How many Mags is enough

[JSnaxx]

if for some strange reason, loaded mags run out.

As I'm dropping mags, the girlfriend is filling them.

Annnd Idk I have a box full... Well over 40? You can never be too careful

 

[NickyBangBang]

Can never have enough mags or ammo.

PS Good luck with the SR-556...i've been an admirer for some time

 

[Davidk]

My rule is at least 20 normal-capactiy mags per gun. I usually spend at least as much or more than the gun on magazines. That said, I have more

 

[Mass-diver]

30 is a nice number if we are talking ARs (1000 rounds in mags being a good starting point).

 

[showmofffarm1]

As Larry would say.... just one more

 

[exo]

A full carry load is 7, per mil. So I would try to have 3 x full carry loads available per rifle. So 21. Again, per AR. So if you have three ARs, plan for 63 magazines. Not all have to be loaded at the same time (and I would actively discourage that so you can rotate magazines to help the springs relax.

Springs do not need to relax. What wears out springs is the number of compression and decompression cycles.

 

[Lank]

10^6 more than what the leftivists tell you can own.

 

[FNG]

WOW..I guess I am just getting started. 4 30's and the 3 10's that it cam with is just the beginning I guess. Well I paid $30 a mag so I will be waiting for the hype to pass before I go buy many more, but after reading all these posts, I'll keep buying them when I can. If anyone needs more, Monument Beach Gun Show is on thru tomorrow (Sunday) The guy had two totes full today. I bartered with him, don't pay full asking price.

 

[IDPA Mike]

Just for my Glock

 

[Parker Duofold]

Had some good luck at todays Gun show. I found a guy selling brand new GI pre-ban 30 round mags. As some of you know I just got a new SR-556. The mags were just what I was hoping to find. I picked up 4, but now I question...How many is enough?

Four mags is hardly enough.

 

[Steyr_AUG]

Just for my Glock

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Good start

 

[Brezzy]

You can never have enough. Don't be shy when it comes to buying low-cap mags either. I think things like 1911 or Mark III mags that you don't worry about being banned right now could be scarce at some point. It's definitely better to be prepared. I could be wrong, but I think if Patrick gets his way we can only buy one a month.

 

[jron]

Does not compute.

Retry

Makes sense if you dont think about it.

 

[soloman02]

I got 15 windowed FDE pmags.

All loaded with M855. I'd by more but ammo is more important right now, as is getting a scoped 308 bolt gun I like more and a shotgun that will shoot any size shotgun round (Benelli supernova).

 

[Boris]

depends on the size of the mags and no mags for beltfeds

You should test all your mags though.

 

[CTpatriot]

have an extra gun in the same caliber, just in case you need to do a new york reload, i think i have around 40 30 round plus one 60 round surefire as the primary home mag

 

[7.62x39]

...How many is enough?

When your house starts to look like an episode from "Hoarding, buried alive"

 

[schnips]

I have 5 working USGI mags and 8 Orlites. Before I get any more I want one or two more for my sr9c, and maybe an optic of some kind.

 

[Bando_Red]

How ever many mags it takes of continuous fire to melt your handguard and/or barrel. thats how many is enough

 

[greencobra]

I have a bunch....and a bunch of 20's also.

 

[ColdDayInHell]

what mags

 

[Beecher Tool]

The answer depends on what the mags are for....for my FHN SCAR 17 I have twenty of the 20 round factory mags and ten 20 round Thermolds......for my FNH SCAI R 16 and pair of 5.56 AR platform rifles I have six thirty round FHN mags, and sixty of the 30 round Lancer Systems Advanced Warfighter mags....and roughy a half dozen mags for primary pistols in 9MM, .40, and .45ACP....three mags for the .338LM bolt gun...all of them fully loaded and tucked away...the last thing you every want to be doing is filling mags when you need them.

A couple of anecdotes.....accumulating mags for a SCAR 17 was pure torture...the situation has finally gotten better...the Lancer Systems Advanced Warfighter Mags 30 rounders with steel feed lips were $17/each at brownells.com as recently as a month ago....they work as well as anything out there including the steel GI or FN mags.

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

 

[NHAtHeart]

When all your ammo fits in your mags you need more ammo. When you have ammo that doesn't fit in mags you need more mags.

If you follow that simple equation you'll never be short on mags or ammo.

 

[FrugalFannie]

Basic load (7 mags), per firearm at minimum.

After that... there is no such thing as 'too many".

Someone on here mentioned that in a typical combat situation they usually went through 2 loads during the battle. So while I don't think we will be fighting in the streets anytime soon I would say double that. At least.

 

[Spanz]

I heard a good story about a patrol in Vietnam. They got cornered, ended up in a firefight, and then ran out of ammo. Somehow they got away. Interviewed later, the soldier said "we now carry 120 lb packs into the bush!"

So I guess the correct answer of "how many mags I enough?" is how much weight can you carry!

 

[Baystatesuks]

I'd say 13 30rders per AR - one loaded and 12 in reserve. That gives you 390 rounds per AR.

It also depends on caliber - 12 20 rd PMAGs loaded with .308 is kinda heavy. The same 12 20rders loaded with .223 not so much.

 

[ivarr]