PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-631
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 631
JUNE 2005
PS 631
JUN 05
25
M16-Series Rifle, M4/M4A1 Carbine, M9 Pistol…
How Do We Stop Jammed Magazines?
Dear Sergeant M.B.,
If a magazine is in good shape, it should hold 30 rounds with no problem. But
there are many magazines in the field that may not be reliable any longer. Here’s
how you can tell:
Check each of your
seven magazines for dents
and corrosion. If a maga-
zine has more than minor
dents and corrosion, get a
new magazine. Eyeball
the magazine's feed lips.
If they're bent, get a new
magazine. If the maga-
zine's spring and follower
have come apart, don't try
to reattach them. Get a
new magazine.
Never stretch the spring to try to make it work better.
That ruins the spring.
Never use a speed loader or jam the feed lips against a table edge or anything
else hard while loading a magazine.
That can bend the feed lips and ruin the mag-
azine. Bent feed lips can cause double feeds.
Load a magazine like it shows on Page 0008 00-23 in TM 9-1005-319-10:
Use the 10-round stripper
clip and magazine filler
found in each bandoleer to
load 30 rounds in the maga-
zine. With the magazine
filler in place, push with
your thumb on the rear of
the top cartridge until all 10
rounds are below the feed
lips. Remove the empty
stripper clip while holding
the magazine filler in place.
Repeat until three 10-round
clips are loaded.
Check each magazine
for dents and corrosion
Feed lips bent?
Never
stretch
spring
Never use a table edge to force rounds in magazine
can’t
have that
in combat.
you’re paying
enough attention
to
me…
you just
ruined
that
magazine
spring.
but we
were
trying
to give
it
more
spring!
now
I’m
out of
a job.
Use stripper clip
and magazine filler
to load magazines
hey, you
just bent
my feed
lips,
bozo.
Dear MSG Half-Mast,
Is there any guidance for preventing magazines for the M16-series
rifle and M4/M4A1 carbine from jamming? We've heard it's better to
load no more than 28 rounds in a magazine to prevent jamming.
Is that true?
SGT M.B.
we’ve got to
do something
about your
jamming.
…but you’re
forgetting my
magazines!
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