Its NOT C.O.AL. it is....

[MikB]

C.O.L. CARTRIDGE OVERALL LENGTH. Overall is one word.

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Sorry, but OAL is a very long-accepted abbreviation for overall length - ship, aircraft, vehicles, cartridges, etc.

[severnsider]

Sorry, but OAL is a very long-accepted abbreviation for overall length - ship, aircraft, vehicles, cartridges, etc.

But it's loa for ships.

Herr Splitter.

[MikB]

But it's loa for ships.

Herr Splitter.

Or LBP.

But OAL is still a common - though less official - acronym.

[severnsider]

Or LBP.

But OAL is still a common - though less official - acronym.

But "length between perpendiculars" (LBP) is not the same as LOA. In over forty years of ship-related employment I've never come across "OAL" in relation to vessel measurement, whether in the registration paperwork, tonnage certificates or classification society nomenclature. Always happy to learn something new though, thanks!

[Parabuteo]

I still dont care

[MikB]

I still dont care

Neither do I. Anybody should understand OAL - I think I've recognised it since I was about 8.

[Parabuteo]

Neither do I. Anybody should understand OAL - I think I've recognised it since I was about 8.

Its like "Heads" v "Bullets". They were bullet heads when I was a kid. I know they are bullets and if anyone referred to them as a "Head", I know what they mean so why get stressed out about it?

If folk seriously think that they might "Mistake" a bullet for a case head as regards the reloading process then either "folk" or the "Miscreant" probably should not be out and about without a carer, let alone messing with hand loading.

THIS was one reason given, but generally it is just pedantics with bugger all better to do than find something that offends them