Has anyone ever heard of or experienced any issues with long term loading of Glock magazines? Any problems with pressure affecting the feed lips?
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Has anyone ever heard of or experienced any issues with long term loading of Glock magazines? Any problems with pressure affecting the feed lips?
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No, but I have cracked a follower and cracked a piece off a feed lip. THis was from dropping them, not wear. I have always used a January/June standard on my duty mags and off duty mags (the ones that stay loaded all the time) to swap them for a second set of mags. THis leaves them loaded for six months, and then 6 months unloaded. Its worked so far.
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At an LAV class last year he recommended downloading Glock magazines by one to preserve the spring.
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Found a couple fully loaded Glock 17 / 34 mags in my SWAT locker a couple months ago. They had been fully loaded for the last 5 years. I have been using them as training mags since I found them. No issues at all.
As a side note, I replace the factory mag springs with Wolff extra power mag springs.
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Like him or not, about 15 years ago Chuck Taylor recommended the down loading of one round on the Glock mags. He found they would nearly last forever like that.
I have three dedicated Glock mags for training, stock. They have at least 25k through them and they work 100%. DOn't waste your money on after market springs and such. All original parts are in these mags. If you are buying your own ammo, very doubtful you will wear them out.
My duty mags are for that only, I test them periodically.
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Good/interesting info. No issues anywhere with feed lip separations from being loaded that anyone has heard of or experienced?
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Originally Posted by Hawkeye
Ive never seen it, and Ive seen A LOT of well used Glock mags.
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Excellent.
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When I got ahold of my Father-in-Law's gen-2 G19 recently, it had both magazines (the old NFML style) both loaded with 15 rounds. I know it has not been fired since he took possession so they'd been loaded for 13-14 years and they are like new, and worked and fed well. No discernible weakening of the springs or other issues.
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I do down load one round on my mags.
"Cpl ##### is condescending and abrassive towards coworks who don't follow directions" my favorite evaluation quote........if I'm like that at work, you should see me on the internet
"Even if I order you to trim your mustache, you're going to totally ignore me, huh".-another favorite supervisor "discussion".
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