xsquidgator
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I was curious how those people who are inclined to do so, keep your rifle ammo at the ready? I don't "need" a rifle at the ready really, but i do for some reason like the idea of keeping at least a few rounds ready with the rifle so that if I did have to grab it in a hurry (say bugging in the car out before a hurricane or fire or something), I'd know the rifle had at least 5 or more rounds somehow attached to it. Maybe the kind of thing for a "truck gun" that you could just put behind the seat when going out into the country or the woods, and know you'd have emergency ammo without having to remember to grab a couple boxes of ammo or a range bag.
I'd like to get some ideas from people that have tried things that seemed to work well. An example of what I think would be a good thing would be something like the Kel Tec folding stock that holds one or two magazines in it (arguments aside whether you do or don't like the KelTec 223 rifle, I thought it was a cool idea for keeping ammo with the rifle)
things I've seen or tried:
1) I have a 12 gauge pump shotgun for occasional trapshooting and potentially for HD use. I feel ok leaving it in the safe or propped behind a door with 5 shells loaded in the tube mag, but chamber empty (we don't have children, and when friends with kids visit the loose guns go back into the safe). I also bought a tacti-cool kind of shotgun sling for it that holds 15 rounds, but due to it's weight I usually detach the tactical sling.
2) For my bolt-action milsurps, like my Mosin-Nagant M44, I found I could stick or jam put a loaded 5 round stripper clip between the butt-stock and the edge of the rubber recoil pad I leave on the rifle. It could fall out if the rifle gets shaken around, but it's fine for just leaving it in the gun safe that way with perhaps 5 rounds attached to the rifle.
3) For an SKS rifle using stripper clips - I have a nylon butt-stock sleeve originally for holding 5 shotgun shells on the side of a shotgun stock. My shotgun has other shell storage so this was now left over, but I found if I put this sleeve over the stock of my SKS, I can fit a loaded 10 round stripper clip between the sleeve and the stock on each side. Friction holds the loaded stripper clip in place. If you jerk the rifle around it may work its way loose, but it does pretty much leave up to 20 rounds ready to go with the rifle, just grab it and go.
Another great example I thought of such a thing was a canvas thing I saw a picture once of that strapped onto the stock of an M1 carbine, and held I think 2 magazines. I'd love to get something like that for perhaps my SKS or one of my magazine-fed rifles, if I could find it. So far I haven't seen anything like that online or at the shows or stores.
Does anyone have any good tips that they use? I'd be interested if anyone's worked out a good way to keep say a 30 round AK mag with an AK rifle, short of leaving the magazine inserted in the rifle, or maybe even in addition to leaving it inserted which would give you 2 AK mags ready if you had to grab your rifle in a hurry.
I'd like to get some ideas from people that have tried things that seemed to work well. An example of what I think would be a good thing would be something like the Kel Tec folding stock that holds one or two magazines in it (arguments aside whether you do or don't like the KelTec 223 rifle, I thought it was a cool idea for keeping ammo with the rifle)
things I've seen or tried:
1) I have a 12 gauge pump shotgun for occasional trapshooting and potentially for HD use. I feel ok leaving it in the safe or propped behind a door with 5 shells loaded in the tube mag, but chamber empty (we don't have children, and when friends with kids visit the loose guns go back into the safe). I also bought a tacti-cool kind of shotgun sling for it that holds 15 rounds, but due to it's weight I usually detach the tactical sling.
2) For my bolt-action milsurps, like my Mosin-Nagant M44, I found I could stick or jam put a loaded 5 round stripper clip between the butt-stock and the edge of the rubber recoil pad I leave on the rifle. It could fall out if the rifle gets shaken around, but it's fine for just leaving it in the gun safe that way with perhaps 5 rounds attached to the rifle.
3) For an SKS rifle using stripper clips - I have a nylon butt-stock sleeve originally for holding 5 shotgun shells on the side of a shotgun stock. My shotgun has other shell storage so this was now left over, but I found if I put this sleeve over the stock of my SKS, I can fit a loaded 10 round stripper clip between the sleeve and the stock on each side. Friction holds the loaded stripper clip in place. If you jerk the rifle around it may work its way loose, but it does pretty much leave up to 20 rounds ready to go with the rifle, just grab it and go.
Another great example I thought of such a thing was a canvas thing I saw a picture once of that strapped onto the stock of an M1 carbine, and held I think 2 magazines. I'd love to get something like that for perhaps my SKS or one of my magazine-fed rifles, if I could find it. So far I haven't seen anything like that online or at the shows or stores.
Does anyone have any good tips that they use? I'd be interested if anyone's worked out a good way to keep say a 30 round AK mag with an AK rifle, short of leaving the magazine inserted in the rifle, or maybe even in addition to leaving it inserted which would give you 2 AK mags ready if you had to grab your rifle in a hurry.