Do you keep your extra range mags loaded???

[imsobored]

Bummer. You have to use range time loading mags.

Its $10 for the whole day, so its no big deal

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[ApacheCoTodd]

Range mags... Nope.

 

[Plan2Live]

I guess I'm the only one interpreting the question differently. When I am at the pistol range I always keep one loaded mag in my back pocket. I don't want to be standing there empty handed if someone goes berserk during a cease fire. Thankfully almost all of the Range Officers carry while on duty but I don't like to depend solely on other people for my protection.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

I guess I'm the only one interpreting the question differently. When I am at the pistol range I always keep one loaded mag in my back pocket. I don't want to be standing there empty handed if someone goes berserk during a cease fire. Thankfully almost all of the Range Officers carry while on duty but I don't like to depend solely on other people for my protection.

That's a good point... Just In Case at the range or range mags loaded elsewhere (like home) JIC?

 

[bigfatdave]

My range is remote, isolated, and deserted.
And I often have thousands of dollars worth of easy to fence portable wealth on the table.

I simply don't wander about the range unarmed, my carry gun remains on my hip while I'm there and I'm just as likely to sling a light rifle when walking up to the berm as I am to bench it.
There is something comfortable and comforting about an M1 Carbine slung for african carry while I take the 200yard stroll to change targets or set reactive targets back up ... and I've had a few sketchy vehicles pull up, wait a minute or two, and drive off.
If they were range members I'd assume they would get out and ask how long I would be and/or if I was up for sharing the outdoor range ... or they could drive to the other side of the property and go shooting on the indoor range. So simply driving off is somewhat sketchy - at best they're non-members**, at worst they're looking for an easy score in the form of grab&run or straight up armed robbery.


**(I've caught a number of non-member fudds "sighting in" their deer guns in fall ... I wouldn't care but they ALWAYS destroy the target stand and leave trash)

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Yeah, reading it differently and especially out here - just setting up in the desert or mountains - a fella would be a monumental fool to not have a separate firearm (or back up mag) just in case. Any chance we get, at least one is outside of harm (to hearing) and without hearing protection while armed.
Too many banditos and often better (if illegally) armed than you.

 

[BeerSleeper]

I don't really care. I do keep some mags loaded. The truck gun has loaded spares in the glove box.

If I have a part empty box when I come home from the range, and room for those rounds in magazines, they usually go into the mags. If not, the mags may sit empty.

As for the effects on springs, I have an opinion. I'm not sharing it, because I don't have facts to prove it. It's one of those things where everyone has there opinion, and no one's going to change it because of what I have said.

I will say this. It does not matter if I know for certain whether my mag springs are affected by cycling, or by sitting loaded, or by the color of the paint on my garage wall. The mags in any gun I might need on short notice, are used frequently, on a regular basis. This once or twice weekly "performance test" will detect problems in time to address them sooner than the mag that sits unused for months or years, whether it's loaded or not.

 

[EVIL]

In OH, the only loaded mags permissible while traveling in a car are for your CC weapon - & no loaded rifle mags at all. (yes, gun control is stupid...) SO - I usually load up as many as I can reasonably carry on my body (3-4) for my primary CC weapon on my trip to the range - and load up mags for the other guns in the range bag upon arrival.

I usually keep 2-3 loaded mags or speed loaders loaded up for a couple of my main CC pistols - the rest are kept empty so I don't have to empty them of JHPs before a trip to the range.

Edited to add: I usually also CCW a loaded pistol while shooting rifle or shotgun at the public DNR range - never know who will show up while the range is cease-fire and blaze away. The DNR RSOs employees are not armed, so we would all be sitting ducks.

 

[doubleh]

I keep a loaded mag in my house pistol and my wife keeps her shotgun loaded. Everything else is empty. I'm not worried about having to fight a war from my home. I'm not worried about spring failure either. My 1911 has had the same mag stored loaded for over 35 years and it still functions just like it's supposed to everytime I shoot it.

Metallurgy has come a long way since John Browning's day. Repeated flexing is what fatigues metal. With the quality of spring material today I have no worries about spring failure of any kind with my guns. I'm not saying that springs can't fail. Anything man makes is subject to failure. It's just so seldom that a spring, especially coil type springs, quits that I don'r consider taking any special precautions.

 

[Drail]

"With the quality of spring material today".....of course ALL springs are made at just ONE factory to the HIGHEST quality standards and are PERFECTLY tempered and stress relieved and NOBODY buys cheap outsourced springs and even if they did you could tell just by looking at it, right? Actually my experience has been that springs made before WW II were higher quality than half of the stuff sold today. Good quality springs ARE available but they are not installed in all factory produced firearms. I have boxes full of springs that I replaced over the years. Guess what, they are ALL worn out. Some of them are Wolff and ISMI springs. We definitely have better technology today than 100 years ago but why are you so certain that EVERYONE is using it. It used to be about quality and reputation. Now it's about profit margin. Ever been to Walmart?

 

[doubleh]

Don't buy springs made in China.

 

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

We definitely have better technology today than 100 years ago but why are you so certain that EVERYONE is using it.

Why then are you certain that magazine makers 100 years ago, with their inferior methodology and lack of physics/chemistry knowledge we have today, made theirs correctly?

Manufactures of everything today, from guns to sewing machines, know everything that was known 100 years ago, plus everything learned since. The makers 100 years ago do not have that advantage. This alone causes me to distrust 100 year old anything vs modern.

 

[Zach S]

Doesn't really matter to me. I try to keep them loaded because I never plan on going to the range, its normally a spontaneous decision to work it in to my day. Keeping the mags loaded gets me on the road quicker.

 

[trickyasafox]

I keep em all loaded. makes for easier and more frequent impromptu range trips. Not really worried about using them all to defend the homestead (if I start opening 50 cal ammo cans of AR15 & AK mags in defense of my house, my local PD is going to get a very angry phone call from a disappointed resident) but I think keeping some on hand for defensive home weapons is good practice.

 

[JoeMal]

In defense situations, they are loaded. I load my range magazines at the range

 

[Woody Jones]

I try to keep all of mine loaded. Somebody told me a long time ago that is the best place to store ammo & I agree.

 

[BeerSleeper]

Manufactures of everything today, from guns to sewing machines, know everything that was known 100 years ago, plus everything learned since. The makers 100 years ago do not have that advantage.

Today's manufacturers have too many quality cutting options available to them. MIM parts...production line equipment designed not around the highest quality product, but the highest volume of that product (more units/hr is more $$)...outsourcing of as many parts as possible to the lowest bidder...

Sure, the technology exists, such that they can manufacture a superior quality product, but because they *CAN* doesn't mean the *DO*.

This alone causes me to distrust 100 year old anything vs modern.

A 100 year old product has already proven that it's good enough to last 100 years. The brand new one is, as yet, completely unproven.

 

[Steve Raacke]

My range mags are almost always loaded. I usually shoot Production class in USPSA and keep my 15rd mags loaded with 10rds each and on my belt or in my range bag ready to go. Get to range, pay fee, get squaded, grab belt and bag and head to my first stage. No need to bother loading mags or playing with gear.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

I don't keep my range magazines loaded but I do keep the magazine in my carry pistols loaded at all times.

 

[offroaddiver]

My defensive guns are loaded 24/7. The ranges that I visit have different rules. The closest range to me has the feel of cattle in bays. Their range their rules so no ammo in gun or magazines when you arrive. They also have other rules I don't like so I don't go there very often.
Another range I go to is out in the boonies and I keep loaded mag for defense, whether it is 2 legged or 4 legged.

 

[Sauer Grapes]

I have two mags loaded for my EDC, everything else is unloaded. The extra mag stays home anyway when I carry.

 

[Drail]

Production class USPSA rocks. That's where the real men hang out.

 

[threefeathers]

No, I keep three mags loaded for my G 19, Ranger 127 grain +P+, and load the practice mags when I'm at the range.

 

[ChCx2744]

All of my mags for all of my guns are fully loaded. If I don't have enough SD ammo for a certain gun, I just fill the rest of the mags up with FMJ range ammo. I prefer my mags to be fully loaded and ready to go.

 

[1911 guy]

My range mags get loaded at the range, just because I don't feel like fooling with it at home.

The mags that are of the "Just In Case" persuasion are always loaded. Minimum three 1911 mags, two AR mags and a shotgun tube. Then there's the wifes' stuff.