kBob
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Ha! Gottcha! Now you were about to barge in with a discourse on the difference between magazines and clips, since we all KNOW the Mini-14s use magazines.
Well, yes. But if you say they can not use clips I may start singing from Porgy and Bess "It ain't necessarily so...."
Today while going through some three decades old magazines to see what can be tossed, I ran across an article I somehow missed back then.
The product featured was called "Top Loader" It was a stripper clip guide for the Mini that appears to use USGI 5.56mm stripper clips. The kit did come with 14 stripper clips so they might have been only for that but the illustrations seemed to be of USGI stripper clips.
The Top Loader had a set of feed lips like on the M-14 or BM-59 that stuck up proud of the actual receiver. They did not interfere with normal Iron Sight use as one looked through them. They were attached like many of the scope mounts of the time for a mini by replacing the cover over the bolt hold open mechanism they were held in place there by the typical big headed bolt and also the tension of an allen head screw.
One simply used the empty magazine to trip the bolt hold, then inserted the clip in the guides and just like your Mauser or Springfield or what have you thumb the rounds into the magazine. Pull back the oprod handle and let fly when you are through.
I know you can load magazines with a "spoon" or magazine clip guide if you have one that fits Mini magazines. As this is attached to the rifle, you can not loose it or misplace it or forget and leave it at home.
Anyhow I had never seen such a product for the Mini before in real life and it fascinated me. AS reliable magazines are one of the issues for Mini owners it just seemed to me a device for loading a reliable magazine on the rifle might be a good thing especially for folks with only a couple or three reliable magazines.
Anyone make a thing like that today?
I even wondered if Tech Sites might be able to add such a feature to their replacement sights for the Ranch rifles, maybe even offering models to take SKS strippers for the 7.62x39 crowd or 6.5 Grendel guns.
Just thinking. A dangerous thing. Yes, that's true.
-kBob
Well, yes. But if you say they can not use clips I may start singing from Porgy and Bess "It ain't necessarily so...."
Today while going through some three decades old magazines to see what can be tossed, I ran across an article I somehow missed back then.
The product featured was called "Top Loader" It was a stripper clip guide for the Mini that appears to use USGI 5.56mm stripper clips. The kit did come with 14 stripper clips so they might have been only for that but the illustrations seemed to be of USGI stripper clips.
The Top Loader had a set of feed lips like on the M-14 or BM-59 that stuck up proud of the actual receiver. They did not interfere with normal Iron Sight use as one looked through them. They were attached like many of the scope mounts of the time for a mini by replacing the cover over the bolt hold open mechanism they were held in place there by the typical big headed bolt and also the tension of an allen head screw.
One simply used the empty magazine to trip the bolt hold, then inserted the clip in the guides and just like your Mauser or Springfield or what have you thumb the rounds into the magazine. Pull back the oprod handle and let fly when you are through.
I know you can load magazines with a "spoon" or magazine clip guide if you have one that fits Mini magazines. As this is attached to the rifle, you can not loose it or misplace it or forget and leave it at home.
Anyhow I had never seen such a product for the Mini before in real life and it fascinated me. AS reliable magazines are one of the issues for Mini owners it just seemed to me a device for loading a reliable magazine on the rifle might be a good thing especially for folks with only a couple or three reliable magazines.
Anyone make a thing like that today?
I even wondered if Tech Sites might be able to add such a feature to their replacement sights for the Ranch rifles, maybe even offering models to take SKS strippers for the 7.62x39 crowd or 6.5 Grendel guns.
Just thinking. A dangerous thing. Yes, that's true.
-kBob
