Why "Boolits" over "Bullets"?

[waksupi]

Chicken - egg - cast- swaged.

The swaged forum came on here long after the birth pains were over.

[MikeS]

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?

Rocky: After reading your books, I'm kind of surprised that you dislike boolits. I always just assumed that the word is used here mostly to differentiate between the 'true' members, and those that are just occasional visiters. Kind of like you flying a 'pig' rather than an airplane. (that is what you called the O2, or am I remembering it wrong?)

[220swiftfn]

I believe that it's because Boolette is a very attractive brunette, and Bullette is just a mousy, plain woman......... And since the site is named in her honor, it just made sense.....

(I know the Originator's story doesn't match this, but hey, which is more believable???)



Dan

[frankenfab]

I forgot dude, man, bro and brah

So, I guess you don't like my user title, then.

[Bullet Caster]

I was a member here for over a month before I found out what "boolit" meant. By that time I had read Ken's signature and found out what it truly meant. So if the top honcho wants to call it "boolit" then "boolit" it is. No problem. BC

[Lively Boy]

heck even the wife calls them boolits

[Mooseman]

Ok...it is simple !

B ullets
O ut
O f
L ead
I ngots
T hat
S hoot

Rich

[adrians]

are concieved ,with love, on / in ones ,,front porch,back shed , loading room , kitchen (not in my abode ) or wherever you deem appropriate.
Bullets are from some copper covered planet or Gander mountain.
iv'e been seen using both.....

[ghh3rd]

Cast boolit= Cast cast boolit

I think that a boolit is a cast bullet, so wouldn't a cast boolit be a cast cast bullet?

[canyon-ghost]

Being on several websites, it took Ken some serious work in chat to get me to type boolit rather than bullet. I don't mind because, I just envision Foster Brooks really, really drunk slur of Booo-oolitsssss! Makes me chuckle a little.

Nowdays, I use the two spellings interchangably.

Ron

[44man]

Ok...it is simple !

B ullets
O ut
O f
L ead
I ngots
T hat
S hoot

Rich

Now we have it! That would be the best response on other sites ever thought of. Super, thank you.

[44man]

Chicken - egg - cast- swaged.

The swaged forum came on here long after the birth pains were over.

Darn, I posted, had a double post, deleted one and both went.
I have the answer. Swaged with a jacket is a bullet but plain lead is a boolit.
B-bullets
O-out of
O-old
L-lead
I-in
T-the
S-swage
I had to get in on the fun.

[Lizard333]

Darn, I posted, had a double post, deleted one and both went.
I have the answer. Swaged with a jacket is a bullet but plain lead is a boolit.
B-bullets
O-out of
O-old
L-lead
I-in
T-the
S-swage
I had to get in on the fun.

Your just trying to get your post count up..... Excuses, excuses....

[44man]

Your just trying to get your post count up..... Excuses, excuses....

Really nothing I ever looked at and when I did---HOLY COW, have I spent that much time one this machine?
You need to know it is from being retired, looking at important work to be done and saying---HECK WITH IT!

[Char-Gar]

Bill Shakespear wrote in Romeo and Juliet.." A rose by any other name, would smell as sweet."

I find the bickering over nouns to be amusing. John Taffin breaks out in a sweat if somebody calls a sixgun/revolver a wheel gun. Unless you are some kind of word Nazi, what difference does it make?

I never use the term "boolit" but stay with bullet, but I am a retro kind of guy anyway.

[prs]

I disagree with several above. Cast boolit refers to a subset of boolits and not the only type of boolit. Swaged boolits are boolits too, nes pas!

prs

[Blammer]

Veral? who's he?

I like CB's.

[gandydancer]

I like it. and the owners of this site Whom made the word up let me use this site FOR FREE.

[floodgate]

It is especially important now that "bullet" is used - more often than not - in newspapers, novels and even police reports to refer to complete loaded rounds.

"My hobby is re-filling spent bullets..."

(the Old Rabble-Rouser)

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Now for the $64 question, how about swagers? It makes sense that you swage a solid lead boolit, but if you swage a jacketed core, it seems to me that you end up with a bullet whether you did it yourself or bought one in a yellow, red, or green box. Gear

It is especially important now that "bullet" is used - more often than not - in newspapers, novels and even police reports to refer to complete loaded rounds.

Gear, I swage some brass jacketed bullets, BT and I go way back ...before he started selling CH die bodies with his improved internal parts on another forum. I did some testing and QC type of consulting with his 44 caliber projectiles. I called them "swedges" for many months til I joined castboolits, then BT PMed me and said, you better quit mis-spelling swaged bullets or people here will give you krap.
So, as I said before, to me...Homemade cast are boolits...everything else is bullets.

-which leads me to floodgate's quote,
apparently everything else is a bullet !