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Contrary to popular belief, any knowledgeable Armorer or Gunsmith will tell you to ALWAYS store your magazine either fully loaded or empty. Never half loaded or a few rounds short of fully loaded. If you do, then your spring will obtain a “Memory” and may not work reliably beyond the point that you had them stored……………
Image size
1800x1196px 1.04 MB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D90
Shutter Speed
10/1000 second
Aperture
F/4.5
Focal Length
35 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Mar 25, 2011, 6:23:36 PM
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This gunsmith agrees. If you don't like the eventual warping of the feed lips that fully loaded storage will cause, store them empty. If you want them ready to go, you've just gotta deal with it. If it really bothers one, they can keep extra mags that they store empty and rotate the ammo between them, giving a couple mags a break every once in awhile. Magpul sells a solution for AR15/M16 style mags: A cover that pushes the rounds down just enough to relieve the pressure on the feed lips. This also makes said loaded mags legal to keep in your locked and declared hard-sided luggage and/or guncases on commercial flights in the USA.

Interesting note on flying with guns - If you have a lockable hard-sided suitcase or w/e it is you fly with (and the laws where you're going allow you to have it), toss an unloaded gun in with your luggage and make sure to declare such when you check your bag. That way you get to stand there and watch as TSA searches your bag, locks it and seals it. No more "lost" electronics or valuables accompanied by a friendly letter from DHS saying "o hai we opened your bag and decided you're not a terrorist or drug smuggler. we totally swear we didn't steal nothin". The whole process takes 5 minutes or less at most airports.

Also, I love how perfectly those fit in there. I'm totally going to start doing that. =P