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Oh really??? All of my m9 mags and m4 mags that we swapped one for one with new mags when we got to Baghdad and then Kabul were all loaded for a year. Without exception the springs were garbage from being loaded. This was unit wife of over 700 people.
When magazines are stored in the armory they are stored empty for this same reason. The fact is keeping compression on a spring all year will affect it. Why do you think we all bought new magazines and rotated them? No idea what your talking about here and where you are getting your information.
Here we go kids.....
Don't the Marines have a lot more leeway than the Army to pick their rifles? Seems like something the Marines could do, if not the Army.
All of my m9 mags and m4 mags that we swapped one for one with new mags when we got to Baghdad and then Kabul were all loaded for a year.
Did you at least train with, FAM fire or clean those magazines over that year?
So are you inferring that spring creep/relaxation is a physics myth?
are you trying to imply a dust packed magazine would perform poorly?
http://www.rockfordspring.com/relaxationofsprings.aspI'm not inferring anything, other than on any gun board on the internet, every time this topic comes up, 10 people will say that only using the spring (compressing and releasing it) wears it out, and then there's always that 11th person, AKA, "that guy" who will loudly maintain that compressing the spring (keeping it compressed for some long duration) actually causes it to lose strength.
-Mike
ThisThis x1000. Why won't this myth die?
i have mags that have been loaded for years that feed fine.
Did you at least train with, FAM fire or clean those magazines over that year?
Steel magazines probably suffer a lot of temperature cycling in Iraq too if not stored in temp controlled place.
Does the US Mil use steel mags? I thought USGI are aluminum.
Does the US Mil use steel mags? I thought USGI are aluminum.
I assumed the springs are steel, dunno.
Also, I seriously doubt the coefficient of thermal expansion for steel or aluminum matters in the temperatures a magazine will see.
I think what's much more likely is they got a lot of use not mentioned by the poster.