Should you fully load your magazine?This is a discussion on Should you fully load your magazine? within the General Firearms Maintenance and Troubleshooting forums, part of the Use and Training category; Please settle this debate...should you or should you note load your magazine with one less round than it can hold?...
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03-12-2012, 06:15 PM
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Should you fully load your magazine?
Please settle this debate...should you or should you note load your magazine with one less round than it can hold?
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03-12-2012, 06:17 PM
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Compressing mag springs does not degrade them. So always keep them full. Its compressing and uncompressing that wears them down.
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03-12-2012, 06:18 PM
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Why? If it is a sixteen round magazine, then it is made to have sixteen rounds. I have always fully loaded my magazines, and I have never had any problems.
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03-12-2012, 06:19 PM
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I fill mine to the max and leave an extra in the chamber for good measure  
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03-12-2012, 06:47 PM
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I fill 'em up myself.
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03-12-2012, 06:48 PM
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For my SD/HD mags, I've topped them off and left them for the year. No apparent issues.
For range magazines, I typically top-off after I've "decompressed" at home for the night, prepping for the next training class or range session (unless it's a "basic" class, in which case lots of instructors/schools expect to start class without rounds in any of the mags).
In all honesty, the only good reason I can think of, for anyone not to top-off, would be if they lack the dexterity/strength to fully seat the magazine on a "+1 chambered" gun (i.e. from a tactical reload). In this case, I'd simply advise them to down-load the magazine by one.
I've gotten the bounce-back before, and have failed to properly seat the magazine on a "cold-range top-off" (where you've been asked by the instructors to top-off magazines, including the one in the gun, without taking the gun itself out of the holster) - but under stress, this has never happened to me because I believe I drive in the magazine with much more force than what is actually necessary.
For someone with injuries, health concerns, or simply is not strong enough, though, down-loading may not be a bad idea.
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03-12-2012, 06:51 PM
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Should you fully load your magazine?
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03-12-2012, 07:00 PM
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keep em full.
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03-12-2012, 08:23 PM
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I load em up to capacity...
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03-12-2012, 08:53 PM
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We have always crammed as many as we can get in 'em. Works so far.
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