Bullet tips?

[fatnhappy]

When I took my hunter safety class a few eons ago, one instructor kept saying “projector” instead of projectile.

Clearly he was tacticool before it was cool.

[Geezer in NH]

When they use it and are selling them I do NOT buy from that company. Simple they may be a fraud as they have no knowledge of what they are selling.

[Buzz Krumhunger]

I’m still trying to cope with people calling cartridge cases “casings”, which to me is what you make link sausage with.

[vagrantviking]

When they use it and are selling them I do NOT buy from that company. Simple they may be a fraud as they have no knowledge of what they are selling.

I'm certain they know what they are selling. They are going out of their way to make it clear to idiots who don't know the terminology what they are buying. Pointedly and condescending to an extreme is probably still not enough to get through to some people.
I saw an email exchange posted by a dealer a year or so ago trying to deal with an irate twit who thought he'd found a killer deal on "bullets" and wouldn't admit that he didn't know the difference between ammunition and components. He cried about being ripped off.

Give the dealer the benefit of the doubt. Dealing with the public is a special skill that sometimes requires dumbing things down to a ridiculous level.

[marek313]

I just read that hand loading / reloading ammo was one of the most searched terms on Google lately. I think besides a whole new large group of brand new gun owners we have a new group of reloaders as well. These are not the usual conservative they are the new cool liberal shooters that have to be super woke with their own vocabulary and all. Maybe we are too old school to understand.

Maybe not all projectiles identify as bullets ??? Some identify as tips and they prefer to be call that

[John 242]

They are going out of their way to make it clear to idiots who don't know the terminology what they are buying. Pointedly and condescending to an extreme is probably still not enough to get through to some people.

I think you're right about dumbing things down.

I know a couple of the guys working at the local Academy's gun department. Since March they've had plenty of customers return to the store with boxes of Hornady bullets (projectiles), pissed off because they meant to buy loaded cartridges. They would get even more upset when they're told there are no returns on ammo or reloading components.

Something to bear in mind, although "we" know the proper terms for bullets, cartridges, ammo, etc., the 70 million new gun owners may not.

It seems that millions of people are looking for ammo. This guy may be trying to make sure that everyone knows he's not selling ammo. A lot of people don't know the difference between a bullet and a cartridge, and given the huge amount of new gun buyers, it would be wise to spell it out.

[blackthorn]

Bullet "Tips"-----Slang term for keyholing!

[dtknowles]

Imagine that and some people call detachable box magazines, clips

Tim

[Texas by God]

If we call the bullets heads - do we now call the case head the butt or the foot? Us country folk call empty brass hulls just like shotgun hulls. And loaded ammo "bullets" or " cahtiges" or rounds.

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[cwtebay]

We call them "shells", maybe some call them "bullets" here. As in "box of shells" or "empty shells". Bet you could sell whatever cartridges you want whether you term them ammunition or candy corn at this point.

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[Blanket]

how many cents per round annoys me. 22 shells a brick is 500, a box 50 or 100, shot shells 25 a box, 250 a flat 500 a case. Pistol 50 rounds per box, rifle 20 per box.

[loaded303]

how many cents per round annoys me. 22 shells a brick is 500, a box 50 or 100, shot shells 25 a box, 250 a flat 500 a case. Pistol 50 rounds per box, rifle 20 per box.

I’m always figuring up to 100 then going to 1000 then dividing down to the cent per primer, case, powder, projectile, or round in my head for years. 😂
Second nature to me🤔
Merry Christmas 🎄

[Blanket]

not so with us oldsters, we cast bullets, knew primer costs and powder by the lb

[loaded303]

not so with us oldsters, we cast bullets, knew primer costs and powder by the lb

Don’t know what’s old to you. That’s relative


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[abunaitoo]

Almost everyone here calls them "Heads", "Shells", "Ammo"
Never heard "tips" before.
Different places call the same thing by different names.
Here we call them "slippers", most places call them "flip flops"
"Soda" is "Pop" in most places.
There are many others that I can't think of.
It's not really wrong to not use the same name for things.
That, used to be, what made this country so great.
We could choose, without being ridicule.
Whatever different names we call them, it's best not to criticize.
We all share a common love of firearms.
By ridiculing one of us, it may turn them against us.

[10x]

in reality they are non tethered disposable pistons propelled by hot expanding gasses from a heat engine

[Joe504]

Almost everyone here calls them "Heads", "Shells", "Ammo"
Never heard "tips" before.
Different places call the same thing by different names.
Here we call them "slippers", most places call them "flip flops"
"Soda" is "Pop" in most places.
There are many others that I can't think of.
It's not really wrong to not use the same name for things.
That, used to be, what made this country so great.
We could choose, without being ridicule.
Whatever different names we call them, it's best not to criticize.
We all share a common love of firearms.
By ridiculing one of us, it may turn them against us.

I brought this up because the person using this term was asking for them in relation to reloading, and I was concerned about his knowledge if reloading.

His replays to my questions, and offers to help him understand the basics, did not give me any reassurance that he knows what he is doing.

I dont want any accidents to gain national attention and be an excuse to further regulate our hobby.

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[AndyC]

In Africa, working in a gun-store I became rather used to the local population coming in and asking for an "empty cassette" for their pistol - a spare mag, in other words. Any revolver was a "spin-barrel" and any silver handgun was automatically a "45 Mag-a-num".

With this lot one had to be quite diplomatic that the box of projectiles they wanted to buy was only "bullet-tips", not "bullets"

[SeabeeMan]

Tips, freedom seeds, pills, j-words, boolits, slugs, etc...all the same, just another word for the same thing. I tend to use freedom seed when trying to avoid Facebook censors.

[gwpercle]

Tips, freedom seeds, pills, j-words, boolits, slugs, etc...all the same, just another word for the same thing. I tend to use freedom seed when trying to avoid Facebook censors.

Don't forget " projo's " ...that's my favorite ...rhymes with Mojo !
Still working on knitting that sweater... harder than it looks
Gary