Saturday, April 21, 2007
This Day in American History
On this day in 1898, the U.S. declared war on Spain. Jack-booted, exploitive Euro-thugs, how dare they have colonies in our hemisphere.
Labels: Spanish-American War
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:04 AM 
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LOL! Nice one.
p.s. Still using clip and magazine as if they are the same thing. Tsk, tsk. Didn't oldeforce's comment show you the way?
p.s. Still using clip and magazine as if they are the same thing. Tsk, tsk. Didn't oldeforce's comment show you the way?
Thanks. OK. One more time. Where do the bullets go in the M1 Garand? What holds the bullets together as they go in there? I'm using both of them in this blog. I use clip in the real world.
They go into the magazine, I believe. They are held together by a clip. There is no spring action in the clip, which is why it is a clip and not a magazine.
Just because the magazine comes out of a pistol (like a Glock) doesn't mean that it turns into a clip. It is a magazine and not a clip.
I would think that you of all people would appreciate the value of using proper terminology.
Just because the magazine comes out of a pistol (like a Glock) doesn't mean that it turns into a clip. It is a magazine and not a clip.
I would think that you of all people would appreciate the value of using proper terminology.
I can see us having this argument as aged men. The magazine is where the rounds are in the gun. I think you agree with this. If it's a box clip that fits into the magazine, the magazine and the clip which holds the rounds will be congruent. We could then use the two terms interchangeably. Clips are traditionally just bent pieces of metal with no moving parts or spring other than the tension of the bent metal. One magazine, in the Broomhandle (C-96) Mauser, looks just like a magazine or clip we load up and slip into the handles of our modern pistols. It has that bullet fitting metal part at the top and a folded leaf spring like thing below. There is a newer version C-96 Mauser which has a box clip or magazine that fits into the place where the rounds were after being forced off a stripper clip from the top in the older version. Does that new method of loading the C-96 use a clip or a magazine? I am trying to be precise.
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