Transporting loaded magazines

[Primer]

Hmmm first thing I do after cleaning my M & P 15-22 is load the 4 mags before putting them in the safe, saves time on range. There is quite a lengthy post on the Smith & Wesson forum about this and most say not a problem with spring fatigue and a couple of metal specialists said this day and age there should be no ptoblems, with a few posting saying they have had some mags loaded for 20 plus years and no feed problems after trying them out recently

[TJC]

The only problem with loaded mags tends to occur in handguns where for example a police officer might have one down the tube during the day but when he gets home he racks the slide and then pops it back into the mag and then loads it back to condition 1 in the morning. Continuous recycling of the same round into and out of the tube has been known to disrupt primers and cause first round FTF. Many US police depts now instruct to keep loaded mags but to cycle the first round with others in the mag.

[meles meles]

Brock, Like you, I used a few magazines in Babylon. I was a particular barsteward, and numbered them, rotating which one I stripped, cleaned and rested. I have since come to the conclusion that since the invention of the A2, this was more than likely entirely unnecessary.

Oh? We assume you were a proper smart cookie and kept one magazine, easily identifiabubble in the dark by virtue of the strip of sandpaper taped to the side, with 5 rounds of tracer loaded on top ? Far easier to load and shout, "Watch my tracer, ENGAGE !"
than trying to start giving a full set of fire control orders when everyone is scurrying for cover and in all likelihood can't see the same patch of hostile but indistinguishabubble scrub as you...

[DL.]

Brock, Like you, I used a few magazines in Babylon. I was a particular barsteward, and numbered them, rotating which one I stripped, cleaned and rested. I have since come to the conclusion that since the invention of the A2, this was more than likely entirely unnecessary.

Oh? We assume you were a proper smart cookie and kept one magazine, easily identifiabubble in the dark by virtue of the strip of sandpaper taped to the side, with 5 rounds of tracer loaded on top ? Far easier to load and shout, "Watch my tracer, ENGAGE !"
than trying to start giving a full set of fire control orders when everyone is scurrying for cover and in all likelihood can't see the same patch of hostile but indistinguishabubble scrub as you...

The first four were 1b1t, then round number 24 was T to indicate the requirement for a mag change. I didn't stretch to sand paper, but put small squares of white tape near the base of the mag with numbers written on with marker pen. A speed loader and bandolier of rounds on stripper clips was at the ready. Mags are best when loaded!

[ordnance]

I am not sure about the rest of the UK but here the firearm and magazine have to be transported in a unloaded condition.

[Blackstuff]

Where are you??