Updated
: 21st
June 2023 What's
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WELCOME to my web pages, I decided to put these
pages together to help fellow collectors out there
with the identification of 7,62x51 mm NATO Stripper
Clips, in Commonwealth service known as the 7.62 x 51 mm Mk. 1, Mk. 2, Mk. 3 and Mk. 4 Chargers while
in India they are known as Charger
7.62mm, Ammunition B. In
American service they are known as CLIP,
5 Rnd (Round).
Around the world the
term "Stripper Clip" translates into:- Argentine: " Peine ", Dutch:
" Laadclip " r " Laadstrip ", Finnish:
" sidettä¤ ", French:
" Lame, chargeur ", German:
" Ladestreifen ", Hebrew:
pronounced 'Mitahn', Hungarian:
" Tältöléc ", Italian:
" Piastrina porta cartucce " or " Lastrina di
caricamento " or " Piastrina di caricamento ", Japanese:
" Sodanshi ", Romanian:
" Lama de cartuse ", Spanish:
" Clip de alimentación descartable ".
There are lots of sites
covering cartridge collecting, firearms, bayonets and
some sites covering accessories like slings and oil
bottles its basically impossible to find any detailed
information about the markings that are found on 7,62 x
51 mm stripper clips. My field of interest is the design,
development and identification of the stripper clips in
Australian, British and Canadian service. Along the way
I have acquired clips from America, Belgium, Bulgaria, China,
Netherlands,
India, Israel, Italy, Nigeria, Spain,
Taiwan and
some I haven't been able to positively identify, can
you?
For NATO countries
these clips were manufactured to the NATO standard, for
Australia, Canadian and the UK they also standardized
their clips for interchangeability. Other countries
outside of these also used this type of stripper clips
with their rifles. These clips were used in rifles such
as the FN FAL,
L1A1, L2A1, C1A1, C2A1,
M14, M14A1, M15, AR10,
BM59, CETME, G1, G3,
G3A1, G3A2, G3A3, G3A3Z,
G3A4, Galil, SAFN49, M1949,
SG510-4, SIG AMT, SG542, Type
64, T-57, 2A1,
m/62, L8A1, L8A2, L8A3,
L8A4, L8A5, FR7 and FR8.
It was due to the
frustration of not being able to find the information
about the manufacturers markings I turned to creating
this website and asking for your help. If you have any
stripper clips that are marked differently to those
shown or you are able to contribute to this study please
contact me with the details. I am always looking for new
examples of manufacturers marking to add to the
collection and I'm willing to buy or trade for unlisted
examples. E-mail me.
For those of you that
have a stripper clip that you do not know who's country
it belongs to, try looking up the markings or finish of
it here at the:-
It's been 20 years
since I started my project and it has progressed very
well over that time and I've made some good contacts via
the Internet. If you've ever wanted to do your own web
page I say go for it, it's worthwhile even if your
interest is a little off the wall like this site.
Someone else will also be asking the same questions you
are and they might be able to help you with your
collecting or research. Like the saying goes "Build
it and they will come". It certainly worked for me
and it's not as hard as you might think.
If you have any
information you wish to share with other collectors
please let me know to help enhance this reference site.
If you are a repeat visitor, thank you for coming back,
for those first timers ...... enjoy, I hope you find
these pages useful to you.
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