How many rounds per life of the magazine/spring?
Mainly asking about single-stack magazines like Shields, Glock 42/43, Kimber Solo's, LCP's, single stack Beretta's, those kinds of guns.
If a magazine holds say, 8 rounds, firing 1000 rds, that's 125 times fully loading it, 125 times fully unloading it. (shooting) 250 cycles?
Or do we count by each bullet inserted and removed? That would make 2000 occurrences of partial working of the spring.
I'm asking because I have some old Beretta's I shoot regularly. I'm not sure how long mags will be available so I want to figure how many (magazines and/or springs) I should buy for the number of rounds I intend to fire them over the years.
I'm also anticipating Florida turning into New, New York in regards to firearms restrictions. I don't know how long I'll be here. But I want to get the mags and mag parts I may need now.
I'm certain I have Glock magazines with at least 1000 rds on them. But some of them sometimes don't hold the slide back on the last shot. Yea, they're numbered, but I haven't concerned myself enough to weed them out and replace the springs. (Don't shoot those guns much)