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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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meaning of gauge and barrel of gun

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001: 01b00The size of a shortgun barrel's inner diameter nominally expressed as the number of lead balls each just fitting that diameter 01i00required to make a pound02i00.02b02br
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002: 01b00The gauge or bore is determined by the number of solid spheres of a diameter equal to the inside diameter of the barrel that could be made from a pound of lead.02b00 (according to wikipedia)02br
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0For a 01b0012-gauge02b00 shotgun: if a pound of lead (Pb) were melted down and formed into 01b00twelve02b00 identical lead spheres, the spheres would have a diameter equal to the diameter of the inside of the gun barrel.0-
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01cite10Mister Micawber12cite10For a 11b1012-gauge12b10 shotgun: if a pound of lead (Pb) were melted down and formed into 11b10twelve12b10 identical lead spheres, the spheres would have a diameter equal to the diameter of the inside of the gun barrel.12br
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0Not according to the definitions given; the gauge designation is generated merely by how many spheres can be created of the given diameter. It states nothing about volume-- after all, a pound of lead has the same volume for all gauges.0-
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0OK, I've got it: all those spheres can be created from the pound of lead, but they aren't all supposed to be to be contained by the barrel at the same time, thus gauge is a measure of the diameter indeed, and not of the total interior volume of the barrel05002br
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