The reason I state it is a safety hazard (in my opinion) is that most people are unable to use the gun stock, yet they change out the innards to make it a race gun and now they have a gun that is beyond their abilities. Thus, making it a race gun for someone who is not ready for one. They do this because "everyone else" does it, and they need to keep up with the pack. I feel this is dangerous. It has people modifying guns beyond their abilities. I also don't think that it is a good idea to make CAS a race gun sport. The idea originally was to take period correct guns and play cowboy. Dress the part, and be either authentic to the period or like a hollywood cowboy. But the guns were all stock. Lately, the idea has been to make it a race for speed. I feel this is dangerous. Yes, some people have the skills to handle fast shooting. But I cherish accurate shooting over speed anyday.
It's like riding a motorcycle. I ride a 2008 Crossbones HD springer softail. I've added a few items to it to make it more comfortable, but it has no modifications to the motor or handling. It is safe that way, the way they designed it. Now. I have friends who've started riding and the first thing they do is have a bore job done to their bikes making them larger bores and faster. They do mods like NOS to help add speed. Or they buy racing bikes to give them the edge. Problem is, they don't have the expereince with stock bikes and they usually wind up injured or dead. I've had to go to a number of funerals where they just weren't able to deal with what they had built for them.
Ability + stock = safe and a good experence.
Ability + speed + experence = safe and quite a site to behold.
Speed + inexperence = unsafe and a hazard to everyone else on the range.
I've seen too many in the latter catagory.
I shoot with NCOWS just for this reason. Short strokes are not allowed on any gun nor are modifications to make them race guns. We shoot for accuracy not speed. We have tons of fun and everyone is relaxed and not trying to rush their next shot. No running on the range because we are not shooting against the clock and using modified guns that make it a race.
That's been my observation and it is why I have this opinion.
Not only that, but to modify a gun outside of it being a period correct gun just seems like it is wrong for CAS. We are supposed to be emulating a period of history, not trying to be Cowboys vs Aliens.
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