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Thread: Why are they called foresight & back/rear sight?

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    Quote Originally Posted by will.i.em View Post
    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".

    Hence, the 'foresight' being at the front of the rifle and the 'backsight' is at the back of the rifle.
    See Post #5

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    Anyone mentioned hindsight yet?
    Opposite to foresight and pretty apt in this thread

    "In hindsight I shouldn't have mentioned the foresight "
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    Quote Originally Posted by akaroa1 View Post
    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?????
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    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?

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    a bead.....
    75/15/10 black powder matters

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    This thread gave me aids
    270 is a harmonic divisor number[1]
    270 is the fourth number that is divisible by its average integer divisor[2]
    270 is a practical number, by the second definition
    The sum of the coprime counts for the first 29 integers is 270
    270 is a sparsely totient number, the largest integer with 72 as its totient
    Given 6 elements, there are 270 square permutations[3]
    10! has 270 divisors
    270 is the smallest positive integer that has divisors ending by digits 1, 2, …, 9.

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    Someone needed to be moved to the "fore" of the class

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst View Post
    This thread gave me aids
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    perhaps???
    75/15/10 black powder matters

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    New foresight
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    Fore sight and fore skin both at end of barrel

 

 

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