So, if you have a gun with a barrel rifled clockwise when hunting on the northern hemisphere, you surely ought to have a barrel rifled counter-clockwise when hunting south of the equator? I am sure there are a number of similar important but overlooked problems when it comes to African hunting. Any suggestions?

Regards,
Martin

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Originally posted by Marterius:
So, if you have a gun with a barrel rifled clockwise when hunting on the northern hemisphere, you surely ought to have a barrel rifled counter-clockwise when hunting south of the equator? I am sure there are a number of similar important but overlooked problems when it comes to African hunting. Any suggestions?

Regards,
Martin

Ideally you use a double rifle with counter-rotating barrels. Then you just have to remember which barrel to shoot first depending on your latitude.

That explains some of the interesting shooting I have heard about in Africa.

If you hunt right on the equator, do you need any twist at all?

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Originally posted by Wendell Reich:
That explains some of the interesting shooting I have heard about in Africa.

If you hunt right on the equator, do you need any twist at all?

You need a second set of smoothbore barrels.

Should you shoot across the equator, all bets are off.

It simply means that with the side by side one
must stand on the equator and step right and left to fire on the proper side. You could only fire in one direction with out a backup twisted in reverse.

If you shoot across the equator, the bullets stop, reverse directions and come back at you. Bob

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Originally posted by bobc:
If you shoot across the equator, the bullets stop, reverse directions and come back at you. Bob

The "Coriolis effect", has anyone witnessed the direction of rotation when flushing the toilet while south of the equator?

You are all forgeting the position of the moon. You know that the moon affects tides and bullet curve, don't you?

465H&H

Actually

Dont laugh tooooo much you guys

If you do some technical investigation you will find that a TV picture tube is manufactured slightly differently for each hemisphere

Here is a brief excerpt on the report:

The vertical component of the earth's magnetic field varies in intensity and polarity (N/S) as one moves from the North pole over the equator and to the South pole. It is maximum at the poles and decreases to zero at the equator. The total strength is not large - after all it is less than the total magnitude of the earth's magnetic field of about 0.5 Gauss (0.00005 Tesla). However, it is enough to affect the trajectory of the electron beam(s) slightly.
For monochrome monitors and B/W TVs, this will result only in a slight shift in position or rotation of the picture depending on the orientation of the CRT with respect to the earth's magnetic field. For the most part such effects will not be significant enough to be objectionable.

However, for high resolution color monitors and even some color TVs, the result of transporting the unit from the hemisphere from which it was manufactured or set up to a location in the opposite hemisphere may be uncorrectable purity problems or excessive sensitivity to local magnetic fields.

Finally //

On a lighter note when you next let the water out of your bath please check which way the water goes down the plug hole, clockwise or anti-clockwise ... it might surprise you that it differs in different locations of the world

Peter

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If you really want to see something septic, place your toilet right on the equator and flush it!!!!!!

Try and figure out those swirls!!!

Mauser Rifle

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Originally posted by Mauser Rifle:
If you really want to see something septic, place your toilet right on the equator and flush it!!!!!!

I packed a lot of stuff, but I draw the line at taking a toilet with me, not to mention all of the pipe.

Finaly something light!

That explains, of course, why revolutionary groups south of the equator are usually referred to as counter-revolutionary!
S.

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Originally posted by Seq:
That explains, of course, why revolutionary groups south of the equator are usually referred to as counter-revolutionary!
S.

DOH!

Ok but what happen if you shoot a southern hemisphere flushing toilet with a northern hemisphere rifled barrel?

Does the crapper blow up or down?

And then what happen if you happen to be sitting on said crapper at the time of the shooting?

All interesting and thought provoking subjects I'd say.

I think we should submit it to MIT.

Jeez Louise, you old farts have got way too much idle time on your hands.

i like the double rifle idea with opposite twists in each barrel. i think the answer is to always pull both triggers at the same time. the "counter rotating" twists would offset each other and you would be ok no matter which end of the earth you were on.

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Originally posted by surestrike:
Does the crapper blow up or down?

In my admittedly limited experience, any time you shoot a crapper it blows up, not down. See Mr. Capstick's account of firing down into the "long drop" in an attempt to give the "ultimate relief" to an unwelcome snake in camp.

My barrels are rifled both left and right. I'm good for both sides of the equater.

Dave

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Originally posted by nopride2:
My barrels are rifled both left and right. I'm good for both sides of the equater.

Dave

The infamous "double helix" rifling?

I'm with Alf on this one.

Drills for dentists rotate counter-clock-wise in the Southern Hemisphere. Preperation H has a different formula to reverse the spin on turds. Rain drops are inverted with the pointed end down. You hear thunder before you see lightning. Cats chase dogs. You can spit into the wind. Scotch doesn't give hangovers. Pretty women like fat guys and size doesn't matter. All snow flakes are alike. Male dogs pee with the left leg up, vice the right. Christmas lights blink off/on instead of on/off. The loud part of a snore is the exhale, not the inhale. Fish swim in universities instead of schools. Door knobs open with a turn to the left v. the right. And if you have an outboard, woe to you if the prop turns the as if it's up north... you'll go backwards! Coffee filters must be inserted inside out or you just get Major Grey's tea.. and I could go on....

There are differences in East and Western Hemispheres, too. Remember that Japanese women have sideways parts.... or that's what they told me when I got deployed to Iwakuni... but it was usually to dark to tell.

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Originally posted by JudgeG:

There are differences in East and Western Hemispheres, too. Remember that Japanese women have sideways parts.... or that's what they told me when I got deployed to Iwakuni... but it was usually to dark to tell.

JudgeG

You know I always did wonder about the sidways crack /// glad you proved it was true ..

Just to uplift the tenure of this thread

Did you know that the Irish have windscreen wipers on the inside of their auto windows, as when they drive along they sometimes like to mimic the roar of the engine, like kids do, Brrrrrrrmmmmmm Brrrrrrrmmmm and that can sometimes result in them spitting and messing up the inside of the glass

Peter

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Originally posted by Balla Balla:

JudgeG

You know I always did wonder about the sidways crack ///

Peter

Peter, it all depends on how you look at it!

Mr. M,
Important? Maybe you need to come out of retirement and get a full time job!

Well that solves it for me....no more rifles taken with me to africa....just a smooth bore 12 ga with slugs...HA

I am glad you take this problem so serious!

Seq, that counter-revolutionary comment really cracked me up, ten points!

Mr A, It is because I have a fulltime job I need these distractions!

Regards,
Martin