Is 20 magazines too many?

[Vachss]

My vest holds 20 magazines, the weight is negligible. The vest distributes the weight well..
Practical? Perhaps not, bulky..yes, is it perfect for Zombie encounters?..you betcha..

20 ct 30 rd. AR-15 magazines of various manufacture.
Full Med Pack
16 rds of 12.g
2 Mags for my Beretta 96D
Flashlight
Skittles
Smarties

 

[Hungry Seagull]

Impressive.

When the zombies come, throw away the magazines you have emptied and leave the empty pockets open. Otherwise you might go down and die while rummaging for that last few mags hiding in that vest.



Great picture, I never thought a vest can hold so much. Some of those pockets look like Rifle or carbine clips too.

 

[bigfatdave]

Is this an answer to the ban of 11+ round magazines?
Looks like you might need a dump-sack to go with that, for holding empty magazines.

 

[Claude Clay]

i guess if you have to stand and fight cause you weigh to much to run
its a good vest.......

 

[senior]

vest

If spotted by LEOs might get shot by them thinking ur a bomb totting terrorist though. lol

 

[highorder]

My vest holds 20 magazines, the weight is negligible.

Weigh the vest full of loaded mags, etc and let us know what it weighs.

 

[jaysouth]

I remember many decades ago carrying 20 twenty round mags as a young infantryman in VN. It was a burden then and would be impossible for me now.

Just who do you think you will be shooting it out with? If you are alive after firing two or three mags at armed troops or police, it will be a miracle.

 

[mija]

20 mags is a minimal amount to be comfortable with in a firefight. Your obviously already up sht creek and the posse may be hours away. I would rather be burdended with to much than with an empty weapon.
Place it on semi and make your shots count.

 

[Vachss]

Just who do you think you will be shooting it out with?

Zombies...

 

[A-FIXER]

never I say can never have too many mags....

 

[Dan Crocker]

20 mags is a minimal amount to be comfortable with in a firefight. Your obviously already up sht creek and the posse may be hours away. I would rather be burdended with to much than with an empty weapon.
Place it on semi and make your shots count.

No, it's not. It's too much. It's one thing to carry extras in a bolt bag in a truck, but to have 20 on you? Come on.

Jesus. On both my tours I NEVER carried more than ten, and only then on heavy days. Twenty? Dude, give it up! That's ridiculous. I don't know what you are prepping for, but having a 600 rd combat load is just...well.
You are better off going lighter. No joke.

 

[Guns and more]

Is 20 magazines too many?

Yes.

Oh, and don't jam the Skittles into the AR by mistake!

 

[metallic]

Gecko45, is that you Sorry, couldn't resist. That's like three times the size of a full combat load.

 

[DoubleAction]

Is 20 magazines too many?


No

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[Dan Crocker]

Ha ha doubleaction, that's insane!

 

[2RCO]

That is just too much weight.

If you are in a situation that you need 600 rounds of .223 on your person you need to retreat to the bunker. This means you need to RUN and packing that much ammo means you can't maintain top speed.

In real life if you need that many shots to neutralize the enemy= you are dead very soon!

 

[1KPerDay]

You need about 18 more mags for your Beretta.

 

[10-Ring]

No, but 21+ you might have an issue
Seriously -- I have 20+ mags for a couple of my guns -- back when my state ban was coming down, I started buying up mags as I came across them -- some for guns I knew I'd own but didn't even have yet
I ended up at 20 or even 20+ for a couple

 

[indoorsoccerfrea]

if 600 rounds is more than enough, what would constitute "enough"?
how many rounds would those of you who have served tours carry on average?

 

[possum]

is 20 mags too much to have on hand? noway you can never have enough. but that imho is way too much for a chest rig/plate carrier/ vest. just be glad that that isn't a plate carrier with plates in it. you would really be able to tell that there was 20 mags. impractical i think. i carry no more that 12. and that is iraq on patrol, and that gets heavy and hard to hump around after a few hours but i manage. i couldn't imagine carrying my plate carrier with plates, 20mags, and all my other stuff that i hump around.

 

[armoredman]

I am a fat out of shape swivel chair spread supervisor type; I carry that for more than 50 feet, I am in cardiac arrest! That is a nice setup, by the way, but too much for this fat old man.

 

[Geronimo45]

Huh. I calculate the weight of 55 gr bullets alone, and 600 weigh about 5 pounds (75.4286 ounces), unless my numbers are off. Doesn't the majority of weight of a 5.56 round come from the weight of the bullet itself, with powder/primer/brass weighing less than 50%? Even if it's exactly 50%, you have a total weight of about 10lbs (not counting mag weight in this conversion or the other). Not too bad, I suppose.

Needing 600 rounds is another matter... seems like a "defending the Alamo" loadout. No food (of consequence) or water.

 

[possum]

this is my rig. it is missing the med kit, but that is on another rig for the time being.

 

[Dan Crocker]

Huh. I calculate the weight of 55 gr bullets alone, and 600 weigh about 5 pounds (75.4286 ounces), unless my numbers are off. Doesn't the majority of weight of a 5.56 round come from the weight of the bullet itself, with powder/primer/brass weighing less than 50%? Even if it's exactly 50%, you have a total weight of about 10lbs (not counting mag weight in this conversion or the other). Not too bad, I suppose.

Oh, it ends up being more than 10 lbs. You have magazines, like you said, then a method for carrying them...it adds up quickly.

 

[highorder]

.223 brass weighs around 92 grains a piece. Thats around 8 pounds, plus bullets (5 pounds) plus powder (1.8ish pounds) plus magazines...

Thats too much weight.