This report covers:
- Shame!
- We know better
- Ah, so!
- Wait a minute!
- Don’t want no silencer
- But BB…
- The deal
- M Rod and P Rod
- So what?
- Are you sure?
- Oh, and by the way…
- A guy I know
Here’s a funny story that’s only funny because it didn’t happen to you. This Christmas a young wife gave her husband a 9mm Sig P365 pistol. Her mother, who is his mother-in-law, went to a sporting goods store and asked to buy some 9mm bullets. They sold her a box of 100 9mm bullets for $19.95 and she was happy — at least until the presents were opened. That’s when she learned the difference between bullets and cartridges.
Shame!
Shame on the nasty men at that store who sold her 9mm bullets! There was almost a 100 percent chance that she didn’t know what she was saying when she asked for them. After all, aren’t bullets what you put into a gun?
Yet right here in Happy Airgunland we see the same thing. Several years ago a maker of custom airguns who was not a shooter himself made custom big bores and also supplied bullet noses with his guns if the customer asked. But the customer may not have wanted bullet noses. He may only have wanted bullet nose tips. Yes, dear readers, I was actually present when that conversation took place! It was like two kindergardeners discussing a mortgage!
We know better
But we are airgunners and we know better. So, when we buy things to shoot out of our new .45 caliber big bore air rifle, we ask for pellets. Because it is, after all, an AIR gun, and don’t they all shoot pellets? Well, yeah, some of them do shoot BBs. I mean — other than that.
Ah, so!
So here we are in the far east. happily making airguns for those crazy Americans and, what’s this, they want .45 caliber “pellet” rifles? Sure, we say, let’s make some of those. Hey, here is a barrel for a .45 caliber firearm, let’s use this as our starting point.
Wait a minute!
Golly, the firearms that use these barrels shoot bullets weighing 550 grains. There is no way we are going to get our rifles strong enough to launch “pellets” that weigh that much! Let’s see. Oh, it says here that the .45 ACP pistol cartridge launches a 230-grain bullet at 830 f.p.s. Our prototype air rifle might get a “pellet” of that weight up to around 550 f.p.s. Let’s shave off 30 grains of weight and our rifle can probably get the lighter “pellet” up to around 675 f.p.s. So let’s use barrels that are made for that cartridge. Never mind that the barrel is sized differently on the inside than the first one. It is a .45 caliber, isn’t it? Yeah, that ought to work!
Don’t want no silencer
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has some laws about silencers that they enforce. Turns out that a silencer is considered a firearm. It is serial-numbered and requires the permission of the local law enforcement officials, the United States government, a background check and a $200 tax stamp for each one you purchase. Okay, okay — let’s not call them silencers. Let’s call them suppressors! Or moderators. Oh, here is a cute one, let’s call them lead dust collectors (LDC for short, but not for long) so no one will know what we mean.
Here’s a stamp you probably don’t want to buy in books!
Ladies and gentlemen — a rose by any other name will get you arrested and thrown into the slammer just as quick!
But BB…
We really do shoot .22-caliber H&N Rabbit Magnum II solid pellets in our pellet guns! They are solid pellets, and they are made the same diameter as .22-caliber diabolo pellets, so even if someone were to try to load them into a .22 rimfire rifle, the accuracy would be lousy! Are you saying they aren’t really pellets?
Yes, H&N Rabbit Magnum pellets are really solid. You have to know what it takes to stabilize them in flight to make them shoot accurately.
No, what I’m saying is the language hasn’t kept pace with the technology and even the great BB Pelletier, master of all that is airgun, doesn’t know what to call them. Solid pellets is the best he can think of. But there is a “deal.”
The deal
The deal is, unless you understand external ballistics, you won’t do very well with these solid pellets. The boys on the forums all talk as if these are the greatest things since sliced bread. Well, sometimes they do work, but don’t you believe all the hype! A solid bullet/pellet/call-it-whatever is still ruled by the laws of physics and they have to spin fast enough to be stabilized. That, my friends, is why BB sometimes strays over into the firearms world in his reports. If you wanna play the game you gotta know the rules — and there are rules.
And one of the rules is understanding the terminology and using it correctly. It’s not a lead dust collector; it’s a cartridge!
M Rod and P Rod
Goodie! We get to make up new names, so nobody who is not in our Secret Circle will know what we are talking about. It’s not a Marauder — it’s an M Rod. Only I can’t spell M Rod, so I just write Mrod. It sounds right to me.
Yeah, but when you write Prod when you mean P Rod, it looks like the word prod.
So what?
So, a box of 100 bullets is coming your way. And they cost less than what other people are paying for 50! Fifty what, you ask? Yeah, that’s what.
Okay, BB, lay off! We all know what we are talking about. If other people don’t know, how is that a problem?
Well, let’s see. You get a new pellet rifle and someone calls it a BB gun. Someone else wants to give you a present, so they buy you a box of BBs. Shoot those in your new R7!
Okay, but nobody I know would make that mistake.
Are you sure?
By the way, Noah Webster, the dictionary guy, was once told that sugar is the only word in the English language in which the letters su make the sound sh. To which he replied…
I declare, we need a snare drum and a cymbal today.
Oh, and by the way…
The husband of the mother-in-law who bought the box of bullets knew that BB Pelletier reloads cartridges, so he told her to contact me and see what could be done to correct her faux pas. Erase, erase. Kindly BB traded her a white box of 100 Winchester 9mm cartridges for her box of 100 Hornady 9mm bullets. BB can turn those bullets into cartridges with some other stuff that he keeps on hand!
He told her to tell her son-in-law to pick up his empty brass cases after he shoots, so they can be reloaded. Why, I even have a new box of 100 full metal jacket 9mm bullets to go into them!
A guy I know
A guy I know bought a multi-stage reloading press, dies, bullets and gun powder to start reloading. I invited him over to my place to see how it is done. He said he wanted to load 100 cartridges as a Christmas gift for a family member. When he arrived I asked him for his cartridge cases. Didn’t have any. You see, back when he was in the Army he was given all the ammunition he wanted, any time he wanted it. Picking up empty cases was beneath him — literally!
Folks, actions have consequences. They may be immediate, they may take time. But they don’t go away simply because we want them to. You really want that new holster for your Prod? Make sure your gift-giver knows it isn’t a cattle prod!
That’s a lot of word vomit.
Edw, Word vomit? Perhaps. But if so, your comment is a bit of bile. ;^)
Michael
BB,
Happy New Year! Hope you enjoyed a relatively quiet weekend. First blog of the year and you are on the soapbox already! I agree proper that terminology and popular terminology don’t always meet eye to eye. Neither do manufacturers, bean counters and end users sit on the same table and speak the same language all the time. A problem I often see is that beginners rarely study before taking up the hobby depending usually on hearsay from friends before driving in. Kind of like Life where the test is given before we learned or lesson. Hopefully a lot more will study before taking up any hobby.
Siraniko
“Hopefully a lot more will study before taking up any hobby.”
So true Siraniko!
Everything has its own lingo. I taught IT (information technology… computer stuff) at the college level for a couple of years.
The first lesson was the importance of learning the “blue words” before trying to understand the text. (Anyone who has visited Wikipedia has seen the blue words with their pop-up explanations sprinkled thru the text.) There was a blue word test on the previous nights assignment first thing every morning.
I wished that all documents had links to explanations to key words in them. It would be so much easier to learn and save me from scribbling notes in the margins.
Hank
B.B.,
ROFL Lol!
I want one of them thingermajigs for my watchamacallit!
Wonderful start for 2022 AD!
shootski
PS: In the Metro Philadelphia area anything that starts with an S is pronounced as SH!
Shootski,
Anything in the Metro Philadelphia does indeed start with sh.
P.S. I have a spare thingermajig, but it is going to cost you.
RidgeRunner,
Yesh that is a fact! We had to SHtop into PHL shince the SHnee at DCA forced a Ground SHtop. The SHoft Bretzels & muSHtard were good however.
Glad they didn’t offload the baggage or I might be lawyering up about now!
shootski
BB,
I think of waisted airgun projectiles as “pellets”; solid airgun projectiles as “slugs” and solid projectiles for powder burners as bullets.
So that leaves me with a question… are round projectiles “BBs”? Only the little steel ones? Only for airguns? Round lead projectiles are available in different calibers for both airguns and powder burners. For powder burners (muskets, cannons) they are called “balls”. 2Bs or not 2Bs? …that is the question. 😉
Happy New Year Tom!
Hank
Hank,
I just bought some Lead Ball for my Camp & Garden Shot Air Pistol they are spherical and #000, or was that 36 caliber, or was that .36″, or .350″, or .410 ammo, or 8.89mm? …I hope they fit!
shootski
B.B.
I think they are call sluggy things. Sounds like you got some BAD Christmas presents…
-Y
ROTFWL! What was in those peanuts?!
Do you know what the scary part is? I understand what you were saying.
To me, slugs are for shotguns. They are usually hollow, with the balance of the weight forward. Sometimes they have a narrow “waist” and a skirted section. Hmm. Starting to sound a lot like a pellet, isn’t it?
Those sluggy things for airguns I call cast bullets, but even some of them are hard to fit in that group.
I really should apologize to all the newbies out there as sometimes at RidgeRunner’s Home For Wayward Airguns I forget there are many out there who think they know what they are doing and then they jump into this and get all discumbobilated, most especially if they are trying to follow a dude who has a habit of making up words as he goes.
Oh, just in case somebody wants to try some, I have a tin of those H&N Rabbit Magnum pellets/bullets/slugs/lead thingys in .177 around here somewhere.
RidgeRunner,
Maybe we can call those things that are neither pellets or slugs boolits?
Siraniko
Siraniko,
Works for me. Boolits. Yeah, I like it. Boolits it is.
RR,
So now we have BB-guns, Pellet-guns and Boolit-guns. …got it 😉
H
Hank, it is not that easy. Most boolit guns are also pellet guns and some pellet guns are also bb guns. Does this mean some boolit guns are also bb guns?
Does this mean some boolit guns are also bb guns?
By your logic, this must be true!
Since the common denominator is “gun”, we can, for simplicity sake, call them all guns… right?
I hope there are no newbies reading all this and thinking we are being serious LOL!
Have a good one eh!
Hank
Well, ducks float, therefore if she weighs the same as a duck, she must be a witch.
I actually started to check today’s date to make sure it wasn’t April Fool’s. But years ago, I worked in the retail sector. Customers- God bless them. I had daily reminders of the fact that, while we communicated in the English language, we definitely weren’t speaking the same language. Thank goodness for hand signals, scribbled notes from Hubby, artistic renditions of the tool or assembly, etc. We were usually successful in sending them away with the correct item.
pacoinohio,
About the English language…
I’m researching British fly fishing methods for use here in Canada and watching a lot of their channels.
On top of having to learn new terms/names for stuff I’m familiar with, with their heavy accent, it is quite a chore to understand what is being said. I’ve since learned that “otter” means “water”.
Still interesting though. TTFN! (ta ta for now ) 🙂
Hank
Happy new year all!
I would have called them bullets, too. Yes, I have been reading the blog enough to have read that the assembled case, powder, primer and the cast lead projectile (bullet) is called a cartridge, but I don’t think of cartridges as such. Cartridges are bullets in my mind, because I haven’t started shooting firearms (yet) and I haven’t organized my vocabulary properly.
In what cops and robbers TV show do they say, “I’m out of cartridges!” Probably none. They always say, “I’m outta bullets!” I still have to think twice about the concept of bad or used pellets as being “lead sinker larvae!” There is really a lot to know about this stuff.
Will
Will S..
Yes, but you are catching on!
Then you run into guys like me who make up their own words like sproingers, boolits, fizzers and so on.
Will,
That is well said! I sometimes call them bullets when I’m around those who don’t know the difference. I guess context plays a big part in this kind of discussion.
BB
When in the Magnificent Seven Yul Brynner was trying to get Steve McQueen to join in helping the Mexican farmers, he said the pay was $20. To which McQueen replied “$20? That won’t even pay for my bullets.”
So, if Steve McQueen calls them bullets that’s good enough for me.
Is that cartridge in a pear tree???? lol
-Y
B.B.,
“Sugar is the only word in the English language in which the letters ‘su’ make the sound ‘sh'”? I am pretty sure that is not the case, but unsure what other words might qualify. Forgive my cloudy mind. I slipped on some ice shoveling as I was not sure on my feet. Regardless, it sure has me pondering. Surely there must be some other words besides sugar? (Yes, but stop calling me Shirley, says Leslie Nielsen.) ;^)
Michael
Michael,
The title of the section. 😉
BB
B.B.,
Are you, ahem, SURE? ;^)
I typically ignore headings if I intend to read the whole text of something. To me headers are to be read only when I skim. Therefore, I confess I missed that.
Well played, Sir.
Michael
Michael,
So seldom in this blog do I get the opportunity to really write, that today I took all the lisence I wanted. I guess that was where the “word vomit” remark came from. No matter — I had a good time!
BB
B.B.,
The penultimate drummer in “This Is Spinal Tap” is asked what he would want inscribed on his tombstone. He pauses and then replies, “Have a good time all of the time.” Wisdom from an unlikely source.
Michael
B.B.,
The conflict in your introductory scenario would have been avoided had the mother-in-law shopped not at a sporting goods store but a big box store.
Michael
B.B.,
As a reloader, would you say the distinction between a bullet and a cartridge has become more important now that reloading is popular?
Also, does “round” refer to a bullet or cartridge? Or is “round” to firearm ammunition as “vessel” is to watercraft?
Michael
Michael,
Round to me has always meant cartridge, as in, “How many rounds are left?”
Interestingly, Black Hand Kelly, the hired gun in the Tremors 4 movie, referred to cartridges as cartridges and bullets as lead plumbs.
BB
I tend to agree with you, but I often hear or read phrases such as, “How many rounds did you send down-range?” One sends bullets, not cartidges.
(Hmmm. I love wordplay a bit too much, probably. I also have an affection for parenthesis so great I will sometimes write entirely parenthetical paragraphs.)
Michael
There is a definitive answer to that. One round refers to one discarge of a gun. If you have ten rounds left, it means you can fire the gun ten times.
This makes sensefor large weapons such as artillery, where the “round” may consist of several components, which are not joined to one cartridge.
A very astute observation.
“Round Out!”
“On The Way!”
Mel83,
That is a good one to know. Thanks.
Michael
BB, You hit the cartridge on the cartridge on the a, ‘ double hockey shtiks’, once again.
I weighed some .22 boolits I pulled from missfired .22lr brass this weekend. I paid for 40grns,
I got 38. Hmm, I notice the same thing with my milky way mini bites, sign of the times I suppose, but hardly a new thing. Glad you survived amateur hour this year. Happy new year everybody.
Rob
Oh, my missfires were because I didn’t bed my custom stock right, problem solved,
and free floated.
R
Rob,
Did you add pillars while bedding?
H
Hi Vana2, Yes, that was exactly the issue. I cut some brass plate, but the stock screw hole was a little off center, so the fixing bolt got hung up on it. The rounds were stove piping, and it was dark outside. Lucky for me I still had the .410 handy, makes a bigger bang too.
R
“Shame on the nasty men at that store who sold her 9mm bullets! ”
B.B.,
If I was the gent who received that 9mm as a present, I would ask my mother-in-law which store sold her those bullets; then I would go there and see if I could get someone to “fess up” to being the guy what actually sold them, and “give that boy a good talkin’ to” as he really should be ashamed of himself! However, that incident did pave the way for a most interesting blog, so thank you.
Take care, and here’s looking forward to another great year of reports,
dave
It just struck FM every time cartridges are fired, reports follow. Unless there is a moderator in the room, of course…
May we all enjoy a light-hearted, health-and-humor rich year. Oh, there is plenty of humor out there and it is very easy to find. Just turn on the TV and see.
“May we all enjoy a light-hearted, health-and-humor rich year.”
Amen! 🙂
We just had a first snow of the season. Dumped three inches pretty quick. Shame all the rain that preceded it was not snow.
RR,
We got lots if you want some … -18 C here so the snow is still fresh 🙂
H
Hank, I am an Appalachian-American. We don’t do that C stuff around here. Is that cold?
About 0 F.
…Par for the course for us at this time of year.
Now us Appalachian-Americans can understand that.
RidgeRunner,
To put it in A-A terms: That there is COLD enough to freeze OFF that body part that Forest Gump says that fellow got shot in!
Did BB really overdose on the Hubbard Companies’ peanuts again?
For the readers who don’t know: https://www.hubspeanuts.com/
The best dang peanuts in the WORLD!
shootski
I do not know if he OD’d, but he had enough to really enjoy himself for a bit.
In Germany, blank firing guns were called “Gaspistole” (gas pistol) because they could fire cartridges filled with tear gas. Back in the day, there was only firearms, blank firing guns and spring powered air pistols.
Now in the year 2022 you got CO2 pellet pistols, Airsoft, BB guns, blank firing, paintball, tear gas dispensers shaped like a pistol, pneumatic pellet pistol and the term *Gaspistole” leads to horrendous confusion, with sometimes fatal outcome.
Mel83,
It is my sincere hope there were no “innocent” civilians involved with the fatal outcomes.
I always like it when B.B. calls everyone out for using incorrect terminology. Precise language and terminology is critical if we are to be able to communicate effectively and convey correct meaning especially when safety is concerned.
What “hit my trigger” and caused me to post is his reference to the “Secret Circle” lingo and acronyms that we so accustomed to using. I’m guilty. I’m also trying to unlearn this habit since I know it alienates new airgunners and I want to encourage people to join our ranks not discourage them from communicating because they don’t know our language. Here’s an attempt to correct the barrier I’ve helped to create:
AA – Air Arms (British airgun manufacturer)
AGN – AirgunNation
AO – Adjustable Objective (Scope)
AOA – Airguns of Arizona
BAR – Metric unit of pressure (1 BAR = 14.5038 PSI)
BC – Ballistic Coefficient
BP – Bullpup
BR – Bench Rest
BSP – British Standard Pipe (British standard set of screw thread sizes)
CF – Carbon Fiber
CHRONY – Chronograph
CLP – Cleaner, Lubricant, Preservative
CONUS – Continental US
CP – Center Point Scope or Crosman Premier Pellets
CPHP – Crosman Premier Hollow Point
CTC – Center To Center
DIN – Deutsches Institut für Normung (the English translation is German Institute for Standardization).
DISCO – Benjamin Discovery Air Rifle
EBR – Extreme Bench Rest (Annual competition held in Arizona by Airguns of Arizona)
FAC – Fire Arm Certificate
FFP – First Focal Plane
FOV – Field of View (Scope)
FPS – Feet per Second
FPE – Foot Pounds of Energy (ft-lbs)
FT – Field Target
FX – Swedish airgun manufacturer
GR – Grain (weight)
H&N – Haendler & Natermann (German pellet manufacturer)
HFT – Hunter Field Target
HPA – High Pressure Air
HS – Hammer Spring
HW – Hans Weihrauch (German airgun manufacturer)
IR – Illuminated Reticle
JSB – Josef Schulz Bohumin (Czech pellet manufacturer)
LDC – Lead Dust Collector (silencer)
LEO – Law Enforcement Officer
LOP – Length of Pull
MCT – Map Compensated Technology
MIL – Mil Radian
MOA – Minute of Angle
MOD – Moderator (Forum moderator)
MPS – Meters per Second
MROD – Benjamin Marauder Air Rifle
MSP – Multi-Stroke Pumper
MV – Muzzle Velocity
NV – Night Vision
OCONUS – Outside the Continental US
OP – Original Poster (Person that started the thread)
PA – Pyramyd Air
PB – Powder Burner (Fire Arm)
PCP – Pre-Charged Pneumatic
POA – Point of Aim
POI – Point Of Impact
PROD – Benjamin Marauder Air Pistol
PSI – Pounds per Square Inch
RAW – Rapid Air Weapons (US airgun manufacturer)
RFD – Registered Firearms Dealer (UK)
SCB – Small Caliber Ballistic (Type of reticle)
SF – Side Focus (Scope)
SFP – Second Focal Plane
SPRINGER – Spring compression or break barrel rifle
SPF – Sold Pending Funds
ST – Smooth Twist (type of barrel manufactured by FX)
SYNROD – Synthetic Benjamin Marauder Rile
TDR – Take Down Rifle
TP – Transfer Port
UNF – Unified National Fine (threading for silencers)
And more:
.22LR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Caliber Long Rifle and its Bullets
AA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Air Arms
AFAIK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . As Far As I Know
AG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Air Gun
AGD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Airgun Depot
AGF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Air Gun Fever
AO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjustable Objective (Scope)
AOA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Airguns Of Arizona
Bandit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Raccoon
BC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ballistic Coefficient
BIL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brother-In-Law
Bisco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bottle Disco (Discovery)
BP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bullpup
BPHP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Benjamin Premier Hollow Point
BR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bench Rest
BTW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By The Way
Bugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bunny or Rabbit
Bushy Tailed Tree Rat . . . . . . . Squirrel
CCW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carrying a Concealed Weapon
CDT Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CharlieDaTuna Trigger (Gooood Stuff)
CF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carbon Fiber
Chipper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chipmunk
Chrony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chronograph
CLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cleaner, Lubricant, Preservative
CONUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Continental US
CP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Center Point Scope or Crosman Premiers
CCP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Concealed Carry Permit
CPHP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crosman Premier Hollow Point
C-Rat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Opossum (Possum)
CTC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Center To Center
DAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sheridan
Disco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Benjamin Discovery Air Rifle
Diss (ing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Disrespect or Disrespecting
DPV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Disco Power Valve
DRT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dead Right There
EDC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Every Day Carry
ETA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Estimated Time of Arrival
FAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fire Arm Certificate
FC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feral Cat
FFP SFP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . First Focal Point Second Focal Point
FPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feet Per Second
Flying Rat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Starling (Flying Rat is also known as being a pigeon)
FPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foot Pounds of Energy
FT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Field Targets or Flat Top (piston)
FWIW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For What It’s Worth
Grinner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Opossum (Possum)
GTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gateway To Airguns
GF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Girl Friend
HND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Havea Nice Day
HO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hunter Orange
HOSP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Sparrow
HPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . High Pressure Air
HS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hammer Spring
IIRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . If I Remember Correctly
or If I Really Cared
IMHO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In My Humble Opinion and In My Honest Opinion
Jack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Rabbit
JMO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Just My Opinion
LDC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lead Dust Collector
LEO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Law Enforcement Officer
LOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Laugh Out Loud (also Lots Of Luck)
LOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Length Of Pull
LRF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laser Range Finder
LWH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Light Weight Hammer
MIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mother-In-Law also A unit of length equal to 0.001 inches
MOA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Minute Of Angle
Mods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Moderators or Modifications
MM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mike Melick of Flying Dragons Air Rifles
MOSH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Minute Of Squirrels Head
Mrod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Benjamin Marauder Air Rifle
MSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Multi-Stroke Pumper
Munk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chipmunk
NP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nitro Piston Pellet rifle that gets its power from Nitrogen compression
NSNM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No Shots No Misses
NUTTER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Squirrel
OP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Original Poster (Person originating the thread)
PA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pyramyd Air
PB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Powder Burner (Fire Arm)
PCP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PreCharged Pneumatic (Air Rifle)
PETA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . People Eating Tasty Animals
Pics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pictures
PMO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Postal Money Order
PMPCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poor Man’s PCP
POI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Point Of Impact-
PPL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . People
PRod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Benjamin Marauder Air Pistol
PSI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pounds per Square Inch
RMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Return Merchandise Authorization
ROFL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rolling On the Floor Laughing
RSII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rainstorm 2
RVA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rear Velocity Adjuster
SF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Side Focus (as apposed to AO) when talking about scope attributes
Silly Wets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Silhouette
Song Dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coyote
Springer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pellet rifle that gets it power from spring compression
SPF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sold Pending Funds
SRod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Synthetic Marauder
SSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Single-Stroke Pumper
SWMBO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . She Who Must Be Obeyed
TCB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Taking Care of Business
TMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Too Much Information
TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Transfer Port
Tree Rat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Squirrel
TYD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . To Your Door
WFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wide Freaking Open
Whistle Pig. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ground Hog (GHog)
Whistle Dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prairie Dog
Yellow Bill or Beak. . . . . . . . . Starling
Yote. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coyote
YMMV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Your Mileage May Vary
YRMV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Your Results May Vary
kevin,
You forgot FWB Feinwerkbau! A lot of the lingo and jargon to learn in every specialty. The alphabet soup in Medicine has a longer list.
Siraniko
That’s a good reference or “cheat sheet.” I recall during job training we were told “do not use acronyms with the clientele when giving explanations.” Of course, few complied – seems it comes natural for people to try and abbreviate though sometimes there are consequences for doing that, some funny and some not so much.
“What we have here is a failure to communicate.”