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Posted: 11/26/2006 1:33:29 PM EDT
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I've seen several movies that have the actors portraying soldiers tap a loaded magazine against their helmets before inserting the magazine into their weapons. I've seen it done on "Full Metal Jacket" (M-16) and "Saving Pvt. Ryan" (BAR) most recently. Is there a real reason for this, or is this more of the Holly-weird take on guns. You know, where you can fit a silencer on a revolver and have it shoot whisper-quiet, or where you can shoot a 12-gauge shotgun with no recoil. |
| I tap my mags against the heel of my hand when I load them. If I am loading something more than pistols I use my thigh. It helps seat the rounds against the back of the mag. I was always taught to do that in order to assist in feeding. I was told that if they rounds are up against the front of them mag then there could be issues. |
I tap my mags on the back side to drive all of the shells to the back of the mag. This keeps the nose of any bullets from making contact with the magazine. My handloads are a little longer than factory loads....so I always worry about them getting jammed up.......although I've never had any problems yet 
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| During my time in the service(11C) I tapped all mags on my brain bucket before inserting into rifle, Espesially after pulling a mag out of my mag pouch. When the full mags sit in a pouch for a while the rounds tend to slide forward wich sometimes causes jams upon chambering rounds, so I justed tapped the mag(tapping the rounds back towards the lips) |
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It helps seat the rounds at the rear of the magazine. Sometimes the rounds can stick out too far and need to be banged back into the rear of the mag. I bang magazines every time after I load them. I'm not crawling through the jungle so there isn't a need to do it before every reload... ETA: It also can serve the purpose listed above as well as clearing dirt from the magazine. |
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