Magazines vs Clips

[BlasterBob]

Ever wonder when the internal cartridge holders (magazines) for pistols/long guns attained the official name of MAGAZINES? ?Back in the 1940's when GI's were bringing their Lugers and P-38 and other pistol souvenirs back, the magazines were almost always referred to as CLIPS. But now we all know the huge difference between a magazine and a clip. Here are a few ads showing "CLIPS". Most of us really old timers do properly call them magazines now but there are still a few hold out's use the old term "CLIPS" as some habits are difficult to break. (Also, there is a muzzle brake rather than a muzzle break)

[thvigil11]

Leave it to Bob to remember the day when you could pick up a mini for $150 bucks. What were you back then 55? 60?



I kidd, I kidd. Life up north slow enough for you to look through old magazines?

[Great-Kazoo]

Life up north slow enough for you to look through old magazines?

Beat me to it. Probably too humid for his medical devices to be outside.

[BlasterBob]

Those were Shotgun News ads from 1978. Heck, I was only 42 when that was published. Hey, it's a bitch to get old IF our memory fails us.

[BlasterBob]

Beat me to it. Probably too humid for his medical devices to be outside.

HUMID, yes and that's why Illinois is commonly known as "The RUST BELT"
Nope, no medical devices, not even a cane or walker although a new set of knees would be kinda nice. Only take one daily pill and that is only a script to maintain good chlorestrol numbers. Fellow shooters fail to believe I will turn 80 years old in December. So, there is hope for you guys to get to be an old bastard like me IF you play your cards right.

[KestrelBike]

BlasterBob's the best!

[SAnd]

I have a manual from 1918 for the "United States Rifle, Caliber.30, Model of 1917" says "The magazine is directly beneath the bolt and is loaded from the top from a clip of five cartridges while the bolt is retracted."
There is a pdf description of the "Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, Model of 1911" 1914 revision, available on the internet. It says "The receiver has suitable guides for the reciprocating slide and a hollow handle in which the magazine is inserted from below and is locked in place by the magazine catch,...
So the official mane for the removable magazines goes back to at least 1914 for the 1911 Pistol.
I'll speculate that the clip / magazine thing probably happened it the World War II era when a bunch of GIs were trained on mainly rifles that used clips for ammunition supply and it bled over to the other guns that used detachable magazines.

[Zundfolge]

It's called argumentum ad antiquitatem.

Back in the day people used to call African Americans "N***ers" ... that doesn't mean it was right



Wow those 40 round mags were expensive! $21.50 in 1978 is equivalent to $78.92 today!

http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

[Robb]

Beat me to it. Probably too humid for his medical devices to be outside.

That was funny as Hell, cold, but funny.

[motoboy]

Great.......

I always give people crap when they refer to magazines and call them clips.

Now I also need to ask how old they are???