Local deer hunters discover charger clips..

[Adam Helmer]

This morning at 6:00 a.m. two neighbor lads came by to go rifle deer hunting on the old farm.. One had a Savage .30-06 bolt action and the other had a Winchester M70 .30-06. Both lads had spare ammo in their coat pockets and asked if the rattling sound would alarm the deer.

I provided each a few brass charger clips to keep the spare ammo from rattling. Mike exclaimed, "Sweet" when he was shown the nuances of a 5-round charger clip. We older duffers, who grew up around lots of military surplus stuff, need to realize many new kids never saw or experienced what we take for granted.

Adam

[Jack]

I've been using charger clips for years to keep extra ammo quiet.
Everyone in my hunting camp uses em, too

[Adam Helmer]

Jack,

At the end of the hunting day, I showed the fellows the Garand 8-round clip. Both thought they were just the thing for quiet ammo carry and both have a Garand clip for each coat pocket.

Adam

[GoodOlBoy]

Yep it still stuns me how many folks DON"T know about all the old surplus gear. Guess its just because I gre up as a military brat. I still have a five round straight clip I retrieved from a surplus store years ago that I use with my 270 ammo. Dunno what it was originally for, but the thing works like a charm.

GoodOlBoy

[Adam Helmer]

GOB,

The Military Surplus stores of today are not like the stores in the 50s and 60s! Nowdays, they have stone-washed jeans, sweatshirts, etc. In the olden days, we kids bought lots of stuff for a quarter or fifty-cents that we could use.

I bought many web ammo pouches for a nickel or dime and most bayonets were a dollar or two. Web slings were a quarter and leather M1907 rifle slings with brass frogs were fifty cents. They sold quarts of GI bore cleaner for fifty cents and quarts of GI rifle oil for a dollar, and the instructions for use were printed on the outside of the quart cans. Fortunately, the GI bore cleaner was cheaper than a 2-ounce bolttle of Hoppes #9 and the GI stuff saved all my rifle bores from the hazards of the cheap corrosive ball ammo I bought by the bucket full back then.

That old GI bore cleaner cleaned corrosive-fouled rifle bores and one's sinuses at the same time! Ah, if only I could go back for one hour to K's Army-Navy surplus store, I'd fill a lot of empty spaces in my military collection.

Adam

[Jack]

Remember the mail order surplus place, I. Goldberg?
Adam, I have a bunch of Garand clips, too, but I use em in the Garand
You can still pick up the 5 round clips originally for 03's and Mausers at Numrich and other places.

[Adam Helmer]

Jack,

Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane: In November 1958 I bought my FIRST military rifle for $13.88 at I. Goldberg Surplus store in Philadelphia, PA.

I still have that 7.35mm M38 Carcano rifle. I wish I could shop for one hour at I. Goldberg's at their 1958 prices on more military stuff that I never knew existed. Those good old days, and prices, are long gone.....

Adam

[Jack]

Adam, the thought of I. Goldberg sure does bring back memories.
Camping as a kid under GI shelter halves, using surplus backpacks, etc, from Goldberg's.
A catalog full of all kinds of useful things like lister bags, spit and gaff sets, life rafts, etc. LOL