![]() Let me know if you found a cool way to mark and number magazines. Since I’ve lost two Glock mags in the last two months, it could be helpful. That looks the coolest, but I can’t write that small.Īs a side note, this style of marking magazines lets me ID my mags at a class or competition. You could also put the numbers on the body, just above the base plate. I’m just writing them on the flat part from top to bottom. I put it on the base plate because that is what everyone else does and I don’t like it. First I took my knife and scratched the number in to make it permanent, then I got a paint pen from the craft area and wrote the number so I can read it. So I’ll be lightly paining the rest of them. The training (tan) mag I started painting full, but then decided it would look better if it was just dusted. The AK mag I tried to dust a little to give it kind of a dirty look. Then I hung each magazine outside and sprayed it. The AK mag that was giving me problems is going to end up white, but I wanted something cool, so I tiger striped it. the inside of the magazine) and was ready to paint. Then I simply taped off the parts I didn’t want paint in (i.e. I don’t worry about crossing numbers from different weapon systems, because if I have an AK mag and a Glock mag with the number 12091, they are easy to tell apart.Ĭolor-coding the mags took a little work, so I ran down to Walmart and got some supplies. So my magazines have the date I brought them into service on them and a unique number. So if I bought a magazine today it would be 12091 (2012, Sep, my first mag) and if I bought another one tomorrow it would be 12092, and next month it would be 12101. Now I have dozens of magazines everywhere in my house and couldn’t tell you what number I’m on, so now I mark mags with the year, month, and which mag I bought that month. So I just numbered them 1 through whatever. Now I’m using spray paint, and a more complex, but easier to use numbering system.Īs a Marine I only got magazines once in a while and kept them in two stacks, training and duty. I would take a sharpie and write the numbers on the tape and on the base plate to serialize the magazines. In the Marine Corps I would use colored electric tape and put two stripes around the magazines below where it went into the rifle. I know they won’t function correctly but keep them around for dry practice and just to run malfunction drills on the range. They work and I don’t mind kicking them around or stepping on them during a competition. Tan/Desert color magazines are my training mags. Green magazines are my duty/carry mags that I treat really well and know they will work if my life depends on it. But the moral of the story is that your magazines should be marked/serialized. I easily found the problem one and didn’t have to worry the rest of the day. My mistake was that I hadn’t been marking my magazines and didn’t know which one I was using, so for the next stage I marked them with tape stripes (1 stripe, 2 stripes, and 3 stripes) around the magazine so I could tell which one it was. Not a big deal in friendly competition, but in the real world that would have sucked. Later in the day my rifle did it again, and it cost me 2.5 seconds in the match for a missed shot that would have taken me from 5 th to 4 th. It wasn’t a big deal and didn’t cost me anything the first time in the competition, but I was wondering if that was the gun or the magazine giving me trouble. It was a failure to feed and the round went straight up instead of into the chamber. While I was there, my AK malfunctioned on the last round in a magazine. ![]() I was just out there to work on some skills and have a little fun. I didn’t do too badly, I placed 5 th in my division. Last weekend I went to a rifle competition with some friends.
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