I guess we now have to check a revolvers "hatch" and "drum".
GUN LANGUAGE
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Puller
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I have to roll my eyes any time I seem someone post about their gun with girlie names like, "Winnie", "Mossy", "Remmy", "Pony", or heaven forbid, their "shottie".
Really now, does any real man go into a local gun store or gun show table and ask the fellow behind the counter, "hey, can I see your Winnie?"
Really now, does any real man go into a local gun store or gun show table and ask the fellow behind the counter, "hey, can I see your Winnie?"
The word tthat makes terminology snobs lose their minds.....
CLIPS!!!
LOL
CLIPS!!!
LOL
"This...is my boomstick!"
Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.
Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.
Magazine:
Clip:
Clip:
Cooter Brown
Member
That's correct--"furniture" refers to the things that go ON the stock, rather than the stock itself. The first few times somebody referred to a stock as furniture I was really confused.
Words evolve over time but for some reason that one is annoying.
Any "tactical platform operators" around here? Joe
As to "bugger hook"....
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One of my friends insists on calling the cylinder of a revolver “the wheel”, which I try to get past, with varying degrees of success, mainly depending on how much MSM “news” I have been exposed to that day.
Early "wheel gun".
michael1000
US Veteran
please forgive my ignorance, but what is meant by a "kit gun?"
i've been around firearms quite a while, but this one does throw me.
maybe we should build a glossary of terms here as a sticky.
i hate confusion.
i've been around firearms quite a while, but this one does throw me.
maybe we should build a glossary of terms here as a sticky.
i hate confusion.
The Temptations agree with you.
"There's one in the pipe".
After a 25-year air traffic control career, where we were supposed to use by-the-book phraseology in every transmission, I must say I can't get too excited if somebody talking about a S&W doesn't get the acceptable terms quite right.
Oh, by the by, who said one term is acceptable over all others?
I collect dictionaries, and I've yet to see one for S&W.
Oh, by the by, who said one term is acceptable over all others?
I collect dictionaries, and I've yet to see one for S&W.
sigp220.45
US Veteran
Its a small gun, usually a .22 revolver, that is kept in an outdoorsman’s “kit” with other small items of gear like a knife or first aid things or fire making stuff or PB&J sandwich. It would also apply to a gun kept in a tacklebox.
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riverrat38
US Veteran
At one time, kit referred to equipment or gear. A duffle bag was a kit bag. There is even an old song that goes "pack up your troubles in an old kit bag ....".
I think the English still use "kit" as equipment or tackle.
Is it "shaving kit" or "shaving tackle"? There is probably a "y" in tackle.
73,
Rick
I think the English still use "kit" as equipment or tackle.
Is it "shaving kit" or "shaving tackle"? There is probably a "y" in tackle.
73,
Rick
Puller
Member
Here's another term that is usually used by those who I deem to have a biased ignorance, tactical Tupperware.
Yep...Americans use drum sets while Brits use drum kits.
"Birth year." I have no idea where this came from but I find it irritating. Perhaps they are onto something. This would explain the hole above the cylinder release. Nothing more than a belly button.
