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Originally posted by GonHuntin:
Jules

Measure across the group at the widest point and then subtract the bullet diameter from that measurement.

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Now thats how you measure a group!!
Now GonHuntin.....you must be a paper puncher??

Fireball

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Originally posted by GonHuntin:
Jules

Measure across the group at the widest point and then subtract the bullet diameter from that measurement.

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AYE Mark! That is the easier way to do what I was attempting to show: thanks! Just goes to show that flu and head colds do have an impact upon one's intellect

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Originally posted by Mike Bellm:
The question was: Will you make a 26" TC Contender barrel in either .338-378 Weatherby or .378 Weatherby?

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Mike,

But the really penetrating question is "...and can I kill a deer with it?"




I hear you Mike, and I can sympathize. If you can't laugh with them [these type often do not see the humor that they so easily engender] at least keep your sanity and laugh at them

I very much appreciate what a pleasure and delight it is to deal with the intelligent, polite, informed and courteous membership of this forum, and also most of the internet auction and e-mail business I get.

Ahh, but what would we do without that 5% of our customer base that is comprised of wierdos, crackpots, dingbats, and downright ding-a-lings?

Now down here in our family horse ranch-tack-firearms business, the traffic is of a calmer more laid-back and experienced sort, the sort that typcially has something to teach me from their years of experience varmint or big game or wing shooting, though I occasionally get some increadible phone inqueries from what I affectionately refer to as "telecustomers", all indicators therein suggesting that at least that segment of the human race is selectively breeding itself for stupidity

Example I shared on another forum awhile back: One woman called me several months ago to ask if I would monogram sweaters. We are a horse ranch and gun store folks She then proceeded to ask me if I could give her the phone # of someone who did, as if an avid horse rancher, Varmint hunter and gun store owner such as myself would have a mental rolodex of such things and the number of the nearest sweater monogramer right on the tip of my tongue just for such an occasion!

At the large shop 60 miles north of here, where I worked while earning my first college degree, and where I still go and fill in for the owner during hunting season, there are way too many stories I could tell of walk-in customers that are of the "I'll never forget that one" sort, like the squalid and unclean fellow just this last week who did not understand why I really did not want to see his recently healed third degree battery acid burn [that he managed to aquire from picking up an old car battery] that he had adorning his svelt 55inch hairy gelatinous stomach .....

The other story I'll relate is of a fellow last season who surely skipped all language and speech classes throughout whatever education he had. This fellow walks up to the counter and barks out "Ah wanna Poaty Fow-Cho fo' ma Boomstick." Now after a stunned silence and seeing that the three of us behind the counter had not understood him at all (evident by our blank uncomprehending and apprehensive stares) he simply repeated himself louder "Ah wanna Poaty Fow-Cho fo' ma BOOMSTICK" and also made a slight twiddling motion with his fingers as if that would surely do the trick and clear up any possible misunderstanding.

Well, after much back and forth, we finally figured out that he was looking for a ported full-choke for his shotgun.

Ahh well... it doesn't take all kinds, but there sure ARE all kinds

[ 10-01-2002, 10:38: Message edited by: Sean HHI #7364 ]