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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: alfsauve on June 20, 2015, 07:53:45 PM

Title: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: alfsauve on June 20, 2015, 07:53:45 PM
Scouten posted a link to an on-line quiz about S&W, which I would have aced but I think there is an error.

One question (and the Q# changes around) is about whether a gun is a SW 317 Kit gun or a Model 18.

The quiz says it's a model 317.   I say they're wrong and the best of the multi choice answers is M18.

http://www.playbuzz.com/danielxu10/outdoorhub-quiz-how-well-do-you-know-smith-and-wesson (http://www.playbuzz.com/danielxu10/outdoorhub-quiz-how-well-do-you-know-smith-and-wesson)

A 317 is:

The gun pictured is:
Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: Big Frank on June 20, 2015, 09:37:17 PM
I didn't think I knew much about S&W but that was the only one I missed too.
Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: alfsauve on June 22, 2015, 08:19:38 AM
You didn't miss it Frank, it was an error.  Scouten posted an update on his FB page acknowledging I was correct. 

The problem is that on Wikipedia a picture of a Model 34 was posted to show the linage of the 317, but a lot of people probably didn't read the details.

So that question should be thrown out as the picture is neither a 317 nor an 18, but a M34.

I can rest easy now, I've been vindicated.

I may not be a S&W expert, but I do own The Book.

 
Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: tombogan03884 on June 22, 2015, 08:22:17 AM
When your right, You're right.
Now you know why I'm so stubborn sometimes.   ;D
Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: Solus on June 22, 2015, 11:59:35 AM
Quote from: tombogan03884 on June 22, 2015, 08:22:17 AM
When your right, You're right.
Now you know why I'm so stubborn sometimes.   ;D

This is true.  Sometimes you're right   ;D

We wonder about the other times too, though .. ;D
Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: tombogan03884 on June 22, 2015, 12:50:00 PM
(_)*(_)   ;D

Trust me, I'm right then too.
Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: Timothy on June 22, 2015, 04:53:11 PM
I guessed my way to 8/9!
Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: Big Frank on June 22, 2015, 06:46:38 PM
8/9 is a perfect score on this quiz.
Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: PegLeg45 on June 23, 2015, 01:01:14 PM
I got 7/9 and I've never been enough of a S&W fan (sorry Alf) to bother knowing many details about the models and types....of course, some questions anyone should know, like the Dirty Harry one and S&W founders.

Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: alfsauve on June 23, 2015, 04:12:58 PM
Quote from: PegLeg45 on June 23, 2015, 01:01:14 PM
.... I've never been enough of a S&W fan (sorry Alf).....

I love you anyway man.
Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: Timothy on June 23, 2015, 05:23:41 PM
I have no issues with S&W, I've shot several over the years..  My problem is the smiths that build some of the guns in Springfield cannot possess a good many of them if they're residents of MA.

I would love a classic blued Model 27...
Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: PegLeg45 on June 24, 2015, 12:39:41 PM
Quote from: alfsauve on June 23, 2015, 04:12:58 PM
I love you anyway man.

Whew!!! Glad you cleared that up.....   8)
I kept hearing a great rumbling to the north yesterday and didn't know if it was you or thunder.....  ;D  ;D

Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: tombogan03884 on June 24, 2015, 12:59:03 PM
You all have a lot of church goers down there, might have been the results of a bean supper.  ;D

That's why YANKEE churches switched to spaghetti .  ;D
Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: PegLeg45 on June 25, 2015, 11:42:47 AM
Hard to beat pulled pork BBQ and baked beans, you know.....  ;)
Title: Re: S&W Quiz - I think there's an error and I won't let it go.
Post by: tombogan03884 on June 25, 2015, 12:39:39 PM
Maybe, but the Preacher doesn't have to try to talk over the
noise resulting from spaghetti .   ;D