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