doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Am I the only one here that seeing the term bore

I guess I have been a bore but I've enjoyed this little exercise and I look at things a bit differently now. I still believe guns that have gone though a proof house should logically be called gauge as in 12ga. However when a barrel has been bored out to where it is no longer in proof because of the extent of the over bore, but still is chambered for a 12ga cartridge then it would logically be called 12 bore. A gun like the Mossberg 835 which is chambered for a 12ga cartridge but has a 10ga bore so as to shoot the 3 � 12ga cartridge would rightfully called a 12 bore, as would a number of other over bored guns.

You guys need to go shooting!
Regards,
Jeff

I cant believe no one made a comment about the other terminology question of gun technicana:
Whats the difference between a screwdriver and a turnscrew;?
About 80 dollars.

This is how inane some of these conversations can be.

Pooch, you must be some kind of crazy person.

Aaahh.......why is this important?....with all the great info we get here from guys who know what they are talking about.....we have a debate about nomenclature. Does this really matter...and more important , was this not answered in the early post. Thanks Brian and others who, no doubt , are cratching there heads on this one.....

No it doesn't matter, but something was bugging me that I could not figure. It wasn't bore at all it was something in the past. Now that I know what it was, it's put away.

One more point for this discussion - I usually see bore used when the gun is from Europe, and England in particular. Whether used correctly or not, my perception is that the term is more likely to be used when the individual is a bit pretentious.

One exception is the 8ga. I see 8 bore used more frequently than 8ga. This final point is important. I don't want BM thinking I said he is pretentious.