Never got more than 27 or 28 rounds into the mags I was issued in the early 90’s.
On March 4, 2020 at 9:33 am, Bill Sullivan said:
My dad was sent in as a replacement Marine rifleman on Okinawa in 1945. He heard all the shooting, so on his first patrol started out with a full rifle (8 rounds), a cartridge belt of 80 rounds, and two bandoliers of 80 rounds each. Total of 248 rounds of .30-06, plus helmet, bayonet, couple of canteens, etc. He couldn’t keep up. The sergeant threw everything away- asked him if he thought he was going to kill that many Japs in one day. He put two spare clips in my dad’s pocket, and told him to pretend they were going hunting. So he went into combat with 24 rounds. It was enough for the day.
On March 4, 2020 at 10:07 am, Thomas Madere said:
I believe that is a problem with issue aluminum mag but not Pmags.
On March 4, 2020 at 10:09 am, Ron Milliken said:
Bill
The focus in 1945 was still that every Marine was a rifleman.
Not “spray & pray” like today.
Still, I’d have preferred more than 24 rds, preferably the 88.
On March 4, 2020 at 3:54 pm, Fred said:
Now that’s a good reason to load 29. The “it hurts your mag lips and springs” is not a great reason. YMMV.
On March 5, 2020 at 2:02 pm, John said:
In the early 70’s: I remember in Basic Training at Ft. Leanord Wood that the first thing we were taught about loading the 20 round M16 mags was only load 18. More would cause jams.
I’ve heard these stories for a long time. But I’ve never had a problem with jams, FTF or FTE
with my 8, 10, 12, or 15 round magazines. I did have it happen once with an FN FiveseveN but I think it was a bad pistol. I load all my magazines to capacity and keep one in the chamber.
I’ve never had a problem as he described but I confess I haven’t done a tactical reload on an AR very often. It is NOT a problem on my pistols and I have done this in tactical simulations.
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On March 4, 2020 at 8:33 am, Drake said:
Never got more than 27 or 28 rounds into the mags I was issued in the early 90’s.
On March 4, 2020 at 9:33 am, Bill Sullivan said:
My dad was sent in as a replacement Marine rifleman on Okinawa in 1945. He heard all the shooting, so on his first patrol started out with a full rifle (8 rounds), a cartridge belt of 80 rounds, and two bandoliers of 80 rounds each. Total of 248 rounds of .30-06, plus helmet, bayonet, couple of canteens, etc. He couldn’t keep up. The sergeant threw everything away- asked him if he thought he was going to kill that many Japs in one day. He put two spare clips in my dad’s pocket, and told him to pretend they were going hunting. So he went into combat with 24 rounds. It was enough for the day.
On March 4, 2020 at 10:07 am, Thomas Madere said:
I believe that is a problem with issue aluminum mag but not Pmags.
On March 4, 2020 at 10:09 am, Ron Milliken said:
Bill
The focus in 1945 was still that every Marine was a rifleman.
Not “spray & pray” like today.
Still, I’d have preferred more than 24 rds, preferably the 88.
On March 4, 2020 at 3:54 pm, Fred said:
Now that’s a good reason to load 29. The “it hurts your mag lips and springs” is not a great reason. YMMV.
On March 5, 2020 at 2:02 pm, John said:
In the early 70’s: I remember in Basic Training at Ft. Leanord Wood that the first thing we were taught about loading the 20 round M16 mags was only load 18. More would cause jams.
On March 5, 2020 at 2:05 pm, Herschel Smith said:
@John,
Chris Costa does a little better job in my opinion on this.
https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020/03/04/chris-costa-on-tactical-reloads/
On March 5, 2020 at 4:49 pm, WarEagle82 said:
I’ve heard these stories for a long time. But I’ve never had a problem with jams, FTF or FTE
with my 8, 10, 12, or 15 round magazines. I did have it happen once with an FN FiveseveN but I think it was a bad pistol. I load all my magazines to capacity and keep one in the chamber.
I’ve never had a problem as he described but I confess I haven’t done a tactical reload on an AR very often. It is NOT a problem on my pistols and I have done this in tactical simulations.