Magazine Spring Set

[andyrping]

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?

 

[esrice]

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[Indy_Guy_77]

Yup. what he said.

To summarize:

You ain't hurtin' anything to leave your magazine loaded.

Or unloaded.

It's the repeated working of the spring that CAN cause it to wear out. Leaving it alone won't hurt.

-J-

 

[millsusaf]

Yup. what he said.

To summarize:

You ain't hurtin' anything to leave your magazine loaded.

Or unloaded.

It's the repeated working of the spring that CAN cause it to wear out. Leaving it alone won't hurt.

-J-

Yah what he said too, only simplified.

 

[SC_Shooter]

Ditto.

 

[andyrping]

Magazine spring madness: 'creep' to your 'elastic limit' to un-earth the urban legend of 'spring-set' | American Handgunner | Find Articles at BNET

Nice! That hit it right on the nose!

Thanks!
Andy