I can't help you, I don't carry a extra magazine..
Well, after many many years of carrying one for a living, I have never felt the need to carry a extra Mag with me after retireing.
I also have never felt the need to carry while I'm mowing the lawn, working in the yard, in my garage or around the house. I walk in and set my pistol in its holster on a table in the living room and it sits there until I am leaving the next time. I just don't live my life that way. Never have and never will.
I carry a 226 - 9mm.
If it goes past that .... I have already exited " Stage Left "
I think you have a valid point, especially with a lot of high capacity magazines. If for whatever reason you get through 15-17 rounds in a 9mm, and things are still bad, you may have an issue. I can only assume an extra mag would be more of a comfort thing for most? Now, I'm still very new to carrying, and firearms in general, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt. Just my understanding thus far.
If I had a 200 round magazine in my pistol, I'd carry a spare. Ever see someone get the floor plate of their magazine shot off or it just fall off and dump their rounds, or hit the mag release accidentally and send their mag skidding along the floor? I have, at least on surveillance video.
Probably never matter, but I always carry one reload for any gun on me. Psychologically comforting, if nothing else.
If I had a 200 round magazine in my pistol, I'd carry a spare. Ever see someone get the floor plate of their magazine shot off or it just fall off and dump their rounds, or hit the mag release accidentally and send their mag skidding along the floor? I have, at least on surveillance video.
Probably never matter, but I always carry one reload for any gun on me. Psychologically comforting, if nothing else.
Hit the mag release by accident,.,., I'm left handed, I would really have to work hard to do that with my old carry.
I would agree with Psychologically comforting with a extra Mag.
Skidding across the floor.,.,. I was witness to my BU mod 60 skidding and bouncing down a sidewalk in Pigtown, Baltimore in the mits of a chase years ago.. That pistol came out of a Bianchi leather / sheepskin ankle holster. It had to go to a Smith for a full debur and polish..
Do people who carry a revolver carry a backup revolver for when the cylinder or crane on a revolver takes a bullet and makes it inopporable ?
Hit the mag release by accident,.,., I'm left handed, I would really have to work hard to do that with my old carry.
I would agree with Psychologically comforting with a extra Mag.
Skidding across the floor.,.,. I was witness to my BU mod 60 skidding and bouncing down a sidewalk in Pigtown, Baltimore in the mits of a chase years ago.. That pistol came out of a Bianchi leather / sheepskin ankle holster. It had to go to a Smith for a full debur and polish..
Do people who carry a revolver carry a backup revolver for when the cylinder or crane on a revolver takes a bullet and makes it inopporable ?