Posting w/abbreviations/ translating?

Google will usually provide a definition. And sometimes I have to use it.

MOA= minute of angle. One minute of angle is just over 1" at 100 yards, 2" at 200 yards and so on. Technically speaking it is a tiny bit bigger than 1", but shooters generally round off.

Check out the sticky near the top of this page. It will answer some questions. And welcome.

6th from the top. Hope this helps.

Hello Malibu ,

And ..... DORA LIVES !!!

Malibu2020 said:

New to this site. Found after buying air rifle then an air pistol. Like to look thru posts just for info on what people have,
How/why. Find it great that info is shared
By many. Question is: is there a place to
Find meanings of abbreviations? Ones in the know understand. Saw post where 1MOA was used. Think it had to do with
Accuracy. Like to be able to understand
Terminology. Thanks!

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Welcome. Seems Meeks36 has your question answered.
What pellet guns did you buy?

When I get to the abbreviations I just stop reading. I don't even bother to figure out what they are supposed to be.

Doesn't that limit the learning process?

Enjoy a small learning curve. Other abbreviations / acro's are always coming, some I don't get, I don't know who Karen is or if it's even an acro. LoL. WTROL ''without the rule of law'' (think ''Seattle'' LoL). Still worse are acro's that actually spell pronounceable names, such as FUDDs "fear uncertainty doubt.''

The main abbreviations to learn are, 2A ''Second Amendment, '' BOR ''Bill of Rights,''and of course THR...

''The High Road''

WELCOME ! ! !

Welcome aboard. A great many with a knowledge base related to firearms reside here. I am always learning something new.
BTW there is a air gun area for our members too.

You're about to run into things like FTF, FTE, COAL, OAL and on and on............some may have a dual meaning so sentence context is critical. EX: FTF can mean Face To Face, as in a sale of a gun to another, OR it could mean Failure To FIRE, as in a semi not ejecting spent shells.

edited to correct my brainfart

My problem has become remembering what they all mean. I do OK with those that are used regularly but when I run into something I have to look up that's it. I go on to something else. I'm old and don't want to waste time looking up obscure meanings when someone is too lazy to type it out.

rust collector said:

Err, Failure to Feed. But you get the idea. We all know what we mean, but sometimes our fat fingers get in the way. So do brain farts.

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Yep, these damn new glasses have me seeing cross-eyed!

Hang in there Malibu2020, we were all beginners at the beginning.

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...bbreviations-acronyms-and-terminology.370999/
A THR Primer on Courtesy and Basic Abbreviations, Acronyms and Terminology

Commonly used acronyms can be confusing even after learning them all. FtF can mean fail to feed or fail to fire and FtE could mean fail to extract or fail to eject. I tend to spell out.

Posts with less text tend to be easier to scan (or are less intimidating). So, using abbreviations and acronyms can condense the post, visually.

There's a related online abbreviation/initialism, "tl;dr" which is shorthand for "too long; didn't read" which usually heads a synopsis of something longer (on twit' or 'gram, it's a very rude rebuttal, if handy for retweeting trolls).

We here on THR span a huge variety of professions, trades, and experience (and national location, too), so it can be complicated to keep track of every expression, initialism, acronym of the like. Since we are all online as well, certain online habits follow us around, too.

As you read more and learn more, often times the context of the message will lead you to understand the abbreviation that’s used.
There are a lot of them, especially in reloading threads. This is because reloading manuals don’t have tons of space to write out what everything means, so COAL (Cartridge Over All Length), HBWC (Hollow Base Wad Cutter bullet) and lots of others are used extensively simply due to space limitations.

I learned most of the abbreviations from reading gun mags for ages. When they have a performance report on a cartridge load or specific gun they’ll put together a list of what was fired and how well it performed. At the bottom of most of these charts are the abbreviation explanations. These usually carry over to reloading manuals and gun specific sites like this one.

Don’t be intimidated by your lack of knowledge, it’s perfectly OK. Not one of us here was born with all the gun knowledge in the world, we read, asked, listened and learned-by-doing. You’ve made a good choice to read and learn from THR posters. Many of the folks who inhabit the site are extremely experienced and knowledgeable people who like to share what they’ve learned. And if someone posts something far out in left field, they’ll correct the errant posts often with extensive reasoning from real-world experience rather than “I know it all” attitudes found on way too many other sites.

Sit back, read, learn and enjoy THR. I’ve been learning about guns for over 45 years and every day I learn at least one new thing from the others who’ve been doing the same thing for far longer than I.

Stay safe.

Some posts look like text messages sent by a 15 year old girl. I am not going to bother trying to decipher it. Using full words really is not that hard.

Bill Raby said:

Some posts look like text messages sent by a 15 year old girl. I am not going to bother trying to decipher it. Using full words really is not that hard.

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No it's not hard but it takes up more space. The more space we take up the more it costs those who run THR. I agree it is a pain. I'm in my 30s and have a hard time deciphering. Have to ask my kids every once in a while.

Welcome to THR, Malibu 2020.

Don’t feel bad or confused. I have been online in different sites for years and sometimes I have to ask what abbreviations and acronyms mean. Especially when people come up with their own cutesy terms.

Meeks36 said:

The more space we take up the more it costs those who run THR.

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You could always contribute money to THR so we don't have to abbreviate .

I really don't know half of the abbreviations used online or in texts. I'm not that old (36) but I don't follow that much of pop culture things. I'm so bad that I can't usually figure out which direction to read those comic book style memes that people send me, I have to ask my wife, who thinks I'm just being a moron.

The ones that really get me are the abbreviations that aren't common and the post will read like -"which TASSR should I get", me: "TASSR?" them: "tactical assault single shot rifle, dummy. Every mall ninja has one, duuuuuuh"

The world gets weirder every day we're alive, before you know it they'll have telephones you keep in your pocket and computers that don't require their own zip code. Oh well.

Bill Raby said:

Using full words really is not that hard.

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Having been forced (at&t cable broke) to use only my phone to connect to THR for four days, I can say that a mobile device really encourages brevity, for having to peck out letters on a small keypad.

Now, if a poster has included their location in their information, so that they might be international, I do try to not use contractions, idiom, and the like. I try to shift to all SI notation, too, so that Google Translate is not rendering things in furlongs per square newton or some such.

And it can be tough sledding. Most of us, here, tend to refer to the 1934 GCA as NFA, the National Firearms Act, and usually only in respect to Title One of that act.
We sometimes refer to GCA 68 to refer to the specific portions of 18 USC 922 (Title 18 United States Code ("Crimes and Criminal Procedure") Section 922, titled "Unlawful Acts"; which gave us the concept of Federally licensed dealers, the 4472, and Prohibited persons (and just a mere 50 years ago).
Occasionally, there will be references to Hughes '86 (or pre and post 86), which refers to the Hughes Amendment to the Firearms Owners Protection Act (aka FOPA) which closed the machine gun portion of the NFA registry.
We tend to recognize RKBA as the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

We are generally flameless around here (unlike other places on the 'net), if you see something that makes you go "huh?" just ask. No guarantees you won't get at least one smart donkey answer, but you will find out.