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You are a real getlemen pooch

Regards Lennart

There is one size gun where "gauge" is inappropriate but there is no confusion when "gauge" is used. The .410.

Methinks thou doth protest too loudly. I use "bore" all the time and prefer it.

Yes me son...arse over kettle is another

I'm restoring a 10 bore greener ,and a 16 bore Husqvarna


When I e-mailed Mr. Greener ,he referred to it as a 10 bore ..so I guess its all right.

Cover and covert in reference to grouse woods is one that I don't get...I use cover some times but mostly its just that dandy spot down by the river .

I suppose the .410 is .410 Caliber. If you want to use Gauge for it, its a 67.49 Gauge/Bore.

Maybe we should just start refering to bore sizes in millimeters...YACK!

As a Brit yes I know born on the wrong side of the pond!!! Though I can remember those engineering history lessons at College in the now very dim past about Stevenson Maudsley and IK Brunell including how Bore appertaining to the barrel diameter of a shoulder mounted sporting guns and certain metal pipes came about. And you can say it could only be the Brits who would come up with such a system and the system is based on the British Pound weight. So to make sense of it a four bore was the diameter of one of the four equal spheres of Lead that would weigh exactly one pound then so on for the number of balls in one pound for the eight ten twelve sixteen and twenty. Now that can not be the whole story because it is Brit and there where exceptions such as Swann drops the favourite food of the large bore Blunderbuss and to further complicate matters Newcastle shot and London shot where two entirely different things. It is amassing how we made things work but we did and in the words of one of the lecturers it was all done by trial effort judgement error and a lot of luck!!!

Cover and covert.

"Covert" is a derivative of the Norman French "couvert" which referred specifically to woodlands that were hunted for deer and boar. Within UK at any rate somewhere called a covert was either ancient hunting woodland or a recent plantation constructed with sport in mind.

"Cover" is quite different and refers to the brash and understory either in woods or out of them. Thus an open understory in Trickley Covert might lead the picker-up on a shoot to say "Pretty open cover in there, it won't take long to find that bird". Similarly a dense gorse and bramble thicket might produce "We'll never get all of them out, the cover is just too thick for the dogs".

Eug

Nothing wrong using Bore and Gage/Gauge when talking about shotguns.... Now about a bunch of old Girlie men playing Dress-up wearing Wool clothing and neckties While shooting in the Summer in North Carolina " Boor's"

Now I don�t know about neck ties in the summer but wearing that fine product of the Brit Hebrides seems fine to me in the winter with a neck tie. You can call it eccentric if you like but to dress smartly wearing a collar and tie to a driven shoot, silly as it may seem it is done to show respect to the birds for which you are going to end their life. Well jeans and �T� shirt is a little off the mark for a Funeral here, to truly understanding us Brits would take a lifetime of living here and without tradition we Brits would be lost because it is probably the only thing we can do well.