Full Metal Jacket

A scene from full metal jacket

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[edwads74]

The soldiers tap their clips on their helmet or elsewhere to help orient the bullets. The bullets are under spring pressure, which is what helps feed them into the gun. So they do it just to be sure everything is in order,and avoid jams.

[DiscoGabe]

You've been playing way too much COD.

[Davesax1965]

@edwads74 Exactly, Edwads. No time to check. Therefore you tap the mag - not clip - against your helmet to see if it's full. Cartridges don't tend to move around in a magazine and tapping them doesn't orient them. Looking at your magazine would give you no indication if all the rounds were aligned, either.

Actually, never done in the UK miltary: it's probably just a "US war fim" thing.

[edwads74]

@Davesax1965 2nd Point. You said "you ensure a magazine is correctly loaded by ensuring the rounds are pushed to the..." . Yes , I KNOW THAT, when you're casually target shooting in a friendly environment, You can totally look at your magazine in a calm manner. But In war, a soldier,under fire, does not have time to be looking at the magazine , because his field of view has to be focused on the battlefield, hence why they do a quick 'adjustment' on their helmet, as evident in this video.

[edwads74]

@Davesax1965 No, I've never been in the military. Nor do I care if people say clip or magazine. But I do know my guns. And I know how to load them, discharge them, clean them and handle them and all the gun safety rules. As for the original statement,I said it 'helps' , 'feed' the bullets into the gun, meaning, if the bullets jam in the magazine itself, the bolt is never going to 'feed' anything.So yes, the spring pressure is part of the feeding process.

[Davesax1965]

@edwads74 Evidently you've never been in the military, a clip is completely different, yes, the rounds are under spring pressure - tapping them doesn't orient the bullets at all. You ensure a magazine is correctly loaded by ensuring the rounds are pushed to the back of the magazine. And spring pressure doe not feed "bullets" - which you also said, as well as me - into the "gun" The bolt does.

[edwads74]

@Davesax1965 No one but military/law enforcement and gun freaks cares if people call it a clip. I know it's a magazine , big deal. I own several weapons that require a magazine, and I know for a fact the rounds are under spring pressure from the bottom. So a half empty mag would make the same sound as a full mag, sorry. Now, A completely empty mag, then yes, you are correct.. BTW it's not ''bullet'' , it's "round/ammo/ammunition" but people say both and it does not bother me at all.

[Davesax1965]

@edwads74 Sorry, Edwads, wrong. You tap the magazine - not a clip - to see if it's still full. If you can hear bullets rattling, you haven't picked a half empty mag up.

[supernovalogic]

@GamingsecretsTV I heard it was something like 200-250 thousand.

[GamingsecretsTV]

@supernovalogic How much is that? lol

[supernovalogic]

@GamingsecretsTV I am not surprised about the staggering number of rounds per enemy kill in Vietnam after watching this.

[GamingsecretsTV]

@supernovalogic Bigger belt and a water cooling tank like on the old Machine Guns, And Hell Yeah.