Missouri CMSA

Upcoming Events

We provide a place for all mounted shooters to learn, compete and grow in an encouraging, fun setting

The class format of our local events provides an opportunity to start small, compete with others at your same skill level and build on previous skills as you progress through the CMSA levels.

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Clinics & Schools

Suffice it to say we've seen some stuff in over 20 years in this sport and we know exactly how to help you not scare the bejeebies out of your horse while becoming a mounted shooter. We only offer these based on request, please reach out if interested.

Beginner Mounted Shooting Clinic

April 19th, 2025

The perfect pre-cursor to our more intensive mounted shooting school, we offer this opportunity to dip your feet into the sport of mounted shooting in a low pressure, fun environment.

Designed as a fundraiser for the Gateway to the High Country Cowboy Church, with $25 of your clinic fee going straight to this great group of Christian cowboys and cowgals!

Priced at $100 per day per person. As always, very limited space. Not able to hold spots without deposit.

More info coming soon, click here to place deposit.

Mounted Shooting School

May 16th - 18th, 2025

Save the date for our requested May learning opportunity! We're setting aside these three days from our busy competition schedule to help new folks and their horses get up and going in this fantastic sport. Come join our family and see how we prepare our young horses and ourselves to compete at mounted shooting competitions.

You'll be riding and working intensively each day with one on one instruction geared towards you and your goals. Spend one day or all three, it's up to you! Priced at $125 per day per person.

These will be VERY limited space available, that's why we're giving you advance notice of the dates!!

More info coming soon, click here to place deposit.

Wondering about our instructor qualifications?

We enjoy competing as a family, it makes all the hard work worth it when we can be together every weekend. The value in that for you is that what one of us doesn't spot and think about, another one will. The shared experiences and motivation to grow our sport make our clinics unique!

Wins come and go, but winning is always more fun! Travis & Katie were the first ever to accomplish winning CMSA Missouri State High Point Cowboy & Cowgirl as father/daughter last season!

We're proud of our 100% home trained horses, and thankful for this amazing sport and all the sponsors and event producers that allow us to have it!

Let us know if you'd like a list of references for our clinics!

Competitions

Look for a pop up shoot or two potentially early or middle summer, and be sure to put our annual fun shoot on your calendar for 2025!

Flying 45 Fun Shoot

September 20th - 21st, 2025

This is our yearly fun shoot, this will be a DWPQ event held at the Flying 45 Arena just north of Columbia, MO.

Two separate competitions, come one or both days, and we'll have a taco bar potluck on Saturday night. Lots of shade available around this 250X125 outdoor pen with great footing, good camping, please bring generators and portable corrals.

More info to come!

Learning Opportunities

THANK YOU to all our participants and helpers!! We had three full clinics, a private clinic and a fun intermediate workshop for the 2024 season, we only offer our clinics based on request. Please reach out if interested in attending.

Clinic s

Scheduled on Demand

We offer beginner clinics by request, as well as collaborative workshops for intermediate or advanced riders. We were honored in 2024 to put on three full beginner clinics, a workshop and one private mini clinic.

We tailor each event to the participants and their needs, and truly love watching the breakthroughs that are a natural byproduct of the learning process!

More info on the clinics/lessons page, contact us about scheduling one.

Riding Lessons

Scheduled on Demand

We do offer both individual and group lessons on mounted shooting and general horsemanship. These are less 'get your heels down' and more 'lets try this bit and see if it helps' kind of style.

We chose this sport for the deeper communication it requires of a horse and rider and that's always the end goal for us when helping people.

More info on the lessons page, contact us to set them up.

Missouri CMSA

The Facility

The home base for MO CMSA is located seven miles north of I-70 and Columbia. Our arena is a 250 X 120 outdoor pen with excellent footing that is the location for most of our events. Since it's our home arena and free for us to use, I'm just gonna write something here that makes it sound cool, ok? Ok.

This private facility features a fully fenced property in a secluded valley setting with plenty of parking. A fun little woods hill trail to take with creek crossings, a 60ft shaded sand round pen and plenty of warm-up space next to the arena work well for new horses and mounted shooters in training. Note to self: I need to re-read that when I'm feeling too lazy to ride.

We work hard to provide a laid back atmosphere that encourages collaboration and learning. If you're gonna be a jerk, get outta here with that jazz. If you're gonna scream corrections at people across the arena, be forewarned we may just silently hand you duct tape with a frowny face. Way different than cheering for each other, we have a lot of that!

As with all outdoor pens, we're weather dependent. Please text Laura at 573-881-3833 or check our FB page for weather updates on events. I'll do my best not to vent to you about our great state's weather patterns when I respond. No promises.

Note: We do have access to an all-weather covered arena for a backup for many of our events.