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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

And only some of the bullets.

[-] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Some of them we disguise the metric cause it's anathema to us, 30 aught 6 for instance.

Look at what we've done just to not have to refer to millimeters!

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

30-06 is a 30 cal bullet which should be 300 thou but is really 308 thousandths of an inch and is commonly designated a 7.62 mm NATO which it isn't because that's measured at the inside of the lands, so its actually 7.82mm.

Simple.

[-] w2tpmf@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

7.62 NATO isn't the same thing as 30-06. 7.62 NATO refers to a specific cartridge, not the bullet projectile itself. It's the same as .308 Winchester. 7.62x51mm.

30-06 is 7.62x63mm

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[-] w2tpmf@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

I did not expect that response when I saw a notification. I'm so used to the old place where dropping insightfull info is met with arguments.

๐Ÿ˜€

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'll try to be more combative in the future.

Let me get my AR10, brb.

[-] w2tpmf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

That's the spirit.

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Now I'm thinking about that copy-pasta about the military guy.

[-] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not too get to off topic, but the wildest shit to me is that with a 308 I can buy 7.62 ammunition that was made by Greece during WW2 and recently discovered in a sealed bunker and just straight up shoot with it like no time has passed.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think it started for the same reason we have metric tools; foreign imports.

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