Marine, maybe you can clarify your point. I missed it too. I shoot competitive SxS at NSCA tournaments and also do vintage type SxS shoots. Most all the registered shoots in my zone (#2) offer SxS events, and excluding the winter I can do one almost every weekend if I want to. The vintage type shoots are fewer but spring through fall there seems to be about 1 every 4-5 weeks or so within a couple of hours drive for me. Many of the Vintager chapters sponsor a shoot every month. Back to registered shoots you can certainly shoot a SxS at the main event in whatever class you're in, and be competitive in E through Master if the gun fits and you're in the "zone" that day. Net, there doesn't seem to be any lack of shooting opportunitioes for SxS gunners at least here in zone 2. You said you are from CT and I don't remember if that is in zone 2, but if it's in zone 1, I'm thinking the situation is pretty much the same there. Silvers