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This is one of those things that got started long before al invented the net and took on a life of it's own. In the very early days of the AR in Nam they did have some real problems. Most of them were the Military doing some really stupid crap and being very slow to learn. Many GI's in the early days loaded the mags with a couple less than full rounds do to reliability issues. It was hit and miss in how well this helped with the problems that were eventually fixed. Well this took on a life of it's own with people telling others that this was how it worked with all autos. I have seen it written into scrips for TV shows. To me it's a bunch of bunk. My mags are all loaded with the round count they are made to hold. You still run into people who do not because they "heard" its better for reliability to load a couple less. This takes a long time to die.Same! I never bought into loading 28 or whatever. Its a 30 round mag so 30 it is!