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...reloads would be bloody quick with stripper clips!

...those stripper clips are amazing.

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Those (pictured above) aren't strippers, they are 'en bloc'.

These are 'strippers' v :________________________________Westley Richards ad for '.375 Express', AKA .375 2.25" Nitro Express Rimless, .375 RNE, 9.5X57.

'Stripper' being loaded into Mannlicher Schönauer:

Stripper leaving phone booth:


Strippers: Gunboards

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the first rifle in this link is years old now, it was like an epiphany for me when I see it the first time.

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Daryl, the clips used with the 1895 are actually En Block clips and the rounds are loaded into the clip in quite differently to a normal stripper clip. They also get fed down into the action with the cartridges and it stays there until the last cartridge is fed into the chamber where the clip then drops out through the bottom of the action. They are actually faster to use than a normal stripper clip as they don't have to be removed from the action before firing.

Matt.

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...reloads would be bloody quick with stripper clips!

...those stripper clips are amazing.

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Those (pictured above) aren't strippers, they are 'en bloc'.

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Oh Dear I certainly did get it wrong didn't I!!!!

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Oh Dear I certainly did get it wrong didn't I!!!!

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Stuff happens.

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En bloc = 'all together or at the same time', from mid - 19th Century French.

In surgery it means 'in a lump', or 'on the whole' (as in autopsy).

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Yes I am aware what they are called, as noted.

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"as the five cent coin issued by the United States from 1913-38 is almost universally referred to as a Buffalo Nickel' though it depicts a bison and is 75% copper."

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"as the five cent coin issued by the United States from 1913-38 is almost universally referred to as a Buffalo Nickel' though it depicts a bison and is 75% copper."

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What then is a buffalo ?

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...The name buffalo is listed in many dictionaries as an acceptable name for American buffalo or bison. Samuel de Champlain applied the term buffalo (buffles in French) to the bison in 1616 (published 1619), after seeing skins and a drawing shown to him by members of the Nipissing First Nation, who said they travelled forty days (from east of Lake Huron) to trade with another nation who hunted the animals.[11] In English usage, the term buffalo dates to 1625 in North America, when the term was first recorded for the American mammal.[12] It thus has a much longer history than the term bison, which was first recorded in 1774.[13] The American bison is very closely related to the European bison (also known as wisent or the European wood bison).

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Mr. Cody also encountered many people he would likely have referred to as 'Indians', a once common descriptor applied to persons indigenous to North America that had never set foot in, or likely heard of, India.

Centuries prior, 'Columbus' (born Cristoforo Colombo by some accounts, known as Cristobal Colon to the Spanish) had been sponsored by wealthy patrons to find a seaward 'short cut' from Europe to India and to return with holds full of oriental spices - particularly pepper.

Having failed at both tasks he brought captive Caribbean Islanders and ground chilies back to these patrons and passed them off as 'Indians' and 'peppers'.

Tomato, tomatoe, potato, potatoe? The 'nickel' still bought a doughnut, chili 'peppers' are hot and tasty, and 'clips' perform their function. The 'Indians' got the short end.

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Citizen of the Cherokee Nation