Magazine rotation? Yes, like any mechanical device, a magazine is prone to wear. Particularly, if loaded consistently, the springs can soften and eventually lead to a failure to feed. In turn, it’s important to give the magazines a rest and call a fresh one into action. Firearms instructor and member of Colt Combat Unit Ken Hackathorn goes over a simple magazine rotation system...
https://gundigest.com/gun-videos/gundigest-tv/video-importance-of-magazine-rotation
Do Loaded Magazines Wear Out Magazine Springs?
https://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/magazine-springs-and-ammo-cycling/
Two key Terms to understand with respect to magazine or other springs...
1. Spring fatigue
Spring fatigue occurs when a spring has been repeatedly compressed and returned to rest. Basically, fatigue is the eventual loss in some spring stiffness and force or metal fatique failure (breakage) because of repeated use.
2. Spring creep
Spring creep describes a spring’s permanent loss of stiffness from substained compression over a period of time.
E.G.: Take two brand new magazine springs for any semiauto; measure them, photograph them, put one in a magazine, fully load the magazine, put it in a drawer for a month...
Unload that mag, pull out the spring and measure and photograph it against the unused spring...
There will be a visible difference between the two...
Too much of a difference to ignore...
You can add a 3rd test by using a 3rd new mag spring and load, fire, repeat several hundred rounds and disasemble and measure & photograph the 3 springs...
The fully loaded, but unused magazine spring will be the shortest of the 3 by far...
Does not seem to matter whose magazine springs they are, the result is the same, long gun, shot gun, handgun.
To paraphrase Forest Gump... Magazines are like a box of Chocolates, you never know what you're going to get or how long they will last even from the same manufacturer.
Some folks will go their whole lives without a semiauto fail to feed which may or may not be due to magazine spring weakness. I'm not one of those people. No matter how fast you can recover from a fail to feed, that may be time you do not have to spare.
For home defense & hunting I prefer revolvers to eliminate the possibility of a magazine spring failure and or a fail to feed a problem unique to semiautomatic firearms.
With respect to hunting it's for bear defense mostly or when I don't have a chance to use a rifle. Like fishing in Alaska.
For EDC CCW I'm a semi auto guy, and rotate my magazines daily.
https://gundigest.com/gun-videos/gundigest-tv/video-importance-of-magazine-rotation
Do Loaded Magazines Wear Out Magazine Springs?
https://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/magazine-springs-and-ammo-cycling/
Two key Terms to understand with respect to magazine or other springs...
1. Spring fatigue
Spring fatigue occurs when a spring has been repeatedly compressed and returned to rest. Basically, fatigue is the eventual loss in some spring stiffness and force or metal fatique failure (breakage) because of repeated use.
2. Spring creep
Spring creep describes a spring’s permanent loss of stiffness from substained compression over a period of time.
E.G.: Take two brand new magazine springs for any semiauto; measure them, photograph them, put one in a magazine, fully load the magazine, put it in a drawer for a month...
Unload that mag, pull out the spring and measure and photograph it against the unused spring...
There will be a visible difference between the two...
Too much of a difference to ignore...
You can add a 3rd test by using a 3rd new mag spring and load, fire, repeat several hundred rounds and disasemble and measure & photograph the 3 springs...
The fully loaded, but unused magazine spring will be the shortest of the 3 by far...
Does not seem to matter whose magazine springs they are, the result is the same, long gun, shot gun, handgun.
To paraphrase Forest Gump... Magazines are like a box of Chocolates, you never know what you're going to get or how long they will last even from the same manufacturer.
Some folks will go their whole lives without a semiauto fail to feed which may or may not be due to magazine spring weakness. I'm not one of those people. No matter how fast you can recover from a fail to feed, that may be time you do not have to spare.
For home defense & hunting I prefer revolvers to eliminate the possibility of a magazine spring failure and or a fail to feed a problem unique to semiautomatic firearms.
With respect to hunting it's for bear defense mostly or when I don't have a chance to use a rifle. Like fishing in Alaska.
For EDC CCW I'm a semi auto guy, and rotate my magazines daily.