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How Do Stripper Clips Work?

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:39 am
by raptorforce
so i know how they work like you load them up and push them in into the magazine but how do they get pushed in because the feed lips keep the bullets already in the magazine from coming out so how would they get pushed in?

Edited by jrrdw.

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:44 am
by inonickname
Please re-word your post so it is understandable before we try help you.

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:51 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
You mean like these?

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Brute force?

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:18 am
by Technician1002
I think what you are asking is if a lip on the magazine keeps the shells in the magazine, what releases them into the chamber.

The answer is the bolt moving forward takes a shell froward from the clip into the chamber. Here is slow motion video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBC12v_4cNY Link is not SF material so don't ask about propellents against SF guidelines. I don't know how to make this work in a spudgun.

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:39 am
by maverik94
oh...yeah, I was a little confused when reading the topic name, please re-word?

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:00 pm
by twizi
the bolt pushes it in the firing tube then pin hits it then cass gets ejected from ejection port.

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:55 pm
by POLAND_SPUD
guys I think it's not what he was asking about..
though JSR was on the right track



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripper_clip
http://www.aaconsult.com/ammoreview/htm ... clips.html

google is your friend :wink:

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:52 pm
by Cannibal Corpse
I think he wants to know why can you just push the bullets in strait down without the bullets coming out. The reason is the bullets get stacked when thier pushed in so the bullets get pushed to the side of the magizine were the mag lip catches the bullet and holds it from poping out but thier is enuf room bettwen the mag lips for you to push the bullets in strait down, the bullet goes to the left or the right cause of the shape of the mag follower (witch cause a chain reaction of sorts causeing each bullet to push each other bullet above it in the opisite direction) witch then when the bullet is pushed up agaisnt the mag spring it gets cought on the mag lips. Hope you understannd that it's hard to explain. The way I explained above is for double stacked mags not single stacked.

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:02 pm
by POLAND_SPUD
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:02 pm
by hi
well my mosin nagant has a cartridge interrupter, which is what prevents them from just all popping out. then when you cycle the bolt it lets one round up. it only lets one round up because that is all there is room for.


Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:14 pm
by benstern
Stripper Clips make it much faster to load magazines if you already have stripper clips ready to go.

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 5:10 pm
by raptorforce
Cannibal Corpse wrote:I think he wants to know why can you just push the bullets in strait down without the bullets coming out. The reason is the bullets get stacked when thier pushed in so the bullets get pushed to the side of the magizine were the mag lip catches the bullet and holds it from poping out but thier is enuf room bettwen the mag lips for you to push the bullets in strait down, the bullet goes to the left or the right cause of the shape of the mag follower (witch cause a chain reaction of sorts causeing each bullet to push each other bullet above it in the opisite direction) witch then when the bullet is pushed up agaisnt the mag spring it gets cought on the mag lips. Hope you understannd that it's hard to explain. The way I explained above is for double stacked mags not single stacked.
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he was on the right trackand basically answered my question

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 5:29 pm
by nibbler125
i think he means that he dosent know how the bullets go into the mag- beacuse you cannot normaly push a round straight into it. you need to fit it into a slot then push it under the lips

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:04 pm
by Daltonultra
The best mag to show this with is the M1 Garand clip, which basically works like a double-stack magazine, except that the spring and follower are built into the gun itself. Here you can see how the rounds inside a double-stack magazine are staggered:
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