For crying out loud!

[MartynB]

Does he call his fins "flippers".Amateur oldgrin:

Wouldn't know, subject came up when I saw him struggling gettting his kit out the car and offered him a sack barrow previous owner of house had left, he turned it down

[ballisticboy]

Describing a rifle as accurate when it gives a small group size. That is dispersion and nothing to do with accuracy no matter how often it has been printed as such.

[Terry D]

Describing a rifle as accurate when it gives a small group size. That is dispersion and nothing to do with accuracy no matter how often it has been printed as such.

If a rifle consistency puts its pellets exactly where I've aimed them, and thus produces a small group at the ranges I need - I'm calling that rifle 'accurate'. More importantly by far, the people I'm writing for have the same working definition of 'accurate' as I do. In the real world, a rifle that can be relied upon to group its pellets consistently throughout its intended range will be known as an accurate rifle.

Accurate is as accurate does.

[Peter Dunkley]

My latest hate is LENSE. No idea where it comes from.

[bighit]

My latest hate is LENSE. No idea where it comes from.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/lense

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/lense

[angrybear]

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/lense

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/lense

The quality of both sites can be seen by their examples
one uses "lenses" - the correct multiple, the other lists as "lens" - by type the correct singular spelling.

[Zomboid]

Certificates but spoken as "cesstificate".

[Turnup]

If a rifle consistency puts its pellets exactly where I've aimed them, and thus produces a small group at the ranges I need - I'm calling that rifle 'accurate'. More importantly by far, the people I'm writing for have the same working definition of 'accurate' as I do. In the real world, a rifle that can be relied upon to group its pellets consistently throughout its intended range will be known as an accurate rifle.

Accurate is as accurate does.

A rifle which puts a tiny group at (say) one corner of the target (when intending to hit the centre) is precise but not accurate.

A rifle which spreads shots evenly all over the target, but with the group centre at the centre of the target is accurate but not precise.

Marksmen seek to achieve both accuracy and precision.

[Geezer]

Describing a rifle as accurate when it gives a small group size. That is dispersion and nothing to do with accuracy no matter how often it has been printed as such.

If a rifle consistency puts its pellets exactly where I've aimed them, and thus produces a small group at the ranges I need - I'm calling that rifle 'accurate'. More importantly by far, the people I'm writing for have the same working definition of 'accurate' as I do. In the real world, a rifle that can be relied upon to group its pellets consistently throughout its intended range will be known as an accurate rifle.

Accurate is as accurate does.

You are both right.

[ballisticboy]

If a rifle consistency puts its pellets exactly where I've aimed them, and thus produces a small group at the ranges I need - I'm calling that rifle 'accurate'. More importantly by far, the people I'm writing for have the same working definition of 'accurate' as I do. In the real world, a rifle that can be relied upon to group its pellets consistently throughout its intended range will be known as an accurate rifle.

Accurate is as accurate does.

But what if that rifle consistently puts its pellets in a small group somewhere you are not aiming at, is it still accurate?

[snock]

But what if that rifle consistently puts its pellets in a small group somewhere you are not aiming at, is it still accurate?

Yes. Your sights are off, but the rifle will be consistent.

[JustinThyme]

Chimleys and windowscreen wipers

[SuffolkRifle]

Beach wood (unless referring to driftwood)
Though to be honest, most of the inappropriate/wrong words are down to 'auto-correct' on modern telephonic devices

[C.V]

Chimleys and windowscreen wipers

Skelingtons!!

[Shed tuner]

Yes. Your sights are off, but the rifle will be consistent.

What if the "zero" moves around - rifle fault, not a scope fault ? So it shoots a nice 5mm group centred on the centre of the crosshairs one day, then the next it's another 5mm group but centred 1" high, then the following day it's 1" left, etc...

Is it still an "accurate" ?

A practical example of this might be a temp sensitive gun, where day to day temp variations might push the POI arround.. but on each day it still groups very tightly ? Accurate ? Not really...