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I've had my Charter Arms Explorer pistol since the mid 80's, think I paid around $120 for it. I also bought one of the 25-round RamLine plastic banana clips a few months after I bought the pistol (for $50, iirc). The pistol itself is OK, nothing great, and as Moose said, it's not the most accurate, but it's lightweight and relatively easy to work on, provided you're gentle with the aluminum. It does tend to jam, although now I'm reading that can be fixed by chamfering the receiving edge of the chamber very, very slightly.
Unfortunately, I lost the original 8-round metal clip in 1992, and haven't really used the pistol much since then. The RamLine clip was a total waste of $50 - the plastic feed throat split slightly a few years after I bought it, and that caused the throat of the clip to expand just enough that it won't hold the cartridges. They spray right out as soon as I take my thumb off the top round. Junk! I can still load 1 or 2 rounds in the RamLine and sometimes they'll both cycle through, but usually it jams. OK, I confess - when I bought that banana clip in 1986, I was 16 and thought it made the little gun look tough. This was back in the days when Rambo was king...
Just tonight I was thinking about that pistol and started researching it on the Internet and found this forum. I've also found a few websites that claim to sell clips for the AR-7 series that are supposed to fit Armalite, Charter, Henry and any other AR-7s. Guess I'll buy one or two and see if they really work or if they're as junky as the Ramline.