On 2010-10-12, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:14:12 -0500, Pete Keillor
wrote:

On 12 Oct 2010 02:27:58 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

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Hmm ... how likely are they to hear that with all the other
noise sources around you that you just described?

And in a battle, would there not be others near you who were not
yet empty?

And, given that you can load 8 rounds into a Garand faster then you
can load 7 into a colt 1911 you can see that the enemy has a plenty of
time to come and get you.

[ ... ]

Stripper, I think (don't own one). They were loaded through the open
bolt, not by a magazine. That's basically the M14, a selective fire
Garand with box magazines.

I'd heard that savvy GI's (those still alive 3 days after delivery
from the repple depple) learned to save the empty clips and throw one
on the ground after firing a shot if they wanted to lure out the
opposition. That'd pretty quick make it a non-issue.

Pete Keillor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wvUkaU-bCM

O.K. Looking at that shows that it is quite different from the
stripper clips used by either the '98 Mauser or the SKS, which you would
toss (or save) as soon as you thumbed the stack of cartridges into the
permanent magazine -- and big enough to make a significant noise, too.

Yes, I can see how that would be a problem in combat.

Thanks,
DoN.

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