destructdisc@lemmy.world to Shit Americans Say@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoKilograms, used only for drugs and nothing else.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up1180arrow-down110
arrow-up1170arrow-down1imageKilograms, used only for drugs and nothing else.lemmy.worlddestructdisc@lemmy.world to Shit Americans Say@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square28linkfedilink
minus-squarePyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agoWe only measure some calibers in metric. Some we measure in decimals of an inch: .380, .357, .223, .308, .50 BMG. And the really fun ones have both the caliber and powder charge as one name: 45-70, 30-30, etc.
minus-squareFrostbeard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-23 months agoAnd because fuck you shotguns use gauge. A unit so mindbogglingly archaic it gives me an anurism. And then the British starts with fucking weight for their pieces…
We only measure some calibers in metric. Some we measure in decimals of an inch: .380, .357, .223, .308, .50 BMG.
And the really fun ones have both the caliber and powder charge as one name: 45-70, 30-30, etc.
And because fuck you shotguns use gauge. A unit so mindbogglingly archaic it gives me an anurism. And then the British starts with fucking weight for their pieces…