Field eXpedients M16M4 Mag PullCarry Loop 12

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The M16/M4 assault rifle/carbine and (at times M249 LMGs but not reliably) family of 5.56mm weapons rely on 30-round magazines to feed ammunition into them for firing. During a firefight you cannot afford to waste seconds fumbling for a magazine in your pouch, nor can you stop and pick up an empty one if it falls out of an open BDU/ACU trouser pocket while firing/moving. If you drop your magazines the enemy could use them against us, booby-trap them or you simply will be without a means to feed your own weapon. • • http://www.combatreform.org/canteenco... • • The 75th Ranger Regiment has its Rangers place a 5-inch piece of gutted 550 cord (remove the 7 white inner strands) with an overhand knot on each end onto the bottom of their 30-round magazines (See video). You simply remove the bottom plate and slide it carefully back with the two knotted ends tucked underneath at about the middle the knots under the last stretch of the magazine spring so the gutted 550 cord is flat so the bottom plate can slide past them. Once slid back in place, you now have a pull-carry loop to extract your magazines from your magazine pouch or Enhanced Tactical Load Bearing Vest (ETLBV) while firing and moving without taking your eyes off the enemy. Use black electrical tape or green 100 mph tape to wrap around the magazine bottom to silence its metal if they come into contact with rocks etc. If you are in a hurry and cannot remove the magazine bottom plates, you can knot the ends of the 550 cord and tape them to the outside of magazines to form pull loops. • • When you are done with empty magazines you slide their pull-carry loops onto a snap link/carabiner clipped to a LBE/ETLBV shoulder strap or magazine pouch grenade holder to retrieve them without fear of them falling out of BDU pockets. • • SINE PARI makes a magazine carrying-trouser that would be ideal if we can get them to offer it in MULTICAM camouflage: • • http://www.sinepari.org/SINE_PARI/CAR... • • T.J. Mullin in Special Operations: Weapons Tactics writes in Chapter 5: Analyzing your enemy, page 41: • • If spare anurnunition is carried, then look at the magazines themselves. Are the bottoms taped to avoid dropping a loaded one and the contents spilling out as the bottom sprays out? Do the magazines have a piece of cord (or better, a plastic magazine pull like Magpul) on it so it can be rapidly withdrawn from the pouch? If not, pulling them from the pouch is a time consuming operation. If carried at all, are the magazines placed in the pouch ammunition down to protect the contents from the weather and make it faster to reload? If worn on a belt or at both sides, are the magazines placed so that the ammunition is placed in the correct position for faster loading into the weapon? Are the magazines numbered so the shooter can tell if one starts giving him problems so lie can pitch it without confusion? Lastly, does the shooter carry some pouch to hold empty magazines in or will he drop them on the ground to be lost forever when he is done shooting them, with replacements soon to be found to be impossible to obtain? • • http://www.combatreform.org/21stcentu...

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