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• ilove22s Senior Member Posts: 1,507 Senior Member

  July 2020 #2

  Yup. 
   
  those moon clips come in handy.
  
  i got one of those mooners/de mooner tools to try.  It works ok.
  
  
  

  The ears never lie.
  
  - Don Burt

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• GunNut Posts: 7,642 Senior Member

  July 2020 edited July 2020 #3

  These are made of nice spring steel and the tool is nice and sturdy.  Priced right too.  I’ve bought others that were too soft and would bend easily.

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• NN Senior Member Posts: 25,126 Senior Member

  July 2020 #4

  Spring steel clips are the type to have. 
  I use a piece of 5/8 copper tubing as a de-mooning tool. 

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• NN Senior Member Posts: 25,126 Senior Member

  July 2020 #5

  Some years ago, I bought some 9mm clips from  Ranch Products that were spring steel for a 9mm speed six; they caught on the revolvers hand, I  enlarged the center hole that is round and they work perfectly, much better than bendable 1/2 moonclips.

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• bullsi1911 Moderator Posts: 12,045 Senior Member

  July 2020 #6

  Pretty sure Ranch Products is where I first bought Moon clips from when I got my 1917 and the 325PD.  Never understood why people said Moons were fragile and easy to bend.... maybe its because they arent using good clips!

  To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
  -Mikhail Kalashnikov

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• GunNut Posts: 7,642 Senior Member

  July 2020 #7

  NN said:

  Spring steel clips are the type to have. 
  I use a piece of 5/8 copper tubing as a de-mooning tool. 

  That's pretty much what I was doing but this tool is great once you do it a few times you get into a rhythm and bang you are done.

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• GunNut Posts: 7,642 Senior Member

  July 2020 #8

  bullsi1911 said:

  Pretty sure Ranch Products is where I first bought Moon clips from when I got my 1917 and the 325PD.  Never understood why people said Moons were fragile and easy to bend.... maybe its because they arent using good clips!

  Apparently there are a lot of cheap soft steel ones out there.  I've been buying name brand ones like Wilson and such but decided to give Ranch Products a go and I'm happy with what I got from them.

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