Golden Mean

[FRJ]

WOW!!!!! I didn't expect anything like the response I got. And all because I didn't use the search mode properly. I sure learned what the "Golden Mean" is and  while it is now intriguing me to no end I can see why some people growl over its mention. I think what I'll do is build my new rifle to the print I have and check out  the print to see how close it comes to the "mean" .  I'm surely glad that this site is here to help us "newbies" out of these tight spots. Thanks for the info and be prepared as I just might ask another question that you"old guys" have answered a million times. I will be learning how to use the search function properly. Frank

[greybeard]

I built a few guns before I had ever heard of Golden Mean and strangely enough they all seemed to shoot beter then I could.

[Bill of the 45th]

SOooo, we're not talking about the Golden Meany, the little gremlin that pees in your flash pan just as the ten point buck gives you a broadside an exactly 25 yards.   It's that thing that comes naturally or learned by artist's, photographer's, architect's, and other creative folks, that just seems to fit whether it's planned or not.

Bill

[dave gross]

After spending countless hours searching for Golden Mean relationships in some of my rifles...and finding none that I could be sure of, I veered off into using the Fibonacci sequence of numbers for laying out volutes in carving designs...and it works.  It's tough laying out all those little rectangles on the side of a gunstock, though.

Dave Gross
Way Down East in Penobscot, Maine

[Bill of the 45th]

And to think, there's only four more weeks of Winter. Wacka, Wacka, Wacka!

Bill

[Karl Kunkel]

"A bear in his natural habitat, a Studebaker." - Fozzie Bear

[Dale Campbell]

After spending countless hours searching for Golden Mean relationships in some of my rifles...and finding none that I could be sure of, I veered off into using the Fibonacci sequence of numbers for laying out volutes in carving designs...and it works.  It's tough laying out all those little rectangles on the side of a gunstock, though.

Dave Gross
Way Down East in Penobscot, Maine

Well, that's what calculus if for.  To make those rectangles infinitesimally small.  I just know the old masters always used calculus to do that.  Right along with their g----n m--n.