If you have to use your firearms in a SHTF scenario, or a “grid-down” situation, regular use will eventually degrade your ammunition magazines and if you are in a situation where you go through all the bullets in your magazine, you will need to have at least a few replacements.
The last thing you want to have happen is to have to stop and reload – especially if it is a life threatening situation!
Generally, most of us have a few extras for each firearm, but how many should you have in stock?
There is no “right answer” to this, but one thing is for sure – you probably do not have enough.
The video on the next page discusses this issues as well as provides some tips on how to find quality magazines on the cheap.
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Just one, I’ll collect more on my way out of town.
I read every time I $#%&!@*. So probably a lot.
As many as you can afford. I start at 10 per pistol, 30 per long gun. The more you have they can also be used for bartering.
4 mags for my pistol high cap of course and 12 30 round mags for my long gun. I would worry more about my long gun mags cause let’s face it if your in a fire fight and need to use your pistol your already in a $#%&!@*ed up situation
Easy answer.
More than you have.
10
Allot!!!
people make me laugh when they want to carry so many mags how many of yall have ever been in a TIC or humped that $#%&!@*.
One…..errr after another.
8 hi-cap mags for my rifle, 3 per pistol is comfortable, but definitely not as many as id want.
Most tac vest have room for 4 to 6 mags for tactical weapons but for me i say 10 for ar type weapons is a good start at least 3-4 for handguns
I have 16 30 round mags for mine and the wife’s AR15’s and about the same for my pistols
To Cody Long , I did hump that $#%&!@*. 4 years in the 82nd airborne . 2 mags on my 16 . 12 mags on my L.B.E. , 10 in bandoliers , 12 more on my rucksack. More ammo in the ruck. As a machine gunner , 1000 rounds with me at all times, 1000 with my $#%&!@*istant gunner , 600 with the ammo bearer,plus he had a 16 with a couple hundred rounds. We also carried pistols with 5 mags each. Everyone had water and ammo.
Enough for 400 rounds each battle rifle.
Make every round count….but before you shoot,do you know who the enemy is….I don’t want to be a target everytime I go out to survive,get water…Make sure it is a real bad guy before you pull that trigger…could be someone’s son trying to get home cross country..
Between my stepdad, my dad, my grandfather and myself we have collectively, around 847,000 thousand rounds, .308, .45, .22, .17, .223, 12ga, .40, 4/10, 7.62×39 and 7.62×54… I wish I could say I have made my fare share to the contributed stockpile, but I fall far short of my step dad and grandpa. Far as the extra mags are concerned, I always carry 3 extra for the .45 and in both bug out vehicles we have enough prepped to get us safely to South Dakota should the need arise…
Yeah, all you can get your hands on
Everybody will be coming to your place for ammo! LOL
Not my place, if SHTF we won’t be there and neither will the ammo lol.
You really shouldn’t advertise
I only have one spare mag for my .45, 2 for my 9, one for my .22LR, and 3 for my .308
All of them is the answer
5 smooth stones, a sling shot + Faith will take down a giant! Psalms 144:1
$#%&!@*le, of David = by David. The Septuagint adds “concerning Goliath.” This may be because Psalm 8, which relates to David and Goliath, has the same words in Psa_8:4 as in Psa_144:3. In any case, Psalm 144 is peculiarly appropriate to David’s victory (1 Samuel 17). Not a “compilation” of “fragments” of some “lost Psalms”, but a perfect whole with a perfect design, as shown by the Structure.
I’d take 10 mags for each gun.. But I have two bows also so I say 15 arrows for each
A lot !!!!!!!
You will need more then that
That’s obvious, I was referring to a combat load as in on patrol or setting up an ambush. It would foolish to carry all my supplies with me at once and not have a camp set up someplace.
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Seems light. You must have been in 2nd Brigade… lol.
More than anyone can actually carry.
1st brigade 2/504
Sweet… Strike Hild, Stay Devil. I was there attached to 3/73 as an LLVI team leader for two years and division before that for a year…
All I can get and go back for more. Figure I’ll be plundering the dead and captured for their mags and ammo.
Ryan Santo
Kyle Hillier
A combat load is 7 to 9 mags not including body armor and frags and water, coms, knife,lighter,taclight,extra battery,combatdressing for first aid,map of AO,or GPS maping,and a pistol and like 4 clips,then a breaching tool like a battle AX with a spiked end for cutting locks and breaking windows. Then you will need 6 more men just like you with Same gear and three to four vehicles and you will be ready for what I say is just a day that’s 12 hours worth of battling!!! OIF VET 3 signing off
All of them, or at least 2 full combat loads
Should change page to SHTF.
All of them.
All depends on what you are running. Most will be on the ground.
Great setup. Not sure about vehicle, situation can change in a heartbeat, vehicle is a target of opertunity. Those will be everywhere and blocking most traffic. On foot or motorcycle I would think. No combat experience, just a thought.
a lot
Bryan Moore, Austin Reeves, Ja Head, Matt Johnson
Yes. I know. LOADED ONES!
Depends on your location to start.
More.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/894305207327342/
A lot the limited each magazine to 10 in the state of California
109 mags x 10 ea
If you have to question your amount of ammo and the number of mags you need/have. You don’t have enough