[MAA]MI2 wrote:
Pernicious544 wrote:
sad to say it dude but your wrong
The clip is the thingie that has the ammo in it
The magazine is where the clip goes into the gun
The clip goes into the magazine, just like a clip and a magazine
dont bring up any ninny nany complaints to me, i got that off of Mail Call with R. Lee ermy on the History Channel
Wow...thats so wrong its not even funny...
The area where the magazine goes is called (surprise surprise!) the magazine well. In BF2, there are no "clips", all of the things that contain ammo are magazines.
Wow someone with some freakin sense....thanks dude.
Supplemental Information care of
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1323705Since the advent of the repeating, magazine-fed rifle in the mid 1800s, there have been a variety of methods and mechanisms for storing multiple rounds about the soldier's person, inserting these rounds into the rifle's magazine and holding the rounds in place so that the rifle's mechanism may act upon them. A magazine is any container which stores ammunition. A building used to store ammunition is a magazine; a compartment in a ship which stores ammunition is a magazine, a bomber's bomb bay is a magazine. Rifle magazines are small containers which store rounds, usually equipped with a simple mechanism - a spring and a metal plate - which keeps the rounds stacked evenly, and which pushes the rounds into the rifle's action as it is cycled. Historically, the magazines of the earliest repeating rifles were integral parts of the rifle, often in the form of tubes running underneath the rifle's barrel, indeed contemporary shotguns still tend to use tubular, under-barrel magazines. These fixed magazines were fed with individual rounds by hand, a process familiar to millions from Westerns. At this point in time soldiers, cowboys and rustlers held the rounds about their person in bandoliers or ammunition boxes.
A clip is, pedantically, a small piece of metal which holds rounds in place within a magazine. The M1 Garand mentioned elsewhere is an ideal example of this. The rifle's magazine stores eight rounds, which are held in place with a clip. After insertion the clip becomes an integral part of the rifle's mechanism, the action gripping and feeding from the clip, which is ejected once it has been expended. Rounds were issued to the soldiers in boxes, and were then transferred onto eight-round clips, which were fed into the M1's magazine.
The terms 'clip' and 'magazine' have understandably become confused. (So your not confused this only pertains to weapons with integral magazine/clip systems such as the M1 Garand)
Theres your research silentsin....
Now pay attention hereThe removable magazine was an innovation pioneered during the First World War, initially for light machine-guns such as the BAR and Lewis Gun. Clips do nothing to keep ammunition clean and protected in the field, and furthermore they can break and allow the ammunition to fall out. The process of holding back the rifle's bolt, placing the clip into the receiver's guide rails, pushing the rounds down into the magazine and manipulating the bolt again was slow, fiddly, and liable to push dirt and mud into the magazine along with the bullets. By the end of the Second World War most of the world's battle rifles and all assault rifles were fed with removable magazines, their weight a small price to pay for their advantages. Removable magazines still have to be fed with bullets, however, either individually (often with the help of special tools), or from stripper clips.
Last edited by AlbertWesker[RE] (2006-02-23 23:22:25)
