What are your firearms related pet peeve’s?

[solv3nt]

I say it the "educated" way.

That rifle can drive tacks.

Wrong, I jam tacks in with it.

 

[GrayGoose]

I say it the "educated" way.

That rifle can drive tacks.

Drive tacks the rifle can.

 

[solv3nt]

Drive tacks the rifle can.

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The suppressor has nothing to do with it. I use the rifle to pound tacks in.

 

[Tlock]

Wrong, I jam tacks in with it.

But can it shot a tick off a deers arss?

 

[solv3nt]

But can it shot a tick off a deers arss?

It'll pound a thumb tack in like a hammer.

 

[orygun]

But can it shot a tick off a deers arss?

skin the hair off of a frog.

 

[TTSX]

Shoot the balls off a flea

 

[solv3nt]

Shoot the balls off a flea

Gnats off of a donkey?

 

[TTSX]

Gnats off of a donkey?

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[Explorer1]

Folks that use incorrect terminology then protest being educated. Caliber is simply the BORE size, NOT what the chambering is.

 

[CamoDeafie]

Folks that use incorrect terminology then protest being educated. Caliber is simply the BORE size, NOT what the chambering is.

Its also how long a barrel is by how many bores.. usually in big guns and cannons thats why you see something like 5 inch, 70 calibers (70×5)

 

[CamoDeafie]

Imagine how confused people would get if someone stamped this

CALIBER 5.56, 89.67 CALIBERS on barrels (20 inch)

Or "5.56/90" (rounded up)

 

[TTSX]

Folks that use incorrect terminology then protest being educated. Caliber is simply the BORE size, NOT what the chambering is.

That's where you get to see dunning kruger in effect

 

[CLT65]

Folks that use incorrect terminology then protest being educated. Caliber is simply the BORE size, NOT what the chambering is.

That one really doesn't bother me. "Caliber" can mean different things. The technically accepted meaning, as it applies to firearms, is bore diameter, but the more generally accepted meaning is the cartridge chambering.

It's so much easier to ask "What caliber?" than "For what cartridge is it chambered?"

I'm often guilty of using "caliber" to reference the cartridge, but then I also sometimes call a pistol magazine a "clip".

It's not ignorance or a lack of education; it's mostly just habit, with maybe some laziness as well...

 

[TTSX]

That one really doesn't bother me. "Caliber" can mean different things. The technically accepted meaning, as it applies to firearms, is bore diameter, but the more generally accepted meaning is the cartridge chambering.

It's so much easier to ask "What caliber?" than "For what cartridge is it chambered?"

I'm often guilty of using "caliber" to reference the cartridge, but then I also sometimes call a pistol magazine a "clip".

It's not ignorance or a lack of education; it's mostly just habit, with maybe some laziness as well...

I love telling people the bullet diameter when they ask what caliber my gun is

"What's the caliber?"
.355
"Oh wow! Is that a new bullet?"
No, you already own many

Visible confusion

 

[lucusloc]

Folks that use incorrect terminology then protest being educated. Caliber is simply the BORE size, NOT what the chambering is.

I had this argument years ago. I lost due to the nature of language; too many people using the common vernacular. Now even professional companies are doing it.

It is the same damn thing wit "magazine" and "clip." Despite the fact that they are very different things they still get used interchangeably, so now even retailers are starting to pick it up. One people have an official reinforcement the trend will accelerate and before long no one is going to know how to talk about old guns that use both mags and clips.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Personally I could give a F about semantics. If I understand them that's all I care about (pistol/revolver, clip/magazine, suppressor/silencer I only care what they mean not if they have the technically correct term). If they are idiot politicians that's a whole different story.

 

[CamoDeafie]

Language evolves and change over time. This goes for firearms too

 

[357 MAX]

Clip is easier to say than magazine,,,,,,,,unless you say Mag.

 

[orygun]

Clip is easier to say than magazine,,,,,,,,unless you say Mag.

It used to be that clip was a term to specify a removable magazine, as opposed to a tube type that was not removeable.
That word was used in many manufacturer's literature.