Kings River Regulators

The Regulators

 

  The Kings River Regulators, Cowboy Action Shooting Club, got its start in 1994. Doug (Snakebite) Gilmore, Jim (Hank) Borton , Jim (Hawkeye O’) Riley, Dean (Shorty) Rowan, JR (Beanpot) Reid and Paul (Bearpaw) Speer got together and built targets, with the help of a loan from the American Legion in Reedley. As Snakebite put it, “It was a labor of love”. Snakebite was the club's biggest promoter, and went everywhere in his cowboy gear, even to work. He made up flyers and hit all the gun shops and gun shows in town.

 

  On December 17, 1995, the club had all the props built, had chosen a name, The Kings River Regulators, and had been given the use of Range 1 at FRPC to hold their first match. There were 60 shooters at that first match, and the club has grown and improved greatly since then.

 

   The Regulators have always placed safety on the range as the number one priority, and having fun is the second. You get to dress up like a cowboy out of the old west, use the guns they used and test your skills on various types of targets, big and small, at various distances. We use single action pistols, lever action (pistol caliber) rifles, and shotguns.