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Posted: 12/7/2009 10:42:55 PM EDT
| How many of you actually use it? |
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I do as well. I have an LRB M14SA. Even prior to ordering it in late '04, I had started stocking up on magazines (Taiwanese T57s and USGI) because I live in NY and might as well get as many pre-bans mags I could get my hands on, and ammunition. This also was a golden age of surplus .308 ammo, with South African, Portuguese and Australian F4 being available, plentiful and relatively inexpensive (certainly inexpensive compared to today's prices). I primarily stocked up on Aussie F4, both the Berdan variety that came in ammo boxes, bandoleers, and stripper clips, as well as the '91 (and later) variety in bubble packs that was Boxer primed. Shooting the stripper clipped Aussie F4 at the range one day, I decided to try out the stripper clip guide and reload directly into the magazine. It didn't work out too smoothly - but that was because of the rough heavy parkerizing on the interior of the Australian stripper clips. I took the empty Aussie stripper clips, put brass brush to the interior of the clips along with some CLP (removing/smoothing out the park), wiped them dry, and again used them the next time at the range to reload via the M14 stripper clip guide. Worked perfectly. In fact, it's what I use primarily to reload at the range now. I pre-load the clips at home with whatever ammo I might be shooting (as of late it has been the '90s Radway Green 7.62 NATO), and then download them directly into the mag at the range via stripper clip and the rifle's stripper clip guide. Saves me a ton of time loading at the range, without having to bring more than a couple of magazines with me. Again, the fewer mags I have to use the better, because the couple dozen that I have will have to last me a lifetime (or at least as long as I live in NY State.) |
| Some Springfield Armory rifles were sold with the wrong size clip slot. I had to replace one on mine purchased in the early 80's. Apparently there are different sized stripper clips issued by the various armed forces and the U.S. G.I. would not fir in my original clip slot. They were too tight. I don't know if they bought them from Israel, but that would be my guess. They probably were made to accept FN FAL strpper clips, not U.S.G.I. |
| My SAI doesn't have a stripper clip guide; it has a square block dovetailed for the slot, drilled and tapped for a two-point scope mount. I've considered replacing it with a stripper clip guide, but since I'm probably going to scope it once I return to the States I haven't bothered. |
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