Magazine Maintenance

[D_Gunner]

How often do you disassemble your magazines? for a good cleaning and lightly oil and wipe excessive oil (lubricant is bad for ammo)

 

[rugerguy]

very seldom really except for 22 magazines or those where one shoots LOTS of reloads, that have been lubed too much.......a soak in kerosene,spray them down, blow out the excess, if you can take them apart, then do so, but I've seen some folks take theirs apart so many times they loosen them up, and I've seen MANY MORE that were never taken apart and still work....to me it is more of what,how and often they were used (dropped on the ground?)
Inspection is the key word here......

 

[Chuck 100 yd]

I have all stainless magazines for the 1911 except for one and it is new. I only wipe them down until they are quite dirty and then they get thoroughly cleaned in a container of turpentine and blown dry with compressed air and lightly oiled.

 

[Brian48]

Being an ex-Jarhead, I'm a little anal retentive when it comes to cleaning my guns. I disassemble and clean my mags after each and every range trip. Because I have a lot of mags and don't know how long each particular one will sit in storage until its used again, I generally live a thin coat of CLP on the interiors as well. At least for the blued ones any way. The stainless ones, not so much.