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

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

    I know I'm being picky but incorrect terminology has a habit of being picked up and used too often.

    Bullet heads, are bullets.
    Recoil shield is the breech face,

    I can't think any others at the moment!

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    May I venture to add "muzzle brake" (NOT "break"), and "coup de grace" (NOT "coup de gras")?

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    ft/lbs when meaning ft-lbs (admittedly I see it used less often since a certain airgun magazine mended it's ways)
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    Quote Originally Posted by enfield2band View Post
    C.O.L. CARTRIDGE OVERALL LENGTH. Overall is one word.

    I know I'm being picky but incorrect terminology has a habit of being picked up and used too often.

    Bullet heads, are bullets.
    Recoil shield is the breech face,

    I can't think any others at the moment!

    Best email trump and let him know it should be USOA!

    Anyhoo I'm off to order some heads, I need to get some loading done
    Thanks for looking

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    Quote Originally Posted by Turnup View Post
    ft/lbs when meaning ft-lbs (admittedly I see it used less often since a certain airgun magazine mended it's ways)
    Technically speaking, seeing as we are being pedantic, it is ft.lb (sometimes ft.lbs or ft.lbf), not ft/lbs or ft-lbs (or even ft/lbf or ft-lbf) and never in this context lbf.ft
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    Quote Originally Posted by sarge4318 View Post
    Technically speaking, seeing as we are being pedantic, it is ft.lb (sometimes ft.lbs or ft.lbf), not ft/lbs or ft-lbs (or even ft/lbf or ft-lbf) and never in this context lbf.ft
    Depends on which schools you went to. and I believe both are correct. The . and the - are interchangeable in this context and sometimes the - is preferable as in Newton-metre or kilowatt-hour. I think we are agreed that ft/lb is always wrong.
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    Quote Originally Posted by enfield2band View Post
    Recoil shield is the breech face,
    No, the recoil shield is the raised area of a revolver frame at the rear of the cylinder that prevents the cartridges in the cylinder from being dumped out of the chambers from the recoil of a round firing....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Gain View Post
    May I venture to add "muzzle brake" (NOT "break"), and "coup de grace" (NOT "coup de gras")?
    Ah, 'coup de grace', French for lawn mower. Also, 'apéritif' - a 'set of dentures', and finally 'pas de deux', 'father of twins'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tacfoley View Post
    Ah, 'coup de grace', French for lawn mower. Also, 'apéritif' - a 'set of dentures', and finally 'pas de deux', 'father of twins'.
    That made me chuckle!

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    I may aswell vent that I hate it when people talk about “kick back” in reference to recoil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sarge4318 View Post
    Technically speaking, seeing as we are being pedantic, it is ft.lb (sometimes ft.lbs or ft.lbf), not ft/lbs or ft-lbs (or even ft/lbf or ft-lbf) and never in this context lbf.ft
    Ah! but that depends on what you mean by pedantic
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