I need help with gun acronym!!

[pistolwhip82]

Okay guys. I am fairly new to the gun world and people start spouting off stuff..... and I get that stupid, HUH, face. can I get some help on this. Just the most common please. Thanks

 

[Bruce51]

Newbies need a lot of help! Where to start.
DAO double action only
SA single action
TT Target trigger
TH Target hammer
TS Target sights
RB Round butt
SB Square butt
FTF Failure to feed or failure to fire or face to face
FTE Failure to eject or failure to extract
And so many more. do you have something specific you need to know?

Bruce

 

[pistolwhip82]

Cool, I think you got all the ones I needed. What is a stove pipe?

 

[Bruce51]

A stove pipe occurs, when a case is not ejected, but is caught between the slide and barrel pointing up like a stove pipe.

Bruce

 

[pistolwhip82]

Thanks for the info. now I wont look so stupid I hope. God Bless

 

[Bruce51]

Feel free to ask all the questions you want. TV really sucks and it gives us all something to do.

Just remember there is no such thing as a stupid question. The people who get hurt don't bother to ask any questions.

And you're very welcome. I'm glad you asked.

Bruce

 

[Beemerguy53]

Some more acronyms...

FMJ = Full Metal Jacket
JHP = Jacketed Hollow Point
SWC = Semi-Wadcutter
TMJ = Total Metal Jacket
BMG = Browning Machine Gun (as in ".50 BMG")
ACP = Automatic Colt Pistol (as in ".45ACP")
+P or +P+ = higher pressure loads, usually 9mm or .45ACP, as in "9mm+P"
NFA = National Firearms Act
BATFE = Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
AWB = Assault Weapons Ban
Pre-ban or Post-ban = weapons manufactured before or after the Clinton-era AWB took effect in 2003
NRA-ILA = The NRA's political education and lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action

 

[Grog]

Pre-ban or Post-ban = weapons manufactured before or after the Clinton-era AWB took effect in 2003

Hmmmm, think your fingers were thinking for themselves. The date you're thinking of it 9-13-1994.

 

[oldman45]

Okay guys. I am fairly new to the gun world and people start spouting off stuff..... and I get that stupid, HUH, face. can I get some help on this. Just the most common please. Thanks

Do not feel alone. I have been actively shooting over 50 yrs, been a collector for over 45 yrs and someone comes up with a new acronym that I have never encountered almost daily.

It may be possible that someone gets tired fingers from typing and tries some type of cell phone texting abbreviations.

Welcome and ask any questions you have. There is a great bunch of people here, both male and female, that know the answer to any question........well almost. I think they are still trying to decide which is better to use, a 9mm, a .40 or a .45acp. Pretty much anything other than that can be explained immediately.

 

[Smith357]

Many of acronyms depend on the make of the gun for example RNLT is specific to Browning shotguns meaning Round Knob Long Tang, Pre-64 refers to Winchester Rifles made before cost cutting manufacturing changes in made 1964, and the list goes on. I've been a firearms enthusiast for many many years and still don't know half of them.

 

[n4zov]

I wonder if a sticky might be of help to some of the forum's younger members? There are probably a lot more abbreviations that are commonly used on the forum.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

PBR=Pabst Blue Ribbon

 

[jazzman452]

ILS I will let someone else explain that one,

Jim

 

[one eye joe]

WOW Smith357, thats a new one for me. I gotta agree with oldman45--I been shootin' & collectin' over 50 yrs like he has. Fortunately, I never developed the addiction to Browning shotguns......

 

[mgo]

Okay guys. I am fairly new to the gun world and people start spouting off stuff..... and I get that stupid, HUH, face. can I get some help on this. Just the most common please. Thanks

I agree that some of the "insider" acronyms are pretty frustrating. Gee...this isn't 1860 with Western Union telegraph, it isn't necessary to pull metal letters out of wooden trays and type set, and it isn't texting....why not just spell out the terms and make it easy for everybody, eh?

 

[oldman45]

Been seeing one lately. Took a while to figure it out.

DRT Dead Right then.

 

[oldman45]

WOW Smith357, thats a new one for me. I gotta agree with oldman45--I been shootin' & collectin' over 50 yrs like he has. Fortunately, I never developed the addiction to Browning shotguns......

Only the old Brownings. More addicted to 1911 and .45acp guns.

 

[Beemerguy53]

Hmmmm, think your fingers were thinking for themselves. The date you're thinking of it 9-13-1994.

Right you are! I knew that...chalk it up to a brain-fart!

 

[borntoraisehogs]

BRASS; breath, relax, aim, slack, squeeze.

 

[oldman45]

ILS I will let someone else explain that one,

Jim

I got ILS right away. Use it all the time on approach.

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