I want to thank all who had replied. I didn't realized that we used the same clip for both sizes. I will order a couple new clips from Merc and that should do it for me. I never found a reference on the web sites, that specificly said that they were the same clip.
Thanks for the picture of the 7MM shells, as I had never see one. My older brother said when we were growig up on the family farm in Kansas, he used to slip out to Dad's "doghouse" and take it out and shoot up a box of shells that he would find on the shelf. Dad would always reload them so must of known what was going on.
When younger I remember my Dad spending a lot of evenings reloading stuff and on the weeknd off to the local club he would go. I spent a lot of time running back and forth fetching targets, especially on the 100 and 200 ranges. By the time my younger brother and I got older (8 Years) my dad kind of stopped his major reloading as his best shooting buddy died of cancer and the local shooting club had disbanded and he didn't do it as much. We still had our own range in our pasture and dad on the holidays would throw out a 5 or 10 dollar bill and see who could shoot the tightest grouping.
Once in a while he would drag something out and load up some shells and we would stand ourside of the doghouse and we shoot accross the pasture to test some new load he would work on. I remember talking to some people back in Kansas one time and they stated that they never worried about shooting anything my Dad had reloaded.
<alanint said> Department of Civilian Marksmanship did offer .45 1911 pistols back then for competition.
<Mike B said>I can remember the NRA offering the M1 carbine to the members back in the 60's
This is what I must be remembering being talked about my younger brother got the 1911 and my older got the M1.
Thanks
Joe - Former Farmboy from the flat lands of Kansas.