It's a magazine, not a clip!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GunNut]

Is it just me or do way too many people call handgun magazines clips??????:banghead:

Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine,

NOT CLIP..


Now I feel better...

Steve

 

[Schuey2002]

I've got clips clamped to my magazines; and magazines clamped to various clips...

 

[longeyes]

You might be a gun nut...

if you think magazines shouldn't be called clips!

In fact you might be GunNut.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Yup. I feel approximately the same way when people fail to distinguish between bullets and cartridges.

 

[firestar]

I don't really care.

 

[Quartus]

We can't blame the antis for being ignernt if we insist on being the same way.


Garands use clips. Most everything else uses magazines.



And don't shoot your gun unless you are really upset with it. But if you do, make sure you are a safe distance away, and watch out for ricochets. Oh, well, if its a tuppergun maybe that's not a problem.

I hope to get some range time in soon - I want to fire a new toy.

 

[Zundfolge]

ignernt?


ignorant




It is one way to spot newbies and non-gun folk ... I'm always impressed when I hear someone say Magazine.


On Mail Call, R. Lee put it straight; "A clip feeds the magazine, a magazine feeds the gun."

 

[JohnKSa]

Ok, while we're on the subject.

It's muzzle BRAKE, not muzzle break.

...and...

It's APERTURE sights, not aperature.

 

[flinch]

Hello,

According to The Unabridged Random House Dictonary of the English Lanuage: Clip=
" a metal frame or container holding cartridges for a magazine rifle or automatic pistol."

Sounds like a clip can be a magazine and a magazine can be a clip be it rifle or pistol.

 

[GunNut]

I guess if it's in the dictionary it absolutely has to be correct..

Steve

 

[jmbg29]

Sounds like a clip can be a magazine and a magazine can be a clip be it rifle or pistol.

No, it just means that "The Unabridged Random House Dictonary of the English Lanuage" got it wrong.

The people that invented the devices get to define what they are, and what they are to be called. Not some well-meaning poindexter at random house. Sorry, that's just the way the world works.

There are pistols that take clips. The "broomhandle" Mauser is the most famous of these. Its ejection port has a cut-out machined in it that accepts a stripper clip with which one loads the fixed magazine.

Many military rifles also have this feature. Others have detachable magazines that may be loaded using stripper clips, while the M1 Garand uses an enbloc clip.

OTOH the vast majority of modern firearms that are capable of repeated fire, employ a magazine that uses no "clips" enbloc or otherwise.

 

[Jesse H]

I heard the word clip at the gun range repeatedly today and I did not see a single Garand. Grrrrr.

It's like when people say RPMs.

Revolution per minutes?

 

[Okiecruffler]

You know what's even more annoying

When I refer to the clips for my mauser/nagant/sks, and some arrogant SOB, who isn't even involved in the conversation, proceeds to inform me that it's called a magazine so that his goon squad of buddies will think he's so smart. It's happened 3 times in the past 2 months. Me personally, for all I care you can call it "that bullet holding thingy", as long as we both know what we're talking about why should we care.

 

[coonan357]

I love it when someone tries to correct me on my Lebel's clip , Its not a magazine but an actual clip ( just like the garands ) its not a little metal box .

 

[DMK]

I was browsing around in a gunshop the other day and had to chuckle to myself when I noticed Marlin had labeled the packages of their mags as "clip magazine".

They also call them all "clips" on a page labeled "magazines" at their website: https://www.marlinfirearms.com/store/magazines.php

 

[Hkmp5sd]

 

[Blackhawk]

Ever heard what they call the area of a war ship where the bangy thingys are stored...?

 

[jmbg29]

You mean the "clip", as in they took a torpedo in the "clip" and all hands were lost?

 

[Blackhawk]

Zactly!

Then, of course, ask any Vietnam War LRRP veteran how they used to tape two "banana magazines" together....

A word means what people who use it intend it to mean, and that's how the meanings end up in the dictionary.

Luddites never could understand that.

 

[BamBam]

Also,
Unless it says Wham-O on it, it's not a Frisbee....it's a flying disc.

 

[faustulus]

while we are at it...
The phrase is "you can't eat your cake and have it too" not "you can't have your cake and eat it too"

there is no such word as irregardless.

There is no such thing as a "Congressional Medal of Honor"

the word 'Neanderthal is prounouced "Ne-ander-tal"

the phrase is not "I could care less" it is "I couldn't care less"

 

[Hal]

<-- runs for cover

GunNut (Steve),
I just timed it. In the time it took to type, format and edit your initial post,,,


I loaded a clip for my Kimber w/8 bullets

Oh and faustulus
ya missed 2.

dictionary is misspelled twice in this thread

 

[yankytrash]

The man who spends his life picking apart other people's words will only die early and ornery.

Loosen up, and don't be so quick to judge a "newbie". That newbie that lacks your precious book knowledge might be able to pick up that rifle of yours and mangle the center ring without even caring what a "clip" is supposed to becalled.
That "newbie" might've learned the terminology from someone who fought, and perhaps died, so that you could live your bitter days analyzing your precious words. He might even be one of those guys that fought.

When my father-in-law or my boss's older brother relate stories of the nightmare they went through in Vietnam and Cambodia in the 60's, I could care less that they say things like, "I put 4 30rd clips in this canteen pouch, 4 in this pouch, 2 here, 3 there, and 6 more behind me." The point of the story is that they had to carry "clips" because of the daily fear that if they ran out of ammo in the jungle, that they might all die. Hell, they can call it a banana clip for all I care. As long as we all know what they mean, it's good enough for me.

There's alot of words I use that might not be correct, whether in definition, context, spelling, grammar use, or pure lack of the knowing the right word for it, but what I say is not mistaken until some yahoo analyzes my every word.


Loosen up. Chew on that one awhile. You and the horse you rode in on. SHTF. Go to you-know-where. Have a sun-shiney day.

None of it means a thing, but you knew what I was sayin, didn't ya. That fact makes it right, regardless.


Edit: One more and I'm done: I'm goin bow huntin this spring.

 

[GrantLee63]

I Hate When .....

...... Patridge sights are referred to as Partridge !!

IT'S PATRIDGE NOT PARTRIDGE !!!!!!!!!! :banghead:

 

[Feanaro]

So GunNut, got any spare clips for a 1911?