For crying out loud!

[MartynB]

Calling cylinders "bottles" or "tanks" rattles me for some reason...

My next door neighbour dives and calls them 'tanks'

[Big Seth]

My next door neighbour dives and calls them 'tanks'

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

[Shootfish]

And what about those BSA Lightenings? Seen many of those for sale!

[sherlock1963]

Beach stock and piston sleave.

Unnecessary posts in sales threads. 'I would of brought that if you was closer'

[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

[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.

[Terry D]

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

I refer the honourable member to the answer I gave some time ago. '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'.'

If the POI changes due to some fault in the rifle, then that rifle is no longer consistently accurate, cannot be relied upon to do its job, and would never be described by me as 'accurate'.

I hope that clarifies my stance on what contitutes an 'accurate' rifle.