Number of Mags per Carbine

[painter777]

Remember when you could buy them on Ebay?
I'd get out bid on something else and wouldn't sign off until I bought a few more mags. That always seem to ease the pain of being sniped on the other items.
Even my mail gal got to where she knew I had more mags being delivered. To be honest I'm not quite sure how many mags I own. Most are packed away, with only a dozen or so that I use for shooting.

Bubba,
I thought you were gonna to start selling.......... Not buying? LOL

Cheers,
Charlie-painter777

[USGI]

I'd never counted mine 'til today, but it looks like 4.5 mags and 620 rds of ammo per carbine. - Bob

[Maniac]

Better to have more and not need them than need them and not have them . . .

[Bubba-7]

I went to local gun show today and I bought three mags. Now I have 1.52 mags per carbine. I think think it will take a while to get to 10 to 1. P7 know anybody wanting to buy a few?

[flyingmanx]

Gee I only have 2 M1 Carbines and already I have 8 mags for it!!!
If I see any when I am out, I will probably get more!!!
You know...just in-case!!!

f/m ~!~

[INLAND44]

Probably about a billion carbine mags bought by the gov. No joke.

[dnikkor]

Between 15 and 30-round mags, I have 80+, which makes for 12ish per carbine. I seem to use the same four mags for shooting since I replaced the followers with ones that hold the bolt open when empty. The virgin mags stay that way.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

After Roger started this thread I went and counted up. I keep 4 magazines in two pouches and one in the housing for each that I have. That's over 200 magazines.

Does it really matter how many you have per gun? I don't know about anyone else, but I can only carry one carbine at a time.

To me what matters is how many I can carry with or on me when I need to carry that one Carbine.

[Tired Retired]

Does it really matter how many you have per gun?

Jim, obviously you have not been reading the other gun forums on the internet. To be a REAL gun owner you have to have at least 20 guns with 100 loaded mags per gun that you have ready at a moment's notice to throw in the back of your truck (which is always loaded with all your survival gear). How else are you going to survive the attack of the zoomie tomatoes when the earthquakes hit Alaska and the USA is invaded by the Island of Grenada!

GEEZ, where have you been??????

I actually have about 4 or 5 per gun (more or less for my other various firearms). I am like dnikkor, I seem to use the same ones over and over. All the extras are being saved for the kids and future generations. I am sure that my carbines will out live me by many years.

[imarangemaster]

How true... I have 3 of the 15s with both carbines. The other 20 15s are in a box in the safe. All the 30s, except one that I keep full of 110 JSP R-Ps on the shelf, are also in the safe. I try to keep about 500 rounds for each pistol and shotgun (12 Ga., 9mm and .44 Mag) and 1,000 rounds for each rifle (2,000 5.56 for the AR15 and AR-180, and 2,000 7.62x39 for the VZ58 and Saiga AK). The Carbine I only have about 1,200 rounds between the two carbines. I think I have about 3,000 rounds of .22 LR, and one 10-22.