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I'm sure there is probably a very simple answer to this question, but I just don't know it...so
If you look at a photo or painting, the 'foreground' is the part of the image that looks closest to you (ie a beach). While the 'background' is the part in the image that looks farthest away from the observer (ie the sea).
However with a firearm, the 'foresight' is the part of the rifle that is farthest away from you... while the 'backsight' is the part that is closest to you.
Why?
I think it's to do with the fact that you're looking past the rifle but at the painting.
imagine you're looking down your rifle at a mirror
Hard to know if you are taking the piss or really this dumbQuote:
Originally Posted by Hermitage
I don’t know what your problem is, but I’m guessing it’s really hard to spell... most personality disorders are.Quote:
Originally Posted by 308
Foresight: front end of rifle barrel
Back (rear)sight: back end of barrel.
Possible? I don't know....will see if others say the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger 888
Why is anything called anything ?
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Originally Posted by 308
Prob more like a deep & meaningful thought at the end of a long day
It's obvious why a tang sight is called a tang sight.
It's on the tang.
But why is it called a tang ?
You have to start somewhere. The naming of things is a fundamental aspect of human language and communication... it provides a framework for understanding and navigating the world around us.Quote:
Originally Posted by akaroa1
Anyway why is is called a foresight/back sight? Looks like it could be the barrel as Ranger888 has 3 likes, so is probably correct.
Does it taste tangy ?Quote:
Originally Posted by akaroa1
If you lick the Tang on a file you'll find that it is quite sharp
fore
adjective
adjective: fore
situated or placed in front.
"the fore and hind pairs of wings"
noun
noun: fore; plural noun: fores
the front part of something, especially a ship.
exclamation
That is the serious answerQuote:
Originally Posted by akaroa1
because it would just be silly to have the tang sight on the butt stock. It needed to get fixed to the something appropiate, might as well call it a tang.Quote:
Originally Posted by akaroa1
I reckon we could play origin of chickens and eggs all day.
TangQuote:
Originally Posted by No good names left
: a projecting shank, prong, fang, or tongue (as on a knife, file, or sword) to connect with the handle
Fore = Situated in front or in front of some other thing or part. imagine what a battle hardened drill Seargant Major would make of this ; ya pulling ma fecken chain soldier :Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermitage
Querying the name of things can be tricky: does a babysitter sit on babies? Does a steamroller roll steam? Is a sausage dog made of sausages? Is a rock group a group of rocks? Can you eat off a satellite dish? How many zoos can a zookeeper keep??
,Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermitage
So why is it called a foreskin, not a back or rear skin?
Just out of interest, which one are you putting closest to your eye?
Err, noQuote:
Originally Posted by No good names left
Airnt you the joker who proclaimed in a post a while back that you could answer any question in the universe lickety split with some narcissistic algarithim?Yeah it was you.Plse nobody respond to his bait
Greetings,
The tapered tang on early iron tools (think of a metal file or rasp) was simply driven into a piece of wood for a handle. We would likely not recognise the language the smith used at the time and it was certainly not English or any of its ancestors. It is possible that the word is based on the sound that was made as the tang was shaped on the anvil. Rear sights on some target rifles were attached to the wooden butt stock just ahead of the butt plate for use in the now obsolete back position where the rifleman lay on their back with the butt in their armpit and the fore stock resting on their leg. The rear sight could also be moved to the tang position for prone shooting. These rifles had long barrels so do not try this with your bush pig.
Regards Grandpamac.
Unfortunately mine won't reach that farQuote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
Unfortunately? Why would you want it close to your eye?Quote:
Originally Posted by No good names left
As for fore sight, the fore-end is closest to the end of the barrel. Ergo that sight would be of the fore variety
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Originally Posted by Joe_90
well if it was an aperture sight and was attached onto the butt rather than the tang...it could rightly be called a butthole sight...and that would just be wrong on so many levels
why a blowjob when its more of a suck????Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mmwsm
we get tea tree oil from tea trees
whale oil from whales
olive oil from olives
but you get in trouble if try to extract baby oil the same way
we have yesterday but not yesternight
I have seen a picture of someone using the back position. They look as though they bounced of something solid while rushing to get to the shooting mound.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
GPM.
Is it a cold wet day out there at the moment?:D
When I look at a firearm, the muzzle end is the front of it, and the other side is the backend. I like to think that's why it's called a "butt".Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermitage
Hence, the 'foresight' being at the front of the rifle and the 'backsight' is at the back of the rifle.
I cant quite understand why so many decided to give this a sensible reply when clearly all one needed was a blinken dictionary - it was a humorous send up right - ya frekin pulling ma chain soldier which end of ya puny little appendage is ya foreskin yes the part that goes first so which end of your rifle is your fore sight - repeat this is my rifle
See Post #5Quote:
Originally Posted by will.i.em
Anyone mentioned hindsight yet?
Opposite to foresight and pretty apt in this thread
"In hindsight I shouldn't have mentioned the foresight "
but hindsight is no good for stags?????Quote:
Originally Posted by akaroa1
Makes a change from the "what about this brand of scope" threads.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter what it's called, but if I'm going to add anything to this what did we call it when there was just one little pip on the end of the barrel to sight with?
a bead.....
This thread gave me aids
Someone needed to be moved to the "fore" of the class
ArseholeQuote:
Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst
Induced
Deafness
Syndrome
perhaps???
New foresight
Faux ivory
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Fore sight and fore skin both at end of barrel
