Hi all,
For anyone out there that owns a P365/XL, have you left your magazines loaded for a long time, and if so have you noticed any notable impact on the spring tension or function overall?
We’ve had a number of threads in the past about what wears out a magazine (leaving them loaded versus cycling, etc). I think I can say the prevailing wisdom is loading and unloading magazines (as happens during shooting) seems to reduce the life of the springs more than leaving them loaded (assuming properly tempered springs). That is the act of compressing and then decompressing repeatedly wears out a spring more than compression alone.
I’ve never personally had any issues in the past leaving magazines loaded for long periods of time. The other day I was unloading some P365XL magazines that had been left loaded (down by 1 round) for a number of months. When I was unloading them I noticed that some of the rounds (124 gr HST) were nosediving in the magazine as I was pushing out the rounds by hand (see the picture). This is something I’ve only seen with older magazines that needed new springs.
This lead me to wonder if the magazine springs in the P365 magazines might be at their elastic limit when loaded normally and this might lead to them wearing out faster than traditional double stack or single stack magazines. Any input from other users would be appreciated.
Thanks
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For anyone out there that owns a P365/XL, have you left your magazines loaded for a long time, and if so have you noticed any notable impact on the spring tension or function overall?
We’ve had a number of threads in the past about what wears out a magazine (leaving them loaded versus cycling, etc). I think I can say the prevailing wisdom is loading and unloading magazines (as happens during shooting) seems to reduce the life of the springs more than leaving them loaded (assuming properly tempered springs). That is the act of compressing and then decompressing repeatedly wears out a spring more than compression alone.
I’ve never personally had any issues in the past leaving magazines loaded for long periods of time. The other day I was unloading some P365XL magazines that had been left loaded (down by 1 round) for a number of months. When I was unloading them I noticed that some of the rounds (124 gr HST) were nosediving in the magazine as I was pushing out the rounds by hand (see the picture). This is something I’ve only seen with older magazines that needed new springs.
This lead me to wonder if the magazine springs in the P365 magazines might be at their elastic limit when loaded normally and this might lead to them wearing out faster than traditional double stack or single stack magazines. Any input from other users would be appreciated.
Thanks
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