I consider myself a good speller and try to use proper grammer, but darnit, I'm always typing in boolit mould instead of bullet mould in ebay, they tell me I'm spelling boolit wrong. The gall!
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I consider myself a good speller and try to use proper grammer, but darnit, I'm always typing in boolit mould instead of bullet mould in ebay, they tell me I'm spelling boolit wrong. The gall!
You mean boolit isn't the correct spelling and I have made it through all these years with no one correcting me? Shame on all of you!
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Originally Posted by hydraulic
That really bugs me too....."I put a Loopy on my Winnie, 280 Remmie and harvested a mulie!" Kinda has a "ring" to it, doncha think????
Jerry
I certainly agree with the folks who think "boolit" is silly, but when in Rome, do as the Romans do. I've gotten quite used to using it here, and have to think about typing "bullet" elsewhere.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
"Boolits"= cast projectiles, pure and simple. Sort of like the secret handshake in the Lodge.
Now, not to hijack the thread but "if I do my part" gets my dander up- Really?? you have to do your part to get good groups??Who's a thunk it?
Just the ramblings of a mind slightly off the tracks.
Gary
I myself use it, and am proud of doing so! When I go over to the other boards and post, they either know EXACTLY where I've been hanging out mostly, or that I'm too deep into the scene to understand my slang. Ok, they really think I'm a lead fume sniffing idiot....which in reality isn't real far from the truth. Though I do try to keep my temp under 700. Have any of you other guys noticed that you begin to wander off subject and into completely off topic subjects since you have begun to cast.... Think its the fumes?
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Jdgabbard's very own boolit boxes pattern!
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Boolits, Use that spelling lots of times when not on this forum. But, I misspell so many words that it is not noticed.
What this Country needs is more unemployed politicians
Boolits >< Bullets
Cast Boolits as to Jacketed Bullets
Makes sense to Me
Heck I do it on purpose! Use boolits to refer to cast projectiles I mean. Just hoping some grammar nazi will call me on it, then I get to copy and paste 45 nut's sig line on whatever forum I posted on. Most just drop the subject, figure I'm some kinda kook. So be it, I've been called worse.
I have actually mispelled the term boollits or is it boollets, or boolitts...... oh nevermind.
Fast is fine, but accuracy is final!
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I'm a stickler on proper spelling and grammar, but yes, I do it, and I've had to explain this method of differentiation to the folks over at 24hourcampfire.comI sue Boolits for cst an bullets fr coper.....
Pete, i had to do it.
Selmerfan
i use all kinds of internet slang, some times some army slang slips out too.
i started using boolit on other sites while lurking here.
mostly gbo, and tfl.
I think using "boolit" when refering to cast projectiles is an excellent way to promote this forum.
Yes, everyone knows where you get your edumacation (it's a continuing process), and who your real friends are!
USMC 1980-1985
I will admit that at first the boolit thing bothered me but I can live with it and have started using it. I have always used mould instead of mold. I think that EK always used it that way and also think that Wayne Gibbs of H & G did too...So I guess it's just what ever one can live with....Wes
The problem in America today is, there are to many fools making to many rules that don't apply to themselves. Now just wait until the new pres. takes office and see what happens!!!!!
I don't use it because my fingers just automatically spell "bullet" and I'd have to stop and think to spell it otherwise.
Not yet.
The spell checker in my browser still hasn't learned that boolit is a real word.
It has recently been discovered that the fumes created when lead-antimony alloy is heated in conjunction with certain materials, such as candle wax, pine tree rosin, saw dust, etc, that a very peculiar - - - no make that bizarre - - - type of intoxication can occur. It affects a very, very specific part of the brain, namely where the memory of how spelling the word "bultle", "blulet", "butlel" - - - -
DANG IT!!! How is that word spelled?
I know what I'm trying to say but I can't figure out the spelling of the word I'm talking about. You know, that thing we all cast in a mould out of lead-antimony alloy that is in the front of a cartridge that the powder gases push out the barrel? Yeah, that thing!
It is coming to me now after thinking about it here.
BOOLIT
Yup, I finally remembered how it is spelled.
Jeez! Imagine that! I was trying to spell it with a "U" in it. Somebody might yell at me for spelling it wrong if I put a "U", "E", and two "Ls" in it. Gotta be more careful.
Let that be a lesson to you about having proper ventillation while heating boolit alloy, you just may have happen to you what just happened to me and forget how "boolit" is spelled. Now, what was it I just started to say something about?
rl533
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Safe casting and shooting!
Linstrum, member F.O.B.C. (Fraternal Order of Boolit Casters), Shooters.com alumnus, and original alloutdoors.com survivor.
Guilty
Linstrum, Linstrum,...... Didn't you used to teach Algbra at my school.
Last edited by Capn Jack; 04-19-2009 at 12:12 PM. Reason: Can't spell before 10:00
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