Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Why the U.S doesn't use the Metric System

Read some history. Before we were born, the greatest and most powerful country to ever exist, was carved out of the wilderness and developed more ingenious devices and a standard of living without the metric system.

If you remember, your buddy Jimmy Carter and a bunch of environmentalists tried that crap in the ‘70s and it didn’t work then. What is so wrong with America that we need to adapt to a bunch of foreign ideals and change America into a handicapped country that can’t even support itself without foreign influence?

Schit......
We got a couple of generations who aint even got the multiplication tables memorized, let alone able to do fractions or decimal math .
Electronics are their brain.....
They are blanks in the noggin for the most part.
All the answers are a click or voice activated question away
To them the brain is for jayz and beyonce factiods they intimately know and can rattle off instantly for cred amongst others.

How in the fugg does anyone expect them to be able to handle a system based on factors of 10


LOL!!!!

This is kind of a fun thread. The only real difficulty of either system is based on one's familiarity. People always try to convert or compare the system with which they are not familiar to the one with which they are familiar instead of learning them separately without cross-reference. I'm not saying anybody is wrong to do that because we always try to put things into a context we understand. I'm just saying that this comparison is what creates the biggest barrier to implementation of the system with which we are least familiar.

"My buddy Jimmie Carter".

Welcome to Canada, the land of no guns, welfare medicine and the metric system.

Take some of the conversation here, apply a bit of mutatis mutandis, and you have the comments of those thinking a minute of angle means an inch at 100 yards having trouble with milliradians.

WOW ...... That some funny stuff right there.

Thanks mathman. That literally made me laugh out loud.

Tikka rifles are metric...Gunsmith and builders are doing a lot more builds off a Tikka receivers currently.

Could Tikka become the Remington action of basement builds?

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Many years ago in the early 60s in my school the teachers were introducing the metric system to us in addition to the English system. My Dad told me this:

"In the days when I was a young man and just back from the war, the USA was the undisputed world heavyweight champion -------and we killed people that used millimeters.

Yoho, the US DOES use the metric system, just not exclusively.

Yep. Our money uses the metric system. Anybody want to go to pounds and shillings?

G' a jar full a' hapennies, can I trade ya for a handful 'a tuppence?

Most all newer machinery is metric.

Keep it up Canuck.

The 9.3x62 should now be called the .366" X 2.441".

Metric is French invented - what can you expect?

But it does make more sense, and easier to use if one is used to it, than English.

LMAO years ago when someone posted about surveying their property in TX, I think. Had to convert from "bullhide" units of the old Spanish land grant to English, or maybe metric.

Some assembly required.....

Varas most likely

Money is not metric...

adjective
1.
of or based on the meter as a unit of length; relating to the metric system.
"all measurements are given in metric form"
2.
MATHEMATICS•PHYSICS
relating to or denoting a metric.
noun
1.
TECHNICAL
a system or standard of measurement.
2.
INFORMAL
metric units, or the metric system.
"it's easier to work in metric"

The people who did that are NASA. NASA uses Metrics.