Thread: It's called a carbine, not a bush pig.

And its Car Bine and not how Americans say it Carbeen

Originally Posted by William

I'm happy for those things to also stop.

I have never seen someone carry ice axes when there is no ice, but it seems like something someone who calls their carbine a "bushpig" would do.

Well i refer to them as bush pigs but I certainly dont carry an Ice Axe in the NI bush.....hehe

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

William is related to the German given name Wilhelm. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *Wiljahelmaz, with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name Vilhjalmr and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin Willelmus.

Sorry, Willelmus



Bushpig

I could live with "Vilhjalmr", I'm from Dutch stock so Willem I'm used to. But, would be interesting to see the etymology on how Bushpig came about

Originally Posted by William

Sounds a lot like a carbine...

Yep, just heavier, suppressed and with optics.

Originally Posted by William

I could live with "Vilhjalmr", I'm from Dutch stock so Willem I'm used to. But, would be interesting to see the etymology on how Bushpig came about

Swamp German then . . .

I agree William, but I prefer the term 'chode'.

Bush pig reminds me of high school girlfriends

I call a gun, a gun. Irregardless of shotgun, rifle, muzzle or potato. And by definition, that's exactly what it is, a gun. A rifle, a shotgun, all guns. A mate was anal about it and determined that a rifle was not a gun. On this one, a carbine is a short gun. A bush pig, is a slang term for a short gun, but that's not what a bush pig is by definition

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

And its Car Bine and not how Americans say it Carbeen

Carbeen is when a Toyota Corolla has rusted away to nothing.

Concubine is when the working parts of a Carbine are broken. Some men have been known to have several or many concubines. Maybe they need to look after their carbines better.



I don’t know what the word is for when the working parts of a bush pig are broken.




Just don’t get people started on the ’half cock’/‘half open’ thing.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

William is related to the German given name Wilhelm. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic *Wiljahelmaz, with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name Vilhjalmr and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin Willelmus.

Sorry, Willelmus



Bushpig

William to you, Bill to me.

My grandparents liked the name William that much they named their first two children William, one went through life as Bill and the other as Alf (after the father)....they were living in the Naki at the time so that might help explain it.

Mine is a short short short magazines la Tikka

Heathen , try calling a rifle a gun in the army . A gun is a shotgun full stop .This is my rifle, this is my gun! this is for fighting, this is for fun .

exactly a rifle is a rifle a gun is a shotgun thats it -- only the uneducated call a rifle a gun - dont get me started on bang stick that's for children

Originally Posted by Roarless20

"Bush pig" rolls off the tongue better than "scoped, suppressed carbine"

Exactly. Language changes all the time. New Zealandish is no stranger to names being shortened or substituted by nicknames. I don't particularly like bushpig, but don't have a problem with it either. I don't use the term, but if someone says bushpig in a hunting/shooting context, I know exactly what they are talking about. Super bushpig always gives me a laugh.

Yep. William is right. People who call a carbine a bushpig are the same kind of retrobates who call deer "donks". Fuckwits, I mean.

Bushpig? Carbeen? Carbine?
Super bush pig?