Leave rounds in mag?

[Dolphin]

I have a .380 pocket pistol with a single magazine. It's a 6+1 and my first handgun. A friend of mine has a 9mm and his magazine spring seems to be much stronger. In the interest of taking the strain off my magazine spring I've been leaving the mag with 5 rounds in it for home defense. Is there any benefit to doing this?

[Ruprect]

I think your're worrying about it too much. As for your friend's mags, different magazines will feel differently, it only matters if it functions reliably. I have magazines that I can barely fully load with many rounds through them and I have magazines that a child could load and are 100% reliable.

Downloading a magazine can be helpful if a fully loaded magazine is difficult to seat on a closed slide or bolt.

Grab at least one other magazine, especially if you are carrying it. The vast majority of semi auto pistol malfunctions are magazine related and the quickest way to clear some of those malfunctions is with a fresh mag.

Have fun!

[nightrunner]

Different pistol designs, calibers, etc. call for different spring weights. If yours functions, let it be. Unless it's very hard to seat the magazine in the pistol loaded to full capacity, load up all 6.

I will echo the sentiment of getting another mag or two.

[enfield]

Please don't start this topic again. Use the search function!

[runco]

Save you the search, review this thread:

 

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/76539-i-disagree-with-loaded-magazines-doesnt-weaken-the-spring/?hl=%2Bmagazine+%2Bspring

 

 

or this one

 

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/73557-magazinesstored-full-or-empty-when-on-standby/page-2?hl=%2Bmagazine+%2Bspring#entry1080196

 

or this one

 

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/60268-mags-loaded-or-unloaded/page-2?hl=%2Bmagazine+%2Bspring#entry909195