Your Fame has spread

[Dai.S.Loe]

Just a short note to all you members of NCOWS to make you feel a little lighter over the comming weekend.

I was talking to a fellow CAS shooter here in NZ the other day. We hadnt spoken for a while and we had a lot to discuss, as one does in these situations.


After chewing the fat over lots of subjects andf gossip I finally got around to asking him if he had any news of the results of the major competitions in the US.

He immediately came back to me with

"You mean NCOWS?"

I actually didnt as I was trying to find out about SASS EOT and I was a little taken back.

This person is not very computer literate but had managed to find outr about NCOWS and I had the impression he embrased your philosophy.

Steve has been involved in CAS for a number of years here in New Zealand and always talked about SASS as the be all and end all of the sport. It seems that your organisation has captured his imagination.

Keep it up.

Your fame has spread to the furtherest reaches of the lower Pacific.

Dai.

[Will Ketchum]

Dai, thanks for the information.  I believe that our confirming our dedication to authenticity is bearing fruit.

Will Ketchum

[River City John]

Dai,
let me add that it is just not the authenticity alone that acts as a draw.
There is a lot to be said about belonging to a representative organization that opens itself up and thrives under such soul-baring scruitiny. Our hopes, desires, failings and dreams are an open book whenever issues come before the membership or the Congress. (Talk about the lure and appeal of reality shows.) But it continues to improve and grow.

We have worked to create a broad venue to satisfy the varied interests within this hobby. The casual history buff, the reenactor, the traditional CAS or WAS Shooter, the greenhorn and the 19th century soul trapped in modern times.   
We have pioneered offering everything from two guns(a rifle and pistol) to five guns (rifle, paired pistols, shotgun and pocket pistol) in Main Match stage designs, with your powder of choice or shooting style .
Many Posses use this framework of diversity within our organization to experiment with not only unique shooting events but innovative non-shooting events.

This is why we have seen just in the last year a tremendous interest in NCOWS from all quarters.

Sounds like we have the early beginnings of another international posse. New Zealand.


RCJ 

[Dai.S.Loe]

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Sounds like we have the early beginnings of another international posse. New Zealand.


RCJ 

Its very possible.

I've been talking about your organisation to a few friends for a while now and there seems to be a growing interest.

They like your ideals. The authenticity appeals to a few of us.

To others it is the ability to be able to use firearms in competition that are not allowed in SASS sanctioned events.

New Zealand was a British colony and then the first member of the British Commonwealth.

We have a history of European firearms in this country, especially the British versions. Sniders, Enfields, Weblys to name a few. We also had firearms from the US and I have seen a number of double action revolvers here that people would love to be able to use in competitions.

Martini Henry rifles cant be used in the SASS style events here as they do not have an exposed hammer but there are a number of shooters who use them very successfully at longer range events.

Dai

[Delmonico]

With the diversity of firearms NCOWS allows, perhaps it is time to offer another type of long range match that is not a buffalo shoot and allow some of the non-external hammer guns.

I know at least some floated into the US as surplus when the Nitro rounds and repeaters became standard in European armies.  One Jules Sandoz, a Swiss native who settled in the Sandhills of Nebraska, imported possibly as many as a couple hundred Vetterli's from his native country in the early 1890's.  He was armed with one himself when he came in the early 1880's.  I won't say these guns were real common, but I am sure others showed up in the late period.

[Irish Dave]

Dai:

Thanks much for sharing this info from NZ.
We are humbled and at the same time excited by the interest.

Rest assured NCOWS would encourage and embrace a NZ posse and, as with all our other clubs, would try to do our best to make you feel welcome and assist you in any way possible.

Our greetings to all your NZ pards.