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Should you keep spare magazines loaded?
When using quality magazines with quality ammunition, stored and maintained properly, you can leave them loaded as long as you want to without any reservation.
Is it bad to keep bullets in a magazine?
Anyhow, no, leaving a magazine loaded does not damage the magazine spring. It’s the continuing compressing and depressing the spring that causes damage over time. There has been people who has gotten hold of WWII 1911A1 magazines that had been left loaded for 40+ years and fired them off without a hitch.
How many mags do Navy Seals carry?
Standard issue combat vests carry 6 mags, the rifle will already have 1 in it – 7 mags is standard loadout, but as several people indicated, there could be a few more tucked away in buttpacks, etc.
Should you carry with a round in the chamber?
Modern Pistol Safety Features Modern carry pistols are almost always designed to be carried with a round in the chamber. Check with your manufacturer to be sure, but it’s a rare defensive pistol that’s not designed with drop safeties and other internal and external features to prevent negligent discharges.
Why do people put duct tape on magazines?
One the range, tape can help you identify your magazines from those that belong to another shooter. It’s kind of like the old crests on arrows. And, if you’re not in the military, it can be used to dress up your weapon. Some use camouflage tape to help break up their weapon’s appearance or just personalize it.
How many mags do Marines carry?
In military terms, your basic combat load is at least seven 30-round magazines for an M4-style carbine rifle and two spare high-capacity pistol magazines for an issued personal defense weapon. Those who were issued a custom-built 1911 carried as many as seven spare single-column magazines for their .
How do you carry a spare magazine?
The most logical way to carry a spare magazine is to use a magazine carrier or magazine holster. Just like concealed carry holsters, they are usually made of leather, hard plastics like Boltaron, Kydex or injection-molded plastic; they can be a hybrid design of the two…the choices vary by maker.
What is the best way to carry spare ammunition?
The best way to carry spare ammunition is to get a magazine holster. There are a plethora of them on the market and with all sorts of purposes in mind. There are magazine carriers for open carry, there are magazine carriers for concealed carry, there are magazine carriers that are pretty much good for range use.
Do you carry spare magazines in your belt pouch?
That said, other belt pouches may be able to hold and therefore conceal larger magazines as well, and without drawing attention to a person carrying extra rounds. It’s definitely a great idea to carry a spare magazine if you’re going to carry on a daily basis.
What’s the best way to carry Mags?
A gun and holster plus magazines and holster are a lot to put on the waistband. There are also some interesting improvised mag carriers that can also work. Essentially, the idea is to employ camouflage by carrying magazines in something that would ordinarily be employed carrying something else.