Cowboy Action Shooting is not only a shooting competition, but also an atmosphere It’s getting together w h a bunch of good people, dressing like you just walked out of an old-time western movie, or portray a persona from the actual West and playing a game where you shoot scenarios. About a hundred years after that famous gunfight at the OK Corral, SASS (Single Action Shooting Society) introduced Cowboy Action Shooting. It began in 1981 as an idea and blossomed to what we have today. Men and women are dressed in 1880's costumes as cowboys, native Americans, soldiers, gamblers, saloon girls, and many other characters from the old west. Each shooter adopts an alias that is registered and protected by SASS. This alias allows you to build or rebuild the character that you would like to portray.