Check out the photos below from Day 3 of the 2009 AQHA World Championship Show (click on the photo to see the captions). For more coverage of the World Show, go to aqha.com.

It was loud. There was a lot of smoke. But most of all, it was fun.

CMSA members put on a show at the World Show on November 7.

Members of the Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association put on quite a show for the evening finals audience at the 2009 AQHA World Championship Show on November 7.

At AQHA’s invitation, 10 CMSA members came to the World Show to demonstrate the sport of mounted shooting. Much like rodeo’s beginnings in actual ranch work, cowboy mounted shooting has its roots in exercises used by the cavalry to improve soldiers’ horseback shooting skills.

Go to the Journal’s online World Show coverage to see more of the demo and interviews with the winners of the Red Dirt Duel.

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