Thread: Bullets

Somebody needs to post a pic of ‘anatomy of a pew’!

Originally Posted by keengunNic

The English refer to them as 'heads'..

The poms are a funny bunch. But you already knew that.

The term "head" or "bullet head" will cause a certain segment of the UK shooting fraternity to practically soil themselves in unbridled opprobrium.

They can get really nasty about it, and I am being dead serious.
@caberslash? Chime in here mate.

As far as they are concerned, "head" is a term used for a projectile by pikeys, chavs, the mentally deranged and poorly educated foreigners. They will go on and on and on and on and on... Providing various diagrams to demonstrate how the head is the base of the cartridge (cartridge head). And that the bit that flies through the air is the projectile. Someone called Miki got banned from one of the British forums for arguing about this so incessantly we were concerned he might have a breakdown. He'd start 3 threads a week on the matter, and you think I'm joking.

However...

Most online retailers in the UK refer to bullets/projectiles as heads or bullet heads. A fact that I delighted in telling Miki.

I couldn't give a toss either way, and it's not going to keep me awake tonight @10-Ring!

Originally Posted by Flyblown

The poms are a funny bunch. But you already knew that.

The term "head" or "bullet head" will cause a certain segment of the UK shooting fraternity to practically soil themselves in unbridled opprobrium.

They can get really nasty about it, and I am being dead serious.
@caberslash? Chime in here mate.

As far as they are concerned, "head" is a term used for a projectile by pikeys, chavs, the mentally deranged and poorly educated foreigners. They will go on and on and on and on and on... Providing various diagrams to demonstrate how the head is the base of the cartridge (cartridge head). And that the bit that flies through the air is the projectile. Someone called Miki got banned from one of the British forums for arguing about this so incessantly we were concerned he might have a breakdown. He'd start 3 threads a week on the matter, and you think I'm joking.

However...

Most online retailers in the UK refer to bullets/projectiles as heads or bullet heads. A fact that I delighted in telling Miki.

I couldn't give a toss either way, and it's not going to keep me awake tonight @10-Ring!

Farrrkkk... didn't think we would get into semantics on this forum!

Unfortunately don't have the authority to speak for "the English", despite being born there (the West Midlands... the horror... the horror...) and I currently reside on the right (Northern) side of the border.

Out of the 4 languages I speak, English is the second most spoken language on Earth, and probably high up on the list of how many borrowed words they are.

I find this ironic, what with Brexit, England losing in the Euro's etc. A lot of 'English Nationalist' idiots are waving the
St. Geroge's cross around. Well, St.G was Greek, and so are most of the younger members of the Royal Family through Philip.

Where were we again? Heads? Always better than tails!

So you have the "shoulders", "neck" and "mouth" up one end ... and the "head" at the butt? I get the confusion.

Remember the Naked Gun films? The posters contained the sort of drooling idiocy born out of people referring to cartridges as bullets. After all, bullets fly, right?

How about we agree on calling them "Lead sleeping pills".

Originally Posted by 257weatherby

How about we agree on calling them "Lead sleeping pills".

I’ve heard them called ‘little leaden messengers of death’ back in the day.

@sneeze prefers the terminology "pills" I am pretty sure.

Common, ignorant, use is to call a loaded cartridge a "bullet."

To avoid confusion I buy projectiles which I (eventually) seat on top of a case which has primer and propellant.

I had a Firearms Licence Vetter ask me why I had boxes of "bullets" on top of one of my gunsafes.
Technically she was correct as they were/are 80 gr A-Max .223 projectiles.
What she thought was that I had loaded ammunition outside of a locked box or gunsafe.

I don't have time for this,I'm off down the range.
With my pistol guns...

For me in the general term a bullet means the case and everything or can also mean just the projectile. For example, 1.Load a bullet into the chamber. 2. The bullet hit the target.

@mimms2. Ha ha yes indeed. I was deliberately demonstrating the difference between the projectile and the whole cartridge whilst calling it the same thing.

Greetings All,
Many many years ago, as a trainee draughtsman we used cartridge paper to line the surface of our red wood drawing boards. This was a hand made paper that was made a sheet at a time. We wet it and laid it on the surface of the board and glued the edge down with gummed brown paper tape. Once dry it gave you a smooth surface to tape or pin your drawing sheets down to. Within a few years we moved on to synthetic sheets you stuck down with double sided tape. Have read about paper patched (or jacketed) projectiles but never connected the two until I read one of the above posts. Just shows how old you get you can still learn something from time to time.
Regards Grandpamac.

I hope everyone calling a baby deer a fawn instead of a calf doesn’t cause you too much grief at night. If I use the word bullet with a non reloader or shooter then they assume the entire cartridge. If I use the word projectile then people know exactly what i’m talking about. I haven’t read the whole thread so probably an answer to how the language got to that point.

I believe the projectile/ bullets question has been adequately answered so I’ll add this I have a firearms licence but I don’t have any firearms as I believe the police and the military have firearms. I have guns and rifles. I looked up firearms and it can been both but I’m sticking to my guns as they are not weapons.