Howdy to all our CAS friends, 11/15/2009
I am asking your help in determining if we should continue having CAS matches at the Columbus Rifle Club next year. We have been trying for about 4 years now to provide another opportunity for Cowboy Action Shooters with limited results. The Columbus Rifle Club has about 130 members. There are 3 members who participate in the CAS matches and a couple of others who have helped or watched. Most of our attendees have been from out of town and usually shoot at other clubs. Their support of our matches is greatly appreciated. We have averaged about 10 shooters at our matches. This is barely enough to run a match smoothly.
We recognize that there are different types of CAS: SASS, NCOWS, Western 3 Gun, and The Grand Army of the Frontier as well as independent clubs that are open to those from all of the above. We have worked towards the latter, having a class structure that has a place for shooters from all aspects of CAS. I have a few questions for you that might help us determine what we could do to attract more shooters or if it’s time to leave the Cowboy Action matches to clubs with more interest in CAS.
1. Where is your “home” club or where do you shoot the most?
2. What type of CAS shooting do you enjoy the most? SASS, NCOWS, GAF, W3G, or independent (inclusive of all).
3. Do you prefer 1-day “monthly” shoots or multi-day weekend events?
4. What is your favorite part of CAS? The shooting, the clothes, the history, the camping, the people, the reloading, the competition, the guns, is it the combination of them all or something else?
5. Would you rather shoot 1-day matches on Saturday or Sunday, or a weekday evening?
6. Do you prefer a detailed storyline in the scenarios or just the basic order?
7. Would you like to help build the CAS program in Columbus, Nebraska?
8. If you have shot CAS with us, what did you like about the match? What could we do better or different?
9. If you haven’t shot CAS with us, or don’t want to, why not? (please be honest here. That’s what we need)
10. Is there any 1 thing that would make you interested or more interested in shooting Cowboy Action at the Columbus Rifle Club?
Please let us know your answers on these questions and ideas. We really hate the idea of giving up CAS at CRC but without some changes, we will have to. You can e-mail me your answers and ideas at pjarens@frontiernet.net or mail them to P.O. Box 1122, Columbus, NE 68602. We are looking forward to hearing from you and hopefully planning at least a couple great matches for the 2010 CAS season.
If you have any questions, call (402) 270-1697 or (402) 276-1391.
Respectfully,
Bow View Haymaker (Paul Arens), CRC, NRA, SASS, GAF
Scruffy Skippy (Skip Fricke), CRC, NRA, SASS, GAF
Gunless Bigfoot (DJ Hogan), CRC, NRA, SASS, NCOWS