Posted: 10/28/2004 7:48:06 AM EDT
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Why argue? Remington tries to appease both factions... Magazine Clips  |
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Some people just have to feel superior to others and just got to correct others. When I hear people correcting others I often think of all those WWII combat guys that called them clips and drums no matter what it was and then think of some pimple faced kid telling him how wrong he is and was. Real smart making the customer feel like he's an idiot.  Tj |
| Magazines have followers that push the cartridges. Clips just hold the cartridges. I learned this the hard way at Army boot...when a drill sergeant heard some soldier refer to them as clips he smoked the crap out of us till it was instilled in our minds. He explained the difference laters... |
Corrected for you. ;-) straight from the More thrusts per squeeze thread. |
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In the small-arms context, a magazine is a holder or container for ammunition that also feeds the ammo into the gun's action, via a spring-loaded follower. The best known is the detachable box magazine (most modern semi-autos, including the AR15), but there are many others, such as the tube magazine (lever actions), drum (many, including AR15 and AK), fixed external (SKS), and fixed internal (M1 Garand, many bolt-action rifles). Yes, the M1 Garand feeds from a magazine; it's just built-in to the gun. A clip is a device that connects ammo together to help load a magazine. Clips do not feed ammo into the gun's action directly. -Troy |
If you really want to be technical, then that depends on what type of belt-fed gun you are refering too. A lot of new modern and even older belt-fed guns can take a magazine as well. |
