about clips
 

as I wrote earlier I asked if my clips were original with black plastic bottoms on clips with rivets through the concave bottoms, I received a few responces an was asked what is the serial#'s which would tell you guys what I have and would give me more info on my new gun.Also one of my clips there is a missing metal stud on on side of clip which helps pull the spring down, should leave it alone or get it repaired an if repaired will it take away from its value. Any info on the gun would be greatly welcomed. BYF/42 serial#30xxH THANK YOU for the help these Lugers are very adictive I want many more.

Re: about clips
 

Taking these magazines with plastic bottoms apart is what the infamous Al Gore would call "risky business". They break easily, and if they have any cracks at all in them, they fall to pieces. Beware!


Lonnie

Re: about clips
 

I thought it was Tom Cruise who starred in 'Risky Business'? Don't tell me Al was a movie star too? ( I know he invented the internet). Don't confuse 'risky business' with 'fuzzy math'.

Magazines, Damnit! (EOM)
 

No thanks I have plenty of clips (EOM)
 

Maybe and maybe not
 

In the army we generally said magazine, but the M-16 was a clip or magazine and;


Merriam-Webster

Main Entry: mag�·a�·zine, Pronunciation: 'ma-g&-"zEn, "ma-g&-'

Function: noun, Etymology: Middle French, from Old Proven�§al, from Arabic makhAzin, plural of makhzan storehouse, Date: 1583

1 : a place where goods or supplies are stored : WAREHOUSE

2 : a room in which powder and other explosives are kept in a fort or a ship

3 : the contents of a magazine: as a : an accumulation of munitions of war b : a stock of provisions or goods

â?¦5 : a supply chamber: as a : a holder in or on a gun for cartridges to be fed into the gun chamber


Merriam-Webster

Main Entry: 2clip

Function: noun, Date: 15th century

â?¦2 : a device to hold cartridges for charging the magazines of some rifles; also : a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of a firearm


Cambridge Dictionary of American English

magazine (GUN PART)

noun [C]

a part of a gun in which cartridges tubes containing an explosive substance are stored, or a building in which explosives, weapons and supplies are kept. A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.


from Cambridge Dictionary of American English


clip (GUN PART)

noun [C]

a container holding bullets and that is put into a gun


So, those poor souls walking in and saying clip, their English teachers can't all be wrong,

Re: Did Merriam-Webster evr sot in a wun h
 

vat dit youse says?
 

Although it has been close, i've never fallen in!


That is why I don't read those darn magazines, I mean if I have trouble chewing gum and walking, how'd I ever, well you know and read?

But I already threw my magazines down the hole! (EOM)
 

Re: Maybe and maybe not
 

66,

The TM for the M16A1 calls it a Magazine Assembly, and the magazine assembly is loaded from a Stripper Clip. The magazine is loaded from the stripper clip with the aid of a Stripper Clip Guide.

Yah, you're right but...
 

I was an MP and you know how we are!

Re: Yah, you're right but...
 

This is a side of yall I haven't seen before. Makes me a little nervous. I never said exactly where in North Alabama I lived, did I?


Roadkill