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How many magazine do you keep on hand for your hunting rig that use drop mags? I know the answer for SHTF and tac weapon is as many as you can afford but what about your recreational firearms? How many do you take on a hunting trip (considering the mag holds 3-5 rounds) and how many do you keep at home as a reserve supply? I am interested in knowing about both your rimfire and center fire mag count. Thanks
 
Hunting rig:

Centerfire -
Remington 700 BDL in .30-'06. Magazine is built into the receiver. I don't need anything additional except for a few extra rounds.


Rimfire -
Remington 541-T in .22 lr. 10 round (detachable) magazine. I have 5 of them, total.
Ruger 10/22 in .22lr. 10 round detachable magazine. I have 5 of them, total.
What do I take with me? 2 magazines with 5 rounds in each and a few rounds in my pocket.
 
My deer rig is my Saiga 308... so I have as many magazines as Correia can push out of FBMG and I can hide from my wife.

But legal hunting magazines? Just one.


Same issue with my "brush deer rifle" It's an AK, so I a good number of magazines.

But legal ones? just 2.

Small game... Ruger 10/22. Since I just got around to getting another one, I just have one magazine. But I'll grab a few of the 10 rounders.


-- John
 
Same here my 700 Rem uses an integral 5 round mag +7 on the stock

My 77/22 I take 3 nine shot clips for small game.
 
No extra magazines for 3 and 4 round cap hunting rifles.

2 factory mags for my 10/22. Hi caps have lots of failures in my 10/22.

I don't need any more mags than that. I'm all set.*

*I might pick up some extra mag springs for my evil guns.
 
Depends on what gun. For something like a Browning A-Bolt with an internal removable box magazine, 1 should be plenty but it would not hurt to have two.

In general for my hunting rifles with detachable magazines I only have one magazine.

I'll recharge the magazine when necessary, and if it turns up lost the gun becomes a single shot.
 
My main hunting rifles have integral mags.

For the ones that are removable?

Exactly One.

I cannot imagine emptying even one magazine in a hunt (learn to stalk and shoot, Man) unless it were a shotgun on a bird hunt. In that one case I might have a bunch of mags, but in practice I use a tubular shotgun mag. I don't know of any legal (two round capacity) shotgun detachable mags anyway. If I did I'd still use the tubular mag on my Beretta-- it's far easier to stuff in two more shells than fiddle-fart around changing a magazine.

My son hunts more than I. So far he's taken one turkey and one deer this fall. That took a total of three rounds on two separate days—only because he got too excited and rushed his first shot on the deer. The second shot, 12 hours later (plenty of time to reload) went straight through the lungs.
 
Exactly--seeing as how they want to take away non-sporting firearms and hunting is a legitimate sporting purpose, I feel compelled to hunt with an AK. I have about 50-80 magazines for the variety.
 
Interesting divergence here. Seems there are two dominant answers:

1. I hunt with a "traditional" (bolt/lever/break) action rifle that only has an internal (if any) magazine, or a detachable (but I only have one) box mag; "the hunt" is the thing, and I should be able to get the job done with a single shot ... or with one follow-up at most ...

2. I hunt with a rifle (or a knockoff) originally designed for combat/self defense, that has detachable, large-capacity magazines, of which I have many; it is adequate (some might say overkill) for hunting purposes ...

I wonder how this thread would develop if the OP's question had been worded differently? I.e., Why type of rifle/action do you prefer to hunt with?

Personally, put me in #1 above. I like to hunt with "traditional" hunting rifles, mostly bolt or lever action. I take a box of cartridges with me on the trip, and only a handfull (magazine-full) when afield each day. Only twice in all my years of deer hunting have two shots been required, both second shots being to hasten the demise of an animal that was dying anyway. (Not claiming to be a perfect shot by any means ... I have missed completely on occasion.)

I do have an EBR, though, and I have multiple magazines for it. It's just not my hunting rig. Interesting question, and interesting responses thus far.
 
If I'm on a walkabout in the woods and bringing my Hi Point carbine for plinking & small game, I have 10 magazines, so if I wish, I can carry a whole box of WWB hardball ready to use, in a bunch of cheap flea market knife sheaths strung on an old belt and worn bandolier style. If I'm using my AK for deer, I leave the 30-rounders home and I have two 5-rounders that are legal here for hunting. If my wife is out with her Mossberg plinkster, she has 5 magazines, again so we can load a whole box of shells at a time. Our other rifles all have non-detachable magazines. As for hunting handguns, her SBH obviously has no issue, and I have only got two mags for my MKII and three for her Phoenix...
 
seeing as how they want to take away non-sporting firearms and hunting is a legitimate sporting purpose, I feel compelled to hunt with an AK.
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EXACTLY. This is specifically the logic that got me to hang up my bolt guns and lever actions and hunt with a black rifle. I still have most of the bolt guns and lever guns, but they don't get out much.
 
One spare mag for my bolt action hunting rifle, 2 spares for my Marlin rimfire. I have 2 5-rd mags for my 'social' rifle. The Marlin 995 mags were never cheap and it was shockking how much I paid for a 4 shot mag for my Savage 116. I've got 2 bolt guns that take stripper clips so I have a dozen or more for each of those... maybe 2 dozen.
 
Doesn't apply to me this season.......I've been using a custom 98 in 30-40 Krag and it's set up as a single shot....Essex
 
I'm on a Antelope hunt with a good friend. We had been out for a few hours making our way with some spore, we come across a nice mixed group with a dandy buck out front. He goes to fire and nothing happens. Some where along the way his mag had fallen out and he now had a single shot for the remaining 4 days. I can comfortably put 2 rounds in my mag and 1 up the chute. Don't think I've ever fired more than 2 and that was on a big critter.
I do keep a couple more in my pocket just in case a PDog decides to charge.
 
I'm hunting with my M1A. two 10 round magazines, because I will lose or damage one if that is all I take. Murphy's law. If I take two, they both will work fine.

Always have a backup.
 
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