What was the last clip-loading rifle ever designed?

I thought it was the M1 Garand, but I could be wrong.

SKS has a fixed magazine and uses Stripper clips for loading only. The clips do not go in the magazine with the ammo as do the clips in a Garand or Mannlicher type system or Lebel.

I think Garand may be right.

-kBob

Stripper clip in a fixed magazine gun? Spanish FR8?

FN-49 also used stripper clips, IIRC.

The Madsen Lightweight Military Rifle was probably the last new design bolt action.
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/madsen-lightweight-military-rifle/
I think it takes Springfield clips.

Of course there are a lot of Winchesters and Remington target rifles cut for clips and in use until the complete autorifle takeover.

They were making yugo mausers from 1948 to the mid 60's.

According to wikipedia India was making the ishapore 2a in 1962 through 1975. Being an enfield they technically had a 10 round detachable magazine but extra magazines were not issued. They were issued 5 round stripper clips to load through the action or so I was once told.

Yujun said:

I didn't know there was a fixed-magazine version of this rifle; I was only familiar with the one with the detachable box mag.

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As I understood it, the FN49 was much like the Enfield in terms of being expected to be fed from strippers, and the magazine made detachable only for maintenance and dropping rounds.

Yujun said:

Once again Mr. McCollum comes through.

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Actually W.H.B. Smith ca 1970, just that FW was what came up on the internet.

The Egyptian Rashid came a about circa 1960, though it was a derivative of the Hakim, itself derived from the Llungman M42. All of these had "detachable" magazines though they were meant for top loading via stripper clip.

Yujun said:

Didn't know this existed. Pretty cool.

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Can't say enough good things about my FR8: tough, accurate, cheap ammo, neato rear peep sight. If you ever get a chance to grab one, do it!


Not my pic, but a good one.....

I believe some Scout rifles were cut for stripper clips.

What was protocol for the m14?

HB said:

What was protocol for the m14?

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Drop empty mag, insert fresh mag. The clip guide worked OK for reloading, but slow.

HB said:

What was protocol for the m14?

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LoL.
M-14 was in development for (IIRC) thirteen years. The clip loading was probably retained due to having tooled up and built a billion or so cal..30 center-nub* stripper clips. Probably back at Year Two or so. A decade later, the concept of a removable, even semi-disposable, magazine was pretty firmly established.

Now, to OP, we might have to find a Mannlicher expert, to sort out the last one of those designed for en bloc loading, since that was an identifying characteristic of Mannlichers.
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*The "springfield" stripper clip had four nubs on it, due to the shallower depth required to fit it into the 1903. You can use M-14 strippers as both rim diameters are close enough to work in either, but the clip will be wobbly in a 1903 receiver. They also will not pop out when hit with the bolt, unlike the end-nub versions.

I suppose the various Japanese machine guns were clip fed. Was this carried to any post war designs?

I’m assuming you are referencing small arms. I think that a lot of the AA guns and such are still fed by stripper clips. Those designs are mostly pretty old as well, but a stripper clip makes a whole lot of sense for these guns as they are lighter and easier to handle, and the guns pretty well stay out of areas where they might see high amounts of debris getting into the works. I know that these are outdated and missiles are the replacement...but I’m not sure when the last new design was brought in.

They didn’t start making the 7400 until 1981....



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jmorris said:

They didn’t start making the 7400 until 1981....

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AHA! So, it was Remington who is responsible for the confusion as to the difference between a magazine and a clip. Now we know.

Regards,
hps

How about the M14 and the M1A? Although they have detachable magazines, they also have clip slots on the receiver, just forward of the rear sight. You can load the magazine while still in the rifle with stripper clips.

Since the OP said "design", I would think we should focus on when some of these rifles types were designed which most were 1930's like the Garand. For that, I have no idea on the dates. I would have thought most rifles post WWII were designed with detachable mags in mind and the clip fed, internal mag rifles were already in use.

I load my fn49 and ljungman from stripper clips (carefull with the ljungmann to put the safety on) buth, although being semi auto, they are not the last ones designed that way as both designes predate 1945.

Vern Humphrey said:

How about the M14 and the M1A? Although they have detachable magazines, they also have clip slots on the receiver, just forward of the rear sight. You can load the magazine while still in the rifle with stripper clips.

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M-14 was not really designed as a clip loader. The magazines were--originally-meant to be fed by stripper clips, both mounted on and off the rifle. In the ensuing 13 years' development, the lessons learned from using detachable magazines with M-1 Carbines in two wars sank in, and the logistically and tactically superior method took root.

Just not before millions of the clips, and billions of the rounds had been delivered and packaged. (The ammunition was ready a decade before the rifle was.)

No one was tough enough to sign on the bottom line to dump the "sunk" costs, so the clip loader bridge was retained.