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agreed.That pic needs accompanying theme music.
agreed.
hard to pick one though there's so many possibilities:
Throwin` pearls here...Mechanical engineer here. Springs only fatigue DURING movement.
have some spare springs set aside.
Not to call you out, but the first Gulf War was 1991ish, so if the ammo date code was late 90’s...when I was in the army we found crates of mags that had been loaded for presumably years and possibly since the first gulf war. Date code on the ammo was late 90’s if I remember right. Mags seemed fine. No malfunctions reported when used.
load them and don’t worry about it.
Heard of polymer mags having feed lips spread under pressure over time. Magpul sells magazine caps, & some magpuls come with caps for that reason.Feed lips will fail due to being stored loaded before springs will fail. That is the main failure I've seen with AR magazines.
Keep an amount that you're comfortable having at the ready loaded (if thats all of them then keep them all loaded) Store the rest empty. Just my two cents.
We found ammo in connexs that dates well into the 80’s, The vast majority of the ammo we had even at Condition code alpha was already a few years old, the stuff we issued for training was usually dated early to mid mid 2000’s. The particular boxes of loaded mags I’m talking about stayed loaded for probably the same reason we didn’t unload them, no one wanted to spend the time or effort.Not to call you out, but the first Gulf War was 1991ish, so if the ammo date code was late 90’s...
Regardless, loaded mags were not kept at any duty station I was ever at. If live ammo was warranted, we had to load it each time, and unload it when we turned in the weapon. That from an MP that drew live daily, and had to unload, and download mags daily. YMMV.