And don’t call it a “clip” unless it is really a clip like the M1 Garand uses. Unless you are a democRAT or want to look like you are gun-ignorant.
Great article, and that’s why I’m a member of AMAC .
I sometimes use clips to mark magazine pages.
1. Half load a magazine and smack the base on a hard surface;
2. Discard now broken magazine;
3. Purchase new magazine.
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Does anyone use a dry spray lubricant to help repel residue, while preventing ammo friction?
According to Larry Vickers, there are two things you can with any weapon fed by a detachable box magazine to reduce stoppages by half.
#1, download it a round or two. This isn’t about the lifespan of the spring but it’s about the tension between the top round in the magazine against the bottom of the slide/bolt. Most double-stack pistol mags these days are stuffed so tight that it’s almost impossible to load the final round by hand. And you often can feel the interference that causes between the top round and the slide when you’re seating a fully-loaded magazine. But you don’t get that if you download a round or two.
The original 20-rd M-16 STANAG magazine was notably susceptible to this. The problem was mostly cured with the 30-rounders but GIs being GIs they conflated the problem with the 30-rounders as well.
Nothing to do with Vicker’s point but it also bears mention that in his 300,000 round torture test of a Glock 17, the late Chuck Taylor found that it extended the life of magazine springs by 5000 rounds to only load 15 rounds in the 17-rd magazine. Probably not something you need concern yourself with if you’re not shooting 10,000 rounds year.
On the other hand, the only time it’s even possible to have too much ammunition is if you’re drowning or on fire.
#2. Seat, then tug. Slap if you like but once you’re CERTAIN the magazine is seated and locked in, give it a tug, just to be sure. More a point for long guns (or handguns with extended magazines) because most standard handgun magazines don’t leave enough exposed to get purchase on so you can pull. But for ARs & pistol cartridge carbines, I do this religiously. Seat, tap, tug.
LAV sends.
1911s here.
Use seven-round magazines as Saint john Moses Browning designed them. He knows a LOT more than I do about these things.
Have a few eight-round magazines that came with the sidearms, they get seven rounds. Yeah that last round is a little tough to load so I don’t.
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