We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:09:51 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Their code is hosed for my installation of Moveable Type (something farked with the table and I don't feel like troubleshooting it) - so here's the relevant data, with an edit or two: You Are 96% Gun Nut! You are a true gun nut. The number of guns in your house is probably over five well over 100. All of them are truly effective in your hands. [Well, the ones that are deacts are only effective as bludgeons, and some of them aren't very handy for that...] Heh. I got one wrong, but I really really really like the wrong... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:46:33 -0600 ...but for the life of me I still can't figure out what it is... and I'm not sure I care. As for gun writers faking their groups, well that just makes me feel better about not paying much attention to the new stuff! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-42016 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-42016 Sun, 05 Mar 2006 08:53:54 -0600 COme to think of it Neffi, if you did give some other answer for the SA80, but still got 96%, then you must have got 'right' the question that me and John got 'wrong'. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-42012 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-42012 Sun, 05 Mar 2006 00:57:40 -0600 I expect you're right Neffi. I remember that too. Everyone called it the 10mm back then and the first gun that took it was the Bren Ten. I knew a gun writer once, who wrote for Guns & Ammo. He'd sometimes fake his groups from about zero inches with a latex catapult because he was tired of going to the range. Told me all the gun writers did it. I remember feeling quite disillusioned. The SA80, apparently, has receiver walls so thin that if you squeeze the top and bottom, you can stop the bolt cycling. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-42011 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-42011 Sun, 05 Mar 2006 00:53:05 -0600 mmmmm but I'll wager the correct answer was 'yes'. I remember when the .40 first came out and all the gun magazine writers were creaming themselves over it... those guys have to fill a magazine (the paper kind!) every month, so any new item gets headlines. Talk and talk and talk about which caliber is the superior 'man-stopper'... enuff to makes ya sick, I say- sick! And nary a word about practicing your fast-draw and placing a quick double-tap into center mass; and how that makes the whole question moot so long as you're shooting at least a .380 with special ammo. WHAT?! The charging handle on the SA80 reciprocates with the bolt?!!! What kinda shoddy engineering is that!!!! OK, rant over. Go about yer binness... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-42000 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-42000 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:24:53 -0600 Not only does it matter by how you define it, it also varies by bullet weight and powder load. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41988 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41988 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:08:42 -0600 Did you say the .40" was more effective than the 9mm? I guess that's a matter of opinion - depends what he means by effective. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41986 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41986 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:49:36 -0600 Haha, I know, I was wondering what a happily-married man like yourself was doing there:) ...though I realise it's just because you got the gun test link. They wouldn't initially give me my results because I unchecked the box "looking for new friends". http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41984 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41984 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:39:19 -0600 I'm not sure Owen - I put in the same answer you did for the SA80, and the M16 *is* a gas tube, direct impingement system. All of those pistols are detecable by metal detectors. And those are the answers the test writer was looking for. I went back, took it again with different answers, and go lower scores. For the nonce, I'm going with bollixed test. On a whim, I registered with OKCupid (the source of the test) and am going to take a crack at it. However, it's really an annoying "matching service" that, oddly enough, gets a little grumpy when you say you're married and not looking for anything... 8^) (That sound is SWWBO scurrying to check up on me) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41980 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41980 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:16:13 -0600 I also got 96% and don't know where I went wrong. I thought maybe it was the M16 where I said gas tube. Could it be direct gas action is the answer they want? Or maybe it's metal detectors, where I said "none". The correct answer to the SA80 is that you can't fire it left-handed or the cocking handle will hit your cheek. As for the test being a crock, don't forget that a completely uninformed person taking a three-choice multiple-choice quiz would expect to average 33%. So 37% is not abnormal. 51% suggests you know a bit more than you think, probably from hanging around here. But it's still possible to score that high with random answers. Where d'you think you went wrong, John? Or maybe you were right and the quiz-writer is wrong? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41978 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41978 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:09:43 -0600 This test is a crock! Here are my results. Plinker You are 51% of a gun nut! I have never refired a gun in my life. The only time I even had my hand on one was when I was making out with a State Trooper on our way into a restaurant. I doubt that counts. For every question with 3 possible answers, I picked the middle answer. The only questions that I was able to answer with confidence were the ones pertaining to my gender and date of birth. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41977 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41977 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:14:11 -0600 Depends. What was your answer to the SA80 question? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41976 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41976 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:59:06 -0600 educated yet!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41975 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41975 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:55:11 -0600 Yeah, but ya hang around here (which is safer than hanging around those dives down by the docks, btw), so obviously some stuff has seeped in. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41972 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41972 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:09:08 -0600 Plinker You are 37% of a gun nut! You're probably either a seasonal hunter or someone with a decent head knowledge of guns. Keep working at it, and you could really be a force to be reckoned with! ROFL! I've never ever laid a hand on a gun!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41971 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41971 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:06:26 -0600 You might not have got one wrong. I scored a 93%, but that doesn't turn out to be mathematically right, since 20/21= .95-something and 19/21= .90-something. I don't know if the site times your test, but don't beat yourself up over a test with some internal monkey math. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41970 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/03/how_much_of_a_gun_nut_are_you.html#comment-41970 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:07:41 -0600