Stripper Clips vs Magazines?

[Crash]

I've fired quite a few weapons that were magazine-fed, but I've never shot one that used stripper clips. Can you load a weapon as fast with a clip as you can with a magazine? If so, the only advantage that I can see to a mag is that many of them are higher capacity than clips.

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[jim]

You can reload pretty fast with a stripper clip, infact, faster than by hand. However, I seem to do much better with detachable magazines.

jim

[762xIan]

I have gotten pretty good with the SKS ones.

The Mauser (5 rounders) are about the easiest to reload with.

I had a few thousand rounds of Australian .308 on strippers, had the Magazine loader for my FAL and while they lasted (that batch of ammo is all gone now :'( )it made loading the 20 round magazines real fast.

They have thier purpose, depends on the rifle and you, practice and learn your equipment.

[Rama_das]

maybe i miss understand. but the only stripper clips i've seen were used to reload mags. can you put a stripper clip into a weapon and fire from that? that's what i thought the question was asking?

[Toad_Sticker]

maybe i miss understand. but the only stripper clips i've seen were used to reload mags. can you put a stripper clip into a weapon and fire from that? that's what i thought the question was asking?
SKS has a 10 round stripper clip since the magazine is not detatchable. You put it in a slot in the bolt while it is locked back and push the 10 rounds down into the mag.
It is pretty fast once you practice it. Like anything it take s time to get good with it.
Mausers have 5 round clips to load from as do Nagants.
practice practice practice.
TS

[jlmissouri]

I use stripper clips with my SKS's. There as fast as a magazine, atleast in my opinion. I see advantages both ways, but it is lighter to carry ammo in stripper clips, and a lot cheaper than spare magazines. SKS's stripper clips cost around $.10 each, and I bought about 100 for $.08 one time. Compare that to an equivalent 10 round magazine, at around $15.

[Eli80Cal]

They can be just as fast, but they do require practice, practice, practice. Like Jlmissouri said, they are lighter, they may be all some weapons take ( Im about even with an enfield on exchanging mags or feeding strippers) , and you can carry A LOT of them on your person, especially in a chest rig. Also, a lot of ammo comes pre-packed on them.

[RangerRick]

Stripper clips work, no doubt and have been for a long time. In combat situations with an assault type weapon a mag is I believe a better option, probably the reason for their invention.

Under combat/stress/cold/sand/mud/etc. strippers will do most anything undesired and put really nasty stuff in your chamber with the help of the user. As with everything there is a trade off. Some guys (me included) like their strippers with their SKS and others convert their SKS to mags. I'm sure strippers had more to do with cost of manufacture increasing fire power at the level of that periods technology than anything else. More recently I think advancing technology had more to do with the requirement for prolonged assault rapid fire which strippers do not "by-an-large" have but if strippers had a place in a "modern day" weapons they would still be in large scale manufacture.

My Opinion,

Ranger Rick