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I wonder why hunters don't wear this gear?

• dmoy 2y ago
  Hunting typically has less precision requirements, relative to bullseye shooting. Bullseye shooting can get pretty extreme in the level of precision required. A bullseye rifle competitor at 200 yards lying down is generally unhappy with a shot that is more than 1.5" away from the centerpoint. A deer's vital area is like over 5" from centerpoint. Even varmint hunters have bigger targets. I don't hunt, but I compete at bullseye and practice at a range with a lot of hunters, and we routinely get into discussions of how what I need to be good at (precision stuff) has like literally nothing to do with what they need to be good at (mostly, finding the critters, and not spooking them).
• somenameforme 2y ago
  A lot of athletes at the very top level use things that provide, at most, a microscopic edge - because a microscopic edge can be quite significant with people that close to their genetic potential, competing against comparable others. Take something like the buoyant body suits in swimming, which do genuinely provide enough of an advantage to have been banned. If a regular person wears one of those, it's not going to suddenly turn you into Michael Phelps. In all reality you would probably notice 0 difference in feel or results, but if you're doing laps with a delta time measured in the milliseconds, then yeah it can really make a difference. But for regular people engaged in regular sport, these differences don't matter and are not even generally observable. If anybody likes bowling there's an example there at basically every bowling alley where a guy shows up kitted out in hundreds of dollars of top brand professional gear, custom ball(s), and everything - and bowls a 120.
• formerly_proven 2y ago
  Hunters use optics and those give you a parallax-adjusted reticle at infinity / the target distance, so there are no focus problems.