Clip loading the Lee Enfield?

[Patt14 No2]

I have several chargers that were chrome plated at Rolls Royce Cars and they work beautifully even better than those that have been polished. Perfect for the mad minute!

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[Strangely Brown]

I have several chargers that were chrome plated at Rolls Royce Cars and they work beautifully even better than those that have been polished. Perfect for the mad minute!

Once described to me as "racing" chargers; not exactly in the Spirit of the Original though!

[5thBatt]

Yes the ///// method works for lazy loading but if you practice enough the \\\\\ method works just as well!

[Ovidio]

I like that guy a lot. Seems like a very nice person.
And always interesting!

[22SqnRAE]

Ovidio, yep, a real personality shines through easily. Like Rob, the Canadian that wears the skirt and likes muzzle loaders and black powder. You spot authenticity and integrity pretty easily, like in those two blokes just as an example. I'd think Ian McCollum (a.k.a. Gun Jesus) would be of a similar personality. Very much the type you'd enjoy a beer with!

[Lithy]

A memorable quote from years ago when the interwebs were in infancy, that I cannot forget.

"Stripper clips are what exotic dancers wear on their nipples". Apologies to the author. I suspect he's no longer with us.

Sorry, I'm just being nostalgic.

[Daan Kemp]

I'll never think about strippers or clips the same again!

[Son]

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Stripper clips, picture attached....

Charger loading getting rim over jams...
I don’t care who you are or how you load your chargers... it’s all in the technique. I have made a couple of short vids to demonstrate, but I can load charger with every rim over the one below and when they strip into the magazine, they are all ok, no jams.

Sit your rifle in a rest or stand and look down on it from above. The back of the magazine where the rims go is well back from where they leave the charger.

1: Load a charger, and with your thumb as close to the charger as possible, strip the rounds into the magazine.

2: Now, load a charger, and with your thumb a bit away from the charger, strip the rounds into the magazine.

In test one, the base of the case contacts the follower first, tilting it down at the back, the round moves rearward as the next round comes down on top of it- basically it all slides down hill.

In test two, the shoulder of the case contacts the follower, which can cause the rear to lift but it still goes rearward because the follower must dip at the rear. The next round also contacts the one below at with its shoulder, lifting the base, and as it goes rearward the base does not come down until it gets all the way back, past the rim below.

Do it enough and you will see most rounds don’t quite go over, but some will.

Is there any way I can put the two short vids up here without hosting elsewhere?

[Havenot]

Pasties are what strippers wear....not clips.

As far as 'charger loading'.....I looked and looked for my other two chargers....I found a huge quanity of brass Mauser clips(off '42 Turkish 8mm)...I found a sadly mutilated SMLE complete mag which I bought years ago and discovered somebody had trimmed the rear locking tab off to fit a No.4 rifle but trimmed off too much and won't work in anything now....found M1 clips, M1 carbine clips, M14 clips and AR clips and clip loaders, Steyr clips, a couple Carcano clips etc. but alas no more British chargers!

It is still a mystery why the two rifles are so persnickety to load...yet the older more used slightly rusty/crusty No.1 Mk.III* loads so perfectly

[Daan Kemp]

Glad we have some members who know so much about what strippers wear on their 'chest points'.