Dust off them cap n' ball smokewagons! The Brush Peak Muzzle-loaders [Winchester Canyon Gun Club, Santa Barbara, CA] will be holding an 1850's style-shootout [percussion revolvers, rifles & shotguns] on August 24th, 2008 beginning at 12:00 High Noon, Weather and fire conditions permitting. Scenarios will be based on authentic shootouts of that period of Santa Barbara history.
We tried this at the San Luis Obispo Muzzleloaders a few years ago with great results. Winning came down to who could get five reliable shots off with their percussion hogleg. The chap that won used an 1860 Colt that he'd used for Civil War reenactment...it had never had a live round through it before that day.
We also had a black powder belly gun stage. You sat at a card table with a hand of cards. On the buzzer you threw the cards down, drew a belly gun from beneath a hat on the table and shot a target opposite of you across the table. Then you stood and threw your throwing knife at a round. The match was scored "Virginia City Count" [score divided by time].
The Host/Organizer for this shoot is WCGC member Col. Everett Lee and he says that they followed the SLOML lead and started their "1850's Style Shootout" a few years ago. If you have CAS experience and holsters you can draw from them. Inexperienced shootists stage their revolvers on a tabletop.
In the interest of time, all stages are reactive steel. They also have a wooden horse with a real saddle, rifle boot and a revolver holster on the saddle horn.
Col. Lee has designed stages that are based on real gunfights that happened in their locale and up here in San Luis Obispo back in the "Bloody 50's", including the attempted ambush of Santa Barbara Sheriff Russell Heath by the infamous bandit Salomon Pico. This should be a real hoot of a shoot!
If you have questions you can e-mail him at [email protected]
We tried this at the San Luis Obispo Muzzleloaders a few years ago with great results. Winning came down to who could get five reliable shots off with their percussion hogleg. The chap that won used an 1860 Colt that he'd used for Civil War reenactment...it had never had a live round through it before that day.
We also had a black powder belly gun stage. You sat at a card table with a hand of cards. On the buzzer you threw the cards down, drew a belly gun from beneath a hat on the table and shot a target opposite of you across the table. Then you stood and threw your throwing knife at a round. The match was scored "Virginia City Count" [score divided by time].
The Host/Organizer for this shoot is WCGC member Col. Everett Lee and he says that they followed the SLOML lead and started their "1850's Style Shootout" a few years ago. If you have CAS experience and holsters you can draw from them. Inexperienced shootists stage their revolvers on a tabletop.
In the interest of time, all stages are reactive steel. They also have a wooden horse with a real saddle, rifle boot and a revolver holster on the saddle horn.
Col. Lee has designed stages that are based on real gunfights that happened in their locale and up here in San Luis Obispo back in the "Bloody 50's", including the attempted ambush of Santa Barbara Sheriff Russell Heath by the infamous bandit Salomon Pico. This should be a real hoot of a shoot!
If you have questions you can e-mail him at [email protected]
