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9/12/2007 11:15:19 AM EDT
Is it bad to leave your magazines loaded for long periods of time?  I just ordered 10 more USGI mags and 1000 rds. of 62gr Barnaul.  I don't know when the next time I will be able to make it out to the range but I'd like to load my magazines now.  Will this make the spring weak or anything?
9/12/2007 11:41:16 AM EDT
[#1]
loading mags and leaving them loaded does no harm.  There are many many stories of people getting mags that were loaded during WW2 (1911 mags) or Vietnam (M16 mags), and then shooting them in present era without problems.  
9/12/2007 12:18:34 PM EDT
[#2]
This   topic has been covered many times

www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=17&t=342210
9/12/2007 12:30:44 PM EDT
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Quoted:
This   topic has been covered many times

www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=17&t=342210


+ a billion

short answer-it's cycles of compresions, not sitting one way or another that wears out springs
9/12/2007 9:55:52 PM EDT
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