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On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:14:34 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 1/31/2015 12:00 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 08:43:59 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 1/31/15 8:33 AM, Poquito Loco wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:43:09 -0500,
wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:35:42 -0600, Califbill
wrote:

wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 06:34:48 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:


30 cents a round seems to be the going price at many internet stores,
but I don't mess with stripper clips.

I doubt your AR will even use stripper clips. I can see why you don't
mess with them. My M1A can directly charge the magazine in the gun
from the top with a stripper clip and the bolt kicks it out of the
holder when you close it.

The box came with an attachment for the clip.

I have a couple of those magazine loader "spoons" John was talking
about but I have never used them. I always load the magazines from
loose rounds. I do have some battle packs in strippers but I haven't
even opened the bags. I have a bunch more in strippers in a can but I
haven't got down to shooting them either. I am still working on stuff
that was boxed. If you just stack them in a 30 cal ammo can in
alternate directions you get almost 400 rounds in there that way.

I don't recall anything about a loader 'spoon'. I have some stripper clips for the
Mosin Nagant, but don't use them. Hell, it takes more time to load the clip and then
load the rifle than to just load the rifle.

Besides, the extra time used for loading the rifle enables one to think on what a
****ty shot one is!

I had an optometry appointment Thursday. We talked about shooting. Told him that I
could see sights and a blurry target with computer glasses, or see a sharp target and
very blurry sights with the distance glasses. I asked if he could write a
prescription to enable both with the same glasses.

He looked at me and simply said, "No."


If you have the ability to shoot with both eyes open, there is the
solution that works for me. My lasik'd distance vision is good in both
eyes, but since I am creaky and old, I need reading glasses
for...reading...or to clearly see the sights on a pistol or rifle.

So...I have a reading lens on the right eye side of the glasses and
either no lens or a clear lens on the left eye. Somehow what is left of
my creaky brain is able to "merge" what I see so that I can easily and
clearly see the firearm sights *and* the target.

Your mileage may vary.




I only shoot a rifle with one eye.


Where do you store the other one?


Perhaps his rifle only has one eye.
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