Plate Carrier at the Range

[AnchorTactical]

Crashing a motorcycle @50 is nothing at all like falling down on the sidewalk.

Both can kill you

[spfabrication]

Both can kill you

Having done both , several times , I will take the sidewalk over a MC crash any day of the week. It's not even in the slightest way the same.

[Unretarded]

To get used to the weight. How is anyone supposed to get used to something if they never wear it? Wear it if you want to OP. It's no ones business.

Wearing it because your local range is unsafe....not good.....go to a safer place.

Wearing to train, get used it to shooting with it on, go for it........most tactical classes recomend one, but the local range is usually not hip to running up and down the fire line.

I have wanted to take mine to the range a few times when adding new gear to it or a weapons change, but decided against it, not because of ridicule, but rather the over active imaginations of other shooters......OMG he has a vest, must be gettin ready to shoot the mall up.....no thanks.

[NapalmCheese]

Crashing a motorcycle @50 is nothing at all like falling down on the sidewalk.

Your head takes the same trauma unless you're going head first into a pole, rail, car, whatever or unless you've high sided and been thrown 10 feet up.

[NapalmCheese]

Having done both , several times , I will take the sidewalk over a MC crash any day of the week. It's not even in the slightest way the same.

How do you think motorcycle helmet tests are done? Crashing the helmet at 50 mph and allowing it to skip across the ashpalt or dropping it from 6 feet up?

Here's a hint: they drop it from 6 feet up.

At any rate, we're off topic.

[ElDub1950]

OP, we get a chuckle because we've all seen 'that guy'.

One of my first classes several years ago, a guys shows up in full camo, desert boots, drop leg holster, floppy hat (whatever it's name) instructor belt with a half dozen pouches hanging off it. During the early draw-dry-fire instruction he promptly drew and threw his shiny new 1911 somethin somethin in the gravel, 3 of the first 4 times he tried.

Do what you need, to be safe, but don't be 'that guy'.

[spfabrication]

How do you think motorcycle helmet tests are done? Crashing the helmet at 50 mph and allowing it to skip across the ashpalt or dropping it from 6 feet up?

Here's a hint: they drop it from 6 feet up.

At any rate, we're off topic.

If you say so. I will wear the best safety equipment that my budget will allow. This includes at the range , or on my motorcycle.
And I will do it without any regard for what anyone else might think,say, gesture , or whatever. ZFG.

[nothingextra]

This topic has probably come up but I didn't find anything when I searched.

Although I shoot at a few different ranges, the one closest to me (and the one I shoot at most often) is usually extremely crowded with new shootrs. I have been swept a few times now and I am a bit concerned about taking a bullet from someone who doesn't know what they're doing.

Would it be ridiculous to wear a plate carrier to the range in this situation? Better safe than sorry in this case?

You may attract the fat RO's who go around yelling at everyone for no apparent reason.

A plate carrier would be close to open back leather chaps to those guys.

I do understand why you'd want one, I had some geniuses screw around with a loaded AK pointed at me at a local range. I didnt think about covering the side of my body from head to toe. I just stopped going there BC the place is amateur hour.

Just say no to closeted tactical gingivitis bears.

[BigPimping]

I would suggest a new Range. If things like that happen at the one you go to. I can tell you that the ranges that I go to, that would never ever be tolerated