Shooting Acronyms

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#31 Post by waterford103 »

WRA - Winchester Repeating Arms .
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#32 Post by Mattnall »

NCSC - National Clay Shooting Centre
STANTA - Stanford Training Area
WDA - Weapon Danger Area

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#33 Post by George G »

NAAFI

The abbreviation NAAFI on a Form S264 - Report on a Royal Naval Rating - stands for No Ambition And -all Interest.

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#34 Post by snayperskaya »

MPI - Mean Point of Impact
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#35 Post by Daryll »

LSR = Light sporting rifle
SLP = Self loading pistol
STANTA = STANford Training Area (I think!!)
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#36 Post by snayperskaya »

SENTA - SENnybridge Training Area
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#37 Post by Swamp Donkey »

QE, quadrant (of) elevation
TE Tangent of Elevation
SPTA Salisbury Plain Training Area
TAS(RE) Technical Advisory Service (Royal Engineers) (the people who oversee new range design)
CGR Converted Gallery Range
CGETR Converted Gallery Electronic Target Range
SARTS Small Arms Range Targetry System
LOMAH Location Of Miss And Hit (sensors on sarts Targetry)
WDA Weapon Danger Area
RDA Range Danger Area
CQM Close Quarters Marksmanship
CoF Cone of Fire
MMTT(R) Mechanical Moving Target Trainer (Range)
JSP Joint Service Publication
DLRS Defence Land Range Safety
RAU Range Admin Unit


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#38 Post by Dougan »

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#39 Post by stu47 »

BZ - Beaten Zone
CofR - Commencement of Rifling
PMax - Pressure Maximum
RofR - Rate of Rotation
LtoL - Land to Land, measurement of bore ID
StoS - Sea to Sea, measurement of bore OD
LOS - Line of Sight
TT - Trunnion Tilt or Tripod Tilt, depending on application
COL - Cam Over Lock, all semi-auto's or full auto's have some form of this

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#40 Post by Rab »

LWR = Legal Without Registration.

It's an American thing, basically in the US people can buy lower receivers that are only 80% finished. Buying such a receiver does not require it to be shipped to an FFL holder and because they are only 80% finished it has no serial number. To finish the receiver all it takes is a receiver jig and drilling a couple of holes to make it 100% finished.
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