What firearms "terminology" makes you grit your teeth?

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Reloadron said:
It absolutely is. I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who had a cousin and her boyfriend knew a guy who while wasn't in the Army knew someone who once walked past an Army post. A guy was shot in his small toe and the bullet traveled up his leg, tore out all of his vital organs and exited through the back of his head leaving a 5" hole. This is a result of bullet tumbling effect. That's why all of these guns, weapons of mass destruction, need to be banned along with their ammunition in civilian hands as of yesterday. Then too, we could just ban the liberal mindset who actually believe stupid stuff like this.

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Probably because it passed through and engine block first I imagine, made it do that.
 
“Tactical”, when all they did was color it black.
“Zombie” anything.
“Mil-Spec”...name the military specifications or be quiet.
Also mark me down for “Military Style”. I guess we could start a trend in naming and call stupid and idiotic things “Politics Style”. :D
 
rpenmanparker said:
Despite the many references to it in this thread, I have never heard a cartridge called a caliber or vice-versa either on these forums or anywhere else. Now mixing up advise with advice and lose with loose, well that happens all the time. Caliber with cartridge, not so much.
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Really? You've never heard this (or similar)?

"What caliber is that rifle?"

"30/06."

Never heard anything like that? Never ever?

Wow.
 
At my age I try to take care of my teeth and not grit them---about anything. I'll admit that 'chassis" and "furniture" when referring to rifles makes me kind of want to grit them. All these years rifles were mounted in stocks. Now we have to switch names. Stock isn't good enough anymore. Where is the head shake emoji?
 
theotherwaldo said:
-For artillery and naval guns, the barrels are measured in "calibers" which is how many projectile diameters it would take to equal the barrel's length.

Yeah, I used to work in a shipyard that built Navy ships.
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The term is used in that context in small arms aw s well....

'the bullet had a 7 caliber ogive...'
 
Using a decimal point and then the word "caliber." As in .45 Caliber. It should be, 45 Caliber, since a caliber is 1/100". A ".45 Caliber" weapon would have a bore diameter of 0.0045". It's become acceptable to do so nowadays, but it's still technically incorrect.
 
This may have been posted and I missed it, but;
When on the subject of HPs, someone says, "Oh, you mean cop killer bullets?"
This is usually said by a person who may have never handled or owned guns. But are spoon fed the misinformation from the gun control crowd.
 
Just read through this thread and I agree with most of the cringe factor comments.
On the other hand I have never heard anyone use the Shotty one. I don't know, being an avid upland bird hunter of part English decent and the owner of a very birdy English Springer Spaniel I just may have to tell someone:
" Me and the pup are going to take the shotty and go look for some Pheazzies". :neener:
I think the Rolling Stones may have written a song about it, ya know,
" I can't get no shottyfaction" :p
 
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