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I hate it when guys say the rifle is in "high condition" good, great, excellent, mint, perfect are all cool but I can't stand "high" not sure why.
 
Eagleye said:
I am of Scandinavian descent, and while Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are closely related, the Finnish Language is from a different base tongue.

That being said, I have several close friends who are Finns, and they all concur: "Sawco" or "Socko" is the correct pronunciation..

Regards, Dave.
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my 98 year old Mother is 100% pure Finnlander. She's having her afternoon nap at the moment. As soon as she wakes up, I'll ask her how she would pronounce this word Sako. She has probably never seen it or said it or heard it said before, but will see what happens.


EDIT: well, well, well! She said Sawko, I don't believe it! So, I guess my A7 is going to be known as a Sawko for now on!
 
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stubblejumper said:
How about the gun that shoots lights out? How many of those people do you suppose have actually used the gun to shoot lights out?
Of course the most miss used terms have to be using caliber in place of cartridge, or bullets instead of loaded rounds. I have taken advantage of the situation. When someone asked me how many bullets the magazine on my rifle would hold. I told him 50, so he immediately told me that it wasn't possible. I bet him $20 that the magazine would hold 50 bullets, and once the bet was made, I took a box of 50 bullets, opened the floorplate , dumped all 50 into the magazine, and closed the floorplate. He did argue at first, but he did pay up.
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indeed it is! It bothers me more now than it had in the past!
 
This is defiantly one of the most entertaining threads I've seen in a while! :)

As long as we're pulling tiny thorns out of our asses...why do so many guys, usually "operator" type guys, "run" their gear? They don't just shoot their guns, or use their scopes...they "run" a DDMk5.69Z2X67, often a Gen 2, in 7.62Nato or .300Blackout with a Blitzenhaufergeschlagen FFP 4.5-27x68mm in a set of Killpopper Xtra-Hi 34mm 9-screw titanium-alloy offset QD Picatinny rings. They're usually shooting, er, "running" this stuff at a 50-yard indoor range behind a gun shop in the suburbs...while wearing body armour. :)
 
jjohnwm said:
This is defiantly one of the most entertaining threads I've seen in a while! :)

As long as we're pulling tiny thorns out of our asses...why do so many guys, usually "operator" type guys, "run" their gear? They don't just shoot their guns, or use their scopes...they "run" a DDMk5.69Z2X67, often a Gen 2, in 7.62Nato or .300Blackout with a Blitzenhaufergeschlagen FFP 4.5-27x68mm in a set of Killpopper Xtra-Hi 34mm 9-screw titanium-alloy offset QD Picatinny rings. They're usually shooting, er, "running" this stuff at a 50-yard indoor range behind a gun shop in the suburbs...while wearing body armour. :)
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OH MY LORD!! I could comment why, but the ensuing Chit storm would wipe out everyone except Chuck Norris- who does not RUN anything , BTW, he TELLS his equipment what to do and it runs itself!!
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SuperCub said:
I like it when they refer to their unfired 870 Door Smasher on the EE as a "BUILD".
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There seems to be more and more of those craptical builds for sale on the EE. I guess that once someone builds them, and they realize just how useless they are, they may as well sell them, and try and get some of their wasted money back.:)
 
stubblejumper said:
There seems to be more and more of those craptical builds for sale on the EE. I guess that once someone builds them, and they realize just how useless they are, they may as well sell them, and try and get some of their wasted money back.:)
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The guys who "build" these abominations have just made the critical step from Lego to items usually reserved for grownups....go easy on them....:)
 
SuperCub said:
Food for thought.

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They only put the word "clip" there because there wasn't room for "magazine" & all the other stuff they had to put on it! :p

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two-dogs said:
my 98 year old Mother is 100% pure Finnlander. She's having her afternoon nap at the moment. As soon as she wakes up, I'll ask her how she would pronounce this word Sako. She has probably never seen it or said it or heard it said before, but will see what happens.


EDIT: well, well, well! She said Sawko, I don't believe it! So, I guess my A7 is going to be known as a Sawko for now on!
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Some people pronounce amen as "a men", some pronounce it "ah men"... both are acceptable.

I'll accept either Sako or Sawko... that one doesn't bother me... The common English pronouncement is Sako, those with a Scandinavian background is Sawko...
 
"Piece of kit".........always makes me think "piece of sh*t". So if you're selling something, never call it a "piece of kit". And since we can't tell on our screen whether you're British or in the military, it makes you sound like a moron, even if the 700 Police you're selling comes with a free can of Krylon to cover the parts you missed..
 
two-dogs said:
my 98 year old Mother is 100% pure Finnlander. She's having her afternoon nap at the moment. As soon as she wakes up, I'll ask her how she would pronounce this word Sako. She has probably never seen it or said it or heard it said before, but will see what happens.


EDIT: well, well, well! She said Sawko, I don't believe it! So, I guess my A7 is going to be known as a Sawko for now on!
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I think mama is right. I recently saw in a different thread a factory tour for sako. And it was a finlandian reporter. And when he said it, he too said sawko. As did the gun who worked their.
 
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