What is a Bullet Head

Ganderite said:
From time to time I have tried to correct people using incorrect nomenclature on here.

CGN is very educational. We all learn things. It would be hard not to learn something new every day on here. A few minutes ago I just learned that Tucker built an armoured car during the war that was designed to chase airplanes!!!

Since we are on a firearm forum, it is useful to use correct nomenclature so we all know what the other guy is talking about.

If the problem is damaged heads that are preventing ammo from chambering - which end of the round is damaged? The case head or the bullet?

If someone says the bullet tip is damaged, I assume he means the metplat. If it turns out that he meant "bullet" to mean "cartridge" I would correct him, so that he could learn something today.

In a recent thread I started, someone thought I was over reacting by correcting someone who wrote "bullets" when he meant "ammunition". But later, in the same thread, someone else referred to "head" when he did not mean the case head, but the bullet.

If someone is complaining that Winchester bullets won't feed in his pistol, we have to know if he means bullets or ammunition. Big difference.

The fact that so many shooters don't know the difference between a "bullet" and a "cartridge" cause problems to online retailers who have to go to great lengths to explain that the bullets they are selling are not loaded ammunition.

Bullet is a technical name for that little pointing thing stuck in the end of the case. I think 99% of us know that, so let's use the word.

I see the word "projectile" being used by people who know what a "bullet" is because they want to make sure the 1% who are confused by "bullet" know what is meant. "Bullet" and "projectile" are not synonymous. A "Bullet" is a specific item. You have a handful of them on your loading bench. They are not "projectiles" unless they are in ballistic flight, as are many other things, including golf balls. The bullets in your hand are not "projectiles". Almost all of us know they are bullets, so lets use the correct technical word.
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Incorrect nomenclature bothers me... especially when I do it regardless if it's in ignorance, force of old habit or forgetting. For that reason, I'd rather be corrected than carry on in ignorance but when I already know, it eventually comes back to me. I have to remember these reasons when I come across yet another thread in the OT about chainsaw chains and the myriad of old wives tales and mention of mystical things like "rakers"...

It's very important for effective communication to occur that correct grammar and nomenclature is used: if not for safety, then for ease in conducting business and showing the world that their stereotype of gun owners being slack-jawed morons is ill-conceived.
 
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While nobody I know uses the term bullet head I have seen the term used here on Gunnutz from time to time, I have always assumed the poster meant the bullet judging from their posts content and how they use the term. Another one that drives me nuts is the word "pill" instead of bullet, don't know why it just does.
 
bjmurata said:
While nobody I know uses the term bullet head I have seen the term used here on Gunnutz from time to time, I have always assumed the poster meant the bullet judging from their posts content and how they use the term. Another one that drives me nuts is the word "pill" instead of bullet, don't know why it just does.
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Yeah that one is worse than bullet head :)

Chris.
 
Boolit really bothers me almost as much as pill. As I understand it the forum about cast bullets wanted to stand out on the internet OR had a copyright issue (evidence isn't clear which it was) and coined the term boolit. They then made it into an internet legend by claiming the term boolit actually means a bullet made by hand by someone casting their own lead. The forum elders there say a jacketed bullet is not a "boolit" nor is a plated bullet a "boolit". Then the various people on the forum had a big snit fit over whether mass produced cast lead bullets made commercially were "boolits" or bullets. Smelling the "Boolsh*t" piling higher and higher I lost interest in pursuing it any further. The term doesn't exist historically prior to that forum.

Whenever I see someone type boolit deliberately I mentally subtract a few points off their IQ and or EQ :)
 
Heddok said:
Boolit really bothers me almost as much as pill. As I understand it the forum about cast bullets wanted to stand out on the internet OR had a copyright issue (evidence isn't clear which it was) and coined the term boolit. They then made it into an internet legend by claiming the term boolit actually means a bullet made by hand by someone casting their own lead. The forum elders there say a jacketed bullet is not a "boolit" nor is a plated bullet a "boolit". Then the various people on the forum had a big snit fit over whether mass produced cast lead bullets made commercially were "boolits" or bullets. Smelling the "Boolsh*t" piling higher and higher I lost interest in pursuing it any further. The term doesn't exist historically prior to that forum.

Whenever I see someone type boolit deliberately I mentally subtract a few points off their IQ and or EQ :)
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Being from the land of Hutterites, whenever I read the word ‘boolit’ I hear a Hutterite accent in my head.
 
Heddok said:
Boolit really bothers me almost as much as pill. As I understand it the forum about cast bullets wanted to stand out on the internet OR had a copyright issue (evidence isn't clear which it was) and coined the term boolit. They then made it into an internet legend by claiming the term boolit actually means a bullet made by hand by someone casting their own lead. The forum elders there say a jacketed bullet is not a "boolit" nor is a plated bullet a "boolit". Then the various people on the forum had a big snit fit over whether mass produced cast lead bullets made commercially were "boolits" or bullets. Smelling the "Boolsh*t" piling higher and higher I lost interest in pursuing it any further. The term doesn't exist historically prior to that forum.

Whenever I see someone type boolit deliberately I mentally subtract a few points off their IQ and or EQ :)
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Thank you. You beat me to it. The term "boolit" used as an actual word drives me nuts.
 
Trust me, I suffered through twenty years of answering the phone at my farm tractor salvage yard. It is frustrating when someone uses some silly slang word when asking about something that has a proper word to describe it.

Winny, Remmy, tips, heads, boolits (especially that one) annoy me.

Ok boys and girls, have at it. Not that I haven't heard it all before... d:h:
 
New Camper said:
Incorrect nomenclature bothers me... especially when I do it regardless if it's in ignorance, force of old habit or forgetting. For that reason, I'd rather be corrected than carry on in ignorance but when I already know, it eventually comes back to me. I have to remember these reasons when I come across yet another thread in the OT about chainsaw chains and the myriad of old wives tales and mention of mystical things like "rakers"...

It's very important for effective communication to occur, that correct grammar and nomenclature is used: if not for safety, then for ease in conducting business and showing the world that their stereotype of gun owners being slack-jawed morons, is ill-conceived.
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Raker is just slang. We all know the proper term is depth gauges. I've heard plenty of loggers and chainsaw shop owners and staff call them rakers, much more common than calling them depth gauges.
 
Boolit seems to be a made up word to have a bit of fun on the internet, and lots of people use it. I don't use the term, but I'm not a cast bullet junkie either. But it's just a single word.

Some guys are such attention whores they make up their own complete ridiculous language.
 
Gatehouse said:
Boolit seems to be a made up word to have a bit of fun on the internet, and lots of people use it. I don't use the term, but I'm not a cast bullet junkie either. But it's just a single word.

Some guys are such attention whores they make up their own complete ridiculous language.
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I wouldn't call 'Looky an attention whore.
 
Of all the made up crap words and wrong words on here two piss me off equally "boolit" and "hex barrel". I have gone out of my to offer a million dollars for a "hex" barrel winchester only to find out its octagon. How many arms/legs does an octopus have.
 
New Camper said:
It's very important for effective communication to occur, that correct grammar and nomenclature is used: if not for safety, then for ease in conducting business and showing the world that their stereotype of gun owners being slack-jawed morons, is ill-conceived.
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Your use of punctuation is radically ungrammatical, yet we all know exactly what you mean. Interesting.
 
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