Great to have something ready. I was wondering let's say I have 1-15 round magazine ready for emergency and tend to sit for a long period of time, I took off 3 rounds leaving 12 in the magazine for I'm worried that the spring will lose its tension in time. I was wondering if that's a good thing to do.
Once a year seems like a reasonable interval. I used to check mine more regularly. The only ones I've ever had an issue with were 12 gauge 10 round magazines. They would flatten the top few rounds after a month or two. I recently checked a few 5.56 and 9mm that had been setting for several years out of sight. They were all fine.
Modern springs don't lose much tension sitting compressed. It's working them that may eventually cause weakening. Think of modern cars. You don't hear about them sitting for years and the springs sagging anymore. Metals have improved. You might check on them every couple of months if you're not sure, but I think you'll find most magazines can sit loaded for years and be fine.
Great to know. I got to start setting all my reminders for things like these. Works well so I could keep track. Thanks.
Maybe do them when you check your smoke detectors.
All my mags are loaded to what they will hold. This gets beat to hell every so often but nothing changes. Springs made correctly will not fail due to being compressed. If they fail it means they were going to fail no matter what. Have some 1911 mags that have been loaded for several decades. Have one old German .25 that has been loaded since the early 60's. All still work great.
That one too.. I thought working from home will be easy, somehow become an additional chores. Not like when I'm physically at work. 12:00 means lunch time.
I under load my shotgun by one round so i don't have any issues with magazine tube springs. I keep a Velcro shot shell inside my gun so I can load to full if I have time. I do keep a 6 round side saddle on my shotgun as well and keep a bandolier with extra shells as well.
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You know how you should have responded, don't you?So I have these cheap amplified EP, they work ok, I really like them when I go out to the forest by myself, I crank them up and don't worry about anyone coming up on me by surprise. Anyway, I was in the garage the other day doing some stuff and had them on and my wife came out to ask me a question, but as she will do she just stood in the middle of the driveway and starts talking. No worries, I just crank the volume up and can hear her just fine. Once we got the lunch question squared away she turned to go in the house and as she went up the stairs each step was punctuated by a small. . . well, 'little toot'
She was out of sight but after the last step there's a pause and she asks "You have those !@#$ing headphones on, don't you?"
"What did you say? I can't hear you over all the frogs"
Maybe the batteries in the support staff's headsets keep dying
I have Walker Razor and the batteries last about 6 months to a year, depending on how much I use them.
I should've just got those then.
are you using AA batteries or built in?
I think your model should do about as well. There is probably something wrong with them. You should send them back.
AAA. I use Eneloop rechargeables.
If youre using AAA or AA, go to harbor freight and get these high capacity rechargeable batteries and you wont be able to top these out. They last atleast 4x or more than duracel before charging.
