The NAME of the game is COWBOY ACTION SHOOTING, dadgummit!

Started by Boston John Doucette, August 01, 2006, 11:07:44 AM

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Boston John Doucette

August 01, 2006, 11:07:44 AM
Alright...
I admit this has been a festering sore with me for a long time... even pre-dating the time of my...er... enforced involuntary absences from the SASS Wire... but it's so prevalent now that it affects me like finger nails being dragged down a blackboard:

The NAME of the game we play... of the SPORT in which we participate, is COWBOY ACTION SHOOTING!

NOT "SASS match", or "SASS shoot"... or "I shoot SASS"!

AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!

I only see it once in awhile on this board, but the SASS Wire is rife with people under the impression that "CAS" and "SASS" are one in the same and interchangeable.

"Is this gun SASS legal?"
"What's a good SASS load?"
"Just got my new SASS guns..."
"Shot my first SASS match today!"
"SASS shooting is great!"

CAS is the SPORT...

SASS is an oversight, for-profit ORGANIZATION called the SINGLE ACTION SHOOTING SOCIETY.

Okay...
I'm done.

BJD
I love my dogs, I'm real attached to my guns, and I'm right partial to my wife.

Camille Eonich

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August 01, 2006, 01:56:53 PM
BJD, you have to understand that when they post on the SASS board that more than likely it's more important to them about what is SASS legal than what is CAS legal.


Besides, what is CAS legal?  I know of no specific rules for CAS anywhere.  CAS is a style of shooting, a type of game whereas SASS is a more specific type of CAS with actual rules and regulations.


Think of it this way, one can say I'm going to go play ball.  To one person that may mean baseball, to another basketball.  If you ask the question "What type of ball is legal in Ball" it makes no sense.  If you say is this a legal basketball it makes sense.

W3G is also CAS as is WASA and NCOWS.
"Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left."
― Clint Eastwood

Doc Shapiro

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August 01, 2006, 08:54:32 PM
"Shot my first SASS match today!"  That's just fine with me.  It says the person shot a CAS match under SASS rules.  "Shot my first W3G match today!"  Ok, they shot a CAS match under W3G rules.

Not all things legal in W3G are legal in SASS.  Goes the other way too.

Describing something as SASS or W3G or NCOWS or WASA also serves to describe the rule base under which that something needs considering.

Doc
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