Silly guys, everyone knows a rod is for fishing!
Silly guys, everyone knows a rod is for fishing!
"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson
One Sunday morning before church the wife was getting the roast ready for lunch before they left. Her parents were visiting that weekend and her mom offered to help in the kitchen. The wife got the beef roast out of the fridge, set it on the cutting board and cut both ends off, threw them in the garbage, set it in a large pan, then covered it with foil. Her mom looked at her a little funny and said, "Dear, why did you cut the ends off of the roast and throw them away?" She replied, "Because that's how I saw you get a roast ready for the oven." "Oh honey, we couldn't afford a bigger pan, so I cut the ends off to make it fit in the pan we had!"
We do things because the people before us did them. Look at some of Ben's posts - he groups at 80 yds, what's wrong with him? I think that's the available distance of his range...
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At some point it was probably the MPBR (maximum point blank range) of all rifles, on average... the range at which common cartridges/loadings had a minimum of drop/rise.
personally, its as far as i can see an average game animal(deer/elk/moose) clearly enough to identify it, and safely hit it with open sights/no binos etc... might have something to do with that originally too.
G.
"Brass?" "Check." "Lead?" "Check." "Powder? ""Check." "Primers?" "Check." "Lube? ""Check." "Good.... Gun? ......... Gun?......." "ummm.... I'm soposed to have a gun?"
I guess that we can come up with almost anything to provide an answer here regarding the 100 yard standard.
I was told by several "experts" (lol!) many years ago that the rifle manufacturers were the ones who set up the "standard" of 100 yards. They were faced with testing their rifles with the applicable ammunition for both accuracy and advertising purposes.
Allegedly, on a golf course somewhere in Massachusetts, several manufacturers got together and since they were used to playing golf; set the standard of "100 yards".
Not real sure I believe this, yet, I've heard worse stories on various topics that happened to be fact, not fiction.
BTW, the ammo manufacturers new "standard" for centerfire cartridges was established at a "4" group at 100 yards in any rifle of that caliber. If it shot into this standard, it was released as acceptable for hunting.
Just my $.02 worth.
HV
Links at the end:
A "mil" is supposed to be a "Miliradian" and being that a radian is an expresion of angular measurement that is derived by using a formula containing Pi.... an approximation has to be used.
Further when artilery adopted miliradians they used an approximation of a radian, and depending on who your are depends on which aproximation you use, it boils down to how many mils are in one full circle.
A NATO circle has 6400 IE: 1 mil = 1/6400
a mathematicians circle has 6283
Formerlly in Russia and Finland 6000
and Sweden with 6300
Finland and Sweden have either recently or will soon change to the NATO standard.
realize that in theory a "mil" is no more accurate than the MOA ( as applied by shooters) they are about close approximations, in practice it is usually good enough
and a few quick links to help illistrate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_mil
I have not had to think about that since I was involved with 3d terrestrial mapping. ( GIS)
My missus tells me that a rod is what you hang curtains from.
I cannot speak for everyone however I am an avid gun hunter from WV. Our terrain is mainly rolling hills or mountains as some call them (nothing compared to Rockies). But none the less I have always chosen to sight my rifles in at 100yds due to the fact that with the given bullet trajectory of the 30.06 (which is what I use) I will be able to put a kill shot on a deer from 0-300 yds. Now in terms of MOA as several others mentioned previously, I know that your accuracy at 100ys is targeted towards 1 inch. Iapologize if this sounds elementary and repetitive but when firing 3 shots all 3 shots should be within that 1 inch area. Thats just how I have always come to look at it and where I kind of set the bar/ target range for myself.
1Peter 2:11
One "mil" rounded is 3.600 inches at 100 yards. Thats it. It is simple to figure. No dilly dallying around.
This is used in trajectory formulations etc. along with inches such as in the JBM trajectory program.
No need to complicate matters.
I don't know why 100 for rifles but my guess would be it's the farthest distance most would compete with 22LR and the shortest with highpower rifles on a range and it's a nice round number and a good brisk walk.
It's my understanding that gold was considered valuable from ancient times due to it's appearance, ease of workability, and corrosion resistance.
As far as diamonds go, in my opinion they are the greatest snow job of modern times. They're not rare by any means, but rather the cartel that owns 75% of the worlds diamond mines releases a very limited amount annually, creating artificial demand. When you combine that with the fact that women love them for their appearance and men as a rule are always eager to please women, you get ridiculously inflated values.
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Why 100 yards? Why not? It seems to be a common range distance. I am sure that at some point someone decided that was a good distance for some sort of competition but who knows why. I suppose I could ask this- does it matter why?
Back when we were setting this thing up, I told them that was as far as I was gong to walk to set up my target and it's been that wayever since.
Gene
Because it is half way to the chickens??
Most folks my age don't want to walk much farther than that packing anything as heavy as a staple gun.
The distance seems to make sense for rifles like the 44-40 or 38-40.
As a boy I was most impressed by the sound of it. Older hunters said "A hun'ert yards." Now don't that sound impressive.
And to add to the nonsense of measurements - An acre is a rod wide and a half mile long. Now who thunk that one up?
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