Calling a Magazine a Clip

[mkk41]

Nope.
The rounds are "stripped" from a stripper clip. A stripper clip never enters the weapon(gun, firearm, rifle, pistol).
The Garand uses an "en bloc" clip.

Hmmm , then what are the clips used in the Mannlicher and Mosin-Nagant systems called?

They go in and stay in till the bolt strips off the last round, then they drop out the bottom.

And are stripper clips what Sen. Feinswine actually means when she speaks of "bullet strips"?

 

[feralmerril]

As long as we know what both us is talking about I dont care. How about calling a revolver a pistol?

 

[litenlarry]

I got to thinkng about using slang term's..I guess it is understandable that not everyone knows the nomenclature of parts of a weapon...The term Mag is used and it is only one syllable, less letters than clip as well..
I do know one thing, if a person in the military calls in an artillery fire mission and say's "repeat your last" (wanting to hear what was last said.).Look out..The arty will fire again on the last target...
The correct thing to say would be " say again"...
Big difference...
I won't go on, but correct terminology is sometimes paramount in just staying alive or getting what is needed..
In the civillian world, most anything goes...No different than walking into a Home Depot and trying to find a item you are looking for and don't know what to call it..

 

[mkk41]

How about calling a revolver a pistol?

I've always used pistol when refering to semi-autos.

Handgun is generic.

 

[HotRoderX]

I think the words are interchangeable just like Kleenex and tissue. The words that really get me are Assault Weapon. I cant stand people calling a AR-15 a assault weapon drives me bonkers. They wanna call a M4A1 a assault weapon that's fine.

 

[carpriver]

AS someone said being in the military we are more inclined to use the terminology we were taught, same as bullet, round or cartridge and ammo, gun, weapon and firearm, shoulder fired weapon or sidearm. Don't sweat the small stuff, because in the end it's mostly small stuff. I remember carrying a bandolier of reserve ammunition in stripper clips with a spoon to reload my magazines with 5.56 rounds so I could operate my shoulder fired weapon while engaged in a hostile event with an unknown number of enemy combatants.

 

[Vision Remodeling]

I was in the section for guns and ammo in walmart, I knew they had mags for Marlin bolts, I just could not find them, so I asked. He tried to send me to the paper magazines. I had to say no I'm looking for a clip. It was so painful I had to go home and wash my own mouth out with soap.

 

[sigp220.45]

I just wish I could find a clip for my .45 Long Colt.

 

[Ron H.]

How do you react when someone calls a Magazine a Clip?

Sir, it doesn't particularly bother me, though it does tell me something about the speaker's knowledge. As someone else said, I use the correct term in conversation. If the other party picks up on it and asks the difference, I'll explain it; if not, I'll let it go. That also tells me something about the person.

Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.

Ron H.

 

[GKC]

I've always used pistol when refering to semi-autos.

Handgun is generic.

I've read two different definitions of the word pistol:

1) a small firearm designed to be held in one hand

or

2) a handgun whose chamber is integral with the barrel


I think more people tend to regard the term "pistol" as not inclusive of revolvers. Personally, I tend to think of pistols as semi-automatics, or not inclusive of revolvers. However, if someone wants to call their revolver a pistol, it doesn't matter to me. (I'm sure most people don't really give a darn if it matters to me or not anyway!)

 

[mkk41]

I've read two different definitions of the word pistol:

1) a small firearm designed to be held in one hand

or

2) a handgun whose chamber is integral with the barrel


I think more people tend to regard the term "pistol" as not inclusive of revolvers. Personally, I tend to think of pistols as semi-automatics, or not inclusive of revolvers. However, if someone wants to call their revolver a pistol, it doesn't matter to me. (I'm sure most people don't really give a darn if it matters to me or not anyway!)

I like it when the newsies say something like, "The officer returned fire with his Glock 40 caliber semi-automatic service revolver"!

 

[Delos]

en bloc clip?

Nope.
The rounds are "stripped" from a stripper clip. A stripper clip never enters the weapon(gun, firearm, rifle, pistol).
The Garand uses an "en bloc" clip.

Hmm......
I thought people were fabricating about the pinging noise when the MI Garand tossed it's clip after the last shot.

Oh well - never get too old to learn.

About half way down on this page it shows an "en bloc clip" loaded.

M1 Garand - Definition | WordIQ.com

Once upon a time my wife was trying too hard to help me work on a car. So I sent her to the auto parts store to get me a Metric Crescent Wrench. She came back with a big smile on her face carrying a small 150mm adjustable open end wrench. (She has a knack for finding bright coconspirators when she is being messed with).

She still has it in "her" toolbox she decided she needed.

 

[Tom Beavert]

Clip/Mag, is not nearly as dumb as someone saying 'hot water heater', or calling a joist a rafter, or-or.............
tb
I just try to stay calm and remember what I don't know.

 

[gjgalligan]

It doesn't bother me any more then when somebody says gas instead of gasoline.

 

[Naples22]

I get infuriated, I blow my top, how dare they use the wrong terminology. Excuse me, I need to run and put a clip in my gun, then go read a magazine.

 

[Arik]

Hmmm , then what are the clips used in the Mannlicher and Mosin-Nagant systems called?

They go in and stay in till the bolt strips off the last round, then they drop out the bottom.

And are stripper clips what Sen. Feinswine actually means when she speaks of "bullet strips"?

Maybe on the Mann but the Mosin uses regular stripper clips like a Mauser. They dont stay in the gun or fall out the bottom.

I dont care what people call em. If they arnt into firearms i dont expect them to know. Just like im not a mechanic and when i explain car problems to my mechanic i use improper terminology.

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[Delos]

Stripper Clip picture

The 1896 broomhandle mauser used 10 round stripper clips. It was a very popular pistol.
The small picture of the stripper clips half way down page is hard to see well.

Mauser Guns - Gun Collecting

It is hard to imagine Hollywood not getting good mileage out of stripper clip fed pistols and bolt action rifles. Can you imagine a person in an early automobile in the 1890's reloading rapidly with stripper clips. The only thing the broomhandle mauser was lacking back then was hollow point bullets. Which meant that when our 1911 45 auto came out with a much fatter & heavier bullet it was king of the hill. (Bullet twice as fat and twice as heavy?)

 

[handejector]

Hmmm , then what are the clips used in the Mannlicher and Mosin-Nagant systems called?

They go in and stay in till the bolt strips off the last round, then they drop out the bottom.

And are stripper clips what Sen. Feinswine actually means when she speaks of "bullet strips"?

I've never been big on Mosins, but I believe they use a typical stripper like a mauser that does not enter the gun.
The Mannlichers and Carcanos use an en bloc clip. You put the clip in the magazine.

M-14's can be loaded with a CLIP, if they have a magazine in place and have the clip loading guide in place.

 

[ogilvyspecial]

AS someone said being in the military we are more inclined to use the terminology we were taught, same as bullet, round or cartridge and ammo, gun, weapon and firearm, shoulder fired weapon or sidearm.

Even though I have never been in the Military, that's
kind of the way I've looked at it most of my life.

My Dad served aboard a Destroyer during WWII, as a Gunners Mate (First Class), and
when I was young he explained to me about the "Powder Magazine" on a ship,
as well as how the clips fed rounds into certain Anti-Aircraft Guns.

For some years, as a kid, I always went back to that and when I heard
the term, magazine, I thought of a compartment on a ship where
they kept the powder charges for the larger caliber guns.

 

[Bello]

As long as I know what they meant......nothing.

+1 totally agree; just a waste of breath.