Do you Download your magazines?

[hedp]

Many people say that you should download your rifle or pistol magazines by 1 or 2 rounds for two reasons, one, so that it does have a malfunction when inserted into the weapon and two, so that you don't over-compress your mags which will help extend the life of the magazine.



Do you believe/follow this?




Also, how many rounds do you Download by if you do this?




I have a SW Bodyguard .380 that I use for CCW that only has a 6 round magazine, if I download it by 2 rounds it will only have 5 rounds.

[AMMOTECH]

GI mags @ 28 --- 30 makes it hard to load on a closed bolt
PMAGs @ 30

Just seems to work better that way....


I do not do this with any pistol mags. I load them to the max.


More info for you:
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=81074
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=85750


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[ra2bach]

all mags in pouch - round on the left...

[jsummers]

Are you talking about rifle mags, pistols mags, or both? Just curious because downloading rifle mags has been discussed a bit but you mentioned a pistol mag and this is the AR forum.

I don't download any of my mags, rifle or pistol.

[hedp]

Are you talking about rifle mags, pistols mags, or both? Just curious because downloading rifle mags has been discussed a bit but you mentioned a pistol mag and this is the AR forum.

I don't download any of my mags, rifle or pistol.




Both.



And I use Pmags for my AR.

[GeorgiaBoy]

I download rifle mags to 27-28 rounds.

I don't download pistol mags.

[Iraqgunz]

This topic has been covered numerous times.