Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Should you carry a backup magazine?

I've met you - bad asses don't need no spare mags

Tough to beat a Satchel.

Hint.............

...and you obviously have not met the man

No Jethro jokes from your local co-constuents?

Naah, Jethro used a rope to keep his pants up!

That's probably the best answer.

Everybody's situation is different.

I’m a long ways from the border. Unfortunately they all pass by me on their way North. Some even stay. Hasbeen

That's easy....just don't walk around with a just-fu-cked-the-neighbors-cat grin on your face...…….grin

Yes. At least one reload.

A person would feel pretty silly when the nutcuttin' came, and he ran out of ammo at a critical time.

Enjoyed the thread, made me think and laugh. Lotta good points around where I live they say plausible combat range is 7-12 yds, shooting at anyone past that will get you looked at real hard by the law (why didn't you retreat?) Deflaves point. Guess it should most likely come down to what you think you might have to take on ,worst case scenario. Hard enough to carry a full size ccw without it being obvious, never mind 2-3 extra mags. Sometimes I carry a DAO M60 SW 38 and others a CZ semi auto in 9 or 40. I was a boy scout once half a century a go, never did forget "be prepared". Guess that is why I carry a AR and a pump gun in the truck as well. Truck all ways seems to have more ammo in it than all these arsenals some criminal has. No matter what you got, the liberals will still fault you for standing up against some perp. WTF after the first shot the rest are free right? Carry what you can easily conceal, out sight, out of mind. Do what you gotta when the time comes. trust your self and don't worry about what anyone else does. MB

you pretty much got it down, it is situational. overlooking the issue with semiautomatics, and a jam or malfunction, most likely rare, is the issue of multiple targets with various degrees of threat. We were practicing that clear back in the 70's, when everyone was using six shot revolvers.
i did have a situation one time with about ten or so armed very drunk bikers, that another guy and i had to arrest. I would have liked to have had a MP5. And i do live near the border, which is everywhere these days in arizona, with phoenix being one of the major transit points for narco's.
and i have come across large groups of illegals with coyotes on the desert.
Given that situation i always had some kind of black rifle in the truck, and both extra mags for it and the sidearm.
There was a local situation in prescott just last weekend where a man and wife, unarmed, got jumped by four people described as hispanics.
The man got the snot kicked out of him.
whatever makes you comfortable.
I felt comfortable for years with a model 19 and some speed loaders, still do to some extent. But those high cap mags are there for a reason.
I had to go to a court proceeding a few years ago, one of the armed guys in the courthouse was packing a mag holder for four spare mags.
i was kind of snickering at that, but not so much anymore.
i shouldd add it is much different shooting paper targets than having a firearm pointed at somebody knowing that somebody might be meeting eternity shortly. You get pretty wired up. Which is the reason you hear of some cops dumping a whole magazine out of that glock 17.

Chit! I wear my FLC (fighting load carrier) with my basic load of 210 rds of 5.56 everyday! You never know when the revolution is going to kick off!

PREACH it brother!

Hint.............(grin)

Jerry, I never thought of it that way, but that's a right smart way of putting it.

Anyways, I always carry at least one spare mag/speedstrip for any single-stack or revolver. A Glock can usually stay fed on what's in the magazine, or to fight my way back to the other magazines I have stashed in the truck/backpack.

..you're behind the times...what do you think all those "sling bags" are that are in the "Tacticool" magazines... I've been carrying this little black pouch since the 1990s. It's also a nice place to stash my backup gun...

Good point.

And that's why I strapped with Glock Perfection!......Get Some!!!

Only way to go.

You can fugkin' keep that lever on the bottom operating fugkin' schit.

Here's what my nephew packs along on duty (8PM to 6AM shift in the Phoenix ghetto).





PS I went on a ride along for his entire shift a couple of weeks ago. Crazy stuff.