| 400NitroExpress |
| (.400 member) |
| 27/10/09 10:26 AM |
Re: OSR, Double Damage and Barnes' Response
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People who own doubles that have this damage have posted here, and most of us have posted about examples we have seen with our own eyes, yet we are commissioned in charge of showing proof, to the two people here who have not seen it, but they offer only single barrel rifles and chamber pressures in those rifles they have shot as proof that it doesn't exist.
This string went off the rails from the first page for two reasons, and the above is one of them. From the first post, it wasn't framed as a discussion. Neither "It's a myth, prove it to me" nor "nobody's proven anything yet" represent a genuine, good faith, or appropriate effort to gather information about any topic. Indeed, neither mindset has ANYTHING TO DO with obtaining information, or even conducting a discussion for that matter. That approach is only used when only heat is desired to the exclusion of light, and this topic was intentionally framed that way from the beginning.
Tinker summed up the second reason here:
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This is one of those conversations that would sound a lot different and likely go much more smoothly and constructively if it took place over the benches in our collective machineshop and loading den.
When the insults begin to fly in the original post and continue apace, it doesn't matter what the string is about, it's doomed to begin rotation around the bowl. That kind of attitude in the approach just guarantees it.