Cowtown was built in the seventies by Ron Nix, a Hollywood stuntman who moved to Arizona with his wife and a dream to create a real old west atmosphere, somthin’ like Old Tucson I guess.

Anyway, he brought a lot with him – teaching stuntmen, havin’ rodeo, letting his students perform in the public eye, encouraging’ Civil War reenactment and completin’ a town which served as the basic set for a lot of movies. The reenactments sort of opened the door for cowboy action shootin’ which is where our club comes in.

Back in those days a bunch of guys and gals got together in the desert every Sunday morning for shootin’ and experimented with targets, scenarios and all of that stuff and had a hoot doin’ it. Finally, they came up with the idea of formin’ a club and, although not the first of the cowboy shootin’ groups, in 1982 they became the first organized Cowboy Action Club and established and incorporated safety guidelines which SASS, who actually came into being somewhat later, has put into place for world wide expansion of the sport.