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 02-20-2009, 08:37 PM | #1 | Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1 |  magazine storage full, 1/2 full or empty?
What is the best way to store magazines? I wish to have them ready for self-defense, but also do not want to shorten the spring life. Will storing them full shorten the life of the magazine spring?  | 
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| 02-20-2009, 08:52 PM | #2 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 821 |
By having a magazine full and stored, it wont reduce the spring life.
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| 02-20-2009, 09:41 PM | #3 | Photoshop Ninja Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Do you see what happens, Larry?! Posts: 3,320 |
The thing that shortens the mag spring life is constant loading and unloading. Simple principle of metal fatigue. I wouldn't worry about keeping your mags fully loaded all the time. __________________
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| 02-22-2009, 02:17 AM | #4 | This is only a test Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Nonya, WA Posts: 3,991 |
Keep them loaded it will have no effect on the spring. | |
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| 02-22-2009, 03:02 AM | #5 | I'm always 10-8 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: 150 miles NE of Sloppy Joe's Bar, in the "GunShine" State Posts: 17,399 |
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Originally Posted by simigreg
What is the best way to store magazines? I wish to have them ready for self-defense, but also do not want to shorten the spring life. Will storing them full shorten the life of the magazine spring? |
Extended storage of fully loaded mags is not a problem with modern era springs.
Not so much with WWII vintage mags. If you have some old surplus mags you may want to re-spring them. The older springs were produced with quantity as job 1, no quality or modern science involvement! __________________ .
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| 02-22-2009, 09:13 PM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1,258 |
You need a revolver...
Seriously though, most quality modern magazines will work perfectly even after long periods fully loaded. Just to be on the safe side, you can buy new springs every two years or so. | |
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| 02-22-2009, 09:25 PM | #7 | Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 11 |
 Hold on BG, I've got to load my mag, didn't want to compress my springs ya know.......OK, you ready now, lets go.  __________________ On Earth As It Is In Texas | |
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| 02-22-2009, 10:03 PM | #8 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Stafford, Virginia, The state of insanity. Posts: 14,049 |
All my mags stay loaded 24/7 untill I go to the range then I unload them and reload them when I get to the range and they have worked fine for 8 years. | |
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| 02-23-2009, 12:58 PM | #9 | Result of sheltered life! Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Lebanon, Ky Posts: 3,622 |
What I do is keep them loaded with 1 less than full capacity. It might not be the same as what everybody else does, but is just MY screwy ways. I also have several magazines loaded in this way too. | |
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| 02-23-2009, 01:11 PM | #10 | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 2,344 |
I'm the same way with my magazines. __________________ "TRAIN WITH WHAT YOU HAVE, NOT WITH WHAT YOU WISH YOU HAVE." | |
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