When do I stop buying extra mags?

It depends on what you use it for. I have eight magazines for all my competition guns. Five are on the belt and in the gun, one in my back pocket as a 'barney' magazine for loading up and then replacing, and the other two are replacements and spares. If you've ever had something go wrong with a magazine at a match, you quickly see the benefit of just sidelining it and grabbing the spare to use for the rest of the day.

Also, make sure you mark and number all your magazines. They do wear out/break/deform with enough use over time, and if your gun seem to be developing issues all of a sudden, it might be a magazine. By numbering the mags you can see if it's just one magazine or if the malfunction shows up with all the mags, it's likely the gun.
 
I have 4 mags for each of my guns and they need relaoding way too quickly. my plan is to double that once my budget allows. its like ammo you really cant have too much!
 
If the magazines were able to hold a normal amount of ammo.......like say 30 rounds, you would need 6 times less magazines. I think 6 magazines per gun is plenty but here in Canada, you need 6 times as many thanks to the stupid gun laws so yeah, you need 36 magazines here in Canada for the same amount of ammo that 6 magazines gets you elsewhere ;)
 
I look at it like DrSpaceJam,

I really like my Browning buckmark pistol and rifle. I got two pistols, and one rifle that all use the same magazine system. I only had about 5 total, one each coming from each gun and two spares that I bought when I managed to find them. I just recently purchased 5 more. So if I were to try and practice, I would have 5 on the belt and one in the gun, one as a plus one for the chamber magazine. That would get me to 7 magazines. I would also have 3 more for any that have any parts breakage, or another malfunction of some kind. So I guess 10 is good for me, but others may want more.

To the OP, why not just make it an even 20 and call yourself golden.

Snake88
 
Newfoundlandrover said:
I've got a few not so common pistols as well....plus, mags make good trading stock
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Exactly. Mags are consumable, much like ammo (and much like precious metals....). If you buy when the price is right, it's a very solid investment.

The other thing to think about, if you're actually shooting so much that you're wearing out your mags, is rebuild kits: Springs, followers, and floorplates. Depending on how you use your mags, the tube portion wears much more slowly than the rest of the assembly.
 
Enough mags? I'd say you've got enough if you can load a case of ammo. Until then, treat them like ammo: buy 'em cheap, stack 'em deep.
 
My advice is to buy them when they're cheap even if you think you've got enough, but what is cheap? No sense stocking up on Sig mag.s at $80 even if there's a momentary drought (just ask anyone who bought $80 PMag®s). Sure, buy a new gun, get a couple extra at regular retail, but then you have to begin the hunt for cheaper. This requires finding out the going rate, and keeping at least a little connected to the market, so when a store has a sale, someone puts up a good price on the EE, you're at a gun show, you're ready to close on a good deal.

As long as the price is good, you never stop buying; extras are usually easy to sell, if you didn't over-pay so you don't feel compelled to price them too high.
 
I spent the summer monitoring the situation in the States.....and all it took was one numbnut with a firearm in Connecticut to make all the ammo and magazines dry up......and this was the States!.....what do you think would happen in Canada?......just be mindful of where we live guys.....we have plenty of numbnuts here too
 
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