Term "shell casings" bugs me

[spandexlurch]

Clips hold ammo. Magazines are what you read at the barber shop. Perhaps it's because I trained with both the M1 and M14, but clip/magazine are interchangeable as far as I'm concerned. Pistachio shells are just shells, but brass that once held powder and a projectile is a shell casing.
Class dismissed.

I was always taught that a magazine is what you use in an M-16, and a clip is something you can use to load that magazine or an enbloc clip for an M-1. I trained with the M-16A2 with an underslung M203. So class sent to detention?

Unfortunately I have to agree with the socialists. This is actually in their "Rifles for Rookies" manual.

Concerning colloquialisms, ammunition, and gun terminology is this important point: In
movies, TV shows, music, and daytime news broadcasts you will hear the words “clip” and
“magazine” used interchangeably. This is incorrect. A magazine is not a clip. A clip is not a
magazine.
The magazine functions by moving the cartridges stored in the magazine into a
position where they may be loaded into the chamber by the action of the firearm. A
firearm loads rounds into the chamber from a magazine.

A clip is a device that is used to store multiple rounds of ammunition together as a
unit, ready for insertion into a magazine. The purpose of a clip is to load a magazine.

[Bang]

Still waiting for the photo of a shell and casing, whatever that is...

[Walleye Hunter]

Still waiting for the photo of a shell and casing, whatever that is...

Shell:

https://cdn1.bigcommerce.com/server3...0.1280.JPG?c=2

Shell casing:

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/9mm-...g-17013788.jpg

[Noah_Zark]

It's gonna rain tomorrow so I'm gonna load some bullet tips and powder in some empty shell casings.

Noah

[Gunsnwater]

I see a photo of a spent shell. Where's the casing?

I know what a shell looks like (many variations of them, BTW). But have never seen a casing. Is it the box they come in?

Root : shell case. Conjugate : case casing cased. The shell is casing the powder primer and bullet in one envelope. The shell case is the casing of the round of ammunition. Brass cartridge case is a brass casing. The box is a type of casing aka box of bullets, cartridge box

All that is easy on the ears compared to tips and heads. Tips and heads usually hit your ears at the same time the beer breath reaches your nose.

Boondox look up notalk for all the beestinger references you’ll ever see. He was craptastic post creator supreme.

[Gunsnwater]

It's gonna rain tomorrow so I'm gonna load some bullet tips and powder in some empty shell casings.

Noah

Don’t forget the caps.

[Gunsnwater]

I was always taught that a magazine is what you use in an M-16, and a clip is something you can use to load that magazine or an enbloc clip for an M-1. I trained with the M-16A2 with an underslung M203. So class sent to detention?

Unfortunately I have to agree with the socialists. This is actually in their "Rifles for Rookies" manual.

Concerning colloquialisms, ammunition, and gun terminology is this important point: In
movies, TV shows, music, and daytime news broadcasts you will hear the words “clip” and
“magazine” used interchangeably. This is incorrect. A magazine is not a clip. A clip is not a
magazine.
The magazine functions by moving the cartridges stored in the magazine into a
position where they may be loaded into the chamber by the action of the firearm. A
firearm loads rounds into the chamber from a magazine.

A clip is a device that is used to store multiple rounds of ammunition together as a
unit, ready for insertion into a magazine. The purpose of a clip is to load a magazine.

Ahh but a detachable magazine clips into the gun. Heck it even goes "clip" if you listen to it.

[Manxdriver]

Gat, heater, rod, shootin iron, roscoe, packing heat, strapped, lead, iron, equalizer, bang stick, boom stick, Saturday night special and let’s not forget the worst most grinding trash from Pafoa past, the infamous BEE STINGER.

Feeling better now?

I HATE you for reminding me of those! Now, I will be repeating that shit to myself for the next two weeks.

[Pilot321]

The Flash Hider should be outliawed it stops people from seeing the flash so that the police can't tell where the shots are coming from. Right?

[Bang]

The Flash Hider should be outliawed it stops people from seeing the flash so that the police can't tell where the shots are coming from. Right?

YES! It's as evil and bad as a silencer!