Break or Brake

[babaganoush]

I know this sounds picky, but the unintentional misuse of these words has been having an accumulative effect on me. It appears that people on the board have been politely ignoring the occasional misuse, and that’s fine. But for those who really don’t know the distinction, and would like to, here it is:

Brake
As a noun, brake most commonly refers to a device for slowing down or stopping the movement of a vehicle or machine. (This includes devices fastened to the muzzles of rifles). The verb brake means to slow down or stop with a brake.

Break
As a noun, break has many meanings, including a fracture, an interruption, a pause, a sudden move, an escape, and an opportunity.

The irregular verb break also has many meanings. The most common ones include to split or cut open, to make unusable, and to interrupt.

Lastly, there is the compound word, break-in, which refers to the initial period of mechanical operation during which working parts begin to function properly.

Now that that is off my chest, I think I’ll hit the brakes on this thread and go take a break.

[Allen]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one that stuff like that bothers them.

[ricsmall]

You guys need to shoot more! Lol

[NugginFutz]

You guys need to shoot more! Lol

Give it a break, Ricsmall. It appears you could stand to follow your own advice.

[explorecaves]

[ricsmall]

Give it a break, Ricsmall. It appears you could stand to follow your own advice.

Did you not notice the LOL? Thanks for the advice but I got my trigger time in this weekend.

Richard

[NugginFutz]

Did you not notice the LOL? Thanks for the advice but I got my trigger time in this weekend.

Richard

Did you not notice my play on words? Sorry, if my sense of humor was a tad dry. And yes, I got in my therapeutic trigger time in, as well.

[LR1955]

You guys done?

How did you shoot this weekend? Anyone compete?

LR1955

[ricsmall]

Yes sir, I think we got it all out. I was shooting a .458 socom from 100 to 400 yards. My cousin has the pics on his phone, I'll try and get him to send them. The gun is funny, at 100 you're about 1.25 Moa, past that out to 400 it's a little less than Moa. All this is only over two range sessions and about 150 rounds, but consistently so.

Richard

[bwaites]

Gee, with a.458 or a Beo, 1MOA means jack! When the bullets .5 MOA at 100, close is good enough!

[davidj]

I know this sounds picky, but the unintentional misuse of these words has been having an accumulative effect on me. It appears that people on the board have been politely ignoring the occasional misuse, and that’s fine. But for those who really don’t know the distinction, and would like to, here it is:

Brake
As a noun, brake most commonly refers to a device for slowing down or stopping the movement of a vehicle or machine. (This includes devices fastened to the muzzles of rifles). The verb brake means to slow down or stop with a brake.

Break
As a noun, break has many meanings, including a fracture, an interruption, a pause, a sudden move, an escape, and an opportunity.

The irregular verb break also has many meanings. The most common ones include to split or cut open, to make unusable, and to interrupt.

Lastly, there is the compound word, break-in, which refers to the initial period of mechanical operation during which working parts begin to function properly.

Now that that is off my chest, I think I’ll hit the brakes on this thread and go take a break.

You obviously weren't educated in Albuquerque.

[babaganoush]

you obviously weren't educated in albuquerque.

Yep - DNHS '73. You know - before they socialized education.

[montana]

You guys done?

How did you shoot this weekend? Anyone compete?

LR1955

My daughter and I practiced yesterday with our handguns and AR-15's till we got swarmed and stung by aggressive yellow jackets. Having a yellow jacket crawl on your face while focusing on your shot is good practice on keeping ones focus. Well that's what I told my daughter but I don't think she bought into it.

[wheelguner]

I understand! My pet peeve is calling a magazine a clip. The M1 Garand uses a clip, it's successor the M14 uses a magazine. I'm not sure why "little things" can rub us the wrong way. Pogo said "I have seen the enemy and he is US".

[JDub]

Just assume everyone is typing from their phone and auto-correct has taken control.

[JASmith]

Gee, with a.458 or a Beo, 1MOA means jack! When the bullets .5 MOA at 100, close is good enough!

Duh, I never thought about that!!

Cheers!

[LR1955]

Yes sir, I think we got it all out. I was shooting a .458 socom from 100 to 400 yards. My cousin has the pics on his phone, I'll try and get him to send them. The gun is funny, at 100 you're about 1.25 Moa, past that out to 400 it's a little less than Moa. All this is only over two range sessions and about 150 rounds, but consistently so.

Richard

Richard:

Did you use your quadrant sight for the 400 yard range?

I imagine you could shoot the shot, come off the rifle and look through your spotting scope and see the trace of the bullet at 400.

Don't laugh. I would do that with my Sharps 45-90 at 400 plus yards.

Neat shooting big, slow, heavy bullets at distance.

LR1955

[Whelenon]

It's what the Horde is all about, always learning or is that learned. And yes I got my trigger time in, shooting up an old 20lb propane tank hanging on a Sheppard's hook. 5.56 and 44 Mag cut hole but the 45ACP just put big ugly dents in it.

[sneaky one]

RS, is that a teaser -heavy pills and all ? Lr1955 is gonna say-wuh?

[LR1955]

Guys:

Am waiting for one of you to come up with a sort of lexicon of terms used in the marksmanship arena that we can refer someone to who is new to the equipment and shooting sports.

This would cover material, technology, and marksmanship terminology.

Any takers?

LR1955