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Please define the following terms...
« on: November 17, 2016, 08:11:21 PM »
I keep hearing these terms and have been wondering what they mean to different people. Please feel free to add to the list.

1) Lights out
2) Tack driver
3) Clover Leafs
4) Bugholes

I'm sure I'm missing some..

Is there a baseline for distance when using these terms? So if I'm shooting "cloverleafs", does that mean I'm shooting at a weed in the lawn and how far? 50feet? 100yards?

This is important research here.....

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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2016, 08:13:55 PM »
Lights out-- 2am drunk but still taking "her" home    :chuckle:

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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2016, 08:18:48 PM »
All of them simply mean a gun shoots tight groups. But a tight group to one may not be so to another, I'd rather hear it shoot 3/8" instead of a clover leaf.

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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2016, 08:19:49 PM »
1) Lights out: when someone knocks you out.
2) Tack driver: also known as a hammer.
3) Clover Leafs: usually found with 3 pedals, If you are lucky you can find a 4 leaf model and make a wish that will come true.
4) Bugholes: Also know as termite damage.

Think that should sum it up for ya :chuckle:
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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2016, 08:21:42 PM »
Lights out-- 2am drunk but still taking "her" home    :chuckle:

I suggest going ugly early. That way you get your pick of the uglys.


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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2016, 08:23:59 PM »
Lights out-- 2am drunk but still taking "her" home    :chuckle:
a "2" at ten quickly becomes a "10" at 2
in the immortatl words of Homer Simpson---alcohol: the cause of and the cure of all of life's problems

yes we know it means that a gun shoots tight groups but this is a helluva lot funnier  :chuckle:
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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2016, 08:24:53 PM »
I bought a used barrel that was termed a "tack driver".    I know my definition of tack driver was lots smaller than what the sellers was.   Tack driver to me is that if a tack was pushed into the center of the target the bullet would hit it, not nip it, but hit it.

Bug hole would be what the 100 yard 6PPC shooters.  Clover leaf would be 3 close shots but in my mind it would be awaiting the next two shots.

What gets me is the shooters that think 3 shots is representative of a particular rifle's accuracy.

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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2016, 08:41:02 PM »
1) Lights out: when someone knocks you out.
2) Tack driver: also known as a hammer.
3) Clover Leafs: usually found with 3 pedals, If you are lucky you can find a 4 leaf model and make a wish that will come true.
4) Bugholes: Also know as termite damage.

Think that should sum it up for ya :chuckle:
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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2016, 10:17:13 PM »
I always thought they all meant the same thing.
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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2016, 10:26:57 PM »
1) Lights out: capable of shooting the porch light out on the house at the end of the block.
2) Tack driver: a gun capable of shooting the tacks off of the target stand on the next lane over at the range.
3) Clover Leafs: I think that's a new drug that the kids are doing these days.
4) Bugholes: The term used describe the bore diameter of all the small bore magnums like the 26 Nosler.

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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2016, 07:12:29 AM »
My dad has a 223 that's a tack driver. I've watched that dun repeatedly drive little plastic tacks through targets at 100 yards.
The rest just sound tacticool.

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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2016, 10:26:14 AM »
I keep hearing these terms and have been wondering what they mean to different people. Please feel free to add to the list.

1) Lights out
2) Tack driver
3) Clover Leafs
4) Bugholes

I'm sure I'm missing some..

Is there a baseline for distance when using these terms? So if I'm shooting "cloverleafs", does that mean I'm shooting at a weed in the lawn and how far? 50feet? 100yards?

This is important research here.....

1) Lights out - that blank look guys get when they just took a scope to the
    eyebrow shooting their new Ultru-Mag

2) Tack driver - when one misses the 10 X and hits the rusty nail they
    attached their target too, you will know it by the ricochet noise as it
    passes close to your head

3) Clover Leafs - Flyer to the left, flyer to right, flyer to the 12 o'clock

4) Bugholes - This is a redneck term when Billy Bob shoots the a$$ off     a gnat in flight, and punches a hole in the outhouse wall
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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2016, 12:30:30 PM »
Do any of these terms have anything in common with the term "spray and pray"?
:dunno:
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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2016, 12:50:06 PM »
Do any of these terms have anything in common with the term "spray and pray"?
:dunno:

What about "pot shots"?

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Re: Please define the following terms...
« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2016, 12:58:58 PM »
Spray and pray is what some guys do at the range.   Lights out, tack driver, clover leaf and bughole are terms the same guy uses when he is bragging to his friends or posting on internet forums about said trip to the range.
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