How did MSM come up with "shell casings"?

[Bang]

Seems to me shells would do it. Or spent cases. Shell casings sounds like something that once held a shell and is now discarded. Maybe the thing that goes up is what separates them?

[X Hunter]

Shell Casings is from the same dictionary that provides the term Fully Semiautomatic.

[Gunsnwater]

I grew up with the term. You want bad? Try heads. I got some heads for 357. The bottom of a cartridge case has the head stamp and the primer hole. How can the bullet be a head? Cannons use shells, they call them guns, but guns use cartridges except for shotguns they use shells sometimes called hulls but often called shot shells or shell casings.

[bogey1]

Aren't shell casings shotgun terms?

[Qtrborecrazy]

Because cartridge is to long of a word for a liberal to spell.

[Delkal]

Aren't shell casings shotgun terms?

As far as I know.....its a shotgun shell. But its interesting that once a shotgun is fired they become hulls.


Maybe they were talking about artillery shells?

[Daycrawler]

Words like "shell casings" are nothing more than word fluff. Fluff is really bullshit!

[MikeStull]

Aren't shell casings shotgun terms?

Ammo for shotgun before firing: shell. After firing the portion ejected from the gun is called a hull. The only casing I am aware of in shotgunning is what I do with the gun after shooting and before it goes in the car.

[Tacgunner]

I think the original term "shell casing" comes from around the time of early cartridge ammo. Might be a British term from late 1800's. Didn't early artillery crews also have a coat/jacket called a "casing" jacket? Dunno.....still working on first cup o coffee....

[Krichardson]

Words like "shell casings" are nothing more than word fluff. Fluff is really bullshit!

Word fluff.....good one,never heard of that before.