SO what do you call it?

[mikld]

Like most fellers above, I call completed, ready to shoot stuff ammo. If I buy ammo, it's usually called "factory___" like factory .45 ACP, or Factory .303" etc.

In my mind bullets are projectiles often encased in a copper/brass jacket. Boolits are my lovingly cast lead projectiles. Never "pills", or "heads". Brass cases are called "cases" but not "casings", shotgun ammo is "shells".

And an ammo can full of freshly minted 45 ACP food fer my 1911 is called fun!

 

[novalty]

Misses and Hits............

Well now we know who's calling the shots

 

[Watchdog]

I have often heard cartridges referred to as "pills".

It's just plain ol' ammo to me.

 

[TenTea]

I have often heard cartridges referred to as "pills".

It's just plain ol' ammo to me.

I think bullets are pills as they may be taken internally.

 

[gwpercle]

It's not 'Clips' .

Or "magazines"!

I call it anything but bullets, we all know what a bullet is.

 

[venomballistics]

depends on who Im talking with.
Cartridge is, I believe, the proper term and I use that in formal discussion.
less formal settings, Ammo, or rounds...
on the far end of informality. chamber food, tasty treats, thunder pipe activation units (high intensity cartridges), Heather, or Mort (running joke resulting from this very question being raised long ago in the presence of adult beverage)

Likewise, The bullet is referred to with both formal and informal terminology as needed.
Bullet, and projectile for formal discussion.
slug on occasion .
informal, its the heavy metal supplement

 

[klausinak]

depends on who Im talking with.
Cartridge is, I believe, the proper term and I use that in formal discussion.

I generally call them cartridges, sometimes rounds or ammo, never bullets. Shells are for either shotguns or things that are so big, I'm not allowed to own them .

-Klaus

 

[Arik]

I all it Ammunition or Ammo. However I am an Old Fart. I suspect the younger crowd who insist on calling Revolvers "wheelies" call cartridges "whizbangs" or "zingers" or something equally annoying to those of us who believe that using the proper term for something is correct.

No, we call it ammo. Wizbangs sound like something from the 50s. Like "golly gee"

We just call it ammo. I need to buy 9mm ammo. Or 308 ammo or I don't have enough ammo !

[emoji41]

 

[rwsmith]

Depends on the context...

ammo, ammunition, cartridges, shells, rounds I use them all.

 

[SMSgt]

I don't care, just give me more.

 

[rg1]

Cartridge, rounds, shells, slugs, heads, pills, ammo, ammunition by cartridge size such as 30-30's.
Put your eyes on--safety glasses
Kick--recoil
"Lee" ver action---lever action
clips--magazines
Depends a lot on what area of the country you're from and even rural or city. Where I grew up my forefathers and neighbors called a device to hold cartridges "clips". Never heard of magazine until the invent of 30 rounders for AR's that were called magazines. Or Sports Afield magazines that came in the mail. I had heard of powder magazines to store large quantities of powder. Most called a 30-30 rifle a Leever action instead of lever. To me and my ear or eyes the most foreign sounding name for a bullet is a "head". Never heard that one but I understand it's quite common especially in the northeast? It doesn't matter to me as long as I can understand what we're talking about. First time I saw "heads for sale" it was unknown to me. For me, call it a clip and I understand. Don't like the phrase "bullet heads" just because it's not local "speak".

 

[S&WIowegan]

Easy question and answer

They're all CTGs!

 

[Nebraska12]

Ammo, rounds or cartridges...depending on context.


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[venomballistics]

anyone refer to loaded pistol mags as candy bars?

 

[Comrad]

Cap...best used with your pants hanging way low with your hat on sideways in a sentence such as "I'll bust a cap in his....." well you get the idea.

I really had to think about hat I call them. I just refer to them by caliber.

I need a box of 38 special, a box of 22 etc..

 

[Sawfish]

Shells for shotgun ammo; rounds for centerfire, and 22s for rimfire. If it is just empty brass, I call them pieces.

 

[smokey04]

I call them ammo, bullets, rounds, cartridges,but I can't stand the dumb *** term "boolits". Only a cretin who picks both nostrils with both of their trigger fingers and can't ditch the "campy" talk , like it's "awesome man " gimme a break from the mall make believe talk. Check out your holster, belt rig,matching purse, cowboy boots , and of, course, your matching nail polish and lip stick. I remember, not too long ago, someone on some site[not necessarily this one]that waited 3 years for a custom rig for CONCEALMENT! ? If you can wait that long for a rig you don't need a gun!Maybe if he waited another 3 years he could have had some crock boots to match! Are these gunners or posers? Just a wondering . Nick

 

[RussellD]

happiness in brass

 

[Jaymo]

In the case of .22 mag ammo, or .38 Wadcutter ammo, I call them "Unobtanium".

All others, I call "overpriced".

I do like thunder pipe activation units.

Clip is now, and has always been 100% incorrect, when speaking of magazines.
Clips are stamped from sheet metal and hold rounds in a magazine.
Magazines have springs and followers and actually feed the rounds into the chamber.
Clips do nothing more than hold rounds together.

Chargers are commonly known as "stripper clips", and that is much more correct thancalling mags clips.

Kind of like referring to wheels as rims or rimz.
A rim is the outer periphery of a wheel.
A wheel has a rim, a hub, and spokes.

 

[rwsmith]

I have a Browning A5...

I all it Ammunition or Ammo. However I am an Old Fart. I suspect the younger crowd who insist on calling Revolvers "wheelies" call cartridges "whizbangs" or "zingers" or something equally annoying to those of us who believe that using the proper term for something is correct.

I have a Browning A5 'Shottie'.