Whew! Cleaned 29 Magazines...some down; more to go...

[dennishoddy]

Yup 100% on the excuse for not taping.
Once every 4 months I'll scrape my mags with the Arredondo brush BEFORE a match and won't mess with them anymore.
I usually get called to run a squad anyways so I can't make B.S. excuses to not help reset

Same here. Squad mom at most matches.

 

[Shadowrider]

I rarely clean my mags and have zero mag failures in my competition guns. I hate watching the people at the back of the match cleaning mags after every stage. Its not necessary and they are using it for a crutch to not go down range and tape targets and reset steel.

Shoulda shot a match with my Limited gun. The gun was solid as granite but if the mags hit the dirt you were brushing them no ifs, ands, or buts. If they hit the dirt you could forget about loading them again before cleaning. That's one of the reasons I'll never go open. I ain't babysitting mags ever again and I ain't having to carry my gun in a cover. I'll stick with the plastic fantastics or revolvers if the 1911s ever go down.

Edit: I shot my M&P for damn near a year while my Limited gun was being built. I never once took the TF extensions off of the mags. They had dirt, sand and a rock or two, one had a broken follower and they still ran perfect.

 

[tomthebaker]

My carry magazines rarely get shot, and I don't care enough about the range mags to clean them unless they malfunction.

 

[HiredHand]

Shoulda shot a match with my Limited gun. The gun was solid as granite but if the mags hit the dirt you were brushing them no ifs, ands, or buts. If they hit the dirt you could forget about loading them again before cleaning. That's one of the reasons I'll never go open. I ain't babysitting mags ever again and I ain't having to carry my gun in a cover. I'll stick with the plastic fantastics or revolvers if the 1911s ever go down.

Edit: I shot my M&P for damn near a year while my Limited gun was being built. I never once took the TF extensions off of the mags. They had dirt, sand and a rock or two, one had a broken follower and they still ran perfect.

I'm not familiar with how a limited gun is set up. What makes them sensitive to magazines that aren't immaculately clean?

 

[Shadowrider]

I'm not familiar with how a limited gun is set up. What makes them sensitive to magazines that aren't immaculately clean?

As far as the gun goes, nothing. The extended double stack mags just don't feed ammo to them unless clean because the followers just seem to stick in place. STI/SV mags do it too. Mine was Caspian.