Thread: WTF

It broke Google translate and tells me that the german phrase "GÜNSTIGSTE EINSCHIESS-ENTFERNUNG" translates into english as "GÜNSTIGSTE EINSCHIESS-ENTFERNUNG"....???????

So I added spaces and got a literal translation of "Favourable On Shooting Distance". What that is supposed to mean I am not certain....

Originally Posted by timattalon

It broke Google translate and tells me that the german phrase "GÜNSTIGSTE EINSCHIESS-ENTFERNUNG" translates into english as "GÜNSTIGSTE EINSCHIESS-ENTFERNUNG"....???????

So I added spaces and got a literal translation of "Favourable On Shooting Distance". What that is supposed to mean I am not certain....

I think, as Striker says above, it somehow means the most favourable zeroing range, but that doesn't tell me what exactly that distance is. I mean, we can 'assume' it to be 300m but if you've ever watched the movie 'Under Siege 2' by Steven Seagull, then you'll soon get a feel for what 'assumption' is, and, in ballistics, ours isn't to assume anything, we have to be sure of our facts!

Who would, half way through writing instructions in a certain language, suddenly change and choreograph some other language in and expect people to understand? They'd, or we'd, be better off if they wrote something like *300m, and somewhere else wrote (*most favourable zeroing range) or something of that nature, and as you say timattalon, I too aren't sure what that's supposed to mean!

Anyway, thanks for you guy's help. I guess I'll just have to die not knowing exactly!