What is too tacticool?

[tenbase]

I recall someone (either here or on another board) seeing some tactical freak go to the range in a full-on ghillie suit. I'd pay good money to see that.

Especially if they drove to/from the range wearing the aforementioned garb.

 

[AJ Dual]

When your accessory rails have rails on them...

 

[Andrew Rothman]

There's no such thing as being too tacticool. If you're lucky, you'll be just tacticool enough.



Seriously, though, I've found that the guys at the range with small, ragged holes in the centers of their targets tend to dress in... street clothes.

 

[.41Dave]

I suspect anyone carrying/shooting a handgun that stores it's ammo in a metal tube stuck up it's butt insead of a handgun with it's ammo kept decently stowed in a cylinder might have "tacticool" issues.

 

[AFhack]

.41Dave - yeah, but sometimes those cylinder heads get way too cowboycool

 

[dawgtraxx]

This maybe ?

 

[Nail Shooter]

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"When your accessory rails have rails on them..."

Yup, and when AR's have the quad rail thing, forward vert grip, and 4 or 5 other things hangin' off it.


NS

 

[nswtex]

There are a lot of people out there that think us owning guns at all is tacticool and should be reserved for the police and military. I dont listen to that and this seems very similar with a few changes in the items being reffered to. I dont think I need all the gear but more power to those of you who do. So vive la mallninja.

Proud supporter of

RKBT

Right to Keep and Bear Tacticoolness

 

[Seraph]

I think we need to hit the reset button, becasue it seems that some sensitive backsides may have been bruised here. Can't we please have some more of the funnier type posts, such as... well, such as mine?

 

[torpid]

Hey, since when is camouflage "tacticool" and not "redneck?"

When it is "urban" or "digital".

 

[sm]

A bit over the top IMNSHO...

-Bayonet lugs on a Coleman Lantern ...
-Light Rails on a $3 Made in WhoKnowsWhereStan Machete...
-Carbon Fiber breath mints...
-Optical sights on a toliet paper holder...
-Cheeseboards with a hollow out for a cleaning kit...

Q. How come the guys in street clothes shoot one ragged holes?

1) They know how to shoot.
2) Tacticools miss targets on purpose to re-use them. This way money for ammo, and targets do not cut into Tacticool Budget.

Pick one.

 

[Seraph]

Yeah, that's what we want. Thank you, boys.

Dress to impress in all-new Digital Urban Camo - it's the new black!

 

[Stormin n]

check this out

Tacticool knifes

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[ABTOMAT]

Stormin' nailed it. Look up "tacticool" in the dictionary and it says "see: Dark Ops." What a load of garbage.

 

[Twycross]

You have become too tacticool when you:

- Have doubled the loaded weight of your firearm with accessories.

- Are dressed entirely in digital or woodland camo, or in a ghillie suite, or are wearing a helmet.

- Are openly carrying more than two sidearms.

- Have more than one light per firearm.

 

[Stiletto Null]

Tactical becomes tacticool when there are unnecessary gadgets for the context.

Tacticool becomes TUBAR when the gadgets start to make the weapon more awkward instead of more "high speed low drag".

TUBAR becomes tacticlol when the "operator" is so ineffective that all the crap on there doesn't actually make a difference.

 

[sm]

When Twinkies are used to prevent Bat Belt chaffing...

 

[2TransAms]

The 911 designation isn’t for the emergency call, it’s to remind its user of the enemy we face, the war we fight, and the heroes who fight it! With the subdued 9/11 Tribute limited edition nomenclature on it’s blade, the operator carries with him a visible reminder of the Americans lost and the heroic efforts of those who take arms in defense of liberty. Blade design offers a combination spear/tanto point with the best attributes of both. CTV2 steel, an intimidating blade length in excess of eight inches, hollow grind and v-chisel sharpened edge make the Interceptor 911 an incredibly effective fighting tool. The Interceptor 911 E&E offers further enhancements for real-time escape and evasion activities. It includes a patent pending Splitter Hilt™ which provides for cutting away harnesses and overhead cables. Backsaw is optimized for cutting through plexiglass aircraft canopies or helo windows. The choil-notch doubles as both a bottle opener and peacemaker-its’ deployment and use is a great bar fight deterrent in exotic third world locales. Extended serrations aid underwater cutting efforts. Hilt ports provide additional attachment points for paracord in survival situations. Window-breaker in pommel. Notch design allows prybar style mechanical advantage for entry through aluminum vehicle rooftops. Expander tip provides expanded entry-wound channel. Like all Dark Ops blades, the CTV2 steel will last for decades! The most advanced fixed blade fighter in service today. 100% made in America! Black Titanium CarboNitride (TiCN) vacuum deposited finish.

Man I swear there's a guy at all the gun shows that sells those for like eight bucks,along with twenty dollar ninja swords. Everybody wants the Rambo knife.

Tacticool is when your Aimpoint's backup sight is an Eotech.

 

[Stiletto Null]

Heh...what happens when you co-witness reflex sights?

 

[Diamondback6]

Uhhh... guys? I'd like to offer up an alternate take on ghillies and airsoft pistols for paintball.

I'm not exactly "run&gun"-friendly of build, so my way has to be by stealth, let the other guy get close without knowing I'm there then pop 'im in the back.

RE shades, I wear mine at the range, actually everywhere, because I have to. My eyes are so light-sensitive, I have to have tinted lenses to filter things down to tolerable levels, or I get a migraine inside of 1/2 hour. OTOH, I dress VERY conservatively...

That said, to me too tacticool is duct-taping an Aimpoint or EoTech to your 1911. Sideways sights on your Block (er... I mean Glock... oops, Freudian slip, lol)=too tacticool. IPSC Open gun for PDW=too tacticool. Full BDU dress and carry yourself like an 11B or 0311 without being one=too tacticool. (Wearin' 'em 'cause you just like all the extra pockets is OK, though. But that's why some of us have two chest pockets with buttons on our shirts, WWII uniform style...) Pieing every corner you gotta go around=too tacticool. (And that's what those little round mirrors near the ceiling are for anyway, LOL--learn to use your environment to your advantage...) And more later as I think of 'em, maybe...

 

[proud2deviate]

Didn't one of the Dark Ops knives have a "blood groove" specifically designed to "redirect spray during covert deanimation activities"?


Too tacticool is when the uber-fantastic-plastic ninja gear actually gets in the way of what you want to do. Up until then, I think tacticool is pretty harmless, so long as it doesn't go to the operator's head.

 

[Lebben-B]

Not sure about too tacticool, but saw a joke several years ago that said us military types knew we were too tactical (hooah, actually was the word) if our wives had the children kneel and face out left and right alternatingly when they were in a commissary checkout line more than 2 customers long for security purposes. Wish I could remember the rest. There were about a dozen and they were funny.

You Know You're Too Hooah When:

- Your wife's favorite shades of lipstick are light green and loam
- You refer to your in-laws as "Slice Elements"
- Your wife takes a knee while waiting in line at the commisary
- Your son volunteers to pull air guard on the school bus
- All your kids are on meal card except for the oldest, who gets separate rats
- Your older kids call the youngest one "Cherry"
- Your kids refer to their sandbox as NTC
- Instead of fine china you have mermites
- There's a sector scetch posted by every window and door
- When your kids have an over-night with their friends you make them sign out on pass
- There are pull-up bars mounted outside the kitchen
- When your wife divorced you, you held a change of command ceremony
- Changing out the sandbags on the floor of your POV is part of your annual tune-up
- Your child's first words were, "All okay, Jumpmaster!"
- Your son fails third grade, but calls himself a "Phase 3 recycle."
- Your kids refer to summer vacation as "Block Leave"

Mike

 

[1911JMB]

There is this range in Michigan known as the pit. The AR15 forum guys come dressed to the extreme in that stupid tacticool crap with accessories on their rifles to match. The worst part is they seem to think that tacticool garbage makes them better shooters.

 

[thewheelsonthebus]

i am in houston. my idea is three pieces on you and a hawaiian shirt three sizes to big. look out!

 

[10-Ring]

I think once you've ID'd someone as being 'tacticool' is far enough...if it's obviously all show & nothing more, you've gone too far
IMO, tacticool is getting all dolled up in tactical gear to hit the range...or worse yet, your kid's little league game and then making a total ass out of yourself in the way you behave