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These do not have the tabs at the end. They do fit the 30-06 but I know some foriegn clips do take 06 also...

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p178/z3bigdaddy/Thompson%20Stuff/WII01192013a.jpg

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Z3,

They sure look like 03 clips.

I have both kinds, with tabs and without tabs.

If I may take a guess, without looking anything up, I would say the tab clips are for combat and the no tab clips for Rifle range practice.

That way they could be refiled out of 20 rd boxes and reused.

If tabbed clips were used on the range the tabs would soon break anyway.

Of course the '03 and '17 clips were identical and interchangeable.

Jim C

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Z3,

Not that its really important but these clips were also used to fill BAR magazines.

Required an adapter , similar to the M16 mag filler.

I'll bet Roscoe has a BAR stripper clip adapter. Maybe he will post a picture.

Jim C

 

I have several, I will try to post some photos Sunday afternoon.

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Z3,

Not that its really important but these clips were also used to fill BAR magazines.

Required an adapter , similar to the M16 mag filler.

I'll bet Roscoe has a BAR stripper clip adapter. Maybe he will post a picture.

Jim C

 

This is a 1918 BAR stripper clip & BAR magazine that was in the rear of the Bonnie & Clyde death car found after the ambush, just a FYI.

 

OCM

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So these could have been used by B&C? I think my ebaY price just went up... :ph34r:

Maybe put them up for sale in NY without any pictures in an ad that says

03/18 Springfield 5rd clips

NY hi-capacity clip compliant

get them before they're gone!!

$50ea

Let the guys who bought up the cheap magazines only to turn around and sell at insane prices pick them up.

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So these could have been used by B&C? I think my ebaY price just went up... :ph34r:

 

These were used by B&C, came from the evidence file on them, out of Shreveport as I remember. Barrow had an armory stuff in the backseat when killed. These were from the military of course. The picture just next to the items, shows Henderson Jorden, one of the guys at the ambush, with all the guns and ammo they were traveling with when killed. For fun, I loaded up the Barrow magazine and shot 20 out of my BAR. Pretty uneventful, but cool just the same.

 

OCM

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