Jessie Royer
A True Outdoors Woman
A True Outdoors Woman
A True Outdoors Woman
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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 [...]
Western Shooting Horse’s pick of the 11 Best Purveyors of Cowboy Mounted Shooting Gunleather.
Choosing gunleather for any mounted shooting sport is like choosing a saddle. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kenda Lenseigne - One of the game’s top shooters is also a trainer.
Sometimes, mom knows best. Just ask champion mounted shooter Kenda Lenseigne. When she [...]
Western Shooting Horse’s pick of the 5 Best Pistols for Cowboy Mounted Shooting including 3 long guns for the rifle competition.
Tools for the trade in [...]
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 [...]
Out of the blue is a good way to describe Mikayla Zayas’ quick rise through the ranks of mounted shooting. She’s just 14 years old [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Personal tragedy has taken this slim, pretty lady and given her a certain steely resolution, one that comes out in her work, her relationships, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The CMSA Rifle Division takes Mounted Shooting A Little Closer to the Edge.
It was October 1903 when Texas gun-throwers Bill Standifer and PinkHiggins decided to [...]
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 [...]
It’s better to burn out
than it is to rust…
Neil Young, “My My
Hey Hey”
Neil Young never met Wayne Riggs—I don’t even know if Wayne has ever [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]