Aguila Blanca
Staff
It's simply a different ball game.
When I was in high school, there were several invisible barriers in track and field: the 7-foot high jump, the 16-foot pole vault, and the 4-minute mile. In 1962, my senior year in high school, along came a U.S. Marine named John Uelses who set a new world record in pole vault with a vault of 16' -0-1/4". He then promptly beat that with a vault of 16'- 0-3/4". He was a great athelete, and I don't dispute that. But ... he used a fiberglass pole. When I was in high school all the poles were steel, and they were rigid. The fiberglass pole flexed -- the vaulter just had to run fast enough to bend the pole, and the pole would launch him. I have always felt there should be a separate record for the pole vault using a steel pole, because it really is that different.
I feel the same way about [color]-dot optics vs. open sights.
When I was in high school, there were several invisible barriers in track and field: the 7-foot high jump, the 16-foot pole vault, and the 4-minute mile. In 1962, my senior year in high school, along came a U.S. Marine named John Uelses who set a new world record in pole vault with a vault of 16' -0-1/4". He then promptly beat that with a vault of 16'- 0-3/4". He was a great athelete, and I don't dispute that. But ... he used a fiberglass pole. When I was in high school all the poles were steel, and they were rigid. The fiberglass pole flexed -- the vaulter just had to run fast enough to bend the pole, and the pole would launch him. I have always felt there should be a separate record for the pole vault using a steel pole, because it really is that different.
I feel the same way about [color]-dot optics vs. open sights.