great video on proper terminology

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A good video. I like watching his video work. Like it or not, words have meaning. If we use them correctly it cuts down on confusion. I stay confused enough so every little bit of help is appreciated! :D

Thanks for posting that.

Mark
 
So, Hickok, tell us how you really feel! :)

Maybe he can do one on bullets vs cartridges next? Putting 30 bullets into a clip really won't do you much good! :neener:
 
I'm just gonna wait to see how long before someone from the Just Semantics Mob comes along to Occupy this thread
 
Caliper_RWVA said:
So, Hickok, tell us how you really feel! :)

Maybe he can do one on bullets vs cartridges next? Putting 30 bullets into a clip really won't do you much good! :neener:
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Eight-plus-minutes of "clip" vs. "magazine" isn't even "good" IMO. As for getting things right...

LOL I was about to say the same thing after I watched his Garand video next: "Glad I hit that -- that was my last bullet."

Hickok, Hickok, Hickok, you rube...
 
While I don't spend a lot of time on it in new shooter classes, I do bring it up and have several examples of mags and clips laid out for students to look at. I sugest that it is simply a matter of "be a pro, sound like a pro" and relate it to something important in their career. For example an EMT learns proper medical terminology so they can transfer pertinent facts as they hand over a patient to the Emergency Room staff. Its important that it is brief, and accurate. Same goes in just about any line of work so you can get the students to relate and absorb its importance. No reason to get all wrapped around the axle about it, just sound like you know your stuff, not like some metro-sexual news anchor.;)
 
pretty much the same as the ''clip'', but sometimes used to describe the separate part that goes on the back of M-14 and M-16 magazines as an off the rifle stripper clip guide. The M-14 doesn't really need it as it also has a stripper clip guide milled into the reciever, but it's hard to imagine loading the M-16's magazine useing strippers without one.
 
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The Thermold charger can use either the old sheet metal clips, or zytel/''thermold'' ones, which can also be used as fire starters. Seriously, they burn just like a smokey candle.
 
I always enjoy Hickok, he's informative and good-natured. Poor guy delivers a clip/mag lecture and at 3:42 calls his Glock magazine a clip. Could happen to anyone.;)

Tinpig
 
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OK, What's a "charger"?:evil::evil:
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The British term for a stripper clip. ;) But we don't talk that way 'round these parts. :D

What did the Swiss call their little waxed cardboard devices? I really have no idea. Sure do work well though.

BHP FAN: I believe the little stamped metal device to hold a .223 clip to an AR15/M16 magazine is called a spoon.
 
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I've noticed that it's only the folks that want to call them ''clips'' who get all ''bent'' over it.
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Than why is it then, that it's always folks that insist they be called mags start these threads.:confused:

Why is it then, these threads are not started to inform the uninformed, but the attempt to try and display some kind of superior knowledge over others that have other, more important issues in life.

Since you've been a member here for over 5 years and have over 5500 posts, it is obvious you've witnessed and been involved in the countless debates over this exact same subject. With even the smallest of intelligence it should be obvious this is a debate that never gets settled and always ends end in a urination match. I never understand why the mods even let these threads go past the OP as the hundreds one could search for, are always the exact same thing. These threads always get closed, because some insist it's a major issue and, while others, like me, even tho we use the word mag, instead of that nasty 4-letter word "clip", don't think it's a issue worth a weekly banter about. It's been beaten like the proverbial horse.....why can't some just let it die. Your posts in this thread are not about politely correcting someone new to firearms, but only to criticize. Then why do folks that know exactly where a thread will go, continue to open new ones on the subject, knowing exactly they are only stirring the pot and trying to create controversy by belittling and condescending others? There's a word for those folk and like the Clip vs Mag thingy, there's a video explaining it well.

 
You should watch the Hickok video. Even if you don't learn anything, they are about as much fun as you can have without actually doing any shooting.
 
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You should watch the Hickok video. Even if you don't learn anything, they are about as much fun as you can have without actually doing any shooting.
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I watched the video several times. If you watch it and listen @ the 3:48 mark he subconsciously and erroneously calls the Glock mag .......a Glock Clip.:eek:

Oh the horror! To think that someone that informed about firearms should make such and idiotic mistake. The old parable about folks living in glass houses comes to mind.
 
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yeah, I caught that, too....but look how many times he got it right! everybody slips, and I've caught myself calling my pistol an ''automatic'' but it's important that we keep the terminology as correct as we can [without heart attacks and strokes when we get it wrong] just for clarity. I'm old enough to remember when the media started to blur the lines between semi-automatic and fully automatic, and throw around the term ''assault weapon'', and there's nothing to be gained by getting sloppy, ourselves.
 
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