Norboo
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What do you use to mark your mags with?
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Permanent marker, metallic pen to mark mags?
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Rastoff
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Laser etching machine.
Ozark Marine
US Veteran
Never puta you name on thingsa that could be used aftera they are a stolen and could be lefta at crime scenes. Capiche paisano???? But seriously, NO.
White Paint Pen. Tried label maker to much of a pain to print so many.
You mean you are not supposed to etch you SS# name, address and DOB on them?
You mean you are not supposed to etch you SS# name, address and DOB on them?
Erich
Member
Dremel tool with an engraver head on my mags.
Lots of people number their mags one through whatever to keep track of rotating them and to also help track the one that doesn't seem to work right . . .
If using multiple magazine, it's useful to number them to keep track of round count (for maintenance or replacement), and in case there are failures that might be magazine related, easier to determine which.
M E Morrison
Member
I number mine, so that I can keep track of any malfunctions. That helps find a questionable mag.
I mark mine to know what gun they go to, in separate boxes by caliber. Real pain to sort through x number of mags to find the right ones.
Bkreutz
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oldfart64
Member
sharpie, using dots, one for mag 1 etc. if it gets rinsed off when I clean them I just replace them when dry.
Rastoff
US Veteran
I put my name on them. I do a lot of training and go to a lot of training classes. I mostly shoot a 1911 so, mags are similar and common.
Anyone that's worried about some criminal getting a hold of one of your mags, using it in a crime and then being implicated in that crime and sent to prison because of it, has been watching too many movies.
J. R. WEEMS
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MAGAZINES
I am in major doubts that I would go to jail because a magazine was found with my name on it--
However, I am pretty much a magazine freak-- in that I believe in having at least 10 magazines for any semi-auto I might have. Double so for the hi cap ones. I have some old H&K pistol boxes that I aquired some years ago, knowing I might could use them 'some'day' That being the case, many contain extra magazines. I do rotate them, but I don't mark them in any way. I DO have some that are numbered for my MDL 52, but they came that way. 
I am in major doubts that I would go to jail because a magazine was found with my name on it--
However, I am pretty much a magazine freak-- in that I believe in having at least 10 magazines for any semi-auto I might have. Double so for the hi cap ones. I have some old H&K pistol boxes that I aquired some years ago, knowing I might could use them 'some'day' That being the case, many contain extra magazines. I do rotate them, but I don't mark them in any way. I DO have some that are numbered for my MDL 52, but they came that way. targetchief
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I use a red paint marker to number them. Helps in rotating them to equal out usage and to find any problem children.
I used to mark the base plates with a permanent sharpie but since gotten away from doing it. After the mags have been fully loaded for a week or 2, I'll either switch mags or guns. I normally group 2 mags together with a rubber band and use them in pairs.
I've replaced a few recoil springs over the years but I honestly have to say I've never replaced a magazine spring on any of my mags.
Cheers!
I've replaced a few recoil springs over the years but I honestly have to say I've never replaced a magazine spring on any of my mags.
Cheers!
