Mag drops

[mlbgpride]

I was out shooting yesterday, and worked in some training reloading. My question is, do you let your mags drop to the ground when in the process? I wouldn't have a slight hesitation dropping it on the ground in a real life situation, but after one or two drops, I got hesitant about dropping $40 mags on the ground. Just to set the scenario, I shoot off my back porch, and that means their falling on the wood deck. Might not be as bad if I go out on the grass, but that makes finding the casings a lot more difficult. What do you guys think and do?

[Orive 8]

When working on my empty reload drills, I'll use a towel/blanket/afghan on the ground to protect mags. Either at the range or at home for my dry fire drills.

Sometimes, if working on the move; this doesn't work to well, but for stationary/repetitive drills, it does. (Specially if working on an indoor range with concrete floors.)

[slinkwc2k]

Same boat here. I put a piece of cardboard or towel or something down when training on concrete. I've had steel 1911 mags pop apart after hitting concrete when training. I'm not made of money. F-that.

[harold63]

I sit here sometimes while talking to you fellows and do some drop and pops. I have hard floors, but let the mags drop on a thick blanket. I don't personally care if they hit the ground, but I don't want to put a dirty mag in my gun, so out goes the blanket, there, as well. I still have a little mag OCD, but at least I got over the mag spring thing.

ETA - if was was in a position where I needed to practice for competitions, in the dirt they are going...

[Lycanthrope]

I've dropped my $100 STI mags on the ground hundreds.....if not thousands....of times. They have metal baseplates, though.

Concrete, sand, dirt, snow.......


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[Joe Demko]

It hasn't been as much of an issue since I went back to carrying a revolver.

[Calico Jack Rackham]

I have a bunch of all steel mil surplus mags for my M92fs and have dropped the mags on the ground dozens of times with no damage and nothing a few minutes of cleaning can not sure.

For other firearms I only have a few mags each so I tend to pamper them with a soft blanket on the ground.

[hzox221]

No issues in dropping mags. It adds character marks on the mags.

[Sparxfly72]

Well since my semi-auto new carry is a CZ75 P-07 and replacement mags are 50 bucks a piece..no, I don't let them fall. But, like Joe, I also carry a revolver at times.

[bripro]

I drop mine without hesitation. My range runs an indoor tac shoot on Saturdays that includes plenty of mag changes. They have a concrete floor and I've never had a problem with Sig, Glock, Beretta or 1911 mags. To be fair I did see a guy break a mag for a 22 caliber AR there though. The outdoor range has gravel on the pistol ranges and we drop them there too.