Stripper clips

Sunray, stripper clips had everything to do with the US replacing their military forces with a Mauser clone, the U.S. Springfield rifle, including the first time use of stripper clips for the US military.

The Danes and Norwegian knew soon enough that they had a real military lemon in the Krag-Joergensen design, because they could not practical use the stripper clips on the Krag-Joergensen, but both the danes and norwegians could not, due to money and national pride, afford to exchange the Krag-Joergensen rifle designs.

The danes did design a thin metal container for five 8X58R cartridges, in which they could reload the the danish krag little bit faster, but it does not appears to have been used in th field, where the soldiers always had to reload, on cartidge at a time.
 
LeeEnfieldNo.4_mk1 said:
Man you ever had a stripper clip thrown at you? I be it would hurt, especially an Enfield one. It would also confuse and disorient the enemy for a second. Here is ol joe bad guy enemy soldier thinking your gonna shoot him and he gets a handful of stripper clips thrown at him. He would sit their and stare for a second, allowing you do move in for the kill.
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Ha! I like the thought of this :)
 
While hunting, I like to keep my "30-06 head diameter family" cartridges in stripper clips, which prevents the catridges from ratling.

While roadhunting with open sigthed Mausers with the build in rails for stripper clips, I find it very handy to use chargers and loading up the gun in a hurry.
 
My Deer rifle this year is a full wood Swedish Mauser, I'm using my reloads with Stripper clips, very handy. :)

Shhh Don't tell the purists but I carry them in a Mosin Ammo pouch. :D
 
green said:
"...the Lee-Enfield..." The Lee-Enfield wasn't used during the Boer War, always used chargers. Never had more than one magazine per rifle. Originally each rifle had a wee chain between the rifle and the mag so the mag couldn't be inadertently lost.

The Magazine Lee Enfield MkI was placed in production in 1896 and some of the early production was sent to Canada. This arm was the standard rifle of the Cdn Army in the Boer War and was extensively used by British and Imperial units. The MLE did not use chargers.
The MkI Lee Metford was issued with two mags for a brief period.
No military organisation ever used the term stripper clips. In Empire service they were called chargers. A clip referred to the Mannlicher style clip.
As far as I can tell stripper clip was a term invented by US surplus dealers in the 1950s.
Stripper clip joint is totally different. Exotic entertainment and even more exotic prices.
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IIRC, the Mannlicher's pre-dated the Mauser's , at least in design. :yingyang:

green said:
The US experimented with a clip loading Krag c1900. It was called the Parkhurst conversion.
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There's a great .gif I've seen as an avatar, of that adapter-device in action.....:)
 
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cyclone said:
IIRC, the Mannlicher's pre-dated the Mauser's , at least in design. :yingyang:



There's a great .gif I've seen as an avatar, of that adapter-device in action.....:)
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Hmmmm......;)...:

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A really old back issue of the American Rifleman had an article showing pictures of a large number of clips and chargers. The Dutch and Romanian clips are different, but interchangeable.
 
I actually prefer the Mannlicher clip system. It's faster, and I've found that ammo is less likely to fall out of them. This crap about being unable to top up the mag is silly. The charger loaded rifle has its ammo issued in chargers. Try topping up your mag with a charger. It's very easy to fumble the ammo, unless you remove the rounds from the charger first. It takes much less time to eject a partially full Mannlicher clip and insert a full one. The "experts" often point to the clip ejection hole in the Mannlicher mag, and say that dirt can enter it. Maybe so, but most dirt enters while loading through the top. The clip ejection hole makes it easier for the dirt to fall out.
 
BUSHMAN79 said:
I actually prefer the Mannlicher clip system. It's faster, and I've found that ammo is less likely to fall out of them. This crap about being unable to top up the mag is silly. The charger loaded rifle has its ammo issued in chargers. Try topping up your mag with a charger. It's very easy to fumble the ammo, unless you remove the rounds from the charger first. It takes much less time to eject a partially full Mannlicher clip and insert a full one. The "experts" often point to the clip ejection hole in the Mannlicher mag, and say that dirt can enter it. Maybe so, but most dirt enters while loading through the top. The clip ejection hole makes it easier for the dirt to fall out.
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Ever notice that the rifles that use the Manlicher action always have the least-common milsurp rounds....;)
 
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