Firearms Term Glossary

This section is for defining words which gun folks take for granted that everyone knows.

• Common Abbreviations
• Common Abbreviations Used on Gun Forums
• Crown
• C&R, or CurioAndRelic
• Lands and Grooves
• Milsurp
• Muzzle?
• Free state

Specific Words

• Boolit: This word was apparently coined by one of the folks who now frequents the Cast Boolits forum. This word functions to separate commercially produced bullets from home-cast "boolits". See this forum thread for further details.

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