MLAIC & shooting jackets

Hello folks! :hatsoff:
As you know MLAIC allows to use shooting jackets during their competitions. Just like this one:



It is a big controversy in my country, because most of competitions organizers claim that jackets aren't historically accurate and don't permitt them. There is also a fiery dicussion amongst our blackpowder shooters.

Could you tell me when and where were shooting jackets used the first time? Maybe do you have any pictures?

Thanks in advance.

Humm I sent the jacket thread from here some time back to a MILAC competitor..he replied the shooting jacket has been around for a few hundred years in one form or another.

don't forget about pants and boots..

There is a member here by the name of David Minshall who is quite knowledgeable in the history of these sort of things.

You might PM him with your question. He is a Long rang ML shooter in Europe.

I have seen shooters wearing those jackets at matches at Friendship. They were shooting inlines, with adjustable stocks, bipods, hooked buttplates and scopes. I was shooting the same woodswalk with my Bess in primitive gear. The shooters with the jackets and the fancy gear were hitting everything and I was lucky to hit 5 out of 25. However, my group was having a lot more fun. They were shooting a different match and so I wasn't competing against them. It was also 90 degrees and they were sweating in those heavy jackets.

I suppose the shooting jackets are OK and they may even have some historic accuracy, but they weren't used for hunting. If you have to allow the jackets, just place them in a separate classification.

Many Klatch

Ck out sites on here by "rabbit3" hes leadingthe fight to have them removed from the NMLRA, I gave him a nudge (not knowing it by printing the NMLRA "Prez's" phone number he said call... He wanted to know why you had dropped out,was going to,ect because they are loseing people, my gripe is the "LONGHUNTER" thing letting scoped inl..manure be in it at all, see th latest Backwoods man for a story on the trad vs mod hunter it will :rotf: you, ANYWAY so you dont feel bad, the NMLRA has a shoot for company's like Knight :cursing: and Dixie they put up a team the first year they had the new "Pedro " made Jag and did a team shoot against all those scoped inlxx's and the in..."dirty word" teams got the "dirty word" about beat out of them by flint locked fixed sight Jags. So dont feel down about it, maybe we are a dieing group or getting stronger, also in Backwoodsman ( Im spending a lot of time reading in the hospital now) the first yr some state had a ML hunt and it had to be a side lock no scopes ect it was about a NO SHOW and they opened it up to all the MLs and "SCOPES"it jumped to I belive 100,000. Won't be many deer with that many guys sitting in tree's over feeding mch's, with doe smell in heat all over the ground for only 10 bucks (get it?) from pinned up does they grow just for that....on and on. The shooting jacket has been around for a few 100 yrs at least the kind they use for target shooting since the 1800s AND it was seen as cheating even back then. Fred :hatsoff: wish I had spell and smarts ck on this thing... :rotf: Fred :hatsoff:

Thanks a lot for all your answers!
Now MLAIC has bannned shooting pants.

E) Clothing

1) Heavy shooting trousers of the type used for ISSF competition are eliminated for use in MLAIC competition. This rule is intended to allow the use of shooting trousers made of light-weight, flexible material, such as cotton, with no reinforcement that would give artificial support. The trousers could have knee pads for the protection of the shooter’s knees and would also allow a reinforced sewn-in seat. However, what is not permitted is the use of heavy-weight, stiff and inflexible trousers (such as those made of leather or double-weight canvas) that may or may not also have “stays” in the legs to provide additional support. This would include trousers that use any special devices or means of immobilizing or unduly reducing the movement of the shooter’s legs and lower body, thus possibly artificially improving the shooter’s performance.

2) There are no other restrictions on clothing.

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You're right I should have thougth of Davide Minshall.

fw what do you smoke??? :wink:

Thanks again and keep your powder dry! :thumbsup: