[OKSooner]

"My father, who was a Marine in the Pacific theater in WWII, my grandfather who was in WWI, and our neighbor who was in the Army in WWII, as well as every other "old timer" hunter I knew all called "magazines", "clips"."

Yes, that's because the rifles they were issued used actual "clips".

The last person that I heard of calling a magazine a clip was the dude who said "don't have a clip in it, bro'" just before his buddy got shot by a crazy chick on drugs pointing a handgun around at people.

[Big Red Badger]

The Mighty Garand used “En Bloc Clips.”

IIRC