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    Quote Originally Posted by Bmi48219 View Post
    If you listen to interviews of anti-Assault Rifle proponents you’ll frequently hear mags referred to as ‘clips’. You’d think someone hell-bent on banning assault rifles (or as the say ‘ARs’), would at least want to sound halfway intelligent.
    It's impossible for anyone who wants to ban guns to sound intelligent.
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    If they at least called it a cartridge head, I might not hate it so much, but they don't. Just ignorance of proper terms.

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    If you go to a region that uses terminology different than yours, whose the ignorant one?

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    Anecdotally, a few years back two young gentlemen showed up at the range. They were the kind of shooters you didn’t anticipate being problems. Ten minutes in to their session I noticed some baffled looks and quickly learned the cause. Shooter #2 had recently went into a sporting goods store to purchase 9 mm bullets. He had just opened a sealed black plastic box of 500 Berry’s 9 mm plated 124 HPs and was upset because the store clerk hadn’t told him he was buying real bullets..
    Earlier that day a foreign customer had given me a couple boxes of Winchester 9 mm ammo he couldn’t take back to Europe. I traded the ammo to the kid for the Bullets. We were both happy (I’m not a fan of Winchester range ammo). I’m pretty sure the young man now has a firm grasp on difference between ammo and bullets.
    Sometimes you learn the hard way, but then you don’t forget.

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    I've never heard of "heads" or knew anyone that used that term, and I've lived all over the US. Including Hawaii.

    I was able to score a couple of boxes of Hornady .355 115 grain bullets a few months ago from a guy at work who sent his wife to buy ammo from the LGS and came back with two boxes of useless bullets.
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    I've heard at least one person speak of "heads". It didn't bother me. I knew he was knowledgeable and was just using slang. No big deal.

    But it does bother me to hear someone call a cartridge a bullet.

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    In MY opinion, using cutesy words to describe something i.e. pills, heads etc. is indicative of one of two things. Either that individual is simple/ignorant or they are crying out for recognition as in "look at me, me, me----". In either instance that is so sad.
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    Growing up in rural S.E. Oklahoma, the terms shells and bullets typically mean a loaded cartridge. I have heard the term 'head' used when referring to the actual bullet itself, as in...the bullet head jammed going in the barrel and now it's bent. I think it's a regional thing.

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    Here’s one that I have heard recently & it makes me cringe (freedom pills )

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    I've heard tracer bullets called heads.
    "If everyone is thinking the same thing it means someone is not thinking"

    "A rat became the unit of currency"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cosmic_Charlie View Post
    I've heard tracer bullets called heads.
    This would be redheads.

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    Haven’t been there in a long time but used to see “pills” and “heads” on the AR15 site. ‘Nuff said.
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    About as "ignorant" as calling cast bullets.... boolits.

    I know...it is the site name...but you guys who do it look none too bright to most non-members....and even to this member.

    If Lyman ever puts out a Cast Boolit manual I will concede it is appropriate, but I will never use the word boolit in a post except to denigrate its usage.

    BTW, recently wanted to purchase some ingot molds from a member here but all he had left were marked with that word so I passed. If the Redneck Gold ones are ever offered I will buy a few. Would never wear a T-shirt with that word on it. The logo of the shapely, scantily clad lady riding a cast bullet is a good one. That I would wear!!!
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BP Bronze Point IMR Improved Military Rifle PTD Pointed
BR Bench Rest M Magnum RN Round Nose
BT Boat Tail PL Power-Lokt SP Soft Point
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