Save Bad Magazines?

[Glenn R. McMannly]

I took several classes with the late Pat Rogers. He firmly advocated that a magazine is a wear item and that the correct answer to one is hammer therapy then disposal in the trash. Period.

Pat who?

Sounds like a waste of a perfectly fixable magazine. But such is the life of the throw away generation.

 

[Ματθιας]

Pawn shops sometimes have boxes of misc mystery magazines that I go through. I have got some that have had issues, and they were probably the reason why they were in the box to begin with. Maybe it didn't for them, but it worked for me. Or maybe, they just bad. Who knows. For the prices, I don't complain. Take the bad ones back and rinse and repeat. I've probably bought the same ones twice.

 

[Smoke]

I chuck them, I don't want them missed in with my reliable mags.

Range magazines stay in the range bag.

I only use OEM magazines for carry.

I'd have to be trying to mistake a Magpul/Pro Mag for their OEM Counterparts

 

[willt]

Different ideas:
First, I was told if you have a bad magazine, drop it on the ground and shoot a hole through it so that no one else might be tempted to pick it up and try to use it!
High Standard (a long time ago) used to supply a magazine lip adjustment tool to tune the mag to function correctly.
Pardini (SP Bullseye) suggests completely disassembling and cleaning your magazine every time you use it. I must admit that I have never had a stoppage due one of those magazines.

 

[Doug M.]

Pat who?

Sounds like a waste of a perfectly fixable magazine. But such is the life of the throw away generation.

Pat was a retired NYPD Sgt. and retired USMCR CWO with a lot of active time, a lot of experience training military and civilians, along with other government entities in the proper purchase (specs), maintenance and use of the AR platform. He was, while alive, one of the leading (and most well known) instructors in such. He saw somewhere around or above 500K rounds down range from ARs every year in class settings. He was also on staff at Gunsite for a long time.
It had nothing to do with the "throw away generation". It had to do with the unacceptable risk of failure under critical circumstances. It was all about fighting, and he firmly advocated going with the best quality available - "buy once, cry once". Quality mags rarely fail, so when they do ... bye bye.