A new description for ammunition.

[Tim.243]

Nah, heads is wrong. Just because sportsman uses the same phrase doesn't make them right either. I dare say it was a web designer who f all about firearms or bullets

I picked up a farm as the previous chap kept correcting the owner about calling the fallow bucks "stags" with the owners son over hearing him one day correcting his Father... Come each harvest Alan rings me up "Tim a few of those Stags have turn up can you come over please"
Yes Alan no problem.
He lost 500 acres over one word which is quite stupid in my book.
I just call them good sport 15 mins drive, Paul likes it also lol



If it is not too late he comes with the deer taxi

 

[Mountain Bug]

Funny thing about this terminology, I recently travelled to Scotland with four boxes of bullets as a gift for a friend and prepared myself for what I would say if stopped at Heathrow customs. I decided that I would call them heads if asked fearing that if I called them bullets, the potentially uninformed customs agent would be alarmed thinking that I meant loaded cartridges.


Scott

 

[Tim.243]

Funny thing about this terminology, I recently travelled to Scotland with four boxes of bullets as a gift for a friend and prepared myself for what I would say if stopped at Heathrow customs. I decided that I would call them heads if asked fearing that if I called them bullets, the potentially uninformed customs agent would be alarmed thinking that I meant loaded cartridges.


Scott

Now this term popped up with American divers on a trip some years back when speaking about their previous trips

We "dove" the Cayman islands last year!
Hear a dove sits in the tree cooing or poops on your car bonnet (hood lol)
In the US it also is a term for when people have been "scuba diving"

 

[Smellydog]

Hey, always amazes me how flies congregate together to injest bull****.
Their tiny minds intoxicated on bull**** whirring around and and around in their tiny brains for years...

 

[Mountain Bug]

I had not thought about that one. Yes we have doves and dove shooting here but also would say that we dove off the diving board at the pool or dove the reef instead of dived?? but also might say we were diving the reef. You've got me on this one. Not sure what is proper.


Scott

 

[Mike L]

I had not thought about that one. Yes we have doves and dove shooting here but also would say that we dove off the diving board at the pool or dove the reef instead of dived?? but also might say we were diving the reef. You've got me on this one. Not sure what is proper.


Scott

Not dove.

To dive or to have dived.

 

[enfieldspares]

I picked up a farm as the previous chap kept correcting the owner about calling the fallow bucks "stags" with the owners son over hearing him one day correcting his Father...

He lost 500 acres over one word which is quite stupid in my book.

Yes. Never belittle those that offer you the benefit of a kindness.

 

[Tim.243]

Not dove.

To dive or to have dived.

Dive Supervisor or Dove Supervisor

 

[Mountain Bug]

Hey, always amazes me how flies congregate together to injest bull****.
Their tiny minds intoxicated on bull**** whirring around and and around in their tiny brains for years...

Come on, cheer up Smelly. Its a beautiful morning...well, here at least.


Scott

 

[geordiemacatac]

He'll be back.....just away reviewing Einstein's lifes work...

 

[tackb]

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I guess it's down to if you want to be a forum full of jockular banter, piss taking and missinformation or if you want to be part of a group that educates, informs and encourages new people into the field.

Why not both ?

 

[Smellydog]

Come on, cheer up Smelly. Its a beautiful morning...well, here at least.


Scott

I'm fine thank you Scott. Had a good weekend. I've shot lots of bullets all weekend.

 

[C h r i s]

I suppose that calling bullets "heads' is symbolic of a general amateurish attitude towards our sport, it is unprofessional and somewhat lazy. Yes some shops also use these incorrect terms, but that doesn't mean its right, I just look at their websites and think that these people are just box shifters who know f'all about our sport.

 

[geordiemacatac]

 

[alberta boy]

Presumably they left with 30 cal 168 gun bullets. I used to be a fish and game merchant and was once asked for a pound of herion. The customer left with a pound of herring, not what they asked for but what I knew they meant. I didn’t correct them.

That would explain all the fish I got in my last drug deal .
AB

 

[alberta boy]

Now this term popped up with American divers on a trip some years back when speaking about their previous trips

We "dove" the Cayman islands last year!
Hear a dove sits in the tree cooing or poops on your car bonnet (hood lol)
In the US it also is a term for when people have been "scuba diving"

Being a Diver , I had to look that one up . I wasn't familiar with the term either . According to the Cambridge dictionary the word dove describes a bird or the act of diving in the past tense . I learned something today .

AB

 

[MilesW]

I had not thought about that one. Yes we have doves and dove shooting here but also would say that we dove off the diving board at the pool or dove the reef instead of dived?? but also might say we were diving the reef. You've got me on this one. Not sure what is proper.


Scott

Not dove.

To dive or to have dived.

Dive Supervisor or Dove Supervisor

Dove is good.

Tim, the pommy dive instructor, gave a thorough briefing. His American students then dove on the reef while his English and Australian student dived on the old wreck.

 

[Rafter]

Being a Diver , I had to look that one up . I wasn't familiar with the term either . According to the Cambridge dictionary the word dove describes a bird or the act of diving in the past tense . I learned something today .

AB

English can be hard.
I sprint
We sprant
They sprunt

It works with ring......

 

[SimpleSimon]

English can be hard.
I sprint
We sprant
They sprunt

It works with ring......

I shoot
You shoot
We sha...

No, hold on, that's not right...

 

[Tim.243]

Being a Diver , I had to look that one up . I wasn't familiar with the term either . According to the Cambridge dictionary the word dove describes a bird or the act of diving in the past tense . I learned something today .

AB

Having read a lot of diver training manuals Padi Bsac Tdi I am quite confident in saying I never noticed the term "DOVE" in any of them.
The closest might have been the dove liquid hand wash in the kitchen.