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An en bloc clip of 8×56mmR is inserted into a Steyr M95 carbine.. Several rifle designs utilize an en bloc clip for loading. With this design, both the cartridges and clip are inserted as a unit into a fixed magazine within the rifle, and the clip is usually ejected or falls from the rifle upon firing or chambering of the last round.
An M1 Garand en bloc clip (left) compared to an SKS stripper clip (right). It is called a "stripper" clip because, after the bolt is opened and the stripper clip is placed in position (generally by placing it in a slot on either the receiver or bolt), the user presses on the cartridges from above, sliding them into the magazine and stripping them off the clip.
Image Cartridge Country Produced Feed Mannlicher M1894: Semi-automatic pistol 6.5×23mmR 7.6×24mmR Austria-Hungary Stripper clip with internal 5-round magazine. Roth-Steyr M1907: Semi-automatic pistol 8mm Roth-Steyr Austria-Hungary Stripper clip with 10-round internal magazine. Mauser C96: Semi-automatic pistol 7.62×25mm 9×19mm Parabellum
These pre-date and are similar in concept to the clip used later by the US Army's M1 Garand. With the Ferdinand Mannlicher designed trigger guard / magazine housing assembly, when the bolt is open and fully retracted to the rear the full en-bloc clip is loaded into the magazine from the top through the open receiver. The empty clip will fall ...
It has a receiver with a "split bridge" (i.e., the bolt passes through the receiver and locks in front of the rear bridge); a rotating bolt head; and the characteristic Mannlicher-style "packet loading" or "en-bloc" system in which cartridges are loaded into a steel carrier (an en bloc clip) which is inserted into the magazine, where it holds ...
An M1 Garand en bloc clip loaded with eight .30-06 Springfield rounds Loading the M1 Unloading an M1 en bloc clip. The M1 rifle is fed by a reversible en bloc clip which holds eight rounds of .30-06 Springfield ammunition. When the last cartridge is fired, the rifle ejects the clip and locks the bolt open. [43] The M1 is then ready to reload.
In military service, Dutch M.95 rifles (6.5×53 mmR) cartridges are loaded primarily through the use of an en-bloc clip, similar in concept to the clip used later by the US Army's M1 Garand. With the Ferdinand Mannlicher designed trigger guard / magazine housing assembly, when the bolt is open and fully retracted to the rear the full en-bloc ...
The rifle, referred to as model M1893, was of a straight-pull, bolt-action design, chambered in the 6.5×48mm cartridge (also developed by Mondragón) or the 5.2x68mm cartridge (developed by Colonel Rubin), with a fixed magazine which held an 8-round en-bloc clip. [3]