Comments by "GunFun ZS" (@GunFunZS) on "Q&A 49, with Mike and Fabien of Bloke on the Range" video.

He wouldn't really fit in that club. These are guys with detailed specific knowledge and Lindy beige is often more of speculation based on somebody's anecdotal story of their exploits. A lot of the way Lloyd talks about firearms makes it obvious that he hasn't spent much time with them. I think he's fun but he tends to speculate. The three guys in this group are very very unjingoistic which is not a thing I can say of Lloyd. He likes to throw a little nationalistic barbs but he's thin skinned on receiving them. I think he's got a lot of good ideas and is thoughtful and is a good storyteller. His videos on Lindy etiquette are spot on. That's probably the subject mirror matter that he has the real expertise in. has a person who's done a lot of social dancing there is a lot that makes a difference between a dance go well and not. and I haven't seen Lloyd say anything that is even remotely incorrect when it comes to dance.
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Yobbo?
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Were you that excited about the video?
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@jubylives when you squealed and frightened your dog...
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Bird on the range?
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Geezer on the range? I like that the term means very different things depending on which side of the pond you are from.
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Arshin...
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@SlavicCelery Yes I know I was just pointing out that there are variants of paces and pretty much all of the old countries.
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Really depends on the gun. Also the shooter. I have found that when I took young men in their twenties who had been raised on video games but never handled real guns what they wanted was actually the recoil and the kinesthetics. They were immediately bored by summit Auto 22s or 223s in the like but they were very excited about shooting a 30-06 bolt action that was frankly unpleasant with the ammo. I'm thinking of one guy in particular but I have had this experience enough times that I recognize it as kind of a trope. For that reason when I am teaching people gun safety or taking new people shooting I try to curate the experience and have something fast something slow and various stages of recoil in each with me. I give the shooter something they have success with and then I let them shoot whatever they like after they start to achieve basic competence. I have found a 9 mm carving with a red dot to be a better starting point in general than a 10/ 22. It has enough pop to be interesting but not so much as to be unsettling. You can see where it hits if it hits a reactive target so that makes it more satisfying. Success builds on success so getting the new shooter to be aware of their own successes earlier is very helpful.
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@SlavicCelery but do you take normal steps when you're measuring things or you do you take exaggerated paces? I think that's where the difference in the systems come from. I've never seen anybody walk normally when they've decided to pace something out. Then the question also comes to normal straight for who somebody from the modern-day Netherlands an underfed peasant who is 5 ft tall? It's like Jewish cubits versus other cubits. I wonder too how much jingoism comes into it like the British foot being theoretically supposed to be based on the King's foot but it's bigger than a normal person's foot and probably bigger than the King's was. And legally defined based on barley grains. Which of course brings up grains as measurement of weight and so you end up with modern use of grains avoirdupois for measuring jewelry medicine and gunpowder.
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@SlavicCelery I've always found all of the unit systems to be pretty easy to convert through. acting superior because your country uses one system or another is just a sensible is acting superior because your country speaks one language or another or uses one currency or another. For most things I prefer metric. It's optimized for measuring with modern instruments and base 10 arithmetic. Most the older systems were base 12 or base 240 because those are easier to divide in quarters or thirds which is what you can do manually quite easily without specialized tools. It means more transactions can be done with exact change which matters when you are actually physically handing across currency rather than writing a check or having an electronic blip tally a fractional transfer. I also like using what I guess you could call the machinists version of imperial. So that's imperial units in decimal notation.
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@SlavicCelery I think of them as a descriptive language system.
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