[Charlie]

Picked up a couple of these a a recent gunshow. They look like aluminum, but are bright coated steel as per magnet test. Most were marked with the T/triangle/in circle stamp.Thinking about picking up a few more soon. Comments from users and what's a decent price each?? Wartime or postwar??. TIA.

 

[7.62x54r]

Chinese reproductions, although very good quality. Worth $1 each as functional stripper clips. Worth $0 each as collectible militaria.

 

[Mosinmeister]

Ditto: Chinese copies. I bought some also at a gunshow and they didn't work too well. I improved them though by putting some gun grease in the bottom grooves with my pinky to get them to work. They have loosened up a little since.

 

[slimedog]

Now they're repros again? Aw crap, I must have missed that discussion. I know it was going back & forth for a while when these first showed up in mass qtys and no one seemed to know where they came from. At least they work OK I guess...

 

[turfmn]

I bought some when they first went up for sale on Ebay. When you see them next to the real ones you can see small differences.

 

[Charlie]

THANKS for the comments. The seller had some MN parts from TAPCO and like me he had bought a bunch of MN bits and pieces. I missed the thread about these(?) strippers being Chinese knock offs. They compare/ look very well with some unmarked Finn strippers on some '43 dated Finn ammo I have. Guess that's what the Chinese intended.

 

[7.62x54r]

They're made in China for a company in TX that ordered them to those specifications. The Chinese never tried to fool anybody and the guy that had them made freely admits where they came from if you ask. None of the description I've seen mentions Finland or makes any claims about them being original. I wish they weren't Tikka marked though.

 

[zeebill]

Yeah I picked them up for 20 for $15 at the spring Knob Creek and they even work fairly well for me with the decreased strength in my hands from nerve damage. Not a bad deal at the price! Bill

 

[SlimTim]

They're made in China for a company in TX that ordered them to those specifications. The Chinese never tried to fool anybody and the guy that had them made freely admits where they came from if you ask. None of the description I've seen mentions Finland or makes any claims about them being original. I wish they weren't Tikka marked though.

Correct as far as this company goes, but unfortunately, several folks selling them, including several epay vendors, claim they are original. Also Tickbyte Supply carefully words their ad and doesn't say "original" but doesn't explain that they are reproductions either.

SlimTim

 

[Konstanty]

I find them to be good clips, but need a bit of smoothing out on the contact surfaces with #600 sandpaper. Also a bit of filing off of rough/sharp edges on the "fingers" at each end.

 

[Vic]

Feces! That is bad news for sure as the hundreds of them I have been hoarding from sweeping them up at the gun range in Finland are now worth pennies...

 

[7.62x54r]

Compared side by side it's pretty easy to tell the difference, mostly from the finish of the metal rather than the pattern of the stamping or the mark. One of these days I'm going to do a detailed comparison with pictures.

 

[DudleyDR]

Until Ted can do the job right, here are a couple of quicky pics - not exactly true to color, but one should be able to spot the differences six feet away. The authentic Tikka stripper is on the bottom and the Chinese reproduction is on the top. The original has the appearance/lustre of bright, smooth stainless steel. It has a good reflective quality to it. In comparison, the Chinese copy has a textured, "frosty", dull appearance. No doubt the metallurgy is different, but in the world of reproduction strippers, the Chinese copies work pretty well. HTH, DDR

 

[7.62x54r]

Jon, you just need to adjust the white balance in your pictures.

http://whibal.com/

 

[DudleyDR]

Oh no...I gots more studyin' and learnin' to do. This computer stuff never ends! Thanks for the info Ted. DDR

 

[69khz]

Rats, I got 40 of the tickbite ones thinking they were the real deal.

Pretty useless as far as I'm concerned. I can load 5 loose rounds faster than 5 on a clip.

 

[BoreGrv]

Yes I have some and never can get them to work like I think a stripper clip is suposed to. They either slip or chew up your finger and the rounds seem like they dont line up right and makes them hard to push in. Maby the orginal Finnish ones work alot better. So far that I have seen every thing Finnish works better and is of better quality.

 

[enfield56]

Hmmmm...... I've been collecting stripper clips for years, all kinds. and apart from the Santa Fe copies of the French Mannlicher Berthier 3 and 5 shot clips I didn't think it would be worth anyones time to do repros of anything but the very rarest......... just shows how wrong I can be!

Happy shooting,

Peter

 

[DudleyDR]

I think Masen recognized the shortage of Mosin stripper clips and filled a market niche/void. My guess is that the logo was part of an attempt to faithfully reproduce the early style sample given to the Chinese - although it could be more sinister, but I don't know that or suspect it from Masen's advertising. (Would have been better if the logo had been left off, however.) Generally speaking, I think the "fingered" style strippers perform better and no others that I know of are reproduced in that style. He may have been going for a quality product. DDR

 

[7.62x54r]

I heard second hand that he rejected the first two batches because the quality wasn't good enough.