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Originally Posted by JSR III View Post
Crane is yoke
Grips are stocks
Checkering is checking

I don't think that anyone really knows why the founders used these terms as opposed to those used by most other companies however, my feeling is that they wished to be different than their largest competitor from down the street in CT.
Right. And most of us manage to use the S&W conventions except the third one. It is difficult to say or write "checking" I guess . . .
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