Competions in Meters

[SG4247]

Here is what gets me. The speed limit in Puerto Rico is posted in kph, but all the cars speedo read in mph. So no officer, I was only going 130.

Distance is posted in km, but the odometer reads miles.

 

[hogpatrol]

With the rest of the world on the metric system, it's analogous to the mother attending her son's basic training graduation and remarking "Look. Everyone's out of step except my Johnny".

 

[joshb]

Then there’s the folks that drive on the wrong side of the road!

 

[ebb]

About the only thing that the USA got wrong. You really want to see stupid, me working on a GMC truck and having to crawl out from under it cause it is a mix of metric and SAE. one or the other would have been fine but both with no rhyme nor reason where one will end and the other begin.

 

[Warren Dean]

 

[NorCalMikie]

Why does it matter?

If God wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 disciples.

 

[Downeast]

The military went metric decades ago. My shooting buddies on active duty all talk meters, never yards.

 

[X Count]

Metric system is convenient because it is a base 10 system. All calculations and conversions become simple. And with an added benefit of getting as much precision as you want without tangling yourself in conversions.
While woodworking, I often have to pull a pencil and paper to do something like : 13 7/16 + 2 1/4 + 3 7/32 - 2 15/16. This would never happen in a metric system because it would be something like : 34 + 23 + 2 - 13.
Easy to handle in your head or a simple calculator.
Liquids is similar. 1 liter = 100 centileters = 1000 mls. Its easy to figure out if I say I need 15.86 liters of whatever and you can convert it to ml. If I said, 15 3/16 gallons, you would atleast pause or more before you can tell me how many cups is 3/16 gallons.
Temperature and weight is the same.
I know its an unpopular opinion in the US and especially on an internet forum but tying a measurement system to national pride is misguided at the very least.

Looking at water. 1L = 1kg, 1000L is 1m3 and weighs 1000kg which is 1t. Water freezes at 0 and boils at 100 degrees C. 1m head pressure = 10kpa

When working with mechanical systems it makes things simple and prevents a lot of converting large and small units back and forth. You just move the decimal to change the unit of measure.

in saying that I do all my shooting related activities in imperial because thats pretty much the international language of shooting. Also in shooting your generally working withing the same unit under 1" for bore diameters, neck bushings etc. Then full inches for barrel lengths and then into yards for range.

Guessing that metric ranges are becoming more common because thats what the military are using.

 

[Kiwishooter]

There are a number of European countries that shoot Benchrest on metric ranges and score in metric then convert the metric scores to moa
I can understand if the country was imperial and most of the ranges were built in imperial why would you go to the expense of changing the range when the country converts to metric?
Does it make a difference after all everyone shooting the competition is shooting on the same range, and the bullet only travels an extra 8.66m to reach 100m after it reaches the 100yd target.

 

[dcali]

Metric is a cancer propagated by totalitarian zealots.