magazine pouches US sun-machine guns

[RCS]

Some photos of some magazine pouches - note the WW2 drawing number on the pouch for the M3.

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[Johnny Peppers]

Strange that the military called it a "clip" rather than a magazine.

[browningautorifle]

That's VERY strange. No where in any publication does it refer to them as anything but magazine.

[RCS]

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

[emmagee1917]

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

[RCS]

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

[RCS]

Chris, you have seen these pouches marked "clip" too ?

[emmagee1917]

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

[Malygris]

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.