Speedo66
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Haven't read all, but with 6 pages there seems to be quite a lot of teeth gritting. lol
magazines have springs and clips do not. simple.Maybe, maybe not. Maybe clips can be different from magazines and the same as magazines. Maybe Webster is gullible. Maybe Webster is wrong about clips and magazines just like it is about precision and accuracy. Maybe all the hullabaloo about the difference is just BS. Maybe Savage does know what is what, and clips not always being different from magazines is what is what. Could we tolerate that? I know I could. What do I care what you call it?
I am not sure that has ever been tried . I suspect most of us here have read about them and know what a load of ..... that name is.Do cop killer bullets work on hippies also, of just cops?
Hippies? You should use an emoji to show when you are joking. I know that takes some of the fun out of it, but how else would we know you aren’t serious?Do cop killer bullets work on hippies also, of just cops?
These days the only (minor) annoyance with firearms terminology that I experience occurs when an OP starts up a Thread about an "XYZ" without providing, somewhere in that initial post, a brief definition of what the "XYZ" acronym references.What firearms "terminology" makes you grit your teeth?
Sometimes military grade isn’t exactly a good thing.
In case you are wondering how this term was appropriated- In the UK, "gear" is called "kit".
"Running" a firearm (instead of "operating") makes me crazy, too."Platform" (instead of design---JMB was a designer, not a carpenter)
"Run" (instead of shoot)
"Operator" (that's what collect calls are for)
"Shotty" (<removed>)
Never heard the term before...What about kit used as the past participle of a verb as in to be all kitted out.
Out of curiosity, how do you describe the full set of actions/controls involved in handling a particular firearm (safety, magazine release, slide release, slide lock...)? I picked up "manual of arms" at one point and it has stuck with me for whatever reason, but I don't think I've ever seen it used as an official technical term. Can't say I've ever used "running the gun", but I've probably seen that more than "manual of arms."
Stripper clips have a flat spring inside to hold the cartridges (bullets lol) in place.magazines have springs and clips do not. simple.
Despite the many references to it in this thread, I have never heard a cartridge called a caliber or vice-versa either on these forums or anywhere else. Now mixing up advise with advice and lose with loose, well that happens all the time. Caliber with cartridge, not so much.
How is that mixing caliber up with cartridge? Should the next XXX be 9 mm .45, .40, 10 mm. Those can all be considered calibers or more generically, diameters. In other words how big should the bullet be that my next gun shoots. Now should it be .38 Sp, 9mm, .357 Magnum, that is a cartridge question to be asked after caliber has been determined. Two different things. But it is possible to ask either of them without the implication of mixing them up. In fairness, it is also possible to mix them up. I just don’t see that in the example you posed.I see it at least once a week. What caliber should my next XXX be?
That doesn’t make it sensible. Method of operation makes a lot more sense if you are talking about the procedures. Operating manual makes more sense if you are talking about where it is all written down. Using the same term for both is silly.Manual of Arms is a term that has been used since the days of matchlocks.
I was under the impression that manual of arms was those commands of when and where to manipulate our rifles in drill and ceremony in the military. As I remember, there were only about 5 or 6 commands, so it was pretty easy for most of us. For those having difficulty. extra attention was given. "WHAT SIDE WAS THAT, PYLE"!!! Remember that? That's what I remember as Manual of Arms. Publications about our weapons were called field manuals and technical manuals. Or maybe I'm not remembering correctly. I do remember my right from my left, so that's good.Manual of Arms is a term that has been used since the days of matchlocks.