Welcome to the Wild West—of Western Wisconsin.

“When we all grew up playing cowboys and Indians all the time, ‘Bang bang! you're dead! No, you missed’, sort of thing, this gives us a chance to indulge those sort of things,” says Noel Cook.

The Wisconsin Old West Shooters club has been target-shooting historically accurate replica guns and role playing in this hand-made town for nearly two decades.

"It's live ammunition," says Cook. “We're one of the few ranges in the single action shooting society that does have a permanent old western town."

Noel Cook—alias “Captain Cook”—Says he started Wild West shooting because of his love of history.

"The opening of the West fascinates me," says Cook.

While others like John "Tracker Jack Daniels" Wurtzler say they're living their childhood dream.

“The Lone Ranger!” he says. “I never miss an episode even now the reruns if I find it on TV.”

It's not just Lone Rangers who get in on the Wild West action here. Some Annie Oakleys take a shot as well.

“About a third of the shooters are women and kids," says Cook.

Though the shooters keep score, most come by just to shoot the breeze.

“It's just like a big group of family," says Roseanne “Cattail Rose” Wurtzler.

“It’s a family sport. That's what I like about it. You can bring the kids," says her husband.

And the adults say donning the gear, from spurs, to Stetsons, to shotguns, brings out the kid in them as well.

"It's just a lot of fun. It takes us back to what we think the old west really was, and of course wasn't, but we have a lot of fun with it,” says Cook.

The Wisconsin Old West Shooters will host their annual Fire in the Hills event the last weekend in August, with old west shooting clubs from all over the area. It's open to the public.

For more information go to www.wowsinc.org