8mm stripper clips

[MSGT9410]

So I pick up quite a heavy box on Christmas day, open it up, and find this mess:





So now I have 225 rounds of what I think is Romanian surplus, and a 100 rounds of that Olympic stuff, which I'm kinda scared of feeding to my Yugo M48 based on all the stuff I hear about it (Probaby going to anyways). Anyways, I'm trying to find some stipper clips for all of this, but without much luck. I've looked on E-bay and they've got a bunch of WW2 production brass German ones, but I'm usually wierd about wanting to use original WW2 surplus items. I might just bite the bullet and buy a bunch of those and use them anyways, but I was hoping I could find them elsewhere first.

Thanks for any help!

 

[Langenator]

If you want to buy some of the Ecuadoran 8mm, it comes on strippers, which are at least somewhat re-usable. I've used them in my Yugo M48A. Got about 5-600 rounds more out in the garage.

You might also look for .308 or .30-06 clips. They should fit-I could fit .308 in the strippers that came off my Ecuadoran 8mm.

 

[mustanger98]

Well, there was this one time I bought a mess of Turkish 8mmMauser on strippers. They're brass and the ammo's headstamped/dated 1935. I bought the stuff so I'd have strippers. .308 and .30-06 do fit on 8mm strippers, but if you buy .308/.30-06 clips, you gotta be sure they're 98 Mauser type and not '03 Springfield or M-14 type or, from what I understand, they won't fit.

Numrich has 'em too.

Mauser 98:
http://www.e-gunparts.com/productschem.asp?chrMasterModel=1780z98

Mauser Stripper Clips:
http://www.e-gunparts.com/product.asp?chrProductSKU=3100C

Item No. 3100C
Stripper Clip, NI
Retail Price: $1.35

Or you can buy a mess of cheap Turkish surplus and get the clips for IIRC $.50 or less apeice.

 

[MSGT9410]

Hey guys, thanks for the replies!


The links are much appreciated Mustanger!
I think I might end up doing a combo of all three now -- Buy some Turk stuff, a few off of Numrich, and some of the WW2 ones off of E-Bay. That should hold me over for a good while.

 

[mustanger98]

Give you fair warning about the Turk ammo though. They must have loaded it magnum because it kicks harder than the Romanian stuff, although it may not be worse than some hunting loadings we hear about. Wear you a good recoil pad.

 

[DMK]

Century Arms has some 1953 Yugo 8mm on Stripper clips. It's the AM1238B.

 

[MSGT9410]

Give you fair warning about the Turk ammo though. They must have loaded it magnum because it kicks harder than the Romanian stuff, although it may not be worse than some hunting loadings we hear about. Wear you a good recoil pad.

I've been through a couple boxes of that 196gr stuff from Mitchell's (I know I know, don't start on them), and that convinced me to get a pad for my shoulder. I can fire it standing up just fine, but once I put it on the bench, it hits like a mule!

 

[MSGT9410]

Century Arms has some 1953 Yugo 8mm on Stripper clips. It's the AM1238B.

Awesome, much appreciated

 

[mustanger98]

I've been through a couple boxes of that 196gr stuff from Mitchell's (I know I know, don't start on them), and that convinced me to get a pad for my shoulder. I can fire it standing up just fine, but once I put it on the bench, it hits like a mule!

I don't know the problem with Mitchell's, but you did say not to get you started.

I know how that is about the recoil changing between standing and across the bench. I don't notice it so much with the VZ-24 across the bench or the hood of the truck, but I sure noticed it with my M1 Garand and GI ball. (I tend to like the Garand from standing anyway.) I think, in my own case especially, recoil don't hurt as bad from standing because even with a stiff back standing's still a more resilient position to shoot from.

 

[SMLE]

8mm stripper clips are smaller in their external dimensions than '03 or M14/NATO strippers. The 8mm clips will fall through the clip guide on an '03 and the '03 clips won't go into the guide on an 8mm rifle. A few of the non-German Mausers will use '03 clips. The Swedes for one, and some of the South American contract rifles. The Turk rifles use the German clips only.

 

[Chipperman]

"I don't know the problem with Mitchell's, but you did say not to get you started."

Do a quick search for general info about Mitchell's Mausers. The short of it is that they engage in dubious advertising techniques, which tend to mislead people into thinking they are buying a genuine German WWII Mauser when they are not.

 

[JohnKSa]

If you can rig a setup that will allow you to stand while benchresting a rifle, the recoil effect will be much reduced. I have read that the guys who regulate double rifles shoot from that position.

Yugo 8mm stripper clips are very nice. If you post in the accessory section, you may find someone who's gone through a bunch of the ammo and has some spare clips they'll sell.