Cowboy Mounted Shooting
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I may have posted something like this before, so forgive me.
Link to videoEach pistol is single-action and has 5 rounds.
You don't know what horse you'll get.
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Training the rider and horse at the US Cavalry school.
Link to videoThe training of the horse is amazing - they get a treat after every gunshot.
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@Jolly said in Cowboy Mounted Shooting:
Are they using wax bullets?
Wiki:
"Mounted shooting uses black powder theatrical blanks with no bullet. Companies such as Western Stage Props, Buffalo Blanks, Circle E Blanks, Lonesome Pine, and Whitehouse Blanks manufacture certified ammunition for competition. These blanks were originally used in movie production and on the theatrical stage so that flame and smoke can be seen from the muzzle of the firearm. A slow-burning powder component of the blank can break a balloon target at a range of up to 20 feet (6 m)."
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About shooting off of a horse...Never seen this type of competition in person. What I am real familiar with, is deer hunting on horses. A deer doesn't spook when it hears a horse walking through the woods, so you get some thirty yard shots.
Guys (and gals) tend to use carbines. Lever action 30-30, 44mag. 30 caliber M1 carbine. AR-15 carbine (M4 style) in 300 Blackout.
Horses are trained to drop their heads and stand still, when you drop the reins on their neck.
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About shooting off of a horse...Never seen this type of competition in person. What I am real familiar with, is deer hunting on horses. A deer doesn't spook when it hears a horse walking through the woods, so you get some thirty yard shots.
Guys (and gals) tend to use carbines. Lever action 30-30, 44mag. 30 caliber M1 carbine. AR-15 carbine (M4 style) in 300 Blackout.
Horses are trained to drop their heads and stand still, when you drop the reins on their neck.
@Jolly said in Cowboy Mounted Shooting:
Horses are trained to drop their heads and stand still, when you drop the reins on their neck.
Nothing like a well-trained horse.
I trained Simon to "ground tie." If I dropped the lead rope onto the ground, he would stand still, as though he were tied to the ground. I could walk away, and although he would look at me, he's stay put.
