Loading Sterling magazine with charger/stripper clips

[Vincent]

It still needs a little fine tuning, but I think it’s going to work.

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[browningautorifle]

Sure, if you get them in strippers. The Uzi I think had a charger available, we always worked out of boxes so just hand bombing was the norm. I always thought a charger for Thompson mags could have been made from a modified FN charger and the 5 rd clips could hold .45 ammo...the theory worked but I never trialed it properly.

[Vincent]

They are 5.56 strippers/chargers I recycled. We have plethora of’m. They work fine with 9mm.

I will have a look at the Thompson mags and FN charger. It sounds interesting. Though I really prefer the drum with the Thompson.

[Peter Laidler]

On the negative side, like many others like BAR etc etc who have filled a zillion of these double stack magazine, including 7.62mm Bren and rifles magazines, we had magazine filling from a loose box of 50 down to a fine art. Round on, press down and back - round on, press down and back and so on. Took seconds and trouble free. Never felt the need for a mag loader. I feel that if the commercially savvy Sterling Co felt a demand for such an item, they'd have been at the forefront.

Just my view of course

We did use them with the L85 rifles but even then, if you didn't press the rounds downwards with your thumb as close to the stripper clip as possible, then they'd jamb up in the clip.

[Gil Boyd]

Put all the rounds into a beret...........and get competent just speed loading each round into the mags, its more fun, especially if you are not under fire which is why the strips were invented of course in th first place

[Vincent]

Maybe the Sterling Co wanted to sell more of their magazines? They would generate more profit than a spoon and chargers/stripper clips.

[Peter Laidler]

........ Magazines were their BIG money maker. Cost £3 to make inc labour and all materials and sold for £11.

[browningautorifle]

we had magazine filling from a loose box of 50 down to a fine art

As a matter of fact, test on elementary training demanded you be able to fill a 30 rd mag for the C7 with 30 rds by hand, in 55 seconds... With charger in 30 sec I think...

[Vincent]

I haven't seen a better magazine.


There's also this method of loading them.

[Gil Boyd]

Vincent, Now that would cause more problems than enough........... at a size in our arsenal of 9mm, it is/was perhaps the easiest round to load by hand at speed. I could load it quicker by hand watching that