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Re: Define Guage
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:25 am
by alan108
Both of them,but the first is easier to understand,and is the one I always refer to.
Alan :)
Re: Define Guage
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:26 am
by dromia
alan108 wrote:Both of them,but the first is easier to understand,and is the one I always refer to.
Alan :)
Concur.
Re: Define Guage
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:33 am
by Robin128
Isn't the first one a function of the barrel length?
Re: Define Guage
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:42 am
by dromia
Depends how you read it, there is certainly an ambiguity there.
Re: Define Guage
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:45 am
by Robin128
"The number of equally-sized lead balls making up 1 Lb in weight which can fit in the barrel = bore/gauge."
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...making up 1 lb weight...a constraint.
Doesn't work with a shorter barrel then?
By definition, the balls do not have to be bore sized either.
:?:
Re: Define Guage
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:11 am
by Robin128
It's
not the definition I would give to the uninitiated...
http://www.basc.org.uk/en/media/shootin ... alists.cfm
Re: Define Guage
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:06 pm
by dromia
I've always liked "the smaller the number the bigger the hole".
:ugeek:
Re: Define Guage
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:31 pm
by Robin128
:lol: :lol:
The second definition would have been better understood by the media, IMHO.
Re: Define Guage
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 12:16 am
by Polchraine
The second one ...
Or to say it another way. To find out the diameter of a specific gauge, take a piece of lead 1lb in weight and divide that into a number of equal weight pieces equal to the gauge required. From one of those pieces of lead make a perfect sphere or ball. The diameter of the sphere is the diameter of the barrel that is represented by that gauge number.
The first is totally ambiguous and would depend on barrel length.
Re: Define Guage
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:10 am
by Robin128
Polchraine wrote:The second one ...
Or to say it another way. To find out the diameter of a specific gauge, take a piece of lead 1lb in weight and divide that into a number of equal weight pieces equal to the gauge required. From one of those pieces of lead make a perfect sphere or ball. The diameter of the sphere is the diameter of the barrel that is represented by that gauge number.
The first is totally ambiguous and would depend on barrel length.
That's what I said, yet BASC include it in their literature. :roll: