Want to lose a finger?

One of the pics I captured from the 500mag
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I love those monsters. I still don't understand the "why!?" but have shot one and a 460 and loved both, would never own either but loved shooting them all the same.
 
I normally don't play grammar police, but what is it these days with "loose" being written when "lose" is the intended word? This error wasn't at all common five years ago, it seems, but it's everywhere today.

"loose" rhymes with "moose"; "lose" rhymes with "snooze." I've even seen this error in newspapers - so much for having an editor.

Ok, minor rant off.

Nice picture, and yes, a good warning to keep those fingers safe.

Loose can mean detach also so if you do not want to detach or loose a finger you don't put it in front of the cylinder gap of a revolver.
 
Loose can mean detach also so if you do not want to detach or loose a finger you don't put it in front of the cylinder gap of a revolver.

When you lose the hounds, different things happen than if you loose them!

Loose is 'it does not fit tightly'.
Lose, is 'it can't be found'.

Maybe we should just dumb it down to spelling it "Looze". Maybe "Lewz". Yeah. It's a peeve. Read what is written, and then it stops making sense because the writer put in the wrong word, and changed the meaning completely.

I've got a pretty good grasp of the English language, and 'detach' seems inappropriate for "loose". Contextual issues, I guess, and as definitions go, it'd be pretty sketchy to use it without the proper context. "Release" or "let go" fits better than "detach", but it would have to be in the proper context. But whatever.

"Whenever I comfort a grammar Nazi, I pat them on the back and say "There, their, they're!" :)

Cheers
Trev
 
Damage from muzzle blast

On a similar note, on the topic of how powerful the gas blast from firearms is; Mind you these are modern smokeless firearms, but I think it's still relevant.

I just thought of a video I did some time back on muzzle blast and how fast the gas expands directly upwards and sideways when it exits the barrel. Keeping in mind the pressure at the cylinder gap would be significantly higher, have a look at these. The cans and cardboard boxes are empty, the muzzle blast is what does all the damage:


And here's a black powder revolver shot at 1200 frames/second again. In the last frame the cylinder gap blast comes out about 8 inches in one frame or 1/1200s, for an average velocity of 800fps over that length of time. FWIW.


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When you lose the hounds, different things happen than if you loose them!

Loose is 'it does not fit tightly'.
Lose, is 'it can't be found'.

Maybe we should just dumb it down to spelling it "Looze". Maybe "Lewz". Yeah. It's a peeve. Read what is written, and then it stops making sense because the writer put in the wrong word, and changed the meaning completely.

I've got a pretty good grasp of the English language, and 'detach' seems inappropriate for "loose". Contextual issues, I guess, and as definitions go, it'd be pretty sketchy to use it without the proper context. "Release" or "let go" fits better than "detach", but it would have to be in the proper context. But whatever.

"Whenever I comfort a grammar Nazi, I pat them on the back and say "There, their, they're!" :)

Cheers
Trev

How about de-gloved?
A medical term, I kid you not. ;)
 
How about de-gloved?
A medical term, I kid you not. ;)

I know it well from and unhappy childhood accident involving stripping my toe off the bone.

Yeah. Painful just thinking about that. <shudder>. Ugh.

The Doc took a chance and sewed mine back around the bone and it healed well enough, but it was a long summer!

Cheers
Trev
 
Longknife

The period ads show a Colt 'Militiaman' shooting a revolving rifle in the appropriate manner - left had under the trigger guard, assuming a right handed shooter.
In one of the John Wayne dusters, a good ol' boy Deputy is armed with a Colt revolving rifle and there is a scene where he is shooting it with his left hand ahead of the cylinder gap.
I was hoping he'd flinch in the flick. Even though he was shooting blanks, there would be a flash.


Hollywood blanks don't even have recoil (no matter the caliber they're supposed to represent), much less a flash.
They have to simulate the smoke.
 
Loose is a woman that dates you.
Lose is when she decides to leave you for the next guy.

As long as we're into corrections"
Loose is a woman who dates you.

Who and whom seem to have disappeared from the English language some 15 years ago.
Even journalists (supposedly writers) and reporters and editors have forgotten that "that"
is for objects and animals and plants.
 
Doesn't have to be a BP revolver or a .500. A .38 target load will hurt you big time.
"...what is it these days with..." The education system sucks. They pass anybody whether they can read and write or not. Isn't a new thing either. Had a Cadet, long ago, who graduated out Grade 13. Kid wrote course reports but spelt the word 'him', h-e-m. Asked him how to spell the word and he said H-E-M, sir.
 
I've had the tip of my thumb blackened from my 586 with a 357mag round. Felt funny, but no damage other then a blackened thumb. I hold my thumb differently now, but it's because of my 500mag not the 357.
 
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