Spare Magazine For Nightstand Gun

[Trunk Monkey]

He's not talking about the OP. You literally said that you knew it was illogical to be worried about knocking the magazine off the night stand. Keeping a magazine in a pouch because you're concerned about it breaking if it falls off a night stand is completely ridiculous. It's an illogical problem, so there's no logical answer.

I don't think I asked for a solution to that problem. I asked how you all stored magazines on your nightstand and told you that I didn't want just leave a magazine sitting on my nightstand. In a later post I said was just going to leave the magazine in a cheap nylon pouch sitting next to the gun. In case you're wondering i drop magazines in training all the time and never think twice about it.

Sounds like a logical answer to me.

If you think this is bad I won't carry a 1911 cocked and locked because I don't want to drop it and break the hammer. I'll carry a Glock or other striker fired pistol or a a CZ75B in condition 2 all day long and not think twice about it but that exposed hammer on the 1911 drives me nuts.

It's my life and my weirdness and I never asked you to fix it

 

[bearcreek]

It's my life and my weirdness and I never asked you to fix it

Umm, yeah, you kinda did.

I have been trained to have at least one reload on my person from day one. Unfortunately this is somewhat difficult in boxers. I want to keep a spare magazine on my nightstand but I'm concerned about it just laying in the open, I prefer to keep it in a mag pouch but I want to be able to access it one handed.

do you store a spare magazine on your nightstand? If so how?

Thank you

You asked if and how we store spare magazines on a nightstand. We answered and then we find out that you have some sort of oddball phobia about magazines breaking if they fall off a nightstand. You never did answer my question from earlier. Where do you store the pistol? On the nightstand? Or will that break too, if it falls off? Place the magazine next to the pistol, wherever that is, along with a flashlight. In the event they're needed you pick up the mag, put it in the pocket of your shorts, grab the gun and light and go. If that all needs to be in a drawer in order to accommodate your phobia then do that.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

You never did answer my question from earlier. Where do you store the pistol? On the nightstand?

Umm, yeah I kinda did

Pistol is on the nightstand in a holster

I even stated way back on page 3 that I had found a suitable solution.

I think I'm going to just leave the magazine on the nightstand in a cheap nylon magazine pouch

 

[herrwalther]

Since I have a kid my pistol is in a quick access safe locked and loaded...spare mag is just sitting next to the safe. What worries you about the mag sitting there?

I use to do the same. Quick access safe next to the bed. Firearm in the safe, magazine right next to it. The safe was just barely big enough to fit the firearm and magazine while still able to close. It was a little cramped so I moved it to the drawer. And I wanted the only thing I grab in there to be the firearm and not (maybe) the magazine in a rush. There are legitimate reasons to separate a spare magazine.

 

[redbullitt]

I simply have a pair of work pants and boots ready to go in the bedroom with what I would usually carry, with a couple changes to fit the intended use a bit better.

A battle belt or plate carrier ready to go can be a substitute for pants, or a great addition. lol

 

[Browning]

Ask and you shall receive...
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/11/eastern_new_orleans_dentists_s.html

[at least on the more than a few shots fired angle from the page before. Goblins who want what others have worked for by taking sometimes leave their hovels and come to the suburbs. Nothing all that extraordinary

I'm not touching the phobia angle]

 

[FAS1]

I have been trained to have at least one reload on my person from day one. Unfortunately this is somewhat difficult in boxers. I want to keep a spare magazine on my nightstand but I'm concerned about it just laying in the open, I prefer to keep it in a mag pouch but I want to be able to access it one handed.

do you store a spare magazine on your nightstand? If so how?

Thank you

Well, I suggested several things based on what you said you were looking for. I understand what you are saying regardless of your reasons. For me, I dislike having to use two hands for anything that can be done more efficiently with one hand. I can open my handgun safe one handed as it is close by, bolted down solid, and the door opens by itself once unlocked.

Once open, I can retrieve the gun with the same hand while I reach inside with the other and grab a spare magazine. To me, a holstered pistol or mag laying loose on the nightstand is more cumbersome to use as they move around and takes both hands to retrieve each item. How do you get the magazine out of the pouch when your loaded gun is in your hand?

You could use a magnet to hold the magazine in place and be able to grab it one handed. I would think it would be easier to drop it when trying to pull it out of the mag pouch while holding your gun. Good luck, I'm sure you will figure out what works for you.

 

[Blue Thunder]

Mine is a G-19 with a 33Round Happy Stick in it. When traveling it is the same set-up. No reload needed and can rip out mag for big failure issues and still re-use it after clearing. Fortunately I have not had any FTF or Jam issues for which I give thanks to Glock

 

[Browning]

... For me, I dislike having to use two hands for anything that can be done more efficiently with one hand. I can open my handgun safe one handed as it is close by, bolted down solid, and the door opens by itself once unlocked.

Once open, I can retrieve the gun with the same hand while I reach inside with the other and grab a spare magazine. To me, a holstered pistol or mag laying loose on the nightstand is more cumbersome to use as they move around and takes both hands to retrieve each item. How do you get the magazine out of the pouch when your loaded gun is in your hand?

You could use a magnet to hold the magazine in place and be able to grab it one handed. I would think it would be easier to drop it when trying to pull it out of the mag pouch while holding your gun. Good luck, I'm sure you will figure out what works for you.

I keep 3 mags on my bedside. Because my bedside gun doubles as my carry gun (because of my 6 yr old son if I'm awake the gun is on me) 2 of the 3 mags are in a leather carrier. Because it's meant for carry the retention screws are tightened enough that if I did a hand stand the mags wouldn't fall out.

However if it's meant for just in the house this is where a cheapo nylon double mag holder might shine. Most of them don't have a way of tightening the interior circumference of a double or single mag holder. When reloading and going to grab the mag they just slide out.

So if someone were to have an OCD thing about having the mags padded in case they fell maybe a cheapo double mag holder is something to look into. With a flick of the wrist on a speed reload with the weight of the other mag that mag would pop out as if it were spring loaded.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

So if someone were to have an OCD thing about having the mags padded in case they fell maybe a cheapo double mag holder is something to look into. With a flick of the wrist on a speed reload with the weight of the other mag that mag would pop out as if it were spring loaded.

Essentially what I did.

 

[Ghost In The Fog]

[QUOTE="FAS1, post: 10510379, member: 100837"
You could use a magnet to hold the magazine in place and be able to grab it one handed. [/QUOTE]

The magnet is a great idea. Glue or Velcro it to the nightstand. Heck you could even drill a hole in the magnet and attach it to a stud in the wall so the magazine(s) are held on the wall as well as supported by the nightstand. I have some magnets that would definitely hold the mags secure and would require much more than a bump to remove them. Just a thought.

 

[Az-quailhunter]

I have been trained to have at least one reload on my person from day one. Unfortunately this is somewhat difficult in boxers. I want to keep a spare magazine on my nightstand but I'm concerned about it just laying in the open, I prefer to keep it in a mag pouch but I want to be able to access it one handed.

do you store a spare magazine on your nightstand? If so how?

Thank you

I just leave one laying on a towel I have in the nightstand, next to whatever weapon I am using at the time.

 

[AJumbo]

My "nightstand rig" is an 870 Police Magnum, cruiser ready with 6 in the magazine, 5 in a butt cuff. Should 11 rounds prove insufficient, I can move to an AR-15 with a light, and motion-sensing optic (it turns on when I pick up the carbine) and 28 rounds in the magazine. Third line of defense is a 1911 (soon to change to a Glock or XD) in a nylon holster that carries two spare magazines. The holster is on an old Uncle Mike's web belt that I can drop over my neck and keep my spare magazines right at hand. With the Glock or XD this would change to one spare magazine, but I'm seriously considering dumping the spare mag for a spare light.

I'm single, no kids running about, so I'm pretty free to choose what I want to do. If children were a factor, the 870 would still be the go-to. The pistol may have to move to a fingerprint-scanning safe. The safe would contain a light and however many mags would fit. Not sure where the AR would go; maybe on hooks above my bedroom door, or maybe inside the walk-in closet, on those same hooks.

The past election cycle got me into the habit of wearing the 1911 around the house in my downtime. It rides in a speed scabbard-type holster of my own making, with two magazines and a light on the weak side. I don't like lights mounted on pistols, and I have kind of a flashlight problem, so mags and lights are stashed hither and yon throughout the castle. And yes, I mean in the medicine cabinets next to the Gold Bond.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

My "nightstand rig" is an 870 Police Magnum, cruiser ready with 6 in the magazine, 5 in a butt cuff. Should 11 rounds prove insufficient, I can move to an AR-15 with a light, and motion-sensing optic (it turns on when I pick up the carbine) and 28 rounds in the magazine. Third line of defense is a 1911 (soon to change to a Glock or XD) in a nylon holster that carries two spare magazines. The holster is on an old Uncle Mike's web belt that I can drop over my neck and keep my spare magazines right at hand. With the Glock or XD this would change to one spare magazine, but I'm seriously considering dumping the spare mag for a spare light.

I'm single, no kids running about, so I'm pretty free to choose what I want to do. If children were a factor, the 870 would still be the go-to. The pistol may have to move to a fingerprint-scanning safe. The safe would contain a light and however many mags would fit. Not sure where the AR would go; maybe on hooks above my bedroom door, or maybe inside the walk-in closet, on those same hooks.

The past election cycle got me into the habit of wearing the 1911 around the house in my downtime. It rides in a speed scabbard-type holster of my own making, with two magazines and a light on the weak side. I don't like lights mounted on pistols, and I have kind of a flashlight problem, so mags and lights are stashed hither and yon throughout the castle. And yes, I mean in the medicine cabinets next to the Gold Bond.

This addresses my question.....how exactly?

 

[1911 guy]

If you've gone through a magazine, whether through depletion (you shot it all) or malfunction (because Murphy lives in your gear bag and is trying to kill you) then you had better not be still hunkered down next to your nightstand.

Buy a cheap tool pouch from a hardware store. Drop a mag light in the hammer loop, spare mag, tac light, whatever else your little heart desires into the pouch. Stuff the pistol in there, too, and now you've freed up your hands to begin with a long gun. Because gunbelts do not stay in place when you're wearing only skivvies. But a tool pouch will suffice. Even in your skivvies. And if I'm responding to something that might be a threat to my family, I'm walking into it with the AR and the 1911 is second fiddle.

 

[bearcreek]

Buy a cheap tool pouch from a hardware store. Drop a mag light in the hammer loop, spare mag, tac light, whatever else your little heart desires into the pouch. Stuff the pistol in there, too, and now you've freed up your hands to begin with a long gun. Because gunbelts do not stay in place when you're wearing only skivvies. But a tool pouch will suffice. Even in your skivvies.

Why would you use a tool pouch rather than putting an actual holster and mag pouch on a belt? It'd go on just as easily and keep everything more secure and accessible.

 

[1911 guy]

If you can make a belt, holster and pouches work with no pants on, go for it. I've managed to cobble that together over the years. But most people will try it once and find out their stuff doesn't work when not being held in place by belt loops. Then it comes down to lots of money for all new stuff, or twenty bucks for a tool belt.

 

[bearcreek]

But most people will try it once and find out their stuff doesn't work when not being held in place by belt loops. Then it comes down to lots of money for all new stuff, or twenty bucks for a tool belt.

For twenty bucks, you're right. Depends how much value someone places on having tools that work well for the job. A simple, low profile war belt with PALS webbing, like this: https://www.gadsdendynamics.com/products/war-belt can hold everything in place and be used buck naked if necessary. If a person couldn't afford that, just sewing or riveting a holster and mag pouch directly to a cheap belt would still be better than carrying it loose in a tool pouch.

 

[armoredman]

How about a fanny pack you can sling on? They still make those fanny pack CCW doodads, don't they?

 

[AJumbo]

This addresses my question.....how exactly?

The point I was making was that I don't worry about spare mags. I have spare firearms, most of which have enough rounds on board to repel boarders. If I run one dry, I will go to a second firearm before I start fiddling with magazines. I'm also very unlikely to grab a pistol first; I know my hit rate goes way up with a long gun.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

The point I was making was that I don't worry about spare mags. I have spare firearms, most of which have enough rounds on board to repel boarders. If I run one dry, I will go to a second firearm before I start fiddling with magazines. I'm also very unlikely to grab a pistol first; I know my hit rate goes way up with a long gun.

Legitimate response. My apologies sir.

 

[JeeperCreeper]

This is what I use. I don't keep the straps on it so the holster is just sitting on my nightstand more like a cover/case since I don't want any retention to make the draw difficult. The extra mag is then connected to the whole thing.

http://www.cabelas.com/product/BLAC...nsupbWcH6cY8pnWyNCPgBhoCNFvw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[Trunk Monkey]

I want to clarify again how small my home is. It's 30 feet from one end to the other and the bedroom is 4 steps from the front (only) door.

I fully expect that if I ever have to defend my home in the middle of the night I'm literally going to be fighting in bed at least to start. So the concept of some type of sling or pack really isn't feasible.

 

[AJumbo]

Legitimate response. My apologies sir.

No apology required, sir.

 

[Rexster]

My favored magazine holder for a spare G19 magazine is a Glock product, a Gen4 G19; yes a whole second pistol, with that magazine inside its grip frame.

My next-most-favored magazine holders would be the ones on my duty belt, one is a double Safariland carrier, with flaps, to look pretty, and the other is also Safariland, open-topped, attached with the QLS mounting system. Grabbing my duty rig gives me over 60 rounds, in one package; 15+ in the pistol, if it is in the duty holster, and 17 in each magazine. Donning the belt, and then grabbing one of my other weapons, will result in quite a formidable load-out. The duty belt is Safariland buckle-less, so I can easily fasten it at a smaller setting, to fit me when I am not wearing as many layers of clothing and armor.

I keep a Glock OEM 33-round magazine handy, in the bedroom, too. It is discreetly placed near the bed, in no type of holder. It is just sitting there. OK, so I am a slob, regarding home decor. I have concealed-carry mag carriers, too, but they are not part of the home-defense equation, unless I am fully dressed.

I have reinforced the front entry door frame. Two German Shepherds are inside the house, and two large, mean, loud, mongrels are in the back yard. (Their sire was a Great Dane, and their momma was a feral droopy-eared monster that rhymes with itch.) If they are barking with an angry tone, I want to get close to my Benelli M2, first. If there is time, and it sounds serious, I don an armor system, which is Level IIIA all-around, plus a Level III plate up front. Then, the duty belt is added. I might even add a Level IIIA helmet.

Yes, it took time and money to work up to all of this. Had I chosen an occupation other than first-responder LEO-ing, I might not have all of this gear. But, as highly-respected instructors Darryl Bolke and Wayne Dobbs teach, when someone invades your home, you are your own first responder. Obviously, some of my post will not apply to everyone's environment. This being a discussion forum, read by a variety of folks interested in the subject, not a direct Q&A, I decided to go into detail; like a cafeteria, everyone/anyone reading this can pick the menu items that seem to be a good idea.

I am no expert, but have worked as a first responder, for a big-city PD, for 33 years, so might have picked up some little knowledge along the way.