What firearms "terminology" makes you grit your teeth?

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tark said:
We already do. It's called The New York Times.
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Actually "Tactical Toilet Paper" is a legitimate tactical tool, It is a very heavy ply tissue, pre-soaked in a germ killing agent. It's first use, was for anyone that happened to be near Diane Feinstein. when she started to run her mouth.
California later banned it's use.
 
wankerjake said:
That is the worst. I hear it far too often as well. Usually amongst reloaders. “I need some bullet heads.”
“What bullets heads do you use?”
“Where do you buy bullet heads?”

Took me awhile to figure out what it even meant. THEN I was irritated. And still am. Good grief, and you propose to put together a cartridge? Good luck.
Just put the bullet head on the bullet body and put the bangy thingy in the bottom hole with some fire dust inside. With your bullet maker...

Like calling a Glock slide/barrel an “upper,” but worse.
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I just bought a bag of 230 grain 45 ACP bullets for reloading and they were labeled, "bullet heads".
 
Had a guy come in the shop and ask if we had any "points". After ten minutes of q and a and much frustration I realized he wanted hollow point ammunition for his "pitol". BTW, he wanted to buy a "beam" also. Laser.
 
PapaG said:
Had a guy come in the shop and ask if we had any "points". After ten minutes of q and a and much frustration I realized he wanted hollow point ammunition for his "pitol". BTW, he wanted to buy a "beam" also. Laser.
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Really?

In a way it makes me feel kinda glad that I will not see the future..............:(
 
Read a for sale ad for a gun that had a "shinny" bore. Smith and Weston. Ivers Johnston. Ithica. Lee a pold. Get to see and hear lots of these on the shop. Let it go.
Last story, caller asked if we had any "shoats". "What?" ."Shoats, fo my gun". "Shorts, like .22 shorts". "Yeah.". "Are you sure you don't want long rifles?" "No, it a pistol, a shoat little pistol". Twenty minutes he came in with his 22 lr Taurus and bought the long rifles. I learn new stuff all the time, even languages. I think twelve pages doesn't scratch the surface of the subject.
 
I'm kinda wondering why I read most of the 11+ pages of post. My eyes! lol

Can't think of anything that really makes me grit my teeth, except heartburn in the middle of the night.

People will be people, misinformed or not. This does not include politicians, in general.
 
It happens mostly on TV when referring to someone who is a marksman, a good shot, or a good shooter, they say he "has good aim" (shudder).
 
PapaG said:
Had a guy come in the shop and ask if we had any "points". After ten minutes of q and a and much frustration I realized he wanted hollow point ammunition for his "pitol". BTW, he wanted to buy a "beam" also. Laser.
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Many years ago I had a young man come into the store I worked at and he asked where the stuffins were. After a couple of questions he said "stuffins, the things you stuff in the shotgun shell before you put the shot in". Ok, wads, I took him to where we had the wads. He asked what ones for 12 gauge. At that point I told him I wouldn't sell him any till his dad came in the store. He got pissed and went out and got his dad. His dad was just as clueless as he was. I refused to help either of them, figuring if they blew up their shotgun I wanted no part of it.

To those that haven't reloaded shotshells. Substitution of a wad in a recipe can easily put you into the danger pressure zone.
 
When someone holds up a stainless steel in-line ignition muzzleloader with synthetic stock and 3-9 power scope sight and calls it his "old smoke pole". Ick.

Bullets instead of Cartridges.

Boolits really gets me too.
 
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These are terms I have run across many times in printed magazines that just make me grit my teeth:

Legendary

German Technology

Old World Craftsmanship

Advertisers understand the power of suggestion. With just a term the reader will create a narrative story around "Legendary", "German Technology" and "Old World Craftsmanship". The fantasy generated is unique to each individual, even though, each individual assumes that everyone else is living in the same delusion. And then, to read/hear shooters parroting these advertising terms back, as though they really meant something, just really gets my goat.
 
People actually refer to bullets as heads or bullet heads? That's the stupidest thing I think I've ever heard.

From now on I'm calling the bumper on my pickup the truck head. I'd love to see the look on a mechanic's face.

"You're looking for bullet heads? Oh................ Get out of my store."
 
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I remember when I was in a LGS and a guy came in and asked to see a Makarov. The problem was he was Russian and spoke the Word in Russian Dialect. The LG behind the counter corrected him, told him point black that was the incorrect way to Pronounce the name. The Russian got a little upset, corrected him told him he was Russian and knew very well how to pronounce the name and again the LG insisted he was wrong, got to the point of being belligerent. The Russian guy, just finally got fed up and never got to see the gun. I was standing at the counter listening to this. After the Russian guy left, I looked up at the LG and said, I wish I had the Russian Words to call you a ignorant dumb A**.

The Makarov pistol or PM (Russian: Пистолет Макарова, Pistolet Makarova, literally Makarov's Pistol) is a Russian semi-automatic pistol. Under the project leadership of Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov, it became the Soviet Union's standard military and police side arm in 1951.[4]

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http://www.pronouncekiwi.com/Makarov
 
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I have heard the term 'head' for bullet for many years, although I rarely use it myself. At first I thought it was local slang, since those using it were knowledgeable people. Then one day I was going over some boxes in the garage and found my Texas history book from probably fourth grade. I had drawn a large picture of a cartridge on the back and labelled the bullet as the head! That must have been 1961 or 1962, so I must have been taught that terminology way back then.
 
I can't believe I haven't seen "Close Quarter(s) Battle." I hate that term. Like "tactical," it is just another excuse to charge more for the gun.
 
tark said:
Wrong :what: Every stripper clip I ever saw had a flat piece of spring steel in it, underneath the cartridges. :)
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I wish I could be certain I was correct, but I used to have stripper clips to load M1 Carbine magazines, and do not recall them having spring steel in them ..... but anyone currently possessing them could prove me wrong .... :uhoh:
 
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