Is it ok to leave magazines full? I use my XD9 Service for home defense and always have the magazine full. Its been about a year with the ammo in the magazine. Is this bad for the magazine? Will the magazine still feed rounds even though its been left full of ammo for over a year? Thanks
You can keep a handgun magazine filled to the max in a gun for years and your spring will be just fine. It's the constant loading and unloading that wears the springs down.
I have 5 or more mags for each of my pistols. Two of them always have SD ammo in them. Number your mags and rotate them 3 or 4 times a year. This way they all wear evenly over time.
Comparing a shock absorber to a compressed mag spring is not the same. Now if you had your vehicle totally loaded down and compressed your shocks to the max it would be the same.
That being said I can't leave a mag doe over a year without using it by either shooting the ammo or just rotating my mags. I also like to disassemble and check as I have had mag springs break on me in the past.
Nutella and gummi bears should only be used on European pistols.
American pistols require "War Juice"--a combination of beef blood, bacon fat, and bourbon, with a Slim Jim on the follower (dip the Slim Jim in War Juice for the best results...in a punch, beef (NEVER TURKEY!!) jerky can be substituted).
Loaded mags and their compressed springs are just fine. That's not what wears out springs. Cycles of going from compressed to not compressed is what wears out springs. In other words, actual use wears out springs. Just sitting in one position will not wear out a spring.
Comparing a shock absorber to a compressed mag spring is not the same. Now if you had your vehicle totally loaded down and compressed your shocks to the max it would be the same.
That being said I can't leave a mag doe over a year without using it by either shooting the ammo or just rotating my mags. I also like to disassemble and check as I have had mag springs break on me in the past.
Someone said I have to rotate my ammo too?? Wow, now I am trying to find a rotator to rotate my loaded mags like it rotates my watch. How many times a minute should it rotate?
No you don't. You revolve them. "Rotate" and "revolve"'have different meanings.
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