It's a conspiracy - check your measuring devices

[daveshoot]

I was in the cold war Army in Germany, where we had to be cooperative with our Euro allies.

We used metric for distance, but feet for elevation. A hill was x kilometers away, but the hill was yyy feet high. I don't know who thought this up; not an aviator, I would guess.

I got used to metric (you know the cool kids call it "SI" for Standard International) for everything but temperature. It just never felt 21 C out in summer when my skin said it was 70.

And I always enjoyed explaining to Germans why a 12 ga. shotgun is bigger than a 20....

 

[k0ua]

And I always enjoyed explaining to Germans why a 12 ga. shotgun is bigger than a 20...

Half of the people in the USA don't understand the why of that either!

 

[farmgirl19]

I'd bet it is more than half! I think half don't know the difference between a rifle and a shotgun.

 

[bcp]

Then you have the store clerk telling a 7mm Remington Magnum buyer they can use 7-08 Remington for a light load.



Bruce

 

[k0ua]

Then you have the store clerk telling a 7mm Remington Magnum buyer they can use 7-08 Remington for a light load.



Bruce

OMG:shocked: I hope he is wearing eye protection. A clerk sold my friend some 7MM (7x57 Mauser) for his K98K Mauser. (7.92mm Mauser or more commonly called 8x57) He "fireformed" some, and lamented the poor accuracy of the rifle.

 

[Bird]

And I always enjoyed explaining to Germans why a 12 ga. shotgun is bigger than a 20....

And did you explain the difference between 8 gauge wire and 16 gauge wire?:laughing:

 

[jinman]

Hey! Let's talk about nautical miles and radar miles. . . on 2nd thought. Let's don't.

 

[Bird]

Hey! Let's talk about nautical miles and radar miles. . . on 2nd thought. Let's don't.

And how many miles would that be as the crow flies?

 

[daveshoot]

And did you explain the difference between 8 gauge wire and 16 gauge wire?:laughing:

Naw, that one just doesn't make sense.

Number of balls of the bore diameter that it takes to weigh a pound is pretty intuitive stuff. Number of extrusion operations or whatever it is... that's plumb loco. Hindsight being 20/20 and all.

Or 6/6, if you happen to be metrically inclined.:laughing:

 

[crash325]

gauge size works backward - the bigger the number the thinner or smaller.
Been that way almost forever. Works fine if you understand it.

Germans made a 10 gauge shot gun. Horrible hunk of crap. Not even proof marked. A friend has 1, he will never shoot it or even get ammo for it. It was offered to me for $15, after I saw it I passed. Friend got it when the owner died.