Now for a serious Thread. How much is enough?

45-70

45-70

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How many magazines does one need for a rifle?

Now that the ban has expired, income tax refunds are slowly moving in, just how many does a guy need?

(BTW www.44mag.com has a smoking deal on mags)...
 
I'm glad you asked this question. I'm troubled. I don't know the answer. It's indirectly tied to how much ammunition you should have at home also.


I do know during times of political unrest Rusty and I used to buy more hi capacity mags. Nothing gets you through world tension and nuclear arms posturing better than knowing you own multi cap magazines for functioning weapons.



munk
 
I suppose one shouldn't have more magazines than one has ammo for them...

But I do know people who collect magazines, not playboy either.

There is an excellent thread on ar15.com called... mag porn... some guys say they had up to 500 magazines before the ban expired. I was thinking my pile was spiffy, but jeez!
 
Having redundant threads on magazines for rifles is a good idea; just in case; you know?

Funny world.

munk
 
I'm with Munk. 5 to 20 sounds about right. Assuming that you're ever forced to defend yourself you could always get more right?
 
Cannot comprehend living in a place where no guns and ammos allowed>>>>>>


It's not required to comprehend, it is only required to pay taxes and by default have the Nanny State rescue you.



munk
 
For handguns, I keep 3-5 each.
1/2 Doz AR mags, 5 Socom 16 mags 1 10 rd, 4 20's.
I tend to keep some ammo around. About 1500 5.56, 300 .308,
a couple hundred rds of each handgun caliber.
I never seem to know when we will get the time and weather to sneak off for a blast fest.

DaddyDett
 
Depends on the firearm... AK mags are cheap, so many.

SKS strippers cost very little, so lots.

Pistols, at least 3 apiece.

5 for the P229.

Ammo's a whole 'nother thread.
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My M39 "Homeland Security Rifle" doesn't have any mags - Goofy Soviet ammo pouches, several. Da, comrade.

Nyet, working M-N strippers are hard to find...


Mike
 
Wow...I feel like a real slacker....

My Scout Rifle (Designated SHTF rifle) only has one mag I always mean to buy a couple more just for spares, but never seem to get around to it...
My other favorite firearms don't even take mags.

I do have about two or three dozen mags for the 1911 .45s, half a dozen for the Caspian .40, and four for the Caspian .38 Super

Also have a dozen or so 10/22 Mags.

I like to keep at least 5K .22 rounds
500 buckshot/slug rounds 500 birdshot rounds for the shotguns
500 rounds (minimum) for each handgun
2K rounds for the .308 is cozy
a couple hundred would be nice for the 45/70's

As far as mags alone, I find a dozen to be a good number. Enough for a few spares, an armed patrol, or holding off the zombie hordes, but not so much as to be wasting precious space and money.

Wow...I haven't throught of zombie hordes in a long time. Maybe I'll keep my race gun afterall....:D
 
I'm a bad person to answer, but I have 5 to 15 for each pistol, about 80 mags for my AR's (the ban had a bad effect on me), 40 HK91 mags (I need to get the rifle now), and about 20 10/22 mags.
 
The answer is so obvious that I don't know why everyone hasn't thought of this yet. Go to blockbuster, rent every Zombie movie they have. Carefully take notes of how many zombies need to be killed in each wave before there is sufficient time to reload. Average this number between all incidents in all movies. Allow 1-5 rounds per zombie, depending on your accuracy and the power of the rifle, then pad out this number by 25% for safety. This is how many mags you should have loaded at all times. Multiply this number by your rotation schedule(do you just keep two sets loaded, keep four sets, loading them each for a three month stretch, etc). It's all very scientific.

;)

Man I'm bored, and I've only been up for about 15 minutes. :)
 
Runs With Scissors said:
Wow...I feel like a real slacker....

My Scout Rifle (Designated SHTF rifle) only has one mag I always mean to buy a couple more just for spares, but never seem to get around to it...
My other favorite firearms don't even take mags.
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Ohhhh Scout rifle (happy curiousity) Tell us about that one!
 
It's those averages that will get you killed. You have to watch them zombies especially...


etp777 said:
The answer is so obvious that I don't know why everyone hasn't thought of this yet. Go to blockbuster, rent every Zombie movie they have. Carefully take notes of how many zombies need to be killed in each wave before there is sufficient time to reload. Average this number between all incidents in all movies. Allow 1-5 rounds per zombie, depending on your accuracy and the power of the rifle, then pad out this number by 25% for safety. This is how many mags you should have loaded at all times. Multiply this number by your rotation schedule(do you just keep two sets loaded, keep four sets, loading them each for a three month stretch, etc). It's all very scientific.

;)

Man I'm bored, and I've only been up for about 15 minutes. :)
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45-70 said:
Ohhhh Scout rifle (happy curiousity) Tell us about that one!
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It's really nuthin' special to anyone but myself. It's one of the short lived Savage 110 Scouts. .308, detachable mage with a Leupold 2.5x scope mounted with Warne quick detach rings. Very lightweight,rugged, and accurate.

I'm not entirely sure why they didn't sell better. they came out the same time as the Steyrs, but I would have thought there'd be more average budget folks out there that didn't have $2,200 bucks or so to spend on a Steyr, or at least didn't wanna spend that kinda money on a gun to beat through the mountains, lay in the wet floor of a canoe, and get tossed back and forth between snowmachines and airplanes during any and all weather conditions.

Scout rifles beg to be used, not hoarded away in a safe.:D

I paid full MSRP for mine, which was $550, but have never for a moment regretted it.
 
RWS:

I figured that to be the case, the Ruger is too new on the market, and the Steyr is a bit pricey.

I think I have still have pics of my mauser scout around here someplace
 
I wouldn't trade my one Savage in on three of the Rugers anyways.:D

As far as the Steyr....well....maybe at the end of a good work season....

Would love to see the '98 Scout. I do ocassionally wish my Savage had controlled round feed.
 
When I bought my pre-ban AR in 1995 I bought a dozen of Bushmaster's milspec mags for $300, or $25 each. These were the grey aluminum with green follower. 2 years earlier the same dozen would have cost me about $85. Then later you could buy them for way less everywhere else in the country, but that high price stayed in the PRK.

I used to cringe seeing them selling for less that half that everywhere else. I have since acquired another dozen, some steel and the rest aluminum.

For my Glock I have 5 hi cap mags, two of them 15 rounders with +2 baseplates so I can go up to 17 rds. in a compact 9.

I have a dozen 20 and 30 rounders for my Mini-30, mostly from USA mags back when they were screwing everyone on the price of their mags because of the 1994 Krime bill. They took 2 years worth of orders in one month, and then took years to deliver, and their good quality subsequently went way down for a while.

For my 1911 I standardized on Devel mags in 1984 or '85, and now only use the McCormick mags because he bought the Devel patent that includes the excellent Devel follower. I like them better even than the Wilson 47. I have a half-dozen of the original Colt 7 rounders drilled and tapped for base pads, about 4 SS 7 rounders from Pachmayer also from the 80's when they made them briefly, with pads added, 2 Wilsons, 6 original SS Devel 8 rounders with the heavy metal weighted basepad, 3 McCormick 10 rounders, and 2 of the new McCormick SS 8 rounders. I Like the old Devels because when you hit the mag release button they are out of the pistol super fast. They were very expensive though back in the early days of IPSC, but worth it IMO.

Norm
 
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