shakey jake
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apparently only an ignorant british thing
Bullets or Heads. "30-06" or "30 ought Six"
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I have asked (in the past), why (specific people) call a bullet a head and the typical answer is "that it doesn't matter what it called" followed by insults.
Bless 'em
Initially it's because they are 'new', haven't read a reloading manual and are lacking knowledge or understanding, but once they/he/she/it has been informed then it's pure stupidity.
enfieldspares
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Way back when...you'll see it in old catalogues...it's often called the ".300 inch" or sometimes as ".30 US Gov't". It's a lot later that it seems to be called in Britain the .30/06 and that rather than .30-06. I'm told that Americans don't even bother with the .30 bit and just call it the "Ought Six". The same as they might just call their venerable service pistol just a, or the, "1911".
stalker.308
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Surely if we are going down the correct use of the English language them we have to stop saying 'oh' and starting using zero or nought……. An oh is in the alphabet, a zero or nought is a number. So a '30 ought 6' is pronounced better by those across the pond than us saying 30 oh 6.
An interesting debate - Names for the number 0 in English - Wikipedia
It remains 'thirty-oh-six' for me. I use English English, not the American variety.
Scotty99
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Prolly gonna make a few folks ****ed with ma anser but here goes it’s a 30-ought-06 on account of it’s a Murican catridge, y’all just betta get accustomed to it, caus‘n I ain’t fixing to change nothin. Anyhoos I‘m off to make me a sammich.
Bavarianbrit
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Gonna report ya ta da SD troopers.
Quote from a recent war film “This is a Merikan tank!, you want to speak Messican, go find a Messican tank”
I find it much easier to read three dots indicating a pause in conversational (SD) text on screen...Covers full stop. comma, colon: or semi colon; each of which tend to disappear with old screens and older eyes. A couple of spaces after the comma, as we used to use on fixed width font printers (dot matrix and daisy wheel) do not seem to be so effective on screen.
Alan
Ade8mm
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No many takers then.So are we happy with people referring to Fallow Bucks as "Stags" on the basis "we know what they mean"?
So are we OK with Red Bucks?
After all we all know what we mean, even though , at the same time we know the nomenclature is bllx
Mmmh. Interesting.
stevenedwards
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It may prove difficult to correct when we have large retailers referring to "bullet heads". Is this a particular part of a projectile /
shakey jake
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i dont think i could use shops that dont know basic terms. no excuse for ignorance
Scotty99
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We in the UK stick with this dogged distinction between Stags and Hinds for two of our six species, but use Bucks and Does for the other four, with people who use the terms incorrectly being castigated without mercy, but can anyone explain why we have this difference in terminology, after all they are all either male or female deer.
Woodsmoke
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I don't. Nor will I buy from any user here who refers to them as such. Continued wilful ignorance in the face of multiple corrections is an insult both to the language itself, and the person you direct it towards.
I have not tesearched it, but there is an obvious advantage to making a distinction between buck and stag. One word “Stag” gives both sex and size, and prior to Sika introduction identified deer species as far as UK goes. So it does carry more information.
Stag gave you all the information contained in “male red deer” in one word. Now it defines “large male deer” in the UK.
“Bullet head” is like calling a male deer a “Stag Buck” or saying “Stag deer”.
Analogies to buck and stag could be to restrict “head” to bullets under say .243 and bullet for those above. Or “head” for live quarry projectiles and bullet for targets.
Alan
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That's what we need, a simple answer, clearly defined and easy to understand ......
My idea (I know it's contentious) is to use the correct terms/names
John Gryphon
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The news reporter has a couple of choices when he is writing about a murder tale. Now which one would he choose?
The bullet entered the victims head.
The head entered the victims head.......hmmmmmm
The bullet entered the victims head.
The head entered the victims head.......hmmmmmm
John Gryphon
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Like my missus,hers is purple,what colour is yours haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
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