Why isn't fitness more important to gun owners

[00boraslow]

I am a tall skinny white dude from PA that doesn't work out.

At least I have less surface area than a fattie. My rifle plates cover my entire front chest.



Pic of me with my pale white arms and plate carrier.

[Broke]

Why do I see so many large, overweight and generally out of shape members of the local gun community?

I like food. I don't like exercise.
That's the large and small of it.

Large individuals participating in a strenuous, exhausting activity.

Today I tried walking up the side of a hill that last weekend I blasted up on the Yamaha.... holy chit... I am OUT of shape.
Granted, the 14 year old nephew with me was panting almost as bad as I was, and he is not fat at all.... but he got his air back faster than I did, I was still pulling leaves from the trees with my gasping inhales minutes after he was OK. Uncle Broke had to sit down and suck down another Marlboro

I thought the trip up the hill was going to kill me. Really. I thought this would really suck to be out here and have the ticker freeze up on me in the middle of the woods.... but after the funny noise in my ears stopped, and the twinkly spots disappeared from my vision I was OK.

OK enough to know I'm not going down that frickin' hill again.... we shot farther up, closer to the truck.

It seems as crucial a part of becoming a great shooter.

No, it isn't crucial at all to being a great shot. You can be a great shot in a wheelchair.
It IS absolutely crucial to moving and shooting, which is what some are prepping for... so you're 100% correct in it being crucial in that aspect.

If you have to move fast, carrying a load, amped up from having to move fast to start with (chasing something or being chased), physical fitness will become key.

Not to Uncle Broke though... I'll just make a stand where I am I reckon... Donato's Big Don Italian sub in one hand, the other pulling the trigger on whatever has ammo left in it.
If I finish the Big Don before I die, I win.

[ogvr6]

I am a tall skinny white dude from PA that doesn't work out.

At least I have less surface area than a fattie. My rifle plates cover my entire front chest.



Pic of me with my pale white arms and plate carrier.

that's a good ideal but some people shoot below the plate line...

[Power5]

fit guys can not do this:

[Dreizehn]

That's OK. That fat **** can't have sex, so we're even.

[puddin_pants]

When in the Leo academy one of our instructors was a bigger guy and would run us ragged during PT. and he wouldn't break a sweat, can't judge em all by how they look.