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Plink said:
I'm well on my way to becoming "slower than stripper clips" :D

To be honest, I think you'll find the fumbling of turning a mag around to be slower than going to your pouches. Just from my experience. But, try it at your home range and see if it works for you.

M14 is a bit of a biotch to load fast unless you know that "tip and click" for you magwell JUST right.

When I tried the mag couplers for my AR I found that the extra mag seemed to get in the way of my controls. Bolt release, mag release etc. Again, just my own personal observations. YMMV :)
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You are correct, tried it. Faster just to get a pouch mag. I actually dropped the combo trying to turn it around.
 
Ganderite said:
I bought a Norc M4gery and invested $100 in a better trigger. Have about $100 invested in a holster, mag holster and rifle mag pouch. BTW, if you are left-handed and shoot a SIG, I have a new holster for $20 that I bought without reading the fine print.

Installed an old K3 Weaver scope on see thru (hi) rings.

I use a Norc 1911 or a CZ 9mm.

I reload my rifle and pistol brass. Shoot lead bullets in the pistol and cheap pulled bullets in the rifle.

My rig is one of the cheapest on the range and I do not feel handicapped. Those with better equipment have it because they want better equipment - not because they need it.

I glued a block of wood between my rifle mags and wrapped them with tape. this was the single most important change I made in my kit. Really speeded up mag changes.

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years ago I saw in (maybe SWAT magazine?) two mags taped in a one-up-one-down configuration. Have you tried that? Is it faster than going for a mag in a pouch?
 
ALLS London said:
years ago I saw in (maybe SWAT magazine?) two mags taped in a one-up-one-down configuration. Have you tried that? Is it faster than going for a mag in a pouch?
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Maybe, with practice, but you only have two mags that way. Eventually you have to go to a pouch of some sort.

Practice at home, it's not hard to get fast and fumble free with the pouches. Hit the mag release with your firing hand and your seated mag drops free, at the same time reach for your next mag, seat and release the bolt. One mag is going down while the other is going up into your lower. Good2Go.
 
I think if you practice grabbing for that mag while the empty one is falling, there will be a negligible difference in speed between loading that way and using the attached (by fancy hardware or Gander's Red Green solution) magazines.
 
This is clearly the solution with my CZ 858:
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I got the mag couplers from Wolverine. Hey, I could do an Angelina Jolley and put 5 mags together this way! :eek:

And yes, I'm keeping the bayonet on for the next CQB so when someone laughs at my score I can give them a jab. :D
 
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