Lee-Enfield .303 British chargers

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albertacowboy

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Just for fun, I've been loading chargers with both commercial and PMP surplus .303 and using them in my Lee-Enfields at the range. Some chargers are blued, and are smoother than the parkerized ones. My experience is that, with all the chargers, one has to use a lot of thumb pressure, close to the base of the round, to move the rounds down the charger and into the magazine. This must have been a royal pain in action. Has anyone any thoughts or experience to offer on this point?
 
I've found a wide range of pressure required to strip the cartridges from LE chargers. Some are just tighter than others.

I've gone through the many I have and polished and cleaned some up for using in milsurp shoots.
 
I know that if you load your ten rounds in with each rim behind the one below it on the stripper clip, they ain't gonna feed worth beans:redface: I shot my #5 for the carbine at a three gun match to be different (and it's fun!) and i spent the night before carefully filling my strippers. At the first stage I stuck the !@#$ thing in upside down, effectively tying every round to the one under it. Got to dump the clip, unload, reload and then try to shoot the course of fire (while being severely heckled by the peanut gallery, WITH the @#$@# clock running). Still, I didn't do that again and actually scored well with it (once the dumba@# behind the butt learned how to load it:redface:

gotta love those little moments
 
... It's possible to "bend" the small lips that hold the rounds in place to "ease" the pressure when loading. Obviously, too loose, and the whole lot falls out , usually at the most inopportune moment ! Running the chargers through the tumbler when cleaning the brass also helps, any lubricant attracts dust/lint and God knows whatever else ! ..... Maybe a bit of a polish on the tiny dimple on the lip could ease things as well ? .... David K.
 
.... Fear is great multiplier of strength ! The "chargers" were 60 years younger then, and less rust pitting etc.etc. I do know, that time permitting the prudent WW2 soldier, checked the individual loading of the chargers, and presumably that carried on into the Korean "Police Action" and other little Wars that the Lee Enfield showed up in. .... David K.
 
Cocked&Locked said:
I know that if you load your ten rounds in with each rim behind the one below it on the stripper clip, they ain't gonna feed worth beans:redface: I shot my #5 for the carbine at a three gun match to be different (and it's fun!) and i spent the night before carefully filling my strippers. At the first stage I stuck the !@#$ thing in upside down, effectively tying every round to the one under it. Got to dump the clip, unload, reload and then try to shoot the course of fire (while being severely heckled by the peanut gallery, WITH the @#$@# clock running). Still, I didn't do that again and actually scored well with it (once the dumba@# behind the butt learned how to load it:redface:

gotta love those little moments
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The cartridges are supposed to be loaded in the charger like this:

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Get it?
 
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