The Fort Des Moines Rangers are excited to host the 2026 SASS Iowa/Nebraska State Championship Match scheduled over Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24 – three unforgettable days of cowboy action shooting at Coyote Gulch, one of the finest cowboy towns in the Midwest (or should we say Plains Region?). 

If you’re looking for a Memorial Weekend Match, head this way – it’s a beautiful time of year here.

Click here for more information, including links to our new Online Registration form.  It doesn’t get any easier! 

Just a friendly reminder that we will be holding our January Indoor match this Saturday at CrossRoads Shooting Sports in Johnston.

The doors (please meet behind the building) will be opened around 7:30 AM and we will start shooting around 8:00 AM.  Our plan as always is to get in 6 stages, but we are limited to being completed by noon so the range can resume normal business on the lanes they allow us to use.

Please make sure you complete a CrossRoads waiver before you coe to save you some time at registration,

Thanks,

Cactus Clark and the FDMR BOD

Exciting news:  FDMR now offers two options for members to renew their membership – the traditional Paper form and our new Online form. 

Click here and select the form want to use. The Online form is about as easy and convenient as it gets, takes less than 5 minutes, and you can use any credit card. 

The forms can also be found in the Registration and Membership Forms link in the top menu of our home page.  Both registration forms provide Single and Family Membership options. 

Cost for a Single Membership (renewal or new) is just $25; the cost for a Family Membership is just $35.  Members receive $5 off each monthly match. 

If you’ve not renewed your membership, or if you would like to become a member of Fort Des Moines Rangers Cowboy Action Shooting club, it doesn’t get any easier than this.  Give it a try today!

Welcome to Fort Des Moines Rangers’ new and improved Cowboy Action Shooting Website and Blog page.  Our goal for this website is for it to:

1. Serve as a resource for current information and news concerning club activities;
2. Encourage and expand participation in Fort Des Moines Rangers and its hosted competitions by making this information more readily available to others;
3. Serves as an educational tool for new and prospective members; and,
4. Promote Fort Des Moines Rangers’ Cowboy Action Shooting facilities – one of the finest in the region.

We are excited to bring this upgraded website to you. The website contains links to Information about our club and facilities, a Schedule of upcoming events and Match competitions and Scores, Registration Forms,  and a Blog page which we will use to post club announcements, general information, and comments. It also provides us with new capabilities going forward.

Please take the time to explore the website and let us know what you think. We would also appreciate it if you would share it with your friends and family, on Facebook, SASSNet, and other social media sites, as well as with your fellow Cowboy Action Shooting enthusiasts.

Most importantly, please consider entering your email address in the SUBSCRIBE box along the website’s right margin. Subscribers automatically receive club announcements via email immediately upon their posting.  

The 2025 IA/NE State Match has once again came to a conclusion…. and what a Championship it was. 3 days of great cowboy action shooting, and even a better group of people. Thanks to everyone who helped make it the outstanding event it was.

Congratulations to our Overall Champions – Little Hermana and Cowboy Carty, to the Iowa State Champions – Little Hermana and JB Kidd, to the NE State Champions – DB Belle and Platt Valley Kid, and to our 16 Clean Shooters.

Click here to download the State Championship Match Scores and Clean Shooter list

​Hope to see ya next year on Memorial Day Weekend!