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Posted: 11/27/2014 10:40:17 AM EDT
[#1]
I don't think you ever have enough, not being a smartass either. I don't have as many as I would like but I am at an ok number. I think I have around 150 for I think 8 - ARs. I like the 10-20 per rifle. That gives a you a load out plus spares.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 10:43:43 AM EDT
[#2]
At least 10 per weapon. The more the better.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 10:43:47 AM EDT
[#3]
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Someone on here once said 10 per rifle...sounded good to me so that's how I started. I go with this minimum. ( they do go bad ) Peter K. ? from SOF mag used to say that 10 min per weapon. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 10:43:58 AM EDT
[#4]
I think I have around 110.
40 of them are 20s, the rest are 30s. Pmags and GI mags mostly. I have enough, but can't always pass up a good deal. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 10:44:59 AM EDT
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I don't like wasting time reloading magazines at the range. When I do go to the range, I like to shoot 300 to 500 rounds. Simple math tells me I need 10 to 17 magazines to fulfill my needs. Add to that the threat of future regulations, I estimate that I need 3 times my current need, so 51 magazines. Add to that a stockpile to sell during times of panic buying. Maybe 100 magazines total.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 10:46:41 AM EDT
[#6]
I just keep buying them on sale.
I keep most in wrap for my children and grandchildren in case of future bans. For my AR's I like a 50/50 mix of Pmags and metal for longterm storage. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 10:47:19 AM EDT
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Hi--first post. I recently put together a AR-15 and my plan is to only have one, I mostly hunt with and own a number of leverguns, but felt the need to own a AR-15. So I have two questions: 1). How many magazines do I really need? 2). How many 30-rnd and how many 20-rnd mags? if this question has been asked before I apologize in advance...I also want to thank you for your time and input...  40 per rifle. That's what I did. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 10:56:55 AM EDT
[#8]
I actually do have 87
Thanks ARFCOM. 
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Posted: 11/27/2014 10:57:45 AM EDT
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Get as many as you need then get 1 more so you can make a bet with some crazy fellow Arfcomer.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:01:18 AM EDT
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I have around 200 mags and plan on owning a at least a dozen ARs. I would like to keep 3-4 ARs for myself, give 2-3 to each of my boys when they are old enough, and use the balance for bartering, college fund, etc when Hilary is elected for her second term. Same with the mags. Between now and when I die, I will NEVER shoot enough to wear them out. I'll set aside the appropriate amount (maybe 35 for the each of us) then use the rest for trade, sale, etc.
Even though I don't need them, I'll order a few more in each gun related order I place from here on out. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:03:37 AM EDT
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Maybe this will give you a hint as to how many are required. We moved recently and I found I had a Rubber Maid bin packed with magazines..................I thought I only had two Rubber Maid bins holding magazines..........I forgot about the third one. Forgotten mags best mags!! 
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:08:21 AM EDT
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My last count 150 something magazines and 5 AR's.
30 something AK74 Magazines , 1 AK 74 13 AK 47 magazines, 2 romanian drums, 1 AK47. Depends bro, it depends. I also rememer the 94 ban. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:21:16 AM EDT
[#13]
One mag per 30rds of ammo you own. That's a good rule.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:21:50 AM EDT
[#14]
I stopped counting...
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:25:55 AM EDT
[#15]
Smells like a trap for future legislation.
Post count and registration date. The answer to how many I "need"? As many as I damn please. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:34:32 AM EDT
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Thank you all for the replys and advice--ordered 16 D&H 30-rnds from PSA ($5.99) and a good friend of mine will sell me 10 new Colt 20-rnd mags cheap...so it begins... Good start, welcome to the madness. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:36:46 AM EDT
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Thank you all for the replys and advice--ordered 16 D&H 30-rnds from PSA ($5.99) and a good friend of mine will sell me 10 new Colt 20-rnd mags cheap...so it begins... Don't buy aluminum mags, the feed lips bend when dropped and will cause malfunctions. Just buy pmags. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:39:44 AM EDT
[#18]
All of them
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:48:14 AM EDT
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A “standard” load is 7 magazines for a total of 210 rounds. One in the rifle and 6 in mag carriers.
This is what you carry on your person at any time. So you should have at least twice that many loaded and ready to go in your vehicle. That way you can resupply quickly. So we are up to 21 loaded magazines. At your home base you should have a full resupply for this. So that means you need 42 loaded magazines. And you need a full set of spares for these magazines, which brings us to 84 magazines. And you need some range magazines, but 3 of these is enough. That means the correct answer is, as always, 87. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:48:25 AM EDT
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Don't buy aluminum mags, the feed lips bend when dropped and will cause malfunctions. Just buy pmags. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Thank you all for the replys and advice--ordered 16 D&H 30-rnds from PSA ($5.99) and a good friend of mine will sell me 10 new Colt 20-rnd mags cheap...so it begins... Don't buy aluminum mags, the feed lips bend when dropped and will cause malfunctions. Just buy pmags. [facepalm] I have never in my 20 years of shooting AR15s ever dropped a magazine on its feed lips. Even if I did,I feel pretty confident it would be alright. Would I use any magazine for a hammer? Probably not. I just ordered 16 of those D&H mags too. It's a smoking deal! Worse case scenario, you can sell them for $30 a piece in 2016 when Hillary gets elected. 
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:50:03 AM EDT
[#21]
<infinity symbol> |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:50:34 AM EDT
[#22]
ten is 1 and 1 is none.
So, 100. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:52:16 AM EDT
[#23]
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I don't think you ever have enough, not being a smartass either. I don't have as many as I would like but I am at an ok number. I think I have around 150 for I think 8 - ARs. I like the 10-20 per rifle. That gives a you a load out plus spares. Let us be honest about this. Is anyone going to carry eight ARs for any conceivable scenario? So why do you need 10-20 per rifle? |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:54:03 AM EDT
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I don't like wasting time reloading magazines at the range. When I do go to the range, I like to shoot 300 to 500 rounds. Simple math tells me I need 10 to 17 magazines to fulfill my needs. Add to that the threat of future regulations, I estimate that I need 3 times my current need, so 51 magazines. Add to that a stockpile to sell during times of panic buying. Maybe 100 magazines total. If you want to stockpile for the next AR panic, you need hundreds or thousands. There may be a guy here who saw the panic coming, bought beaucoup magazines early and made tens of thousands of dollars. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:55:42 AM EDT
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Let us be honest about this. Is anyone going to carry eight ARs for any conceivable scenario? So why do you need 10-20 per rifle? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I don't think you ever have enough, not being a smartass either. I don't have as many as I would like but I am at an ok number. I think I have around 150 for I think 8 - ARs. I like the 10-20 per rifle. That gives a you a load out plus spares. Let us be honest about this. Is anyone going to carry eight ARs for any conceivable scenario? So why do you need 10-20 per rifle? Why does anyone need to post 14.62 times a day? |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:56:39 AM EDT
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Someone on here once said 10 per rifle...sounded good to me so that's how I started. I would have in multiples of three beacuse most mag pouches fit 3 a piece so 9 or 12. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:58:22 AM EDT
[#27]
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One mag per 30rds of ammo you own. That's a good rule. Indeed . How else can you use the bullet 
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:58:44 AM EDT
[#28]
10 per gun/rifle minimum, 1000rds per caliber minimum. Obviously we will add *ALOT* more ammo/mags for the common/go to 9mm, 5.56, 7.62 etc guns.
Reloading mags at the range sucks. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:59:11 AM EDT
[#29]
Buy a few mags. Buy some ammo. Load the magazines you have. Whatever ammo you have left over, buy more magazines to fill.
But inevitably you'll have a magazine where you run out of ammo and only have 10 or 12 rounds in. So then buy another case of ammo and repeat
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Posted: 11/27/2014 11:59:36 AM EDT
[#30]
If you've ever lived through a mag ban then you'd know that you can't really have too many even if you don't need them.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:00:04 PM EDT
[#31]
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I have 75 magazines. I think I need all of them. What good is a rifle without ammo? Also, what good is ammo without magazines? What good are magazines without a way to carry them?
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:00:13 PM EDT
[#32]
I only have 8 right now. 4 D&H 30 rd, 2 PMAG 30 rd, 2 PMAG 20 rd. Working on getting more.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:00:27 PM EDT
[#33]
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Don't buy aluminum mags, the feed lips bend when dropped and will cause malfunctions. Just buy pmags. 
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:01:21 PM EDT
[#34]
I have 12 per AR and I feel comfortable with that tbh. I have 15 for my AK.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:04:12 PM EDT
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You don't need any 20 rounders. 
Twernty-rounders are good to have... sometimes they are exactly what you need 
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:06:03 PM EDT
[#36]
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Don't buy aluminum mags, the feed lips bend when dropped and will cause malfunctions. Just buy pmags. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Thank you all for the replys and advice--ordered 16 D&H 30-rnds from PSA ($5.99) and a good friend of mine will sell me 10 new Colt 20-rnd mags cheap...so it begins... Don't buy aluminum mags, the feed lips bend when dropped and will cause malfunctions. Just buy pmags.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:07:43 PM EDT
[#37]
87
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:09:27 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted:
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Don't buy aluminum mags, the feed lips bend when dropped and will cause malfunctions. Just buy pmags.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:09:55 PM EDT
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Thank you all for the replys and advice--ordered 16 D&H 30-rnds from PSA ($5.99) and a good friend of mine will sell me 10 new Colt 20-rnd mags cheap...so it begins... Wash the Fuddyness away in the refreshing waters of freedom!!
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:13:12 PM EDT
[#40]
I might or might not have cases of mags
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:13:19 PM EDT
[#41]
10 more than you have at any one time!
I have a couple of 20s for hunting. I just bought a bunch of 10s for when friends come over to shoot
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:14:15 PM EDT
[#42]
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Why does anyone need to post 14.62 times a day? For the same reason that someone posts 1.77 times a day. Until the fire, I had about 50-60 magazines for ONE AR15. When I complete my second AR15, I won't get another 50 magazines. I can only shoot one at a time. If I get three more ARs assembled I won't need 200 magazines. To be honest, if I could buy 30 round magazines I would have probably bought 20-30 D&H magazines and another 10-20 PMags at current prices. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:16:37 PM EDT
[#43]
There IS a right answer to this question. The answer is MORE!
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:18:12 PM EDT
[#44]
in 10 years- I have a 4-5% mag loss/break rate.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:19:39 PM EDT
[#45]
Perhaps start with a dozen or so,
Three 20 rounders will fit in a surplus 20 round pouch, these are your heavy match rounds for firing prone Six 30 rounders will fill two of the surplus 3 mag pouches, M193 ammo in these Another six 30 rounders in a different color with M855 ammo for hard targets. Zero your rifle for the match ammo since this will be used for long range shooting and see how the other two group with this zero. OR zero with the 55 or 62 grain stuff, although this will throw your POI way off if you use heavier ammo for lang range. Being an inch or two low at close range with the M193 and the M855 is easiy to compensate for. Just my two cents. |
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:20:00 PM EDT
[#46]
No fewer than 10 per rifle and 5 per pistol.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:20:20 PM EDT
[#47]
100 each 20's & 30's all loaded
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:20:29 PM EDT
[#48]
Since they are disposable, as many as I can.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:21:00 PM EDT
[#49]
I honestly think you should have 20 spare mags all loaded.
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Posted: 11/27/2014 12:22:27 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Considering that magazines are the cheapest they have EVER been, there is no reason not to stock up. This Black Friday a vendor is selling new D&H magazines WITH a Magpul Gen III follower installed for $6.50. That has got to be close to cost to produce them. |
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