How many magazines?

[Skully]

I'm actually more of a customer service oriented buyer. Is their shipping reasonable and do your items arrive in a timely fashion?

I noticed darn near all of their P-mags were sold out as well. Heck of a good deal on the 30 rounders. I think I looked at just about every color and they were all out of stock. Oh, well. Not like I need any more 5.56 mags anyways.

I can attest with Sawin, I have used them a couple times in the past and their prices were great, shipping was good, usually the typical 5-7 days for ground. The only reason I dont use them more often is I am not a window/screen shopper and usually when I look to buy I already know what I want and they are always sold out of what I want.

[Sawin]

my last order was Thursday last week and I had my box on Monday when I got home from work.

[Skully]

my last order was Thursday last week and I had my box on Monday when I got home from work.

Well arent you just special......................


That is good, 4-5 days, depends on when you order, I think the last time I ordered from them I ordered on a Monday and received on Sat as it was Fedex.



Your still special though in my book.................

[brutal]

To the OP.

For the .308, for the range, I short load multiple mags with 5 or 10 rounds if working on groups. A few are loaded to the full 20 for superhappyfuntimeblaster moments.

I'll bring more ammo than necessary and use any down time to recharge the mags if needed. If I'm alone, I like a little break time to think about what I'm doing and how I can improve.

Oddly, I ended up with 7 LR20 mags. I ordered 4 online, but picked one up at Bowers Tactical after I got the rifle. I ended up with another after getting the rifle back from Sig with a freebie in the box. The four I ordered from 44mag.com shipped free for slightly less in total than manventure (which I don't think I knew of at the time), but in greater quantities, manventure is going to be a better deal.

[brutal]

I thought magazines are what you store ammunition in. If you have 300 rounds, you need 10, 30 round magazines. Math isn't my strong suit, but that formula normally works. At some point, in some calibers, the ammo that I haven't bought magazines for will have to sit in ammo cans, till I can afford more magazines

Theoretically speaking of course, because I know nobody, myself included, would have so much ammo on hand, kinda hard to do that with 15k rounds of various calibers?

Theoretically speaking again, it might require, oh say 100+ LR20 mags to hold all the .308 ammo.

[ringhilt]

My personal rule for my magazine fed rifles:

3 minimum. 5 is preferred. This gives you plenty to play with and a few spares. Maybe 3 20 rounders and 2 10 rounders should do it if this is primarily a range toy and you are not doing competition or it is your go to zombie apocalypse rifle.
But I go one step further and say beyond 5 you should buy as many as you can afford simply because the politicians have a deep desire to ban these types of firearms and magazines over 10 rounds and you never know when it will happen. (unfortunately it just might happen in 2013)
I generally buy a lifetime supply for the rifles I keep and won't part with. Typically 12 magazines over 10 rounds and 2-4 10 rounders for bench work. Total of 14-16 minimum.

[R2Chief2]

Yeah, I know that now, the common answer would be "you can never have enough", but how many would you feel comfortable having for each AR or lower (future AR) in your arsenal?

EDIT: When I say how many, I mean how many total are you comfortable owning...not how many would you carry with you (that seems to me maxed out at 10 by most)

[NightCat]

....I run a plate carrier and a war belt, and I usually dont have more than 6 AR mags on that set-up.
3 on the PC, 3 on the war belt + other mags for other weapons...

I personally only have 13 AR Mags...how it got to an odd number I dont know....but if I need more than that in a civilian aspect....the shit has really hit the fan.

But yes...the more the merrier.....but what is 1 person going to do with 30 mags by themselves? besides weigh them down by 30lbs+

[MarkCO]

Point is, AR mags are disposable/replaceable items. Unless they sit in your closet, they wear out. I have thrown about 15 away in the past 10 years, Pmags and Aluminum GI. Fortunately, I started to pick up Lancer and C-Products mags in the past few years for use in the .450 BM. They work so well, about half my stock is now with steel lips.

I picked up maybe a dozen Brownells/PMags a year at matches for the past few years and had been giving them away. Kind of wish I now had all those back.

[R2Chief2]

....I run a plate carrier and a war belt, and I usually dont have more than 6 AR mags on that set-up.
But yes...the more the merrier.....but what is 1 person going to do with 30 mags by themselves? besides weigh them down by 30lbs+

I agree, but having 30 doesn't mean you carry them all at the same time. Mark makes a good point that they wear out/break, etc.