Sharpshooter Rules

For those shooters that long for the “old days” of Cowboy Action Shooting at THSS when the targets where smaller and farther out, or maybe you just want to challenge your shooting skills, then the Sharpshooter category might be what you are looking for.

THSS Sharpshooter Category Rules & Guidelines

For the THSS Sharpshooter category, the shooter follows the standard stage scenario except for the pistol and rifle instructions. The shooter will engage the main match rifle targets with their pistols and the Sharpshooter targets with their pistol-caliber rifles.

We typically use “10 pistol/10 rifle” as our normal round count so the Sharpshooters will engage the same target sequence for their pistols as the other competitors use for their rifles. For example if the scenario calls for a rifle target sequence of “1-2-3-4-3-2-1-2-3- 4” then the Sharpshooter will engage “1-2-3-4-3” with their first pistol and “2-1-2-3-4” with their second.

For the Sharpshooter targets the Sharpshooters will engage the targets with their pistol-caliber rifles (unsupported) in the same order as the Rifle target instructions.

Shooter engages the shotgun targets the same as the other shooters. Awards for this category will be limited to men’s and women’s only.

All standard CAS safety, clothing, equipment and costumes rules will apply. The following are the Sharpshooter guidelines that we’ll be incorporating for use at THSSTM.

  • All SASS and THSS safety rules apply.
  • All SASS main match legal firearms (pistols, rifles and shotguns) are allowed.
  • All SASS main match legal ammo and powder is allowed.
  • All SASS main match approved calibers are allowed.