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Any caliber is better than no caliber.
especially when you are old and can't outrun a dust bunny.
especially when you are old and can't outrun a dust bunny.
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My blackboard's bigger than your blackboard !No I will not be drawn into a best pistol cartridge debate again.
No I will not be drawn into a best pistol cartridge debate again.
No I will not be drawn into a best pistol cartridge debate again.
No I will not be drawn into a best pistol cartridge debate again.
No I will not be drawn into a best pistol cartridge debate again.
No I will not be drawn into a best pistol cartridge debate again.
No I will not be drawn into a best pistol cartridge debate again....
Do you use regular or dustless chalk? You're not one of those chalk snobs who only uses a chalk pen are you?My blackboard's bigger than your blackboard !
Regular chalk only for me, and I have more than you do.Do you use regular or dustless chalk? You're not one of those chalk snobs who only uses a chalk pen are you?
Wrong..... The answer is always 9mm. Lol.This debate has been going on for years and will continue to do so. There is no confusion really, carry and shoot what you shoot the best. It's really that easy.
Cartridge = What your firearm is chambered for
Caliber = Diameter of bullet (projectile)
We have to discipline ourselves to use the correct terms. I like the word "chambering" for a specific round for a firearm.
Another thing, you don't use ".30 caliber," it's, "30 caliber" if you're going to include the word. Without the word, you simply use the decimal, ".30"
Some people don't know that "caliber" is defined as 1/100th of an inch. The decimal tells you it's 30/100ths, so you don't need the decimal and the word caliber together. ".30 caliber" would be 3/1000th of an inch, technically.
These things seem picky, but if we are going to sound halfway knowledgeable, it's good to get them straight.
Proper nomenclature.We have to discipline ourselves to use the correct terms. I like the word "chambering" for a specific round for a firearm.
Another thing, you don't use ".30 caliber," it's, "30 caliber" if you're going to include the word. Without the word, you simply use the decimal, ".30"
Some people don't know that "caliber" is defined as 1/100th of an inch. The decimal tells you it's 30/100ths, so you don't need the decimal and the word caliber together. ".30 caliber" would be 3/1000th of an inch, technically.
These things seem picky, but if we are going to sound halfway knowledgeable, it's good to get them straight.
Proper nomenclature.
Just like "$". This -> $ <- is a "dollar" sign. It means the same thing as "dollars". You wouldn't say five dollars dollars and you don't say $5 dollars.We have to discipline ourselves to use the correct terms. I like the word "chambering" for a specific round for a firearm.
Another thing, you don't use ".30 caliber," it's, "30 caliber" if you're going to include the word. Without the word, you simply use the decimal, ".30"
Some people don't know that "caliber" is defined as 1/100th of an inch. The decimal tells you it's 30/100ths, so you don't need the decimal and the word caliber together. ".30 caliber" would be 3/1000th of an inch, technically.
These things seem picky, but if we are going to sound halfway knowledgeable, it's good to get them straight.
tac,The calibre question was always a very easy one for me - and I never gave it a moment's thought when I was carrying my service-issue 9mm pistol. I trained and trained and trained and TRAINED my actions for 'just-in-case'. My pistol held 13+1 and was carried with the hammer down. In case of need I'd be attempting to put a large number of rounds smack bang in the middle of the face in front of me, in the sure and certain knowledge that some of them were going to sting like crazy, particularly as they passed through the mouth and directly into the medulla oblongata - the 'off-switch'.
I saw a few people that had had this method of quietening down administered to them, and talking to the people who had done the administering, it rarely took more than four or five to the face drop them in their footprints.
My all-time favourite occurrence took place when a well-known gunman decided to use a local phone booth, sadly for him, just as a bunch of our black-hand gang drove by, all tooled up with HK MP5Ks...this delightful device, still greatly loved by my generation, has a three round fire selector, and by the time that four of them had emptied all their ready ammunition in the phone booth it was only about a foot high and smoking. The former occupant looked as though he had been tattooed head to foot with leopard spots, called florettes , which, as you know, can often appear as a three-dot cluster...very arty, noted the ME. He counted no less than 68 of these endearing little clusters on the cooling cadaver.
As he noted wryly - any of the thirty-something shots to the head would likely have done it, but when ammunition is free then you can afford to be generous, right?
And where did the 500$ crap come from? In the French speaking sections of Canada I get it, but in the United States the $ sign belongs in front of the number... Is this what happens when teachers unionize?Just like "$". This -> $ <- is a "dollar" sign. It means the same thing as "dollars". You wouldn't say five dollars dollars and you don't say $5 dollars.
<whew> Been holding that one in for a while.