Cowboy Shooters Compete in Indoor Championship at Annual SASS Convention
The 9th Annual SASS Convention and Indoor Championship will be held December 8-12 at the Riviera Hotel and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the Single Action Shooting Society’s annual gathering, SASS members can attend seminars on shooting skills, reloading, gun maintenance, stage planning, and match management. Firearms vendors will display their wares, and a wide variety of activities will be held, including: Indoor World Championship, Classic Cowboy Saloon Dance, Hall of Fame Induction, and Wild West Performers (e.g. Trick Ropers, Gun Spinners, and Bullwhip Artists). The Popular “Cowboys in the Sky” CW band will perform on Friday night.
Indoor Shooting Championship with Wax Bullets
The SASS Indoor World Championship of Cowboy Action Shooting is a three-day, nine-stage shooting competition to be held during the SASS Convention in Las Vegas. Competitors will shoot supplied firearms and wax bullets at steel targets in a variety of Cowboy Action Shooting scenarios. The ammunition is powderless, as the wax projectiles are propelled by standard primers only. This allows shooting indoors, within the convention center itself.
Editor’s Comment: Traditionalists may scoff at the use of wax bullets, but SASS has devised a form of action shooting that can be safely done indoors (on hotel premises) without ricochet risks and without pollution issues. By adapting its game to an indoor setting, SASS has added something new to the shooting sports, and has provided an exciting adjunct to its annual Convention. When shooters get together, they want to shoot. The wax-bullet technology allows SASS Convention-goers to enjoy shooting without traveling miles to a formal indoor or outdoor range. There may be something here that can be adapted to other shooting sports. We can certainly see the potential for winter indoors rifle training using primer-propelled wax bullets. Keep in mind however, that shooters must still employ normal safe-shooting procedures; even wax bullets can cause serious injuries.
Photo courtesy Single Action Shooting Society
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As for shooting wax bullets, I have been doing something similar for a while now, shooting bullets made from hot-glue that I cast in my normal bullet molds. It’s very simple, as you just shoot the hot glue in through the sprue plate like you would with lead and let it cool for a few minutes before opening it. I have been doing this with several pistol calibers, as well as .308, 45/70 and my .500S&W handi rifle. I use magnum primers for propellant, and have even added a few grains of Bullseye and glued a gas-check on the bottom of the bullet for more velocity. With only a primer, I get around 900FPS from my .45ACP, and have gotten close to 1300fps from my 500S&W with 3grs of Bullseye. It’s actually quite fun and allows shooting in areas you would never dream of using normal ammo. For more info go to Ammosmith.com and look in the video section, there is a step by step guide to casting and loading glue bullets. It’s way more fun than you would think!
pollution problem?? Only in californian’ mind