I've always just called them (xx calibre) 'heads'.
Is this socially acceptable or will I burn in hell?
I've always just called them (xx calibre) 'heads'.
Is this socially acceptable or will I burn in hell?
Can I have a box 20 bullets with dumdum heads please?
The real mystery is how defensive people get about their apparent "right" to use completely incorrect terminology.
It's like me insisting that it is my ineffable prerogative to use left when I mean right and visa versa.
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The word bullet is derived from Old French - baille/balle - ball. The diminutive, baillette, simply means a 'little ball', and came into English usage as 'bullet', originally shot from a 'bullet-shooting' crossbow rather than a 'gonne'.
Soooooooooooo, the ball is the bit that comes out of the end of the barrel, and that's ALL it is. Latterly, military ammunition has been called 'ball' as in 'Cartridge, .303", MkIIV ball'.
To me, calling a bullet a 'bullet head' is a ridiculous as the latest fad of calling the ground the 'floor'.
As I noted earlier, only the Brits do it.
tac
It seems to be quite a new thing Tac - maybe over the last 5-10 years. Often newcomers to the sport, jumping in with both feet but no real depth of knowledge.
Imagine how long you would last at something like a classic car club and continued to called the camshaft the "valve bumper" even after the correct terminology was explained.
You could almost forgive an idiot reporter on a local newspaper, who has absolutely no knowledge of firearms, calling the trigger a "trigger switch" but there's no excuse for the holder of a FAC to do the same. Then of course, there's the guy with black tee shirt and camo trousers who been paint balling a couple of times and does a bit of airsoft thinks it cool to just call it a 'switch.
I know we all got to start somewhere and probably make plenty of mistakes along the way, but it seems rather strange that anyone should persist in calling an important component the wrong name and believe it doesn't matter.
Hi All.
So some call em Heads, tips ,I call them heads ,so what,. What you all want to do is pick on something a bit more important than your pet hate.
Now my pet hate is people that refer to my firearms as my WEAPONS, now according to my firearms certificate I am allowed to have in my possession ,FIREARMS /RIFLES [for whatever use], no where where does it say the WEAPON may be used for what ever where ever. Nor do I have permission to buy a WEAPON. If y'all want to do some educating of Newby's the Press and people general ,tell all yer mates to stop referring to the Firearms As WEAPONS , and maybe you will do something useful for a change..
What worries me is people can be arsed to argue the toss.
Sounds like folk need to get out and shoot more
I'm a maggot in another life you know
Well, it's not what they are called.
It would be like me claiming that your firearms are actually called waterarms.
The case head is the bit where the primer goes.
Bullets do not have heads.
An assembled round of ammunition, in as much as it has a head, this head would be the case head surely?
Out of interest, what motivates you do want to use incorrect terminology like this, genuinely curious?
"An infinite number of monkeys banging away at type writers for an infinite period of time will eventually reproduce Hamlet" Thanks to discussion forums we now know this to be untrue.
"An infinite number of monkeys banging away at type writers for an infinite period of time will eventually reproduce Hamlet" Thanks to discussion forums we now know this to be untrue.