Match Info

Cowboy Action Shooting

with the

Rio Salado Cowboys

Summer & Winter Schedules

Winter Time Operations: October to June

-Long Range Events start at 7am on the High Power Bays.

LR sign up is 7:00 am to 7:20 am NO EXCEPTIONS
(If you shoot long range match you need to stick around and help pick up targets when we are done, the cart will be there for this purpose. LR Match should be done by 8:30 am and picked up by 8:45 am leaving time for signup for the Main Match.)

-Main Match starting around
9 am at the Shooters Meeting area.
-Sign up for main match starts around 8 am at the Stat House.

Summer Time Operations: June, July , August, September
-Long Range Events are
CANCELLED for the summer.
-Sign up for main match starts around 7:15 am at the Stat House.
-Main Match starting around
8 am at the Shooters Meeting area.

Main Matches

Matches are the first Saturday of each month on the Practical Pistol Range at the Rio Salado Sportsmans Club.

Match fee $12.00 for members and $15.00 for non-members.

Volunteers fee $3.00 for members and $5.00 for non-members.

Side Match fee $3 per event.

Rio Salado Sportsman's Club
3960 N. Usery Pass Road
Mesa, AZ 85207

Phone: (480) 984-9610

Latitude: N 33° 29.198'
Longitude: W 111° 37.277'

Main & Side Match

The main match will consist of between four and eight stages(depending on weather and the number of contestants) in which we will fire on steel targets. Scoring will be based on accuracy and speed.See the New Shooters page for ammo needs

Prior to the main match there will be long range pistol and rifle events held on the High Power range on the north end of the Practical Pistol bays. These side events are cancelled during from June through September of each year due to the extreme heat Categories are Long Range Pistol, Lever Rifle-Pistol Caliber, Lever Rifle-Rifle Caliber and Single Shot. The cost for each side match is $3.00. Fees are paid at the site of the long range match - NOT at the stat house. As for lunch time, we used to have the kids rifle team come out and make burgers and dogs for lunch... but that didn't work out for some reason. Up at the main public shooting area there is a lunch coach if you don't bring your own.

How to get here

North from the Superstition Fwy on Ellsworth and you'll find the Usery Mountain Shooting Range. If you are familiar with the big Phoenix arrow on the mountain then you know about where we are... or just Click Here.

The Stat House

Once you turn in on the blacktop drive you make your way almost to the main public range then turn right, loop to the right, just after the blacktop ends. Then look for the Stat house to sign up.

Long Range

If you wish to shoot in the Long Range part of the match then go to the Long Range area to sign up for those events. If you wish to check us out for the first time at a Friday night Mini-Match then find the Shooters Meeting area.

Shooters Area

We have benches in our Shooter Meeting area where folks with something to sell may be out displaing their wares. So if you think you have an item you would like to sell or trade, bring it out.