Why "Boolits" over "Bullets"?

[Markbo]

I have seen numerous people naysay this spelling with more than one discussion getting downright agitated. It was always clear to me that it referred specifically to lead bullets. But I am curious and would like to steer some of these other guys straight... why was "Boolits" chosen over "Bullets" since "Cast" the first word and already clear what it means?

Thanks!
Mark

[Bret4207]

Some place on this site there was a sticky explaining it. In short, someone starting using the term here way back when, back when seeing the word "jacketed" was see as profane, and it stuck. If someone doesn't like it and it really, really bothers them...tough! There are many terms used I find irritating (pill, head, spur, HARDCAST!!!) , I'm not starting WW3 over it.

[Tatume]

It's cute. If you want to say "cast bullet" nobody will object.

However, "boolet" is peculiar to this forum, and serves as an unofficial keyword to identify information as originating here. If I'm doing an internet search and see it in a return, I'll usually click that link first.

[stubert]

If someone asks what weight powder to use with a certain weight boolit, We know it's cast and no more clarification would be needed.

[44man]

It's cute. If you want to say "cast bullet" nobody will object.

However, "boolet" is peculiar to this forum, and serves as an unofficial keyword to identify information as originating here. If I'm doing an internet search and see it in a return, I'll usually click that link first.

True and I have been beat up bad over boolit, it is hated by many, even Veral hates it.
But we are a special group here! No other site has so many members that get along like we do. We can fight tooth and nail but without anger and we still stay friends. I am starting to think other sites hate the word because of how well we get along, they don't have that.

[fishhawk]

Boolit also gets around the censers that restrict access to "EVIL GUN SITES"

[captaint]

Back when I decided to start casting (not that long ago) I dialed up "bullet casting" on Google. One of the first things I saw was Cast Boolits. I said OK, a little humor. My kind of people. I was right. And about Veral - he has no sense of humor at all using Boolits. I emailed him when I was buying a mold and used boolits. "Don't know what that is - never heard of one". OK Veral. Nice mold though. enjoy Mike

[Rocky Raab]

I'm a disliker, also. One thing that's never been explained satisfactorily to me is this: If "boolit" means "a cast bullet", then why is the website called Cast Boolits?

Does Cast Boolits then mean cast cast bullets?

[waksupi]

Markbo, it can be both a pronoun, and an verb.

[midnight]

I just assumed it was a way of separating this site from all the other junk that may come up when using Google. Other than that, who cares.

Bob

[rhbrink]

Oh Boy now we'r gettin a english lesson to!

[blackthorn]

Personally don't like 'boolit', so I don't use it, but it does not bother me when someone else does. As far as Veral is concerned, I have his book---great book with lots of interesting information BUT as far as spelling goes---VERAL IS IN NO POSITION TO THROW ROCKS!!! Have a great day!

[big dale]

I like it cause using it seems to piss a bunch of folks off. If I had been born about three decades later I might have been a punk rocker. I did go to a club one night in the late 70's when Merle Haggard opened for The Sex Pistols.

Have fun with this stuff.

Big Dale

[Lizard333]

Bullets = jacketed bullets
Boolits = cast boolits

Easy enough.

[Rocky Raab]

If anyone needs an English lesson, it would be you, rnbrink. You made no fewer than six errors in only nine words.

[Lizard333]

Looks like Hukd on fonix workd fer hime!

[perotter]

Thanks for the lesson on the word. I had always assumed that it came about because it more closely matched the phonic spelling of how bullet was pronounced in the area of the country the site originator was from.

And I never wanted to ask because I thought it would lead to an arguement about the correct way to pronounce bullet.

[dakotashooter2]

Bullets = jacketed bullets
Boolits = cast boolits

Easy enough.

Close.......

Bullets= any bullet NOT a cast bullet

Boolits= cast bullets

As a note I have always associated boolit to" home cast bullets" as opposed to commercial cast bullets

[Frank]

Boolits means you reinvented the wheel. It's easier to convince someone who knows nothing rather than someone who has extensive experience.

[Hang Fire]

On other gun sites, I use the word boolit without thinking. Several times I have either got corrected for my spelling, or, someone asks, what is boolit?

I have never had to answer, for another poster will chime in and explains it's the word the bullet casters use over on Cast Boolits, often with a link to here.