My Pet Peeve

[gandog56]

People who call a Mosin Nagant a Nagant.

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[ww2freak]

I agree with you on this one gandog.

[alamo308]

Second highest rating pet peeve: People who pronounce Mosin as "Moy-sin"!

[villiers]

People who call a P 08 a `LugAr´

[Son]

...... people who call a Sht LE Mk1 a "No1 Mk1"

[Johnny Peppers]

People who call a P 08 a `LugAr´

Or people that call all Lugers P.08.

[villiers]

Or people that call all Lugers P.08.

Or ignorant b*stards who don´t

[Johnny Peppers]

Or ignorant b*stards who don´t

It would certainly be an ignorant b*stard that called this one a P.08.

[GRF]

How about the ubiquitous "mouser", the occasional "gerrand" ?

[smellie]

Okay, time for my big mouth.

I know a Ukrainian fellow who pronounces it "Moisin". It's his name. I definitely agree, however, that "Nagant" is a misnomer; the Nagant Brothers designed only the MAGAZINE. Rest of the rifle was done by Capt. Sergei Ivanovich Mo(i)sin..... or possibly Sergay Ivanovitch Mohsin or Mossin, depending on your source material and when it was printed. Thankfully, the Russians dropped about a dozen letters from their alphabet, back about 1895, more in the 1920s.

"Mouser" is a direct translation, so I don't regard it as too terribly terrible. Besides, my "Mouser" is a .43" carbine: BIG mice!

What I DO regard as completely unforgivable is people referring to an honest LEE rifle as an "Enfield". I reserve "Enfield" for the Pattern 1839, Pattern 1853, Pattern 1858, Pattern 1861 and the two early Marks of Sniders. The term resurfaces as the sometimes-designation for the Pattern 1913, P.-'14 and M-1917 rifles. But a LEE rifle is a LEE rifle, although generally it has an Enfield-rifled barrel as opposed to the earlier Metford-rifled barrel.

The ROSS, on the other hand, always should be referred to (in caps, of course) as The Finest Rifle Ever Constructed. Doubtless some poor, misinformed soul will take umbrage at this modest statement.

We should try to make clear exactly which critter we mean, especially when asking for help. If someone asks for help with a "1914 Enfield", they could be talking about two entirely different rifles! Makes it even worse when they announce that theirs is a .30-06 (US), an 8x57 (Belgian) or a 7mm (Costa Rica 1934)!