OT - Bullet "words"

[86er]

After reading two magazines and watching 7 hunting TV shows today (hey, I'm sick - give me a break) I am sick of hearing the ridiculous nicknames that are used to refer to the bullet or the shot. I heard or read "PILL" 23 times today, "MEDICINE" 7 times and a sprinkle of other nonsense like "POTION", "ANTIDOTE", "SLEEPING PILL", "INJECTION", "REMEDY", "CURE" and "DOSE". Examples of these are: "The perfect pill for mule deer" (referring to a 300 Rem Ultra Mag); "Serious whitetail medicine" (some kind of blackpowder rifle); "...gave him the potion" (talking about shooting a gemsbok); "serious antedote for big bears" (unknown caliber Jarrett rifle); "Fed him the sleeping pill" (wildebeest shot with 300 Ultra Mag); "Stuck it with the injection" (deer shot with 270 WSM); "The remedy for long range sheep" (Berger bullet in 7mm Rem Mag); "The cure for big northern whitetails" (talking about 300WSM) and "Showed him a dose of the good stuff" (Winchester ammunition).

How do they figure these terms even fit? Webster says:
Pill - : a usually medicinal or dietary preparation in a small rounded mass to be swallowed whole
Medicine - : a substance or preparation used in treating disease
Potion - : a mixture of liquids
Antidote -: a remedy to counteract the effects of poison
Sleeping Pill - a drug and especially a barbiturate that is taken as a tablet or capsule to induce sleep
Injection -: an act or instance of injecting Inject - introduce a substance forcefully
Remedy -: a medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease
Cure -: recovery or relief from
Dose - : the measured quantity of a therapeutic agent to be taken at one time

What's wrong with these morons? Do people (hunters) really talk like this? Why can't we just say "BULLET", "SHOOT", "SHOT" and "KILLED" ? At least use words that make sense in the darn sentence!

Kind of like the TV guys avoid saying "dead" and use the ridiculous term "down". The hunter walks up to an animal, pokes it in the eye with the rifle and declare "He's down"! Yeah - No poop Sherlock, it's been laying there with blood gurgling out for the past two minutes. Ya think?

Ahhrrr - Rant over .......

[pharmseller]

I shoot 'em with bullets but
some guys use boolits,
So squeeze it, don't pull it
when you shoot 'em with bullets!

P

[papabear]

I never gave an animal a dose of medicine an injection or the antidote I shot them with my lever action rifle and they died no sleeping pills or nore did i cure them of any thing i just simply killed them

Joe feel better

[Bogie35]

Hope you feel better, my friend.

bogie

[Hobie]

I hear you. I wish there was someway to tell them they lose audience (and viewers of the advertising) when they have that sort of dialog.

[TedH]

But.... but....those neat words sound so much cooler!

I'll sometimes say I harvested a deer to non-hunting friends just so they don't get the impression us hunters are out solely for the act killing an animal. But the fact is the game animals are a natural resource that can be used to feed us, so harvesting is exactly what it is.

[otteray]

What bugs me is folks that talk about their "shotty" or "Glock Fotay"
Makes me cringe, just like screeching fingernails across a blackboard used to; waaaay back when, in high school.

[pharmseller]

What bugs me is folks that talk about their "shotty" or "Glock Fotay"
Makes me cringe, just like screeching fingernails across a blackboard used to; waaaay back when, in high school.

I thought you used stone tablets when you were in high school.


P

[Sixgun]

86er,
Those programs are written by Easterners who are more writers than they are hunters. They think they are entertaining. Get some rest, you will feel better tomorrow.

When I tell someone I "killed" something, I like to say I "blitzed" it.

Old Elmer Keith liked to say "That coyote is ready for the "sixgun slug"

Skeeter Skelton used to liken a gun he used a lot as "that gun knew what it felt to have several hundred pounds of hot lead shoved down its throat"

Anything of what I said make sense? ---Sixgun

[Chas.]

It's not just gun writers. Just listen to the local sportscaster that comes after the news&weather. Their "cutesy" language will gag you.

[FWiedner]

Jeez Joe...

How's a guy squatin' by the lyin' post gonna make it clear to his his buds that he busted a cap on a critter where the express train made a clean pass straight through the boiler room to make it DRT with an entrance like a dime and an exit like a basketball?

While I understand your need to Joe Friday, I personally get much more out of such an embellishment than if I just talked to a guy at camp who say that he shot a deer leaving a large wound channel resulting in instantaneous CNS disruption.

I demand superfluous entertainment.

[Mike Rintoul]

"The hunter walks up to an animal, pokes it in the eye with the rifle and declare "He's down"! Yeah - No poop Sherlock, it's been laying there with blood gurgling out for the past two minutes. Ya think?"

I like that part, you're funny.
Feel better quick and I'll see you in Las Vegas.

[Ysabel Kid]

I'm with you on this Joe!

I hope you get to feeling better soon!

[Mike D.]

And I thought that I was the only one who thought that way. I stopped reading those sorts of rags long ago. I needed a lot of liquid self medication after sorting through some of the articles written by those writers.

[otteray]

What bugs me is folks that talk about their "shotty" or "Glock Fotay"
Makes me cringe, just like screeching fingernails across a blackboard used to; waaaay back when, in high school.

I thought you used stone tablets when you were in high school.


P

Been so long ago, I think you may be right!
Musta been something I saw in one of those newfangled "talkie" movies, I guess.

[mescalero1]

I do not like superflourous anything.
Saying what needs to be said should negate any embellishment.

[Old Ironsights]

I do not like superflourous anything.
Saying what needs to be said should negate any embellishment.

Post Prandial, Upper Abdominal Distention?

[piller]

Maybe they are trying to overcome their lack of knowledge about firearms with words which would make the typical below average hollywood type salivate. (Does the fact that I only took one Psychology class show too much?)

[Blaine]

Honest....I can't and don't watch any of those dang shows.....they just hack me off...worse than taking a hot lead enema.....

[piller]

Blaine, I'll have to take your word for that.

[JerryB]

Hey mescalero, kinda like your slow talkin neighbors to the northwest, a man of few words.

[Buck Elliott]

Don't fret yourselves into an early grave over the maunderings of idiots. They just don't know (or care to know) better...

[Grizz]

Blaine, I'll have to take your word for that. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Blaine gives a whole new meaning to "waxing poetic"!

:) Grizz

[KirkD]

Well we gave our calves pills for scours, and our cows injections for Blackleg, but it was to keep them alive, not to kill them.

[vancelw]

My preference for being out-of-doors naturally keeps me away from movie cameras, studios, etc.

I always have to wonder about people who make a living on "hunting" shows.

If I watch more than one hunting show a year, I'm well past my limit.

I guess they gotta make up new sayings to make it all seem new to the audience.

[Jacko]

Been using pill to describe a bullet for as long as I can remember. For me it's just another slang word. I'd come close to being the LEAST politicaly correct bloke you'd meet though I am sensitive enough not to inflame anti's I meet at BBQ's.

regards Jacko

[Buck Elliott]

... though I am sensitive enough not to inflame anti's I meet at BBQ's.

regards Jacko

What the H*** are "anti's" doing at a BBQ...? Are they broiling up Tofu now, In OZ?

BBQs are for CARNIVORES...

[Jacko]

Yep, they even have the nerve to expect their taste's / beliefs to be catered to. I can't win, sister in law is a RSPCA Officer so topic of discussion over Christmas lunch is interesting

regards Jacko

[JohndeFresno]

It goes further than that, Levergunners.

Listen to those sportscasters - "The Steelers smashed the Packers..." "The Aliens smothered the Mushrooms..." "The Butterballs basted the Chickens..." - or whatever. Some phrases are pretty ridiculous; but I think it's because they want to break up the monotony of using the same word over and over again in succeeding paragraphs or anecdotes: "The 'Niners beat the Raiders, the Ninnies beat the..."

On the other end of the pole, so to speak - Listen some time to one of the fishing programs on a sports channel. The guy lands a beautiful, mouth watering rainbow trout. He says to the camera and his companion, "That's a beautiful fish!"

Four minutes later, his buddy lands a vigorous, fighting dynamo of the same species, hauls it up with the net for the cameraman to see, and declares, "That's a beautiful fish, there!"

Then the next scene depicts another fishing hole where our intrepid host brings a giant bass up to the gunwale of their bass boat. He surprises us with, "Wow! What a monster!" But his buddy spoils it by saying, "That's a beautiful fish!"

Quite an interesting dialog, eh? Naw, I don't blame them writers who are trying to interject synonyms, as long as they aren't too goofy. But then again, some are!

[cnjarvis]

For the most part, hunting shows are best viewed with the sound OFF.

[madman4570]

Joe,
Pick which one you like! 1 or 2


1)
Joe,
Yesterday, I killed a big buck with my 30-30

or

2)
Dude,
I went hunting Bambi yesterday, took two pops with my shooting stick to put him down. First pill slowed him up,but second dose of medicine anchored him,and kept him down.

Joe, I hear what you are saying! Good viewpoint!

Next,the word shopping will be used instead of hunting

[Blaine]

I just thought....I've been known to say " Boom...Deer Sammich"

[madman4570]

Honestly, maybe some of it is in some small way some's attempt to make it get across for example to the younger people that hunting is "cool/Hip". Look at Ted Nugent! How he talks ? "I do really respect that man and what he's done" a great man! Maybe a communication strategy????

So,really I am not sure why people say it the way they do.?