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Goofy Gun Slang and Expressions

Joe Salty said:
Yes Guys the correct way to say LAPUA is LOP-WA That was from a rep that works for them!

Joe Salt
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You've only gone halfway in educating us poor idiots. Where is the emphasis placed on this LOP-WA? Are those long or short vowels?
If you're going to teach us, can we get some real phonetic symbols?
(And I'm genuinely curious here.)
 
danny said:
Be careful, very careful. Someone here is highly likely to come along on this "sight" and type a response to you telling you in no uncertain terms that you should have typed "the break brakes my ears". Once they do that, they will head out to "the groshery store, "worsh" some of the vegetables that they had bought, then will head out for a meeting with their "relator".

Danny
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It's warsh. You warsh em' and then you wranch em' off. Come on man. Lol.
 
I actually stopped subscribing to Firearm Type magazines for some of the aforementioned grammar and slangs that some of the writers use. It sort of makes for comic book reading. Also, about 12-15 years ago
I was learning nothing from them and got most of my info right here.
Thanks to all for teaching me something new almost everyday.
(Trying not to offend anyone)
 
danny said:
Be careful, very careful. Someone here is highly likely to come along on this "sight" and type a response to you telling you in no uncertain terms that you should have typed "the break brakes my ears". Once they do that, they will head out to "the groshery store, "worsh" some of the vegetables that they had bought, then will head out for a meeting with their "relator".

Danny
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Yinz better watch yerself. . . George Worshington was a gun owner too.
 
1. "Capped it off...". The act of finishing the ML reloading sequence by placing a percussion cap on the nipple to prepare to fire.

2. "Lock, stock and barrel...". To denote a gunsmith who offered complete ML building services. The Lock (flint or percussion), stock (the wood blank to be finished into a stock), and barrel.

ISS
 
Jonnyofalltrades said:
You've only gone halfway in educating us poor idiots. Where is the emphasis placed on this LOP-WA? Are those long or short vowels?
If you're going to teach us, can we get some real phonetic symbols?
(And I'm genuinely curious here.)
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Lop sounds like a mop to clean your floors.
Wa sounds like it does in the word was.
But of course it doesn’t really sound like what the Fin Lapua guys say on some of the YouTube vids.
 
Joe Salty said:
Yes Guys the correct way to say LAPUA is LOP-WA That was from a rep that works for them!

Joe Salt
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I would bet that if you went to any shooting Match in the United States, and asked if any one was selling any LOP-WA Brass, 90 % of the shooters would say…….”never heard of it”

If you did the same thing but asked, “does anybody have any La-pu-a for sale“, a resounding majority would
know exactly what you were talking about.
 
jackieschmidt said:
I would bet that if you went to any shooting Match in the United States, and asked if any one was selling any LOP-WA Brass, 90 % of the shooters would say…….”never heard of it”

If you did the same thing but asked, “does anybody have any La-pu-a for sale“, a resounding majority would
know exactly what you were talking about.
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Right on!
 
I'm an American, dag nap it! They should pronounce Lapua the way I want.

However, I have another one I keep seeing; Voila. It is French with a literal translation to English as "see there". Not "wala", not "wa-lah", and not a bunch of other stupid misspellings. "Voila" is a contraction of voi (see) la (that).
 
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