Brad Paisley
While Brad Paisley’s career is in music, his down time focuses on horses.
“Horses, and one horse in particular, have taught me so much,” [...]
Kathy and Johnny Hendricks continue a long leadership role in mounted shooting despite personal obstacles.
I’m sure you’ve heard the famous Nietzsche quote, “What doesn’t kill [...]
An Engineer of Gunleather
Dave Anderson revels in a firearms career built on a love affair with the Old West.
Dave Anderson has had a lifelong love [...]
Kenda Lenseigne Makes History at CMSA Worlds
Ellensburg, Washington’s Kenda Lenseigne became the first woman in CMSA History to take the overall title at the 2009 CMSA [...]
Blazing Ambition
Curt Moore’s up and down mounted shooting career is back on track with a new horse and his Shootfire Ranch.
Read the complete article in [...]
Craig Cameron
An Extremely Original Cowboy
Craig Cameron is conceivably the hardest working horseman in America. The gregarious personality with a huge sense of humor keeps going, [...]
A Partnership in Patience - AJ Horses builds relationships with horses and riders.
Ask Andra Olson and Jim Hanson about their training philosophy, and you’ll get [...]
Kix Brooks - A love for horse and a final tour.
Country star Kix Brooks and his wife, Barbara, are involved in breeding and showing Quarter [...]
Frank Turben leaves a lasting impression on the CMSA and goes Extreme in a new career.
For Frank Turben, the more things change, the more they [...]
Lisa Bolin turns a love of horses into a dominant force in America’s Western Apparel industry with her Cowgirl Tuff line of clothing.
I was either [...]
Celebrating Bandera Texas style with horses, cowboys and guns!
Bandera is a slice of true Texas and as American as apple pie. Just a scootch west [...]
Stepping out in Cowboy style into a Night At The Museum.
We dress up and go out more during the winter than any other time of [...]
2008 CMSA World Champion Charlie Little dances to the beat of a different drum, in the arena and out.
A movie critic once said that Clint Eastwood’s [...]
Rodeo champion Joe Beaver has an affection for the color pink and uses it to raise money and awareness for a great cause.
If you love [...]
Team roping’s Denny Gentry has his eye on expanding into mounted shooting sports and starts with Thunder EquiGames in Vegas.
Denny Gentry has a huge reputation [...]
Twang Brings George Strait Another Classic Album
On the cover of George Strait’s new album, TWANG, he sits in the driver’s seat of a classic American [...]
Ruwe Rides The Range
There are two sides to Ohio Cowboy Bobby Ruwe. On the one hand, he’s a top competitor, a Senior Men’s 6 who [...]
Ask Jimmie Allen about his fellow Missouri Cowboy Stu Townlian, and he’ll tell you that Stu is a handy man to have around.
Add to that: [...]
Chad & Charlie Little—Two Champion brothers—Two different styles.
Little is one of the biggest names in Cowboy Mounted Shooting—no question about it.
Charlie is the reigning CMSA World [...]
The task of setting targets at the big CMSA competitions brings a sense of teamwork to a group of challenged teens.
Too many young people have [...]
With fourteen number one hits and nine top 10s, Randy Travis is one of Country music’s all-time greatest artists. He is also an exceptional lifetime [...]
Cowboy Mounted Shooting Returns to its Roots. Volunteers bring vision to reality for first ever arena solely for mounted shooters.
The first Cowboy Mounted Shooting World [...]
Gordy Alderson. Bit maker comes by his trade naturally and strikes a chord with mounted shooters.
Gordy Alderson Bits. The way folks refer to the man [...]
A Ride Into The Wonderful World of Marty Luffman.
There’s a world that’s part of mounted shooting. It’s a world outside the arena, frequently in the [...]
Loving The Goodnight Trail. Trainer Julie Goodnight delivers her message through all media.
Julie Goodnight has a way of delivering a lesson like no other trainer. [...]
Western Shooting Horse did its best to identify the top trainers in the sport and boiled it down to a handful and a half.
If you [...]
Heidi and Randy Gunn travel the mounted shooting circuit by tour bus, horses and band in tow, to spread the word of their ministry.
Randy and [...]
Finding His Voice
Horse trainer and entertainer Denny Chapman brings a powerful and fluid continuity to the CMSA announcer’s booth.
Let’s say you’re moseying around the horse [...]
The Rock of Tennessee
Rock Clark is a Southern man who takes his competition seriously and wears his heart on his sleeve.
There are some nicknames that [...]
Chairman of the Board
At 66, Jim Rodgers is the winningest competitor in the history of Cowboy Mounted Shooting. But then, he should be good at [...]
No longer relegated to an age based category, former Junior shooters join the main classes and with it are bringing on the competition
November 2007. A [...]
Rex Peterson has made a career training horses for the big screen. He attributes his success, however to his mentor, legendary movie wrangler Glenn Randall [...]
Hoosier Cowgirl
Adrianne Fowler takes a Rapid Ride to the Top
You hate to deal in stereotypes… but…
The prototypical Mounted Shooting Cowgirl grew up on a ranch [...]
Jessie Kuka
Did Someone Say Tomboy?
Minnesota Cowgirl grew up competing with boys.
Now that she’s all grown up, she’s taking on all competitors
Just like the pioneer cowgirls [...]
Dan Byrd
Making Time To Train People, Horses and Himself…
Dan is a Mounted Shooting Machine
Maybe you had a chance to see Dan Byrd shoot at the [...]
The Bishop Clan
Hugh Bishop is the patriarch of a Gila, New Mexico clan comprised of five generations of mounted shooters. The 70 year-old active competitor [...]
THE SWEET VOICE
“Sugar Ray” Quinn Talks the Talk in Mounted Shooting
It takes a real Cowboy to go by the handle “Sugar.” And there’s no doubt, [...]
Shasta Leatherworks
California Maker Stitches a Different Kind of Chap
There’s no substitute for experience.
Just ask Mike Domeyer of Shasta Leatherworks. His story goes back about 45 [...]
M. Shelhart & Co. – A Father & Son Make Cowboy Leather in California.
If you ask Mike and Chad Shelhart the secret of creating solid [...]
Tennessee Cowgirl Whitney Vickers Shows What A Life With Horses Can Do For Today’s Mounted Shooting Competitor
Whitney Vickers is one of those American Cowgirls almost [...]
Jimmie Allen is Serious About Training Shooting Horses and Even More So When He Competes
Jimmie Allen is 100% cowboy with classic cowboy looks: long legs, [...]
Tony Jardine Miraculously Survives a Near Fatal Kick
It was a pretty normal day, that July in 2007 when Tony Jardine nearly died. The champion mounted [...]
Western Shooting Horse Editors Take a Look at the Biggest Movers and Shakers in Mounted Shooting
Cowboy Mounted Shooting has grown in many directions over the [...]
John Clark Makes a Quick Rise to the Top Using Natural Abilities and a Pure Love for the Sport
You can call John Clark a lot [...]
Diane Holmes-Purcelli and Her Mustang, Nevada Joe
It only makes sense that the face of NARHA is that of a horse. A very special horse.
Nevada Joe [...]
Your Guns Will Not Fall Out!
Boy, does Poppie Martucci have a story to tell. All you have to do is ask him how he got [...]
Georgia’s Own Duck Family Takes their Mounted Shooting Seriously and Their Enthusiasm is Contagious.
Trivia Question: If a group of geese is called a gaggle, then [...]
Annie Get Your Gun
SHE WAS SIX YEARS OLD ON A FAMILY TRIP TO Arizona, gazing in wonder out the car window. This desert land of [...]
Larry Townsend and his Family Continue a Long Tradition of Horse Training in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana.
The Bitterroot Valley of southwest Montana is a [...]
NARHA Brings Hope to Kids Through Horses
Dillon Haynes is like a lot of teenagers. He’s 17 years old and attends high school in Mesa, Arizona. He [...]
Pure Horse Sense, Training and Deep Determination is Propelling this 25-Year-Old Montana Cowgirl to the Top in the World of Cowboy Mounted Shooting.
The historic Townsend [...]
Dave Robart Takes the Bite Out of Traditional Horse Mouthware
Dave Robart doesn’t think like the rest of us. And when it comes to horses and [...]
Yep, Roy is a Cowboy.
Roy Cox is not exactly the imposing sort. He’s average sized, with a somewhat beaten cowboy hat and a big, bushy moustache standing out. [...]
Stephen Wilson is the Youngest Cowboy Ever to Attain a CMSA Level Six.
You know how they say that cowboy mounted shooting is a real family-oriented [...]
Big Medicine Comes in a Little Package Named Sandy Isenhour
She may be a banker by day, but she’s known as “The Florida Hobbit” by night—or [...]
“Who are those guys?”
Remember “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”? The boys have just pulled off a train holdup when a super posse charges out [...]
Susan Henning didn’t start out to make great gun leather. All she wanted to do was save a little money by creating a few holster [...]
A Family That Shoots Together
For the Ellets, horses are a family affair. And mounted shooting is not just a sport—it’s a tie that binds dad, [...]
Wes Walton Lives and Shares His Faith in the Wilds of Wyoming and Beyond
Wes Walton wanted to do his mother proud. It was 1972, and [...]
Fierce Competitor
Perfect Lady
KENDA LENSEIGNE IS INTO “PERFECT.” And not just in her mounted shooting efforts. It’s in her appearance—she is drop-dead, model gorgeous with sparkling [...]
On the Road to The Extreme Makeover
Kitty has a Method to the Mustang
Talk about a hand with a horse. There are numerous highly respected horse [...]
Making a Comeback in the Metro
Henry Garfias was a heckuva man—and a heckuva lawman. You probably don’t know his name, but most Arizona badmen did.
Case [...]
Made for Mounted Shooting Competition
Back in the 1860s and ‘70s, cattle herds began their long trek up the Chisholm Trail to Kansas from a small [...]
Chad Little & Ricocet
Every once in a while the perfect combination of horse and rider come together and create such an unbeatable team that folks [...]
Part Business, Part Pleasure, All Competition!
Maybe there’s something in the water of those 10,000 lakes. Maybe it’s the cold winters that make folks a little [...]
A Photographer with a Passion for Horses, Sunlight, Cowboys and Rugged Country
Nearly everything photographer Steve Thornton says and does draws attention. A larger than life [...]
Alan Eggleston’s Double E Ranch
Tucked back into the rolling hills several miles outside the small town of Gila, New Mexico, lays a picturesque horse and [...]
AN ARIZONA MAKER WHO’S CUSTOM MEANS COMPETITION
Al Levey’s trail to custom leatherwork was unusual, to put it mildly. For years, he ran his own radiator [...]
THE UNITED STATES MOUNTED BORDER PATROL
FULFILLING A REQUEST FROM TEDDY ROOSEVELT SINCE 1904
The year was 1904, and lawman Jeff Milton was about to embark on [...]
Meet Melissa
It wasn’t that long ago Melissa Dragoo was a shining star on the Wrangler circuit of Cowboy Mounted Shooting. Even at a very early [...]
Matt Sronce is a cowboy. Not in the traditional, Old West kind of way — even Matt says that high technology has forever changed things. [...]
Student Soldiers
The bluecoats charge across the rolling hills of southern Montana on a hot summer day. Pistols are out, firing into the air, announcing the [...]
The Women in Cowboy Mounted Shooting
Let’s see. The editors of Western Shooting Horse want a paunchy, middle-aged guy from the Midwest to find out about [...]
Tammy Sronce Won The CMSA World Championship In 2006
She Has Her Eyes On The 2007 Title
Can She Take It?
When Tammy was four years old her [...]
CREATING QUALITY SADDLES FOR GENERATIONS TO COME
Sawtooth Saddle Company is a family owned and run business, located in rural Vernal, Utah. Jerry Stewart, founder of [...]
