Racegun

A racegun is a type of handgun, shotgun, or rifle that has been modified for accuracy, speed, and reliability. Used primarily in USPSA/IPSC and similar styles of competition, raceguns are typically based on common guns and modified to function the best within a certain set of rules, such as weight, size, and capacity requirements.

Typical modifications include a match-grade barrel fitted with a recoil compensator, electronic optical sights, match-grade hammer and sear, a tuned trigger, and "skeletonizing" (cutouts to reduce weight.) Some raceguns are modified with reduced-weight recoil springs to fire "squib loads" (lightly-loaded ammunition that is just barely powerful enough to cycle the gun's mechanism) to reduce recoil and permit a faster rate of fire.

Some organizing bodies in practical shooting, most notably IDPA, ban most of the modifications that distinguish raceguns from stock firearms, as they feel that such modifications have turned the sport into a technological arms race, rather than a contest of skill.

ee also

*USPSA
*IPSC