Help ID These Ammo Clips

[Jughead]

Can someone help ID these clips. They are brass with what appears to be parkerized finish. They are shown with a 30-06 round. THANKS.

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[browningautorifle]

They genuinely LOOK like they're for the FN rifle. But, everything we used in Canada was marked.

[emmagee1917]

Looks to be standard M14 strippers .
Chris

[browningautorifle]

I thought M14 had two sets of locators on each side?

[Gary D. Funderburg]

M-14, probably foriegn. Same clip except two humps are late Springfield.

[RCS]

I have some clips and each one has a hump on each side like the top photo, they are metal clips for the 7,62mm NATO, one is marked SEY and the other B G R

[browningautorifle]

Anyway...I think they will probably work in either M14 or FN...there never was much difficulty in interchanging them.

[Rick the Librarian]

Didn't some the late clips made to be used in the BAR were steel? I seem to recall some CMP ammo sold several years ago had them. Could be mistaken, though.

[browningautorifle]

I thought the progression of the US clips was brass, steel, aluminum. The first are what I found in Ft Lewis with M1909 blanks dated early '30s, the second we found with WW2 ammo in them and the last would be around with M14 ammo from RVN...steel with BAR? I should think there could be a vast amount of steel clips still available from WW2 onward...

[Bill Ricca]

I have never seen US GI without maker marks. These are M14 type stripper clips.

The BAR had the 03 type stripper clips due to the magazine loader. It required the two parts stopping it during loading, one near top and one near bottom.

The M14 had one clip stopper, in the middle. It is possible a foreign country used the same clip for a different caliber or rifle, depending upon the type of magazine loader.