Why do competition shooters dress like a swiss guard? is there any explanation for this strangeness?
>>64318180There is and you know the reason why such clothing is used, but you just want to make another shitty DC thread.
>>64318180>explanation for this strangenessAs you see with the rest of thier equipment the paradigm is>if we can do it, we can over do it
>>64318180They want to look as distant from tactical larpers as possible, so they wear the opposite of camo, bright clown costumes.
The high price of the guns and equipment keeps filthy poors out of firearms ownership. In Europe, especially places like Germany where firearms licenses take a year+ to get and thousands in club fees and related expenses, the firearms hobby is viewed much like golf is.
>>64318197That's just Germany things. In Finland it's still relatively cheap, though used to be much cheaper
>>64318197Olimpic shooters aren't representative of gun owners in Europe tough. and American Olympic shooters look just as retared.it is it's own little retarded subculture like train or light rail enthusiasts.
>>64318180The outfits are stiff to steady your aim and colorful because competition shooters often have sponsors.
>>64318234>Olimpic shooters aren't representative of gun owners in Europe toughDepends? The Olympic disciplines are pretty popular. Most gun owners are probably just hunters though
shit is beyond cringewhy don't they just make a rule that you have to wear normal clothes
>>64318264Because those disciplines have had those outfits for literally 100+ yearsThere are disciplines where you don't wear shooting coats etc though
>>64318264Because they like their cheating bipod substitute clothes as it it's.Completely unpractical btw, anyone who wants to cheat like that uses bipod or shooting sticks IRL.
>>64318180Tfw no halbred.
>hurr durr why are nascar/f1 pilots allowed to wear helmets and tune their cars! they should drive a stock car!Some people shouldn't be allowed to vote
>>64318264Trying to define "normal" clothes is how things got like that. I'd imagine it went something like this: back in 1920, everybody wore normal clothes, which at the time were wool pants and field coats. Then Hans got an idea that if he stuffed rolled up newspapers in his coat that it would stabilize him and he kicked everybody's ass. So they banned that. Then then somebody decided to make a heavy stiff leather coat that might as well have been made of wood and he kicked everybody's ass. So they banned that. Then somebody decided to just wear five coats at the same time and kicked everybody's ass. So they banned that. After repeating that pattern for a few decades, they eventually ended up with extremely specific rules about what your clothes could be made of and how thick and how stiff and how tight and where you could have padding and where you could put straps. The rules for ISSF clothing are incredibly specific, and everyone pushes right up to the edge of what's allowed.You can also see this in the difference between ISSF and NRA competition. The NRA rules are less strict, so the coats are thicker, usually made of leather or heavy cordura, and fit much tighter. As for the colors, it's partly a euro fashion thing and partly because the color is the only thing not precisely specified by the rules. You can get ISSF clothing in less obnoxious colors, though it's not common. NRA shooting coats tend to be plain natural colors.
>>64318358The constant rules lawyering is what I don't like about shooting competitions
>>64318234I'll have you know train appreciation is free, open to anyone at any level of knowledge, and we will gladly go into uncomfortable levels of detail about trains for anyone who asks.
>>64318182FPBP, OP is an eternal cum drinking faggot
>>64318180I wonder how they would do with anything in picrel
>>64319076>Feel the steel >Is made of pot metal zinc alloy
>>64319076If you think they’re good shooters because of their gear and guns you are a moron
>Why do sports people dress in fun colors???
>>64319076>>64319096The whole point of all the standardization is to remove as many variables as possible except for the shooter's skill. If everyone is using the same gun, same ammo, same clothes fitted the same way, then you take gear out of the equation. Would an olympic shooter shoot worse with a hi-point carbine? Yeah. Would they still shoot better than someone who hasn't spent 20 hours a week at the range for the last ten years? Also yeah.
>>64319202/k/ has always had a hateboner for olympic shooting because of how svolless it is.
>>64318429Well you have to rule lawyer or else someone will just show up with an arm cast and back brace to invalidate the whole point of comparing offhand shooting skills. I don't much like it either but I understand the rationale
>>64318309I'm still pissed stock car racing is what it is today. It's called STOCK car racing, as in something the average Joe can get their hands on. But no, now they're all plastic shells that vaguely resemble a normal car with a supercharged V8 limited to 800hp. It's stupid, we really should have a motorsport that's all about racing regular street cars
>>64318264because it's a specialized sport you drooling retardthere's a reason why bowhunters and olympic archers and 100 years war reenactors all use different equipment, because they are separate disciplines
>>64319076Probably better than you'd expect.People who do this kind of bullseye shooting spend absurd amounts of time just grinding the fundamentals over and over until they're perfect.I used to know a guy that competed at the Olympic level in 50m free pistol shooting.He entered a entered a snub nose revolver competition with a .22lr NAA mini-revolver just for shits and giggles, ended up winning the whole event, beating out some 20 other competitors who brought their best guns.He said he felt bad about it afterwards because he didn't intend to win the competition or embarrass the other competitors, but that was the end result.
>>64319285I wonder how those guys would adapt to the more memey shooting competitions that massage different skills like Skeet, 3gun, wild west quick draw and so on. There has to be a limit to how much that translates.
>>64319467USPSA and other movement-centric shooting sports focus a lot more on map memorization and route planning than shooting, sort-of like skateboarding.
