accurately measuring dimensions of a gun from a picture?

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Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:49 am

Is there an echo in here? I'm sure Jack said essentially the same thing only yesterday...
Does that thing kinda look like a big cat to you?
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Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:07 am

I was clarifying as apparently my first post wasn't well understood.
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Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:34 pm

Yes, I wasn't being too serious...

Another possibility is to go old school and scale the print of the photo to a standard scaling (like 1:5) and use a Architect's or Engineer's scale.
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(Old guy comment: BTW, that is a scale not a ruler. A ruler is for drawing straight lines, a scale is for measuring things. You should never measure with a ruler and you should never draw straight lines with a scale.)
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Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:39 pm

ok- maybe i'll try JSR's method and then jimmy101's method.

Jimmy- just out of curiousity- why should you always use a scale to measure, and never draw lines with it? Is there a reason? Just curious
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Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:40 pm

If you have a particular rifle in mind I can do the resizing for you ;)
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Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:55 pm

Yea I have a few in mind actually-

MAC 10- http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg22-e.htm

WA2000- http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn15-e.htm

B+T MP9- http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg63-e.htm

HK MP7- http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg49-e.htm


I think i'll try to do it on my own as well... and we'll see what happens. compare our results ;)


thanks JSR
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 7:20 am

okie, at work at the moment but i'll do it at home :)
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Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:04 am

haha LOL a Mac 10 carbine :roll:


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what will they think of next :lol:
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