roval
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Maybe a stupid question but why do some call cast bullets boolits? It's not a filter function since we use the word bullets freely here and doesnt seem to be brand related(MBC vs self cast)
why boolits vs bullets
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splattergun
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The term 'boolit' is used by those who cast their own to differentiate them from mass produced bullets. It is a matter of pride of their lovingly and skillfully hand-crafted projectiles versus the mass produced factory fodder. The word Boolit approaches the sacred.
Huskerguy
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Being a school administrator, I loathe when words are intentionally spelled incorrectly. You try to teach kids how to spell words correctly. Just my pet peeve.
buck460XVR
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Started by Cast Boolits gun forum. Now folks think it sounds cool. Kinda like why some say boobs while some say breasts.
Magnum Shooter
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boolits - A name for hand crafted, homemade cast bullets as opposed to mass produced type made by the thousand for $$$.
primalmu
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It originated as a quick and easy way to distinguish between cast bullets and jacketed bullets.
Kp321
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There is a cast bullet forum on the web that uses the word boolits in its name. The term has mistakenly been expanded to mean any lead bullet.
Don't get me started on the use of nicknames on these forums. They are not Remmies, Mossies, Springers, or Winnies. Use the proper brand name, please!!!
Don't get me started on the use of nicknames on these forums. They are not Remmies, Mossies, Springers, or Winnies. Use the proper brand name, please!!!
roval
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Thanks for the clarification.
rcmodel
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The bullets I hand cast from carefully blended alloy, and lovingly size & lube are Bullets.
NOT Boolets!
And don't call shotguns Shottys either!
rc
The bullets I hand cast from carefully blended alloy, and lovingly size & lube are Bullets.
NOT Boolets!
And don't call shotguns Shottys either!
rc
GBExpat
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This. ↑↑↑↑↑↑Magnum Shooter said:
I must confess that seeing people referencing the term "boolits" was a source of minor annoyance to me (same category as things like Wala instead of Voila and Woah instead of Whoa) ... until I learned that it was a term coined to describe a specific item rather than just an(other) example of ignorance.
For those who want to understand this issue I recommend a course in linguistics, paying particular attention to how languages change. Which they do....and there's nothing anyone can do about it.*
I taught high school for 32 years. Kids who had "correct spelling" hammered into their heads from first grade on were taken aback when reading a few pages of the journals of Lewis & Clark. Lewis was the more educated man; Clark could spell the same word four different ways on the same page. Spelling was pretty creative among the unlettered -or, in this case partially lettered folk. It was not until Noah Webster and his Spelling Book came along about twenty years later that things began to change.
I dislike "boolits" on æsthetic grounds; I don't like the way it looks. Is there anything "wrong" with it? Not intrinsically, although I believe on what is fundamentally a technical forum, one should strive to be very specific, with the goal of maximum comprehension in the reader.
*Example of language change: whatever happened to all those terminal 'e's in English? Well, nowadays they're resurrected on the signs of subdivisions: Ye Olde Pheasant Pointe. If you want to start an argument, ask someone who lives there why "pheasant" doesn't have an 'e.' The answer, if anyone ever asks you, is that terminal vowels tend to disappear over time. Nobody knows why.
I taught high school for 32 years. Kids who had "correct spelling" hammered into their heads from first grade on were taken aback when reading a few pages of the journals of Lewis & Clark. Lewis was the more educated man; Clark could spell the same word four different ways on the same page. Spelling was pretty creative among the unlettered -or, in this case partially lettered folk. It was not until Noah Webster and his Spelling Book came along about twenty years later that things began to change.
I dislike "boolits" on æsthetic grounds; I don't like the way it looks. Is there anything "wrong" with it? Not intrinsically, although I believe on what is fundamentally a technical forum, one should strive to be very specific, with the goal of maximum comprehension in the reader.
*Example of language change: whatever happened to all those terminal 'e's in English? Well, nowadays they're resurrected on the signs of subdivisions: Ye Olde Pheasant Pointe. If you want to start an argument, ask someone who lives there why "pheasant" doesn't have an 'e.' The answer, if anyone ever asks you, is that terminal vowels tend to disappear over time. Nobody knows why.
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Props to Rico for elucidating the fallacy of static orthography whilst preserving the æ in æsthetic. My brother, a professor of linguistics, would be proud. By the way, do even the purest purists among us retain the hyphen in to-day? Or have we a all capitulated to that crass neologism, "today?"
Schwing
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They all always have been, currently are, and always will be bullets to me.
ArchAngelCD
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Bullets are bullets IMO but since everyone has the right to be wrong they can write boolits all they want.
CraigC
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They're all bullets. If some folks want to use a made up word to differentiate themselves and make them feel superior to the peasants who buy their cast bullets, that is fine. It's silly to me. I'd rather be shooting bullets than casting boolits.
Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!
ngnrd
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So... intentionally spelling a word incorrectly* is worthy of your loathing, but using a sentence fragment to make that point is wholly appropriate? How progressive of you.
*The word 'boolit' is not spelled incorrectly. It is simply a word that you are unfamiliar with. As periwinkle is to blue, 'boolit' has a more limited definition than does the word 'bullet'.
KansasSasquatch
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When someone uses the term boolits I can quickly and easily comprehend exactly what they're referring to. I have more against people misusing there, their, and they're, it's not always quite as easy to decipher what people mean when they misuse those words.
Catpop
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By the way, when you go to the LGS and ask for a box of 9mm ammo, do you say," I want a box of 9mm bullets?" Enough said as they are cartridges.
The slang term boolit distinguishes the projectile from what the novice calls cartridges, namely bullets. Not really that complicated except to those outside the circle.
Happy reloading, catpop.
The slang term boolit distinguishes the projectile from what the novice calls cartridges, namely bullets. Not really that complicated except to those outside the circle.
Happy reloading, catpop.
Wil Terry
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BOOLITS....the simple answer to this bastardization of the long used correct word is IGNORENCE. Perhaps with a good dose of STUPID tossed in for good measure.
ngnrd
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I'm sure you really meant IGNORANCE, right?
<mumbles something about stones and glass houses...>
I thought I was the only one that saw that, I was going to let it pass.I'm sure you really meant IGNORANCE, right?
<mumbles something about stones and glass houses...>
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