What firearms "terminology" makes you grit your teeth?

Too many people call a cartridge a caliber.
Kinda hard to take what they write seriously when they pull a Fudd like that.

A truck gun IMHO is something that rides in the truck a lot.
Uncased.
Usually getting dinged up.

I bought a Rem 700 that spent most of its life riding in a pickup truck window rack.
Carried a lot, shot little.
It cleaned up pretty well
Of course the stock needed refinished. PITA removing that RKW stuff.

Bet a lot of 783, Axis and RAR get purchased to be "truck guns".

460Shooter said:

10 pages of words and phrases we don't like.

I think we all have too much time on our hands.

Click to expand...

Can't go shooting during downtime at work.

Hookeye said:

Too many people call a cartridge a caliber.
Kinda hard to take what they write seriously when they pull a Fudd like that.

Click to expand...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but they never say, "I have to go buy some calibers." Or, "How many calibers can you fit in that magazine?" Or, "What cartridge is that bullet?" Tell me if you have seen different. My point is that the way the mistake is normally made is very insignificant. I can just take it in stride.

Texas10mm said:

When the picture shows bullets sitting there with no brass that should be clue #1.

Click to expand...

or... maybe the loaded ammunition manufacturers are wrong?

also

Jack Ryan said:

Truck gun, brush gun...

Who the heck hunts trucks and brush?

Click to expand...

"Umm..." (slowly raises hand.)

Just thought of another one that makes my right eye twitch, muzzle 'breaks'. They're 'brakes', like for your car or truck.

RedlegRick said:

Just thought of another one that makes my right eye twitch, muzzle 'breaks'. They're 'brakes', like for your car or truck.

Click to expand...

*ahem*
I have to come clean and say I have been guilty of this one on the past.

I *meant* brake... I typed... ... ... well... something different...

Corpral_Agarn said:

*ahem*
I have to come clean and say I have been guilty of this one on the past.

I *meant* brake... I typed... ... ... well... something different...

Click to expand...

Yeah, if we start in on spelling errors, this thread will go even further down the tube.

I figure life's to short to worry about it.

I didn't read the whole thing so my apologies if it's been discussed. It drives me crazy when idiots type/write things as they hear them....specifically...."simi-auto". Really moron? You had to over-ride your spellcheck to even type that. Do you not understand "semi"?

How about when someone says ... "Booger hook on the bang switch " ?

C.R. said:

How about when someone says ... "Booger hook on the bang switch " ?

Click to expand...

Someone actually wrote that???
Pete

thats the one that has me shaking my head every time i see or hear it .there are people out there who say that kind of thing.

"MINTY"
Is it spear or pepper?

Pete D. said:

Someone actually wrote that???
Pete

Click to expand...

I've used that a few times, either pointing out a stupid ND or when I teach people.
When you teach them, keeping everything sounding instructional can blend together. Saying this gets their attention because it's goofy and makes them stop for a second to translate it.

Personally, I overlook common spelling/grammar errors in online posts because not everyone is a grammar/spelling nazi like I am. Not worth the grief and bad blood that can engender.
But muzzle brake is where I draw a line in the sand, because most auto-correct programs do offer the correct usage for it. Especially when I see it in an ad made up by someone who should know better.

Pete D. said:

Someone actually wrote that???
Pete

Click to expand...

Think it was Clint Smith back in the day ... it was kinda funny then.

Pete D. said:

Someone actually wrote that???
Pete

Click to expand...

I used to use it as a colloqialism.

"Minty" ... I dislike that term too. A while back I was looking at an item at a gun show ; the dealer loudly described it as "Minty , Minty , MINTY!" I moved on.

"Booger hook" - What does that even mean? Sure sounds stupid.

One of my peeves - referring to a firearm as a "bad boy". I am never comfortable in a shooting environment with someone who uses juvenile terminology such as that.

Darn , I was resisting jumping in here...

When people call my scoped rifle a sniper rifle. I’m not a sniper guys!!!

C.R. said:

How about when someone says ... "Booger hook on the bang switch " ?

Click to expand...

I’ve used this, booger picker anyways, when working with youth. It helps break things up a bit, and it lets me know if they are paying attention or not.

Custom patina hard to find rare and numer 1 ? Not for sell

STRIKER FIRED- This is an inline ignition system. It's called "striker" or "striker fired" to differentiate it from "hammer" or "hammer fired" systems which use a rotary hammer to drive the firing pin. The most common type of striker fired firearms are bolt action rifles.

MANUAL OF ARMS- This has been the official descriptor of how to operate a firearm since before our great-grandfathers were in knee britches. Running a Firearm- A firearm is a machine. People run many types of machines, tractors, drill presses, lathes and so on. Maybe running a rifle isn't such a stretch?

HIGH POWER RIFLE- This is an official term used to describe smokeless rifle calibers loaded to smokeless pressures. There are even official High Power Rifle matches. The 30-06, 7.62x51 and 5.56x45 fall in the category of "high power rifle".

Terms that bother my CDO-
Direct Impingement when describing the gas system of an AR. It's not a direct impingement system.
Calling a rifle a gun.
Platform. Particularly AR Rifle Platform. Platforms are the support. What is an AR platform? The user. What is a Glock platform? The user.
The term I despise the most is Saturday Night Special. It's a racially derogatory remark. It's use should generate a warning from the mods for inflammatory language.