Odd bolt action rifle on "The Bridge."

[OkieJohn]

I believe that the movie Sergeant York shows Gary Cooper loading from a striper clip while on the target range.

 

[Acera]

Some of you guys need to call Weatherby and let them know that they don't know anything about guns...............

http://www.weatherby.com/product/accessories/shootersaccessory/40439

 

[Murphy4570]

Facts:
1) No clip that is part of a rifle's feed mechanisim is visible from the outside when in use
2) Russellc said "short bolt action rifle with a fluted barrel, clip fed", not "fed" or "charged" or "loaded magazine from a clip"
3) Many folks mistakenly think a box magazine is a clip. To help Russellc identify the rifle in question, it's important to know if it in fact does have a box magazine
4) It may be pendantic to educate folks that there is a difference between a clip and a magazine but it is pendantic and ignorant to insist it's pendantic to educate folks correctly.

Consider- it's pendantic to insist folks keep their fingers off the trigger, not point their weapons at anything they do not wish to destroy and treat all weapons as if they were loaded but it's pendantic and ignorant when someone says "but it's not loaded"

It's pedantic that you are using the word pedantic so damn much! How about that eh!


You need to chill out dude. You are really high strung. Much ado about nothing. There are more important things in life to get your blood pressure up. Reliving the age-old clip-vs-magazine terminology debate is not one of them.

 

[armedaccountant]

Best of both worlds, a magazine cip.

http://www.remington.com/en/product...gazine-clips/model-700-bdl-magazine-clip.aspx

 

[MistWolf]

Me chill out? All I did was point out it was a mag, not a clip and asked if perhaps the rifle was a Ruger. Next thing I know, the clip-hippies start crawling out of the wood-works with their protest signs and how a bunch of magazine fed rifles are actually "clip fed" because a stripper clip can be used to charge the magazine. What do you want a guy to do? Pass out trophies to everyone just because they competed? Give Johnny an "A" just because he showed up for the test? It's not very 'High Road" to foster ignorance and pass firearms myths on to others. Just because Remington marks the package a magazine comes in "clip" doesn't make it right. I suppose next somebody will be telling me a barrel shroud is a shoulder thing that goes up

 

[Don357]

Uh, didn't Enfield rifles use a stripper "clip" to feed into a 10rd removable "magazine" while it was still attached to the rifle?

 

[kBob]

John,

By noticing the clip feed lips/slot of course!

-kBob

 

[HOOfan_1]

Consider- it's pendantic to insist folks keep their fingers off the trigger, not point their weapons at anything they do not wish to destroy and treat all weapons as if they were loaded but it's pendantic and ignorant when someone says "but it's not loaded"

Considering those are SAFETY aspects, I don't see how they are similar.

I don't think anyone is going to get maimed or killed by calling a magazine a clip.....

Or by not thinking a gun can be "clip loaded, but magazine fed" Or maybe the magazine is fed by the clip, and the chamber is fed by the magazine.

Is "feeding" even a legitimate term, or is that just another affectation caused by the ever evolving English language? Maybe the term should be "supplied" instead.

What did "gay" mean 100 years ago? What does "gay" mean now?

I am trying to remember the movie I watched, or the book I read where one of the characters said something to the effect of "its like the old greek past time of sitting around arguing how many spirits can dance on the head of a pin"

I see Owen's point though.

Did the OP say clip when he was talking about what most of us would call "magazine"
Did he mean the magazine was loaded via a stripper clip?
Did he mean it used and integral clip like the M1?

We don't know, because after a week, the OP has yet to return to the thread

I haven't seen the show, and the description is not the best.

Could be a Desert Tactical SRS...it is bolt action it is short, but it has no integrated bipod
Walther WA2000 is short, has an integrated bipod, but it is semi-auto

 

[MistWolf]

HOOfan, arguing that it's not important to use proper language because it's not safety related is a strawman. Language changes but that's not a good reason to use words in a confusing manner.

This site is supposed to be about taking the high road. Unfortunately, there are members that would rather argue than strive to achieve a higher standard

 

[taliv]

words mean things and that's important, but it's not worth anybody having a coronary over it. de asini umbra disceptare