How far, exactly, is a "click"??

[lonegunman]

I hear the term from time to time in war movies, mostly Vietnam movies, and I have a hypothesis as to what it means... but have never really heard a definition...

 

[Chuck Dye]

1000 meters. Comes from kilometer and is usually spelled klick.

 

[AAshooter]

Kilometer??

 

[Chuck Dye]

Also, in the plural, used for speed-50 klicks=50kph.

 

[Jim V]

1 Kilometer = 5/8 Mile or pretty close.

 

[70-101]

Jim V has it right, 1 klick= 1kilometer or 5/8 of a mile.

 

[Blackhorse]

1/4" at 100 yards on most of my scopes. of course thats spelled click.

 

[Brian Gibbons]

Popular Canadian Usage ...

1. Yea, I got nailed yesterday for doin' thirty 'klics' over the limit!

2. Great, it's only two-and-half 'klics' to the Tim Hortons'!

3. Did you see that Mountie ehhh? He was doin' about 170 'klics'!

4. Pick us up a two-four of 'Blue', the LCBO is only 'half-a-klic' up the road ... (Ontario Usage Only).


Make sense now???

 

[jhisaac]

>Make sense now???
Right up until #4. Care to translate into english?


Jhisaac

 

[70-101]

I believe he is refering to Labatts Beer brewed in Canada since 1847, I believe.The Canadians, brew some of the finest Beer the world.But, I personally quit drinking five years ago,and have not touched a drop since, I started carrying ....

 

[Lord Grey Boots]

Half a click = 500 meters, (say 550 yards).

LCBO = Liquor Control Board Outlet...

two-four= What Canadians call a case of beer. Holds 24 cans.


Blue= Labatt's Blue. (never the same since the short bottles went away..)

 

[SquirrelNuts]

LCBO = Liquor Control Board of Ontario

I also like the OPP = Ontario Provincial Police

You down with OPP? Yeah, you know me!

-SquirrelNuts

 

[ajaxinacan]

Just curious. How many fellow vets out there still remember how many steps it takes them to walk a click? For some reason, the number 1710 sticks out in my mind, but I can't remember if it is exact or not.

The things we remember from land nav....

Oh yeah, remove your "steel pot" before sighting down a compass.

 

[FPrice]

ajaxinacan...

"How many fellow vets out there still remember how many steps it takes them to walk a click?"

Seems to me I remember doing 115 paces for 100 meters, or 1150 for a klick. Talk about going back....

 

[Blackhorse]

Having spent my time in armored cav units, I didn't have to count steps like the ground pounders so a klick to me was a few minutes down the road, trail or thru the bush.

 

[Larry Wright]

I've always used roughly 0.6 miles for kilometer. A klick is also the size of the length of the sides of the boxes that make up the 1:50,000 scale maps that most non-digitized use in the field.

 

[ajaxinacan]

"All combat takes place at night, in the rain, at the juction of two maps."

 

[BobR]

1 kilometer (klick) = 0.62 miles

1 mile = 1.60 kilometers (klicks)

But being a sailor (aviation type), I have always used knots...so..

1 nautical mile = 1.85 kilometers (klicks)

1 kilometer (klick) = 0.53 nautical miles.

Also, because I rarely (never) had to walk around to get from one place to another while in the navy (unless I wanted to), I have no idea how many steps are in anything. Except how many steps it was from the Runway bar in Olongopo to the monkey meat stand and then to the taxi stand! (to far, esp after many cold San Miguels)

bob

 

[Bruce626]

lonegunman -- good thing you didn't ask something complicated, like, "what time is it?"

 

[SquirrelNuts]

Well, that all depends on the time zone, whether or not daylight savings time is in effect, if you prefer GMT or not, if you prefer 12/24 hour readings, etc.

-SquirrelNuts