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Sounds like supplies for a fun weekend - wait, what is a .389 S&W??
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I was in the military in the 90's. We didn't call magazines"clips". We didn't put clips in our magazine pouches on our LBV.
We loaded magazines by using a "stripper clip guide" to allow pushing the rounds out of the stripper clip into the magazine.
How would that conversation even work if you used the terms interchangeably?
"You place the clip guide onto the clip, and then you insert the clip into the clip guide and using your thumb you push the rounds from the clip down through the clip guide and into the clip."
LOL!
We loaded magazines by using a "stripper clip guide" to allow pushing the rounds out of the stripper clip into the magazine.
How would that conversation even work if you used the terms interchangeably?
"You place the clip guide onto the clip, and then you insert the clip into the clip guide and using your thumb you push the rounds from the clip down through the clip guide and into the clip."
LOL!
I don't disagree. Like I said, I'd have more or less tolerance depending on when it was written.
It seems like the early 90s was a transitional period. Others have shared a different experience than you.
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I was just talking about this subject a while back, with a friend at the range. He said he cringes any time he hears "clip", because of all the push-ups he had to do for using it wrong himself.
I never had to do any push-ups, so it doesn't really bother me.
I never had to do any push-ups, so it doesn't really bother me.
It's slightly personal for me when people imply that you have to be a noob to use "clip". My old man used it until the day he died. Here's a small sample of his competition plaques I display in my shop.
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In TM 9-1005-319-x (1986) the Magazine is clearly described as a "magazine" as well as the magazine release clearly being described as such.
And this M14 manual from 1974 clearly describes the magazine as such as well as the clip guide as such.
I find no document to support your claim of the 90's being transitional to magazine and clip nomenclature.
I'll leave it at that.
It's a down day for me. Trying to recover from a vacation.
No kidding! I can't believe they're making a deal about mere "GRAMS" of illegal drugs! 24.4 Grams of drugs? And the pot isn't even considered a "drug" any more than booze these days.
These guys were true amateur's.
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It's just one of those perennial forum debates. You know, like 9mm vs 45 acp, but then that one was solved once and for all with the introduction of the.40 S&W…
There is no argument. 45acp is better. There's no reason to use that old, dilapidated 9mm.It's just one of those perennial forum debates. You know, like 9mm vs 45 acp, but then that one was solved once and for all with the introduction of the.40 S&W…
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Well I do like .45 acp, since it is a little more modern than the older 9mm, but I still don't quite trust those new-fangled automatic pistols. I prefer my 1917 S&W revolver in .45 acp, and it uses clips!
(See what I did there?!)
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It's Seattle so.......
Aloha, Mark
Aloha, Mark
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A high school friend had a 389 with tri-power. The gamblers might have used it for a quick get-away?
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Yeah, I'm an old guy too, and I agree. And really, does it matter the word if
the listener understands. And why aren't we bubblegumin' about changing
"game ending homer" to "walk off homer?' Or "preview" to "movie trailer?'
Or . . . . . . . . .? I just needed a rant today.
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Speaking of clips, I only buy the drop-free variety. Except when it comes to Mannlicher-style clips. It's a huge pain when those don't drop free, kind of like when an en-bloc clip doesn't eject. Now take moon clips- their only purpose is to eject, but I digress...Dude, you should just drop it.
How's that for drifting?
