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

used in lieu of gauge when describing a smooth bore shotgun makes me wonder what century the folks that use those terms are living in? Are they still going to work on horse back? Dumping the night's waste in the street gutters? Is George still our King? For these are all things of the 18th century. The bore gauges to standardize the diameter of a smooth bored firearm would came along in the latter part of that century. Indoor plumbing still a century away. I doubt if anyone here owns a functioning shotgun whose bore size was not standardized by a bore gauge.
Then maybe it's just me wonking

Comb, stock, lock, butt, rib, trigger, lever, barrel, bar, bead, chamber, cone, hammer, checking, etc., etc., etc., are all parts of the gun as well and were likewise "coined" back around the time that 'bore' was coined. Should we use different terminology for those as well??

You are saying then we should all use 18th century English. Chamber and cone are 19th century about the time of gauge. What do we do with those terms?

It's definitely just you, wonking.

Like debating if it's 'whisky' or 'whiskey'.

We know what it means, so who cares?

I say ...you'll just have to deal with it,bore was around alot longer than gauge .

Then again I'm from Newfoundland I've never said ass in my life ,it's always been arse...,we use me instead of my in reference to a belonging (as in kiss me arse )...come to think of it we all sound funny up here anyways ,or so I've been told by the rest of the Country .

Come to think of it , we call a break open gun a "breech loader" (we say britch loaden gun ).

Bore ain't that bad,but then again it sounds right to me because I come from the last British colony in the new world

But this could just be me shagging around ...as Newfies are apt to do

Shagging! At least you're not just wonking...

Tits up in the rhubarb, eh b'y?!

I walk to work.

Come morning, I have a view nail to set up.....

I will make no further to do about it because this is a wonderful site and a treasure trove of good gun information so I will attempt to cause no further stress. But to me saying bore in lieu of gauge is like scrubbing ones nails across a blackboard. Perhaps it's the engineer in me or perhaps it's because I find England a lovely place to visit but not a place where I would like to live or imitate.

scotch and wanker,