare, SASS #20821]

Ok thanks for the update!

 

[I. M. Crossdraw, SASS# 8321]

On 11/10/2025 at 12:07 PM, Yul Lose said:

After my SDQ for letting an empty pistol fall out of my holster on the second stage I finished watching the unload table and then went back to camp and packed up and headed home. I just wasn’t feeling right and wondered all the way home if it’s time to hang up the guns or not. That was the first time in 18 years of shooting CAS that I’d ever dropped a gun.

 It took ten years before I ever drop my pistol once the first time in a match and I've learned from it to be careful.  Been cowboy action shooting for 31 years.  Just move on and keep doing the thing you like or love the most.  Chalk it up as a learning experience.  Be safe and have fun.  No time to hang it up now while you are having fun.  Keep shooting.🤠