Suggestions on keeping handgun mags organized

[mljdeckard]

This has me thinking. Maybe I'll look at stenciling some kind of ID in duracoat on the mags somewhere.

 

[leadcounsel]

Went with plastic zip lock bags. Cheap and easy and easy to identify.

Now just need to find a silver paint marker to write on the mags.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

As a few others have suggested, I use ZIPLOC freezer bags, with the gun (specific gun) marked on the outside of the bag with a permanent magic marker.

There may be other, better ways to store them at home, but this approach has the advantage of just grabbing the bag when you go to the range, and tossing it in your gun bag...


As for marking mags. Identifying them with the gun and a number helps you if you start having mag problems -- you can tell the good from the bad.

Some computer shops (maybe Radio Shack) has markers used to label disks and cartridges in silver or gold. They work really well on mags (if they aren't stainless. A magic marker works on the stainless ones.)

 

[cfullgraf]

Went with plastic zip lock bags. Cheap and easy and easy to identify.

Now just need to find a silver paint marker to write on the mags.

I got a silver Sharpie a couple years ago. I forget if I found it at a big box hardware store or a office supply.

Meant for metal marking.

If you mark on a magazine, even with a magic marker, clean the oil off the magazine. The marker will work better.

 

[1% Lawyer]

I like the NcStar Deluxe 'Doctor' Range Bag from Outdoor Bunker to carry/store ammunition (a bunch).
http://www.outdoorbunker.com/product-p/ncs-cv2905-.htm

I store magazines in the CED pouches, which then fit easily into a range bag or into the Doctor bag
http://www.midwayusa.com/product/174266/ced-6-magazine-storage-pouch-polyester-black

 

[dakotaTex]

I also like the MidwayUSA 'tactical gun case':

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/939160870/midwayusa-tactical-pistol-gun-case

They go on sale fairly often and can be had for a good price. They have pockets for 7 mags on one side, and 2 larger pockets on the other that can easily hold many more. I like that I can keep the gun and mags together. They are also great 'go' cases, in that you can have loaded mags on one side, and bulk ammo in the larger pockets. They are plenty roomy on the inside as well.

One of the stranger mag holders I've made uses ankle weight holders from Walmart with the Gold's Gym brand. They are designed with pockets to hold small bags of sand that are shaped very much like a magazine. Each pocket has elastic at the top. What attracted me to them is that they roll up into a compact ball rather than laying flat. Makes it easier to stuff into a corner of the range bag. Only $10 to hold 12 mags. Just clean out all the sand!


dakotaTex

 

[SwampWolf]

Like others have said, I number my mags with a Sharpie. In terms of storage (with steel magazines), I use magnets (either the round ones found in packaged quantities and located at stores like WalMart or the long, wide ones made to be used inside of gun boxes for Bullseye shooters found at places like Brownells or Midway) affixed to the inside of the door of my gun safe.

 

[GLOOB]

It's not free, but here's another option that's avail for some guns:

http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv241/gloob27x/mags.jpg

I've seen red base plates for Beretta 92 mags, as well.

 

[crracer_712]

I also like the MidwayUSA 'tactical gun case':

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/939...istol-gun-case

They go on sale fairly often and can be had for a good price. They have pockets for 7 mags on one side, and 2 larger pockets on the other that can easily hold many more. I like that I can keep the gun and mags together. They are also great 'go' cases, in that you can have loaded mags on one side, and bulk ammo in the larger pockets. They are plenty roomy on the inside as well.

+1. Roomy enough to put my LC9 and LCP in, and store all the mags in the mag pouches. Has two compartments on opposite side of mag pouches. Each compartment is large enough to hold a 50 round box of 9mm and 50 round box of 380. They also are large enough to hold a LCP

 

[A-FIXER]

Well, for reasons of simplicty for my family wife, daughter, I use rummage sale color stickers and place one on the mag in the said firearm and identical sticker color for the spare mags this way for example the .45 xd has a brightgreen sticker on the firearm and the same sticker to all the mags that will fit that firearm, while the xd9 mags look the same will rear yellow,red,blue,flor orange ect..ect...and they are all hanging on the door in the safe.

 

[B!ngo]

Thoes nice soft Crown Royal bags work for me.

A downmarket variant: The flannel shoe bags that come with new mens dress shoes. I hang them from the safe door along with the handguns (which are in silicon treated gun socks).
Fitting.

BTW MADDOG, do you have excess blue velvet bags, or excess handguns?

 

[spence]

I buy hard eyeglass cases at salvation army stores for .25 or .50 cents they protect the mags very well.

 

[Fishslayer]

Maybe quart sized plastic bags that are labeled?

This, and the bags o' mags are kept in a dedicated Craftsman toolbox.

 

[dondavis3]

I too use quart sized plastic bags that are labeled with a sharpie.

Then put all of the bags into a large cardboard box labeled "Mags"

Works well for me

 

[GLI45]

I use grip tape labels from Dawson Precision on the bottom of my base pads for my STI pistols. They come in different colors and are numbered. I have three STI double stack pistols in three different calibers. The colored base pads make it easy. Silver for .45, red for 9mm, and blue for .40. In addition to 1911/2011 pistols from STI, Dawson also has them for other brands (Glock, Para, XD...)

 

[W.E.G.]

plastic bags

in plastic tubs

takes up the least space

make BIG labels and stick in the bags to ID the mags