Date sent: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:05:34 -0800 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The Lord counsels us throughout scripture to stay on course, to keep focused, walk >the "straight and narrow" less we wander aimlessly through life. > > In the Old west a "straight shooter" was an honest person you could rely on. >Shooting straight meant that the person was like a bullet's path; true, not crooked. >So if a cowboy knew what it meant to walk a straight course, what kept his bullets on >one? > > The bullets fired out of the first muskets were literally scattershot. The unevenly >shaped lead balls bounced against the inside of the barrel of the gun as they were >launched and could easily veer off missing their target. Gunmakers solved the problem >by improving the fit between bullet and barrel and by placing spiral grooves inside the barrel to spin the bullet as it emerged. Spinning like a gyroscope actually corrects irregularities in an object's flight path, not unlike the "spin" a baseball pitcher might use on his throw to the batter. > > Finally in the mid-19th century, bullets were aerodynamically redesigned. They were >made longer, ending in the familiar conical tip which puts the bullet on the straight >and narrow. Like the bullet, we too must have a different spin on life, to aim high, >fire straight and hit the target. > > Cdr Jen > _______ To subscribe or unsubscribe, go to http://rangernet.org/subscribe.htm or to unsubscribe without web access, send "unsubscribe rrgold" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To post to RangerNet, please join RangerNet first (go to http://rangernet.org/subscribe.htm). You can then unsubscribe from RangerNet again if you want to go back to getting RRGold posts only.
