41magsnub
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Back in the Army over 10 years ago I remember how easy the 10rd stripper clips made it to load mags. I even had a few stripper clip guides left from there. I was in charge of the ammo shack at an M16 qual range once and in an afternoon loaded hundreds of magazines.
Fast forward to the present day. I own my first AR15. I bought a case of Federal XM193A on stripper clips. I can't get them to load into the mags via the clip. I hook everything up and the clip just pushes down into the guide and nothing happens. I tried bending down the retaining thingy at the end of the clip as well, even cut one off. I ended up pulling the rounds off of the clips and hand loading them. I tried it with several mags from a 1970's vintage Colt branded 20rd to a new Magpul with pretty much everything in between along with several guides and a bunch of attempts with clips.
Do some clips suck or did I just forget "the trick"? I'm pretty sure this isn't rocket science...
Fast forward to the present day. I own my first AR15. I bought a case of Federal XM193A on stripper clips. I can't get them to load into the mags via the clip. I hook everything up and the clip just pushes down into the guide and nothing happens. I tried bending down the retaining thingy at the end of the clip as well, even cut one off. I ended up pulling the rounds off of the clips and hand loading them. I tried it with several mags from a 1970's vintage Colt branded 20rd to a new Magpul with pretty much everything in between along with several guides and a bunch of attempts with clips.
Do some clips suck or did I just forget "the trick"? I'm pretty sure this isn't rocket science...