More than a few AR .223 mags: primary motive?

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For those of us living in the free states, who plan to Keep all of our AR and AK mags (I prefer 20-rounders:ergos), is it partly to prepare for future appointees to the Supreme Court and the possibility of worse future state laws after another terrible event?

Or is it mostly to have adequate strong springs/spare parts for very long-term reliability and a hedge against price jumps.

Being fairly new to AK clones but especially ARs, there can be multiple reasons to own at least six/seven (+) mags for each, or just one good reason.
 
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Magazines wear out/get damaged, so one needs to be prepared to replace parts or whole mags.
 
Magazines, just like ammunition, revolver speed loaders, or stripper clips, are consumables by design.

Under use, at some time, they will fail. Dents, cracking, spread feed lips, splitting, etc. can all happen when you train with them. They are difficult, if not impossible, to repair to restore function. Would you want to rely in a life or death situation on possibly faulty mags?

Given the uncertainty of future legislation, it is no wonder that people stockpile them because of the uncertainty in the future of being able to replace worn/damaged magazine.

Back in the day of the ten round limited magazines, hi capacity mags were kept for carry and in reserve, while most people who trained used the ten round mags because they could be replaced when damaged.
 
If any new legislation passes I suspect that it will not have the expiration date of the old clinton ban. The leftists have learned from the past.
(I actually fear they will also try and ban the transfer of certain capacity magazines)

So I look at it as they will be the last I can get forever. I am prepping for my heirs needs right now as I am pretty covered. How much value will the normal capacity magazines have in 25 years if they get banned next year? Or 50 years?

Right now I want at least a dozen for each AR. Fortunately they are still inexpensive.

Bad news is pistol magazines are expensive now, so I can't get to a dozen each for all my pistols.



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For those of us living in the free states, who plan to Keep all of our AR and AK mags (I prefer 20-rounders:ergos), is it partly to prepare for future appointees to the Supreme Court and the possibility of worse future state laws after another terrible event?

Or is it mostly to have adequate strong springs/spare parts for very long-term reliability and a hedge against price jumps.
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Pretty much both. At what, $12 a PMag, it makes sense to grab a whole bunch while you can. I doubt they'll ever get cheaper than that.

I also like 20 rounders for my military rifles, especially in the AK. The Hungarian tanker mags are kind of steep though, and I just don't like anything plastic on an AK. Might have to bite the bullet and buy a few before the election though.
 
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ALIENS!!!!!

CUBAN PARATROOPERS!!!!!!

There. Happy?

Now for real. They wear out and they wander. Having them on hand means I have one when I want it. It means that if another ban comes along IGM! (I Got Mine.)

-kBob
 
Now is the right time for buying AR's, parts and accessories as prices are low.

Ignoring any political thoughts magazines are the weakest part of semi-automatic firearms. In addition to some brands being low quality they wear out, can be damaged or lost.

However I recommend buying 10 pack of Magpul magazines. Brownells is running a big sale on 10 pack of Magpul and AR magazines. Personally 10 magazines for one gun will keep me shooting for a long time.
 
Magazines are always going to fail eventually. My thoughts are to have and equal amount of P-Mags and Okay Industries GI Magazines.
this place has great deals.
http://www.44mag.com/category/okay-industries
The prices are pretty good too.
The idea is that I train with both Okay's and P-mags and have enough laid back for trading and long term use and storage.
My next though is to lay in about thirty sets of spring and followers.
Most GI magazines are damaged at the feed lips, usually by someone loading from stripper clips and banging the lips on a table or some other Malarkey. Some young GI doing what looks cool, rather than what is right.

Edit to add, I would say ten to fifteen per gun if you're concerned about them seriously going away in the future.
I have a nice mix of tens, twenties and thirties.
 
Six or seven? That's basic load. AKA: The least amount of BANG. I consider 10 magazines to be a starting point for any firearm I plan on shooting more than once or twice a year. More than that for rifles that don't ever see the inside of the safe. Things break, wear out, get lost or just flat out need duplicates. There magazines in the trunk, magazines with the rifle, magazines on the vest, magazines in the bag, magazines at home... and if there's one magazine, there's three. I swear, the thing reproduce asexually.
 
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.................... There magazines in the trunk, magazines with the rifle, magazines on the vest, magazines in the bag, magazines at home... and if there's one magazine, there's three. I swear, the thing reproduce asexually.
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Please sell me one of your breeders. I must have old ones or something that have gone through the 'change' because it seems mine don't reproduce, and I lose one from time to time.




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RainDodger:
I always enjoy you guys' blunt sense of humor or enlightenment.:D

What went wrong in my planning was both gross underestimation of potential interest in ARs as 'shooter' guns, and spending lots of money on ammo for (possible) Hillary+retirement next spring. Heaps of it.

Your AR magazine "IMC instrument departure briefing" implies that buying even one D&H AR mag is using good judgement? If they are about as rugged as my multiple Hungarian AK Tanker (20-rd.) mags, then aye aye Skipper.
 
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I figure it this way. I have magazines for my M1A rifle, AR15 rifles and last but not least my AR10 rifle. I likely have more magazines and magazine parts than I will use or need during my entire remaining lifetime. At a gun show, see more magazines at a good price, buy them. See magazines on sale, buy them. It becomes like finding yourself butt deep in alligators when you remember your primary mission was to drain the swamp. Over the years I have done the same thing with ammunition, half the time just to end up with brass. Magazines are like loading components, you can never have too many. :)

Just before Sandy Hook I was in my local gun shop owned by a friend. Saw a Vietnam era utility belt with four M14 magazines in pouches plus a GI M14 cleaning kit. I gave $40 for it. Didn't "need" it but figured for my $40 I got four more GI M14 magazines and so it goes..... The owner still jokes with me about that.

Ron
 
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Now is the right time for buying AR's, parts and accessories as prices are low.

Ignoring any political thoughts magazines are the weakest part of semi-automatic firearms. In addition to some brands being low quality they wear out, can be damaged or lost.

However I recommend buying 10 pack of Magpul magazines. Brownells is running a big sale on 10 pack of Magpul and AR magazines. Personally 10 magazines for one gun will keep me shooting for a long time.
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LGS has some model of DPMS AR15 on sale for less than $550.00 and he's having a difficult time selling them. I guess people aren't as worried as I thought they would be.
 
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LGS has some model of DPMS AR15 on sale for less than $550.00 and he's having a difficult time selling them. I guess people aren't as worried as I thought they would be.
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Friend of mine has a fairly large nice gun shop and he must have a dozen or more used AR type rifles in there. They simply are not moving and he won't buy anymore of the things. Just a pile of money sitting there doing nothing. I actually believe the market is saturated with the things. Everyone who ever wanted one or remotely considered owning one I figure now has one.

Ron
 
Ignition Override said:
For those of us living in the free states, who plan to Keep all of our AR and AK mags (I prefer 20-rounders:ergos), is it partly to prepare for future appointees to the Supreme Court and the possibility of worse future state laws after another terrible event? ...
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For me that is part of it.

My primary issue is that I forget just how many AR mags I already have and then see that Brownell's is having a great sale on the 10-packs of their straight-20s. :)

And it is not just AR mags. About a dozen years ago someplace (TAPCO?) had a sale on LN HK G3 alloy mags 100/$100 ... so I added a 100 to the 20-30 that I already had. :rolleyes:

And there is the couple dozen USGI M14 mags that I have in addition to the Korean and commercial ones ...

Ok, OK, I'll stop there ... ;)
 
Still have plenty (30 or more each of 20 and 30 rounders), of AR mags; should probably get some extra PMAGs while I'm thinking about it. Could use a few more AK mags as I think I currently have only around 15 of them. With something like a magazine you can never have enough.
 
I've been talking about this a lot with my brother. In my mind AR mags are as cheap at they could realistically get. Let's be real- how can Magpul even make money off a $12 PMag? That's a steal! Obviously it's just plastic and steel but given the precision of the molding and the overall quality it's surprising that they're so cheap. When I first got my AR last year I told myself I'd be happy once I got 10 mags. But once I did I decided 20 would be a good amount. Of course once I reached that point I thought why not 30?;) To be honest I couldn't even say how many I have now...maybe 20 Lancer L5 mags and another 20-25 Pmags? And I still pick up a "Hillary mag" every week.

Personally I'm not very concerned about a ban. HilClin will probably win (although it's not a slam dunk- one professor that's nailed every election in the last 30 years is projecting The Donald fwiw) but the Dems look like they'll make no inroads into the Repub control. Probably we'll get gridlock for another four years. Realistically I'm concerned about the FUD. When HilClin wins it will touch off a panic- unwarranted but that won't make any difference. Hil will be an ever better gun salesperson than Mr. Obama.

The hoarders will drive the cost of mags and ammo out of sight. So I'm trying to lay in a stock to last me til the panic wears off.
 
I never, EVER bring boxes of ammo to the range. I sit in front of the TV, load mags/speedloaders/strippers and shoot the next day. I HATE thumbing rounds into mags wasting valuable range time. If I have a few dozen of each type of mag or speedloader, I never have to do that.
 
I have a few weapons that I consider to be contingency (riots/zombies.hurricanes) weapons and want to have 150-200 rounds as a bare minimum. For my AR I have a lot more mags, but for the CZ 9mm Carbine I'll probably stick with 150ish.
 
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Sure, I could see loading mags beforehand.

When a barrel gets too hot to touch after just ten-twelve constant rounds, the time for a reasonable cooling-off allows plenty to load ten more, then switch to the second rifle, to keep either from heating up too much towards possible bore wear.
The AR cools as I grab the Saiga .223 or Mak 90. Some fairly young guys recently blasted through approx. 60 AR .223 rds. in about 10 min. (90* F. outside, no Memphis breeze) which seemed like a lot. Smoking, like a good-looking Toronto babe.

Finally found a retail 20-rd. D&H mag. last night to order.
 
I like to shoot my rifles first, then when the mags are empty, switch to handguns and when those mags/speedloaders are empty, pack up/clean up and go home. Then clean the guns and put them away. The next day, while listening to music, watching a movie, whatever, I load all the mags and put them away again. (and order more ammo most of the time) If I want to go shooting, I grab a bag of loaded mags and head out.
I have had friends who love to shoot, and every single time they go out, they stop and load up mags at the range they just paid for. If one is paying by the hour (which in some places is just the cost of our sport) why would one load up at the range?
 
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