Clips

[PANZER22]

I keep reading about rifles and pistols that have "clips".......Please correct me if I am wrong, but the M1 Garand Rifle was the only rifle that I ever used or owned that had a "clip"...It held exactly 8 30 06 rounds only..........

Dan

 

[biganimal]

To many folks they are the same and this is a contriversial issue. While the Garand uses an 8rd enbloc clip many other military rifles used "clips" as well. A few use enbloc clips such as the french rifle of 1890 caliber 8mm lebel and several mausers from 1871-1893.
Also clips can mean "strippers" which are speed loaders for many bolt action war rifles.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a clip as "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".

So a clip can be a magazine
Hope this helps

 

[PCShogun]

I have always considered a "Clip" as being inserted into a "Magazine". Strippers are essentially clips in that sense.

Like your Garand, my Austrian M95 uses an enbloc clip that holds 5 rounds. When you load the last round it falls out of the bottom of the magazine.

 

[thebrasilian]

They also have clips for the Mosan Nagants.