What is a "Boolit"?

[CSMR]

… an indictment of our educational system?

[GOPHER SLAYER]

A boolit is that piece of lead that comes out of the end of the gun barrel, reaches out and says HOWDY! Once it gets to where it's going, it doesn't really matter how the name of it was spelled.

[ourway77]

When I was younger I use to care at 85 I don't give a crap

[smithnframe]

A moronic way to pronounce bullet!

[1hole]

… an indictment of our educational system?

We now have 80+ posts on what "boolits" rightly means? Goodness, some of you guys are wound much too tight!

Saying/writing "boolit" has nothing to do with our educational system, it's just a simple word-play joke that any adult with a sense of humor and a love of firearms should grasp immediately! The term was and is nothing more than a light-hearted way for cast bullet shooters to refer to our passion and show a difference in focus between this and other reloading forums.

So, I'm confused by all this supposed confusion. There are a lot of other firearms sites on the web and, like this one, they're all free. If the name of this site really does chaff some people's tender sensitivities like they say then why in the world do they hang around here and be part of it?

[Noah Zark]

Here in PA there are reloaders who refer to the "projectile" components of the cartridge as "tips" or sometimes the redundant version, "bullet tips."

Drives me right up the wall.

Noah

[358429]

Bullet heads is one "description" I have heard.

Boolits: that fantastic resource produced in your molds. Powdercoated in ovens, then sized and loaded. Boolets allow me (mostly) unlimited practice with my 357 snubby.

[smithnframe]

How about mold or mould?

[Murphy]

How about mold or mould?

Now you've done it!

A quick online search turned up just enough information that in American English we use mold. The British use the spelling mould, as do our friends in Canada and some other countries.


Murphy

[Baltimoreed]

Boolits are homemade while bullets are store bought.

[1hole]

Here in PA there are reloaders who refer to the "projectile" components of the cartridge as "tips" or sometimes the redundant version, "bullet tips."

Drives me right up the wall.

Ditto "projos"; Arrrrggh .... !

[smithnframe]

We now have 80+ posts on what "boolits" rightly means? Goodness, some of you guys are wound much too tight!

Saying/writing "boolit" has nothing to do with our educational system, it's just a simple word-play joke that any adult with a sense of humor and a love of firearms should grasp immediately! The term was and is nothing more than a light-hearted way for cast bullet shooters to refer to our passion and show a difference in focus between this and other reloading forums.

So, I'm confused by all this supposed confusion. There are a lot of other firearms sites on the web and, like this one, they're all free. If the name of this site really does chaff some people's tender sensitivities like they say then why in the world do they hang around here and be part of it?

Don’t need a lecture!

[1hole]

Don’t need a lecture!

Okay, I give up, you win. I just thought this was an open ended forum where anyone could freely speak. ???

So, with all that behind us, what do you think we really "need"?

[smithnframe]

I know now why they have an ignore user feature!

[Rickf1985]

Touchy, touchy!!!! I chuckle to myself every time I type boolits because inevitably it comes out bullets the first time. I am old school and I was brought up to use good grammar and spelling. The internet has totally screwed me up on that one! BUT, that said, I spend as much time editing my spelling errors as I do typing to make sure it is correct every post. I cannot believe you guys are getting into a fight over this!

[Minerat]

You want to have some real fun go over to the Cast Bullets Association and use Boolits. Those ol' boys have a real runaway over that word and their panties get really bunched. LOL

I'm now old enough that I don't need or care that some purest tells me what words I have to use for referring to my hobby. I use it to kind of poke fun at serious people. Both come out of the end of a gun if you do everything right and boolits to me means cast not the J word ones.

Merry Christmas to all.

[todd9.3x57]

Boolits are homemade while bullets are store bought.

X2

thats it.

[JLF]

Boolit, a treated lead tip that can be used as a projectile to fire through a weapon. That is what I learned in the forum. Why give it more of a twist? It is the definition of the forum, ready.

[Soundguy]

We now have 80+ posts on what "boolits" rightly means? Goodness, some of you guys are wound much too tight!

Saying/writing "boolit" has nothing to do with our educational system, it's just a simple word-play joke that any adult with a sense of humor and a love of firearms should grasp immediately! The term was and is nothing more than a light-hearted way for cast bullet shooters to refer to our passion and show a difference in focus between this and other reloading forums.

So, I'm confused by all this supposed confusion. There are a lot of other firearms sites on the web and, like this one, they're all free. If the name of this site really does chaff some people's tender sensitivities like they say then why in the world do they hang around here and be part of it?

Some people/places get uptight about 'boolit'. I actually belong to another site that bans that word..and another where it draws criticism.
I use it when referring to cast lead projectiles.
I have also seen lube spelt' as 'loob' used in the same way... Lube is store bought...loob is home made...etc.

[Soundguy]

The use of 'tips / heads' for some reason irks me.

I realize some use that term because the unwashed masses think bullet referees to the whole assembled cartridge.... During the big ammo rushes..the unwashed masses sometimes try to buy the boxes of component projectiles unaware they are not a complete cartridge...