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How Many Magazines Do You Keep On Hand Per Gun?

KillerFord1977 said:
I keep usually 4 for pistols.
About 30 for rifles.

Pistols fight me back to my rifles …

Would carry 3 AR10 20 rd mags on my body hog hunting. Started runny dry doing 8hr hunts. Wear a chest rig now and look like I’m going into combat hog hunting
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Watching videos on hog hunting I would have to say it’s honestly very close to combat, I’d hate to run out of ammunition or don’t have a back up gun in case one charges.
 
Magazines depends. For my first gun, a Marlin bolt action I have only ever had one magazine. For most hunting rifles 2 suffice. For SD rifles perhaps up to 10.

my Makarovs I had probably 20 magazines for. I gave 3 with each I gave in kits not long ago so that leaves me at least 11, maybe a few more.

My Browning and P365xl each have two and I want at least 2 more, maybe more. Enough for a double mag pouch and a horizontal pouch if I decide I need the double pouch at some point. Ideally I would like 8 to have two rotations.
 
As with @Bassbob , my worries are - in order - breakage/wear from use, product discontinuation, and the ever-changing legal climate.

Tackling these in reverse order:

I'm a first generation immigrant, Naturalized Citizen in the early 90s along with my parents. I don't have a "Second Amendment Legacy" as my parents were never all that interested in firearms as a hobby. Grandfathering some magazines for the generations that come after me isn't unreasonable, I believe, given the evolving political climate.

Product discontinuations and other logistical changes is also a concern when looking at a longer timespan: decades instead of years. Look at how frequently posts surface on XDTalk now for certain magazines that are no longer available just within the XD/XDm line-up. And let's not forget that changes in the marketplace can also show impact here: Okay/Surefeed recently announced that they will no longer be in the magazine business as of the end of this year.....

The biggest concern that I have, personally, is with breakage and wear from training and earnest self-guided practice. Magazines are regarded by most SMEs as the most vulnerable part of modern box-mag fed semi-automatic firearms. Couple this with the fact that they're relentlessly cycled (spring compression/decompression) and often subject to high-impact or even crush forces, I think it is very reasonable to want to have a good stock of replacements.

How many?

Larry Vickers suggested that any "serious" weapon should have no less than five (5) vetted (note that this means that it's more than just "having" the magazine, but rather having made certain that it functions properly in the weapon) magazines for it. My word is next to nothing against his 😅 , so I've adopted this number as my base, too. That said, for my defensive weapons, I personally have decided to accrue many times that number, based on the three criteria above.

I'm nowhere near that cache seen in @Annihilator 's post further up...but I'm working towards it. :)
 
TSiWRX said:
As with @Bassbob , my worries are - in order - breakage/wear from use, product discontinuation, and the ever-changing legal climate.

Tackling these in reverse order:

I'm a first generation immigrant, Naturalized Citizen in the early 90s along with my parents. I don't have a "Second Amendment Legacy" as my parents were never all that interested in firearms as a hobby. Grandfathering some magazines for the generations that come after me isn't unreasonable, I believe, given the evolving political climate.

Product discontinuations and other logistical changes is also a concern when looking at a longer timespan: decades instead of years. Look at how frequently posts surface on XDTalk now for certain magazines that are no longer available just within the XD/XDm line-up. And let's not forget that changes in the marketplace can also show impact here: Okay/Surefeed recently announced that they will no longer be in the magazine business as of the end of this year.....

The biggest concern that I have, personally, is with breakage and wear from training and earnest self-guided practice. Magazines are regarded by most SMEs as the most vulnerable part of modern box-mag fed semi-automatic firearms. Couple this with the fact that they're relentlessly cycled (spring compression/decompression) and often subject to high-impact or even crush forces, I think it is very reasonable to want to have a good stock of replacements.

How many?

Larry Vickers suggested that any "serious" weapon should have no less than five (5) vetted (note that this means that it's more than just "having" the magazine, but rather having made certain that it functions properly in the weapon) magazines for it. My word is next to nothing against his 😅 , so I've adopted this number as my base, too. That said, for my defensive weapons, I personally have decided to accrue many times that number, based on the three criteria above.

I'm nowhere near that cache seen in @Annihilator 's post further up...but I'm working towards it. :)
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Guys, that was just a joke pic.......sorry....if I had those my wife would kill me...
 
Jfal said:
I bet you got that many Yeet Cannon mags...maybe more?
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Annihilator said:
Guys, that was just a joke pic.......sorry....if I had those my wife would kill me...
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^ You never know, bruddah! 😁 :p

Your desktop post honestly reminded me of BuckyP's "Diary of a Holster Junkie" thread on GlockTalk - https://www.glocktalk.com/threads/diary-of-a-holster-junkie.1522065/. I thought I had a lot of holsters until I saw what he had :oops: - and was even more impressed with his evolution through them and experiences with them! (y)

The madness of the early-teens was what drove me to both cache ammo as well as magazines. As a novice shooter at the time, I really hadn't thought much about it prior to either, despite the wisdom and words of warnings of those who had been in the community for much longer: as a result, the "seeds" for those caches came at great cost.

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^ 13-rounders for my XDm9 3.8 Compacts.

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^ 19-rounders.

Those numbers are physical counts. [ Absent fro the pix are of-course my three 35-rounders that I purchased recently - https://www.thearmorylife.com/forum/threads/xdm-9mm-35-rd-mag-initial-report.10081/#post-134152 ]

I actually have fifty-three (53) of the 19-rounders, so a few actually aren't in the picture: for example, mags 47 through 50 are in my emergency pack....)

With that plus the thirteen 13-rounders for my Compacts pictured above, y math suggests that even if I cycle out one set of 10 for every ten years of use (based on my own empirical data: https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?179626-Springfield-xdm-9mm-mags&p=2257949#post2257949), I'm not likely going to be going through all of them, in my lifetime. 😅

I think I'm somewhere around 150 or so of various 30-round AR-15 magazines. I've got 21 in active use (ten Lancer L5AWMs and ten GenM2 PMags for training classes and range-days, plus an old LMT aluminum that I keep hanging around the range-bag for troubleshooting purposes), but that count excludes the two D60s and three GenM3 fourty-rounders that I keep around for fun. :p The vast majority of that 150-count are GenM2 PMags, but I've got enough spares of the L5AWMs that I prefer for training/range-use to last well into the generation following my daughter, especially if she doesn't take up shooting as a serious hobby.

I keep wanting to pick up more Okay/Surefeeds before they become history.....

My daughter and I both have our own Glocks - she prefers Glocks over the XD platform due to her hand size - and I've got a couple that I keep around for fun. I've purchased enough OEM as well as PMag GL17 for her to hopefully weather through her lifetime's worth of politics. :cautious:
 
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