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Sidelock
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You Brits treat your visiting American cousins well. That's another thing you do very right.
I'm Scots Irish and my kin, since the 18th centurey and have fought the British on every opportunity, but I feel more at home in London then I do in New York.
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Sidelock
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You guys have it all wrong...
With the current price of ammunition, the proper term is Gouge.
As in 'give me a box of those 410 gouges'.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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Sidelock
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We English use bores ,as opposed to our American cousins who like gauges . We go shooting wear as you hunt something we do on horse back .We have cartridge cases you have hulls . All I suppose are correct in there own way ,language changes and new terms come in to popular parlance .Traditionalists will use the terms we grew up with ,except when talking to "foreigners" who don't .
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I have read your arguments for using the term bore in lieu of gauge and as I suspected they are without merit. You are overlooking the fact that it was the British that not only pioneered the industrial revolution but brought quality control to it. One of those controls was the introduction of gauge to bring a standard of measurement to wire diameters, sheet metal and among other things shotgun bores. This in turn brought to the world a better life. I do not see the use of bore vs gauge being that of an Anglophile because it looks past the one of those peoples great contributions.
I am not only an American, I am a red necked one and I think of Kings and Queens as so much horse hockey, but I have learned if I want to do business with the rest of the world its easier doing it through a British bank like Barclays. The British lady maybe getting a bit gray, her dress a bit out of fashion, but she is still a hell of a dancer and not one to be ignored.
Its GUAGE
Last edited by pooch; 03/01/14 11:40 AM. Reason: syntex
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Try to do a "search" in British auction catalogs for gauge. Almost nothing except maybe a measuring tool. Try a search for bore and you get lots of hits.
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They use the term bore to hook in the Anglophile wattabes.
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Sidelock
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Look at it this way, an 870 or a Mossberg 500 is a 12 gauge and a Pape or a MacNaughton is a 12 bore.
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Gauge is an English,not an American contribution.
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Sidelock
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There seems to be a lexicon shift when the product goes from mass-produced to hand-made.
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Don, you were doing OK til here:
Its GUAGE
Call me sometime.
Mike
Tolerance: the abolition of absolutes
Consistency is the currency of credibility
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