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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:04:00 PM EDT
[#1]
I say "five-five-six by forty-five". Anbody you're talking to about it will imply the decimal.
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:06:16 PM EDT
[#2]
Five point five six by four five
Same with 7.62x51 Seven point six two by five one |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:07:31 PM EDT
[#3]
5.56x45mm = five five six by forty five
.223 Remington = two twenty three 7.62x39mm = seven six two by thrity nine |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:07:35 PM EDT
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If I'm talking to someone who's only vaguely familiar with guns, I add the "point". Otherwise, it's "five fifty-six millimeter". If I need the x45, it's "by forty-five". Same rules apply to 7.62x39mm.
6.8 is 6.8. Here's a question: How do you pronounce Mauser? Mowzer? Mozzer? Mosser? I've heard it all ways. |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:10:10 PM EDT
[#5]
Five-five-six by fourty-five.
Seven-six-two NATO. |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:12:47 PM EDT
[#6]
"them things that go boom in my AR"
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:13:13 PM EDT
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Or the gun that the Russian uses in "Enemy at the Gates" Moisen Nagant. I am way to lazy to look up the right spelling. I was going to buy one ance, but I would feel dumb if I couldn't tell people what is is.
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:13:21 PM EDT
[#8]
I've used that as well. 
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:13:42 PM EDT
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Or the Sauer of SIG Sauer.
It's Sour. Like Sauerkraut. Mauser is Mouser. .223 - two twenty three 5.56x45 - five five six by fourty five 7.62x51 - "Seven point six two millimeter, full metal jacket." .308 - three oh eight .45 - forty five 9mm - "Uzi, nine millimeter" 9x19 - nine by nineteen |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:15:39 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:22:06 PM EDT
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Five-five-six by four-five
Military pronounciation does not include twenty, thirty, etc, each digit is pronounced seperately. An M240 is M-two-four-zero, for example. Kharn |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:24:20 PM EDT
[#12]
 Not when I was in. M-sixty, M-sixteen, M-two-fortynine... |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:30:14 PM EDT
[#13]
Five Point Five-Six by Four-Five (though I don't usually add the 4-5 part)
Two-Two-Three Seven Point Six-Two by Three-Nine |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:30:17 PM EDT
[#14]
Five five six. I dont add the 45.
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:40:10 PM EDT
[#15]
Mosin-Nagant Mow(as in to mow your lawn)-sin Nag(nag, like you're "significant other"  -ant(ant as in the insect)
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:42:17 PM EDT
[#16]
five point five six by forty five
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:43:22 PM EDT
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And I pronounce the calibers "five five six by forty-five" but usually call it "five five six NATO" or "two twenty-three" (and yes, I know there's a difference.) |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:48:15 PM EDT
[#18]
I'm pretty sure the russian one is
mo-seen nuh-gaunt |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:50:06 PM EDT
[#19]
five point five six by fourty five mike mike
seven point sixty two nato |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:50:36 PM EDT
[#20]
+1 |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 5:58:43 PM EDT
[#21]
This is correct. -Troy |
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Posted: 1/6/2005 6:00:37 PM EDT
[#22]
Sin_Bin:
I got my ass reamed in December by a few drill sgts for saying "M-two-fourty-nine" and "M-two-fourty".  Kharn |
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Posted: 1/7/2005 8:08:08 PM EDT
[#23]
Awesome, I win! |
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Posted: 1/7/2005 8:17:41 PM EDT
[#24]
5.56x45mm = five point five six by forty five
.223 Remington = two two three 7.62x39mm = seven point six two by thirty nine |
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Posted: 1/7/2005 8:30:15 PM EDT
[#25]
Five point five six by forty-five millimeter NATO.
That's it's full title, anyway. |
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Posted: 1/7/2005 8:31:06 PM EDT
[#26]
Except that "fourty" is not a word.
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Posted: 1/8/2005 12:12:30 AM EDT
[#27]
Hey, I was trying to be nice...  -Troy |
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Posted: 1/8/2005 12:13:44 AM EDT
[#28]
Five point five six by forty five milimeter.
Heckler and Coke! |
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Posted: 1/8/2005 12:50:55 AM EDT
[#29]
five five six NATO
seven six two NATO Heckler & Coe |
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Posted: 1/8/2005 1:22:31 AM EDT
[#30]
I say "Five Five Six NATO" Huh? "you know, Two Twenty Three"
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Posted: 1/8/2005 3:51:39 AM EDT
[#31]
Five point five six by forty-five millimeter.
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Posted: 1/8/2005 4:15:59 AM EDT
[#32]
five point five six by four five
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Posted: 1/8/2005 4:23:52 AM EDT
[#33]
Five point five six millimeter !!
Thats how the Corps teaches it... LB |
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