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MasterCaneman -> RE: The dreaded 30 magazine clip (1/23/2014 8:57:52 AM)
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ORIGINAL: BamaD
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I looked up the .12 gauge shotguns and there were 5 sites that even had pictures of them.
I Googled up 8 lb cannon, and it seems that was Napoleon's artillery of choice - about a 106mm in today's calculations.
Of course, we do have the .410 guage, which throws a wrench into the process, and kicks the whole question of where a .12 guage would be into a good argument topic, over cold beer on a hot afternoon.
Go back to asshat in the original video, and we are dealing with someone who doesn't know the difference between a cartridge and a caliber
That would make it about a forth the size of a .410 couldn't possibly fire anything bigger than no 8 shot, that would
likely be the slugs.
or a recoilless rifle? kinda hard to lug around.
In light of the .410 which is, of course the barrel diameter and thus actually a caliber not a guage, I have to withdraw my previous comment to Master Caneman
The .410 used to called 36 gauge, and I was wrong in my definition of shotgun gauges before. From the Wikipedia...
"The gauge of a firearm is a unit of measurement used to express the diameter of the barrel. Gauge is determined from the weight of a solid sphere of lead that will fit the bore of the firearm, and is expressed as the multiplicative inverse of the sphere's weight as a fraction of a pound (e.g., a 1⁄12th pound ball fits a 12-gauge bore). Thus there are twelve 12-gauge balls per pound (etc.). The term is related to the measurement of cannon, which were also measured by the weight of their iron round shot; an 8 pounder would fire an 8 lb (3.6 kg) spherical cast iron ball and had a bore diameter of about 91 mm (3.6 in)."
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