What is too tacticool?

[GEM]

ShacklemeNot - after buying the 1911 and taking a Givens class, I will be buying new drapes. Yes, dear!

Will she let me buy them in Kevlar and Camo? I don't think so.

 

[History Prof]

When I go shooting it seems like the fattest man in the building is always the one wearing camo.

Hey, I resemble that remark! I can't speak for other big guys, but I wear BDUs because they're the most friggin comfortable pants in the world. If I'm shooting bench or standing, I just wear my work slacks. But if I'm going out in the sticks or shooting prone, I need durable comfortable clothes, hence the BDUs. Why not blue jeans? Well, the way they make fat-guy blue jeans, they weigh about 10 pounds, and they always come sliding down. That's why you always see fat-guy butt crack when they're wearing jeans (which is why I don't wear them). Usually, I try to stick with one color BDUs, but when you find digital woodland in 3XL on sale at the surplus store, and they're the only pair in 3X, you gotta take what you can get. Any other big fellas here? You all know what I'm talking about.....

 

[smince]

I actually took that pic myself in NE AL last summer

I know where this house is!!!!!!

Maybe I shouldn't mention this, but I only live a few miles from there. I don't have a Pacer growing in my yard, though.

 

[Lonestar.45]

IMHO, anything that reeks of overkill is tacticool. For instance, 5 rails, an ACOG, BUIS, a Surefire, a bipod, and a Laser on your AR is tacticool unless you are in Delta and about to embark. Sorry, but the 250 lb desk jockey at the indoor range shooting at 25 yds from a bench with something like this reeks of tacticoolness. You all know who you are.

 

[ShackleMeNot]

ShacklemeNot - after buying the 1911 and taking a Givens class, I will be buying new drapes. Yes, dear!

I hear ya.

Tom's classes are well worth the money.

I'm just happy when a gun owner stops stuffing their safe full of new guns they won't shoot that will sit next to their old guns they don't shoot. Stop buying new guns and gadgets and put your time and money toward realistic training. Sell some of those guns (tacticool or not) and learn to fight with the guns you keep.

 

[Mountaineer]

Aparently me.

I just bought a bunch of krylon at wallyworld so I can have an uber tactical Ar.

 

[Detritus]

Usually, I try to stick with one color BDUs, but when you find digital woodland in 3XL on sale at the surplus store, and they're the only pair in 3X, you gotta take what you can get. Any other big fellas here? You all know what I'm talking about.....

been there done that, planning to buy a few pair of 4x in green, black and that tan/khaki very soon. (yes i have a 52" waist, trying to lose some of it but due to bad feet the going is SLOOOOWW)

as for my personal veiw of "too tacticool" If you have the gear but are unable/unaware of how to use it properly and it's sole purpose to you is to "exist on your firearm/ in your kit" that is too tacticool.

with the exception of a few minor asthetic items (more on this in a minute) i can't bring myself to fork over the money for most of the toys/mods so many of these wannabe-HSLD types tout. if i can't see a benefit (ie increase in utility) for me, in getting a doodad it gets passed over. heck if not for wanting to build a GUU-5A/B clone, because sometimes i just like the weird looking one's (note above asthetic item exception), i'd never consider an M-4 profile barrel. and even then i may decide to build an XM-177E2 look alike instead.

 

[Vairochana]

Bring on the Zombies.
'nuf said

 

[smince]

This is WAAAY past Tactic-cool:

 

[Eightball]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

If they "dress" tacticool, then that's too tacticool IMO. Or, what's up with these strange emo-dressed individuals at firing ranges nowadays? Nothing scares the crap outta me as much as an anemicly thin white dude wearing makeup, hugely flared jeans, and studded belts, with their iPod under their earmuffs, using a Glock at the range.

Though, the "where's the gun under that?" AR's are right up there, as well. I would say "tactical" is being able to use your training, even if you're stuck with *gasp* justa SAA, and get the job done. "tacticool"=black/camoed everything, with EVERY CONCEIVABLE ACCESSORY hanging off your gun that possibly can. And only the newest stuff, too, because a 2 year old surefire isn't as "tacticool" as a 6-minute old "Mother of ***-bright light" hanging off of anything.

But if you have ninja claws, you're instantly a nerd, no matter how you cut the cake, or what guns you own.
Or, "if you own ninja claws", you win. I give up.

 

[Phantom Warrior]

For instance, 5 rails, an ACOG, BUIS, a Surefire, a bipod, and a Laser on your AR is tacticool unless you are in Delta and about to embark.

5 rails: Check
ACOG: Check (And hell ya. Those things rock.)
BUIS: Check (SGM gets PISSED if we don't have one.)
Surefire: Check
Laser: Check (PAQ-4 infrared laser)

No bipod. With the 203 and PSQ-18A I don't have room for one. *sigh*

 

[GEM]

Well, we didn't buy new drapes - we bought a new kitchen floor. Guess I won't be cleaning the gun on the kitchen table.

I cleaned the AR on the porch Saturday. Then the match was cancelled. I've been having bad luck with classes outside of Givens.

I was going to do an AR class and got sick as a dog. I was going to do a shotgun class and we got iced out (now it is 100 deg for weeks).

Wah, wah!!

 

[Phantom Warrior]

I just realized I posted twice in this thread thinking it was two seperate threads. I'm dumb...

 

[carebear]

I just realized I posted twice in this thread thinking it was two seperate threads. I'm dumb...

Don't worry, practical intelligence has no bearing on tacticoolity.

 

[madmike]

http://www.darkopsknives.com/cgisto...p=1&ida=11&idp=3&his=0|3&cart_id=3854064.2832



I've been making and using knives for 23 years, and that's INSANE.

You'd hurt yourself faster than the other guy, and never get it back after it stuck.

That said, my wife and I both go to the range with M4s, Eotechs, LBVs with 6 mags, kevlar, IBA, canteens and camelbaks, sprint to change targets, do speed drills and drag along shotguns and sidearms, too.

Of course, she's a combat photographer and I'm an engineer in a Support Bn

 

[SiG Lady]

mall ninja queens (or whatever they are)

"...after-market boobs..."

Bwahahahaha!!!

Meanwhile, on tacticoolness: When I first began shooting at the indoor range, I'd go there in full business suit gear, and maybe even high heels. You just never knew when you might have to draw your weapon in the office. I've since graduated to athletic shoes, lacy tank-tops and denim clothing, but usually wear hiking boots and woodland camo BDFs to the outdoor academic range (north of here) (when I'm on photo assignment) for sheer year-round comfort. Often wear thatlacy little tank-top or something on top, just to balance the ensemble. It suitably distracts the student shooters, forcing them to re-focus on their targets--if they can.

 

[glock+ipod]

Once when wearing mag pouches, a belt knife, and gloves at the range I overheard the following exchange from the lane to my left:

A: "Isn't he just a little too tactical?"
B: "Maybe, but he's shooting a lot better than me."

 

[ar10]

Tacticool is when 5~6 gangbangers show up at a range with enough guns to open a gunstore, then get escorted back out the front door by 3 open carry employees. Now that's cool.

 

[romma]

I must admit, when I see nice equipment on an AR,,, I am more envious than anything. I can't wait to get an Eotech.

Right now I have $50 red dot. Fun to plink with, but I want the good stuff.

 

[General Geoff]

"Tacticool" is when you rely on your equipment, not your training.

 

[carnaby]

You're too tacticool if you are highly tactical and think that it makes you cool. You can be as tactical as you like if you don't take yourself and your hightend tac too seriously, IMO.

 

[Wheeler44]

Tactical = practical

If it ain't practical it ain't tactical.
If it ain't tactical it's ........ ummmm.... silly

 

[Shadow Shock]

At an airsoft game, I saw a guy with a load bearing vest, and belt mag pouches totaling 16 magazines for his M16. I consider that too "tacticool", especially sinve I shot him within the first 10 seconds of the game.

Also I remember this one guy, he had a pump shotgun in his hands, and a Desert Eagle, a Smith & Wesson model 4506, 2 SIG P230's, a Barretta 92fs, and multiple mags for each stuffed in hiss pockets, holsters, and other gear. A little extreme.

However once I was guilty of carrying an M4 with a laser sight, and a Walther P99 in my holster, with a mini-eletric AK47 slung around my shoulders. The funnything is, in the huge 80-person game, I actually scored "kills" with all three guns

 

[MrPeter]

At Coal Creek Armory, we get all types, of all ages. It's a real menagerie of tacticool and urban stylz. We get an awful lot of these guys who come in from the boondocks dressed out like Dog the Bountyhunter or some kind of GSG-9 castoff, perhaps wearing two Ruger P95's in a nylon double shoulder rig, or a .50 Desert Eagle in a thigh holster. It's hard not to laugh right in their faces sometimes. However, it's the urban stylz posse that really takes the cake. These are the hip-hop boyz, of whatever race, who come in, reeking of green apple flavored blunts, wearing their flannel pajama pants, flip-flops, baseball hat cocked jauntilly to one side, and Mercedes hood ornaments dangling from gold plated tow chains, to ask me about the availability of "clips" for their Hi-Point fohty-fahv. For real, yo - I'd rather share oxygen with the mallninjas and bountyhunter wannabes than with these assclowns. But let's not leave out the ladies... I've never seen a female mallninja, but we do get a few ladies in the store who are equally impressive. My favorite type is the bleach bottle blonde, with the Tina Turner hairstyle, stooping from the burden of 50lbs of aftermarket bewbs spilling over the top her tube top, which reads, "It's better topless." She often completes the look with a set of 4" spike heels, and a pair of painted-on sparkly jeans, with the obligatory pink thong peeking out in back, saying, "Hi, I'm hard to get." As I said, we get all types, but, in the broad spectrum of this menagerie, I'd honestly have to say the tacticool brigade are some of the least egregious.

I laughed so hard I almost cried. Then I tried to imagine where the 'lady' could hide her piece if her clothes were painted on and then I did cry.

 

[whited]

.

The word tacticool is a bit strange to me. I don't even know how pieces of
inanimate clothing and weaponry can be tactical. These items can be
useful or practical, but never tactical. Using all of this stuff is not cool.
Its kind of stupid.

People at the range wearing all of this crap bewilder me. What are they
getting prepared for? That thigh rig is not going to help you shoot any
better, nor is wearing mag belts and vests going to improve anything.

Its all about image. I think people use this kind of equipment as a crutch.

In my observations, the best shooters are casually dressed folks shooting
normal (not military style or race guns) firearms.