How many magazines do you have for your pistol?

[Jules Winnfield]

How many magazines do you have for your pistol?


2 for my PM9 (6 round flush, 7 round extended), 1 fifteen round flush for the new Sig Sauer P250C 9mm, 5 for Glock 26 (1 ten round flush, 2 with Pearce +3 extensions, 2 fifteen rounders left over from my old Glock 19).

I plan on buying 2 more mags in the near future for the PM9 (6 rounders). I have searched high and low for spare mags for the Sig but have come up empty as high capacity magazines right now are worth their weight in gold. Eventually I will purchase 1 more as I intend on using the Sig as a home defense/range gun only. Too big for concealed carry on my frame. That's what I purchased the Kahr and Glock for.


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[Rob_0t]

I like that +3 pierce....

[Jules Winnfield]

How many magazines do you have for your pistol?

I like that +3 pierce....

Yeah. They provide for a more sure grip than the 10 round flush. Of course I wouldn't use them while conceal carrying the weapon as they cause printing. I bought them for spare mags for CC and for range shooting. They're high quality and look OEM.


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[KKing]

How many magazines do you have for your pistol?

I tend to only have 3 or 4 for most of my handguns that don't interchange. Now with my Glocks, in total I have...well, a lot since I run 9mm only and so many interchange. My favorite of which are the 33 round mags for the range, pretty sure every time I insert one a little bit of Feinstein dies.

My rifles are a different story....with 3, about to be 4 chambered in .223/5.56, I have around 40 magazines for those. But that's another thread altogether

[Dogman]

The least magazines I've got for one of my pistols is 3 (Star PD), up to 25 for a couple of my Glocks. 10 for my PM9.

[ripley16]

Since this is my first pistol, I'm not sure if I've gone overboard or not... I currently have 6 mags. How many mags (max) do you have for any one pistol?

I like to have enough magazine capacity to load a box of 50 rounds at a time. I have as few as one mag for a certain pistol, to as many as over twenty for another. I bought a Kahr P9 that came with 13 mags a few years ago. Combined with the other Kahrs I have and the extra mags I picked up, these are the leaders in my mag collection.

HK accounts for a bunch, I think I have 13 to fit my P2000sk, and Sig comes in third. These are the guns I tend to shoot the most, so extra mags are good for range time.

Having guns that share mags, such as the K9, T9, P9 and TP9, or the HK P2000sk and the USPc, also make sense to me and that compatability gives me reason me to invest in extra mags. I even managed to come by 8 mags for my HK P7. I'm patient and wait for deals.

[nuke]

There's no need to rest magazine springs. Old wives tales die hard.

I'd like to hear more on this. I've heard that new mags should be loaded to capacity and old mags in storage should be loaded to only have 1/2 or less capacity but that's from a gent at work.

And btw, great feedback on the #'s.

[Bawanna]

I'd like to hear more on this. I've heard that new mags should be loaded to capacity and old mags in storage should be loaded to only have 1/2 or less capacity but that's from a gent at work.

And btw, great feedback on the #'s.

My take on this is new mags need to have the springs take their set, just like any new spring.

For a long time many felt that over time a loaded magazine would over time weaken the magazine spring and it was better to rotate them periodically to let the springs return to their full length. I did this for years on a weekly basis.
I was told by some that it wasn't true but didn't see any harm in it and I still don't for that matter.

An experience a few years ago eased my mind considerably and while I still rotate mags I don't do so nearly as often.

The experience was a 1942 Army 1911 that a friends uncle gifted me. He brought it back in his duffle bag fully loaded, empty chamber. He hadn't taken it out of his duffle bag since 43 or 44. I never could get him to tell me why he left it in there, just wasn't a gun guy I guess.
Anyhow he started to empty the magazine and thinking of the above stuff I asked him not to.
I took it apart to make sure it was all there, basic wipe down and a little lube and shot that magazine without a single hiccup. All rounds went bang, all fed perfectly. Must have been good springs.

Now days I think springs are far better than they were back then so I'm not a spring worrier any longer.

[Barth]

I'd like to hear more on this. I've heard that new mags should be loaded to capacity and old mags in storage should be loaded to only have 1/2 or less capacity but that's from a gent at work.

And btw, great feedback on the #'s.

It's the act of compression and uncompressed that causes metal fatigue.
A fully compressed or uncompressed spring, left alone, has no adverse affect on service life.

[QuercusMax]

Much has been said about magazine springs in gun forums, and like most such topics, most of what has been said is a mixture of truth and urban legend.

The following is highly simplified, but should give an idea:

Engineers classify springs as "static" or "active." A static spring is one that is expected to go through a small number of compression cycles in its lifetime (perhaps 10,000 or fewer), while an active or cyclic spring (such as used in an automotive suspension) is designed to handle many more cycles. Metal fatigue can become a factor for active springs but is not a design consideration for static ones. Given the amount of usage expected of a typical magazine, manufacturers would typically choose a static spring for that application. In contrast, the recoil spring in an automatic pistol might well be subjected to significantly more cycles, and of a severe nature, and that is why gun manufacturers usually recommend replacing such springs after a few thousand cycles, more or less.

Does leaving a spring in a compressed state for a long time weaken it? The answer is definitely yes, but whether the amount of weakening (called "relaxation") will noticeably affect spring performance to a point where it becomes a problem depends on a number of complicated factors, one of which is the quality and type of alloy that the spring is made from, along with the degree of compression, length of compression time, and the exact shape of the spring. If a magazine spring relaxed by some small amount, say 5%, over a period of time, would that be noticeable? I doubt it.

So the bottom line on spring wear in a magazine is: "it depends." Magazines can wear out for many different reasons.

Despite all this, I tend to leave most of my magazines unloaded, but I admit this is not necessarily for sound engineering reasons.

[voodoo54]

I'm a firm believer that you should have at least five magazines per weapon. Of course the more the merrier.

[steve666]

I have one pistol for which I only have 2 mags, because that is all I've been able to find; one for which I have 4; and between 5 and 8 for all of the rest.

[ESAFO]

i have 4-5 for each of my guns & if the price is right then i'll just add more, you can never have enough mags besides they don't take up that much space.

[Double3]

Can never have enough mags IMO.

[wyntrout]

Can never have enough mags IMO.

Ditto on that.

I like a lot of mags for the range and when it looked like some kinds of bans were coming, I decided I would get the Glocks and all the magazines I thought I needed. It's nice to load up several boxes of ammo to shoot when I get tho the range. The 13 and 15-round Glock mags eat up a lot of ammo fast... less than 4 mags to a box... unless you're using the Value-Pack 100 boxes!

I do have larger mags for the Glock, but haven't tried them, yet. I'll just hold onto them and maybe do a carbine thing later... maybe with a G21 lower. I can't see taking my pistol down to make a carbine!

Wynn