If 100% reliability is your goal then download each magazine by a couple of rounds (or buy a bunch of spare magazine springs)
SO SORRY!!!
Do you have any data to back this up? I have beat the hell out of a fair number of 20rd 308 PMags and never found the need to down load them.If 100% reliability is your goal then download each magazine by a couple of rounds (or buy a bunch of spare magazine springs)
Funny, I don't "FEEL" educated.... Maybe I am just too stupid.
Since a cover is included with every mag,
Not anymore...
Assuming the manufacturer knows precisely what the design limits are and trust that the manufacturer stays well within those limits. Some manufacturers do not. Some manufacturers buy cheap springs from Taiwan. Maybe leaving them stuffed for long periods is OK and maybe it's not. Do ya feel lucky? Downloading by one or two rounds doesn't hurt either.
The regular pmags all come with covers.
magpul sells the cheaper MOE line that does not come with covers. Look them up and you can see the difference in pricing
Do you have any data to back this up? I have beat the hell out of a fair number of 20rd 308 PMags and never found the need to down load them.
Magazines are a consumables, use them and repair or replace as needed. I am not going to down load a magazine to try to eek a few extra uses out of them. Load'em up. Put the caps on them if you are storing. The feed lips are the weakest part of a PMag and the cap protects those.
I agree with the concept of downloading mags. I agree with and follow the logic in this article:
https://www.vickerstactical.com/magazines.html