I have no limit when it comes to mags. Every time i have extra mags I buy ammo to put them in. Every time I have extra ammo I buy more mags to put them in, It's a vicious cycle!

An AR Mapgpul mag costs less than the bullets to fill it. Get a lot of them. Having a bunch of them will make practice/training more effective as you won't be spending that time filling mags. You should also practice with your carry mags, atleast often enough to know for sure that they are reliable. You can't know they are reliable if you don't use them. ALL AR mags can have rounds pop out of them when dropped. Some more than others will, but all of them can. There are vids on utube showing this. Train. Don't drop mags. When choosing new arms, research availability and cost of extra mags. This will make your choice more clear amongst models and brands.

Thank you for making this video. I really enjoyed the knowledge and information you gave out.

Just found your site.Great content and presentations.Have to agree with you so far 100%.I served when 20 round mags were still in issue, I still like them because you can put them in your pockets if need be and they are not as likely to fall out.

I use Ranger Bands on the bottom of my AR mags and use a white paint pen to label the magazine and what type of ammo it contains. I have been really enjoying your videos, especially the ones on ammo selection. Keep up the good work!

You pick great topics I’m happy to see the channel grow keep up the great work I’ll keep giving it a thumbs up.

1st, I appreciate all the info. 2nd, I agree with you about the 20 round mags! I had no idea how badly I needed 20 round mags till you go to the ground and/or use a bipod! I like Magpuls, DuraMag & ASC (preferably SS), but I take Aluminum, too. I'm working my way up on 20 rders, have plenty of 30 rders, but need more there, too! Right with ya!

I buy mags and ammo every payday. A few different shops sell 30rd PMags in 10 packs for about $11/ea. Now that ammo prices are coming down again I'm buying like crazy to replace my stock that was dwindling. I've got 50 mags loaded for the range and another 20 loaded with Gold Dot. If I know I'm going to be training for a long weekend and need more mags loaded, I can load them up before I go so I'm not loading mags at the range. I can relax, get some food/drink, and absorb what we're trying to learn that day. I do the same with pistol mags.

I love this channel thank you for everything that you do

Amen, great one.

Thanks for all your info it is greatly appreciated

Really enjoyed your video and most points you made I have followed for years, like cycling carry mags out every year to a backup. Only point we differ is I have always loaded my mags short. Single stack pistols mags I reduce 1 round. Double stack pistol and rifle mags I reduce 2 rounds. Something I probably do not need to do but have been doing it since 1971. Only exception to this are my mags for my MAS 49/56. I have 10 mags for it and only shoot a couple mags a year. They hold 10 rounds and I have left them loaded for 5 plus years without any issues. As to ProMags I avoid them as I have never found them reliable.

Cool video thanks.

Great info as always. Love your content even if some of your ballistic stuff if over my head, I still try to understand and use it. I have a .300 blk and a 5.56. My Blk mags are all OD green, and my 5.56 mags are all FDE. That way I know right away what’s what. Thanks again for your info.

The folks that are convinced all mags have a break in period will lose their minds. LOL Completely agree with your AR mag philosophy.

Good info about those ASC mags

Good idea! I always take out the defense rounds when I go to the range! That WOULD wear out the spring. I’ve never heard of that and I never thought of that!

I've thrown away a good few mags, that failed too many times. Like 2 times is too many.

The numbering the mag and the ledger is genius! I have no idea what’s in my mags! 😂

This dude is serious lol Good tips man

I use lancer mags but I kinda love the hexmag carbon fiber .. Bought some nd they run great and lite

Nice. I take a lot of pistol classes and train/compete often and one of the most common things I see is people running crap magazines that cause malfunctions. I’m a Glock guy and only use OEM mags for serious applications. I have a rotation system where carry mags eventually get rotated to training mags.

I live in Los Angeles, formerly "impossible" to conceal carry. Fortunately, due to the Bruen verdict handed down by the Supreme Court, L.A.P.D is accepting applications for CCw's.

For all of my magazine fed pistols, I have at least 20 mags. Of those, 4 or 5 (depending on the gun) are kept loaded like all the others, but are the only ones I use for the range. As far as EDC, my primary is a Glock Model 45 and I carry at least 4 spare full size mags on me. Sometimes I carry my G26 instead of the G45 for concealment reasons, but my backup mags are still the 17rd variety. And you're right about what degrades the mag springs. I literally have 1911 and AK mags that have sat fully loaded for years (decades, in some cases) and the springs are just as strong now as they were brand new. And FYI, since my EDCs are all Glock, I have discovered that the Magpul mags actually run quite well for the range if you don't want to use factory Glock mags. My only complaint about them is that you can't take them apart like you can the Glock mags.

Great video. Thank you for sharing. I also just subscribed..

I would think you would want to use your "carry mags" at least occasionally at the range to ensure they work, don't introduce feed malfunctions and generally to be sure they don't have any defects

Recently found your channel man and love it, keep up the great work. For defense/duty use I prefer duramags with magpul L-plates for bottom metal. Marked with a yellow paint pen. For training magpul m2 p-mags. I recently started trying out the Daniel defense mags but have limited experience on them so far. Others mileage may very this is just what I prefer. I also only run 28/29 rounds just because of a bad experience with an issued M16A2 and USGI green follower mags. 😅 That was a frigging horrible combo.

Great video 👍 I went 💯 .300 blackout sold all my 5.56 stuff. I tell everyone mags are expendable most people have 5-8 mags unloaded and in a drawer. Me on the other hand Im ready to go all day or night Magpul and Durmag is my top choices with a few MFT Gen 2.

Thanks for Telling Everyone Mags are Replaceable Tools. 🤘🤠🤘

I love the aluminum AR mags the best. Not the Pro Mag dog shit! I’ve had good luck with Magpul and Lancer also.

In Cali we’re dealing with the 10 round mags now

Alright brother. Im gonna hit that subscribe button. Dont let me down. Good luck with your channel and God bless!

Love your channel! I have been working my way through your vids and have yet to find one that I didn't learn something from! Question for you. What type of loader, other than your thumbs, do you use for your 5.56 and handgun mags? BTW, I love the 20rd magazine idea. I have found that the 30's are too long at times and have just worked around it.

Kci mags are good quality pistol mags, and you can find great prices at gunmag warehouse. I like magpul AR mags, I haven't tried ASC mags. Thanks for the great information.

You hit on a very important thing. Most people key on weapons maintenance. BUT maintenance of the ancillary item ie. mags is just as if not more important . the ancillary stuff makes the weapon work.

Gen 2 Pmags had feed lip stretching splitting issues. The gen 3's do not. I've given away all of my gen 2 moe mags. I have a alot of Okay's, Duramags. And gen 3 Pmags. I'm sure the stainless Duramags are better than most of the other GI mags. But at $9.95 a pop the aluminum ones work good. They are welded the same as the stainless.

Just ordered 5 20 rounders, thanks for the reference. Also tagged you in the order comments, maybe you can get some free mags or a little kick back. Wise words, keep ‘em coming.

Hey Unc. I figured out in your video yesterday why I like your content. It’s because I’m an info junkie when you give us your opinion then you tell us why and back it with your personal experience and shit loads of data. You also explain everything very clearly without dumping things down. Thanks and keep up the great work. Ps what do you mark your mags with every thing I’ve tried ware’s out?

I like 10-12 mags per rifle and 5-6 mags per pistol.

Pro Mag=maximum suck. Great for malfunction drills though... I was at a match about a decade ago. We shot from a tower then had to go down a slide to get down. When I reloaded at the top of the slide, I dropped my aluminum GI mag and it slid down the slide. On the next stage, I kept having malfunctions. Dropped the mag and finished the stage. Upon review, the feed lips had became very slightly bent from hitting the ground at the bottom of the slide. Not enough to notice without very close inspection, but it kept me "out of the fight". Been Pmags for me ever since. The ones I keep loaded, I use the snap on covers to take pressure off of the feed lips...

I dont trust Lancer magazines. Had two of them loaded and both hit the ground, cracking. Granted, it was on concrete, but I don't live where soft soil is any abundance unless you want to stick out like a sore thumb.

I’m sure you do it but you did mention it. It’s a good idea to fire your old carry ammo out of the mag it was loaded in when you cycle to fresh Ammo and cycle the mags.

I won’t carry a mag until I’ve trained with that mag a little bit and know that that specific mag is functioning perfectly out of the box.

When going prone with 30 round mags, they have an exercise where you turn the gun sideways to get it low enough.

I have tons of mags and when I hit the range I’ll load up mags the night before and I’ll randomly toss a snap cap in rifle and pistol mags to simulate a ftf to practice without a training scar

Every time I go to the gun store, I pick up at least a couple AR mags regardless what I am going there to get. I have about as many still in the Packages as I do open and loaded.

Hey uncle freedom, do you have extenders in your 19x mags? My 19x mags are 17 rounders

The only after market company I trust for pistol mags is Mec-Gar. Pro Mag is garbage!

Great vid. How about a top go to and a top no go for mags.

I enjoy the 20 round AR mags as much as the 30 round mags but when I say that to my shooting friends they think I am crazy for lowering the capabilities of the rifle. Happy to hear you like the 20 round mags as well. I do have a question about using magnets to secure guns in different locations. Is there any known downside to using magnets?

“ all of that defensive ammo doesn’t do you any good if it’s not in a magazine” 😂😂😂LMAO as Kenny said on Seinfeld “Thats GOLD!”

I'm looking to put together a longer AR15 as a "Mk12 at home" sort of thing, so I figure a few 20 rounders for possible prone stuff would be nice. I'm quite torn between magpul, and lancer offering specifically in 20 rounders. Magpul for the track record/alleged reliability advantage, or lancer for the translucent options for easier round tracking? To this day people still report discernable reliability differences between the two brands, and Magpul unfortunately does not make a windowed 20 rounder.

Have you tried Duramag speed 20 rounder mags? Are they g2g?

IWI in my op makes the best steel mag period.. they also have nice spring and follower kits.. followers come in like 10 different colors so you can designate a color to each type of round you run.. that’s all I will run for duty or self defense period.. Pmags lancers all that for training.. even got a few alum gi mags still where the feed lips haven’t turned into razor blades or cracked yet.. When it comes to pistols I run exclusively pmag for training and nothing but factory bodies with quaintly name brand plus alum plates for added weight to drop free.. even my factory Glock mags I run alum even if not plus upping cause it just helps them drop free easier.. I don’t care if they are $60 sig mags.. I have Al the quality aftermarket stuff.. for my life depends on it I will spend the $60 per mag if need be to have factory stuff.. that couple extra bucks to have a couple extra other mags isn’t worth the oh shit said company had a bad run of mags and you find that out the hard way.. I do the exact same type of mag rotational stuff only thing I do differently.. all my mags are loaded even training mags.. I have one set of duty that is active one set out of rotation and those are empty.. mostly cause I got enough shit already.. every chest rig, belt setup, plate carrier etc is fully loaded and ready.. to the point they each have holstered pistols in them as well.. all that gear is in a gear locker.. all regular firearms in the safe, and for home defense shit and edc.. I even have a smaller gear locker next to my night stand that stays open when I’m home locked when I’m not. But when that has a quick attach belt system cause underwear doesn’t carry a soare mag very well..

Any reason not to use the 22rd 40cal mags? Delta used them vetting G22 vs 2011s in 40 so I think they are more than capable

How many times will you run/cycle a duty/carry mag before you designate it good? Or do you trust them straight out of the package and load them up?

I only run the duramags these days . Just preference . All my training mags are pmags . I have had terrible luck with feed lip failures with hex mags. .

If the training mags work fine, then they are good enough for what ever 🤠

Love ASC mags. Never thought to buy direct. They have some colored mags which I’m not really into but picked some up anyway for the wife and my daughters. AL 30 rounders in pink were only $10. Grabbed that one for my little one. Prob should have bought 10 more and hit them with the rattle can. 😂

How many test cycles before you trust a mag for duty or will you trust a brand out of the package?

How do you feel about 60 round Magpul drums for use in AR15? I feel like they are gimmicky and i dont know if i can trust them

Mission First Tactical is another great polymer mag

How many loadings do you want to put through a magazine before you deem it for Duty?

What’s your view on mag couplers? I am unfortunately limited to 10 rounders, so I have them for my 7.62 PMAGs.

Blows living in Assachussetts my spare mag is 10 Rds. Well all my mags are ten Rds. Well. Most.

I keep pmag,surefeeds or lancers in different systems and use hex mags for range days. I have about 5 lancers and IME they’re the worst for rounds popping out when dropped,all of mine can be shaken hard enough (pretty violently) for rounds to fly out. But it’s not bad enough where i ever considered it to be an issue, i got them on a blem sale so maybe that’s why they were a blem 😂. I had a RSO tell me it’s illegal to to have a bunch of loaded mags in the car to bring to the range. I said na it’s not,i have my conceal carry plus they were locked in the trunk plus it’s just not true. Then he said well how would it look if you get pulled over, i said I’ll just say I’m going to the gun range but why would they search my trunk? Then he proceeded to run a magnet over my magazines, i said oh you just want to check my ammo… just say so. Never went back to that range. I’m not trying to spend the little time i can carve out for shooting jamming mags, i always take enough loaded mags to run the drills i want to run and extra ammo incase i have time to run a few more. Had a guy tell me it was pointless to number mags which turned into an argument. Good idea to keep a ledger, i usually just use 20rd mags or lancers for specific ammo but I’ll have to start writing it down. Phew lots of stuff In this one lol,good shit man keep ‘em coming!

How many rifle mags you need on you for a battle situation or SHTF situation?

Why would you not train with your carry mags? How do you get enough cycles through your carry mags so that you're confident they won't jam or misfeed when you need them most?

I load one round at a time in the chamber in my AR, so I don't have to worry about mags.

You being in law enforcement makes it easier for you . Citizens don't get the same luck carrying all all that stuff . 😮

Your info is spot on, however, a lot of people can't afford your philosophy. We'll do our best though.

Anyone else see the ghost....😮

LOL, I was wondering if you were going to get around to loading a 300 BO into a 5.56/.223 gun. That's totally No Bueno. That's one reason I like Lancer mags- it's you can see all the rounds in the mag and pretty easily spot wrong rounds. There's no such thing as too paranoid when it comes to that.

For the algorithm

I have a minimum of 21 mags for each firearm. Be safe my friends.

Theres alot i agree with and a bit i strongly disagree with in regards to this video and mags. Personally i subscribe to rhe clint smith thought train that you should have no such thing as range/training mags they should all be ready to go to war reliable mags. Now thats alot easier to do with rifle mags than it is with pistol mags, aluminum ar15 mags i get on the regular for 9-12 bucks per mag and those are bought in sets of ten. Now when global ordinance had steel ar15 mags for litteraly sub 5 bucks a mag did I stack up on those, absolutely and they do work and are reliable cause ive actually used em in training but honestly those are more for a rainy day like you said how u buy magpul followers and springs well same idea. And that entails having a fighting rig and full loadout of mags, 7-10 per rifle of my go to which are usualy c products/duramag and okay surefeeds. Now I still like the same train of thought with pistol mags but lets be honest its alot harder to do cause of cost. With glock 17 mags usualy 20 bucks a mag, those are bought in sets of six, with the beretta 92 I go Mecgar 18rd mags at about 18-22 bucks a mag bought in sets of six, and i love the M&P 2.0 I just shoot it alot better than my glocks im more confident with it but at $35 per mag ill be honest its gonna take a lil bit for me to have as manny glock mags as S&W mags. Now when i was still brand new into this lifestyle I did cheap out and bought magpul glock mags, has it caused malfunctions for me at the range? No but I just dont like that its all polymer and doesnt have a steal liner like the glock factory mags so I sold all the ones that were still in the packaging and now i just have 1 21 or 24rd glock pmag waiting to be disposed of that I used to use for training. I swear i dont have a crush on korean manufacturing but i do have a bunch of the 33rd korean glock mags and they work 100% in my 17s but the only self defense/HD mags I trust my life to are factory glock 17 rounders whenever im carrying. I do agree with numbering ur mags, and keeping a ledger ( personally still in the process of numbering and logging everything rn) and having mags actually loaded and ready to go.

Why not C-Products/Duramag 20 round SS mags rather than ASC?

What are my thoughts on mags? Well shit you didn't really leave anything on the bone for me. I'll just add HEY- do all the stuff he said!!!!!!😀

hey brotha, only have email here , would love to talk more , thanks n keep the great vids coming ,talk soon > tom !

Training mags no.. you just have mags that work

Come on dude, from one combat veteran to one LEO to another, why would you buy inferior mags to start with. Know which "ones" are reliable in any situation and buy what you think is best. Don't buy JUNK for any reason. Buy best to last. Semper Fi!

Not to use your carry mags for training is the single most retarded advice ever. Not only doesn't make any sense but it is also dangerous. You should always often test what you're carrying. Plus 98%of shooters would never throw their magazines to the ground... Not that is bad to do real life training, but most people simply don't.

I do pretty much the same with my semi-auto handguns, and AR's. I do need to get more 20 round mags for my AR's though........