Randy “Single Action” Jackson has been shooting since he was a young boy, but it wasn’t until he met a Cowboy Action shooter at a gun show, that his passion for action shooting took off.

Randy has always been an avid hunter, and excelled in long-range tactical shooting at Fort Benning.  He liked to compete, and cowboy action shooting added a new dimension to his skills that also impacted his professional and personal life.  He says that he enjoys action shooting because . . .

by Mike Venturino, Classic Arms Editor, Shooting Times

Most shooting competitions are relatively easy to practice for because their courses of fire are always the same. Good examples are bullseye target or metallic silhouette shooting. Not so with the cowboy action shooting sport. There is no set course of fire, and the various stages one may encounter are limited only by the match designers’ imaginations. And let me tell you, some of those folks can be extremely creative!

Most of today’s single-action revolvers as sent from the factories have rather stiff actions that do not lend themselves to speed shooting right from the box. In fact, some of them come from the manufacturers so rough that trying to use them in competitive cowboy action shooting is apt to cause internal damage.

by Mike Venturino, Classic Arms Editor, Shooting Times

I recently made the comment to another shooter that I believe most competitors in the cowboy action sport had their handguns altered in one way or the other before, or shortly after, putting them to use in the game. I backed up my statement with the logic that this sport is based on speed shooting and is inherently hard on the guns.

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