Correct use of "clip"

[Hamshire]

Props to Kroger. This was in the toy section. It's just too bad they didn't have one that was mag-loaded. I give them a B+ for the effort.

[dustoffer]

How long before someone posts up "I don't get it." ?

[Mike D]

[VorTexan]

Please PM me the location before folks jump all over this deal!

[Quackerbox]

HAHAHAAA!!!

Ive been trying to learn my plumber brother this for years and he still says clip. Yet hes the same way over water heaters when folks say theres something wrong with their "hot water heater". He says, if the water was already hot why do you need to heat it?

[CM Sackett]

I hold the proper turn of a phrase or word usage in as high a regard as anyone. But I've learned something, over my years as a professional writer (for some of the biggest corporate entities on the planet), author, and communicator... and close friend of some of the best men on earth...

...knowing the "proper" term for something fades to worthless nothingness when set against knowing Giants, who have used the equipment, machine, tool, items in question to the greatest effect - and call 'em whatever in the hell they are use to calling 'em.

POINT?

I have two close friends. One spent years as one of the very first Green Berets (sniper). His father was a renowned weapons smythe (he was the one who actually perfected and milled the very first trigger device for the Manhattan Project device... NOT Oppenheimer). This friend also has several degrees, and has taught at both Stanford, and the War College.

He knows the proper "term" for everything weapon.

My second dear friend is equally brilliant, and equally skilled and experienced. He has served around the globe.

One calls them "mags".
The other calls 'em "clips".

The trash they've taken out... doesn't call them anything anymore.

I grew up calling them "mags" (Marine family). When friend #2 calls them "clips", we both know what he's talking about. And we both know he KNOWS what he's talking about.
-CM Sackett-

[SaltwaterSlick]

Never seen those darts on "stripper clips" before!! My wife gave me, my son and son-in-law one of the revolvers last year as a Christmas stocking stuffer, and we had a "blast" with them in more ways than one... They were the best stuffer gifts ever!

[Fishndude]

I'm no sniper but they're clips to me. Always have been and always will be. One things certain, it doesn't matter.

[Dale Moser]

Never seen those darts on "stripper clips" before!! My wife gave me, my son and son-in-law one of the revolvers last year as a Christmas stocking stuffer, and we had a "blast" with them in more ways than one... They were the best stuffer gifts ever!

Go for the little radio controlled helicopters next year, they're awesome!

[CM Sackett]

I'm no sniper but they're clips to me. Always have been and always will be. One things certain, it doesn't matter.

...as another fellas has said a few times lately, "Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!"

[Txjourneyman]

Go for the little radio controlled helicopters next year, they're awesome!

Go for the helos and the dart guns! Then you can shoot the helos out of the air!

[BIG IRON]

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How long before someone posts up "I don't get it." ?

or "who cares?"

[rconn]

I like to say clip just because it drives you crazy.

[Hamshire]

I don't really care what you call it. You have a hard time spelling your own name.

[BigTex.308]

Lol. That's good. But you still wonder if they call a mag a clip.....




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