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To: Marcella
"I am an expert on this .... multi-bullet magazines."

Couldn't determine that from your writing. Only rank amateurs and the news media don't know the difference between bullets and cartridges.

Bullets are to cartridges as flour is to bread and cement is to concrete, etc. Please learn the language.

47 posted on 01/12/2013 4:17:40 PM PST by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: Buffalo Head; Marcella

I seem to recall Marcella having basic questions about firearms - so I THINK she meant she was an “expert” on searching websites and seeing that everyone is out of ammo and magazines.

Marcella - I THINK that hollow point bullets are typically for handguns. What you want for effective killing of a deer and such is a “soft-nosed” rifle bullet (rather than a “full metal jacket”). There may be other types or terms that are used - but that is what I am familiar with.


48 posted on 01/12/2013 4:25:54 PM PST by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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To: Buffalo Head

“Couldn’t determine that from your writing. Only rank amateurs and the news media don’t know the difference between bullets and cartridges.”

Please re-write for me the sentence you think I wrote incorrectly regarding bullet and cartridge. Thanks.


56 posted on 01/12/2013 4:42:11 PM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Buffalo Head

Oh please spare us the, “look how smart i am” game. Of course while you are technically correct, colloquially, people use “rounds”, “bullets”, and “cartridges” interchangably when referring to fixed ammunition.

I’ve heard numerous people say they got a good deal on a few boxes of bullets they had been looking for. The context of the conversation is a hint as to when they are not speaking of reloading components.

And ive never heard anyone say they need to stop and buy a box of cartridges (unless they are wearing a handlebar mustache, holding a Winchester 1873, and are on their way to a cowboy action shooting event)


69 posted on 01/12/2013 6:02:32 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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