gary reeder
back in the first survivalist phase we went thru when
Friday, June 19, 2020, 20:37

the peanut man, Jimmy Carter, sold off all our gold, silver, and French Tickler condoms the survivalist craze hit big time. Being sure the shit was going to hit the fan any day, I built a house on 15 acres in the middle of 8000 acres of woods, It was one of the "underground" houses sitting back in a hillside with the front facing the SE, to get the morning sun. We stocked up on AR-15s and AR-180s and crates of ammo. All my friends in the 101st just back from Viet Nam spoke highly of Adventure Line magazines, saying they never failed them in bad times. So I stocked up on them, had probably 50 or 60 of them fully loaded. This was in 1979. When the world didn't collapse, roving gangs of bad guys didn't come about, the local whore houses didn't close due to no business, we all sort of forgot all our preparations and went about our businesses. The owner of the radio station I worked for in Nashville bought a new station on an island off Sarasota and asked me (sorta TOLD me) to go down there and take over the station and change it from elevator music to good old rock & roll. I gathered up 5 freaky DJS that had worked for me in the past and we all moved south.

Anyway, most of my magazines were in a couple of wooden military ammo crates. They sat in my trophy room in a corner in Florida for years covered up with animal skins and such. Sort of an end table. In 1985 I retired from radio and got into a small gun shop of my own in Sarasota. The original Pistol Parlor. Then in '94 we moved out here.

A few years ago I bumped into those 2 wood crates full of loaded magazines in a hall closet. I was planning to go to John Linebaugh's seminar in Cody so I thought I would take an AR or 2 and a bunch of magazines. Before I left I took some of them out and they all shot fine, never missed a beat. So this long drawn out story was just to agree with Ray that loaded mags don't seem to have problems being loaded for a little over 35 years.