Guess what I found in my Parts Collection....

I thought you would know Tom, but then we called them clips for years, even the manufacturers did, as in 99C. Rem 66 10C. Sahara won the Teddy Bear. LOL. I have a 788 but not in 222 Rem. Jim
 
"...we called them clips for years..." Incorrectly. The manufacturers call 'em 'clips' because they're catering to illiterate Americans.
"...have a 788 but not in 222..." I think they're the same with a different follower. Can't say as I'd put any money on it though.
 
So you're saying the 788 and the 222 are the same thing but with a different follower? Lol. I have a 7mm08 rifle chambered in Model 7!!!
 
I doubt that there is any noticeable difference in a 788 mag marked 222 Rem and one in 223 Rem, other than the obvious stamping. Anyone else notice how "lazy" the springs are, yet seem to work well?
 
Deerdr said:
I thought you would know Tom, but then we called them clips for years, even the manufacturers did, as in 99C. Rem 66 10C. Sahara won the Teddy Bear. LOL. I have a 788 but not in 222 Rem. Jim
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Yes Jim, we just called that thing that held shells in the gun, but could be pulled out and put in our pocket, a clip, or a clip magazine, because that is what the dealers called them.
Our very own SIR, which was once the famous Sydney I Robinson, Western Canada's premier hunting/trapping store and fur dealer of the 1930s and eventually became Cabello's Canada, called them just that.

As did our very own Ellwood Epps, in there 1962/63 catalogue.
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Bruce,
Sometimes called, by his friends Tom.
 
I called them Clips all my life, as did all my firearm friends, but I was corrected on CGN that they are Mags....O.K. Ill call them mags, now some long time "firearm people" don't know what I'm talking about. I'm going back to clip...Thanks for the support Bruce...Jim
 
Yes Jim, there are probably other once popular names that many people today wouldn't know what we were talking about, if we used them.
For example, if we were talking about vehicles and I said I saw a nice corn binder yesterday, I wonder how many would be stumped?
Bruce
 
Clips & mags.... and the cool factor....

I think the term "clip" sticks around because to mostly those that use it it sounds "cool".

Much cooler than magazine, though.... although those that would use the proper term magazine are prone to going with "mag".

Again, "mag" for the cool factor. :p

....lol.....

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'Course if you really want to heighten the cool factor you use the term "clip" just as you deep inhale from a Marlboro red while looking at your audience with one eye cocked like Festus Haggen.

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Even saw that once way back when at a gunshow. :) :p

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My thought is that the term "clip" is from a generation that used clips for their intended purpose, to fill the magazine well of their issued rifle.
My hat is off to those that did and still do.
 
H4831 said:
Yes Jim, there are probably other once popular names that many people today wouldn't know what we were talking about, if we used them.
For example, if we were talking about vehicles and I said I saw a nice corn binder yesterday, I wonder how many would be stumped?
Bruce
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How about a one stack mack with a shack on the back.
 
H4831 said:
Yes Jim, there are probably other once popular names that many people today wouldn't know what we were talking about, if we used them.
For example, if we were talking about vehicles and I said I saw a nice corn binder yesterday, I wonder how many would be stumped?
Bruce
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Ah yes, the old I.H. :)
 
Ahhh, great find! 788 clips/magazines are very hard to come by. I have 2 in 6MM rem that are over 40 years old------still work.
 
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