keeping magazines loaded.....

[RS9]

[yachky]

Do you jack your car up and put it on stands every night to take the load of the springs?

[ryoung]

[Parikh1234]

[oneformula]

[R2.7TA6]

interesting lack of advice on here. Back in the early 90's several of the gun magazine did stories about this topic. The recommendation at that time from most of the gun/magazine manf. was to not keep a mag fully loaded. Unless your LEO or someone who might need all rnds everyday, keeping 5 rnds in an 8 rnd mag. keeps you ready.

Personally, the gun that is in the nighstand holds 15 rnds, there are 10 in it. There is also another 15 rnd mag. with 10 rnd in it. The other two are kept in a case, but there are 3 mags for each with 5 rnds in each. Same with my shotgun, there is one rnd in the mag, but 8 rnds sidesaddle that can loaded quick.

[oneformula]

that has proven to be bad advice.

sorry... but a fully loaded mag is fine. for DECADES.

[yachky]

Originally Posted by oneformula

that has proven to be bad advice.

sorry... but a fully loaded mag is fine. for DECADES.

I agree that "use 50% to 66%" of the capacity of the mag advice is bunk! To bottom line my previous point “do you jack your car up and put it on stands every night?”, the spring of a magazine is only worth a couple of bucks in comparison the firearm, and the probability that spring steel will fatigue any time soon in a quality firearm is also bunk! So use the **** out of the springs and maybe spend a dollar or two to have a couple replacements on hand. And to that point, buy a couple of extra mags too YA CHEAP SKATE!!! : ) After all you’re an Audi owner nobody is going to buy that you don’t have the funds…

Now about spring steel and the affects of fatigue has on it, it barely affects it!!! For example your car, those springs almost always last a life time. Yeah sure, once in a blue moon you break a spring. It’s going to happen. If you’re really that annoyed by the possibility use your springs like crazy and document how often they fail and create for yourself a replacement plan based on usage and require maintenance. Then replace the springs regularly based upon your findings, or possibly seek out the manufacturers recommended preventative maintenance schedule so as to press your luck.

You want advice? Keep your mags loaded, keep them fully loaded, own more than one mag, be able to do a mag swap in less than 5 seconds, and never chamber a round you don’t fire in a pistol. Why? Because you WILL drive the bullet further into the casing and you may accidentally increase the pressure of the round and cause a catastrophic failure and put yourself in a really bad spot not to mention possibly ruining your firearm. Now that’s advice.

[R2.7TA6]

well folks, I'll stand by my comments.

Couple of points of reference, I was at Cabela's this past week. Armorer's rep. from Glock was there, he was passing through from Chicago to L.A. from some seminars. He was meeting with the Cabela's gun reps, talking to customers, etc. Had the chance to meet with him as well. This thread and some others from the past were in the back of my mind, I posed this to him. His advice, and he said advice that Glock has given in the past, firearms that are in storage or not used on a daily should not be stored with a full mag. They recommend 75% of cap. also to reduce stress on spring. Granted it's a spring, and designed to be used as such, but too much pressure can, over time, cause it to loose it's tension and not allow the mag. to feed properly if brought into use.

Also, ran this question by some friends and family in local LE, they all said there in-house armorers or firearms trainers recommend that for non-duty weapons, they should not be kept with fully loaded mags at all, time 75 to 80% is their recommended.

BTW, the comment about jacking your car up every night it not a valid argument. If I was parking my car to leave it stored for 3 or 4 months and not be used at all, I would put it on stands and leave the tires only lightly touching the ground.

[jrock99]

I keep my .45 acp XD fully loaded with an extra fully loaded mag right next to me always. OOO and a round in the chamber tooo....always. Fuc* it! Rather be ready then try to save myself $20 on a retarted little spring. Protection is what most of us have guns for after all right?