Some photos of some magazine pouches - note the WW2 drawing number on the pouch for the M3.
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Some photos of some magazine pouches - note the WW2 drawing number on the pouch for the M3.
Strange that the military called it a "clip" rather than a magazine.
That's VERY strange. No where in any publication does it refer to them as anything but magazine.
The pouch with the word "clip" is very old - but it stll could be a repro from the 60's or 70's. Never saw this before either that why I took the photos
Looks to be '43 production and Korean / early Vietnam production. I have some I've had from the late '70s. No repros back then , real surplus NIB for far less than you could make it everywhere.
Chris
There were a few magazines in these pouches, some had a double seam on the back. Markings on the magazines S GL C153427 KL GL C153427 SPW GL C-153427 mags were like new
Chris, you have seen these pouches marked "clip" too ?
Yes , IIRC. The two tone bag / tape material dates it to '43 or so when the switch in color took place. My bags are in storage as I now use German and Israel MG 42 cans to haul 10 pacs of greasegun mags to the range , but the OP pics are how I remember them. I always supposed they did not have enough room to stamp magazine in the font they were using and just used clip rather than mag.
Chris
I've seen fellas all but eviscerated on forums for using the word 'clip' for a magazine. Seems like some gun guys think that sarcastic remarks will help the less knowledgeable, I dunno. I'm not referring to anyone on this forum, but from other forums I've been on.
But, when I saw this thread, I got curious to see if it could be just possible to use the two interchangeably. Oddly enough, Webster's seems to corroborate that:
"a device to hold cartridges for charging the magazines of some rifles; also : a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of a firearm"
You see where it says 'Also: a magazine from which ammunition is fed....'?
That tells me that 'clip' is also a 'magazine' and probably vice versa. Prior to this when I saw someone, a newbie, refer to his Luger's 'clip' or his 1911's 'clip', in my mind I always said 'It's actually a magazine dude, a clip is for feeding fixed magazines, they're called 'stripper clips', yada yada. Now I'm not so sure. If, according to Webster, a clip is 'a magazine from which ammunition is fed', then there are lots of guys out there that need to tone it down a bit when a newbie calls it a clip rather than a magazine.
But for me, I'll still think of clips as strippers and Enblocs, and magazines as an assembly with at least the four parts: a box, a spring, a follower and a floor plate.