Bodyguard 380: Anyone had their misfires fixed??

[turbo38gn]

Well look who's back!!

The BG380 uses a magazine. A magazine is a container for holding and feeding shells to the action. They have springs and followers and lips.

A clip is a shell holder used to fill a magazine. Clips hold rounds but do not feed them to an action. Revolvers sometimes have clips. A speed loader is a form of a clip, as are half moon clips.

I wasn't gonna say anything...

 

[Oldtrader3]

Actually, when I was a young infantry soldier in the Army, in the early 1960's, even the US Army called the device that I kept my .45 Auto ammo deposited in, was called a "clip" universally. Soldiers in the US Army did not start calling magazines, magazines until the M-14 was being issued to troops who were going to certain areas of the world. I got my M14 issued as TO&E in Berlin at Check Point Charlie in 1962 on Guard Duty. The nomenclature for that device was a magazine from then on out. Prior to that the only firearm that I ever fired in the Army which had a magazine was the drum magazine for the M28 Thompson SMG.

None of you are probably old enough to even know that. Plus, I personally do not believe that anyone in my generation or older ever said the word magazine unless they were reading one, until about 1962. So, that having been said can we find a topic that actually belongs here, cut the ridicule and move on?

 

[snw19_357]

I like that idea.

Isn't/Wasn't a cartridge something you ripped the end off, poured in the powder, crammed in the 'casing' as a wad, and then seated the bullet?
Or is it a head?

Is it a crane or a yoke?

 

[Oldtrader3]

It was a head! It also was a yoke back then, but times change and I suppose that I should be more careful since everyone on these forums is more interested in terminology than in fixing mistakes.

After 40 years of having to be ultra precise in everything that I wrote and spoke as an engineer. It is time to relax since I am long retired and no longer sort fly scat from pepper for a living.

 

[Oldtrader3]

Based on your writings here, if you were influential in the quality of medical devices, I would politely ask that my family not be subjected to any of your employer's products, not because they may not be useful, but because I would have no confidence in the presence of detailed, articulate thought required to ensure their quality.

I just bothered to read your little poisoned diatribe and I am going to take umbrage with you, Buckeye Chuck, or whomever you are.

You do not know me from Adam but I will tell you truly this one time! That while I was in charge of manufacturing in a Medical Devices plant, we reduced the Product Complaint rate from 38 complaints per 10,000 devices to 3 complaints per 10,000,000 devices. Plus, we reduced scrap and rework by 98+%. Plus the plant won the national Malcolm Balderidge Quality Award which you probably are not even familiar with!

If I was you which thank god I am not, I would pray that your family members received treatment with one of my plant's devices and not those of my predecessors. You would be assured of 10,000 times the reliability and safety of my plant's devices over those of most other Medical Device Plants of that era. So, you had better wish your little Jelly Beans that your family would be treated with a state of the art medical device, like the ones that I was manager of, in an emergency in order to save their lives!

We also did this while increasing production from 100 million to 300 million infusion devices a year.

So still not knowing diddly about me, what is your claim to be such a paragon of wisdom about my expertise and skills? I guess that apparently you must be in possession of a crystal ball in order to assess my capabilities, especially knowing diddly about me!