I think I'm going to break this lonely, unused section of the forum in and make the first post. Here goes...... Well, ladys and gents, I shot my first CAS event EVER last Friday night. I went out to the Rio Salado Rifle Range, just east of Phoenix, Az and hooked up with The Rio Salado CAS Society. They were setting up for the monthly Saturday match and was going to have a mini-match after set-up. I looked up Mr. Ken Furr (aka Arizona Lightning Jack) who is the division manager for the club, introduced myself and asked him if I could hang around and watch. He asked me If I wanted to register and shoot. I told him I have no western era firearms yet, wherein he reached in the trunk of his car and pulled out a double holster set up with two 3rd generation colt saa's and, without a blink of the eye, said "strap these on". My jaw almost dropped. This man didn't know me from Adam and he's handing me $2000 worth of guns to use! Well, as you can imagine, I said something like "O.K." and went about it. Ken shared his Marlin Century rifle (44-40 I think) and his double 12 with me thru 4 stages. Shakey as a frog on the freeway at first, but I cleared stage four with no misses. We won't talk about my time. Between runnin the show, doing his own shooting and looking after me, I don't think I saw Ken move at less then a trot all evening.
I want to thank Ken Furr and all the other folks of the Reo Salado Cowboys for givin this greenhorn the warmest welcome imaginable and a truely enjoyable evening.