So, it’s worth taking a minute to fully sort out the clip vs magazine issue if only to help you communicate with your fellow shooter more effectively. Here's the full breakdown.

Here’s what you need to know: A magazine is a full publication. It is the whole that your clippings fill in order to create full pages. Picturing your clip and magazine in this way should help ...

When using a stripper clip, position it on top of the magazine, whether it is a bolt-action rifle or semi-automatic, and push all of the rounds down into the magazine with one motion.

Simply put, a magazine holds the ammunition of a loaded repeating rifle and helps feed it into the chamber as the rifle’s action is worked. A clip, on the other hand, is a device used to help ...