Beretta/Taurus magazine question-does it damage them to leave them constantly loaded?

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Beretta/Taurus magazine question-does it damage them to leave them constantly loaded?

If I have a 17 round mag loaded with Speer Gold Dot, lets say for "emergencies" will leaving the mag loaded for extended amounts of time (maybe indefinitely) damage the mag, specifically the spring?, if I want to have a mag ready for emergency situations, just load-and-go, what's the best solution?

 

[sd]

general concensus (sp?) is that it is OK to leave your mags loaded for extended periods of time, as in years, without doing any harm. The springs lose more power from constant loading and unloading than from simply being left loaded.
That being said I would probably down load one or two rounds from max capacity, just to make me feel better. Looking forward to what others say.

 

[gbelleh]

Leaving mags loaded does not damage them at all. I have some Beretta mags right now that have been loaded for over 4 years.

 

[Cowboy2]

Fully loaded doesn't hurt a thing. Staying compressed or decompressed isn't what wears them out, its going from one to the other over and over.

 

[Steve C]

I've never had a Beretta 92 or or a Taurus 92 (I have both) magazine go bad from weak springs by keeping them loaded and have mags that have been kept fully loaded for close to 20 years. I did rebuild my original Glock 19 mags at around 12 years when they stopped reliably holding open the slide after the last round.

 

[burningsquirrels]

no.... that is all.