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07-12-2007, 09:07 AM
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Yep. Thankfully though the Texas groups, particularly those in West Texas, don't tend to put up with much nonsense. Not that they can't start trouble, but rather they won't have a good time doing it.
I wish I was more active in CAS than I am, in fact I have not even been to a shoot in more than a year. Last one I went to was so commercialized it made my teeth hurt. Instead of folks carrying around good, safe, sturdy rigs on their carts it was all high dollar chrome, ingraving, and malarky. Lever guns rebuilt so that the throws were so short it was staggering, coach guns with chambers polished out til you could almost drop the shell into the barrel, etc. One old boy there was packing a pair of S&W Schofields that were ingraved, inlaid, with fossilized ivory handles. He could shoot for hell, but he ran everybody down that didn't have at least a few grand into each piece of their rig. Everntually the local group told him to keep quiet or leave, but the damage was done as far as I was concerened. Its the same reason I didn't stap with IPSC. When it gets to a point were the art and skill of shooting matter less than how much edge you can buy for your rig then I am out. Rationally I know that people do it to win, from the standpoint of a good time shooting it just doesn't work for me. What got me started in the first place was watching a guy shooting a pair of 1875 outlaws in 38/357 shooting gunslinger style at a welcome event. I was hooked. He probably had no more than a few hundred into his entire rig and watching him shoot was enjoyable. That was probably the first and last time I really enjoyed an event. Competition is great, but when you have to earn respect with your gear rather than your shooting I don't see the point. Anyway enough of that. GoodOlBoy
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