Never read the threads OP should own a Ag42 lungman Swedish finger trap LOL
huh, the ones i've used where all quicker and easier then changing a mag....Sounds like your clips are well used, bent or improperly filled... When they're new they work slick as snot.
never had a problem with sks or mosin strippers, easy and fast.
If you cant operate a stripper clip in a few seconds or less you are A) doing it wrong or B) not suited to use stripper clips. There are a ton of videos on youtube of guys shooting the full 10 rounds in a US sks magazine and reloading in just a few seconds. Id practice a bit more before declaring that "they suck". I love pressing rounds into a mag.. just has a cool feel and sound lol.
I too have no issues loading my No1. Mk3, mosins, svt's or sks's with strippers. Practice practice practice, it should smooth itself out.
Practice, and re-using(thus loosening) will make for slicker reloading than a swapping of magazines.. Depending on what you shoot, a stripper is a very quick reload for rifles designed around them. I love the SKS for the quick zip of 5 vs. the clunkiness of those that chose a mag-swapping gem, but any example of a stripper feed is a snappy means of recharging!
I have no issues with stripper clips either. But they sometimes eat fingernails.
I would suggest more practice mate, even if it's just with dummy rounds or lining it up right. I have a old surplus Russian SKS and it functions beautifully with strip clips.
Breaks down to: some people can do stuff, some can't.
For those who have difficulty, its simply practice, practice, practice.
My personal experience with stripper slips is, invariably, slicker than deer guts on a doorknob (that is why they were invented in the first place).
I wish I was in Canada. I would challenge you to a friendly race. And as the visiting team I would respect the host country and use C1A1's. Rules: to start with rifles loaded with five rounds. Fire the five rounds, reload twenty rounds. The person who fires first after reloading all twenty rounds wins. You use 4 - 5 round "stripper clips; I will use a fully loaded magazine. Any bets on who wins? By the way all clips used are either in excellence condition or new. Not that easy to "improperly load" most clips. Now the .303 clips are different matter but we insure that the rounds are properly positioned. I agree that with practice things will improve but how much practice did soldiers (1898 to 1950) really get before having to do it "for real"?
Can't help but giggle at all this "advice" coming from north of the border where we rarely if ever charge more than 5 rounds into a magazine and get to experience full spring pressure. "Man up, OP! Practice makes perfect don't you know! If the first 5 go in easy for me, then surely 10, 15, or 20 will go in just as easily for you down south, no?" ;-P
I wish I was in Canada. I would challenge you to a friendly race. And as the visiting team I would respect the host country and use C1A1's. Rules: to start with rifles loaded with five rounds. Fire the five rounds, reload twenty rounds. The person who fires first after reloading all twenty rounds wins. You use 4 - 5 round "stripper clips; I will use a fully loaded magazine. Any bets on who wins? By the way all clips used are either in excellence condition or new. Not that easy to "improperly load" most clips. Now the .303 clips are different matter but we insure that the rounds are properly positioned. I agree that with practice things will improve but how much practice did soldiers (1898 to 1950) really get before having to do it "for real"?
Stripper clips/chargers can be very fast to use. Some are better designs than others, and some repros are absolute crap. Personally I have always been partial to the Mannlicher/Enbloc clip system.
From a realistic standpoint, for 5 or 10rds, it can be faster to load with chargers than it can be to load a magazine into the gun. If I had a 6rd charger, and a 6rd magazine, I could load from the charger quicker. Chargers are also lighter, don't have to be preloaded (originally when they were issued), and are expendable (again originally, not so much anymore). Obviously as the capacity increases so does the time it takes to load from the charger, and that is when magazines really shine.
One other aspect which hasn't been mentioned as a advantage of the charger over the magazine, is that when using chargers you can have a perfect magazine.
A 10 round enbloc would be great but from a military standpoint enbloc could don't allow too ups between actions while mags do. Interesting German veterans carried two Mausers when they had chance to pick a second one up.