Enbloc Clips for M1 Garand Available

[K43]

Man, I used to give them away. Don't be afraid of the Korean clips with the rough parkerizing. Just hit the inside curved edges on each end and the outside guides on left and right with 100 or 120 grit or finer sand paper to smooth them and that will stop the failing to feed issues the rough parking can cause.

[Mk42gunner]

I think you may be confusing stripper clips with the 8 round enblock clip which is used only in the M1 Garand. They are very different.

Nope. The Navy had at one time M1 Garands chambered in 7.62 NATO; some with real 7.62 barrels, some with a chamber insert. Before my time, but they still had lots of 7.62 NATO in eight round Garand clips.

Not as much fun to empty the eight round clips and hand load M-14 magazines as using the stripper clip adapter and just running in five rounds at a time, but they were still M-80 ball rounds and shot just fine.

Robert

[MUSTANG]

Nope. The Navy had at one time M1 Garands chambered in 7.62 NATO; some with real 7.62 barrels, some with a chamber insert. Before my time, but they still had lots of 7.62 NATO in eight round Garand clips.

Not as much fun to empty the eight round clips and hand load M-14 magazines as using the stripper clip adapter and just running in five rounds at a time, but they were still M-80 ball rounds and shot just fine.

Robert

I used to shoot .308 in my Garands using a chamber insert to temporarly convert the 30-06 chamber to .308 . After getting one of the Chamber inserts "Stuck" in the Garand 30-06 Chamber; I had a Gunsmith remove the Chamber insert and decided to dedicate the Garands to 30-06 only use from then on.

[dale2242]

I bought a short barreled M1 Garand at a yard sale many years ago for $40.
It needed a few parts.
For another $25 I had a shooter.
Nope, M2 ball wouldn`t chamber.
It was 7.62 X 51.
Regular 30-06 en bloc clips worked just fine.

[kywoodwrkr]

Man, I used to give them away.

Bought a couple M1s from CMP years back and decided I'd take advantage of enbloc sale,and buy two large boxes of enblocs the CMP was selling.
Still have about 30 of them but managed to divest my self of the rest.
But I didn't come into this world with many, so going out without many, won't be a problem.
thanks

[cpaspr]

I inherited a couple of cigar boxes full from my dad years ago. I remember as a kid he used to store his .30-06 ammo in them for some reason. He never had a Garand, which meant he had to physically disassemble them out of the clips to load them in his bolt-gun. I guess they might take up less room on the shelf. Though he did have about 20 or more 20-round MTM style boxes and space was never an issue, so, after all these years, who knows? I gave four of them to a co-worker just yesterday. He only had one for his Garand.

[NuJudge]

People used to laugh at me, dumpster diving for old Springfield Armory clips after Service Rifle matches.

The clips never wear out: I used 3 clips in several Winter leagues, every other Sunday for 5 months, two 50-shot National Match courses per Sunday. Sometimes I used a caliber .30 Garand, sometimes a 7.62.

[pa.frank]

This is hilarious. I can remember getting them 10 for a dollar back in the early 70's. I probably still have a couple hundred laying around in a box somewhere that came with surplus ammo.

[Havok7416]

No idea on these but could they be 3d printed? Just curious.

They cannot be 3D printed. I have tried. The problem is the plastic has to maintain the same shape as the original spring steel. At that thickness the plastic can't hold under the tension of the bullets and breaks immediately. I haven't tried TPU yet but I can't see it doing any better than the PLA and PETG I have previously attempted.

[MUSTANG]

They cannot be 3D printed. I have tried. The problem is the plastic has to maintain the same shape as the original spring steel. At that thickness the plastic can't hold under the tension of the bullets and breaks immediately. I haven't tried TPU yet but I can't see it doing any better than the PLA and PETG I have previously attempted.

Thanks for the info. I had been contemplating that 3d printed plastic might be feasible.

Of course - some of the Multi Million $$$$$ 3d Metal Printing might do it; but then starting up an existing line of steel stampings to stamp out a couple hundred thousand to millions would probably be less expensive.

[Havok7416]

In all honesty, you could get a few dozen made by going to a local fabrication shop. The setup costs might rule out a low production run, but they are merely spring steel after all.

[30calflash]

No reason to fab them, just look online and at shows or an active hi power club you should be able to get some. Besides whoever cornered to fab them would laugh at the current price of whatever they're going for. You can't set up, make and test them on a small scale even if $10 a pop.

Folks here have had them F/S in the past, USGI, they're the go to for an M!.

[Havok7416]

No reason to fab them, just look online and at shows or an active hi power club you should be able to get some. Besides whoever cornered to fab them would laugh at the current price of whatever they're going for. You can't set up, make and test them on a small scale even if $10 a pop.

Folks here have had them F/S in the past, USGI, they're the go to for an M!.

This is by far the easiest option. Even if prices are high, it is more or less irrelevant. The clips will last virtually forever, so the only issue would be losing them.

In my brief search for a 3D print option I did run across a belt clip for a loaded en bloc. It works pretty well, but I don't know how if the clip would stay in if you were to doing any serious running around.

[MUSTANG]

Somewhere in the deep cob webs of my memory; there was something about a Belt holder for M1 Garand Clips. Ohhhh; this just popped into the memory from the Cob Webs.

[Havok7416]

Lol I have one of those myself. The 3D print I found only holds one clip, so you could scale down if you chose to do so.

[nicholst55]

I bought 100 NOS M1 clips from a vendor years ago for $40, IIRC. I may even use them someday, who knows?

[36g]

Let me ask this on 3D printed versions. I'll assume that the attempts that have been made are trying to have an 8 round capacity. In order to get some structural integrity the thickness would have to be increased. SO, have a 6 round printed version been attempted?

[Havok7416]

Let me ask this on 3D printed versions. I'll assume that the attempts that have been made are trying to have an 8 round capacity. In order to get some structural integrity the thickness would have to be increased. SO, have a 6 round printed version been attempted?

I only found one file and it was for an 8-round version. Making 3D files from scratch is harder than most people seem think it is (myself included initially). The main issue in any event is not the capacity of the clip, but rather the thickness of the material. It still has to fit within the walls of the magazine on either side, so you can't build it up thicker. In particular, the open end of the clip is too fragile when using plastic. That same area with steel is under a lot of force by the time the 7th and 8th rounds are crammed in.

[MUSTANG]

36g could be onto something conceptionally. Loading enbloc clips; 7 rounds will stay all in the clip, the 8th being very difficult to install without the correct technique. Not sure that 7 rounds (in a steel or printed plastic clip) would feed correctly into the magazine well; or chamber loading into the rifle.