How do you carry a spare magazine

[CZguy]

Where and how do you carry a spare magazine?

I'm specifically looking for input as to carrying a extra magazine for a small auto like the LCP or P3AT.

It is not the OPs intent to discus the merits of whether or not to carry a spare magazine.

 

[txgunsuscg]

Know it sounds dumb, but I just carry it in a belt pouch. If it pops out from underneath my jacket, it just looks like a PDA pouch at a quick glance...

 

[docnyt]

Spare magazine pouch on the non-dominant hand because that's what I've trained to do.

 

[PRM]

I'm right handed ~ I carry an extra PPK/S mag in my front left pants pocket. I don't think a bigger double stack mag would be comfortable carried this way, but, the Walther mag works great. Just make sure you keep it clean (lint...). I do carry the mag by itself in that pocket.

 

[AJChenMPH]

Taurus PT-738 TCP in a DeSantis Pro-Stealth IWB holster for a Keltec P32:



If I pocket carry the TCP, the extra mag will go into a pocket double-mag carrier -- the mag goes in one pocket and a folding pocket knife goes into the second pocket, and I'll put it in my weak-side back hip pocket (arranged such that my butt sits on the knife and not on the mag).

 

[BlackSky]

front pocket, opposite side of the gun in an IWB.

 

[TX expat]

When I carry one, I carry it in a Maxpedition Single Sheath.

http://www.maxpedition.com/store/pc/SINGLE-SHEATH-33p187.htm

I will admit however that I don't often carry an extra mag on me.

 

[rhodco]

I don't carry a spare mag on my person, but keep a few in the truck and in the house. Chances are very slim that a real life public shooting between civilians will last more than just a few seconds. By the time you have a chance to reload it will be over. If my ten rounds of .45ACP is not enough to stop the threat, I'm just wasting ammo with poorly placed shots.

 

[Shmackey]

I don't. I keep one in the car so that when I find myself approaching somewhere really questionable, and I feel the need to bring the extra magazine, it reminds me not to go there in the first place.

 

[Girodin]

Know it sounds dumb, but I just carry it in a belt pouch.

Doesn't sound dumb to me. I carry in a raven concealment mag pouch (not unlike the one pictured below). This keeps the mag in a consistent location and in a consistent orientation which pays dividend in training to the point that accessing the magazine becomes instinctual. I'm not sure there is a place I could carry it to make it faster or more accessible other than not covering it (I typically have some sort of cover garment over it).

I don't. I keep one in the car so that when I find myself approaching somewhere really questionable, and I feel the need to bring the extra magazine, it reminds me not to go there in the first place.

It is a very small step from carrying a gun in the first place to carrying a spare magazine to go with it. There are also a number of reasons (and countless hypotheticals where it would come in handy) to carry a spare mag apart from the additional ammunition. Additional ammo is not my proximate reason for a spar mag, although it is nice to have too.

 

[docnyt]

Yeah the spare mag is not just for the extra ammo. If and when your gun misfires, will you have time to clear it and put the magazine back in, all in the heat of battle?

When I took a Tom Givens course recently, we practiced clearing a misfire by inserting a dummy round randomly in the loaded magazine. Release, clear the dummy/misfire while your non-dominant hand is already reaching for your spare magazine, all the while moving side to side so that you're not a sitting duck. Try it sometime. Very challenging to do at first. But as they say, practice makes perfect.

 

[Girodin]

When I took a Tom Givens course recently, we practiced clearing a misfire by inserting a dummy round randomly in the loaded magazine. Release, clear the dummy/misfire while your non-dominant hand is already reaching for your spare magazine, all the while moving side to side so that you're not a sitting duck. Try it sometime. Very challenging to do at first. But as they say, practice makes perfect.

I may be missing something or misunderstanding what you are saying, but why would one go for a spare mag in the context you describe. If I got a click I would tap rack bang. There is no need to strip the mag in the gun and even less need to replace it. Now if it is a double feed the slide is getting locked and the mag is getting stripped.

 

[REAPER4206969]

In two Glock Sport/Combat pouches.

 

[thunder173]

I keep it simple. My spare mag for my P3AT is carried on my belt OWB in a small nylon knife pouch just behind my left hip. Nobody has ever made it as a mag,..or if they did,..they didn't care. I wear it there all the time. I carry a P-11 mag in a larger knife case when I am carrying the P-11,..same deal,..nobody,..but nobody has ever mentioned it.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Belt pouch, on the side opposite the gun, bullets facing forward. I see little need to alter this with a small pocket gun. The magazine is very difficult to remove from a pocket, and is less conspicuous or obvious than the gun if inadvertently "printing" or exposed.

 

[Fieldstone]

Fobus makes a nice compact mag holder in paddle style so you do not have to undress to attach and detach. Like some said it looks like an electronic device pouch if it pokes out under jacket. A belly band works the best, I feel, YOu can carry gun and mag under a t shirt, especially 380 and 9's.

 

[possum]

depends on what i am carrying, and what i am wearing. If i am carrying my pocket gun (pf-9) it is normally in a pocket, and either as a bug, which i don't carry a spare for the bug when i do. Or i am carrying for a quick trip to teh store etc, and i don't carry a spare for it. I would but the main reason is that there is no good mag pouch that i have found that will work for the mags.

Now the majority of the time i carry a xd service model, and i normally wear 5.11 pants, so my spare goes in the mag pouch in the front of the pants, on the left side. or depending on what i am wearing it will go in a mag pouch on my left side. owb, but covered with a cover garment.