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I'm immediately skeptical of any article that calls a "magazine" a "clip." As my CHL instructor said many times, "A clip is something you put in your hair." D
by ianamartin 11y ago
I'm immediately skeptical of any article that calls a "magazine" a "clip."
As my CHL instructor said many times, "A clip is something you put in your hair."
Do some research on the terminology of the thing you are writing about, please.
Steyr arms has a line of handguns with a similar sighting system that, from my experience, is superior to blade sights. In my tests giving an inexperienced shooter some verbal safety training and handing them a Steyr gets better accuracy than taking the same random person with the same information and handing them, say, a Glock or a Smith, or some variant of a 1911.
Yes, yes, I know, caveats about with anecdata like that: I get it. Not at all conclusive.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think the Steyr sights are conceptually modeled after the Theodore sights. But I could be wrong.
Sorry if I sound like a Steyr shill. I'm not. Just a big fan. I just think they are really great guns.
Handguns really need to be point-and-shoot. The reality of uses for these outside a shooting range isn't pinpoint accuracy like you sometimes see on TV.
The use of sights needs to be quickly and immediately obvious. People don't shoot at targets greater than 3-7 yards with any regularity when using handgun. I used to shoot coyotes and bobcats that were attacking my parent's sheep when I was a kid at 20-50 yards with a colt 1911.
I feel bad about that now because I could have done a much more humane job with a rifle and a scope. Yes, I hit the predators and saved our sheep. But probably not in the most humane way.
I've changed that now. When I go home to my family farm and I shoot predators, I use the most sophisticated technology I can to make sure that the kills are as quick and painless as possible for the animals that I'm killing.
- rdancer 11y ago> The FBI reportedly ordered up a 12-shot clip board that undercover cops could use to take out hostage takers. The only mention of a "clip" in the fine article as of now is: "The FBI reportedly ordered up a 12-shot clip board that undercover cops could use to take out hostage takers." I imagine Trevithick id not talking about a board of magazines, but an weapon in the guise of an old-fashioned clipboard (not the computer kind).
- ianamartin 11y agoThe original version used the word clip instead of magazine in several cases. It has clearly been changed.
- madengr 11y agoWell there are clips for loading fixed magazines, but I agree with your peeve; drives me nuts too. Of course there are magclips too: https://www.cryeprecision.com/ProductDetail/accmc100000_magclip-set-of-3 https://www.cryeprecision.com/ProductDetail/accmc100000_magc...