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Do you fill your mags to capacity?

Do you load your magazines to capacity?

  • Yes, I load them all the way full.

    Votes: 142 71.0%
  • No, I leave them -1.

    Votes: 54 27.0%
  • Belt-fed FTW.

    Votes: 4 2.0%

  • Total voters
    200
If you read Chuck Taylor of American Small Arms Academies' article where he shot over 300,000 rounds through his G-17 you could see where he had reliability issues until he started downloading his mags. by one whereupon the " life" of the mag. springs & therefore the reliability was greatly increased.
Besides, what "context" are you referring to?
I was simply giving the reasoning WHY many people who download their mags. choose to do so.
I have no interest in arguing w/ anyone. As I stated, to each to their own... doesn't matter to me.

I wasn't trying to argue, bro. Just having some fun on Christmas Eve. The little icon characters at the end of my post were supposed to identify the said post as lighthearted humor. I guess the attempt at humor was a dismal failure.
Merry Christmas.
 
I wasn't trying to argue, bro. Just having some fun on Christmas Eve. The little icon characters at the end of my post were supposed to identify the said post as lighthearted humor. I guess the attempt at humor was a dismal failure.
Merry Christmas.
It's all good. Hope you're having a good x-mas.
 
I used to have problems with my assigned m4 back in the day, and not being able to get fully loaded mags to seat with the bolt closed. Ever since then it has been a habit to load them with 29 rounds.
I can see where the notion that springs will wear out after being fully compressed forever, makes sense to me. But then again im not a metal spring expert lol. What I do is rotate my mags monthly between loaded and my spares. That way it covers my ass in case it is true, and gives me an excuse to buy double the mags.
 
The beautiful thing about AK47 mags is that when they are loaded to capacity, they insert perfectly every time due to the front pivot point on the mag catch (leverage) when mounting them. Plug.
 
i load mine all the way, it saves space on storage.

if a magazine cant hold tension or work properly then its no good anyhow and would probably cause a failure anyway (the easy way to keep a jam happening from a magazine is to check them out every so often and if the spring is no good buy a new mag or replace the spring)
 
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