Atkins, feel free to disagree, but my thing is for every Semi-auto you have you need ATLEAST 3 magazines. A range mag (in your range bag), a Ready Mag (for when things go bad) and a Blue Mag (With snap caps for training).

If you want to learn about practical gear, like hoslters, chest rigs, packs, etc, believe it or not /k/ isn't that bad.

Oh Christ you want more than 3.

Three sets of mags maybe

Let me put it this way, my Rifle belt has six x 20 mags plus the Ready mag.

My rig has 4x2 mag pouches, plus one in the gun.

My Carbine belt has 8 x 30 Mags not including Ready, Range or Blue

I'd say have a set of mags for your rig, a set for the range, plus some mags for special purposes (like blue for training, etc). Rotate between your range and chest rig mags. That's bare minimum.

I don't want to be one of those guys that has an ammo fort though.

I have 20 AR mags and that's plenty as far as I'm concerned.

How reliable are gun store owners for advice?

Knowing they want to upsell you.

depends on the store

you're probably better off going with a friend who has some knowledge rather than trusting the guy behind the counter.

Hm. Fair point. Is there a good way to distinguish the good stores and the bad ones?

I can assume Walmart isn't the best source of information. But what about the local gun shop with a range?

Places that are selling to cops are better than just going to a big chain store.

If they have a range that means you can try it before you buy it.

How do you tell a good one from a bad one? Is it all just feel?

I would assume you can't tell reliability by just firing a weapon a couple times.

Specific firearms?

There are a lot of guys that do reviews on Youtube. Military Arms Channel is one of the best.

<https://www.youtube.com/user/Sturmgewehre>

He tends to focus on high-end brand new products.

Iraqveteran8888 is another good one <https://www.youtube.com/user/Iraqveteran8888>

Honest Outlaw and Nutnfancy on Youtube are also good reviewers

I assume they have BitChute backups or something?

The two that I mentioned do.

Youtube has been purging, as I understand.

Not entirely.

I don't really like Nutnfancy too much. I don't like the tough guy act.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbT5ssxEDZHNyz28N4Ov7Wg

https://www.youtube.com/user/evenesence4444444444

Nutnfancy tends to be real long winded, but he does take the firearms out and tests them as if he is using them in real life.

That and he will update his reviews as things develope down the road.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Mrgunsngear

Thanks for the advice.

no problem.

Nutnfancy is a faget

"I'm having a fuckin stroke"

That reminds me pratel: don't buy a 1911.