In this video, Mike takes Magpul PMAGs that have been loaded for 10 or more years and sees if they’ll feed in his 5.56 DISSENT. Answering the old question of “is it ok to keep your magazines loaded?”
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What about drum mags?
5 out of 4 people struggle with math 😜 always keep em' loaded! Too bad people will still keep on debating this until the end of time. Good video!
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Yooooooo Mike!!!!!!
We keep talking about springs and AR. mags. How about other types of magazines and components?
brotha n fellow patriots out there , buy n use mags from a u.s.veteran owned company out there only ! , also military vets clean n take care of there mags n springs too , thanks > tom !
I had a couple mil surplus 1911 mags that were loaded for about 15 years. They functioned fine and I still have them another 25 years later.
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An unloaded mag is just a paperweight. Use a rock if you need to hold down paper.
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what's the point of storing a mag if it ain't loaded…. amirite?
might be simpler to best physics of springs themselves.
Can you over compress a regular, car, magazine spring?
hypothesis: I would think by bending metal potentially it could loose its life span. springs loose their strength from over expansion. Possible compression and over compression past the point of normal would cause failure. Have some magazines reloaded while your stockpile untouched.
also I've seen video on WW2 magazine or X years still functioning.
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Metal mags? Doesn't hurt them a bit to be left loaded indefinitely. Wouldn't do it with any plastic mags. 🤠
None of my dust covers for pmags ever stay on I mean it they always pop off like a preacher
I’ve never had any problems with loaded mags. The late James Yeager always said does not damage the mag. That’s what he taught me. Keepem loaded!
I never do, but I have a lot of milsurp magazines. Rust will kill any spring.
All mine are loaded. I rotate so the at least get used once a year just because I guess
Should You Store Your Magazines Loaded?
Yes. They are no good unloaded. Only use or both continual compression and decompression wears out springs.
An empty magazine is a useless magazine
Yes. So sick of this stupid ass question.
Wish you guys had a manufacturing location closer to the St. Louis area. I would apply today.
This is just another piece of fudd lore that never had any basis in reality. It was probably started by Hackathorn, and Ayoob. I still remember for years being told that on a slide lock pistol reload you could enduce a malfunction if you used the slide release/slide stop lever to release the slide. That proved to be inaccurate, and a much less efficient way to reload when speed is vital.
Wow
I got kicked off Facebook just for watching a video with Mike in it 😉 (he knows what I'm talkin about) lol🤣
Not worried about the springs just the feed lips
Thanks, I didn't know that bit about the covers taking pressure off of the feed lips. Sometimes those covers don't seat well (or at all) on my gen3 pmags and when they don't I've tended to just not try. I'll revisit those next time….
Just don't do that with SCCY pistol Mags. You will lose your slide lock on an empty mag. Very weak springs.
Very cool. Looks like you busted that myth!
2/12 was the best time to buy them since we worked at MidwayUSA then. Great discounts.
I only store my EDC mags, and then some emergeny mags! AND then some SHTF mags!
Unless the gov't is trying some sketchy shit!
Or Its a Monday!
OR… Its a Tuesday thru Sunday!?
The myth still rages on!
But if my magazines are loaded it means I want to shoot, which unloads them, so I load them again, which makes me want to shoot again and.. you see … it's a satisfying but expensive cycle. I tend to only stop shooting once I'm out of ammo. lolol
There have been people that have found magazines that were loaded interwar 1911 magazines that loaded sometime in the 1930s or early 1940s and left as that for 70 years. They worked.
As Mike states, it's compression/decompression of the magazine springs that weakens them (or over-compression, but that's unlikely if not impossible in some magazine designs).
I sometimes find thirty-round magazines with only twenty rounds loaded in them. Sometimes, I'll have a box of twenty rounds and load them in a magazine just to avoid having odd boxes of ammo sitting around. I'm guessing that having them only two-thirds loaded doesn't hurt the magazine regardless of whether I have a dust cover.
Math is harder when the camera is recording.
I always do