Carbine Clips!

I have to say this--tracers are not good target ammo but for training gun safety to your kids or inexperienced shooters they are a godsend on a plinking range--no idea on true target range but when you are shooting at various objects that create ricochets you will never have to explain why guns are dangerous and you should respect them. Having several m2's and a lot of m27 surplus tracer ammo I have watched many a kid or adult wide eyed when they see tracers coming back over them or going all different directions after hitting the plinking targets they were shooting at-it will teach them a new respect for the guns they are just blasting away with and yes yours truly had to call fire department to come put out fire in field of corn caused by errant tracer-there is a reason some ranges do not allow them

The ones I have fired which are probably maybe a little over a couple dozen we're all in the snow at an enormous dirt mound. I'm too afraid to shoot them in the summertime because of fires. I chose the snow because  of course safety issues being harder to catch fire and if you use them at dusk right as the sun is starting to completely fade but is still light out, and there is good snow cover on the ground, they are beautiful to see.

I have noticed that the G.G.G. 5.56 spoons mentioned in the original post (and also in the recently updated post) fit the plastic Magpul PMAG better than it does the original metal magazines, almost as if they were designed just for PMAG. They will actually easily slip off of the metal 5.56 magazines during loading whereas the P-mag has a groove that holds it tightly.   

New2brass wrote: The clip section is a little loose for .30 carbine ammo, but should be able to hold ammo as the rim difference is something like .08 between the 5.56 and the .30 carbine Has anyone tried to see if a 5.56 clip will fit a carbine spoon?

Here's a pic of the M14 magazine charger (spoon) mentioned above.

very cool comparison pic snippity!

Edited by New2brass - Nov 24 2025 at 9:21am