Romanian 7.62x39 surplus

[Woody-to]

Yea mine is steel case with the red neck and primer. Has anyone tried cutting stripper clips so they are 5 shots instead of 10?

I cut mine with bolt cutters. It gives a clean cut and crimps the ends for you all at once.
Put them in the jaws of the bolt cutter, line everything up. Before cutting put something like a rag or towel over it, they go flying.

If the ends are crimped too tight and the 5th round wont fit just open it up a bit with a small screw driver.
You can also touch up the ends on a grinder or afew passes of a file if you wnt them all nice looking.

What ever you do, do not use tin snips. Well, not yours anyhow. I tried cutting one after reading on here to do it that way, I ruined a brand new pair of yellow Wiss snips.

 

[TheWhole9Yards]

I cut mine with bolt cutters. It gives a clean cut and crimps the ends for you all at once.
Put them in the jaws of the bolt cutter, line everything up. Before cutting put something like a rag or towel over it, they go flying.

If the ends are crimped too tight and the 5th round wont fit just open it up a bit with a small screw driver.
You can also touch up the ends on a grinder or afew passes of a file if you wnt them all nice looking.

What ever you do, do not use tin snips. Well, not yours anyhow. I tried cutting one after reading on here to do it that way, I ruined a brand new pair of yellow Wiss snips.

That's some solid advise!

 

[Sly Old Fox]

Cutting stripper clips...

Shortly after I started shooting a SKS at the EOSC milsurp, for a mad minute, as many rounds as possible on a target to be scored, I cut some strips us
bending the spring on the top end into a curl.

This was no easy matter as I had to heat the spring to take the temper out. I must have made about 15.

But in use, while I could hold 4 or 5 from the fingers of my left hand, other problems for me physically, took over.

I will make no more.

As for wooden crates, all that I have bought have been in the soldered top boxes

 

[Hitzy]

Case I just got from tradex is virgin....locked/sealed box, with 2 sealed spam cans. $199 shipped is hard to beat.

 

[shredder]

Yup. Cut it with a Dremel tool. Pinch the ends with pliers and you're good to go. I never got around to it, but some have painted the pinched end so they know which end is up.

Exactly what I did with mine, except I did spray paint one end with red (appropriate, no? ) paint so I knew which end was up...

Works just fine.