Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire For all you metric lovers, Britain to return to Imperail measures

Spark plugs have been metric for over a hundred years.

Think about all you horse people measuring in "hands". I have small hands so a 16h horse to me is the size of a pony 😂😂😂😂

Hmmm I grew up with Imperial 1st up through age 12ish then both from there on out. Due to where I grew up & my experiences I do prefer imperial with the exception of British pipe threads. With that being said I am still very clear that the metric system is a easier system to use.

I used both in my career and was fine with either

Your beloved 180 gr bullet is the weight of 180 grains of barley taken from the center of the head. It takes 1.333 grains of wheat to equal 1 grain of barley. It's the only unit of weight consistant in both the troy and avoirdupois systems. It's pure coincidence that it's 1/7000 lb av but that does make it easier to estimate the number of loads you can get from a lb of powder.

Wonder which way Bernie Sanders and AOC will go for their "New World Order"?

Australia must be the most over regulated nanny state in the world. When you look back one can see that much of the early1970s was the starting point and going down the European road in about 1972 was one of the things that sent us on our way.

Common Core Math: cubes and dimes.

Tenths is better than inches so long as we're talking feet:

My father in law still measures everything in inches and feet. New Zealand been metric a long time.


I believe England never did switch their speed system to metric.

Miles per hour far as I know.

I use both as a tilesetter. In Canada, where I live within 20 miles south of Detroit Michigan, we mainly use imperial. I layout my jobs in metric and honestly it makes life alot easier. Everything in 10's and I can know about how big a piece of tile will be on the other end of a 100 foot room with about 20 seconds of quick head math.

In machining here in Texas metric is not so peachy. No suppliers carry any metric steel bar stock. Taps, Dies and other stuff is nonexistent. Cutting metric threads on a lathe with an Imperial leade screw is a PITA. The Metric leade screw lathes aren't much better. They have the christmas tree thread dial to play with. At present I need to cut a M18x1.5 four start shouldered arbor on my Imperial leade screw lathe. It will be an exciting project. I can work with metric but it's just another thing I have to convert before I start to do any work.

Metric makes a lot of sense for some things such as engineering and astronomy where you're dealing with huge numbers. The argument about it being more precise is bullchit of the first order. Both Imperial and Metric dimensions are set in stone, controlled internationally and both can be converted back and forth. People that grew up and work with metric are used to it and think in metric terms. We others don't.

I've had lots of internet discussions about the metric/imperial debate. I've never heard anyone arguing for imperial that got down to calling names but invariably the metric aficionados fall into a name calling rant. Sort of like having a discussion with a democrat.

Are you sure about this?

When I gap my plugs to .035, that's 35 thousandths (35/1000) of an inch. Its written with a decimal, but it's not metric.

The threads.

And where you’re dealing with very small numbers, such as administering cardiac infusions at mics/kg/min. It is more precise in situations such as the one above, and when you’re administering other IV medications in micrograms (for example).

Didn't I already point out the error of that line of thinking in an earlier conversation?

Good luck with that... 🤞

I remember when I was in elementary school (even a few years before the US officially passed the law requiring a switch to the Metric system), the teacher would spend quite a lot of time instructing us on using the Metric System in place of the Imperial system of measurements. It rolled off our backs like water off that of a duck. None of us picked it up, and they gave up trying. Seems like that was in either my Fourth or Fifth Grade, so 1970-1972.

One, or the other!

How many old farts are getting their medications in imperial units?