Rotating Ammo

Avoid feeding failures

• Anonymous
• 2008 May 14

An officer should have enough magazines on hand to rotate ammo on a one or two week basis to give the springs in the magazine a rest break. Failure to do so will result in feeding failures. I found this out the hard way at the range, thankfully not on the street.

When the magazine springs for your firearms give up the ghost, don't throw that magazine away. Brownells sells replacement magazine springs and keeps your costs down for maintaining your firearm. I have six magazines of different makes for my duty handgun. I discovered that all six were very different in the springs. Six new high power springs from  Brownells made all 6 magazines equal. There are many other reputable gun accessory vendors that can supply these and other items to keep you ready for the street.  See our  Buyer's Guide for a directory.