Ruger Nut
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How do you react when someone calls a Magazine a Clip?
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Calling a Magazine a Clip
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retarmyaviator
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Normally I explain the difference in the two items. Usually when someone uses the term clip for magazine it is an individual with little or no experience around firearms.
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ogilvyspecial
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As long as I know what they meant......nothing.
litenlarry
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In Marine Boot Camp back in the '60's, when the Drill Instructors were known to put "hands on " the recruit, amazing that the recruit would only call a magazine a clip, ONCE...
Also, Squat Thrusts for " ever " is a good learning tool...
Also, Squat Thrusts for " ever " is a good learning tool...
OP
Ruger Nut
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My exact feelings. Very well said!
AirForceShooter
Member
I don't care.
To me the terms are interchangable.
Like when did a semi auto become a pistol vs. a revolver?
To my generation a pistol was a hand gun. Any kind of hand gun.
AFS
To me the terms are interchangable.
Like when did a semi auto become a pistol vs. a revolver?
To my generation a pistol was a hand gun. Any kind of hand gun.
AFS
Delos
Member
Stripper Clips
If they show an interest in gun history, or military guns I jump in to tell them how wonderful the old Stripper Clips were. If they seem like they want to grasp it I explain how you could have a box of shells clipped together at the heads and quickly feed them down into a old bolt action WWI era or MI Garand from WWII. Just a push of the thumb. The rifles for them had a small U shaped opening for the clip.
No doubt Stripper Clips are what made bolt action rifles faster than lever action or pump action for sustained fire. A big part of high power rifle improvement history done right.
The Spanish Modelo 1893 Mauser Rifle
At San Juan Hill in Cuba Teddy Roosevelt had Gatling guns which compensated. But the Spanish had 1893 Mausers that were loaded using Stripper Clips. Teddy’s guys had the Krag, which was a good rifle, just not as good. Teddy lost a lot of men on San Juan Hill, due to the Spanish having stripper clips.
If they show an interest in gun history, or military guns I jump in to tell them how wonderful the old Stripper Clips were. If they seem like they want to grasp it I explain how you could have a box of shells clipped together at the heads and quickly feed them down into a old bolt action WWI era or MI Garand from WWII. Just a push of the thumb. The rifles for them had a small U shaped opening for the clip.
No doubt Stripper Clips are what made bolt action rifles faster than lever action or pump action for sustained fire. A big part of high power rifle improvement history done right.
The Spanish Modelo 1893 Mauser Rifle
At San Juan Hill in Cuba Teddy Roosevelt had Gatling guns which compensated. But the Spanish had 1893 Mausers that were loaded using Stripper Clips. Teddy’s guys had the Krag, which was a good rifle, just not as good. Teddy lost a lot of men on San Juan Hill, due to the Spanish having stripper clips.
BrainOnSigs
Member
My next pet peeve.....
The correct term is "standard" or "full capacity" magazine not "high capacity" magazine. In my mind the term "high capacity" magazine is an anti-gun person's term.
Twenty-round magazines were issued to the first soldiers using M16s, and soon after the 30-round magazine was developed to give parity with the AK-47s encountered in the dense jungles of Vietnam. The 30 rounder became the standard detachable rifle magazine for all NATO countries in the early 1980s under STANAG 4179. For the past three decades, 30-round mags have been the norm for AR-15s used domestically and for M16s and M4 carbines used by our military.
The correct term is "standard" or "full capacity" magazine not "high capacity" magazine. In my mind the term "high capacity" magazine is an anti-gun person's term.
Twenty-round magazines were issued to the first soldiers using M16s, and soon after the 30-round magazine was developed to give parity with the AK-47s encountered in the dense jungles of Vietnam. The 30 rounder became the standard detachable rifle magazine for all NATO countries in the early 1980s under STANAG 4179. For the past three decades, 30-round mags have been the norm for AR-15s used domestically and for M16s and M4 carbines used by our military.
fat tom
Absent Comrade
To me,that's just nit-pickin'. Kinda like stocks vs. grips. There are many interchangeable terms found when using gun terminology. This is truly a case in which the phrase "Don't sweat the small stuff" applies. If this type of thing causes you undue aggravation,you have a problem. Just sayin'. 
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OLDSTER
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Or how 'bout calling a cartridge a bullet.
About as much as it does to hear someone call an automobile a "car."
There's a lot more important things in this world to worry about. I just don't care about such trivial and irrelevant matters.
Alnamvet68
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Using correct firearm terminology only shows your level of professional competence, or lack thereof. I find it annoying that people use clip and magazine interchangeably. A magazine is used to feed your weapon...the clip is used to facilitate feeding (loading) your magazine. If you don't or won't understand that, then you have some learning to do.
NFrameFred
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For the general population the terms are pretty much interchangeable. One can find much more grievous mangling of terms, definitions, and pronuciations in our current culture that they should be upset about rather than get flummoxed over this.
For instance, the inability of many folks to be able to even enunciate single syllable words like "ask" . . .
For instance, the inability of many folks to be able to even enunciate single syllable words like "ask" . . .
Capt. Bob
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None of that stuff bothers me too much. I do get work up when someone calls me a "gun nut" instead of a "firearms enthusist" without smiling.
I try to not get too hung up on using the perfect terminology. If these people were firearms professionals then they should know the proper terms but they're just enthusiast and as such haven't studied and researched all the proper terms for every part of every firearm.
So what? So someone calls a magazine a clip. We all know what they're talking about. I might inform them that there are people that are hung up on perfect terminology and will waste more time correcting them than using that time to just simply try to help by supplying an answer.
I'm not an english major or a firearms professional, just a gimpy old firearms enthusiast Injun and I notice the misspellings and improper use of terms, I just let them go and enjoy reading the posts on this forum and helping when I can.
So what? So someone calls a magazine a clip. We all know what they're talking about. I might inform them that there are people that are hung up on perfect terminology and will waste more time correcting them than using that time to just simply try to help by supplying an answer.
I'm not an english major or a firearms professional, just a gimpy old firearms enthusiast Injun and I notice the misspellings and improper use of terms, I just let them go and enjoy reading the posts on this forum and helping when I can.
BrainOnSigs
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This +1000
BrainOnSigs
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Now for a little levity....
jlrhiner
US Veteran
I slap 'em. Then I call down the curse of John Moses Browning on 'em.
I how dare they try and talk to me without using the proper vernacular.
I how dare they try and talk to me without using the proper vernacular.
