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The look you present is almost as important as how you shoot and when you shoot like I do you gotta go for looks. If you have done any investigating you know that it costs to be a CAS shooter. Wheelguns (a pair) can set you back $700 and up, the shotgun is around $175 if you go for a SxS on the internet--Win 97 clone is $350, and a real one ???. Saw a Win 94 in LC for $300. And then there is leather and something to haul everything around in (poor sentence, ending in a preposition but then I'm the art teacher, my wife is the English teacher.)
Most, if not all clubs want you to shoot. Period clothing will come as your funds recover so don't let not having the "right" duds keep you from the range.
I ran into "the last one" cowboy hat at Tractor Supply Co (here is TX). And found some discounted shirts: all for $32 total. Wrangler jeans works for me right now. Got some long sleeve red henley shirts at the local T-shirt shop--these are my long underwear. Did spring for a Wah Maker vest and found a duster on the web, both right at $60 each. Had the boots and am looking at some period pants with suspenders. Probably looking at $250 when all is said and done.
All I know is that I feel much more a part of the CAS group dressed like them. They don't seem to mind (as long as you have something on) but I feel better--heard instinct I guess.
Walt
Most, if not all clubs want you to shoot. Period clothing will come as your funds recover so don't let not having the "right" duds keep you from the range.
I ran into "the last one" cowboy hat at Tractor Supply Co (here is TX). And found some discounted shirts: all for $32 total. Wrangler jeans works for me right now. Got some long sleeve red henley shirts at the local T-shirt shop--these are my long underwear. Did spring for a Wah Maker vest and found a duster on the web, both right at $60 each. Had the boots and am looking at some period pants with suspenders. Probably looking at $250 when all is said and done.
All I know is that I feel much more a part of the CAS group dressed like them. They don't seem to mind (as long as you have something on) but I feel better--heard instinct I guess.
Walt