Kingsley, "all hunters are the same people", and the idea that the linger the barrels the harder the gun will shoot is universal. The more I live, the more I'm sure that in most cases every issue that apparently is about politics, beliefs, religion, vogue, etc., etc, have a solid economic foundation. You might say that the popularity of the Beetle with the Hips is due to the fact that the Bug looked so different from their dads' Caddies and Lincolns, but reality is, that the Beetle would never have gotten so popular if it wasn't so cheap to run, didn't need to be serviced every 5000 miles, etc. The long/short skirt issue in female fashion, as in less vs. more exually provocative behavior, is linked direclty to the male to female proportion in the society. Even the 34"-barrer "vogue" is grounded in technology. Sergei Popikov, Blazer's Head of Shotgun Design, says the only reason these barrels weren't offered before is because there wasn't the new steels and barrel making methods to make the long barrels lively enough. Call me a Marxist, but in most cases dollars dictate the behaviour, ideas follow to rationalize it.
