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Is there enough rubber on the front of the shoulder for it to be for weapon retention? As for elbows, maybe for prone.

Yes, now that you say it it makes sense.

 

Because Mad Max is a thing?

 

Leather and rubber in a garmant sounds perfect.

And that's why I want it.

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Got to work at 7:20, in order to get out early and grab a couple of particularly ugly and heavy, yet very postnuclear-feeling rags at the thrift shop. It's clearance day and I'll be ###### off if I find out that some people are willing to buy the oddest, most useless *suitcase* as long as it's 20 pence a kilo.

 

Also, does anyone have any idea what would a shooter or a hunter need a heavy leather jacket with real heavy duty rubber reinforcements on the elbows and one shoulder?

Sounds like a shooting jacket for High power shooting did it look like this?

 

Shots.jpg

 

Designed for recoil, weapons retention and setting up so you have the perfect position every shot at 800 yards.

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As paranoid said, it's all about long range shooting. The jackets help hold the body in position, glasses help stop visual distraction etc.

 

It's a specialist thing, same as say a skier in Lycra or similar. It's not fashion, it's to do a job...

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I know... it's still stupid.

 

Being able to circumcise a bluebottle with a rifle and a silly jacket is one thing, but if you can't hit *suitcase* without the use of the jacket then your skill is non-transferable and therefore useless in my book. ;)

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I just see it as another niche sport. Take ski jumping for example (why all the skiing references from me tonight?) same thing, not really transferable.

 

Darkchild, nice pic. Never knew that rifle would push out to 1000 yards :)

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Officially it can only fire out to 800 metres, but in trials I was getting sub 225mm groups at 1000 yards (the warminster sniper range is still in yards) on a man sized target.

We could not record beyond 800m as that would have required completely rewriting the trial requirements.  Bureaucracy means the official capabilities of the L129A1 rifle are first hit capability at 600m, harassing fire out to 800 metres.

The truth is it is far more capable, all on a measly 16 inch barrel.

 

Darkchild

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Sounds like a shooting jacket for High power shooting did it look like this?

 

Shots.jpg

 

Designed for recoil, weapons retention and setting up so you have the perfect position every shot at 800 yards.

Give or take, yes. Also, some dumb *fruitcage* bought it before I got there.

In this sick sad country, people would buy a live grenade if it was 20 pence.

 

Also, Azubi is selling Canon photo gear and I'm flat *fruitcage* broke. AAAARRRRGH.

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As I live right next to a golf course, I can give full assurances that golf is primarily a way for folks to get drunk without having to go to the local bar or be accused of drinking too heavily.

 

"I wasn't out drinking, I was out golfing with my league!"

 

To think I almost agreed to work cleaning carts again, 5 work seasons of that is far too much.

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If ever there's a type of staff you can get from an agency at the drop of a hat on a casual basis, its drivers and warehouse staff. 

 

My sister is a manager at Pertemps, so I know just how easy it is.

 

 

My manager, decided to send the workshop engineer out driving a delivery van because the driver called in sick. For three days. 

 

So that's three days worth of repairs that haven't been done, all during our busy period. 

 

 

I swear our management couldn't manage to blow their *fruitcage* nose.

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