>>**for those of you playing at home, this is a greater than 1-to-1
>>ratio of guns to clips. The second SKS belonged to one of Dad's
>>buddies, who had mistaken the clip that came with his gun for
>>something unnecessary and discarded it.

>... (facepalm)

To be completely fair, he might've thought it was just a lump of hardened cosmoline- or at least ours seemed like the packing procedure was "drop gun in crate, fill with cosmoline until covered".

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."