Well, you're right. He mentioned driving. So, I suppose that opens the discussion up to the drunk driving angle. And that's quite unfortunate.
Few, if any of us are in a position to provide test data.
But yet several did, or at least shared their recollections of related anecdotes that they'd read.
The frustration comes from taking a thread on theoretical performance advantages gained in competition through moderate use of a depressant and it crashes immediately into acrimonious, off-topic, chest pounding:
drinking while shooting is a big no no drinking when there is access to a gun is a big no no.
And the effect on the performance edge is? Maybe it would improve punctuation?
The last thing I want at the gun range is a shooter next to me that's been knocking down a few.
Because he might out-shoot you?
Last words of a redneck:
“Hold my beer and gimme them shells.”
Larry The Cable Guy has spoken. :rolleyes"
I guess you wouldn't mind if I pointed my unloaded gun at you with my finger on the trigger, would you?
Words fail me...
If a rule prohibiting drinking while shooting is so offensive, sell your guns. That'll show us!
Who? What? What rule? Offending whom? The Mexicans?
No mixing of guns and alchohol.
Period.
Even if all of the guns were locked up the pics (and there are always pics) of a bunch of shooters drinking at the range would do damage to our cause.
Now we're a "cause"? Well, maybe so. But the discussion at hand has more in relation to MLB steroid abuse stories than irresponsible drunks.
I N-E-V-E-R have alcohol in my system while snowmobiling or shooting. Period.
Then the subject of the thread has N-O-T-H-I-N-G to do with you. Period.
I will not remain in the same area as a shooter that is drinking. If you should be invited to visit the range my brother has set up on the farm and have alcohol on your breath you will be invited to leave much less politely than you were invited to come. Under the same condition, my grandfather would demand you case your weapon in his presence and describe the part of your anatomy the weapon would rest had you failed to do so.
Grandpa would be kicking some serious Mexican competitive target shooter A$$, then, I guess. If he was there ... and if they were shooting on his farm. 'Cause if grandpa wasn't with them, and they weren't on his farm, this ain't got SQUAT to do with the discussion.
The subject is quite interesting as an academic debate, to those members who've shot different kinds of competition seriously or who have some background or education in medicine/physiology and who may have experienced some of these effects or would like to know about them. It's just tiresome to wade through so much that doesn't even touch on the subject, especially when so much of it is low, finger-pointing, self-righteous fluff.
IMHO.
-Sam