magazine vs clip rant

[team sidewinder]

This thread needs a bullet to the head to end it .

 

[infinite]

Learn to use sarcasm on the job it will be your friend. It's a touchy subject educating people that you don't know. Some will accept the information where others will think you're being a gun snob.

 

[thedukeoftank]

I do agree with correctly educating people on proper terminology. Case in point, my Mosin can utilize clips to load the magazine.

 

[konertjm]

When I hear the terms Clips and Bullets on the news, i just shake my head.

Irregardless is one of my favorite non-words.
I use it every chance I get.
Irregardless of what anyone else thinks!

 

[Lost Lake]

I hate it when my wife calls that skim white see-through liquid 'milk'.

I grew up on a dairy farm and we drank milk. It wasn't see through, and it had cream in it like nature intended.

Straight from the cow, run through a paper filter to catch the big chunks of whatever ended up in the milk line when the cows kicked of the milkers and they landed in the gutter.

We never thought twice about it because that's how it was. Every time you poured a glass from the pitcher you would have to stir the cream from the top back into the milk.

That and fresh eggs, chickens, beef... and plenty of hard work from sun-up to sun-down. That was a good life.

 

[k31scout]

Good ole Marlin got it right, end of argument!

 

[snubbyfan]

I do agree with correctly educating people on proper terminology. Case in point, my Mosin can utilize clips to load the magazine.

I was putting in an order for leather working supplies and I was thinking about this thread. Things like lacing fids, skivers, a round knife, thonging chisels, slickers, the difference between a spline, a gusset and a welt and other terms that were almost like a foreign language to me when I first started working with leather, made me think of how each interest or hobby had it's own terminology and how it's necessary to learn the language in order to communicate with others with the same interest. If there's a newbie then it's only proper to try to help with teaching the proper terminology in order to communicate properly with those with the same interest. Be that cars, guns, hunting, leatherworking or whatever. So, if somebody says clip when they mean magazine or quater panel when the mean fender or awl when they mean fid then I'll point it out to them. Not to be a jerk but to help them with the proper terminology.
Back when I lived in the Washington DC area, I had friends from many different countries and they appreciated when I corrected their english. As far as I'm concerned, it's pretty much the same thing.

 

[Blueduck]

Effective communicatiion is when both parties understand the intent. Obviously you understood what he meant so he effectively communicated with you. I would just use the correct terminology myself and get on with life.

I always found the most effective method in dealing with people calling magazines clips is to immediately urinate uncontrollably all over myself, cry in a corner blowing snot bubbles on myself for at least a fortnight, then post on forums till my fingers bled through tears of rage about how I use the correct term and they do not.

When I finally looked it up in Webster's Dictionary (one of those devices to allow people to communicate) I did not like what I found…

 

[Nevadadvx]

Who cares?

Folks that have a grasp on correct firearm terminology and the English language, that's who.

 

[Robotech]

Folks that have a grasp on correct firearm terminology and the English language, that's who.

And those with the INTJ personality type. It tends to drive us up the wall, except for those who have decided that the best way to cope is to go into "teacher mode."

 

[swampersand]

Just remember: LGS = "Local Side Arm and Rifle Store". - and sometimes ammo, holsters, jerky, slings, stuff and windshield wipers.

 

[Joe Rey]

My Uncle who came back from WWII had a Garand with several CLIPS>>

I work at Gander Mountain in the hunting dept and more than half of the people looking at handguns ask how many CLIPS it comes with. It didn't bother me at first but now its starting to annoy me. next time someone asks how many CLIPS it comes with,I should say none, but it does come with two MAGAZINES. I don't have the time to educate people on magazine vs clip. Would any of you feel frustrated at this or am I just over thinking it? btw, sorry for posting in M&P forum, this is where I always go. Thanks for reading.

check with Cheaper than dirt they still sell CLIPS, I guess Gander Mountain does not.. thats good to know...

 

[Joe Rey]

your not old enough, old cop,,

 

[CA Escapee]

Just calmly reach over the counter, grab them, and pistol whip them, then move on to the next customer.

Just kidding!

I was told years ago clips have 3 sides and magazines have 6.

We didn't call them anything in the Navy. A7-E's didn't have clips or magazines, just bombs and missiles.

Bill

 

[Pef]

Magazines hold shells and clips hold bullets.

 

[CJ_mp40c]

 

[Skunkhome]

I hate it when my wife calls that skim white see-through liquid 'milk'.

Isn't that what they used to call "blue jack"?

 

[Skunkhome]

Magazines hold shells and clips hold bullets.

What? I suppose you are kidding around now.