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I'm looking for reliable Garand clips to go with my rifle. CMP is shut down, right now, I believe, so I am looking for another source. The link below is what I have found. Does anyone have any experience with them. How about others that are also available now?

https://www.midwayusa.com/prod...006264072?pid=677853

Bruce






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I've used the ones in the link, good to go. I never really have trouble finding GI surplus at gun shows tho. I think the last batch I purchased were $2 per. Sometimes I've found them for around 50 cents per.
 
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I ordered a few since the reviews are good and they are available.

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I use the ones from AmmoGarand.com. I Split 100 so we wound up paying less than a dollar each.
 
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How many do you need?
 
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How many do you need?


I just ordered 400 rounds of ammo, so...

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"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams

“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free."
-Niccolo Machiavelli

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
 
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you will need 50 each
 
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If you can find some of the Greek clips, they're good to go.

Greek HXP M2 Ball ammo was readily available from the CMP in the mid-to-late 2000s, and came either in carboard boxes, on 8 round Garand clips, or on 5 round M1903 stripper clips.

I bought a number of spam cans of ammo on Garand clips, and a few on M1903 clips.

You still see HXP M2 Ball for sale on the secondary market, often on clips, as people sell off their old stock. So I'd keep an eye out for HXP ammo and grab some of that if you can. Not only is the ammo good, but the clips are as well.

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you will need 50 each


Only if you plan on loading all 400 rounds onto clips at once. While that's probably an ideal goal, it isn't strictly necessary.

You can have fewer clips, and just reload them and reuse them as needed. They're not as durable as detachable box magazines, but they're easily reusable many dozens of times.

I wouldn't want to get by with 1 or 2 clips, but you could easily make do with 10 or so clips for now. Most folks aren't blasting away with 80+ rounds of .30-06 rapid-fire in one string.

If all my Garand stuff weren't in storage in preparation for moving, I'd ship you a fistful of clips.
 
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If you can find some of the Greek clips, they're good to go.

Greek HXP M2 Ball ammo was readily available from the CMP in the mid-to-late 2000s, and came either in carboard boxes, on 8 round Garand clips, or on 5 round M1903 stripper clips.

I bought a number of spam cans of ammo on Garand clips, and a few on M1903 clips.

You still see HXP M2 Ball for sale on the secondary market, often on clips, as people sell off their old stock. So I'd keep an eye out for HXP ammo and grab some of that if you can. Not only is the ammo good, but the clips are as well.



This is how I got all of my clips. I haven't seen any HPX in a while, but always on the lookout for it. Wish I would have bought many more cans when it was so readily available. Frown



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