Pet peeve!
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wadcutter45
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I guess my pet peeve would be gun shop clerks who sweat the difference between "clips" and "magazines".
Jim Watson
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Probably parallel evolution with no common origin, but "big stick" has been the term for a 170mm magazine for a USPSA Open pistol for some time.
ETA: The stick magazine for a Thompson (instead of a drum) predates the Glock considerably.
MY pet peeve on terminology is "bore diameter." Too imbedded in Internet Expertise to repair, but it still annoys me.
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WheelGunMan
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Corpral_Agarn
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I do part time instruction and the conversation usually goes like this:
"so I put the clip in the gun?"
"Yep, you're going to put the mag in the gun."
Or
"ya'll got an clips for a Glock 19?"
"Pretty sure we have magazines for Glock 19, sure."
I prefer the subtle correction.
"so I put the clip in the gun?"
"Yep, you're going to put the mag in the gun."
Or
"ya'll got an clips for a Glock 19?"
"Pretty sure we have magazines for Glock 19, sure."
I prefer the subtle correction.
whughett
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Color me dumb but I’m not following on this one. Bore is a hole in a hard substance diameter is its size, could be rock or a round tube used for a rifle, pistol or shotgun.
Cemetery21
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I've been married to an English teacher for almost 50 years. Her corrections are not subtle. I decided long ago that I don't need to impress someone by correcting their language. Plenty of folks already fill that role.
So, yeah, my peeve is language nazis. Know what I mean
Ed Ames
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Bore diameter is a technical term for the land-to-land diameter of a rifled barrel, or the inner diameter of a bored out hole (e.g. each cylinder of a piston engine has a bore diameter) in general.
whughett
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Right just wasn’t connecting to the pet peeve part.
Ed Ames
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I’m not either, so I assume it’s something like people saying “I want some 9mm bore diameter bullets” or something like that.
Nature Boy
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Calling a bullet a "projo" or "head"
Jim Watson
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Right. The peeve is that much of the time, the groove to groove measurement will be CALLED "bore diameter."
People who insist there is only one way... their way.
There are at least two sets of safety rules, the NRA safety rules and the Cooper Four.
There are at least two sets of "conditions", again, Cooper conditions and the army's conditions.
Those are just examples, range procedures, range safety rules, what actions are appropriate when "cease fire" is called, virtually everything. When you walk onto a new firing line, I suggest you find out how the cow eats the cabbage on that line, so you can avoid getting yelled at by a righteous range master.
There is virtually never one way.
There are at least two sets of safety rules, the NRA safety rules and the Cooper Four.
There are at least two sets of "conditions", again, Cooper conditions and the army's conditions.
Those are just examples, range procedures, range safety rules, what actions are appropriate when "cease fire" is called, virtually everything. When you walk onto a new firing line, I suggest you find out how the cow eats the cabbage on that line, so you can avoid getting yelled at by a righteous range master.
There is virtually never one way.
Ed Ames
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Huh. Yeah I don’t remember seeing that anywhere but it’s the sort of error my brain tends to forget pretty quickly. Traditionally you bore a barrel to a diameter, then cut the rifling, so obviously the bore diameter is going to be land to land.
AlexanderA
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Meh. Loose terminology (such as using "clip" when "magazine" is meant) is the least of our worries.
Cemetery21
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Who said "don't sweat the small stuff. And, it's all small stuff"
tark
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People that mispronounce "Leupold"
jhb
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their gun terminology education mostly came, if not all, from movies and tv and news media. it would annoy me after awhile too. I can tolerate a lot, but after hours of that, I'd likely feel like ranting too.
Nature Boy
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Thanks to Hollywood, people who shoot their pistol gangsta style
Thankfully this fad seems to be on the decline
Thankfully this fad seems to be on the decline
PWC
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People tend to forget the only reason they have a job is because of the customer, and how they are treated usually determines whether they vote with their feet and wallet.
Forgetting the customer is the only reason you have a job, may be the reason it is only part time.
.308 Norma
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I agree. But honest to goodness, I was looking around for 44 bullets (bullets not cartridges) in a local gun store a few years back, and the only salesperson in there, a woman (I think she was the owner's wife) was busy with another customer at the time. However, when the other customer left, she turned her attention to me, asking if she could help me find what I was looking for.
I told her, "I'm just looking to see what you have for 44 bullets." She looked confused when she asked, "Do you mean 44 Special or 44 Magnum?"
I said, "Nevermind." and left.
.308 Norma
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I'm doing the American Legion Honor Guard thing for a Veteran's funeral tomorrow morning. I hope no one says "magazine" when we're loading clips filled with blanks into our M-1 Garands.
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bikerdoc
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^And that is my point only the M-1 uses enbloc "clips"
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