How many magazines ?

[Davionmaximus]

As many High Cap mags as you can justify purchacing...

 

[JonB]

I have 4 30rd, and 3 20 rd for my AR. I typically take 1 20 and 1 30 to the range and that's it.

Then I have 2 each for 9mm and 10mm pistols.

Not sure what I would I need more mags for...but I'll buy more as soon as the panic buying stops . ($40 for a Pmag?)

 

[DarkCharisma]

I just bought 3 PMAG's for $18 ea, FDE 20-rounders, so :

2 on hand + 5 from c-products + 3 from the Equipment Exchange on ARFCOM = 10 total.

 

[Duke of Doubt]

JCJ: "Remember you maynot beable to pick up dropped mags. IE you will have to leave them as you run away. So more mags the better."

Huh?

If you are running away from the enemy, you are not shooting. If you are not shooting, you need not change magazines. If you need not change magazines, you need not dump and drop a magazine.

I'm not saying a magazine couldn't fall out of your pouch or something, but come on, Wolverine.

 

[Ben Shepherd]

If you're in the situation that all arm chair commandos dream about(HIGHLY unlikely), and you fumble a mag change with retention-

Are you going to take your eyes off the threat to locate the dropped mag, or are you going to grab another mag and get back in it? Me, I'm more likely to win the powerball first, but if it did come to that, I don't want to be fumbling for a dropped magazine.

 

[devildog4329]

16 30 rnd mags for the pair of ARs, 4 mags for the sig P250 and right now trying to get some 1911 mags for the rock island i just ordered.

 

[Kind of Blued]

But come on, guys. For the money spent on fifty magazines, you could have bought another gun.

One AR-15 with one magazine is worth more than 50 AR-15s with no magazines. Try shooting one single-shot sometime and let me know what you think.

Regardless, if you run out of mags 20 years after they are outlawed, you now have a useless gun that can only be sold to (here's the kicker) guys who "still" have mags. If all guns had internal magazines this wouldn't be a problem, but then lacking an effective gun when you really need one would become a bigger problem.

Magazines are for carrying, not for ammunition storage.

They're for feeding ammunition into the gun.

If the spring breaks, make or buy a new spring. If the lips wear out, solder them; they need not be very strong. If the entire magazine gets demolished, I want to party with YOU, cowboy.

Have you ever handled a USGI M-16 magazine? My beagle could crush one of those. I've personally stepped on one of them while moving from one target to another and reloading. I decided that A) I would never do that again, and B) that I would have enough mags back home that it didn't matter if I ever did it again accidentally.

This problem was recently solved, and now everybody (and their aforementioned beagle) is upgrading to those mags.

This created another problem in that demand continues to lead supply due to the reasons mentioned above.

 

[MT GUNNY]

There is no Doubt that More Mags are Better. The Real ? is, How many Rounds Do you have in the Rear?

Rear = Back at home or back at Company Headquarters.

All the Mags in the World Will not Help you unless you have Rounds to fill Them.

I am Currently on around
450rds of .223
310rds 7.62x39
500rds of .45acp
350rds of .357mag
200 rds of .40s&w
200rds of assorted High power Rifle Rounds
300rds .22lr

 

[Duke of Doubt]

Should we have twenty spare bolts for our rifles? The firing pins wear out, after all.

Fair point on the flimsy AR mags, though. And even the AK mags can get damaged. I didn't check over a group of Hungarian twenty rounders very thoroughly, and one of them is dented badly enough that it will not fully load and feed. Probably fixable, but it is my parts mag in case a spring or follower on the others ever wears out (they never have).

 

[Kind of Blued]

Should we have twenty spare bolts for our rifles? The firing pins wear out, after all.

Nobody is arguing the sense in owning spare springs and followers.

"Running and gunning" in size 14 boots, however, tends to require new mag bodies as often, or more often than any other parts.