Poll: How do you pronounce "carbine"?

[Dan Adams]

pertater

spud

 

[Tomahawk67]

I pronounce it Knights Armament.

 

[Medic!]

I pronounce it Knights Armament.

New kid on the block.

Inland, Winchester, Underwood, Quality HMC, Rock-Ola, Saginaw, National Postal Meter,
International Business Machine.

 

[Tomahawk67]

New kid on the block.

Inland, Winchester, Underwood, Quality HMC, Rock-Ola, Saginaw, National Postal Meter,
International Business Machine.

How's that 1 in 12 twist working out for you?

 

[Medic!]

How's that 1 in 12 twist working out for you?

1 in 12''?

It's 1 in 20''

 

[Tomahawk67]

1 in 12''?

It's 1 in 20''

Touche

 

[Boboclown]

I pronounce it Knights Armament.

I pronounce it AKM or SKS.

 

[Medic!]

What is a carbine anyhow?

A long gun, with an abbreviated or shorter barrel than it's rifle version?
Like the 94 Winchester, and M-4?

Or just a short handy rifle? Something like the M1 Carbine?
It has no long barrel version.

What say you?

 

[Boboclown]

It varies. The SKS is a carbine despite having a 20" barrel, and I don't recall a rifle in 7.62x39 that had a longer barrel.

The Yugo mausers with around 19" barrels are carbines because the full length mausers had longer barrels.

 

[Boboclown]

On the other hand... A 20" barrel or shorter is considered a carbine.

Rifles like the AKs don't get called carbines despite meeting the length (or lack thereof) requirement to be one.

 

[Medic!]

It varies. The SKS is a carbine despite having a 20" barrel, and I don't recall a rifle in 7.62x39 that had a longer barrel.

The Yugo mausers with around 19" barrels are carbines because the full length mausers had longer barrels.

Just playing Devils advocate here.

Is the AK-47 almost always referred to as a rifle? And it's just little guy!

 

[Medic!]

Guess we were both righting at the same time?

 

[Boboclown]

Just playing Devils advocate here.

Is the AK-47 almost always referred to as a rifle? And it's just little guy!

Pretty much yes. Its almost never considered a carbine despite meeting the requirement.

I just call it one cause its shorter than the SKS, which is a carbine.

I think the language needs some work.

 

[Medic!]

Funny.

We spend five pages deciding how to say it. [Car-Been]
But were not sure how to quantify what it is?

 

[Boboclown]

Careful, been is usually pronounced bin. You don't want car-bin to start being how folk pronounce it do ya?

So any volunteers to rewrite the dictionary so we know what a carbine really is?

 

[Medic!]

I'm sure we have enough accumulated knowledge here to come to a conclusion on meaning.
After all we've been throwing the word ''carbine'' around now for days. We must all know what it means?

Right?

 

[ZA_Survivalist]

When the entire east coast stops calling Oregon, "OreGONE" Ill start calling a carBEAN a car-BINE.