7.62 stripper clips and carry options?

[edblevi]

I know there are stripper clips out there, loading tool etc... What I haven't found is the best way to carry these for reloading mags in the field. Any ideas, as the stripper clip holders for my AR won't hold twenty rounds of 7.62. Thanks

[FAL4ME2]

The AUSSIE bando only hold 2 5rd strippers per x 5 = 50 rds for
each bando and they snap shut there nice for carrying extra ammo
in the field.

[Dennis MacKenzie]

Fred's M-14 stocks had the m-14 reload sets with Bando, strippers, the cardboard sleeves and I think a mag loading tool. Check his Shotgun News ads for info. I put my RG in a couple of sets.

[Deltaten]

I have a pile of US issue bandos AND quite a few Aussie ones. While the Aussie *are* the cat's gonads, looks and fitting-wise, they are just as tough to get a few clips out of as the US ones. I'd really hate to hafta top off mags in a questionable locale, at a stresfull moment!

US bandos are a fumble-fingers proposition; liable to produce nasty string cuts if used haphazardly and out of necessity, rapidly.
Aussie are tighter than a BlackOak knothole. No wiggle room at all. They *may* stretch after time, but who wants/needs to wait?? :D

I've been considering a couple of single/dual 10 rd stripper clip pouches, ala' 1903 type for the gear belt...just in case ;) Mebbe even one of the Turk (?) pouches. A compass/individual First Aid pouch, hanging on the stap of a Deuce set up would be faster in a "pinch"! Save the bandos for sitting around the fire, once the AAR is over. THEN re-supply yer mags from the pack-carried bandos.

Best.
paul

[yovinny]

I like my ammo in clips and bando's, mainly for convenience in storage, speed in loading mags and for carrying it to the range. I bought over 100 Aussie bando's and clips and re-packed all my boxed, de-linked or loose ammo.

But with 20rd mags from $3-5ea, why would you carry bando's or clipped ammo in the field ?

Personally, anything I'm going to CARRY, will be in loaded mags :)

Cheers, YOOO VINNY

[Ironhandjohn]

I have a stripper clip top cover on my Izzy FAL, and it's a royal pain in the ass to load a partially expended mag using USGI stripper clips!!! I don't know if my clips are bad, though they look fine, but getting the rounds to slide off the clip into the mag, without pushing the bolt enough to disengage the bolt-hold-open, just isn't any fun.. FAL thumb looks a lot like M-1 Garand thumb!!!



I like the top cover for looks, but I haven't been able to use it like it was intended to yet.

[Deltaten]

Ironhand:
BTDT! and know what you speak of :)
Better yet; that damm'd Brit SC guide will bite ya, if ya don't do it right!

Vinny: But just how many mags are you willing to carry? The option of having a spare 5-10 rd handy for a quick top-off, as needed, seems a better space/weight solution....back-up, ya know! ;) Sorta like carrying a band-aide around in yer wallet...Yes, there's a full medic kit available just under all that junk in yer pack, but....:D

Best,
Paul

[yovinny]

Deltaten,
Don't take this the wrong way, just playing devil's advocate and having fun :)

How much clipped ammo are you willing to carry in you'r pack ?
How much of a weight savings or space saving's is carrying clipped ammo in bando's and a mag loader over a loaded mag ?
And how much time is envolved in reloading mag's, even from clip's ?

If you'r carrying that much ammo in the "field", I have to imagine were in the
field for a "serious" purpose.

If that's the case, I sure want loaded mags, not clipped ammo. There's no "time out's" in the field.

:cry: Everyone stop, I have to load my mag's now :uhoh:

If the ammo is in bando's, in you'r pack, you'r in a world of hurt anyway. You'r pack it the first thing that's going to get dropped when you have to beat feet.

Actually, mag's are expendable in the field. I'm not going to waste time saving or "topping off" mags. There going to stay right where I drop them. IF I own the ground afterward's, I'll have lot's to choose from when I pick them up again.

I'll carry ammo in the "field" in loaded mag's and deal with the "maybe" extra ounce, thank you very much.

Cheers, YOOO VINNY :shades:

[Brian in MN]

I usually carry 6 spare mags for a day of hiking and I will often throw on 2 or 3 bandoleers which I drop about half way out. Pick 'em up when I come round back and reload the empties. There ain't nothing out in the woods that's gonna shoot at me where I hike so there just isn't much point in carrying all that lead around all day.

[edblevi]

I can see both points for mags or strippers. There are advantages and disadvatages to both.

[Deltaten]

OK Vinny...makes sense!

The added few oz's of weight does overcome the drawbacks of SC's and guide.

**MY** version of the scenario reads:
Drop pack at first sigh of action;
Bop till ya drop;
then either fall back to gear, or have it brt fwd.

The advantage to the clips idea (as I saw it!) was that I could get 3 bandos of 60 rd in a SAW pack, soft on the (my) back/bottom, and addn'l padding from the bandos. Don'tthink I could get 9 mags in there..hafta check, tho.
AFA the spare clip or two...Sometimes I wear a belt AND suspenders!! ;)

Regards,
Paul

[Sgt_Gold]

Originally posted by edblevi
I know there are stripper clips out there, loading tool etc... What I haven't found is the best way to carry these for reloading mags in the field. Any ideas, as the stripper clip holders for my AR won't hold twenty rounds of 7.62. Thanks

The four pocket 30 round M-16 bandoleers hold both FAL and G3 magazines like they were made for them. For the five round stripper clips themselves, you can either get you hands on some of the Aussie bandoleers that come up for sale now and again, or get some M-14 repack kits. The repack kits have the cloth bandoleer, cardboard inserts to keep the rounds from snaging, and an M-14 speed loader. Sell the speed loader, keep the rest.