Chicken - egg - cast- swaged.
The swaged forum came on here long after the birth pains were over.
Chicken - egg - cast- swaged.
The swaged forum came on here long after the birth pains were over.
The solid soft lead bullet is undoubtably the best and most satisfactory expanding bullet that has ever been designed. It invariably mushrooms perfectly, and never breaks up. With the metal base that is essential for velocities of 2000 f.s. and upwards to protect the naked base, these metal-based soft lead bullets are splendid.
John Taylor - "African Rifles and Cartridges"
Forget everything you know about loading jacketed bullets. This is a whole new ball game!
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?)
- MikeS
Want to checkout my feedback? It's here:
http://www.castboolits.gunloads.com/...d.php?t=136410
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
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
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me."
heck even the wife calls them boolits
Ok...it is simple !
B ullets
O ut
O f
L ead
I ngots
T hat
S hoot
Rich
You Know You Might Be Facing your DOOM , if all you get is a click, Instead of a BOOM !
If God had wanted us to have Plastic gun stocks he would have planted plastic Trees !
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.....
i.m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round..... i really love to watch them roll ,,,, J,W,L.
I think that a boolit is a cast bullet, so wouldn't a cast boolit be a cast cast bullet?Cast boolit= Cast cast boolit
Plata o plomo?
Plomo, por favor!
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
In all, the .41 Magnum would be one of my top choices for an all-around handgun if I were allowed to have only one. - Bart Skelton
"The right of the people to keep and bear...arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country..." (James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434 [June 8, 1789])
Once the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Last edited by Char-Gar; 01-23-2012 at 06:09 PM.
Disclaimer: The above is not holy writ. It is just my opinion based on my experience and knowledge. Your mileage may vary.
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
I like it. and the owners of this site Whom made the word up let me use this site FOR FREE.
"The good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army.They may be led astray for a moment,but will soon correct themselves" - Thomas Jefferson
I wasn't Born in the south but I got there as soon as I could.
I like this site. MOSTLY good people. good ideas.
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't!!
"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped." — Groucho Marx
"We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse"
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)
NOV SHMOZ KA POP?
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 !
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“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
― The Dalai Lama, Seattle Times, May 2001
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 |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |