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Laeger
I was cleaning this weekend and found a few 30rd clips loaded, they have been loaded for a ferw years. does it hurt them?
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  • Bill DeShivs
    No.
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  • cpermd
    Do you mean magazines?

    If so, not one with a good spring.

    CP
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  • dfogleky
    At the beginning of deer season this year, I realized I had left a magazine for my Ruger 77/44 loaded for the entire year. Ruined. Spring is shot. Luckily, I think Ruger sells replacement springs. If you can take a mag apart, and it has a standard type spring like an ak or ar, you can dissasemble it and stretch the spring.
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  • perry shooter
    A properly heat treated spring will not be harmed if the magazine is left loaded for years a cheaply made magazine with poor quality spring will go bad if left loaded.
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  • David Nunn
    Rifle rounds have been packed, stored, and carried on clips for generations now, with no ill effect. On a clip there are no springs or moving parts to take a set or wear out, so leave it loaded.
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  • quickmajik
    quote:Originally posted by Laeger
    I was cleaning this weekend and found a few 30rd clips loaded, they have been loaded for a ferw years. does it hurt them?


    Why dont you shoot a few rounds out of each and let us know about reliability?? what are they for?
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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    quote:Originally posted by nunn
    Rifle rounds have been packed, stored, and carried on clips for generations now, with no ill effect. On a clip there are no springs or moving parts to take a set or wear out, so leave it loaded.
    [;)]
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  • Laeger
    quote:Originally posted by cpermd
    Do you mean magazines?

    If so, not one with a good spring.

    CP


    Yes, thats what what I meant, I will try to run a few rounds out this weekend. The mags in question are for my AR and Mini.The mini clips are factory ruger, the Ar's are not.
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  • USN_Airdale
    i have 100+ 20 round Colt AR-15 magazines loaded all the time, i have 5 magazines with "special purpose" ammo that have been loaded for 20+ years the springs are still very "springy", ooooh ! BTW those 5 mags are inserted in 5 different AR-15s in various places in our home.
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  • Grasshopper
    quote:Originally posted by USN_Airdale
    i have 100+ 20 round Colt AR-15 magazines loaded all the time, i have 5 magazines with "special purpose" ammo that have been loaded for 20+ years the springs are still very "springy", ooooh ! BTW those 5 mags are inserted in 5 different AR-15s in various places in our home.


    Thats "prepared."! even more than me....[:)]nambu
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  • Grasshopper
    quote:Originally posted by nunn
    Rifle rounds have been packed, stored, and carried on clips for generations now, with no ill effect. On a clip there are no springs or moving parts to take a set or wear out, so leave it loaded.


    I agree, I had two 45 round mags that I know were loaded for 15 years (at least), when I moved I took them out and fired them with nothing but success![:)]
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