mag questions

**SickRick** · February 23rd, 2009, 05:52 PM

leaving my mags loaded is that bad for the mag does it sorten the life of the spring?? please help me out thanks

mags in question are: glock, wealther, ar15

**stipilot** · February 23rd, 2009, 06:36 PM

Keeping the spring under compression does not shorten the life of the spring. Cycling the spring shortens the life of the spring.

**SickRick** · February 23rd, 2009, 06:50 PM

so i should keep them fully loaded or half which is best??

**39flathead** · February 23rd, 2009, 10:21 PM

Originally Posted by SickRick

so i should keep them fully loaded or half which is best??

Fully loaded, empty, or half loaded is all the same when it comes to storage.

Loading and reloading the mag is when the spring "wears".

If you want to leave your mags fully loaded, then go ahead, it won't hurt them.
If you are worried about the springs, just buy some replacements just in case, although you will probably never need them. Brownells will have the Glock and AR springs, don't know about the Walther.

When I was shooting USPSA matches, all of my mags were let fully loaded for a week or more, and weeks or more in the winter, this on top of being loaded and reloaded probably at least a couple hundred times a year, I never had collapsed springs except when using +2 extensions on my Para mags.

If you are using factory mags, load em and forget em.