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To: SampleMan
Well, not all .45's do I suppose, but I'll bite. What is that long magazine thingamajig that holds cartridges in a vertical feed and inserts into the handle of the Colt 1911 .45 ACP if it is not a clip?

That is the magazine. Of course there are clips for .45acp too. The 1917 revolvers used half moon clips to hold the rounds. There are also 1/3 moon and full moon clips. Also some of the latter S&W model 25's took half moon clips.

208 posted on 01/29/2006 2:20:27 PM PST by yarddog
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To: yarddog

Although I now understand what you are saying, I don't quite agree.

Although a clip can be a device for charging the magazine of a weapon (stripper clips), it is also a magazine from which cartridges directly feed into the chamber. Your reference to full, half, partial moon clips for pop out or break apart revolver cylinders applies to the latter, yet it also applies to a removable feeder magazine.

It would be most accurate to say that the device in question is a clip AND a removable magazine. To be super technical, it is a clip until inserted, upon which it becomes the magazine.

In such cases of user preferred terminology, you have to at some point concede to the common vernacular. But you do as you wish, you might just be a trend setter.


216 posted on 01/29/2006 2:36:54 PM PST by SampleMan
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To: yarddog
That is the magazine. Of course there are clips for .45acp too. The 1917 revolvers used half moon clips to hold the rounds. There are also 1/3 moon and full moon clips. Also some of the latter S&W model 25's took half moon clips.

Clips are defined as having no moving parts unlike a magazine with a spring. Not many "clips" in use with modern arms contrary to the wide spread use of the word.

240 posted on 01/29/2006 3:19:10 PM PST by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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