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

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.

I ordered a few since the reviews are good and they are available.

Bruce

Ammo Garand.com ,packrat collectables .llc

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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Originally posted by andronicus:
How many do you need?

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

Bruce

you will need 50 each

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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Originally posted by 45 Cal:
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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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
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.