Goofy Gun Slang and Expressions

[Rope2horns]

My poor brother says WalMarks instead of Walmart....I wanna punch him in the face....God love him.

 

[Ringostar]

Belly Benchrest and people saying caliber when they mean cartridge. I get people come up at the range, What caliber are you shooting? I reply, 7mm unless you’re meaning cartridge, then it’s 284 Winchester. I get puzzled looks, then they walk away.

 

[urbanrifleman]

My poor brother says WalMarks instead of Walmart....I wanna punch him in the face....God love him.

Dollar Gentral

 

[lb-ft]

“Casing”

“Grouping”

What was wrong with “case”, or “group”?

 

[6BR_DM]

I hate it when people don't know the difference between a clip and a magazine. As in:
"I got a new clip for my 9. Gonna go out and pop some caps later."

 

[TIMO]

Guys that call their wife "momma" and weird crap like that.

I know a guy like that, and he carries concealed with the same ammo in it that he bought with the pistol about ten years ago. Oh, and hasn't been to the range since.
Tim

 

[DLT]

Welllllllll seems like I would probably piss in a lot of guys cornflakes on here out on the range but either way this group has helped me out more than you could imagine so i appreciate it. Everyone has certain language but not everyone is a complete idiot that uses such words

 

[jelenko]

Welllllllll seems like I would probably piss in a lot of guys cornflakes on here out on the range but either way this group has helped me out more than you could imagine so i appreciate it. Everyone has certain language but not everyone is a complete idiot that uses such words

And, for me, it's more important to know the person's way of thinking vs their way of expressing themselves.

 

[perazziguy]

"I'm looking to sale my Forester reloading dies in 6.5 caliber. These dies make the best shells, if I did my part I was shooting 0.25 MOA all day long at 1K with my 6.5 creedmore using a Kreger barrel with Burger heavy pills and Leupy glass"

What do I win

A major award of course...

 

[lotech]

Incredibly worn out, annoying, and just sound bad:

dialing in
bug out bag
chassis
platform
grail gun
boating accident
I'll get the popcorn
I rescued...
mothership
"north" for more
"south" for less
Benjamins

there are many more but not necessarily gun-related...

 

[Dimner]

What are some of the phrases you hear around and about guns and gun people that really make you cringe? the one that gets me is "I had a barrel spun up!" The amount of time and effort that most quality smiths spend learning to thread and chamber and crown a barrel, let alone the equipment and shop they bought and paid for to do such work, make my skin crawl. Do some of you have other cringe worthy stuff you hear in the gun world?

Send it

Good piece of kit

All day

 

[Bc'z]

What is a prolly ?

These are prolly hillbillies

 

[hogpatrol]

I might have missed it, but the worst of the worst.

TACTICAL

 

[Dimner]

Anyone have boolits for sell?

That's a term reserved only for cast boolits. In other contexts it's annoying. But for cast boolits...

 

[KMart]

The one that bugs me is Leeopold when it is pronounced Loupold.

You should hear how a German from Germany pronounces it. I worked a couple of years for a Dr. Manfred Leupold. He insisted that it was correct to say Loy Pold.
Also, Bayer(as in aspirin) is correctly stated as Buy a, with a short a. According to every German in Germany.

 

[AccelR8]

That's right isn't it?

I guess it is if you have to save all the a's to use when you say Hornaday

As for February (mentioned by another commenter) the first r is silent. I done learnt that in second grade! I'ze educated.

 

[Uncle Bruce]

I guess it is if you have to save all the a's to use when you say Hornaday

As for February (mentioned by another commenter) the first r is silent. I done learnt that in second grade! I'ze educated.

O how wonderful the world would be if everyone was perfect. Look in the mirror, your respect for the other people might grow.

 

[AccelR8]

O how wonderful the world would be if everyone was perfect. Look in the mirror, your respect for the other people might grow.

Relax. Can't you see I'm poking fun at myself? I thought we were all just having a bit of fun here.

I'm out. Carry on.

 

[T.Rhodes]

Pretty good list here. Haven't my 'caliber' (cartridge) listed. Let me add 6.5 needmore.

 

[jackieschmidt]

I've seen that as couples age. At some point, the wife becomes more the mother of their children than as the mate.

My wife and I are going on 53 years together.

Thankfully, we have not reached that point.