Base pads for your magazines?

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Do you have base pads on your magazines? I just bought a Kimber stainless ultra carry in 45acp for home defense and eventually concealed carry and want to get some extra mags. I'm looking at Wilson's mags and they offer different types of base pads. Does anyone use these pads on the mags they carry?
 
I only carry one extra mag for my 1911 and the extra does have a base pad. It isn’t a necessity for me as I don’t have any sort of mag well on my Colt, but I still find it helpful during reloads. That said, a base pad on a magazine would be much more of a necessity when used with a gun that does have an actual mag well (not just a bevel).
 
Well, if you don't have base pads on all of the mags you carry, the one in the gun is the one that should have the base pad. That is the one you pop out after it is empty.

Base pads are OK to keep from damaging mags in gun games, but they can snag on clothing. In the real world, if you need to reload, damage to the magazine is going to be the least of your worries. (Plus, unless you are a LEO, whether you win the fight or not, the cops will probably confiscate the gun and everything else anyway, and you will be lucky to get anything back.)

Jim
 
Base Pads

are OK...I did have an experience once in 1968 where I slammed a mag in, and found the anterior medial portion of my left palm became an integral part of my pistol:( Won't happen with pad equipped magazines.:)
 
I only have basepads on the magazines I use at the range. They get beat up enough as it is. I don't do competition shooting, so I don't need many with basepads.
The only other use I see with basepads is if the magazine somehow gets stuck. It gives you a surface to pull on.
However, some of my carry magazines look like they have extended basepads. The magazine in my Commander is flush, but I sometimes carry 10 round CMC magazines.
 
Contrary to Mr Keenan's advice, it's my spare mag that gets the base pads.
Every once in a while, I have trouble driving the mag home during a reload.
The pad makes it much easier.
Not an issue, however, for the mag already in the gun.
 
Agree with youngun. Base pads on spares so they are easier to slam home, flat bottoms on the one in the gun so it is easier to conceal.
 
Tamara, why not just take off the silly magwell? Tis better to take off than put on!

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Brasshopper

BTW, you need to change your sig line. The Tejas DPS cannot beat up the FBI. Those pointy, little elf boots have slick soles and are tough to climb walls with (besides, the tight pants make it hard to run and jump).
 
Tamara, why not just take off the silly magwell? Tis better to take off than put on!
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It was the non-pointy-elf-boot-wearing FBI that wanted it on this particular gun, not I. It doesn't seem to interfere with anything, so in the spirit of not fixing non-broke stuff, I reckon I'll leave it. ;)
 
Geez, the sig line said "beat up." But to go right to gunplay? I thought we were talking about a he man fist fight like every episode of "Walker, Tejas Ranger."

I won't defend the fibbies on their selection of weaponry. (Which firearm is best for shooting people over $5 and $200 in taxes?) Afterall, they wanted the S&W 1076, not me. Yikes! They came to my position of the 1911 being the best pistol to fight with (not the best weapon to fight with). They are the morons that brought pistols to a rifle fight. Yikes! Etc., et al, ad naseum.
 
youngun and CastleBravo are right. Mag base pads are meant to ensure positive seating of a mag, whether or not you have a mag well, and to prevent what happened to Alnamvet - and to me on one occasion.

If you worry about your mags getting dinged up when dropped out of you pistola during a reload, you are worrying about the wrong things.
 
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