HOW TO TELL A NEWB IN FIRE ARMS

delija · Post by **delija** » February 12th, 2007, 8:39 am

Uses main springs for recoil spring or hammer spring
clocks and watches have main springs in them , fire arms don't

So the MSH (main spring housing) in my 1911 houses what?

LOL

Peace,
D.

8080 · Post by **8080** » February 12th, 2007, 11:11 pm

Thank's for stating the diffrence between a "magazine" & "clip" I hear inexperienced people call a magazine a clip. I don't say anything but it's not riight......Thank's 80-80 also what does LOL stand for I can't figure it out!!! LOL ????

barnett3006 · Post by **barnett3006** » February 12th, 2007, 11:37 pm

LOL = Laugh Out Loud

barnett3006 · Post by **barnett3006** » February 12th, 2007, 11:50 pm

The reason its called a MAIN spring housing is because it is the MAIN housing that contains a spring...secondary and tertiary spring housings have yet to be located...

;D

himmel · Post by **himmel** » February 13th, 2007, 1:10 pm

Looks like I'll ALWAYS be a firearms newb... ???

anjdrifter · Post by **anjdrifter** » February 13th, 2007, 1:33 pm

Just remember " A rose by any other name is still a rose."

himmel · Post by **himmel** » February 13th, 2007, 2:42 pm

yeah, but "tuna" by another name was "horse mackerel", and no one would buy it! LOL!

anjdrifter · Post by **anjdrifter** » February 13th, 2007, 3:04 pm

tuna or Bill Parcells of dallas

Post by **papabear** » February 13th, 2007, 4:03 pm

himmel,

Tuna was once called "horse mackerel", guess I don't know much about tuna or horses. ??? I wouldn't have bought it either....LOL ;D You know what they say, "you can't fool the flies"!!! ::)

Papabear

himmel · Post by **himmel** » February 13th, 2007, 6:48 pm

Yep, learned that in English in high school--we were discussing whether a rose by any other name really would smell as sweet! LOL! but as long as my clip doesn't interfere with my main spring, I won't worry about it...

p64 · Post by **p64** » February 14th, 2007, 7:56 am

Actually the 1911 does have a main spring in the main spring housing.

It might also be known as the hammer spring but the correct terminology in 1911 nomeclature is mainspring.

Both Ed Brown and Wilson Combat sell mainsprings and personally I won't argue with either of these two high quality 1911 makers.

Just an FYI

anjdrifter · Post by **anjdrifter** » February 14th, 2007, 8:33 am

I must be a newbie also

a clip holds the ammo that feeds my weapon
a magazine is something I bought when I was kid(long long long time ago) to look at the pictures not read the articles..

Post by **papabear** » February 14th, 2007, 10:29 am

I must be a newbie also

a clip holds the ammo that feeds my weapon
a magazine is something I bought when I was kid(long long long time ago) to look at the pictures not read the articles..

Yes, for sure you are a child of the 50's and 60's ;D but now we can have fun now that the kids are grown and gone.

Papabear

grayfox · Post by **grayfox** » February 14th, 2007, 2:36 pm

I still can't get bullets in my Playboy magazine.

beasleydano · Post by **beasleydano** » February 14th, 2007, 3:08 pm

Thanks, NORM SUTTON
I am almost 58 years old and have been around firearms most of my life. I learned at an early age the correct terminology associated with firearms by example from experienced men that I knew and by others that I knew only from reading books and periodicals (note that I did not say magazine), such as Rex Applegate, Bill Jordan, Pete Dickey, Col. Jeff Cooper, Skeeter Skelton, Massad Ayoob, etc. I also learned correct English in school. It should not be surprising, however, that because incorrect terminology and slang has become common useage, that the older I become the more I use terms such as grips instead of stocks, clip instead of magazine, pistol instead of revolver, automatic instead of semi-automatic, gun instead of rifle, etc. BUT IT STILL DOES NOT MAKE IT CORRECT!

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