to use with bulk Lake City 556 ammo that does not come with one (from PSA). Anyone have a spare they care to sell/send me cheap?

Where ya located at?? They usually have the stripper spoons at tactical shops, and many army surplus shops.

Thanks for the memory jog. We used to have an old surplus shop. I'll have to see if they are still around.

If you cant find one CDNN has them cheap!! Sorry I use the old thumb method

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Do these things wear out? With my recent order of stripper clipped ammo from Sportsmansguide this is something that caught my attention. I went to CDDN but unless I was making a larger order, which I wasn't, the $9.95 shipping for a $2 part was excessive.

Then I went to Midway and found a John Masen one for $9.99, but they charged a $3 special handling fee on top of shipping. WTH?

I ended up ordering a Thermold magazine charger from Brownells. It ended up being $19 shipped, but it also works for loading loose rounds.

http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=4...gazine-Charger


-Bill

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Bill..please let me know how that thing works out, I almost bought one when I bought my mags but I didnt but would like something like that.
grover

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Will do, Grover. Anything to cut down on the amount of wasted time I spend loading mags at the range.

Man, getting back into shooting is sooo addicting. I even went so far as to buy a 44mag Winchester 92 (have always wanted a lever action) off of gunbroker. I can get my 10-day timer started (gotta love CA, huh? ) as soon as the seller confirms it's been shipped. This one is made in Japan, supposedly at the same factory that built the Browning 92s. And from what I've been reading the fit and finish on these rifles is top notch.

Looking back at all the times Marlin 94s were on sale over the years and me passing on them makes me sad, considering the current sad state of Marlin (Marlington) lever guns.

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20 .223 5.56mm 10rd AR Stripper Clips With 1 Clip Guide Spoon New Unissued!!! | eBay

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M&P9/9C/Shieldx2/Sportx2/15-22

Here's a .223 repack kit. I've dealt with these people, and they're OK.

M16/AR15 .223 7 Pocket Repack Kit- 1 Ct.- Green Rag ~ Old Sarge's Drop Zone - Dunkirk, New York - (716) 203-7221

Buck

They will stretch a bit/ bend a bit with use, but they can be tuned up with decent pliers, and back in business.

Thanks for the tip, Rojodiablo. I should have it by the weekend so it'll be range tested on Saturday, weather permitting. But it'll be with loose rounds since my clipped ammo is still back ordered.

-Bill

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Somebody told me about this thing and I ordered one. Videos of it's use are pretty convincing.

Amazon.com: BTLR CRK STRIPLULA LDR AR-15: Sports & Outdoors

I buy bulk Wolf/ WPA ammo, and I get surplus stripper clips and load ammo on them. It makes reloading at the range/ in the field so much nicer.You can usually locate them pretty cheap, I think I bought 450 of them for like $35. The guys get them at the mil. ranges usually. My order came with 3 or 4 spoons, and believe me, there were a lot more than 450 stripper clips in my bundle. They just bag them up, figuring "Yeah, that's about a hundred......."
Strippers will last 3 or 4 shooting cycles most times.

We must have the worst military surplus store. They had no spoons for the stripper clip ammo, lousy ammo cans (mostly rusted), and very little inventory a shooter would be interested in.

Thank goodness for the 'net.

I got a sportsmansguide catalog yesterday that had a listing for "New" ammo cans with the picture clearly showing a line of rust at the bottom seam. haha.

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They came with the cans after all even though the website said they did not...

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Got the Thermold mag loader in the mail today. It came with 10 plastic stripper clips which the instructions recommends you load your rounds onto. But that seems like a waste of time. Fortunately it works with loose rounds as well.

Video of it in action:
Thermold AR-15 .223 Mag Loader - YouTube

It's actually really easy to push the rounds into the mag if you're not standing behind a camera on a tripod. haha. It's easiest to load if you put the mag down on a table and push straight down on the rounds.

I'll have to wait a month (when my sportsmansguide order comes off backorder) before I can try it with steel stripper clipped ammo.

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