Shooting jacket question

[Deleted Dewey]

Can anyone identify this shooting jacket? It seems much shorter than any I've seen before.

 

[Bob3700]

Can anyone identify this shooting jacket? It seems much shorter than any I've seen before.

It is a prone shooting coat that Creedmore Sports has offered for many years.

 

[Twdmar]

A longer one is warmer and really all you need for prone is from about mid chest and up but it would look pretty silly.

 

[Deleted Dewey]

Thank you both. Every day is a school day in this game.

 

[Tim Slater]

I'd say it's a Monard. Yes it is shorter than normal, but I may be custom order. Monard have made jackets that length for Paralympic shooters for years.

 

[41magnut]

The person in the photo appears to be David Tubb, which has nothing to do with the question, just an observation.

As another said, I believe that is a prone coat offered by Creedmoor Sports some time back.

As best as I know when one orders a prone jacket from C.S. you will receive a std coat with the top two straps, and shoulder straps.
I have such a coat that I bought it second hand.
I don't know if this is a special order item or a standard offering.

 

[Deleted Dewey]

It seemed odd that, if it's a prone jacket, that it would have buckles all the way down the front.

 

[MGYSGT]

My wife cut one of mine off for use in the summer. It is shorter than that one by a little bit. Doesnt help in Awful hand though.

 

[DR_2297]

I always buckle all the way down because the worst thing that can happen during prone shooting is for the coat to ride up and hence the sling moves down your arm, the shoulder pad bunches and your position breaks down. I recently ponied up for a Thune prone coat - it is full length and has made quite a difference in how durable my position is and I don’t suffer from the fatigue I used to endure from an endless stream of kinda fit HP 3P coats.

 

[1shot]

The coat is a Creedmoor. The reason it has buckles all the way down is David competes in high power which means he shoots from 3 different positions. Standing, sitting/kneeling and prone.
When you cinch the coat all the way down, it turns into some what of a back brace that helps in the off hand stage.
I hope this helps,

Lloyd

 

[watercam]

Monard made that jacket. I know because I have one just like it. Not all of their coats are for smallbore. They will add straps instead of buttons on their coats. When I purchased mine they were new to this country and thus had introductory pricing. I paid $450 for a custom one. Now they are close to a grand I believe.
At one point their Highpower coat was banned here because they had a stiffer material in the back then Creemoor had in theirs. NRA killed their market for a time but they are good to go now.

 

[XTR]

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At one point their Highpower coat was banned here because they had a stiffer material in the back then Creemoor had in theirs. NRA killed their market for a time but they are good to go now.

The infamous Meteor Deflector coat. It wasn't NRA it was CMP that made that call.

 

[watercam]

Ah, I stand corrected.