Eventually manufacturers will cease production of your firearm because of a new model or revolutionary new design. How many magazines you carry on the regular is a personal choice.
Do you have strong feelings about the right number of pistol magazines you should own? Leave a comment below to share with our viewers. Your email address will not be published. My name is Mike and my goal is to provide you with all types of information for your everyday carry needs. Growing up the son of a Marine, I was raised to be prepared and adaptable to overcome life's challenges.
So, whether it's setting up and maintaining your EDC bag, laws on concealed carry, or refining your medical kit we tackle the hard questions. I am a concealed permit holder for over a decade , a lifetime NRA member, certified firearms instructor, and a firearm enthusiast. Many of my friends and family are former or active duty military, and I have consulted with them on many of the topics I cover in this blog over the years. It is not uncommon to see preppers have dozens, even hundreds of magazines stashed ready for the fateful day that everything goes south.
Conversely, I know plenty of preppers who have a few magazines for each gun they have, maybe, and that is only if the guns take a unique magazine. It is a topic worth discussing: no one wants to be caught low or empty, but only a few kinds of magazines are really cheap enough to buy in bulk without regret, and even those costs accrue quickly enough.
Is it better to spend your money on other things, or is should accumulating enough mags to last you to the end be a worthy goal on your prepping checklist? Some concerns are practical, others are not, but all of them are important. For a firearm that uses them, the importance of magazines is paramount, being an essential component of the firearm itself. Without a magazine in place, any firearm, no matter how awesome its other attributes, is little better than a slow-loading single shot gun, and may be worse than that, since they were designed to load from a magazine in the first place.
Consider also that the party cannot continue when the gun is empty, and no one has time to jam mags when you need to be shooting; the obvious course of action is to quickly exchange the spent magazine for a loaded one.
So magazines are a crucial component for firearms, and more than most other essential parts, magazines, in general, are considered disposable, no matter how well made they are. They simply wear out from use. Add in hard training cycles, plenty of dry practice, and intense firing schedules and you might be surprised at how quickly a formerly reliable magazine starts acting up. For that reason it pays to have plenty of spares. For the most common firearms that fit squarely in the world class category, think ARs AKs, Glocks and so on, their magazines are renowned for being just as reliable as the guns themselves.
In actuality, the guns are reliable predominately because their mags are so reliable. Any reliable semi-auto firearm design starts around a really well designed magazine. If you start with a subpar magazine, or add a subpar magazine to an otherwise good design, you will no longer have a gun that is reliable. Dents, dings, loading and unloading cycles, and cycling inside the firearm all cause wear.
The relationship and dimensions of the feed lips and the angle the loaded cartridges interact with them will start to change. The spring will start to wear out. The geometry of the body will be altered. Eventually, the magazine will start producing malfunctions. When this occurs, rather when we can decisively link a malfunction to a magazine and not the gun or ammunition and, spoiler, we always suspect the magazine first if it is not obvious it was the others we will forgive it exactly one time.
Once, no more. On the second occurrence, it is hammer time. Hammer time? Save your obvious jokes, that is not what I am talking about. I am talking about decommissioning the magazine, and doing so in a spectacular way: crushing the offending magazine, destroying it.
Then throw the offender in the trash can for its last tour of duty. Rest assured it will. I usually chilled arm 15 mag with my glock 43x. I carried two extra mags yes that's 45 rounds I may only use one or two rounds but at least I'm not going to run out if I need more.
Post a Comment. Saturday, April 26, How many magazines do you need? I am often amazed that many shooters only have the one or two magazines that came with their guns. Not realizing that they will not have time to reload outside of practice at the firing range. Spare magazines are what you need to carry spare ammunition at the ready. This applies to self-defense, competition or the zombie apocalypse.
The big question is how many spare magazines do you need. You need a minimum of 3 magazines, and 5 magazines is highly recommended. Three magazines will allow you to have one in your gun, and two spares. This is enough to allow for lost or broken magazines and enough ammunition capacity to handle most situations.
I like to keep 15 pistol and 50 for my main rifle then about 20 for anything else. You need more to survive the zombie apocalypse. Trust me I know! I started late in the game. Dont worry im starting a raider gang and you can join.
They should all be numbered so you can rotate them. Between single mags, p mags, and glock mags. Buy a case of magazines.
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