This is not NCOWS

[Arcey]

Read the first page then closed it, Cammy.  It could be a cut 'n paste of much of what we see on the boards.  The years worn, "It's not my game anymore.  People aren't shooting 'real' guns or loads", and so on.  Unfortunately for some new shooters your third sentence rings all too true.

I still firmly believe we'd all be better off to keep our noses out of each others' trousers and guncarts.  Sticking a nose in either of mine could be most unpleasant.

Go where the rules suit you.  If no rules suit you, get involved in the club and try to change them to the sanctioning body's rules that do.  Or, make your own rules and start your own club. 

Seems as if there's enough room to leave one another be.  If none of it fits what one wants to be doing or if nothing lives up to one's ideals and they fail in trying to change it......  Well, there's always the woods.  They could go out all alone and play with themselves..........

[Camille Eonich]

Arcey you are such a wise man.   

[Fox Creek Kid]

Mr. Venturino is practically a legend among anyone who has read anything on 19th century firearms for the past 25 yrs. or better. As a matter of fact, NCOWS extended him an honorary membership. He has a resume that speaks for itself & Mike shot CAS, beginning in 1982 at End of Trail & was in on the ground floor. He now devotes himself to black powder cartridge silhouette shooting almost exclusively as that is his forte as well as being an excellent rifleman and having won many awards for marksmanship as well as being a founding father of BPCR in the U.S.A. I'd say when someone like that speaks they might know a thing or two.    I'd dare say there is no one posting on CAS City with his credentials.

[Delmonico]

Will do that at work tonight if I ain't busy, been quiltin' today, got some Christmas presents needs done.   I got a dollar that says it rehashes the Lanye Simson, Jim Wilson debate of 6-7 years ago in Shooting Times.  

BTW if any old time gun rag readers really belive ol' Elmer, Jack and Roy hated each other I'll sell ya a bridge.  Was told by someone in the industry they sure chummed up at the events they were at.  Wise men all of them, they make a living doing something they enjoy, and heck if a little poop throwin' increases the sales of the rag, they might even get a raise.  Kind of like lawyers.

[Arcey]

Venturino was expressing an opinion in that article nothing more, nothing less.  And, maybe, what evolved wasn't fitting of his game.  Whatever.  I guess it met a deadline.  As far as being a cowboy action shooter goes I guess he is, or was, so am I – still am.   Our opinions differ.....................