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Posted: 9/23/2011 1:47:14 PM EDT
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I have 3 different kinds of stripper clips. The ones that came today are supposed to be original Chinese and had cosmoline on them , my sks is Chinese
Anyway has anyone got these to work?? Filling them is one thing but no way can I push them into the rifle. No mag just the 10 round box thanks.. |
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I only have one variety of strippers. They have a flat-black finish, and I picked them up a few years ago for like four bucks for twenty clips.
They seem to work fine. They key is to position your thumb as far to the rear of the top round as it will go, and push hard. Sometimes I struggle to get the rounds moving...but once they start to slide they normally load into the mag quickly. |
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The commercially made Chinese clips are inferior to the surplus clips, in my limited experience with them.
I have twenty of them. At least four will not work at all. The rest work but about half are "sticky". I only use them with a magazine loader for the AK. If I hit the plunger hard, the cartridges will load into the magazine. The surplus ones have never given me any trouble. |
| I gave up on stripper clips a long time ago. I got some with my Russian surplus ammo, or somewhere Soviet ammo and they were the flat black ones. It took sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much force to push them down it was crazy. So ya. If your into using them, try some oil on them, and bend the retainer tabs back a little to ease off the tension. |
| I have found the Chinese clips (not sure if mine are commercial or surplus) to need a bit of tweaking and break-in but I have been able to make them all work (all the ones I have tweaked and broke-in). The Yugo surplus clips that M67 is packed on work better but some still need a little tweaking in my experience. I have found most problems with stripper clips seem to be with how you manipulate them. |
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First post here - hopefully not gonna make enemies, but looks like I'm changing my stripes and joining "Team (AR) Fifteen"... might need to draw some cartoons around that... ANYWAYS - what happened is that for years I've had a Tula SKS (52), not refurbished at all that I can tell. I've had this for that proverbial "rainy day" where it'd be advisable to have a rifle in the home. I did think about all of that aftermarket stuff, but to do that to this rifle just always seemed wrong to me. But now I realize that this is about a sixty year old gun and really a collectible one rather than a shooter. I'm thinking a more modern rifle is for me at this point. I want to get with a Rock River Arms "lefty" model of the Tactical Operator. Purrrty. So here's the blasphemy - with my "preps" (Wow - first time I typed that - and the last) I want to stay lean and mean with my firearms. The Tula will find a new home and help pay for the AR rifle.
Out of habit I saw "SKS" here on AR15.com and read some about stripper clips. My two cents worth is that stripper clips cost me a hundred rounds of ammunition. What happened is that for "just in case" I loaded ten clips and had them in an ammo can with a rubber seal and one of those air/moisture control packs. Recently I was checking things out and realized that the clips had oil on them and a number of the rounds looked shiny on the ends around the primer. I had wiped the clips really good, but I didn't realize that the grooves had captured some of the oil. Most of the rounds LOOKED okay but you don't defend yourself with "looks okay". I bagged them with a warning tag - my brother has a "Bubba'd to Heck and Back" SKS and is always out with it. He'll use the suspect ammo for plinking fodder. So - WARNING: Not sure about how to clean/protect stripper clips, but oil on them will migrate onto the ammunition, possibly killing the primer or getting in around the crimp.  Doi - Live and Learn!
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The only way I have gotten the stripper clips to work in my SKS is to make them in to 5 round clips. I just put 5 rounds in cut it in half with a side-cuter and this crimps the rails down on both pieces then I just file off the sharp edges and round the corners of the cut, they work great every time. I got the idea off of You-tube, some Canadian making 5 rounders cause they can't have 5 rounders there. 5 round They work on American guns too  hope this helps
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