Pet peeve!
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danez71
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I have a very good friend who spent a good portion of his adult life enlisted as a marine. He is very familiar and proficient with modern weapons and an all around great guy. He scoffs at revolvers and lever actions though, drives me a little nuts. The guy won't even shoot either one, I get it- he likes what he likes. 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...
Just an example, but those types who won't even acknowledge anything other than ultra tacticool as "real guns".
That's my pet peeve .
-at this point my buddy does it specially just to get me wrapped around the axle, he finds it hilarious ....
Just an example, but those types who won't even acknowledge anything other than ultra tacticool as "real guns".
That's my pet peeve .
-at this point my buddy does it specially just to get me wrapped around the axle, he finds it hilarious ....
Sneakshot92
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Can’t say that I have a pet peeve that gets under my skin. But when people exaggerate about what they can do with their guns, just makes me shake my head. Like the guy at the local gun shop that told me that the 300 Blackout was the best caliber for hog hunting. He told me that he kills hogs at 300 yards using subsonic ammo with his suppressed AR15. And that he does this all the time.
Are his eyes brown? If so he's full of it. If not it's because it's running out his mouth before it gets to eye level!! Micro rant over.
Sneakshot92
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I believe M1 Garands are one of the few that actually use a "Magazine Clip".I'm doing the American Legion Honor Guard thing for a Veteran's funeral tomorrow morning. I hope no one says "magazine" when we're loading clips filled with blanks into our M-1 Garands.
Sneakshot92
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I've got a buddy that does the same thing... Right up until my "old timey junk" outshoots his "newfangled plastic"!!
The only hangun we really agree on is the 1911 btw. Classic combat handgun.
Howland937
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Please don't overcomplicate it. Next question will be "magazine clip? Is it sort of an extra large paper clip? Or more like a chip clip?"
Styx
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Gun guys who take themselves and everything else too seriously... It's really not that serious or big of a deal... I tend to agree with danez71.
With that said and not really firearm related, it irritates me when someone I don't know, never met, and who has never seen me before thinks they know more than I do. That goes for people telling me what I am or am not able to conceal on my frame and body type...
Ed Ames
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The thing about clip vs magazine is that up until recently the word “clip” in relation to guns generally meant “detachable magazine”. The idea that there were stripper clips or whatever may have been relevant to military folks but that was a real fringe of the gun world and nobody - including manufactures - really cared. Clip was short for clip-on magazine.
Look at old ads for rifles and you’ll see Winchester, Marlin, Savage, et al talking about clips or “clip magazines” for their guns. I think it was Marlin that used to have ads for .22 rifles that said something like “Do you want it with a clip or without?” to show that you could get a tube magazine or a clip (detachable box magazine). WWII era US military training manuals talked about the clip in a 1911. Handgun manufacturers talked about how many rounds fit in their clips.
I have seen OEM factory box magazines in retail bubble packaging with the description “clip” implying that Marlin or Savage or whoever it was thought that was a perfectly reasonable term into the 1980s at least.
I use the term magazine because why not, but I don’t think someone saying “clip” is actually wrong, any more than someone calling a flashlight a “torch” is wrong.
Look at old ads for rifles and you’ll see Winchester, Marlin, Savage, et al talking about clips or “clip magazines” for their guns. I think it was Marlin that used to have ads for .22 rifles that said something like “Do you want it with a clip or without?” to show that you could get a tube magazine or a clip (detachable box magazine). WWII era US military training manuals talked about the clip in a 1911. Handgun manufacturers talked about how many rounds fit in their clips.
I have seen OEM factory box magazines in retail bubble packaging with the description “clip” implying that Marlin or Savage or whoever it was thought that was a perfectly reasonable term into the 1980s at least.
I use the term magazine because why not, but I don’t think someone saying “clip” is actually wrong, any more than someone calling a flashlight a “torch” is wrong.
Jim Watson
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"Heads" for bullets seems to have originated in England.
RetiredUSNChief
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NIGHTLORD40K
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My favorite is how everytime a tv/movie character pulls out a Glock, they feel the need to add a "hammer being cocked" sound effect.
Every
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MedWheeler
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When the news media still reports an officer's sidearm as his "service revolver" (yes, I see that a lot still.)
People who think that any AK-patterned rifle is an AK47.
People who recommend micro-380 caliber guns to female first-time buyers based on their sizes (gun and purchaser) alone, or automatically defer to the pink gun in the case for those buyers.
I'm sure I have a few more, but you all have probably covered them..
People who think that any AK-patterned rifle is an AK47.
People who recommend micro-380 caliber guns to female first-time buyers based on their sizes (gun and purchaser) alone, or automatically defer to the pink gun in the case for those buyers.
I'm sure I have a few more, but you all have probably covered them..
RetiredUSNChief
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Several already hit on.
BS sales hype. Liberty Defense a while back, for example, hyped their ultra-fast ammo as being special forces certified. I don't think their website says that any more, but several retail sources still do.
BS sales hype. Liberty Defense a while back, for example, hyped their ultra-fast ammo as being special forces certified. I don't think their website says that any more, but several retail sources still do.
Obturation
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Yep, and every knife goes "shingggg".My favorite is how everytime a tv/movie character pulls out a Glock, they feel the need to add a "hammer being cocked" sound effect.
Every
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Ironicaintit
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Yeah but semantics do matter. I use it as part of a gauge. It helps tell the difference between a person who is culturally gun fluent, and somebody who may be a fudd
Ed Ames
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LOL being pedantic about something as fluid as slang may make someone a fuddy-duddy but it doesn’t make them a fudd.
Ironicaintit
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It’s part of a gauge, not the whole gauge.
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:
blahpony
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My favorite is how everytime a tv/movie character pulls out a Glock, they feel the need to add a "hammer being cocked" sound effect.
Every
Flippin
Time
Or when a double barrel break open shotgun makes the pump action shotgun sound.
Howland937
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Or when they have to rack the slide on a pump shotgun even though they just did 10 seconds before but didn't fire it.
Ernie Bass
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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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