Fusil

[Brokennock]

Further more; I dislike the terms smokepole, front stuffer, and flinchlock. To me, the use of such terms denotes an amateur in the field of black powder firearms and flaunts disrespect for the genre.
Another term that I intensely dislike is "possibles" bag.

 

[Snooterpup]

I can't and I won't. The masses must be educated. Also, a "smoothie" is something you drink, NOT shoot.

Hmmmm,
I believe Lenin and Mao and the little fat boy in North Korea said the same thing.
Be very careful on who is doing the ‘educating’. Current time and the last 40+ years are an example.

 

[Brokennock]

Hmmmm,
I believe Lenin and Mao and the little fat boy in North Korea said the same thing.

No, but they are winning, even after two of them are dead, because we have become a nation of self centered dummies. People are more focused on cool, or what they want to do or say, over what is right.

 

[Snooterpup]

No, but they are winning, even after two of them are dead, because we have become a nation of self centered dummies. People are more focused on cool, or what they want to do or say, over what is right.

How right you are and how sad it is.

 

[Shiloh]

If I set a smoothie, the drink down range and send a projectile into it. Am I shooting a smoothie?

 

[Gopher0]

Frontstuffer comes dangerously close to "Liquor Up Front - Poker In The Rear".

Frontstuffer comes dangerously close to "Liquor Up Front - Poker In The Rear".

as does Also, a "smoothie"

 

[smo]

Here’s my smoothbore….

Here’s my smoothie…

 

[le125verne]

Over the years what we call a particular gun has changed.
Musket originally referred to an extra heavy two man gun that operated as flank protection on a battlefield. While not a fast shooter it covered what a SAW is used for on today’s battlefield
It evolved in to the one man smoothbore bayoneted gun, then in to the rifled pieces.
It was once the cock that carried a flint, and the hammer the frizzen.
Rifles were screw bores.
Fusil was French guns, and fusil today is often a shotgun.
The British northwest gun, trade gun was called by Americans a London Fuze in writings of the time.
Generally on this forum we say fusil to mean a French civilian gun or a civilian smoothbore in flintlock that has a long barrel and heavier construction.
Fowling gun a light fusil.
A smoothbore built on a rifle platform is a smooth rifle or rifle mounted fusil
Roll your eyes at this point.
We try to be all technical but red is red and not to be confused with scarlet or ox blood, and red isn’t pink, ( a word that wasn’t invented yet) and the Red Coats could have their reddish orange of the infinity or the deep red of the officers
If you see fusil on this forum think context
If you have sinus problems you could have a runny nose, a cardiac arrhythmia or stuff falling out of your riflemans shirt

Enjoyed the read. Thank You for the laugh provided.

 

[BadDaditood]

lead, led and lead chafes my leiderhosen
You can lead them to lead, but they’ll swear they weren’t led

 

[Kentuckyjed]

prolly is an actual word sir.

prolly is a slang word used in text or online because some can't spell it correctly or they are too lazy to spell it out.

 

[Kentuckyjed]

I was always told" Don't be anything you can't spell"

 

[2 shots]

true . but i heard it started in the 1940's. not a new on line thing

 

[BillinOregon]

Well, once again the old maxim proves useful: "Situation normal, all fuked up."

 

[Brokennock]

prolly is a slang word used in text or online because some can't spell it correctly or they are too lazy to spell it out.

There is a third option/reason/excuse,,,, and I think it is one we see a lot here.
The individual is trying to imply a way of speaking what they think will sound cool or fit in to the group.
Mostly here we see it as folks using poor spelling or grammer trying to phonetically imply an accent or regional/cultural mispronounciation or speech pattern.
I'm not totally convinced all of them are as dumb as this attempt makes them sound.

 

[Kentuckyjed]

There is a third option/reason/excuse,,,, and I think it is one we see a lot here.
The individual is trying to imply a way of speaking what they think will sound cool or fit in to the group.
Mostly here we see it as folks using poor spelling or grammer trying to phonetically imply an accent or regional/cultural mispronounciation or speech pattern.
I'm not totally convinced all of them are as dumb as this attempt makes them sound.

Kind of like ebonics or cauconics.

 

[Kentuckyjed]

There is a third option/reason/excuse,,,, and I think it is one we see a lot here.
The individual is trying to imply a way of speaking what they think will sound cool or fit in to the group.
Mostly here we see it as folks using poor spelling or grammer trying to phonetically imply an accent or regional/cultural mispronounciation or speech pattern.
I'm not totally convinced all of them are as dumb as this attempt makes them sound.

I usually just giggle when I hear or see the "prolly" word written. And as you stated regional/cultural pronunciations right or wrong will always make you scratch you're head and wonder, do they know or is it how they interpret it. Sometimes I just put it on the list of "isms".

 

[Brokennock]

Kind of like ebonics or cauconics.

Exactly.

Hick-onics?

 

[CyrusP]

I refer to it as a “charcoal burnin’ Lupara”.

 

[SOLANCO]

Axiom: If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing well. Corollary: If a thing is worth saying it is worth saying well.

 

[godutch]

Heck, let's fix this forum first. How about a #!?&% spelling contest to kick things off!

Oh NO! Please NO ! I'm getting so I'm typing a word I know and can't remember how it's spelled. I give it a few try's out of mortified desperation and then just rephrase the sentence to omit that word.