"Ignorance is a virtue." -- many, too many, CAS shooters and shotguns.
Tell that bunch to buy a nice Khan shorty hammer gun. Then they can just buy another one when they've 'worn out' [mis-used to death] that 'cheap-axx shotgun."
"Money cannot buy wisdom; just more toys to abuse."
Unfortunately, CAS is undergoing the same 'Murican-style overkill to which any originally fun or useful shooting game seems to devolve. Skeet was once low-gun and a hunter's game. Sporting Clays once had a similar approach. Numerous pistol events were begun for practical purposes.
Such trends appear to be Nature's way of collecting and organizing certain mentalities into tribes and clans , I suppose. Nonetheless, we certainly have been given reports of the abuse to which shotguns fall, under the gentle hands of our own -- heregather'd round the cyber-firepit.
Away from the rarified atmosphere here, it's prolly a good bet that some Unobtainium Rare Big Name SxS has shown up on the CAS circuit in it's new nickel-plated, sawed-off incarnation with all that purty engraving and wood, y'know?
Mebbe the CAS magazines need a couple of articles about how to treat SxS's, and how to have a vague idee of 'whut that gun is' before the hacksaw and ball peen come out the fine tool box.
Distinguishing the difference, couched in plain monetary terms might he'p, but remember that not only is ignorance a virtue -- it must needs be defended at all costs, lest one be thought of as some effette, Edwardian costumed dude.
Which come to think of it, would make an excellent an annoying persona that would have great historical legitimacy for the CAS game. Except HE'D know how to treat his cased pair and would have a loader, or two.
BTW, one of the niftiest CAS shotguns I've seen was one of the Winchester 1901 [?] Leveraction shotguns in 10 ga, 2 7/8". Kinduva a slick rig that would be fun in a duck blind.
