Thanks, looks like I better practice mag loading before going to the range.When stacked right, there will be a slight angle upwards of all rounds.
I would do the normal things like pulling the tab beside the follower on the side of the magazine only far enough to insert 1 round, not pulling it way down & dropping the round into the magazine.
Something I learned to do when you get your mag is 1/2 full:
- pull the tab all the way down then turn the magazine upside down & hopefully they will
fall "lined up" properly, then bring the tab up to the last round (which is the 1st one put into the magazine), then continue putting more rounds into mag.
I sometimes would turn it upside down a couple of times while loading mag.
I rarely shot an entire magazine w/o a failure to load.
When I would check, the next round would be angled down.
3 times I had a stovepipe in a magazine with a round that didn't load.
I had 15/440 failures to load.
Had 2 magazines with no failures of any kind.
5 times there was just 1 FTL with a magazine.
2 times there were 2 FTL with a magazine.
2 times there were 3 FTL with a magazine.
(math doesn't add up above but I'm going to bed, haha!)
Despite my best efforts the pics below show a loading error.
It leads to a FTL (load) since the angle of the round will not be angled up, therefore not lined up to enter the chamber.
The first round on top of the follower is correct, but rounds 2-6 are not.
They are angled down or just horizontal.
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This started out badly & as I attempted to take some rounds out & start over, I humorously ended up here as I tried turning mag upside down to get rounds to load/angle properly.
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This is the top view, but after I'd cleared the other horizontals beside this one.
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