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5/4/2026 7:03:20 PM EDT
Just like the title says. Is there anything other than the original that works for a c96?
“I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”
5/4/2026 7:21:16 PM EDT
[#1]
Back in the 80s there was a lot of Czech 9mm floating around loaded on clips.  If you can find some of that it would probably work.  I had a friend who fed his bolo with it.  Just a couple of problems.  It’s AP, so you won’t find it in stock anywhere, and it only holds 8 rounds.
That’s all I got.  Have you tried M16 strippers?
5/4/2026 8:10:30 PM EDT
[#2]
Back in the days before easily available 7.62 Mauser/ Tokarev ammo being available ( my brother got his first broom handle in the early 70’s, when ammo was impossible to find)  and he cut down and reformed 223 cases to make ammo. I would suspect M16 stripped could work ( minor dimension differences between the reformed 223 case head/ extractor groove and true 30 Mauser cases but not enough to matter I think)
5/4/2026 9:53:32 PM EDT
[#3]
5.56mm strippers are close but too small to fill the stripper slot in the C96 barrel extension for reliable loading.
Now with more political fatigue.
5/5/2026 9:10:03 AM EDT
[#4]
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Originally Posted By osprey21:
5.56mm strippers are close but too small to fill the stripper slot in the C96 barrel extension for reliable loading.
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That's what I seem to recall. So I'm just gonna need to bought the bullet.

Ick. They are spendy
“I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”
5/7/2026 2:51:21 PM EDT
[#5]
I got an email ad from Sarco last week that they have newly manufactured stripper clips.  IIRC, they were $8.

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