Some how I aways seem to end up with a lot of magazines for any gun I shoot a lot. I have to say its nice load them all up at home and head to the range. When I'm not going to the range I only leave a few mags loaded with what happens to be in the nightstand.
This got me to thinking. Would it helpful to color code some of my mags. For simplicity my examples will be around my P320 but really it could apply to anything. I also do the drop-in barrel swap between 40/357sig/9mm on all my Sigs (P320 included).
Mag sizing seems pretty straight forward. I could pic a different color base plate for different capacity.
Caliber also seems personal preference. I could pic a different color base plate for different calibers. This may be less helpful because if I'm shooting 9mm at the range I just load all the 40/357 mags with 9mm.
Type of ammo seems to be the most useful in my mind.
This is NOT about what caliber if my fav or better/worse.
In 9mm I'll go from Speer Lawman 147gr sub-sonic to 115gr super-sonic or maybe get some high velocity Underwood. In 357sig I normally stay with the standard 124gr but could get some high velocity Underwood for camping. 40sw .... you get the idea.
Since I use 40/357 mags for everything doing some kind of color coding for velocity would work across all calibers. Something like colors w, x, y, z refer to hell-fire, high, med, low (ssshhhh - I'm hunting wabbits) velocity.
Has anyone color code mags in this way?
Is there a 'standard' color to velocity reference?
Besides buying colored base plates from a company like Obsidian or Springer Precision are there good color coding methods?
What is the air speed of an unladen swallow?
This got me to thinking. Would it helpful to color code some of my mags. For simplicity my examples will be around my P320 but really it could apply to anything. I also do the drop-in barrel swap between 40/357sig/9mm on all my Sigs (P320 included).
Mag sizing seems pretty straight forward. I could pic a different color base plate for different capacity.
Caliber also seems personal preference. I could pic a different color base plate for different calibers. This may be less helpful because if I'm shooting 9mm at the range I just load all the 40/357 mags with 9mm.
Type of ammo seems to be the most useful in my mind.
This is NOT about what caliber if my fav or better/worse.
In 9mm I'll go from Speer Lawman 147gr sub-sonic to 115gr super-sonic or maybe get some high velocity Underwood. In 357sig I normally stay with the standard 124gr but could get some high velocity Underwood for camping. 40sw .... you get the idea.
Since I use 40/357 mags for everything doing some kind of color coding for velocity would work across all calibers. Something like colors w, x, y, z refer to hell-fire, high, med, low (ssshhhh - I'm hunting wabbits) velocity.
Has anyone color code mags in this way?
Is there a 'standard' color to velocity reference?
Besides buying colored base plates from a company like Obsidian or Springer Precision are there good color coding methods?
What is the air speed of an unladen swallow?