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Posted: 3/25/2016 12:52:32 PM EDT
Get a load of this guy's gear. First off he doesn't have any "real warrior's AK-47 or any AR-15 with $1000 optics. He has a 50 year old SKS which is mandatory for every overweight mall ninja to own at least one of. His load carrier looks like something made for airsoft, and get a load at his tacticool gloves. They even have armored knuckles in case he gets into hand to hand combat with North Korean secret agents. Don't get me started on his fashionable do-rag. What does it even say, "Budweiser"?
...except that this ISN'T some mall ninja wannabe old guy. This is an actual pro-Russian separatist fighter in Ukraine..or at least he was; we don't know if he's still alive. This guy is one no nonsense fighter and odds are good he's seen a few engagements for him to be standing sentry like that. So I ask, where does the line from "Tacticool" and "airsoft" end and the line to "bad ass" and "Tier 1" begin, other than actually taking your gear to actual war? If a soldier buys an airsoft vest and takes it to Afghanistan, does it stop being an airsoft vest? Just throwing the question out to the resident equipment snobs here with the camo painted ARs and $1000 optics... |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 12:54:23 PM EDT
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It's not the arrow - it's the Indian.
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Posted: 3/25/2016 12:54:39 PM EDT
[#2]
Pro-Russian, huh? You'd think Vlad would toss him some better stuff. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 12:55:03 PM EDT
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I think this falls under the best gun/gear to have is the stuff at the time you need it.
Now if you have the means to better gear and "$1000" optics why wouldn't you? |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 12:56:06 PM EDT
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It's not the arrow - it's the Indian. This. If I had to fight him I'd be damn sure wanting surprise on my side. 
Of course, that's true if I'm fighting an overwieght 15 year old girl too. 
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Posted: 3/25/2016 12:56:12 PM EDT
[#5]
That bayonet sure is shiny.
ETA: Who gives a shit what he looks like? You're trying to make a point about his gear, and what that looks like, based on what he looks like? |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 12:56:47 PM EDT
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So you're upset because some people have expensive optics and you don't?
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Posted: 3/25/2016 12:57:18 PM EDT
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No Oakleys.
He's probably dead. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 12:57:42 PM EDT
[#8]
Show me on the doll where the mall ninja touched you...
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Posted: 3/25/2016 12:58:00 PM EDT
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It's not the arrow - it's the Indian. Ayep. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 12:58:55 PM EDT
[#10]
High speed low drag drunk Russian
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Posted: 3/25/2016 12:59:28 PM EDT
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I don't see much tacticool crap on him. Now if he had a plastic stock and grip on his SKS with a utg red dot, you might be onto something.
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:03:04 PM EDT
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Show me on the doll where the mall ninja touched you... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WI7EulguGcU/UFDbJvEyViI/AAAAAAAAKU4/jIHE-qvIagI/s640/costa+%25288%2529.jpg Dude I laughed so hard. 10+ tacticool points. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:03:47 PM EDT
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If gear works, it works. Being concerned about looking tacticool or airsofter or Tier 1 or whatever is stupid. I was issued a bunch of LBT gear for my 3rd deployment and still used this Condor bag with a 6 mag pouch mounted to the MOLLE panel as my bail out bag. It easily held a few bottles of water, a bandoleer of ammo, two field stripped MREs, and a can of CLP inside of it and I was able to keep four loaded mags and an ICOM in the pouches mounted to the MOLLE panel. '
I bought that bag primarily because it was the only thing in store at the surplus store right before we deployed that fit the need. It held up to more than a few ground movements in RC-East and fit pretty well being between the driver and TC seats in an NTV. Condor or not, it fucking worked. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:04:27 PM EDT
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...equipment snobs here with the camo painted ARs... Painting rifles is now snobbery? 
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:05:39 PM EDT
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... where does the line from "Tacticool" and "airsoft" end and the line to "bad ass" and "Tier 1" begin... When there is a 50-50 chance some six-fingered bustard that, under normal conditions, couldn't hit a cow in the tit with a tin cup can use a rifle, grenade, IED, mortar, howitzer, rocket, missile, ground-attack helicopter, or strategic bomber to wax your ass. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:06:29 PM EDT
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How do you know he is a 'no nonsense' fighter off of one pic?
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:08:23 PM EDT
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He looks like he would pop your eyeball out and eat it while you watch with the only eye you have left. He's probably a better shot than me too LOL
In Russia, you probably take whatever gear you can get. SKS are very accurate but reloading them sucks. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:09:54 PM EDT
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If gear works, it works. Being concerned about looking tacticool or airsofter or Tier 1 or whatever is stupid. I was issued a bunch of LBT gear for my 3rd deployment and still used this Condor bag with a 6 mag pouch mounted to the MOLLE panel as my bail out bag. It easily held a few bottles of water, a bandoleer of ammo, two field stripped MREs, and a can of CLP inside of it and I was able to keep four loaded mags and an ICOM in the pouches mounted to the MOLLE panel. ' I bought that bag primarily because it was the only thing in store at the surplus store right before we deployed that fit the need. It held up to more than a few ground movements in RC-East and fit pretty well being between the driver and TC seats in an NTV. Condor or not, it fucking worked. I don't understand the Condor hate. I have a carrier of there's and I like it. Guess if it's not $500 plus it's trash to some people |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:15:48 PM EDT
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Get a load of this guy's gear. First off he doesn't have any "real warrior's AK-47 or any AR-15 with $1000 optics. He has a 50 year old SKS which is mandatory for every overweight mall ninja to own at least one of. His load carrier looks like something made for airsoft, and get a load at his tacticool gloves. They even have armored knuckles in case he gets into hand to hand combat with North Korean secret agents. Don't get me started on his fashionable do-rag. What does it even say, "Budweiser"? https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5557/15067920982_0a92ff97a0_b.jpg ...except that this ISN'T some mall ninja wannabe old guy. This is an actual pro-Russian separatist fighter in Ukraine..or at least he was; we don't know if he's still alive. This guy is one no nonsense fighter and odds are good he's seen a few engagements for him to be standing sentry like that. So I ask, where does the line from "Tacticool" and "airsoft" end and the line to "bad ass" and "Tier 1" begin, other than actually taking your gear to actual war? If a soldier buys an airsoft vest and takes it to Afghanistan, does it stop being an airsoft vest? Just throwing the question out to the resident equipment snobs here with the camo painted ARs and $1000 optics... Is this where you try to justify being poor and untrained? I don't give a fuck how "cool" your home-boy looks, he's probably going to die, or is already dead. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:17:19 PM EDT
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It's not the arrow - it's the Indian. Yepper. I met many guys over my career that I wouldn't want to fuck with if they were issued a Mosin, a two dollar machete, fighter pilot sun glasses and were wearing blue jean daisy dukes, a muscle shirt and combat boots. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:19:13 PM EDT
[#21]
Looks like Harvey Keitel.
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:23:38 PM EDT
[#22]
He's the definition on low drag. However, I can't take him seriously without the tapco extended mag.
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:23:46 PM EDT
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I don't understand the Condor hate. I have a carrier of there's and I like it. Guess if it's not $500 plus it's trash to some people Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If gear works, it works. Being concerned about looking tacticool or airsofter or Tier 1 or whatever is stupid. I was issued a bunch of LBT gear for my 3rd deployment and still used this Condor bag with a 6 mag pouch mounted to the MOLLE panel as my bail out bag. It easily held a few bottles of water, a bandoleer of ammo, two field stripped MREs, and a can of CLP inside of it and I was able to keep four loaded mags and an ICOM in the pouches mounted to the MOLLE panel. ' I bought that bag primarily because it was the only thing in store at the surplus store right before we deployed that fit the need. It held up to more than a few ground movements in RC-East and fit pretty well being between the driver and TC seats in an NTV. Condor or not, it fucking worked. I don't understand the Condor hate. I have a carrier of there's and I like it. Guess if it's not $500 plus it's trash to some people Ladies that have Louis Vitton purses look down on the gals with Target purses. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:25:25 PM EDT
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How can we tell what tier he is if we can't see if he has tattoo sleeves. Everybody knows real operators have sleeves.
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:26:03 PM EDT
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Painting rifles is now snobbery? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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...equipment snobs here with the camo painted ARs... Painting rifles is now snobbery? The people who paint rifles typically tend to be, but no, the act in itself is not. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:28:49 PM EDT
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I don't understand the Condor hate. I have a carrier of there's and I like it. Guess if it's not $500 plus it's trash to some people Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If gear works, it works. Being concerned about looking tacticool or airsofter or Tier 1 or whatever is stupid. I was issued a bunch of LBT gear for my 3rd deployment and still used this Condor bag with a 6 mag pouch mounted to the MOLLE panel as my bail out bag. It easily held a few bottles of water, a bandoleer of ammo, two field stripped MREs, and a can of CLP inside of it and I was able to keep four loaded mags and an ICOM in the pouches mounted to the MOLLE panel. ' I bought that bag primarily because it was the only thing in store at the surplus store right before we deployed that fit the need. It held up to more than a few ground movements in RC-East and fit pretty well being between the driver and TC seats in an NTV. Condor or not, it fucking worked. I don't understand the Condor hate. I have a carrier of there's and I like it. Guess if it's not $500 plus it's trash to some people Some of it is justified because some of Condor's gear sucks and comes apart at the seams. It's also imported, but so are most of Snugpack, Kelty, REI's in-house brand, and Eberlestock products. If a piece of gear is a piece of shit, then it is a piece of shit. From that same surplus store a few field grades bought these slings and I saw one M4 fucking fall right off of the HK hook. I took a look at afterwards and the hook had bent because the metal they were using was much softer than the QD mount's metal. This was early into our deployment, like we got over there in January and there was still a good layer of snow covering the ground. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:29:37 PM EDT
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He's just probably some old dude, short on cash or pissed off to the point where he was like, "fuckit!, just gimme whatever you got left in the armory".
Probably untrained and stuck on sentry duty so younget, more spry folks could go to the front. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:32:51 PM EDT
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Looks old enough to be an Afghan vet.
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:33:38 PM EDT
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He's just probably some old dude, short on cash or pissed off to the point where he was like, "fuckit!, just gimme whatever you got left in the armory". Probably untrained and stuck on sentry duty so younget, more spry folks could go to the front. Lies, he is a hard motherfucker that saw campaigns in Angola and Afghanistan then did nothing for 30 years, to get paid by Putin, sorry i meant fight for Ukrainian freedom, which is best served by pulling sentry duty. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:35:34 PM EDT
[#30]
I bet that guy can fight like a motherfucker.
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:36:24 PM EDT
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Show me on the doll where the mall ninja touched you... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WI7EulguGcU/UFDbJvEyViI/AAAAAAAAKU4/jIHE-qvIagI/s640/costa+%25288%2529.jpg ??? Wait a minute...someone actually makes mall ninja action figures? |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:36:58 PM EDT
[#32]
This thread is special.
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:37:01 PM EDT
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He's the definition on low drag. However, I can't take him seriously without the tapco extended mag. It's your funeral, bro. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:37:16 PM EDT
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Dude I laughed so hard. 10+ tacticool points. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Show me on the doll where the mall ninja touched you... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WI7EulguGcU/UFDbJvEyViI/AAAAAAAAKU4/jIHE-qvIagI/s640/costa+%25288%2529.jpg Dude I laughed so hard. 10+ tacticool points. Yup. OP, How is that chip on your shoulder healing? |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:38:01 PM EDT
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??? Wait a minute...someone actually makes mall ninja action figures? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Show me on the doll where the mall ninja touched you... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WI7EulguGcU/UFDbJvEyViI/AAAAAAAAKU4/jIHE-qvIagI/s640/costa+%25288%2529.jpg ??? Wait a minute...someone actually makes mall ninja action figures? Yep. From the Costa/Magpul Dynamics days IIRC.
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:38:58 PM EDT
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I give him credit. Not in his mom's basement, and making a statement in the real world. I'll buy him a beer.
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:40:52 PM EDT
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I don't understand the Condor hate. I have a carrier of there's and I like it. Guess if it's not $500 plus it's trash to some people Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If gear works, it works. Being concerned about looking tacticool or airsofter or Tier 1 or whatever is stupid. I was issued a bunch of LBT gear for my 3rd deployment and still used this Condor bag with a 6 mag pouch mounted to the MOLLE panel as my bail out bag. It easily held a few bottles of water, a bandoleer of ammo, two field stripped MREs, and a can of CLP inside of it and I was able to keep four loaded mags and an ICOM in the pouches mounted to the MOLLE panel. ' I bought that bag primarily because it was the only thing in store at the surplus store right before we deployed that fit the need. It held up to more than a few ground movements in RC-East and fit pretty well being between the driver and TC seats in an NTV. Condor or not, it fucking worked. I don't understand the Condor hate. I have a carrier of there's and I like it. Guess if it's not $500 plus it's trash to some people It probably has something to do with the shitty quality that has often been an issue for them since they started selling gear. A lot of their stuff is poorly constructed out of substandard materials, which has led to premature failure. Don't fool yourself into thinking that it's just as good and only cheaper because Condor has a charitable streak. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:41:26 PM EDT
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Purple panties in his right side pocket.
Must be a tier 1 panty sniffer
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:41:35 PM EDT
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How do you know he is a 'no nonsense' fighter off of one pic? This. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:44:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I bet that guy can fight like a motherfucker. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:44:47 PM EDT
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Just throwing the question out to the resident equipment snobs here with the camo painted ARs and $1000 optics... I have no dog in this fight because I am in no way a high speed/low drag tacticool dude. I don't want to be and don't try to pretend to be but all you sound like is low income cry baby who pissed that other people can afford top of the line gear and you can't. Who cares if someone paints their AR and has a $1k optic on it? Who cares what some dude standing on the side of a road in the Ukraine has? How does any of that effect your life? |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:45:51 PM EDT
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Painting rifles is now snobbery? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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...equipment snobs here with the camo painted ARs... Painting rifles is now snobbery? Did you miss the thread where people were losing their shit over painting guns? |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:45:53 PM EDT
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Painting rifles is now snobbery? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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...equipment snobs here with the camo painted ARs... Painting rifles is now snobbery? Rattle can to sr15 or scar is teir1 snobbery, extra points for including optics over 1k in the rushed paint job to signify no fucks given full battle operator |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:49:29 PM EDT
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Waiting on the pic of the guy wearing the life jacket as body armor!
His facial expression says more than his gear. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:54:01 PM EDT
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Purple panties in his right side pocket. Must be a tier 1 panty sniffer I hear panty sniffing convictions can lead to you having to register as a sex offender upon conviction. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:54:15 PM EDT
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These podunk partisans look like they can't even afford an etool.
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:57:02 PM EDT
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Rattle can to sr15 or scar is teir1 snobbery, extra points for including optics over 1k in the rushed paint job to signify no fucks given full battle operator Quote HistoryQuoted:
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...equipment snobs here with the camo painted ARs... Painting rifles is now snobbery? Rattle can to sr15 or scar is teir1 snobbery, extra points for including optics over 1k in the rushed paint job to signify no fucks given full battle operator Really? Something you can pull right off with fifty cents' worth of acetone, and people care? It's not like it ruins the rifle. Good gravy. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 1:59:06 PM EDT
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perhaps you hit on the truth in your OP "overweight mall ninja." As long as you are reasonably in shape. As long as you actually use your gear in a real situation and are comfortable with it. Then and only then do you cross over from the tacticool to the truly hard operator.
I do agree with the point you seem to be alluding to. People seem to spend too much on ultra tier 1 gear so the can look awesome and serious. However, if they have the cash, they can spend it how they want. I already ignore echo chamber statements about things I have or might purchase because they aren't tier 1. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 2:01:09 PM EDT
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If gear works, it works. Being concerned about looking tacticool or airsofter or Tier 1 or whatever is stupid. I was issued a bunch of LBT gear for my 3rd deployment and still used this Condor bag with a 6 mag pouch mounted to the MOLLE panel as my bail out bag. It easily held a few bottles of water, a bandoleer of ammo, two field stripped MREs, and a can of CLP inside of it and I was able to keep four loaded mags and an ICOM in the pouches mounted to the MOLLE panel. ' I bought that bag primarily because it was the only thing in store at the surplus store right before we deployed that fit the need. It held up to more than a few ground movements in RC-East and fit pretty well being between the driver and TC seats in an NTV. Condor or not, it fucking worked. A friend of mine bought that exact same bag. Like a week later he got bit by a coyote. Bit him pretty hard too. I don't need that kind of trouble. |
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Posted: 3/25/2016 2:02:15 PM EDT
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Everyone wants to be a gansta...
You know the rest. |
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