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How about powders? I assume that the four-digits are spoken as (for example) forty-eight thirty-one and the three-digits as (for example) three-eighty. Anyone do it differently? My hunting partner, while adhering to the above for the most part, insists on calling 414, four-one-four.
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I'm a forty eight thirty one and four fourteen sort of guy as far as pronunciation goes.
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Another for the forty-eight thirty-one and four-fourteen.
2400 = twenty-four hundred
700X = seven hundred X
800x = eight hundred X
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What? Nobody pronounces the letters, as in "I Mister"?
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What it says on the cannister: "Savutonta Ruutia VihtaVuori N 140".
What I call it: "Vee Vee one forty".
What I write: "VV-140".
My friend uses it in his "seven oh eight".
I use "Vee Vee one sixty in my six millimeter remington".
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What? Nobody pronounces the letters, as in "I Mister"? Okay, I'm thick as a brick. I don't get it.
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IMR powders. Following the them of four fourteen it would be 'I Mister'
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Our God reigns.
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A guy went into a local store and actually asked for some I Mister 4350. That's how I heard about it....
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Probably the same guy that had the hardest time cutting the 59th grain of his 58.5 grain 30-06 load. Hard to get that last grain cut exactly in half.
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I don't have a cutter on my scoop.
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A guy went into a local store and actually asked for some I Mister 4350. That's how I heard about it.... Had I heard him order that my eyes would have misted up! Bear
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Being Canadian and having to learn french in school I had always assumed that Varget was pronouced Var-gay until I realized it was likely made to rhyme with target.
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I prefer to pronounce it with a soft 'g' sound that's a bit slurred(?). Sort of like Var-jhay.
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I prefer to pronounce it with a soft 'g' sound that's a bit slurred(?). Sort of like Var-jhay. Yeah, perhaps that's the way I should be saying it as well. You must have a little french in your bloodlines. Aren't I-Mister powders made in Quebec? Perhaps they should be making Varghay there... flagship of the I-M Extremely difficult to pronouce series.
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Ran into a guy at the range the other day who pronounced it var-GET. I said, "you mean VARget?" He seemed a little confused. Sako is another one I hear that bugs me. Socko? No it's Seiko.
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Valmet = VAHL-m't in Finland Sako = SAH-ko in Finland (SAY-ko was Bob Modisette's SAECO, Santa Anita Engineering Company, in California � manufacturer of self-sealing gas tanks for WW2 aircraft and high-quality handloading gear.) Lapua = LAHP-wah in Finland Vihtavouri = (I don't know! My guess VEE-tah-VOO-ree) Husqvarna = hoos-KWAH-nah in Sweden Swarovski = swah-RAHF-skee in Austria Voere = (I don't have a clue! Former German company renamed after founders VOEtter and REstle in Austria. My guess VOH-ree.) Neidner = NIGH-dner (spelled NEIdner in his ads and on his work) Whelen = HWAY-len (spelled WhelEN in his signature) Other pronunciations abound in Redneck. 
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Ken,
In our area Husquvarna is pronounced as Husk-a-varna whether it is a gun or a chain saw. Not saying its right, just the way its done.
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