Mag storage: full or empty?

[LoadedM333]

Yep 1 round at a time....lol

I don't keep my AR mags loaded. My first line of defense is a handgun. Which is loaded and ready. Xtra mags also.

But, if shtf, I can load my mags pretty quick with those clips.

Joking aside, I do need those stripper clips and I agree loading rounds onto the mags are super fast with them.

Curious, does it work with P-Mag? Never tried with Pmag only with aluminum GI mag. Thanks.


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[Dee_Dub]

I'd say almost full.... the mags tend to insert better with a round or two out.

[Bigdog68]

You guys leave pmags loaded with no dust covers? I always felt like they will bulge eventually.

I use Lancers or ASC's for home defense, metal lips

[Bigdog68]

Yep clips....

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I also try to keep my clips loaded, stored, and ready to go.

[The War Wagon]

Curious, does it work with P-Mag? Never tried with Pmag only with aluminum GI mag. Thanks.

Yes.


I've got a bandolier or twelve socked away as well, and stripper clips - with the standard insertion tool, WILL work with PMags. I tried it, to make sure.

[Mr. Beretta]

"Mag storage: full or empty?"

Full

Never any issues in 50 years of shooting.

[DrjonesUSA]

I can see why a person would keep loaded mags for Home defense / self defense

but no need to load every magazine you own for other firearms not for HD / CCW

thats how accidents happen, if you keep everything loaded , one day you might forget it's loaded, like those gun accidents they have at gun shows.

No, the way you have accidents is by believing that there is any such thing as an "unloaded gun."

All guns are always loaded, period.

Just look thru the news; all ND / AD always, always occur with an "unloaded" gun.



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[Killer Bee]

mag springs - good read

read this reposted article from American Handgunner '03

Magazine spring madness: 'creep' to your 'elastic limit' to un-earth the urban legend of 'spring-set'

clips - better loaded



bandoliers - handy for toting loaded clips



magazines - always loaded

[The War Wagon]

thats how accidents happen, if you keep everything loaded

You've had an A-D with a mag?!

[Vinnie Boombatz]

I have quite a few that are kept full. I have two others that are always empty that I keep in a ziplock bag with snap caps and use these two mags and snap caps for dry firing and practicing.

[Old Marine]

I can see why a person would keep loaded mags for Home defense / self defense

but no need to load every magazine you own for other firearms not for HD / CCW

thats how accidents happen, if you keep everything loaded , one day you might forget it's loaded, like those gun accidents they have at gun shows.

More likely to have an accident if you keep some loaded, some unloaded, easier to forget, get confused etc.

I keep all handguns in the safe door loaded for bear. Extra mags for each weapon, my AR mags are loaded and in a ammo can with my preferred AR weapon.

After reading the story about the Texas Church Shooter, guy who stopped the shooter, was running towards the church as carried a AR-15, a empty magazine, all while trying to load rounds into the magazine.


All of the discussions here are based on, when the SHTF, I will have time to load them up.

Reality will prove you wrong.

Be ready, Freddie!

[Kurgan]

It would take me a week or two to load all the magazines I own.

[A-J]

I have heard both answers. What say you store empty or full? My feelings is that full is fine. Except for perhaps blocked mags.

I was just thinking this exact thought this past weekend when I got my go gun magazines loaded up. Most of my (non go gun) mags are stored empty. But there's no harm in storing them loaded, but there IS a bonus - free ammo space. The mags are already taking up room in the safe, if they're loaded, then you are also storing ammo without using any additional space.

[johnnyh75]

Mine been loaded for 5 years no issues

[1Carguy]

I guess if you throw a empty mag really hard at a bad guy you might cause a really nasty bump on his head.