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Mags ok I got it
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Clips?...don't have anything that uses them. I keep my mags loaded. You're gonna get kidded if you're calling mags... clips
Oh yeah, everything loaded and ready. Heck, I even have my wheelgun speedloaders full!!
Can you quickly load a magazine with another magazine? No. Also, why would you? Oh and I guess you'd have to take out the spring and follower too at which case it'd be more like an ammo carrier with less use than a clip.Ok fine clips are not mags but can mag be clips hummmmmm?
Folks, My understanding is that mag manufacturers take into account the amount of pressure that can be placed on a spring before it gets bent and loses it's ability to rebound. There is a point (I forget the tech term for it) where the spring material gets bent and does not rebound. The mag follower assemblies ALWAYS are designed so the mag cannot be loaded to the point of damaging the spring.
Moral of the story. Keep it clean and protected from corrosion and your mag springs will last longer than you will. Keeping them loaded is preferable to "rotating" the ammo or such as all metal flexxed and released repeatedly will fatigue. You are better off loading them by hand and unloading them with your trigger finger when the time comes.
Loading them up and storing them that way is not only great for preparation it is also a space saver. I tend to keep mine loaded and stored in a sealed metal container.
All designers of well-made magazines make sure the spring never approaches the elastic limit when the magazine is fully loaded. Honest. This means the spring will not weaken when the magazine is fully loaded -- not even over an extended time. Like 50 years. American Handgunner recently ran a story about a magazine full of .45 ACP that had been sitting since WWII and it ran just fine on the first try.