"Bullet Heads"

[Alantoo]

see how much trouble is caused just because they got the name giving on the cartridge wrong day one.
the head should sit on the neck, which in turn sits on the shoulder.
Some twit called the arse the head........

I think everyone who calls a bullet also a head is actually correct, calling the arse the head...is wrong and should be corrected.
edi

In that case (sorry) there is a logical argument to call the bullet a "cartridge head". It still does not justify or excuse the then rendered tautological "bullet head".

"Bullet head" should, by extension, apply to the poly tip of the bullet only rather than the metal bit as well.....

Discuss...

Alan

 

[MARCBO]

In the German hunting courses terminology is part of the cirriculum, is it not the same in the UK? My impression is that hunters in the UK are not a bunch of illiterates, too bad they often express themselves that way. Happens in the US as well but we have no Lords, Squires or Landed Gentry....

SS

 

[ejg]

That is because you are unable to resist applying your merciless Teutonic logic in realms where it is neither appropriate nor welcome. In any case, as you are personally responsible for the arcane jargon of German Jaegerei, you are disbarred from commenting on idiosyncracies and absurdities of terminology in the languages of other nations.

'Casebase' might indeed be a better term for the head of a cartridge-case. However it is nevertheless not the correct term; which is and remains 'head'.
Und damit basta!

"case-base" sounds good

I never took up proper hunting in my time in Germany and therefore am lacking in that terminology as well.....
edi

 

[ejg]

In that case (sorry) there is a logical argument to call the bullet a "cartridge head". It still does not justify or excuse the then rendered tautological "bullet head".

"Bullet head" should, by extension, apply to the poly tip of the bullet only rather than the metal bit as well.....

Discuss...

Alan

Maybe "they" actually mean bullet/head ....with a silent /
edi

 

[Alantoo]

Maybe "they" actually mean bullet/head ....with a silent /
edi

Could be! Trouble is "they" also write it with an invisible "/" .

Alan

 

[Richard Parsons]

Have any of you lot got a full time job ? Just curious.

 

[Roedinator]

Have any of you lot got a full time job ? Just curious.

Have been thinking the same myself
regards pete

 

[Jagare]

I've been reloading my .308 for probably 15 years now, and without looking it up I wouldn't know what a cannelure or a meplat are. To be honest, I think I can live with that lack of education

For me, reloading is a means to an end, not an end in itself. I really, really, don't need to understand everything there is to know about reloading and ballistics. The recipe I've been using for 15 years works, as evidenced by the deer that somehow still seem to fall down despite my appalling lack of knowledge of the correct nomenclature

Oh, and when I pop in to Reloading Solutions I just ask for "a box of 150 grain 30 cal Nosler Ballistic Tips" and they still seem to understand

Reloading .308 for only 15 years. Your just a novice sir . I bought my loading gear from Thomas Blands in St Martins Lane many years ago.
I too have to ask, what the phuck is a cannelure and meplat?

 

[MARCBO]

Reloading .308 for only 15 years. Your just a novice sir . I bought my loading gear from Thomas Blands in St Martins Lane many years ago.
I too have to ask, what the phuck is a cannelure and meplat?

I think it was in 1968 that I was a teenager was messing around with my father's reloading gear and got a 30-06 case stuck in a die. Fortunately the neighbor was a reloader and a machinist so he got it out for me pretty quick. Quick enough the old man never knew!!!

SS

 

[NigelM]

FAO round yesterday for a variation. When discussing ammunition to be held he kept referring to "heads". I did ask him if he meant Bullets and he corrected me, explaining that Bullets were loaded cartridges, "Heads" were the lead bits that went in the top.

I decided it prudent not to argue the toss.

 

[Alantoo]

Have any of you lot got a full time job ? Just curious.

Not that I am a clock watcher being self employed, but my first post was at 17:04.

On an associated tack, I do find the posts on an Internet forum which exhort people to "get a life" are brilliant examples of irony, I am never sure whether they are done tongue in cheek or that the posters realise what that they are saying. They have time not only to waste their own lives reading Internet fora but also to urge others to desist from doing the same thing.

The one earlier in this thread by Discopete is a classic of apparent unselfconsciousness...sheer poetry. The sting in the tail introducing an entirely self generated link to superior marksmanship is pure genius.

April the first has much to answer for.

Alan

I think you guys need to get off your soap box and get a life, who cares what there called its not the end of the world! Just because you know the exact terminology doesn't mean you shoot better than anyone else.

 

[willie_gunn]

I bought my loading gear from Thomas Blands in St Martins Lane many years ago.

Just over the road from Motor Books in St Martins Court (though now in Cecil Court)

 

[private fraser]

FAO round yesterday for a variation. When discussing ammunition to be held he kept referring to "heads". I did ask him if he meant Bullets and he corrected me, explaining that Bullets were loaded cartridges, "Heads" were the lead bits that went in the top.

I decided it prudent not to argue the toss.

Good move, he may have got the wee black book out

 

[Jagare]

Just over the road from Motor Books in St Martins Court (though now in Cecil Court)

Thomas Bland was a great gunshop now lost in the mists of time. I worked in agriculture at the time and would do the morning milking and then catch a train into London, buy my reloading bits and be back in time for afternoon milking. Happy days .

Was it, New Row, St Martins lane? Thats the address i've got in my head.

 

[willie_gunn]

Was it, New Row, St Martins lane? Thats the address i've got in my head.

Indeed, 21-22 New Row, off St Martin's Lane. They opened there in the early 1970's and were located there until they ceased operations in the late 1980's and were bought by an American company.

 

[MARCBO]

I think you guys need to get off your soap box and get a life, who cares what there called its not the end of the world! Just because you know the exact terminology doesn't mean you shoot better than anyone else.

I guess if you don't know the difference between "there" and "their" I guess you would not care.

SS

 

[Dalua]

"case-base" sounds good

It sounds tolerable, certainly.

Casebasespace, though?

It's not far from that to the mellifluous German noun meaning 'one who attempts to kill the aunt of a Hottentot chief'.

 

[Dalua]

In the German hunting courses terminology is part of the cirriculum

I guess if you don't know the difference between "there" and "their" I guess you would not care.

SS

Please come back only after you've written out 'curriculum' 100 times

 

[Jagare]

Indeed, 21-22 New Row, off St Martin's Lane. They opened there in the early 1970's and were located there until they ceased operations in the late 1980's and were bought by an American company.

It must have been about 1974-75 when i bought my reloading gear. I remember there was a Greener harpoon gun hanging on the wall in Blands. I so wanted that weapon. There would not have been a whale safe in the county of Kent if i owned that.

 

[willie_gunn]

It must have been about 1974-75 when i bought my reloading gear. I remember there was a Greener harpoon gun hanging on the wall in Blands. I so wanted that weapon. There would not have been a whale safe in the county of Kent if i owned that.

Greener? Then it wasn't the whales, it was the Kentish Sharks (or would that be Sharks of Kent?) that needed to watch out

"Jesus H Christ, when I was a boy, every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or a sword fisherman."