I have been wanting to get into Single Action or Cowboy Action shooting. It looks like a helluva lot of fun to me. I'd also be very interested in a shooting club that put up practical trials and tests for members to compete. I am unaware of any such organization for civilians. Anyone else be interested in a tactical gun competition?

I too would like to try some handgun competition some time. I only shoot at our black powder shoots for now and our archery shoots. The good thing in the bp shoot , it is all freehand. Free hand shooting is something that needs to be practiced more often.

Hell yeah!! Practice is always good.

Trap shooting. I'm gonna argue that it develops hand/eye coordination, and that it's a transferable skill to pointing and shooting in defense.

I shoot IDPA and IDPA 3-Gun. Used to shoot CAS too but gave it up. Their all fun.

shot trap competitively on college teams, and afterward ATA. I also shot a lot of bowling pin matches with the .45 ACP. As a matter of fact I won the high overall in the first pin match I shot in my life. I was not however an inexperienced hand with a .45, but had never shot pins. I shot two rounds, five pins in 3.48

Trap, biathlon in the Army, pistol team, small bore, benchrest.

We shoot a weekly plate match throughout the spring and summer, very informal, lots of fun, and some really good shooters. I started this after I got my carry permit and it has really been fun and informative. Wish I had started doing this about 30 years ago!
C.G.B.

Did IPSC for 10-12 years. Went to a lot of Nationals.

Was great practice and a heckova lot of fun!

You don't have to compete in formal matches to have fun. Just get a PACT or similar timer (with random start) and get a whole case of silhouette targets and 2-3 frames. With this you can practice most of the "standards" like El Presidente etc. Just be safe and always shoot with someone else!
Peter.

Just started Cowboy Action Shooting, used to shoot bullseye about 25 years ago.

I use to shoot a lot of tactical type courses rifle pistol IPSC PPC TRC. Life and times change. Competeing is great time you meet a lot of nice people and improve your skill level

Maybe when I retire in and year or so I'll find some closer courses and start up again.

I shot IPSC years ago and had a great time. Now that the kids are gone, I may again. I learned a lot, went to Nationals a couple times, met some great people.

If you really like shooting and haven't tried at least one form of competition, I'd like to warn you YOU'RE BURNING DAYLIGHT!!!

Seriously, life is too short to keep putting it off. There is no where else you can have as much fun with as many people, learn as much about shooting, teach yourself self-evaluation and self-discipline, for as little money.

(Yeh, I know, you MAY be able to have more fun in bed for short periods of time, but in my experience that's about 100 times as expensive.)

I shot on a university varsity pistol team for one year (didn't like it as much as riflery), competed in high-power for 5 years at the national and international levels, and spent 7 years competing in benchrest. Also attended FBI "full-auto" firing school. Of the three competitive areas, I preferred High Power because it taught skills from various positions and at various rates of fire.

Have also dabbled in silhouetta metallica, and inter-service shooting with the Canadian FN-FAL assault rifle, but those weren't serious hobbies for me.

Anyway, don't let possible "embarrassment" slow you down. Nobody is watching your shooting or your scores or your placings. They are too concentrated on their own performances...trying to match or improve their own bests every time they are out there. And you don't have to join the equipment race either to do well.

Mitch Maxberry, David Tubb, Tony Boyer and other well know shooters can shoot well with any gun on the line. So can you, once you've put enough rounds downrange and watched how enough good competitors do their thing.

My competition shooting is over, thanks to a stroke. Unfortunately, I didn't know when my stroke was scheduled to occur, or I would have started competition a lot earlier and done a lot more of it.

You don't know when your physical armageddon is coming either,

SO QUIT BURNING DAYLIGHT!!!!