Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Garand Thumb"
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@GarandThumb not objective enough. the bullet doesn't care if the gun has a stock or not. it doesn't even know what it's being fired out of.
These classifications are arbitrary, and pointless.
For me, only things like "smoothbore" or "rifled" matter, as they truly affect things. Putting a bullet for a rifled barrel down a smoothbore gun is not going to work so well. But pistols are typically "rifled" too, but not always, and not originally. And even the idea of a "rifle" as we think of it today would include things like a "musket", as the term "rifle" has come to generically describe a form factor more so than the barrel itself. Not everything with a rifled barrel is considered a "rifle".
A 22LR, 9mm, .500 Nitro Express, 500 S&W, 50 Beowulf, 50 AE, etc. all look a lot alike. What makes some "rifle" rounds, and others "pistol" rounds? Do they not all fire from rifled barrels? Can they not all be fired from a short pistol length barrel, or a long "rifle" length barrel?
If a caliber were originally designed for a handgun, but ended up being used almost exclusively in "rifles" (so much so most people had no idea there were any pistols that fired it), would it still be a pistol round?
I deal with this nonsense in my day job as an engineer constantly. Everyone needlessly trying to over classify things with arbitrary definitions, and all they do is serve to confuse everyone for no beneficial reason.
Gov LOVES overclassifying things, as it enables them to skirt the laws and ban things and get away with stuff they shouldn't have been able to.
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@AdventureswithaaronB yes. depending upon fat stores in your body. one man who was obese (weighted hundreds of lbs) went 387 days without food with no ill effects. he lost a Lot of weight though. Another 21yr old girl went 40 days without food and died shortly after ending her fast. but she lacked the body mass to go more than about 20days without food before suffering ill effect. Her body started consuming muscle mass (autophagy), including her heart, and she died as a result of it (basically heart attack).
The Average person can go 3wks. About 20-40days. Some can go more, some can't do that much (too skinny, unhealthily skinny). Many people these days can likely go much longer since they are overweight or obese to some degree.
The first 72hrs of not eating are the hardest as chemical signals in your brain telling you you're hungry dissipate. After that you'll have no hunger, only thirst. But eventually your body will start giving you hunger signals again. Do not ignore those signals and eat something immediately. Learn to listen to your body, it will tell you what you need and when.
My general rule of thumb is what is the normal healthy weight for your size and age? for every 1.5lb over that you can go ~1 day without food, as your body tends to use 1-2lbs of body weight per day as energy, depending upon exertion. You body consumes fat stores and damaged cells first, and will switch into a "famine" mode after the first ~3 days of not eating. strive to avoid dropping much below the range of normal body weight to avoid the issues that 21yr old woman suffered. Someone who is "fit" but has really low body fat, may not be able to go as long at a given body weight as someone with less muscle but higher body fat %, at the same initial body weight and size. At the very least they will lose some of their muscle mass.
You still need to hydrate, and you can consume salts to replace lost minerals throughout a fast or period of not eating, which is where those liquid IVs and other drink mixes, gatorade and powerade can be crucial.
But you need to figure out what works for you. Everyone is different and can tolerate different amounts, and at different levels of exertion. there is nothing exact about this, and I can't guarantee anything. I did my on research and experimenting over teh years, and you should do some research of your own rather than trusting my word.
Personally, I regularly do 1-2 day fasts, and try to do a 3-7 day fast as often as once a month. I actually started studying the whole idea behind fasting based upon my experiences in combat, as well as studying local cultures such as fasting during Ramadan (many religions have such fasting rituals in fact).
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