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Hmmm. You make an interesting point.
magazine vs clip rant
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Hmmm. You make an interesting point.
After reading this thread, I'm glad I've got guns with those round spinny thingies.
And handles
JAREDSHS
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to the OP----SEE WHAT YOU STARTED?
LimaCharlie
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I am getting bored with this thread, I think I will go change the furniture on my AR platform.
JPriest
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Hickok45 has covered this, just pass the link on to anyone who bugs you by saying it wrong.
Magazine vs Clip - YouTube
Magazine vs Clip - YouTube
Who cares?
I think you have just summed up the problem in two simple words. Pretty typical.
EugeneNine
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ammo holder things that go up
old&slow
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How many times have you went to the 'Xerox' machine ,, or got a 'Xerox' copy ?? Was it really a zerxo, or a HP , or Brothers , etc. ??
One of the guys I work with gets his knickers in bunch with clip- vs - magazine.
For me ,, life is to short to blow a gasket over clip or magazine.
Now 45 Long Colt , that's another thing ! Darn it ,, it's a 45 Colt NOT a 45 Long Colt !!!
Or why is it St. Louis, Missouri ,, but Louisville, Kentucky (Looivil')
One of the guys I work with gets his knickers in bunch with clip- vs - magazine.
For me ,, life is to short to blow a gasket over clip or magazine.
Now 45 Long Colt , that's another thing ! Darn it ,, it's a 45 Colt NOT a 45 Long Colt !!!
Or why is it St. Louis, Missouri ,, but Louisville, Kentucky (Looivil')
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32_d3gr33s
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Can someone grab me a Kleenex.... Oh wait
Relax. Much too much made of this non-issue. I've got friends who are WWII combat vets who call them (the things full of ammo you stick in the handle of a 1911) clips. I'm not about to correct them. Ditto brother Vietnam vets who saw more combat than I did. They want to call them clips...fine with me. I know what they're talking about.
By the way, back in the day the term "1911" was seldom used to describe a .45ACP Government Model pistol. They were usually called a ".45", a ".45 automatic", or simply a "Colt", even if made by another company such as Remington-Rand.
Nomenclature huffiness strikes me as just another brand of one-upmanship. Communication is what's important.
By the way, back in the day the term "1911" was seldom used to describe a .45ACP Government Model pistol. They were usually called a ".45", a ".45 automatic", or simply a "Colt", even if made by another company such as Remington-Rand.
Nomenclature huffiness strikes me as just another brand of one-upmanship. Communication is what's important.
I believe that's called a round spinny thingie with six cylinder holes. You need to work on your terminology.
Ya know, even in the medical profession incorrect terminology is used. When I get my treatments for my Multifocal Motor Neuropathy they have Multifocal Mono Neuropathy on the order. My wife tries to correct them. The treatment prescribed is correct so I figure they can call it anything they want as long as the treatment's the correct one.
old&slow
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old&slow
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OMG ,, Even Hickok45 called it a Glock 'CLIP' about 3 mins. into the video ,,,, and he Didn't burst into flames...
meaneyedcatz
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For those who get wierded out by wrong terminology keep this in mind.
When you ask a question about a product that you are unfamiliar with it goes without saying you dont always use the correct terminology, because your human.
When you ask a question about a product that you are unfamiliar with it goes without saying you dont always use the correct terminology, because your human.
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mistahd
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I really cannot believe this thread has gone on this long about a cartridge containment unit for a lead dispensing device.
Soldiernurse
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Turn off the volume on your PC if you don't like "you've got mail". "My bad" is taking ownership of a mistake. I do agree "irregardless" is king of annoying.
When I hear someone say they are going to buy some bullets I'd like to show them this..
team sidewinder
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This thread needs a bullet to the head to end it .
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.
I do agree with correctly educating people on proper terminology. Case in point, my Mosin can utilize clips to load the magazine.
konertjm
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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!
Irregardless is one of my favorite non-words.
I use it every chance I get.
Irregardless of what anyone else thinks!
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.
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.
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
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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…
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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."
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