cluttonfred
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OK, while my earlier thread -- 50-state legal home defense carbine - a concept -- sparked some controversy, it also got me thinking about the pros and cons of various clip loading systems.
By clip loading I mean mechanisms in which a magazine is fixed (literally, or not ordinarily removed) and reloaded in the rifle with more than one round at a time. I would include both box and rotary magazines and both stripper clips and en bloc clips. Therea are many, many examples of rifles with box magazines and stripper clips: Springfield, Mauser, Mosin-Nagant, Lee-Enfield, SKS, etc. There are also a few more distinctive ones like the M1 Garand with it's self-ejecting en bloc clip and the Johnson rifle with its side-loading rotary magazine which can be topped up bolt open or closed. Lastly, there are several battle rifles with removable magazines that were sometimes, and even often, reloaded with stripper clips in the field. The M14 is one example as well as, I think, the FN-FAL.
PLEASE let's not turn this into a debate on gun regulations. I would just like to know which clip loading systems people have used, how they liked them, and which they prefer?
By clip loading I mean mechanisms in which a magazine is fixed (literally, or not ordinarily removed) and reloaded in the rifle with more than one round at a time. I would include both box and rotary magazines and both stripper clips and en bloc clips. Therea are many, many examples of rifles with box magazines and stripper clips: Springfield, Mauser, Mosin-Nagant, Lee-Enfield, SKS, etc. There are also a few more distinctive ones like the M1 Garand with it's self-ejecting en bloc clip and the Johnson rifle with its side-loading rotary magazine which can be topped up bolt open or closed. Lastly, there are several battle rifles with removable magazines that were sometimes, and even often, reloaded with stripper clips in the field. The M14 is one example as well as, I think, the FN-FAL.
PLEASE let's not turn this into a debate on gun regulations. I would just like to know which clip loading systems people have used, how they liked them, and which they prefer?
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