EthanM 514 Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Well actually just the spring. Was out shooting earlier and went to reload the mag and could only get 4 rounds in. So I took it apart and found this: Guess I'll have to order me a spring lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brickfield mfg 86 Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Do you keep your magazines loaded to full capacity all of the time? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lbsrdi 1,078 Posted December 28, 2013 Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Contact AGP, they should hook you up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brickfield mfg 86 Posted December 29, 2013 Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 Contact AGP, they should hook you up. YES! AGP has EXCELENT customer service! The front lip broke off of one of my mags once, and they sent me a new mag body ASAP - no questions asked... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sunnybean 939 Posted December 29, 2013 Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 Lol. I knew this would be a rusty assed AGP mag before opening the thread. Crap springs from a crap company. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SGL 530 Posted December 29, 2013 Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 http://legionusainc.com/saiga-12-izhmash-original-non-magwell-magazine-8-round.html http://legionusainc.com/saiga-12-izhmash-non-magwell-magazine-8-round-3-pack.html 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EthanM 514 Posted December 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 Do you keep your magazines loaded to full capacity all of the time? Most of the time I do Contact AGP, they should hook you up. Will do. I have several of these mags and this is the first one thats broke. http://legionusainc.com/saiga-12-izhmash-original-non-magwell-magazine-8-round.html http://legionusainc.com/saiga-12-izhmash-non-magwell-magazine-8-round-3-pack.html I would like to have some of those. But the wallet ain't big enough at the moment. Lol plus I'm waiting for some steal ones. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brickfield mfg 86 Posted December 29, 2013 Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 Maybe you should only keep 8 rounds in them for extended periods. Hopefully csspecs will get their steel mags on the shelves soon! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EthanM 514 Posted December 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 Maybe you should only keep 8 rounds in them for extended periods. Hopefully csspecs will get their steel mags on the shelves soon! I will start doing that. Because I like to keep most of my mags loaded Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pedal2alloy 206 Posted December 29, 2013 Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 Maybe you should only keep 8 rounds in them for extended periods. Hopefully csspecs will get their steel mags on the shelves soon! I will start doing that. Because I like to keep most of my mags loaded I don't think that storing the 8 rounds vs 10 would have made any difference. Those early AGP mags just had a bad batch of springs, and that problem has been fixed. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thebuns1 4,323 Posted December 29, 2013 Report Share Posted December 29, 2013 Yeah keep it loaded to full capacity. It will not hurt the mag any. Springs only get wore out from being used, and not compressed or in a non compressed state. Having loaded mags will not hurt the springs. Bad steel will. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alaskapopo 20 Posted January 3, 2014 Report Share Posted January 3, 2014 Yeah keep it loaded to full capacity. It will not hurt the mag any. Springs only get wore out from being used, and not compressed or in a non compressed state. Having loaded mags will not hurt the springs. Bad steel will. You know I have read this a 100 times but my real life experience has proven it to be false. Mostly dealing with pistol mags in particular Glock mags. Leaving them fully loaded and only cycling them out when officers qualified the mags springs would stop locking the slide back at around 6 months to a year. Downloaded by 1 round and the issue went away no longer had to replace springs. Another issue with leaving polimer mags loaded is feed lips can spread from the constant pressure. pat Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EthanM 514 Posted January 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Received a new spring today from agp. Their customer service was excellent and they shipped the spring out the same day. I didnt contact them until this past Thursday. Got crazy busy at work, plus school, and just hadn't gotten around to it. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thebuns1 4,323 Posted January 28, 2014 Report Share Posted January 28, 2014 Yeah keep it loaded to full capacity. It will not hurt the mag any. Springs only get wore out from being used, and not compressed or in a non compressed state. Having loaded mags will not hurt the springs. Bad steel will. You know I have read this a 100 times but my real life experience has proven it to be false. Mostly dealing with pistol mags in particular Glock mags. Leaving them fully loaded and only cycling them out when officers qualified the mags springs would stop locking the slide back at around 6 months to a year. Downloaded by 1 round and the issue went away no longer had to replace springs. Another issue with leaving polimer mags loaded is feed lips can spread from the constant pressure. pat Funny you bring up Glocks. I have my .45 mags loaded at all times and my carry mags only get shot twice a year when I rotate ammo out. Ive yet to experience this issue that you speak of. Same for my girls 9mm Glock. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fast2gnt 16 Posted January 29, 2014 Report Share Posted January 29, 2014 Unless it's not a true glock mag. The kci glock mags I heard this about but not true glock mags. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alaskapopo 20 Posted February 11, 2014 Report Share Posted February 11, 2014 Yeah keep it loaded to full capacity. It will not hurt the mag any. Springs only get wore out from being used, and not compressed or in a non compressed state. Having loaded mags will not hurt the springs. Bad steel will. You know I have read this a 100 times but my real life experience has proven it to be false. Mostly dealing with pistol mags in particular Glock mags. Leaving them fully loaded and only cycling them out when officers qualified the mags springs would stop locking the slide back at around 6 months to a year. Downloaded by 1 round and the issue went away no longer had to replace springs. Another issue with leaving polimer mags loaded is feed lips can spread from the constant pressure. pat Funny you bring up Glocks. I have my .45 mags loaded at all times and my carry mags only get shot twice a year when I rotate ammo out. Ive yet to experience this issue that you speak of. Same for my girls 9mm Glock. My experience comes from training other officers with Glocks and carrying my own. Be glad you have not experienced this but I have numerious times to the point I now put it in policy to down load our mags by 1 round with Glocks to prolong spring life. Problems went away. The Glock 21 mags were some of the worst. I hated being forced to carry that gun. I now carry a 17 in 9mm by choice. But to each his own. pat Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gunfun 3,931 Posted February 11, 2014 Report Share Posted February 11, 2014 Yeah keep it loaded to full capacity. It will not hurt the mag any. Springs only get wore out from being used, and not compressed or in a non compressed state. Having loaded mags will not hurt the springs. Bad steel will. You know I have read this a 100 times but my real life experience has proven it to be false. Mostly dealing with pistol mags in particular Glock mags. Leaving them fully loaded and only cycling them out when officers qualified the mags springs would stop locking the slide back at around 6 months to a year. Downloaded by 1 round and the issue went away no longer had to replace springs. Another issue with leaving polimer mags loaded is feed lips can spread from the constant pressure. pat You changed two variables: duration and degree of compression. Duration has been repeatedly proven to be irrelevant, compression has always proven to be critical, in all the engineering stuff. So why is it that your conclusion applies to both variables? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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