For reference...

>-One (1) 5-round SKS stripper clip**;
>-One (1) adolescent who was about to earn a lifelong loathing of the
>operation of stripper clips.
>
>So off the adults went, firing away with great enthusiasm while I
>tried in vain to fill the clip fast enough to keep two rifles loaded.

In fairness to Comrade Simonov, that sort of real-time action is not what those things are for. But you know that. :)

>**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)

>Buddy and gun were present
>that day so he could use Dad's clip to load the gun and try it out.
>IIRC, the company importing these guns was selling them for some
>unreasonably low price, but only included one clip per gun, and sold
>extras for $20+ per.

Heh, mine didn't come with any at all, but I was able to track down some surplus Yugo ammo that came already loaded, 1 per 10 rounds. (So even after I've shot it all, which will be years, I'll still have the clips. Which is nice!)

Also, I'll be honest, after the, shall we say, demographic setup for that, I was really expecting Dude #2 to have a stuck-firing-pin full-auto event with his SKS somewhere along the way. Bought surplus, not sufficiently de-gunked; I'm given to understand that happens fairly regularly among the hold-my-beer set. :)

>***I suggested that they should deploy their SKS' folding bayonets and
>charge the enemy, but that was purely out of spite since the
>ammunition ran out before I got a turn at shooting.

If they'd had the Yugoslav variant, they could've tried their luck with the grenade launchers. :)

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