Hi folks,I have a question for you.Should I or should I not keep my mags fully loaded?I have heard some say that it will cause the spring to get weak and not feed well.On the other hand if they are not loaded and the excrement hits the oscillating device(I had to use it)I would be SOL.Thanks in advance for for your help.
My answer to your Question Rowdeydog is pure advice..Buy a goodsupply of 10-mags load 2-fully then rotate them every other day.I myself keep a fully loaded mag in my MBR ready to go at all times!
But thats what i do
How you do is up to you.
Hope that helps some.
Metalurgists tell us springs don't take a set, nor do they weaken from staying compressed. Springs weaken from being used, and especially from being overcompressed. Load up a magazine, let it sit for 10 years, and it'll work. Load up a magazine and overcompress the spring in the process, let it sit for 10 years, and it won't work right. It wasn't the 10 years that did it, it was the overcompression when the magazine was loaded: It would have not worked 10 minutes after it was loaded.
Therefore, ensuring you don't overcompress your mag springs will take care of the issue. So, if you want your mags ready for any eventuality, try loading one with 2 rounds less than capacity, keeping them on "stand-by", and then, if you wish (some do for peace of mind), rotate them out quarterly or every 6 months....
Works for me. My mags work flawlessly, and most of them were made in the 60's.
The only time that I have seen or even heard of this. Is with the cheap m 16 variant type mags. It is on some of these that the last two rounds tend to spread the magazine outwards on the flat sides. This event causes the mag to not seat properly in the rifle, yet it will seam as if it is, because it will stay inside the magazine well.Even while you run and slide around. This will aggravate the hell out of you at the least. Once you aim in, and try to fire, only to hear the click of a dry fire. I find, that like mentioned above.....two less is good, but a good thing to do in any case is to always do a brass check. This is to make sure you're mag is working, and to know without a doubt that rifle will send out a round when you need it to. _________________ So we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teaming with souls shall it ever be.
The only time that I have seen or even heard of this. Is with the cheap m 16 variant type mags. It is on some of these that the last two rounds tend to spread the magazine outwards on the flat sides.
Me, too, but also the cheap "USA Made" M-14 type mags have the same thing happen to them...I'm very pleased with the USGI and even the "original" Type 57 Taiwanese (before the ban) mags...
Thanks for your input guy's.I have been loading them to full capacity minus two since you responded black jack,and it has worked well .I put my weapon through it's paces a couple weeks ago and all my mag's worked great.I also always do a visual check to make sure that there is one in the hole.Thanks again.
RRD. _________________ Amendment II (1791) A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
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