How much spare ammo is enough to have on you for your "emergency life saving tool"?

[TheDan]

This seasoned law man only needed one.

 

[easy rider]

I would actually encourage more people to buy soft body armor.

Like this?

 

[Sam7sf]

Like this?

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For pistol and not being noticeable

 

[easy rider]

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For pistol and not being noticeable

When I bought mine (Safe Life Defense) it came with a concealed carrier. I don't plan on wearing it all the time so I would rather have the armor in the tactical carrier that I can get to if needed. I've practiced putting it on many times.

 

[Dawico]

Carrying a spare magazine because it may fail is for chumps.

Your gun is much more likely to fail than your magazine.

Carry a spare gun and always have a plan to get to a bigger gun.

 

[Glenn B]

Carrying a spare magazine because it may fail is for chumps.

Your gun is much more likely to fail than your magazine.

Is that so? If true that amazes me because then all of my firearms training from LE personnel and from the NRA, over the course of about 43 years, concerning the number one mechanical related cause of semi-auto failures must have been wrong. Those instructors, who taught me, always said mag related problems were the main reason for a semi auto pistol to have failure for both mechanical and non-mechanical (user error) failures. Of course, the number one reason for any firearm to fail is user error whether it has to do with the magazine or not.

 

[OldCurlyWolf]

I normally carry 3 to 5 magazines depending on which firearm I am carrying. 3 for my .40 S&W, 3 + for my 10mm and 4 for my 9mm

 

[Renegade]

Carrying a spare magazine because it may fail is for chumps.

Your gun is much more likely to fail than your magazine.

Carry a spare gun and always have a plan to get to a bigger gun.

Most gun fails I have require a mag drop to clear. Tap/Rack/Bang does not work for many double feeds and hard stove pipes.

At range it is easy to take mag out with weak hand, retain, clear, put back in.

In a gunfight just drop mag is fastest way.

 

[mm54943]

I carry one spare mag.

 

[V-Tach]

I carry two spare mags.......

I also carry the mags facing opposite of this photo....

 

[candcallen]

14 in the sheild plus, 13 in the spare mag and my swinging walking stick.

Plus sharp pointy things.


If they ever make decent plus 2 extended bases I'll get them too.

If they had civilian ammo bearers I'd carry more. More guns, more ammo and more knives and sticks.

More is better but my flat crippled old man ars will only support so much weight on a belt.

 

[mongoose]

14 in the sheild plus, 13 in the spare mag and my swinging walking stick.

Plus sharp pointy things.


If they ever make decent plus 2 extended bases I'll get them too.

If they had civilian ammo bearers I'd carry more. More guns, more ammo and more knives and sticks.

More is better but my flat crippled old man ars will only support so much weight on a belt.

I have the old man syndrome “ noassatall”. Might be time for suspenders.

 

[glenbo]

J-frame and 5 rounds backup in a Bianchi speed strip. I have never had to use it and don't expect to, but I'm pretty darned good with it and believe it's enough for me.

 

[Vaquero]

One left over when the smoke clears.

That's "spare ammo".

 

[jrbfishn]

Of I have ammo after all threats are eliminated, I had just enough.


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[Axxe55]

No such thing as "too much" ammo, unless you are drowning or on fire!

 

[striker55]

Yes after reading this subject, strapping on two extra mags starting today!

 

[alwho421]

NEVER heard anyone coming out of a gunfight bitching about having too much ammo.

 

[jb1957]

I always carry extra mags

 

[Jameeson]

I carry one extra mag, if it is 6 rd for a g43 or 15 rds for g19.
Just have been in habit of extra mag.