Talk:12 gauge

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This article is not correct because the gauge does not actually refer to the number of lead balls. This is so, because when using a slug you are using no balls but a single slug. Gauge can also refer to thickness of other metals. -- 209.42.65.246, 02:56, 2 Feb 2005 UTC

I dissagree. Gauge goes refer to the number of ball required to make a pound.I think you are confusing this by thinking that the article says that a 12 gauge always has 12 balls, 20 gauge 20 balls, and so on. This would indicate that a shot gun fires a POUND of shot. A normal load might be one ounce. A 12 gauge can have 4 large balls of shot, or 100 small ones. It can have a ruber baton, fletchetts (winged nails) or as you say slugs. So, gauge is only for measuring a barrel, not indicating what is always fired from it. -- 66.140.72.204, 04:15, 2 Feb 2005 UTC

Hey, 209.42.65.246. You should immediately contact the editors at Oxford, Websters, et al, and let them know that the definition of gauge that they've been using for the last four hundred years is wrong. Good luck with that.The Dogfather 14:59, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

12 gauge shell sizes

I think this article should not be a redirect to gauge discussion. There should be discussion here of the different 12 gauge shells, 2 3/4", 3", 3 1/2", years of introduction, etc... Yellowking 23:57, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Time for disambiguation page?

The Gauge (bore diameter) article's hatnote is becoming a paragraph of its own.

12 Gauge may refer to:

In firearms:

• Caliber, for firearms other than shotguns
• Gauge (bore diameter)
• Gauge, disambiguation page

In music:

• 12 Gauge (album), 2010 album by Finnish band Kalmah
• Emerson Drive, former name of Canadian rock group

– Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 03:23, 2 May 2010 (UTC)