Clip question

[Tall Shadow]

Originally posted by Lycanthrope
Keeping a spring compressed doesn't wear a spring. Cycling the spring is what wears a spring. Contantly loading and unloading is harder on springs than keeping them loaded.

Magazine designs vary, but I haven't needed to change mag springs on my competition 1911's until past the 10,000 round mark (with a buffer I don't bother changing recoil springs either until they start to ftf....which is at least 10,000 rounds).

If you changed springs say every 1-3 years most shooters would be well inside a margin of safety from my experience.

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Loaded or unloaded, It's Not the compression of the spring that will "Kill" it.... It's the cycling, just as Lycanthrope stated that fatigues the spring(s).

Also, the item you are discribing is a Magazine, not a Clip!

A clip would be a non-enclosed holding device, like on a Garand(sp?) rifle. Sorry, the use of one for the other is a small "Pet Peeve" of mine.

Tall Shadow