On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:29:41 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 06:56:35 -0400, "Jeff Morris"
jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote:

But am I missing something? I always thought a shot was 90 feet.

It has ****all to do with boating, but there is a unit of measure
known as a chain. Composed of one hundred links, it is 66 feet long,
or four rods, or one tenth of a furlong. Used for land surveying by
guys like George Washington. More than a century after adoption of the
steel tape, guys were calling them chains. Some guys still refer to
the process of measurement as chaining, even when done electronically.

Casady


It was used, or at least mentioned later then that. I remember my
granddad talking about rods and chains. I think he said that a proper
road was 1 rod wide. And certainly he shot deer that were a "chain"
away, and sometimes further :-)

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)