The word Cartridge and Bullet.

[shoobe01]

Gasp! Nope. Didn't know that. Not as much talk about how airguns work where I hang out, so I guess I was going off old data there.

 

[Jim Watson]

Yet, people use the term "powder" all the time, and no one gets their semantic panties in a wad. Smokeless propellant grains are pellets, flakes, tubes, balls, strips, cords, sheets, or occasionally, cylinders, with or without multiple holes in it, not a "powder."

Might be best to call the particles "granules" to avoid confusion with grains Avoirdupois on the scale.

 

[Reloadron]

Yet, people use the term "powder" all the time, and no one gets their semantic panties in a wad. Smokeless propellant grains are pellets, flakes, tubes, balls, strips, cords, sheets, or occasionally, cylinders, with or without multiple holes in it, not a "powder."

Rosettes, I forgot the rosettes.

I have a handle on that.


Ron

 

[lysanderxiii]

I have a handle on that.
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Ron

Yet if packaging for a magazine has the word "clip" on it, everyone goes bonkers.

I just don't get it.

 

[Reloadron]

Yet if packaging for a magazine has the word "clip" on it, everyone goes bonkers.

I just don't get it.

Years ago I had these three clips which I sent to another member. I had no use for them. The 225 was a Revelation model number for a Savage Model 340 Bolt Action rifle. So if it is a magazine why dis the guys who made it put "Clip For" on it. I had some interesting replies on that question. The image sort of defies the entire magazine/clip thing.



Something else comes to mind. There are cartridge gauges and there are headspace gauges.


CASE GAUGE
A fixture used to inspect cartridge case dimensions (i.e. length, diameters, thickness, etc.) to insure conformance to established tolerances.

HEADSPACE GAUGE
A device used in a firearm to determine the distance between the breech face and the chamber surface on which the cartridge seats. Also called Breeching Plug.
Also Known As: Breeching Plug

Yet if I Google 'headspace gauge" I get case gauges? What's with that? This gun stuff gets very, very interesting.

Ron

 

[lysanderxiii]

Might be best to call the particles "granules" to avoid confusion with grains Avoirdupois on the scale.

In technical literature they are referred to as "grains".

 

[Remington1911]

If this thread did nothing else I hoped it lets be a little more forgiving of terms new people use.

 

[Sudden Thunder]

Basically anyone in the shooting, and particularly reloading, community are word snobs. Use the wrong term according to their definition and they will be more than happy to point out your mis-speak. Ignore them, it is a no win argument.

Perhaps if you listen - you might learn what’s what!

 

[Jim Watson]

In technical literature they are referred to as "grains".

And I have heard novices to wonder about counting them out with tweezers, too.

 

[jag22]

Perhaps if you listen - you might learn what’s what!

Exactly my point. If I refer to a clip and you correct me that it is a magazine, you knew what I was referring to so we successfully communicated. That was the goal.

I wonder if some of these "alternative" words are just what we learned as a child
and continue to use them. I'm too old to remember what my dad called them.

 

[Jim Watson]

My Uncle called them "pistol clips" but then he called the Springfield he carried on Corregidor (before the War) a .30-30, too.