šLoading Mosins from Stripper Clips - Proper Setup
- Thread starter Josh Smith
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- WMU248 near Edmonton
nagants don't care what order the cases are in, the interrupter takes care of rim lock
now enfields they need to be staggered properly.
now enfields they need to be staggered properly.
Eaglelord17
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- Sault Ste. Marie
The interrupter I find works about 80% of the time (tested with a variety of Mosins). Lee Enfields generally work fairly well due to the magazine shape but will still occasionally have a rimlock. P14s I have never had a issue with.
The best design for rimmed ammo is mannlicher clip variations. No rimlock then.
The best design for rimmed ammo is mannlicher clip variations. No rimlock then.
I am sorry, how do I put it in a PC manner... It's a complete, utmost pseudo-scientific, illogical, ignorant, historically incorrect BS.
You can load the stripper clip without paying attention to this nonsense and it will feed into magazine. Rounds can be positioned in any manner in the magazine, yet with properly functioning interrupter they all will feed.
Josh, when you do something like this - what is the basis of your conclusions? Why are you inventing something that never existed? Have you checked original manuals? What do they say? I suppose you haven't. Why are you doing this?
You can load the stripper clip without paying attention to this nonsense and it will feed into magazine. Rounds can be positioned in any manner in the magazine, yet with properly functioning interrupter they all will feed.
Josh, when you do something like this - what is the basis of your conclusions? Why are you inventing something that never existed? Have you checked original manuals? What do they say? I suppose you haven't. Why are you doing this?
I think you misunderstood what I wrote.
It comes from observation. I've examined a large number of Finnish methods, and their finished and fitted parts.
I've never seen a Finnish ejector not as I've outlined, and I've never seen loaded clips pulled fresh from spam cans with the rims not arranged approximately thus.
Now, that said, the rounds shouldn't need staggered in any particular manner. From what I can tell, the reason they are like that is solely for handling outside the gun: the bullets point inward and the rims of 2 and 4 help keep rounds 1 and 5 from flopping all over the place.
Now, does it make sense that the Russians would field a rifle that had problems charging from its clips? Or one that stuck closed after shooting? No, sir, that's what is illogical.
In an age where firearms had to be hand-fitted, surely there are instructions. Maybe you can provide those original instructions for fitting the various Mosin parts.
Wonderful. From 1938 and 1944. How about before that? The design was already 50 years old when these were written.
But you are correct in that I've not read those two.
Can you link to the text outlining the fitting of the ejectors?
Ok, I mean, I've provided pictures of observed fitting methods from years before I was born. If you're not going to provide evidence that this was not standard practice, then I'll go with what I've directly observed.
Thank you.
Correct. They just seem to push into the magazine more easily when staggered, and the ones I've seen pre-loaded on clips come three down, two up like that.
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- WMU248 near Edmonton
I've had preloaded clips that were all over each other in succession. Was out of a crate with the standard 2 spam cans.
Interesting. Do you recall the country of origin and the date? I wonder if they didn't take the time to "two up, three down" during wartime, for example.
