En-bloc clips for Garand made by anyone?

[Kenshin]

Does anyone still make en-bloc clips for the Garand? For that matter, is the surplus of clips drying up anytime soon?

 

[cslinger]

My guess is no since there have to be like millions of them floating around out their. I mean I found some that cost like $1.00 a clip recently and though wow that is kinda pricy.

 

[Jim K]

I know guys who have hundreds, maybe thousands of them. If the price goes high enough, millions will magically appear on the market. Guaranteed!

Jim

 

[Gewehr98]

Jim speaks true.

I have a few hundred of 'em, myself. Just waiting...

 

[Detritus]

I mean I found some that cost like $1.00 a clip recently and though wow that is kinda pricy.

Shop i went into sometime in the past year (when i travel i stop into any shops i have time to) had a fairly large cardboard box siting in the corner full almost to the top with en-blocs, labled 10/$1. cheapest i've ever seen em (excepting my friend that got an ammo can full of em along with a rather nice garand as a HS grad, present but that's different.)

 

[Flatfender]

Tapco has new production ones for $ 0.69 ea

http://www.tapco.com/product_information.asp?number=MAG3602&back=yes&dept=165&last=

 

[LAK]

I think Triple K (or something like that), were making them a while back at least. Perhaps no longer, it's been years since I went shopping for them.
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[Swampy]

Tapco has new production ones for $ 0.69 ea

Don't know who makes them, but I've heard of guys having feed issues with the "new made" tapco M1 en-bloc clips..... which is a first in and of itself. Never before heard of ANY problems related to actual manufacture of an en-bloc.... wear or damage issues, yes, but not from actual error in manufacture.

Best regards,
Swampy

Garands forever

 

[Onmilo]

I have been out of the service for almost twenty five years now and can still remember seeing sealed fibreboard drums full of brand new M1 Garand clips.
There were something like 3000 clips in a drum and there were probably 300 drums sitting at depot,(Ft. Bragg N.C.).
That was just one post depot, multiply that by who knows how many other depots and I know the Military doesn't sell that stuff off at scrap price.
Somebody has them.
I know SARCO had at least two to three hundred drums of clips at one time and they probably still have some sitting in their warehouse.

Heck people are still turning up loose clips for K31 Swiss rifles and those things are way rarer than M1 enblocs.

 

[TheEgg]

Buy a case of Ammo from CMP -- the Greek HPX already loaded into clips.

Shoot up the ammo.

Save the clips.

Free clips!

 

[Steve in PA]

The ones being sold by TAPCO are pure 100% junk. This is not a pox on TAPCO, as I have bought and will continue to buy from them, but the en-blocs are chinese crap.

There are alot of companies making the en-blocs, there will never be a shortage.

 

[AZ Jeff]

At the peak of production in WWII, Springfield Armory ALONE was making over 1 million clips a month for the Garand.

The point of this factoid is that I suspect that a fair number of these clips survived battle, and are still around somewhere.

I know CMP was selling them for a while at very reasonable prices (0.50 each)if you bought a few hundred at a crack.

 

[ACP230]

In their ad on the front page of the Jan. 10, Shotgun News mag J&G Sales is offering M1 en-blocs for from $4.95 per 10 to $39.99 per hundred--if you buy 300.

All of mine came from DCM ammo that was sold to competitors at NRA Highpower Rifle matches.