Where could I get Lee Enfield clips?
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Chargers
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The proper name is CHARGERS. One of the best places to pick some up are Gun Shows. Get the Blued ones, not the Phospated ones if you can, as they will load smoother.
Also, when you get them, there is a proper sequence to load them. You load the first round flat against the inside back, the second round is loaded with the rim OVER the first one, the third one with the rim UNDER the second and flat against the back, the fourth one with the rim OVER the third one, and the fifth one flat against the back and rim UNDER the fourth.
If you are referring to the steel box that hangs under the rifle, that is a MAGAZINE. They can also be bought at Gun Shows or the EE, but you have to get the proper one for a Number 1 or Number 4 rifle. They are different.
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The proper name is CHARGERS. One of the best places to pick some up are Gun Shows. Get the Blued ones, not the Phospated ones if you can, as they will load smoother.
Also, when you get them, there is a proper sequence to load them. You load the first round flat against the inside back, the second round is loaded with the rim OVER the first one, the third one with the rim UNDER the second and flat against the back, the fourth one with the rim OVER the third one, and the fifth one flat against the back and rim UNDER the fourth.
If you are referring to the steel box that hangs under the rifle, that is a MAGAZINE. They can also be bought at Gun Shows or the EE, but you have to get the proper one for a Number 1 or Number 4 rifle. They are different.
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They aren't CLIPS because they don't go into the magazine of the rifle and form a part of that magazine. CARCANOS have CLIPS. GARANDS have CLIPS. MANNLICHERS have CLIPS.
Lee-Enfields, Mausers, Arisakas, Springfields, Rosses, Moisin-Nagants, Tokarevs, Simonovs, C-7s, M-14s, FALs and a whole raft of others have CHARGERS. They CHARGE the magazine, but they do not become a part of it.
It gets hammered into you in basic training until it becomes automatic.
And it is correct.
Ya gotta admit, it's a lot more precise than calling it "the whatchamacallit what gozinta the tin thing but don't really".
And yeah, I know, I used capital letters. Perhaps that makes me equally guilty of "snootery".
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Lee-Enfields, Mausers, Arisakas, Springfields, Rosses, Moisin-Nagants, Tokarevs, Simonovs, C-7s, M-14s, FALs and a whole raft of others have CHARGERS. They CHARGE the magazine, but they do not become a part of it.
It gets hammered into you in basic training until it becomes automatic.
And it is correct.
Ya gotta admit, it's a lot more precise than calling it "the whatchamacallit what gozinta the tin thing but don't really".
And yeah, I know, I used capital letters. Perhaps that makes me equally guilty of "snootery".
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If you will take the time to really read the information in my post, you will find that it is not a put down or "snootery." It is valid information but in this day and age, many people use " clip, charger and magazine " interchangeably as meaning the same thing. Since there are three different uses for these three different objects, to give a correct answer does need to apply to the correct one.
I do have one bad habit of using CAPITALS to emphasize a word. In the Computer World it seems that CAPITALS is shouting, and this was not the intention here. Perhaps I should change to Bold to emphasize a word or a point.
In conjunction with my proper usage of a word, I am going to give another example. Anyone who knows me is probably rolling around on the floor laughing about someone accusing me of "snootery." I am probably one of the most "unsnootest" people around.
I regret that I can not find the word "Snootery" in my dictionary. I can find the word "Snobbery" but not "Snootery." I even tried "Wikipedia" and they have "Snobbery" defined, but nothing for "Snootery."
Is it possible that you meant "Snobbery?"
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Good point gentleman until this point I had not not even heard the word "Charger" and I've spent a lot of time with milsurp collectors and the such. I think we understand the word "clip" as to mean anything that has ammunition attached to it that you use to top load a magazine. Clip, charger basically the same thing but techincally I guess a good point is made.
So the springy metal thingys that 7.62x39 surplus come on aren't called "stripper clips"?
I better let half of the suppliers I've been dealing with know this before they get a post in CAPITALS!!
Buffdogs post was actually pretty informative for me and he didn't even mention that the OP spelt "clips" wrong. Now that would've been snooty.
I better let half of the suppliers I've been dealing with know this before they get a post in CAPITALS!!
Buffdogs post was actually pretty informative for me and he didn't even mention that the OP spelt "clips" wrong. Now that would've been snooty.
You charge batteries not magazines haha. Ammunition is stripped off a metal clip into a magazine, there's a reason why M14's, mausers, lee-enfields, mosins, etc have a "stripper clip guide" not a "charger guide" Not to poke the bear 
I believe "snootery" involves the nose somehow as in to "snoot", comparible to biting your thumb at someone in Shakespear's Romeo+Juliet.
I believe "snootery" involves the nose somehow as in to "snoot", comparible to biting your thumb at someone in Shakespear's Romeo+Juliet.
I prefer to use the Klingon term "NUQ DAQ O' PUCHPA E' - NOOKH DAHKH OH' POOCHPAH EH' which roughly translates into "thingy that holds thingies that you shove into thingies". Some vulgar Klingons use this term as slang to describe a ###ual act.....but I digress.....
I have bags of the things, if you are willing to pay shipping you can have a bunch. PM me.
Cheers
I have bags of the things, if you are willing to pay shipping you can have a bunch. PM me.
Cheers
Biting one's thumb at another, as in Shakespeare, originated in the High Middle Ages as an Englishman's way of demonstrating to the (vile, of course) French that he still acually HAD his thumb attached and thus still was able to draw a bow. The French, of course, did not appreciate this demonstration on the part of the (sales) Anglaises and made very effort possible to relieve the bounders of their thumbs when captured.
I have relatives who, when provoked, will PICK THEIR TEETH in the direction of the offending party. This signifies that, "I bet you would cook up right tender if you were wrapped properly in puha leaves and baked in an underground oven.... and I'm man enough to do it to you!". Fairly hard to top that one.
I have searched in vain through the 1909 edition of the TEXT BOOK OF SMALL ARMS for plates of the various and sundry parts of Lee-Enfield rifles and only can conclude that 95% of such rifles built must have been factory defects: all were fitted with "Charger Guides".... and not a single one with a "Clip Guide".
As to a "Stripper Clip", is this not a tiny bit of metal used by an ECDYSIAST to maintain her costume in a condition approaching common probity as she writhes about on the stage more-or-less in time to really bad music, immediately prior to becoming plain nekkid for the continuing amusement and delectation of the male (and ### female.... must not forget them) members of the audience?
Instruct me, kindly......
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I have relatives who, when provoked, will PICK THEIR TEETH in the direction of the offending party. This signifies that, "I bet you would cook up right tender if you were wrapped properly in puha leaves and baked in an underground oven.... and I'm man enough to do it to you!". Fairly hard to top that one.
I have searched in vain through the 1909 edition of the TEXT BOOK OF SMALL ARMS for plates of the various and sundry parts of Lee-Enfield rifles and only can conclude that 95% of such rifles built must have been factory defects: all were fitted with "Charger Guides".... and not a single one with a "Clip Guide".
As to a "Stripper Clip", is this not a tiny bit of metal used by an ECDYSIAST to maintain her costume in a condition approaching common probity as she writhes about on the stage more-or-less in time to really bad music, immediately prior to becoming plain nekkid for the continuing amusement and delectation of the male (and ### female.... must not forget them) members of the audience?
Instruct me, kindly......
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Works very well, especially if one can maintain that outrrrrrrageous ac-CENT long enough.
But only on silly knees-bent English KNNNNNNNNNIGGETS.
The Pythonesque version of the Hundred Years' War, displaced only a few centuries.
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But only on silly knees-bent English KNNNNNNNNNIGGETS.
The Pythonesque version of the Hundred Years' War, displaced only a few centuries.
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You charge batteries not magazines haha. Ammunition is stripped off a metal clip into a magazine, there's a reason why M14's, mausers, lee-enfields, mosins, etc have a "stripper clip guide" not a "charger guide" Not to poke the bear
I believe "snootery" involves the nose somehow as in to "snoot", comparible to biting your thumb at someone in Shakespear's Romeo+Juliet.
I'll play too! ('cause I'm full of useless information
) Further to the thumb thing. A typical insulting English salute (similar to a center finger raised) is two fingers (like Churchill's victory "V" only spun around {back of the hand forward} )After Henry V's victory at Agincourt {another Shakespeare theme} this symbol was common, essentially showing your "draw string" fingers. "I've still got 'em and can use 'em you b*stard".
At the time, just as common was if captured to lop off these digits of British Long Bow Men, rendering them useless as such.
This seemed to fall from favor in Britain some time in the late 1960's- 1970's and replaced with the Latin {read Italian} middle finger.
There.....was that snooty enough?
I concure. Every training manual and technical document that I've read reguarding milsurps uses the term charger, chargers, charger clip or some variation there of.
I also agree with calling a spade a spade. Not 'an upside down shovel'.
I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
