Sex in Muzzle Loading Terminology?

[Adam in WI]

Major Winchester:
"Nudist magazines, underwear watching: why this constant preoccupation with sex?"

B.J Hunnicutt
"Lack of occupation with sex"

 

[twines]

My first ML competition was at the NSSA. I was shooting individuals and a fierce looking Abraham Lincoln aka Joe Liech was my line judge. He stared right at me and said "Don't thumb your balls and stroke your rod" Thanks Joe.

 

[Lpcstrider420]

Wife is already cackling about ML terminology. Cock, half-cock, full cock, of course Ramrod, ball, patching a ball, ball size, lube in a variety of kinds - Bore butter, toilet bowl cleaner, "one hole" patterns, strippers, -- got any more?

Any of your wives and "significant others" also laughing? Keep it clean, please! Family forum, here.

Touch hole

 

[longcruise]

Keep it clean, please! Family forum, here.

Oh sooooooo too late for that.

The title of our state association newsletter is and has been for over 50 years "The Poke & Stroke".

 

[Clint Meier]

When I lived near Denver years ago, a small muzzle loading shop I frequented sold T-shirts that read as best I can recall (that was 50 years ago!):
Muzzle Loaders make better hunters because they have lead balls, go deeper into the bush and eat what they shoot.

 

[Marshhawk]

When at IU some of the skeet shooters among us had bumper stickers that read: "Skeet shooters do it better. Twenty five times in eight positions" Some humor is universal I guess.

 

[springfield art]

I wouldn't touch this subject with a 60" barrel!!

 

[Relic shooter]

Wife is already cackling about ML terminology. Cock, half-cock, full cock, of course Ramrod, ball, patching a ball, ball size, lube in a variety of kinds - Bore butter, toilet bowl cleaner, "one hole" patterns, strippers, -- got any more?

Any of your wives and "significant others" also laughing? Keep it clean, please! Family forum, here.

I'm also member of a Norwegian ML forum, in those parts they are referred to as mouth loaders
I do puff down the bore between shots but never with any sexual intent.
It does require balls to shoot muzzleloaders

 

[dracer]

makes you think of muzzle in a different way

 

[Nuthatch]

I think nearly every time I've picked up a ball for my trade gun or .72 shotgun, the AC/DC song plays in my head.

 

[54ball]

It’s called lasciviousness.

I’m all for a good joke from time to time but if you don’t watch it, it can take over your vocabulary, and the way you think and talk.

It can get really old really quick and make a person seem kind of creepy and sleazy.

It’s no fun listening to someone when everything, and I mean everything, is a dirty joke. Just about every statement has some kind of innuendo. Kids women around??? It don’t matter, they don’t notice. They do it so much they don’t realize it.

 

[longcruise]

When I lived near Denver years ago, a small muzzle loading shop

Old West Arms???

 

[sgtsquid]

If you think about where the term "breech" comes from it gives another reason for "certain articles" to be unmentionable.

 

[tenngun]

It’s called lasciviousness.

I’m all for a good joke from time to time but if you don’t watch it, it can take over your vocabulary, and the way you think and talk.

It can get really old really quick and make a person seem kind of creepy and sleazy.

It’s no fun listening to someone when everything, and I mean everything, is a dirty joke. Just about every statement has some kind of innuendo. Kids women around??? It don’t matter, they don’t notice. They do it so much they don’t realize it.

I had just been married a few months and had instant family as my wife came with an eight and fourteen yeas old.
The eight year old got in trouble for putting a swear word on his computer and sent it to another kid in class,
Not knowing the teacher could see everything the kids put on thier computers
Well a few days later I went to my first parent teacher conference, and she brought up that incident.
My answer right off was ‘I don’t know where that little s…o…b… picks up that language
Said with a straight face that I held for nearly a minute before I laughed
Teacher mean time looked shocked, my wife elbows me in the ribs and said ‘Baby!’
Only then did the teacher figure out it was a joke….. she was not amused
I still think it was pretty funny

 

[Col. Batguano]

I wouldn't touch this subject with a 60" barrel!!

Me neither.
At my age I'd rather have a talking frog.

 

[Sam squanch]

I’m shocked- shocked I tell you! I would never stoop to using such language! It’s the downfall of humanity I tell you!!

 

[John Stark]

It’s called lasciviousness.

I’m all for a good joke from time to time but if you don’t watch it, it can take over your vocabulary, and the way you think and talk.

It can get really old really quick and make a person seem kind of creepy and sleazy.

It’s no fun listening to someone when everything, and I mean everything, is a dirty joke. Just about every statement has some kind of innuendo. Kids women around??? It don’t matter, they don’t notice. They do it so much they don’t realize it.

I think, for me anyway, it has/had to do with serving in the military and being deployed. Most of us seem to develop a VERY dark sense of humor that takes years to get under control once out, it never goes away you just learn to "not do that". I do agree with the statement it gets old and seems creepy when done all the time, but it can be a real struggle for some to "switch it off" especially if just recently separated because that was your life for your entire deployment.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I think, for me anyway, it has/had to do with serving in the military and being deployed. Most of us seem to develop a VERY dark sense of humor that takes years to get under control once out, it never goes away you just learn to "not do that". I do agree with the statement it gets old and seems creepy when done all the time, but it can be a real struggle for some to "switch it off" especially if just recently separated because that was your life for your entire deployment.

Agreed. I have no military experience, but I'm in a field where dark humor is often used to not deal with issues that would turn most people into a sobbing wreck.
And I also agree with @54ball that it's annoying when people don't know when to turn it off. When everything that comes out of someone's mouth is a dirty joke, it gets old and it gets old pretty quickly.

But I admit to having juvenile moments.
It's a matter of knowing when something is appropriate and when it's not. Some things are fine on the golf course with your buddies that isn't fine in an everyday social situation. Locker room talk is just that, for the locker room. It's called growing up and being mature.

 

[BruceS]

As my old boss used to say “Know your audience”.

 

[bptactical]