The stripper clips that come on bulk ammo

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I'm looking at buying bulk Chinese ammo, 7.62x39 on stripper clips in the spam cans. Are these stripper clips the good ones that I can reuse or are they junk.
I have read that the BXN clips are the best to buy. Are they the same or comparable?
Thinking of getting the ammo on stripper clips so I don't have to buy the clips separately for now.
This is my first time buying the 7.62x39 ammo for my SKS french tickler.

Thanks
Onig
 
Is there chinese stuff on stripper clips? The chinese spam can I bought years ago didn't come with 'em.

Edit - looks like the packs of 550/1100 come on clips, but the 720/1440 (which is what I bought) doesn't.
 
BXN ammo on clips are the best to buy. They are better because they have some kind of teflon or wax coating on them that makes the ammo slide off easier slicker. All other clips are just bare steel some have stamping burrs that catch on rims of cartridges, making loading difficult.

one can make them work by polishing the ends of lips so rounds glide without obstruction, but this however takes too much attention to details on each clip, which is throw away item as it is
 
What would you have a use for 55 or 110 stripper clips? I doubt you will need that many unless we get invaded. You can buy a bunch of the BXNs for $1-2 each and get 150-300 extra rounds in the spam cans, depending on whether you buy 1-can or a case. I've 'collected' about 20 over the years, and sold off a bunch with earlier Tulas I've had. I generally just load individually by hand into the mag - it's only 5 rounds. Alternatively the 'duckbill' mags will run in the Chinese rifles, tho may need a tiny bit of filing on the stock . You have to drop out the OEM mag and leave it out when reassembling to use the ducks. JMO , I prefer rounds to clips.
 
Buck1950 said:
What would you have a use for 55 or 110 stripper clips? I doubt you will need that many unless we get invaded. You can buy a bunch of the BXNs for $1-2 each and get 150-300 extra rounds in the spam cans, depending on whether you buy 1-can or a case.
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I was planning on buying a 550 round can on clips. If I did my math correctly the extra cost of the can on clips works out to .80 cents per clip, which is cheaper than what I have seen to buy the stripper clips seperately.
 
If you feel you need 55 strippers, who am I to disagree ? Your ammo costs 0.38 + tax in the 550s, and 0.29 + tax in the 720s. 'No-name' clips go for about $1 if you buy 20 or so, prob less to buy 55. BXNs - which are not in the Chinese cans - may cost $2.
 
If they work good, why not have 55 clips?

We probably won't be able to buy decent ones at decent or even so-so prices forever. At least you're set for life with one buy.
 
It used to piss me off to hear of guys throwing out the stripper clips that came with their Czech surplus M43.

They are the best type to use (I think that they're the BXN ones.)

But any ComBloc stripper clips are fine. I have East German, Czech, and Russian. They are all virtually the same.

It's only been the cheap Chinese ones that I bought decades ago that are flimsy and sticky in comparison. I think that they were commercial production.

I don't know what the ones are like that are coming with loaded ChiCom surplus, but if they are like the ComBloc ones, they are probably good to go.
 
MapleSugar said:
It used to piss me off to hear of guys throwing out the stripper clips that came with their Czech surplus M43.

They are the best type to use (I think that they're the BXN ones.)

But any ComBloc stripper clips are fine. I have East German, Czech, and Russian. They are all virtually the same.

It's only been the cheap Chinese ones that I bought decades ago that are flimsy and sticky in comparison. I think that they were commercial production.

I don't know what the ones are like that are coming with loaded ChiCom surplus, but if they are like the ComBloc ones, they are probably good to go.
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My first couple hundred strippers clips were picked up off the ground at my local range back when everyone was just tossing them! Cleaned them up and they worked great.
 
KDW__ said:
My first couple hundred strippers clips were picked up off the ground at my local range back when everyone was just tossing them! Cleaned them up and they worked great.
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You're a smart man!

Waste not, want not. I hate it when people throw useful things out.

The least that they could do is leave them someplace for others that may want them.

Earlier this year, I was at a range in the States and I helped my friend pick up all the .556 NATO brass that some law enforcement agency had left behind.

The range was littered with .556 NATO and 9x19mm brass, and 10 round stripper clips for the .556 NATO.

My friend only wanted the .556 brass, so we left the 9mm for somebody else to pick up.

On a whim, I also grabbed all the AR-15 stripper clips that I could see and put them in a small box. I left them at my friend's house in case his son or grandson wanted them since I don't have an AR.
 
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scianna54 said:
15 years ago all the surplus ammo had stripper clips, so nobody really cared. I am guilty myself.
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No it didn't.

You obviously never opened up a crate of ChiCom surplus and had to load it onto those flimsy, Chinese stripper clips......and then marveled at how nice it is that the East German and Czech ammo not only comes on stripper clips, they are very robust stripper clips that feed smoothly.

As a matter of fact, I can vividly recall telling people NOT to throw out their Czech stripper clips on this forum. "Save them!" I said, "You'll be sorry someday if you ever throw them out!" I said.

Did no one heed my warning?

Hang your head in shame if you ever threw any of them away.

I for one will NEVER view you in the same light as I did before.
 
Onig said:
I'm looking at buying bulk Chinese ammo, 7.62x39 on stripper clips in the spam cans. Are these stripper clips the good ones that I can reuse or are they junk.
I have read that the BXN clips are the best to buy. Are they the same or comparable?
Thinking of getting the ammo on stripper clips so I don't have to buy the clips separately for now.
This is my first time buying the 7.62x39 ammo for my SKS french tickler.

Thanks
Onig
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Suther said:
Is there chinese stuff on stripper clips? The chinese spam can I bought years ago didn't come with 'em.

Edit - looks like the packs of 550/1100 come on clips, but the 720/1440 (which is what I bought) doesn't.
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Onig, if this is what the stripper clips look like on the Chinese surplus that you're interested in, then they should be fine.

They should be good to reuse and are definitely worth keeping. If properly cared for they're unlikely to ever wear out.

That clip looks the same as the ComBloc ones that I have. I think they're parkerized.

The cheap Chinese ones were blued and are very flimsy in comparison. Even they are worth keeping, they just aren't the best to use.

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MapleSugar said:
No it didn't.

You obviously never opened up a crate of ChiCom surplus and had to load it onto those flimsy, Chinese stripper clips......and then marveled at how nice it is that the East German and Czech ammo not only comes on stripper clips, they are very robust stripper clips that feed smoothly.

As a matter of fact, I can vividly recall telling people NOT to throw out their Czech stripper clips on this forum. "Save them!" I said, "You'll be sorry someday if you ever throw them out!" I said.

Did no one heed my warning?

Hang your head in shame if you ever threw any of them away.

I for one will NEVER view you in the same light as I did before.
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You can buy stripper loaders, easy to load ammo onto the clips.

I have lots of stripper clips, got many for free.

Your posts are very annoying.
 
scianna54 said:
You can buy stripper loaders, easy to load ammo onto the clips.

I have lots of stripper clips, got many for free.

Your posts are very annoying.
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Don't take it so hard, I was being facetious.

Like I already said, it's easy to load and feed the ComBloc Stripper clips. It's the commercial Chinese ones that are a PITA.

 
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