Marketing and consumerism. Let millenials buy thousands of dollars of gear to play pretend soldier at 2gun matches and in their basements just in case something ever happens. In which case they'll get clapped by a boomer with a scoped bolt-action.
This but in a good way. Accessories are a huge rabbit hole of a market. But that’s good. Anyone can join by putting out shit tier products that improve in time. Let’s first time gun owners buy cheap products then decide if they want to continue the hobby and buy better ones later. Having a fuck ton of options on products is always a good thing.
Consumerism posters hit the nail on the head. Coupled HEAVILY with the fact that the government doesn't care anymore. They moved on to drones and smart munitions, so you playing SEAL concerns them as much as you playing knight's templar. This opened up the market and increased the number of influencers.
Also, actual training is tedious, expensive, and arguably boring if you are actually training and not just playing around. Thus people choose to buy.
Training regularly is more expensive than having a large collection. If you are not firing 200 rounds in your training session, what are you even doing. It's also expensive in terms of time, because you have to go clean your shit, wash your lead-dust clothing, and shower.
It's like a fucking workout session, except working out actually has universal benefits. Really have to be dedicated to "train". So you conflating "cheap" and "trained" is completed delusional.
>Heh I train more than them because I can't afford accessories
Cope
Cope
cope
You retards are all just like the fox with the grapes. I'm not even going to pretend I'm a rich fag, my shit's PSA with chink optics, but you copers are such sad losers when you make these broad assumptions about everyone richer than you. Completely pathetic.
learn to appreciate what you have and actually have fun with your guns rather than try to win a dick measuring contest on /arg/
buy some shitty ammo and shoot some cans in your backyard
Marketing and consumerism. Let millenials buy thousands of dollars of gear to play pretend soldier at 2gun matches and in their basements just in case something ever happens. In which case they'll get clapped by a boomer with a scoped bolt-action.
>t. /arg/ CONSOOMer
lel, i bet you're shit with your carry gun too, LARPing gay
you are retarded
if two people are equally skilled, the person with the better gear will perform better
a skilled person can perform better than an unskilled person, even if they have worse gear
a skilled person with good gear will perform the best
it's not hard to understand
People with good skills can afford to equip themselves with modern gear. People too poor to train to the fullest cannot.
Hence good gear doesn't prove good skill, but lacking proves bad skill.
1 month ago
Anonymous
so if I go out and buy the fanciest race gun and optics I can, I instantly become skilled?
1 month ago
Anonymous
are you illiterate?
1 month ago
Anonymous
you clearly are
>heh, surely my skillz are superior because I bought a bunch of plastic bullshit
skill is not correlated with quality of gear
skill is not correlated with quality of gear
1 month ago
Anonymous
>so if I go out and buy the fanciest race gun and optics I can, I instantly become skilled?
no one said that, you need to make up scenarios and move goalposts to justify your sour grapes.
1 month ago
Anonymous
disposable income is correlated with level of quality gear
skill is correlated with range time
disposable income is somewhat correlated with range time
richfags can afford good gear and range time. this doesn't mean they actually shoot often. poorfags can save money on a rifle and spend more on ammo then they otherwise could. this doesn't mean they actually shoot often.
Wipe that cum out of your eyes so you can read, gay. I'm in total agreement with your 90iq observation. Angry poorfags are implying that anyone who spends more money than them are shit.
Marketing and consumerism. Let millenials buy thousands of dollars of gear to play pretend soldier at 2gun matches and in their basements just in case something ever happens. In which case they'll get clapped by a boomer with a scoped bolt-action.
>t. /arg/ CONSOOMer
lel, i bet you're shit with your carry gun too, LARPing gay
1 month ago
Anonymous
>Angry poorfags are implying that anyone who spends more money than them are shit.
because they usually are lol.
this cope won't make you any less of a shit shooter and poorfag
[...]
There's plenty of larpers and mindless consumers but >Heh, surely my skillz are superior because I'm poor
Is retardedly laughable cope
>b-but you're a poorfag
I have a life and other hobbies outside of gun ownership. 80% of my money in this hobby has been in buying ammo so I can fuck around at the range and have FUN, blowing shit away and exploding watermelons
I don't need a $4000 Ar with all the bullshit accessories. The only "nice" gun I own is a model 94 100th anniversary edition, that I didn't even buy but inherited. Every other gun I have I use, like my carry pistols or my cheap ass WASR10
go fuck yourself, you can't buy skill by adding on a $1200 optic and $500 gun light
those guys in your pic (Donbobwae conscripts) have seen more combat and probably killed more people then any american "combat" vet in the GWOT and they're using their grandfathers rifles
thanks for proving our point
to be fair, they most likely are nowhere near the front and issued mosins to free up rifles for the front line
I would still rather shoot a Mosin PU versus an AR because garbage rods are fun
The guy who trains with his guns in matches is going to lose to a geriatric who sights in his deer rifle once a year and sits in a blind for a week? This cope was shit in the past and it’s shit now.
retards believe tropes in fiction correllate to real life. I've seen stereotypical 1911 boomers at IDPA matches, they're just as much of a mixed bag as the 20-30yr old hype beast shooter.
people need to realize that skill/wisdom does not increase just because you get older. if you spend your whole life doing the same shit over and over without thinking you can be 60yrs old and still be a doofus.
>a gun match with perfect conditions and low stress is the same as innawoods combat
Yea im sticking with fudd and his boomer nam vet buddies while we waste your gay ass covered in gear too heavy you can barely move from 300 yards out with a 30-06 lmao
Consumerism posters hit the nail on the head. Coupled HEAVILY with the fact that the government doesn't care anymore. They moved on to drones and smart munitions, so you playing SEAL concerns them as much as you playing knight's templar. This opened up the market and increased the number of influencers.
Also, actual training is tedious, expensive, and arguably boring if you are actually training and not just playing around. Thus people choose to buy.
business savvy GWOT vets have nothing to do with their life after they have no more hajis to shoot. so now they use the culture of idolising of the US military to their advantage to make a living selling useless shit
It doesn’t. It’s a big share of the lower end market, though. Especially in the US. Playing DEVGRU is the current year version of cowboy/indian play. The reasons are diverse and beyond the scope of this board.
Tacticool gadgets are overrepresented here because of board demographics. Same goes for most other social media. People that are in the market for 10k+ shotguns or big game rifles are not browsing social media for reviews.
Marketing and consumerism. Let millenials buy thousands of dollars of gear to play pretend soldier at 2gun matches and in their basements just in case something ever happens. In which case they'll get clapped by a boomer with a scoped bolt-action.
This but in a good way. Accessories are a huge rabbit hole of a market. But that’s good. Anyone can join by putting out shit tier products that improve in time. Let’s first time gun owners buy cheap products then decide if they want to continue the hobby and buy better ones later. Having a fuck ton of options on products is always a good thing.
>they'll get clapped by a boomer with a scoped bolt-action.
>t. /arg/ CONSOOMer
lel, i bet you're shit with your carry gun too, LARPing gay
this cope won't make you any less of a shit shooter and poorfag
There's plenty of larpers and mindless consumers but
>Heh, surely my skillz are superior because I'm poor
Is retardedly laughable cope
Training regularly is more expensive than having a large collection. If you are not firing 200 rounds in your training session, what are you even doing. It's also expensive in terms of time, because you have to go clean your shit, wash your lead-dust clothing, and shower.
It's like a fucking workout session, except working out actually has universal benefits. Really have to be dedicated to "train". So you conflating "cheap" and "trained" is completed delusional.
>Heh I train more than them because I can't afford accessories
Cope
Cope
cope
You retards are all just like the fox with the grapes. I'm not even going to pretend I'm a rich fag, my shit's PSA with chink optics, but you copers are such sad losers when you make these broad assumptions about everyone richer than you. Completely pathetic.
learn to appreciate what you have and actually have fun with your guns rather than try to win a dick measuring contest on /arg/
buy some shitty ammo and shoot some cans in your backyard
>heh, surely my skillz are superior because I bought a bunch of plastic bullshit
skill is not correlated with quality of gear
>They're less skilled than me
>I know this because they have more money than I do
he just said skill isn't correlated with gear tho
See
you are retarded
if two people are equally skilled, the person with the better gear will perform better
a skilled person can perform better than an unskilled person, even if they have worse gear
a skilled person with good gear will perform the best
it's not hard to understand
People with good skills can afford to equip themselves with modern gear. People too poor to train to the fullest cannot.
Hence good gear doesn't prove good skill, but lacking proves bad skill.
so if I go out and buy the fanciest race gun and optics I can, I instantly become skilled?
are you illiterate?
you clearly are
skill is not correlated with quality of gear
>so if I go out and buy the fanciest race gun and optics I can, I instantly become skilled?
no one said that, you need to make up scenarios and move goalposts to justify your sour grapes.
disposable income is correlated with level of quality gear
skill is correlated with range time
disposable income is somewhat correlated with range time
richfags can afford good gear and range time. this doesn't mean they actually shoot often. poorfags can save money on a rifle and spend more on ammo then they otherwise could. this doesn't mean they actually shoot often.
Wipe that cum out of your eyes so you can read, gay. I'm in total agreement with your 90iq observation. Angry poorfags are implying that anyone who spends more money than them are shit.
>Angry poorfags are implying that anyone who spends more money than them are shit.
because they usually are lol.
>b-but you're a poorfag
I have a life and other hobbies outside of gun ownership. 80% of my money in this hobby has been in buying ammo so I can fuck around at the range and have FUN, blowing shit away and exploding watermelons
I don't need a $4000 Ar with all the bullshit accessories. The only "nice" gun I own is a model 94 100th anniversary edition, that I didn't even buy but inherited. Every other gun I have I use, like my carry pistols or my cheap ass WASR10
go fuck yourself, you can't buy skill by adding on a $1200 optic and $500 gun light
skill is not correlated with lack of quality gear because of poorgayry
>t.
those guys in your pic (Donbobwae conscripts) have seen more combat and probably killed more people then any american "combat" vet in the GWOT and they're using their grandfathers rifles
thanks for proving our point
to be fair, they most likely are nowhere near the front and issued mosins to free up rifles for the front line
I would still rather shoot a Mosin PU versus an AR because garbage rods are fun
The guy who trains with his guns in matches is going to lose to a geriatric who sights in his deer rifle once a year and sits in a blind for a week? This cope was shit in the past and it’s shit now.
retards believe tropes in fiction correllate to real life. I've seen stereotypical 1911 boomers at IDPA matches, they're just as much of a mixed bag as the 20-30yr old hype beast shooter.
people need to realize that skill/wisdom does not increase just because you get older. if you spend your whole life doing the same shit over and over without thinking you can be 60yrs old and still be a doofus.
>a gun match with perfect conditions and low stress is the same as innawoods combat
Yea im sticking with fudd and his boomer nam vet buddies while we waste your gay ass covered in gear too heavy you can barely move from 300 yards out with a 30-06 lmao
stop making up these sad scenarios and projections to justify your stupidity.
Good question.
My brother comes to the range with his $3,000 guccigat with $3,000 of plastic on it and gets outshot by me and my used ruger
it doesn't, you are just into normie garbage.
It don't be.
It can be sold to the consumer as a way to increase versatility and to the producer as a way to make it premium.
Consumerism posters hit the nail on the head. Coupled HEAVILY with the fact that the government doesn't care anymore. They moved on to drones and smart munitions, so you playing SEAL concerns them as much as you playing knight's templar. This opened up the market and increased the number of influencers.
Also, actual training is tedious, expensive, and arguably boring if you are actually training and not just playing around. Thus people choose to buy.
business savvy GWOT vets have nothing to do with their life after they have no more hajis to shoot. so now they use the culture of idolising of the US military to their advantage to make a living selling useless shit
>nowadays
its been this way for like 20 years. you're just a contrarian.
>anyone who has nice things MUST be compensating!
>anyone who doesn't want to spend $5000 on a single rifle MUST be a shitter poorfag!
joyless larping to be fair.
It doesn’t. It’s a big share of the lower end market, though. Especially in the US. Playing DEVGRU is the current year version of cowboy/indian play. The reasons are diverse and beyond the scope of this board.
Tacticool gadgets are overrepresented here because of board demographics. Same goes for most other social media. People that are in the market for 10k+ shotguns or big game rifles are not browsing social media for reviews.