How long do you
Leave your magazines loaded, mainly ak mags? Will it hurt them to leave em loaded for a few weeks. thanks
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my rule of thumb, with guns that i keep loaded, is to rotate the magazines when the clocks move forward or back. i also load my "ready" magazines to capacity, and then remove 1 round. i prefer to err on the safe side on this issue. this is how my father does it, and how i was taught. best regards, mike.
What other dungeon is so dark as ones own heart, what jailer so inexorable as ones own mind.0 -
i rotate my mags every three months or so but i keep plenty of stripper clips with a loader next to the mags maybe that might help you out to
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Good Advice Gentlemen...Good Advice.....!
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Still usin them new-fangled semi-autos huh? [:)]
Actually springs can stay quite compressed for some time with no real issue but this depends on the quality of the spring, weight of the ammo and the specific gun--some gun magazine springs need to apply more momentum than others given the nature of the gun's feeding and extraction system. In general I would be more concerned with magazines that double stack over those that single stack rounds.
A few weeks should be no trouble. You might want to put magazine rotations and any other periodic gun maintenance on your calendar so you don't forget.
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The following is a reprint of advice txs had for me when I asked about new mag break-in.
"The often recommended practice of rotating loaded mags periodically is a fallacy and actually does more harm than good. To demonstrate this for yourself, purchase a factory new mag spring and keep it in your tool kit as a go/no-go gauge. Whenever you break your mags down for cleaning compare their springs length against this fresh spring. If you leave a mag fully loaded for a year or two and gauge it this way you'll see that it maintains it's uncompressed length better than the mags you've been loading and unloading frequently.
This is the same basic procedure I use when conducting periodic LEO firearms inspections. If I find a mag spring that's more then a couple of coils shorter than my gauge spring I replace it. There's no room for guesswork when dealing with firearms used for defensive purposes and springs are cheap. " TXS
i believe the following is from SkyWatcher: If they are not needed for immediate use then obviously don't leave them loaded, it fatigues the spring. I've found that 1911 7-rd mags don't fatigue much due to how little the spring is compressed when the mag is fully loaded. Supposedly they will work fine after years or even decades of being left loaded. Hi-cap mags tend to highly compress the springs due to being designed to hold a maximum amount of ammo and hence require more frequent replacement. I would put 7 rds in the 1911 mag as to not overcompress the spring and not worry about it. My G21, on the other hand, gets new springs every year (or more frequently) because they fatigue substantially with a full load of 13rds in them. Get some good springs too, different springs fatigue differently. I prefer Wolffsprings when available for a particular application.
Myself, I tried a handgun in storage for a decade, with two full mags stored as long, and it functioned perfectly.0 -
I agree with mrmike. When the clocks change I, change the batteries in the smoke detectors, remote controls, alarm clocks, etc. Along with home defense magazines. It gets to be a routine, that is easy to remember.
You really should take it to the range more often, and empty the magazines that way. [;)]
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Thanks for all the help, I'll give your suggestion a try Mr.Mike. 0
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