Need Clips

[Squirrel Master]

Not picking on you, Pete, but a word of advice for anyone who buys a new gun...

Before you begin posting questions, and DEFINITELY before you shoot it, the first evening you get it home sit down with the gun in your lap and the owner's manual in your hands. Read it, and refer to the gun as you go along.

Yeah, it will take a bit of time, but:
-- It will answer probably 95% of all your "new owner" questions, straight from the horse's mouth and not some self-appointed online expert;
-- It will give you proper terms for every piece, part and thingamabob on the gun, allowing people who may be able to answer your other questions to know what the heck you are talking about; and,
-- It may save your life, or that of innocent bystanders, by giving you all the safety info you need right off the bat rather than after a potentially unpleasant "oops".

If for some reason your gun comes without a manual, get one. Any manufacturer will send you one, and most will have manuals on their websites. Manuals can even be found for many antique guns, long discontinued.

I hit the like button, but it wasn't enough. I love your post Pisgah. It is right on point. I also live in the upstate. Anderson county. Just purchased my first rifle, and the manual really caught me up to speed regarding features, functions, terminology, ect. Infact, I read it twice! Not that I have trouble comprehending or retaining, I just found pleasure in doing so.

 

[brucev]

So I just bought an AR-15 22, but it only came with one clip. I heard they are hard to find right now. Any advice?

Welcome to the forum and welcome to the fascinating hobby of shooting. The S&W 15-22 is a great rifle. You will have a blast shooting it!

S&W ships the 15-22 with one magazine. S&W must be making their magazines out of unobtanium because I can't find any of them anywhere. However, a order of five 10rd. 15-22 magazines by ProMag was recently delivered to my home after a relatively brief seven day wait following the placing of my order. I found it exceptionally easy to convert these 10rd. magazines to high-capacity 32rd. magazines. In every way their function is identical to the OEM magazine, with the added bonus of holding more rounds. Fit and finish are faultless in every respect. The price for five magazines was $104 delivered. You might want to watch Tactical Advantage and order when they have them in stock.

Here is a link to TA : Smith & Wesson - Tactical Vantage

 

[zload]

I hit the like button, but it wasn't enough. I love your post Pisgah. It is right on point. I also live in the upstate. Anderson county. Just purchased my first rifle, and the manual really caught me up to speed regarding features, functions, terminology, ect. Infact, I read it twice! Not that I have trouble comprehending or retaining, I just found pleasure in doing so.

I like it as well and here is the link to the manual:

http://www.smith-wesson.com/wcsstore/SmWesson2/upload/other/S&W_M&P_1522_Manual_08-30-2010.pdf

 

[Darrell41653]

He said "clip"...

What he said...

Sorry...Just pet peeve of mine.

 

[telero]

And here's a clip going into a magazine.

We were all new once. Hope you're taking all this as constructive moment and learning opportunity

 

[Pete Parisi]

Thanks to all of the members who offered friendly advice.

 

[Majorlk]

And here's a clip going into a magazine.

We were all new once. Hope you're taking all this as constructive moment and learning opportunity

No! The clip is going into the RECEIVER! There is no magazine integral to an M1.

 

[Kayback]

Hey, thanks for the PM. No really. I appreciated it.

Honestly though, it is always the "clip" people who come to a gun forum and then whine when they are corrected.

Just because "everyone knows what you mean" it isn't reason enough to let it go past.

You want clips for your 15-22? Well you are SOL. They don't exist.

If you want magazines? You're pretty much SOL as well as they are rather scarce. There is an entire topic on the front page of this forum listing the places which have them.

My local dealer has hundreds. I can get you any that you want, for $50 each and shipping back to the States.

Correcting someone, and explaining to them WHY they are wrong is not "chewing their head off". A clip is NOT a magazine, in the same way a 15-22 is not a toothbrush. They are different things. If you are unable to grasp this concept, maybe you shouldn't be using potentially lethal weapons?

Ask for the right part, without the childish resorting to name calling and PM's and you'll get the help you need.

KBK

 

[telero]

No! The clip is going into the RECEIVER! There is no magazine integral to an M1.

It's still a magazine:
"a receptacle on a gun for holding cartridges"

"an ammunition storage and feeding device within or attached to a repeating firearm"

"a holder in or on a gun for cartridges to be fed into the gun chamber"

The receiver encompasses the magazine; the magazine is a part of the receiver.

 

[handejector]

Anybody that grew up with guns from a young age has heard them called a clip, or called them a clip at one time or another. People understand what you mean. There are just some magazine nazis, just like spelling nazis and grammar nazis same as any other forum

The terms in common usage have evolved to some degree over the decades.
Anyone who grew up around WW II vets might remember that most of them called any ammo feeding device except belts a CLIP.
I think it stemmed from their initial training with M1s or 03 Springfields, both of which were loaded with clips. When they moved on into training with other weapons like carbines and pistols and BARs, they kept using the term CLIP.
I have no clue what the Instructors said to them, but almost every one I ever knew talked about CLIPS for 45s, BARs, M1s, carbines, Thompsons, and 03s. If it fed ammo and wasn't a belt, it was a CLIP to most of them.
A few called magazines by the proper name, but I don't remember one ever saying "Mag" or "Mags".

Marlin seems to be capitalizing on the use of both terms on the factory package pictured below.......

So, lighten up a bit.
Someone using the term CLIP may simply have learned it from a number of sources he respected or logically assumed to be correct.
Educating and teaching are fine things when done properly.
When done in a hostile or denigrating way, the pupil will probably still learn, but the stature of the teacher is usually diminished.