How many mags do you own?

One friend of mine owns about 200 different mags. I wonder how many mags does the average gun enthusiast own?

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I like to keep 15 pistol and 50 for my main rifle then about 20 for anything else.

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I don’t know, enough that I need to label them,

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Great question. This’ll give me an idea of what the average person and crazy person has. Sadly my mag count is pretty small…so far.

Makarov=1 original mag
Star BM=2 original mags
9mm carbine=3 mags
AR=2 mags

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14 mags 20 1911 everything else everything else 2 to 3 each.

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You need more to survive the zombie apocalypse

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Trust me I know! I started late in the game.

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Dont worry im starting a raider gang and you can join.

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I was supposed to count?

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They should all be numbered so you can rotate them.

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Currently I only own one mag for my .22. I would like to get a couple more though, be able to shoot for longer between needing to stop and reload. At this point, I can’t really see myself getting more then 2-3 magazines per rifle.

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I’d say 30? Between single mags, p mags, and glock mags.

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50 rifle and 20 pistol feels like the sweet spot between practical and preppertard

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@Caw This sounds right. I need to get the mag holder racks then I was going to pick more up and keep em loaded. Thinking when I get the Q trash panda for the ar15 I will load quite a few with 77 noslers for just in case and rack em or have a duffel bag full of em.

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Far more than I dare to claim publically. I have mags for guns that I know I have but can’t find.

For serious guns (aren’t they all? or they get sold) I have at least 6 for those. For super serious guns the number is much higher. The cost of the mags can easily rival the gun. Without mags it’s just a slow to fire single shot.

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I second Brian’s response. I have no earthly idea how many I own… none. My closest guess is many many cubic feet worth. That is the idea, to have so many loaded magazines that it doesn’t matter.

  1. Buy a case of magazines. Load all of them with ammo. Store, and use at will.
  2. Buy a second case of magazines and load those as well.
    A firearm with out a magazine and ammo in it is just a really nice paperweight.
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remove the empty and discover that was the last one - so for me, never enough

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good to have a few extra mags for each gun (still working on that).

Goal maybe 5 mags per gun (depending on the gun)?

But then, what are mags without bullets? See my new topic about bullets…

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Well… I after reading these comments, it’s about time to buy more PMAGS.

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Minimum of 10 (ten) working, loaded mags for each serious purpose gun you own is a great place to start. If it’s a range toy, IDGAF, 3-5 mags would be what’d I’d keep around. Serious purposes…EDC, SHTF, TEOTWAWKI, etc, a minimum of 10. I honestly dunno how many Glock mags & Pmags I have squirreled away in various places…

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