Terms, Acronyms and other helpful stuff

**sundog** · 02-26-2008, 03:41 PM

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

**45nut** · 02-26-2008, 03:53 PM

great idea there Corky.

**STP** · 02-26-2008, 04:13 PM

BHN= Brinell Hardness Number

**Blammer** · 02-26-2008, 04:32 PM

BS-what you find at the end of a bull

**Bullshop** · 02-26-2008, 05:09 PM

Blammer
Watch it now, I am liable to develope a complex.
BIC/ BS

**Jim** · 02-26-2008, 05:54 PM

COL- cartridge overall length
OAL- over all length
M/V - muzzle velocity
FPS - feet per second
IMHO- in my honest opinion
SWMBO- wife
YMMV- your milage may vary
IIRC- if I recall correctly

**SharpsShooter** · 02-26-2008, 06:13 PM

See

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=3857

SS

**Morgan Astorbilt** · 02-26-2008, 07:52 PM

ROTFLMAO
Rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off.

Morgan

**racepres** · 02-27-2008, 12:24 AM

But...Is PB =Lead.. or is it Plain Base / vs GC ???? MV

**KYCaster** · 02-27-2008, 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by racepres

But...Is PB =Lead.. or is it Plain Base / vs GC ???? MV

PB= Plain Base
Pb= Lead

Jerry

**easy ed** · 02-27-2008, 02:07 AM

Great idea, thanks

**Buckshot** · 02-27-2008, 03:45 AM

Big Rooski, Big 30 Rooski, = 7.62x54R
30 Rooski Shortski = 7.62x39

..............Buckshot

**dromia** · 02-27-2008, 04:38 AM

CRAFT = Can't remember a f*****g thing.

**trk** · 02-27-2008, 11:14 PM

IMH(BA)O

In my humble (but accurate) oppinion

**Wayne Smith** · 02-28-2008, 11:21 AM

LOML - Love Of My Life, or wife, not gun!

**45nut** · 09-03-2009, 04:48 PM

ebola.. the kenyan hemorrhaging virus in DC.

**zardoz** · 09-03-2009, 06:49 PM

Loob terms:

JPW -Johnson Paste Wax

LLA - Liquid Lee Alox

More firearm acronyms:

SBH- Ruger Super Black Hawk.
SRH- Ruger Super Red Hawk.

**AZ-Stew** · 09-03-2009, 09:51 PM

ACWW - As-Cast or Air-Cooled Wheel Weights

SWMBO - She Who Must Be Obeyed (wife) (just to fill in some missing data from above post)

Minister of Finance - See: SWMBO

.45LC - .45 Long Colt or .45 Colt - Single action army (SAA) revolver cartridge

ACP - Automatic Colt Pistol

And just for the sake of putting it somewhere (this looked like a good place) the Finnish ammo manufacturer, Lapua, is pronounced lah-pwah, NOT la-POO-ah, as most shooters do. I asked the two Finnish guys manning the Lapua (lah-pwah) booth at the NRA convention because I thought they'd know. I trust them.

Regards,

Stew

**alamogunr** · 09-03-2009, 10:39 PM

Originally Posted by AZ-Stew

And just for the sake of putting it somewhere (this looked like a good place) the Finnish ammo manufacturer, Lapua, is pronounced lah-pwah, NOT la-POO-ah, as most shooters do. I asked the two Finnish guys manning the Lapua (lah-pwah) booth at the NRA convention because I thought they'd know. I trust them.

Regards,

Stew

Somehow I'm afraid all you have accomplished is to reinforce what I found out some time ago. Most people will continue to mispronounce the name. By the way, the pronunciation that I read was the same sound but the writer wrote it "lop wah". Maybe not exactly the same but close enough for me.

When I was a kid my mother was a teacher. She would not abide mispronunciation of anything. We wore out several dictionaries. I still catch myself proofreading every post for spelling and punctuation. I forget which forum it was, but one poster wrote a long paragraph without a single capital letter or punctuation. The next poster took him to task for making it so difficult to read. The OP admitted he was in a hurry. I think lack of typing skill is responsible for most problems. I'm lucky that I am a fair typist. My wife won't use email because she can't type.

Rant off! Sorry for the hijack.

John
W.TN

**AZ-Stew** · 09-03-2009, 11:10 PM

Originally Posted by alamogunr

...By the way, the pronunciation that I read was the same sound but the writer wrote it "lop wah"...

alamogunr,

"lop wah" "lah-pwah", certainly homophones. Can you smell the dictionary pages smoking across the country?

Regards,

Stew

BP	Bronze Point	IMR	Improved Military Rifle	PTD	Pointed
BR	Bench Rest	M	Magnum	RN	Round Nose
BT	Boat Tail	PL	Power-Lokt	SP	Soft Point
C	Compressed Charge	PR	Primer	SPCL	Soft Point "Core-Lokt"
HP	Hollow Point	PSPCL	Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt"	C.O.L.	Cartridge Overall Length
PSP	Pointed Soft Point	Spz	Spitzer Point	SBT	Spitzer Boat Tail
LRN	Lead Round Nose	LWC	Lead Wad Cutter	LSWC	Lead Semi Wad Cutter
GC	Gas Check

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