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2018-07-09 19:39:25 UTC  

Don't own guns sadly(poor ass boi this side) but if your into a "rifle on the outside but shotgun on the inside thing" you do you

2018-07-09 20:34:51 UTC  

looks pretty kewwwl

2018-07-09 21:50:48 UTC  

Bring back 8 gauge

2018-07-09 21:50:59 UTC  

Or just generally popularize 10 gauge again

2018-07-09 21:51:23 UTC  

there's a shotgun that's 8 guage?

2018-07-09 21:51:31 UTC  

oh and hi @Somi

2018-07-09 21:52:04 UTC  

There's shotguns that are less than 1 gauge.

2018-07-09 21:52:19 UTC  

Bigger than

2018-07-09 21:52:24 UTC  

can someone explain to mean what "gauges" mean in shothuns?

2018-07-09 21:52:24 UTC  

Whatver, punt guns

2018-07-09 21:52:33 UTC  

why is 20 smaller than 12?

2018-07-09 21:52:42 UTC  

How many balls of lead you can make the diameter of the barrel from a pound of lead.

2018-07-09 21:52:48 UTC  

It's the same measurement as 'bore' for rifles.

2018-07-09 21:53:18 UTC  

So if you take a pound of lead, you can make 20 perfect spheres of 20 gauge diameter, but only 12 spheres for 12 gauge diameter, 8 for 8 gauge, and so on.

2018-07-09 21:53:22 UTC  
2018-07-09 21:54:29 UTC  

that makes now thanks alot @Somi

2018-07-09 21:54:42 UTC  

I've been wondering what that meant for a while

2018-07-09 21:54:55 UTC  

It's a bit counter intuitive until you've been explained how it works.

2018-07-09 21:55:12 UTC  

's back from the time of muzzle loading and casting your own bullets and such.

2018-07-09 21:55:40 UTC  

I highly recommend a series on YT called 'Shotguns 101'

2018-07-09 21:56:00 UTC  

By Synchronizor.

2018-07-09 21:56:26 UTC  

If it was just the bore diamater, it would have made way more sense

2018-07-09 21:56:39 UTC  

That's only the case with the smallest shotgun shell, .410.

2018-07-09 21:56:48 UTC  

Which is, as you might imagine, .410 in diameter.

2018-07-09 21:56:57 UTC  

how many gauges is that?

2018-07-09 21:57:33 UTC  

67 gauge.

2018-07-09 21:57:42 UTC  

jesus

2018-07-09 21:58:02 UTC  

The thing about shotgun shells is that not just the gauge but also the shell length matters

2018-07-09 21:58:42 UTC  

Loading a 3" shell into a gun that only supports a 2 3/4" shell is begging for long term, or even short term, problems.

2018-07-09 21:59:05 UTC  

(Vice versa is just fine)

2018-07-09 21:59:15 UTC  

@Somi did you stop being a patron?

2018-07-09 21:59:19 UTC  

No?

2018-07-09 21:59:49 UTC  

In fact, I upgraded from a custom 2.5 to 5 dollars a month to access the first tier of Sargon's patreon rooms on Athens.

2018-07-09 22:20:27 UTC  

I'd donate, but I have a few people I'm not donating to that I kinda wanna prioritise before donating to sargon.

2018-07-09 22:39:44 UTC  

Very educational on the gages @Somi

2018-07-09 22:43:45 UTC  

I'll admit while I knew somewhat, how the guage system worked I did learn something today

2018-07-09 22:44:06 UTC  

but then it took me ages to learn what "calibers" meant when referring to gun lenght