“High Power Rifle” is one that I think a lot of folks bark up the wrong tree over. Can’t really blame the gun-ignorant for the term “Highpower,” when the NRA picked that name themselves for the governance of centerfire rifle competition, Service Rifle, F-Class, Long Range Match, etc.
“Small bore rifle” is an interesting term which also isn’t intuitively assigned, even by those in the authority to assign it. It’s used in official capacity to reflect 22 Rimfire and Air rifle, whereas most “gun guys” want to assign “small bore” to anything 30cal or smaller.
Maybe to mention also, another term which has been bothering me this week is the reminder of the common misuse of “long range,” and now, especially “extreme long range” to represent anything longer than a common 100yard range. I was invited to moderate another group on Facebook this month, one focused on Extreme Long Range shooting, but almost every topic discussed is hardly “long range,” and the cartridges used for said. Too many folks thinking their 7RM is an ELR cartridge, not realizing that the 1,000yrd shooting they’ve done, or dreamed of doing, is just conventional, milquetoast long range shooting.
- they are in store, parking lot (wherever) and unexpectedly have to defend against armed attacker(s) most likely the incident will be over in seconds and they will have been successful (or not) at stopping threat(s) with the LCP or snub. The long gun is still wherever it was.
