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Posted: 9/7/2010 5:51:21 PM EDT
| Do you keep them all loaded even they just sit inside the safe or rotate loading them every so often? |
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The consensus here (including some fairly impressive engineer-speak) is that springs weaken by compression and then expansion, not by sitting at compression. In other words, a magazine spring will be in far better shape if you load it and sit in your Fo Locker for the next twenty years rather than loading and unloading every month. |
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Given how mag prices have fallen and ammo prices have gone up, I couldn't load all of my magazines if I wanted to.
I have read that keeping them loaded is not a problem, but that cycling them is. So rotating mags is a bad idea if this is true. I have kept magazines loaded for a few year at a time, and they have still funcitoned fine when fired. |
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