Pet peeve!

[jmorris]

I guess in those days, small things did not bother people like they do now.

It likely did some, but to be a “pet peeve”, by definition, it only needs to especially annoy a particular person, not the general population.

 

[FFGColorado]

"Mouse guns"...particularly the .380..it would make a real mess of a mouse...

 

[Cemetery21]

My best bud for over 60 years, a two tour Vietnam lurp, wounded 3 times, former drill sgt., college grad, retired LEO, who has read and retained most of the gun rags printed since the 60s calls them clips. I don't correct him, I just call them mags.

 

[Styx]

My first rifle was a Marlin Model 80. (which I still own). I believe in those day's as a youngster, I called the Magazines,clips. I guess in those days, small things did not bother people like they do now.

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+1... Nowadays it seems like every little thing is offensive or triggers someone.... Guess people need something to complain about. For me, it's complaining about those who complain.

 

[danez71]

I am guilty?
carbine = rifle
rifle = rifle
Rifle is a catch all like handgun which is applicable to both pistols and revolvers.

Carbine is not, this aint a carbine:

To me, IMO, its just not something I concern myself with much at all.

That's not to say there isn't any importance to it at all... just that it isn't important enough to me to worry about.

I get wound up over what others would consider less so it's not meant as criticism.

 

[PWC]

It’s part of a gauge, not the whole gauge.

The gauge, the whole gauge, and nothing but the gauge!

LOL

 

[.455_Hunter]

Let's see...

"bullet heads" for bullets or projectiles.

"boolits" for cast lead bullets. What sort of a mouth-breathing Cleetus came up with that one?

and my least favorite of all time...

"bullet shells" for fired cartridge cases. Frequently used in the media.

 

[Jim Watson]

"boolits" for cast lead bullets. What sort of a mouth-breathing Cleetus came up with that one?

There is a gunboard "castboolits". I don't know if they were trying to be funny, but I think it might have something to do with copyright and trademark registration; hard to trademark a plain English term; so they misspelled it.
I say it does not count as a boolit unless you cast it yourself over a buffalo chip campfire.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

I have eliminated many of my pet peeves by not talking to people very often.

 

[CapnMac]

Abusing the difference between "bore" and "gauge" for scatterguns (and some double rifles).

 

[Tallball]

"Nowadays it seems like every little thing is offensive or triggers someone."


It did when I was a kid, too. But back then I was too inexperienced to notice when I'd seriously annoyed someone.

 

[Patocazador]

Trying to cow down to someone because they might possibly be offended is sacrificing your personality. PC is for creeps. If they don't like it, screw them. As that great philosopher, Ricky Nelson, sang, "You can't please everyone so you just have to please yourself."

 

[PWC]

The older I get, the less I worry about what other people may think about what I say or do.

 

[Texas10mm]

Abusing the difference between "bore" and "gauge" for scatterguns (and some double rifles).

410 is not a gauge. It's a bore.

 

[tarosean]

"Mouse guns"...particularly the .380..it would make a real mess of a mouse...

Most wouldnt be able to hit one, with one.

 

[tarosean]

I was pretty proud of the freedom arms revolver I got early this year, when I showed him, he glanced at it from 5 feet away, made a noise and asked why I keep spending money on old timely junk. I had to tell him how it is...

Ask him why he spends money on mediocre crap?

 

[Zerodefect]

Well that settles it. I'm calling them clips from now on just to mess with people.

My G34.4 has 22 round clips.

 

[Hasaf]

I remember trying to find some "clips" for my FN-49, I am also running low on "clips" for my Garand.

 

[Paul R Zartman]

Hmmmm, it's time for me to chime in...my grandpa, rest his soul, taught me the difference between "Clip" and "Mag" so all you pet peevers listen in and dont disrespect your elders...

Magizine: A extention of the chamber that's attached to the gun and holds ammunition, which is not removable without tools and disassembling gun.

CLIP: A compact unit that's spring loaded and holds ammunition, and that attaches by "clips" to the magazine of a gun

Merriam-Webster:
Definition of clip:

1: any of various devices that grip, clasp, or hook
2: a device to hold cartridges for charging the magazines of some rifles, also: a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of a firearm

So....reading the dictionary, a "clip" is a magazine to feed the chamber of a firearm...

Gramps was right... and clip and magazine go hand in hand when describing firearms that hold multiple cartridges.
Paul

....I am sure someone out there is going to disagree with Merriam-Webster and Gramps, but now we know.

 

[Jack Ryan]

People who got their firearms training and education from grocery store magazines critiquing people who got theirs from TV and Movies who critique the people who get it from the internet.

I find the longer my ignore list gets the happier I am.

 

[CapnMac]

410 is not a gauge. It's a bore.

That is true. However the dude wanting to sound posh calling his 12ga Citori a "12 bore" is less so.

 

[Cornhusker77]

My pet peeve is when someone outshoots me with my own gun.

 

[Jammersix]

The older I get, the less I worry about what other people may think about what I say or do.

Rather conveniently, outside the internet, the older I get, the less other people have problems with what I say or do.

 

[Cornhusker77]

I am guilty?
carbine = rifle
rifle = rifle
Rifle is a catch all like handgun which is applicable to both pistols and revolvers.

Carbine is not, this aint a carbine:

I'm guilty of calling a pile of pistols and revolvers a pile of pistols.
Also, a pile of rifles and carbines is a pile of rifles.
I know, I'm bad.

 

[MedWheeler]

Patocazador writes:

Trying to cow down to someone because they might possibly be offended is sacrificing your personality.

I thought the phrase was "kowtow". Never heard the phrase "cow down." Think I'll use it, though.