How do YOU pronounce guns with 3+ number names?

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Colvin

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I guess this can apply to guns with two number names too, but...

Guns like Colt's 6920, do you say sixty-nine twenty? Six-nine twenty sounds best to me. How does Colt pronounce it?

This topic can range frome any gun. What about calibers? Do you say "seven point six two" or what?
 
69-20 sounds about right. For calibers I usually leave out the "points". Anyone I discuss these things with knows what I'm talking about.
 
Funny you should bring this up. I recently bought a S&W 4006, and I can't for the life of me stay consistent with how I mention it to other people. Sometimes I say "four double-o six", sometimes "forty o-six", or maybe "four thousand six" and even once had an awkward moment where I called it a "four zero zero six". I guess "fourty o-six" would be most in line with the way I describe other Smith handguns ("fifty-nine o-six", "thirty-nine forty-six"), but I agree it can sometimes be a brain teaser.
 
I guess it's all in the inflection.

Good question and one time said; ott-six, to a an engineer type. His reply was; what is that and what do you mean. Everyone here know what I mean and he did not. I then repeated it, in another way and he just said; Oh, Oh and smiled. .... :)

I think that there are a variety of ways that are common for the same thing. A buddy of mine is an X-Marine who use to be a small arms instructor and his vocabulary is different. I yeild to him ..... ;)


Be Safe !!!
 
The 4006 being a .40, "forty ought six" or "forty oh six" or even "forty zero six" would make sense to me.

Same rationale would apply to the 1006 and 4506, etc.
 
I was trying to think of why I called it a Six-Nine Twenty and then realized that's the shortest way of saying it. Sixtyninetwenty minus ty equals sixninetwenty...

It's peer pressure! I want to sound knowledgeable, dammit!
 
I guess I'm used to hearing them pronounced as two two digit numbers, like nineteen eleven or eighteen seventythree. Same with gunpowders such as 4895.
 
You mean like thirty ought six?

Seven six two by thirty-nine?

Seven six two by fifty-four?

Nine by nineteen Makarov?

Smith and Wesson six twenty-nine?
 
There is no such critter as an Ex-Marine.He is a former MARINE.
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So a dishonorable discharge doesn't mean anything, any more?

Rapists, murderers, and wife beaters are all still a "Marine", then?

I think you just knocked honorable Marines, everywhere, down a couple notches. Way to go! :D
 
If it's a 4-digit number I split it into 2s. Like nineteen-eleven or sixtynine-twenty. If the second number starts with a zero it's an O. Like forty-oh-six. If it's 3 digits like in calibers, I split it into the first digit and last 2. Like three-fiftyseven. Unless it's a nice even number like fivehundred (S&W .500 Magnum) or onehundred (Ruger GP100).

Rolls off the tongue easier that way.
 
It's all in the details !!!

How about a 250X3000?.... Huh ???? ... :confused:
Okay then; 250 Savage? .... That's better !!! :)

Be Safe !!!
 
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