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Do you stand a vase on its head or its base? Nomenclature is extremely important for accurate communication. If you'd been the first cartridge inventor you'd have been privileged to dub that part the base. ;-)When you stand a cartridge on the flat part so the pointy part is pointing up, you've placed it on its head, correct? Where the head stamp is, right? So why is the measurement from the flat part to the point where the bullet starts to narrow towards the tip called the Cartridge Base To Ogive (CBTO) instead of the Cartridge Head To Ogive (CHTO)?
Just a newbie with too much time on his hands and a penchant for weird quirks of terminology wondering how the acronym came to be.
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And, the head dimension is from the tip of the seated bullet (meplat??) to the end of the case mouth.You can't have a head on one end, and neck and shoulder on the other end, with a body in the middle. but... that's what we got. Who cares though as long as we understand the meaning.
OK, I think I was keeping up with the program until now, but that just doesn't make any sense at all, since neither end of the measured distance is anywhere near the head of the case.And, the head dimension is from the tip of the seated bullet (meplat??) to the end of the case mouth.
Yep,OK, I think I was keeping up with the program until now, but that just doesn't make any sense at all, since neither end of the measured distance is anywhere near the head of the case.
But, as previously and repeatedly stated, that's what it's called so that's what it's called.
Correct, my mistake but I had good intentions.COAL = Cartridge Over All Length
Like I previously noted, it does not matter what it is called as long as you know how to take the necessary measurements, i.e., seating depth, distance to the lands, etc ...OK, I think I was keeping up with the program until now, but that just doesn't make any sense at all, since neither end of the measured distance is anywhere near the head of the case.
But, as previously and repeatedly stated, that's what it's called so that's what it's called.