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Posted: 7/9/2005 4:47:48 PM EDT
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Wondering who loads the magazines, do they reach the field loaded or are they loaded by the end user? tia, joe |
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In the past, some rifle systems were supplied with pre-loaded magazines, particularly the M1 Carbine. You can sometimes still find WWII-produced, loaded magazines, and they seem to still work fine. However, the number of magazines a soldier was expected to carry changed radically between WWII and some time after Korea. The philosophy of disposable magazines seems to be the key here-steel 15 and 30 round Carbine magazines were usually considered disposable; note that you can STILL find them, new in wrap, made during WWII. Aluminum M16 mags are NOT disposable; take a look at the "comic book" M16 manual for a clue here, as it was apparently assumed that the VC and NVNA collected them for their own use. |
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the term "disposable" was more then likely coined by some wannabe.......mag are not disposable, although you try not to just chuck a empty mag, if you can help it, in a firefight of course sometimes you can't always keep track of every single empty mag......but you certinly just don't leave them and carry on your mission after the battle or engagement, if you have been in the military you know that after a engagement on the objective, you secure the objective, re-distrubte or call for resupply of ammo, and do all the other things necessary to be combat effective for the next objective, and that includes police up any empty mag, if the situation warrants it. |
| I wouldn't want to use a mag I didn't load myself unless I saw someone load it. I would like to keep "my" mags, too. I know if they work. Anyway, you load your own almost every time. At more strictly controlled qualification events you may be issued loaded mags with a prescribed number of rounds, but you generally load your own. |
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