People trying to "look cool" with their setups?

[heavydluxe]

Everyone is trying to look cool (in their own eyes). As long as we're looking cool/idiotic safely, that's what it's all about.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Some of us actually do have a purpose for the tacti-cool looking stuff.

You mean that looking cool isn't the reason for putting an ATN Paladin Gen 1 NV scope with long range illuminator on your Mini-14 with the economy-sized folding stock and supportive vertical grip? And you think the flash hider might be beneficial to using the NV scope?

Okay, I took it is bit further with a Luna Optics laser illuminator and added an Aimpoint Micro for daylight. Okay, I added the decal becasue I thought it was cool as it came from a hunting buddy of mine in Brazil. Everything else on the gun (including the strip of back duct tape on the stock) has a purpose and gets used, though not used all the time and not always used together.

 

[Freedom_fighter_in_IL]

Double Naught, are you saying that you don't like being blinded using NV because of muzzle flash? Or you don't like your filters being blown out of your NV scope because of muzzle flash? Oh come on now, you can't expect us to believe you don't like walking around seeing spots for hours after firing a high muzzle flash weapon at night while sighting through NV! It's all the rage!

By the way, how do you like that Luna Optics laser illuminator? Was thinking about getting one for my "not really needed" night setup for hogs. You know, since the OP seems to think that anything HE doesn't use is unneeded by the general masses. Guess he has never hog hunted at night!

 

[Gtimothy]

Back when I started shooting I couldn't afford the nice guns I saw some people at the range shooting. Sometimes they would let me put a few down range so I got a feel for what I liked and what I didn't. As I grew older and could buy the guns I drooled over I did exactly that. Do I care what the guy next to me thinks when I break out my "Tacticool Mall Ninja" ARs with the Huge scopes? Nope! If someone looks at my setup and rolls his eyes, I just show him my targets and that usually shuts them up. Just because they are new and "Trendy" doesn't mean that I don't know how to make them perform!

 

[DagoRed]

If someone wants to own a military type weapon, if they want to accessorize it, so be it, as others have said "their money, their time". If it doesn't infringe on my, why should I care what they enjoy?

I do think it's funny when they think it makes them a badass, or when they get all camo'd up to go to the range, but again, if they don't bother me, I don't care.

 

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

I do think it's funny when they think it makes them a badass

The real trick is reading their minds while at the range.

 

[mortablunt]

Whiners gonna whine. I bet in some corner of the internet there are tacticools ranting about people who don't wear shooting gear to the range.

 

[MachIVshooter]

And you think the flash hider might be beneficial to using the NV scope?

Yeah......the flash hider/barrel chop was done long before I got the scope. That said, the flash is so quick, I don't find it terribly bothersome. The good folks at ATN also said not to worry about the intensifier with it-just be sure to leave the cover on in daylight.

Eventually, this NVRS will be on a 10(T) upper for my AR-10A2C, but it sat way too high on the carry handle.

It is presently attached to my Remington 673 .350 Mag that was used for hogs last week down in Turkey, TX. Worked beautifully for that, except you have to remind yourself not to crowd the scope on a powerful little rifle like that. My sister got scope-eyed real bad using a Savage .308 with a Mk350 when she nailed her boar last Wednesday.

If I can get my taxes squared away, I'll be picking up a Pulsar N550.

 

[gp911]

Ragnar, you nailed it. The mind-reading gets folks in all sorts of trouble. We make wrongful assumptions about other people all the time. Attribution theory...

 

[gym]

As long as it's your own money, no one should judge how you spend it. As mentioned it sounds like jealousy to me. No ones business what others buy with their hard earned cash. You also never know who that guy is that you are poking fun at. I have an AR after 40 years of carrying I finally broke down and bought one. I like it, it's economical, and shoots well, I plan on putting some optics on it instead of the inexpensive red dot I put on to see if I like it. Would you make fun of me, for having one? I also probablly sold and handled hundreds of guns in my 63 years. If someone wants to buy something that seems a little over the top to you just remember that America is based on those principals, it breeds investment and sucess.Never put someone down just because of the way things appear to you at first glance, you will find that you will be wrong more often than right. It's their rightto have whatever they choose as long as it's legal to own.Those are the things we fight for every day, it's one step closer to being anti gun when you start deciding who should have what.

 

[SabbathWolf]

Newbie....

Yep. You're wrong.
It's none of your business either way and totally not up to you.

 

[303tom]

There is always that one..................

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I may get a chuckle from time to time, but it certainly doesn't bother me, nor do I feel that I have a right to be bothered by it. As long as someone is practicing safe gunhandling, it's none of my business what they do.

 

[Ignition Override]

I count my blessings quite often that such vast heaps of cash are spent on glamour guns, and the chic gear with which they become encrusted.

This limits price increases on my types: Garand, Enfields, FR8s, SKS (Tech Sight). Without the more fashionable choices to divert hard-earned funds, so many of us would be doomed by a constant, steep price spiral.

 

[Chris-bob]

I was at the range Saturday. Took my Savage model 29A(pre-WW2 pump .22) out for the first time since replacing the breechbolt. Table next to me was full of mid 20year-olds gathered around an AR30?. I rolled my eyes and commenced knocking shot shells off a pallet at 50 yards without missing. They all came over and wanted to see this old accurate relic. I in turn, probably for the first time ever was actually impressed with the look and accuracy of their AR30.(it was tan, not sure of the optic, and hitting the gong set out at 400 yards with every shot)

Sure, I roll my eyes sometimes, but I have been getting much better at enjoying their company at the range.

 

[TennJed]

Ragnar, you nailed it. The mind-reading gets folks in all sorts of trouble. We make wrongful assumptions about other people all the time. Attribution theory...

I hear that S&W is coming out with a big announcement. It is a mind reading phaser

 

[Agsalaska]

I hear that S&W is coming out with a big announcement. It is a mind reading phaser

Sign me up!!

 

[Freedom_fighter_in_IL]

I hear that S&W is coming out with a big announcement. It is a mind reading phaser

I sure hope not!!! Wife would get one and then I would be up that smelly creek without so much as a snorkel!!!!

 

[Robert]

We've reached mind reading phasers... wow.

OP you have your answer.