Posted on 10/18/2023 6:33:21 AM PDT by GRRRRR
Seems like a good time, on this INTL Day of TomFoolAssery, to check those mags that have been loaded for a good long while...5 years.
Empty them, clean and a lightlube and reload.
Anything else??
Good for another 5 years.
Carry On.
G
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Yep, I should have used quotes!
Russian AK mags, NOT the us made copies, I would load full. WAY overbuilt, and sturdy. Get some Russian ammo, hard to find, and you got a very reliable mag full of ammo. Gun I would also use Saiga brand names, but will last forever.
ARs are good, l like them as well and Magpull is pretty good and with the cover that relieves the tension on the lips of the mag I would not have a problem with storing them full.
I have yet to have a spring fail me because it was over used. Generally it is not that it is under tension but how many times it has been cycled as I understand.
My late father-in-law shot the 1911 all the time. He went into the Air Force and left several 1911 magazines loaded at his parents house while he was in the service. Four years later he was discharged and he returned home briefly before moving out and found his old fully loaded 1911 magazines. He went to the range, slapped them in his 1911 and they all worked without a hiccup.
Taken to the range, They ALL functioned perfectly.
That is not a recommendation. Just an anecdote.
fwiw, a metallurgist at work once told me, it’s not how long a spring is compressed, it’s how much it gets worked that weakens it...
Good idea, IMHO...
Now I just have to find the time to unload & reload several dozen mags...
Using tracers to keep track of ammo = Viet Nam level fail.
I cannot even list all the reasons why that’s the dumbest idea I’ve heard all day... but it is.
Thx for the update...🙂
Saves me a lot of thumb callouses...
Can you give us a couple of reasons?
I would say that advertising your position just before you run out of ammo is one.
Help us put on our tactical thinking caps.
I would be very interested as well. As a Marine who was deployed to Nicaragua in ‘81, fighting jungle warfare, it interests me more than you know. Regards, kawhill
I usually load them a couple three rounds short, and make sure they are very lightly oiled after checking to make sure none of the springs are rusted.
The WORST magazines I ever ran across were Keltec PMR30 makes. Cheap little THIN springs that were already corroded or rusted. I guess in the scheme of things it was likely. The gun was a cheap, loud plastic piece of crap, too.
One of every five. Not for ‘keeping track.’ For judging POI.
2 full with periodic changing.(4 months here) and all the rest on stripper clips... ...been that same way since Waco!!
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I should be good to go then.
Thanks
If your situation is so bad that you're burning through mags, we should be doing combat and tactical reloads. If your running a 30rd mag down and have no idea of your ammo status - a lot went wrong already that tracers (lol) won't solve. You are in a world of S, that most people in here couldn't handle anyway.
Someone also mentioned giving your position away... that's a reason. Note that NOBODY uses them in real situations anymore, LEO or mil. You hardly see them, and only for training and fkn around. And they set ranges afire - true story.
Also who wants to run shit like that through $2k rifiles?.
yup, cool dry place is all ya need...
Do the valve springs in a car’s engine or the coil springs on its shock absorbers wear out if the car sits parked 100 for years?
No, of course it doesn’t.
So what idiot started the rumor that magazine springs wear out if you leave them loaded?
Thanks for that, things I had not considered.
I never thought of using tracers to indicate an empty magazine, but found it an interesting idea.
I bought some green tips when the atf was trying to ban them.
We fired some at the range and sparked a grass fire. My buddy got to do a 300 yard dash. I imagine tracers are much worse.
After looking up the composition of tracer rounds, I can see why it would be better to fire them through Uncle Sam’s rifles rather than mine.
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