You still can't spell right: because the sight was developed by a man named Patridge, you need to capitalize his name and the sight. Even Fat Tom missed that when he "corrected" you in what appears to be an attempt to snipe at me. I may be the only one left here who hasn't given up on such issues, although I'm about burned out on it.
And if you publish publicly, you need to capitalize Kleenex, etc. If you aren't being brand-specific, you just say, "tissue paper." Their lawyers and PR people care. Ditto for Buck brand knives. Boy, is THAT name abused by the ignorant! I've even seen, "buck" in books, where the author and his editor should have known better.
If corrections aren't pointed out, the ignorant will remain ignorant. And that damages the image of all gun owners when non gun owners visit this and other gun boards. This is hopefully supposed to be a source of correct gun info!
Suppose a child is told to write an assignment about gun control. If he or she decides to get our side of the matter (although the teacher probably primed him/her to be against guns) and he finds posts here by people who can't spell as well as many fifth graders, what does that say about gun owners?
But in any event, you are unlikely to have a Patridge sight on a shotgun, with which you will probably be shooting partridges/grouse. I understand that some states allow shooting blue or spruce grouse with handguns, so then you might have a Patridge sight used on partridges.
If we want to get really technical, probably only the Chukar partridge is a real partridge in the USA. To see an actual partridge, look up the
perdiz (Red-Legged Partridge) hunted in Spain or the Hungarian partridge, called Huns here. I'm unsure if the Hun is a true partridge. I'll have to check on that. Maybe Bear Bio or another qualified professional wildlife biologist or other scientist will comment. But those are shotgun-only birds, I believe, so no Patridge sights...
BTW, how many of you saw the cartoon posted here some time ago by a fellow who drew a tiny partridge as the front sight on a gun barrel? Now, that would truly be a partridge sight!
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I don't know what evil spirit compelled you to post this in hopes that I'd be dumb enough to reply, but Patridge needs to be capitalized because it is the last name of the man and of the sight. Nothing at all to do with punctuation!
