I have pondering this for awhile and decided to see what Indiana's finest had to say regarding the subject...
With my auto pistols, I don't like leaving magazines loaded all the time because I'm worried about the springs weakening and thus affecting performance. What I do is try to "rotate" magazines; keep one or two loaded and then after a day or so, unload and load an empty one then repeat and so on. I got to thinking though. I'm wondering if the loading and unloading is actually worse than just leaving a static load on the spring and would actually be causing a worse sort of fatigue load instead.
So, anyone have some thought? Am I just being over concerned and should just load and forget about it? I also thought about just not loading to full capacity, but how fun is that?
With my auto pistols, I don't like leaving magazines loaded all the time because I'm worried about the springs weakening and thus affecting performance. What I do is try to "rotate" magazines; keep one or two loaded and then after a day or so, unload and load an empty one then repeat and so on. I got to thinking though. I'm wondering if the loading and unloading is actually worse than just leaving a static load on the spring and would actually be causing a worse sort of fatigue load instead.
So, anyone have some thought? Am I just being over concerned and should just load and forget about it? I also thought about just not loading to full capacity, but how fun is that?