Action Shooting: Cowboy Style : An In-Depth Look at America's Hottest New Shooting Game

Grab your handgun, take aim and pull the trigger with acclaimed expert John Taffin as he brings the wild west to the era of modern shooting.

In this in-depth guide, Taffin explains America's hot, fast-growing game for shooters of all levels - with a cowboy twist. From the sport's colorful roots to facts about single action pistols of all kinds, this informative volume includes everything you need to know about this shining star of the shooting industry.

Whether you're taking your first trip to the range or an experienced competitor looking to sharpen your skills, Action Shooting Cowboy Style shows you all the guns, the loads and accessories to pack.

Be sure to complete your library of John Taffin's works with his other handgun books, Single Action Sixguns (hardcover, 1635616913), Big Bore Handguns (hardcover, 1635616891), and Big Bore Sixguns (hardcover, 1635616905).

Action Shooting Cowboy Style is also available from Echo Point Books in hardcover (ISBN 1635616832).

John Taffin has been a handgun writer for the past 50+ years and a staff writer for the American Handgunner and Guns for the past 36+ years assigned to do feature articles as well as regular columns, "Taffin Tests", "The Sixgunner", "Handloading", and "Campfire Tales". He has also contributed regular columns and features to Shoot!Magazine, The Freedom Arms Collectors Journal, and Handgun Hunters International as well as the Digest Annuals from Krause Publications. His main interests are big bore sixguns, lever action rifles, and single-shot rifles and pistols, and he has hunted extensively with handguns in America and Africa. Taffin is also the founder, 1986, and first chairman of The Shootists and past chairman of the Outstanding American Handgunner Awards Foundation. He has also served on the board of the Handgun Hunters Chapter of SCI, and is a NRA Life Member. He considers only five things in this life to be important, namely, Faith, Family, Friends, Firearms, and most assuredly Freedom. Author of eight books and more than 2,000 articles, Taffin and his wife Dot have three children and 14 grandchildren and reside in Idaho. The kids are all grown-up and on their own, however, Taffin's constant companions during his writing chores are Chloe, a Pomeranian, and Molly, a Shih Tzu, who also serve as doorbells and watchdogs. He still misses his two Malamutes, Red and Wolf.