longtooth wrote:Daily carry is 1911 (who would guess) w/ 8 rd Wilson & one in the pipe. C&L. One extra 10 rd Wilson in a comp-tac belt holder.
Sunday carry is Taurus 85 w/ Bianchi speed strip in front pocket.
W/ elivated threat level I can go up to primary carry, quad pac of 10rd mags, & BUG w/ 2 speed strips.
Extra mags are not necessarily only for fire power. They are for, heaven forbid, equipment failure. I have been shooting a long time & have seen occasionally even quality equip fail.
Thank you Liberty. Glad you like the mags.
Exactly!
I do not carry a spare mag. for the sake of round count only.
How many here have experienced (or witnessed) a “jam� or other type of failure due to a magazine?
Even though a magazine looks like a very simple piece of gear it has to perform some complex tasks at precise times in the pistol's cycle.
Consider the function of a magazine. It has to present a fresh cartridge in the right place (at the right time) to be pushed forward by the slide as it closes at the end of the firing cycle.
If the round doesn't get there in time, the slide will close on an empty chamber and you'll get click instead of bang. If the round gets there too soon it can interfere with the ejection of the fired case.
Magazine-related malfunctions seem to happen most often with either the first or last round. Both of these malfunctions are almost always spring-related. High-capacity magazines are especially prone to this problem (I had to tune every Para mag. I own).
The magazine spring actually has quite a bit of work to do... it has to lift a "Stack 'O Cartridges", (which can be quite weighty). A typical high-capacity magazine load of 9mm, .40 S&W or .45 ACP might weigh nearly half a pound.
If the magazine spring is too strong you'll get a failure in which the first round is tipped nose down into the feed ramp. The reason is that the spring prevents the round from stripping freely from the magazine as the slide tries to close.
At the other end of the spectrum a magazine spring that's too weak can result in the last round being trapped with the nose pointing straight up because the cartridge isn't lifted fast enough to be picked up.
Most people don’t clean their magazines regularly, some over lubricate them. Others have magazines that incorporate some type of plastic base.
I have personally witnessed the extended grip on a magazine fall off and dump the remaining cartridges, spring and follower on the ground.
IMO, the most likely reason you will have a problem with a semi-auto pistol (besides poor lubrication, or limp wristing) lies with the possibility of having a mag. get “out of spec.�
Carry a spare for this reason alone.
) so it may not be applicable today, but the folks in some of the European Intel orgs didn’t care spare mags. Their basic load was what was in the pistol, and none of these professionals felt at risk. Personally, I feel safer with extras onboard, but some of those guys I worked with were very competent and can cover my six anytime. So if you carry no spares, jump in and state your opinion! I suspect a real count of CHL’s would show most don’t carry spares…
