charlies said:this is similar to calling a utility pole a telephone pole....
You are correct...........they are just "phone poles".......unless there is a light on them, at which time they become "light poles"... :mrgreen:
charlies said:this is similar to calling a utility pole a telephone pole....
tinman said:If I ever take a test where that is a question I'm sure I can come up with the "correct" answer.......which is gonna be the same as is found in the textbook/study guide.
But as long as they hand me the correct caliber for the gun I intend to use them in......I don't really care.
Mtneer said:My wife chewed me out for sounding "blustery" and embarrassing her know little, but nice guy, brother. I don't think it was my fault. One minute her brother was talking about types of beer and the micro- brewery not far from his house in San Diego, and the next thing I knew, he was asking me about handgun ammunition. I'm not kidding. :roll:
John, his wife Cathy, my wife and I had been sitting around the table, visiting. The conversation turned to types of beer and the new micro-brewery not far from John and Cathy's house. That's when John asked me if "Colt 45" could still be found up here in Idaho. I kind of stumbled when I told him; "Yeah, I think so. I never liked it very much though, so I'm not sure." John gave me a kind of puzzled look and said; "I was just wonderin. My boss has a Colt 45, and he told me he can't find bullets for it anywhere down here [in San Diego]"
According to my wife, I sounded "blustery" when I calmly said; "Oh, you mean 45 Colt. I thought you were talking about malt liquor."
I still don't think it was my fault that my wife's brother got all red faced because he made a 90 degree turn off the topic of conversation and I didn't follow. But maybe it was – maybe I drank too much 45 Colt in my younger years. :mrgreen:
tinman said:Jimbo357mag said:
Seeing as the folks at Colt invented it....I do believe that pretty much settles the argument......... .45 LC it is. 8)
Bob Wright said:jbntx said:The most popular explanation for the misnaming is so that the shorter 45 Schofield rounds could be distinguished from the longer 45 Colt rounds.
Thus the name Long Colt.
To be very precise, the name of that cartridge was .45 smith & Wesson, and sometime just before WW I there was a short .45 Colt round, and also a round called .45 Colt Government.
Period cartridges:
Headstamps of those rounds:
Bob Wright
BlackEye said:Bob Wright said:jbntx said:The headstamp of the long and short cased cartridges shown are the same designation. It seems no mystery that just asking for a box of 45s could get you the 'wrong' ones.
It's really a bit like 3 screw, never stamped on the revolver or marked on the box, but the term accurately communicates which model is in question.
BlackEye said:That's all true. I was just saying I understood where the term Long Colt came to be, especially since long and short were terms used with other ammo. The existence of the use of 45 Long Colt itself shows it was used to identify the cartridge. This was before SAAMI.
I'm a bit puzzled at the way different camps set up this. We have terms of endearment for a lot of things we use daily, but freak out over the 45 Long Colt thing. Nam? Ma Deuce? Old Model. Kids vs children? Tommy Gun? Phone? The list is endless.
CraigC said:Boolits is pretty silly. Grown men referring to firearms as winnie, remmie, shottie and maggie is a little much too. Thank God nobody has come up with a cutesy nickname for Colt, S&W and Ruger yet.....give it time. :roll:
ftr53 said:Then there are the cutesy folks who call bullets "boolits."
CraigC said:Boolits is pretty silly. Grown men referring to firearms as winnie, remmie, shottie and maggie is a little much too. Thank God nobody has come up with a cutesy nickname for Colt, S&W and Ruger yet.....give it time. :roll:
ftr53 said:Then there are the cutesy folks who call bullets "boolits."
CraigC said:Because folks on a certain forum dedicated to bullet casting decided they needed a way to impose their moral superiority because they cast their own "boolits", while everybody else buys their bullets. :roll: