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    Default Magazine springs

    Assuming some ban does happen, I'm thinking I should be prepared with some extra springs for my handgun mags so that they can be replaced over their lifetime. Most of my mags are the ridiculously expensive ones. I've never had to replace one of these due to failure. I'm assuming you can just buy one size fits all springs and cut them down to your mag? Worth buying some or don't worry about it right now?

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    Default Re: Magazine springs

    Your magazine spring should be tuned to the application. There is a great company right here in Pennsylvania called Wolff gunsprings. They will be able to satisfy all of your spring needs quite effectively.

    I was a shoter through the ill fated AWB from the terrible Clinton years. The magazine body at that time became the regulated item, not the spring or follower. Even if the shit heads in charge and writing laws for us lowly citizens to follow were to ban magazines or whatever, a robust underground would spring to life churning out the ilicit products.

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    Default Re: Magazine springs

    Assuming a spring is designed properly for the application, and made correctly with the right metal and temper, then no matter how many times that spring is compressed or extended, as long as it is never over or under it's intended linear usage, and assuming no exterior unplanned environmental issues are present to affect the metal or temper, it should never wear out. Theoretically. My opinion, if you have a spring that has functioned for 5000 or 15,00 rounds and has not failed, it is a good spring.

    The followers in my 4513TSW mags jam when I put the mag spring in backwards. (Yeah, I know, but it only happened once) What I am saying is it may be important to have the ends of the springs exactly correct in your mags, and the lengths correct also, or you may not have a reliable result using fabricated springs.

    All that said, most mag springs are not expensive, and like slide springs folks like to change them out at some frequency, and that's fine, if it makes them feel better.
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