Terms, Acronyms and other helpful stuff

[sundog]

I thought it would be fun and maybe helpful, especially to newcomers. Some are obvious, some not so. If we get enough stuff the mods might want to make it a sticky - sorta an archive of our contribution to the English language. This is stuff we say every day here on the board, but may be lost on others.

Acronyms
BP - holy black!
FLGC - full length gas check, copper clad bullets, see condum
FWFL - Felix World Famous Loob
GB - group buy
GC - gas check
HT - heat treat
PP - paper patch
RS - range scrap
WP - white (smokeless) powder, as opposed to BP
WQ - water quench
WW - wheel weight

Terms
boolit - a real bullet, cast with real lead
loob - boolit lube
cruise missile - 170 gr 6.5 boolit designed by ?
condum - see FLGC
soup can - Lee 113-RF
castpics - a boolit friendly web site

Firearms
Brit - any one of the numbered Enfields, a SMLE
Finn - Finnish Nagant
Jap - Arisaka
revolter - revolver
Rusky - Mosin Nagant
SMLE - Short Magazine Lee Enfield, a Brit
Swede - Swedish Mauser
Turk - Turkish Mauser

Periodic chart
Ag - silver
Al - aluminium
As - arsenic
Bi - bismuth
Cu - copper
Hg - mercury
Mo - molybdenum
Ni - nickel
Pb - lead
S - sulphur
Sb - antimony
Sn - tin
Zn - zinc

[45nut]

great idea there Corky.

[STP]

BHN= Brinell Hardness Number

[Blammer]

BS-what you find at the end of a bull

[Bullshop]

Blammer
Watch it now, I am liable to develope a complex.
BIC/ BS

[Jim]

COL- cartridge overall length
OAL- over all length
M/V - muzzle velocity
FPS - feet per second
IMHO- in my honest opinion
SWMBO- wife
YMMV- your milage may vary
IIRC- if I recall correctly

[SharpsShooter]

See

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=3857

SS

[Morgan Astorbilt]

ROTFLMAO
Rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off.:mrgreen:

Morgan

[racepres]

But...Is PB =Lead.. or is it Plain Base / vs GC ???? MV

[KYCaster]

But...Is PB =Lead.. or is it Plain Base / vs GC ???? MV


PB= Plain Base
Pb= Lead



Jerry

[easy ed]

Great idea, thanks

[Buckshot]

Big Rooski, Big 30 Rooski, = 7.62x54R
30 Rooski Shortski = 7.62x39

..............Buckshot

[dromia]

CRAFT = Can't remember a f*****g thing.

[trk]

IMH(BA)O

In my humble (but accurate) oppinion

[Wayne Smith]

LOML - Love Of My Life, or wife, not gun!

[45nut]

ebola.. the kenyan hemorrhaging virus in DC.

[zardoz]

Loob terms:

JPW -Johnson Paste Wax

LLA - Liquid Lee Alox

More firearm acronyms:

SBH- Ruger Super Black Hawk.
SRH- Ruger Super Red Hawk.

[AZ-Stew]

ACWW - As-Cast or Air-Cooled Wheel Weights

SWMBO - She Who Must Be Obeyed (wife) (just to fill in some missing data from above post)

Minister of Finance - See: SWMBO

.45LC - .45 Long Colt or .45 Colt - Single action army (SAA) revolver cartridge

ACP - Automatic Colt Pistol

And just for the sake of putting it somewhere (this looked like a good place) the Finnish ammo manufacturer, Lapua, is pronounced lah-pwah, NOT la-POO-ah, as most shooters do. I asked the two Finnish guys manning the Lapua (lah-pwah) booth at the NRA convention because I thought they'd know. I trust them.

Regards,

Stew

[alamogunr]

And just for the sake of putting it somewhere (this looked like a good place) the Finnish ammo manufacturer, Lapua, is pronounced lah-pwah, NOT la-POO-ah, as most shooters do. I asked the two Finnish guys manning the Lapua (lah-pwah) booth at the NRA convention because I thought they'd know. I trust them.

Regards,

Stew

Somehow I'm afraid all you have accomplished is to reinforce what I found out some time ago. Most people will continue to mispronounce the name. By the way, the pronunciation that I read was the same sound but the writer wrote it "lop wah". Maybe not exactly the same but close enough for me.

When I was a kid my mother was a teacher. She would not abide mispronunciation of anything. We wore out several dictionaries. I still catch myself proofreading every post for spelling and punctuation. I forget which forum it was, but one poster wrote a long paragraph without a single capital letter or punctuation. The next poster took him to task for making it so difficult to read. The OP admitted he was in a hurry. I think lack of typing skill is responsible for most problems. I'm lucky that I am a fair typist. My wife won't use email because she can't type.

Rant off! Sorry for the hijack.

John
W.TN

[AZ-Stew]

...By the way, the pronunciation that I read was the same sound but the writer wrote it "lop wah"...

alamogunr,

"lop wah" "lah-pwah", certainly homophones. Can you smell the dictionary pages smoking across the country? :bigsmyl2:

Regards,

Stew

[Buckshot]

..............Just like Sabot, pronounced Say-bow. Means, 'Shoe'. Or Sako, pronounced Sock-O.

...............Buckshot

[MT Gianni]

Add Col Whey-Len vs Wheel-en and Loop=old vs Lee-Oh-Polled.

[cajun shooter]

Dead on Buckshot, I laugh every time I hear some one say SAH-Bat for SAy-Bow

[Hardcast416taylor]

So somebody humor this old man. What is NOE stand for?Robert

[alamogunr]

So somebody humor this old man. What is NOE stand for?Robert

Night Owl Enterprise. A mold maker. I believe the proprietor is Swede Nelson. Surprised someone else didn't answer before me. I haven't participated in a GB for one of his molds, but have been watching.

John
W.TN

[adrians]

CLOFI = complete lack of f******g interest,:twisted::coffee::evil:

[Von Gruff]

..............Just like Sabot, pronounced Say-bow. Means, 'Shoe'. Or Sako, pronounced Sock-O.

...............Buckshot

And the continued use of car been instead on the corect car bine ( wine)

Another more often mis-pronounced is Mauser but a lifetime of incorect use is difficult to change.

lol. :razz:

Von Gruff.

[JeffinNZ]

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Not an acronyms. Just a pair of boobs..............LOL

(LOL = laughing out loud)

[45nut]

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Not an acronyms. Just a pair of boobs..............LOL

(LOL = laughing out loud)

That's not a pair of boobs,, this is:

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:io0jpDbzbJLySM:http://smargus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/nancy_Pelosi_Harry_Reid.jpg&t=1

[BruceB]

Tell y'all what..."sabot" is a French word, (meaning "shoe", as already correctly mentioned).

I've studied French, and NOWHERE have I ever encountered a French-language rule that would yield the pronunciation SAY-BOW. The "BOW" part is okay, but the first syllable is pronounced with a soft"a", as in "sad". The word is SA-BOW.

Here endeth the lesson...

[fryboy]

(*)(*) prefer perky ones myself ;)

as for that other pair .... dont think what's correct is suitable for print ( just sayin' )

[felix]

Ed Shilen... Not SHY-LYNN, but SHILL-LYNN. BR barrel and action maker. ... felix

My childhood town: New Madrid, MO. Not Ma'-drid, but Mad-Drid, or Mad-Rid. News casters think we are in Spain, not Missouri. ... felix

[Uncle R.]

alamogunr,

"lop wah" "lah-pwah", certainly homophones.

Regards,

Stew

Well - I'm shocked. I didn't know they had their own - guess I always thought they used the same phones as everyone else.

:kidding:

[HORNET]

O.K., so how about the proper pronunciation for "meplat" ? Dang Froggish words...